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s . fogTp •.N.:: ME LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY iiixtracts from the Morning Papers, October 17. [NEW TibiESl Anether Decree of the King of Spain has op. feared, which, seems to have excited some sur pliseln this country-La surprise arising from those false iMpressions of the state of Spain - Which ear . litrerat - journals have so widely disseminated. —What was it that made the , previoas state. - of The New Tunes, relative . to the war 4,Spiiie, tally so exactly with the events ? It was simply our having contemplated the Spa nitiftli as they really were, and not veered about from one extreme to another, calling them, like that ignorant print The Times, one clay a' brave and enlightened nation, and another day A' sato( dolts and cowards. The King banishes for 'ever, • to a distance of 15 leagues from the espital and from any Royal residence, all the Chiefs of the Constitutional faction. The term Constitutionalists sounds ,very well in our ears ; Out ,we must remember, that in SPain these tentry are viewed in no other light than as Rebels. Now, it is surely not very astonishing that a . 1 0iid King should not wish to see Rebels about bis Court. It is said thiS is a sweeping measure. True ; and the same observation applies to the .Decree for rescinding all the acts, of the . Con stitutional:Government. They are both sweep. ling measures. When our ,own Charles 11. was restored, he,swept away at once all the " Acts and Ordinances" of theftebel Parliament. They form a tolerably large folio in the libraries of the 4:Orieus,.bot not a trace of them remains in our statute Book. Be it remembered, however, that the first care of the restored Monarch was to re. . enact sortie of those very laws thus abrogated— aztiong the restour famous Navigation Act. Fer dinand will hardly do this—for a very simple Ivaion—because the Constitutionalits enacted stothing but folly. They had among them no man with the reach of thought that Cromwell possessed; and whatever may have been the ta. lents of individuals, the acts of the whole body were those of knaves and madmen. But though Ferdinand ought to copy these fanatics, he ought undoubtedly to keep the promises which he ,made in 1814 ; he Ought to giVe his Peo. pie laws calculated to secure their liberties as lett as his own. As to his banishing from Court All men whom The Times so roundly chargesl with stupidity, imbecility, sloth, and, cowardice t l why whb is injured by that ? What business . Ova such men near a Royal residence ? Suppose aunt: and Carlile, instead of being incarcerated, the one in Elchester Gaol, and the other in Dor- . ibetter Gaol, had been merely told they' must that come within 45 miles of London, where would have been the great harm to the nation ? ant this is not conciliation I—No indeed : and why should these Gentry be conciliated ? --There may be amongst them one or ;we respectable individuals ~So there may : and the King, notwithstanding his Decree, will always ,be ftbk to linike exCeptions in favour of those who deserve to be excepted. This is a Matter which troubles us very little. The essential Pitint is to conciliate, not a few incorrigible Rebels, hut- the great body of the Nation, and to do thiS consistently with principles of genuine liberality and humanity. Whatever May be thought in this country, king Ferdinand rill find It no easy task in Spain to satisfy the screat . vrtnjority of his people, without measures of 4,4tverne severity, against the rebels, who have rep, dared themselves odious by their impieties, their sacrileges, their robberies, and murders. When ht , ard of Mina shooting 40 prisoners in cold foood, we knew there must come a day of retri :ttfien ; and in such ckseti the lamentable evil is that the innocent too often suffer with the guilty. - rte earnestly hope 'that King Ferdinand will be ch i le to prevent this. Let hint cense the laws to be strictly executed against those who shewed no 0011 while they were in, power; but let him -4 he be ableL-i.eiti•ain all eicesSes of popular vengeance. [THU 'TIMES, j We present to-day another decree, the second *prtber, by the restored King of 3pain. These documents were not wanting to make the man known! There was a whisper at one time that fl Meant to act with clemency • and we were the Ant to publish, though distrustfully, some assur likes to that effect. We knew what his past conduct had been, but we were still unwilling to set him down es entirely beyond the reach of re formation. We confess that these decrees, cruel and insolent as they are, do not give us pain; nt2r will they do 'so till the author of them kilns to riot, as heretofore in the blood of his subjects. They, in fact,. continue the war; knd they must, if the Spaniards are not baser chin the, basest of mankind, bring on another crisis. The country in which such decrees issue from the supreme authority, could not be said to be at peace, even if Hone of its people were in arms. Ferdinand forbids all his subjects who belonged to the late Cortes, or who accepted of Attentions under them, to come within live leagues of his road to Madrid, or ever to ap proach that city within the same distance, Spaniards, native Spaniards, are forbidden, with out trial, ever to came near the capital of their I),4*n country, by one who is a Bourbon in descent, , end has been known to solicit a female of the blood of nuonaparte, the Corsican, for his wife. That the decree is merely vindictive, and not )irocoutionarb is obvious ; for ail those against istoin it is to take effect have shown themselves , 'too imbeeciler to be the objects of just dread.— treatmeet may rouse their manhood, iinteed, if they have any , hi them ; but as :the Spanish contest is not to be suffered to away—as vengeance succeeds to unmerited ;access—we hope the cause of the people, the bause' of freedom and humanity, will be managed 1 Other persons than those who have hitherto conducted and disgraced it.. What more corn. tithdloas enemies, indeed, could the King 'of fiPain and Ids worthy allies desire for themselves, than the men who could surrender Cadiz without a blow ? The Spaniards require a few more , Minas; and it is one among the many honours of that Chief that he always scorned to hale any communication with the late Cortes. [MORNING eesT.] Paris Journals to the 15th inst. arrived last night by Express. They have brought another Decree from Port St. Mary's, of the same tenor as the last, but less extensive in its operation, as it only affects the Constitutionalists in Spain, whilst the former embraced all arrarigetnents and treaties concluded with foreign Governments.— Ferdinand, it is now evident, has derived no wisdom from the past. Four short days of un limited power have proved that he is unchanged, and that he has , brought from Cadiz the same violent and persecuting spirit which animated him at his return from France. After annulling in his► first Decree all acts" clone by himself under the Constitutional System, he now inflicts the pe nalty of banishment from the capital upon indivi duals of all characters and degree who have In any capacity served underthe Constitution. This inter diction which is " for ever" as to time, is, how ever, modified as to distance. The members of the late Cortes are only forbidden to approach 6 6 within live leagues of the road to Madrid." The persons connected with the late Administra tion, with the Council of State, and the Tribunal of Justice, all Commandants, Generals, Poli tical Chiefs, all subordinate Clerks in Public Offices, together with the Chiefs and Officers of the National Militia, are treated with greater severity, and not permitted to come within fif teen leagues of the capital or of the Royal resi dence. If this he one of the measures of conci liation which the French had promised to advise, and which the Madrid Regency meant to recom mend in its farewell address, it is a fair sample of what may be expected to follow. The ground is cleared, the foundations are laid, and the pro portion of the superstrpcture begin to reveal themselves. If the architect be allowed to pro ceed, the edifice will no doubt be magnificent; for never was man better calculated to raise a temple'to Despotism than the restored Ferdinand. That cowardice has been the motive of the present Decree does not admit of a question. It is a vice in which he is accustomed to indulge before he ventures on the grander enjoyment of revenge : and he would not have been so moderate (in his view of the subject) if he had not thought that pru dence was still necessary. His prudence, however, has not been greater , than his moderation ; for if lie does not wish to render the occupation of his king dom by French troops perpetual, he ought not to have commenced his persecution of the Constiin tionalists before they were completely disarmed in every part of the Peninsula. Betrayed as they have been, and faint-hearted as they have generally proved themselves to be, he ought to recollect that one of the reasons which made them lukewarm in the cause might be their reliance on the sincerity of his professions, and a consequent disposition on their part' to leave him free to act as he promised to do, on just and constitutional principles ; and that by depriving them all at once of that cherished hope, and giving them up to actual persecution, foretokening still more severe inflictions, he migl.t remove the indifference which had hitherto palsied their hands, and arm them with the courage and energy of despair. For they would feel that they were no , longer fighting for a par. ticular form of Government, but for their liberty, their property, and their lives, each or all of which will soon be demanded from them by the resentment of the Despot, when he shall find himself firmly re-established on his throne. [MORNING IiEItALD.] Some of our contemporaries, cling to the hope that Spain will yet be saved from the grasp of the French. Their hopes are now fixed on Mina. lie is to be the liberator. For some time, sanguine hopes were entertained by them that, after the Spaniards had allowed the French ti oops to spread themselves all over,Spain and to take possession of all the strong passes, the Guerillas were to assail them from every point ; and that what the Spanish Constitutionalists could not accomplish in a body, they were to effect by means of guerillas that is —the one hundred thousand well-paid and well-fed French troops were to be de troyed by , the guerillas, though the latter had arrayed against them not only the French and Spanish Royalist troops, but also the King of Spain, the Spanish grandees, the Priests, Monks, Friars, and Nuns of Spain, as well as all the beg gars (synonimous with our poor) who were daily in the habit of being fed at the gates of the nunneries and monasteries. It is singu lar that the people of Eegland should be so gulled by that part of the press of Eng. lanai which with such solicitude affects to watch over the interests of England. 'lime said press in watching over these interests never thinks of its own interest. It never puts forth in print a syllable in order to sell its printed commodity. It administers, comfortable things to the hopes of the people of England, but it takes great `care never to 'play upon their fears. The debt, and taxation consequent on an increase of the debt, it very wisely keeps out of sight, though it well knows that it is this that has kept Ow English Government and the English people from forcing their Government to assist the British Patriots who flew to the relief of the Patriots in the Peninsula, though most of the Spanish patriots were bribed long before the British Patriots arrived to the assistance of the Spanish patriots. Truth should be told ; but it appears strange, and not a little paradoxi cal, that the monied interest of England should have enabled the French to effect more in - one year, in the subjugation of one of England's most ancient allies, than Buonaparte was able to effect in ten years. But the people of En g land seem to be fast approaching to the same temperament as the Dutch people, who, while their country was at ear with England, sold gunpowder to the English Government. Emturisu pREsq The tyrant now let loose, by Preach bayonets, in Spain, is pursuing his ancient career with the ferocity of the staunch bloodhound : vengeance and proscription are in his track.---and Ile will enter Madrid amid the yells of fanaticism, and surrounded by the , bands of terror. The perfi dious despot has hurled another decree against the Cortes in a body, beside the Ministers, Cpun sellers of State, Members of the Tribunals of Supreme Justice, General Commanders, Po litical Chiefs—down to those employed in the office of the Secretary of State. Chiefs and Officers of the Militia and National Volunteers, the Cortes and Its Members, the tyrant forbids to appear within five leagues of his road to the capital ; to the others he /shuts for ever the en trance to Madrid, and his Royal residence, which they must not approach within fifteen leagues. Let Turkish despotism be mentioned after this ! Was the Lord of the Bowstring, with his livid mutes at his back, ever more abso lute ? And if such decrees as these have been issued on his very parting the Cortes, and in the French camp, what may we not expect to follow when he is lustalled in his palace, with inqui sitors and serviles all round him ? Spain is now doubly blessed with an unrestricted and cruel tyrant, and a fanatic and ferocious rabble. This is the Government old Louis and Angouleme have entailed 'on that unfortunate country. The most dreadful excesses, it appears, followed the liberation of the " Idolized Ferdinand." The houses of the Constitutionalists were sacked and plundered, and their property destroyed or burned in the streets, amid yells and viva. " My cousin ,the Duke of Angouleme," and his mercenaries, looked on and saw the storm grow wild and loud, without an attempt to allay its fury. We are sorry to see the names of British officers among the number of those who knelt at the footstool of the tyrant, to render him homage in his day of iniquitous power : General Downie, Colonel Browne, and others, who entered as Janissaries into his service, had their prison doors burst on his restoration, and afterwards knelt at his feet ; we wish they had been spurned with the contempt they deserved, when they mingled amid his slaves. Our Am bassador, Sir William A'Court, it appears, was also expected to swell the tyrant's train, and re ceive as his compensation for meritorious service, the ribaud of the Order of Charles III.; the inves titure from such hands would be a national disgrace. But it is well that the cruel Ferdinand has ap peared so soon in his true character. The COMO. tutional party will not be deceived, and can take early measures for their own safety.. It is yet to be seen whether Mina and his brave coadjutors will submit at discretion : they hold five of , the strongest fortresses in the province, and have yet a considerable force: will they yield their necks to the royal butcher, and fall without even an effort I—we do not think they will. [stortmrso CHIIONICLIN The attempts at negociation 'which preceded the surrender of Cadiz produced disclosures which, we are sorry to say, prove but too (Ilse tinctly the participation of our own Government in the plot against Spain. We are in possession of information on which we know that we can rely with perfect confidence, that we are sorry to say leave us no room to entertain a doubt on the sub ject of this participation. The French obsti nately rejectedos has been stated by themselves, all offers of compromise between themselves and the Constitutional Government, insisting always as a preliminary on the cession of La Isla and the Cortadura, and the removal of the King into the Isla s thus making themselves masters of the c h anges w hi c h might be made in the Constitution, by being first masters of the person of Ferdi sjand. Those who were not aware of the secret understanding between England and France, felt naturally astonished that the Duke should uniformly refuse the intervention of Eng land, declaring that France would allow no nation to interfere in her differences with Spain. When General Mara went to the French, he carried with him au autograph letter from Ferdinand, offering to meet him out board a neutral ship in a certain positi on w hi c h was I named ; the letter was not answered by the Duke, but a memorandum was given to Ge neral Alava, containing the propoiltiotts of the French, and signed by two French Ge nerals, the Duke stating at the same time that the surrender of the King previous to any nego ciation, was an unalterable condition of the de termination of the Congress. Here we are at once let into the secret of the deep deplicity 'of our Ministers. If this was a determination of the Coot. gross, it must have been known to the Duke of Wel lington, our Ambassador at Congress, and conse quently to Ministers. But if such a determina tion was taken, how could they, when the French were proceeding to act on it, continue from time to time to endeavour to persuade the Cortes that if certain roodificutions in the Constitution were consented to, the danger might yet be warded off? If the English Government had given even a hint at the outset that such a determination was taken, as that Ferdinand must be surren dered to the French previous to all treaty, the Constitutionalists would 'have been less divided, and the traitors among them would have been deprived of a pretext for their vile desertion, and of a means of poisoning the winds of many of those who looked up to them. We confess we were nut altogether prepared for many of the facts that now transpire, when the they is Supposed to be won. We were startled, we own, at the circumstance of Lord Holland having in the House of Lords convicted Lord Li verpool of having denied the clause, in the Treaty with France having reference to the Partition Treaty, which afterwards came out in the Papers laid before Parliament last Session. We were startled too at the contradiction between the pre tended ignorance on the part of Mr. Canning, that the affairs of Spain w e re to be discussed at Ve. rona, and the circumstances which afterwards transpirede—Whe n we saw men thus stand con victed of that to which we shall not give the odious name it receives in common Parlance, we ought to have conceived them capable of %hat we since find they are chargeable with.—lt is but Justice to the defenders of Cadiz, whom it is n ow the fashion to ridicule, to say that their mea n , were really very inadequate to the performance of the task assigned to them. We know that when our gallant countryman, Sir It. Wilson, took the command of the' exterior lines on the 14th, he found that every arrangement had been made of which the means of General O'Daly admitted ; and he confessed that he never saw a line of posts more vigilantly watched ; but the force was most inadequate, and defers. sive means were wanted to a degree which was hardly credible. The' spirit of the troops, under every privation, and under the severest fatigues, remained excellent to the last. The people of England are but too apt to forget the excessive poverty of Spain, and that the most gallant mess < without resources can in modern warfare do little indeed. Posterity will do jus tice to the many well disposed people of Spain, as well as to the English Government. SINGULAR FRENCH TRIALS. Three most interesting trials are about to come on before the Court of Assizes at Paris:- They are all of them for murders of great atrocity, at tended with singular or striking circumstances. The two most interesting,, from the station and condition of the accused, are for assassinations by poison; the third involves the fate of a wretched mother and her son, who are accused of murder ing a beggar woman, in order to obtain possession of a watch and a few francs, which she kept con -cealed in a bed of straw. The first that will be heard is that of Dr. Castaing, who is accused of two murders, committed at the interval of nearly a year, on the persons of two of his most intimate friends, the sons of a notary at Paris, to obtain possession of an income of about 20,000 francs, which belonged successively to both. The indict-I meet charges him with three great crimes --.Ist, with having administered poison to his young friend Rippolyte Ballet, about the end of Oc. tober last; 2dly, with having, in conjunction with the surviving brother, Auguste Ballet, de stroyed the will of the deceased, to convert his property to thr , irjoint use; and thirdly, with hav ing, in the end of May last, made his accom plice his victim. The death of Ilippolyte was not so sudden or striking as to excite at the time the suspicions of his family. Contrary to the expectations of his brother Auguste, and of his friend Castaing, he had made a will which in cluded neither. This will bequeathed 20,000 francs to a party out of the family. The sur viving brother leagued with the doctor to de stroy it, and the doctor poisoned his friend to secure the spoil which he had previously induced Auguste to make over to him by testamentary deed. The poison employed in both cases was of a vegetable kind, called acetate of Morphine, and therefore more difficult of detection than the usual mineral or metallic substances employed by, the murderer. It was administered in the last case in a tavern at St. Cloud, where Ballet and Castaing had gone to pass some days of pleasure or relaxation in the confidence of, friendship. ' The curious examinations of the ablest chy mists and physicians of Paris, and the general detail of the circumstances extorted, as is the case in France, from the mouth of the ac cused, or obtained from the deposition of the witnessess, are expected with intense interest. The trial which will follow this is that of a Madame Boursier, for the murder of her hus band. This crime, likewise, has excited no com mon interest. Boursier WAS one of the richest grocers in Paris. Having his large mtsea zines and shop in the rue de la Paix, most of the English in that almost English quarter were his customers. Ile died about two or three months ago in terrible agonies, attended with circumstances which, if the medical man who attended him had done his duty, would have im mediately led to the detection of the crime and the criminal, It was proposed, on his death, to open the body. His disconsolate widow opposed the proposal, on the ground that the operation would harrow up her feelings. He was interred in the cemetry of Pere La thaise. The widow's grief dried up as soon as 'her husband's remains were interred. No garlands, according to custom here, were laid, on his grave—none of the flowers of the cemetry were watered 'vvith the widow's tears. She recovered immediately her wonted cheerful ness, and received the visits of favourites whom her husband had forbidden the house. The sus picions of the husband's family could be no longer suppressed. His brother procured an order from the proper authorities to disinter the body, and to i examiee the servant. Madame Boursier had not the knowledge, or could not employ the means of Dr. Castaing. 'A greater quantity of arsenic than is usual on such occasions was detected in the contents of the stomach, and the proof of death by poison was complete. Madame Boursier was imediately arrested. To post pone the term of her trial, she dechired a preg nancy, which has since been found to be feign ed. tier father, a respectable man, who is Receiver-General of an arrondisement of Nor mandy, who happened to be in town at the time of the disinterment, is said to have become mad, lin consequence of the conduct and arrest of his daughter. This latter circumstance adds con siderably to the interest of the trial, and to the impatience with which it is expected by the public. The last of these assassinations to which I have alluded, is not the least singular, and has been followed by consequences even more striking than any of the other two. The accused are two per. sons, mother and son, of the name of Lacouffe.— The murder was committed on the person of a beggar, in the Faubourg du Rauie. The crime was considered at first without motive, and there. ford the more unnatural. It was at last, how ever, discovered, that the deceased had a watch, which she concealed in the straw of her bed, and it was supposed that that might be the object of the criminals. The mother, Lecouffe, was first arrested, under circumstances of strong swicion. During the time that the Age dlizstruction was examining witnesses and arranging evidence to implicate the mother, the son appears on the stage. The , account %Melt he gave, both of his motives for committing the crime and his reasons for confessing it, are of the most singular kind. lle told the Judge of Instruction that he wanted , to marry, hut coul d not find money to pay the expences of his nom, or wedding ; and that having heard of the old beggar's possesing the requisite Suns in property er coin, he had takes away her life to get possession of it. He had then • married, and had enjoyed a most exhilarating noce,, when he began to repent of the assassination by which it was procured. His first idea, he said, was to expiate his crime by suicide ; and having heard that brandy, taken in sufficient quantity ' , would produce death, he had bought a bottle as a certain poison. Having, however, drank two glasses of this mortal liquor, he found that he was , the less disposed to die, and therefore postponed the consummation of :he process to the following day. In the night time, the shade of his father, his own guardian angel; and two other angels, with whose physiognomy he was unacquainted, appeared before him and enjoined him to cenfese his crime. He therefore proceeded to the Judge• of Instruction whom these messengers pointed out, and who happened , to be the same person who was drawing up the evidence against his mother. The Judge very properly issued an or• der for his arrest on the disclosure of facts stated by himself, although he did not, of course, lend implicit faith to the story of the angels. The" young man now denies the crime, and declaret` that he made a false confession to induce the. Judge to release his mother. Additional evi. dence has since been obtained against both, and the trial is likely to be extremely interesting hr more points of view than one. It is expected that it will come on about the end of the current, month. PUBLIC DINNER AT STOCKPORT TO LIEUTENANT BACK, R.N. A most respectable party, consisting Of abont.A fifty Gentlemen, assembled last week at the , Warren Bulkeley Arms, at Stockport. Captain flumennEys, R.N. was in the Ch a ir, an d on the . right sat the heroic young man, so justly the' , pride of his fellow 'townsmen. When we con•'; sidered the unprecedented sufferings he had en dured, and the unheard-of privations which once reduced his frame to the extremity of weakness,' and brought him to the verge of 'dissolution, it was impossible not to feel a high degree of plea-, sure at beholding him again in apparent posses sion of health and vigour. J. Lt.wrn, Esq. Prothonotary of Chester, performed the office. of croupier on this most gratifying occasion. Ths.e,e, tertainment was fully equal to any that Mrs. Higginson has ever prepared, gave high satisfaction, and was followeAl by dessert, sumptuous and elegant. At about half.past•six the cloth was rem ov e d, when " The King" was drank with enthusiasm, and was followed, by 4, 0 ( 1 . save the King," in excellent style, by Mr. C. DURNICIL—.. The object of the Meeting was then stated in an eloquent Address, by the gallant Officer and active Magistrate Willi . presided. „ . It will be recollected that Lieut. BACK accompanied Capt. FRANKLIN' in his perilous and unprecedentedly daring journey to the, Polar Seas, in 1819, 20, 21, and 22. The narrative ofi that dangerous enterprise is one of the most interesting that has issued from the press for a great number •of years., and, ,the repeated acts of self.:command, genuine courage, and in-. trepidity, recorded of Lieutenant BACK, are in the hightst do- . gree honourable to that Gentleman, and truly creditable to his perseverance and telents'as'a British Naval Officer. A noble' instance of self.clevotion is recorded of him; when the little party which coiripOsed the expedition were at Fort Enterprise, their winter stock of provisions fell short ; Mr. Baca, that! volunteered to return to' Fort ProVidence, or to Chepy wau, and commenced his journey over an immense tract of country, which the icy hand of winter had rendered dreary and deso late In the extreme, .of the 19th of October. Ile fortunately arrived safe at Chepeywan, and succeeded in returninM to Fort Enterprise on the 17th of March following, performing a journey of 1,104 miles in snow shoes, with no other covering in the woods at night than a blanket and deer skin, and the thermometer frequently at 40 deg and once at 75 deg. below Zero; ,during - which frightful undertaking he was sometimes two or three days without tasting CAPTAIN PARRY. In the course of an excellent Address front Lieut. BACK, at this dinner, he took occasion to speak of Captain PARRY, and stated his ungna• lifted opinion, that that gallant Officer WM Oft* and would eventual% accomplish the object of his enterprising voyage.—(Stoclport Paper.) ALIIRGATE, OCT. 14.--The following is the topic which took the lead yesterda,y:—lnformation was suddenly received from Dover, that on board one of the steam yachts was con cealed a quantity of contraband goods. The Custom HOOK cutter put of from this port. Through some accident theboat was run down. There was a child in It, whichono of the officers preserved by holding it up with one arm whilst he swam with the other. Fortunately the sea was not running high at the time—all were preserved. The steam vessel proceeded t► London.. . ACCIIANT AT DRURY LAII£ TURATAL—Vit Tuesda7 night as the one shilling gallery was opened, a great rush being made by those that were at a little distance from the door, a youth of the name of Jones was pushed down by the pressure, and those behind st e ppi n g upon him, injur e d him so much 'as to leave him in a most deplor able condition. The blood gushed out of his ears, eyes, and mouth ; he had some of his teeth broken, and complained much of his arm, which iris thought to be fractured. When down, his cries of I;lurder were disregarded by those who might have offorded him assistance, under an impression that it was a scheme of some pick pockets. lie was carried to the nearest hospital. A young lady, of the name of Smithers, Who was on a visit at Mrs. Anson's, Quebec.place, Edgeware.roaA, met with an accident on Wed nesday evening, %Ouch it is feared will prove fa tal. She wps dressing herself, to accompany s party of friends to the theatre, when her clothes , caught fire, and her shrieks brought the servant maid to the room, when the upper part of the un fortunate female's dress was in one blaze, and her front hair was burnt from her head. 'BIRTHS. On Wedner.day, at Mark's-hall, Essex, the Lady cif tV. 1'- nonywood, Esq., M.P. for the county of Kent, of a son anti heir. • 1114-1 RR IED. Thortlhay, at St. GeiNge's, Hanover square, by the Rev:. Richard Powys, Henry Philip Powys, Esq., eldest Son ° I Philip Lybbe Powys, Esq., of Ha r d w i c k House, OttfordslOres and Broomfield House, 3liddlesex, to Philippa ErninA Sha wl ' of Upper Ilroak-street, youngest daughter of the lite William Cunliffe Shawe, Esq. .On the Itith instant, at Islington Church, the Rev. °cargo li s ing, Minister. of Hampstead Chapel, to Miss Martha ChAP' Man, eldest daughter of' Mr. Iticha t tl chi quoto o f stnthan terrace, Islington. On the;l6th instant, at St. John's, Hackney, Mr, Jasn'il 'Wright, jun. , of Great .Marlow to 111 , try Aim, t hi r d an d Hyoungest d aug h ter of George IDyson, Etq., ackney. On Tuesd the 14th instant, in he r 34 t h y ear , Anna 11 5144 ' wie of 3 ay, DIET). the l Ir. Itob ert of flarleyfordllavet , nington. (in the ll t h i nstant, aged 27, at his uncle's house, in —44 E-rt Presobtt-strect, tioodulan's.tields, I)avid, the only son-of " Jacob Tryvea, of Kingston, Jan:ai ca. 1 C - Printed anal. l i ublislied fo r t h e P ROPRIETORS, at the S urritx. 112, Strand; J. B. CAItBTATUS. N