The Sun. — London, England, 1823-01-25 00:00:00

••••••••••••• tti, ..... .••. - 2 14 fr. ~. ;li~.y~y! ' A y,''h, 8G Tot 01 37hcillY unimportant. The emperor of Rossi* was expected at St. Petersburgh on the 17th inst. The Leipsic fair is very bad, oWing to the severe cold, and.the scarcity of water, .which' - has . rem. dered several manufactories- at . a stand. At Angersteinberg a pitcher ; of water cost three halfpence, and in Hoherstein the scouring of rooms is prohibited, 'under a penalty of five rix dollars. - • We have received this morning Norfolk (Vir ginia) Papers to the 12th December, which do not contain any information. ( From the Norfolk Herald of the 12th December.) W e almost dread lo hear from our public ves sels in the West Indies, so disastrous has been the intelligence from them for some time past. The latest accounts froth the Cyane are re ceived by the schooner France! from Curacoa, arrived at this port. The Cane had Put into Curaqoa about the 6th nit., on account of the sickness of her crew. - FROM CURAgOA.—A Spanish squadron from Coro, consisting of a frigate, brig, and Schooner, .came into Curagoa a few days hffore the Fiances sailed, for the purpose of prucuring supplies. The day before its arrival, Commodore DANIELS, with the Colombian squadron, appeared off the harbour, bound to some port on the Main. The French brig Mexican, from Vera Cruz, Campeachy, arrived at Charlestown in distress: she was bound to Bourdoaux, and was robbed in Campeachy Roads by a pirate of thirty-five thousand dollars in specie. The pirate was from Campeachy. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM ALGIERS, DATED DEC. 10. 44 This place is now 10a considerable bustle, in consequence of the fitting out •of a flotilla, which it is re ported is destined for the Mona, to replace such of the Alge rine ves se l s as h ave b een damaged or destroyed by the Greeks as well as to form an additional force in that quarter. The squadron consists of s i x vesse l s of war, of various sizes, four of which are nearly completed, and the remainder in a state of considerable forwardness. A frigate and a gun-brig are like wise taking in their compliment of men, preparatory to pro ceeding on the same destination. The recent losses sustained by the Algerine military squadron in the Morea has much .exasperated this people; and, although it is not probably known that the squadron above alluded to is fitted out for the purpose of acting against the Greeks, yet it is strongly believed here that such is the fact. in all probability, ere long, a declaration of war will be issued against Spain by the Dey of this Regency ; as, since the departure of the Spanish Consul, it has been generally circulated here that it is lawful to capture any vessels be lengino' to or sailing under the flag of Spain, the depar ture of the Consul being regarded as tantamount to a decla ration of war. This has occasioned many to form an idea that the flotilla now fitting out here is destined to act against the Spanish Government in the Mediterranean, in • which parts it will cruise when properly equipPed. The merchants here, who are accustomed to trade with Spain in Spanish bottoms, are consequently much alarmed, and it is ,said that the Spanish Admiral at Majorca has directed several vessels of war to cruise about for the protection of the merchant'ves sels of that nation, and the merchants are cautioned against sending any vessels without convoy until the final intentions of this Government are clearly made known. There cart be little doubt but that long before this time the Government of this place would have commenced its buccaneering system, 'had it not been delayed by a want of pecuniary-means, milting -from the severe loss es t h ey h ave sustained in • Greece "Lind groin the delay of the Turkish Government in forwarding the sum agreed upon for the hire of their vessels now employed in the Morea. The absence of this quota-of their navy has also scombined to ep them from asaing Sain, as It would find their force e too weak, while s div li ided, p to cope with cy that of their adversary. " This city is uncommonly healthy at this time; and 'the plague has entirely disapp eare d ; t h e neighbourhood aso which some months ago was very dreadfully infested, h as not exhi kited any cases of dis ease for a considerable time." • THE KING.— (Brighton, Jan. 23.) .--The answer to inquiries at the Palace, to learn - .the . state of his MAJESTY'S health, continue most desirably favourable': that of to-day has been— ' • " The ICING is better."—The KING is not .now I confined to his room ; the gout has been- so far reduced that his MAJESTY has removed and dined • in another apartment for several days past. The inquiries after the state of the Duke of YORK yesterday were very numerous. The answers were—" His Royal Highness is a.little better." The CHANCELLO R of the EXCHEQUER iS indis posed with a severe cold, but it did not, prevent the Right lion. Gentlethan from .attending the Cabinet Council yesterday. Yesterday, at' two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office, which was a tten d e d by the LORI) CHANCELLOR, the Earl of Liier pool, the Earl of Harroivby, .the Earl of Weit-, moreland, Mr. Peel, 1114. Canning, Earl Bathurst, Viscount Melville, the Duke of Wellington, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr,, Wynn, Mr. 'Robinson, and Viscount ,Sidmouth. The - Connell sat in d e lib e r at io n till aboutn quarter before five. Mr. JACKSON left town last night on hilreturn to his mission at Madrid. It is reported that Lord Qn4zlvtr.z.r : will set off immediately for Paris, to 'succeed Sir Cnitu r.ts STUART, as our Ambassador to the French Court. PRINCE LEoror.n.—Yeterday morning at seven o'clock Si r R OBERT G annitatt left, glare mont in a carriage and four for Brighton, to convey to the KING the ParNCE's duty, and to announce his Royal Highness's arrival in Eng- England.--The PRINCE left Claremont yester :day mor n i ng about half-pa s t ten o'clock, :an d proceeded.in his trav elling carri age to the King's Palace, at Kensington, to pay his respects to his sister the Duchess of KENT ; also his Royal nieces the Princess of KENT and Princess FEo. 2)0a; tOgetber with the Princess Sorl u A. After wards the PRINCE proceeded to London on a visit to the Duke of YORK, where the Pntrrct • remained some time. His Royal Highness pro ceeded from the Duke of YORK'S so Marlbo rough Rouse, in Pall Mall. At six o'c lock th e P RINCE went to K ens i ngton to dinewith the Duchess of KENT. Gn next Monday morning, Mrs. SUSANNAH WRIGHT is to be brought up from NeWgate, before the Judges at Westminster Hall, to.teaive her sentence for a libel sold by her in CA11141.01 01 0 p in Fleet -street. Th e whole o f C ARLILE ' S stock of sedition and .pherny is to Wed nesday next, be sold in Chancery -lan e on ~• , r~~ FAST! I ONA BLE A RRIVA I.S. The Earl of Plymouth, in Grosvenor-square; the Earl and Countess Caledon, in St. James's-square, from Surrey ; Lord Sr. Helen's, from a tour; lion. Mrs. Lisle, from her seat near Kingston ; Colonel and Mrs. Matthews, in Orchard -street, Portman-square ; Mr. Henry Davison, in Cavendish-square ; Major Armstrong, in. Pall-mall Lady and Miss Campbell, in Gloucester-place; Lord Lake. in St. James's-street ; Colonel Roberts, in Baker -street ; Capt. Alvan, at Stephen's, in Bond street ; Capt. King, an Aid-dc-Camp t o the Commander-in. Chief in India, in Piccadill y ; Colonel and Mrs. Pmtheroe, in Conduit -street ; M rs . an d Mi ss Harland, Clarges-street ; Capt. Magennis, in Park-street; Sir Thos. Ormsby, Bart. in Pim dilly ; Sir JOhn Broughton, Bart. at the Claremont Hotel, Bond-street; Colonel and Mrs. Thomsen, at ditto, from Paris; Mr. Worland, at ditto, from Brighton. CHANGES.—The Earl and Countess of Surrey, from Rich. mood, for Worksop Manors, Nottinghamshire; Earl Clan william, for Strathtieldsay, Hants; Earl of Ancmin, for North Cray, Kent ; E ar l o f Ch ar l emont, for his seat in Ireland ; Viscount. Granville, for Strathtieldsay ; Lord .Ellenborough, for Roeliampton ; Lord Melbourne, for Pansenger, Harts ; Colonel and Lady Eleanor Lowther, for Cottesrnere, Rutland. shire ; John Ferrand,.Esq. for Ascot-place, Windsor ; Capt. Gore;for Brighton ; Sir H. F. and Mr. Bathurst, from Blake's Hotel, Jertityn-street, for Englefield Green, Berks ; Colonel Scott and family, from the Claremont Hotel, for Brighton. BATH A IlltlVALS.—Lord Stewart, Sir C. and Lady Chad, Sir M. CholmOndeley, Sir H. Strachey, Hon. and Rev. Mr. Windsor, Hon: Mr. Boyle, Commissary-Gencral Butler and family—Dr, and Mrs. Bell, Dr. and Mrs. Emery, Dr. Caples. tone, Dr. Baine—Gen. Burrell, Col. Arnold, Cob Horner, Col. , Palmer M.P., Col. Wickham, Col. Pearso n , Col. Mead, M a j or Hardy, Cap. and Mrs. Quintun, Capt. Farewell, Capt. Mills— Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Burt, Rev. Mr. anti Mrs. Faulkener, Rev. Mr. Cohan), Rev. Mr. Holmes, Rev. Mr. Joy Huntley, Rev Mr. Jenkyns, Rev. T. Meyler, Rev. Mr. Saunders. . PASTIIIPTABLE PARTIES. The Earl of Harrington had a dinner party yesterday at his house in the Stable-yard, St. James's. Lord Alorpcth entertained a select party at dinner yesterday at his house mPark..street. • Thu" ItTabigal Club" lately established by. Sir Charles Bampfylde, Hart. at the White-Lion Inn, and patronized by several neighbouring Noblemen and Gentlemen of the greatest respectability, bids fair to promise. every thing that is delightful in the glee department. Lieutenant-Co lonel iloulton took the chair on ,Monday last, and a more pleasant evening never was passed ! Master Smith, so justly celebrated fur his vocal, excellence, gave to sonic of the part music, a fascination hardly to be described, and his solos bore evident proof of the masterly tuition of his father, who also assisted the regular professors in many of the glees, &c. Mr. A. Loder is the musical director; and when we add the names of Messrs. Garbett, !gannet's, Winter, and Rolle, we may venture to anticipate to the Club a.rapidly increasing ce lebrity. A committee of active Gentlemen have been formed from the members, who will "do their duty •" and we hardly need mention that M r . D ore i s not to b e excelled in furnishing the supper-table, with every thing that is good and in season. .—(Math Herald, Jan. 24.) . . .. t rA-) 04 • N . 4 . ,‘.: ; 1 ' 1;.4 \ ) ~ .i .: .s -- . ,:e l l '"l''' ' , s s.? - 1 , , 'l ? 4 , ' i -- - - 1 1 OE 1 , .. , !!•- / i b ci '-'-''' *A. 6 „ . 4 t.. I 44 6 ;IC UNIVERSITY INTEJ4LI( ENCE. .• OXFORD, JAN. 24—Wednesday, June 22, the following Degrees were conferred : ILterrELon Or CIVIL LAW.--Jerome William Knapp, Fellow of St. John's College. MASTER or Anms.—Oeorge Fuller Thomas, Scholar of Worcester Colle ge ; . Richard' William Jelf, Fel low of Oriel College; Francis Bryans, St. Edmund Hall ; John Wrottes ley, Esq., Christ Church ; Haviland Durand, Scholar of Pan. broke College. • BACHELORS OPARTS.—EveIyn Bazalgette, Baliol College; John Huyslie, Brazenose College. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.---The Rev. T. Stacey, B.A. of Jesus College, in this University, Curate of Cardiff, to the Vicarage of Road', Glamorganshire.—The Rev. J. Pratt, A.B. to the Perpetual Curacy of Fordhani Nerfolk ; patr on , E. R. Pratt, E sq . o f Riston' Honse.—The Rev. R. Dailey; M.A. Vicar of Dixton, has been instituted by the Lord Bi s h o p of Gloucester, loucester, to t h e R ectory of Stanton, in the county of Gloucester. Turkriticit L.—Another Drama, founded on the Scotch novel, entitled The Fortunes is soon to be brought forward at Covent Gar. den Theatre. —Report assigns the new piece to Mr. HORACE TwISS, whose literary as well as Parliamentary powers are well known. It is Said that there is a want of harmony at present between thtt Managers of Covent Garden Theatre and Miss M. raze. The cause is stated to be as follews :—She was asked to play the countess, in Figaro, which part she had performed twice last year, but refused, wishing rather to perform that of Susan. Miss PATON, it Seems, with ready zeal, offered to play both characters with Miss TREE alternately, but this proposition also was declined. We should be sorry to find that Miss M.TREE, who is a good actress, as well as a good singer, and who is much esteemed in private life, should listen to ill-advisers who are too often found disturbing , theatrical harmony..._ Something of the same kind is said to exist be tween the Managers and Mr. IVIACREADY. Per formers should consider that they receive liberal salaries, while the Managers are at a certain ex pence, and exposed to all the caprices of public taste. ' Miss S. BOOTH has accepted an engagement at he Manchester Theatre. On Monday afternoon his Excellency the Loan LIEUTENANT was pleased ,to receive, at the 'Vice-Regal Lodge in the Phcenix Park, the Loyal Address of the Corporation and Inhabi tants of Bandon, to which his Excellency re turned a gracious reply. The Deputation con sisted of the Dean of LEIGHLIN, (who read the Address,) the Hon. Captain BERNARD, the Rev. GEORGE Bill:mimic, and Major WoonwAßD. The Earl of BRANDoN, who was requested to be one of the Deputation, we regret to state, was prevented from attending by severeindisposition. r--(Dublin Cofreopondent, Jan. '21.) Petitions to Parliament against the New Marriage Act have been adopted in all the parishes of Bath. CANTERBURY, JAN. 14.---A Meeting of the Mayor, Clergy, and several Inhabitants of this City and its vicinity, was held in the Guildhall, on Tuesday last, fot the purpose .of considering of the best mode of relieving the necessitous poor, at this inclement season; when it was re solved, that a subscription should be immediately entered into, and that the relief contemplated should' be made in bread and fuel. The Com mittee appointed for that purpose accordingly, on Wednesday evening, entered into contracts with 11 bakers, to supply, fur the first distribu tion, 2500 gallons 'of the best Avheaten bread, which were tendered for as follows:---1,000 gallons at 114 d. 500 at 11d. and 1,000 at 101-d. per gallon , a supply of coals was also contracted for, at. 489. 6d. per clialdron, delivered in Can terbury. • PGETR T. On GEORGE ROBINS, ESQ. LANGFORD and SKINNER, In their day, 'Midst Auctioneers bore Sovireign sway,. And just were deetn'd their dealings; Of public merit they had store, And none who knew them sought for more, Nor ask'd their private feelings. But ROBINS stands on higher ground, 'With equal probity, 'tis found thaall their skill inherits ; Ile's always quick to knock down VICE, And for the VIRTUES gain due price, According.to their merits. GEORGE, in thy Catalogue of mind, We much of solid worth can find, Benevolence the chief Witness poor EMERY'S Mournful Band, Rais'd by thy, prompt and active hand, From fell despairing grief. When DEATH, Fate's awful Auctioneer, With his dread Hammer shall appear, GEORGE, fear not thou a jot ; Thy conduct bids so well below, That *llea he strikes the mortal blow, Moult gain a happy lot. SPORTING. r HUNTING INTELLIGENTE. MEFTINOS OF HOUNDS IN THIt ENSUING REEK. Sir It. Yuleston's Hounds, on Monday, at Emral • Wed nesday, at Twenlo ws ; an d on Saturday, at Overton Bridge. • The Holywell Harriers, on Tuesday, at Bagillt ; and on Thursday, at Lixom Green. Lord Anson's Hounds, on Monday, at Newnham. The appointments of the Quorndon Hounds will be sent to the Blue .Bell Inn, Leicester, and the George Inn, Melton Mowbray, as soon as the weather will permit hunting. A bet has been offered by a Gentleman of 600 guineas to 100, that we would produce a horse to trot HI miles in one hour. We understand the owner of the American horse has taken the. bet. The practice of betting is become much more general here 'than it used to be. We have heard of a Gentleman in this town who has betted that, in two months, he will produce a pig to run against a horse for a distance of 100 yards. The race is to be in an open field, and the pig 13 to run to its meat. The odds are in favour of the pig.—(G/a.rgo:v Paper. MATCII TO CANTIMIIIIIIY AND BACK. -511". IL Aherne thy, nephew of the north country. amateur of th at name, started at eleven o'clock yesterday morning to go from Westminster bridge to the turnpike at Canterbury, anti return (one hundred and twelve miles), in twenty-eight - hours, for a bet of fifty so vereigns. He did six miles in the first hour, five and a h a lf i n the second, and six i n t h e third, before he halted for five minutes. He kept steadily at work with apparent ease to him self, at the rate of something more than five miles an hour, and at four o'clock, when our informant left him, he had done twenty-nine miles, and had laid down-0 to 4 against time. . Box Ens.— The match for 50 sovereigns, between Halton, the Irish champion, and A. Belasco is off; the six sovereigns depo. sited on the part of Belasco having become forfeit, by the non observance of the time and place to make stakes good on the part of Belasco's backers. Halton is again open to fight any man in England, and to give 0 lbs. in weight. Five fifties to four were laid on Cooper, the Gipsey, again s t C a bb age , f rom Bristol, who figh ts C ooper on Wednesday , next. It is one of the greatest sporting matches known for some time. Johnson, the Gosport Black, and Joel Harris, the Birming ham or Coleshill Blacksmith._. This battle, which was hastily knocked up for a stake of ten sovereigns aside and a purse of fifteen, took place on Wednesday, at Caxton Heath, between Nettlebed and Emershani. Johnson, a late import from Ame rica, a 13 stone athletic man, had fought and won twice, and was sweet upon himself. The smith-was a noted leveller, who would take plenty of whopping without denial, and the Chum pion of his walk. P. Oliver seconded the Black, and the Bath Tint= handled Harris» In the 12th round Johnson had blinded his adversary, and won the fight.; Oiroan.---W e are happy to learn that a bene. volent Society has been established in this city, for the purpose of visiting the sick and distressed poor at their own habita tions. It is conducted by a Committee (chiefly of Ladies), two Secretaries, and a Treasurer who meet at the Vestry of St. Ebbe's every Tuesday, at eleven o'clock, to receive the Ile port of the Visitors as to the relief afforded during the week, and to take into . consideration and order what relief shall be extended to the cases in hand for the following week,- -The Visitors appointed by the Committee out of their own body (two or more every week), who undertake to attend to the cases in charge, to make strict enquiry into any new ones that are in want of assistance, and to convey to the objects of the So ciety's benevolence such necessaries as the comfort and support of the sick and distressed may require. Th jof the So cim Is to provide loin iediate and necessaryrelief, and this in such articles as their cases may call for. The giving of' nioney, if pos sible is avoid e d, an d suc h assistance rendered as the exigency of the case seems to demand —proper attention having been paid tp character, and to what pecuniary resources the indivi duals bray have. It is conceived that there are many advan tages attending this mode of dispensing charity—it eco nomizes the means of our bounty, by a previous provision of necessaries, and by the distribution of them according to actual need, it extends our bounty to those who are most in want of it, while it detects the imposture of those who, by im portunity and perseverance, wrest from the benevolent indivi duals what may be conveyed through the channel of a So ciety like this to revive those who are sinking under diffi culties they have not courage to make known to strangers, or solicit their aid. To visit the abodes of misery not only promotes cleanliness, industry, and right feelings, in the ob jects of pity, but it is surely accompanied with many bles sings to those who undertake this errand of mercy, and in these two influences combined, we cannot but augur well to so. ciety in general front the institution of Societies like these.— Subscripuons have not been generally solicit e d b eyon d t h e im mediate connexion of the Committee, who were anxious to commence the assistance so much nestled during the.present in. clement weather. Their fu n d s have been aided,' however, by some kind donations, not only of money; but of articles of clothing, wine, &c...-(f)rford Journal.) At a Meeting of the Royal Society of Edin burgh, on Monday last, C a p ta i n SCORESBY, whose name is so well known us connected with the History of the Whale Fishery, exhibited some very interesting experiments on the magnet. His observations have been made principally with the view of correcting the errors of chronotheters, which, he has found, are frequently occasioned by the most simple and hitherto unlooked-for circumstances —such as the position of the material of which the balances are constructed at the time they were made. He showed that, by the blow of a hammer, the polarity of a bar of iron may be reversed, according to the end on which it is struck—that if a bar of iron is bent in a horiz onta l pos i t i on, i t d oes not becom e mag netic ; whereas, if it be held perpendicular when bending, that it does so With the negative or po sitive ends, according to their being uppermost or undermost; and as a simple stroke of a barn mer is capable of rendering iron magnetic, as well as turning, polishing, and burnishing, In the event of a boat being forced to sea without a compass, it is n o very difficult matter t o construct one, for temp orary purposes, from the bl a d e o f a knife or a pair of scissors. OUraN OF TUE TERM DANDY.--TtllB term, which 11W lately b ecome so common an appellation for that feeble race of doubtful gender, who appear to have originally sprung from something between a sta/maker and man-milliner, appears to hove ari sen f rom a small silver coin struck by King HENRY the Seven t h, ca l led a Dandy prptl, and h ence Bishop FLEVTIVOOD observes, this appellation Is applied to worthless and contemptible persons. MERCANTILE SHIPPING. DEAL, Jaw. 241—Wind N.E.—Remain in the Downs the Severn frigate.. „ PORTANOUTII, Jan. 24.—Iirind arnylskor. sailings is - day. /I nwic . 24. —Wind - E."..:—Airived. the • Lekester, Hammond, with mails, &c. from Holland. CrItAVESEND) Jaw. 24..—Put back the George, bound far India. 'rhe • • America; Turner, from • Savannah, was on shore in Bootle Bay on Wednesday, but was expected to belot-off. , . The East India Company's outward-bound ship Thames was in lat. 36. I. S:•long. 7.2. E., on the Ist of November, all well. The Regent was- to leave Angier Roads for China, on the 17th of September. CONFESSION OF A MOST NOTORIOUS OFFENDER. • Our Readers cirifedt fait to recollect that amonk the last gang of unhappy' criminals who expi ate d t h e i r offences with their heti tit" the Old 'Bailey, were two young men, named Frank Pardons and IYijLia n Corlet alias Wei. son. These persons, it may also be remembered, were con victed of a burglary and Stealing to a large amount in money, in the Blue Anchor publicebouse, kept e by C ra w ley, a man minted C ra ley, in. Bl ue A nc h or-yard, ' Rosemary. one, aht use which had been long A notorious . fiash-hoete, dr plac e frequented by thieves .1; and where the se men and Rohr) others succeeded in carrying off the whole sum which the publican had set apart •for the pay ment o f hi s b rewer the next day. In the accounts given in the newspapers of the execution of these guilty men zt was stated, and truly so, that Purdom to the last denied being in any way concerned In Crawl9o3 robbery, though he had been in the public house several tones in the course of the Sunday evening on which it was committed. It was also at the same time stated, that he confe.sSed to the Mcrae that " he had been a very bed fellow," and e th at h e d eserved to die by the hand of th e executioner, thouglrriot for the specific of. fence of which he had been found guilty: How truly his over burthenel and self-condemning conscience might force him to admit that to have been his desert, will best appear from the following minutes of his confession, taken down trom hie own lips. by one of the wardsmen who sat rap with him and his un happy partner in iniquity the night previous to their execution We shall lay before'our readers this tairrative, in the writer's own phraseology, and simply add a few observations to eltsei date parts of it which appear obscure, or but hardly hinted at. " A true copy of the confession of Frank Purdom and Wm'. Corbett, which took place the night before their execution. "I remained in the cell No. I, with the above-mentioned men and John Roberts ' who was execut e d .!for highway robbery-- When land my .brother wardstnan entered the cell, William. Corbett made use of the horrible expresiften_ , May my so u l never enter the kingdmnof heaven if Puttlem and my brother .Joseph are not totally innocent r—Fudom staid, in answer to this, if he (Willi am C or be tt ) h ad stated that at the time of th e i r trial, they would have been acquitted but lie would not do it, but endeavoured to hang him (Purdom), and save himself.— Purdom then said, Wise was executedle.should be murdered ; not but that lie deterred hanging, twelve yours ago. Ile then went on to state that he had been guilty of every crime imagin able--even murder. Hs said that the woman whom he loved with was not his wife, but the wife of hie cousin, and that by Purdom she had three children, out of which three the eldest Is now living. The youngest died during its father's confine ment in the cell, but as to the second child, the death of that lays at his hands. " He went on to state as follows t--That when the child was about four months old, he was obliged to conceal himself, for having nearly killed a man whom he had robbed ; and during his concealment at home, he most cruelly beat the wom a n a b ove spoken of; and when the' Infant was crying, he took it by the arm, and threw it to the other end of the room against the wall, making use of the horrible expression—" There you little —, go to____;" after which he said, the child breathed no more ! " He also said, his cruelty to the woman (the mother of the murdered innocent) ought to have hung hint; but he had escaped the hands of justice for that. He said at that mune time there was a watchman e who had not been out of his bed for eight months, through his (Purdo m ' s ) h av i ng b eaten him. " Ile also stated, of the Gentleman who was a clerk, and who was robbed near IVldtechapel Church, and wh o afterwards died of his wounds, he declared that he was concerned in it, and was a long time out of the way during the disturbance and while the hand-bills were out, whereby Ilis Majesty offered a free pardon to any accomplice giving inforination, and a large reward for the apprehension of the murderer or inurilaers. " I then requested him to allow me to put it this confession) to paper, and as k e d him if he would s i gn i t ?. Ile saidNo ; neither did he wish any mention to be niade - of it, until after it • was all over (meaning his execution); buttle then wishetinto to "communicate it to who m it was peeper. .. I then asked hi m if lie had any thing'else to cotnmuni cate ? He asked Corbett what he had done with the remainder of the 400 sovereigns which he had to his Aare, th ere b e i ng only three of them in t h e robbery ? Furtioniconunued that he ought to have been in it, but they , put him in the hole (watch house). Corbett said he had only 1701. 14s. left, and that h e had made over to M ar y (th e woman with whom he had lived). He said the concern which they were here for (in Newgate) had cost him nearly 601. Purdoin then said, he (Corbett) ought to have been sent to for his having sent hint (Purdom) in the bole ; but he supposed they should meet there to; ether. " I then reed dlfferent prayers to th em , and,Ro h berts advised Purdom and Corbett to confess the .whole to. nits, and then they could devote the remaining part of their time to prayer. Pur dom then said, there had been great exertions to had out the perpetrators of the murder of a wornan,and that a parish .officer had made great exertions to find it out, but without success. " He then clasped his hands and fell on his knees, and hoped God would forgiv e hi m f or having 'mingled his hands ' with the blood of so many. He then went into 'prayer, and when they heard M r . B arrett (a turnkey) come to unlock them et five in the morning, they all fell on their knees, and thanked God that their time was so near at hand. They both (Pnrdorit anti Corbett) then wished me nut to mention it (meaning this confession) until all was over. (Signed) " Rtezienn `Peyton. " To John Wontner, Esq. Governor." The above may be depended Upon tee,far as it goes, es cor ' veying a true sk etc h o f w h at this unhappy man uttered in tile presence of the person appointed to attend upon him during the night and morning previous to his being. cut off from the number of the living. It is indeed awful to contemplate the short but too successful career' of guilt which he had run, foe at his death lie was not more than 27 years of age, though' fur a long time he had been known to the police as perhaps the most desperate thief in London, and as one'who It was sup posed would stick at nothing to prevent his falling . into hands of th at, justice which at .length , ste fatally vittited his enormities. The watchman alluded to in the above confession was en old man who hail made himself obnoxious to Punions and the rest of his gang, by watching their motions, and not unf requent l y defeating their operati ons . O n this eccount they Otto night attacked their victim in 'a body, end beet hind fie, dreadfallY that his life was despaired of for a long time. The Gentleman mentioned as a clerk, whis was robbed rota murdered in Whitechapel, was the lamented Ale. Nathani e l, Wild, who, Mahe month of August, 1821, was knocked down by a blow from a bludgeon, anti robb e d, in Union-street, Whitechapel. The blow fractured his skull, end of that wound the unfortunate Gentleman died, leaving, a ,wife and several young children. The 40W. mentioned as part of some spoil, supposed to be connected with a successful 4aul'whith the. gang made of 1,280 sovereigns at one tune, while Poulton: was confined in the /,+4.2e or watch-house on some minor charge, and which confinement he always ascribed to the cunning of the rest of the gang in e order to Ire* him out of his share of so rich a, booty. The murdered woman, about whom the perish officer" had made such unsuccessful - exertions, there can be little doubt, meant MTS. Donatty, tied " the • pariah tficer," 'Pa lor e the vestry cl er k o f St . Andrew,Bulbs rn : :. far Purdeo t had before Spoken to the persons attending him about that Mocking einem, but always very obscurely, adding that it would all come out time. enough when he wategenee" It is dreadthl to ram upon the tinpeeparet Stele in vo,ich Punt= and Corbett were on the nialtennir;inorhiog to their execution. The etteinkest vita Tat and crintination took pl ace between them. Indeedto such a frights height did they carry their altercation, that the wardsnten Vatel 4 ing them - expected many tinned that they would have come blows, and were often tin the point of calling M. the terekey, repress their violence. Towards morning, however, they eteei more calm and resigned, and both, especially Pardon), met tht fate with composure and uncommon tiaanness.—(Moreiner Paper. ECLIPSE TO-MORROW. . There will be a Lugar Eclipse to.morrow afternoon ;- it will be total, and partly visible in London.._ The Moon will rise at 18 minutes 46. seconds after four, at which time she will 'be eclipsed 11 digits 14 minutes and 20 seconds. It will afford an extraordinary and.beautiful . phe , nomenon if the sky should thenlbe clear, to see the Moon thus partly eclipsed at its rising; for it is far more usual to see the shadow come on. Here the shadow will have in a small degree obscured her phase before she rises, and appears to us in our latitude. Shortly after Ascending the horizon her orb will be wholly immerged in the dark shadow of the earth; this will be. gin at 22 min. 26 seconds after four o'clock; the .middle takes place at .511..11 in. 28 sec. ; the immersion, or terniination of total darkness, will he at six o'clock, and the Moen will quit the shadow of the earth at .'4l minutes 1 second after six, apparent time. Moore, in giving notice of this Ealipse, adds an interesting report of the Moon's vertical track of about 2,850 geo_graphicid miles in traversing the zenith during-the time of this Eclipse :—Over the Phillipin e Islands, in lad-. tude 19. H..; 'China, Tonkin L aos , w hi c h i t will occupy at about the middle' of the course, in latitude 18 deg: 49 m. North, lon. 101. deg. 47in. East thence passing directly over Pagu, and some parts of the Bay of Bengal, it will enter the Eastern shores of. Hindoostan, and it will become vertical .to that celebrated region of Asia at the em! of the Bell*. The 'Moon will rise, when the Eclipse begins, to the Eastern part of the Shetland Isles, the , windward of Germany, the 'Western parts of Turkey and Greece, the Eastern parts of Asia near the boarder s of E gypt and ' Abyssinia, and also to the South Western extremity of Madagascar. At the middle she will rise to East Greenland, Spain, some parts of Africa near the Cape of flood Hope, and set to the Sandwich and Friendly Islands; likewise to the Western 'shores of New Zealand. Near the end, the Moon will rise at the Azores and St Helena, and set to the Eastern co as t o f . N ew 'H o ll and and the central part of Van Diemen's Land.—Hence this Eclipse will be visible, from the beginning to the end, over the whole of the Russian and Chinese empires, Sweden, the dominions of the Grand Seig, nor, and also Persia,, Arabia; Egypt, and Abyssinia. The dura tion of total darkness will be 1.11. 38 min. and 4 sec. The Moon will be at full at 5 o'clock. The Sun will rise at 7h. 38 min. and set at 4h. 22 min. J up i ter i s t h e even i ng star, and wi ll continue till the 10th of June next. THE WEATHER AT PARIS.--AII extract of a private letter from Paris, dated Jan. 17, says—" The weather at Paris continued to be extremely cold, but a considerable ame lioration has occurred since the date of my last, the 15th inst. On the preceding day the mercury experienced at Paris a greater depression than at say period within the memory of the oldest person now living in France. It fell 3-4ths of a degree below the minimum marked on the thermometers as the point to which it descended in the memorable frost of 1741—eleven and a quarter degrees (of Reaumur) under zero! Unaccustomed as the English are to such an extreme of cold, those of your countrymen now resident in Paris bear it much better than their Ciallic neighbours —so much so that you would be in clined to say they had exchanged characters. On the. Basin de la Vilette, near the Barrierre St. Martin, where there was much skating, the English were left' undisputed masters of the field. Many of the latter went through a number of beautiful evolutions upon the ice, in a style which proved pretty clearly to me t h at : the performers had graduated on the Serpentine. One party executed with admirable precision several quadrilles, without making a single faux pas in the intricate chain Anglais—others engraved their own initials of 0. R., upon the frozen tablet, while the more aspiring and dexterous essayed and succeeded in the spread eagle. Deterred equally by the cold and the rivalry of John Bull, not a single Pouliot. Franuais appeared on the basin or, the canal d'Ourcq. In Paris the English were not idle. The Marquis of Worcester, in a superb sledge, headed a line of at least a dozen similar machines, several French were amongst his follower s , one o f whom (the Duke de Guiche) you will recollect to have seen in London. Flying _past the Tuileries, up the Rue voli, across the Place Louis Quinze, ascending the Champs Elysees, back again, up the Rue de la Pali, and along the Boulevards, this cortege had a picturesque and tine effeet. :From the centre of each cat rose a species of mast, which was surrounded by a gaudy and 'nodding plume of feathe r s ; th e trappings of the horses by which they were drawn, studded with innumerable glittering bells, while (the pun is irresistable) the Belles inside each vehicle vied with each other in the pro. fusion and costliness of the furs in which they were enveloped. This scene has been daily repeated since, and as there is no prospect of a thaw, bids fair to enliven the north of Paris for some time to come. Extractofa letterponi YOrk, dated Wednesday, Jan. 22 The signal defeat which old Cob bett, the bone,dealer; received last Friday at Hereford, has given universal satisfaction to every lover of reform, and has struck with dismay and disappointment all its opponents. I will mention to you an anecdote, which will show you i n what light the Minist er i a li sts of this town look upon that political tinker's itinerant labours, and perhaps it may be taken as a good specimen of the value which the friends of Government throughout the country set upon his services its their cause. A Yorkshire Clergyman, who, for his great activity in supporting the powers that be, has' already received one living, and exists in the hope of soon receiving another, was in formed of Cobbett's ignominious defeat at Here. ford. Instead of exhibiting that pleasure which he ought to have felt as a lover of social order and rational liberty, he eppeared extremely vexed and dejected, Being asked why he did not share in. the general joy produced by this event,. he replied, I feel no joy in it, it gives me great pain ; for believe me , C o bb ett, though he pretends t o fi ght in your ranks, is one of the most active auxiliaries we have. Ought not this admission from' such a quarter to. speak volumes, even to the miserable wretches whom Cobbett has contrived to delude ?'--(Times.) As the carriage of the Right lion. the Earl of BRADFORD was way from this town to Wilda on Saturday, and passing a waggon at the Grange, near Moutford , Bridge ; the postillions called out to a party of warneif.to get out of the Unhappily a poor woman, Elizabeth Jones, aged 71, and somewhat deaf, ran exactly in front of the leading horses, was thrown down, The Thermometer, yesterday morning, at and the wheels passed over her body. The Noble eight o'clock, was 24 deg. ; and at one, 27 deg, Lord, who was in the carriage with his son, the Yesterday morning, a fine child, the son Of Hon. Captain Charles tridgeman, on being its- Mr. THOMAS LucAs, in Waterloo place, Vaux formed that an accident had occurred (of which hall-road, was left alone in the parlour whilst they were till then unconscious, rushed out his mother went on sonic casual business up of the . carriage, and pers /tally assisted in stairs, when he set his dress on fire, his piercing carrying the poor woman to the adjacent farm . ... screams being heard by the servant in the house, the Grange. His Lordship instantly sent kitchen, she hastened to his assistance, and put to Shrewsbury for surgical assistance, and re- out the fire, but he was SO dreadfully burned mained with the sufferer a- long time, and in a that he was carried to the hospital withoet hopes state o f distress, characteristic of his kindly and of recovery . . human e feelings. Every effort to preserve the SHOCKING Occunnexce.---On May tram life of thep o or w oma n p rove d unavailing. His Lord. instant), about twelve oil:lock lit noon o , nd 11 wom (l3 an ship directed that the remains should be buried at of the name of Dancer, residing in Mill-street, in his expellee ; and had she left any relations de- Stourhridge, nearly severed off the bend Of her pendent upon her (which happily is not thecase) child, about nine months old. Sfte had so manglEd he propos e d to haTeSQll(Fibtlied us much as pos... the poor innocent with a large knife, that It was sible to mitigate ,their distress. From the.eii- dreadful spectacle. A Coroner's inquest has deuce taken, before the Coroner, it_was clear been held before Mr. IlAeere, and she is con there was no biametsklm attached to the post. witted t o our county ►gaol- on charge of murder, boys, and the Jury returned a verdict it tag- considered she is iliseoe.'s--( - Worce.der "Accidental Death."---YBhreresbary Chronicle,) Journal)