The Sun. — London, England, 1823-09-04 00:00:00

• , 1 -5. .. 'Ti E LONDON, JOURNALS. DA 1.14 I . .latrasts from the Morning Papers, September 4 [MORNING HERALD.] have received the following from our Piizis Correspobdent SEPT'. I, lB23.—The French troops Nave tbade an attack upon the Trocadero, and haVe'been repulsed with considerable loss. They we'r'e preparing also for an attack upon the bridge of Suazo, which communicates with the Isle de Lebtf.:.There is some confusion at Madrid, and cnitiiderahle alarm amongst the members of the ilionoy, in consequence of the near approach to Madrid of a regular 'body of Constitutional hoops." • [Tits TimEs.l 114rOday extraordinary .courier arrived -fr'ato`Spain, with advices from Madrid of the 27ttliartdA from Port St. Mary's of the '23d ult. Wttiiilitioned in our Paper of Monday, that a lettei had. -been addressed by the Duke of Al).. to Ferdinand VII., proposing, on cer lairi 'terms, to make peace with the Spanish nation 4, and have now to communicate, accord ing Id the best information that can be obtained, the mode in which the propositions have been replikl to.. .'We are assured that the answer of Ferdinand hfts been written with his own hand, though pi'obably at the dictation of his Ministers, and ktiatit is one of the most spirited, dignified, and luminous documents that has issued from the samet'source during the present contest, exposing, vithpowerfill talent and in a highly indignant tone, be hypoEritiCalpretences and violent aggressions of the French Government. Ferdinand, who ad di•esses' his letter to " Monseigneur le . .Duc et mon " Cousin," begins by stating " that he is. free, " and that if he has suffered any curtailment of " his liberty, it - has only occurred since an in " vading. force entered hiS , dominions, for the 4C purpose. of delivering him from bondacre."-- " His Royal Highness," proceeds the bondage."-- " laments the existence of disorders, which he at " tributes to the work of faction, and professes a '. 4 desire to save the further- effusion of blood. " 'Royal Highness, his Majesty the King of "• France, and the French Government, who are alone the authors of the war, are alone respon -44 sible for the blood that has been already shed, " and which may yet be shed." The , Royal autograph pies on in substance to state, that if .any calamity happen to himself, or to his Royal Family, from the accidents of .the threatened attack ; or if the " faithful people of 64 Cadiz," so worthy of his royal regards and inter est, suGred those disasters which are the usual concomitants of a protracted siege " the King of "France, and his Royal Highness the Duke," 'would have, to answer to the world and to poste rity for those calamities and disasters. The latter part of the letter, though we are not en abled, to speak on this point with perfect preci- Aim), contains an appeal to England to save by her interposition 'both, _Fiance and Spain from the tainniia e a with which they, are threatened. • This *reply of the: . King' is dated on' the - ,',Lc-2d, and 'was YeceiVod On the same ',day at the FreoCh ,ht ad quarters in Port St. Mar y's. . n ' NEW TIMES.) The fetters from Paris mention a decline in the Rentes on Monday. They opened at ,92 45, subsided at one period of the day 91 SO, but recovered to 92 . 15 by four o'clock ; and it was said that at a Jater hour they were done at 92 35. The L t iberal Journals affected to hint at the pro prifavourable news,. but little atten. tier, was, paid to them. A more operative, cause tending ,to. the Zepression of the Funds was the want. of, confidence, among the Brokers, produced braie T foßeces of Cleret and others a.week or two , ago, which circumstance was more -par .tieularly felt on Mouthy, on account of its being tt settling„4tlay, Nor must it be ;forgotten that the operations., of, "the campaign,, short arid decisive AS it ,has hitherto 4een, must have , iinvolvedAhe French Government in great ex., pence, stilich..it will, ere long be necessary to meet with -a new Loan, or. an issue of Exchequer. Bills---. 'circumstances :to which the m onied men in :Pieria of course look forward, and which must feperateus.sorne drawback on the tendency of the Funds to rise.— r -The Phrisiun prices reached yes terday upon our own. Consols sustained a fall froth 83 to 82 for the .itcount. Spanish Bonds weid-ako lower here, although ;they remain eta .tioftary at Paris ; :they close d yesterday at Colombian Bonds have risen to 4t ;' probably in codsequence of the advice of some disinterested friend who has 'gone to. the expence of it seven 'shilling Advertisement to caution the holders not to eel], wforif die) , do they will repent of it." Some of . ticerir cOrtaialy Seilent that they ever' bought either these'or Poyais Bonds, which lat.:. terhre /wittingly 101. • [swim' elms.] Tuesday's French Papers reached us yesteri day. Atigoulemols-propositions, it appears E were at once rejected by. the Cortes , ; and the 'long. cherished hopes of negociation, echoed in; all the French Journals, have vanished for the present into 4 f thin air." Ther,Pilote and other papers state, that all hopes of arrangement are decided (y lost., it iinow asserted, also., that the convention of Ballaiteros was merely conditional, aud only suspension or active hostilities between, him an Molitor, Uri Übe result oftbe negociatioas shout be known._ Should no treaty ensue, the .Spanis General, it is added„ was to be at liberty to re- new hostilities. Though such a treaty as this were really entered into between Ballasteros and the ,French, still Molitor- would, take care to eta °lion% the Spanish troops, in such a way that t h ey could not renew= the combat, but . .at a deep disadvan'tage. ,13a , %-lasteros, we are Per.l goaded, will not fight again ) unless the Cortes obtain some .tfecided success, either ot. Cadiz or in Catalonia. Angouleme, iuthe interval, had determined, on consultation, :to attack the Isle of. Leon. Twelve , battalions, ,of Which five were of)the loan], were unitedat Rota. On th e night'of the .33d, the French gun-boats sailed from the Prado, under a heavy fire of the ene- my's batteries, to receive' on board all the troops united at Rota. Twci Ships of the French squadron were to coaduct them to the South of the Isle of Leon. On the night of either the 23d or 246, the troops were to be there landed, and Cadiz attacked by land and sea, op Lo9.is's Fete-day, thus sigTtlizing it by a waste ,of blood. If the French troops made good their landing in the Isle of Leon, it would seriously epdanger Cadiz ; hut we imagine the attempt must, be attended with dreadful loss, and at lengtii be found utterly impracticable. A land iitg,under the tremendous fire of the Spanish bat 6ries, aided by the troops on the Isla, would be annihilation to those who risked it. It was re ilorted in town late yesterday, that the French Clad attempted the landing on the Isle of Leon, and attacked the Trocadero, but that they were iepulsed on both points with great loss. The r,lesult is highly probable, but were it known in raris on any good authority, we should have had immediate intelligence of it. • EMORNING CHRONICLE.] Our readers will not be astonished at the tar diness with which news are received direct from Spain, when they recollect that all the usual channels of correspondence are cut off, and that the principal ports near the theatre of the war are besides blockaded. No one now risks a political letter through France, although by that route mercantile letters were received in London from Madrid by the last mail, for the purpose of being forwarded to Gibraltar?-- It will not therefore be matter of surprise that we should to-day publish a diary of operations in Barcelona, from the 7th to the 12th of July inclusive, when the French accounts are so much more recent. The details we-now publish, how ever scanty, prove that- the Catalonians are ac tive and resolved, and they also give us some idea of Frenchmen deserting, and of their lilt; ing oc casionally waggon loads of wounded,.wrich the Paris bulletins carefully keep out of view.—Ever since the war commenced, we have been depend ent on the French for all the information de rived from Catalonia, the province in which the contest for Spanish freedom will mainly be de cided ; fur if Mina comes out triumphant, as there is every reason to think he will, this circum stance alone would give a favourable turn to affairs, even if they looked worse than they now do. The Catalonians have done their duty, and although they have had to deplore the loss of Tortosa, through an act of treachery, they have still La Seo d'Urgel ; Cordona, strengthened with new works ; San Fernando de Figueras, with a numerous garrison, and an ample stock of provisions ; liostalrich, impregnable, and well garrisoned and supplied ; Lerida, an important point, and also well provided ; Tarragona, the defects of which were seen last war, and are now remedied ; Barcelona, the citadel, and Monjuich, three distinct fortresses, separately gar risoned and supplied, each capable of standing a long siege ; .besides several other points of minor importance. From present appearances, we think the French may calculate on having for a long time enough on their hands in Catalonia, and it is a query, whether it will not tire out their patience. The plan of defence adopted' there is excellent. The fo'rtified towns, occa sionally visited and relieved by flying columns, which the enemy cannot catch, although always in pursuit, may stand out for years, and their garrisons, from the moment the French sit down any where, become objects which give great annoyance. Harassed by marc!tes and counter-marches in a hostile country, where every straggler is sure to perish, and pressed by a deadly Guerilla warfare, it is not to be wonder ed at that the French soldiers are dissatisfied and desert, supposing them even insensible to the injustice of this war in which they are engaged. Their hardships and privations must also increase as the season advances, parti cularly in August and September, when the mor tality will be great. The Catalonians have only to persevere, and, pursue their plan of defence steadily, and they will endear themselves to their countrymen, and command the admiration o [MORNING POST.I French Papers to the 3d reached us last night by Express. They contain fresh intelligence from Port St. Marys, but it is nqt more decisive than the "last, and only derives its importance from the expectation vrhich'it holds out of some great event taking place about the end of August. That event is evidently of a military nature.-4 Active preparations were making for a general attack on the isle of Leon ; for whilst the Trocadero, or thle-depont which connects it with 'the Continent, was to be stormedi troops were to be landed in a different part to divert the attention of 'the Constitutionalisti and divide , their , forces. According to all .ac counts the Fete of St. Louis (the esth ult.) was the day fixed for the attack. As the Papers of the ed inst. contain no report on the subject, although ' sufficient time had elapsed to coin. mnnicate the result to 'Paris through the tele graph, we entertain strong hopes that this silence is occasioned . by the nature, and not the absence of Intelligence, and that ,the asser. tion of a private letter, received 'yesterday, that the French had been repelled with great loss in all their assaults, will prove to'be,correct. Such an event could not fail to have a - decisive influ ence'o'n the fate of 'the war. «" All eyes,", we are told by the journal des Difbals, s c are turned ,towards Cadiz this is undoubtedly the _case ;„ and should Cadiz give the ex ample, not only of unyielding constancy, but of successful resistance and glorioub triumph, all hearts will be filled with the same spirit throughout Spain, and all ,hands will be raised against the baffled and scattered Invaders', who may.even be abandoned in their turn hy those, unprincipled Spaniards who went over to their , side when it seemed , crowned with pro. sperity,' and who , will not remain faithful to the cause of, disgrace an d dishonour, I when it c eases to be that 'of, lucre and interest. The at tempts 'to negociate, we are assured by the Pilule,. had entirely failed, and "all hopes of. an arrangement were decidedly lost." This of itself is a fact of considerable moment ; but how much more important does it not become, if the information given in a private letter (see an other column of Tun Sux), be correct ! That the negociations should be broken off by the Cortes would only be another instance of the firm and patriotic spirit which they have already display ed on more than one occasion. It would there fore gratify, but not astonish. But that the King himself abandoning that double-minded policy which would have cost him his throne and his life, had the Revolution taken place in any other country than Spain, should have declared in an autograph letter to the Duke of Angouleme, that all the hypocritical pretences on which France commenced the war were unfounded, and that " he never ceased to enjoy personal liberty until the period of the entrance of the French troops into Spain," would be to state nothing but the truth, but to state in a way calculated to treble its power. To be told by the Mo. narch for Whom he pretends to be fighting, " that the blood shed in that unjust war would recoil upon_the head of Louis XVIII. and all Frenchmen," must remove from the mind of the Prince Generalissimo himself that self de lusion under which he might possibly labour re specting the real wishes of Ferdinand. And if after such a manifestation of sentiment, lie per sists in carrying on the War on the grounds on which it was undertaken, he no longer fights against the Cortes, but against the King himself. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-ST REET.-11 . 011SE STEALING. —Yesterday Samuel John Chalfont, a young man of gentlemanly exterior, was put to the bar on a charge of stealing a bay gelding, price 12/., the property of George Botts. It appeared that Mr. Dotty is the proprietor of the White Horse Livery Stables, City-road, and about a fortnight ago the prisoner applied to mom, stating that he wanted to hire a horse, to go to Bromley, in Kent, to fetch his wife home. Mr. (lotts, who neither knew the prisoner's name nor address, but had some knowledge of him by seeing. him two or three times in. the City-road, agreed to let him have a horse, considering that he resided in the neighbourhood, and was a respectable man. Ile promised to return the horse on the following morn. ing at eleven o'clock, but he failed in doing so ; and on Mr. Gotts making inquiry, he discovered that on the same day the prisoner obtained the horse from him he had taken it to the Commission Livery Stables in Gray's-inn-lane, where he put it up for sale, valuing it at 20/., and at that time drew bl. on account; it was ultimately sold for 121. The prisoner's resi dence was subsequently ascertained, and he was taken in bed about twelve o'clock on Tuesday night last.—He made no de fence, and was fully committed for trial. MAIILIIOROUGII-STREET.—EXTENSIVE IMPOSITIONS. —A man named John Parsons, who had tbrmerly been a pub lican, was brought before Mr. CONAN T, the Magistrate, by the officers of the 'Mendicity Society, charged with having, tbr a length of time, practised the most gross impositions on the pub lic, by means of advertisements for subscriptions for a distressed family; and it appeared-that he had the address to prevail on several respectable tradespeople to receive subscriptions at their houses. lie has been carrying on this system of imp°. sition since the month of November, 1821, and was only nowf detected by his effrontery in having lately stated in one o his appeals, that although he has repeatedly advertised' at the expence of his friends, yet that belied never hada single shilling subscribed for his relief. This. caught the eye of Mr.. Tribe, a respectable tradesman in Margaret-street, who had re ceived subscriptions for, the prisoner, and paid them over to him, and seeing the glaring falsehood of this assertion, suspected the whole to helm imposition,. and • laid the case betbre the lllendicity Society, who apprehended the pri soner living with his family, not in a state of• destitution, as he represented, but in very well furnished comfortable apartmenui, and. provided with every thing they could rerequire.i The prisoner also stated in" his-bast advertisement, that n s k t_ ditioo to the other afflictions of his family, one of his children was labouring under water on the brain, and another w as en _ tirely deprived of sight. Mr. Pope, a surgeon, stated, that by the desire of the Mendicity Society, he had examined all the prisoner's children, and not one of them was in the leas t affected with water opt the brain, loss of sight, or any other'com plaint. Mr: Hagott4 who keeps an -Italian Warehouse in Ox ford-street,' stated, that in the course of a few months he paid to the prisoner and his wife near 110/., subscriptions teemed for them at his house. A Mr. Allen said he had paid them about 201. ; Mr. Tribe upwards of 111. before he detected the imposition, and several ,other persons different considerable sums received at their houses. Mr. COXANT said this was the most shameful case of inipo sition on the charitable feeling and credulity of the Public he had ever known, and ordered the'prisoner, who. is a strong, healthy, robust fellow, to be committed to hard labour at the House of Correction for three months. QUEEN-SQUARE.--.Yesterday,- three young men were brought up to this office, charged with the commission of a very outrageous assault tipon two lontleiners," named Holland and Evans, owthe preceding , night. -The • first prisoner gave his name.as . Wright rthe second as. Cadre, and the third; on being asked by the worthy .Magistrate for his title, exclaimed " There's net one man in:fifty as can spell my name' The Magistrate.—Well, Sir; will you 'be so condescending as to spell it for us ? • , The prisoner (spelling)—H o A a It - Pace (the officer): ! —Why, that's the way they spell Iforshaiii gaol. Horsham. — No, Sir ; there ' s 110 gin it. The Magistrate.—l rather. apprehend your knowledge of a, gaol is not confined to - the spelling of it. The complainants did not appear. . The watchman stated,•that the gentlemen who. gave the pri soners in charge had been very severely treated. ' • The constable of the night said there was a young man pre sent who witnessed the assault. Sinyth (a argentan) was then called, and proved that he saw the assault. It was committed upon the gentlemen without any provocation, and it was a very outrageous assault. They were very severely treated. - The Magistrate observed, Oat two. of the,p r i so n ers were well known at that office, and he therefore remanded them, in order to see if the cOmplainants would appear against them. It was quite possible they were unable to appear fioni the severe treat. ment which they had suitained. • Erato RA.TION.—The Montreal papers say, that emigrants from Europe continued to arrive there daily, 'most of them Irishmen, and whose appear ance bespoke" variety of wretchedness." Within a few days three steam-boats had conveyed from Quebec to Montreal no less than 780 of these an . fortunate beings. yoarAnstitnE.—Walfer Graham and James Cameron are charged with circulating forged bunk-notes. . -Grah am and. Cameron having forced on their trial tinder the act 1701, were put to the bar of the 'High ' Goiirt of.Justiciary on the 7th of July. The trial was put off till the 12th, when another postponement took place to give time to d ebate som e tec h n i cal ob j ect i ons t o th e i n di ctment, When the p ane l s were placed at the bar on the 29th, the Solicitor-General observed that Graham had, contrived to disguise himself, chiefly by changing the colour of his hair from black to a dirty red; and again their case was adjourned to afford time to establish the prisoner's identity. Thirty witnesses are n ow summoned for the Crown.--(Edinburgh paper.) On Friday week a Jury was summoned at Pettycur, to - v alue of one acre and ascertain f a quarter of the 'lsland , of I nchkeith, part of the entailed property of the Duke of BUCCLEUGII, arid purchased by the Commissioners of the Northern Lights, for the use of the Light-house arid its Managers. The price was in thwshape ora feu-duty, or ground-eebtr which 'was fixed at 20/. sterling yearly. 'The whole Islaud,'at this rate, would be worth - 3 or 4,0001. a year'! We 'doubt if it will ever yield as many pence, setting aside this profitable acre.—(Scotsman.) OLD CUSTOMS. HANDSELL.—Lemon explains " .Handsell," in .his dictionary, " the first money received at market, which many superstitious people will spit on, either to render it tenacious, that it may remain with them, and not vanish away like a fairy gift, or else to render it propitious and lucky, and that it may draw more money to it." Fishwomen generally spit upon their handsell— i. e. the first money taken for good luck. Grose mentions this as a common practice amongst the lower class of hucksters, pedlars, and dealers in fruit or fish, on receiving the price of the first goods they sell. Mission, in his Travels in Eng land, thus notices this custom :—" A woman, that goes much to market, told me the other day, that the butcher-women of London, those that sell fowls, butter, eggs, &c. and in general most trades-people, have a particular esteem for what they call a hundsell—that is to say, the first money they receive in a morning, they kiss it, spit upon it, and put it in a pocket by itself." Besides, being used to invoke good luck,spittle among the ancients was esteemed a charm against all kinds of fascination; and according to Pliny, was observed in averting witchcraft, and in giving a shrewder blow to an enemy. Hence seems to be derived the custom our bruisers have of spitting in their hands before they set-to, unless it was originally done for good luck sake. Pennant, in his account of religious customs in North Wales, says, that cc in church the hearers usually spit at the name of the devil, and smite their breasts at the name of Judas. In their or dinary conversation, the first name gives them no salvation, but is too familiar in their months." In Browne's Britannia's Pastorals, there is an account of the difficulty a blacksmith has to spew " a stubborne muggy of galloway :" " Or unbrack'd jennet, or a Maunders mare, That at theforge stands snuffing of the ayre, The swarty smith spits in his bullhorn fist. And bids his man bring out the fivefold twist." Several other vestiges of this superstition relative to spittle, are mentioned by Pliny, and other writers, both of our own and foreign countries, and may be placed amongst our vulgar customs. BELINSGATE.—Bagford, speaking of the Anti quities of London *, has the following notice as to a custom once prevailing here :—" This brings to my mind another ancient custom, that hath been omitted of late years. It seems that, in former times, the portes that ply'd at Belings gate, used civilly to intreat and desire every man that passed that way, to salute a post that stood there in vacant place. If he refused to do this, they forthwith laid hold of him, and by main force bouped him against the post; but if he against the post; but if he quietly submitted to kiss the same, and paid down sixpence, they then gave him a name, and chose some one of the, gang for his godfather. We believe this was done in memory of some old image that formerly stood there, perhaps of Belus, or Bolin." He adds, C 4 somewhat ,of the like post, or rather stump, was near St. Paul's, and is at this day called St. Paul's stump." It is the duty of the Rector of St. Mary-at- Hill, in which parish Billingsgate is situated, to preach a sermon every year on the first Sunday after Midsummer-day, before the society of Fel lowship Porters, exhorting.' them to be charitable towards their decayed old brethren, and "to bear one another's burdens." The stump spoken of by Bagford is probably alluded to is Good Newes and. Bud Sexes, by J. R. Lond. 1622, where the author, speaking of a countryman who had been to see the sights of London, mentions " The water-workes, huge Pau's, old Char- ing-crosse, Strong London Bridge, at Billingsgate the Bosse !" PADDINC4 TON, (Distributing of Bredd.)—Ly sons, in his 'Environs of speaking of some lands paid to have been given by two maiden gentlewOmen to the parish of Paddington for the purpose of distributing . bread, cheese, and beer, among the inhabitants on the Sunday. before Christmas-day, says that they are now let at 21h per annum, and that 44 , the bread was formerly thrown from the church steeple to be scrambled for, and'part,of it is still distributed that way.. Ho USE Sitoxi.--Aubrertells us in hiS Miscel lanies, that . it is a thing very common to nail horse-shoes on the thresholds_ of doors, Which is to' hinder the power of witches that enter into the' house. Most houses of the west end of London : have. the horse-shoe on the threshold:-- ft should be a- horse-shoe that one finds. In the Bermudas they use' to put an iron into the fire when a witch comes in. " Mars is enemy to' Sa. turn." He says, ibid., 44 under the porch of Haninfield 'Church, in'SuffOlk, I saw a tile with a horse-shoe upon it, placed there for this pur- Oose,,though one would imagine that holy water would alone have been sufficient. I am told there are many other similar instances." In Gay's Fable of " The old woman and her cats," the supposed witch aomplains as follows— _ " Crouch; Of boys • Worry me with eternal noise ; Straws laid across my pace retard, • • -The Horse shoe's natrd( each threshold's guard ), The stunted brooni the wenehei hide, For fear that•l should up and ride ; They stick with pins my bleeding seat, Ana bid me show my secret teat." In Monmouth-street - (probably the part .of "London alluded to by Aubrey) many horse shoes nailed to the thresholds • were to be seen a few years' since, - seine' of 'which still' exist. There was one also at the corner of Little Queen-street Holborn.' TOBA CCO IN A LE•ifouszs.—This foreign weed, which has made so many Englishmen, especially of the common sort, become its slaves, is said to have been first brought to'England by Captain R. Greenfield and Sit Francis Drake, about the year 1586, during the reign of Elizabeth. A pleasant kind of tale, but for one item of the veracity of which we shall not vouch, is given in the Athenian Oracle, by way of accounting for the frequent use and continuance of taking it., 44 When the Christians first discovered America, the; devil was afraid of losing his bold of the people there by, the• appearance of Christianity. " In n letter printed in the first volume a LEland': Col. lectawa. _ " 121. - A- Tobacconist. " All daintie meats I do defie, Which feed men fat as swine : He is a frugal man indeed That on a lef'can dine. He needs no napkin for his hands, His'fingers' ends to wipe. Then keeps his kitchen in a box, And roast meat in a pipe." Lilly, In his History of his Lives and Times, mentions one William Breadon, Parson or Vi car of Thornton, in Bucks, who was so given over to tobacco and drink, that when he had no tobacco (and probably too much drink), that .he would cut the bell ropes and smoke them. The strain of the subsequent parody in the style of Ambrose Phillips, differs widely from the invective of Burton and other old writers:— " Little tube of mighty pow'r, Charmer of an idle hour, Object of my warm desire, Lip of wax, and eye of fire: And thy snowy taper waist, With my finger gently brac'd; And thy pretty swelling crest, With my little stopper prest."—&c. BEGGARS.—The beggars, it is observable, two or three centuries ago, used to proclaim their want by - wooden dish with a moveable cover, which they clacked, to show that their vessel was empty. This appears, from a passage quoted on another occasion by Dr. Grey. Dr. Grey's assertion may be supported by the following pas sage in an old comedy called the Family of Love —1608: Can you think 1 get my living by a bell and a clack-dish ? By a bell and a clack-dish Rows that ? Vl'hy by begging, Sir, &c. And by a stage direction in the second part of King Edwards I V., 1619, " Enters Mrs. Blagzte, very poorly, begging with her basket and a tiap. dish."—see Reid's ed. of Shakspeare, 1803, vol. vi. p. 325. RING DROPPING.- -There is a popular custom of crying out " halves," on seeing another pick up any thing which he has found, and to which this exclamation entitles the person who makes it to one-half of the value. This is alluded to as follows, in Dr. Jolla Savage's Horace to Seaver imitated,Svo. London, 1730. " Anti he who sees you stoop to the Found, Cries halves! to ev'ry thing you've found:" The well known trick of dropping the ring, is founded on this custom. IPLAGIARISM. --A young author. was ono. day asu w ed a h nd irn t t lhe e n to rea ig n h . ing ~ hlis cannot hat 'reading his tragedy to Monsieur Prnoti, who 'soon discov e r e d that he was a great - plagiarist. The poet pe rce ivingPiron no wk d an o ol f d a ac pa i . u ss a a in g e t: ance," said the critic, " without th a t' civ ili ty ." ' • - Some days ago a hackney -coachman was em ployed by a middle-aged respectable looking 'man .to 'drive him .to Newington, from thence to a number of other 'places, and latterly to Leith. In short, the coachman, was engagqd all day in driving him about ; and What excited - his' astonish ment very much was, his customer made ,DO 'sails, except ing occasionally at a public-house. About the,. dusk of the .evening he drove him to the High-street, where he niikititt; and upon the coachman soliciting his fare, he saluted him with a blow on the face, and made a sudden bolt - down a clog.. The coachman pursued him, when the fugitive_mshgd ovt of a house ar me d w i t h a l arge po k er , w i t h wh i ch he belaboured. the shoulders of poor John. The noise attracted 'the watch man who conveyed the offender to the Police:office, , where he commenced a new series of outrages by assaulting the, offi cers, breaking lanterns, windows, &c. He sent for a gentle man to bail him out, which gentleman declared he knew nothing led to a suspicion that his mind was disordered. Next d a y about him, a n d committed many , other extravagancies, which he was fined in a guinea, payable to the coachman,' and half a guinea to the public, which he declared he would readily pay ; but it appears that he is wholly without funds,.and is at present confined in the lock-up-house, in default of_ payment. It is now understood that he is a . fanner from Northumberland, whose inttllects has been impaired by misfornmes and other eauses.--(Scotnnan.) . . 7 COAL.MARKET, SSP?. 3. Ships at Market. Ships sold 541 Newcastle - . 401 154 Sunderland - - 124 313 Od to 43i Od 35i 6d to 43t 941 MA ARTED. On Tuesday last, at WEleot Church. Joseph Martineau, Esq., to Caroline, youngest daughter'of the late Dr. Parry, of bath. On the 2d inst., at flornsey, Mr. tn. R. Dunnett, of the firm of Holman, Dunnott, and Lloyd, •Wnod4tseet, to Ann Sophia, daughter of J. It Jackson, isq., Highgate. DIED On the 13th of July last, at' ShaW4ark, in the Island of Jam m es Jaaica, aged 27, Capt. Geor,ge. King, of the merchant ship Laing. On Thursday,. the 28th ult., at Wm, Armstrong's, 31ourit Queen's Count,- Rufus Titylbr, EsA.:, formerly of Halifax; in•Nova.Scotia. • •On Monday, the Ist et flom 71 erton, Elizabeth , Berger, aged 71; Widow of Lewis 'Berger; Est.t.,' late of t ea said place. • On Tuesday, at Brampton, Mr. 0,1, Monk ., . many years A clerk in the medical department oe the Victualling-office. .Early on Wednesday 'morning, the 3d inst., at his house in, Guildford-street, John Cowley, E.sq., in his 77thiyear. • ,°nv. r,, r1 L. ‘4 _ 1441 4114 2d inst., at Bright on , i n his 751h.year, the 11'11311103/72 'Western , o r i ven bili-phtee, in the. counts of Easex. Printed and Publiahed for' the Pitt lmitt TOWN at the SIM . - ' 'o,it ic: . ll2,..Strattti * by J. s,.()AasTAtils% He is reported to have told some Indians of his acquaintance, that be had found a way to be're venged upon the, Christians for beating up his quarters,- for he would teach them to take to bacco, to which, when they had once tasted it, they should become perpetual slaves." Ale-houses, &c. are at present licensed to deal in tobacco, but it was not so in the beginning ; for so great an incentive was it thought to drunk ness, that it was strictly forbidden to be takes in any ale-house in the time of James the First. There is a curious Collection of Proclama tions, Prints, &c l in the archives of the Anti quarian Society, among which is an ale-house license, granted, in the reign of that monarch, by six Kentish Justices of the Peace, at the bottom of which the following item occurs, among other directions to the innholder : "Item. You shall not utter, nor willingly surer to be ut. tered, drunke, or taken, any tobacco within your house, cellar, or other place belonging thereunto." The following ironical encomium on, and seri ous invective against Tobacco, occurs in Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy (4t0., Oxford, 1621) : " Tobacco, divine, rare, super-excellent tobacco, which goes farre beyond all their panaceas, pot.- able gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases. A good vomit I cone fesse, a vertuous herbe, if it be well quali fied, opportunely taken, and medicinally used, but as it is commonly used by most men r which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mis• chiefe, a violent purger of goads, lands, health, hellish, devilish, and damned tobacco, the ruine and overthrowe of body and soul." The following quaint thought is found in an old collection of epigrams