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'j.1. 4 ==. 1 : 7 ? '*•4N t:4l . t, • , N ,; n \`-; ; `,...... • , : " ii, ,f ( , fiL- e'44;•!P• - -? 0-• _ -; „ „... ,s , ... . ~~~ U~ eaiv N UMBril 9662. TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1823. PiticE SEvilisail.EN6k: VICTUALLING-OFFICE, August 7, 1823. THE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUAL LING HisMAJESTY'S NA PT' do hereby give No. lice, That on Thursday, the 25th of September next, they will be ready to receive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and , treat for the supply, en separate Contracts, of such yuantity of PRIME IRISH BEEF and PORK, in Navy Tierces, of the ensuing Season's cure, as may be demanded for the we of his Majesty's Troops at GIBRALTAR GRENADA ANTIGUA TOBAGO BARBADOES TRINIDAD BERBICE ST. LUCIA DEMERARA ST. KITT'S DOMINICA ST. VINCENT for Twolye Months certain, Irons the 24th June, 1824. It is estimated that the quantity which may probaSly be re gwired may Le equal to about 3,300 Tierces of Beef, and amo Pork; but information will be hereafter given - to the Contractors of the actual quantities to be sent out; and the' Terms of the Contracts may be seen at this Office, or by- ap. plying to Mr. J. IV. Dunsterville, Agent for the Victualling at Haulbowltne. In the event, however, of no Tender being received for the delivery of this Meat at the several Stations which the Board may deem proper to accept, o.ey will be ready, on the follow ing day, viz. the 26th September, elf One o'Cloch, to receive Tenders and treat for the escpply of an equal quantity of Beef and Pork respectively, to be delivered into their Stores at Deptford between the let February eii* 3014 April, 1824. No regard will be had to any Tender iSte which the Price shall not be inserted is words at length, or that that Not be delivera to the Board before One o'Cloch on the said Thursday, the 251 k of September nest, nor unle.es the Person who makes the Tedder, or some Person an his behalf, attends to answet when called for. Each Tender must be accompanied by a Letter desed by two responsible Persons, engaging to become bound iilth Me Party tendering, in the Penal Ss* of MI. Os. ad. pee. cent. on the whole amount of each Contract, for Nos due perPirin ance of the same. M. 'FALLER CLIFTON. IMPORTANT LOTTERY INTELLIGENCL THEPRESENT GOVERNMENT LOT.' TM is for Twu Hundred Thousand Prize Money,— contains Three ..e.40,000 Prizes, Two £lO,OOO Prizes, 34 other Capitals of various denomination', and Mete Prizes than Blanks. It is to be drawn on the old regular and approved system, every Ticket singly, each deciding its own fate and no other.—The first Prize drawn out of the Wheel will re ceive .£lO,OOO extra; An the Tickets are on sale in the open Stock Market, not locked up in the hands of Contractors as leretofoi e, and are liable to fluctuation the same as any.of the other Government Funds or Securities, of course the Price is influenced by the demand, and as the Sale is great beyond precedent, a considerable Advance is likely soon to take place.—An immediate Purchase is therefore recom mended at BISH'S COILNHILL, and 9, CHAR ING-CROsS, where Twenty-five Capitals were sold in the last Lottery alone. To Sail in all August, FOR MADRAS AND BENGAL, , . t. TTAIII, lyiElinteteifnastiti-escaiitlyitelgaitaii Ship: CLYDE, isurthsoo A ~ -", ' 'Tons, THOMAS DRIVER, Commander. , s_ f \ 1111 0 6 " ," Has excellent Accommodations for Passen gers, and will carry a Surgeon. For Freight or Passage, apply to Messrs. R. scorr, FAIRLIE, and Co., to the Commander, at the Jerusalem Coftee•house, or to ISBISTER and HOItSLEY, I I, Leetlen hall-street. AD CLEROS. This Day were published, On Ow Quarto Writing Paper, price 71.105. QEXAGTNTA CONCIONES, (Anglice scriptre,) nunquam antehac prbmulgata, Lithographice fideliter AISS. imitantes, in usum publicum Verbi Divini Prieconum accommodata3 Presbyter° Ecclesite Impensis Rivingtons et Cochran, Strand, No. 148. Condones hie Lith°graphicre in commodum Clericorum Sa cris Ordinibus novissuie initiatorum, iUorumque Sacerdotium qui affectant, adaptantur. lis, tamen, uti possunt lilt, qui. bus, propter occupationum amplitudinem, stepe auxilii hiking genens opus est. Quod ad fidem apectat orthodoxie aunt, ad ennstructronem vero nitidre et diaertte. To T. TAYLOR, ESQ. No. 9, New Bridge-street, London. HONOURED SIR, TBEG leave to inform you ) that ever since the year 1790, 1 had been afflicted with the Lues Venereal, which, horn its obstinately . resisting every course of medicine prescribed by the most eminent of the faculty here, and un dergoing severalsevere courses of salivation, and twice dis charged from the Hospital with little relief, would appear to be of tke most inveterate nature, In tI:C spring of last year ray aisorder had got to sad, a head, as nearly to put a period to myeicistence—l had a large ulcer on the crown of my head, on e en each arm, and my legs were broke out in a frightful manner; my right was dreadfully painful, and had been in a state of ulceration for the last seven years; my left had also two large nodes on it, was very much discoloured, and gm me such excruciating pall), particularly when warm in bed, as nearly to deprive me of rest; iu this lamentable state, I was recommended 14. Mr. J. Thompson, (who received so great a cure by them here), to take your Leake's Patent. Pills, which I began to do on the With o. May; in the course of a fortnight 1 began to receive benefit—let little more than a month the ulcers on my head and arms were soundly healed— atoon after, the sores on my legs healed also; leaving, how ever, considerable diseolouration in the skin, and pain in the bone of the left, which, by the blessing of God, and a little longer retseverance in your invaluable Medicine, subsided; the nodes,disrersing, the skin regaining its natural hue, and the nocturnal pains gradually going off.--I thus became, by your liberal advice and medicine, perfectly free from all my omer complaints—have recovered my former spirits a nd strength, and am become jolly and fat, in which state having continued many Mouths, to the astonishment of all who knew u.e, I 'am at a loss in what terms to express my gratitude, but beg you, for the good of other suffering mortals, to make this my case as public as possible, as I shall on every occa sion; in so doing you will greatly oblige, ,Sir, your grateful, obedient, very humid e servant , ALEX. MURKER Swan's Close, High-street. Edinburgh. Wonesses-to the above Cure:— John Thompson, No. 3, New Poultry Market, Edinburgh, John Wintosh, Old Assembly Close, Edinburgh. Prepared and sold by the sole Proprietor, THOMAS TAY LOR, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, at his h o use, No. 9, New Bridge-street, London; when', after a constant residence of more than 40 years in a practice parti cularly directed to the cure of Venereal Complaints and those incidental to the Parts of Generation, with that inviolable secrecy which men of his profession should alivays o b serve i n gush eases, he flatters himself the advice and assistance he sratuitonsly administers to persons taking this Medicine, will be esteemed, by a discerning Public, as an advaLtage seldom attainable, and void of all ambirsity. Also sold, by his appointment, tor the convenience of those eying at a distance, at the Toyshop, No. lo3,•Oxford-street; Mr. Disborough's, No. 7, Fish-street-hill;Mr. Baxter, Soitth-bridee, Edinburgh; Nit. Callwel 's, ; and of fivers . one person in • onsiderable town in Great Britain and Ire II hose*, o tot* teen, stataped, end sealed up with full and plain directions, wherebv persons, of either sex'may cure themselves with ease, speed, secrecy, and safety. REVUGED FARES, and UNEQUALLED f TO DOVER, DEAL, RAMSGATE, MARGATE, AND CANTERBURY. FOUR INSIDE COACHES, AND KEEP GOOD TIME, By S. A. MOUNTAIN and Co. SARACEN'S HEAD . INN, SKINNER-STREET, SNOW. HILL, LONDON. HE following LIGHT POST-COACHES, T and MAILS, &c. set out from the above Inn:7 Ttie " Telegraph," DOVER., Deal, Ramsgate, Margate, Broadstairs, Canterbury, Fevershato, anti Sandwich, new superior fast Coach—every Morning at a quarter past Seven o'Clock. In consequence of the decided preference given to the Telegr aph Coach, the Proprietors are determined no expence shall be spared to "curler it the first conveyance on the Kent Road. BROM rioN, Chatham and Rochester, Gravesend, Stroud, Sittingbourne, Rainbow, and Ospringe, Morning, Quarter past 7, at Reduced Fares. • The " Royal Eclipse," FALMOUTH, Plymouth, Exeter, Truro, Bodmin, Penryn, Ashburton, Totness, Dartmouth, Weymouth, Dorchester, and Salisbury, every morning at Seven ; through Huniton, Axminster, &Mimi, Blaistlford, Stockbridge. Sutton, Basingstoke, Hartford Bridge, Black water, and Bagshot. The only Day Coach to %VEY:MOUTH, (driven through with Two Coachmen only), through Bagshot, Blackwater, Basingstoke, Overton; tyniichierras, Andover, Woudyeats, Cashmore, Salisbury, Blandford, atid Dorchester, at a Quar ter past Fire o'Clock in the Morning. Packets from Wey mouth to Guernsey, Jersey, Cherbo . org, St. Maloe'S, &c. every Wednesday and Saturday afternoou, at Two o'Clock. The " Union," SOUTHAMPTON, Lyivington, Lyndhurst, Winchester, Basingstoke, Hartford Bridge, Blackwatsr, and Bagshot, New Four Inside Coach, every Morning at 8 o'Clock; arrives at the Coach and Horses and Vine 1 nn, Southampton, by Five. This is a most delightful Conveyat:ce to the Isle of Wight, Jersey, Guernsey, St; Malucs, Havre de Grace, Cher • bourgh, &c.—The Prop] ieturs of the above Coach hope to receive a continuance of that support which has hitherto been experienced since the commencement of the " Uns.on." A New light Day Coach to DORCHESTER, iu :4 hours only, through Bagshot, Blackwater, Basingstoke, Overton, Wisitchurch, Andover, Salisbury, Woods eats, Cashinure, and Blandturd, at a Quarter past Five o'clock in the murithip.— The Proprietors of this Coach are determined no expence be spared to render it the first conveyance on the West Road. BATH and BRISTOL Post-Coaches, through Chippers.; ham, Caine, Marlborough, Hungerford, Newbury, and Read ing, every Afternoon at one; arrive at the Greyhound Inn, Bath, the London Tavern, Thomas-street, and Swan, Bristol,. early the next Morning.—Coaches to Wells, Bridgewater, Taunton, and Plymouth, at reduced. Fares. The " Umpire," a New LIVERPOOL Light Coach, only one Night on the Road, carrying Four Inside, sets out Daily at One ; arrives at Liverpool next afternoon at Five,,tht °ugh Woburn, Latlibury, Northampton, Welton!, Lutterworth, Hinckley, Atherstune, Litchfield, Stone, Newcastle, Knuts. turd, Warrington, and Prescot. • SHREWSBURY, Wellington, and Shittnal, Light Post- Coach, every Afternoon.—Guarded. BARNSTAPLE and Southinolton New Light Post Coach osery Monday, Wednesday, anti Friday Mornings, at Seven. I " Rockingham," LEEDS..light Post Coach, sets out sieet'y Afternoon at Two; and passes through. Baldock, Big. glesssaide, Eaton, Buckden, Stiltuu , liTansford, Stamford, Csreetlsam, Gratithatn, Newark, Tuaford, Markham Moor, Retfottls Ilawtry, Doncaster, and FerrYbridge, arrives at the Golden Lion Inn, Leeds, next Afternoon rat Three reCtock, in time t'or the Bradford, Halifax, Shipton, and Hudders field Coaches, at Reduced Fares (driven through with Four Coachinen only).---Luggage and Packages only id per lb.— Notwitlistantlitig the uncommon Expedition of this Coach, it is allowed to he the must agteeable and complete Public Con veiance on the North Road, being unequalled by any other. HA Ii,ROWGATE am! Ripon new Light Post Coaches, every Aftermi.n at Two, tied Eight ill the \turning. , GLASGOW, !Longterm), Gretna-green, Annan, Dumfries, Brownhill, Thornhill, Sanquhar-K,tniCannsock, Kingswell, and all Parts of Scot - law:l,a light Four inside Post Coach daily. • Minx; e:Noturti.. Waists), ,tiliciiwskstcya ,Sotop, and 11.1 y. head New Light coach, rcety isitccuotthetty rtes s ed Vores• The " Express," to YORK, Scarborough, vr Sunderland, Newcastle, and Edinburgh, a light Voce inside Post Coach, with a Guard throughout; sets out every Morning, by way of Newark, Retturd, Doncaster, Ferrybridge i Tadcuster, Darlington, Northalleeton, Du r h am , Mus petit, and Berwick, and arrives at Yoi k the next Morn ing at Twelve o'Clock, at reduced Fares. Driven through with Four Coachmen only. Passengers finding themselves fatigued un the journey, may rest what time th e y pl ease , and then proceed without any rolditional Pare. MARLBOROUGH and Swindon, tour-inside Day Coach, threugh Aldhourn, Reading, Larnbourit, Parton, Lyttingtoti Pewsey, Wootton Basset, Ittuoshury, Hungerford, Newbury and Maidenhead. Driven through with One Coachman only. The New Royal Patent Mail, BOSTON and lamth,throisgh Royston, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Stilton,. Petri borough. Deeping. Spalding, Spilshy, Alford, Gtintaby, and Hull, Evening, at Half past Seven &Clock, Sunday, at a' Qoartee. before Seven: The " Express," a New Light Four-inside Post CORO% to CARLISLE, Penrith, and Whitehterrn, with a Guard all the way, pasat..4 then-sigh Appleby, , Brougts, Hooter', &rein. bridge, Richmond, Catterick, BurunghbriJge, Ferrybridge,.. Doncastee, Newark, Ilawtry, Grantham. Stamford, Greer them, Stilton, Biggleswade, and .13altleck. Sets out in true Morning, and performs the journey with the greaten faci lity; at reduced Fares. Passengers detained our the Road by business or pleasure, have the peculiar advantage of their Seats being secured in the next Coach.—The only direct Coach toCarlisle. The New Royal Patent Mail,' CAMBRIDGE, through Ware, Buntingturd, Buoklend; and Royston, Evening, at Half past Seven o'Clock, Seenday, at a Quarter before Seven'. KENDAL, Lancaster, Preston, Kirby-Lonsdalo, Bolton, Chorley, Otinskirk, and Gurstang Light Post Coaches, every Afternoon. .. Royal Express," New Light Four Intide Post Coach, to LIVERPOOL, in 28 hours only, through Warrington, Present, Cotten:ton, Lawton, Newcastle, Rudgly, Knutsford, Stone, Stafford, and Litchfield, (only One Night on the Road), every Afternoon ; arrives at the Saracen's Head Inn, Dale-street, Liverpool, next Evening. at Eight. The ad- - vantages to Travellers who honour this Coach with their pre. ference are far superior to any other on this Road, as the " Royal Express" is driven . throughout with Four Coachmen only (Three less than any other Coach to Liverpool), a saving to Passengers too evident to require comment ; besides the additional advantage, especially to Commercial Interests, of performing the joiirney in less time than any other Coach ; and, notwithstanding its cheapness and expedition, the Pro prietors pledge thentselyrs that for rafety and acconstnodatioa it it equalled by few, and shall be surpwssed by none. WAKEFIELD Four inside Post-Coaches, every Morning and Afternoon, at reduced Fares. CHESTER,Newport,Whitechurch,Tarportcy, Nareptwich, Northwich,&Middltwich Light Post-Coach, every Afternoon. SUNDERLAND, Stockton, and Yarm Light Post Coach, every Morn, to the George Inn, Sunderland, at reduced Fares. Mountain's " Express," to MANCHESTER, Winslow, Congleton, Newcastle, Walsal, Wolverhampton, and Karats ford, new Four Insole Post-Coach, every afternoon.—Only One Night out the Road. SHEFFIELD and Rotherham New Four inside Post Coaches every Morning, called " The Express," and also "'The itockingliani," every Afternoon, at reduced Fares. The "Royal Express," New BIRMINGHASI Light Fast Post Coach, sets out every Afternoon, carrying Four Inside only; passes through Warwick, Leamington, Southall), Weettott, Deventry, Stoney-Stratford, and troweesterl i to the Saracen's Head, Bull - street, Birmingham early the next Morning. Driven . through with Two Coa chmen. only (Two less than any othe"r Coach). The " Express,a New Light Post Coach, to . HVILL, Liii• oohs, Northcace, Howden, and Doncaster, every Morning at Eight o'Clock, to the Cross Key!, Market-place, Hull I and also the " Rockingham" iu the Afternoon at Two °Thick. The HERTFORD,Ware,Hochlesdots, and Cheabusit Coach, at reduced Fares. TOTTENHAM and Edmonton Conches Oily, at Eleven, Half-past Two, Fire, and Eight o'clock, "a'"At Reduced Ernes to Leeds, Y or k, and Doncaster, Luggage and Packages at only 2d per pound. S. A. MOUNTAIN and Co. tespectfolly acquaint filet' Friends and the Public, that t hey will not be accountable trot any Parcels, Passeltiat i s Luggage, Wrifings.Plate. of more than Five Pounds Value, if lost, stoke, or damaged, u n l ess entere d as such, and the Insurisucts paid accordingly, at the Sat ;teen's Heath hits, Skinner-ttv., ainow-bills.Lundort. POWISMOUTIL COPY of a LETTER addressed by the MERCHANTS, SHIP OWNERS, &C. of the PORT of PORTSMOUTH, to ELIAS itiorAuo, Esq. Collector of the Customs, upon his being appointed Collector of the said Revenue in the Port of Liver pool; and his Reply :—. PortsmQuih, Aug. 5, 1823. SIR—We have heard that the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury have been pleased to select you for the im portant Office of Collector of the Customs at Liverpool, and we most heartily congratulate you upon the occaston—sincerely wishing you and your family good health, long to enjoy the be. nefits of the station, to which you have in our estimation been most deservedly promoted. We beg,leave at the same time to assure you that we shall entertain a respectful remembrance of the.disposition you have invariably evinced to accommodate us whenever requested, de. voting your hours of recess to the Public service, and our con. veniencc end advantage;' anti for the -general urbanity and polite attention we have always experienced at your l►at►ds, in the administration of your Official duties. We have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble servants, Stephen Burrell James Lane and Sons Samuel Mills John 'Milne James tioocleve Hoare and Stanbury Thomas Burbey and Co. It. and H. Clark George Phillips Edward Clasher ..loseph Cave William Smith J. and C. 11. Bailey .1. Holmes, jun. T. /1: Sparks William A tfield S. F. Dessiou Thomas Davis and Son John Lang John Turvell Joseph Battershell Robert Hyde Joseph Gibson John Snook Newman Coote WOl. Shean ' Mary Sergeant James irked Thomas Heather Vanden Berg and Ramberg J. N. Robinson James Rands James Ridett George Allen John Lindegren John Atkins and Son Grants, Hickley, and Co. William Turner Grant and Prosser S. W. Garratt Matthias March Thomas Hoskins, jun. 'duke Nichol kuel Bovill Wiliam Ellis and Sons Hem)* Massey Ba?tiard Hewitt anll Gough 'l'. B. Barrow Weinholt (tto.), Hughes, and Co. George Judd A: Beattie Harrison Descon Joseph K. Tu - rner Jas. Fitchett Burrell Pertnnouth, btu W , 7, 1823. GENTLEMEN-1 have the honour to acknewledge the re., ceipt of your communication of the sth instant; Lind to assure you, that I want wordA toexpreas, in nth: gui d e tort,ls, the.high gratification I experiencs in being presented with st.' flattering a testimonial of my condiitt; from the whole body of i.he 'Mer chants and Ship-owners of this Port; who, from :the IL`hg ex perience of the manner in which I have executed my (Miele' Duties, must he best capable :if appreciating how far such „has been to their accommodation anti advantage. That a Public'OffiCer may faithfully discharge his duty to the CIOVAL,IIIIId At the 641110 time render every facility and ac conunodation to Commerce, has :long been my opinion, and is now demonstrated by this :unequivocal mark of your apprpba e‘olfttPnywbsefrvlices have received by my 6U. o ti t il, e so ftivo im u m ra t l i c at o eig n f i o o l u lo e w n i t n e g ru th in e eT periors. I cannot take my leave-of the Port, Without assuring you .tpase sincerely,. that the :constant disposition I have found In you to comply with every regulation, necessary for the protec tion of the KeVenue, and the harrrionious manner in which we have transacted , business together for so many years, can never he effaced from my recollection; and, that the pleasurable sen sation I derive from my advancement to the Collectorship of the great Port of Liverpool, is mixetl with no small degree of regret at my separation from yo u nor can I bid you farewell, without expressing my heartiest wish es f or t he prosperity of the Trade of the Port of Portsmouth. I have the lionour to be, Gentlemen, Your most obedient humble servant, To the Merchants, Ship-O wners &c. E. ARN.A CD. of the Port of Portsmouth LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Alums/ H. tizain AND ANOTHE4, IDi nE 0111 SON AND PEACOCK, HA ivu ter s. This was a question of unexampled intricacy in the Bank rept Law: Mr. Pertcock had been a bankrupt under two pre vious commissions. By the Acct 5 Geo. 11., the estate of a bankrupt must yield more than ss. in the pound to the creditors under a first commission, and full 15s. in the pound if the party become a bankrupt a second time, or his tenure effects are not to be released from the claims of his creditors. Under the Act 49 Geo. 111., which is known, by the name of Sir kiarattel Romilly's Act, the right of the Creditors is reduced to an elec tion' between proving their debts tinder the commission, or pur suing the future estate of the bankrupt at law according to the sth Geo. 11. In a case ruled by Lord Ellenborough, and all the Judges of the' King's Bench, it had been determined . that the 49th Oto. 111. had shut out the creditors finm the remedy at law, if they took the benefit o f t h e secon d commission by pr oving their debts under it; and in towher case it had been cletitled that a third commission • could not be superseded on the ground of the effects not having.peoduCed 15s. in the p oun d, if the bankrupt should have acquired his certificate. rn the pre sent instance, creditors under the second commission of Mr. Peacock, who had obtained leasie to prove their debts, and had neglected to do so, and had not signed his certificate, had ob tained an order from the Vice-Chancellore to prove under the 3d Commission, and to take out their dividends in the sante amount as the creditors under this last Conunission. The immediate application was frOM the assignees under the 3d Commission, to release the estate from a claim, which, as it was asserted, was without any precedent. It was contended by those who opposed the applicatien, that the' order of the Vice Chancellor could be no henisitiplo the creditors under the 3d commission, as the dividend which they sought would come out of a personal estate which had fallen to Mr. Peacock from the death of an uncle, and not from the effects upon which he had been trading. It appeared further, that the estate inquese Lion had fallen to Mr. Peacock after the declar a ti on of his het bankruptcy. The Loan Citexcxeeon observed, he the first place, that to find fault with' eender the bankrupt beetled never known an 'nee= in which the creditors tinder the second commission had sought to prove their debut under the bankrupt the third. Ills Lordstip scented disposed 'to put this tinting I t it h w e ; m m e o s re in difl i ct i i t i h t a fi n i t e l cerxedpieln°srisyse"teghattitn°linixter though there was idways readiness enough. lawn, because of their diffienit and ex ,„ Pensive administra tiou. As the came presented itself him, it appeared that a claim was made by the creditors under the second cone: mission to a remedy which, they averred„ was left th em by the act of Geo. 11., so far RR that act had not been reealed b the Illth Geo. 111. It had been decided that obtaining th e authority of the Court us prove a debt was, 411 to tne paep eees of the act 49 Cleo. 111. the same thing as proving the date— lioavver, if that point had not been cleared, and the law really did allow a remedy to the creditors who had obtained thie order, why had not they pursued that remedy at law . ? u —Y so doing, they would have settled the quesdon, as to which commisston the estate left to Mr. Peacock should belong: But then the action must be brought in time, so as to get execution before the liSsigibment under the third etennuiseien, because the property was changed by the assignMent. 'Phi clew wits tie* and difti cult, and therefore he proposed to draw up a statement, which should include all the considerations of the pre s e nt case, and obtain the opinion of the judges upon it, with a view to settling the law upon the point in question, whenever it should arise. His Lounmule sat front 9 in the morning till 6 in the after. noon, and has intimated his intention of doing the sanee tile the rentelning petitious in bankruptcy arc disposed; of. ANTIQUARIAN NOTICES. ST. BARTHOLOMEW THE HE CHURCH, &e. SMITHFIELD. This Church, though only a fragment, and standing in a place but little frequented, is, from its great an ti qu it y, more entitled to notice and visitation than sonic others of superior magnitude, and more pleasing situation. For here scattered, and one half destroyed, are still architectural re. mains, which, if left to the slow and gradual de cay of nature, will witness the entrance and exit of many, many centuries. The monastery on this spot, from whence originates the well-known St. Bartholomew Fair, was the work of one Ray here, whom Weaver styles " a pleasant con ceited wittie gentleman, and a courtier in the raigne of King Henry the First," and Stowe and other writers, minstrel or jester to that monarch designations which it will b e seen i n procee di ng were neither of them exactly correct. To waive, however, that consideration for the present. It was founded in the beginning of 1113, for Black Canons, and confirmed by Royal Charter, dated the 15th of June in that year, Rayhere himself becoming the first Prior of his own foundation. A curious legendary ac. . count of the circumstances which gave rise to the establishment, together with several particulars of the founder, written by one of the religious near the time, and formerly one of the books be., longing to their library, is preserved among the Cottonian MSS. at the British Museum. Dug dale also has quoted part of the Latin story of Rayhere in his illonasticon by the same hand, and Chauncey in his Hertfordshire has made use of the English versions. This ancient record, the phraseology of which is extremely obsolete, states that. This church, in honour of the most blessed St. Bartholomew the Apostle, was found ed by Rayhere, of good memory, who gathered therein certain holy men to serve Gov, after the rule of the most holy Father Austin ; and that he exercised himself the office and dignity of Prior over them for 22 years; a man not hiving " cunyngo of liberal science, but that which is more emynente than all cunnyinge, rich in puryte of conscience, ayenste GOD by devucion, his brethern by humility, his enemies by benevo lence;" in feasting sober, yet the promoter of hospitality ; humble in prosperity, patient in ad versity, and an active administrator to the neces- sities of the poor. Such is the character given to their founder by our author, on, commencing his oarrative. lie next proceeds to tell in what order ha set the foundations of this temple, as they were; testified to him by those who saw him, heard him, and were present at the work, of whom, fie says, " some alepe bi Caufsr, some. be zitte.illive," to witness what he affirms. This is foil:I - wed 'by a biographical account of Ray here,' und,or different heads or chapters ; as, d. What life hie led before his conversion-3'. tiow, when converted, he went to Rome; of the vision he saw by ?I's way, and of the command given to hiM by St. Bartholomew the Apostle— % How he gained, on his return, the King's fa vour, and was enabled to fulfil his vow and pre cept-4. What was In sevelatioh showed to King Edward (the Confessor) of .this place (Smith. field)--5. Of'the clearing of the site for build: ing the Priory, its endowment, privileges, ikc. Rayhere, according to this account, was' " a man springing and borne from low kynage," who in his younger days frequented the houses of Noblemen and Princes, where, carrying himself with much jollity and carnal suavity, he was the promoter if . plays, shows, and other trifles and vanities, till his talents for entertainment introduted %kit to the King's Palace. Dis. gusted, holve‘k.r, after a length of time, with this sort of libet tine life (he does not tell iris how he was couvertee), he determined on that then great remedy for sore consciencesot pilgrimage to ,Rome, whence, Wier having paid Iris devotions at the shrine of the Il6qy Apostles, Peter and Paul, he was returning howewards, when one night he saw, what the writer terms 66 ' a vision full of recle and swetnesse." This was no less than the bottomlesi pit Opened to receive him, from which St. Bartholome*, who appeared at the time, agreed to deliver him, on condition he should build and dedicate a monastery to him. This condition was, of course, complied with. Bay here got safe home, applied to his old friends, and by their assistence and intercession With the King, he obtained a grant of the site Which the Apostle hai pointed out to him, " A place ye the subtirbts of London, at Smythfield, where he made a cohnely church of stone, table-wise, and at a little distance, an Hospital-house ;" the for• mer of witich was finished in the month-of March, 1113; Calixtus, the second, bein g th en P ope, and reigning here King Henry, the younger, son of William, first King of Englishmen." The most curious part of this narrative is the account' of clearing the site for the cheat, which, a* well as the carrying, of stones and materials, lie is stated to have procured the mist. ance of the peopfe in, by the maraetryre of amusing them with sowie of his farther ,ipkes and foolerier. The spot is described at this remote period as "a marsh,• dung, and fenny, abound. ing. almost always with water, the only rising or dry ground in which contained the gibbet or gallows, for the' execution de thieves and other malefactors." The establishment at first only conriated of "a little flock of thirteen canons, as a few shepe, with little lantivancl right few rents, but was soon, by copious obventioris at the altar, and the neighbours of this popubuts city, holpyn." Under the second Prior, who died in the reign , of Henry I 1, , the convent was enlarged, or as the author qualtly expre&ws himself, " with snore atuplient byldinga were the skymnes of our tabern*culya dylatel!' The - mixture of truth and fable in this legend, was probably written very soon after the death of Rayhere, thr the author says that some "be situ: alyve" that were present at his pro. ceedings. The antiquity of the story will apologize for its in-: sertion, besides that it details some new facts. If 'ltayhere was ready of low origin, hemust have been powerfully patronized to get admitted to the - households and tables of the Barons of London: There does not appear -from the story any; thing to authorize the assertion that he was the King's-jester or fool. The transition from the houses . of 'Nobletntit tti the Palace' was easy. • , It is curious, observes a later writer, noticing this account, to trace the manners of ottr countrymen back to this . iernote pe.' riod; and to find the sable curiosity prevalent then as at pre: sent. We will suppose, it probable says la!, that. Ravhere was reported to . be about to retnove that it of The mob, the gallows, from the fens on which it had longstood—shall we not further suppose he had plenty of visitors ? for it was, according to the story, " conteyned withyn the Ki ng ' s m a r k et ." Th at he shouldby this means ; and his accommodating himself to their humours, gain their assistance in bringing the stones and materials" for erecting his new church, appears natural. There is much iinpros' babifity attached to other accounts of the foundation of this priory by a man of se little importance, but the explanations here given' render it every way likely. The miracles are em. belisliments, which, if used in our day, would have completely ruined the author, but At that time the work could not have been performed without them. When the 'priory began to Jlol'l.lBll, itayliere is said to have joined to him a certain old man named Alfune, who had before " beldid. the Chirche of Seynt Gyles; at the gate of the cyte, th a t y nne I ng li s h tongue ' is called Cripilgate,"—who assisted him in the founding and management of the adjoining hospital. Of the alterations or additions to the priory after the fotinder'S death, we know brit little. Bolton, die last Prior but One, is said to have been a great builder here, and to have founded the manor-bowie of Canonbury, at Islington, which belong e d t o t h e Canons of this Convent; an d, accordingly this Bolton, Weaver tells us, was, with the rest of his brethren, portraied .upon a table, sometime banging in this church (and aft e r war d s in S i r s Robert Cotton's library), holding up their hands to the crucifix ; under whom was written these lines:— Gulielmo Bolton precibits succurritc Vestris ualis erat pater hic, dooms lime, et clam nionsfrant:". lie also is said to h a ve renewe d t h e fi ne monument of Rair: here, still remaining in the church, which consists of an arch divided by tabernacle work, beneath which on an altar tomb is his figure recumbent in the habit of a Black Canen, with an angel at his feet, and two other Canons in great heeds, kneeling on each side, a s if praying over hint. This stonaittery, after having stood 423 years, fell at the general dissolution of reli. gious houses in the reign of Henry VIII., when its revenues, according to Dug,ditle, were valued at 653/. 15s. per annum. King Henry granted it to Sir Richard Rich. Queen Mary on her accession, had it repaired, and repeopled it with' Black or Preaching Friars but Elizabeth turned them out: Rich who , was made Chanc e ll or i n the reign of Edward VI., ma d e it his place of residence, as did Sir' Walter Al ildtrta3r, Chancellor of the Exchequer in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. In the Royal grant to Rich of the site; besides the church and the great close celled Bartholomew's Close, are enumerated the infirmary, dorniitery, Noy, cloisters, the galleries, hall,. buttery, pantry, the old kit c h en , woodhoutte, granary, the Prior's stables, and ether buildings situate within th e c l ose aforesaid; and remains of most of which are still standing.. The grant of Bartholomew Fair follows, as' when in pettiession of the Prior and Convent, and is still held, The great close of St. Bartholomew having been, before the Memory of man, used as a parish of itself, distinct from other parishes, and' the inhabitants thereof having had their parish. Church and churchyard, within the church of the late Monastery and Priory, and to the same church annexed ; and having bad Divine Service performed by a curatelYem the appointment of the Prior and Convent ; and a certain chapel called the " perish chapel," with part of the conventual church, having been de; molished,.and the materials sold for the King's use ; but there still remaining . a part (i. e. the choir) tit for erecting into a parish church, it was granted to the parish, to reinsin to them a parish church for ever, together with the site of the destroyed nave, 87 feet long and .60 feet wide, for a church-yard. The six bells in the bell tower of the conventual church had been previously sold to St. Sepulchre's parboil, and only the steeple of rotten timber, and ready to fall of itself," them rumained. The possessions tit` the Convent were numerous. Among them was the Rear iit Smitlijklri, the Ed, In the same place, and the _Ferrer: More in the parish of St. Sepulchre.— These were sold ut the dissolutitm At 20 years' purchase, or their other estates in the neighbourliewitl, Canonbury was certainly most convenient and pleasant. One can eas ily i ma gi n e the beautiful vi ew th e y must have had fret* thence, even to the gates of the Priory ;'• for the tiinnke of London was 'not' near so dense then as now, and but very few buildings inter. vencd. This estate is supposed to have been Included in a grant made to the Priory . by .Ralph de Bevners, and enumerated' among other poSsessions of the Priory, in a ceedirrnetion char.; ter of Henry 111. It assumed the name of Canonbory (q. d. Canonshouse) on being fixed upon as a residence for the priors here. The rebus of Bolton, who rebuilt it (a Dolt and rimy still remains cut in stone in part of the walls, writ does likewise in various parts of St. Bartholomelios Church. Ile appears to" have had a great taste'for building, and no doubt understood it. Well, as he was appointedmastir of the *irks to Henry the Vllth's Chapel, at Westminster. Fuller, Abbot of Wel.. tham, succeeded him as last Prior of this house in 1532, and held the priory with his Abbey, as Prior countentlatory. Bolton. died at MS parsonage of }farrow On the liill l in the reign of Edward VL An absurd tradition yet remains' in the parish, that the canons had a shbterreneous communication with Ca-' nonbury, because an old doer exists on the north side of the' church, tot which they cannot find another use. The church and remains of the priory were evidently can: strutted at different periods. The latter, which are too eaten- . rive to be more than slightly noticed, must be sought amongst stables; carpenters' shops, and manufactories. The clinking of hammers; and a hundred other noises, now resound through those arches, where the saleMn clutunt only echoed in soft re-' sponse, and where the measured step of tire silent religious paced in slew movements. The style . of the church IS a mixture of Nor Man and Go , thic. Groat parts of it.ore evidently, from their massy pillars' arid round arches, of Rayhere's building. The ground h as beam raised several feet on the pavement of the original chtirch, and the front clitirchiard lies still'higher. On the south side , of this, the old wall of tke nave is tolerably perfect, and serves in part as the back of a public-how, now placed where the north cloister stood. An arch (modernized into a window) was • probably the entrance into it from' the church. Sinoke and ills usage has given this the a pp earance o f a dungeon: The prin.. cipal gateway here from Smithfield (which is great part stand- . ing): has beautiful ribs, sculptured into roses and zig-zag orna- . menuf, and now serves as passage to' the iron gates of the church- . yard. The west cloister stood next the timing into Bartholomew close, at the back of Ffirck.hine, and joined the north side just mentioned, but a few flints of the wall only are discovered ire the bases of the houses. At the back of the area, Which is a farrago of sheds, walls, &c. may be seen the eastern cloister, which is now occupied as tf stable, and nearly perfect. It is ninety-five feet long, and broad, and consists of eight arches' or divisions finely groined and scuiptured, and is elto- - gether a • most beautiftil fragment.. The shell of the Hall or' Refectory, whi c h a djoi ne d it, is 1211 feet long, by thirty feet wide, but is much rundrenized to be noticed. The massy, arched vault beneath it, has an entrance cut through it, leading from Great t o Little St. Bartholoniew-close, where the nature of the ancient workmanship can be fully judged of. The site of the Prior's stables, the kitchens, wootl-yenl, and some other places, are now unknown. The_ fratry, beautiful Gothic fragment, it occupird by a ca t. rperitor ee s t stip it is %Hong by 21' feetsvitle. The armors hot o tit' a m w t . f,. tong; :nunnery is occupied by a caltinet-Maker. iternettut above are Vissible. mb ar places still existin g , we The /10 , 3404 "" several 4 , 60 - ruined south transept,' wills a tliht notice of have barely, room to natr e . h wa, shall close this account, wtivordn vtew}rt},g. It is w: , liid in from the church, e ienforirt! ag• e a l o ng by 27 feet broad, arras is sound . t of the bi church I.7ll w ie u ei sed irs, piece court c as a burying, Freund. 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