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In . Ai. f4A • ~ , ,F, ~1, ,Fx ~ ~ ~ . . ;t, ,-7 - % l 'h,:•_ ; .. _ ',' A ..:7 ° J ~ T 711191 1 . E ....,,,.. :,,,..,,,..._, •.„. // e:' 6T 41 Or . • ted, Pre' the NUMI3ER 9777. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1823. PRICE SEVENRENCL, LORD ERSKINE. T a numerous MEETING of the MEM. uhits of the PROFESSION of the LAW, held in LINCOLN'S INN HALL, on Monday, 15th Dec. 1823; Mr. SCARLETT in the Chair; Resolved, That a Subscription be opened for erecting a STATUE to the Memory of the late Lord ERSKINE. That the following Gentlemen be appointed a Committee for the purpose of carrying this Resolution into effect Mr. Sergeant Lens, Mr. Sergeant Vaughan, Mr. Jervis, Mr. Itaine, Mr. Scarlett, Mr. Bell, Mr. Heald, AIL Gurney, Mr. Ad aln Sir IV. Owen, That an account be opened at Messrs. Coutts and Co.'s, and such other Bankers as the Committee shall appoint for receiving Subscriptions. Mr. Reader,. Mr. Campbell, Mr. Dover, Mr. Richard Wilsob, Mr. Kaye, Mr. Lavie, Mi. Freslifield, Mr. Brundrett, Mr. Ateheaon. That it be left to the discretion of the Committee to deter-. twine where the Statue shall be placed. J. SCARLETT. Mr. Scarlett having left the Chair, the Thanks of the Meet lirere unanimously voted to him for his conduct in the Chair ; 444 a Subscription to a considerable amount was immediately entered into. Council Chamber, Lincoln's Inn, Dec. 16, 1823. Th. Committee beg leave to inform the Public, that a book' is opened for receiving Subscriptions at. Messrs. Coutts and C e.'s; at Messrs. Remington, Stevenson, and Co.'s. ; at Messrs. Smith, Payne, and smith ; and at Messrs. Hoares, Pleet.street ; as, although it was thought proper that the nice lure should originate with the Profession of the Law, there is no intention to confine the Subscription to that body. Sub scriptions will also be received by each of the Members of the Com►nittee. THE QUARTERLY REVIEW No. LVIII. WILL BE PUBLISHED NEXT WEEK. GRAND FANCY BALL, NORTH WALES, Under the Patronage of Sir ROBERT WILLIAMS, Bart. SK. SOLOMON, 19, Charing-cross, Tailor, Fancy and Court Dress-maker, has the honour to Inimunce to the Nobility and Gentry, that he has directed to be immediately forwarded a very SPLENDID CHOICE of DRESSES of afferent Costumes for their accommodation on Dire, upon application in the Town where the Ball is to take Place, of which duo notice is directed to be given three days Prior to the Ball. Has the greater part of her Cargo shipped, and will Sail , shortly, DIEMAN'S LAND, and NEW SOUTH WALES, with leave to call at Madeira, 4 1OP THE, fine new-coppered SHIP oi• PRINCE REGENT, W. B. LAMB, Com -71M412.1* 'Oaken 400 Tons,lying in theLon ",-,.;.-!..,r• dun Duck. Has very superior accommoda tiered Sorgenn.- tions for Passengers, and carries an expe -1 Preiglit or Passage, apply to BUCKLES, BAGSTER, TI B UCHANAN, 33, Mark•lanc. I. 4n i shit) will be followed by the Regular Trader Lusi h, Will Langflon, Commander ; burthen 2" Tons. H, greater part of her Cargo on board, and will sail in a few days, direct FOR CEYLON, THE fine Coppered River-built 8 41" 4 ,: SHIP THAMES, A. 1, JOEIN LITSON, 1 ,1 14 0 4 4 Commander . Burthen 370 tons, lying in the City Canal. Has superior accommoda tions for Passengers. Slid , 33re'ght or Passage apply to BUCKLES, BAGS'TER, ..CIIANAN, , Zf I Sail • n March and to 1 r. i 0 1 smout). for Passengers, . , ' F OR MADRAS and CALCUTTA, '___, .... 4 11 1r Tn E fine. fast-sailing gall , . .`w b\ -- c p,,,, ' : GOLCONDA A. I, JAMES IVES ED ' . 4* " "WARDS, Colornander, norther' Bto Tons. ; '.. 2 . 3 - 4 ,3"` . Lying i n t h e East India Export Dock, Black tOu'inodari Prlll sur ("II. Hpoop, as a and very superior ac ac= Surg eon , s Passengers, and carries an experie nced Por ` 'eight isit, 'eight or Passage . apply to Messrs. Fr.g . rcHEß, hur6XANDER. and Co, ko. 9, Devonshire-square; or to "'ES' BAGSTER, and BUCHANAN, 33, Mark-lane. •-... . CARE M s n i L , 4 2( l LEA'S GEOGRAPHY of the WESTERN HE. ant, with considerable Additions relative to the STATES of SOUTH ANIERICA, MEXICO, dtc. iapneV°h This Day WAS pFhlishell Maps, lute tivo. ill us t ra t e d wi th several coloure d boards, E Charts, ial r itY P :iii O r d STA TISTICS, of the WESTERN HEMISPHERE. By H. C. CAREY and J. LEA. 146,1P1e Publication before us contains by far the most va lattl,eondonsation of American Geography, History, end which has issued from the Press. it is constructed Ano„ppreliensire and excellent plan; the Maps, Chart,, 4 , 0 7 41 4 are numerous and well executed •, and when all tinni infornintion required. by the changes and revolu are 147 th e New Continent are taken into the acco . unt, we t° MY that this Volume is a very complete illu,tra ft, . 4 the i mportant matters which it embraces. Either worit:l,truetion or reference, it is calculated to be a standard '`(Lit e rail Gazette.) ter. " 01 : Printed for Sherwood, Jones, and Co. Paternos- h SPIRIT Or THE JOURNALS. r. i t '- „ is 13 "' " 6 Published, price 10s. 6d. in hoards, „ SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOUR °„ n , NALs for the Tear 1013 ; bvillC an impartialS_e .a licc; 1.1 11 , the most exquisite F.ssays, Jvux d'Esprit, an d . 1 ! I,,rautiv, Prose and Verse, that have appeared in the , l'uorenE' E i tt aing. and Sunday NewsPaPe". I V" exP and l y "ales. Illustrated with a Portrait of his Majesty, an 1, ulnotous Designs hv Cruikshank. t . u Mlan tp • ' • Jones,and Co. Paternoi ti.,,,x rutted , for Sherwood, ll it l e ! This Work canto' 1 the Poetry of the John Bull,,frorn 4rtil ti rn ! ne acetnent • air the huniorous Bow-street Reports tV E 9 reties from' the Herald;the Epigrams and Jeux l l 'elesti r r lt Qf the Chronicle with ' many spirited Original ,a„" i. o k tii°:,l,the Britiill Press ; choice Anecdotes and Facetne ' o d ie. .'rues and ./ . :xamitier ; the whole of the celebrated t.le tr, /,;'_ll lYlore's Melodies : witty Alorreaux_ _f n rz ne l_ ' 1;44;74 Literary Chronicle, Museum, and . M F . i ' ,Nvrt,,,...,; the Evening Papers; and many Originat pieces .ir ' l l lb 14 71 1 0 a s s to form a tuost entertaining Volume, ei he _ 41' 407 li brarY) fire-side, ur pust-cheise.--To be confirmed y. ELECTIONS of COMMON COUNCILMEN. FARRINGDON 'WITHOUT. At half.past four o'clock yesterday, the books closed for the second day, when the numbers for each candidate were as follows : W. Va/e t Esq., deputy, South side - 231 W.J. Reeves, 'Esq. deputy, North'side - 218 C. A. Savage - 218 Wm. Griffith - 211 John Blackett - 209 James Crook - - 207 Young - - 200 W. A. Beckwith - - 204 This Ward returns 16 Members. As soon as the numbers were declared, Mr. GALLOWAY rose.—Notwithstanding his opponents had used all the arts and schemes they were able, in order to for ward'Mr. Butterworth, yet he still was placed in a most con spicuous situation, for which he begged to return his sincere thanks. 'lle had - no objection to urge against Mr. Butterworth individually; but he appeared to be supported by gentlemen who had uniformly been opposed to the principles of liberty.— (Loud cries of " No, no," and " True, true.") The LORD MAYOR said, that every candidate was at liberty to use the best argument he could in his own behalf; he trusted that such an interruption would not be persisted in. Mr. GALLOWAY proceeded--Nothing should deter him from the path he intended to pursue ; truth to his opponents was like a rag to a viper—it extracted the venom from the animal— (laughter)—therefore he was determined to encounter them. It was not him they disliked, it was the inhabitants; and it was to their active exertions he was indebted for whatever sup port he had received. lie had come forward to advocate the principles of liberty, which were obnoxious to them ; but he would rather have that which he was anxious by all the means in his power to court—their hostility—than desist from faith fully advocating those principles th e inhabitants were the cause of promoting, and he did not doubt at the close of the election of finding the friends of independence and public liberty triumphant. Mr. Galloway begged again to return thanks for the support he had received, and to remind them that it was their cause, in which it was his duty to see they were triumphant. Mr. Galloway sat down amidst great applause. Mr. BUTTEP.WORT/f, in rising, said he was unable to ex. press the obligation under which he laboured for the support he had received throughout the day: it was to their free exertions he was indebted for his present situation on the poll, and it ap. peered like the ashes of the Phoenix—(lond laughter and hisses prevented us hearing the remainder of the sentence.)-..- He would not follow the last gentleman through his observa tions, because every person in a contest was liable to be led astray ; he hoped,•however, to see hia friends to-morrow give a long pull, a strong pull, and a p u ll a l toget h er, which woul d enable him .to defeat the phalanx to which he was opposed— (Loud hissing.) - LANGBOURN WARD. Joseph Carter, Esq. deputy 69 Tho Mas Milroy Thos. Ayres, - - William Rice, - Richard - Dixon - 51 *--.Un win - - Robert Elliott - 57 . Benjamin Stubbing -61 "—Layton . - Samuel Joyce . 38 a —Stewart - John Holmes Gibson - 47 This Ward returns 10 Members. Yesterday we stated that Mr. Ayres was the deputy of this Ward ; it' should' have been Mr. Carter, who has filled that office ever since the election of Alderman Key. S. Roberta - 204 J. Webb Southgate - 198 Richard Taylor - 107 T. C. Hansard - - 197 Vincent Figgins - 193 G. Turner - - - 191 Wm. Patten - - 181 Alexander Galloway - 169 • Henry Butterworth - 158 - 47 til - 19 - 44 - 36 - 28 BREAD-STREET WARD. Samuel Hayward, deputy 31 John Malian . William Mathie - - 27 Hobert Bunn Thomas•Culeman - -, A John Biden - Matthew Topham Gibson 21 John De grave Benjamin Blakesley -24 °M. E. Legge Jonathan Croker - - 23 W. Lawrence John southby Bridge - 23 This Ward retu CRIPPLEGATE - - 23 - 2C • - 23 - - 13 hl9 12 Members. WARD WITHIN. Mr. Herron - —l4 *Mr. Gates - - 10 Mr. Field - *Mr. Smith - - - *Mr. Thorowgood - rns 8 Members. are new candidates.] Mr. Karl — —5 l Mr. Forsyth . - 51 Mr. Waterhouse - - 50 4 r l . r. C.l t i gshirO - - - 45 38 This Ward retu. iThose marked thus $ All the elections close to.day. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, DEC. 23. W TWX IWATTIEIt OF 8111 G. P,TLIINER, A LUNATIC. Mr. PHILLIMORE.mOVeiI, on.the part of Mr. Turner, bro. ther of the lunatic; that it might be referred to the Master to report upon a proper person to be appointed as Committee to the estate and person ; also that the Master should report Upon the question, if any and what steps Ought to be taken to pre. vent, roceedlngs :at law, which were instituted in 30 different actions, three execotions being now in the hands of the Sheriff' of Bedfordshire . ; also to report if any, and what part of the fur niture and estate of Battlesden-house should be, disposed of to meet the claims of the creditors. The petition alleged that the roams of Battlesden.house were filled, some of them to the ceiling, with pictures, books rare furniture , and curiosities, re. cently purchased , mostly pac ked ' up in cases, so that the value could by no means be ascertained. It also alledged, with re. spect to the three executions before mentioned, that they were put into e ff ect the clay after thq Oita had issued a Commission to inquire into the lunacy of the subject, the Solicitor under the Commission having given notice to the plaintiff's Solicitor of the mental derangement.—The Court granted the motion. THOMAS v. mONTOOHER.Y.—IN THE MATTER OF TILE QuEgrrsititßY ESTATE,. An application was made for an appropriation of the effects in the hands of the Court, under an order of the Court, obtain. ed in 1820; the claims amounted to 900,000 t, while, as it was alleged, the property in the hands of the Accountant-Oeneral was 1,000,0001. The motion was resisted on account of the speedy approach Pr the Parliamentary Bession, the first week of which had been fixed for determihing the right of the parties in the appeal. The LORD CAIANCELLOII would not disturb the arrange. talents which had been made with great difficulty for bringing on the appeal, by entertaining the present motion. CARITON v. LIRIITRANGE. This was a motion to suspend the transfer of 4,000/. to Col L'Estrange, who had obtained an order for that purpose, on the report of the Master that he was the next heir to tie, ceased, from whom the property descended. The plaintiff had not gone Into the office to prove his relationship, though he then believed himself to be next of kin, because he could not at that time prove his mother's marriage. He had since ob. tained affidavits which would go a great way to establish the fact. 'rho LORD CHANCELL oft said, that the only reason offered to induce the interference of the Court was, that the defendant was now in the Mauritiue, which was certainly no reason for delaying the transfer of the property to which, before the llas. ter, he had made good his title. The affidavits offered as to the marriage, though they did not necessarily impugn the cha. racter of the plaintiff's mother, yet were they very unsatis. factory for grounding an order to vary the proceedings of the Court. In the first place , the plaintiff did not himself very strongly confide in them, and therefore had not gone into the Master's office with the rest of the kindred. Now, there was an assertion that the mother really believed herself to have been married by a clergyman of the Church of England , while the affidavit of her son stated it, upon his apprehension of her knowledge and belief, that sbe was married by a Roman Ca.: tholic priest of Ireland. These were not such materials of evi 'dence as would justify him in suspending the order for the transfer; though, in saying that, he did not affect to prejudice the plaintiff ' s right to file a bill against Colonel L'Estrange his character of legatee, after having been put in possession of the estate by the order of the Court. The heat of the private room in which his Lordship's cond._ nued indisposition compels him to sit, now became so oppres. sive, from the throng of persons present, that he ordered it to be cleared, observin g t h at l ie h ad no objection to the gentlemen staying; but if they stayed, he must go. The Court continued to sit for about three quarters of an hour; none but the Counsel and Solicitors in each cause being present, and then adjourned, as was announced outside, for the holidays. VICE-CHANCELLOR'SCOUR T, DEC. 23, Roinziti v. ovEr. Mr. WaKur rELD moved that the defendant might be com mitted to the Fleet prison for contempt of Court. The appli cation was founded on an affidavit, which stated the following facts :—On the 28:11 of November, a messenger of that Court proceeded to the house of the plaintiff; in order to serve him with a subpoena to attend the Court. The officers having knocked at the door, heard tile defendant declare from the other side, without opening it, that he knew the business on which they lied come, and that if they did not immediately go away, he would blow their brains out with a gun which he had in his hand. The officers thereupon, being alarmed, retired;- first; however, having slipped the subpania under the door, and called out loud enounh to enable . the defendant to hear that they had served him with a subpmna. Mr. PARKER was about to address the Court for the de fendant, when Mr. WAKEFIELD observed, that the defendant could not be heard until he had given in his answer to the orginal suit. The VICE-CHANCELLOR asked whether Mr. Wakefield could produce any authorities in support of his argument. Mr. WAxEriELD replied, that he was not prepared with any authorities at that moment; but he perfectly recollected that there was a case in which the Court had refused to hear a defendant under similar circumstances to those in which the present defendant stood, because he had not entered his appear. once in the original cause. The VICE-OILANCEL Lon directed the motion to stand over till next seal, to allow Mr. Wakefield to 'search for the case which he mentioned. IN THE MATTER OF ARNOLD, A BANKRUPT. Mr. KNIGHT moved that his honour would be pleased to request the Chief-Justice of Glamorganshire (Mr. M'ingfield), who was in Court, to deliver his notes of a trial which took place at the last Cardiff assizes. The facts of the case were these :--Some time ago, Arnold became a bankrupt, but shortly after a petition was presented to the Court, praying that the commission might he superseded, on the ground th a t th ere was no proof of trading on the part of Arnold. The Court consid ered the question a fit one to go before a jury, and accordingly directed an issue to try the fact whether or not Arnold had been a dealer and chapmau. The trial came en at Cardiff before Chief-Justice Wingfield. It appeared from the evidence, that Arnold, who was a half-pay officer, went to reside in Glamor. ganshire, where, although be was altogether unknown, he ob tained a lOose introduction to the gentlemen in his neighbour hood. Ile kept a great many horses, and although some were hunters and hacks, yet several were of a description not likely to be use to any farmer or gentleman, because they were blind, lame, or otherwise injured. It was inferred that Arnold could only have possessed himself of' those horses for the purpose of trading. One of the witnesses, Mr. Brad ley, a coachuiaster, proved that Arnold offered on one occa sion to purchase horses for him on commission. Mr. Bradley refused to make tiny bargain, but said he would take the horses if they Suited him. Arnold afterwards showed Mr. Brad ley some horses which Mr. Bradley declincdpurchasing, and he subsequently saw them in a stage-coach belonging to another coach-master. Arnold infOrmed - Mr. Bradley that he intended to take out a licence to deal in horses. Evidence was oKred of general declarations on the art of the defendant that the only means by which lie could obtain a little money was horse-dealing; but the Learned Judge was of opinibn that the record was so framed, as to shut out evidence of that nature. In his charge to the Jnry, the Chief Justice inclined to the opi nion, that the fact of the trading had been established ; hut the Jury, after deliberating for half an hour, declared by their ver dict, that Arnold lead not been a dealer. In consequence of this verdict, two petitions had been filed In that Conrt—one t o supersede the commission, and the other to obtain a new trial. lc was in in furtherance of the object of the latter petition that that the pris,nt nppliellthitl was MO.& . The \ lANCELLO a said that he tbeudlit he must limi t at the not:s of the trial. F. IVi:;GJ•ILLD undertook to 'tarnish' his Honour wide !Cm. This was the last day of the sitting' ot _the Court until after holidays. • COURT OF KING'S RENO!, DR.. 23. RIDLEY L. connYN . . This was an action for assault and battny. The defendant pleaded—firit, that he did not assault or boat the Plaintiff': and second, that the plaintiff' committed the first assault on him, on which issue was taken. • The Com Stow r"Ell.ThatiT stated the case for the plaintiff. It appeared in evidence on the part of the plaintiff; that he was steward of the Margate steam-packet Called the London Engineer, and.that the defendant was Captain of another Mar. gate packet, called the Vietn.7. The parties mot at the Skip Tavern on the 11th of September last, when on altercation en. sued in cor,sequenee of Mr. Ridley having torn down one of the placards of the Vietetv, posted at the door, when Captain C° l -1 1 i struck abtiscd him, and beat him so violently on the head as to knock out one of his teeth,' and to break his jaw. It was proved by Mr. Inglis, a surgeon, that Mr. Ilitilety'a jaw was broken, and that he had sustained permanent injnry. Mt'. GURNEY, for the defendant, expressed his confident 'hope that he shoal beable !we're the juitifleation on the re cord. For this purpose he called several witnessat, who repre sented the conduct of the plain - teas exasperating high de free ; who asserted that by first h e ld hi s fist in the defendant' s ace; and who described 11r. Ridley himself, as admitting that he had provoked the usage under which he was sufThring. The Commow 8E113E404 T, in reply, yontended that the ba lance Of evidence, and the probabilitiei of the case, were with his client, an old mnn of sixty, who had been cruelly trented by n stout mnn of middle age, anti physical powers far superior to t.. is own. The Lonn Curtr.t , r4Tict left die Jury to decide whkh part of the evidence was most worthy of credit, and to hive a ver dict on that conviction. The Jury, after a short consultation, fbutni a verdict for the pinintiff'--litunages 404. 811AWy.. DTIOOME, GVNT. Mr. Sc....at.ETT stated that this Was an action on a bill of exchange for 100/. by a grOcer againit an attorney. This bill, accepted lay the tlefenclunt, was given by a young man of the name of (lard to the defied:int, on account of board an4i lodging. The defence was that Cllr. (*Afford Ltd given this. bill to his uncle the defendant, Without valuable consideration. A number of witnesses having been examined, The Loan enter AttsTICIE thought, that if counter ac. ceptances had been given by Clifford, that would be a valuable consideration ; but if this bill was merely given us a se c u r ity under the bail-bond, then when Mind was surrendered that bill should have been given up by the plaintiff: Another point was, whether this bill was given to the plaintiff upon the gene ral account. Verdict for defendant. CititlsTlE thsuAntr AND 1a0T111:11. This action was brought by %lr. Christie, who keeps a ware« house in Wood,sixeet, Cheapside, to recover a compe t:o:tion in damages for an injury sustained in consegOence of the negii. gence of the defendants who occupied part of the premises. The declaration charged that the defendants negligently per witted water to flow from a sink in a room they oc c upied, through the floor and ceiling into the plaintiff's room, an d thereby injured foods in the said room to a considerable amount. It appeared that the accident happened at a time when n o in one slepthouse The premises were untler repair. The defendants occupied a room which they used as an office or counting-houge. The clerk went away on Saturday night, locking up the premises, tiLd on Monday morning they ditto. vercd that the cock of a cistern had been left open, and that the water had overflowed to the extent before stated. The question was, whether the injury had been occasioned by the negligence of the servants of the defendants ? IVitnesses were called to prove the clerk of the defendants washed his hands on the night of the accident,. and left the cistern in a state to let out the water. Mr. ScaßLvre contended first, that there was no proof the at cident bad been occasioned by the defendants; and secondly, that his clients were not answerable, becan s e the filil)k should hive had a pipe of diameter sufficient ti) carrroff the water. The Jury, under ! lathe eircunwittueol, found a verdict for the I ,l aintitl:—Danieges to be settled out of Court, LEIPZIG FAIR. LINEN at the LEIPZIC FAI R for AI ICIIA ELM AS, 1823. As the manufacture of linen is carried on In all our villages, and the of is sold and used there, only a *ery small part of it is mentioned at our fairs. '!"he manufacture of linen in Germany, as well in Saxon-Silesia as in Westphalia Hberfeld, is increasing very fast, and great activity every where prevails in it. The great linen magazines in Hamburgh and Bremen were entirely emptied in the of the summer by, the great demand from America send the West Indies, and new or. dere were transmitted to the manufacturers. At length the inhabitants of those countries have be come fully convinced that linen mixed with cot ton is not lasting ; that a shirt made wholly of cotton is not cooling ; and the Irish linen, in consequence of the chemical method of bleach ing, becomes tender after a few washings. In consequence of this, the demand for real linen, such us made in Silesia, Westphalia, and Sax ony, with soundness, and the value of ►rhich 'is regularly certified, is every where increas ing. In Saxony and Silesia many of the weavers wh• bad begun to weave all sorts► of half. cotton and woollen cloths, have returned to weaving linen. The public papers say, : that the linen merchants of Hirschberg and Schmiode berg, the two staples for tine listen in Silesia, on eating that the liner/ they had sent to the sea ports had been speedily sol(1 at a good price, in] mediately set all their people at work, and sent off cargoes directly to North. and South America. The Rhenish West Indian Company, the profits of which have hitherto surpassed all expecta tion, have constantly sent orders to Silesia, and increased activity has also taken place in the circles of Landhut and Volkenhayncr. Under the circumstances it will be worth the trouble to improve the mumr.ctory or linen, and to encourage the growth of hemp seed. If our flax sued is to be made equal to that of Russia, 'le flax must be cultivated for its sake alone.— n Russia every thing is now done to manufuc ture good linen from the flax grown in Russia.— A Warsaw house recently purchased a flax ma chine in Chemnitz, and linen which formerly paid an entry duty of 60 per cent. is HOW ett• tirely forbidden. The same Warsaw house, however, received, permission to import six thousand pieces of linen, most of which was purchased at Leipsic fair. In Saxony there is 'a Mr. E. Gottlieb Schwaegrichen, a very ingenious and industrious man, who has muck impro ve d the manufacture of tine linen and damask, and 'who has lately established a large 3 manufactory of the finest thread and a bleaching-place at Col ditz, and has already sent large quantities of his work to all parts of the Continent, and even over the sea. His show at the fair met with general applause, and many foreigners have visited Col dila to see his well-contrived natural.bleachitig ground. Grosschonau and Zittan, and the neigh bourhood, still remain the principal seat of the damask Manufacture. Twenty years ago the weavers did not amount to more than 500, and now they are at least 1,`200; and many have turned from weaving cotton, by which they scarcely earned potatoes and salt, to weaning damask, 'which, though it requires more toil, re, wards their la hours. Before the invasion of the North of Gertnany by the French, they had scarcely any other table linen than white common linen ; now damask is in general use hi the more opulent families. Table-clothes and napkins, in which the ground is white and the ornatnoot3 are white, are always the most sought after, and will remain so. Among the pat terns, none has been so much in vogue as that of the Petersburgh Exchange, with the statue of Alexander. Lately the putter!! of the statue of Schadow, by Luther, in Wittenberg, has got into great favour. A very particular and valuable invention, however, is that of making lactic ' garments of damask strength, of natural raw tiaX, but remarkably fine, and crossed with white T 6 working of the orris of the noble families into table-cloths and napkins has also lately em pleyed a greet many hands. N:ipkirri mad e of half silk are, however, of doubt fu I value, though very often eighteett different colours are wove into one. This mixture of colours is not only very dear in consequeuee of the greet quantity of work, but it is also soon destroyed by. washing e -- (411egemeine :Zeigung.) AFTAIII orNotm—On Monday morning, a meeting took place on Finchley Common, be twixt Capt. F., of the Royal Marines, and Mr. R., a Gentleman of the Scotch Bar. Thu parties agreed to tire by signal, and both Gentlemen discharged their pistols without effect ; the se cond Are was, however, more fatal, as Mr. R. received his antagonist's ball between the second and third ribs of the right sight, and, passing in on oblique direction, it perforated the abdomen the unfortunate Gentleman fell, and was raised by his second and another friend, apparently life less, The first use he made of speech was to ex chaep forgiveness with his antagonist, and en treated Captain F. to keep out of< the way until his fate should he decided, at the same time ge m rously exculpating that Gentlema n or Id s f r i en d from all blam e .. 'Air. U. was removed to town immediately after, anti the ball was extrated.--- Last night but faint hopes were entertained of hi recovery. Captain F., though perfectly sen sible of the Noble and disinterested motives which induced Mr. R.'s advice, did not act upon it, but mill abide the issue. PA HAS VAPEItS. (From the (1): , , , r1er Prtsnea Pants, DEceet.---;-It the reports circutated day may be believed, he Ortlormance for the dissolution of the Chamber will appear on Tue.- 'day next. Th. tient. seems very iii chosen, .fer there could not be a Sadder termination of the festivals given by the city of Paris. 1 t is clifli cult to believe.,that this publication can be lath cated before hand.for a fixed day ; it would be attributing to the proceedings of the Ministry' a decision and a pelpeniA.ldarity of which it is fur from . presenting the appeirante. For more than ll:mouth the publication of a measure that was de cided on two months 'ago has been daily expect. od, but the Ministry. hesitates ; at one time it is said, because its electoral labours are not yet ter minated, and it fears that it has not sufficient controul over events; at another time, because it fears that new Ministers may avail themselves of the leisure which it would only create fur itself : it perceives that its fate will depend on the great measure which it meditates, and at the moment of striking the decisive blow, it trembles, looks behind, and pretends to show great mildness in retarding for a few months a step :illicit would put it out of its power to recede. [PRIVATE CoItRENT,PONIIENCE.] PERPIGNAN, DEC. 13.--A few assassinetionA have taken place at rtrcelona in the first days of December, which have called for the following measure on the part of the military authorities : The Governor of this place having ordered that all fire arms, of whatever calibre they may he, as well as the short hand weapons prohibited by the law, should be deposited in the arsenals of this city, the undersigned AiCaldes command and order—That the inhabitants of this city who have in their power any ordnance, no matter of what calibreoltall deposit them., immediately in the office of Public Safety, in the square of the Tri city, in the hands of the Commissioners appointed for that purpose. The fire-arms and 'short hand arms and the swords called carrelets, and all those that are prohibited by law, shall alio be delivered up. The delivery of the above -named arms shall be made by the iohabitants of the Quarter No. 1, on the 10th instant ; of the Quar ter No. 2, on the 11th ; of the Quarter No. 3, on the 12th; of No. 4, on the 13th ; of No. 5, on, the 15th ; and so on. " Are excepted from the delivery —sporting guns and hobiter pistols Which the law authorises travellers to carry for their security; but the p r op r i etors o f these arms shall be obliged to declare in writing what th e y possess, mentioning the street and the house th e y i n h a bi t , w i t hi n the tensabove fixed ; after which, every person who shall disobey shall be prosecuted as guilty of an attack upon public tranquillity. " The present edict shall be notified to all the inhabitants of this capital, and to this end it s h a ll b e posted in all rho public places, and inserted in theiworiedical Journal. (Signed) "J. ANCILAISILI, MARIE C t/ME. " Barcelona, Dec. 9.1021" (From Me Journal des 1)&4.) PAurs, 21.—1 n an affitir brought before the First Chamber of the First Instance, sitting as a Court of Correctional Police, on Thursday, thero was a question, whether the appellation' of a spy was an insult or defamation ? The Celia decided that it was defamation, and adjudged the defender to pay 1,000 francs to the plaintiff, and the costs. Ohtm, No,. 24.-•--Letters from Constanti. nople, dated the 15th, contain news which was little expected, on the situation of affairs. The Divan has recovered from the alarm which'the conference of the Monarchs at Czernowitz pro (lured, and has returned to its old course, so con formable to the ()tomlan character, Tho dis patch which Lord Strangford received from Lon don, dated October 11, contributed to the chanie of conduct on the part of the Porte. England appears to regard her obligations towards the Allied Powers, inasmuch as they relate to the concessions obtained from the Porte in the con ference of the 30th of August, as completely ful filled. The Divan seems convinced that .L3l ti Strmgford sviil no longer exert the same zral to induce the Porte to concede other point , . still in dispute ; as for example, the evamitiou of Moldavia and Walachia. The Austrian In ternmicio preseated a pressing note on that eva cuation, to which the Iteis-Etrendi replied in an evasive style on the 7th instant. It is pos , ,ihle that this reply may displease the Court of Peters. burgh, and curiosity is exiii4.(l to kart' whether 'AL de IVlhnhlki will continue his journey to Coe stantinople. [Avon Ihr. Connitutionnal LEIPSIC, Dcc. 11.—(Ealtaet qf p Private Let. ter.)--The interest of the great RI proprieL tors, who have placed their capit a l i t , th e new manufactories, has been victorious over the fool. snercial interest, and the Russian tariff will not undergo any change. Thus th e projects of Air. Cancrin, the VllMit'e from which tif t . trade of Petersburgh expected many nthan tgvs , ill not be realised. It i s sa id that A lisxander hesitated for a long time, but at length decided against the reductions of the tariff, In order nut to do an irreparable mischief to the new Immo factures. PrUfiliht has not yet succeeded in its endeavours to procure a new treaty of commlic e with Russia. Ilmocutean, Djc. 15.—The Plenipotentiary of Austria has been victorious iu the tlrlib row tions of the German Diet, concerning the rers of Westphalian domanial property the to n . jority hav e b een o f his opinion, which , was lir send back the demanders to the tribunals oilLi4esho Cassel. Anotherinnovation has been remarked tat this deliberation. It did not take place at a public sitting, but the whole affair' Weds discussed in confidential meetings. The IVlinisterNit"Pcussia has at length obtained that the Commissimiletifil bibbed at Berlin Allan alone be competent leetocg.' , forward to decide on all affairs which conterti the whole of the former kingdom of Westphalia, 'OM let, flo' 0 1 I 0 4 , OS Od