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Till?. LONDON JOURNALS. ECIRACTS FROli THE DAILY MORNING PAPEII9I January 24, 1823. MORNING rosT.] Faris Journals to the 22d inst. arrived last night by Express. They sti ll abound with rumours of Ministerial changes, but nothing de sisive had yet taken place. The recall of Count de is Garde continued to be asserted by tne Ultras, whilst the Journal des IMbats and the Moniteuti refuted the assertion by their silence on that subject. The language of the Journal des Wiwi*, however, has.experienced is considerable change. It is become angry, and violent, nay almost hostile to this country. These are symptoms from which the .decline of M. Villele's influence over that paper, and probably in the Cabinet, may be implied, iind if they should continue or increase, they must be taken as sure iudications of his approach ing retirement, and of the triumph of the war party. Indeed, if other accounts are to be trusted, preparations are making in every quar ter which wear a very warlike aspect. A letter. from Caluis, written yesterday, which reached us with the' Papers, states, " that the troops at St. Omer and part of those at Cal ais, had received order§ to march to the South." This displays some decision or much alarm. Of the latter no small portion was excited in the French capital, by the statement of the Etoile, the Journal des Mbals, and the Prapeau Blanc ) that " the Marquis de Vence had come to Paris to make an important communication respecting the Army of Obseevation." As, we stated yesterday, reports were immediately spread that disaGction had displayed itself in that army to such an extent as to endanger the present order of things in France. Others stated that Mina had made a sudden attack upon the French line, and had gained an important victory.— These rumours seem to have gained so much credit that is was found necessary to counteract their effect by a prompt contradiction ; and the offending Journals were made to declare on Tues.. day, that what they had stated the day before was entirely false. [THF TIMES.] Ministers, it is said, are now wanting to recede from and disown the pamphlet which they have suffered for so many weeks to be circulated as the expose of the state of the country, and of their own forthcoming projects. It is rather unlucky for this disavowal, that, exclusiVe of other pre tensions to Ministerial dictation, the pamplet claims, in the very first page, to have been written for the purpose of supplying the defect of oral communications in the House of Com mons " The time is approaching in which the main branches Of our administration, financial, foreign, domestic, and colonial, must severally pass under the ordinary annual review of Par. liament. To arrive at a just estimate of any one of these wh ims, requires a closer anti nearer examination of the public documents and official statements than can be afibrded at the time iota rim* of their discussion. To assist in forming the public judgment on these subjects; to produce, 'explain, and arrange► these documents, is the purport of the following observations. It i 4, therefore, proposed to take a review of the actual state of effairs from January, 1822, to the year now ennimenced." What, then, can the disavowal mean? Has " the Clown said more than was set down for. him in his part ?" or has the aspect of public feeling really produced sonic change in Counsels? [NM TIMES.] 'the infinite succession of contradictory reports from Paris is such as should induce every reason able person to hear them all with great distrust. At one moment a levy of 300,000 men is ordered, Mina hus attacked the French army, the Marquis De Vence arrives with disastrous intelligence from the Pyrennees, the Duke d'Angouleme has set off to tread the forces, the Minister of War is in his train, M. de Vill6lo has re signed, and in short the war is actually be gun l The next moment every word of this ie a fable ; the Minister is in his place, the Marquis De Vence hits not left the Pyrennees, nor the Duke D'Angouleme quitted Paris ;. and Mina instead of advancing against the French, has fallen back upon Barcelona.—We must give Me French Cabinet credit for acting with con sistency as welt as with . deliheration. They will certainly not precipitate a war; hut our own im pression Most certainly is, that they will not be able to prevent it. There has been a third viola tion of the French territory. It will not he pos sible to put up with these systematic insults from the SpaniAl Republicans much longer. [anlTlSil toms.] The animated Answer of the Spanish Govern ment to the Allies is conceived in that manly spirit, and expressed in that determined tone, which at mice asserts"and adorns the freedom anti justice of their cause.• It was but the other day that these Allied Sovereigns, who now would fain trample on the neck of Freedom, trembled for the safety of their own empires. The French Revolution priidoced no doubt•in its train a vast Mass of human suffeting, but with this, and in the course of it, it disturbed the sleeping energies of Ole human mind, and drew forth alt those quali ties of courage anti character which, while they snake wan what he ought to be, spew h m what he is. Freedom broke at last the links ;of that heavy chain which had so long coiled rou nil her, and walked abroad once more among the nations of the earth. For a time, while these Allied Potentates felt each for the safety of his own dominions, they cherished the love of liberty in their subjects, because it was necessary to take advantage of it for their own purposes, and -it-was only through this medium that they were to be roused to the maintenance of " their rights," as they were then called, against the gigantic strength of the one Imperial Despot who threatened to prostrate all the thrones of Europe. It was then that these now Holy Allies, who would crush the independence of Spain, professed to be anxious only to preserve to monarchy that force which was necessary to maintain all those liber ties so dear to them and to their people. _--~r`-- [MORNING 3IVRALDI Accounts were received yesterday from Paris, of Tuesday's date. The contents of the Journals are such as somewhat to enliven public attention, hut without affording any materials to lead the public judgment. A mere assemblage of fluc tuating rumours—such as the resignation of M. de Vill6le—the appointment of a new Mi nistry—the raising of 300,000 men—the depar ture of the Duke of Angouleme for the fron tier, with a French Marshal for his military , Mentor—all this, which may undergo a total change of aspect before twenty-four hours, would form a very uncertain basis of opinion.— One thing only may be said, that the French Councils are in a new state of agitation, and the public mind anxious and depressed. No news of importance appears to have reach ed Paris from Madrid. The Foreign Ambits sadors—we mean those of Austria, Russia, and Prussia—had left the Spanish capital, without, it would appear by the Spanish Journals, any other sentiment being expressed than an unconcerned, if not contemptuous treatment of the event. It is still doubted whether the French Minister he recalled. We incline to the opinion of those who deny it—not because we think his ultimate recall improbable, but because some change in the Ministry must precede a step so important. It is much more natural that it should follow than precede a change of Councils. [MORNING cum:max..] Considerable curiosity has been felt as to the selection of a successor to the Honourable Percy Jocelyn, the late Bishop of Clogher. Ministers, it was imagined, would (for particular reasons in this instance) have departed from their usual practice, and named for this lucrative See some Divine distinguished by his learning, literiiry re putation, theological acquirements, professional character, or for any thing else in the world, but the being the brother of a friendly Peer. They must have known that the eyes of the British public were upon them, although the promotion was to be made in Ireland, where the most scandalous jobs havNiitherto taken place, as a matter of course, without observation. The case, however, is now altered the people of England have found, to their cost, that the patronage of Ireland is uni formly exercised, merely as a Parliamentary engine, for the preservation of corrupt majori ties, and they have become tenderly alive to the subject. They have therefore seen with indignation that Ministers have had the har dihood to persist, on this occasion, in their abo minable system, and have actually filled up the vacancy with a Lord Robert Tottenham I .—a per son of such 'perfect insignificance and obscurity as to be utterly unknown, if the Red Book did not state him to be a brother of the Marquis of Ely, a thick and thin supporter of Government, who had - already precured for him a less valuable Bishoprick I This is the thousandth act of the same kind of nn Administration, that gulls so many weak, but well meaning persons with their loud pretensions to a superior .regard for the Church. LAW rNTELTAGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Jaw. 23. This being the first day of term, the Loan CUA.NCELLOR breakfasted with the !leachers and the Gentlemen of the Bar in the Hall. The sitting opened at ten o'clock, and continued for little more than an hour. Nothing of public interest occurred in the proceedings. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JAR. 23. LORD sTRATIrmORE v. FORTUNE. Mr. Honwz moved that an injunction •should be granted to . stay the defendant's proceedings at law for the :recovery of the amount of a bond of 500!. given by the plaintiff to the defendant, and the amount of three bills of exchange for 166!. 13s. 4d. each, accepted by the plaintiff for the defendant. Mr. Horne, in support of his motion, stated the facts of the case as they appeared in the bill and answer. He said that on the death of the late Lord Strathmore, in 1820, the plaintiff the present Lord, in consequenco of the late Lord's extraor dinary will, found himself in entbarramed circumstances, and employed the defendant, Mr. Fortune, of Clement 's-lane, to assist him in his affairs and raise money for him ; and by a letter from Calais. dated March, 1021, he agreed to pay him at the rate of 500 guineus per annum for his services. 'While this connexion subsisted the plaintiff' stated that he gave the de fendant several bills of exchange and securities for money, for the purpose of raising money for his use, which the de fendant did not do, bat merely supplied him with small sums of money front time to time, all of which the plaintiff had since repaid, The plaintiff also states, that he gave the defendant a picture of it;ttects discovering himself to Venus, drawn by Nicholas Poussin, of the value of 1,0001. for the same purpose of raising money for which the defendant bad not accounted; and , the plaintiff' further stated, that he dia. missed the defendant in January, 1822 ; that he had not re. oeived consideration for the bond of 500!. nor for three bills of 1661. l;ls. 4d. each, mentioned in the bill. The defendant, in his answer, admitted that he had been employed by the Plahitiff for the purposes mentioned in the bill, and had received several bills and notes from the plaintiff, for the pur pose of raising Money, all of which he had again returned to him; he further stated, that he had released the picture men tioned in the bill, by paying for it the sum of 1001, for which it had been deposited as a security, by the plaintiff; and that the picture, 'after it had been so released, was taken away by the plaintiff without the consent of hint (the defendant.),— Thc defendant further stated, that on Lord Strathmore's suc ceeding to his title, and taking the oaths before the Lord Chancellor, in the month of July, 1021, he gave the defendant his promissory-note for 1,0601. as a remuneration for the ser vices he had rendered ; and in the month of September fol lowing, the plaintiff and defendant came to a settlement of accounts, when there appeared to be it sum of 5771. due to the defendant on account of money advanced by him (the plain tiff's notes for 1000/. or the defendant's salary; not being taken into account), which sum the plaintiff then paid the defendant, and received. from him all the securities for money, which he had formerly given him to raise money` for his . use ; and on the 11th of January the plaintiff discharged the defendant from his further service, by a letter, which was set foetid in the answer, in which he expressed hiniself well satisfied with the services he had perfOrmed ; and on the 22d of the same month they came to en Agreetnent, by which the plaintiff gave the defendant his bond for 5001. in payment of the 'relay due to him ; and also accepted for hint the three bills mentioned in the plaintiff's bill, amounting together to 600/. and payable in one, two, and three years, ill consideration of which hills the defendant returned to the plaintiff the note he had given the defendant in the month of July preceding, for 1,000/. The VicE-Cstarrotr.r.ott, on hearing Mr. Horne's state ment, said there did not appear tp be any thing in the case that could justify the Court in interfering to prevent the defendant having Ili, law rights. The Conrt must at present take the answer to true, end without meaning to prejudge the case, he might say, diet the recta stated in it appeared highly probably, and certain ly it contained nothing that could warrant the inrerference of the Court it was not even stated in the bill that Lord Strath more had given the bond on which he was sued, or the bills on which he was threatened to be sued, under any pressure of tress; the facts appeared to be, that when he had:succeeded in obtaining his tide, in the fulness of his gratitude for tlte defendent'a assistance,fre voluntarily gave him a note for 1,4001., which the defendant afterwards gave up for the three bills mentioned in the cause, amounting to 600 f., and the bond for 5001. appeared to be given in payment of a salary, with the amount of which, and the services that were performed for it,' the plaintiff had declared himself well satisfied in his letters to the defendant. Under these circumstances an injunction could not be granted to stop the defendant's legal proceedings ; but if the plaintiff had any equity to oppose to those legal rights, he would have the opportunity of making it appear in the pro gress of the cause. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 23. This was the first day of Hilary Term. Mr. Justice Hcit.- itoYD sate for bail at half-past ten, but the full Court did not sit till half-past one. BRAITSCOMB V. BRIDGES. The SOLICITOR.GEKERAL moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict for the plaintiff in this case should not be set aside, and a nonsuit entered. It was an action on the case brought by Lady Branscomb against the proprietor of the house in which she lodged, for an excessive distress. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, with 101. damages. At the trial her witnesses swore that, previous to the distress, she had made a tender of the rent due, but that the defendants refused to accept it. The Learned Solicitor now contended that, on proof of this fact, the plaintiff ought to have been nonsuited, because after a tender a landlord had no- right to distraiu at all, and therefore the action ought•to have been in trespass. The COURT were, however, of opinion that a party, under such circumstances, might wave the trespass, and proceed for any illegal act in the conduct of a subsequent distress. They therefore refused the rule. SIR WIt..HORT V. LORD NEWRY. SIT. SCARLET T moved fora rule to shew cause why the verdict for the plaintiff should not be set aside, and a new trial had. It was an action on a warranty that a horse was " quiet in harness," . which was tried at the last sittings for Middle. sex, when the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff. It ap peared that the plaintiff saw the horse when ridden by Sir Simeon Stuart, and applied to him respecting it, expressing his wish to purchase the.. horse if it were quiet in harness.— Sir Simeon Stuart communicated the proposal to Lord Newry, who answered that the horse was quiet, as he had been repeatedly driven by himself in harness with perfect safety. ;Upon this being repeated to Sir William Mort, he purchased the horse, but the groom of Lord Newry, with whom the bar. aain was finally concluded, did not warrant him, and Indeed, had received express directions from his master never to war. rant any horse which he sold. On a trial of the horse in Lon don, it was found that he would not go quietly in harness, and an action was brought as on a warranty. The Learned Coun sel now contanded, rst, that Sir Siineon Stuart never was the agent of Lord Newry, so as to bind hiin by his communica tions ; and secondly, that the statement was not that the horse was quiet in harness at the time of the.sale, but that he had gone quietly in harness on former occasions, which was um : doubtetily true. At all events, this was a mere representation, and,not a warranty, and therefore could not entitle the plaintiff to a verdict, unless shown to be fraudulent as well as false.— The COURT granted a rule to show cause. WAYTE v. LADY CARR. . Mr. GURNEY moved fora rule to show cause why the ver dict for the defendant in this case should not be set aside, and a new trial granted. It was an action against Lady Carr, who was the widow of the late Mr. Perceval, to recover satisfac tion for the injury done to his person and his chaise by the ne gligent driving of her Ladyship's coachman. The accident took place in the Circus formed by Regent-street and Pic cadilly. Lady Can's carriage was proceeding from Pic cadilly to Coventry-street, and pu4s►ng a hackney-coach which was moving more slowly iii the same direction, on the near side, when Mr. Wayte came up in his gig, from Re gent-street, and driving before the hackney-coach, came in contact with the carriage ; and was °versa. At the trial con tradictory evidence was given respecting the pace and manner at which the coachman was driving, but the jury believed the witnesses for the defendant, who were her son, her coachman, and her footman, to be more accurate in their observations than those for the plaintiff. The Learned Counsel how contended that the verdict ought to have been for the plaintiff, because it was a rule of the road, that a carriage pa ssi ng another in the same direction, should drive on the off side ; and, had this rule been adhered to in the present case, Mr. 'Virayte would have seen Lady Carr's carriage, and the mischief would not have arisen. The COURT said that it might be true, ge nerally speaking, that carriages passing others proceeding in the same direction should take the right hand side ; but this could not be true uni versally, nor in reference to carriages driving at right angles. Here the plaintiff had done wrong in driving in front of the hackney coach ; he should have gone behind it, and then he could not have sustained any injury. If a man would drive in front of a horse, he must take the consequences of his rashness. 'Tie whole case had been fairly left to"the Jury, and no ground was shown for subiecting their verdict to revision.—The rule was accordingly refused. TUX KIXG V. POYNDER. Mr. Cosispx SERJEANT moved for a rule to phew cause why the verdict of guilty in this case should not be set aside, and a new trial had. It was an indictment against a gentleman who resides at Clapham, but who occupies a counting-house in his house of business in Blackfriars, for refusing to serve the office of overseer of the poor in the parish where his counting house is situate. The question was whether he was a house 'wider within the meaning of the 43d Geo. 111. The Learned Counsel contended, that he could not be 110 regarded, and urged t h a t, a lthough the Courthad last term deterunned, under ano ther act, that a person similarly situated was entitled to vote for a local officer at Bristol, yet there was a distinction between privileges and duties. All the Judges, however, were of opinion that the conviction was right. The question had been fully before them in the case to which allusion had been made, and they saw no just ground for the distinction suipsted, because they thought that privileges and burdens ought to be co-extensive. If Mr. Poynder was not the occupier of the house, there was no occu. pier liable to perforM the duty; and the consequence of hold. in him exempted would be to excuse many from parochial offices who were most competent to serve them, and to cast a disproportionate burden on others. They therefore refused the rule. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 23. This being the first day of Hilary Term, the Court only sat for little more than an hour, during which it was occupied with 'the justification of bail, acid some motions of course. COURT OF DELEGATES, JAN. 23. Yesterday Dr. SWAIIEY sat for the Diocese of Rochester. In the case of BEST v. BEST which is a suit instituted by Mrs. Elizabeth Best, the wife of J. Best, Esq. fora , divorce a menus et thorn, and for a main. tenance, came on for hearing. In bar to the suit of the wife, it was alleged on the husband's behalf that she had been guilty of adultery. _ _ - Pr. LusuniciTox and Dr. DOnSON were heard upon the case for the husband, some particulars of which have been al. ready before the public. Dr. Phillimore was about to reply, when the Learned. Judge said, there was not sufficient legal evidence before the Court of the marriage, on which the suit must be grounded. Although the Court was morally satisfied of the fact, yet, if sufficient legal evidence were not given of it, the suit must be dismissed. • _ _ _ Dr. Pitim.nuonE, on the part of Mrs. Best, said that he was prepared to 'bring proof of the marriage by the next sit ting of the,Court, and that in the mean time the cause might go on. The Learned Judge intimated that he would rescind the de cision of the cause in order to allow time for the proof of the fact of marriage, and until then he would hear no further argu ment in the case, but desired to hear the evidence read. , This was done at groat The evidence for Mrs. Rest went to 'spew various acts of cruelty and violence on the part of the husband; and that for Mr. Best, that his wife had com mitted adultery with a fanner residing in her neighbourhood, and had given her husband the grossest provocation by the rudeness, impropriety, and indecency, of her conduct. The argument of the Advocates of the parties will be heard, and the decision be pronounced on this 'case on a future day. SUDDtM DEATllL—"Yesterday Mr. Stonestreet pawnbroker in Oxfbrd-street, after partaking of a hearty break. fast, whilst transacting business in his shop, fell down, and ex. pired instantly.—Mr. Brook's, linen-draper, in Duke-street, Manchester-square, alio, whilst engaged in his business, was seized in a fit, and died upon the spot.—On Sunday Mr. Pitt, a young gentleman, living in Jermyn-Street, St. James's, who was in perfect health, went into his bed-room on some business, when he was suddenly seized with giddiness, and dropped down dead on the floor.—Mrs. New, a lady, residing in Charles-street, Weatininster' ' a few.days ago, was found dead in her bed-room. She had been in - perfect health only a few minutes betbre.—Wetinesday, lira. Cavanagh, of Husband. street, St. James's, died suddenly, whilst sitting in her chair by the fire. rinE.—The guard of one of the York coaches brought and account yesterday afternoon of an alarming fire raging at Wtx)dley Lodge, the seat of Itir. POTTINCIZR, aballt • aia miles from lliggleswade, yesterday morning. it raged with great fury, and had been for some time. We could not get lamination bow the fire broke out, nor the ex.. tent of damages; but the interior of the house was destroyed, and the flames had reached the stabling. CONVENTS. ON THE NUMBER OF CONVENTS FORMERLY IN LONDON. " It may be worth our consideration,!' says the antiquary BAGSTER, in a letter prefixed to Le land's Collectanea, " to observe how this city, in the ancient map or survly thereof, bath been formerly divided into monasteries, convents, churches, &c." To illustrate this remark, and afford the reader an idtta of the number and na ture of these venerable structures at the period alluded to, it need only be stated - that there were in London and its suburbs, before the suppression of religious houses, according to Tanner's Notitia, three principal abbeys, and one priory, for monks ; four priories for nuns • fi ve friaries, for the different orders of Black, White, Grey, Aus tin, and Crossed Friars ; three colleges, and two priories, for canons; the Temple, and priory of St. John of Jerusalem, for the two military or ders of Templars and Knights Hospitalers ; eleven colleges or guilds, for fraternities of priests and other religious ; five hermitages, or cells, for an chorites and dependent religious on larger houses ; and eight hospitals and priories, for lepers and infirm; making together forty-four religious esta- blishments, all of - which had distinct convents or residences; besides almost innumerable guilds, chantries, and minor foundations dedicated to re ligious purposes. Of these the following is some little account : WEsTmpis'rva ABBET.—This, as it was the first, so was it the principal of all the monas teries in the metropolis, for grandeur, dignity, and interest. An uncertainty exists as to the actual date of the original foundation of this magnificent pile, but it may with certainty be referred to the commencement of the Salon times. Edward the Confessor wholly rebuilt this abbey, but little of his work is now re maining. The church, as finished by him, is thus described :—" The principle area, or nave, stood on lofty arches of hewn stone, joined together in the nicest manner, and the vault was covered with a double strong arched roof of stone on both sides. The cross which embraced the choir, and by its i transept supported a high tower in the middle, rose first with a low strong ach, and then swelled put with several winding staircases to the single wall up to the wooden roof, which was carefully covered with lead." Henry 111. and others caused the whole to be new erected as we now see it. It was for monks of the Benedictine order. EASTMINSTER, sometimes called New Abbey, and the Abbey of the Graces, stood on Tower Hill on the spot where the new Mint is now Walt, and was founded by Edward 111., in pursuance of a vow which he is said to have made while in danger of shipwreck at sea. The site of this structure having been early occupied by the late Victualling Office, we know little or no thing of its magnitude or the nature of its build ings, but may presume they were such as be came a Royal foundation. Its Abbot, who seems to have held a distinguished rank amongst the heads of religious houses, is generally called the Abbot of Tower Hill. The CILLRTBEUSE, or Charter House, was for Monks of the Carthusian Order, and was founded by Sir Walter Manny, a French knight, in the reign of Edward 111. The extent of this fine convent is accurately to be judged of, as it was enclosed within the walls of the present Charter House, and its precincts ; only a small part of the buildings now standing however belonged to the Monks, the conventual church having been de molished, and most of the ancient structure, at the Dissolution. The gardens of this noble charity are large, and remarkable for their lofty and vene. rable growth of trees. BERMONDSEY ABBEY has been described in a former paper. It was for Cluniac Monks, and a foundation of considerable magnitude and an. tiquity. CLERKENWELL, HALLIWELL, and ST. HELENS, Bishopsgate-street, were nunneries for females of the Benedictine Order, and all three of great antiquity. Considerable remains of these struc tures were standing until of late years, particu larly of St. Helens. The former church*of St. James, Clerkenwell, was the conventual church of the first-named priory, and retained at its demolition numerous marks of the original Nor man building, and there were also other remains in the same style of architecture incorporated in the neighbouring houses. Part of itsgne cloister is shewn in a print in the Gentleman's Magazine. This convent was founded by Jordan Brisset, who built the adjoining hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, in the reign of Henry I. Of Haiti well Nunnery there is said now only to exist a crypt or vault, some account of which is given in the European Magazine, but the gateway or prin cipal entrance from Halliwel-lane was standing within memory. Sir Thomas Lovel, in the reign of Henry VII., was the refounder of this convent, and was buried in its chapel, in which Weever (Funeral Monuments) says was this distich, painted on the windows, " All ye Nuns of Pray for the soul of lair Thomas Lovel." St. Helen's Nunnery was, in great part, destroy. ad only so recently as the buffing of the present St. Helen's-place ; and the parish caturch of the same name, which was also the conventual church, is still standing. Large remains of the cloisters, the Fratry, Nuns' Hall, &c. were dis covered in pulling down this interesting place, together with great quantities of skulls and other human bones, to describe which, with the name. rous ancient monuments in its church, would re quire a lengthened separate account. The five Orders of Friars had their several convents at Blackfri.ars,tr e ; e t G ; r Austin-friars, y u f s r t i ni r a- r o ia r rs C , h T ri li s r V o s g i m l o o r s - - Ludgat e -hill ; White fpriitaaris,, N F e l e w e g t - u s t t e r . e s e t ton-street ; and Crutched-friars, by Tower-hill. All these houses were large and magnificent, and had fine churches. Those of the Black , Grey, and Austin-friars, resembled cathedrals, and abounded in monuments of Royal and noble per. sonages. In that of Blackfrtars several Parlia ments were held. Of the colleges for canons, these of St. Ste. phen's, Westminster, and St. Mary °very, South wark, were the most magnificent, and have been both fully described in dill* tpublications . eren The others were Bartholomew the Great, Smithfie St. Martin-le-grand, and the Holy Trinity Pric at Aldgate. The Paor of the latter redo grand city processions as an Alderman of L don. Duke's-place now occupies the site of monastery, of which 'the great gateway other fragments are still existing. The cln of St. Stephen is the present House of Comm' Its cloisters, now undergoing a thorough ref is of most exquisite workmanship. Bartholon the Great's Priory has still the choir of its ginal Norman Church (incorporated itt present parish Church), its cloisters, dor tory, hall, and various other parts remain' and which are well worth investigating. it founded by Rayhere, jester or minstrel to Ile 1. who became its first Prior, and lays WO the present Church. St. Martin-le-grand ` ra j establishment of great consequence, and en.l°, extensive privileges. Remains of the cryP t° ' Church were latterly discovered; but we k r nothing further of the nature of its building' This foundation was as ancient as th e SI times. Next to Westminister Abbey, perhaps Temple, and the Monastery of St. John of Ji salem may be ranked principal as to wealth fine buidings. Both were nearly of the same —viz. reign of Henry I. Of the Temple, well well judge the magn it u de from its present est We know little, however, of its buildings,' the exception of its fine Church yet remainiel vent occupied by the lawyers, This Order was early dissolved, and thei r mains. The first house of the Order, coile d Old Temple, was situated in Chancery-10e' Southatnpton-builditigs. A part of its Chino discovered a century ago, which was circulate the present one. St. John's Monastery,Cler. well, is shown in a state of considerable Lion, in Holler's print of it in the lqpn, a ti Its Church, remarkable for its lofty anu fat spire, was in great part destroyed at t''" ot formation, the present parish Church of St" being only the choir of the original build il ' e g b . extent, however, may be ascertained fro' crypt, which still exist nearly entire, and ;'.; as a depository for the dead. St. Joh ns the paincipal entrance to this convent i$ known. ah Of the different Colleges for priests, &c,% we have mentioned to have been eleven just: with whom tjt bee) little or nothing is known in an arc they point of view, their buildings, or such of is remained, having been mostly destrol ed ll chol fire of London. Leadenhall, t and the Holy Trinity ; Aldersgate-strelew several interesting remains existing: un ni destroyed ; the others were Allhallows P"oti Tower-street ; St. Peter's Cornhill 'Ovi rer . was a great school and library ;) Crooked-lane, founded by Sir Will' an „ fe rl worth, Lord Mayor, and afterward s c°7 l . I L In part, into the c e lebrated Boar's J.'l l , I 14 s, immortalized by Shakspeare ; Jesus (-''' to o C s joining St. P au l' s C at h e d ra l ; \Vhittia cat h re a e pe t, s d one S 1 t . fine ememryasp crypts sf of A c ° s i t s t . 11 :0 1t ce i r l ' e s - Chape l lege, Tower-Roy a l ; St. A ugus ti n e ?*: m Poultney, Thames-street ; one of th ese" - we believe, is still in existence. The hospitals for Lepers were the* N l ia James, Westminster, (now St. Jamees i .vd and St. Giles in the Fields. Th e follonl for infirm, lodging and relieving of P I P: . 03 but all of them were subject to mops,, and governed by Prio rs , or Masters. ,V l o .ll' Hospital, Strand ; St. Katherine, by 'l g ttar thi St. Anthony, Threadneedle-street; vore mew's Hospital, West Smithfield ; St'r o ore Hospital, Southwark; and the Doillu s c, rum, or Home for Converts, now Chapel, Chancery-lane. Of t h es e the : 10 0 of the Savoy, St. Katherin e , an d St. 1 3 e rb'c e le l we know from late existing remains, 1- large and imposing. th e It will be barely su ffi ci e nt to name - hermitages, &c. Th e y were St. lgerY. ti el val, Charing-cross, ( w h ere North fro House now stands;) St. Katherine's bs,eveo Wapping ; Our Lady of the View, ster ; St. Katherine's Hermitage, bY,5 1 ,14 lospital ; and Monkwellilertnitage,t'f' The unforttinate young man SioT along with Robertson, is at present I fence of death fo r the robbery at 1t) the porter of th e C a l e d on i an coach, 15 of that name who was in Dunaj° time when D av id lia„ t n mart urdereu , , key and wh o , u p o n Haggart's t ri3 princpal witness for the prosecution.--( Mercury.) BIRTHS. „ Ls ,. On Wednesday evening, in Oreeve n ,2 l „?; t er.....o of Uxbridge was safely delivered ( "`"1, ry-s' Yesterday, Mrs. 11. L. Robins, of Salle still-born. if T r ee - eggs, . At 11Ievagissey, last week, Mrs. - weal) lo' the first children born after a marriage. MARRIED• - IO" lEina, O onatso n by tli nii: o toes t2 :23dg d u:st in o s prine ta ts n atain t y , nc.etoa a : t B E acert d o ni :stokt n i. n :t to jil i ntti C inllre l o i e u ictic r i ?F outs o .o n i tt o r tiL of the late Stephen Polito, Esq• DIED. r Died this morning, at his s eat at r0rt,07 4 , 4 0 1 *hi t° the great grief of his widow, 3 ° ll tiste,l JZhn - N'ewholt, Knight, Chairman of 1 the of the County of Ilants,' and late Chi rice eat a hearty dinner, and seemed to be h l o roir' soon after he retired to rest he Comp l a ined co , trralical advice could be procured he iqe s A . r Ott the 17th instant, blr. Gresham, 01 shire. „ a uttt - -On the 18th instant, at the vicarage, -- she r, attire, Jeannette, the wifeof Hawkins Fl lo s e j, er house-court, and one of the &night sof th e 1 ,1 0 4 0 Esq. of ftedfertl-idace, London. mop - i On the 20th instant, at Puttcridg o Sowerby, Ego. aged 78. ptlirtt'ol On the 20,h instant, suddenly, Mr. P rotoa he rt by o , j farm, Essendon, Herta, sincerelY laUic r farn d i n Y th a e nd 2l f s ri t e i l n d lnt, of gout In the sturtilch' " A l r. tg fl man, late of Symund's-Inn 'CiOffee - b ee , 4e il e uh,; - , I# On the 10th instant, at her hoosa i rr uct of .ry'll age of 89, Mrs. Ilenrietta Fordyce, ren 4, - dames FmlYce, Author of the celehrat o ' NVomen." Prin t e d and . 1 00 of' Published for the Psortit, of! Office, N0.1)2, Strand, by J. .CA