The Sun. — London, England, 1824-05-14 00:00:00

TILE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extraits from the Morning Papers, Mal 14. [THIS TIDITS.j An interesting conversation took place last night in the llouse of Cornmons on the subject of the existing Corn Laws, in consequence of which, we hope that a total change of the sys tem will take place. Mr. Curteis, the Member for Sussex, and a Gentleman who, we believe, retains much land in his own management, com plained that the averages by which the importa tion of foreign grain was to be regulated were never fairly struck. It would be a miracle if they were, when those to whom the business is confided have a direct personal interest, and a - warm personal feeling, against discharging their duty honestly. It should seem to us, when we consider the situation of the person complaining, as if the zeal to keep out foreign grain, by the exhibition of apparently low averag es, had real ly, though unintentionally, i n j ure d the native grower. This is no jest. Mr. Curteis probably is not in the secret ; neither are we entirely : but we know that the corn-market is at pre sent as much a mystified, obscure, whispered thing, as the smuggling market. There is as much false swearing in one as in the other; with this difference—that the one system of knaVery is practised to keep out the foreign article, the other to get it in. With all the pains that we take, we are never able to procure a full and fair return oT the sales in Mark-lane: and on every publication of the state of the market there, we are sure to receive a great many letters from corespondents, pointing out deceptions by which we have been misled. Mr. Huskisson acknow ledged the existence of the evils of which Mr. Curties complained ; and allowed the imperfection of that system from which the evils emanated. It is a grievous solecism in political economy to enact laws, the executors of which shall have an interest in eluding and violating them. [BRITISH PRESS. Another tax was voluntarily abandoned by the Chancellor of the Exchequer last night—that of the remaining salt duty. Colonel Wodehouse brought forward his motion—" That the present . duty on snit be continuedywith a'view of afford ing his Majesty's Government the power of re ducing the assessed taxes, payable on houses of a low rate of assessment." The Chancellor of the Exchequer immediately rose, and said it was ILs deliberate opinion that Government was pledged to the repeal of the remaining salt duty, if it accorded with the wishes of the House.— The Right Hon. Gentleman said, he did not think the repeal was of that importance in which some Gentlemen held it ; but as Government was pledged to the repeal, if desired by' the general feeling of the House, he , would re commend the Honourable Member for Norfolk to withdraw his motion. If not withdrawn, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer said, he would move the previous question. The Right Hon. Gentleman's address was received all through with the loudest cheers from both sides of the House, and Colonel Wodehouse withdrew his motion. The Chan cellor of the Exchequer, by his conduct last night, has earned another high claim to the con fidence and respect of the country. It gives the assurance, that the remaining burdens yet press ing on the people at large will also be reduced as soon as circumstances will permit, and not be continued one hour beyond their actual necessity. Ministers, by their present career in office, are purchasing a well-earned and an enviable popu larity-, exceeding that possessed by any preced lug Administration in our memory. [MORNING HERALD.] Tuesday's Paris Papers reached us last night. The Journal dcs Debuts again contradicts the ru mours of a French fleet at Rio Janeiro, as well as some reports of a French naval force arrived in the Tagus. The origin of the latter is stated to be an order given to the French squadron at Cadiz, to take the sea along the coasts of Spain and Portugal in order to avoid the diseases inci dent to their being stationary in the hot season. France, this Journal says, has no design upon Brazil or any other quarter, or she would make England undoubtedly, her ally, acquainted with it. Possibly France has really no design of this kind. The alternative however, put by way of proof, that if she had, she should communicate it to her ally, is not conclusive—or only as con vincing as that of the inn-keeper in Gil Blas— " It is as I say, gentlemen, or I am not an ho nest man." Accounts in these Papers, profess ing to come from Gibraltar and other quarters, state that the Royalists—or Spaniards rather, in Peru, had gained a victory over the Independ ents, and were in substantial possession of the country. The intelligence is stated to be brought by the American corvette Fabius, which left Lima at the end of December, and performed the voyage in 105 days. [NEW Timies.] A Meeting was held yesterday by the London Missionary Society. The London Missionary Society gratefully ackno w l e d ge t h e attention which was paid to their representations by Go vernment; while the Demerara Planters charge it as a crime on Earl Bathurst, th at he issued orders to send home Mr. Sm ith to meet an y charges that might be brought, against him before fhey Proclaimed • a Jury of his countrymen !it to be unconstitutional to rescue a Minister of the Gospel from the grasp of Martial LAW—and th at *here the offence is actually charged to have taken place when Martial Law did no t exist ! It is but justice to the West India Planters generally to say, that few of them participate the turbulent and irreligious spirit unblushingly avowed at De merara. Few of them would dare to assert that Christianity must not be taught to slaves. — So different the feeling which has been mani fested in the island, of. St. Vincent, that the Go vernor (Sir C. Brisbane), the Members of Coun cil, and the Mfnibers of the House of Assembly, .have lately come forward in the handsomest man ner in support of the Wesleyan Missions. Sir Charles subscribed 201.; the Members of Coun , ell 161., Si., or 41. each ! the Members of As sembly 161., 81., and 51. each, and various other sums, amounting in all to 6891. currency. There cannot be a more instructive commentary on the monstrous proceedings against the late Mr. Smith than the violent Resolutions of the De merara Planters, and the Anti-Christian senti ments of the Demerara Journalist. [MORNING POST.] The Debate on Lord Althorp's motion, and much more the appointment of the Committee, in accordance with Mr. Goulburn's amendment, will, we are convinced, give great satisfaction in Ireland. When it is recollected that the object of the latter is " to inquire into the nature and extent of the disturbances in those districts which have been subjected to the operation of the fa. surrection Act." it will be admitted that a very wide field indeed of investigation has been thrown open. Besides although the parts of Ireland which have not been proclaimed, may be considerably behind that state of improve ment and prosperity w hi c h i s so desirable, it is allowed that the evils which afflict the Sister Country are general to the Nvliole island; and, therefore, in examining those portions where the disease has assumed the most vi.. rulent character, there is a priori the greater cer tainty of discovering its real type and origin, as well as of applying the best medicines for effect. ing a cure. We cannot, in fact, imagine an Irish grievance deserving of redress, the considera tion of which is not implied in the terms of the amendment supported by his Majesty's Mi nisters. It also appears to us, that an investi gation embracing such a variety of important topics to be at all practicable, should be more or less limited in other respects. Had Lord Althorp's motion been adopted, we fear no 'Committee could thread its way through the labyrinth of details it would have to encounter, so that in the end Parliament and the Public would be as much in the dark, and still more puzzled than they are now. This complexity and confusion are avoided by the course which has been chosen, at the same time that the information and con clusions which will be obtained respectinga por tion of Ireland must be such as may be ap plied, with the necessary modifications, to the whole of that country. T. gaiu these advantages, it really seems to us that Government has made great sacrifices, as well as shewn its sincere anxiety to lay bare the roots of the mischievous system prevailing in the sister country, rather than make out a plausible case in justification of the measures that have been hitherto employed in that portion of the United Kingdom. Were it otherwise, the matter for investigation might easily have been narrowed to suit the object ; but, on the contrary, by merely restricting the details of the inquiry proposed by the Op position, while its principle was admitted, the usual appendage of a Parliamentary triumph—a large majority—was yielded to the attainment of great national good. Having said thus much of the result of the late debate, we do not deem it our duty to notice particu larly many opinions advanced oh 'that occasion with regard to Ireland. Sir Francis Burdett's project of colonization is, in-our opinion, -inor9 classical and theoretical' than calculated to re lieve the Irish peasantry. Of all the people on the face of the earth, we believe our fellow sub jects on the other side of the Channel the most attached to " the fields where their forefathers dwelt," and the least prone, except as an alter native from death itself, to migrate any where. However, therefore, the Hon. Baronet's motives shall be prized in Ireland, we imagine his new panacea will meet with very few admirers. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] A few days ago a memorial, signed by the most eminent merchants in the City of London, was forwarded to his Majesty's Ministers, in which were represented the great importance of the trade existing between Great Britain and Co lombia, and Mexico ; the total want of regu. far channels of communication with those' ris ing and productive States ; and the advantages hich would be reaped by British merchants, from the establishment of Post-office packet stations in one convenient port of each of these Republcs. It is this day understood that this representation has been favourably received by his Majesty's Government, and that two new chains of packets will be established—the one with Colombia, and the other with Mexico, as soon as the necessary arrangements can be completed. This improvement in the communi cation with Colombia and Mexico, will not be attended with any additional expence to the public, for the foreign mails are now generally forwarded by his Majesty's brigs, and the postages will fully repay the expences of the additional post-office agents, which it will be ne cessary to employ. This will certainly be a most important advantage to British subjects, who are interested in the prosperity of the new American States ; but still, until his Majesty's Ministers ap point Envoys or Ambassadors to reside in their capitals, it is impossible for British industry to en joy a tithe of the advantages which a complete recognition of their sovereignty and independence would inevitably confer on them. It is asked by some, why British commerce may not be equally safe under the protection of Consols, as of En voys or Ambassadors ? to which, however, the answer is extremely simple, for until the inde pendence of the Government of these States be ad mitted, it is impossible either to sue them, or to he sued by them in a British Court of Justice. It is not many months since the Lord High Chancellor declared, that he knew not the Peruvian Go vernment, and it is still fewer days since the Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench was ofa equally officially ignorant o f the exist ence Government in Colombia. The mo ral effect, which the extraordinary conduct of the British Ministers must produce, however, on the feelings of the South Americans and of the Mexicans towards the British nation, by delay• ing to acknowledge their freedom, and to extend towards them the common courtesy of civilized o must be d ee ply i n j urious to British in terests,scyietfor it is insolent to say to these nations, that the Government of England is secretly in clined to cultivate with them the advantages of commercial relations, but that, at present, this intercourse must not be visible to the Holy Al liance, and to the Bourbons. CONSTANTINOPL E.-MOSQUES. It may be interesting to our readers to present to them a description of the interior of the Mosques at Constantinople, which it rarely oc curs that Professors of the Christian faith are permitted to see, since it is considered as cer tain death for Christians to enter the walls of Mahomedan temples without most formal per. mission, as will be seen from what follows : " I had the good fortune to be here at the time Sir Robert Liston intended to avail himself of the privilege conceded to the British Ambas sadors during an embassy, namely, to enter and examine the different Mosques of the Capital.— On this occasion his Excellency, with distin qinguished politeness, invited the English Gen tlemen who were at Constantinople to accompany him. They met in the palace at seven o'clock in the morning, and each was accommodated with a pair of slippers", which were put in the pocket. The procession set out from thence, joined by some Foreign Envoys, and went down to the harbour, where all embarked in boats, preceded by the Ambassador in his own state-barge. On landing at the opposite side, they were met by the Aoha'', or High Ecclesiastical Judge, on horseback, with his attendants, and the whole party walked direct to the Mosques, which were visited in the following order "Selim—liarige Djaniessi—Mahomet, dedicated to Ma hornet the Second—the Tomb of Mahootet—Solyman—Osman —Santa Sophia—Sultan Achmet. Before they entered, each of the party was obliged to throw off his shoes at the great door and put on slippers—as if the temple of Mahomet was less contaminated by Christians treading in the one than in the other. The chief object of attraction was unquestionably the temple of St. Sophia, originally built as a monument of na tional taste and religion, which is of greater ex tent than any of those originally founded by Constantine, and at the prodigious expellee of one million sterling. The altars were demo lished when the capital was taken by the Infidels, who converted this edifice into a mosque. It is 269 feet in length, 243 in breadth, and ranks next in point of dimensions to any other edifice, ex cept that of Great St. Paul's church in London, which, it may be observed, is 1062 feet less in length than that of St. Peter's at Rome, accord ing to a measurement I made of those cathedrals on the spot ; their dimensions are enumerated on the floor of St. Peter's. The entry to St. Sophia differs from those of other churches, as it is not by an ascent, but by a descent of steps. Cisterns of water are erected near the door for the pur poses of ablution on the part of Mussulmen, con nected with their deVotions. The floor is covered over with matting, and, the:church is surrounded by lofty marble columns, many of which are of green jasper. Some of them deviate from the perpendicular position, and are supposed to have originally adorned, the idolatrous temple at Ephe sus, and bear. a variety of -inscriptions of the tenets of . Mahornedarr:buljef. Over these are a ti double range of gallerie - , thivhiah access was ob tained by the Christian Emperors on horseback, when they visited the church for the purpose of performing their devotions ; this was accom plished by a kind or . paved way at the back, gradually arising from the ground up to the gal leries, and is still in existence. The dome of this edifice is upwards of 130 feet in diameter.— It was adorned with scriptural pieces during the age of Christianity, which have been defaced by the Infidels, and manly of the inscriptions are not intelligible, having also been obliterated by the operations of time. A kind of altar is formed at the upper end, and opposite to the entry of the edifice, where copies of the Koran are laid. On each side are large candlesticks, with massy wax lights, each of these being probably 5 feet in height. To the right hand is a magnificent balcony, reserved as a place for the Grand Sig nior, with gilded lattice or jealousy work in front, resembling the principal side-box of a theatre. Suspended from-the top of the centre dome is, an enormous ring, or-circular frame, with treble rows of paltry lamps, of different colours. They were not illuminated on this occasion, but when these are lighted up they cannot fail to produce a fine effect on the whole interior of this edifice. During the visit I perceived several Mussulmen in different parts of the mosque, en gaged in offering up their prayers, and it may be remarked, that in all places, public or private, even in the very public streets, nothing is able to draw aside their attention, or stop them for a moment in the exercise of it, till these are finish ed. Previous to engaging in them and after they are ended, they spread out small pieces of car pet, and lie down sans ceremonie, to enjoy sleep, which certainly does not treat the temple of Mahomet with much respect. No women are permitted to have recourse to these places for the performance of religious duties. I remarked se veral of the Turks grinning and gnashing their teeth at our entrance as Christians, or " dogs," as they.call US, to their temple. Descriptions of this church have been given with such high co louring, that I own I was completely disappointed at seeing it. r Although there are the remains of Mosaic work. manship, in apparently tolerable preservation, yet many of the effigies of s aints and other ojects of that kind have b een mos t barbarously d estroyed during the sac r il eg i ous pillage and i nvas i on o f this Christian church ; in short, the whole edi fice being d ar k , sim i lar t o a d ungeon, may be described as gloomily magnifi cent, an d i n point of el egance cannot compete with many of the ordin ar y C atholic churches.—( Travels in in Turkey, G reece, and Spain, by N V rd R ILLIAAE WILSON, Esq.) The Election of Recorder for the Borough of East Looe took place o❑ the 10th instant, when Lieut.-Col. But,',tit ELPIIINSTOWE, 3d Guards, was elected. Th e vacancy was occasioned by the demise of his late father-in-law, Vice Ad miral Sir EDWARD BULLER, Bart. ANECDOTES OF AMUSEMENTS IN ENGLAND. The invading Normans, and their immediate successors, it is well known, were adepts chiefly in the rougher sports, though the games of Chess and Dice found also general encouagement amongst them, when the usual gymnastic exer cises were prevented by the weather or night ; otherwise they recreated themselves in shooting the arrow, racing, leaping, throwing stones, bait ing bulls and boars, horse-racing, and even cock fighting, exclusively of their excellence in hawk ing and hunting. The lowest gradation of amuse ment calculated to promote military purposes is described by Fitz-Stephen, and. was of a ludi. crous and rather dangerous nature. A post was set upright in the Thames, on which a shield had been formerly fastened ; a boat, with a plat form on the bow, which supported a young man armed with a spear, was rowed with great vio lence towards the post ; when arrived within reach, the man strained every muscle to break his weapon against the shield, that he might thus gain the prize, and avoid a severe ducking, the inevitable consequence of failure. Every pre caution was used to prevent drowning on these occasions, and Fitz-Stephen says their immer sion caused infinite merriment to the spectators. THE QUINTAIN, mentioned by Stowe, had its origin from a whimsical idea, and those who practised with it were compelled to exert no trifling degree of agility to avoid the heavy blows it inflicted. In this instance, a strong post was placed erect in the ground, on which was a piece of wood, turned by means of a spindle ; at one extremity a bag of sand was suspended, and the other presented a surface sufficiently broad to make it practicable to strike it with a spear when on full gallop on horseback; the pressure from the spear caused an instantaneous whirl of the wood, which was increased by the weight of the sand, and that saluted the back of the horse man in no very gentle manner, if the speed of his courser happened to be less than that of the quintain. So " that hee," says our author, " that hit not the broad end of the quinten was of all men laughed to scorne ; and hee that hit it full, if he rid not the faster, had a sound blow in his necke with a bagge full of sand hanged on the other end." A more costly and elaborate machine, resembling an armed human figure, and which required still superior agility in attacking it, is alluded to by Shakspeare in As You Like It, where Urluado says, my better parts Are all thrown down ; a nd that which here stands up Is but a quintain,' a mere lifeless block. This game of the quintain, Vegetius informs us, was familiar to the Romains, and derived its name from Quintus, one of that people. A par ticular description of this game, as it was re presented before Queen Elizabeth, is given in the work intitled the Princely Pleasures of Kenilworth ; and it continued to amuse our rus tic forefathers for more than a century after wards. It is supposed to have given origin to— TILTS AND TOURNAMENTS, which being more elegant and splendid in their costume, superseded it during the prevalence of chivalry. These were the most dignified and expensive of all, entertain ments, and for that reason were confined to inces, Barons, and Knights, as even the Esquires were forbidden to enter the lists at them. A modern can hardly imagine the interest and splen dour of these martial exhibitions, which, in many respects, equalled, and in some excelled, those of the Roman Circus. The area of the Tourna- _meat was the theatre on which Emperors, Kings, and their Nobles of every rank, who were Knights, contended for the prize due to supe rior skill in arms ; and when we consider that .the spectators, both male and female, were com posed of all that was powerful, honourable, and beautiful from every part of Europe, we may readily conceive the magnificence of the scene, the polished armour, the dazzling display of rich silks, embroidered with gold and silver, and the Jewellery of the ladies. One of the methods contrived to amuse the domestic hours of the Monarch and his Court in these times, and which continued, in fact, long afterwards, was the custom of retaining. FOOLS Olt JESTERS. —This kind of amuse ment was, according to the opinion of a late writer, the device of a some sage politician, who, originally deceiving his king by presenting him with a supposed fool to bear every indignity of language, procured in reality a shrewd fellow, whose inclination and abilities rendered him competent to censure and ridicule all the vices and follies around him with impunity. Since the custom of retaining a person bearing the outward appearance of idiotism has been discontinued in the Court of England, and in the houses of great men, we are at a loss to conjecture how it could have continued from the Norman times (Rayhere being minstrel or jester to Henry I.) until James 1., whose jester, A rchee, published his " Book of Jests," and was, no doubt, a very shrewd fellow. The manners of the higher ranks, it has been observed, were certainly very different from their present polisished state, as we now, with difficulty, bear the absurdities of a Clown in a pantomime. These fools, who wore a parti coloured or motley dress, are frequently men tioned in Shakspeare's dramas, and the office is still remembered in the vulgar term of " the Lord Mayor's fool." DANCING.-Sir Thomas Elyot, in his work called The Governour, written in the reign of Henry VIII., traces the history of this amusement with great ability, and, after describing many modes of dancing, adds, " Instead of these, we have now base dances, bargenettes, panyons, turgyons, and rounds. And as for the special names, they were taken as they he now, either of the names of the first inventors, or of the mea sure and number which they do contain : or of the first words of the ditty which the song corn prehendeth whereof the dance made. In every of the said dances, there was a concinnity of moving the foot and body, expressing some plea sant or profitable effects of motions of the mind." In proceeding, he contrives to extract a moral rorn every step in dancing, which we learn from (dm was invariably commenced in his days by a low reverence from the whole party, with a long nterval between it and the first step. A❑ odd %ray of arcusing themsaivez and the spectators of their follies, was practised inci-n-• by persons wh o s tyl e d themselves Mummers, ti * • method of wh ose p rocee di ng i s partly exp l a ine 6 in the following passage of an Act of Parlianle° of the reign of Henry VIII. " Forasmuch . 1) lately within this realm divers persons have d' P guised and a pp are ll e d themselves, and cover ed themselves with vis ors an d ot h er t hi ngs i n su ch manner as they sho u ld no t b e k nown ; an d dilari of them, in a company together, naming then' selves Mummers, have come to the dwelling-Pla ce of divers men of honour, and substantial persoos, and so departed unknown ; whereupon murdath felony, rape, and other great hurts and iaconc e ; [deuces have aforetime grown, and hereafter '" like to come by, if the said disorder should ca ll ( i tinue not reformed." Thi s A ct l ev i ed a fi ne and three months imprisonment on future offende rs ' and decreed a p ena lt y o f 2 2 5. f or the sale 0 ' single mask. It i s extremely probable that t he Mummer was a p ro d uct o f I taly ; and, were le it inclined to pen e t ra t e i nto past ages, we alit possibly discov er hi m on t h e R oman stage, where the actor invariably appeared in distorted ma t !' though, perhaps, oth erw i se h a bi te d i n the or racter he represented. In the reign of James I and his successor, 3 " f cording to Burt on , some o f the amusements ° e our citizens, and th e i r l a di es part i cularly, o er f derived fr om monkeys and a diminuti ve b re ed dogs ; and those of winter, arose from cardh tables and dice, shovel-board, chess, the sopher's game, small trunks, shuttle-cock, bill Bards, music, masks, singing, dancing, ul e game frolics, j e st s , r iddl es, catc h es, purposes, Wigs: tions and commands, merry tales of Knigh t " errant, Queens, lovers, Lords, Ladies, ginot j i dwarfs, thieves, ch ea t ers , w i tc h es, fairies, g ob' line, friars, & c . " S ome men ' s whole. del i g " : also," he adds, " is to take tobacco, and ciro all day long in a tavern or alehouse, to discourse, sing, jest, roar, talk of a cock and a bull over ; pot, &c.; or when three or four good companin° meet, tell old stories by the fire-side, or in th e sun, as old folks usually do, quce aprici meminir i seizes, remembering afresh, and with pleasure , antient matters, and such like accidents as her pened to them in their younger years." TENsris was a great amusement of the reign ° Charles 11., and one at which his Majesty Ilit°,; self frequently pl aye d : a newspaper of 1 6 $ ' tells its readers, that " on Tuesday morning , there was a great match at tennis at Whitehal l ' where his Majesty and his Royal Highness were present. After which, his Majesty played ilhir self, with one Lord of his side, against two m° ll of the Nobility ; and his Majesty had the bett er of it." A quack who exhibited upon a stage in CO: vent Garden the following year, amused hi s spectators with taking 13 grains of some poisol v ous drug. The German operator, as he was termed, performed this experiment under the 111 ( 1 spection of sev era l surgeons an d physicians ; retiring, contrived, by means best known to hir. ll , ; self, to evacuat e it, or prevent any visible 11; effects from a dos e that, I3enskin says, in h is Domestic Intelligence, would have killed twa t ! men. of certain F airi ng 1709 ; and p rize , were offered of various descriptions, particular') a t marksclasso formed fppl e p i a n r t o f the one at Islington, of a pair of doe-skin breeches/ worth 31. The terms for the privilege of firing/ were a subscription a one shilling each by sill men. Matches of cricket were played for mai l ! years, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdar at the Duke of Ormond's Head, in Lambs, Con' duit Fields. The following notice was issued in Augu st 1710, " that a gold ring is to be danced for 0 ° the 31st instant, and a hat to be played for i t skittles the next day following, at the Greet' gate, in Gray's Walk, near Lambeth Wells. There was an established cock-pit at Prescot' street, Goodman's Fields, 1712 ; there the ge° # tlemen of the East entertained themselves, whip the Nobles and others of the %Vest were enter; tained by the edifying exhibition of the agility o' their running footmen. His Grace of Grafton declared his man was unrivalled in speed ; and the Lord Cholmondeley betted him 500 ping o' that his excelled even the unrivalled : accordingll the ground was prepared for a two-mile heat in Hyde Park ; the race was run, and one of the parties was victor, but which, we are not informed' In the same month a curious brass gun wa s advertised to be shot for at Hoxton ; it was in the shape of a walking cane, and might be used as a gun or pistol; it contained a telex' cope, a dial on the head, and a perpetual al' manack. The recent amusements afforded by riding asses as ponies, and racing on them, although strong efforts of modern sagacity, were antici pated by our forefathers. An ass-race attract ed vast crowds of people to Mayfair in 1736 7 where there was undoubtedly much good betting. One of the most splendid masquerades which has taken place in England, was that given O f the King of Denmark at the Opera -house id 1768 ; 3,000 persons, or nearly that numl,ers were present, and received an entertainment cou sisting of every delicacy in the utmost proi tl.' sion. The nature of these and other moder" species of amusement are too well known t° need describing. BIRTH. Yesterday, the 13th, at his house I n town, the Lad,' ? t. Samuel Crawley, Esq. M.P., of a son. MARRIED. On the 4th inst., at St. Martin's Church, Stamford, Joeepll Lamb, l Esq. of Lemington-House, Northumberl a nd, t o A me iis Mary, eldest daughter of Joseph Michael, Esq. of St. Martin's' Stamford Baron. On Wednesday, the 12th inst., at St. Mary's, Lambeth/ Charles W. Tabor, Esq., of Balham-hill, t o E mma, e ld e st daughter of Willi am Shadbolt, Esq., of Stockwell-common. DED. On the 6th i nst . , at Brompto l n, in the 68th year of her agtr Mrs. Mary Haines, formerly of Great Russell-street, Covent- Garden. • On Monday, the 10th inst., Mr. W. J. Wright, aged S 3, of the firm of Venns and Wright, Bow-lane, Cheapside. On Wednesday, the 12th inst., Robert Davidson, Esq., of Islington -green, in the 67th year of his age. On the 13th inst., at his lodgings in Thavies-inn, Robert Munro, Esq., of Novar, St. Thomas in the East, Jamaica. On the 13th inst., at Stoke, near Guildford, Jane, third daughter of James Mangles, Esq. P. Tinted and Published for the PROPRIETORS, At die tir* OFFIII, 112, strand, by J. B. CARSTAXIII. T i - i, (h e gy) th, r'rei CV, . 6 (4, 14 1 th e the