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between Great Britain and France may be consi dered as inevitable. If . we could believe the Liberals, they alone feel any interest in the deplorable blow that has fallen upon the Greeks. We, however, if we thought proper, could refer to twenty articles in which We have expressed the liiely interest kith which we have been inspired for a pepple whom it is impossible to confound with the revo lationists of the rest of Europe, or even With those. of the New World. But it is sufficient for us to invoke the testimony of an English Journal, remarkable for _ its zeal in the cause of the Greeks, TUE Sus, which even now, in copying from the Etuile the news of the reduction of Ipsara, observes in an edifying manner, that we have characterized this news as afflicting for Christendom.—( Etude, 14.) Dispatches have been received by Goyern !lolua from Sierra Leone, dated the 19th of June. ' l 6 Thetis,. Captain Sir JoUN PRILLImottE, I "iciog on board a number of Officers for the Ifi7al African Colonial Light Infantry, and for 2tl West India Regiment, with a detach !twin of 100 men for the former 'corps, had "ved at Sierra Leone on the 13th June, and sailed thence on the 17th for Cape Coast Castle, Where her. arrival would furnish welcome sue "ins to Our fortes.' Sierra Leone, we are ha ply t o saY ) was in a healthy state at the date of the dispatches. Sierra Leone Royal Gazettes to the 27th of June have also been received. The most inte resting articles of their contents are the follow iii7 • • -1 ' g iv ing some particulars of the action fought with the Ashantees by Major ClitstmLat on the 2lst of May, and of the death of Sir CumtLEs 111,C ARMY on the disastrous 21st of January : [Ertract of a Letter received from the Gold Coast.] "At break of d ay (2lst of we were all on our legs, armed " (7 , 4. _, _ pc , at the martial (though not most inviting) air , 0 f ' Turn out the whole.' About eleven o'clock we marched wit h 4 ,500 men (which, as nearly as I could calculate, was the number of our whole force) to engage the Ashantees. The at tack commenced now with tremendous volleys from right to left. Our troops in the centre gave way in the first onset of the battle, but they soon advanced again, and stood their ground like lions.—Lieutenant --, with every effectiv e Man of the 2d West Indi a R eg i ment, was placed as a reserve, immediately in the rear of the parties engaged anti across the main path : this post he and his men maintained with great linoness.the whole day. lot` Here we came regu l ar l y i nto action under every possible al disadvantage. The Ashantees occupied a high, thickly weeded, steep hill,' and we were in a cleared farm directly un uer them. On the road to the' Pa Demba Farm,' .the plain youk which looks like a meadow on the right hand, will give r:ome hiss of the field of battle at ' Fettle.' Captain 1 1 the Militia was severely wounded in both arms in the corn wie, ncetnent of the affair, anti every ten minutes after this, there .11 somebody going to the rear with a broken head or leg. ,ir e fought until mi. ammunition Was expended, and the son threaten e d to leave us in the dark.. Upon the whole, we o r , a a t n he s r illed ground on the savages • and from subsequent ct .t appears that they never before got such a regular eives l ; threshing for ni a ' bush tight.' they acknowled g e 1 1 's ly !: have had some of them taken alive, b them in Sir _hi) deserted from their camp, that were taken y . anti rec t ei r Ce n ti B some men Charles's ection. Our bullets did great execution amongst them I assure you. ~," in coosequence of the circumstance before mentioned re rectieg a mmunition, &c. we could not follow up our success ; fur in addition to those reasons, •we afterwards finnyd out that no less than 2,000 of our cowardly allies scampered off during th e fi •1 T , g It, and left 2,500 men to maintain the unequal contest ! to !! here was but one alternative, and the Major gave orders retire to the Camp at Garden Hill. Uf" I wish that I had time to describe to you, an African field t'battle. Several heads staring you in different directions— ,Toe brought to the Commanders as trophies by the men who did the deed ' • hall oo i ng and shouting on both sides when firing at one another ; the shrill notes of the native horns ; the war riors almost na k ed, creeping from one ambush to another to effect a shot at t h e enemy, &c. &c. give a curious and iawful to the conflict . very da y's tallieswith preceding as to our ha a i n -, account their tve° them much the worst of it. The numbers of trigd mid wounded are, lam told, very great . . S.o . much forti tthhee battle of Petue. lum quite gratified at having witness. band ' thres hing lite) , got, and still more so at having. lent a Accra,in it myself. Captain left this two days ago for we i: t° "Y to bring up forces from that place, in order that he led b e enabled to attack the Ashantees again. Whether will ar, succeed or not !leaven knows ; or wheiher the natives I keebne rall i ied on again to glory, is equally doubtful: but afloat. y irlY Letter open to the last, and give all the news • .... PRE PTow N , j u NE S.--On Saturday last the packet Airr zaa__ttd.r.r).deant arrived from Cape Coast with 10 andhate prisoners vic t is lamented late 'Excellency's servants baggage. Our receivedegive a melancholy confirmation of- the dreadful tidings 10 . by the Dann. Mr. Tasker Williams, the Secretary, nose life, it appears, was saved by the interposition of a Powerful Ashantee Chief, has since been delivered up to the .overnor of the Dutch Fort at Elmina,- upon condition that he 'mould be kept there until the close of the war. T E xtract of a Lett er dated Cape Coast Castle, Hay 8, 18 1 21.) , " Mr. Willi ams, the Colonial Secretary, w h o was taken on the disastrous 21st of January, and who was with Sir Charles, buckle, and ‘Vetherill, at the tim e th ey were killed, and is now at Limns, having been fortunate enough, through theinterpo- SitiOn of the Dutch Governor, to be allowed by the Aahmatees to remain a prisoner at that place until the war may be termi nated, relates the following particulars of their deaths. He I sYs, in their retreat Sir Charles first had his arm broken by a shot, and was afterwards wounded in the chest and fell :--he think s the wound was mortal. Buckle, Wetherill, and himself then moved Si r Charles, and put him unde r a l arge tree, where they sat with hi m fora ' few moments, perceiving that their fate We s i ne vitable, the en em y h av i ng surrounded them ; he (Mr. ~I) then re ce i ved a ball in the thigh, and saw poor Wetherill, who was lying close to Sir Charles, having been also !rounded, cutting at ti e A s h antees with hissword as they were rearing the clothes off Sir Charles. At this time he received another shot, which having hit him in the head stunned him ; then he came to himself he saw the bodies of Sir Charles, w tt ekle, and Wetherill heedless trunks. Mr. Williams's life 4 4 saved by an Ashantee Chief of superior authority coining °P at the time they were about cutting off his head." In L non last night's G azette w i ll be found an officia fil(l6cation to our Allies, that hostiliti e s w ith Al. ers , L av e n ceased, and th a t th e bl oc k a d e of that i"aCe is raised. There is also a dispatch Contain. ill!, ~ ' ' n account of the burning of an A lgerine brig, rder th e very muzzles of the guns of the batte• ane' w hich was execute d w i t h a spirit and gal. try Worthy of the high character of the British 1007. Lio ston Pap ers to the 19th ultimo, and Charles.. ton Papers two days Inter, have arrived. One e of , the latt er contains some further particulars of 1" hurricane at the Isle of France, by which 25 sail of ships and brigS were sunk or driien on shore, and the plantations on the island destroy ed.- • The following extract records a melancholy event : " HALIFAX, JUNE 21.—A fishing vessel has lately return ed to Margaret from St. Paul's Island, oil' Cape North, where they . discovered eleven dead bodies of persons lying in a tent on the island, supposed to have perished from cold and starvation, as there appeared signs of their living on each other.—Part of a vessel was on shore, but no papers were found by which her name could be discovered." CHARLESTON, JULY 16.—Arrived, the schooner Ann and Adelina, Little, from Matanzas, in four'days. The brig John, of Boston, for Matanzas; was captured on the 4th of June, off that harbour, by threeyiratical boats, and plundered of money, clothing, Etc. Pirates near Matanzas have become very numerous. Bahia Papers to the 19th of June reached us yesterday. In the Independent Constitutional there are several long articles upon the threatened at tack of Brazil by an expedition from Portugal ; and in that of June the 7th is a Proclamation from Senhor FRANCISCO VICENTV VIANNA, Pre sident of the Province of 13:thia, in which he says•" I announce to all the inhabitants of this province, that though the news from England of 3(1 April contradicts the re. ports brought by an American ship front Lisbon, and though the weakness of Portugal, and its convulsed state, are sufficient to allay our apprehensions of an attack on this province or other parts of Brazil, yet as it is better to have troops well disciplin. ed, and arms in our hands, till the conclusion of the treaty of recognition, independence, and peace, to negociate which there are Portuguese Envoys in London, waiting for the Envoys of the Efiwire of Brazil ; and as it is advisable to animate by these preparations those timid persons, who, instead of defending their houses as it is their duty, already begin to leave them, I call, therefore, upon all the inhabitants of this Province, from the age of fifteen to that of forty, to appear at the Palace of the Government, to be enrolled in the troops eof the first and second line." In the number of the I4th June, there is a second Proclamation, in which the Governor states, that • " A sufficient number of persons not having appeared in an swer to his first summons, he declares that it is absolutely ne cessary, for the defence of the country, that is invitation be at tended to ; he promises that those who appear within eight days shall receive a certificate exempting them from military service, as soon as the independence of Brazil shall be recognized. Those who do not conic of their own accord, are liable to the usual regulations for the recruiting of the army." The Paris Papers of:Sunday last contain a let ter from Augsburg, .from which it would appear that the influence of the Court of Austria is at present employed in' endeavOuring to bring about a reconciliation between Portugal and Brazil ; for this purpose an extraordinary courier is said to have been recently dispatched to London, - with fresh instructions to Prince ESTERIIAZY on the subject of the negociations. Prince WILT TERNICU, the Marquis de CARAMAN, and M. de TATISCHEFF, are expected to return to Vienna between the 20th and 25th of the present mouth. It is mentioned by the Quotidienne, as a pre veiling report, that General DIGEON, the Com mander of the French army in Spain, is about to be recalled. The reason assigned for this mea sure is the supposed necessity of confiding the command of the troops and the embassy to the Court of Madrid to the same person. The Court of Cassation has rejected the appeal of the . Crown Lawyers against the decision of the inte rior Courts in favour of the Journal called the .dristarque Francais. The regulations imposed by the late Order in Council, respecting the treatment of slaves, have been carried into effect in Trinidad ; and it has been found that they are in practice as full of difficulties and impediments us the planters had anticipated. In many respects these regulations, which it Will be borne in mind were framed in this country, have been discovered to be no ambiguous, that numerous applications haVe been already made to the Governor for explanations of their apparently unintelligible provisions. The experience of a few days has demonstrated the impossibility of legi,lat.. ing, in detail, at such a distance, with regard to the mode in which the negrnes shall be compelled to labour. Obso• lete devices have been revived, and new punishments in vented, to coerce the female slaves, on whom it is no longer permitted, for any offence, to use the whip. Amongst the substitutes sanctioned by authority, and recommended, in a Proclamation by the Governor, are solitary confinemement, field stocks, handcuffs, collars, and padlocks. Some of these revolting instruments of coercion had been generally laid aside, and are now again resorted to, only because some means of com pulsion are absolutely necessary. While slavery is allowed to exist, the master must have the power of inflicting such a degree . •of corporal chastisement on his slaves as may be requisite to compel them to labour. All beyoisd that is mere cruelty, and should be rigorously prohibited ; but we do not understand how slavery can be continued without the arbitrary right of punishment being invested in the master ; and it matters little, we think, whether the punishment in flicted be of one description or another, provided it be not contrary to public decency, nor extending beyond the necessity of the case. But the main evil of this kind of interference by the mother country is, that •dissensions are thereby sown be t Ween the negroes and the proprietors, • and the former are, as at Jamaica, induced to believe that the British Government in tends to grant their freedom, or, perhaps, has actually de clared them free. Hence-arises insurrections, and a long train of consequent crimes and outrages. The new rekulations had not been in force at Trinidad four-and-twenty hours, when the slaves on sonic estates manifested adisposition to insubordination. The delusion they had embraced was, that they had ceased to be the privateproperty of their owners, and were now " work g . for the King." Indeed, this notion is not very sur , prising nor ridiculous. They probably knew that these re gulations were imposed by some Power which controuled the authority .gf their masters •, and, dull as their facul ties may be, — we dare say they thoroughly comprehend the proposition, that that cannot be the property of one man which may, in spite of his wishes and retnonstrances, be lawfully disposed of or destroyed by another.., We are anxious to see measures of practical improvement carried into execution in our Colonies, according to sonic well digested plan, by which the welfare of the negroes, and the safety of the proprietary, will be equally consulted ; and it is therefore that we regret, that these lam:attire plans have been adopted, and with such undue precipitation forced upon tire colonists. These regulations, after producing much confusion and mischief, will finally be found abortive, and the great work of amelioration perhaps abandoned in despair, or forgotten amidst the dangers that will result from the rash at tempts making to compress into the space of a few years, what must, in the nature'of things, be spread over the face of ages. Yesterday morning Mr. , BEGO, an Italian Cou rier, arrived at the Foreign Office, with dis patches for Mr. Secretary CANNING, from Sir WILLIAM A'COURT, our Ambassador at Madrid, dated up to the 6th inst. Mr. BEGO also brought dispatches for the Right Hon. Secretary from Sir CHARLES STUART, our Ambassador at Paris, at which city he stopped on his way to England. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 16.—This afternoon his Grace the Duke of Wellington arrived here in his travelling carriage and four, and immediately proceeded to view the dock• yard, after which his Grace went on board Sir George Martin's flagship, the Victory, where he was received with the salute due to his exalted rank. On Sunday, at the New Sally Port, his Grace was met by Sir George artin, the Port Admiral, Sir James Lyon, the Lieut.-Governor, and the respective heads of departments.—This mornin,m arrived the Duchess of York transport, Lieut. Scrymgour, Royal Navy Agent, from the West Indies. She left Barbadoes on the 12th of July, at which time all the islands were remarkably healthy, and every thing very quiet, and had been so for some time. The transport has brought home invalids under the charge of Lieut. Rainsforth, of the 35th, and Staff Surgeon Dense. T lla VICE•CHANCELLOR.—The report yester day was even more favourable than that of the preceding day :•*" Every t hi ng is going on as favourably as can be wished." TRADE WITH PORTUGAL. The following letter from the Portuguese Con sul General was .yesterday evening. received at. Lloyd's :-- Portuguese Consulate, London, Aug. 17, 1824. " Sift—l beg leave to acquaint you, for the information of Merchants and others concerned in the Trade of Portugal, that his Most Faithful Majesty, by his Royal Edict, under the date of the Bth ult., has been pleased to order two vessels of war ,to be put in commission on the Preventive Service, to cruize on the coast of Portugal, to guard against smuggling to be carried on in the ports of his dominions, granting liberty to the Officers commanding the same to board and search such vessels as may he bound to said ports, and to seize those that may not have their papers regularly authenticated by the Por tuguese . Consuls, or their Delegates ; or that may be found in the act of landing any part of their cargoes contrary to law. This regulation is to be put in force in three months from the date of the said Edict, on vessels coming to the ports of Spain, Italy, and the Mediteranean ' • France and Holland, and on those from Russia and other Northern ports, in four months from the same date. " I am, &c. (Signed) "F. J. SAM PA YO, Consul-General. "Joan BENNETT, Esq. Lloyd's." TRADE WITH THE NETHERLANDS. DECREE. " WILLIAM, by the Grace of GOD, King of the Nether lands, Prince of Orange-Nassau, Grand Duke of Luzern , burg, &c. &c. "On the report of our Ministers, &c. In order to give effect to a provisional agreement entered into at London, dur ing the negotiations now pending there, for concluding a treaty of commerce founded on mutual interests, anti until the said treaty shall have been concluded ; we decree, &c. " Art. 1. All goods, which after the 14th inst. shall be im ported from the United Kingdom of Great Britain by ships under English colours, shall provisionally be considered and treated in respect of duties, as if the importation had been nixie by a Netherland ship. " This provisional arrangement shall not be considered as definitive, until the above-mentioned treaty of commerce shall be concluded. " Art. 2. This equalization does not extend to such goods, of which the importation under the 'Netherland flag is spe cially favoured by the general law, or by the tariff of duties inwards or outwards. " Given at the Hague, Aug. 11, 1824." THE ARMY. The 2d and 3d Divisions of the Ist Battalion of the 60th ar rived on board the Prince of Orange and Fanny transports, on the 15th inst. at Portsmouth, from Quebec. They were or dered round to Chatham, where they have arrived and disem barked. The Ist Division of the same Corps, which recently came home from Quebec, on board the Cato transport, has also arrived at Chatham. The remainder of the 60th is daily expected to arrive on board the Indian Trader transport at Portsmouth, from Quebec. The 2d West India Regiment and the Colonial African Corps, are ordered to be recruited to 1000 men each. Letters have been received in Edinburgh, from the 77th re giment, in Jamaica, dated 16th June, which furnish the grati fying intelligence that it had not lost a man front the time of embarkation till the date of the letters ; one child only having died on the passage. MERCANTI LE SHIPPING. DEAL Atm. 17. _Wi n d &W.—Arrived the Nautilus, , Hall, from Jamaica; Abeona, Turner, ditto. Came down from the River the Ocean, for Miramichi ; Express, for Gibraltar ; Aimiable, Eliza, for Havre ; Florida, for Smyrna ; and Sceptre, for the Brazils, and remain with a French store ship for Cherburgh ; Juliana, for China; his Majesty's ships Ramillies and Shamrock. PLYmnU TII, A uo. 16.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Sanders Hill, Anderson, from London. for Newfoundland; Diana, Davis, from ditto, for Peru; and Lord Exmouth, Barrett, from Quebec. Far. atiaurx, AUG. IG.—Wind 'lV.—Arrived the Magnet packet froM Lisbon: sailed the 33 inst. Sailed the Princess Elizabeth packet, for New York; and Marquess of Queens bury, ditto, for Jamaica. LIVERPOOL, A tra. 16.--Arrived the Eliza Plummer, —, from Jamaica; Cherub. Casson, Buenos Ayres ; La Plata, Ainsley, Monte Video ; Robinson; Patter, Campeachy ; Harmony, Alexander, Antigua; Everton. Neverson, St. Vincents ; Glener, Young, Demerara; Carricks, Rushhy, Montreal ; White, Patterson, Quebec ; John Little, 111•Donaltl, Richhes~ ; Txrer ; ira tnicii47Eilio, Hickman, Prince Etistarrs - faland ; :e nd Herring, from Cape Breton. DovEtt, Avo. U.—Arrived car the Port the Patience Kind, from the. Cape of Good Hope; Dew Drop, Quebec; Mauley, Sayer; and :Vary, Stranack, from St. Vincents. RECIPROCITY OF DUTIES: The Gatette or last night contains two Proclamations extending the provision of the late Act respecting Reciprocity of Duties to the free Hanseatic Republics of Bremen and Lubeck. The wines from the cellars of Powderham Castle, the property of Lord Viscount Coutt- TENAY, were last week brought to the hammer from the known excellence and age of the wines, there was a large attendance, and high prices were obtained. Some lots of Madeira. fetched 7gs., Port, 88s. per dozen.—(Exeter 'Paper.) A Valenciennes Journal gives us the following article :—Six merchants crossing the coast of Guinea, with 75 large monkeys, were attacked by upwards of a hundred negroes. Being at a. lossbow to defend themselves against -such fear ful odds, one of the merchants proposed arming the prisoners ; accordingly swords, poniards, and pistols were distributed amongst them, and by imitating their masters, these grotesque auxiliaries succeeded in putting their aggressors to flight!!! Munnaa.—Yesterday the Sitting Magistrate at Bow-street (Mr. MT 24811 II L ) received a letter from Wick ham, stating that a murder had been committed on Monday night at that place. The unfortunate person murdered was an under gardener in the service of a gentleman named Goodhart, who has a house there and who is also a sugar baker at Lime house. The man heard a noise in the night, and on getting up he perceived. two men attempting to break open the grape house. tie called out to them, and they immediately shot him. Other persons heard the report of the gun, and proceed ing to the spot found the poor fellow weltering in his blood. He lived long enough to State that the men who shot him were two tall fellows dressed in smock-frocks. Taunton the officer was sent to assist in endeavouring to detect the murderers. INFANTS Cl DE.--The neighbourhood of London road, St. George's-fields, was on Sunday last thrown into great consternation by the alarm of a murder having been commit ted by a mother on her new-born babe. A wretched woman, named Taylor, who keeps a brothel in London-street, bon don-road, was said to have reared several young girls in her house. One of them, who is little more than i 5 years of age; cohabits with a man, by whom it appears she on Satur day. last because the mother of a female infant. Suspicion having been created that this child had been destroyed, pub lic clamour, from the knowledge of the previous situation of the daughter, became so ungovernable, that on Monday last the place was searched, and to the horror of the spectators, the poor babe was discovered in the privy, quite dead. The case has undergone a partial investigation, and a Coroner's Inquest is summoned. The Directors of the Royal Institution in the Jardin des Plants at Paris have in the hand somest manner presented Mr. Caoss, Proprietor of our National Menagerie at Exeter 'Change, with a superb bird, a native of Senegal. It is of the crane tribe, upwards of five feet high, and the only one ever exhibited in England. What enhances the value of the gift is, it was decided ly the pride of the Parisians (from its extreme beauty and playfulness), and considered the greatest variety in the Menagerie. Their libera lity confers equal honour on themselves and on the spirited individual wko has rendered the Royal Menagerie, Exeter 'Change, unparalleled throughout Europe. THE KING. Wiwnson, Auo. 17. —Yesterday afternoon, shortly before three o'clock, the KING left the Royal Lodge in an open phaeton, accompanied by his usual attendants, and took an airing in the rides of the Great Park. His Majesty returned by Blacknest to the Royal Lodge, at half-past five. The birth day of his Royal Highness the Duke of York was celebrated here with every demonstration of rejoicing. The bells of the Castle and parish church rang merry peals at intervals through out the day ; and at 9 o'clock a royal salute was fired in the Bache lois Acre.. His Royal Highness being Grand Steward of the Borough, the Town Hall in the evening was brilliantly illumi nated. The hand of the Grenadier Guards attended in the Long Walk this afternoon from 4 to 5 o'clock, and played several ad_ mired pieces of music. The Overture to the new Opera Der Frei:clink was performed by them, and the great attention with which it was regarded by a numerous attendance of fa ' shionables is alike creditable to the powers of the Composer and the ability which the band displayed in its executton. FASHIONABLE CHANGES. Baroness de Willoughby, at her house, Whitehall, from Richmond ; Earl and Countess Cowper, for their seat, Pan senger, Hurts ; the Hon. Frederick Lamb, for Brighton ; the Earl of Carnarvon, for his seat, High Clare, Barks; Sir George Talbot and family, from New Burlington-street, for Paris ; Lord Carlton, on a tour ; W. P. Honeywood, Esq. M.P. and family, for their seat, Mark's Hall Essex ; Mrs. Cuthbert and Miss Jackson, from Chandos-street, Cavendish-square, for Scotland ; Lord Henry Fitzgerald, from Gould's Hotel, Jer myn.street, on a tour : Warren Markham, Esq. from ditto, for Scotland ; Sir Charles and Lady Comilla, and family, from the Brunswick House Hotel, Hanover-square, for the Isle of Wight ; E. P. Bastard, Esq. M.P. and Mrs. Bastard, from ditto, for Bognor; Airs. and Miss Dashwood, from ditto, for Canterbury; John Boyle, Esq. from ditto, for Brighton. tdfil • 4s) • ef,- . " pe i die si j 4 js c-,N‘ r rR . O A • air • FASH lONABLE PARTIES. Admiral Sir C. Rowley gave a grand dinner to a family party at his house in Bolton-row, yesterday, on the occasion of the marriage of his elegant and accomplished daughter to the Earl of liivaoull. On Monday Mr. 'and Mrs.. Mitchell entertained a distin- Buished party of Fashionables at their house in Charles-street, erkeley-square. Amongst the company ive noticed,—Sir Richard and Lady Strachan, Lady Caroline anti Miss Barham, Mary ises of 11 ertford and Graham, Lord Neresf'ord, Sir Chas.. Grewlle, General Ramsay, Sir James tie Bath, Mr. Leycester, Hon. E. Fielding, Mr. Sydney, &c. MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE. Yesterday was married, by special license, at St. George's, Hanover-Square, by the Lord Bishop of Sodor and Mann, the Earl' of Kinnoull, to Louisa, second daughter of Admiral Sir Charles anti Lady Rowley. After the ceremony the Bride and Bridegroom left town. for James Hammond's, Esq. in Hert fordshire. Mr. Thomas Bushe, son of the Lord Chief Justice of Ire land, is shortly to lead to the hymeneal altar the beautiful Aliss Nannette Phillips, daughter of the wealthy Welch Gentleman of that name. Miss Phillips will bring her husband, besides her personals, a sum amounting to 28,000/.—(Dublin Cor respondent.) The Duchess of Richmond and the Ladies Lennox, visited the House of Industry, in Dublin, on Friday last, where they were received upon their arrival by the Governor, Colonel Mor ris and the Officers of the Institution. Her (trace and the La dies Lennox expressed their entire approbation of the system and arrangements of that most valuable Institution, whereiwo thousand persons are at this time supported in' several depart thents. THE MONEY-(.ENDING M ENDICANT.—There IS at present daily plying at the crossing before Northumberland House, in the Strand, and just below St. Martin'S-lane, nearer to Charing-cross, an old woman, well known about Peter-street, Westminster, as the " ,11.1oney-knding beggar." She has ap peared there for years with her birch-broom, which is gene rally a tolerably decent one. There is not an Admiralty Clark , lir an army-agent's assistant, of twenty or thirty years standing, but is acquainted with by sight, or from impor tunities ; Indeed, she appears to have•" vested interest" in the aforesaid crossing, fir if she be not there. nobody is. She attends " business" .from about ten to four o'clock. After that she returns to her apartments in, Duck-lane, 'Westminster, walking leisurely home by the Horse Guards, across the Park, &c. Tile warfare against reticles was not extended to her broom, with which she walks as if she had a fire-lock. She then partakes of it good dinner. After dinner, she attends to her financial af fairs, in which she is engaged to considerable extent, chiefly in id/i dlseounting ! She is deeply embarked in such affairs. One recent transaction may illustrate the nature of her concerns. She advanced to a - striall-tradesman near Peter-street, 501. on a 11i11, to receive as remuneration twenty per cent. ! Part of the money was afterwards paid, leaving, of course, a balance; and when that balance was preferred, she demanded interest on the whole 501., as if no part of it had been paid ; contending that " it was her boa to have the interest on the 54 till that amount • was returned !" and, because the tradesman urged that he ought only to pay the rate of interest stipulated for on the amount re maining unpaid, she, forsooth, lodged the affair in the hands of her attorney, not far from Thornhaugh-street ! An attorney then appeared on the other side, and unwilling to break an agreement, tendered the balance, with the 20 per cent. on that only, which it was deeMed right to accept—the " Money-lend ing Mendicant" fearing some proceedings under the still exist ing Usury Laws, which might have subjected her to the penalty of thrice the amount of the principal. Thi s s h ows w h a t, wi t h rigid parsimony, even in a street beggar, may accomplish. ' Vs hen Alderman Gill died,' his wife ordered the undertaker to inform the Court of Aldermen of the event. Ile wrote to this effect:--" I am desired to inform the Court of Aldermen, Mr. Alderman Gill died last night by order •of Mrs. Gill." In a garden adjoining the Hermit's Hut, South Petherton, is a quince-tree with a dozen quinces at the extre mity of the present year's shoots, and likely to grow to matu rity. The tree in question had an abundance of blossom upon the former year's wood, all of which dropped off before the new shoots were produced. . _ _ There is now in full bloom, in the hot-house of Robert Codrington, Esq. of Bridgewater, a beautiful ,plant, called the Renialmia nutans. It is a native of India, and rises by the banks of the Ganges to the height of upwards of twenty feet. In this country it is a work of many years to get them to blossom, and has been generally con sidered by florests as almost hopeless. The greatest attention must have been given to the hot-house alluded to, to bring this beautiful flower to perfection.—(Sherborne Mercutly;) DARING ROBBERY.—Last night Mr. JEFFIC nrEs, of Islington, was attacked by two fellows, one of whom was dressed like a sailor, near that part of the New River called the " Two Sisters." Mr. J. had his wife and their infant with him, and on the robbers coming up to them, one of them asked what the hour was. Mr. J. incau tiously took out his watch to inform him, when the villain immediately struck him on the face, and at the same moment snatched his watch from him. Ilis companion at the moment came up, and, with a dreadful oath, swore that if they gave any alarm they would throw them into the river. Mrs. Jefferies fainted, and before her husband could recover his senses from the outrage he had received, the villains had decamped. The name of the maker on the watch is Wilson, and two of the seals appended to it are marked—the one with 1. J. J., and the other with a dove, bear ing in its bill a flower. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY.—(This DAY.) JONES . V. WILSON. In this cause, in which property to not less than 50,0001. is depending, the Loan CHANCEL.. Lon has decided that the legacies shall be paid forthwith, that the Receiver shall pass his ac counts, and that the costs shall be paid out of the estate. -THE WILL OF THE LATE MR. ~ ImpSON OF SIIIIEWS 11U It Y. The object of the application which was made last week was but very imperfectly understood. The. petitioners, Mrs. Johnston and Mrs. New ton, prayed for the decree of the Vice, / Chancellor to be amended, and not reversed. With respeCt to the Scotchond a portion of the English estates, they also pray e d an i nqu i r y, in consequence of having discov ere d th at th ey were ' no t a ff e cted by, the will or c o di c il o f th e testator . Th e exec. cutors, Messrs. Telford and Luxdale, were Of.: dered to give an account of all sums received by them during the seven years they had the ma nagement of the estates, the produce of which was ordered to be paid into Court, both on ac• count of interest, rents, and income. The re. ceiver, Mr. Burd, was continued in his office with directions to pay over the produce into Court as he received it. INSOLVENT DEBTOR'S COURT— (TIT IS DAY.) James de .Thierr:y, a young sprig of fashion, was brought up and examined by the Clll Et COMMISSION ER. The Insolvent sta►ted, dint he formerly resided at Cambridge; he described him self a gentleman, lint hod no income nr employ meat. Insolvent was arrested by his tailor, but he observed, smilingly, that he was a minor when he 110(1 the clothes. The Court told him that he need not make so very light of the matter, as he knew perfectly well he received the clothes and wore them, and the plea now set up did him no credit. The Court ordered the insolvent to he discharged, at the same time informed him that he or his family' ought to pay the debts; there was no excuse for Watley. POLICE INTIMIAGENCE. T T ON-GARDEN.-PISTRESSING CASE.-Yestertlay James Chapman, a boy 15 years of age, of respectable appear. ante, was charged by his mother, a laundress, living in Beacham. street, with robing her to a great amount. The poor woman was hardly able to give utterance to her complaint. She stated that she was a widow with five children, 'of whom the prisoner is the eldest ; she gets her living by washing and iron. • mg, and letting ready-furnished 'edgings ; she brings up I;tr children respectably, and they. want tbr nothing; but none of her lodgers will remain, in consequence of the numerous rob beries committed on them by the prisoner, which she had frt. quently to make good, to prevent his being prosecuted. He fre quently steals the sheets, table linen, &c. entrusted to her to wash,which he pawns, and she has to release ; and he collects til4l. bills owing to her, without her knowledge, and. spends . the mo. . ney with his profligate companions. She had him beim at this office once or twice, and each time she begged him off, in hopes that he would mend, instead of which he gets worse, and she is fearful he will bring her and her other children to claim pa. . rich relief, and come himself to an untimely end. On the pre ceding night he stole two gowns, two sheets, and a silk hand. kerchief out of her drawer, which he pledged. for 95., and spent the money. During her statement she was absorbed in tears, and the hardened youth heard the charg6 with the greatest in difference. He was committed for further examination, and ay he was taken from the bar his mother threw her arms about his neck ant bathed him with her tears. . 111ARYLEBONE-OFFlCE.—Ychterday being the clay !ap pointed for hearing the complaint of Captain William Wullare against Mr. Woodgate, the horse dealer, the Office was at sta..; early hour crowded with visitors; aillong-ilom were-Mr. Saunders, of East street, Marylebone-; itiynoldw i of Mat'-:. ket-street, May-fair; Mr. Sheppard, •Maddox.street, Hanover square; Mr. Skeith, Davies-street, Maryicbone; Mr. Blanch- ley, ; and Mr. Ashmeade, of Shepherd's-market.--, It may be remembered that on the former • occasion Captain Wallace was prevented from attending, by an arreat, at the in- . " stance of Mr. - Pittman, of Park-lane; and yesterday morning his Solicitor stepped forward and suited, that the Captain had determined on withdrawing his- summons, and Substitittirg a civil suit, with notice of which the Solicitor served Mr. Wood gate on the spot. CORN-EXCHANGE, Aua. 18. There is no alteration to notice in the prices of Wheat since Monday; the trade is in a very dull state, so much remains unsold, With respect to the Oat trade, the same observations may be applied as on Monday. In Beans, Pease, or Barley, we observe no variation. ' A itutvw t.s —English Wheat 3,500, Barley 0, Oats 2,850, Irish Outs 900, qrs.; Dour, 1,500 sacks. Camberwell Fair will be held this week, under the regulations of the Magistrates, which made it last year a decent scene of amusement for the juvenile classes of that respectable neighbour hood. DREADFUL SHOCK OF TnuNnEn.—On Friday last, the 13th inst. at two o'clock precisely, a dreadful explosion took place, near Mr.SerAcia's,. the little white cottage, Phrebe.place, The family, on being alarmed by a loud crash, rushed into the gardens to ascertain whence the n ree ( o i n i loi s rtds e el ,epfigo.)lniil•relcut. n oi t e : lf t il l ipe e ttu)r d i:rot , p, hpo n eteis t re l e d tglyloaaft i (rii i ie i vi g iste)ii u esd; i tei r ris e i)g d ymiiiati o lkg f tititiAneggl neighbour hood, ei l tg l oo t i ! i‘ r ft: r . itrl , gcer h h but smelling a most powerful effluvia of sulphur, they began to exa mine the spot from which the smell proceeded, when they found, to their utter astonishment, a hard substance, believed to he a thunde r bolt, of about half a yard in circumference. In its co urse towards Mr. Berry's back kitchen, it most sev erel y wounded a little girl who was passing; a milk man also -was struck blind, and u poor gardenev much hurt. The thunderbolt is in Mr. Berry possession, and may be seen on application to that Gentleman. o t al) leavenr g of absence k me ti c e e t A most unfortunate event has thrown into the of cer n ph e w of a French Minis. g to r o ea k te p s l t ac d e is b t e re tw ss ee tl t i l e n C n i o ty ni . on leave of absence, at Strasburg!), where his t t e h r e ii re, said to he the Etc fa milyn is. The cause of the dispute was a very tr sgiafttittoderiitars:la:gcntluftvihoisrsit.itesax:seofinr.ctelviCidolliiciet°fiknt"rt,'slietttir:oloa',.akyiti)tfialAp very ipa ls ec ' l'euiert‘te.o:ditla)::toirittellaa t e:l j ffi l e o c c r P s t horse a could be tamed dpi i is) passion. e r r : . e n i d , 00 a s y en s ; t 001,1 which hl i s ol a v‘ i va d isn y gk e i s itnt , tot a ir t e ; in on the other said nay. Each adhered to. his opinion ; missed d. adversary e g r r s o a u ry n Chance having favoured the nephew of the M the latter then fired, and the French Officer wa s mortally wounded, lie died at eleven o'clock on m the a n derf morning the Divisio n . f the 9tl of August. All the fatal officers witnessed this who n affray have Leo arrested by o r d er o f t h e bieuteuant-Generat