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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. CASE OF 11t. (IRMO. The following Correspondence has taken place between Mr. GREW and the Fiscal, subsequent to the order issued by Lord CHARLES SOMERSET that the former should quit the Colony "Cape Town, May 23, 1824. 0 ! Ssa:.Considering that the advertisement in the Cope •Cozelte of yesterday, for the disposal of your effects to-morrow, had relstion , to the order I communicated to you.on the 9th inst., to quit the Colony in a month from that period, and being ow:tro t tin icharknot barnhis Eitellency the Governor's inten on to enfOrCe that ordey,;unlesssonte fresh mite for its neces- Oty 4001 uric I have tilitaltijd his Excellency's' permission to Inform. you,•,tbat ,tAs Evollettoy-lnis- been.. pleased to rescind that order, and to signify hie permission for you to xemain7in the. Colony.. • • t '" I ani, Sir, your , otiedietri serianti, • • !'" D. DDNVis,QN, lii3rALt• .rlllr. Georgq.Dnig." ' "..Cape Town, M&v .241 liat.;' • " Silt—l have received your notice of Sunday 1apt,..314 ignifying your having obtained hi* Excellency's Jrrniasion to communicate to me, that it was not his Excellency'; intention toonfctree the order respecting my expulsion from this Colony, unless I should commit-some, fault or other tending to render vuelva measure necessary. I beg to state in return, that in consequence of his Excellency's order, my finurishitig trade hits . beers ruined; my honourable prospects of usefulness for the pre sent destroyed, toy character as a aubject•und a man detitmed, my friends alarmed' and shaken, my people scattered and ex posed- to poverty anti starvation,' on account of - their haviag .accepted employment from me. In conjquence of.that order, J have made my arrangements for quitting tint Colony. .• I have written to England to retain Connsel for therecovery of damages adequate to my enormous los*es, anti tocget the stamp of sedition taken off my character by the proper authorities. I cannot therefore, in conscience, say that I feel isi any way in,re lieved by your, communication, in which I see nothing of • r..uneration, or of my ihing reStored to the situation in which I was placed before twos assailed by the Government. " I aril, Sir, your obedient servant, ". Denyssen, Est,., • (Signed) " OREM. .1:1is Majesty's kfiscal."—( :Thins.) f I' 0 IL 'l' U G A. L. JULY 27.---Wu . have already pub ' - BOAI, in other uundrrs of this .Tournal, the testimonies of litti)toliatiiio which various nuinthets of the Diploinatie Body ro,diA l c in this Court have. received, from their respective Go vernments for their conduct in the crisis of the 30th,Anril, in .whieli •they so greatly contributed to secure the legitimacy of the throne, and to deliver this; kingdom from the horrors of • anarchy and it is our grateful duty.hot to pass over in silence whatever may come to our knowledge on tins &Object, because, as nottody who is'aequainted with iltu facts can bo insensible to . the important services which the Foreign lllinisters•perfurmed on that occasion, it is , just that it should be known that they :were tinanithensly commended by their GovernMents. lli Britannic ;Majesty, in a cabinet letter written with his . .ownhand to the King our Sovereign, expreSsed to his Majesty that he had received with the greatest satisfaction his letter dated on board the Windsor Castle, by Windt. letter he was as sured of the personal safety'of his Majesty, and at the same timeof the share which his naval force had happily had in con tributing to this safety ; and in the same letter his Britannic Majesty expresses his satisfaction that the services of Sir Ed. Thornton were acceptable and useful to the King • our tiove reirn, ,and having already signified his approbation to the Oficers of "the Briti4h navy for their conduct on that occasion, granting them the prianotion which his Majesty was pleased .to ask for•them, he also consented that they should receive the marks of gratitude which his Majesty was . pleased to oar • thitil; • • His Holiness, in granting to the most excellent and revered Archbishop of Nazianzo permission to accept and wear the insignia of the gran&,cross of the order of Nowt Senhora da _ _ Conceive° of Vail Vivosa,,. Which hiti Majesty conferred on I him for his services on that - occasion, was phased also parti. 'cularl,j to •cotrimfind the, conduct of the Nuncio, as his Excel. .leney .officially. informed the S'ecritary of State for Foreign Affairs, in a note of the `.tad instant. .. • - The Minister for Foreign All%irs of the Ring of Denmark, writing to the Cherg4 d'Atihires of' that Stweieign at this Court, relative to theuvents Oust took •place at Lisbon, ups to the 14th of • M ' " The representatives of the Sovereigns showed their august ebaracter un this occasion ; the, cOntributed•tn the'trionipb of the principles which are the sateguanl of legitimate power and tif public peace and tranquillity. Your conduct and your len • gusgc on this ()cession have merited the august approbation of Majesty." The same sentiments are so general, that even those Hoyern. ments who had no representatives here at that time liave 'ex vresSed their sentiments to his. 'Majesty's Ministers at their Courts. Thus Count Ilernstorfr, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the King of-Prussia, speaking to Count Oriolla on this sub. jt,ct, .said. to. him, " that he much regretted there,. was no diplomatic agent for Prussia at Lisbon, at that time,,es.he would not have been behind the others in manifesting to the Kin4.of. Portugal the interest which Europe takes in his august ' par on.!' . Reports having been spread by the English and French jour. Mils of the approaching arrival of a corps of Hanoverian troops iu Prosogal,. we are authorised formally and officially to con. n.stlict this statement; and, in the same manner to give the assurance that no convention has been concluded on the sub jtiLt,. and even the full powers which would be necessary to conclude. such • a convention have not been given. —( Lisbon Gameat..) After thin statement, the Editor observes how necuat. sari it is to be circumspect in listening to reports devoid of audiority, at a time when so many conflicting passions and in. terfous are work. If it should ever he necessary for the good of die State,.to ,admit a 'body of troops °fa friendly nation, or even of foreign, hired troops, such Its many. of the great Powers ,of Europe lowa in their pay, to loosen the number of hands Wien from agri4ultureoind other important reasons, which arc no dishonour to those nations which make use of such assist ance, this would uever effect the Portuguese loyalty, which is far above such petty considerations. It is, however, useless to dwell on the subject, as the repOrt of the coining of foreign trews itcfnise.l The Nos.' of the Ody.rtte ta 3d August, are filled with extracts 'from the Spanish and other Journals. . - r. N ocu STonm.----Yesterday afternoon,about a quarter' to live o'clock, the Metropolis was . visited by a most tremendons storm ; it com menced with a sudden iv tavlivimi, which nearly :bl ew the pasf;engers oft their leL;s, and every per son ran for shelter into some house, or. under a. gateway ; aml immediately one of the heaviest showers of rain full that we ever remember to 'have 'seen, which lasted only about two. or three minutes, and ,. was succeeded by a flash of light 'fting and a' most tremendous, clap of thunder, whit'h ive fear has done great damage. The lightning struck the chambers' of No. 19, Cle- Ment's nn, which projects, into the , garden, and threw down a lofty stack of chimneys; the stack. broke in the middle, and fell against the gable roof, where it is 110 W to be seen, about six feet square 'of the t ri es o o th. front part of the roof, considerably distonec from the chimney, were crushed to pieces. 'OG are sorry again to have to record anollocr unfortunate occurrence, with re. 7 sp..et to perions not obeying the order of the nigistratcs of St. Maryleboue. Y"un gentleman, named Harrison, residing at 37 , Ciawfordlst ryyt, was returning home , „ when be was by a dog, belongiag to Mr. Stc , ;ens of elks s“no.! street, lamp contractor, who bit Wu' revert the left knee. Mr. Harrison was so ali:co;(,1 fro m the, co n seqUenees which might atisi : , that he imilu,d a lply went to Mr. B ryant , who inAnntly theCUt piece out, and gave Mr. Harrison nwijicino' to ;II (Ist counteract any ..•:( 1 . 8 "OF)." eiistle. Our reptirter visited Mr. Harrison yestordi4, who seethed in' miller a desponding state, fear of serious con. „ quoit:cc ._ vih t , lia,les t me.l that Mr. Stevens has visited Mr. flitrrison, nod has also assured him that -the animal is in good , heilth and tied up is Ids.yard.—?"ll Press.) FOR. THE SUN. CHORUS. In that curious part of the ancient drama, the Cherus, the persons composing it " were not Actors ; nor were they on the stage; but stationed on the thymek,* which they never quitted. They were in fact more spectators than actors ; or, as it were, a middle party between both, so that the representatithr was a play in a play. -- To hamlet, who is explaining the play, Ophelia says,. " You are as good. as a chorus," meaning thereby ~a go-between betwixt the actors and ItpiTtatOrs,-The chorus';--was the original and substantivepart•of the representation ; the getting wp was a matter of:,tate, or subject of conten tion of• the tribes, 'who vied., with each other in the exhibition of their respective chorusses ; the first persons. in each tribe were appointed. choragi, and rivalled each other •in the splendour and apparatus of their chorusses, who were chosen, taught, and practised for•some time before the grand Lentean and Dionysian Festivals. It was a grand national exhibition of music and danciug f and the poets, properly speak ing, tacked on the dialogue, to heighten the pleasure and diversity of the"amusement. From the splendour of the re presentationond the beauty , of the dresses, the dancing, and the music, asso ciated with• the finest flights of poetry,• the . cho ,rus was probably the most. attractive part of the representation, though to us, stript of all its ad• juncts, it is the least interesting ; •and considered in .a modern play an useless incumbrance." Some of the • modern critics, who may be said• to be inveterate in-their admiration for antiquitY, and to venerate even the infirmities of the ancients, have thought it a grea t detraction; from the dignity and interest of the drama, to banish the chorus, the decus. et prasidium of " olden times," and wish to revive it, nut only for the :sake of order and harmony, but for• the.salre 'of morality, which might "sometimes• appear to be lost sight of, .where some .of the. characters are under the influence - of a vehement passion, and then might require another sort ofpersonage, not immediately interested in the action, to interpose with apriestl,y, and almost divine charm, to lull the wild demon to .sleep, with which they at certain ' intervals seem to be .struck, whether they arein furiated with. love, rage, or vengeance, or are • driven headlong, without any apparent. will .of their own,• by the blind impulse of-inexorable fate. • • This idea has not often been taken up in the ,practice of our dramatists, and, wherever it bas, by no means answers the sanguine hopes of the learned critics, who must, notwithstanding their learning, in public representationsoubmit to , the voice of the. people, who have generally found the modern chorus too tame and. uninteresting to make any harmony in the theatre— Nor calk it be so necessary now,. when there is -so great a variety of ,character :of both sexes :introduced upon the stage ; the countenance - of , the goddess Destiny sufficiently softened by our:milder and bettor notions of providence, and a predominant pashion not so often permitted to absorb .the tioi' .effect and moral of Ow . • • Lt ROUSSEAU, (says Sysimorgs) in his remarks on the opera of Alctittis, has some pertinent obser vations on the dramas and the language of Greece; Contending, that the former were.operas, and the latter was of so musical a' nature, that its mere promociation, as it Were,. constituted music whereas, in all tpoderu languages,' the association of MUSIC with words is • unnatural and hardly tolerable. Hence with us, in operas, where .mthic prevails, sense, poetry, and dtatnatic in terest,vanish--very differently in Greece, where one heightened the pleasure of the other." This quotation from RoussEAu Mr. SYMiti ONS serves to explain why a chorus, whenever it has been attempted , in, our times. by the ablest tra. genial's, has unifermly , failed in its effect upon the audience ; cud why the fashionable attend• ants upon our operas listen rather to the music than the words, to the sound rather than the sense, and are so satisfied with . the former that they do..not take. the first step•necessary to catch the latter, or, learn the language in which it is recited : and why so many. assist with their eyes an d not .their ears, content to be spectators, WO, nt some of the most trifling dumb.shoiv,' rather than enjoy 0110 Of. the finest dramas of METAS TASIO, a few scenes of which they think enough, impatient for the ballet, and their hearts dancing with joy, in unison with the heroes and heroines of the too' ) as it pirouettes •in fascinating circles of attraction till the' other is obliged to come to its Supprt. • S Y AIMONS, however, ver y j u stly brings this fascination of the chorus as 'a reason why, in YLL/f/ a n d the other Greek tragedians, they are made to act in such a manner as would not be ,tolerated on our, stage. In the Hippolytus of EURIPIDES, a professed follower of nature, the damsels :who compose his :chorus take occasion to sport with the better feelings, and lay bare the selfishness of the human heart ; for when the cries of Phaedra are heard from behind the scenes in the agony of death, to a iiroposal made by a part of the chords,who call , out " Our Queen is hanging, shall we go and release her from the rope," the other part. of the chorus answer her very coolly—" 'Tis not our place ; are there not men ,servants to do.that office ? meddling in this life often brings us into trouble," or, in the words of Hamlet to. Polonius, we find that. " to be too busy. is some • danger." No. wonder such senti ments have met with reprobation as they did with .ARISTOTLE.; but the. apology for these damsels, as well as for the old gentlemen, who in ,the. Agamemnon, appear to be acting burlesque in the midst of a horrid scene of tragedy—is very strikingly offered by SYSIMONS' reference to the constitution of the chorus itself, who could not be, made by the tragedian to fly to the assistance of - their Monarch, because • they 44 were not in • The Thyniele,' according; to Schlegel, was situated in the centre of the building, tl.oin which the measurements were calculated, and the semi-circle of the theatre was described ropnd that point. It was therefore an excellent contrivance to place - the: chorus ,' (who were the ideal representatives of the spectators) when theydittnot. sing,: but merely took an late reit in the actipn, in tbe,xery situation, miter, all the ragij con centrated. It was an elevation, 'says Mitchell, in 019 front of tho orchegra, with steps resembling an altar, •lut the top of which the jeader of the chorus -or coryphseus, took-his station to see what was passing : ou the staje 3 and to communicate with the 'characters: • reality actors on the stage, but stationed on the thymele"—a •place behind the orchestra, from whence Biel( office was to, deliver appropriate speeches, and to explain unconnected or obscurer parts of the drama, and to recite moral and ge nerous sentiments which they do in this and other plays—but not to take part in the action as heroes or heroines, or in any other character which might be thought necessary fo i l. occh sion, or Corresponding with the maxims which they never scrupled ) in the midst of danger and in the face of death itself, to -pro i this chorus of Agamemnon, indeed, part f the old gentlemen put on a chivalrous air and attitude, — menacing 46 to break in instantly, at - the cries of the king, who is being stabbed, and see what is done, when the fresh sword is stream ing with the blood,"—" It is no time for dallying 'and delay,—the overture of tyranny's begun— and to upbraid the others for standing loitering." But all this is introduced chiefly to humour theleelings so natural to arise in the mind of the spectators, and to eke out the time which is ne cessary for the perpetration of deeds behind the scene s, w hich the ancients thought too horrible to be done in the sight of a delicate and polite as sembly, Who yet were to . be informed of the transactions, in order lo feel all the interest which the Diatha alTords At the catastrophe in this play,.the Chorus up pear to take an active hart , and to remonstrate in'the boldest terms with the king's murderers, for not only committing so fnul a crime, but im piously making it the subject " of wanton mer riment."' So active a part do they take, .that 2ED b isthus to make them cckeep a sober tongue within their head," threatens them with rattling chains,.and dungeon keep below-- - --excellent phy sicians (or proud spleen ; and when they cannot be silenced by these threats, but still up braid bulb for his falSehood and his cowardice, he grasps hia hand upon his sword,, ready for the combat with these old men, who yet are not .so old but they hail to his words, and prepare them selves for the affray, 'which would have ended in blood, if Clytemnestra had not interposed with that apology for their crimes sO common to the criminals in the heathen drama, more .e.specially of high rank, the:inevitable fatality—. " The thno and fate that attUle us apt, een so as we have acted," imploring "Egisthus not to wade still further in blood. than Destiny seems to demand, for. that would only r.,,rove.that he was struck with the demon ill his horrid rage,'.'. Hence, he .is perSuaded to think nought of their vain barkiugs, and with threats for the future leaves them for the present in peace, all which might be necessary for the catastrophe:of the play. .They were at so critical a season , to perform apart, as. if they were interested in the scene of action, because the.passions of the peo pie, whom they-were. to improve as well as amuse, Were so highly worked .up, that they could scarce conceive it possible, for any men,however old,orby the kW of the drama not supposed to he actors in deed upon the stage, yet as standers by r or mere lookers on, not to partake of the same, strung feelings with them, and appear at least to defend by arms what they so.nobly maintain by words at so important n crisis, which so naturally calls forth such sentiments of horror end indignation at, the ,great scandal just perpetrated, and, what is worse, defended by the specious hypocrisy of its insidious perpetrators. This, therefore, as en extreme case, Is fairly to be reckoned-an excep tion which proves •the general rules :-that the chorus is not brought upon the stage as any part of the charactors which are actually engaged In the plot, but only as speakers who were placed in a, certain station near enough to be heard, In order to. communicate some part of the play which could not so well be. introduced by the characters themselves, or .to deliver the moral upon each event as it arose, for the•relief and improvement of the spectators ; or to , give • soma interlude, to refresh a poetic people like the. Athenians, in high' strains of mu sical strophes and anti-strophes, while the actors themselves were away.; but these strophes and anti-strophes still :had some relation to the main subject, however distant, yet quite with affinity enough to•keep up the present spirit, and unite with the actors in maintaining its chief design. AWFUL SunnEN DE/mi.—Yesterday, at one . o'clock, an Inquest was hehl at the Swan, in Hungerford . market, before G. H. GE 1. 1., Esq., on the body of Mr. Jona than Warren, who died . suddenly on the previous day.—Mr. Sprigg Homewood, of No. 476, Strand, oilman, deposed, that the deceased was a blacking-manufacturer, in Hungerford market ; he came into his shop to purchase some Venetian red, and asked for apannyworth.• Witness went to get some, when the demised said he .wonld have half .a pount... At this time the counter was filled with bottles, owing to the windows being cleaning. The deceased put a shilling on the counter to pay for the article, when he appeared to stoop as if to read the labels. on the bottles, and suddenly: pitched forward on them with his face, and fell on the ground. Witness considered he was in it fit ; his temples' were bathed with water, and medical assistance sent for. The deceased changed colour in the face ; he never spoke after. he fell.—Mr. ,John Williams, surgeon ; of No. 51, Strand, stated he attended the deceased about a quar ter of an hoUr after the occurrence. Witness examined him, and found that the pulsation of the wrist had entirely ceased ; he therefore instantly opened the temporal artery, but no blood isitUed; he appeared quite dead. Witness had no doubt, from his general appearance, that he died of upopleiy. Had he (witness) been present at the moment, he did not think it po3. sible any assistance could be rendered him.—Other witnesses were present to corroborate the above testimony, but the Jury intimated that they we re satisfied, and, after viewing the body, they unanimously returned a verdict of " Died by the visitation of God." TRISH RIOT IN NEW YOIIK.--" On Monday afternoon, it heing the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, a number of Irish Protestants un dertook. to celebrate the day in this free Country, which cares not a rush for Kitig William, the Battle of the Boyne, Vinegar-hill, the Stuarts, or Plantagenets. They assembled at - Greenwich, with drum and fife, and flags, and grog, and be coming turbulent and disorderly, they excited the ire and indignation of the Irish Catholics, who hoisted an emblematical flag, obtained a drum and fife, and formed an opposite procession, and the parties having come in contact, a furious fight ensued; Which resulted in sundry.broken heads and bloody noses, together with many violent and revengeful expressions. Complaints were made against 33 rioters, who were bound over to take their trial for riot and assault and battery,"— (National Advertiser ; of July 22.) ST. JAMES'S PARK. " In the time of King HENRI( . says a note to Dr. KING's Poems, in CHALMER'S Collection, " the Park a wild wet field ; but that Prince, on building St. .James's Palace, enclosed it, laid it out in walks, and collect ing the waters together, gave to the new-enclosed ground and new-raised buildings the name of St. Jameslhi, It was much enlarged by Charles IL, who added to it severarfields, plant ed-it with rows of lime-trees, laid out ,the Mall, formed the canal with a decoy, mid Other plonas fbr 'water-I'OA, The lime trees or tilia, whose blossoms are uncommonly fragrant, were probably planted in consequence of a suggestion of Mr. Evelyn, in his Filatifuglum ' published in 1661." Charles 11. was very fond of the Park : his habit of walking there, attended by his dogs, both sad and merry, has been noticed before. His ducks, Which he also amused himself with feedtvg, inhabited a spot called Duck Island, which was erected into a " government," in order to furnish the French exile and wit, St. Evremond, with a pension.--,Bird-cage-walk must not.be forgotten, which was an aviary of Charles's raising, anti retain:. its appellation.:— In boas of fifty and a hundred years hack, if you met with a hungry gentleman who did not know where to'get a dinner, you always find him sitting on a bench' in the Park. Others generally accompanied him, most of whom are politicians. Bickerstaff meets here his acquaintance the Upholsterer, who lets his affairs run to ruin in his zeal for the King of Sweden.—lt would appear from novels, that the Park.cnjoyed some privilege from arrest. In Fielding's Amelia, the hero' often walks in the Mall. when he can go no where else. During the existence of the old Cathedral of St. Paul's, the inside of that Church was the resort of the hungry ; who, in allusion to a tomb supposed to: contain the hotly of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, gave rise to the saying► of dining with the Doke Humplirey.—The 'Mall is so called from the gaine of Mall, to which Waller alludes. Charles H. transferred it front' Pall-mall.—ln a house looking into Mr. Bentham's garden, in Bird Cage-walk. lived Milton. The front of it is in York-street, and, without being the ancient one, is in a very'squalid comb tion.The Ilorse:guards was in a poor condition in the time of Charles. The stables looked like the open corridors of an old inn ; and a toy of a building, with a staircase outside, ap-' 'pears to have• been the guardhouse. These conclusions are drawn from the print in Pennant. POLICE. INTELLIGENCE. MELANCHOLY CASE. 110 w-ST ft - 6:r T.—The case we reported under this head in our Paper of Tuesday, which related to a poor woman that had been committed from this office on a charge-of stealing► a piece - of bacon,.of tl-e value of tenpence, has excited a considerable deg►ree.of sympathy, and several sums of money have been left with the Mag}►,istrates for the use of the distressed' family-31.,21., and 11., which Sir It. ItruNre will humanely see applied, as the, benevolent donor; no doubt, wish. Most of these kind con. tributions have been anonymous—" The left hand saw not what the right did",--Good has been done by " stealth"---and those who - have thus obeyed the dictates of Christianity, have in their own bosoms,the sweetest reward. Mr. Careless, the master of the young man by whom the charge was preferred, and whose callousness of heart has in the end worked good for the poor object of prosecution, yesterday appeared before Mr. MINSIIIII.I., and stated most distinctly that the proceeding in question was in direct opposition to his wishes—and so far was he from desiring the business to proceed further, that it was now his particular wish the woman might be discharged. As a proof that prevention of cr i me rather titan its punishment was his object, he stated that he employed five persons on a Saturday night to guard against petty robbeeles ; and in a very few years had pardoned no less than 50 delin quents. illmstrum. Said he was willing to give credit to the huniane feelings by which Mr. Careless seemed to be actuated; but at the same time he thought it a very dangerous doctrine to go thrth, that, In a state of distress, the commission of crime, apparently under the. influence of necessity, was the Mode by which public sympathy was to be created. The laws of this country were such that no man or woman need to be driven to this extremity. ,An application to a Magistrate, or a parish officer, woUld undoubtedly lead to present relief. The case of Mrs. Jones and her family was one of a very 'melancholy dia racter—the public, through the medium. of the press, had so viewed it; lie confes'sed his mind, was not less impressed with the like.feelings ;• and although not strictly within the line of his dtify, he should, in the absenee of Sir R. Birnie, who was the committing Magistrate, take upon himself the responsibi lity of meeting the humane views of M. Careless, by ordering the woman.to be discharged. Mr. Careless thanked the Worthy Magistrate, and luta proof of the sincerity of his feelings, he begged to leave a sovereign for die use df the family, having already seen the husband and having given him some temporary assistance. Shortly after this; a messenger was sent to the prison to bring the unhappy woman to the Office. She was brought, she scarce knew why, once inotai to the scene of her disgrace ; and here a joy awaited her for which she was unprepared. Her husband and her two little ones, from whom her parting had been so agonizing, were ready to receive her. She knew not what to hope—what to expect—but she once more saw those most dear to her affec tions. She sunk on a scat, ,overpowered by her feelings, and scarce' breathed till an old lady, apparently a friend, whispered to'her the welcome intelligence that she was to . be again free— that she' war( again to return to the society of those dear objects for whose sake, and to preserve whom from starving, she had en dangered her own personal safety, by committing a felony. The title of pleasure was too strong—she burst into an agony of tears, and, but for the ready hand of an officer, would have dropped the infant, which hung to her emaciated breast, upOn the ground. The scene was, affecting in the extreme, and not less so from thelisping delight manifested by the little creatures who had remained with their father, and who now nearly devoored their mother with their kisses, and, in their way, welcomed her once more to happiness and to liberty. The poor woman was then taken before lUr. MinsFull, 'Who, with suitable observations, an nounced his intention to discharge her, in consequence of Mr. C. I having abandoned the prosecution. I3oth husband and wife expressed their warm gratitude for the lenity of Mr. Careless, and for the benevolent sympathy which had been evinced towards them . by the public. In addition to other misfortunes, the poor woman had met with an accident in h er r i g h t arm, which pre vented her from doing all her heart suggested for the support of her offspring. She was worn nearly to a skeleton, an d went away, although comparatively happy, still humiliated by the recollection of the situ a tion i n which she had stood. CHARGE OF STEALING OUT OF A LETTER. MANsiox -HousE.,lllar ilia Tribble was brought before the LORD' MAYOR charged with having f e lo n io us ly sto l en t h e sum of 22/. in bank-notes out of a letter directed from the country to London. A Solicitor, - Mr. Dowurro who conduct. ed the prosec u tion f or t h e Post-office, stated that on the 20th July, a gentleman of property, residing at Langworthy, near Oakhampton, transmitted a letter, as he thou ght, from that place to the metropolis, inclosing 22/. c ons i st i ng of three N. coun. try notes, one 11. country note, and six 11. Bank of England notes. This letter was, regularly delivered at the Post-office at Langworthy,and by the regular course should have been delivered in London on the morning of the 30th. It did not however reach its proper destination. Complaint was made of the non-arrival of the letter, and the Postrnaster-General,being determined to use every effort for the protection of the public against robbery, set an ac. tive investigation on foot. Itice, the officer of Union-hall, suc ceeded in tracing the notes to the prisoner. It was ascertained that on the morning on which the letter ought to have been deliver. ed, three 111. country notes.were changed by a woman, whose ap pearance the clerk had forgotten, and that the six 11. Bank of England notes were changed by a woman, who gave the name and. address, " Martha Crooks, Maze Ponel l Bermondsey," as her's. This address was found to be fictitious, and Mice ob. tamed such information as induced him to apprehend the pri soner. When lie took her into custody she betrayed great confusion, and ,at length ad m i tte d t h at s h e h ad changed the notes in question, partly at the Bank of England, and partly at the banking-houses, where the country notes were made payable. The letter, enclosing the notes, was directed. to a gentleman residin g i n Sise.lane. The prisoner now declar e d that she had found the notes on the morning of the 30th July, at the end of Size-lane. Her poverty, she said, prompted her to get them changed for her own benefit. She denied that she had: used a wrong name or address, as Martha Crooks was her maiden name and she had formerly resided at Maze Pond.-- Rice said she had not resided there these fourteen years. The Loaf . ) MAYOR said, it was no legal justification for the appropriation , of the money to prove that it had been found by the prisoner. The common notion of a right to appropriate property that was found, ought by this time, after the repeated conviettons that had taken place, to be exploded. The prisoner was remanded. LITERARY CURIOSITY.—The following, is an exact copy of a shoemaker's account handed to a person near Stirling : To Basting the Mistris uperlather - - £0 03i To Sindry Jobings to the strong Lady and siraping to 0 1 7i To Mending a Wows for the Master . . A . 0 li To Galashing for the Master, and Mending his soul . 0 1 1 0 To nailing Mks Janet &c. To Stitching the made ,- - 000 - oi £0 4 y THE ROCK SYSTEII-MURDER. TRALEE ASSIZES, AUGUST 13. T. Cotter was indicted for the murder of --- Brereton, on the 24th of January, 1822. Deceased was prin. eipal clerk in the mail-coach establishment at Tralee ; the F t ' soner, it was alleged, was one the leaders of a body of in• aurgents who assembled on the high road, intercepted the de. cemed, who was conveying the mail to tt(6,,, city of Cork, and put him to detth ; foulgs offence five persens had already Ito. dergone llieltkentence OE the* law; prisoner *A the siith was put on his trial. The case excited a great degree of public interest. The prosecution was ordered by Govern. ment. Mr. H. WALSH appeared as Counsel for the prisoner...- . The first .witness calledwas Brian M`Guire.—Witness lected the 24th of January, 1822 ; he and the deceaied' set off from Tralee at half-past five that morning; the deceased went with the mail bags, because the mail of the preceding daY.hi le not arrived ; they arrived .at Killarney without interruP" n from Killarney' they proceeded to Mill-street; between Kul' larney and Shinock"-cross they met an assembly of personS who were armed with scythes and pitchforks one had a gun - r tne Y met no obstruction then ; at the chapel' they met more than 50 persons armed in the same manner—here they were desired to, halt; witness halted, he was , taken by the bosom, draggea., off his horse, and marched as a prisoner to Shinoc ker e s, ; When Brereton saw that withees was seized, he spurred onln horse, several blows, were made at him, and stones were throirn at him. 'Witness saw deceased's horse receive a blow of s scythe, which had nearly cut off his hind quarter ; he saw t,. horse afterwards dead on the road. When witness came to the Cross he was marched to a field, where he saw the deeePe d l there were many persons There armed like the others ; the road was full of persons ; the deceased and witness were then mar f ,l• i l e eel into an old road. Witness asked to see the Captain of party, in order to get liberty to wash the deceased, 11 Lie! ss full of blood. They went into a c a bin on the side of the r( •I : ad, but were soon after Marched nut. There were two prlestsoa the road. Serjeant GOOLD here observed, that he would not ttri' necessarily -prolong • the • examination. It was enouttl; to g the therem i t ,chreov t. i were two clergymen .who exerted theenselvett_o utmost of their power t o protect the deceased, and to tor" 1 n then proceeded-r r llteretan,and:witne s i atll then separated. Witness was put on his knees to be shot t 9ne_ man presented a gun at him,'and said that he should be sh otles; lie should hang the whole bounty . A man named Col li ns inter fered. and saved him. Wi tness w ay s put on his oath not to disclose the names of any of the party ; it was added, that if he did, they k iol wo ceni t I ngr l itd d iirnflos p tleenbd U da: : :: ) ke l a l oy : I sri sitei a linoih n ieeta d a radodf l a i logl i p s ioimiee f tocp a s ae n a. f i ry i t l yT y . h t : el ; li e ur iaistys saw whatever the ttrp'erri bar,s 01111;4111i moment he was marched from the field out on the road; se him for a quarter of an Raper inhis hand. put into , a house. After having beentirt . there, he heard a-Shot fired. 1. Witness saw the dead s hody-'tif Brereton On the Monday lowing. • Daniel Sulivan, an informer , examined--Knows the Pone' t remembers the day in'question ; say the deceased - that, / t' d Knockagopple ; saw him after at Shinoclicioas ; tWe'de ease he was killed there; the deceased.ivastitt . With a scythe before was shot ; witness saw him shot ; witness - heard the Ptro ner ' who was Captain that day, give directions to some of: the Pe h r • sons who have been executed; to-shops the deceased ,or that f, would shoot them.; in about ten minutes of ter the orders . we t i given, the deceased was shot ; he fell ; after he fell the-0 01 w dismounted and fired at him.. ' • ' Cross-examinedHe gave evidence because he was tSkel uP himself; witness would himself have fired the shot if he wer e bid ;..ht.itad no ill-will.towards the deceased, yet if he had hef, heti r ry i 4bi i . n ti g i e . s s NivirltsnethYem:rals,,siticaitl not to ordered he would have blown out his brains ; after the Lou r ''' . of Brereton' he hail some apprehension of being hanged liirns7lct lie swore informations about 2 years ago ; he swore against persons, 5 of them have been executed ; he got the cast he had on from Government:. he does not correspond with Govern ment.—(A-laugh.)—lie got Money to buy it. The deeet e i was put on his knees, and desired to say some prayers. Mlem e Foley, who was excuted, was the person who-cut off Brerad e ann. . • • Patrick' Flynn, a soldier in the .29th regiment, found th,e body of the deceased at Shinockeross ; the body was on its lei t side; we of the arms was cut oft'; the body was covered with wounds from the feet to- the head: John Kiely is chief constable; the prisoner was given oP t° him ; he told witness that he 'would be prosecuted because Bryan M , Guire knew hint at the affair of Careigenenia. John Lynch, for the prisoner, stated that there was a battle at Carrlgenenia, which was eleven Miles front Inch. White! cannot say that Carrigenema and Inch were know n by t h e soli' name-.inch and Shinockcross are near each other. The case having closed, • The Learned JUDGE charged the Jury, who after a few 1111. flutes delay, returned a verdict of Guilty. The Learned JUDGE now pronounced the sentence of t l ' t c law, that the prisoner be hanged on Monday ,- the 16ttrof At)g" s and his body delivered up to the surgeons. The prisoner heard the terrific sentence with great &tune and compcisdre, and bowed respectfully to the Court. CONVICTION or A MAGISTRATE FOIL - PE1011 1 : 1 r... ' for The next case was the trial of Edward ()rpm, Esq.. a f o r man who had served a great number of .years as 313sIstlA e it o the - Cotinty of Kerry; and was put upon his trial for corrupt Perjury. li e w as f oun d- Guilty, and sentenced to IP • portation for seven years. IRISH PROVINCIAL. BANKING ,COIIPANV• The following estimate of the advantages to' P° derived from thii undertaking will, perhaps, not be onir 441 ° . ing to those who take pl easure in these calculations :-- de. The ordinary profits of banking in Ireland are prirleirwitl rived from issuing notes, receiving deposits, discounting . and buying and selling drafts upon Esgland ; and the Pro i ly eri :. bank will form branches in those large towns where coos no y, ble profits may be expected from these sources. The coll,:r t ioe however, does not intend for some time to divide soY will profits, but expects that the interest derived from its car. - itself afibrd an ample remuneration to its stockholder& _los The want of local knowledge by which to determine helm good mortgages an bad, and the irregularity with teht list, interest is sometimes paid, prevents the English e, 3 ,1" his except upon very advantageous terms, from lelaolh e rls money in Ireland ; consequently interest of money is 11 1 tits) that country than this—six per cent. (which is the ley a t. , . may he had upon small mortgiges, and five upon the b..." The local knowledge, and local establishments pos s i s pp tj this Company will enable it, however, to avoid the r'll i ct , It inconveniences to which the individual capitalist is sullie d abet therefore proposes to lend in Ireland, upon mortgages '".; re va• securities, and employ in the purchase of annuities 3 11 ", ert ife. sions,--that part of its capital for which it cannot fina . he.., t ` n oel A bank will also have th e preference given it in these " — oleo r i c p n r e ti e p o o dons, and there is consequently little doubt of its beiog., d this but by pll i r n e realize gTliizieos profits subscribed st p sas o u n snut i l : n s uienbgettl. per the great banks of Scotland, it this d' 'i v " 00 Company Iv' nc. l' cent., its shares will be at from thirty to fifty per the hot' mium, which will be handsome remuneration to ;"" n lo g w hi e n s d t ca th l e e o u r a p_ n r k ofi o y holder. _ R ios ; f ba ' n r k he s r t e oc ar k e i t s w a o s ca tr it a s i e u s re w rab hic i h e :w a il d acc n o ea u r n l t y for those P Te n "a ne- 14 etshetoßdanivkidoe:Eeleaving for some time its ordinary first, every bank divides less than its real profits ; 3 1 ibtP public funds. If parties, therefore, can get a d s le " sa le n labe , ile°, ll 3 lor g e lt: better interest, than in the funds, with a title to their no ° t heir renderedme purpose n t a c s e Securities. rwta well , the accumulations which the Bank is making, it " svfe tioV r3 ; i e f vi n e, o nh t e b w e si t ut t ic e mc r eu , ut to ft h iouf o n l c td t hi ß rilsg an cu k op ban k 1 0 - 1 3 few fits; but these also may be expected, in the eo"L se , art ill.' years, to be very considerable, and to give, of eoti"'"' creased value to the undertaking. onSnitpciciciatnsythisln.hi:,,rei:roor: N i b i v e i t s r e a t p o ::: Since the murder of Mrs. CuwFortn, ° 1 ,;;0 een busily engag ed c. nearest llhe been baffled in all attempts to discover tn e o lso ATTY, the efforts of the Pali," per . . eo C dr r l o ii n % i v n t t Government . having, it is said, declared ° l y ing relatives,eon to bestow the produce on the sai l " Teo elved two memorials, one from DOI° Airs , NATTY,,. the nephew, and another from a ,10. t °slangs, who professes herself related t° P i ot , I re t a h l e ilz a : l 7: r y g e e a l r s t s e u r ry b il l Y i r a og y P e i li t o ti . CULLIFORD, at the same time declaring shenfre.. formerly lent h er 1001 . which sum has i n c ° i,Si quenee been p a i d to her, through Air. Mt j os the Soli c it or to the Treasury. T ue sday b i % be° appointed f or a hearing of the separate ela'Hlctor, fore ILTI D NICHOLL, Esq. his Majesty's r r° w ilt from the result of which it is supposed thererties, be a di v i s i on o f t h e property b etwee n the Pa