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The kindness of those friends in particular, by 'whose active and zealous co-operation I have attained the object of my wishes, has impressed my mind with the deepest sense of gratitude. I have the hofaour to be,, Ladies and Gentlemen, , - Your faithful and obedient servant, . • JAMES' LAW LUSHINGTON IS, York-street, Portman-square, July 26, 1827. TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST.INDIA STOCK. LADIES AND GENTLEIDEN, 911 HE seat • lately vacant in the East India - 111 : Direction having been filled up by the election of Colonel kushington, I beg leave respectfully to intimate to you, that as a Candidate for the same high distinction, it is my fixed intention to proceed to the• ballot on the occa sion of the next vacancy that shall take place in that body. Should you be pleased, by your suffrages, to . raise me to the. -important and responsible situation of a Director of your, affairs, I promise to discharge, with diligence and fidelity,' the duties of the office—duties not only, as I con ceive, compatible with a due attention to, but which may be honourably and usefully associated with, those of a Manlier of the House - of Commons. _ I have the honoi; to be, with great respect, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your moot obedient and faithful Servant, R. CUTLAR FERGUSSON 17, Great Cumberland-streeti, July 26, 1827. MOOR PARK, NEAR RItKAIANSWORTH, WITH THE MANSION FURNISHED. TO BE .LET, this BEAUTIFUL MAN -1 SION and PARK of about FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY ACRES, Elegantly Furnished, together .with the renowned Gardens, Hot Houses, and Pleasure Grounds. Or the Mansion may be rented without the Park, or the Gardens awl Forcing Houses. • Further particulars may be known on application to Mr. Hoggart, of Old Broad-street. WOODVILLE SEGARS. (Copy.) - IttiV!NG annct=vl , - I, D. NIEMANN of LornW nty - -1,11--Ettgland, for the SALE of SEGARS of my Manufactory, I beg to assure all those who may become Purchasers at his Warehouse, that it shall be my constant endeavour to simply none but of the very best quality ; and trust that these Segars will soon enjoy in England the same high reputation for which they have so long been distinguished in every other part of the world. Mr. NIEMANN has entered into an engagement to sell • no other than the WOODVILLE SEGARS, supplied to • him direct from my Manufactory, which will he a guarantee to all who favor him with their orders, that they obtain the article genuine. Havannah, Oct. IS, 1826. (Signed) , MARINA WOODVILLE. In consequence of the above appointment, I beg leave to state, that I have opened a Warehouse, at No. 221, Regent-street, the corner of Maddox-street, for the exclu sive SALE of the WOODVILLE SEGARS, for ready money only. Orders addressed to No. 33, Winchester-street, where samples may be seen, will be duly attended to. N. B. A liberal Discount allowed to the Trade. 13, Great Winchester -street, Broad street, City. J. D. NIEMANN. ROYAL MAIL COACH-OFFICE, LAD-LANE. THE following ROYAL MAILS depart from the above Office every Evening at half-past Seven (Sundays excepted at Seven) : ' BATH and EXETER, through Devizes, Taunton, and CoHampton. BIRMINGHAM and KIDDERMINSTER, through Stoney Stratford and Coventry. BRISTOL, through Marlborough and Chippenham. CARLISLE and EDINBURGH, through Chorley and G arstang, EXETER, through Salisbury, Blandford, and Dor chester. FALMOUTH and PLYMOUTH ROYAL MAIL. HOLYHEAD, through Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury, 'nd Bangor. LIVERPOOL, through Newcastle and Cengleton. MANCHESTER, through Derby and Macclesfield. MILFORD HAVEN, through Carmarthen and Haver ford-west. NORWICH MAIL, via Colchester and Ipswich. The following POST COACHES start regularly at the time specified MORNING POST COACHES. Weymouth, through Blandford and Dorchester at five. Norwich, through Bury and Scole, at Half-past Six. Nottingham and Derby, through Leicester, at Half-past Six. • Windsor and Eton, at Seven. Birmingham, Coventry, and Holyhead, a Quarter before Eight. Liverpool, through Birmingham, a Quarter before Eight. Canterbury and Dover, at Eight and Ten. Southampton, through Winchester, a Quarter before Eight. Exeter, Falmouth, and Plymouth, a Quarter before Seven Brighton, at half-past Nine. AFTERNOON POST COACHES. Cambrid ge , through Ware and Buntingford, at Half- Past Tw o . Canterbury and Dover, at Half-past Two. Carlisle and Edinburgh, through Garstang, a Quarter before Fi ve . Derby, throug h Northampton and Leicest er, a Quar ter before Fi ve . Edinburgh and Glasgow, through Kendal and Dumfries, a Quarter before Five. Manchester, through Derby and Buxton, a Quarter be fore give. Nottingham, through Loughborough, a Quarter before Five.. Bristol and Bath, through Chippenham, at Half-past Four: Milford Haven and Tenby, through Swansea, at Half past Four. Taunton, throug h Cross and Bridg wa ter, at Half-past Four. Windsor and Eton, at Two. Liverpool, through Coleshill and Lichfield, at Three. Norwich, through Colchester and Ipswich, at half-past Five. Derby, through Leicester and Northampton, a Quarter before Six. Edinburgh and Glasgow, through Carlisle, a Quarter before Six. Manchester, through Leek and Macclesfield, at Six and Seven. Nottingham, through Leicester : at Six and Seven. Birmingham and Coventry, through Stony Stratford, a Quarter before Six Holyhead and Shrewsbury, nr, a Quarter before Six. through Leek and Macclesfield, a Quarter before Seven. Canterbury and Dover, Seven. N.B. POST COAc fiEnastd to every City and Manpfac turiug Town in the 01%tarter before Sir. Caravan every Afternoo n , a g t °ln • Bath and Bristol New W. WATERH aboveand SON, Proprietors. The Proprietors of the paea Carriages will, not be accountable for any Parcel or valueg!atever, nor for t ..e any Passenger's Luggage above 1-, unless the same be entered and paid f of Five Pounds, Package, er Pas time of the delivery of any su c h p arce "r i, ac cordingly r at the to them or their A gents. DR. GREEN'S ANTISCORBUTIC DROPS. THIS invaluable M edicine w hich has held in the highe st re p utation for upwards of years, by a continued serie s of extraordinar y cures o - fifty has effected on the human bedy, in all Scorbutic Complaints, Scurveys, King's Evil, Erysepelas, &c. Ulcerated ' ounds in any part of the body and leg s ; Fistulas, Piles I, in short it cures every Impurity of the Blood, and persons who h ave been stung by poisonous reptiles, have been effectually cured 1)y this exce ll en t Medicine, when others have failed. The innumerable proofs indeed of its efficacy, and the great benefit derived from it by its purifying the blood, and completely eradicating the Sea and Land Scurvy, have given it a decided preference over most other medicines. Sold by Messrs. Butler, Chemists, Cheapside, corner of St. Paul's, London; 73, Princes-street, Edinburgh, and 54, Sackville-street, Dublin ; Messrs. -Barclay, 95, Fleet market ; Messrs. Sutton, Bow Church-yard; Mr. Sanger, 150, Oxford-street, and the most respectable Medicine Vend e rs in every town in the Kingdom, in Bottles at 6 a. 6d., l le. and 1/. 25., duty included, accompanied with Prop er directions, and a list - of e x traordinar y cures effected by this Medicine, • No. 10,883 LEWISHAM, KENT. TO BE LET FURNISHED for Twelve M q nths, a good detached FAMILY HOUSE, in excellent condition, containing eight Bed-rooms, Drawing room, Dining-room and Library, with ample domestic Offices, two Coach-houses, 6x-stall Stable, 'Brewhouse, Laundry, &c. good Garden, Orchard, and Thirteen Acres of Land, with the use of a Cow. For further particulars and cards to view, apply to Mr. Simon, 19, St. Paul's Church-yard. SUMMER ASSIZES. OXFORD - CIRCUIT-ABINGDON,. JULY 25. FRANCIS CHOLMELV, ESQ. V. SIR CHARLES COCIZERELI. AND OTHERS. This was a writ of formedon, brought by the de . - mandant (the plaintiff) in.this cause, to recover froM the tenants (the defendants), as lineal descendant of Sir Henry Englefield, - the celebrated estate of White Knights, near Reading, late in the occupa tion of the Duke of Marlborough.. The cause has been for a considerable time 1n Chancery, and when Lord Eldon resigned, was ripe for judgment, which, by consent of both parties, his Lordship pronounced subsequent to his resignation. The judgment was given in writing, and,in order to receive theopinion of a Jury on the-facto therein contained, the ancient and almost obsolete *it of formedon was resorted to. By adopting this process, the tenant (defend ant),is prevented from availing himself of the fact of 20 years' adverse possession. And the novelty of this proceeding, at the present time, attracted consi derable curiosity. Mr. Cholmely, the demandant, is a gentleman of fortune, residing in the county of York. E fr9m.1116 -- ad-fa- mily of roi,tr — peatgree can be traced be and were said to have beenliwriierly the owners of all the property in this county, called by different naMes, but terminating with the word " field," viz. Winkfield,Benfield, &c. &c. The tenants (the defendants) are surviving mortgagees in fee of the property in question, which, after passing through various hands, came into their possession after the Duke of Marlborough had ex pended immense - sums of mons.) , in improving the mansion and pleasure grounds. By the will of Sir Henry Englefield, the grandfa ther of the demandant, certain trusts were created, with a power of sale, the proceeds to be invested in certain securities for the benefit of the right heirs.— Sir Henry Englefield died in 1780. Sir Charles Plenry'Englefield succeeded to it, and the estate was sold by the trustees to Byam Martin, Esq., fa ther of the present Sir Byam Martin, for 13,400/. Sir Henry Charles Englefield, the tenant for life, without impeachment of waste, was entitled to cut and dispose of the timber ; but instead of stripping the estate at the time of the sale, by a separate con tract with Mr. Byam Martin, sold Mill the timber. Some years after, a doubt was raised as to the lega lity of this proceeding, as his interest was not re duced into possession, the timber not having been severed from the estate. To obviate any difficulty that might arise from the litigation of thatbquestion, Sir Charles Henry Englefield invested the.sum pro duced by the sale of the timber in the three per cent. Consols, in the names of the trustees appointed by the will of Sir Henry Englefield. The question in the cause was, whether those trusts bad been pro perly executed ; if not, the demandant would be en titled to recover possession. After a trial which lasted upwards of six hours, the jury found a special verdict for.the demandant, subject to the opinion of the Court above. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.--NORTHAMPTON, JULY 25. LiitTON V. MILLET. `The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, who came down on a special retainer pn behalf of the plaintiff, stated that this was,an • action of replevin; but the real question for the Jury to try was, whether or not Lord Sondes, whose tenant the plaintiff was, had . a right in common in gross for 120 sheep, on a part of Rockingham Forest, called " the Lord's walk." , The cause had been tried before, about two or three years ago, and a verdict found for the plaintiff; but in consequence of its being doubtful, from the evi dence, whether Lord Sondes's right of common was that of common in gross (which is a right belonging to the person), or common appurtenant (which is annexed to the land), the Court of King's Bench granted a new trial. The Jury, which was special, without requiring the Learned. Judge to sum up the whole of the evi dence, returned a verdict for the plaintiff. ROSE V. BOSWORTH AND - O THERS. This was an action of libel. The plaintiff kept a public-house called the Red Lion, in the village of Great Creighton, in this county, last year. The 'defendants were the churchwardens and overseers of the parish. In the month of "September, 1826, shortly before the meeting of the Magistrates for that division of the county took place, the defendants addressed the following letter to one them, namely Mr. Ward • " Sir—We, the undersigned, beg leave to inform you, that we consider the publie-house known by the sign of the ' Red Lion,' and kept by John Rose, highly disorderly and dangerous to the morals of the inhabitants of Great Creighton and the neighbouring villages."' (Signed by the defendants.) In consequence of this communication, which wat the alleged libel, the magistrates stopped the plain tiff's licence. On behalf of the defendants, who pleaded a justi cation, several witnesses were called, and proved occasional scenes of disorder and quarrelling at the plaintiff's house, from which women were' obliged sometimes to fetch their husbands home at unsea sonable hours. A rebutting case was gone into by the plaintiff, and some of the inhabitants of the villap were called, who swore that they did not consider the Rid Lion a disorderly louse. , The Jury however returned a verdict for the de fendants. On Wednesday week, an ' elderly woman, named Whittaker, who kept a lodging-house in Lichfield, quarrelled with another female, and in a few miuutes af terwards dropped down dead ! It is supposed she had, in her passion, ruptured a blood-vessel.--Macclesfield Courier. IMPORTANT INVENTION FOR EXTRACT ING POISONS, OR OTHER FLUIDS, FROM THE STOMACH, ay Da. SIMON, FRbM Pa.urs.—On Thursday last, at four o'clock, a highly respectable meeting of medical gentlemen took place at Dr. Simon's house, No. 20, Talbot-street, for the purpose of witnessing the wonderful effect of his new self-acting instrument. The gentlemen were intro duced into the Doctor's practice-room, who, after having read some pages respecting the utility of his very ingenious instrument, he prepared it in less than half a minute. The Doctor, assisted by one of the medical gentlemen present, introduced the flexible tube into the stomach of a man whom he had procured for the purpose, and he extracted thirty-two ounces of fluid, and removed the tube, in the short space of twenty seconds, without having produced the slightest degree of pain or motion to the person during the operation !—Several meetings took place previous, but the experiment had only been performed on bladders, and yet had given so much satisfaction, that the Doctor re ceived a certificate, signed by 32 of the first physicians and 'inventio n , in Dubli n , s t at i ng t h e i r o pi n i o n on his ingenious inventio n , as being a most valuable improvement; but nothing could equal the general satisfaction, and even asto nishment, which the very decisive experiment that he made, for the fifth time, on the living human subject (with so much skill and presence of mind) gave on this occasion. The medical gentlemen were so much pleased with the ex periment, that each voluntarily contributed his mite, making up a handsome sum, for the individ ua l, whom the experiment was sa successfully t r i e d,..—publin Freeman's Journal. a tradesman, upon LONDON-, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 27, 1827. POSTSCRIPT ' TO. MR• LONG WELLES- LEY'S LETTER. • Mr. Long Wellesley has published a Post script to his Letter to Lord Eldon, in which he adverts to some of the opinions it has Called forth.' The following is the whole of it, with the exception of two short passage's 44POSTSCRIPT. .‘ Hall-place; July 23, 182 7. " My bookseller having represented to me that he shall be under the necessity of publishing a se . cond edition, I add a few. pages by way of post script.—lt seems there are some who think that I ought to have shrunk from any further notoriety, and that the judgment speech"of the late Lord Chan cellor should have sealed my lips for ever—who re present me to •be glorying in the P ractice of vice , and to have published the two letters for t h e pur pose of pronouncing a panegyric upon adulte r y, an d of heaping calumnies upon the dead !-- 7 -1 had hoped that no one could have come to such a conclusion, who had honoured these letters with an attentive perusal, or who had brought to that perusal an unprejudiced or impartial mind. God knows, I must ill have ful filled my intentions if, in any single sentence, I have attempted to excuse or palliate the offence'iti adultery, though I was anxious to prove that the' particular case had not the dark features which have characterised almost every preceding one. • If I had said that I should be a scoundrel if I abandoned the practice cif adultery, I might, with justice, have been accused of glorying in that practice Of vice. But no such construction can fairly be put upon my ex pressions. The abandOnment was applied solely to the lady. Socipty has always been governed by three laws—the law of God, the law of the land, and the law of honour. He who kills another in a duel violates the laws of God and man, but acts in accordance with the laws of honour. He who com mits adultery violates the laws of God and the land; but the law of honour obliges him to protect the female with whom he has been connected :. and though that protection ought to be as little obtru sive and conspicuous as :possible still it must be adequate to the protection of the female from insult. " But greater, indeed, must have been my failure, and heavier, indeed, ought to be my blame, if any one line, if any one word, can be construed into an attack upon the memory of the dead. Good God ! could it be to calumniate the memory of Mrs. Wel lesley that I earnestly acknowledged her to have been a most amiable woman, discharging the duties of ' daughter and sister in the most exemplary manner, and never doing an unkind or injudicious act from the dictates of her own heart , , but entirely from the dictation and contrivance of others. " What is it that has been desired of me? To rest contented with the notoriety that has already' attended my alTairs—that is, to' remain silent under the charge of .being the worst father and son that ever existed—not to take a step to show that I have not deserved to be utterly abandoned by my parents as to be cut off from•all intercourse with my children. lam to feel a thorough conviction that charges have been brought against me which have not been substantiated, and that evidence has been al lowed to operate against me which was totally/ un worthy of credit. All this lam to bear in nun-- pining silence—' to die and make no sign.' " But .1 have not been silent, or rather, 1, have been silent too long. For months after the decision in the Court of Chancery, I declined publishing these letters, in the hope of effecting a reconciliation with my family. How I struggled to bring utout that reconciliation ! what sacrifices was I not ready to make ! But forbearance must have its limits, and no man can be expected to make a sacrifice which is to be construed into a confession of his having been deficient in all the duties both of a father and son. "I saw no reason to be dissatisfied with the grounds upon which the Lord Chancellor had founded his decree. I was convinced that he had given more credit to the affidavits against me than they -deserved —I felt, that the weight which he attached to the conduct of all my family toward me imperiously called upon me for explanation and answer. Why was I to forego the privilege of the accused ? Why was I, I alone, to remain silent under accusation, and contented under obloquy ? or, " Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key, With bated breath, and whispering humbleness, Say this—fair Sir, you spat on me last Wednesday, You spurned me such a day; another time You called me dog, and for these courtesies I'll lend you thus much monies.' " I exercised the privilege which is the birthright of every Englishman.• My arguments may be weak ; my inferences may be inconclusive, but my facts at least shall not be abandoned. " If, when the reproach of having violated the duties I owed my family, and of having been a bad son to a kind father, was brought against me, I had contented myself with a simple denial, men might have doubted or disbelieved ; and doubted or dis believed the sooner because the denial was not sup ported- by evidence or facts. How unwilling I was to have recourse to this dernier ressort may be col lected from the delay that has taken place between the date of my letters and ,the publication of them. " How was I" to act, under ¶he conviction that Lord Eldon had relied too much upon evidence which was liable to the greatest suspicion ? Was I not bound to show the grounds of that suspicion ? To com pare that evidence with others and different evi dence ? To sift and weigh conflicting affidavits, and to endeavour to prove that those which bore against me were met and destroyed 191 others which had been sworn for me. Not the least doubt existed in my mind that -no credit was due to-the testimony of Mrs. Scott, and those who attempted to corro borate it, of Dr. Bulkeley, of O'Meara, in short, of almost every affidavit-maker' marshalled against me. And I attempted, as it was my duty, to show that my doubts were not lightly entertained, nor loosely founded. This was more imperatively the case with the affidavits of Mrs. Scott and' Co., and of Dr. Bulkeley, and O'Meara, which formed the main pil lars of the chancellor's decree. " Of Mrs. Scott's evidence the Chancellor says, in one part of his speech, I have not the smallest doubt of Mrs. Scott's evidence.' In another part, We now come to Hall Place ; but before I go to that part of the subject, I may observe, that there has been an attack upo n Mrs. Scott, and other wit nesses ; but I am as convinced, as I sit here, that those witnesses.who have impeached Mrs. Scott are entitled to no credit whatever themselves ; on the contrary; tcannot help expressing my surprise that those affidavits should have been filed.' " But I am spared the trouble of dwelling as par ticularly as I should otherwise have done upon the evidence of this woman.. She has appealed to a Court of Law to vindicate her character. A double purpose was intended to be effected by the appeal (which was tried ,before the Judge who tried the cause of Captain Bligh against me.) It was hoped that a handsome sum might be sent into the pocket of the injured lady, and that the vindication of her character in a Court of Law would give her Chancery affidavits additional weight in the House of Lords. What is the result? A ,Tury of her countrymen has pronounced her character to be worth One Farthing!!! . Thus falls to the ground the far famed, far-Credited testimony of Mrs. Scott, of whose evidence the Chancellor tldon had not the slightest doubt,* whilst those who had attempted to impeach it, were entitled to no credit whatever.' " Such was the positive decision of the Chancel- for upon affidavits. But what says a Jury upon vivo voce evidence ? That this model of veracity is woman without any character at all, and that thos€ who in Chancery were not intitled to any credit, be cause they attempted to impeach her testimony, are the persons in a Court of Justice, to whose evidence upon oath, a Jury gave full e.redit, and pronounced their verdict accordingly ! ! ! " With the evidence of Mrs. Scott falls also the testimony of all those who supported her, and thus the appeal to the House of 'Lords will be lightened of all that disguhting mass which encumbeted and disgraced the process in the Court of Chancery. * * * * * * * '" As to the Misses Long, if it be wished to edu cate my daughter in hatred of the principles of the Church of England, to make her a Sectarian and a 'Methodist, the,Misses Long must be her properest guardians. If itbe desired to render her totally unfit m manners to take her proper station as a lady of rank arid fashion, no fitter guardians could be selected than the Misses Long. * '* * * * • I here, close.my postscript. It will be seen and felt, I hope, that I had but one alternative—either to remain silent under the heaviest. accusations, or to show that they 'were wholly unfounded or grossly exaggerated. And in what way could Ido this without having recourse to facts and documents ? Let it be recollected too, that the sole object of the 'Proceedings in Chancery, and of the Appeal to the House of Lords, is to recover possession of my poor children. It was incumbent upon me, therefore, to prove to my children that I have not been deficient in that filial duty to_ my•fither which I expected from them, and that as my.affection for them has never been mixed up with any thought or wish that was not connected with their moral welfare, I do not deserve to have them removed from my paternal guardianship and care. (Morning Chronicle.) "W . .L. WELLESLEY." QuEl3Ec, JUN.E 16.—The weather in the early part of the week was unusually sultry. • On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday the heat was truly oppressive, but about noon the clouds began to rise, and gave every indication of an approaching thunder-storm. At two o'clocJ the rain began to pour down in torrents, andcontinued till six, as by vivid flashes of lightning and heavy thunder, and continued at intervals during the night.' We have not heard of any accident during, the storm. Between the hours of two and five the thermometer sunk from 92. to 66. of Farenheit, making in three hours a difference of 26 degrees, an extraordinary change even in this climate in so short a time. Exposed to the sun at noon; the thermo meter was as high as 119. in Palace-street, near the Ord nance-store. The vegetation in this neighbourhood, which looked languid and parched before the shower, appears to have profited by the rain. An • extraordinary and very'curious fossil rep tile, a singular remain of the Antediluvian world,, was lately found by Mr: Shirley Woolmer, of this city, who now has it in his possession. This antique animal is three 'inches in length, from the . mouth to the tip of the tail, and three inches and a half round the body, which appears like three distinct parallel bodies united in one ;• it has two legs, two short or stubbed horns, and a round head, ex hibiting four prominent eyes, and is in an incurvated po sition, with its tail under it, which reaches only half an inch from its mouth ; it is in a high state of preservation, and is not described in " Argenville's Fossils," or " Par kinson's Organic Remains".—Eveter Gazette. Of the eight bodies that were suspended for so many years, on gibbets, off Blackwall•point, not one now remains to be seen by persons who' pass up or down _ _ _ . . the river. Those 'a the four Malays hive some time since totally disappeared, and the gibbets on which Brock and Gilliam, the smugglers, and the other two whites were suspended,, have lately' been sawed down, by order of the Lord High Admiral: 'What 'is left, now lies among the mud and weeds alongside of the river.' A number of per sons have been to view them, and a relic-collector has car ried off one of the smuggler's hands. The clothes on _the bodies fall to pieces like tinder, with the exception of part of a check shirt, taken from under the arm of one of the smugglers, which,is still fresh and strong. On Vednesday evening, the Bath Mail coach to Exeter, having stopped at Wellington, to enable a lady to alight, the coachman got off to take out her luggage, ' and in so doing a portmanteau struck the hind quarter of one of the horses, which took fright, and the whole of them breaking from . the restraint of the coachman, who on the ground held the reins, set off at a furious rate. The turnpike-gate keeper, seeing theta advance without the coachman, shut the gate ; but the violence of the concus sion, occasioned by the horses running against it, bore down the gate, and they continued their impetuous career for two miles. While ascending a hill near Beam-bridge, they were observed by a man, driving a waggon, who with great promptitude drew his waggon across the road. The coach was thus thrown against the bank, and the pole horses having fallen from ,the force of . the contact, no fur ther mischief e nsued. The coachman and guard, on horse back! overtook the mail where it stopped. Had not the progress of the horses been thus arrested, they would, pro bably, nave preiceed to the White Ball, about a mile farther, where they are usually changed, and there spontaneously halted. Happily no mischief was done. The three ladies inside, were not conscious of the danger they had escaped until the coach was stopped.— Taunton Courier. Scarcely a day passes without some depreda tions takpg place alike disgraceful to the perpetrators and to our city. For a considerable time, a parcel of fellows, who have more the appearance of tradesmen than professed vagabonds, have been prowling about the upper part of the Green during the afternoon, and sometimes all night, and who abuse and insult every one that passes them, if in an unprotected state. In some instances they brutally use their victims, without any provocation ; and in others take from them whatever they can lay their hands upon. Any solitary female who attempts to pass these banditti with a bundle or basket is certain to lose it. One day last week, an old woman had the contents of a basket taken from her, which consisted of some sugar and bread; the fellows sat themselves down and.eat their spoil, laughing at the woman's distress, who weseglad•to run off. • Another (lay, a young woman, bringing .a quantity of strawberries into town,' was sur rounded by about a dozen of these miscreants, who took her baskets from her, and after eating what they could, p0e,... ketted the rest. The girl ran off for some assistance, but finding none near, she went back, and out of sixteen pints of strawberries about one was left bruised and unfiCfor use. From the frequency of these outrages, and the numerous pugilistic combats, dog fights, &c. that take place, the green, once the pride of our city, and fashionable promenade of its inhabitants, is now almost entirely deserted. Surely there is room here for the interference of the proper autho rities.—Glasgow aim - aide. THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER. —I like to meet a sweep—understand me—not a grown sweeper—old chimney-sweepers are by no means attractive—but one of those tender novices, blooming through their first nigritude, the maternal washings not quite effaced from the cheek— such as come forth w i th the dawn, or somewhat earlier, with their little professional notes sounding like the peep peep of a young sparrow ; or like to the matin lark should I pronbunce them, in their aerial ascents, not seldom an ticipating the sun-rise ? I have a kindly yearning toward these dim specs—poor blots--innocent blacknesses. I re verence these young Africans of our own growth,. these al most clergy imps, who sport their cloth without assump tion ; and from their little pulpits; (the tops of chimneys,) in the nipping air of a December morning, preach a lesson of patience to mankind.. When a child, what a mysterious pleasure it was to witness their operation ! to see a chit, no bigger than one's-self, enter, one knew not by what pro cess, into what seemed the faucesAverni—jo pursue him in imagination, as he went sounding on tlaugh so many dark stifling caverns, . horrid shades !—to shudder with the idea that "now, surely, he must be lost for ever !"—to re vive at hearing his feeble shout of discovered daylight— and then—(o fullness , of delight)—running out of doors, to come just in time to see the sable phenomenon emerge in safety, the brandished weapon of his art victorious, like seine flag waved over a conquered citadel ! I seem to re- Member having been told, that a bad sweep was once left in a stack with his brush, to indicate which way the wind blew. -It was an awful spectacle certainly ; not much un like the old stage direction in Macbeth, where the " Ap parition of a child crowned, with a tree in his band, rises.' —Essay!. of Ella. PRICE, 7D. VANITY SUPERIOR TO PAIN, (From Blackwood's Magazine for July.) (Concluded from .our Papet of yesterday.) The power of supporting pain, and defying death, is no virtue, at least it is no proof (.-ExpAniov) of righteousness ; nor is its exercise a sure evidence of a good cause, or even of sin cerity in error. It is a gift, not a grace—a natu ral gift—a faculty innate—and only wanting in few constitutionally defective, or unnerved b) sloth and luxury. The love of life and ease are indeed strong in every breast, and will ever pre vail, where not duly counterbalanced. Wise and thoughtful men often seem to overvalue their life and limbS, because they will 'not risk them fot trivial gains. Others, endowed with fine facul ties, but lacking the principle that should direct their use, turn cowards—sensualisti, from a pride -of superior sense. They are wise enough to despise the ordinary prizes of human ambition : but they have not the light which points to ar incorruptible crown. Thus, from mere contempt of others, they degrade themselveS. Their ques tion is still, what is there worth fighting or suffer ing for ? Their shrewd wits tell them, nothing on earth ; and so far they are right : but they are lamentably blind to the great ends for which the ability to- dare and to suffer were bestowed. 'Tis by comparison—au . easy task Earth to despise—but to converse with Heaven— That is not easy. Falstaff is a coward of this class. But few men of pleasure have fortitude enough to profess themselves cowards. There was sense in Ro chester's observation , that all men would be cowards if they dare. ' Of men such as he con versed with, it may be almost true, for valour in a voluptuary is irrational. Again, strong imagi nation, operating on disordered nerves, makes some fancy themselves cowards, who, when called to the test, may perhaps prove heroes ; for The sense of death is most in apprehension— And the poor beetle that we'tread upon In corpora , sufferance feels a pang as. great As when a giant dies. A profound sentence, which has been strangely pervetted into a common-place precept of hu manity to beetles—,while its real intention is tA represent the nothingness of bodily pains, which, after all, are no greater in a giant (I hope not in my gigantic progenitors) than in an insect. The fact I think extremely dubious. No animal seems capable of sufferings so exquisite as man, to say nothing .of the aggravation each moment's pain receives from the prospect of a painful suc cession. • Most men are . naturally brave—al . men are, some cases, cowardly—all are timid where they expect to be worsted. An individual, if not .resolved to die, must always be a coward against a multitude—a multitude, even of the bravest nation, turn tail before a few disciplined !soldiers. Women are generally cowards in action, unless some commanditig uty give them strength, because the consciousness of a feeble frame makes victory desperate : while, in passive endurance, they often far surpass the braggarts of war—be cause reason informs them, that- patience is stronger than all extremities. Many a stout martyr might have proved a craven soldier ; for my own part, I could look more steadfastly on the execu tioner's axe than the enemy's bayonet. Even animals that are most fearful of every ()ther species will fight desperately against their own kind; and _the Oriental nations, who are so quickly put to rout by European troops, perse vere, with mad constancy, in their domestic combats. The strength of will; in suffering, is secure o victory—but action is obliged to borrow hope o contingency ; and let a man be never so stout it pupose, he knows not but another as stout ma] be stronger-limbed, or better-weaponed, or more cunning in fence, or higher in the favour of Destiny ; and he, whom certain death could not subdue, is ofthnes vanquished by the possibility of defeat. Take a wide survey of mortal hu• mours, and we shall conclude, that no man is absolutely brave or coward—that the weakness of nature is never so far expelled but it will reign in some part—nor the self-assistive power of will ever so debilitated, but it will make itself known in some instance. It was a vain boast of the Stoics, that pain can be indifferent. We may glory in it—and glory is delightful—but that very glory proves that it is not indifferent. Hence, few are found to bear little pains easily in tolerance whereof there is no glory. Pains of all sorts are intolerable, when they make us conscious of weakness. "To be weak is miserable." Power, the power of will felt and rnanifeAled, is the proper joy of man, as he is man, neither exalted above, nor sunk below his proper nature. If pain, .peril, or the pangs of death, bring this power into distinct conscious ness,—then may pain, peril,*and death, become things of choice and - pride. The contempt .of death among the Northern nations, was such as to appear wonderful even to the Greeks and Romans, who, with all their va lour, looked with melancholy uncertainty on " the undiscovered 'country." Homer's bravest heroes cling to life with almost effeminate fond ness. Achilles moralises 'on his brief allotted space more pathetically than heroically. How heavily the fear of something after death weighed on the Gentile spirit, may be inferred from the extravagant admiration of the Epicureans for their founder, who had lulled them with the horrid hOpe of annihilation. The Stoics incul cated an indifference to life ; but this was the dogma• of a sect, not the spirit of a people. Death in the field was, indeed, preferred to flight and shame ; but to esteem it as the one, honour able conclusion of a warrior's glories, to look on natural dissolution as a calamity or disg,race, is a height of barbariC heroism " beyond all Greek =-beyond all,Roman fame." Death - can never be indifferent till man is assured, which none'was ever yet, that, with hip breath, his being passes into nothing. Whether his hopes and fears steer by the chart and com pass of a formal creed, or drift along the shore less sea of faithless conjecture, a possible eter nity of bliss or bale can never be -indifferent, The idea of extinction is not terrible, i 1 s_mp y )e -cause man cannot form such an- idea at all. Let him try gs long as he will,—let 'him negative every conceived and conceivable form of future existence !—he is as far as ever from having ex hausted the infinitude of possibility. Imagina tion will continually produce the line of con sciousness through limitless darkness. Many are the devices of fancy to relieve the soul from the dead weight of unideal nothing. Some crave a senseless duration in dry bones, or sepulchral • ~, :',. "K . .: - • -,,,e , -,, ,‘..,,,,, ~., ~, ',;',;,. 'f,; , `'..i7, • - 4 ",.. -•c — ,:‘ ..9 ' r-te '-- ). . .- .• , .1 \ 3-,- , t 1 t . I ..... ashes, or ghastly mitraniessApt. - rimer thaw not to be, would fl-- - - 11 in .Allo c old o bstruction of the grave, or the damp hollow solitude of the charnel-house. Some choose a life in other' s. breath, an everlasting fame, and listen delighted to the imaginary voice of unborn ages. Some secure a permanence in their works, their coun try, their posterity ; and yet, neither the pro tracted dissolution of the carcase, nor the cease- , less tradition of renown, nor a line of progeny stretched to the crack of doom, can add an in stant of the brief existence of the conscious Being. Our fathers held a. more palpable phantom—a dream of grosier substance—that I the soul, the self, the personal identity, only shifted its tenement, and subsisted by perpetual change. • Et vos barbaricos rims, moremque sinistrunt • Sacrorum, Druids, posit's repetistis ab annis. Solis.nosse Deos et cceli numina vobis, Aut solis nescire, datum : nemora alta nowt: Incolitis luci; vobis auctoribus umbra* Non tacitas Erebi seder, Ditisque profundi Panide regna petunt : regit idem spiriths arms Orbe alio ; lunge (canitis si cognita) v;r,e Mors media est. Certe populi, quos depicit Arctos Felices errore suo, quos, ille timorum Maximus, baud urget, Leti metue. Inde fier& In ferrum mans prone viris, anirnseque capaces Mortis; et ignavum reditiirse parcere Luc.tx, B. I. • It is not strictly philosophical, however, to ac count for the national temperament by the national creed, unlesa that creed be really the re vealed truth. It is putting an effect for a cause. We cannot suppose that the Goths became a hunting, -warlike, and drunken people, because they imagined their beatitude'liereafter to consist in chasing an everlastingly revivified boar, and drinking ale, in the Hall of Odin, out of the skulls of tlttkiT *ponies. No ; they copied a heaven from their earthly. Tiffanies -and desires. The paradise of human inventions is never more than an imaginary eternity of unalloyed human pleasures, varied according to the taste of the in ventor. Virgil's Elysium is filled with warriors, poets, and lawgivers,—each reacting , in glorified semblance, their old parts beneath that purer sky. Plato's conceptions of a future state mani festly emanated from that visionary ambition of intellect—those yearning aspirations after a closer intuition of the ideal Good and Beautiful, that our compound being can enjoy,—which illumi nated and sublimed his ;nighty genius to the very verge of inspiration. Thus, the philosopher's Elysium is speculative—the politician's practical —the labourer looks for rest—the injured for vengeance—the prisoner for freedom. The Goth transferred his drinking bout, the Mahometan his Haram, to the skies. Thus each and all build up a Heaven with the shadows of carnal affections, or the brighter effulgence of self pleasing thought. A period comes, Rhen some wily politician, or more vivid dreamer, substan.. dates the dim surmises of the longing soul into a scheme of national belief, and asserts impera tively, that the forms indistinctly beheld in the magic mirror have a correspondent reality in time and place—an objective existence. The fleeting vapours of passionate imagination are condensed, and, as it were, precipitated. They become a power separate from the mind—controlling the will, and modifying the total nature. Whatever of permanent and positive, is infused into human sentiments; is derived from Religion, whose office is to establish a supersensual world, as real, and more permanent, than the - world of sense. THE OLD BACHELOR, lu. an affray between man and wife, near Carrick-on-Suir, last Wednesday, it is said the former wounded the latter by a ball in the thigh ; and the latter retaliated on the forma' by chopping his nose with a kuiie. —Uvulae/ Paper. ACCIDENT ON THE THAMES.-On Wed nsday afternoon, an accident happened on the Thames which luckily was not attended by any serious consequen ces. As a boat, freighted with two elegantly-dressed fe males, was passing near Cumberland-gardens, the boatman ran foul of a barge, when the boat immediately upset, and its fair. inmates were precipitated into the water, and car ried some distance by the rapidity of the tide. There were luckily, several boats passing at the time, and every assis tance was rendered. The ladies were rescued from a wa tery grave, witli no other injury than what their silk dresses had sustained. They walked to their habitations which fortunately were in the neighbourhood. A melancholy and distressing accident oc curred on Saturday, on the journey of the Cornwallis coach to London, in passing Epping Forest. A respect able tradesman of Bury was- conveying two boys, who had been in the country during the holidays, to town, and fearing a change in the weather, put the youngest (a a ' aaa a seven years of age), who had no great coat, in the iailde of the roach, himself remaining with the other on t"ae t o p.— It is supposed that the boy must have been leaning against the door, and that it flew open ; for being soon missed, his body was taken up lifeless, and dreadildly mangled, from the wheel havin g passed over Herald. SUDDEN DEATII;- 7 -,-011 Monday evening last, a gentleman named Opearce, a resident . at Sutton- Valence, set out from that place on foot to go to Langley. a village about two miles from Sutton, to attend the anni versary of the opening of the Wesleyan chapel there.— After walking some distance, Mr. Opearce felt unwell, and sat down in Langley church-yard. Observing two yonna men passing in a cart, he beckoned to them, on whirrs they alighted and went to his assistance. They found him,too ill to walk, and accordingly placed the sufferer in their cart, and took him to the house of the Rev. Mr, Gambier, who paid every attention to the unfortunate gentleman, and administered some medicine in the hope of affording relief. He was again placed in the cart, and proceeded slowly towards home, but Mr. Opearca e xpi re d in the arms of one of the young men, a few niinutes before they arrived at Sutton. —Maidstone Journal. An inquest was held at the sign of the Welling ton, in the Albany-road, Camberwell, before H. Carter, Esq., on the body of a fine young woman, named Ellen Logan who committed suicide by throwing herself into the Sur rey Canal. During the investigation before the jury, cir cumstances were related, by which it appeared there was considerable blame attached to the individual who prevailed upon the unfortunate deceased to accompany him to a brothel. It was intimated to the Coroner, that the peraon alluded to had induced her to drink until she became in, toxicated, and while in that state led her off to the house where they remained all night. The next morning she be trayed much anxiety of mind in consequence of what had occurred, and in order to pacify her, he declared that he , would procure a licence for their marriage. The deceased, on finding she had been deceived, received such a shock, that she became delirious, and while in that state, destroyed herself under the circumstances above stated. A verdict to that effect was taken. SHERIFF CRINIINAL COURT.—On Satur day James Aitken, one of the actors of the Caledonian Theatre, was brought to trial before the Sheriff and a Jury, on a charge of assaulting W. D. M'Alpine, a the b effusionrotherco median, of grievously injuring his person, to of his blood and danger of his life, and of having deprived him of the sight of one of his eyes. The assault wa s sa id to have been made on the 27th March last, in the Caledo nian Theatre. Aitken pleaded not guilty. It appeared from the evidence, that on the night in question, both par ties were on the stage performing their respective parts, in the afterpiece of The Night Hap, and that some part of the equivoque used by Mr. Aitken in the first scene, which was not in the beak, gave offence to M'Alpine, who, ' throughout the evening repeatedly resented it, by using abiniive language to Aitken, and provoking or challenging him to fight ; that at last the partial did come to blows, and M'Alpine lost .one of his eves in the ecuffle. The Learned Sheriff, in summing up the evidence, a detail of which would neither be interesting nor edifying to our readers, said it had been stated by the pannel's Counsc', that if a verdict of guilty was found in this case, it might he the foundation for aia action of damages in a Civil Court. Now he (time Sheriff) was of opinion, that a person prose cuting for damages must come into Court with clean hands, and he believed M'Alpine could not appear in this way. The Jury retired for a few minutes, and returned a an.a. sore verdict, unanimously finding the pannel Not Gltiltif,, who was in consequence dismissed from the bar:—Edin- Intry4 Observer. we, Irv. 9