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• I r ; e -:4, NUMBER K 9O2B.I F r ICTU/ILLING-OFFICE, May 1, 1821. rIE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUAL- r . — LING His MAJESTY'S NAVY do hereby gave ice s ?hat on Friday, the 31st of August next, they will be 7 43 ' e ° receive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat the supply of all such quantities of SEA PROVISIONS a ; e l44 Y be r equ i re d f or th e use of His Majesty's Ships and fp... " at Jamaica and New Providence, during the space "lve Calendar Months certain, from the Ist of Novem for t a i e4l l and further until six months warning shall be given e t ermination of the Contract, the Conditions of which ay 6, - nat the Secretary's Office. 4 4 ; i r egard will be had to any Tender in which the Pric li yer "" be inserted in words at length, or that shall not he de do•ed t;:e B oar d before One o'Clock on the said Fri t• he slit of August next, nor unless the Person who cns the Tender, or some Person on his behalf, attends, to e tt st". when called for ; nor will any Tender that contains ✓: va gant prices upon some articles, and prices much We t.. t° the real value upon others, be considered as proper to ari nkitt e d. ; 4 7'ender must also Se accompanied by a Letter signed t wo t4 e r esponsible Persons, engaging to become bouitd with iue p art" tendering, in the Penal Sum of 15,0001. for the Performance of the Contract. Pic 7714 L I NG- 0 F IC R , July 24, 1821. V I E COMMISSIONERS for VICTUAL LING His MAJESTY'S NAVY do hereby give that on 7'uesday,the 21st of August next, they will be 7 P t 0 receive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat o or n e4e S uPPly of all such quantities of SEA PROVISIONS p e -' Y be demanded for the use of His Majesty's Ships and c„, leis at !)unleary, in Ireland, for the space of Twelve dar Months. t o raeditio ns o f t h e C on t rac t may b e seen a t the Secre- Qt btt s :r a ce, at this Office, or by applying to the Postmaster .IV O r Y' ik oi re gard will be had to any Tender in which the Price le d _ n ,. °t be insert e d i n W o rd s a t l e ngth, or that shall not T' arivered to the Board before One o'Clock on the said 1 04 : a!it the 21 rt of August next, nor unless the Person to makes the Tender, or some Person on his behalf, attends, ey: 4441 " when call e d f u r: nor will any Tender that contains .fi ll r .: " ga": prices upon some articles, and prices much in to to th e real value upon others, be ' considered as proper ;e admitted. I E a c h rend er must also b e accompan i e d b y a L et t er , signed w 11 4 1,) o responsible Persons, engaging to become bound with Pep ".9 tend er i ng , in the Penal Sum of 5001. for the due Que e 0 .1 the Contract. rri t i :! C TUALLING-OFFICE, July 24, mt. -4 ' COMMISSIONERS for VICTUAL ,I,4(4 Ilia MAJESTY'S NAVY do Hereby give No tt°n the 3d of .August next, they will be fo r p ° re ceive nuders in writing (sealed up), and treat v . ire Hund red an d T wenty T ons o f NEW IRON HOOPS, e following descriptions, viz. I s .t t tioo Tons. t uut Platt- Ditto 9l 19 t o it Pit) Tons, re.in gnufactu re d f rom Old, B ro k e n, B e nt, and Pieces , 44 " lioops remaining in his Majesty's Victualling Pre a! hePtford ; t o b e d e li ve red i n the sp a ce of Six IVeeks, 14 t:7 l We ekly proportions, into the Victualling Stores at te:,, t —ge e, and to be paid for by LUBA, payable, without in z.4:ii•rtY dans after date. t4r" (44N diticais of the C on tr ac t s ma y be seen at the Secre ogee• . 414, . 4 ql/ reg.ar 'lzoill be had to am . y Tender in which the Price q, ti 46t 6 e in serte d i n words at length, or that s h a ll not b e l 'riq tee4 to the Board before One o' Clock on the said 11 4 7 3') t he ad dugyst next; nor un l ess t h e P erson w h o ma k es l 'lte,, e ' 4der , or so me P erson on his behc4; attends to answer F - r e d fur. 7'e4(ler must also be accom pa n ied by a Letter signed l'c l , i 'ret Ponsibl e Persons, engaging to become bound with the Per:4tendering, i n t h e penal Sum of 12001., for the due t e nde ring, of the Contract. ti ' () Sl •G rHE BRITISH INSTITUTION, PALL MALL. 4 (p,„ G ALLERY is NOW OPEN, with .' viltr Z oN the of Morni the W ug orks untilh of t Si e x i Ati . C t l i EN P 7 . l v ' , ll l l ). A n S g: ,t k'reu n le t c losed On Saturday, the 11th of Augus t . AtfWision ls.—Catalosuet 43 Y Order, JOHN YOUNG, Keeper. rlit TOMKINS'S LOTTERY. b erg i kiNs l-4 .,AST DRAWN TICKET in TOM ine'ttoe ftEr,s' P ICTURE LOTTERY being an EVEN Nuiud - ) Act T ICKETS arc entitled to the PRIZES, accor Booic°sirLarliament. be immediately "1 the Order of Drawing will I n t ,bay i orf`',l,the Delivery of Prizes will take place on the `;le Preseut Month, at the Oilier, No. 54, New t-tliNercie,,abetween the Hours of 10 and 3 o'Clock, and be 54,4 ) i IY (Sundays excepted) at the same Hours. ew Bond -street, Aug. 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" GENTLEMEN—I am commanded by the Lords Commis sioners of his Majesty's Treasury, to acquaint you that, in con sequence of his Majesty's Coronation, my Lords are pleased to sanction the release of all prisoners confined for penalties for breaches of the laws of the Revenue under your management, who may have been confined for any period exceeding six months ; and I am to desire that you will forthwith take the necessary measures for that purpose, unless there should be any special case of improper conduct m jail, or of very flagrant cha racter, when my Lords desire the same mr.y be submitted for their consideration and directions. " My Lords are also pleased to extend this Act of Grice, un der the same exceptions, to all prisoners who have not yet been in confinement six months, when they shall have completed this terrivof imprisonment; si7nd they desire, that instructions be given to their several cases, so that they may be released on the day on which the six months shall expire. " I am further to acquaint you, that my Lords are in like manner pleased to sanction the release of all prisoners confined for debts, due to the Revenue under your management, less in amount than 1001. who may have been confined, or when they shall have been confined, three mrths • and they are pleased to authorize you to discharge the books ofyour department from the amount due from such persons, and desire you will take measures accordingly, unless there should be special circum stances attending any particular case, as before-mentioned, when my Lords desire you will lose no time in submitting the same for further directions. " 1 am, Gentlemen, your obedient Servant, (Signed) S. R. LUSHINGTON.,, INTERESTING STORY.--A Chieftain , whose large estates were forfeited in the rebellion of 1715, received at St. Germains, from the confidential agent of a powerful noble man, intelligence that his Grace had obtained a grant of the lands from Government, and would make them over to the young heir, on condition of paying an annual feu duty, and a sum in ready cash, much less than the value of the domains. To restore his hereditary estate to the heir, and to ensure a re spectable provision for his lady and ten younger children, the Chieftain would have laid down his life with alacrity. He made every possible exertion, an his friends, and even the exiled Prince, contributed in raising the amount demanded. He was known to be a man of scrupulous honour; and when the family regained this estate, they relied upon the lady making remit tances, to pay the loan by instalments.—Securely to convey the ransom of his late p roperty, .the Chie ft ain resolved to hazard liberty-and lire, By venturing to tlie kingdom Trom whence he was expatriated. Re found means to appoint at Edinburgh a meeting with his lakly, directing her to lodge at ihe house of a clansman, in the Luckenbooths. On arriving there, she would easily comprehend -why lie recommended a retreat so poor. The lady set out on horseback , unattended, leaving her children to the care of her mother-law ; in those times such a journey was more formidable than now appears an overland progress to India. To the lady it would have cost many fears, even if her palfrey was surrounded by running footmen, as formerly when feudal state pertained to her husband ; but she would not place in competition with his safety, an exemption from danger or discomfort to herself. He had by two days preceded her at Edinburgh, and bore the disguise of an aged mendicant deaf and dumb. His stature above the common height, and majes tic mein, were humbled to the semblance of bending under a load of years and infirmity ; his raven locks, and even his eye brows were shaven ; his head was enveloped by an old grisly wig, and tattered night cap, the remnant of a handkerchief over his chin hid the sable beard, which to elude detection was further covered by a plaister. His garments corres ponded to his squalid head-gear. Oh, how unlike the mar tial leader of devoted bands, from whom she parted in agonies of anxiety—not unrelieved by hope. A daughter of this affectionate pair attempted to give the writer some idea of their meeting, as related by her mother after she became a widow ; but language vainly labours to describe transportiug joy, soon chastened by sorrow and alarm. We leave to imagination and feeling a scene most exquisitely agitating and pathetic. The chieftain explained his motive for asking the lady to make her abode in a chairman's house. Besides his tried fidelity, the old tenement contained a secret passage for escape in case of need: and he showed her behindla screen, hung with wet linens, a door in the pannelling, the hinges of which were so oiled that he could glide away with noiseless movement. If it was his misfortune to be under such necessity, the lady must seem to faint, and throw the screen against the pannels, while he secured the bolt on which depended his evasion, and the chairman had exhausted his skill without being able to cure the creaking it occasioned. The chieftain gave his cash to the lady, urging her not to delay paying the amount to his Grace's confidential agent. She complied, but checked all ,inquiry how the money came to her hands. The rights of the estate were restored to her, and three gentlemen of high respectability af fixed their signatures to a bond, promising for the young chief, that whenever he came of age, he would bind himself and his heirs to pay the feu duty. The records were duly deposited in a public office, and the lady hastened back to her lodgings. The chieftain soon issued from behind the screen, and the lady was mi nutely detailing how her businesshad been settled, when stealthy steps in the passage warned the proscribed to disappear, and the Lady, sinking to the ground, dashed the screen against the pan nelling. The common door was locked ; but it was soon burst open by a party of soldiers, led by an officer. The Lady's swoon was now no counterfeit. A surgeon was called. She revived, and being interrogated, replied no human being was with her. The officer assured her, that he and several of the soldiers saw through a chink in the door, an old man in close conversation with her. She then confessed that an apparition had endeavoured to persuade her lie was commissioned to im part tidings of her husband, but the soldiers interrupted them before the spirit could deliver the subject of his mission. Every part of the house had been searched while the Lady lay insensi ble, and as no discovery ensued, the tale she related passed current at Edinburgh, and spread over the lowlands and high lands. It was not until the Lady had a certainty of her hus band's decease in a foreign land, that she told her daughters how successfully she had imposed on their enemies ; and surely no story of an apparition has been seemingly better attested.— (Inverness Courier.) WINDSOR, JULY 31.—Sunday evening the town was very full of company ; the great at- traction was the promenade on the Terrace, which was crowded till a late hour.—The numerous band of the Life Guards continued playing till near nine o'clock.—Saturday, being what is called Election Saturday with the young Gentlemen at Eton College, great numbers of Nobility and personages connected with the families of the Students of that celebrated Semi nary arrived here, to be present at the celebra tio❑ of the day. The young Gentlemen, in boats, dressed in fancy and appropriate dresses, proceeded up the river to Surly Hall, where they were regaled with refreshments ; the band of music accompanying them. On their return, a brilliant display of fireworks were let. off, and the weather being very favourable, at tracted a great concourse of spectators. an Monday morning the young Gentlemen of Eton College left for the holidays. DENmanx.—ln the kingdom of Denmark there were born in IS2O, 32,376 children,among whom 3,089 were natural children. The number of deaths was 23,532. A t Copenhagen the births were 2,225, including 852 natural children ; the deaths, 1162. c . . ..."••..... /7 .......„_. - ,----......a, 0 ..,--5--in,, 7 , 0 , 5 0 , A , ".. - fiA - fi , 4 -141, 14 thk '. 4 g i llr • _ _.. . . ~. S U N 0 .. - THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1821. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, AUGUST 1. TOWNSIIEND V. TOWNSIIEND. Mr. HART, on the part of Lord Charles Towns head, presented a petition, which prayed that Lord John Townshend, and Mr. Blake, the truestees appointed by the will of the late Mar quis of Townshend, and their agents, might be restrained from cutting down timber on the trust estates. It was also further prayed, that Mr. George Daniel, the receiver appointed by the Court, might be removed from his office, and another receiver appointed in his place; and also, that the same Mr. Daniel might be made to ac count for all the timber which had been already cut down and sold with his privity. The Learned Counsel stated, that the plaintiff had found it necessary to present this petition in order to pre vent the property in trust from being unneces sarily wasted. The trustees left the manage ment of the estate entirely to their subordinate agents, who had lately been in the practice of cutting down large quantities of timber, for which no account had been rendered. It appeared, too, that the parties against whom the petition was presented had continued to cut timber at a time when many trees which had been already felled were suffered to lie and rot unused. The ground on which it was sought to remove Mr. Daniel was, that he had not interfered to pre vent the waste complained of, as he ought to have done. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL and Mr. HORN, on the part of Mr. Daniel, opposed the petition. They contended that their client was in no way answerable for the alleged waste of the timber, for the felling of which he had, in fact, never given any directions. Mr. HEALD and Mr—SHADWELL, for the trus tees, opposed the petition, and stated that their clients fully approved of the conduct of their agents in cutting the timber. Mr. HART, in reply, maintained that the trus tees had neglected their duty in not personally superintending the management of the estates. They had not been on the estates for a con siderable time, and now they pretended to get rid of this petition by stating that they were satisfied. with the conduct of, their agents. It ought to be referred to the Master, to inquire whether the trustees had or had not misconducted themselves. It was the duty of the trustees im mediately, when a communication was made to them that their agents were misconducting them selves, to inquire whether the complaint was well founded; and if it should have appeared to be so, to have applied a remedy. The LORD CHANCELLOR, after reading the prayer of the petition, observed, that the will of the late Marquis of Townshend devised his estates in trust to Lord John Townshend and Mr. Blake, for a term of 21 years, during which time they were empowered to cut down timber as they should think fit, and accumulate the pro duce thereof for the benefit of the heir. In 1812 application was made to the Court for the re ceiver of the rents and profits of the estates, to which the Court acceded, and Mr. G. Daniel was appointed to that office. The order for the appointment of that gentleman was drawn up in the way such orders were usually drawn up, and nothing was said in it respecting the cutting of timber. Although, in ordinary cases, the power of cutting down timber belongs to the receiver; yet here there was a special direction in the will that the trustees should exercise that authority. From the year 1812, down to the present time, the estates had continued to be managed in the way now complained of. The agents of the trustees had been cutting down timber, and the receiver had never interfered in any way, except for the purpose of receiving the produce of the timber so cut down. It did not appear that this officer was unwilling to account for the money he had received for the timber. It therefore was an ex tremely hard case to present this petition against Mr. Daniel, who had no power to act otherwise than he had done. The Court saw no reason for charging Mr. Daniel with having acted improper ly, and therefore the petition, as far as respected him, must be dismissed with costs. His lordship then► observed, that though a discretionary power was vested in the trustees with respect to the fel ling of timber, yet they must be held responsible to the Court for the misapplication of the timber, or the produce of the timber. Because they pos sessed a discretionary authority, they were not to be protected against the abuse of it. If Lord Charles Townshend would state any particular acts of misconduct on the part of the trustees, the Court would not hesitate to refer the subject to the Master. At present, all the Court found it self permitted to do, was, to order that no timber should be cut down, unless for necessary repairs on the estate, without the direction of a Master of the Court. The result of his Lordship's decision, as far as regards costs, is, that the costs of all parties shall be paid out of the estate, except those which re late to the charges against Mr. Daniel. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Auo. 1. THE EARL OF BALCARRAS V. ATKINSON. This was an issue directed by the Court of Chancery, in order to try the validity of a will. The plaintiff took the affirmative, the defendant the negative, of the question. The SOLICITOR-GENERA L shortly opened the case by telling the Jury that the will on which they were to decide was the will of the late Richard Atkinson, Esq. That will which had been in operation more than 30 years, and under which the Earl of Balcarras acted as trustee, was now, for the first time, disputed by Mr. M. Atkin- son, the nephew of the testator. The due exe cution of the instrument would appear by the evidence of the subscribing witnesses, and that proof would bring the Court to the brief and final question in the cause. The will, as ori ginally executed, had borne a seal ; that seal, by time or accident, was now torn off, or other wise destroyed ; and the defendant meant to contend that the seal had been torn off, as a mode of cancelment, by the testator. In answer to that allegation, the Solicitor-General submitted, that a seal was no necessary part of the legal execution of a will ; and it would be shown by the evidence called for the plaintiff, that the loss of the seal must have occurred subsequent to the death of the testator, and subsequent to the proof of the will in the Court of Doctors' Commons. Mr. Joshua Evans, record-keeper of the Prerogative-office, produced the will in question. It appeared to be the will of Richard Atkinson, Esq. (of the firm of Muir and Atkinson) • dated the 23d of December, 1782. One of the executors named, was Sir Francis Baring, Bart ; the subscribing witnesses were Messrs. Williams, Hawkins, and Sills. Mr. W. Williams and Dr. Hawkins proved that they wit nessed the execution of the will. At the time of the execution it had a seal. Mr. C. Smith said, that the signature "J. Sills" (as sub scribing witness) was in the hand-writing of his late partner, Mr. J. Sills. Mr. Sills was attorney to the testator, Mr. At kinson. -....,-... The will was then put in. (It had evidently borne a seal, and the seal had been torn out; a portion of two sheets being torn away with it.) Mr. Gwinnett and Mr. Ellis (both of the Prerogative-office) were clearly of opinion that the seal had been lost subsequent to the proof of the will in the Commons. No will presented in such imperfect state would be permitted to be proved without an affidavit accounting satisfactorily for the mutilation. It was extremely possible that the will might have been torn subse quent to its being lodged in the Prerogative-office : it might have been torn by any stranger inspecting it. That could not be easily done at the present day, because it was now the cus tom to give inspection in a private office, in the immediate view of an accredited officer ; but, formerly, the practice was to carry the wills into the great room, where as many as 200 persons were frequently collected at the same time, and where, of course, to attend to the conduct of every one was impracti cable. Mr. Gwinnett said that he had engrossed the will in question subsequent to its proof in the office. The• copy (which was before him) bore the letters L. S. Those letters were an admission of the regularity of the will ; they were in his iMr. Gwinnett's) hand-writing; and he certainly should not have put them upon his copy if the seals had been torn oft', or if any part of the instrument had been in a defaced or muti lated condition. Mr. SCARLETT, for the defendant, conceded the due execution of the will,and relied altogether upon the subsequent cancelment. A seal formed certainly no necessary part of a will ; but if a man (either over' cautious or overwise) thought that a seal was a needful part of his will, and:.(so thinking) put a seal to his will; and then, after wards, tore off such seal -before his death ; then in that case, the tearing off of the seal would amount to a cancelment of the instrument. The short question then would be—he begged to be understood as imputing no fraud, nor any thing like fraud, to any one ; but the question would be—had the seal been torn off this will by the testator, Mr. Atkinson, in his life-time ?or had it, since his death, by time or accident, been destroyed ? The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.—Or by design ? Mr. SCARLETT thought that it could scarcely have happened by design. The learned gentle man cited the case of "Nesbit v. Nesbit," . itt which the house of Lords had lately decided that the wilful tearing off of a seal by a testator amounted to cancelment of his will ; and conclud ed by stating various facts, which he proposed to prove in evidence, and which were to destroy en tirely the effect of the testimony given by the plaintiff's witnesses. Mr. Kennett Thorpe was then called on the part of the de fendant. The whole evidence of this witness completely nega tived the instructions of counsel, and so completely tallied with the case of the plaintiff, that Mr. Scarlett, after a few questions, folded up his brief, and confessed that he could go no farther. The Jury of course found a verdict for the plaintiff, establishing the will. CRIM. CON. COYENEY versus YORSTON. The Plaintiff, who some' time since kept the 0. P. and P. S. Chop House ; in Russel-court, Drury-lane, brought his action against the De fendant, a Law-stationer, in Mitre-court, Fleet street, to recover damages (which were laid at 1,0001.) for criminal conversation with his wife. It appeared that the Defendant was in the habit of attending the 0. P. and P. S. to pass his even ings, being fond of theatri.cal amusements, and much in the habit of going to the Winter Theatres. Such was the Defendant's liberality, that on one occasion he gave a grand dinner to the principal actors and their friends, at Mr. Coveney's. After that dinner, a great deal of attention was paid by him to Mr. Coveney's family, particularly to Mrs. Coveney's sister, who assisted in the Bar. Mr. Yorston was afterwards the constant companion and professed friend of Mr. Coveney ; and he finally, it was stated, took the advantage of the absence of the Plaintiff to seduce Mrs. Coveney from her duty. That lady, who was extremely handsome, and once a votary of Thalia, kept the bar, and her refinement of manners, and some thing peculiarly attractive, made a strong im pression on the Defendant, who soon evinced a marked preference for her society. The Plain tiff, unfortunately for himself, but not mat a propos for the defendant, became embarrassed, and the defendant advanced him money.— He was finally arrested, and whilst in confine ment the alleged criminal intimacy was supposed to be carried on. The Lady, under pretence of paying a visit to her relatives in the country, went to Cray ford, in Kent, and put up at the sign of the Bear and Staff. She had not been more than a quarter of an hour in the house be fore the defendant drove up in his gig. He inquired for his wife, and was conducted to the Plaintiff's wife. They afterwards, it was alleged, dined and slept in the same room together. Mr. SCAR METT, ho was Counsel for the plaintiff, called Edward Coveney, the brother of the plaintiff. lie proved the marriage of his brother with Miss Johnson ; the present Mrs. PRICE SEVENPENCE. Coveney, in 1810, at St. George's, Southwark ; they had two children, and lived apparently happy together; Miss Johnson, before her marriage, resided at Baldon, near Canterbury; in 1819 the plaintiff was arrested by the defend ant; he remained in prison nine months, and came out under the InSolvent Debtors' Act. Miss Felicita Johnson, sister to Mrs. Coveney, said, Mr. Yorston visited the 0. P. six weeks after her brother took the house ; he was friendly with her brother and sister • the conduct of her sister, subsequent to Mr. Yorston's visits, was careless towards her husband ; she remembered. her sister going to visit her father at Whitstable ; when she returned home it was in the evening ; she said that she had stopped at Chatham all night and had come home by the Chatham coach. When she came home she was agitated, went up stairs, and burst into tears.— Her brother was taken to the King's Bench, and during his absence Mr. Yorsto❑ visited the 0. P. and P. S. more frequently than before. On one occasion when the plaintiff had obtained a day rule, he entered his house at one door, and the defendant went out at another. She once saw the defendant kiss her sister. On her cross examination by Mr. GURNEY, she said the players and other gentlemen were in the habit of going into the bar to romp with and kiss her sister; the witness endeavoured in vain to keep them out ; Captain Smith lodged in the tavern ; her sister went out with him twice in a tilbury ; she never saw seven or eight persons take liberties with her sister before Air. Coveney's face ; she never heard•any licentious language; she did not know that Mr. Coveney was drunk twice a-week; she knew when he was tipsey—he was made so by. Mr. Yorston. Mary Norman said she resided as chamber maid at the Bear and Staff, Cray ford ; she remem bered two persons coming to her master's house on a Saturday in June or July, 18i 8 ; they went by the name of Mr. and Mrs. Colford ; the lady came first, and the gentleman about a quar ter of an hour after; the gentleman inquired for the lady, and was shewn to her ; he asked for his wife, and they went in one room together ; the witness had not seen them since. Cross-viamined by the SOLICITOR-GENERAL.— She said she was taken by Mr. Coveney to !Val worth, where she saw a lady pointed out to be Mrs. Coveney ; she knew it was the lady who slept at the Bear and Staff in June or July 1818; she also went, by order of the plaintiff, to a sta tioner's shop to buy a stamp, and saw a person said to be Mr. Yorston. It was the person Who slept with the lady she had before described. She would not take upon herself to swear the lady pointed out as Mrs. Coveney really was Mrs. Coveney. She was only informed that the female she saw was Mrs. Coveney. James Saxton said he was landlord of the Bear and Staff. Ile remembered a lady and gentle man coming to his house in 1818. They came on Saturday, and stopped Saturday and Sunday ; he had no recollection of the parties ; to his knowledge he had not seen them since. The CHIEF JUSTICE here asked Mr. Scarlett whether he had any better evidence to identify the parties.—Mr. SCARLETT said he had not.—The Learned Judge then observed, that there was not sufficient evidence to support the case, and that the plaintiff must be non-suited.—The plaintiff was accordingly non-suited. [This action occasioned much interest among theatrical persons. Keau, Oxberry, and other performers were in Court.] THE ROM/1N BRIDGE IN HOLLAND.—Gronin gen.—The Roman bridge, which was discover ed in Holland, in 1818, is now wholly cleared from the turf with which it was surrounded. It is three miles long, and twelve feet broad. It was laid by the fifteenth cohort of GEttmAxicus over the masrhes, in which deep beds of turf have since been formed, and, in all probability, gradually sunk into the marsh by its own weight. The re sinous particles which are i❑ the marshy soil have probably contributed to preserve the bridge which is entirely of wood. Every six feet there were posts to support the railing, as may be judged by the holes in which they were fixed. This great work, which consists of a judicious number of beams, appears to have been wrought with very large axes ; the workmanship is ad mirable. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE. - Tuesday even ing, as Mr. Warford, of Hesten-lane, Middlesex, was returning home across the country, accom panied by Mr. Chambers from Rickrnansworth, (where they had been dining), the horse got out of the road with the chaise in Ferney-fields, and precipitated the vehicle down a steep precipice of several yards, by w hichit was broke in pieces and the horse disabled. Mr. Chambers, who was on the near side, had his arm and collar bone broken. Mr. Warford was so much bruised, and his limbs are so much shattered, that no hopes are entertained of his recovery. FATAL PUGILISM.—Two men of the names of Codrington and Delrillc, the former a coachman, and the other a paviour, having had a quarrel at a public-house at Newington on the subject of politics, on Monday nigtit, they put down ss. a piece to adjourn and fight the next morning, rather than at the time, both being drunk. They met at four o'clock in the morning and fought, or rather wrestled, and gave each other heavy falls until six, when, on a sudden, Delville was hurt by the last fall, and he was carried away, and died in two hours after from the rupture of a vessel in the head.