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'lncome, ghoul,: be divided among , die number of ray -- a great ;lieges May Wibiiri:alive, in place of making them rsy vesidukzi legatees.'' " Two years' vt - .l7cs to the servants that may be living • •wi'tfidie at toe tititeitf , tny 'death, in pit:if:of cne and a legacy trfH tti Int coachman _nand the same to my bistfe;; naddition flaereto.'' I•b' " The reslilue of my - -esate. equeam, m trust, to make. )7914and ansivirc inch leggy:nrad remembrapcis to friends, as IT , • 3 linvoli. ll L'Ae 4 e di l to this niy “Aci.7 we: its amount as atpreseat it is liable to.canrderable - ,1. PA PER A, •-e- -• 7 ". Loudon Varch 1,'1521 " lathe case of my.inability to make a regular codicil to my will; Made and published 2d May, ano, I desire the following to be taken. as. a codicil to, rind as a fureherpart of, my said will: revoke tat part of any will whereasl bequeath, in the 9th . .pnere-thereef, the residue of my pereenal estate to and emong " my.grand'nieera that may be - living •at the tierie-of my deeth; . and ,einliea•thereof d-xeill and heel...teeth to my grar.d nieces the rums .. that, queer. fall, into the residue on the death of such of my nieces as Amy die - or de - Pert this life withent issue 'them surviving; to '•••lee paid to, andelivided among - , reictrof my - grand nieces 'as may anehe'sleatta esf every s - uch niece respectively." • . „-• I eizect my. executors to give nip to my ; teraiets Li Ater ' • • ilianshire, the !Ili?: half year's 'rent they -May hieve to nay at the: first texienof Martini-hes or Whit;.sunelay after my deceese." . "As the ..ship Bombay is now on the hien oiler chartered vieyage.s . ,, my libjeCt in retaining ihiteriest- in her no longer . . • exiete, except in the-event of lie; being' ehartered again on rea r - terms ley.the. Conepanyeit eihi-th• a's- 4 e. I 'Air-'4` l- he willing ?Peke some .Seceifice to get John Shepherd a• command." case of `the death of my edusin e e the Rev. Thomas • `7 I:lord - on ' • and of - my :"eoiasiin4 'the, - Rev.• Robert Shepherd, of Deviot,befote me, I desire that the sum left to each of them by my will mei) , he divided equally erne: g and between the widow , Fi nd daughters of each. I am the sole trustee to the marriage . ••tifisles of lete.nieflose 2 eif Calcutta, evith his late wife, Eliza th Forbes f its :aitouneii 8381 e. TOR. IX in the Consols, stand . ing is the Lattice of John Forbes, Charles and llick ieForbes ; • thelfusiennel hn4-,Ene interest clueing his life, ened en his death, it • is to be divide& among -elatge.fisrAy."...e, ` I bequeath to my executors in; trust 500111, to .be by them • f e lled as dofiations- to flee of the Hospitals tupperted by vo . • A:eatery. contribution, situated et or near .the rric...t• public en • - teaneee Londine, that admit taauni tikerit ail hours of the day .ce .night:" •• . -•• . . • - • " lave 20()81.! to 'Ol-y - eeteentoiS in trliat 'far. the purpose of building a briiegj - over' -the river Dais, ire Sfrath Don, the situ • • ttien.todie theserlity them.r .• - • 1.- "' • 1-.Sequeath"the Rah:Jiving- legeeieSti---•To Joseph Cotton, , • : ESee Of the - Teinity . ll - ouse;10001. • Major D. Mitchell, 10001.; • -Alrs..Delllarley; `"det0011 •• her deugliter; MesS.H. M 1001. ; Miss C. Patrick, 10001. ; Lady -Grant; wife of the late Sir • ::Archibald, Etrast, trf .3konienask, 14 . 001. ; • each of' her five *.eVan.gieters, 5001 - ORS,. (lint,. of Deumenner's;three Danters, each 5001. ; my remaining thtenipariaies; John' Forbes,Comp tic llen' e Gennriel;therdoh Forbes, end • JanieS-Forbes, as' a Me , • . ntorial for •100 . guinta ;•my 'old India friends, E. . Ravetiseroft.. - Es Ittessell 'Havel, T: Wilkinson, W. - • -1 - :?age,• ..4Oetis, a Inglis,- o.simiion ' • Generals La Ma . andellenjarnin Gordon e AlexinderGrayeP.:Shawcroft, „ Aunt R. _Herialease, each for a ring, 1004;ifinteast't -• . .. • .• To.iny friend,- A..TuTlohelOtf gain - ease • a token of my re - gaid. tidy co:win - kin arid: huller 2001. each, over and -..above what thty will be. entitled to liv my will.' I recommend -Alexander: Gray •to be retairied,•-at- a salary, to assist my execu-. • ;tars. - in Winding iep my-estate. •TO Wm. E. - illontgornerie, the son of my farmer Commissioner,. A. Alontgornerie, -Esq.; of Amnia Lodge, I:bequeath 50001. for the-esteem= I bore his fa.: ther, and the obligation I have•tieen under to him. I desire . ... my executors to- pay in 5001. - to thisMidellesex.Hospital, as a :donations fremanee To the widow of mylate nephew, Phase . Forbes, heave-50111. • e • ' • • - • • .- The paper .leawesubieribedby "deceased on the three :first pages,lunnot on the fourth. - • • e ; • . _ . • The'ease *ea - very - ably argued by Sivintt- and 'Pint, • • 'etienietE, for 'the executor, and..by: Drs. Lusilifewroer and is•facuam, for the legatee. It •was centended on the' one side, - that both the . papers should be.admitted to probate; and on the . • • " other e •thenteothe i_eee sb - be rejected, paper A as having beeri • • - abandoned. brthe.testator e ai i paper:ld as being in .its nature • meretydelibereteive.e - , • ' • . e - • - • • The CotirtkSir J.* - Nie it on n) then • picieeeded to deliver its jedgment- . • . - . . • e • The .Learned .ltidge obsetve4;atar this - W.ae a question relative • •-te the.•validity or invalidity of •tiveY inform=al Papers ; and thou dee • the' prinetpla by Sehieli - the.Cauff is guided unthe decision of such cases ere tolerably filiniliar to most - 45 f those persons Who, are in the habit of attending to its decisions, and perfectly so to • the -Gentlemen who practise here; . yet it is not amiss now and - then to repeat a few of thesnost general propositions, for the.sa tTsiaetigri eheparties concerned, niore.especially in a ease Tike • • • .the. - presentievliere'theationnt of the property.iii so very clinsi: ,• . ..derable,-.. an& ; the-. individuals inter meted .in the decision : are • so•. . • " lf•a rarer. on'the faee °tit, i, in legal comtitittion an imper•-• feet and unfinished papas, -evidence of intention -is let. in, .and . mest be taken - into consideration in order to deterenine'iVitether • 'Len be. adri , ittediro. probate-as conteining the last will of th . deceased, 40d in order to give. it that. validity, the evidence "m:aSt,satisfee the. leeel.. conseierice of the Court, either that the deceased, abandoning the intention of perfecting it, intended it . e to operatiiiiitediefiniehed state e. or:that If he intended to give it a more fOrrnal eeceention, he was iireventc4 by the-act - of rind., cr other causes beydnel his, own coneroL . . the 1e it prestimptiotiis against a paper whlch, on the face °fit, ktealToestetiction, unperfeet ; • for such inr ., peifection implies an intention. on the part of the testator te.do • something more to it, in - order to render it operatice ; and the, eburthen of proof lies on the parer setting tp die' paper to oust, :ehis'eiresunentioin meet furnish eeeidenee to slimy either that the testaton'hact nonsncit intention of doing more to thepaper; or if he-had, he was prevented:by a Yes :MAJOR from • catrying.ifinto . .effecte • - -•-. • - • • .• • .Eut though a, legal preeumptien, against a preper'of this • seription exiens in every case, yet that presumption •_ gree, in kopoetionen every conceivable degree of imperfection. . nioraetienee.the pep::: is tuanifestiya dsliberkeiveiiieraorazidera, the inere.ineeption of -a- testamentary-, Acvt and_ then the cir eierhetarides 'Meat: be . Strong • and forcible indeed, ewlich • ean trove-theft • the Mind of the testator' notwithstanding the ap pearance of gee paper, was in trutis.inade to-the particular disposal of the property, in question.,. Sometimes the degree'ef • regal'imperfectitite inore easily overpower `tl by . • • other indications of a final testamentary intention: Nay, there mayho instances, in which it is rrietter",of. legal doubt, whether • the paper on the face of it is to be considered as perfect -or iin e •• • perfect-e- :Anti it nhist rot be forgotten, that by the lave of this country, dlspolition of personal properfyi in the hand-Writing. of the testator, re.ouires, no . partieular • formality e but mustbe - if the circumstances afrerd a fair interenee that such was-the* teseatore intention. ' • • In the present case, tivo papers in the hand-writing of the tes tator are propounded, as codicils .to a will which is not in dispute. Tie first of Aliese.,•iii - point O- time, is paper A, and it is also the most ireaportint. • Upon the fate of it, it purports to be a codicil. It is dated. On three sides the writing is continned, to the bottom, and on each of these three sides it is subectibed, by tl..e testator. On the fourth side the writing is rot •ean . tinned to the bottom, and that side is - not subscribed.. - 'The . Court ia .of opinion that such a paper, on the face, of it, ' • must Le - holden to be in legal cprestrusteon, an imperfect. • • paper, and thit evidence of intention merit b resorted to, to determine veieether it is or is not entitled tO probate s with reference to the principles before _seated; but the • • amount of - evidenee by which 'the - intention is to be • de termined will not-.rest on anfone.iaoltitetkcircumstance, nor - eeyern onethe sievienion of a single witless. - The question • _ to hedeterzr.ined is . a ,qteeetion of -fact in the first instance, wieether the.testaniertary intention gf the deceased went along withethe ir.eteuznent. . • •• • • • • The: history of the dece.esed must be taker, into the account. • He was a gentleman residing in Fitzroy-square, who died sod Amts . at tho advanced age of 713,-- His fortune was very large, the personalty: being estimated at 350,0 W. which had all been acquired by the piirsuits of buSiness as a merchant; and it is - -e - • alizoit unnecessary to add that he was.a person. of' intelligence .-and see Ad tindbrstantling. . . . • ' Iris r.ta.regt living relation was:a sister, a. lady of course far' advented in life; besides her he had many other. relations, 14 • - nephews and nieces a still greater numbea of grand nephews • and nieces. 'lle lied also many friaidehips fort el in the course. -ale long life. He had some real estates both in Scotland -.turd England e of•the former of which ecuntrieshe was probably • . •'esieectstive. lie.'hed disposed of the succession to_ his Scotch • . estates, according tr the forms - of- that law,-•in 1816.: In May, • 10111 be executed a long and f'srrual *ill; prepared by his so .; .eliciter, Mr. iluechioson, disposing of his real estates in Eng land; and also of the bulk of his personalty among fliS relations. • Ttee residue was .about 130,00j1., out of - Which" he clearly intended to give further legacies by a separate ccdicil. In . ' sleedin Ihenresielualleclatiso of the will he eineepts •stich pait .as be might give by a future codicil. • Thli intentioh is further. . • • spoken to, by Kie.lj utchirlson. Int:re:Goer:le Of preparing that . . will the testator- intimated to 7 him4iat fie 'intended to make such a Oloiti cil 4nd it evaa ip meet that -ineeriiiCn shat the clause was ... so draw„:: . Again,; after. the, tlieteitikeir reverts to .the gaus s iptentierie by asking line solicitor whether any parti. • . cedar form of woiets be,AeceSsary.for ; -nature. • - solicitor tell-1-.lom . The decslsocifif. alipears Was a . luau of few worde ;; tehitiSon un derstood that it was his wish to keeploluniself the particulars .- of these intendrelkgeciea amen* friende: •• eyideoet kay e.; fitY . strong:fonpaiiPOn in'obabdity'in • • - •faxofer pc ibitt fOglat,l:o,-Itituid In the deeeasedie; linnell-writing, r after hie death- ACcOteleadly;•Onieledinie ihe will the cipt mins in the residuary clause made his friends expect . that a eccil e waleld, be fesenen A search was therefore imme diately madeeanEr the e:per A was discovered. It nextbecornes'inipurtant to consider ,he appearance and character of thin ,peefer:e bears date in March, 1821, nearly tenenonths after the execution of the will. Near the beginning oecur these winds ":iers ease cf iny inability to make a regular N0w,,'.,,~tt heabeen eirgeed that these words render it-a conditional cod cil, but the Court cn.mot accede to this sugges tion. OnehtieCteniry; the exPreesione seem more strongly to rnatk e theecaution of the- tnetetoin thatelds paper should. sabstan tinily operate. - Thee.: one es the clause relatweg to the residue; and kis obiery ed at thief alteraton of the dispissition .of the re sidue -is difFerentTrOrn that eoerananicated to the Folicitor ; but the deceased did not wholly rely on the codicil to be prepared by the So/Viter. Ile probably meant nearly to exhaust the residue in legacies, Mid if so, if -is not Whiike:ly 'that he would revoke the bequest.. n. • . ; , - The testator signs his name at the end of every completed page. What are the rational inferences from this state end ap pearance of the paper? First, by siccing he shows that he had _ made up his Mind, at least so far ; that he means the paper not ' to serve as a , mat deliberative memorandum, but to posses's some greater - weight and efficacy. Secondly, what inference is afforded by his not signing the 4th page ? Why, that the paper is still in progress.' Having - Only given about 30,0001. out of 160,0001., which herpnebably - tn, erinet to exhaust, it is reasonable to assume thee he yes deliberating not on. what he had already -given, but on what,:r.erni : .iied to give. Thisinfereneeis farther . • corroborated - by - the writing ethe paper:: It is dearly riot writ ten uno contextu. One of thelater bequests, that to %lr. Morn gornerie, is in 4 - different character and hand -writing from the part preceding. • The same may •be•observed of•the heiluest •.to. the Middlesexflospitel and the:-last clause of all, that relat ing to the widow of Mr. Thomas Forbes, is evidently written in a more imperfect hand„and with it:different pen and ink from any of the former.. . . Such-beingehe appearance of this paper, so conforinzble. to the soft of codicirthat -was-tohagebeen expected from the pre vious , .bistory : arid. deoKations cif- the -.deceased, • I will not sAy . that the mere circumstances of .is sudden. death, and of its being found in his repiiiitbry with other papers of moment, - would -notte. eufficitrat tonrapperethe Mai:run:mt. . . Net here are.several. ether czcumstanices corroboristive of the same inference. The witnesses speak to Ms habit of writing at the table..where-tls Tepee :e wes .f9unde one says he almost lived at that fable: lewashis cusiom to pat the papers he had been writing into - the deile: ihns•PaPer• is so found, as if it had been very recently put aside in thie manner-(Here the - Learned • Judge went minutely e into. theT description given by several wit nesses of its being the 'upplimost thing in the desk, on the bankees book, 'all the ether - papers - :being more carefully ' put away.) I • Then at is found in the sititioreire which a paper in peogveem• would be found. - But this. is 'fief X. 'his - incontestable that' .s..hetestator ;Meet have bad s-clerenee •- to it within a few hours ef his deatll. He had been.. slightly indisposed for• tie..., eir three days, and had that morning sent Mr. Gray with a check of 6001. to his hankers—that check is-produced, and beam date on - the: Very day, the2oth of June. , He had - - reeaurSe to the banker's book in his desk, and this paper is foundupoli the banker's book it is elierefeire in all probability the last paper that he looked at. He Ives however somewhat better Orr that day than he had been for: two Inns before, so that he might - not.feel it urgently necessase to complete the, whole at that moment, but, still it was in progress. At nine o'clock that - evening, he was struck with death. Under these circumstances, is• there the least reason to consider this.ae. an abandoned paper ? Why, it-is said this is to. be inferred from.his having given paper B to his solicitor. Now the whole 'of B. is clearly not the soft of eddiCil which he 'proposed to Make; but it contains. instructions fora will. lie therefore selected from A what he meant to give by will, and. feseqed_ what he meent.to give by codicil.. In such a proceeding there is do Incohsistency whatever, nor'any thing spewing the slightest: departure from.the intentions .. expreised-'in A. On Mrs Hutchinson. lie 'finds 'a new- will not to be necessaey, and 'after this consultation it is clear that the will of May. 1820 - is to remain as his will, that :Mr: Ilutehinson is to draw one-cedicileretatiee to the residue froin B. and that the testator means teepursoe his original ' idea of a codicil of his own . for the Other. legacies. • - • - • The 'Cohn-here- went etrefially over Me. Hutchinson's evi-, dence relative to paper B, and showed , that that evidence was much stronger -than the plea, to support paper B as final in structions for, a codicil relative to those parts of the testator'sin tentions which he meant to communicate to hie Solicitor. - With regard to7sach final instructions,. the testator having done.all that depended on, leim, and, the formal execution being . only delayed . by the act of the Solicitor, every rule • uf the Court requires that paper B' should be pronounced - for as well as A. What may; be the effect of .these two codicils on• the disposi tion of the'residue-must. be left to the Court of. Construction. As to the objectiOn that pronouncing • for ihese pipers will only carry intci - etitet part of .the deceased's intentions; that happens every shy with gills that are and must be established. The Co LT icT. then adverted to several circumstances coricarma, 'tory of its- preeeding - observations bn paper A. • Mindenhall, the deceased's batTer, hid - Seed him •wiiting bite •seelay or two before his death at a . paper exactly eitnilar to this ; Auttno similar pa ' *per wai fouriden his desk. Mr. Forbes Mitchell cibierved on the •tirst discovery of the'p;per, -a fsesimeas in the-ink •of the last paragranh or two Iklueli has since gone off; , It is et-known fact, that rresli ink does. assume. greater blackness after a short 'ex posure to the _air. . Upon the''Whole e the: C 0 uivr observed, that it' had pine into the evidence .very minutely, nor on account'of the least doubt or. diiii,mlty in the case, but for. the satisfaction of the numerous parties 'interested in thiS' large property. If *as hOiever clear, - that the intention of the• deceased went alo'ng with -these papers down tsehiedeatli, and that the execution wag prevented as to one by the occupation. of the Solicitor, and as toehe other by the act of C10d..-e-lt therefore pranouricedfor both codicils. ' SPADE.qur.TrvATrox. — The following . para gra-ph. from the :Edinburgh Couhant shews id a sjtakink_ma.nner what may be done..by SPADE CULTURE. The increase stated is ,truly won derful:— ‘.‘- There wzre..sown i.^_ the garden at Tiaqtniiir, last Septem ber twelvemonth; sixty. pickles of 'lNloiocco 'wheat; which pro duced•ll2'.hdad's;which-heids yielded thS• astonishing number., of 8,580 pickles, being an 17:crease of 143 after one. - The pickles are miich larger &an those of the, common wheat, and .are of an excellent quality, and from - its• being so prolific; is .likely.to.become a most-va.htahle acquisitiq:to this country. 'rhe stalks of :the wheat grew . tO the lengti of six feet, - and as .the straw is exceedingly thick; and strcingvi.an that of the common British Wheat, is not: so ap! .. _ . td..bit.ige , ori the ground, which, in a wet it,:ason, is a material advantage to the farmer. The wheat was reaped in the i;; ; ;inning ti ! ia hist September."' _ . . . ViR.Y.STIT.ANGB., BUT lik:Etit.TAtik—that if you get al3lailk . Jsiu may. return it s and if you get a Capital . Prize you. may keep .Such is the 'fact- 7 -fOr'esieiy Purchaser. in the .. .Lottery before the next Driwing.(TUeSday Weeic), may retufa Ticket or.: Share;if drawn a . plank or Brnati' "Prize,. or if 1/ndrai;gn,. and.. rece ive back nearly all the noney he gave, for •has the . c.lianCe Of 'the whole may, when a k 6,600 Prize Muat,'Und . ..iriany other Capitals may be drawn,', and cannot' lose, either by a Whote Ti4et . or .more than a were trifle.— liA . z.tao and db.;" Contractors. * • , . . . . NEW BUILDING IN The works in the Gallery of the Louvre, says a Liberal French Paper, are suspended; the triumphal arch of the 'barrier .of .Neuilly is forgotten.; . , the Pantheon, and the fine edifice begun on the quay. d'Orsay, far receiving the archives of France, are .likewise negle.cted.,,.A. little stiris made, arid a, few stares are .placing,at the Exchange, and the. Fountain of the Elephant ; and the building of the Treasury in the ru is proceeding with surprising langifor. But to compensate for this slowness in some guar . tees, we . observe astonishing activity in others.. The construction of the seminary in the square of St, Suipice is making great ptofiress,. The Syna gogue..buildinu in Jue .tiotre Dame de Naiareth is also fast advancing ; and the chapel founded for the nuns of the Temple exhibits _ similar ap .pearances of. actkvity....Private eitig . ces are risi ng on sides with .. great ra'pidi:V. Num4erltis houses s afe afidirx to the,evitalf, both in 'do ,M)urbs end .tikinteriorjof the ;Up.; and Para,, in,splenitoty ittO.e}cteut. ST. ANDREW'S DAY. - • „ ST. AsnuEw..Was the son of JONAS, a fisher man of Bethsaitki in Galilee and younger brcither of &mos, surnamed by out LORD, PETER.- lie was one of the disciples of John the . saptist ; and having acquired a preparatory. -f a cth, under that great Precursor of the Messiah, he was Piously actuated to make his brother Simon a partaker of the blessed hopes of salvation, and accordingly introduced him to our. Lord. The two brotheri 'continued in the industrious and humble occupa tion . of fiSliefraett,.- for about twelve months after Simon Was tirsCadmitted to the Divine Presence, when they were both; . ..together with 3 . arnes and John, personally to attend our Saviour in his Ministry ; to witness the miracles he wrought, and o . s ~deceive' the . 4rst PrincipleS of. that holy reiigiou wflich they were; aftem . wards. disserni nato throughout the world call they instantly acce - Rteo, striAlgthea ed as . . they . 2 wero in -their obedience' - by the great : miracle of the extraur -draught.. of fishes. The , vast .northrn Legions .of Scythia audSOgdiana were traversed b .St. Andrew,-upon the dispersion of the Apastles. - After — having eStablished• ninnerOUS throughoUt chose territarieik, he returned . to 3 ern= saletp - ; bnt - being . too. ardent - t 4; remain long lib- • sent noir 'eOnverts, ..I.ke :again Arav'elled _with-an:intent:lo to , support and ophold their faith, pas• ing through countries •of the Abasgi, Zeochi, and Bosphorani, and from thence' across the ,Seas to . Sinope,. in Vaphlagonia, and. thence to Byzantium,: at : bath of which places he ordained • • Bishops. I Banished Tram Byzantium, :he removed to Aturopolisi'and passed over -the couritries .of Thraqe,, AlacedOnia, ins, anti Achaia, is latter, at the city . tif Matra, he was - so - wonderfully successful in - the execution of bis•heLlveniy Al, , ;eas, the condemnedPrOeonsul; condeed . him to be first scourged, and--ttien crucified, a.sentence.whichwas put into exei?otion with :peculiar Cruelty : seven lictors :alternately. exerted- their-. sirength , with Abu scourge on the Apostle's shoulders ; and that - his death, afteri)lch barbarity; might tie . the more Aingering- .. and %painful, -he-, was• .fastened with .Cords,lnstegcl of nail's; to the cross! In. this slate of agony • : -he remained- two--days preaching and instructing the surrounding populace in that faith which enabled him to sustain his .sufferings .ont:krnurtnur—afaith which afforded to him . ,a consummation of . hit. iviihes . ; in a prospect - of eternal life with that Sat/lour whose:(loctrines-he . . had So.streuuously inculcated. Maiitnela, a lady of quality and fortune,: who had embraced the. Christian religion, caused, the body to be tm balm.ed,:. and honourably-- entombed-;- and Con stantine the Great, Wheo - -con'‘'ertect, to christiA nity, removed the relics to Byzantium,:called:, in honour of the Ernperor,ConStantinople, dna buried them in the Cl'eat Cieurigt.;:forinded in honour of the twelve Apostles. The Scots, who have-chosen -Andiew for-_their Tutelar Saint, adduCesorne dences that the, relics of the Apostle were removed to Scotland by-Regulus, a pious Grecian monk, and, deposited in Fifeshire, A. D. 368,f rom which cause St. Andrew's, in that County,. received its name. By the best testimonies, St.. Andrew rtp. pears -to. have'sutTered Martyrdom on the 30th of the.year" . 69, from which . C.auskt-bis anntvetsary is generally' assorted to be held on •that day • while others contend . that . . his festival was planed at the head - of the holidays, beginning . at Advent, from or his having been the,first Who found - tire essi4, svOi as - th . e. first - who - Al broitght others .to bhn. - The httich commemorated: the death and sufferings.. of St.Abdiew,- - s6 earl: as the year 359.. -The -Cro3i upon which St. Andrevi suffeied".was..dif-. 'ferent from the general antient form, being made. - Of two pieces of •tirnpvr *driven into the ground, in the shaper of the 'letter X, styfeda cross de cussate. lienceSt. Andrew is to be known in. all Hpictures and:sctilptures a cross of that description. The Scottish corporation will hold the festival of 'Si: Andrew this day at,,the Old Tavern, Bislicipsgate-street - ThiS ancient institution. was, established for be.nevolent purposes, and .no doubt, it will,as on all forthet occasions, be attend ed to -day by a numerous and highly.respectable company. Lord Viscount MELVILLE, one of.the Vice-P - residents, takes the Chair. liNcor.Ws Yesterday eveninA). the Alinaal ..General. Meeting of the above Associatiori.was held at Great Queen... street Chapel. At seven o'clock,. Ronpl'r RANT, gsq. took the Chair, in the absence of the Presi • dent, the Right. Hon. CISAALcs, , GItA-yT., whose official duties,..it Was stated, detained him is IFe land.., The chairman., who opened -the business of the day, observed,it . would be unnecessary for- bin" to .detain the .Meeting by am address, as the Report.whicb - was -about to be read would. more Satisfattarily detail the eiertiohs an labou rs of the Society.--:7The• Report was then read 1; 'it stated, that since the .last Report 155 Bibles and l 'T o e f sta c2 rn s I T la4br a n ci i d e i;t i r i i a b d u te e d, i rcu nik i.s. a te i a totad a t 3 Bibles - and 44 TeStarnents, but there rs',as:a great want of collectors in the Committee. • The Finair.-- cial Report was then read, by which it appeared that 181. had been -collected at the last Meeting ; • ... - • • • that the , donatiosis and subscripttons.ai no i ni t e d to 941., exclusive of 71. 3s collected among the work toed' at - Messrs; Secinf; and COPELAND'S rnanu 'factory ;' 1001. hail:been given to the British and Foreign Society for copies of the Scripture ; the "Parent Society was still continuing its prosperans course. - The Report.' concluded by calling for additional aid . and assi s tance. —It was th e n move d; ' seconded, and carried'unanimou sl y, that theße portie cmm s i hou o ldb under the direction of t t HUDSON, Esq. and other .Gentlemen then addressed the" Meeting in able- speeches ; and thanks. haVing been voted to Chairman, -the Meeting adjoitrued.:-K liberal collection was made at. the doors. . . . PrilliCtra Rell , labogres of W ainflefhti . - sold wife . igs. 4pil by Tarkct - ja - uXondar (9r ss. aud- , 41;.. : baltep; There are not so many fresh instances of atfo- .. ,City detailed in the _lrish papers received, this mbruitig, •as it 'has lately been our painful duty to notice. .W.e 'rejoice even at this fleeting gleam of 'comparative sunshine, though.the louring as : pkt - of the . tithes: , itiTh - at unhappy country by no means suffers us to hope that the destroying tetn.. • pest of popular fury is permanently subsiding;'-- . . SCirne further . partkulars of the Inquest . on the Sittas - haie made their_ appearance ; btit the .de positions, except a 3 to- ,-the- identity of .the poor , Suff:ekqrs, • seem to hive been exceedingly vagrie and unsatisfactory - . same- -.pains do riot • . se - ern to have been lak . en in the inquiry, a„s ,is •, . • customaii:in England, to collect all the evidence which .is• attainable,' .by.. interrogating- the'-vAt-: • e nesses tninutelv as' to the circumstances within • their - following extract.. from • • • • the Minute of - the :Inquest is a `specimen .of. the, brief 'and ' , seemingly:careless manner in -Which it •.. • - was 4ondticted*;. aid_ .it. is.. alMost the only evi-: •• dence of . Amy importance which decides the_cha,.. faCtet arid origin 'of the tragical event Philip billon, of 'Oitrinapish, farmer, deposeth and• saith, that i'viltiarri . Williarns called hiln7 out of bed on the night between the 19th and 20th inst., who told hinn that Edmond Bhea's house was on fire. lie . tysired Williams to calliome hcighours ;:l - k then advanca toward's liea's house; which was in:a bine, 'anci . fited ashot, and called out, ".9h, you Ras. • cals," which was returned by. two shots, and . he. was desired to advance if he larecl..llerird, several shots about Shea's house :: :Eiarnined I;efore irte, Ph ILIP DILLON. . John Thompsop,.eprener, The ClonnzelAdver4ser, from inquiries which 'have been :instituted, is of opinion that the mtir: derets had set fire'to the thatched roof of SH ..house in several places: at, once ; and .' that the hurry and confusion of the unfortunate family , on discovering their danger, - had :fatally 'pre-; vented any of.;thern fxoM".making their escape, before,the fooEfellin, which of course, being . of such combustible- materials; must have been very - soon after commenCerneut of the' fire. The remains of-ten . v•_twelve of the victims were found near -td,ih(4- door, inside, at which . it Would Seim the '.struggle and - cOnfusiodhad been So great as tolteeptheoa from. opening it. Close', by the dOor lay the besly•of a man, - hiving the key of the door-in one :band; Part of the bowels 'protruded from the - befly'of who was alsO found neat • the :door, . It:is soppOsed- that , the protrusion of the iniestines-Was . 'eccisiOned• by- -a gun:'•shof "wOund...• Near onelof. his hands lay the barrel. of n;blut4erbuss. s is thonghti-from the, position of: SHEA-'3 body, •that he - Via.4 in the . act . . Of drai,vitig the' tie& from the dOef.wheri he . thet: his death. A child-a-bout-two years old was fonnd_ placed_in apail of water, perhaps by some one..in• - the hope or saving 'the iioor,ihnoce . nf That part of . .the . body; . hoWeter, 'Which Was above the sur . . • face. of the water, was .severely burnt ; and at -anrrate•suffocatioti must have ensued -frorn - the . . . heat and the smoke . of the burning pile. 1s there not room for..the consolatory refieqion, tbat'even the.authors of this:dreadful scene, mis creants as •they are, did not contemplate tlie . unirder of the whole of thiS hapless farnily Probably,intendea..only to burn down the house, or at most to take the life of the elder Stait himl . l self' Y We *would - fain, for the sake of our corn- ' rani: nature i cling to . the idea• that if the-inmates had succeeded- in: opening the door, and in caping . froln'the fiarries,Sthey would not have been bUtchered - indiscriminatelyby the savagessvithout. More .than one meeting of Magistrates I'S, been held ou the scene of woe -,. and about forty persons have. been examined - bilhern.relative to thedreadful catastrophe. Itis gratifying to: find: that there was rio ,backwardness on the part 'of .the people -to give information, or- to facilitate the discovery of the murderers... The. relatiVes of the deceased :are' numerous ; and have de clared their readiness to hazard life .and in bringing the murderers to. ustice. - The SHEAS have . been settlea for ages 'in that part of the. country ; and were, with their connections,'opu lent, respectable, and esteemed. The MIMLAEYS: also were connected With A sieterniined and ex— tensive body of men:; ,a . nd ,hopes are entertained .that by the activity and perseverance of these persons discoveries may be made. o.,ne of tfie victims, an •interesting-..young female,. had 4001. 'fortune, and - was to have beea . -iitattied, in a few —days, •• At an adjourned meeting . Of : ; Magistrates and Gentlemen !- Odd at tilittetaili on-the tid inst., it was resolved,. to petition the LORD NANT not to, apply the provisions of the Peac e Preservation. Act - to:the: disturbed 'Baronies, 0 0 account of the eqviice which ille - 'etraordinarY etablishrnent of Police might' ithisose upon the inhabitants ; and one of the Resolutions is so ;31'1 prudent as to declare, that ni the eeting is de' cidedly. of opinion, that excessive taxation i. ll tithes like the present, when the price of agricl2l" tural produce is -so deptessed, may drive_ many at present peaceably disposed persons into the ranks - of the Insurgi.-nti."—ln GOD'S naive, then, let the gentry' defray the exPence of . restorLD' that • tranquillity - "u hick' their 'supineness hs 9 suffered to " - The Dublin Correspondent . . indignantly animadverts upon the imbecility of the•land-owners, in ieeking to rely-merely upon $ great increase to the military force; and justly points oat that even that increase, unless,the3i• take vigorous measures :to defend themselves, wonld unt.ensure their `safet=y; - except a party of soldiers Iver . t . ra.tioned in each of their houses.-The e%' pense.of an extraordinary police ,is the price which they must-pay for the restoration of trap' Ihe penalty' impo,ed Upon they for their past remissness. Ori Skturdafnighi.la;it a party of RibbonmP 3 were, surprised, sitting 1n council,. at a -house nor Clermont: Twelve of thiln were mace prisoner , i but , it is - doubted . ciiether - there is evidence t° cOrnmil theirst for trial. • ' M 4 URlnft of . MA,iOl3, COLL.IS.--Siornadditiono . intelligence received this day, .we find that car !of the unfortunate Gentleman's servants is sup' posed to haVe'heeri-priVy to the attack . upon house=-the fellnw having gone off. The moue/ and securities of which the house was plundered amounted to five•hundred pounds at least. , t• 11 ' . inquest had not been held when the last account s were sent off. Papers. arrive& this morning t° the Ist Nofember:—The following is ari e ,c,rat;t from-a Paperlif'ttie - 30th of October:-- "THE.Ft.4uk yesterdll . . we experienced,-as-Might naturally be expected+ a variety of reports from the East 'dud South' but they ha - d itot any . considerable operation on the - state of, the.mark.et... Indeed it may be said that.k7lourAO:in.,fuspenso, although. we understand the 'I/fillers a.resertatigis considerable quantiti . . into town ;• their stock of Wheat is very cons'' ileribie,. but for want of water very few are atl e • .7 . [l'orfi a lath : Csarat,ew Pawl.. I . . EMIGRATION.-The sv,ishetrfur vQnvoy fro° .Curagoa has'arrired,'• bringing' numberless er gtahts, tioth natives ot thecountrrand Spaniard`' nt:_ . • It*A•cl e have'the -satisfaction that . all the s e who cgrne,are to nest men worthy of abiding 'iyhose abse,.. re we'Were wont to W temotnte :tees, 'who, amid- IA!" 'disorder bustle '4 1 . 1 uatriotiC chars c i hostilities, hadsnnght 'refuge in. foreign islgad , • • And Who uow clasp us in - their -arrnci w . tt 4 . cordiality and ,boy- mete who have been ur: deceived, in their principles, -who!,e, •vir,:je t•L'T '.goOd faith are, already too well. establisllc" and whose.. regret of •the. -past is as grate" . ful tows, as it is honourable to them—men, during. seven long,years absene..e haye,Tever beo tfieir.necks to any foreign yoke--in sho - rt. worthi .offspritig . of Caracas, eminent , patrigts, the orrY ments of their_ soil,: whose slitferings,-, , w hose cog' stancy its hardships, have - itesineattied : them tt! eternal love of their fellow-citizens.. --.910.--.. Yew I onti, OCT. y3.--A - gentleman fro o FjOrid,a gives the following as: a principal call' Of the arrests and sei_zures of papeps , in that tern' tory. He says the Spaniards.had -no• office of re.Poril for title-deeds ; but when A sold land t° B he' ansferred the original deeds which well deposited with the Governor. ~In this way Ciro{ vernors Callava and Copping . erA:ad possession o nearly all the title deeds of the- • province. Afte r 'the surrender of the Floridas:to the Cnited Staten .rnany of those deeds were sold for vaticeis Sum s of moneyovithout„the.consent kncl.,lcfige_° the owner of the. property; -thuo the titie to every tract of land in the country was jeopardized' On.detriand, the abole'..ofliCVN - refused to delive r up. the...deeds, and the sales of them 'became mor e rapid than ever. Under such circumstances, Ge vernors Jackson and Worthington thought it thei r duty- to-seize, and they did seize and take session of, the official .papers which were th° s fraudulently in the market.' If they had done otherwise, and winked at the fraud, they ougl" e to. be disgracefully dismissed . the service...4Yhila' delphia _Democratic Press.) morning the C/lIEF JUSTICE P C the King's Bench sat at half-past nice, to d IS' pose of' The retnnanes of causes from H.n 3 r l Ter‘m, of which thee are nearly one hundred' the kieater part to, be tried by Special -Juries atntmgst which is - on.e . indictthent for libel alain 4 the Proprietors of the John Bail, and at acei oll brought by,the soi-diser • t Princess of CumsEr'; ot LAND against Mr.. L.' GOIXSIIITIL, Proprietor TAO British itionitOr, for a libel, in describi4 lier as an impostor: • • .. • SoAriE, geritierpAn has re' ceutly beep electrA•Feliply 9f.tbv itoottl,S9Oeti' F STOCKS o'cr.ocx. TRICE - . 01 Tills DAY' AT T 3_ per Cent. Red. V 3 percent. Ccn,. 774 Exc4eq. 13i113, 1 3 pr: 4 per Cer, fOrAccount 7t 5 per Ce2i. - Navylikr.ns— 1101 i • HIGH WATER A T Morning, 12 -Ininii!c3 after 6. , N BRIDGE • TQ-IVIOR mirlutes after , J. THE -SUN SOLEM QViS LIIC4RE FALSUYI AUDEAT LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEIIIBER