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.0! , .." f e` t cz, 7, IY . a---;? NUMBER 9469. EARTHQUAKES IN SYRIA. r _ m LEVANT 'COMPANY consider it to be their duty to lay before the Public the following abstract of OFFICIAL REPORTS from JOHN BARKER, Esq. their Consul at Aleppo On the 13th of August last, at half-past nine in the evening, th e Cities of Aleppo and Antioch, and every Town, Village, and detached Cottage, throughout an extent of country corn -I:lrising•one-third of all Syria, were, in ten or twelve seconds -thrown down by a violent Earthquake, Twenty Thousand of the Inhabitants, at the lowest computation, being crushed to death by the ruins, and an equal number wounded. Violent shocks of Earthquake occurred, at frequent intervals, until the 19th of October, the date of the last dispatch. The further loss of lives is not stated, but the alarm and distress of the survivors were great beyond description. They were already suffering severely from Diseases, resulting from want and ex ,Pusure to the weather. And the Consul adds, that—" It is " impossible to conceive all the misery which it appears they " are doomed to suffer in the ensuing winter, or to find more " deserving objects of the compassion and charity of the opu " tent, whom it has pleased GOD to place in happier regions of " the globe." The Company, not doubting the facts of these statements, acquaint the Public that Subscriptions for the Relief of the Most distressed of the surviving Inhabitants will be received by John Theophilus Daubuz, Esq.. Treasurer to the Levant Company, No. 2, New Broad-street. Mr. George Liddell, Secretary, at the Office, South Sea- House ; and by the undermentioned Bankers : Messrs. Coutts and Co. I Messrs. Grote and CO. Messrs. Herries, Farquhar, I and Co. I Messrs. Hankey ; Messrs. Bosanquet and Co. Also at the Bar of Lloyd's Coffee-house. The amount of Subscriptions will be remitted by the Com- Pany, with proper instructions for its application. Subscriptions already received : C. B. d. £ s. d. Z. Levy and Sons 10 10 0 Boddington, and De la Cliaumette 10 10 0 Thomas Burton 5 5 0 John Burton & Son 10 10 0 R. W. Brant - 5 5 0 Thompson & Mildred 5 5 0 Thomas Preston 5 5 0 William Tomlinson 10 10 0 William Mellish 10 10 0 The Levant Com- - - 500 0 0 - Jacob Bosanquet 20 0 0 J. T. Daubuz - 20 0 0 'Edward Lee - 20 0 0 Nivea Kerr - 20 0 0 Briggs Brothers and Co. - 20 0 0 John Hanson& Sons 20 0 0 Jaelson,Maude &Co.IO 10 0 G. &W. Soltau&Co. 10 10 0 MORRISON'S PRESERVED PORTABLE TURTLE Sent in Jars, (hermetically sealed) to any part of the World, • and warranted to retain its good qualities for years. /r im TURTLE TURTLE in these Jars consists of the AL prime parts of the Fish, killed in the West Indies, when ' in the highest health and condition, and will be found to excel in richness and flavour, the produce of the half-starved Animal, hitherto used in this Country, after a voyage of several months. The TURTLE will also be found infinitely cheaper than that 'sold by th e great Dealers, not merely from the obvious dif ference in price, but frotn its consisting of nothing but pure Turtle,•and no such refuse as White Meat, Tripe, or Liver. To Families residing in the Country, and to Hotel and. Tavern Keepers, this TURTLE cannot but be a great con venience, as affording, at almost instant notice, the necessary ripply ( a exquiSite Soup, without the waste and loss attendant essing a whole Turtle. Certificates of its excellence from Personages of the highest _distinction. and best taste may be seen ; but a single trial is requested in preference, as more certain of insuring appro bation. To be had Dressed or Undressed, at the rate of 10s. per Quart Dressed, or 12s. 6d. per Quart' Undressed ; which last Makes nearly three times its own quantity of the former. The Dressed requires only to be warmed up, and with the Un dressed a Receipt will be given, by which any Cook may make it into excellent Soup. N.B.—A liberal discount allowed to those who purchase to Dress, and Sell again to Customers, taking a certain quantity. FOR READY MONEY ONLY. WAREHOUSE, 3, CHARLOTTE ROW, MANSION HOUSE, LONDON; WHERE MAY DE IIAD Portable Soups of all kinds, Dressed Meats, Fresh Salmon, Vegetables, &c. To T. TAYLOR, Esq. No. 9, New Bridge-street, London. HONOURED SIR, IBEG leave to inform you ) that ever since the year 1790, I had been afflicted with the Lues Venereal, Which, from its obstinately resisting every course ut medieine prescribed by the most eminent of the faculty here, and un dergoing severalsevere courses of salivathm, and twice dis charged from,the Hospital with little relief, wuuld appear to be of the most inveterate aature. In the spring of last year my disorder had got to such a head, as nearly to put a period to my existence—l had a large ulcer on the crown of my head, 4en e - en each arm, and my legs were broke out in a frightful manner ; may right was dreadfully painful, and had been in a !'state of ulceration for the last seven years; my left had also t two large nodes on it, was very much discoloured, and gave :We such excruciating pain, particularly when warns in bed, Sas nearly to deprive me of rest ; iu this lamentable state, I • was recommended by Mr. J. Thompson, (who received so !great a cure by them here), to take your Leahe's Patent Which I began to do on the 26th o. May ; in the course of a fortnight I began to receive benefit—in little more than a month the ulcers on my head and arms were soundly healed— soon after, the sores ma my legs healed also ; leaving, how ever, considerablediscolouratiou in the skin, and pain in the bone of the left, which, by the blesfing of God, an,: a little longer perseverance in your invaluable Medicine, subsided ; the nodes dispersing, the skin regaining its natural hue, anti the nocturnal pains gradually going otf.—l thus became, by your liberal advice and medicine, perfectly free from all my former 'complaints—have recovered my further spirits a rid 'strength, and am become jolly and Eat, in which state having Continued many months, to the astonishment of all who knew .111 e I . am:at a loss in what terms to express my gratitude, hut be g y o u, fur the good of other suffering mortals, to make this my case as public as possible, as. I shall on every occa sion; in so doing you will greatly oblige, Sir, your grateful, obedi e nt, v e ry lsumble servant, ALEX. M lt VC it Swan's Close, High-street, Edinburgh. Witnesses to the above Cure:— John Timrepson, No. 3, New. Poultry Market, Edinburgh, John IPintosh, Old Assembly Close, Edinbur ;h. Prepared and sold by the sole Proprietor, THOMAS TAY- Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, at his • ""se,: No. 9, New Bridge-street, London; where, after a izonstaut residence ofanort than 40 years, in a practice parti 4ularly directed to the cure'of Venereal Complaints and those shciderslat to the. Parts of Generation, witlethat inviolable at tcreerWhich men of his profession should always observe in guch cases; tse•. flatters himself the advice and assistance he ! ta tuitonsly administ e rs to persons taking this Medicine, will c estetmd; by a discerning Public, as air advat.tage seldom bal tainable, and void of all ambiguity. istriold, by his appidnt ment, tor the convenience of those tflora g at a distance, attire Toyshop,•No: 103; Oxford , struet; '.. l r • Dish oroug h' s, 7, Fish-street-hill; Mr. Baxter, :1/7th-bridge, Edinburgh ; Mi. Callwel 's, Dublin ; and of •persufs in every consideralile.town its Groat Britain and freland inboxes v. fonly 2s. 9d. each, stamped, and sealed up "nit vindAsiaih directions, •vherelov persons, of. either se x :may cure themselves with ease, speed, secrecy, and safety. ;'M4944. • I /7 4 •.) ^' , PC/ (2 vb. / Xf'L) //.2 4°/ - 4.1 . 1 1/ 1 114 . . 1 1 t A• ~ ... .1': s.r. - ...... ... , ~.? , , ri;k.,t' , ";,,•"-.... •,• n, • .I, i t'i :: ", ' • c..; s ' 'F '''-' ',- .. , 41 IIONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1822. SOCIETY for PROMOTING CH FUSTIAN KNOWLEDGE, Bartlett's-buildings, Dec. 16, lel— At a numerous and highly respetable MEETING of the ME M - BERS of the SOCIETrfor PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE, convened for the purpose of considering' what measures it might be proper for the Society to adopt, on occasion of the lamented death of the Lord Bishop of Calcutta ; The Right Rev. the LORD BISHOP of LONDON in the Chair,(in the unavoidable absence of his Grace the President,) The following Resolutions were unamously agreed to : That this Board having received, with feelings of the deepest regret, intelligence of the death of the Right Rev. Thomas Fanchawe Middleton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Calcutta, do sin cerely deplore the sudden termination of that long and inti mate connection which subsisted between his Lordship and the society. _ _ That this Board feel it their duty thus publicly to express their lively sense of that rare union of wisdom, activity, and firmness, which,marked the character of the late Lord Bishop of Calcutta, and qualified him, in an eminent degree, to ac complish the arduous undertaking of establishing in the East a branch of the Apostolical Church of England ; an undertaking which, under his prudent and energetic management, was in the most promising state of advancement ; but the completion of which, under the Divine Blessing, must be looked for from a similar combination of talent and piety in those who may hereafter be called to the exercise of Episcopal functions in India. That this Board, recollecting the solemn and affecting ad dress in which the Bishop, upon the eve of his departure for India, took leave of the Society, and adverting to the pl e d ge which he then gave of promoting to the utmost of his power the objects of the Society, within the sphere of his spiritual in fluence, are desirous of expressing their 'grateful sense of the zealous and effectual manner in which that pledge has been redeemed. That, with a view to a more durable expression of the esteem and regret of this Board, measures be taken for the erection of a Monument to the memory of the late Lord Bishop of Cal cutta, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul ; the expence to be defrayed by the individual Subscriptions of Members of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ' • and that books be forthwith opened at. the Society's Office, and with the Secre taries of the Diocesan and District Committees for receiving the names of the Subscribers. That this Board feel a melancholy satisfaction in adopting a suggestion made by the late Lord Bishop of Calcutta, in his last letter to the Society, relative to the foundation of Five Scho larships in the Mission College at Calcutta; and accordingly agree to place the sum of 6,0001. at the disposal of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, for the pur pose of endowing five Scholarships, besides affording a salary for a Tamul Teacher in the said College, with such reference to the Sons of the Society's Missionaries as the Statutes of the College may allow ; and this Board, anxious that the piety and .zeal of the late Lord'Bishop of Calcutta should be honoured with an appropriate Memorial in the country where they were most conspicuouSly and beneficially displayed, do recornifien4 that the said Scholarships be founded, and henceforth called by the name of Bishop Middleton's Scholarships. That this Board, having a well-grounded confidence that the Venerable Archdeacon Loring will, during the vacancy in the See of Calcutta, use his best endeavours to promote the several important designs for the advancement of Christian Knowledge in the East, which occupied so large a portion of the late. Lord Bishop's time and solicitude, do invite the Archdeacon to enter into correspondence with the Society ; and do assure him, that any suggestions, which he may think proper to offer, in fur therance of those designs, will Obtain the Society's most favour able consideration. _ _ That, as a mark of the high esteem entertained by this Board for the character and virtues of the Widow of the late Lord Bishop of Calcutta, a Copy of the Resolutions adopted at this: Special General Meeting of the Society, handsomely written on vellum, be presented to Mrs. Middleton, immediately after her arrival in England. • That a Committee, consisting of nine Members of the So ciety, viz. :—His Grace the Lord Bishop of Canterbury (President), the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of London, the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop_of Llandaff ( Dean of St. Paul's), the Right Hon. Lord Kenyon, the Venerable the Archdeacon of London, the Venerable the Archdeacon of Middlesex, the Venerable the Archdeacon of Colchester, the Rev. Dr. D'Oyly, and Joshua Watson, Esq. be appointed to superintend the erection of the Monument, and to take all such steps as may be necessary for carrying the Resolutions of this Meeting into effect. _ _ _ That the contributions towards the erection of the Monu ment be limited to the amount of each Member's annual subscription to the Society. That the Resolutions adopted by the Board at this Special Meeting of the Society be published under the direction of the Committee. - Agreed unanimously, That the thanks of this Meeting be given to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of London for having taken the Chair; and for the very obliging and able manner in which he has conducted the business of the day. ' GEORGE GASKIN, D. D. Secretary, Barlett's-buildings, Dec. 27. 1822. At a SECOND SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING, convened for the purpose of receiving and taking into conside ration an Application from the Incorporate Society for the Pro pagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, for permission to co operate with the Members of the Society " for Promoting Christian Knowledge, in the errectionsof a Monument to the Memory of the late Lord Bishop of Calcutta, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, and thus to perpetuate their feelings of gra titude for his services, and admiration tor his talents;" His Grace the LORD ARCHBISIIOP of CANTERBURY, President, in the Chair ; The following Resolutions were unanimously agreed to : That this Board gladly acknowledge the cordial union that has so long and so happily subsisted between the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts ; inasmuch as the two Societies arose from the same stock, were founded on the same principles, and acted under the same Presidept. That this Board, therefore, however anxious they may have been to reserve to the members of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge the honour of offering a suitable tribute to the memory of the late Lord Bishop of Calcutta, cannot re sist the earnest request that has now been made ;y the sister So ciety to be admitted to co-operate with them in the erection of the monument proposed to be placed in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul. That two members of the Incorporated Society for the Propa gation of the Gospel, viz. the Rev. 11. H. Norris and the Rev. J. Lonsdal;:, be added to the Special Committee which has been appqinted to carry this design into execution. That the Archdeacon of London be requested to furnish the Board with a copy of the admirable address elelivered by him at the last special general meeting, for the uses of the Society. Agreed unanimously, .That the cordial and respectful thanks of the meeting be offered to his Grace the Archbishop of Can terbury, for presiding on this occasion. GEORGE GASKIN, D.D. Secretary. PRIVATE TUITION. AVACANCY is NOW OPEN i n th e FA. MILY of a MARRIED CLERGYMAN, within a con venient Distance of London, who prepares a FEW PUPILS fur the UNIVERSITIES, or their respective Professions many of whom have been of the highest rank. Litters directed for Rev. W. M., Mr. Reynolds, Bookseller, 137, Oxford-street, London, will bc'duly forwarded. FOR CORNS, BUNIONS, &c MORRIS'S ROYAL BRUNSICK W CORN. PLASTER, prepared frotn a Receipt belong ing to her late Majesty. It is an excellent Remedy for eradi cating Corns, and giving relief to those who have hard fleshy substances at the bottom of their feet, without the least pain or inconvenience, and will prove a very useful Family Plaster for fresh Wounds and Scalds, likewise for Bunions. Prepared by G. MORRIS, Chemist to the Royal Family, Kensington: - Sold in Boxes at Is. 14. pnd 2s. 9d. by Butlers, Chemists, No. 4, Cheapside, St. Paurs, and 220, Regetit-Street (near the Argyle Rooms), London : 90, Waterloo-place,. Edit:- burgh; 34. Sackville-street, Dublin ; and by the principal •Medicine Venders throughout the United Kingdom. N. B.—Be careful to ask for " Moan's's BRUNSWICK CORN PLAsTEH;" 4nd to observe the GoverntuentStatup has the words " Butler, 4, Cheapside," engraved on it. U B ICATION S. This Day was plihlished, In Three Volume . , Octavo, price 365. The Third Edit' . On, of T HE LIFE of the Right Honourable WIL, • LIAM 'PITT. By GEORGE TOMLIN E, D.D. Lord Bishop of WIN CHESTER. Printed fur John Min ray, Alhemarte,treet. This Day %vele published, in foolscap iivo. price Ss., The Second Edition, of C ONFESSION'S of an ENGLISH OPIUM EATER. •‘ It is long since we have passed an evening of slush en chaining interest as that which Ce owe to-the Confessions of an .English Opitun Eater." (Quarterly Review, July, 1822.) Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 93, Fleet-street. The LONDON MAGAZINE for January Ist, contains No- I. of a Series of Letters to a Young Man whose Educa tion has been neglected, lay the English Opium Eater. NVESTALL'S ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE SKETCH . BOOK. E .LITERARY SPECULUM for January contains the'first of a Series of Illustrations of the Sketch P.ook. The subject is the Pride of the Village. The whole from .the pencil of R. Westall, Esq., ILA., and engraved in the line manner in the best style. • - This number contains the following original articles :- 1. On the Story of the Pride of the- Village in the. Sketch Book. 2. Christmas, in times past and .present. 3. The De mon's Isle. 4. Scholastic Rerruniscenes, No. I.—The Tutors. 5. On the Character of Juliet and some of its Representatives. 6. On Chess-playing. 7. My Fire-side. 8. Sonnet. 0. On the Opinion we tbrm of Authors from their Writings. 10. - Song. 11. The Lottery of Life. 12. The Encounter, a Northumbrian Tale. 13. Mark Adrian. 14. On Lord Byron's Werner, and Lord Russell's Don Carlos. 15. On David's Picture of Napoleon's Coronation.-16. Characteristic Memoirs of the late Evan Evergreen, Gent. 17. The Cormorant, a civic sketch. London : Published by Goodier, 5, New-street, Covent- Gard en. E MONTHLY CENSOR, No. V 1 will be published on the Ist of January next, price 2s. (hi.; containing, among. other Artieles. THEOLOtiY—Belsham's Translation of St. Pant's Epis tles—Bishop of Calcutta's Charges—Bishop of Llaidatf's Ser. MCM—Dran of Peterborough's Sermon—Glen on t he Sabbat h. POLITY—:Lowe on the present State of England —Con sumption of Polslic Wealth by the Clergy—Campbell's Let ter on Ditto—Eutope by an American—Cohsiderations on the Marriage Act —jour by the Author of Sketches and Frag ments. PHYSlCS—Conyheare and Philips' Geology of Eng.'and— Bergethis on the 131 ow Pipe—Sir G. Blane's Essays—Dun glisson on Moxa. Plll,ol.oGY—Clarke's River Derwent—Reddoes' Tragedy—Brooke's Retrospecrion--Singnlarit3— Sketches and Fr a , ' ni , ents—New England Tale—Ll oren t e oo Gil Mai. Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, Saint Paul's Wireli yard, and Waterloo-place, Pall Mall ; and G. and W. B.. Whi ttaker, Ave Mai iadane. * * *Th e FIRST VOLUME is just completed, comprising the Past Seven Numbers, price tss, boards. ANCIENT CHRISTMAS CAROLS. Extracted from a publication of Mr. DAvty.s GILBERT, M.P. for Bodmin, who has taken the pains to collect these pleasing " specimens of times now passed al way, and of religious feelings superseded by those of a different cast." " These carols or Christmas songs were chanted to the tunes accompanying them, in churches on Christmas-day, and in privaie houses on Christmas-eve, throtighout the West . of Eng land, up to the latter part of the last century. " The editor is anxious also to preseve them, on account of the delight they afforded him in his childhood ; when- the festivities of Christmas-eve were anticipated by many days of preparation, and prolonged through several weeks by repeti tions and remembrances. ". Christmas-day, like every other great festival, has prefixed ,to it in the calendar a Vigil or Fast ; and in Catholic countries mass is still celebrated at midnight after Christmas-eve, when austerities cease, and rejoicings of all kinds succeed. Shadows of these customs were, till very lately, preserved in the Pro testant West of England. The day of Christmas-eve was passed in an ordinary manner ; but at seven or eiglit o'clock in the evening, cakes were drawn hot from the oven ; cider or beer exhilarated the spirits in every house; and the -singing of carols was continued late into the night. On Christmas-day these carols took the place at psalms in all the churches, espe_ chilly at afternoon service, the whole congregation joining ; and .at the end it was usual for the parish-clerk to declare, in a loud voice, his wishes for a merry Christmas and a happy new year to all the parishioners. • " None of the sports or gambols, so fre9uently practised on subsequent days, ever mixed themselves with. the religious ob servances of Christmas-eve. Two of the sports most used in Cornwall were, the one a metrical play, exhibiting the success ful prowess of Saint George exerted against a ..Nialiametan ad versary ; the other, a less aignified.representation of some trans. actions at a market or fair. " In the first, St. George enters accoutred with complete armour, and exlaims, " Here come I Saint George, That valiant champion bold, And with my sword and spear, I've won three crowns of gold. • I slew the Dragon he And brought him to the slaughter, By which I gained fair Sabra, The King of Egypt's daughter'. " The Pagan enters. " Here come I the Turkish knight, Come from the Turkish land to fight, a aa,* a a a *a a " bold, And if your blood is hot, I soon will make it cold.' " They fight, the Turkish Knight falls, and rising on one knee,' " Oh ! pardon me, Saint George, Oh ! pardon me, I crave, Oh ! give me but my life, • • And I will be thy slave.' " Saint George, however, again strikes him down ; but, im mediately relenting, calls out, " Is there no Doctor to be'found, To cure a deep and deadly-wound ?' " A Doctor enters, declaring that he has a small phial filled with the juice of some particular plant, capable ()fret:ailing any one to life ; he tries, however, and fails : when St. George kills . him, enraged by his want of success. Soon after this the Turk ish Knight appears perfectly well ; and, having been fully con vinced of his errors, by the strength of St. George's arm, he becomes a Christian, and the scene closes. " The fair or market usually followed, as a farce. Several persons arranged on benches were sometimes supposed to sell corn; and one applying to each seller in his turn inquired the price, using a set form of words, to be ,:tnswered in a • corre sponding manner. If any error were committed, a grave per sonage was introduced with much ceremony, grotesquely pr tired, and provided with a large stick ; who, after stipulating for some-ludicrous reward, such as a gallon of moonlight, pro ceeded to shoe the untamed colt, by striking the person in error on the sole of the foot. " For an ample•acconnt of various customs end- ceremonies practised at Christmas in former periods, the reader .is referred to Brand's Observations in Popular Antiquities,' edited by Henry Ellis,. F.R.S., and Secretary of the Society of . Anti quaries, 2 vols. 4to; and to,' The elavisJohn Brady, 2 vols. Bvo. In each of these works will be found a very curious dissertation on the word yule, the name of a Pagan festival, which has passed into most European languages, to de nominate Christmas. The French nod is obviously rived from from this word, and appears corrupted into "Now Well,' when it forms a part of the chorus in tbe fourth carol; and perhaps indicates the whole to be . a translation. • * Some ancient Christmas earols, > with the times to >whiet they were formerly sung in. -the. West, of tEngland. _Coll►c;ed by Davis Gilbert, Esti. F. 8,5., F.A.S., tte. tifo, CORONERS' INQUESTS. DEATH FROM COLD. On Saturday an Inquisition was held before THOMAS STIRLING, Esq., Coroner for Middlesex, at the Board-room of St. Giles's Workhouse, at the instance of the Churchwardens of that parish, to inquire into the death. of John Gray, there lying dead, who was stated to have perished in consequence of being improperly exposed to the inclemency of the weather, •on Thursday night last, by one of the inferior parochial officers of the parish of St. Paul, Covent-garden. William 01lit, a patrol of St. Martin's parish, was the first witness. He stated, that on Thursday night, or rather Friday morning, at half-past one o'clock, he was going his rounds, ,and in -Drike's-eourt, Bow-street, saw the deceased on the step of a door in the court. Ile went to him, and found that he was very cold, and on speaking to him.discovered that-he was in a state of insensibility, and was incapable of answering any ques tion he put to him. The deceased being one door within the parish of St. Paul, Covent-garden, he called for Vincent, a Covent-garden watchman, and told him that a man was lying in a dying state on his beat, in Duke's-court; and Vincent, with the assistance of another watchman, came and took the deceased away. They informed him that they were going to. convey him to the watch-house. W. Vincent, a watchman of St. Paul's, Covent-garden, stated that on Friday morning, about half-past one o'clock, he was informed by the last witness, that a man was in a dying state, in Duke's -court, Bow-street ; he arid Sullivan ' a watchman, went to the spot, and there found the deceased on a step, in a state of insensibility. They carried him to-the watch-house of Covent-garden, and delivered him up to Bethell, the night beadle of the parish, and Mr. Bartlett, the watch.house keeper, who placed him by the fire, and gave him some liquor to restore him. After some time had elapsed, the deceased began to re cover from his torpid state, and was able to give his name. He stated that he lodged at • Bestall's coffee-shop, in Drury-lane, and that his name was John Gray. James Bethell, night beadle of St. Paul's, Covent-garden, stated that he received the deceased on Friday morning, about. two o'clock -front Vincent and Sullivan, at Covent-garden' watch-home. Ile and' him some warm liquor, and warmed Irim.by the fire, and in a short time he was able to say that he lodged at Bestall's coffee-shop, Drury-lane. He procured a' coach, placed the deceased in it, and conveyed him to Bestall's, and when Mr. Bestall appeared, he said that his beds were all engaged, and the deceased could not sleep there that night-- The deceased had previously been requested to sleep at the watch-house all night, but he declined, and said that he had -sufficient money to pay for a bed at his own lodgings. When Mr. Bestall refused to take the deceased into his house,- a young man passed, and said -that he knew the deceased very well, and he left the deceased with him, and having discharged the coach, he returned to his duty at the watch-house. He suppcised the young man would take care of the deceased. He; did not know the young man's name or address. It was in St. Giles's parish. He left the deceased at the door of Mr. Bestall. J. Brown, a watchman of St. Martin's, stated that his beat is in Drury-lane, opposite to Bestall's coffee-shop. About the hour of two o'clock on Friday morning, he saw a hackney coach drive up to the door of Mr. Bestall, and one man . got out and assisted another man to get out. The man that first got out knocked at Bestall's door, and Mr. Bestall made his appearance almost immediately, and on seeing the deceased, said—" I'll not let him into my house : he is in a filthy con dition, and my beds are all full." The person who was , with the man who required admittance immediately discharged the coach. A man and woman both passed by at the time, and spoke to both of the men, and then walked on. The man who was refused admiision into Bestall's, sat on the step, and the person who came with him in the coach left him, and walked away. • Walter Campbell, beadle of St. George's, Bloomsbury, stated, that ,he was on duty at the watch-house on Friday morning, between the hours of two and three, and received information that a poor man was dying on the steps of a house in Drury-lane. He instantly dispatched several patrols to bring the man. They found him on Bestall's step in a state of insensibility, almost frozen to death by ti'e hard frost. He was immediately conveyed •to St. Giles's workhouse, and on his arrival therz: he appeared to be in the agonie s , of death. The assistant-surgeon was 'called to his assistance, as he was so very ill that rt was thought he could not survive but a very short time. Ile was perfectly insensible. The assistant-sur geon came immediately, half-dressed, to render assistance to the unfortunate person. AIL Richard Ward, assistant-sutgeon of St. Giles's pa rish, stated, that on Friday morning he was called from his bed, about half-past three o'clock, to attend the deceased, who was in a dying state, from cold, and the most de plorable emaciation. Ile had been put to bed between warm blankets instantly, and persons, at his request, rubbed the deceased to produce a 'circulation of the blood by means of friction. He also administered to him that which he thought was most likely to be the means of recovering him, and left him in the care of the nurse. Every means was used to restore him, but all proved ineffectual His exposure to the inclemency Of the weather, and his reduCed state of body occasioned his death. He survived only an 'hour after his arrival at the poor house. On his entering the poor-house he had no perceptible pulse, and his restoration was then considered entirely hopeless. The parochial officers of Covent-garden attended the inquiry, and examined Mr. Bartlett, the Covent-garden watch-house keeper. They interrogated him as to whether there had not been general orders given by the overseers to the beadles and watchmen that the greatest attention should be paid to persons found in the deplorable state in which the deceased was discovered, with out regard to expence or trouble? Mr. Bartlett stated that such orders had been . given to every watchman, beadle, &c. The Core ner asked if there.was any further 'evidence, and being in formed that all the witnesses had been examined, he proceeded to address the Jury. lie stated that the deceased was found in a very deplorable state in Duke's -court, and was very properly conveyed to Covent-garden watch-house; • where Mr. Bart lett and the beadle did all in their power to relieve the unfortunate man. After ha was able to state who he was, and where he lodged, lie was taken to Drury-lane, and being refused admssion to his lodgings, was left by Bethell, the beadle, on the steps of the door. This conduct on the part of Bethell was illegal. It was an offence in law, in hiS (the Coroner's) opinion, amounting to manslaughter. The condition of the unfortunate man was such that it was im possible he could walk, and the inhumanity of Bethell in leaving him exposed to the 'severe and most inclement weather, lead been the means of accelerating his death. The law, was that where the death of one of his Majesty's subjects had been accelerated through the improper, though not malici ous, conduct of another, the offence was manslaughter ; and if with malice, it amounted to murder. His (th e Co roner ' s ) opinion was, that Bethell 'ought to have taken the deceased back to the watchhouse, when he was refused admission into • his lodgings, or to have conveyed him , to some- place where he would have received that treatment his unhappy condition so much required, and not to have left him exposed to a severe frost, when but a short time before he had been recovered from a state of insensibility in the watch-house. The Jury retired for about half an hour to consider their ver dict, and returned the following :—That the ; deceased died through a natural cause;' but that his death was greatly acce lerated by the neglect of James Bethell, the night beadle of the parish of Covent-garden. The CORONER said that the parochial offieers•of St. Giles's were deserving of thanks for their attention • and humanity to the unfortunate deceased. SUlClDE.—Saturday evening, an Inquest was held before T. SHELTON, Esq. upon the body. of David White, a young man about 25 years of age, who was brought into the prison on Friday night; • on. a cltarge of horse stealing, and' hanged him. self .on Saturday morning. After hearing evidenge establish ing the fact, a. conversation took,place, in which some, said the deceased was sane, and had been merely influenced' by fear and' shame to commit the act. .3fr. Shelton informed them that for and shame often caused insanity. The Jury then gave a verdict of " Insanity." Last week sonic men who ivere.wotking In a quarry, at Penrose; in the parisli of Bidock, discwiered about. two feet upder the surface an earthen vessel containing 250 pieces of aneiont.coin ;, the greater part of them were copper, of: the Size of a farthing, but of what, reigns it is difficult to make; out, as they have no date. Unfortunately the jar they were in. .was drAtro.yed, was of the 10C.13 having thrown, the pick pato it. —. (Pt:in:oak Jouvr4/..) - PRICE - SEVEN PENCE* THE ARMY. Copy of a circular addressed to the Half-pay Officer 3 of the Irish Modica! Staff:— " (CIRCULAR.) " Army Medical Department, Dec.'l, 1822. ".Sin—That I ,may be enabled. to ascertain tilt fitness of Medical Officers for duty, in the event of their services being required, you .vral•be pleased : to state the following particulit's under the different heads, viz.:— " let. Your age. " 2d. The period you have acted upon full pay, in every branch of the public service, and the stations where you have served. • ".3tl. The disabilities or ailments jou May suffer from, if. any exist. " I have the honour to be, Sir, yourtnost obedient setvAnt, " J. M'GRIGOII, Director-General. "ToJ. H. Walsh, Esq. (Half-pay Officer on the Irish Medical Staff ),7, Arran quay, Dublin." PROMOTIONS.. War. Office, December 27. 6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Brevet Lieutenint , Col. George Fitz-Clarence, from the Ist West India Regiment, to be Major, vice Carmichael, who exchanges ; : Lieutenant James Yorke Scarf ett, from half-pay 9th Dragoons; to be 'Lien tenant, vice Hugh Frederick Finch, who exchanges receiving the difference. ith Ditto—Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Bolton, from the 13th. Light Dragoons, to be Colonel, vice General Wilford, de ceased. 3d Regiment of Light Dragoons—Veterinary Surgeon John Schroeder, from half. pay 21st Light Dragoons, to be Vetari nary-Surgeon, vice John Blanchard, who exchanges. 13th Ditto—Lieutenant Fleming Kelso, from the Bth Light Dragoons, to be. Lieutenant, vice J. Pott, deceased. 14th Ditto—Lieutenant Edward Lane Parry to be Captain, by purchase, vice Fitz-Clarence, promoted in the Ist Witt India Regiment.; Cornet Sir Keith Alexander Jackson, Batt. to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Parry ; Cornet Ilia;sta Thomas Gilpin, from half-pay of the Regiment, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Jackson. Ist Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Charles Gordon Urqn. hart, from the 20th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Keogh, wilo exchanges. 13th Ditto—Captain George Ward Clark, from half 60th Foot, to be Captain, vi ce Henry Burnside, who exchanges, receiving the difference. 14th Ditto--Lieutenant William Caine, from the 17th Exit, to be Lieutenant, vice Bowen, who exchanges. 17th Ditto--Brevet Major Henry Despard to be Major, by purchase, vice Beck, who retires ; Lieutenant Richard Swin ton, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Despard. To be Lieutenants—Lieutenant William Keowen, from the 14th ,Foot, vice Caine, who exchanges ; Ensign Charles Aden Young ' by purchase, rice Swinton. 13th Ditto—Lieutenant .Joseph Lord Wallscourt, from half pay Royal' Westindia Rangers, to be Lieutenant, vice Edward Sheffield Cassan, who exchanges, receiving the differoice. 20th Ditto—Lieut. Daniel Keogh, from the Ist Foot, to Be Lieutenant, vice Urquhart, who exchanges. 32d .Ditto—Captain Henry Reid, from.half-pay 29th.rpot, to be Captain, vice Gilbert Elliott, who exchanges. 46th Ditto—To be Lieutenants—Ensign Charles Langweitli, from the 67th Foot, without purchase,. vice Prior, deceaseft; Lieutenant Charles Fitzachary Button, from half-pay 2A,C!y,- lon Regiment, vice George C. Grant, who exchanges, receiving the difference. 47th Ditto—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Nathaniel Warren, from the 65th Foot, to be Major, vice John William Hutchi son, who exchanges. 65th Ditto—Major John William Hutchison, from the 47th Foot, to be Major, vie Warren, who exchanges. 69th Ditto—Lieutenant Henry Bridger Tudor, from &IV pav 50th Foot, to be Lieutenant,* vice Alexander Sinclair Rcoch, who exchanges. CPith Ditto.—To be Captains—Lieutenant James Fleming Paris, by purchase, vice Nickle ' promoted ; Captain Edwes Wrn. Bray, from half-pay 24th Light Dragoons, vice Pairitik Heron Goldie, who exchanges, receiving the difference. To be Lieutenant, by purchase—lintogn David. Jardine, vice Paris. To be Ensign, by purchase—Robert Thomas Fletcher;Oent. vice Jardine. Ist 'West India Regiment—Major John Carmichael, frolp the. 6th Dragoon Guards, to be Major, vice Fitz-Clarence, who exchanges ; Captain Charles Kenny, from the 2d West lndiek , Regiment, to be Captain, vice Mercer,. who retires. • 2d Ditto —lieutenant Edward Hamill, from the Ist Dragoon Guards, to be Captain, by purchase, vice 'Kenney, appoint 4 to the Ist West India Regiment. Ist Ceylon Regiment—Ensign Henry Brahan, late of the 8/ti Foot, to be Second Lieutenant, vice Bassett, deceased. Hos p TAX. STAFF.—To be Assistant-Surgeons to tkie Form —Assistant-Surgeon Thomas James 'Wharre, M.D. from biaf pay 32d Foot, vice John Frederick Frank, placed upon hill:- pay ; Assistant-Surgeon William Pardey, from half-pay 02d Foot. To be Hospital-Assistant to the Forces—Hospital Ass‘tail . t. ,Charles Butler, from half-pay, vice Alexander Bruce, placed upon half-pay. Commissions in the Sussex Regiment ,of Richard Wetherell, Gent, to be Ensign. Commission in the Warwickshire Regiment of •Yeomanry Cavalry. • William Charles Alston, Gent to be Cornet. The 14th (or the Duchess of York's Own) Light Dragoons, General J. W. Earl of Bridgewater, Colonel.—One troop has received orders to march from Coventry on the Ist of January, for Abergavenny, where. it will arrive on the 6th of the sar4e month. One troop is ordered to march from Abergavenny on the fith of January for Birmingham, where it will arrive son the 10th of the same month. One Troop has received orders to march on Friday, the 10th of January, from Birmingham. to Coventry. The 4th (or the Queen's own) Light Dragoons, GenertilT. Hugonin, Colonel.—The detachment of the above cOrps,-'hieh marched on Saturday, the 14th instant, from Maidstone to Chatham, proceeded to Gravesend, where it embarked on the 28th instant, on board the Hon. East India Company's , ship lis, for Bombay.. ROYAL ARTILLERY.—Four Subalterns, and 107 men.of the Royal Artillery, under the command of Captain F 450, have embarked at Portsmouth, on board the Vihilia trans port, for. Jamaica. The two companies of Royal Artilery, together with the detachments belonging to the Bth, 18th, 28th, 324 Stith, 51st, 80th, 85th, and 90th Regiments of Foot, which embarked, on board the Intrepid transport, at Malta, on , the 16th of October, for England, disembarked at Chatham, on the 13th instant. MURDER.—A horrible assassination has been committed at the Brille. An inhabitant of that town having gained a prize in the lottery, proposed to his wife to ask a smith, • their neighbour, to supper. While they were at their repast, the citizen acquainted his guest with his good fortune : the latter soon left him. The patrol of a Swiss regiment passing by, found the street-door open ; on which the officer cowman:d ing it went in, and stumbled over a dead body. —Placing his men at the door, he went into the house, and found the father and mother, and • their two daughters, assassinated, and a child concealed under a press. The child said that some black people whom,be did not know had committed the crime. One of , the soldiers observing that a smith lived opposite, the officer of the patrol went to hire ; and the answers he received to his questions confirming his suspicions, he arrested him : In fact, in five minutes the smith confessed that h'e had but just got home when he returned to his neighbour's with his journeymen and his maid servant, with whose aid he assassinated the per sons who had treated him so amicably a few minutes before.—(Dukh Paper•.)