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from two guineas and a .half - to three guineas a week. I hare known him near upon - eight years." The Learned Counsel for the Defendaht perceiv ing the efreft his.last. question upon the, condua of the Plaintiff at- the hospital had, commenced his ad. dress by saying,,• that he certainly had . no instruc tion from his Client to put that queStion ;. that he did not intend to have asked it, hut it suggested itself to him on the sudden, and therefore he de_ .sired that the Defendant might not, be . made to sof_ fer for an attempt to traduce 'the charaCter of the . 'Plaintiff. The Defendant was, in truth, a res.ped_ able man, and Clerk` to Messrs. Railton and Co.— He was very sorry for- the accident ; but the. Plain. tiff had brought it upon himself. by 'his imprudence, for he had joined some women of the town in the street, and had proposed to give them half a'guinea, _and asked the Defendant, as he happened to be go . ing along, to do the same thing, and said 'he was shabby fellow for refusing. The Defendant thought this a scheme to pick` his _pocket, and wortlsarose, and this accounted for the Defendant calling the Plaintiff an impostor. If the Plaintiff had himself been the cause of this accident, how_ ever serious it was, he .must bear it, for the Law threw it upon him. This case he should prove by the testimony of a Witness who ,happened to be passing at -the time this quarrel happened, and uould give a better account of it than had hitherto been ‘, 4 iven, for not one of, the Plaintiff's Witnesses saw the beginning of this dispute. • Robert Spencer—" I am a paper-hanger, and live in a Court in St, Martin's Le-Grand. On the zisc of January I was : in Fieet-street, Which I particu larly recollel by the Circumstances that haPpened. I had, at that -time, no acquaintance with either the flaintiff or the Defendant. I had been at a Benefit -Socieiy at the other end of the town, and was going home as fast as I .could .walk ; seeing a number ot. women, I suppose . 20 or 3o girls, which I should think, by their appearance and behaviour • were women of-the town, the, Plaintiff was amang these women. Tae Defimdant I saw in the middle standing with the Plaintiff,-and these women col_ Jetted together. . This was before the,quarrel ; the Watchman w'as not then Come up; there was no one present as a Witness but myself: only the. women and the : Pyaintiff, and the-Defendant, : The first thing that. took tip my attention was this-,4 heard Mr. Reed say,- " I make a:motion, that _ you give tliese Ladies half-a,guinea," says Mr. Reed, " will give these women hall-a-guinea'; do you se_ cold the motion also, -that each of •us gives half-a guinea.:" Mr. Lane told him; " -that he -knew nothing about 'these women nor of him 'either." Upon Mr. Lane's answer (this was imtnediate,/y in the course of half a'minute) some. words occurred ; Mr. Reed said, " yoif are a shabby rascal," and went up to him -immediacely, then they -went to blows. the best of my 'knowledge, Mr. Reed went into the street before the Watchman came i up; but. at • the time he called Mr. Lane a' shabby fel low and a rascal,. there - WaS 'nobody present but myself and. the women. The blows came on very quick, but to the best of my-knowledge, Nlr. Reed gave the first blow ; I have-not the feast doubt of tt. The Defendant did riot call the Plaintiff an impostor betbre that time ; -I 'never saw more than two of three blows between them. Mr. Reed was standing on the edge of the pavement, bidding de fiance, and supporting his stick against Mr. Lane who' was complaining of the Police, by which such persons . were allowed to assemble as they did, in:. festing the street, and as to Mr. Reed, I thought he was conne6ted with these women. I heard the charge given, but I did not go to the • watch.. house." LOrd KENYON observed to the Jury, that who ever-the perion was who was originally to blame, the consequence had been calamitous to the Plain. tiff, who brought this.cauie before them: but in point of law, if the first assault came from the Plaintiff, the Defendant would be entitled to a Verdia.. He did not 'see how this assault could be divided—it was one running fight ; but it was observable, that the Defendant's pleading did not agree with the defence now set up, for if that was true, he ought not to have pleaded merely Not Guilty, but he ought . to have justified what he did 'in his-own defence. By the pleadings, he did not say - the Plaintiff struck him first ; if the Plaintiff struck first, he could have no Verdict. If the De fendant struck first, he was answerable in damages —and then the Jury would say, what th.-ir amount would be under all the circumstances of this case. Verdi& for the Plaintiff—Damages cool. At the late. Suffolk Assizes,, the following cause Was tried : JOHN NUNN.% ARTHUR 'BROOKS. This Was an action of considerable inVortance to the agricuicural- interest - Of the country, brought against . the Defendant for a trespass, in consequence of damage sustained by his fiockof sheep consuming a crop-of trefoil growing on the lands of the 'Plain tiff, in the common field of ,Horningsheath (part of which lies in the pa:ish -of St. Mary, Bury), over which the Defendant, as lessee of Great Hornings. heath Hall Farm, claimed a right of sheep_walk, that is, of feeding sheep thereon,, whenever not sown with corn or gram.—The - evidence of the Plaintiff tended to prove that the field in question was every-year-land, and Only subject to• sheep shackage, ,that is, after the, crops of all denomina tions are reaped, it never having becti cultivated by the regular succession of crops as in cases of sheep. walk, one-third lying fallow, every year 4 on the contrary, the occupiers had always sown what they liked, as often, and, where they liked. After hearing a great number of Witnesses to establish the Plaintiff's, case, and nearly as many to repel the same, on the part of the Defendant, the latter of whom contended, that, for a long series of years, artificial grasses and turnips had only been sown by' the indulgence or leave of the occtipier of the Hall, or Manor Farm, who had resisted the same - in two or three instances, though not before litigated it. The jury, which was special, found a verdi& for the Plaintiff, Kith zol. damages, to the gteat satis ftdion of the farming interests. CAMBRIDGE, juLy z 3. AT the Asiies for this County (held befdre Baron HOTHANth which terminated yesterday, .th e following prisoners received their annexed sen tences: John Awbrey, aged 30, for stealing out of the fold of Samuel Balduck, of Ctmnington, one poll e d ewe lamb, was found guilty, .and received sentence of Iltath, but was afterwards reprieved. Henry Cohen, aged - 43, was charged- with having feloniously bought goods of Richard Kidman, know_ ing them to have ben Stolen, was acquitted, owing to Sarah Kidman's - refusing, to give evidence. She was, by order of the Judge, committed for perjury. Thomas Lovel, aged 22, for stealing some pork, bread, and 'cheese, was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment. John ci-don, aged 4.8 ; Christian Davison, aged 6 i ; Edwiird Newit, aged 38; Thomas Brown, aged 56, and John Brown, aged 6o; all fbr•felony, were each seoicnced to beimprisoned six months. At Norwich Sessions, an Appeal, was made by Sir ROGER KERR ISON, Kut. against the Commis sioners under the Brooke In3losure Aa,,respeaing a piece of water in that parish, which the CommiS sioners had allotted to SEAMAN HOLMES, Ecq. Lord of the Manor of Brooke, but which the Appellant alledged ought to have been allotted to him. After a long hearing, it was admitted by. the Court of Session, that the decision of the Commissioners was final, and that they had no power to . hear the . Appeal. • A PERFIDIOUS DEFAMATION WILL REWARDED. A Paitner of the well known house of BIELITz and SEEBERGDit't Nurnberg, in Germany, having lately proceeded on a journey with his youngest son and a friend, for the expresS PurpoSe of conduEting the former to a place of temporary residence, was suddenly arrested with his .company in his passage through a town, by order of the 'Mayor, at the in. stance of a Jew, who had .been induced to that step, by hearing of the Merchant's travelling in a post-chaise, and asking hastily for horses, which he concluded he was doing for the more effeaually making his escape, in consequence of their supposed failure, Soon after the 'necessary measures for securing him were taken, the at first incensed Israelite discovered, but too late, that he had ac cused the person wrongfully, and being now exceed. ing sorry for the rashness of his action, he presented himself at midnight before the prisoner's bed, crav ing his pardon for the past, and urging him at .the same time that he would condeScend to d e p art without delay, previous to the approaching ar riv-al o of .his father„ whom he had acquainted with. the seizure, per Estpiette, and who, 'as he suggested, in. die vehemence- of his just an, ger, might easily be' the' instrument of his un timely death. Lipon this, .the Merchant ordered_ the penitent Hebrew' to quit the room, and sent to inform the Mayor (who had already released him from his confinement) that he should not. think him- LONI)k)N : I'rm cu by Iit.JCI-UNN.A N m'tv.lLl AN, (or liow-Strecr, Covent-Carden); aikt Published by WILLIA* ARMIGER Scalpps (olHorse-terry-road, Westminster); At the Sun.Oroici, No. 112, Strand ; where Adverts:founts, Order, for the .?aper, Letter, fox the Editor, &c, "'mt./cud), must be addressed, THE ARTS. As it is our 'purieose tooireet our attention to the elegant Arts, and . as such :a 'Critic as Mr. FUSELI is a phcerromenon, we think We are Pro- inoting,the Arts, and improving the general taste, in making citations from the Le Lures Which ,lie has recently published. The passages we 'have already taken, display , so much learning ' as we ll as judgment, and, are:, manifestly governed by such a liberal spirit, that we are pers u aded' o U r ,R ea d ers will be highly j ,gratified by farther Extra;. s Writer who possesses so profound a knowledge or the great princ4Aes of Art. TI-TE brilliant antithesis ascribed to Simonides; that Painting is mute Poeiry, - and Poetry speaking Painting . , made, I apprehend, no part of the technic systems. of Antiquity ; for this - we may depend on the general TraCtice of its ArtiSts, and still more safely on the philosophic discrimination of Plutarch, who tells us, that as Poetry and Painting resemble each other in their uniform address- to the • senses, for the impression they mean to make'on our fancy, and by that on our mind, so they differ as essen tially in their - materials and their modes of appli cation, which are' regulated by the diversity Of the o'rg:ms they addresS e ear and eye. SzicCessive athon communicated by sounds,' and tioe, are the medium of Poetry ; form displayed in space, and thomen tareeous energy, are the elements of Painting. As, rt . these premises be true, the diseina repre sentation of continued ,anion is refnsed to an Art which, cannot express, even in a series of subjects, but by a supposed mental effort in -the spectator's mind, the regular succession of their moments, it becomes evident, that instead of attempting to im press us by theindiscriminate usurpation of a principle out, of its reach, _it ought chiefly to -rely for ,its. effect on its great characteristics, space and form e singly or in apposition. Informs alone the idea of existence can be ren -tiered permanent. Sounds die, .words perish or become obsolete. and .obscure, even colours fade; forms alone can neither be extinguished nor miscon s rued ; by- application ,to their standard alone, de. scription becomes intelligible: and diStina.. Thus the eifeaual idea ofcorporeal beauty can serialy exist only in the Plastic Arts ; for as ;the notion of beauty arises from the pleasure we feel in the harmonious co-operation of_ theevarious parts of some favourite objet to one end. at once, it implies -their immediate co-existence in,the mass they icompose; and therefore can be distinctly perceived and conveyed to the mind by. the eye alone. ; hence the representation of form in .figere is the physical element Of the Art. But es Bodies exist in time as well as in space,. as the pleasure arising from the mere symmetry of an objea, is as transient as it i, iMmediate ; as harmony of parts, if the Body be the agent of an internal power, depends for its proof on their -application, it follows, .that the exclusive exhibition of inert. and , unemployed form; would be a mistake :of the me dium for the -end, and that eharzeter or action is required to make it an interesting objet of imita, don, and this is the moral element of the Art.. Those important moments then, which exhibit the united exertion of form and Character in a sin gle objet or in participation with collateral beings, at once, and which, with equal rapidity and preg nancy, give us a glympse of the past, and lead our eye to what follows, furnish the true materials of those technic powers, tllat selea, direct, and fix the objects of imitation to their centre. The, most eminent of these, by the explicit ac knowledgment of all agei, and the silent testimony of every breast, is Invention. He whose eye athwart the outward crust of the rock, penetr4tes_ into the composition of its materials, and discovers a gold mine, is surely superior to him who after wards adapts the metal for use. Colombo,. when .he from Astronomic and Physical inductions, concluded to the existence,of Land in the opposite hemisphere, was surely superior to Anierigo Vespucci, who took possession of its Continent; and . when Newton, improving accident by meditiation, discovered and established the Laws of - Attraction, the projeetile and centrifuge qualities .of the system ;' he gave the clue to all who, after him, applied it to the various branches of Philosophy, and was, in fad,- the. Author of all the benefits accruing- from their application, to Society. Homer, when he means ,to give .the principal feature 'of, man, calls him Inventor. From what we have said, it is clear,. that the terni Invention never ought robe so far misconstru ed as to be confounded with that of Creation, in compatible with our notions of limited .Being,, an idea of pure astonishment, and admissible only when we mention Omnipotence': to invent is to 'find ; to find something pre-suppri - ses its existence somewhere, implicitly or explicitly, ,Seattered or in a mass. Nor should I have presumed to say so inneh•on a word of a Meaning so-plain, had it not been, and were it not daily confounded, and by fashionable authorities too, with the term Creation.. Form in its widest meaning, the visible Universe that envelopes our senses, and its counterpart the in visible one that agitates our Mind with visions, bred on sense,. by fancy, are the Element ar.d the Realm of Invention ; it discovers, selefts, combines the possi ble, the pobable, the known ; in a mode that strikes with an air of truth and novelty at once. Possible strialy. means an 'eft - eft &rived from a cause, a body composed of materials-, a coalition of forms, whose union or co-ageney imply in themselves no absurdity, no contradi&ion. Applied to our A rt it takes 4_ wider latitude, it means the representa.: tion of,effefts derived from causes;or . forms com pounded from materials, heterogencotis and incom 7 patible among themselves, but rendered s o pl aust , ble to our senses, that the. transition of one part to another seems to be accounted for by an air of Or ganization, and. the eye glides imperceptibly, or with satisfaftion from one to the other, • and over' the whole. Thltt this was the condition on which, and thelimits within which alone the Ancients per mitted. Invention to represent what was striftlyspeak ing impossible, 'we May with plausibility surmise, from the PiCture ofZeuxis, described by Lucian in the Memoir to which helrat prefixed that raintees name, who was probably one of the first adventur ers in this speCies of imagery: Zeuxis had painted a family of. Centaurs. The 'dam a beautiful female to the. middle,,.with the lower parts gradually slid ing into the•most exquisite forms of a young Thes salian mare half reclined in playful repose, and gently pawing the velvet ground, offered her human nipple to one infant Centaur, whilst another greedily sucked the ferine udder below ; but both with their eyes turned up to a Lion whelp held over them by the.niale,Centaur their Father. Rising, above' the which the female reclined, a grim feature, but whgse . ferocity was somewhat tempered by a smile.. • The scenery, .the colour, the chiaroscuro, the.finish of the whole was, no doubt, equal to the style and the conception. This Picture the Artist. exhibited, expecting that justice front the - penetra tion of the Public,. which the genius deierVed that taught him to give plausibflin to a com pound of heterogeneous forms, to inspire them with suitable Soul, and to imitate the, _Laws of existence; he was mi s t a k en . Th e novelty of the conceit eclipsed the Art that had embodied it. The Artist was abSorbed in his . subjek% and the unbOunded praise bestowed, was that of idle restless curiosity gratified. Sick of Gods and GoddesseS, of Pemi-GodS and pure human combinations, the Athenians, pan rd, only for what Was. new. The Artist, as haughty as irritable, ordered hi 4 Picture to be withdrawn '; " Cover it, Micchio, said he to his attendant, cover it and carry it hoMe, for this mob stick only to the clay Of our Art." Such 'were the lithits set .to invention by the Ancients ; secure Within:these, it defied the ridicule thrown on that grotesque- conglutination which Horace expoSes ; guarded by these, thvir Mythology scattered its metamorphosis, made every element its tributary, and, transmitted the privilege to us on equal conditions : their Scylla and the' Por_ tress of Hell,. their Dxmons and our Spectres, the Shade of Patinelus and the Ghost of Hamlet, their . Naiads, Nymphs, and Dreads, and our Sylphs, Gnomes„and Fairies ;their Furies and our Witches, differ less in essence, than in local, temporary,- social moditicitions:. their common origin was Fancy, opc. rating on the materials of Nature, assisted by legen dary tr.:Oh-ion and the curiosity implanted in -"us of diving into the invisible ; and they are. suffered orinvited to mix. with, or superintend real agency, in propOrtion to the analogy which we discover. between them and ourselves. Pindar praises Homer less 11.)r ‘-‘' winged power" which whirls inci dent on incident, with such rapidity, that absorbed by the whole, and &awn from ;the impossibility of single parts, we swallow a tale too gross to be be lieved in .a dream, than for the greater power by which he contrived to connect. his imaginary crea tion with the realities of nature and human passions without this the fiction of the Poet and. the Painter will :leave us stupified rather by its insolence, than impressed by its power ;.it will be considered only' as a superior kind ,ollegerdemain, an exertion of in genuity to no adequate end. self acquitted, without receiving the most .signal satisfation from the offender, and much less would, leave the town by ni g ht. H owever , ear l y i n t he morning on .the nextday, the parent of the young Jew arrived, - deeply penetrated witli,sorrow for the indiscreet behaviour of his offspring, .and,ready-: to make atonement for his crime. , Matters then became arranged in a moment. A defence OfMot nour was drawn- up and signed by the Jew, who,: owing to the lenity of thelilairitiff, had merely to pay him a fine of fifty Lotitsill'ors as an indemnity. for expences and_injunes . qustained; : onto-half of which sum the Merchant "coninianded . to be:distri. buted to the necessitous poor ;„.and for the better vindicating the assaulted reputation of the house, gave directions not only to insert an - historical ac- count of the accident in several newspapers, but likewise to have a considerable number of copies with the narration thereof printed, and circulated among the public, ,which were received by many. With great applause, to the 11 tmost disappointthent of the Jews., • . At Salisbury Assizes,' Charles Rudman, James Dark, Henry Carr, James Cart, Wm:Bestly, John Ockwell; for sheep-stealing; Wni. Thomas • and Isaac Box, for stealing calves ; Isaac Giddings, for stealing money at A tford ; James Davis, for stealing bacon ; Robert Reeves, and Silas Stevens, for house-breaking, severally received sentence of death`: against eight no bills were found ; two - were, admitted evidence; .ano six .were acquitted. "S A in#l Grant, charged with stealing barley at Devizes, was ordered to beimprisoncd two months, and Anal is. and William Godden, charged with stealing wheat at West LavingtOn, to serve in the army. IRISH STATE LOTTERY. SEVENTH DAY. No. 4907, entitled to toool. as First-drawn.—No. 6633, a Prize ot . 1:)001. SIIIP LIVERPOOL, JULY 2.8. Arrived—the Grafton, Roach, from Quebec ; Ariel, Brown, and Maria, Small, Irvin Virginia ; and Hercules, Pcarce, from Sahel--the Barton, Cnaliners, for Barbadoes ; and jamzs r for Jamaica. POOLE, JULY 29 . , Arrived—the Two Brothers, Whittle, from Bridport ;: A6tive, Williams, and Dart, Williams, trona Portsmouth;' and C'ood Intent, Ballard, train Cowes. Sailed—the Erasmus, Baker ' for kuL;hester Six,Brothers, Manelaws, for Bri s t o l ; Charlotte, Robert's, Lyme;ler .Ro bert aryl - Geork,e, Be nson , I b r Li verpoo l ; an d Elizabeth, Hayward, for Lover. GRAVESEND, JULY is). Passed by-L - the Planter, Corran, from Virginia. . Sailed--the Juno, 'Luk e , fo r Ch ar l estown ; and Naviga... tor, Robinson, tar Smyrna. . . • MARRIED.' . • • On Thursday, the Rev. Samuel Francis, Godmond, M. A. 'of Brightwell, Oxfordshire, to Miss Humphrey;, of Thread•, needle-street. Yesterday, at Lambeth Church, by the Rev. Dr. Vyse, Langfora Millington, of Berners-street, Esq. to Miss Eleanor Shermer, a daughter of William Sitermer-, Esq. of-Lambeth Lawn. The same day, Thomas Philipps, Esq. -of the City Chambers, to Miss Charlotte Arbouin, fourth daughter of the late Mathew Arbouin, - Esq.: The same morning, at Woodford, in Essex, Lieutenant• Colonel Hutchinson, of the 49iii Regianent: te-Alis4 I,etitia Vaillant, youngest daughter or Paul Vaillant, Esq, of Pall. Mall. , Lately; Thomas Grenville; Esq. .of Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, to 'Miss Hornsby, of Grafton-street,' Fitzroy• s•;uare. PR ICE 01' STOCKS, YL4TER DAV. Bank Stock 166 51 Navy SSuer Cent: 9111 . 5 per .Cent. 1797, 9311 ) rish 5 per Cent. S9k '4 per , Celit. Colt. 78ii 3 pei• Cent. .Red. 59 8i 91 per Ce n t. C on . s .sai littto Scrip • • Bank Long Ann. 17,15,16 IS Dittey Short Ann... • bitt-crSerip India Stock 1923 E xetteg tier 1;.111... s. New ditto s. (LS. Lot tory Tickets' Irish ditto ninium 61 Imper. ^ per Cent. Dittet -Wnn. I I 3-16 i Bank for•Acconnt India fur Ma); 'Consols for open, 5S :NEAR:ASHBURTON, DE 1/02 in,the SO if TII•HAMS. TO, BE SOLD BYJAUCTIONI: . By-Kr. CHRISTIE, • At his Great Itcionr;, On THURSDAY, August 13, at-One o'Clock, C API TA L and Valuable . FRF,EHOLD • ESTATE; , consisting qt the very extensive Manors of-BROOK, MA YNBROW, BUCKFASTLEIGH, and BARTON, with Gourt Leets, Court Baron, '.ol:it Rents,' Fines, Heriots, Toils of Fairs and IVlarkets, Rignts, R oval ties,-Fre. and anticnt Mansion, Offices, Garden, Sze. in ;co , :i repair, and near 4000 • acres of arable Up-Land and Water- Meadow, Pasture and Down Laud, Ty the-,free, Land Tax redeemed . ; zOOO acres of which are •i n , : i ose d, and divined into Ten Farms, and let to•respeelable Tenants. Also about (0 0 acres of capital Timber, Grove, Wood, - and Coppice Laedin hand. • , The Estate.is well watered, of the present annual Rent of ONE THOUSAND SEVEN 14 U.,4I)RED POUNDS, • Capable . cilvery cohsidereible improvement.' The Estate abounds with:pienty of Lime-stone bezu tiful Marble,. convertible into Chininev,-pieees, Slabs, A Water Soak,Corn Mille is let with the Barlow Farm, With a valuable privilege of depasturing Stock on Darttnbor, for ming, in the whc)le, a most compact,.and desirable Estate, with great plenty of Game and ield Sport, as the distin guished Devonshire or Dean fliint depends on this spot for its sport. The home grounds and surrounding country is beau/7 titully picturesque, and requires only a few judicious works Of art to render it a charming residence. Situate on the great Western Road leading from Exeter to Plymouth. Distant from Mburron three miles, six from Totness, twelve irons Torbay, fifteen from Tynmouth, twenty.two from Exeter, and the same distance f , un Plymoiath.. The Estate may be viewed by applying to Mr. Dean at Breokhouse; and particulars may be,had a month pre:cding the Sale, of the Printers of the Exeter. Gazette, Sher borne and . Salisbury Papers, Bath Chronicle, S Farley's,Bristol jour, nal, of Messrs. Grahams, Lincoln's.lnn, and at. Pall-Mall, where a Plan of the estate may be seen. MANOR OF EAST FIRSI3Y, IN LINCOLNSHIRE. TO BE SOLD, rTHE MANOR, or. REPUTED MANOR, of • EAST FIRSBY, comprising several FARMS, con• taining toget"*.i Fj.ve liundred•and Thirty Acres of Land, of thereabouts, with good Buildings, conveniently situated in dalerent parts of the Estate, amply•sutcicnt for the occupa. tion thereof; the whole is held under written agreements from year to year. _ FIRSBY is about nine trifles -North East ;of Lincoln, and three from-the Turnpike R.fljd tleading from Lincoln to . Barton.—The Estate is quite .C.omnad; in a- Ring Fence, pays a•small Modus in lieu of all Tithes; the Poor Rate is tutting, and the Highway Duty remarkably easy ; it also abounds with Game. For• further Particulars, apply to William Barnard, Esq ol Gainsbro' ; or to Mr. John Dudding, of Sakby, near FitsbY, who will shew the Estate. . . b a. `r: it --- I +.~ll iit di4 Ye IE,K; ttn , 1 : (et