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THE LONDON JOURNALS. ErtRACTS FROM TUE DIILY MORNING PAPERS, December 28, 182.2. [THE TIMES.] - We have received an express which left Paris on Thursday morning. It Wings the important intelligence, that on Wednesday evening the King of France presided at a Council of Mini sters,,when, after long dibcussion, the great questiatk of peace or war with Spain was set tled. The King was_ most decided in his sup port of the pacific system of his Prime Mini ster, M. de V illel ;:and the result of the Council was, that M. de Montmorency received his dismissal from the Cabinet. M. de Villele iestantly sent off to Madrid an extraordinary courier with this important decision. Thus the wisdom of the King of France, seconded by ifie energy and firmness of his enlightened Mi nister, M. de Villele, has triumphed (we trust for ever) over the mad projects of the infatuated Ultras. They-w ill both have their reward ; the King, we verily believe, preserves his Crown, which a war with Spain would have probably shaken from his head : the Minister has the glory of saving his country from the horrors of civil 4loodshed and incalculable anarchy. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The question of peace or war seems to remain in statu quo; nothing new on this important sub ject having transpired for several days. The 'French Ultra Papers still continue their warlike tone, whilst the Liberal Papers think the peace will not be interrupted. They all reason from their own feelings and wishes, rather than from any positive grounds. When M. de Mont morency returned from Verona, the cry was war, and war immediately. Every exertion had been made with the Allied Sovereigns to obtain their sanction, and this was granted. Yet a pause has ensued, as if the French were afraid to undertake the enterprize. The declaration of the Allied Sovereigns was laid aside, and the case referred back to Verona. This new state of things has affected no one so much as the Emperor Alex ander, who is anxious for a war, in order to pro secute his own purposes. He reproaches the French for their volatility, and tells them they must go to war. Hence his representative now in Paris is hailed by the' Ultras. as a tutelar di vinity. The King, however, sees clearly the danger of embroiling himself, as the consequences .may hereafter affect the whole of Europe. In this opinion he has been strengthened by the Duke of Wellington ; and the consolation he derives from the visits of M. de Villele causes :hirn to regard him almost as a ntinistering angel. When harrassed on this subject by the enfuriated bigots of the Pavillon Marsan, he briefly answered, Laissez moimourir tranquil, [MORNING POST.] Paris Journals to the 26th instant arrived' last night by express. They are generally silent on the question of war; or if the subject be men tioned, even by the Ultras, it is in language com paratively so moderate as to shew that if they have not altered their opinions, they have at least thought it wise to lower the intemperate tone which they had assumed. Meanwhile a regular in tercourse is kept up between the Governments of France and Spain. The Duke of Montmorency, who was hitherto regarded as one of the most strenuous advocates for war, dispatched a Cou rier to Madrid on the evening of the 24th inst., so that either the communication sent by France' to the Cortes was not an b r it/mu/um, or that Ultimatum has not been rejected by them, and a door is still left open, for negociations cal culated to produce a pacific arrangement between the two countries. Meanwhile the differences in the French Cabinet appear far from being settled. They are represented, by the Constitationnel as the real causes of the late fall in the Funds;. and are said to have extended so far as to create a general, impression of an approaching change or " 4puratian" of the Ministry. If ;his should take place, little doubt is entertained as to its nature. [MORNING HERALD.] The late disgraceful outrage at the Theatre in Dublin has produced a strong sensation, not only in that city., but throughout the country. Ad dresses, full of the warmest and sincerest expres sions of :attachment, both to this Nobleman and to his Majesty, whom the Addressers say he faithfully represents, crowd in every day. The . Address of the General Meeting at the Royal Exchange Was presented on Monday by a numerous and distinguished deputation, and received by the Lord Lieutenant with every circumstance of state splendour that could give it grace and dignity. The Answer re turned by the Noble Marquis carries on the face of it the clearest proof that he regarded the situation in which he stood to be no common one. His reply is a bold and happy start out of the prescriptive language of routine, the solemn brevity, and sententious common-place, which usually go to the making up of these exercises in the rhetoric of Court ceremonial. He evidently felt that the public heart was- in the address and in the deputation, and he laid himself open, with out reserve, to the contagion of its sympathies. I t is the best, if not the only worthy example, which he had yet given in speeches or state-papers during his government, of that cultivated, and pointed, and yet fervid, eloquence, by which he has been - distinguished among his cotemporaries. There is no mention of any further discoveries or arrests, and it is a good sign that some of those persons who have attained or assumed a vulgar eminence in these party squabbles, are not only terrified at their folly, but have the grace to be ashamed of themselves. [NEW TIMES. it is justly observed by one of the most mode rate and well written Papers in Dublin, that" the inestimable life of the Vice-Roy has been at tempted, merely because he carried into effect the paternal wishes of the King and the councils of the British Cabinet." This certainly enhances to any reflecting mind the magnitude of the offence ; but on the other hand candour obliges us to confess, that it affords a presumption, to which, in favour of mercy, we should readily in cline, that the outrage itself was less the result of premeditation than of the momentary excite ment of party feelings in ignorant minds. It ap pears that three individuals have already been committed to prison for having feloniously con spired, confederated, and agreed to kill the Lord Lieutenant ; but we are sure that the mag nanimous disposition of the Noble Vice-Roy will not suffer so heavy a charge to be persevered in, on any but the very clear est testimony. Undoubtedly a most flagrant offence has been committed ; and it is absolutely necessary that all classes of the Irish people should be impressed with the high veneration clue to the person who sustains the Vice-Regal dignity ; yet we agree with a writer, with whom we are seldom in the habit of agreeing, that the penal measures adopted in such a case should be governed by that good sense and sobriety which may command the sympathy of the Empire at large. Had a serious design been formed against the Marquis Wellesley's life, it is proba ble that some other wea-.:ons would have been resorted to than an empty bottle and a broken rattle. At the same time we are far from denying that to assail the Representative of Ma jesty with such missiles as these, is a crime of a very grave nature, deserving strict and exem plary punishment. In this point all parties will agree ; but it is to be feared that any proceedings of an exaggerated nature would rather tend to irritate than to lessen the animosities, which it has been the earnest labour of his Excellency to assuage. [BRITISH PRESS.] The French Papers of 'Wednesday contain no news of any importance. A courier appears to have passed through Paris to Petersburgh.— The Emperor of Russia, too, is stated to be directing great movements in his army ; and, in illustration of this statement, there are re ports of an important arrival at Verona from Constantinople, in consequ( nce of which a courier was dispatched after Lord Strangford, who had reached Trieste, on his return to his Minis terial station. Such reports may be well founded, or they may be fictions, but the latter we think the more probable. The question of war with Spain is now acknowledged to be at an end.— The Duke de Montmorency is not probably well satisfied with this state of affairs, but he is not a person calculated to give much alarm by his bel ligerent dispositions. The Duke is a person of high consideration in various respects ; but he is too good a Catholic to exercise reason, judgment, reflection, and deliberation, where his wishes are strong and his zeal pious. There was a time when he was as much a Jacobin as our Poet Laureate, and when the livery of aristocracy or wealth was as odious in his sight as now the words—" Spanish Revolution"—" Constitution" —" Chartered liberty." Nor did he at once emerge, from darkness to light. Long were the windings and intricate the mazes of error through which he wandered before he arrived at the comfortable perfection of an Ultra. Even Cobhett is no match to M. Mont morency in his travels in search of truth.— Having made this comparison, we are obliged in candour to add, that the integrity of the illustrious Frenchman has never been questioned. His intellect is so formed by nature that it en tirely acquiesces in every change of his feelings, inclinations, or conduct. In aid of this sub missive intellect, he possesses the glowing fana ticism which illuminates every object within its reach with its own infallible light, and which supersedes all the petty trumpery of reason, ex perience, and facts. This is the French Mi nister for Foreign Affairs—a very good man, but, unfortunately for himself, born just font' cen turies too late. CAUTION TO HACKNEY-COACllMEN.—Yester day Lord WILLIAM LENNox appeared at Bow street Office as the complainant against the driver of the hackney-cbach No. 806, for exacting more than his fare. His Lordship stated, that a few evenings ago he was at Drury-lan e Th ea t re , and directed the boxkeeper to hire a coach for him. He came out very soon after, and the defendant drove him to hayer-street, Man chester-square, and then demanded five shil lings as his fare, declaring that he had been hired at half-past eleven o'clock. Witness did not send out the boxkeeper till past twelve, and he refused to pay the demand, upon which the coachman, after a great deal of abuse, gave him in charge to a watchman, and he was conveyed to a watch-house, where he was obliged to pay the five shillings to procure his liberation. In his defence the coachman said he was hired by a link-boy, at half-past 11, and his time altogether amounted to ss. This was disproved by the box keeper. Mr. HALLS said the coachman had shewn by his conduct that he was extremely unfit to have the care of a coach at all. This was an ex tremely gross case, and he should fine him 40s. and costs. He said he was unable to pay the penalty, and in default was committed for tt month. DROWNING.—Two brothers of the name of SAWELL, one 16 years of age and the other 13, were drowned in a pond at BassiJton, near Stanmer, on Thursday. The eldest was skaiting when the ice broke in nine feet of water. The unfortunate youth was paddling with his hands on the surface of the ice, when the younger, who was enjoying his slide, went to his assistance, fell into the hole, and both went down to rise no more. ,The bodies were taken up in an hour after. On Thursday a poor man, named Hamilton, known by the appellation of Duke Hamilton, MI down dead, in St. Mary Hall Lane,,Oxford. The body was taken to Mr. Heath's public-house, to await the Coroner's Inquest. FIRE.---Yesterday morning, about six o'clock, an alarming fire broke out in the coach-house and stabling of Mr. BYFORD, at the back of that gentleman's house, in Cheyne-row, Chelsea, which threatened great destruction. A plenti ful supply of water being obtained, Mr. BYFORD'S horses were taken out, but the-carriage sustained very serious injury. About ten o'clock the fire was subdued, and the engines returned. to town. SUSSEX WINTER ASSIZES. LEWES, DEC. 26. Before the Hon. Mr. Baron GAnnow. Daniel Murray was indicted for stealihg, on the sth of De cember, a gold watch from the shop of Vincent Silvani, at Brighton. The prisoner, who is only 14 years of age, came to the pro secutor's shop on the day in question, and purchased a small geld pin. In the course.of the same day he came in, on two other occasions, with different excuses. About 5 o'clock in the evening, when the shopman was removing the different articles from the window, for the night, according to his usual custom, he missed the watch. Recollecting that the prisoner had been so often into the shop in the course of the day, he suspected him to be the person who had taken it. He immediately went in pursuit of him, and found him at a short distance from the shop. When he had seized him, the prisoner began to cry, and said if he were allowed to go, he would give up the watch. He then produced it, and was taken back to the shop. A constable was then sent for, and the prisoner taken into custody. Guilty —Death. Richard Gardiner was indicted for stealing two feather beds, a pillow, and other articles, the property of Sir Richard Bur rows, on the 3d of December, at Brighton. It appeared that Lady Burrows, having occasion to leave Brighton, desired a house-agent in that town to take possession of her house, stables, and furniture, until she should return. This he did with regard to the house. It then only remained for him to receive possession of the coach-house and stables. The coachman, who lived over the coach-house, having taken away his horses, sent the prisoner with the keys of the stables and his own rooms. Not having any occasion to go to this place, until the coachman of Lady Brownlow came to look at the premises, the keys remained in the office of the house agent till that time. On the above-mentioned occasion, when he tried the keys with the different locks, he found that they all fitted, except the one leading to the coachman's room, in which the property mentioned in the indictment was deposited. Finding that the key would not unlock the door, a smith was sent for, and the door forced. On entering, they discovered that the property was removed. Hand-bills were then pub lished, stating the circumstances of the case, and distributed about the streets of Brighton. Amongst the places at which one of these bills was left, was the shop of a broker. He im mediately recollected having purchased similar articles from a stranger, and accordingly sent this information to Lady Bur rows's agent. The coachman was then sent for, and he per fectly recollected the pillow to be the one he had left in his room. The prisoner was then apprehended. In his defence he said, that they were his property, and had sold them for the purpose of obtaining the means of going to London, and was perfectly innocent of the crime laid to his chame.—Guilty—sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the House of Correction for the county. His Lordship then passed sentence of death upon the six fol lowing prisoners : David Eyles, fbr uttering forged notes : William Agair, Stublerfield, and James Miller, for burglary ; and Moses Chandler, and James Crossintrham for horse-stealing. 11(pre the Ifon. Mr. Justice BAYLEY. , Robert Weston and George Eastwood were indicted for hav ing, in the night of the 18th of November, in the parish of Burwash, set fire to a barn, the property of John Fleury. The prosecutor resides upon a farm near the town of Bur wash. On this farm there was lately standing a barn, con taining nearly all the hag and corn which had been grown by Mr. Fleury in the present year. A little before mid night, on Sunday, the 10th of November, it was disco vered to be on fire, the flames issuing from the top, and dif ferent parts of the sides. The prosecutor, his servant, and a number of persons from the town ; • were soon assembled at the spot, and every possible exertion was made to extinguish the flames and save the property. Their endeavous, were, how ever, ineffectual, except as to a load of wheat-sheaves, and a few implements of farming in some of the out houses: The remainder of the property and premises were completely des troyed. Among the parsons assembled on that occasion were the two prisoners, who assisted in putting out the fire and saving the property. The prosecutor is one of the overseers of the parish of Bur wash, and in the habit of attending the select vestries held. there. The prisoners are paupers in the parish, and receive re lief. The Magistrates having strongly recommended that the overseers of parishes should not grant parochial relief to paupers, who had grown up daughters at home, dressed in a manner superior to their condition in life, and the prisoners being situated in that manner, the vestry frequently refused to relieve them, until their daughters went into the poor-house. On Saturday, the 2d of November, Weston applied for relief to the select vestry, and it was refused to bins on the above grounds. The prisoner suspecting the prosecutor, Mr. Fleury, to be the cause of the refusal, became greatly enraged against him, and in a conversation which he had with Mr. Westover, the assistant overseer, in the ensuing week, he used the most abusive language towards the character of Mr. Fleury. On Thursday, Nov. 7, he was heard to say, " I wish I knew my friend) meaning, as it was supposed, the prosecutor), d—n seize my blood, if I would not do a job for him, and give him the length of my tongue !" On Saturday, November 9, Weston was at the house of Mr. Gilbert one of the select vestrymen, and then said to a young woman named Lucy Wood, a servant of Mr. Gilbert, that " Mr. Fleury was more against him than any body else; that he would not starve, and that he would go about in the day to see what he could hook at night ;" and on Lucy Wood's asking him why he did not do, it in the day time ? Weston answered, " Because I shall be seen." In the evening of the same day, he said to Weston, " I think Mr. Fleury is the man who has prevented my being relieved ;" and afterwards, " If there is any one in these great B---s starving the poor, I think they will have a great deal to answer for ;" and as he was leaving. the house he said, " Mr. Fleury is my enemy ; ti—n his heart." In the afternoon of the 10th of November (the day the barn was burned); Weston was again at Mr.Westover'S house, and when for the same cause he was refused relief, he said in a very mali cious manner " I will be d—d to hell, if Ibe not a match for him (meaning the prosecutor) before to-morrow night." It also appeared that on the night in question Ise had gone to East wood's house after 9 o'clock. A person named Clifton now prov ed that on the .sth of November, Eastwood had said to him that " be could get a couple of stout fellows, he would set fire to the barns of Mr. Fleury and Mr. Button. Thomas Humph reys stated that he was at Eastwood's house on the 10th of November, when Weston came in and said. "he was come according to his word, to know if Eastwood "had been to Mr. Davenport, the Magistrate. Eastwood said he had, but could let nothing from him. Weston re pli e d th a t h e wou ld h ave a ivin g by fair means or foul, and th a t he had j us t g i ven o ld Jack Ketch (meaning Westover) a good blowing up, and that he should like to send old Fleury, and all the rest of them, to hell. Eastwood said if he had a gun, he would go and shoot twenty of them. It was on these grounds that the prisoners were apprehended. The . Prisoners made no defence, except declaring their in nocence. The Learned JUDGE, having summed up the evidence, re marked to the Jury, that in a case of this description, before they could convict the prisoners of the crimes alleged to have been committed by them, there must be some positive evi dence of their guilt—some act performed by theni, from which a decisive conclusion could be drawn. This was a case in which, if the prisoners were found guilty, there could be no reason for shielding them from the utmost severity of the law, and their lives would undoubtedly be forfeited ' • but in the evidence adduced there had only b een a num b er o f threats proved to have been made by them. Although this was very improper conduct, yet it did not warrant the Jury in convict ing them. .It might be suspiciou, but did not amount to cer tainty. • The case was, however, in their hands, and they were to act as their consciences dictated them. The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. This being the last case, Mr. Justice BAYLEY discharged the Jury about half-past three o'clock. CORONER'S INQUEST.-Yesterday Evening an Inquest was held before Mr. ITIGGs, a Coroner for the City and Liberty of Westminster, on the body of Mr. James Gull, who was found dead in the street on Thursday night. Robert Taylor, watchman, La Bow -street, deposed that he observed the deceased going along the foot-pavement at 12 o'clock ; in about ten minutes afterwards he found him at the corner of Hart-street, per fectly senseless. He sprung his rattle, and had him, with assistance, conveyed to Covent Gar den watch-house. A medical gentleman was sent for, but his efforts to restore him proved abortive—he never recovered his speech. The Jury consulted and returned their verdict— " Natural Death." There is at present living at Theodosia,'in the Crimea, an Armenian, whose age is 120 years. He was born in Persia, and preserves a p er f ec t recollection of the celebrated Thos Kum KHAN, whom he frequently saw. His health is good, and lie is surrounded by his descendants. His youngest daughter now 3 . 5 years old. COVENT-GARDEN. The spot called Covent-garden—or rather " Convent Garden," of which name it is evidently a corruption, originally belonged to the monas tery of St. Peter at Westminster, and is said to have been a retiring garden to that convent from the earliest times. Before, and indeed af ter the period of the dissolution of Abbeys, it was entirely walled round, and is so shown in various old plans of LOndon. In the year 1552, Edward VI. granted this now lucrative site to John, Earl of Bedford, together with seven acres of land, called " Long Acre," both stated to have been part of the possessions of the Duke of Somerset, and to have been of the then yearly value of 6/. 6s. Bd. On receiving this grant, the Earl built himself a town mansion, adjoining the street now called Bedford-street, the front of j which stood next the Strand, and which had fine gardens at its back reaching to the site of Co vent-garden church. This building, which was at first only of timber, was taken down in 1704. About a dozen years after it was deserted by its noble owner. At the first erection of Bedford House, it is probable that Covent-garden formed a sort of park or pasture to it, as we find a paper among the Lansdown MSS. at the British Mu seum " concerning an attempt to kill deer in Covent-garden," which is dated 1691, and its walls appear standing in plans of a considerably later date. In this state, however, it did not re main long, as we find that a great increase of in habitants in its environs, particularly in Long acre, occasioned the Earl of Bedford,- in the early part of the reign of Charles I. to found a church there, and his successors subsequently, to obtain the Royal grant to convert the district into a parish. Of so little value, however, was the ground then esteemed y that Earl Francis, in 1631, granted a lease of great part of it to John Powell and others for 34 years, at only 17/. 6d. per ann. rent. At this time, it is described as " all that piece or parcel of the said Earl's pasture, called Covent-garden and Long-acre ; one of them lying on the south side of a parcel of ground then in tended for a new church-yard, and being one hundred and eighty feet in length." In an etch ing of Holler's, showing it a few years afterwards, we find the whole completely formed into a square, one side of which, as at present, is filled up by the church, with a house or two at each ex tremity, and the north and west sides by the piazzas, Ledford-house and garden still occupying the south side. The inner area is separated from the car ri4ge-way around it, by wooden posts, and in the midst stands an ornamental column and sun-dial. At, or near this period, we may reckon up the following distinguished persons, among other eminent - characters, as residents here—viz., Sir Charles Kyngston. ' He had a house in Covent garden, at which King Charles 1., in 1638, esta blished an academy, called " Museum Minerva'," for the instruction of Gentlemen in arts and sciences, foreign languages, painting, architecture, riding, fortification, antiquities, and the science of medals.—(See Lord Orford's Works, v. iii. p. 196.)—Lady Elizabeth Digby, in 1653.—She lived in King-street, where the celebrated Sir Kenelm Digby had before resided. The Earl of Peterborough, in 1647; his house stood on the site of Robins's auction-room, and reached back nearly to Hart-street. At this time also, in the western Piazza, adjoining to the site of the Shake speare Tavern, lived Sir John Withrong, Lord Willmott, and Sir William Udal ; and not far from them, Sir Henry Vane, Sir Arthur Ingram, Sir Thos. Trenchard, Col. Thorpe, Sir Edw. Pye, and Denzil Hollis, Esq. In 1654 and 1655, en tries of fines for riding out in their coaches on Sun days, occur in the parish books, levied on the following persons, who then made up part of . . the eminent residents here :—" The French Mar quissee," 18s. ; the Countess of Essex, 18s.; and the " Lady Shandois, His." The latter, it is probable, lived near Chandois-street.—Covent Garden Market was first established in 1671.--- The above great people had all lived there before that date. Corning nearpr to modern times, the names of distinguished persons resident here in crease, and though not all of elevated rank, are generally, on other accounts, more interesting to our recollection. We shall give a slight account of them together with such notices as we have been able to collect of particular places here, as they occur, without adhering to strict chronolo gical order : In 1690,we find the following persons inhabitants here, or in the adjoining' streets :—Sir John Talbot; he resided in Hart. street. 1)r. John Radcliffe, and the celebrated artist, Grinlin Gibbons ; they both resided in Bow-street—(Gibbons died in 1721.) The Hon. Col. Russel, Lady Pye, Sir Charles Cotte rell, and Godfrey Kneller, Esq : all lived in the north Piazza. Mr. Thomas Rich and Mr. Edward Bickerstaffe, lived in Rus sel-street; and in King-street, at the same period, we find as residents, the Countess of Berkshire, Lady George, and Sir John Barber. The noted comedian Joe Haines, commonly called " Count Haines," died in Hart-street in 1721. Earl Ferrers lived in Covent Garden, in 1722, and Sir James Thornhill opened an aca demy here for drawing in 1724. Of other well known characters, particularly theatrical, inha bitants of the Garden or its immediate vicinity, the list would be too long almost for insertion. Among the most noted houses and places pecu liar to this celebrated spot within a little better than a century ago, may be mentioned the following : Tom's, Will's, and Button's, the three coffee-houses men tioned so frequently by the Spectator, &c. These were the great resort of the wits of that day, and stood at no great dis tance from each other. Tom's and Will's Coffee houses were both situated en the north side of Russell-street, and Button's opposite. Will's was the place where Dryden was laid in wait for, and severely beaten by persons in masks. And at But ton's, Colley Cibber is said to have placed a bitch rod to whip Pope, if ever he should appear again in that room. Mr. Richardson, master of the Hotel under the Piazza, at an auc tion at the Shakspeare Tavern, in 1804, was enabled to adorn his room with the Lion's Head letter-box, originally put up at Button's by Addison.—(See Guardian, Vol. IL) A Theatre, called " Punch's Theatre," stood at the corner of the west Piazza, next Henrietta street, in 1711. The prices specified in the bills of entertainment were, for the boxes 2s. 6d. , and pit is. 6d. No person was to be admitted in masks or riding-hoods. This part of the piazza was burnt, March 19, 1769. The corner, now Harrison's Hotel, was at this time called the Three Chairs, and had been the residence before of the famous Mr. Dubois. Covent Garden Thea tre was erected by Rich, in 1732, and burnt Sep tember 10, 1808. A. Musical Entertainment is j advertised to be given at the playhouse hi vent Garden, in 1704. But as we bear of no other Theatre here than this, and the one called' Punch's, just mentioned, it probably meant the' latter. Mr. Rich and Mr. Lambert (the Scene.' painter) were the founders of the first Beef-steak Club, in an upper room of Covent-garden Theatre. The second Club was held at Lang-' ford's, now Robins's auction-room. At the corner of James's-street, in 1711, stood a noted tavern, called the Bumper Tavern, kept by a person nicknamed Trusty Anthony. At this time the best red port was sold for ss. a gallon, or ls. 6d. per quart. The Two Golde❑ Balls s a famous house for musical entertainments, stood at the same period at the corner of the adjacent street, (Hart-street.) The Rose Tavern, introduced by Hogarth in his set of prints of the Rake's Pro gress, existed in Covent-garden somewhat later; as did Moll, and Tom King's, shown in the four times of the day, about 1730. The noted pro curesses Mother Thornton (see Pamela) and Mo ther Douglas, kept also houses of entertainment here, Mother Thornton's residence adjoined Robins's auction-room, westward ; and that of Mother Douglas was next door. The latter lived here from 1741 to 1756. The original sign of the Shakspeare Tavern, at this corner of the Piazza, is said to have been the performance of Clarkson, who painted the historical picture, in Merchant Taylors' Hall, of King Henry the Se'venth presenting them their Incorporation Charter. Clarkson was in high fame about 1750; and died at Islington about 1778. In 1781 Bohea tea was sold at 265. the pound, at the Barber's Pole, next door to the braz!er's shop in Southampton -street. The great mansion now appropriated to chambers, and called Govent. garden Chambers, at the north-east corner of Covent-garden, was built in 1716, by Admiral Ed ward Russel, on his becoming Lord Oxford ; and Lord Archer lived here in 1729. The Bishop of Durham had lived on the site in 1687. Richardson's hotel adjoining, was once Dr. Hun. ter's, the famous anatomical lecturer. By the column in Covent-garden market, i❑ 1672, were exhibited splendid fire-works; and again, on some occasion of rejoicing, in 1690. The column it self was taken down► in 1790. On the site of Maiden-lane lived a Sir Cornelius Vermuden, in 1647. The cider-cellar here was much fre quented by Chatterton, Porson, and other lite rary characters. Godfrey's Chemical Laboratory was established at the east end of it in 1680. Some alterations appear to have taken place in Covent-garden Church about 1684, as an entry occurs of that date in the parish books of a pay. ment to a Captain Johnson, for surveying it, making a draught of a map of it as it then was, and as it was desired to be altered. He had also 21. 3s. for drawing the lines of the sun-dial.— Tompion, the famous clock-maker, had, the year afterwards, 501. for a new pendulum for the clock. Nearly opposite the church porch, the famous quack doctors, Tuscany, Rock, and Dr. Bossy, had at stated times their stages, where they gave advice and medicines to the distressed diseased gratis. It may be mentioned that, since the Church and Piazza were burnt, Covent-garden has been raised nearly three feet. COAL-MARKET, DEC. 27. Ships at Market. Ships sold 55i Newcastle - 14 4J Sunderland - - 11 Yorkshire - 1 Scotch Coal - - 0 Price. 39s Od to 4Ss 6d 40$ Od to 43s 3d —s Od to 43s 6d. —s Od to —s Od • COURSE OF EXCHANGE, December 27. k instet dam Ditto, at Sight l2 3 Rotterdam l2 7 Antwerp l2 6 Hamburgh B7 9 4i Us Altona 37 Paris, 3 Day's signt 25 65 0 Us. Ditto Mourdeaux, ditto Frank forton the Main Madrid Cadiz Bilboa 3 64 El estivo Barcelona ievillef Gibraltar Leghorn Genia. 43 -Venice, Ital. Lir 27 50 Malta 45 -Naples 39 , Palermo Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro Dublin .... 9i .. .. Cork qi pet Cent. BULLION. Portugal Gold, iii Coin 1.0 0 0 pet 02, Foreign Gold, in Bars 3 17 6 New Doubloons New Dollars 0 4 9-1 Silver in Bars, Standard 0 4 14 BIRTHS. On Friday, the 27th inst., Mrs. Matthew Clark, of Arefll. street, of a son. On Sunday last, at Farnacres, the Lady of the Hon. H. T. Liddle, of a daughter. On Tuesday last, in Doughty-street, the Lady of Lieut.. General Bell, of Madras, of a son. MARRIED. On the 17th inst., at Durrow Church, in the King's County, John Ffolliott, of Hollybrook, in the County of Sligo, Esq., and of Lickhill-housa, Worcester, to Maria, second daughter of the late Herbert Rawson Stepney, of Durrow, in the King's County, Esq. On Thursday last, at Hampton Church, John 'larding, Esq., to Frances Russell, relict of W. H. Russell, Esq., of Powick Court, Worcestershire, and youngest daughter of George Thornhill, Esq., of Diddington, lluntingdonshire. At Salisbury, Mr. James arsons, of that city, to Miss Anna Williams, of the Close. Unfortunately, the bride had forgotten her certificate, and they were detained nearly. two hours before the knot was tied. DIED. On 'Wednesday morning, at his residence, in Saint George's. place, Canterbury, George Reynolds, Esq. Post Captain. in the Royal Navy. On Thursday the 26th inst., at the house of her sister, in Sidmouth-street, Miss Mary Maria Robson, aged 19. On Thursday, the 26th inst., at Lambeth, Captain Edward Stevens Brown, of the - Royal Marines, and son of Dr. John Brown, the late celebrated Author of the Elements of Medicine. On Wednesday last, at his residence, Kennington, Surrey,. Nathaniel Brickwood, Esq., in his 76th year. At. Bundoot, in the parish of Staple' on. on the 12th inst. Mr. Geo. Taylor, aged 103 years, much respected by all who knew him. About a year ago he mowed in a field alongwith his ne. phew, George Douglas, and tl.e ame y ar b oun d and stooked 36 stooks of oats in one day. lie was never known to have more than two days sickness till within the last three ;months.— ( Tyne Mercury.) On the 15th inst. at Netherbury, Mrs. Rachael Major, aged 91. She has left no less than 163 children and grand•eildren, and was conveyed to her grave by six grandsons of . her first born, whom she nomitated some time since for the purpose. NlMMAlR•••••semanow.aa, Printed and Published for the PROPRIVTORS, at the SuA• °Flee, No. 112, Strand, by J. B. CIIRSITIkaII. a , v b .___..,.......... ...........1 T' ,poser ci • Imi " 4ire " des " len " the Th sego: Most Jot Corn/ Mr .Moue Mesa Mess an Mess pant, The par -*heat J. T. telsva Niver trim; Co. Joh n G.&Jacks FOR T in the in tie hither Taunt] Th •sold feren4 Turtl To .Tana veniei • Ppl • on dr, Cet distiu reque. katior. To Quart make. Dress ressE it int( N. 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