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I 90 Long Pink, straight. to b e be te.ndered for at per hundred, , six score to the hundred, and e ail sound, each Alescription to answer their full length th r „P r Per substance. To be delivered when required, within lxce` rap er after notice, free of expense , at the West India k (",.. —4ll Pluly's Cooperage. 14 4 vcr uitu et t. a r y , On k , s _ ender s to be delivered (sealed up) and addressed to the or before 12 o'clock on Wednesday, the 18th Pony, — 8 of tender may be had upon application at this office. H. West I n di a Dock House, Sept. 10 LGLANDS, Sec. , 1822.0 N AT --ZE-E, CUED }.ARE • -S, • • 10 M DOVER, DEAL, RAS" ti. po G A IN TE. MARGATE. AND , CAN'T'ERBURY. GOOD TIME, u SIDE COACHES, AND BAR , By S. A. MOUNAN .s at t d E C r o r: SNOW ACEN'S HEAD INN, SK I N N ER N. - .HILL, LONDO rrRE following POST-COACHES, &c. set f om the above Inn : ?14„, T elegra o pt t ," ' DOVE R, Del, ate Margate, every Morning at a quarter past t•:, r-rbdr7, Fevershani, sod Sa t t 7 l6%-ic , h. R . a . u m ew s l g n P c o o ' s i t l - s C eq o u ae e l n i c -: 4,(lloordecided preference giver: . t nce th s e C ha l a ° l l, c l o h b v . c e s t p :r a ra ce c d h, t t n ii r e ci P i rn e ; 1,7 , 8 are determined no ext .. t. • roe tlrst conveyance on the Kent road. ai a . It()MPTON, Chatham, Rochester, r at a quarter past .., tt'urbourne, and Rainham, every Morn" g . Gravesend, Stroud, ''l,telteduced Fares. UTH, Plymouth, Exeter, t. Tr o t t :_ , “ Royal Eclipse, ' FAL 1)04 Bcodmin, Penrn As d ' Salisbury, every morn sSteoveek,hetrsitdtie:or3Dgitaisir. mou t h , t I I b M u O rton, Totness, WeYoto e. , t a n t and Hn t i i t k o e n 44,fthot, ' l 'k" ' 'alAx Hartford nlins t Bridge , e Axminster , ari d P B ° I a r , telt Blan dford, er, Wialic," Union,SU'HAMPTO.L Bridge,Black water, and na rester, Basingstrike, Hartford Tin ton, Lyndhurst, S . °b ut, New Four Inside Coach, every Southampton, by Weir ; arrives at the Coach and Horses, Morning at half-past wirk This is a most delightful Conveyance to the Isle of f th ' e above Coach hope h o 4 ~ Jersey, Guernsey, ht. Maloes Havre de Gracc, Chetro ree4e°, &c.--The Proprietors o ral.),„ e '.., a continuance of that support .t w o h f ic t l h i e ba „ s u hi i t ti li o e n r . tLbe N F o n ngt'enFed since the commencerner. tith other Coaches. . lienha_tl 0 BRISTOL Flyin Post-Coackes, through Chip ill/tart:1100,1C; al oe, Marlboroug h , A g : .. the Greyh_o_d_, swan, Newbury, y,s and Readlnt ev e r y h a ti b. and the to ' nr r ion Tarern, Thomes-strest,2 reatiet°l, early next Morning.- 7 -Coaches to Well s, Bridge"' iltr!Taiiirton, end Plymouth . . . to e ,:..r Umpire," a New LIV E R P OOL I L ns l i . d ig e l , it se C ts oa n e n h t , D o n n i l l y y ai t i .. , t,lit on the Road, carrying F 11 41, 4 ; arnve s at Liverpool next I li n r 4, Latlibury, Northamptr a l: fte l r V n e o l t fo ri rd at , F L i u ve tle t r i v4 " -o o r u t g li h , I (lrd ' Y, Atherstone, Litchfield, Stone, NeNvcastle, Kuuts s,,,. ,arrington, and Present. . .....-. 1 ai, Li g ht post (:,ebn,heSßUßY, Wellington, and stuns i ll ii rep, Afternoon.—G.uarded: tfotd Bridge, Black 11nr, Union,"WEYMOUlll,Doichest.er,Ulandfrird,Salis w4Ve,Andover,Overton,Basings,tuke,H:tery Afternoon, with twoj .; ) and Bagsliot, new Post Coach, e iv 4, oachnle„ only. —The Packet s from eymouth to Goer n - •,, J — Cherbourg,un" • St. Maloe's, &c. every 5° ,1 S'at'iostelYl Tw„ o'Cluck. u4k,,, - I.ay afternoon, s Wednesday ev erys:' S rAPLE and. Southm.,ltou New Light Post Coach Friday M ornings at 7 o Cloc . I ,, g d e .ond ay. Wednesday, and Post :;ac,, 4eri A l : It° chingham," LEEDS light P I : oar o w n . r — y , Iles ';;.ternoon at Four; and passes through e Ba i ld ' oc 'e k l , s ß " ig ut - St ,wt -"e Eaton Stilton Greetbain, Ora" Doncaster, and Pl---,,'",(11, Markt% Moor, ' Newark, Retfoid, Leugrii;tge?, t 0 t i b m Golden Lion , nneri.o%enar:4lel'ek the Golden only iLI per -I-I '7 • " H I we d to be the lb ost ,- 3 / 4 , x oeli a tlZ of this Coach,. rt r Leeds,l N' next w D i h l °l :s a t : a t l e i r d i n the the North iCea"le and complete Public HARlt"all hting ,-, unequalled by arty oilier. Post Coach, every i t h ' s , e i r n a ve o yance on Aftern,,s,°tV”ATE and Ripon new Lig ht B GLA,,,at Four, and Eight in the M orning. . Annan, Dinnfriesi -r owni. l ‘-'W, Longtown,Gretna-.gret-o,! - mock, Kiingswill tiiid aii ' o l 1, rhortiliiil Saminhar-Kiln ! Ca' Post Coach datlyi The ~ 4 1 . rt s of Scotland, a light four in side Whitby, Shields, toni„.,‘""Press," t o yoRK Scarborough,. N Ifl t four-inside 1) - ‘Tad N - Edinburgh, a ..ew-'. 1 m -n -tb. . , ewcastle,& out every, or Trostgat Lill, with a Guard throughout; sets d Doncaster, Per t t,"'ght o'Cloek, by-way of Newark, Retfor , M, !",rtidge,Tadeaster I Durham, Darlington, morn int'ti r 4 :` 1 , 1 , and Berwiek ' and arrives at York the r finding r them veil., ' fnall-nast Twelv ' e o'clock. Passenge rs wha t time they 14 " as: -4ti guod on the journey, may rest Fare. NI, ,Quti then proceed without any additiona l tit,4,III.I3OItOUGH and Swindon, new four -inside tin Coach Nws4 t 4„,l(lhournlßeading Lambourn, Pur ; , Lydington d Newbury 4;14 iv,. wootton Basset, Ra ' aisbury, Hunger or t b raideol • 1 uttli), ivrid. H ol 7' "ad N '''NORTH, Walsal, Shrewsbury, and SaloP, Ilo4&„l.ight Four Inside Coach, every After n oon. Stilton, ar id 14 ~i, Horncastle Spalding, 'Peter borou g h, 1 y, b and linif'd,ntnigdonD y C • ' eh to SilsbYr Louth, G i li ohrni a -.. ", s' ' Day Coach to Boston and °Foca ng, at Six. Ihe only Th e , s t e • Coach to (;441 I ( 1. -itre ss " a New Light Four-inside Post ith Four hor se ", -k.',, Penrith and Whitellaved' goes 71 Brought, Api,i,, t ,'' a " , l a Gua (fall tl e way, passes tdrorp, 1 1 bridge, s"Y,G r , -1 -• r C• tterick, Burring vtlierh ga-hridge,Richmond, a „irk Doncaster, tit.r4,,,iti, _Aberlord, Forrybridg:,. a l' ai e , " ' h Stilton, and Big \l.,i,re'.°,r,araford Bawtry , Gre . t id erfories the journey i ° II th e le ts out every Morning, and P .. red on the Road Y hnsi greatest facility. Passengers . detan t eof their, -e ats 1,? or pleasure, have the peculiar advan ag a ., kt,,`„,',llß s ecured in the next Coach. d• le Bolton, ,•;11,ela-'4ll, Lancaster, Preston, Kirby-Lons a ; every fttertlY' elilliskirls, and Garstang Light Post Coaches, t t rue ', T I T '4 tavE,,--„?7k1 Express," New Light Four Inside .. Post Coach, 44 I • •sq)OL War ' t n Knutsford, Stone, Stafford, 44 ..iteithei, Y ring o . , After " avr l -, (only One Nrght on the -oa _ R d), every ' Heed Inn, 1341e.t 'rveo'Clock; arrives at the Saracen s WAt,,e,el, Liverpool next Evening. " the Ex- Pres,,, '-P1E1,13 Four 'inside Post-Coach, called „..Ctits!,,terY Morning and Afternoon. 'eh • 4 -..1t,, Newport, Whited/on:1, Torpor ' ley Nampt- Afte:tisoNorthwic, (1 Middlewich Light Post-Coac h, every e %/ N1;1 1 r, • .• very Nlot,,.t.AND, Stockton, and Ya.rm !ig, lit Post Coach, Th e „ ~Tng, to the George Inn, Suuder_lap,a2_ , EK Winslow, 1 Ntet„,,Yal Express," to MANCH.ESI u n l si t t e 1, B,rewcastle, Weisel, and Waive' r i , I impton,new Four One Night on 4115Ead° -C‘mcli, every Afternoon.—On y ,very ZPIELD and Rotherham New Four- inside n Pr o ist- , C , 4?l , r i c i ll e ho e v e rti„, ~ ,,Ingh,n i 0, called " The Express," and is (;_'_. e tre 11. _ . aFt.xFour in the Afterno on. N R `GHAM Light P.ist ,a,":ll4,ssetsuuYtltt er4.ress" New BI carrying ' Four Inside only ; i 41,4 bav 4 , e s s t 4°l'o Warwick , Afternoon, li Leamington , Soother!), Weed n or , 'ate t rY, to the S aracen's Head, Bull-street, 131 rear g ,riieniext Morning at half- ast Seven o'Clock. HULL, Lin -4444 I \i itte s' " - a N • U P ht Post Coach, to 4 t l i ght rt ' i heave:Ho (jw Lig ht Doncaster, every Morning at d to the C` to thewCreO'saKed s,Market-plaoe, Holl i ; . a k i . i 1-11i/trpstockingbaris" in the y Afternoon at Four o'Coc ilveryMo- 91t b, 'Ware, Hollesdon, and Chest Co ach , Bpri rning. ay etl4ll ed "1 - ' • Champion," a New light Coach rarelling by " The • a bbot t° DORCHFSTER in 13 hours on y, i through ton Ati Blackwat R - ' or t a b Whitchurch, Orer , b o rer r, Salisb er ' -a " --st --e ' i rd The Pro of Ury, ) eats, arid Bland o . oc e shall ~,IPerd tor e above Coach are determined no e?cp t e 1.1 tb'r.4,l,..nder it the first conveyance un the . rn Road. " es e t Eleven, i lf- I , ast . T . "'AM and Edmonton Coaches daily, a ; , t 5 14 L u ,,., "°, Fire, and Eig ht . old s , ,••age and Pach a - • ill p„ ges to Leeds,York , aster, tri . 4. sio,...p?und. e nds the Pu/li 1 ble for K . tbe accountable tii,t artoss . C,! rat t he y wi not . It. Ma tt I s. , aSs"igel s Luggage, Writings. Plate &c. of I,vs entare., It e Pounds Value, if lost, ,1 'ed un stolen, or ..amg _ , ! at " Sit,t4e4,4l.:och, and the Insurance paid according % a 3 ' le " Inn, Sli inner- hill -et, Snow-hill, Land . 120 CAPITALS !-ALL MONEY! J. J. SIVEWRIGHT' request the laten • Lion of their Friends and the Mlle to the improved Scheme of the Present Lottery, Tickets and Shares of which are now on Sale at their fortunate Offices, 37, Cornhill ; I 38, Haymarket, it, Holborn ; Corner of Coventry-street, The Scheme is formed by themselves and their Brother COn. tractors in obedience to the Public Wish, on the plan of the popular old Lotteries. Every Ticket will be decided singly, and alt the Prizes are floating; all the Tickets will he in one Wheel, and all the Prizes in the ether, the whole to he drawn. as chance may direct. Their are 120 Capitals, including 3.... 0f.... £20,000 pf £2,000 2 , io,ood to i,ogo - 2 5,000 20 5OO With 80 of £BOO and £2OO. The Drawing will Commence on the 30th of NEXT MONT I H. Schemes' may he .had gratis at SIVEWRIGHTS' Mites; with the particulars of the great Prizes sold by them in the Last and Late Lotteries. OLD BAILEY SESSIONS. (Further partididari of ye.sierclay's Proceedings.] FORGERY. John Benjam i n Brookes the prisoner who was arraigned in the morning, was afterwards placed at the bar. Mr. PLATT, his Counsel, then Made an application to the Court for the postponment of the prisoner's trial until next Sessions, en the ground that he had not been able to obtain the attendance of a witness, whose evidence would be material to his defence, An affidavit was put in support of the fact. Mr. ALLEY, who was for the prosecution, said, he would not oppose the application if the Court thought fit to listen to it. After some deliberation, the Court directed the trial to stand over till next Sessions ; but ordered the prisoner to remain in custody. CURIOUS CASE, Hannah, Stanton aged 18, and Hester Cummings, aged 25, *ere capitally indicted for assaulting Henry Woodcock on the King's highway, and taking from his person 35 sovereigns. Woodcock, the prosecutor, who is apparently about 70 years of age, stated that he lived in the country. He was in London on the 15th of August last. On the evening of that day he was walking through Whitechapel a good deal intoxicated. Two women came up, one of whom took hold of his arm, and the other pushed him up Nelson-court. He had a great coat on his arm, which one of the prisoners seized hold of, and at the same time the other thrust her hand into his small-clothes pocket, and took out a purse containing the 35 sovereigns ; after which, they both ran off very quickly. He now believed that both the prisoners were the women who robbed him'. In his cross-examination by Mr. LAW, he said he did not exactly know at first the place where the robbery was commit ted ; but after some timelearcbing, in company with an offi.: cer, he found it. He was not certain whether he had. not said to the magistrate that he was not sure of the identity of the prisoners. The constable who apprehended the prisoners deposed, that the prosecutor told him he could not swear to the parties who had robbed'him, as he was much in liquor at the time. Wit ness went in search of the prisoners, and found Cummings in a house in Nelson-court. He searched it, and in a yard belong ing to it he found the prosecutor's great coat. Cummings said that some person must have thrown it there unknown to her. She afterwards declared to witness that the other prisoner, Stanton, threw it there. Plunketti an officer, went to search Stanton's house. . On his arrival sire made her escape, but he followed and found her in another house. She protested entire ignorance of the rob bery, and accounted for her having gone away oii the appear- ance of the officer, by saying that she had had a quarrel with another female, and she thought the officer had had a war rant against her in consequence. On searching her nothing was found which was calculated to excite suspicion. Both prisoners in their defence declared their perfect inno cence of the transaction. Mr. Baron GRAHAM summed up the evidence, and the Jury acquitted Stanton, but found Cummings—Guilty of stealing from the person. After the removal of Cummings, who appeared in a very weak state, and was scarcely able to walk without assistance, Mr. Baron Graham left the Court for a short time. During his absence an officer of the Court informed the Bench, that the prisoner Cummings was in such a state of health on the night of the robbery, as to have made it impossible that she could have been one of the parties concerned in it. she having some time before lost the use of her lower limbs, and from that time to the present she was unable to walk Without assistance: He added, that on the day following the robbery, when arrested, she was scarcely able to Stir, when carried before the magistrate. Mr. Justice BEST. —" Gdod God, Sir, why did you not mention this at the time of the trial ? However, I shall Inen tion the circumstance to my brother Graham, on his return to Court ; in the mean time, let all the parties remain in Coda, and let the surgeon who attended her be sent for. Mr. Baron GRAHAM, at the conclusion of the next trial, or= tiered the prisoner Cummings to be again placed at the bar. Plunkett the officer was re-called, and he stated that when he.arrested her, she was scarcely able to walk. The Surgeon was next examined, and he stated that he at tended her, and had to-clay examined her most minutely. She was labouring under the effects of a violent cold caught in her lying-in some time before. She could pot now run, and he be lieved that at the time of the robbery she must have been Less able than at present. He believed it impossible that she could have committed the robbery, and then run away as described by the prosecutor. Mr. Baron GRAHAM, after consulting with the other Judgq, ordered the prisoner to enter into her own recognizance in the sum Of 20/. to appear for judgment when called for, and to be then discharged. On questioning her for this purpose, it lip.; peared that she• was a married woman, and that her husband was living. His Lordship on learning this ordered her to pay a fine of (hi. and to be discharged ; but upon some observations made to him by Mr. Justice Best,• his Lordship altered this, and ordered her to be discharged forthwith. The poor woman was then removed from the bar, evidently much affected by this sudden and unlooked-for change in her situation. SINGULAR CHARGE. William Lester, a man of colour, was put to the bat, charg ed on an indictment with having stolen 12 sovereigns and nine guineas, the property of Dedrick Sedenherg. The prosecutor lodged with his brother ; kept his money in his chest, and the key in his pocket--prisoner lodged in the same house, as did other sailors. He slept on witness's chest in preference to a bed ; he only slept in witness's room one night. Missed the money on the 31st of July—the chest was not forced open. The money was safe on the 26th of July, but the prisoner slept there one night before that; day, and the mo ney was safe after that time. He never slept there after he saw the money safe. George Sedenberg, brother of the last witness, is the land- , lord of the house. Prisoner is a sailor; knows the Captain of the vessel to which he belonged ; he had plenty of money two or three days after the loss was discovered. Witness enquired how he came by the money ; he replied, that he got it from his Captain. Sent for an officer, and had every man in the house overhauled by the officer. Previous to the robbery he was extremely poor. He afterwards went to lodge with one Jacobs, with whom he deposited six guineas, which were given over to the officer, who produced them. Ellen Jacobs corroborated this part of the witness's testimony. The Prosecutor was recalled, and stated that the Prisoner acknowledged the theft. The Prisoner made a circumstantial and ingenious defence. He stated, that the money found at Jacob's was the property of an old shipmate; whom he met. He gave him six guineas and ten sovereigns to take care of. He was bidden 20s. 6d. for the guineas, while at Jacob's, but declined changing them, be cause they did not belong to him. He called a witness to prove part of this statement. Mr. Justice RICHARDSON recapitulated the evidence.—Not Gulty. Officer.—' money ?" Mr. Justice RICHARDSON.—" If the Prisoner will consent, you may." ." My Lord, am I to give the prosecutor the HIGHWAY ROBBERY. Robert Ramsey, aged 19, and Samuel Greenwood, aged 25, were indicted for assaulting Richard Ives on the King's high. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1822 way, and stealing five gold seals; his property, on the 11th of August. The following is a summary of the evidence :—The prosecu tor, about a quarter before ten o7clock on the night of the 11th of August, was passing through Church-street, Betimal-green. The prisoner Ramsay mote towards hint. The prisoner Greer4ood, who was following behind the prosecutor, coughed, upoh,which Ramsay made a snatch at the seals, which were attached to the watch chain of the proseCator. Ratillay made two pulls at the seals before they broke from the chain. During the struggle, Ramsay struck the prosecutor in the side. There was a gat , light near the spot, which enabled the 'prosecutor to see the faces of the prisoners, both of whom ran down a 'court after the robbery. lie obtained the assistance of some police-officers, and apprehended the prisoners at a public-house in the neigh bourhood. The prosecutor spoke positively to the persons of the prisoners; but he admitted that he had not so favourable an opportunity of bbserving the person of Greenwood as that of Ramsay.. The Jury found Ramsay Guilty, and acquitted Greenwood.' llobert Greene was indicted for stealing a silver watch from the person of T. Richardson. The prosecutor was a sail-maker, residing in the, Commercial-road. He was robbed by the pri soner as lie was crossing Tower Wharf on his way home. The' facto being clearly brought home to the prisoner, the Jury im mediately found him Guilty . The RECORDER directed, the prisoner to br immediately brought up for judgMent, and told him the Court in mercy, and to save him from death by the hands of the common exe cutioner (as lie had been there before), would send him out of the country for his life. Stephen Tool, aged 16, was indicted for stealing in ,the dwel ling-house of John Scott certain silk handkerchiefs.—Guilty. [BEFORE THE RECORDER AND A LONDON JUILY.] ROBBERY AT MR. LAURIE'S. Charles Robinson, a'genteelly dressed lad, only sixteen years of age, was put to the bar on an indictment, charging him with stealing a bag containing 43 sovereigns, the prope r ty o f Mr. It. H. Laurie, in his dwelling-house. The case excited consi derable interest, and the Court was much crowded. Mi. ADOLPHUS stated the case for the prosecution, and called Mr. Laurie, who stated that the prisoner lived with Mini as errand boy. On the morning of the 27th of July he was roused by the watchman, between two and three o'clock; he found the street door open, and on searching the house he found his desk broke open, the key of an iron chest taken away, and a silver snuff-box. On searching farther the iron safe was found open, and the bag of sovereigns, some Bank notes, a nd a quan tity of silver, taken from a drawer in it. No othe r pl ace in t h e house was injured, nor was any person found in the house. The prisoner joined in the search, haring been called down by the proisecutor, in the course of which he got on the copper in the kitchen, in the flue of which the sovereigns were Mr. Laurie asked hini what was the Use of his doing so, as no person could get into the dire The prisoner" said he was looking to see if any thing had been .hid there. Har rison was sent for, and expressed an opinion that the rob bery bad been committed by some person in the house, and the prisoner and the other servants were searched. The pri soner was taken before Alderman Co:-, on suspicion, but discharged. Orders were given not t o l e t th e prisoner have access to any part of the house but the shop, and on the 3d of August he was dismissed from the service of Mr. Laurie. He returned in a few days for his clothes, which were brought down to him. He, however attempted to get down the back kitchen stairs, but was prevented by the servant, who was subsequent ly discharged. On the.l3th of August two sweeps came at seven o'clock in the morning, and said they had been.sent to do the chimneys. Mr. Laure refused to let any but Mr. Brown's servants have the soot, and they went away. The boy belonging to Mr. Brown did sweep them on the , following day, when the sovereigns in question were found and handed over to the servant, who took them up to her master. The bag and the money were the same as that stolen from the safe. Infor mation was then -given to Harrison, who watched before the house on the following Friday morning, when the sweeps who hdd first applied came again, and the officer took them into custody. From what he then learned, he went out and took the prisoner into custody. The notes and the snuff box, which contained a portrait of the Duke of Wellington, had not since been found. The prisoner and the sweeps were then taken into custody, when the former was fully committed. Cross examined by Mr. BnonEurcx.—The prisoner had accused the servant girl of something (not theft). It was her who brought up the sovereigns to him. William Gillespie, the watchman, stated, that the house, up to about three o'clock, was safe. Shortly before four, two men told him the door of Mr. Laurie's house was open. Ile went down and found it was so, and he immediately alarmed the family. This witness corroborated the testimony of Mr. Laurie. Another watchman, whose box is opposite to Mi. Laurie's house, stated, that no suspicious persons were seen about the house during the night. Harrison, the officer, confirmed the statement of Mr. Laurie. Stanley Oydell, the sweep-boy, pioved findirf . g• the bag, anti giving it to the servant, to whom he also gave a single sovereign which he found afterwards. Thomas Seekins, another sweep, swore the prisoner engaged him to sweep the chimneys. The witness was to tell the ser vant, or the young man, he would see that he came from Mr. Brown's, and that the chimneys had not been swept for three months. The prisoner told him he would find a bag of Money, and if he brought it to him he would give him two sovereigns. He, the witness, meant to haVe given the money: to Mr. Laurie. The remainder of his testimony was fully confirmatory of the former witness's. The prisoner made no defence, but received a very good cha racter. The RECORDER summed up the evidence to the Jury, who found the prisoner Guilty—Death._ _ The Jury strongly recommended the prisoner to mercy. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. CHELSEA PARlSH.—Yesterday Mr. lb LLAND presented himself in support of an appeal by the Chelsea Water-works Company against a rate made upon their establishment by the paPish officers of Chelsea parish. The ground on which the rate was appealed against was, that it had - been made on the supposed profits of their concern ; whereas no instance existed of the profits of persons engaged in trade being made subject to parish rates. After some further arguments, and witnesses were heard, Mr. ANDREWS, as Counsel for the parish, con sented to let the case stand over until the next Sessions; with an understanding, however, that the rate was not to be re newed.—Some appeals from convicted bakers were made, but dismissed. BULL BATTING.—It is to be hoped, that Mr. MAnTiles Bill for the protection of brate animals from cruelty will entirely put a stop to this barbarous amusement, if hu mane persons will only exert themselves in enforcing its bene vblent operation. Three young men were lately brought be fore the Magistrate of Chester for baiting and severally tortur ing a bull at the village of Hanbridge, and being unable to pay the penalty of five pounds, were sentenced to three months im prisonment. A conviction under this Act, for a similar of tence, has likewise taken place at Dublin. The animal was the property of Counsellor Ball of that City. CORONER'S INQuEsT.---Wednesday evening an Inquisition was taken before Mr. GiBSCiN, Coroner for Essex, at the Rising Sun, East Ilarn, on view of the hotly of a man unknown, who was found hanging by a cord from the bough of a tree, in a field near the . Rumford road, on Monday morning. The following is a description of his person :—About five feet 5 inches in height, and about 45 years of age; light gray eyes, sandy hair, with a long narrow visage and full sandy whiskers; marked on his right arm " E. G." with a heart and a bunch of flowers over; and on his left arm with " W. G." and a mer maid. He was dressed in a white calico shirt, dark-striped waistcoat, marked on the right side " T." and on the left " M." He had a long dark green cloth coat, velveteen breeches, and dark worsted stockings; long light kerseymere gaiters, low shoes, and a black hat. In his pockets were found two pink striped pocket-handkerchiefs, a tobacco-box, a knife with 12 instruments in it, and five-pence farthing in money. There being no evidence before the Jury to shew how or by what means the deceased came to be in the situation in which he was discovered, they unanimously returned a verdict that—The de ceased was tonal hanging by a cord to a tree. Some official per sons belonging to the parish, who attended in the Inquest-room, intimated that the parish intended to have the deceased adver tised, and to keep him uninterred till Sunday, in hopes that he might be owned by some of his disconsolate friends. The Coro ner and Jury asked as a particular favour of the Reporter to give as accurate a description of the person and dress Of the un fortunate deceased as he possibly could✓ LITERARY FUND. We feel great pleasure in presenting the fol.; loWing intefesting article to our Readers. The benevolent principles Upon which the LITERARY FUND was founded, and the extensive assistance 'which it hip rendered to many Unfortunate fol lowers of the Muses, deed no eulogitim from us ; and are stated with so benignant and philosophic aspirit,and with such pious Zeal, in the subjoined REPORT, that we shall not officiously intrude upon thestibiect. We have "reason to beiieve that this elociderit and affecting statement was drawn up . by the gentleman whose name► is first subscribed at the conclusion, and to whom the public, among many other valuable works of learning and genius, are indebted for such a cor rect and beautiful translation of the,XNEin, and such an admirable biography of our great Poet, MILTON, as will he lasting ornanients of Britishi Literatdre : The REPORT of the REGISTRARS of the LITERARY FUND SOCIETY at its LAST ANNIVERSARY.— Read by RICHARD YATES, D.D. On the day on which we annually meet to commemorate the birth of ow Institution, it has been customary for our Trea surers to submit to our assembled friends, and through them to the public, a general statement of the funds or the Soeiety. On the present occasion we shall not confine ourselves within our wonted limitation ; but, assisted by our Registrars, who are solicitous to discharge their appropriate duty to the great cause which we are all equally zealous to proinote, we shad endeavour, with the aid of our recoids, to enforce our just claim to the protection of the generous meeting which Nye see before us ; to the patronage of the public of Britain ; to the favour and the countenance (if such language be not too bold for us to hold) of the extended community of Europe and of civilized man. Of ourselves we are conscious that we are no- thing ; but we draw confidence and pride from our cause, which we know to be comprehensive of the highest and the noblest in terests of otir species. , Addressing ourselves to an audience enlightened like the present ; to men, who possess by erudition the experience of ages, and who feel within themselves that very good which we would illustrate, it must be unnecessary for us to insist upon the utility and the grandeur of literature and the sciences.— They, to whom we speak, require not to be told that these pro ducts of the cultured intellect constitute the true wealth and consequence of the individual, the strength and the pre-emi nence of the nation : that the mind of man was given to him . at his birth in i state of naked imbecility, to be arrayed and adorned, and to have its capacities of power unfolded and che rished into growth, by the indtistry of its possessor : that from the aggregated efforts of single minds, cemented by learning into one mighty and living mass, is produced that wonderful result, which is called Science; x power which raises Man, the intellectual-atom of this little planet, into importance in the universe; which lifts his nature above the sensual; which opens to hiul the fertility of the earth ; which expands before him the communicatiOn of the ocean ; which elevates him to range amid the worlds revolving in the infinity of space, and places him, as it were, upon the threshold of the Palace where the magnificence of the boundless Divinity is displayed.—: . When we thus speak, and when we affirm, from the records of the - ! last and the observation of the present, that nations arc ex alted or depressed, ennobled or debased, in the proportion of their general knowledge or ignorance, we are aware* that we are but asserting truths, with which this assembly is familiar; and we dwell on akin forfora moment, only that we may assume our just merit as an association that is the encourager of science and the friend of genius in its exertion. We profess not to awaken science and genius, or to stimulate them into their splendid activity by calling their possessors to opulence or ho.; nours ; for opulence and honours wait not on our . command : but weprofess to be not inefficient in exciting these powers and graces of the human community, by cherishing the cultivator of intellect in his distress, and by applying the lenient bandage to his wounds, if we cannot plant the crown of gold upon his head. To redress his wrongs, without aspiring to recompence his worth, is the object which we avow ; and this object to the extent of our abilities we have achieved. With respect only to intellectual and literary merit, in its too frequent union with worldly poverty, have we distributed the funds confided to us by the liberality of the public; and, in the exercise of our delegated discretion, we have uniformly approved ourselves to be free from the misguidance of any erroneous bias. At all times, even in those of the strongest paroxysms of party-disease, have we preserved ourselves free from the contaminating influence of political passion; and no author hai ever been repulsed from our bounty, hut the wretched assassin of private character; by whom the press had been fashioned into the weapon of indivi dual malignity. In the communication also of our relief have we been feelingly studious of the sensibilities of the relieved. 'We -have: not regarded his poverty as degradation : we have covered him from the gross eye of the world : we have sought him out in the retreat of his generous pride, and have prevent ed, wheverever we could, the pain of his solicitation. Our bounty, or rather, as we should call it, yours, has fallen silent ly and softly from our hands, like the dews of heaven upon the withered plant, and has been felt 'in refreshment at the heart, while its illapse has been too fine for the sight. By this deli cacy, however, which from the first has presided over our con duct, we are sensible that some advantages are lost to our so ciety : for the public may not be satisfied without that c'ontroll over our proceedings which can be given to it only by thebroad disclosure of our beneficiaries ; and we stand deprived of the means of carrying with us the general sentiment and sympa thy, whilst we conceal the merit which we have succoured, and the woes which we have relieved. But we have balanced this alternative of evils ; and we find that a contingency of loss is the least weighty in the scale. We cannot remove the veil which has hitherto been thrown over the suppliant at the altar of mercy, where we officiate as the priests ; and if we should be wrong in this protection of our sanctuary, we trust that our error will be forgiven for the purity of our motive. But some thing may allowably be conceded to the inquiries of the public, and whenever any communication on the tender subject of our distributions can be made without the pain of private sensibi lity, we shall always be gratified by making it. In the period between our last and our present meeting, some cases of more than ordinary interest have occurred to us, and from these we conceive that we can select a few, which, stand ing under peculiar circumstances, may be brought forward to your view without the infliction of a pang upon their sub- PRICE SEV'ENISESt'CE jeCts,'and consequently Without any violation of the primitite ors which we have uniformly acted. Equally removed, as the dispensers of the public benifi- - , cence, froin local as from political partialities, We inquire not into the birth-plaee of the distressed author, whether . it were on the banks of the Vistula" or, the Thames ; beneath the bright suits of Italy, ,or the freezing and gloomy atmosphere which' environs the fires of Heels. Our arms, in short, spread, every, wheie; and are stretched o'er ever y Seam .em brace the ietellecnial and the learned, and to shelter them from the inclemencyof want. In a former year, and you all must know, we discover ed the venerable Bard of Iceland, where he patiently reclined beneath the shed of poverty; and we imparted comfort to the latest hours of his life. In the present rear, cornmencing with us from our last anniversary, we have been Able to' gratify our: selves by three Lets of the same far..reaching liberality, and in each case the subject of our attention has been eminent for his talents, the attainments of his miitd, and the calamities of his fortune: The first of these ill-fated, but illustrious foreigners, who was offered to our notice, is a native of Poland, and is to be classed, as we haVe unqUestionable authority t 6 assert, with the most profound gedmetricians of Europe. &impelled by want to dispose of his MSS. in Paris for a sum just. adequate to his immediate subsistence, he passed into -.gland, to solicit from our Board of Longitude some recompence of }Ai science. But; straitened in its meant of bounty tied - with its ft/rids rigidly appropriated ; this Board could Only acknowledge his merits, and compassionate his distresses. To us, therefore, it belonged to mitigate his calamitous situation and, that - he now lives to enrich the world with his scientific labours, mu - st be ascribed principally to our beneficent interposition. The next subject of odr expansive liberality is of a still . •more distinguished character. Of a noble family within the territories of Prussia, he has dedicated a long life to the labours - of literature ; and his publications, on the several topics of the German Law, of Political EcondmY, of Topography, of Na tural History, and of Biography; haie been numerous and able. A sufferer, by some very uncommon incidents, anti in volved in the disasters which have peCuliarly saddened this age of remarkable vicissitude, he has been plunged into indigence, and has felt his white head overwhelmed by the wave. His case was Submitted to us, and we supplied (it was all that we could supply) a temporary alleviation of the severity of his fate. Of the third literary fOreigner, who, within the period over which our retrospect is thrown,.has bee' consigned by calamity to oar relief, see find it more difficult to speak ; for with him recollections :are associated in our minds to awaken our perso nal sensibility, and to disturb the even tenor of our narration. During many years lie participated in our honourable labours, and gave Many a feeling and judicious vote for the tempering of that bitter cup, which he then little thought that lie should himself be destined to drain even to its dregs. He long form ed a part of the diplomacy of Italy, and long eepported in the comehonity of Britain the proprietieS of his delegated rank. But, amid the revoltrtioris and disasters of his devoted country, his income sunk suddenly beneath his feet; and our inquiry found bins (for he had retired from us, and his distress was prolixity dumb) in destitution and the Wretchedness of want. Need We say, that ive received him into our fostering care ; and, if we could not fill hit pillow with down, that we softened it under his dying head ? Of the numerous cases, which, during the revolution of the , last twelve months, have evinced the activity of our relief to the authors of our own country, we shall bring before you only two ; partly that we may not liarrass your attention with too long a detail ; and partly, as in these cases, the zealous beni ficence of our Society has been somewhat more peculiarly displayed. A gentleman of one of the first tintitled families of England, of eminent abilities and extensive knowledge, had distin litished himself by his practi ce i n a su p er i or prov i nce of del aw, as well as by the powers of his legal and historic pen. His incoirie was affluent, as his walk Was on the eleva tion of life : but, in consequence of that inatention to d.)-; mestic economy, which in a former age had ruined the great Lord Verulam, he became embarrassed with debt ; and, the evil being exasperated by circumstances over which he had not any control, lie was compelled to fly for safety to the protection of a foreign ream. Oppressed by old aze, and withered by successive years of distress, he was' found by us, as he was struggling for subsistence in the capital of France; and our unsolicited, but much wanted, bounty was instantly extended to him. By' some recent intelligence, he was appa rently on the bed of death : but whether he still survives, or is at rest from his labours, we can please ourselves with the re flection, that some of the last days of the unhappy exile have' been lightened of their load by Our beneficence: 'ln the next case, with which we shall c l ose t his enumera tion of our deeds f Mercy, we were unhappily deprived of the same gratifying reflexion : but we regret the circumstance as OUT misfortunce, and cannot feel it with any self-reproach as our fault. A gentleman, long Conversant; bY the effect of his talents, [is learning, and his manners, with the society of the great, [ad retired, on a very small patrimony, to an obscure residence n a remote angle Of our country. Prefessionally he had be longed to the law, and he had pleaded at the bar : but, directed by the bias of his mind to the less rugged paths of general lite rature, he turned from his professional studio, and devoted himself with ardour to antiquarian research and topographical illuStrations On hit success in this ample field of intellectual exertion the public were summoned to decide ; for they re ceived from him a work of provincial history, replete with curi ous and valliable information. lie was also a poet; and, to display his intimacy with the writers of classic antiquity, he has left behind him in manuscript the first English trans lation of Athezimus ; a work for the execution of which, as otir audience need not be told both his acquaintance with the language Of Greece, and his command of the poetic and the prose diction of his own country, were at once neces. sanly exacted, After a series of years, passed amid the pri vations and difficulties of a straitened income, when he was now far advanced into age, and 'was bowed almost to the ground by infirmity, he found himself, with a wife, old also and infirm, under the oppression Of positive poverty ; for his little tenantry were bankrupted by the prevailing distress of these extraordinary times; and he was left with not more than an annual thirty pounds to protect him from the hu miliation of a workhouse. His situation became accidentally known to us ; and a vote for his relief was passed with accla mation by oar Committee: but alas ! the hand, which should have received our bounty, was then cold ; the tongue, which would have thanked us, was for ever mute ; and the benefi cence, which was destined to comfort the living, availed only to bury the dead ! The gift was instantly assigned by us to the widow: and with her paid the debt which she had incur red by the discharge of her last pious duty to the companion of her long life. By recurring to our melancholy records, we might easily produce to you more cases of interest among the children of literature and misfortune, in which our hands have been ex tended to heal; but we have said what must be sufficient to convince you: that your purposes of good in our support have not been disappointed of their effect by any violation of our trust. We have opened to you the temple consecrated to Mercy and the Muses ; and you hate seem us not negligent of our duty at the shrine. You will continue or wig break your attachment to us as you may deem our action to be useful or of no moment. , Without any personal interest to incline us on the question, we cannot have an object to promote which is not identified with yours. General good, to be accomplished. by specific humanity, is the end which we all equally profess to have in view ; and if the public should decide that ti•is object is unattainable, or has not been approached by us (adecision it is not possible for us to anticipate), we shall have only to la ment that a voice, which we must necessarily respect, should pronounce us to be in error. Our conviction of the rectitude of our aim, as well as of our intention, must remain unaltera bly the same ; and, with reference to ourselves, we cannot be in error., Gratified with the palpable good which we-have effected, with the sorrows which we have alleviated, with the respect which we have shewn to literature and genius, we stand possessed of our recompense. For ourselves, then, let it be re peated, we cannot have been deceived : for ourselves we canno4 Lave any thing to regret, to palliate, to excuse ; for otirselve4 , we have succeeded ;—we triumph, and our hearts can only rejoice. CHARLES SYMAIONS, D.D. JAMES ANDERSON, LL. D. Registrars. JOHN BOWYER NICHOLS, F. S.A. May 21, 1822. As a party of musicians were going down the river yesterday upon an aquatic excursion, the boat was upset near London Bridge. COVINGTON, an expert waterrnan, rescued them all' except one, who swam ashore with the assistance of his fiddle.