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THE • LONDON JOPRNALS. EXTRACTS FROM TIIE AMY MORNING PAPERS Deccnibt'r 6, 1822. [MORNING POST.] Although private letters were received yes terday, there were no arivals calculated to throw any light on the manner in which the French Government intends to use the permission which it has obtained from the Congress. That it con fiders that permissio❑ a matter of great import ance, is proved by the magnitude of the reward bestowed on the negociator by whom it has been procured. The highest dignity of the Peerage, the title of Duke, has been conferred upon him, and lie is treated as a man who has rendered the most eminent services to his country. And yet lvhat is the nature of those services, and what is likely to be their result ? lie has gratified the wishes of a Faction, which has acquired a momen tary supremacy over the Ministers, the King, and the Constitution, and to whose dictation he owes the brilliant recompence which he has received. But in gratifying the wishes of this Faction, this Regency in effect, though riot in name, how has he served his King or his country?—By making the one still more completely a slave, and by ex posing the other to little less than the certainty of a Revolution. The real Government of France is at this moment no longer monarchical; it is the Government of a few, and those few neither the wisest nor the most temperate heads in the country. The name of King, it is true, still exists, and the outward form of a Consti tution is preserved, but they only serve to dis guise the Ultra Oligarchy which towers over both, lest it should appear too hideous in its nakedness. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] Whatever may be the present wishes or future intentions of France, certain it is that our Go vernment not only formally disapprove of a con tinental rupture, but will also do every thing in their power to avert one, although, up to the present hour, we do not conceive that the Ca binet is decided on the precise plan to be adopted, or what will be the best manner of negociating with the French Government, with a view to success. This point, we are very confident, can not be settled till the Duke of Wellington's ar rival in this country, which may be looked for in a day or two ; as there are many minor cir cumstances, relating to the spirit and tone of parties in the Congress, it would be impossible to explain in a dispatch, or indeed confide to any ordinary conveyance. The meeting at Verona has tended to elucidate the real policy of the Allied Powers, more than any other event that possibly could have taken place, and j it is very currently reported that important and unexpected discoveries have been made, regarding more than one of them, which affect their sincerity, and place their good faith towards us in a very questionable point of view. We are in fact in formed that language has been used humiliating to us as a nation ; such as cannot fail to excite indignation and resentment in a proper quarter, if, as We hope and trust is the case, British pride and British honour are still alive ; not such an indignation and resentment as would impel us blindly into a war ; hut of a nature to rouse us to every exertion to prevent one, and show the world that we have yet sufficient intlu trice left to carry our views into execution. We do not hesitate to assert that the utmost anxiety and activity at this moment prevail in every de partment of the Government, and that at every Cabinet Council held, the necessity of making a bold stand, both in defence of our own character and the safety of our Allies, daily becomes more apparent. [THE TIMES. It is uncertain whether the war will begin ; but if begun, when will it end ? We have before said, that sooner or later, England must take part in it ; and that in her national character. British subjects will, at its very commencement, be busy enough in it for their own personal advantage, and all the powers of Government cannot prevent them. But to consider the ques tion first in a national point of view. It is now three years since the Austrians entered the Nea politan dominions ; are they ono whit more likely to retire than on the day- of their en trance ? Or, should they retire, would it not be found that they had. all their work to do again ? Do the French promise them selves greater success than this ? Or do they mean, " to kill and eat," as Beatrice* says, all the Spaniards ? Or, having once overrun and settled the Peninsula according -to their minds, do they suppose they can go away, like the King in the New Testament, into a far country, leaving their servants to manage their talents in their absence, and to give an account to them on their return ? Which of these sup positions "do they think the most probable ? We answer, that they can no longer prescribe a con stitution to the Spaniards, and keep that consti tution in Play, than whilst they are masters of the country ; and that if they suppose England would suffer them to hold possession of the Penin sula even for so long a time as the Austrians have now held Naples, they greatly err in their calculations. We know we are in no case to go to war at present : the past extra vagance of Government has crippled us ; but the people of this - country have still an energy of their own, in spite of a succession of 'imbecile Admi nistrations, and an ill-administered Constitution. Ratting out of the question for the present, th a t generous sympathy which the English cannot but fee! for a brave people struggling with their oppressors,' and supposing interested motives alone to prevail, individual subjects of England will not be slow in-taking advantage of the-con test between the two nations. Let brit the war between France and Spain begin, a nd with it will be. roused our uncontrollable spirit. of naval ettte - prise. Our seamen will cover the ocean on - Spanish' bottoms, and under Spanish letters of marque. " But the Admiralty !" it may be said, 46 will not the Admiralty interfere, so long " as we are at peace with France ?" ,A pretty Admiralty, indeed,. to stop the career of British I * Much Ado About Nothing. valour where gain and danger invite, which, with the whole navy at command, could not even pro tect our own merchantmen against a few san guinary pirates on the coast of Cuba. It will not be long, therefore, before we begin to take a public part in the contest. The only chance, as it appears to us, that the war should be soon ter minated is, that France should fail at the begin ning. [MORNING HERALD.] The continental mails received in the course of yesterday, bring no news of material import ance. In the Paris papers there is abundance of dissertation, and nothing more, if we except the Royal Ordonnance which raises M. de Montmo rency to the Dukedom. If there be any thing remarkable in this dignity conferred, it is that no notice appears to have been taken of his diplomatic colleague at Verona, M. de Chateaubriand. It is rather singular that none of the French Marshals, or of the Gene rals, who gained experience and distinction in the old French armies, are mentioned as about the Court or the War Department.— Marshal Victor, the present War Minister, is a person whose military reputation broke down under him in 1814, and may therefore be pre sumed not to stand very high in the confidence of the soldiers or the Generals. Many of the latter have already had a woful experience of Peninsular campaigning. That which we look forward to with most interest is the echo which the Spanish Government, the Cortes;and the po pulation of Madrid, will give to what may be looked upon as a declaration of war. This, however, may be much more safely anticipated than the result of the invasion. [NEW TIMES.I Nothing transpired yesterday calculated 'to throw any light upon the question of peace and war between France and Spain. Our letters from Paris continue to state that the prevalent impression there was that hostilities would shortly commence, and in support of this opinion they mention that a considerable number of horses had been suddenly sent off to complete the regiments of cavalry in the Army of Observation, and that new levies of men were actually in progress. It is added that before or at the time of the advance of the army, negotiations would be opened for the purpose of urging, as the basis of an arnica- ble arrangement, the restoration of the King to his lawful powers, his Majesty binding himself, on the other hand, to give to the nation a Con stitution bearing some resemblance to that of France. It is said to be further intended to proclaim a general amnesty, if the Cortes give a guarantee for the safety of the King and his Family. All this must be taken only as the current rumour of the day. It appears probable, however, that the first step taken by the French Government as preliminary to any negociation would be to demand an assurance of the se curity of the Royal Family of Spain. how Great Britain would be affected in the event of a war is a question for future consideration. That it is the present determination of our Goverment to maintain perfect neutrality appears to be the general opiuion of those who possess the best means of information ; but, on the other hand, if, in the course of circumstances, the interests or _ _ honour of this country should be endangered or assailed, there can be no doubt that they will be supported with boldness and vigour. [BRITISH PRESS.] Dr. Johnson has ob`served, on a certain occa sion, that 44 whatever may be the object, there is something despicable in a trick." Is it possible to conceive the Holy Alliance to have descended to a trick —aye, and a trick of the lowest and most execrable of all objects ? Let us try the possi bility. The Holy Alliance would have put down the Spanish Revolution as promptly and as etrec .. tually as they have put down the Neapolitan Revo lution—but they could not. They marched at once against the child, and valorously extinguish ed its puny energies; the parent they have looked angry at, complained of, bitterly abused, and finally theatened. Is it from their love of justice and their magnanimous sense of honour that this remarkable distinction has proceeded ? The Revolution of Spain preceded, and, in fact, oct casioned the Revolution of Naples. But Frimont celebrated the obsequies of the latter Revolu tion nearly two years ago. The preceding and causative Revolution is not only uncrushed, but unassailed up to this hour. Did the bowels of the Holy Umpires yearn with more tender and impatient fondness over the errors of lovely little Naples ? And were their affections for rough, untameable Spain, subject to their sober discretion until now, when reflection and a good conscience have awakened them to the calls of high and solemn duty ? No 'doubt this is the true account of the eager rapidity with which Naples was rescued from the grasp of the monster, and of the slow and sullen movements for the deliverance of Spain. Yet all men have, not faith, like the simple ones of the New Times and the Courier. We confess our misgivings and unbelief. The celebrated Whip, about which so much ha been said, and which was awarded to E. L. CHARLTON, Esq. is arrived at Ludford Park, arid is placed amongst the numerous trophies which belong to its present worthy owner. It is of very antique appearance, but by no means " a splendid trophy." The handle, which is very heavy, is of silver, with a ring at the end of it for a wrist-band, which is made of the mane of Eclipse. The upper part of it is like all other whips, except the lash, which is made of the tail of Eclipse. It is reported now to be the identical whip which CHARLES the Second (not GEORGE the Second) was in the habit of riding with, and which he presented to some Noble man whose arms it bears, as being the owner of the best horse in England. This gave rise to the challenge which for many years promoted ad mirable sport on the turf, till his - present MA JESTY won it with Auriel, in the year 1787, in whose possession it continued till Mr. CHARLTON challenged for it this autumn, with his celebrated horse Master Henry. OLD BAILEY, DEC. 5. FORGERY. —SamueI. Cornet was indicted for forging the ac ceptance of a bill of exchange, purporting to be of the value of 371. 165., with intent to defraud Henry Walker. There was another count in the indictment charging the pri soner with uttering the same knowing it to be forged. Henry Walker stated that he lives at Enfield, and is a farmer. The prisoner lived at Waltham Abbey, and was a miller by trade. Witness had frequently had transactions with the pri soner •in June last prisoner owed him 2 31. 3s. 10d. ;on the 17th of that month witness received, in a letter from the pri soner,-,a bill of exchange drawn by the prisoner for 371. lfis. upon William Mead, and the acceptance of William Mead, Pope's Head-alley, Cornhill, written upon it ; about a week after witness met the prisoner, and the latter asked him to give him the balance of the bill, after deducting his own account ; witness replied that the bill was not yet indorsed, and prisoner then took the bill and indorsed it in witness's pr es enc e; w itn ess then told prisoner that he would not give him the balance until the bill was paid, for he could not find the acceptor ; prisoner replied that the bill was a very ~ r ood one, and that the accep tor was a flower-factor in Mark-lane. Witness frequently saw the prisoner after, when the latter always assured him that the bill would be taken up. Did not cause prisoner to he arrested until two months afterwards, because he did not suspect that prisoner had forged the acceptance. Cross-examined by Mr. Anor.PIILTS.—The bill had never been out of his possession, except a week, during which it had been in the hands of his son-in-law, and one night in the hands of his solicitor. Went to Pope's Head-alley when the bill was due; found No. 2, occupied by a notary; did not observe whether there was a public staircase leading to other rooms above. - Palmer, son-in-law of last witness, presented the bill when due ; was told that no person of the name of Mead was known there ; there were rooms above the Notary's Office, and a public staircase leading to them ; the names of the different persons who occupied rooms were printed below, but the name of Mead was not among them. A Gentleman, who had been seven years in the Office of the Notary above-mentioned, stated that his employer let the rooms above the office. There was not auy occupied by a person of the name of Mead. This was the case for the prosecution. A great number of respectable witnesses, who had known the prisoner for many years, gave him an excellent character. - Clarke proved that he wrote the body of the bill in question at the request of the prisoner. Had often drawn bills for the prisoner. Sometimes there had been present persons who accepted the bills, but he did not re c olle c t wh e th er an y body had. been present at the time when this bill had been drawn. Mr. Justice BAYLEY summed up at considerable length. The Jury retired for some time, and at their return pro• flounced a verdict of Not Guilty. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. IMPOSTOR IN THE FASHIONABLE WORLD. UNION-HALL.—A man of respectable appearance, but shabbily dressed, and I:aving the symptoms of the liberal use of the brandy bottle in his face, was brought before J. B. ALLEN, Esq. by one of the officers attached to the Mendicity Society, as an imposter of singular boldness and ingenuity. It appeared from the statement of the informant, that the prisoner, whose name is James Carrington, has been for a length of time exer cising his favourite talent at the expence of many benevolent and distinguished persons at the west end of the town, by re presenting-himself as a naval, sometimes as a military officer, reduced to extreme distress, by a series of unforeseen and un merited calamities. A short time ago ha made an appeal to the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Grey, in so eloquent a strain, as to draw from the pocket of that humane individual the sum of 51. without being put to the trouble of answering a single ques tion. After such a manifestation of pity Mr. Grey could not but expect another visit : he received it, and was imposed upon to the amount of 101. more, all of which money the im postor received within a fortnight, and even without being p u t to the inconvenience of speaking a word. His pen had per formed this service for him ; but he was immediately after wards tempted to try that dangerous instrument in another way, and to uschis benefactor's name in a manner that did not at all tend to shew his gratitude, at the same time that it opened a source of punishment as severe as the most rigoro u s cou ld desire. He forged Mr. Grey's acceptance to a bill of exchange, purporting to be drawn by Thomas Storr, for 301., upon and accepted by Mr. Grey. When the bill was presented for pay ment at Mr. Grey's house, in Charles-street, Berkeley-square, it was of course dishonoured, and shortly afterwards that Gen tleman received a letter from a Mr. Kingston, pressing for payment ; no attention was paid to that letter, and Mr. Grey received a second application from the same person, request ing that the amount might be remitted to a Mr. Wyatt, of Ports mouth, to whom the bill was said to haVe been paid. Mr. Kingston, in his second letter, said he was satisfied that it was through mistake the bill had not been paid ; that he understood that Mr. Grey would shortly pass through London, and accord ingly left the bill at his house, not doubting, his honour in re mitting the amount. Enquiry was then made for Mr. Kingston, but no such person was to be found, and when application was made to the Postmaster at Portsmouth, it was ascertained that a person named Wyatt had ordered all letters addressed to him to be forwarded to him at the White Horse, in the Borough. It was, therefore, presumed that Kingston and Wyatt were persons not existing in any element but that of the prisoner's imagination. and that the names had been made use of to give the transac tion the appearance of authenticity. The forgery not having the desired effect, and the prisoner fearing that the conse quences would fall upOn his head, addressed a letter to Lieut. Bateman, in which were, added to the old tune of " extreme distress," in consequence of loyalty and loss of property in the American war, better lamentations for having committed a for gery on his benefactor. In one part of his letter, he s a id, " I shall probably never see you more; but I have that confidence in your friendship that you will not wholly forsake Mrs. Car rington in her widowhood, nor my seven poor children, poor unfortunate children when they are orphans." In another part of the same letter he observed, " I am so certain of my fate that lam resolved to save the horrors of a trial by pleading guilty." The letter written to Lieut. Bateman (no such per son being ever in existence) was inclosed in another purport ing to be written by Bateman, and addressed to Mr. Grey, was couched in the most' supplicating terms, and begged for mercy upon the miserable man who had thus forfeited all title to the character of a social being. It also described the wretch edness of the prisoner's wife and children, and represented the prisoner himself as, notwithstanding his forgetfulness of benefits received, a sincere friend, a kind husband, and a ten der father. Mr. Grey having disclosed these circumstances to Lady Stamford, her Ladyship recommended an application to the Mendicity Society, from whom he learned that the prisoner was well known to that Institution, and had imposed upon them by tales of distress. Some time ago a paragraph appeared in the Morning Papers, noticing the lib era lity of the Bishop of Chichester to his distressed tenants, and from that period the worthy Prelate was inundated with petitions and ap plications of all sorts for relief from all parts of the kingdom. The prisoner's eye caught the delightful notion, and he let off' a powerful charge, in the shape of a petition, at his Lordship, stating, in the midst of a detail of miseries, that he had been compelled to forge his Lordship's signature to a bill for 30/. An investigation having taken place, it was found that the whole of the letter was a fabrication to obtain money. The Duke of Gloucester, Sir G. Drewe, Sir John Orde, and several others, were amongst those who contributed to the comforts of the prisoner; but as there were no witnesses present to esta blish any of the charges, the Magistrate was required to post pone further inquiry. —While the prisoner was under exami nation, he was observed to tear up a letter, but the fragments were picked up, and taken care of. He heard the charges with great calmness, and was remanded by Mr. ALLENs who hoped the most complete evidence would be brough forward. WORSITTP-STREET. T -PRIVATE THEATRE.-111r. Garton, the Chief Constable of this Office, thought proper, on Wednes day night, to visit a place in Rawstorne-street, oswell-street road, where plays are performed. He found it fitted up with rows of seats one above another, and there were performers on the stage. He did not count the persons present, but he thought there might be about 150. Mr. Bismire, to whom the premises belong., appeared volun tarily at the Office, and said that these performances were in stituted merely for his own amusement and that of his friends. No money or emolument was derived from them, and they had been now continued for several years without molestation. Mr. BENNET observed, that it appeared no money was taken for admission, and on that account lie should at present dismiss the case ; but when it was proved to extend to 15(1 persons, it was more than merely for the amusement of Mr. Bismire and his friends. It could never be the wish of Magis trates to interfere with domestic amusements, but this assumed the character of a public representation, and he would advise Mr. Bismire not to continue it for the future, for it was proba ble that it fell within the meaning of the Vagrant Act. Mr. Bismire.—Then we must not continue it for the future? Mr. TWYFORD.—No, not unless you get it licensed, which you may do at the Sessions. We congratulate the public on the late dis covery of a lead mine at Port Poor, Kk. Maug hold ; the result will, we anticipate, be most fa vourable to the present relief of poor labourers in that neighbourhood.—(lsle of Man Paper.) CURIOUS ANTIQUITIES OF - BARNES, The Manor of BARNES, according to the His tory of St. Paul's Cathedral, by Dugdale, was given to the Canons of St. Paul's by King A thel stan, and, except the temporary alienation of their property during the Government of the Common wealth. It has continued in their possession ever since. It was valued in the time of Edward the Confessor at 61.; in the Conqueror's time at 71. ; in 1291 it was taxed at 12/. This taxation was made at the time that Nicholas IV. granted a tenth of all ecclesiastical revenues to the King, to defray the expences of the Holy war. A record of this taxation is preserved in the Exchequer. An other copy is in the Bodleian Library, and is often referred to by the title of the Bodleian va lour. In 1589 Sir Francis Walsingham enter tained Queen Elizabeth at Barn-elms, with, as was usual in all her Majesty's visiLs, her whole Court. Lord Talbot, in a letter to his father, the Earl of Shrewsbury, says, " This daye her Ma'tie goeth to Barn-elms, where she is pur posed to tarry all day, to-morrow being Tues day, and on Wednesdaye to return to Whyte hall agayne. lam appointed among the rest to attend her Ma'tie to Barn-Elms. I pray God Almighty my diligent attendance there may pro cure me a gracious answere to my suite at her return ; for while she is ther, nothing may be moved but matter of delyghte, and to content her ; which is the only cause of her goinge thithere." The following story is told of Hey degger, Master of the Revels, who was for some time the tenant of the manor-house. King George 1. gave him notice that he would sup with him on a certain evening, and that he should come from Richmond by water. It was Hey degger's profession to invent amusements, and he was resolved to surprise his Majesty by a speci men of his art. The King's attendants, who were in the secret, contrived that lie should not arrive at Barn-elms before night, and it was with some difficulty that he found his way up the avenue which led to the house.— When he came to the door all was dark ; and he began to be very angry that Heydegger should be so ill prepared for his reception. Heydegger suffered his Majesty to vent his anger, and af fected to make some awkward apologies, when, in an instant, the house and avenues were enve loped in a blaze of light, a great number of lamps having been so disposed as to communicate with each other, and to be lighted at the same instant. The King laughed heartily at the device, and, went away much pleased with his entertainment. Adjoining to the mansion is a house which be longed to Tonson, the bookseller, at the time that he was Secretary to the Kit-Kat Club.— Here he built a room for their reception ; and here they held their meetings. The room was or namented with portraits of the members, painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller, which have been en graved in mezzocinto. Barn-elms was the tem porary residence of Cowley, the poet. From Barn-elms he removed to Chertsey, where he died. The church of Barnes is about half a mile from the river; it is dedicated to St. Mary, and is one one of the most ancient structures in the neighbourhood of the metropolis. About the time of Richard the First, an Hospital was founded within the liberties of Saint Paul's Cathedral, by Henry de Norhampton, one of the Canons of that Cathedral. As there is no mention of a church in the Conqueror's Survey, it is probable that it was built about this time. The windows in the north wall of the chancel are of the architecture of that period, narrow and pointed. The windows in the south wall and in the nave are of a later date. The walls are built chiefly of stone and flint. The tower is square, with buttresses ; it is built of brick, and has a staircase and turret at the south-east corner. The quoins are of a soft stone, much crumbled ; the windows are square and plain. The church was considerably enlarged on the north side, in the years 1786 and 1787. On the north wall of the chancel is a tablet to the memory of a Rector of the church. We shall give the inscription, as it is rather singular : " To the best of husbands, John Squier, the late faithful and (Oh ! that for so short a time) painful Rector of this parish ; the only son to that most strenuous propugnator of pietie and loyaltie (both by preaching and suffering) John Squier, some time Vi car of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, near London. Grace Lynch, who bare unto him one only daughter, consecrates this (such as it is) small monument of their mutual affection. " He was invested with this care, 1660 He was divested of a ll care , 166.—Jan. 9, aged 42." The Church of Barnes is one of the Archbishop of Canterbury's peculiars. The presentation has always been in the Dean and Chapter, except when they leased the advowson with the manor, which they did to the Says, to Thwaytes the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and to the Wyats. Francis Hare, well known to the lite rary world, was instituted to the Rectory of Barnes, Sept. 3, 1717, which he held for 10 years. He was bred at Eton, from whence he removed to King's College, Cambridge, where he was tutor to the Marquis of Blandford, son to the great Duke of Marlborough. Dr. Bare became suc cessively Bishop of St. Asaph, and of Chichester. He died in 1740. The celebrated Robert 'Beale died, and was buried at Barnes. Beale married the sister of Sir Francis Walsingham's lady, by whose influence he found an easy introduction to Court. He was much in the confidence of Eliza- beth, who frequently employed him in her nego ciations with Mary Queen of Scots, and made choice of him, in conjunction with Lord Buck- lurst, to make known to her the sentence of the Court. Beale was afterwards sent to Fotherin- gay, with the warrant for beheading that unfor tunate Queen. According to Camden's Annals, he read the fatal instrument upon the scaffold, and was a witness to its execution. He was em ployed on an Embassy to Zealand with Sir William Winter, in 1576 ; and the year before his death, was one of the Commissioners at the Treaty oißologne. According to Camden, he was a man of a most impetuous and morose d isposition.The death of an extraordinary individual of the name of ham, is reorded in the Register of Barnes. The real name of this person was Abiezer Coppe; he was Portmaster of Merton College, Oxford. After having been by , turns, Presbyterian and Anabaptist, he became one of the wildest enthu- siasts of that fanatical age. He published seve ral pamphlets with strange titles, and as strange contents : one of them is called " Two or three days before the Eternal GOD thundered at Great St. Helens." In 1650 he was committed to Newgate for publishing a book called " The Fiery Flying Roll." A copy of this book, which was bnrnt by the hangman in London and other places, is preserved amongst the collec tion of pamphlets in the British Museum. When he had remained in prison more than a year, he pub lished a recantation called, " The Wings of , Fiery Flying Roll clipped, or Coppe's Return to Truth." Unwilling to expose himself to any further danger, he changed his name to Him, and went to reside at Barnes, where he occa sionally officiated as a preacher and physician till. his death. In the register we also meet with the name of Mrs. Anne Bayard, a celebrated blue stocking. This lady was so fond of the study of Divinity, that she learned Greek to read St. Chrysoston in the original. She is said, besides, to have possessed various other accomplishments, but as such accomplishments are general amongst the ladies of the present time we shall not dwelt upon them. The following inscription has been _ copied from her tomb : " Here lies that happy maiden, who often said That no man is happy until he is dead ; That the business of life is but playing the fool, Which bath no relation to saving the soul ; For all the transaction that's under the sun, Is doing of nothing, if that be not done, All wisdom and knowledge doth lie in this one." CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, SEPT. 30.—We have now plenty of wheat, rice, and corn of every description, from India. The crops look well, so that there is no chance of the colony being starved for another year or two. Of late the ac counts from the frontiers have been rather gloomy, and Colonel SCOTT, who commands there, has requested more troops, to enable him to extend his quarters and strengthen some posts which are exposed. Kaffers are seen all through the bush along the frontiers, and have committed a few murders, and driven off a great number of cattle. Wonderful to tell you, a young man of very re spectable family, the son of a Clergyman, has been convicted of flogging a slave to death, and condemned to be hanged. PORTRAIT OF THE EARL OF ITOPETOU.N.—The portrait of this distinguished Nobleman is now placed in the County Hall, Cupar. It is a most excellent likeness of his Lordship, and does great credit to the artist, Sir HE RAEEURN, by ' whom it was executed. We have seen an engraving of this painting, by Mr. Wm. WALKER, of Edinburgh, which for taste and fidelity has been seldom equalled, and may justly be placed among the first exertions of this young and promising engraver.—( Caper Herald.) The Magistrates and Town Council of Brechin have voted ten guineas towards the erection of the equestrian statue of his Majesty in Edinburgh. The overseers of Maidstone have had the following passage from the New Testament placed on the front of the Workhouse: "If any would not work neither should he eat."-2 Thes. c. v. 10. PUBLIC Seim°Ls.—A public meeting was!held in the city of New York on the 15th of July last, for the purpose of establishing a great public school there, for classical education ; and it IS with peculier pride that we learn that the model which has been held out as the most worthy of imitation is the High School of Edinburgh. 4 4 - report of a Committee, appointed by the meeting, has been published, in which there is a very full detail of the improvements introduced, and so successfully carried into effect, by the late eminent Rector, Mr. PILLANS ; we mean the alt' plication of the monitorial system, the introduc tion of private studies, and the total abolition of corporal punishment ; a system by which, both in its direct and indirect operation, the whole cha racter of the school has been changed, not only in regard to the amount and superior accuracy of the work done, and the imparting of a more re lined taste for classical learning, but in the im provement of the moral feelings and gentleman like carriage of the boys. The patrons of the public institutions for education in this place, fully alive to the great value of this extension of the monitorial system of instruction, in the new school that is about fp be erected, the plan of the building is adapted, we understand, for the pur pose of carrying it into effect in the most efficient manner.—(Edinburgh Courant.) TRANSMISSION OF BURTNAY.—On the after noon of Monday, James Burtnay, who was tried and condemned here for violating the person Of a young girl, arrived at Ayr, to undergo the execution of his sentence. He was conveyed in a chaise, in the custody of Mr. GuNN, chief constable of Ayr, and escorted by a strong party of the Ayrshire yeomanry cavalry. The Sheriff clerk Depute, in another chaise, preceded the one which contained the unfortunate individual.— ( Edinburgh Courant, Dec. 2.) BIRTHS. On 'Wednesday, the 4th instant, the Lady of William Fox, Esq., of Russell-square, of a daughter. On Wednesday, at Upton, near T9rqu:ay, the lady of Ham Hole, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 4th inst., at Marylebone Church, M r . S a lter fr mil Exeter, to MisS Jay, of Dorset -street, Portman-square. Af ter the ceremony the happy pair left town for Brighton. Yesterday, at St. George's, Hanover-square, John Cornwall' Esq., eldest son of the late John Cornwall, of Hendon, Md. dlesex, Esq., and nephew of .the late Viscount Gardner, to Charlotte Susan, daughter of Sir John Gregory Shaw, Bart., of Kenward, in the county of Kent. In Aberdeenshire, on Monday, the 25th ult., Major G. Tur ner,am Rsaoy, Esq., of i Royal Artillery 3a , rr to a. Margaret, daughter of the Johnß DIED. On the Ist instant, the RT:;.Satnuel Routh, 1%1.A., Rector of Boyton, Wilts, and Wicklewood, in Noifolk, and brother to the Learned and Rev. Piesident of Magdalen College Oxford. On the 4th instant, at Ramsgate, Elizabeth Ann, the infant daughter of T.A. Curtis, Esq., of Southgate. • On Tuesday last, at Bath, John Popplewell, Esq., formerly of Scots-yard, London, in the 84th year of his age. On the 26th ult., aged 13, of an hemorrhage, Mr. E. B. Dud' ding, of Trinity College, Cambridge. On Tuesday last, in the 40th year of his age, after a linger ing illness, Mr. John Nicholson, jun., bookseller, of Cambridge. On Friday last, Mr. Henry Edwards, one of the Serjeants at Mace to the Right Worshipful the Mayor of Exeter. On the 20th ult., at his father's house, Bury, in the 17th year of his age, Frederick Middleton, youngest son of the Rev. Thomas Fenton, Rector of Beyton, Suffolk. On Sunday last, at Bury, in the 80th year of his age, the Rev. John Cotman, Rector of Langliam, Suffolk, and Chap lain to the Earl of Clarendon. He was formerly of Caius Col lege, Cambridge, B.A. 1766, M.A. 1769. At Pinebush, in the town o f Montgomery, New York, on the I7th ult., Captain Archibald Hunter. The circumstances of Capt. Hunter's death are somewhat remarkable. As he was opening a cow, supposed to have been poisoned in some way or other, he received a slight wound, which became Mune diately impregnated with th e p o i so n, and, in less than anho ur t it was diffused over the whol e s y s t em , in consequence of which re died in about ten days. Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORS, at the SIM' (Ace, 112, - S;;;;j:1;y - J:13. CAnsrAnts. Ty ();