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London, England, 1822-04-05 00:00:00

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111. liciagestreet, April 4,1119 L
approaeltiog election if • notonfer and Com.
4,.. mi • ght to excite tiestseattue, they being Sort re.sillte of great 'pia& seportarice, as regard 4
Mss, tahwir, `end jloopeify M Mate lb/familia' of his lla-
keeled Italryeetis oVer whtiln the* "Seers will have to pre.
Mk, ht perfuellornice of the 914404 duties of criminal
edges, I least the following historical infbrisatino,
hieb I hams cosseted from the reeved., as beanies on the
a., will be wneihr a plsme is your Paper. 1 miaow
regtet that the Aerials situp lodge* of sorb eittedsiVe
Jerholiesisin effireild Oral Aritti Ole Cerporatioa of Lonslos.
" The Remake of shit City if Lnedno ibsll he, lad is
wow to bete meg of the Mott *Urfa sad virtuous Myren.
tier. of the Isa of the who& hiagdom, whose office is
always to sit or the eight hand of she Lord Mayor, in re.
cording pleas and peesidit joimattet 1 Sari by whom records
tad tweresses bad before the Wryer lad Aide. lam at Great
St. Marshes, might to he wearied by Word of as/VA, before
the jedges assigned there to carnet pear...
" The Mayor add Aldermen have therefore used ease.
*only to set forth all other busmen lurching the City, before
the Iflog ami his Couted, as also In cerium of she rhea
Courts, by Mr. Iteeorder, es • thief man, itodaod wilt. vets.
'slow, sod eminent fir tiogsairee.'"
lie salary of the Recorder sae same ne Ica seminar
to time awl merle, as swam in the fourth book of fiber
Antis, or While (sal Red) Book and which was seeded at
100-bustles, or 061. 134. 4J. per alma*, as also a goers. In
1749 the salary was lied at 1991. since which time R has
bees fesermsfam mid new assessta to 1,500 f. ekelutilre wf
feet anti pergoisites, whieb are about 1,014,1. more. le
additioo to the pey of 100 marks, tie is aliened 101. *
year frees the City of Chamber fur Weedily; the Mayor mail
**riffs when they are sworn into office, kr., and 20 penes
fur melt charter writers sad eeetelleeirt .celled he the Coon
of
Ithaiings, where it is his Imperative duty to attend on
all occasions with the Mayor sad Sheriff.. The Isle
worthy Recorder looked aimlessly miler the 101, stit wily
rums the Chamber, but frost tile Sheriffs, sod made several
applieationt for it so use, bet in rain. Ihe lest time, be
persimally threatened late in the Cowl of Aldereere if I did
not psy it. Deface I gave the Old Reeky Judge sty reply,
I celled a prawn to be present to witness, and then told hies
I hail already given him an 'sewer on that subject
This is beetled to you cor the int.rmatioa of she public, to
citable it to judge boo far she Aldermen of she day :a him
elected a proper person. That be was retitled in 1.10 marks.
none. I dare say, will dispute, though the peculiar Wed of
aerie will occasion many remarks.
1 am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
J. W. PARKINS.

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P. 11.—1 shell give yo■ a correct account is a few days of
the oodber of trials which look place it the 01.1 Railey
(whir\ I aio carefully extractive from the Newpate Calen-
dar), Gum 1791, she time Mr. &leveler was elected Cowman
Serjeaut, oteerwiite a City Judge, which caltiled hies to pre.
el& over lift ard death. a lueb he did mewl tau days before
his owe death, *hew ►e preserted the Report of the crime.
solo capitally coovteted to Me King is Cooseil.
J. W. P.

PUNISHMENT OF DUELLING BY THE LAW

OF SCOTLAND.

We have already area that whea a duel tate, pleat apes
a challenge, and is followed by the death of one of the par-
ties, this, according to the law of Scotland, is murder us
the survivor, how fair and equal wryer the meatier of con-
ducting the combat. But the better to repress such irregu•
lenitive, so which the fervent weeper of the Scots so strongly
disposed them, the Legislature, by the statute, 1600, e. 12,
rimed the bare set of evegegiag in • deal to the same rack
of a capital crime •• the actual slaughter, ,withort distin-
gseishisig whether any of the parties did or did soot safer
any *mind or materiel harm on the occasion. To complete
the restraint, it was by statute, 16901 c. 35, made penish-
able with hanishasest, sad richest of moveables, to be con-
cerned it the giving, seniltag or accepting of a ehalkvige,
eve. lisuegh No combat should ensue.--.[Hurts, vol. ii.
p. 2b1.1
It is a singular coincide's,* that Sir Alexander Boswell
should have first proposed the repeal of three Acts. th• the
31st March, 1616, us his 'Review " That leave be given to
bring in a Bill to repeal mutate Acts of the Parlianiest of
Scotland regarding Duelling," after some obliterations out
the Sects Acts its general, and stating that they ought he
divided into fuer classes, one of which was that of " Sta-
lutes held to be in force of an ohjeetioaabk salare," he
added, " be wished to confine himself at remmit to moving
the repeal of oee statute of an exceptionable • tatere—a sta-
tists with respect to duels, on which an individual had lately
bees tried. By this stator a pevooo sending or heaving a
challenge to fight a duel, forfeited all his moveable property,
aid suffered banishment, whether the duel took place or not."
The Bill passed solo a law, sod thus the punlshmeut •p-
-pliable to all those cessceriled tit the affair in which hr fell,
is, ttirouals his iostruntentality, very differeut from what it
otherwise would have beets.

DUNAVORK EAST (IRILAND), MARCH 28.

William and Mary royal yacht, Sir John
Phillornora consuiander, from Milford for Cork, put
iu here for shelter at three this afternoon.

Tl:e brig Catherine, Charles Peyton miste►, from
Belfast for London, put in here on Wednesday.
On Monday, off the Banks of Wicklow, she picked
up Capt. Joseph Graves, one seaman, and one boy,
belonging to the schooner Linen Hall, of and for
Bristol, with linen, paper, and 25,000 *seine's, from
the Batik of Ireland to the Bank of Englund, in-
stored at 7*. 6d. per rent. from Dublin, lust on the
Wicklow Banks. Fortunately, these men had got
into the bust. Immediately after getting into the boat
they were driven trout the vessel before the remainder
of the crew could get in. They, therefurr, cannot
tell whether any vessel fell in with them, as the boat
in a short time drifted far from the wreck. The
Listen Hall was under w■ter, but it is supposed that
the rest of the crew have been saved, ass cutter and
four or five boats were observed bourn% towards her.
A bout ten packages of !torn and some bags of flour
had been recovered ; and it was hoped, if the wea-
ther continued moderate, that more of the cargo
may be saved. The Linen Hall was about 80 tans
burden. and the property of Messrs. Parsons,
Hears. and Cu. of Bristol.

Two thouvatul pounds in Spanish bonds hove
been stolen from s coact► by which they were vent
to the count►•.

A Court of Aldermen was held yesterday at
Guildhall, when the LORD litlairoa declared the
office of Recorder vacant by the decease of Sir
JOHN SILVIIITER, Hart. sod it was resolve.' that
IM office should he filled up at the next Court.
and the LORD MAYOR was requested to convene
one on an early day fur that purpose. whereupon
his Lordship appointed 11'edneaday the 10th inst.
accordingly.
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It is sirit true, as stated in some of the news-
papers. that no fatal duel has taken place in Scot.:
land since Sir GEORGE RAMAT'S, in 1790. Mr.
LIVINGSTON shot Mr. BOOTH In the neighbour-
hood or A 6• rdeeh about 1804. In 1810, Surgeon
CAHILL, 45th foot, shot Capt. Rurstr.roaD, at
Haddington, and was afterwards tried fur murder
before the High Court of Justiciary, when the Jun•.
by a plurality of voices, found Mr. Caina. Lot
durity.—(Caledonian Itlercury.i