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MASQUERADE.

After the elegant entertainments of this kind that
we have had the pleasure of descl ihing, we confess
ourselves at a loss to do jihtice to this satire on InaS.
ererade memory, for in no other view can we con-
sider the entertainment under that title at the
Pantheon on Tues.lay night. Amongst its very
few attendants were a miserable Oet,;:iaa, who
looked as if he mourned the want of a dinner more
than the loss of his Fora niler ; a wretched Orten, two
dumb Spaniards, who stalked about in silent gran-
deur; a Draymaa, who was extravagant in his praise.
of C,feerfe entire ; and a Mulkis Alan, who cried hi,
muffins and rang his bell to the tune of " IV/0
waits of." The fascination of the night was two
W-rricirbire Lams, who, for vivacity of manners
and elegance of figure, did not yield the palm to
those who are celebrated in SK • KSP Zit aes juhke.
They were accompanied by a tight Wamicksbre Lad,
who appeared to monopolise the kind looks and
gentle wishes of all the fair part of the motley es-
semhly, and the envy of his own sex.

Yesterday at 12 o'cloclr His
M —AJESTY, aecomp-
'trued by the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, took au airing
in his post Chariot to Kew. His MAtt,iv was
followed by the Quees, and PeincEsses, and
Dukes of KENT and CUMBERLAND. The Royal
Party returned to the Queen's house ax three.
The Band of the Guards have received orders
not to play on entering the Stable-Yard Gate, in
complimset to the Duchess of BEDFORD.
Lord RE A V is dangerously indisposed at his house
in Condui t-streer
Lord KING will be shortly united to Lady Es r ER
To eruct. E. eldest daughter of F.arl FOR r Lieu E.
The Duchess of YORK is in a very delicate state
of health at Oatlands, where she is attended by
Dotior P BASSO,.
The Earl of Porryisovis entertained a large
patty last eight at his house in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields.
This is the first time thousands of lads of spirit
were not ready to volunteer their services in the
Ministerial Phalanx, and that the Commander in
Chief has been forced to press men into the ranks of
the Treasury.
The Marquis of HUNTLEY is, if possible, more
popular than ever among the military in Scotland.
Elie Nan's cap, worn by our fashionable jidit ts,
Fa challenge to their Romeos to meet them at
riar I. Avs a ,NCL'i cell.
A law report of yesterday states, that Mrs. CuAM•
bias and Capt. CAULFIELD live TOGVENZE/A sera-
asrE beds.
The cushion donee, the favourite dance of the
Jews in Passoror time, appears to consist of only
two mocenanis, kissing and crossing.
The Marquis of WELLESLEY'S friends expect he
will be honoured with the vacant Blue Ribbon.
The New and the Old Opposition are to he con-
solidated into one body, under the title of "The
Glorious Co-operatron.'
Mrs. HLBERDEN had a concert last night at her
house in Pall Mall.
Great preparations are making for Mrs. FITZ-
MLR BERT'S splendid route this evening.
Yesterday the fire-men belonging to the Royal
Exchange Assurance Company paraded Cheapside,
St. Paul's, Ludgate-hill, &c. &c. preceded by a
band of music. Their new dress is very handsome,
being bright green jacket and waistcoat, and plush
breeches of the same colour. Silver and gold
badges, with silver and gold hatbands. The senior
officers wore their badges fastened to the waistcoat
by purple ribbon, suspended by gold and silver
chains, in the style of the LORD MAYOR'S.
Mr. PITT, in forming his new squad, goes upon
the brigading system, and mixes Volunteers, ‘'e-
terans, and Recruits, all in a mass.
The fashionable morning lounge now is the Ex-
hibition of Tulips, at Chelsea ; where La Joie is
Davey, the 1 ulip for which 2001. have been refused,
continues to aural amateurs from all parts of the
kingdom.
A Dublin paper, meaning, no doubt, to pay a
compliment to the Countess of H* al) wncs t, says,
44 Her Ladyship left this with the good seams of
every body."
At a late Agricultural Meeting in Irelaad,a Widow
Brody was adjudged the prize for the best MP.
It cannot be said of Bo AAAAA r e as of other
Despots. that he cannot bear a Brother near the
throne. It appears he cannot bear one thies, the.
On Monday last, the 21st Light Dragoons, com-
manded by General TA KELT ON, arrived at South-
ampton, from Ireland, where they have been serving
four years with great credit to themselves, and
highly to the satisfaSion of the inhabitants of th rt
part of the United Kingdom. It is generally under-
stood that they are soon to be embarked for India.

tAW INTTLLICLiIC3.

GUILDHALL, WARRUDA? Mat it
Sli &fore Lord Ebt.tirlioltoooll.
PARKER 4. KELL ANT) °EMIRS.
This was an atlion of Trweet.and Conversion. The
Plaintiff had some goods coming up from Bath, by
the waggon, and sent a porter with the usual re-
ceipt, to the Swan, St. Goes's, where the waggon
sets up, in order to get the goods; the Defendant.
Bell, a Police Officer, hiving personated the clerk
of the waggon ; and, as was alleged, in concert with
the Plaintiff's wife, obtained possession of the re-
ceipt, and under that got the goods. He then sent
for the Plaintiff, took him into custody. as the re-
ceiver of stolen goods, and brought him before the
MaNistrate at Hatton-garden, who, after a long ex.
animation of both him and the wife, committed him
to gaol for a misdemeanour : he was afterwards dis-
charged. Some goods were returned to the Plain-
tiff, and more given to his wife; hut there was no
evidence to prove they were the same goods that
had been described to have been in a chest, which
came up in the waggon.
Mr. Gaitaow stated the case for the Defendant ;
he said the Plaintiff was a horse slaughterer, and
that some short time previous to the transaCtion in
question, the Plaintiff's wife went to sell some gold
rings, at the shop of one Goodwin, in Holborn, and
the person who attended the shop, recognising the
articles to have been part of some which had been
stolen out of another shop belonging to Goodwin,
in the same street. she was detained till she should
account how she had come by them ; she said she
had got them from her husband, who bought them
from a person (the thief, Mr. GARSOW said). This
gave rise to the idea, that the goods coming by the
waggon we!e also stolen • and it was agreed. a
Peace Officer should attend at the Swan, when the
goods were demanded, upon which the Plaintiff was
taken into custody.
The Learned Counsel observed, this was not an
aft;con for false imprisonment, but of never and
Conversion; and there had been no legal evidence of
conversion adduced. He would prove the receipt
WAS aftually given to the Plaintiff's wife. who got
back the goods. One Co.ter, a parish constable,
and Chapman, a Police Officer, were examined, and
deposeJ, that the receipt was given to Plaintiff's
wife, in his presence, and that she had got back the
goods ; but it not appearing that those goods men-
coned to have been in the chest were returned, the
Jury found a V:tdiet of 101. for the Plaintiff.
!AMUR R. PICKHRKRING.
This was an aCtion brought by the Plaintiff, who
is an attorney, to recover a balance of 241. from
the Defendant. It was stated that the Defendant
had called on the Plaintiff and told him his son-in-
law had been ill-treated, and he would see him
righted ; he then gave him diretlio .s to sue out a
writ to recover 31. for the son-in-law, and signed a
kind of order or Warrant of Attorney for that pur-
pose.
A young lady, Miss Anna Maria Carpenter. was
produced : she deposed that she was present at the
time Pickherring gave the directions, and si,med the
order for suing out the writ for his son-in-law • that
atmer asked him for a guinea on account, and he
promised to send it ; that he called several times on
Farmer to know if he was going on with the cause,
and that she delivered the bill of costs to Defendant
in Odoher last. Upon her cross-examination by
Mr. Glass, she said she was not clerk to Mr. Fat.
mer, but only on a visit at his house, and generally
sat in the room when he transacted his business ;
knows all the Courts Mr. Farmer praCtises in, and
heard he was Pro.honotary of the Five Pound Court
at Whitechapel.
Upon Lord ELI EP:BOROUGH'S examining the
order er Power of Attorney, he found it was with-
out a stamp ; it therefore could be neither a Wa:.
rant of Attorney or legal Agreement, and could to
be produced in evidence. The Plaintiff was non-
suited.
Some other undefended Causes of no moment
were tried.
His i ordship will sit again in Arr:i P,ias at Guild-
hall, on next Monday se'anight.

MIDDLESEX SEsSItYNS, HICKS'o HALL,
Before WILLIAM MA INWARING, Esq. the Bench
of Magistrates.

PERJURY.
Messrs. IBla,b, Sansens, and Porsteboait, eminent
Bankers in Lombard-street, were indided for wilful
and corrupt Perjury 'the assignment of the same
was, that Nathaniel Tanner, having become a bank-
rupt for 3,1481. the Defendants petitioned the
LoanCeANCCLLOI against granting this Certificate,
on the ground, that they had put in a claim of
3,0001. in addition to the above sum : in making affi-
davit of which, the Defendants were accused ch
Perjury, no such claim having been made.
Mr. FIRLDING opened the prosecution with stet
ing, that the case was of importance to the public
and the parties : the Defendants were men of opu-
lence ; Mr. Tanner had formerly been in the same
situation, but by misfortune had lately become a
bankrupt; the best of men, he observed, might be a
bankrupt; after which, his Certificate was to be
obtained, and it it was obtained, he was then ahle
to meet his creditors and friends like an honest man.
Undtr such circumstances, Mr. Tanner was desirous
of obtaining his Certificate, and by a petition from
the Defendants, that Certificate was stopped ; they
male affidavit of having put in a claim before the
Commissioners. Unfortunately the assignees appoint-
ed under tire commission were dead, but there was
another way to supply this evidence, and to prove
the Perjury •; the claim, if made, would have been on
record, but on the closest inspedion, no such thing
was to be found, there was no entry made of the
papers that would describe the transalion, which
the Jury would look at with suspicion, and taking it
into their consideration, as well as the evidence he
should lay before them, they would be inclined to
believe the Perjury brought home to the Defendants.
Mr. John Charnock, Secretary to the Bankrupt
office, produced the affidavits of the Defendants,
stating a claim of 3,0001, when the commission was
taken out the 21st of March, 1801. Witness received
the same from Mr. Bresdale, Solicitor to the Com-
missioners.
Mr. Blowfteld produced other papers relative to
the proceedings under the commiffion, watch Ire
received front Mr. Bresdak.
Mr Bresdale, formerly Solicitor to the Clmmis-
sinners, remembered giving the 3:Man's to Mr.

. .
Glowheld, but could not say what had been done to
them since they were out of his hands. At a se-
cond meeting of the Commissioners, witness remem-
bered a claim being made by tie Defendants of
30001. He saw it lay. on the table before them.
Witness executed the affidavit on which the
charge of periury was brought, and stated the proof
of the claim from his own knowledge. He made a
mistake concerning the claim believing it exceeded
3000/. therefore wrote 3000/. and upwards, and the
words. " and upwards," were afterwards struck out
by his client. Witness was ready to prove the De-
fendants did make the claim.
Mr. GA R aow, after the examination of the last
witness, addressed the CHAIRMAN, observing, th
evidence for the prosecution had proved the claim
was made : the Court therefore had only to dismss
a case so disgraceful to the Zrosecutor, and he
hoped it would sever be brought forward again un-
der any different circumstances.
Mr. fleantrio confessed there appeared some-
thing like mistake in the prosecution.
Mr. Mainw*alno expressed his surprise how the
parties could bring such a charge in a Court ofJus-
tice, unsupported by any evidence. Three respeCt-
able men, as any in London, he observed, had been
prosecuted. and there was not the shadow of a
doubt as to the fairness of their condwa. The Jury
honourably acquitted them.

VIOLENT ASSAULT.
Laurence M'Carty, a gentleman residing in North
street, Red Lion Square, was indided for assaulting
John Mayha. on the 19th of last January.
It appeared from the evidence, that the Defend-
ant, a Purser in His Majesty's Navy, had lately
married, and having occasion to furnish a house,
called on a Mr. Alin; a Broker, near Finsbury-
square, and purchased various goods, which were
to be sent home ; accordingly on the 9th of January
last, Mr. Aliff went with the furniture, part of
which was carried by the Prosecutor, who is servant
to the Broker, and the rest by a porter named
Tickell. When they got to the Defendant's house,
the things were placed in the ball, where Mr.
M'Carty came to thrust the broker and Tickell into
the street, locked the hall door, and pot the key
in his pocket, after which he said to the Prosecutor,
who was left within, "You rogue and vagabond,
how dare you come into the hall with these thiags E"
He answered, "I am but a servant, Sir,and have gone
by my master's dire lions." "By J—s." replied
Mr M'Carty, " I'll have your life. if you do not in-
stantly take them out of the house ;" the Prosecutor
asked how he could go out with them, as the hall
door was locked ? to which the other said, " He
should take them over the wall at the back of tit
house ;" a proposal the Prosecutor objected to, tinder
the idea of being shot by the neighbours, as it wa<
then dark. On his refusal to comply, Mr M'Carty
ran up stairs, returned with a pistol in each hand.
and emptied the priming out of one of the pans into
the other: he then presented that he held in his left
hand close to the Prosecutor's head, and snapped it,
but fortuitately it misse. fire : on which he struck
the Prosecutor a severe blow on his head that in-
Elided a deep wound; the latter begged for his
life. and prayed the other would not kill him.
Mrs M'Carty, who was likewi•e in the hall,
endeavoured to quiet him, bat without effed s ha
still swore he would kick the Prnses-utor. On some-
body having knocked at the door, he thrust the Pro-
secutor down stairs, and said, " Go into the kitchen,"
which he did, and while he was going, Mr. M'Car-
ty struck him on the back with the muzzle of the
pistol. In the kitchen, which was covered with
water and dirt, the Prosecutor was dreadfully
afraid of losing his life. Mr. M'Carty went down
to him, continued to threaten him with the pistol in
his hand, and asked if he was not an Irishman ? He
answered "Yes, and was not ashamed of his coun-
try." " How then is it," said the other, " that you
did not know an Irish gentleman of spirit would
biow aPtr man's brains out. that wanted to impose
upon him ; it was a fortunate thing for you the
p.stol did not go of, or by J—s I had taken the
roof of your skull off." The Prosecutor remained
for several hours in this situation, and was at last
taken into custody by a constable, who had been
procured by a smith's boy, sent from the Defend-
ant's house for that purpose. Mr. M'Carty was
also taken to the watch-house, where they searched
him, and took both the pistols out of his pocket,
which proved to be loaded with ball.
On the part of th • Defence, Mr. ALLY called a
woman servant of the Defendant's, who stated, that
her master had no pistols in his hand when the
Prosecutor was detained, and that the assault had
been committed by the latter, when he brought the
goods ; her evidence was, however, *ialpable false-
hood, deteded by every part of the case.
The CH A I am to observed, there was no ground to
• justify the violence committed; and the Jury with-
out hesitation found him Guilty.
- The Court sentenced him to pay a fine of 501.
is

OLD BAILEY, INionasuAT, MAT IG.

The Sessions commenced this day at the Old
Bailey, betore the RECOILDII4 and Judges UAtoss
and (;itaii sm.
Robert Clayton was capitally indieled for stealing.
its a dwelling-house at Brampton, in the parish ot
St. Mary, Kensington, six silver table spoons, va-
lue 61. ate property ot Charles Incledon.
The servant of Mr. Incledon stated, that on the
9th instant she had laid the cloth for her master's
dinner; that shortly after she went down to the
kitchen, where she had not been long, when she
observed a strange man walking in the court-yat.d,
in the front of the house. Entertaining some sus-
picion concerning him, she ran up stairs, saw the
door open, went into the parionr, and missed six
spoons, which she had placed on the table a short
tom! before. She tan out and gave the alarm to
some painters who were working at the next house ;
she pointed out to them the prisoner, woo was at
some distance rig'. Tiles, pursued, and soon took
him into custody. On,: ot the painters found two
of the spoors, and another font-, upon the prisoner.
Mt. Incledon, being called, swore to the proper-
ty. and said they were won., al. He also said, )
had been in the house, and went out a little before
the theft took place.
The Rauminse, in his charge to the Jury, ob-
served, that the Prisoner was charged in the in-
dietment, with a capital offence ; for it was by
law a capital offence to ..teal out of a dwelling-house