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A copy this you say ? If so, 'tis
odd—
But, no! you joke—'tis Kate% own face, by G--(1!
Tempe, ilov 21. OLD NICK.

To the EDITOR of the BRITISH PRESS.
110MER.—FUX.
S I R,
Mr. Fox having merely given a free translation
of the passage he quoted from Homer, in the splen-
did•. speech lie •delivered in the House on Tuesday
night, the 2l.th inst. it may, perhaps, not be disa-
greeable to your readers to have the original brought
before them, accompanied by a more correa ver—
sion. After much contumelious and reproachful
language between Agamemnon and Achilles (in
whose places the Orator puts France and England)
the latter " half unsheaths his
.glittering blade,"
when Minerva descends and gives him this more
safe than polite counsel
AXX' ovyt, Eel/Or, ESP; iA so ZE,e,-
AW /ITO& 17110110 (A&V out ;STOP, WS ETETZI irtp.
Port. B. i. v. 210.
Thcfrrec of keen reproaches let him ji•ei,
But dreoth, obedient, thy revenging steel.

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COWPER.
Restrain thy wrath. Draw not thy faolcli ion forth.
Retort, Llid sbarply• and let that suffice.
OLD NICK.

FASHION.

The Duchess of BOLTON gave, on Saturday even-
ing, a grand Music Party, at her house in Grosvenor.
square, to about three hundred persons of distinCtion.
Among the company were _
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Duke of Rutland.
Marquis of Winchester.
FarisSuffelk, Derby „ and Carlisle. . . .
'Viscounts—Stanley, Wentworth, Falmouth, Cranley, Rane-
-I,c,r!i, Courtenay, Loftus, and Hitachingbrrike.
"I.lrds—Printrose, Bayning, A. ,Someriett, Foley, Loftus,
W. St wart, Dursley, Ossulstotr, Aughriin, Huntingfiald,
Marsharus, and I.l.mpletown.
Sirs—R. Millmaikc W. Keit, and J. Shelly.
C;ctierai*—St.Jolut, and Thornton.
Colonel Drummond.
captains—Wow:turd, Page, Cockburn,_ Sutherland, and
Cotton.
111cssrs.—D. Smith, Johnson, Monson., Primmse, Harvey,
E. Walpole, Lawis, Moore, S. Stanitope, Foljarnbe, Coventry,
Herbert, Pelhams, 0. Hunter, Kitinaird, Lowther, Vaned:,
Cuthbert, Colinore, Skeffington, and Manners.
Duchessas--Beaufort,R utiand, and Dowager Ruthnd.
Marehionesses—aath, Salisbury, and Winchester.
Countesses--Carlisle, Carhamptun, Suffolk, Clatibinsid„
Roseberry, L-Atrim, Liverpool, Tankerville, Dowager Essex,
Retires, D.r.rby, Dowager Sefton, Keninare, Carnarvon, Gallo-
way, Cork, and 11,1exlroroitgli
Viscountesses—Wentworth, Gosford, and Stanley.
ladies- .M. Coke, Tancred, I)owager De Clifford, ITunliskr-,
(.Aston, Douglas, J. Howard, Andover, C. Johnson, S. Lum-
ley, Ludlow, Mariners C. Howard, Mayo, De Clifford, T.
Henke, is enke, Laiess, two Thyttnes, Haggcrston, Monson, Lang-
ford, M. Primrose, Clements, A. Harvey, C. Jeakinson, Cal-
therpc, A. Bennett, M. Foljambe, Dcerhurst, Somersctt, H.
Leslie, Bayning, S. Vvner, Ashburnham, Mu tier, Stewell.
Aughrirn, li. Lowther, Middleton, G. Cecil, and L. Mau-
ners.

Mistresses—Cusans,Moraat, Darner, W. Gosling, D. Smith,
Walpole, Fitzherbert, Law, Hertford, Sydney, Cala, at, How-
ard, 0. Hunter, and Cuthbert.
Misses—Cusanc, Malinke, Lawley, Morison, Townahend,
Calthorpe, Law, Taylor, Coventryi, l'elhams L. Gower, Far-
(lnter, Manners, and Courtney.

The Rot AL CIRCUS was 'last night crowded at an
early hour to witness the first representation of
Number Nip ; and never was an audience more am-
ply repaid for their attendance. It abounds with
every variety of Amusermnt, and is blended with a
story of considerable interest. The Scenery is ad-
mirably painted, the Music of the most pleasing
kind, and the Dresses of the first description. Its
second representation was given out for this Even-
ing, amidst a thunder of applause.
Capt.BritsAan,onlysonuftheßishopofLtmEßlCX,
arrived in town last night from the Cape of Good
Hope, where he had been for sometime past Pri-
vate Secretary to the Governor of. that place. .
The Countess of ANTRIM'S Rout last night w:t':
honoured by the presence of a large portion (.1
rank and fashion.
Green and silver will be the prevailing dress or
the Knights of the Bath's Ball, to-morrow night a..
Ranelagh.
The Duchess of Bo trot; gave an elegant dinner
on Sunday evening, at her house in Grosvenor-
square.
The remains of Lady Haavev, sister-in-law to
Lord HAWKESDURY, who died some time ago in
Italy, were brought to town and buried yesterday in
St. Martin's church.
The Ladies TOWNSHEND'S and Miss ELLERKERC
Balli l last night in Upper Brook-street, was very
The Earl of DARNLEY gave a grand dinner on
WALES, Earl of RODEN, Earl of MANSFIELD, Mr.
Sunday last to his Royal Highness the Prince of
The Countess of DARNLEY and arlar
VANsiTTART, MI. CANNING, and Dr. BEAKS,
gepatty atloii:
friends
housed
si n
dined
kioneYSsucinudarcay.last with the Hon- Trioat A;
&Rol, at his house in Berkley-square.

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OLb B.lttEt.
MONbAV, MAY 30.
At en early hour this morning the Court was
tr w led with persons impatient to hear the trial of
Mr. Rokrt AJtlstt, one of the Cashiers of the
Bank.
Precisely at ten o'clock Sir NASH Gloss: and Mr.
Barone GRAHAM entered the Court, and the pri-
soner was ordered to the bar; he bowed very re-
*Molly, first to the Court and then to the Jury.
lii Was dressed in a brown coat, white waistcoat,
and black silk breeches. Though charged with
embezzlements to such an immense amount, his
manner and appearance did not seem to indicate
that his imagination ever soared beyond the con-
templation of shillings and pence. He is a person
altogether of a aspea; his physiognomy is
neither interesting or expressive, and his whole ap-
pearance is calculated to afford an assurance that he
could not possess sufficient strength of mind to me.-
dime a fraud, or any thing that required the least
exertion of wit to conceal. When he was pat to the
bar, Mr. Shelton read over the indictment to him.
It charged that the prisoner, on the e6th of Feb-
ruary last, at the parish of St. Christopher Le
Stocks, being an officer and servant of the Gover-
nor and Company of the Bank of England, and as
such officer and servant entrusted with a certain
Exchequer Bill of the value of 10001. and also with
two other Exchequer Bills of the same value, did
then and there feloniously secrete and embezzle the
said bill so belonging to the Covernor and Company
of the Bank of England, against the form of the
statute. In the second count he stood charged with
secreting and embezzling the hills, describing them.
as certain efreds. In the third count he was charg-
ed with embezzling the bills, describing them as
securities. In the fourth count with feloniously secret-
ing and running away with one of the bills. I'he
filth coma was the same as the last, calling the bill
certain effects. The sixth was also the same, call-
ing it a security. The seventh. eighth, and ninth
counts charged him with feloniously embezzling,
secreting, and running away with certain Exchequer
Bills, effects, and securities. There were three
other counts, referring to another bill.
To this indictment the prisoner pleaded ,Not
Guilty.
He also stood charged on another indictment,
with feloniously stealing in the parish of St. Chris-
topher Le Stocks the Exchequer Bills enumerated in
the last indictment. He was arraigned upon another
indictment, for secreting other Exchequer Bills,
varying the counts as before ; and lie was also
again inclined for stealing them. To these he also
pleaded Not Guilty.
There appeared to be seven or eight other indict-
merits against the prisoner laying by Mr. Shelton,
but it was not thought necessary for the present to
arraign him upon them.
Mr. G xsraow, leading Counsel for the Prosecu-
tion, addressing the Court, said, that circumstances
had occurred, which rendered it desirable, on the
"art of the Dank, to postpone the trial of the pri-
soner ; he understood the other side had acquiesced
in the proposition.
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Mr. Justice Gaost--" If they acquiesce in it,
there can be no objeftion, but I wish we had known
of it before ; we have not been used well by the So-
licitor for the Bank. The Solicitor of the Bank
should have apprized the Court of the intention to
postpone this uial. We received no notice of its
having even been appointed for this day ; and all I
knew of it, was from having read it in a newspa-
per a fortnight ago.''
Mr. GAtitow assured his Lordship, that every
arrangement was made for the trial on Saturday
last ; the prosecutors had not a hope that it would
have been allowed to have stood over to this day.
If any thing had been inserted in a newspaper, it
was without any communication with the Prosecu-
tors. Solicitors, or Counsel.
Mr. Justice GROSE—" If it was not your parti-
cular'request, founded upon reasons, which, I dare
say, are perfeftly justifiable, I should have insisted
upon the bill helm tried the same Sessions it was
found. If the trial was fixed for this day, which,
as I have said, I knew only from a newspaper within
this fortnight, the Court ought to have had that
respeft paid toa it, as to have been informed of the
fad, through a regular channel ; there should have
been a communication from the Bank Solicitor to

the Lord Mayor, and from his Lordship to us."
Mr. Gatutow assured the Court, that nothing
was meant, in the most remote degree, disresped
fuL

Mr. Justice G R OSE-.--" I mentioned this in conse-
quence of a complaint from the Bench. My Bro-
thers complain that the Bank prosecutions always
come on late in the Sessions. • I know nothing would
hare kept me in town, but the rumour I heard of
this trial coming on to day." •
'The Solicitor for the Bank said, he was just as
ready to have tried the indietment on Saturday last,
as he was to-day.,;
Mr. Justice Geosr—ig A communication should
have been made to the Court as a matter of courtesy
and respeCl, as well as of duty on the part of the
Bank Solicitor, because he should know the Judges
have other business to mind, besides that of the
Bank. Mr. Garrow came to me only yesterday,
and informed me it was intended to put off the trial.
However inclined I am to acquiesce in his sugges-
tion, I must say, the Court has not been respeCtfully
treated."
Mr. GA aaow said, he was very grateful for the
iAtlelgence of the Court. Lie could assure their
Lordships, that if there had been any want of pro-
per reriett and attention towards them, it had been
cr,lte unintentional on the part of the very honour-
r.bie Gentlemen who were Solicitors fur the sank,
and he was persuaded nothing of the kind would
ever occur again.
The Coutt seemed perfealy satisfied with this
apology.
The Prisoner was then remanded to next Ses-
s:ons.
Fosses Rudd was indieted for feloniously stealing
a quant:tv of grains, the property of John Clements.
Robert Willis, was also indieted for receiving the
s.une, knowing them to be stolen.
It appeared that the iprosecutor, who is a small-
beer brewer, sent the prisoner Rudd, and another
man named Bailey, with a waggon on the 10th of
this Month, to fetch thirty quarters of grains from a
brewhouse. When the waggon came back, Cle-
ments the owner observed, that some of the pro-
perty had bean removed, and immediately made.
inquiry of the prisoner Rutld what had becona. e ot
it The latter dethed the least knowledge of as as

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Bailei. The po,setuv. r W:l3, however, con-
vinced
in his mind, that he htid been rubbed, sad
on the morning following, he prnceeded to dis-
cover the fat. On going up the lane through
which the waggon had passed, he saw the grains
lying on the ground close by the gate of the pri-
soner Willis's house, near the Hackney-road, on
which he procured an officer from the Police Office
in Worship-street, searched the premises, and found
the property stolen in Mr. Willis's stable, the whole
of which appeared to be his by the colour. Bailey,
the man who drove the waggon with Rudd, on
finding a discovery likely to take place, immediately
communicated to the prosecutor that 'Willis had •
bought the grains of the prisoner Rudd for twn
shillings. Willis was not at home when the officer
searched his house, but on hearing what had hap-
pened, he went to Clements the prosecutor, and ex-
pressed his sorrow for having bought the property,
and begged of him not to prosecute, as he had been
ignorant of having done an illegal :talon. He also
Wevt to tile Magistrate, by whom the search-war-
rant was granted, and stated, if he had done wrong,
he was rc4dy to give an account of his conduft.
The Magistrate told him there was no charge against
him ; but very soon after he was taken into cus-
tody.
The prisoner Willis being called upon for his de-
fence said, that the aukward situation in which he
was placed rendered it necessary for him to beg the
Court to hear his defence read. It stated, thaf he
was a Clerk in the Bank, and lived in the Hackney..
road, where lie bad been for some time past in the
habit of bnying grains to feed his rabbits. He had
always dealt for that article with a person named
Lee, who had lately not been able to supply him
with any more, in consequence of which he had loft
orders for a distillers man, or any other person,
to call at his house with some. The prisoner
Rudd came, and the property was purchased, under
an idea that he had power to dispose of the same.
A fair price was given, and no intention orgrand
was entertained. After his house had been searched,
he went to the Magistrate, who told him, there had
been no charge made out against him, he, there-
fore went home, persuaded that he should hear no
more of the affair, but he was shortly after appri.s-
liended as a felon, and committed to take his trial
for the offmce. Before this unfortunate affair, he
never had the least imputation of a dishonest nature
on his character; his situation in life, as Clerk in
the 13ank, placed him tar above the commis-
sion of so low and contemptib'e an offence as
the present. A number of persons of the high-
est respeClability in the Bank gave him an ex-
ceeding good chara.fter ; many of them had known
him upwards of six years. The other prisoner,
Rudd, was spoken of by several witnesses as having
always borne the charaaer of an honest man prior
to the present charge brought against him.
Mr. Justice GaOSE, after deliberating some time
with the Court, observed, that the prisoner Willis
was present when the robbery was committed, con-
sequently aiding and abetting. The indiciment
charged him with receiving- stow-. r,operty, anti the
Jury were bound to acquit him, .1,; he could not be
convicted according to the law. With respe6l to the
guilt of the other prisoner, Rudd, they had to consi-
der if the evidence which had been adduced was
strong enough to convince them of his having com-
mitted the robbery ; if they thought it was, they
would find him guilty ; if they thought otherwise
they must acquit him.
The Jury found Rudd Guitty, and acquitted
Willis.

The Judge remarked to the latter, how necessat y
it was fur him in future to he canlious in his de: 1-
ings, and hoped the present trial would not depre-
ciate him in the eves of those under whose imme-
diate observation he was in his official capacity.
John .11‘.11u.lin was indiCted for feloniously em-
bezzelling and stealing a draft, for 41. Bs. 2d. the
property of James Ellis.
Mr. KNAPP, as counsel for the prosecution,
stated to the. Jury, that the prisoner at the bar could
not be convicted of embezzelling the draft in ques-
tion, but he should be able to prove, beyond dis-
pute, his having stolen it. The circumstances were
as follow : Mr. Clements, the prosecutor, was a so-
licitor in Abingdon-street, Westminster • the pri-
soner became his clerk on the 26th of April last ;
not long after he had been in his service, he was ob-
served to absent himself from his office under pre-
tence that his father was ill, and that he went to af-
ford him that help and assistance which he required.
The prisoner was however &tele(' in this imposi-
tion, by being found intoxicated in the street ; a
circumstance which led Mr. Clements to insped into
his concerns, when he found that several drafts were
gone from a drawer; and, on making further in-
quiry concerning them, at his bankers, he discovered
that one of them, for the payment of 41. Bs. 2d. had
been paid into the hands of one Jacobs by the pri-
soner, for certain articles of hosiery which he had
purchased ; it was signed by him on the back, and
dated with his hand writing. These fads, the
Learned Counsel observed, would be proved by evi-
and the Jury would have no difficulty in
finding the prisonef guilty.'
Mr. Clements evidence went to prove, that he
had been a • solicitor under a commission of bank-
ruptcy, whereby he had several dividends to pay,
which he paid with drafts upon his banker. He di-
rated one of his clerks to fill up those drafts in order
for him to sign them, which he did, and they were
put in a drawer in the office ; there were four that
Were not dated.
The Counsel for the prisoner urged to the Court,
that no robbery had been committed, as the draft
was not dated when taken away, in which state it
was of no value.
The banker's clerk was called and questioned,
whether the draft would have been payable without
having been dated. He expressed that it would not.
The Judge, therefore, observed, that by law the pri-
soner must be acquitted, as the property stated in
the inditment was not of value when stolen.--.
Acquitted.

In consequence of a requisition made to the Lord.
Mayor by the following respectable Members of the
Corporation to call a Court of Common Council, to
take into consideration the propriety of addressing
his Majesty on the present important crisis; his
Lordship has appointed Wednesday next for that
purpose. The requisition was signed by Deputies
itawlett, Raw,
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Birch, Ord,
Walsh, J. Dixon,
• Fenton Buns,
Alldrid;e, Sturte,
S. Diriou, Nub.

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tIVIELLGENCE.
ri.vmouru, MAY 28:
Came in the French.brig frodain, Capt. C. Dtli
froln Havre de Grace, bound to Martinique,
laika with jewellery and plantation stores, taken by
the Darr: frigate. Soon afler the Dori: left her,
fttir Frenchmen, who Were concealed, joined the
!Alert that were left on board, and rose on the Eng-
rah sailers ; they discharged two pistols, and
wounded two of the seamen, but the British tars
were not to be easily frightened out of their prize,
and though inferior in numbers, they soon thrashed
the Frenchmen into a sense of their inferiority.
Arrived the Dutch ship Planter: Wansch, Captain
Casper Tolle, from Africa and Demerara, bound to
Amsterdam, laden with sugar, coffee, cotton, ivory,
gold dust, and specie, detaint'd by the Eagle excise
cutter, of this port, Captain Adams : she is a very
large copper-bottonit.d English built ship, and is
vere valuable.
Arrived the French brig La Batinc, Captain La
Maitre, of and from Havre de Grace, bouad to
L'Oi.ient, laden x% ith large oak timber, for ship.
building. She was captured the 20th inst. by the
of 38 guns, Capt. Wallis. The Naiad': boats
same day cut out from under a battery near the Pen-
marks, a French brig in ballast, and a chaise marry,
laden with salt. The former they brought off, but
the latter was sunk ; the crew all saved.
Arrived the Danish ship Kirin 13,7:zetta, Captain
H. Zimmerman, from Rotterdam, bound to Bour-
&aux, laden with sundrks, detained by the Naiad
frigate, on the 24th inst.

Arrived also a very large French brig, of about
230 tons burthen; called Lfs Trois Consuls, Capt. W.
Moreau, from Port-au-Prince, buund to Nantz,
laden with a very valuable cargo of tea, sugar, and
cotton. She was taken the 25th inst. by the Hazard,
of 18 guns, in sight of his Majesty's ship Victory, of
110 guus. Lord Nelson had previously shifted his
flag to the Aznpbion, of Se guus, and parted corn-
pay. The Planter/ ilianrch, detained by the Bask,
WIS, three days previous thereto, boarded by Sir
Roger Curtis, on his voyage from Lisbon ; but nut
knowing of the rupture, she was suffered to depart.
Came in the Dutch brig Vrenit, late Frederick,
master, from Africa and Surinam, bound to Am-
sterdam, laden with sugar, coffee, and cotton, de-
tained by the Renown excise cut►er, of Dartmouth.
Capt. Frederick died three days alter he left Suri-
nam, supposed to have been poisoned by the Blacks.
Came in also the Revolutionaire, of 44 guns, Capt.
Lock, from a cruize. Theßambler, of 14 guns, Capt.
limes, is appointed to convoy the trade to the west-
ward, and has her signal now displayed for that
purpose.
Arrived the Trois Consuls, Moreau, from Port-aay.
Prince fur Naritz, taken by the Hazard sloop on
the 25th inst. and the Yreede, Schuldt, from Suri-
nam, for Amsterdam, sent in by the Renown reve-
nue cutter.

PORTSMOUTH, MAY 28.
Arrived his Majesty's ship Amazon, of 38 guns{
Capt. Parker, from Lisbon, and remains at Spithead
with the following of his Majesty's ships :—Prince
of Wales, of 98 guns, Admiral Lord Gardner, and
Capt. Girard ; Puissant, of 74 guns, Capt. Bowen ;
Isis, of 50 Fans, Capt. Lobb ; Endymion, of 44 guns,
the Hon. Capt. Paget ; Orpheus, of 32 guns, Capt.
Hill ; and Arrow, of 30 guns, Capt. Vincent; with
several revenue vessels, two transports, No. 22 and
Q 3, and an ordnance store-ship, with powder, icc.
front the Cape of Good Hope. Wind W. and
blows fresh.

At St. Helen's, his Majesty's ship Diomde, of 50
guns, Vice Admiral Sir Roger Curtis, Hart. and
Captain Larcom ( with her prize, La Union, a French
Indianian, captured within a few hours sail of this
port, and bound to Havre de Grace, computed to
be worth upwards of 60,(i001.) ; the gapiter, of 50
guns, Captain Losack ; Hindman, of 54 guns, Cap-
tain Le Gros; Braave, of 40 guns, Captain Gifford;
and another store-ship, which also accompanied the
squadron from the Cape of Good Hope.
At half past six o'clock this evening came up
from St. Helens, Vice Admiral Sir Roger Curtis
and his squadron, and anchored at Spithead.
At sun-set arrived also a large ship, a French
prize: her maintopmast had been reefed, and her
jib-boom carried away. An English frigate, to
appearance La Minerva, accompanied her as far in
as St. Helen's, and having seen her safe into port,
hauled her wind and stood out to sea again.
The Falcon revenue cutter, of 14 guns, and 32
men, C. Newland, master has sailed on a fourteen
days cruize, with a lieutenant, two midshipmen,
and ten seamen on board, belonging to his Majesty's
ship IVineltbr Castle.
MAY 29.
Came up to Spithead and anchored, his Majesty's
ship Alligator, of 28 guns, armed en flute, Capt.
Richardson, bound to the West Indies, with troops,
and remains with the squadron •as above, two
transports, the Favorite and S4ro/i storeships, and
several revenue cutters ; she has since made signal
for sailing. Wind W. S. W. and blows fresh.
Came into harbour, La Union, a prize to Sir
Roger Curtis and squadron, and another large
French Indianian, which was seen into port last
e'vehing by La Minerve frigate.
DOVER, MAY 28.

This morning, at eleven o'clock, the Audland
packet, Captain Hammond, arrived here, from
Calais, to which place she went as a flag of truce.
It was found at Calais that the French had seized
on the Prmces of Wales packet, Copt. Sutton ; the
men were put into prison, and the Captaia and
Maw were permitted to be on their parole at Du-
crocq's. They state that all Englishmen in France
are kept as prisoners of war at present, and orders
are issued that none shall leave the country, ex-
cept those above the age of sixty, or under eighteen
years. All the English passengers that went over
in the above vessel were made prisoners of war.
No Englishmen arc permitted to come through the
gates of Calais. The Nancy, Capt. Lattimore,
which carried the mail before the last, is seized,
and the men are marched up to Liaprison. An
open boat privateer, commanded by Capt. Pokt,
formerly captain of a French passage vessel, has
taken a fishing smack, and carried her into Calais.
Mr. Talbot, Secretary to Lord Whitworth, has ar-
rived at Calais, but it is said, he has net been per.
mined to embark; however, a large brig under
neutral colours, was expected yesterday at Dover,
with several women passengers, children and old
People, from Calais, and it was presumed Mr. Tal-
bot would be allowed to accompany diem. All the
passengers who have arrived at Dover are extremely
happy in having escaped out of the Lind of liberty.

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tbi?k E.kcibiA;'d.t, MAY 36.

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Grain e4satinues io cenie slowly td market.
Of Wheat there is a middling stipply, which lii; run; y :
buyers, and is fell 24. per quarter loliZt.
We have but little Barley, which has a realy Sale. In 15•Lklli .
there is it small filiation.
Pease and Beans (!f both sorts sell at snroething more.
Oats are in tolerable quatit.ty, and there is a trilliugadra
on prime samples.
Flour arrives more plentifully, and the price: are rather
lower.
CURRENT PRICE OF GRAIN.
trinelicster Measure of Eight Bushels.
o. o. d. I. S. 0.
IVlleat 5O a 66 0 Beano 5.3 aSi 0
line dittu 67 a6B 0 Tick ditto :.:0 a 94 0 ~
Rye 93 a 36 0 041 a 14 a P.l; 0
13 trlev 25 a3O 0 Poland. *7 a VII 0
Malt 44 a 50 0 Rape Seed, per last ;351. a 3di.
Vt'Lite Pease 45 a 51 0
PRICE 0 • FLOUR.
Fine F10ur.... 50s. to 5 Is Od. I Seconds 43s. to 50, .

LAJf INTEL LI GENC.e;

On Saturday !ast, at Westminster, hi the Court
of King's Bench, the following cause came on to
be tried :

HOPWOOD t,. RICHARDiON.
The Plaintiff is a retail linen-draper, in Duke-
street; Manchester-tanare, and has chops in other
parts of the town. The Defendant'• wife came to
the Duke-street shop, the Plaintiff being absent, and
looked out several things to •he amount of near IN.
and Mt. llbpwond's young man, his mistress being
present, packed the things up; and as no mention
was made of any credit to be given; he expelled to
be paid for the goods when delivered at Mrs.
Richardson's lodgings in Charles-street, Grosvenor.
square. When the goods were so left, Mrs. Ri-
chardson told the young man to go direlly to Mr.
Beckford's, across Grosvenor-square, where her hus-
band, the Defendant, lived as a butler to that gen-
tleman, and Mr. Richardson would pay the bill.
The Defendant beihg then sraiting at table on hia
master, could not be spoke with. The young man
called the folloting day, Saw the Defendant, and •
told him to try toot the goudc back from his wife,
for he knew nothing about them, and would not
pay the bill : this the shopman tried to do, but in
vain. The Plaintiff arrested the Defendant and hit
wife for this debt, who pia in bail • the wife was af-
terwards admitted to common bail under a Judge's
order • and shortly afterwards Defendant wept to
the Fleet, being rendered in discharge of his bail
in this and other adions, that his w:te's folly had
plunged him into. The wife died about four months •
ago in St. Georee's workhouse t and Defendant al- -
terwards gut bail again, and left the Fleet prison.-
The detente was, that Defendant was not bound
to pay this demand, as he and his wife were sepa-
rated, and he allowed her alimony ; that a deed of
separation was drawn, but in fad, Defendant's wile
had always refused to sign it, and Defendant Failed
in his proof in this and other respeds.
An elderly Lady proved they ate and drank toge-
ther, but Defendant was obligated to sleep at his
master's house, to take care of the plate, &c. ; and
that Defendant took a lodging for his wife at the
witness's house, and paid the witness. They lodged
some time here—that the Defendant's wife was a mo- •
dest, cleanly, tidy person, always employed, whilst
her lodger, in making and repairing her own, her
husband's, and children's things, which was about
the time, or very shortly after, the Plaintiff's debt
was contraded. • The witness was a stranger to the
Plaintiff, and to the transaCtion.
Mr. G A ARO w was proceeding to describe the De-
fendant's wife as one of the worst of women, and
that she had ruined her husband, and was the cause
of his losing every place he got. The Learned
Council then proceeded to state, that the Defendant •
had suffered by his wife's infidelity; when the Learn-
ed Judge interposed, with great propriety, and ob-
served, that this -circumstance- might as well nut
have been mentioned, as family faults were best hid,
and not repeated, as it might materially affeit the
Defendant's charader, and prevent his getting his,
bread for the future as an upper servant, and could
be of little use in this defence.
The Learned Judge-, after other witnesses were •
examined, summed up very ably, and with his
usual correctness ; he observed, that whatever
might have afterwards happened between the De-
fendant and his wife, as to the separation, con,.
dud, &c. it did not appear they lived apart when
the Plaintiff's debt was contraded, but, on the OM-. .
trary, that they cohabited together at and after the -
time this debt was contracted ; that Defendant
brought a muff and tippet back to the Plaintiff's
shop, and told Plaintiff, if he, Plaintiff, would take
them back, and pay his own Attorney, he would pay .
the bill. This the Plaintiff refused • but the Jury
would notice the charges of this bll,. and if they,
thought any cf the articles were superfluous, and
could not be considered as necessary articles.for a .
person in the situation of the Defendant's wife, they
would not allow them.
The Jury, after a few minutes consultation, gave
the Plaintiff a verdict for Pal. 11s. led. taking off
the difference as superfluous articles, and act pro..
per fur the Defendant's Wife.

• CORONER'S INQUEST.
An inquisition was taken on Saturday, by T.
SKIL T 0 N, Esq. Coroner for Southwark, on the body
of Mr. Harkness, a broker, near the Obelisk, St.
George's Fields, who was found dead en Friday
morning last.
From the evidence, it appeared, that the deceased
ad, for som:: time past, been engaged in a bail ding
speculation, which, since the commencement of hos-
tilities he considered as a ruinous one, and was, iu '
consequence, in a very low and desponding sta:e:
On'Thursday, he went with his attorney to a perso il
whom he had some concerns with, 4nd who is a mi.- -.
soner for debt in the county gaol—the result of the. .
conference was such as to create a still greater d
fof despondency. On the following mornin
ellse about five o'clock, supposed to look after
the workmen, and, on being missed when his wife
rose, she made a diligent search after him : on
ascending to the upper part of the premises, s
found, in the corner of the loft, her husband's coat
and, looking farther, she found his body suspend
o the rafter, by a sash-line, which he had twisted
double. He had pulled off his neckcloth, his
coat, and his shoes, and, with his waistcoat unbut.-
toneds launched himself into eternity.
The Jury found a verdict of Lwaary.
A verdict of Limdcy was also pronounced on the
body of Berridge, of St. George's Row, who hung
himself on Thursday last, at his own house.

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