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But when the golden orb of day
High in the arch of hear'n appears.
And with its salutary ray

The trailing face of Nature cheers,
Each grove a livelier verdure wears,
The beams the woodland gloom pervade;
While shining through the dewy glade,
As smooth the rielet glides along,
The lowing herds, in peaceful throng
Assembled on the rushy brink,
Grace on its sides, or from it.; bolero drink;
And, bursting from each parent root,
Myriads of embryo scicurs shoot,
Myriads of insect tribes their wings display,
And rue to light and life, waled by the inspiring ray.

I.
Fell Despotism's giant form
Shewo to the subjugated mind,
As glares the nieteui of the storm,
The dread, the horror of mankind;


Baleful as through the darken'd skies
IVith livid gleam the lightn ng
Fierce as the fiery torrents How
From the rent mountain's torrid brow,
When o'er Sicilier plain and dzdal tow's
&ma the stream of desolation pourr,
And, far as horror throws tleastonisii'd eye,
The wasted regions round is smoking rues ;ie.
IV.
But diTrent fax the happy scene,
'Mid fertile vales and sky serene,
Where rules a King with peaceful sway
A people's good his patriot aim ;
Who, like the radiant source of day,
Sheds glue Mg light and vital Same
And as along th' ethereal space,
Eternal laws the course celestial trace ;
Sn Freedom's ruk and Virtue's high behest
Dir.rct the councils of the Royal breast.
And as the day-star's influence bland
Sheds plenty o'er the teeming land ;
Now from th' Mignons marsh and sea-Mat ceast.
Raising of sapours mists a fleecy host,
To fall again, again with genial pow'r„
In balmy dew or gentle ehow'r ;
Su grateful Albion through cacti fruitful plain
Proclaims, with heartfelt joy, her George's prosp'roaszegs.

Lord So ki XIV l Lt.' gave a grand dinner yesterday •
at his house in Hill-street, Berkely-squate.
The Earl of HARRINCTON gave a grand dinner
yesterday at his house in the Stable-yard, St. lames's.
Among the company were the Earl. of MOIRA.
Countess of 'anonym, and Lady RODEN.
To-morrow, the following Noblemen and Gentle-
men give their Birth-day Dinners, as usual, via.—
Lord flawkvabury, St. James's square,
Earl of Buckingh.imshi,, (irovvessor•place,
T.ord Mulgrave, liatley street,
Lord Melville, Admiralty,
Duke of Melanie!, Grose-nortquarn,
Mr. Pitt, Dewnintstreet,
The Earl of Westmoreland, Berkeley-square,
Earl of Cann Arllngton-.tree[, and
Lord Castlereagh, in Upper Brook street.

Rescuer has nearly finished a portrait of the
present Earl of BuciziNGHAMittlit. It is an exatit
likeness. and one of the Lida animated portraits
ever seen. He has also nearly completed a whole
length of the Marquis of Satisanar, in his Parlia-
mentary robes, which may rank with the very best
efforts of modern art. His portrait of Earl St.
VINCENT is finishetl. This is a vei y accurate re-•
semblance, and an finish
piaure.
Miss Swirres benefit at Hull, neat Tuesday, will
be by desire of Lieut.-Colonel BccxwosiH, and the.
Officers of the Royal Cheshire Regiment, quurterech
there.

Whitehavenlheatre will close next week, after a• ..
prosperous campaign.
Mr. Dwv&s. late of Dtury-lane Theatre. is per-
forming with great success, at Edinburgh.
Madame Da Gaisais was in the number of MO
persons, presented on the Ist iustant to the Poet,
in the Museum Napoleon. His Holiness paid her
several handsome compliments upon It_•r talents,
-and the religious use which she has made of them
There is no pan of the house of a Parisian t&-
:ante that displays more ornament than the stair-
case. On the sides are draperies of the most costly
materials, fringed with gold, and on each cep is
plazed a vase with the most rare and beautiful
flowers.

Lord C ot.motiou air lately gave to the p -or is
the noighlsouilsond of Houghton, upwards of liu
joints of meat, 300 loaves, and 1091. in mewls
which were distributed by Dr. Duarrass, who has
been in his Lordship's family, eighty-eight years
This reyeaable and venerable charaaer is now 9S
years of age, and possesses all the vigour of a man
of fifty.
Several Subscribers to Mr. C-,, Lair, for. the
Print representing Tie Sifire end Relict- of Gibrairp-,
who paid him Two Guineas (lot one-half of the
Subscription] in April, 1787, which he then pro-
mised to deliver, according to the Proposal., in
one or two years, beg to know whether Mr. Cur-
tsy is waiting till Gihraltar is .ti am atta•:ked by the
Spaniards, to save himself the trouble of painting
another representation of so important a scenes or
whether he meats to &Lea the original Priuts is a
few weeks, as it is only IS years since the money we.
• paid ?

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LAW.

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coIIRT OF CHANCERY. LINCOLN.* INN, .I.M 17.

BANKRUPT PETITIONS.
EX PARTE EIEUX.
This was the petition of the Assignees of JAMES
Sheriff, a Bankrupt, playing that the claim of one
of the creditors of the name of Porter might be ex-
Funged from the proceedings under the commission.
Ny the fetition it appr-ared, that the Bankrupt
saving had considerable dealings with one Thomas
wAtcon, in the line of accommodation bills, met
bim at Sego': Coffee House, in Holborn, when it
was agreed that the latter should draw two bills on
the tor former, payable to John Buchanan. or order.
These hills were dated as if at Jersey, and drawn
sa unstamrd paper. The Bankrupt afterwards
negotiated them, and they came into the hands of
Porter, who was allowed by the Commissioners to
claim a; an indorsee. The Bankrupt, upon his
swore that these bills were drawn in
laiatle.l. and not in Jer.r.ey.
0,, ii e tart of the creditor it was contended, that
tr. had given full and valuable consideration for the
;s, ttiid apprehended and believed that they were
drawn .1-rsey. Ile had been in the habit of dis-
coun:ing hills in that way for die Defendant, who
never intimated to him that they were drawn in
London.
On his etarni, titian, the Bankrupt said he was
going to Edit:Mogi', but on his return would. pro.
duce evidence from his books where the bills were
Lirawo ; in consequence of which the proceedings
were delayed.
I'ne socmina observed, that these bills ap-
peared to him nothing more than a talsrication ; and,
although he was hut a bad criminal lawyer, yet he
:IS well satisfied, that when one man, by false
tokens, and false credit, gets money from another,
it became an indiftable offence ; and it might be of
great utility, if some men were proceeded against
in that way. Upon looking into the proceedings,
it appeared to him, that the Commissioners did not
go fully Urn tit.• matter—and he left k to the op.
tit., of 'lie Creditor, whether he would go back to
the Canmisidoners to have his claim reviewed, or
whether he should be left to his remedy, by an ac-
tion at law.
Mr. Pionr, as Counsel for the Creditor, request-
ed the matter might stand over till Monday. that he
should have so opportunity of consulting his Client ;
which was accordingly granted.

EX P A ITZ LAUER.
This was the petition of Sir John Earner, in the
/matter of John Dixon, of Exeter, a Bankrupt,
praying that the Assignees might be ordered to pay
bias a sum of money, which they should have te-
tained out of the Bankrupt's estate.
The Petition, among various other matters, stated,
that the Bankrupt had mottgagel certain lands in
St. John's Harbour, Newfoundanch to the Pcti-
tioler, who also advanced him a sum of money. Ls
1792, Dixon became Bankrupt, and the Assignees,
'in la3l, applied to the Petitioner to make a con-
veyance to them of the property in Newfoundland,
on being alhaved the sum of 301 ; but before
Ihe could deter:lli:it, upon the matter, a final divi-
dend WAS made, and he was shot out from r eceiving
any share of cor did he receive any notice of
such final dividend.
This case occupied a great part of the day, and
asany arguments wows adduced by the Counsel on
• rth sides.
On the part of the assignees, it was contended
that the regular notice was given in the Gase?lr 1,1
final dividend to take place on the 10th of May,
1802.
That the Petitioner had verbally agreed to make
a conveyance of the property in Newfoundland on
being allowed 301. which was the balance between
the several accounts, and that a letter had been sect
to him, informing him of such dividend, in the
month of April previous to its taking place, and
also the drafts ri the necessary conveyances : to
which the Petitioner made no answer at that time,
and the Assignees, in order to give him time to con-
sider and arrange the business, prevailed upon the
Commissioners to postpone the final dividend until
the 16th of May, at which time the Commissioners
insisted a final dividend should be made.
The Petitioner denied that he ever entered into
any agreement for the conveyance of the property
in Newfoundland, but required time to investigate
the matter, and ascertain of what value it might be :
at one time i; was pns.e.sed by Government for the
purposes of defence; hut when peace was establish-
ed, it became of considerable value, and, upon the
.thole, lie was not allowed sufficient time to ci-..icide
risen it
the Cu NCII. L 0 II observed, that although the
cam WAS but of a trifling amount, yet the case in-
volved an important question, Whether the Assignees
should pay a sum of money out of their own pockets?
The property alluded to, from political events,
might have been of great value, or none at all.
When the mortgagees became bankrupt, in 1792,
it John Earner might have applied to the Court,
and sold the mortgaged premises under decree. As
to the agreement with the assignees, which in fadt
purported to part with his Interest in a specific
pledge for 301. it was perfally clear, Sir John was
not bound by that contra ; and he had no hesita-
tion in saying, the assignee; took a hasty step in
advertising the divideica, befote a sufficient investi-
gation had taken place as to that point ; and lie did
not wonder at the stirpr;se of Sir John Earner,
when the agreement was mentioned to him. As to
t%e noire in the Gareise, he had seen too much of
t':e hitsiness, not to declare that Sir John Earner
lint Mound to hunt the Gazette, but should have
had sufficient previous notics: of the dividend. His
Lordship caressed his own storm, that the Corn-
tnissioners, if they had been tully informed upon
the subject, did riot consider whether the Petitioner
was or wa.-. no; bound by the agreement ; if they
found he was nut bound, they might have retained
a sufficient into in their hands ; but it was to be
considered, .which it WAS better to say, whether a
creditor, duly informed of a final dividend, should
Put in his claim in time, or that the assignees should
!Ingle to retain the money in their hands. It
'ever, appeared, that the Petitioner had notice,
notwithstanding which he lay back without giving
any intimation to the assignees, from May loci to
lunacy 105. If the application had been made in
May 11s03, he would have referred it back to the
Camnsissioners to considt: the claims of the Petition-

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er, but, *undo' all circumstances of the case, lie was
Of opinion,that the presentiapplication came toq late.
IX !dirt& ZINO.
This was the Petition of the Bankrupt, praying
that he might be allowed to surrender, notwith-
standing the time for so doing had expired. •
From the affidavit of the Bankrupt and his sur-
geon, it appeared, that at the time appointed for
him to surrender, to be examined as to his property,
he was lying in a severe illness at Holborn, which
prevented his attendance before the CoMmissioners,
in which state he remained for a length of time,
but w. 7 c now ready and willing to be examined be-
' fore them.
On the part of the assignees, it was contended,
that there were several reasons for opposing this Pe-
tition, as the Bankrupt had long avoided any exa-
mination; and it was also stated, that he had written
a letter, as from Cdokham, in Hampshire, which
bore date the same time that he and his surgeon
swore he was lying sick at Holborn : those were in-
consistencies which should be explained.
Mr. BELL, on behalf of the Petitioner, said, that
possibly his client had absented himself through ig-
norance of the law upon that subjeCt, or he might
have written the letter with a view to conceal his
place of residence, being apprehensive of arrests.
His affidavits, however, did not go far enough to
explain these faits.
The Ca sticat.coa observed, that it was most ex-
pedient to the ends id.' justice, that persons seeking
to be relieved from the process of the law, in such
cases, should give a very clear and satisfaCtory ac-
count of themselves. Hitherto, orders had been
made, admitting Bankrupts to surrender, and half
the fans were not stated ; he therefore thought Wont
right, that the Petitioner should give a very Luis-
fa-Rory account of himself—and, for that purpose,
dire Red, that a second Petition should be lodged,
and affidavits made, and that the Assignees should
be furnished with copies of them.
The following case occurred yesterday :
J. R. DOLDIR V. Mt RANK OF ENGLAND, LORD
MVIITINGFILLD, ANDTHII HON, R. WALFOLR..

This was a case of great consequence, whe-
ther we attend to the parties concerted, to the
magnitude of the interest, or to the great political
objects connefted with its decision. The Plaintiff
is no less a personage than the LANDAMSIAN, or Su-
preme Magistrate of the Helvetian Republic It is
well known, that the two latter Defendants are en-
gaged in a great banking concern under the firm of
Vanneck and Co. At the awful crisis when the Can-
tons of Switzerland weei threatened with destruc-
tion as an independent Power, by the imposing si-
tuation of France in 1798, the Cantons of Berne and
Zurich had the prudence to invest a considerable
portion of the funds of their respective States, in the
public securities of this country. Pursuant to this
design, 85,4991. 10s. 2d. was placed in the three per
Ceat. Consolidated Annuities ; 158,3831. fig. ad. in
South t;va Stock t and about 34,0001. in Bank Stock.
The agents of this country, for the appropriation of
these monies, were Lord fluntingfield, and the Hon.
Robert Walpole, who were directed to apply them
in this manner, by the constituted authorities of the
two Cantons we have named. The dividends result-
ing from these investments, to the time when this
bill was filed in Chancery, amounted to the sum of
57,0091. 13s. rod. and the present application was
to procure from the Defendants the payment of this
sum into Court.
Mr. Roasisse, on the part of the Plaintiff, said,
that this money had been intrusted to the Corpora-
tion, and to the Noble and Honourable Persons who
were the Defendants in this cause, at the time when
the thirteen Swiss Cantons were independent States,
both with respect to each other, and the rest of Eu-
rope. to 17.:8, the inhabitants became united under
one government, called the Helvetian Republic,
and thus the particnl.tr Cantons interested in this
property ceased to exist as political and separate
powers. It then became necessary to provide
a receptacle, or general treasury, for the funds of
the tbirteen distinct states; and it was ordered, that
the property belonging to the different cantons
should become national property. This determina-
tion was made by the existing Government, and
was confirmed on the 3d of Apia, after the union,
by the Senate, eleded according to the forms of the
new constitution. In consequence of this law, the
preseq Plaintiff became the representative of the
State for these particular funds before appertaining
to Berne and Zurich, and in this charader he was
authorised to apply to the Court to receive the di-
vidends resulting from ihe investments, consisting
of 57,001)1. 13s. 10d. under its immediate protection.
Messrs. RICHAIMS and Hows, in reply, said,
the Defendants admitted that they were not enti-
tled to this property; but before the Plaintiff could
require of the Court that it should be deposited in
the hands of its Receiver, he should make a prime
ferric case at least, that he hiniself was entitled to it.
The dividends were Calculated at the moo of
57,0001. and a small fraction ; but it was not ear.
red to assert, that the whole of this would even be-
long to the States of Berne and Zurich, did they
exist ; for Anthony St. Didier, a Banker of Paris,
was possessed of an assignment of the principal ano-
nies, to the extent of 66,0001. and he had Sled a
bill fur the transfer of stock to that amount. But
the chief ab)edion was to the character the Plaintiff
assumed. This country does not acknowledge any
Helvetian Republic, and no Municipal Court here
can therefore suppose suck a power to exist.—
From the established forms founded on the Royal
Rights, this Court could not even agitate a question
of this nature, excepting in the presence of His Ma-
jesty's Attorney-General ; and it was absolutely ne-
cessary, that this Officer of the Crown should be
made a party in the cause. The present question
seemed precisely similar to that which was before
discussed on the rights of the States of Maryland,
previously and subsequent to the independence of
America ; and it was determined that the property
of that State should devolve to the Crown. The
Learned Counsel further contended, it was not ne-
cessary for them to give any answer at all to this pe-
tition ; that if the Attorney-General were to think
proper to file an information, their clients would be
ready togive the suitable answer. 'The argument
drawn from the decree of the Senate, vesting the
property of particular States in the treasury of the
Helvetian Republic, was inapplicable, because a
new Revolution bad since taken place, under the im-
mediate atispizes of the public enemy of this country,
by which all former laws were abrogated.
Mr. Rom LLY made a very lung and able reply,

on behalf of the Plaintiff, and adduced, as an exam.
ple, the situation of Ireland, which had been united
'to this country. He confidently maintained, that if
the sister island had invested large sums in the funds
of a Foreign State, on the principle of the argument
now employed; that State would be justified in Nis-
ing the whole property for its own purposes.
Loan CNaNcest.o The case materially dif-
fers from that connected with the State of Mary-
land. The old Government of Maryland existed
under the King's charter ; a Revolution took place ;
and the Court held, that a property invested under
a charter was not to be transmitted to a body, not
existing under the authority granting that charter ;
and hence, the property devolved to the Crown. No
such connection wish this kingdom subsists here,
and this makes it a very different question. It is an
enquiry of, another kind, and a very large one too,
whether a Municipal Court can aft with the govern-
ment of a country which has not been acknowledged
by its own. As the matter stands upon the record,
some unavoidable confusion arises in an)affair of this
public nature, from blendiag what we privately must
be acquainted with, with what is judicially before us.
It would be idle to say, that the form of the Helve-
tian Republic has been recognised by this country ;
but. sitting here as a Judge, attending only to the
documents before me, it may, with respeft to them,
turn out to be so, or otherwise ; and while it is in
draw, a mighty difference in the question may be
occasioned. The simple objeit of my attention now
is, whether the money should be ordered into Court,
all the proper parties concerned not being before
us. These Defendants have an interest in this
money against all the world, excepting the parti-
cular person or persons who may be entitled to it.
Until all parties interested in it are brought before
lose in the proceedings. 1 think it too much to expeft
that the money should be taken out of the hands of
the Defendants ; but when I am sure all the persons
interested are adduced, and you shall make the
A r roasts v-Gameas t. a party, I can have no objec-
tion to have the question again agitated."
ommommiser
SURRY SESSIONS, Jan. 17.

William Matthews was indided for stealing a gold
ring and a penknife, the property of James Goland,
a West India merchant, living in Muscovy-court,
Trinity-square.
Mr. Goland deposed, that the Prisoner was his
clerk, and that on the 24th of Otitober last, he
missed a gold ring, which he had in his desk. He
also missed an office penknife, with an ivory handle,
and suspeling the Prisoner, he sent a Constable to
his lodgings, and apprehended him. In searching
the place, the penknife was found, and the duplicate
of the ring. There were several other articles pt.
his property found there, which be had missed front
time to time ; but as they were not laid in the indielv:
ment, the Court could not take notice of them.
The Pawnbroker was then c died, and said, that'
the ring had been pawned to him, by the Prisoner.
The Jury found him Griky, but recommended
him to mercy.on account of his large family.
Ass A/wren was inditted for taking a chillosilisink
four years old, and stealing with the child her rat
and other articks.
John Wickham, the father of 'the child, deposed,
that his wife was a washerwoman, and had sent the
child, on the morning of the 2.5 th of October, to
Ilse tnanglers, who did not live more than two hun-
dred yards trona his doer. A cosiiiidensble time
elapse.!, but the child did not return. His wile
then told him she was uneasy about her child : he
went to the manglers, but was told the child had
not been there since morning, when she got the
things she came for. By inquiring at differc t
houses along the road, he heard that the child was
seen in company with a woman, and late in the
evening he came up with the Prisoner, who had a
hold of the child by one hand, and was carrying
the bundle in the other. The child immediately
ran to him ; and when he asked her, why she had
gone from home ? she said the Prisoner had coaxed
her away, by giving her prunes.
The Prisoner said in her defence, that the child
was crying, having lost her way when she met her,
and that it was merely out of charity she took her
along with her, intending to inquire for her parents.
The Jury immediately found her Giglio.
She was then tried and convided on another in-
didment, for stealing the bundle of clothes which
the child had got from the manglers.
Mr. Serjeant OMSLOW then pronounced the judg-
ment of the Court, and sentenced her to settee years
tranipurtation.
The child was the whole time standing in a con-
spicuous part of the Court, and had a most interest-
ing countenance.
Chree other Prisoners were convicted for trifling
offences, And sentenced to short periods of impri-
sonment.

SOUTHWARK ShSSIONS.

Yesterday, the LORD Maros, Racocuta, and
Sueeirrs, went from the Mansion-Haase, in state,
about one o'clock, to St. Margaret's Hill, in the
Borough, and held the Southwark Sessions. Alter
going _through the form of swearing Constables for
the Ward of Bridge Without, the Sessions were ad-
journed as csual, they not • having tried any com-
plaints for some time at this Court.
Mr. Gaut* trus, a Common Councilman, ad-
dressed the Lusts Mao in behalf of the South-
wark Sessions, complaining of the .hardship many
gentlemen of the Ward of-Bridge Without, in be-
ing obliged to take all complaints to Union-Hall for
redress, instead of having them examined in the
Court-house, as was the custom, maul within these
fifteen or sixteen years r and as there was a Magis-
trate fur that purpose, he hoped his Lordship would
see that privilege put in force. The LORD M•lf oft
said, he should certainly lay it before the Cost
Court of Aldermen fur them to judge of it.

Yesterday, about two o'clock, as i woman of the
name of Smut os, employed under the Princes:
Malty, was passing along the carriage-road of
St. James's Park, near the Stable-yard, with
her pattens on, the eentinel on du* y at the Stable-
' yard gate ordered her to take off het potions, and
she supposing she was not prohibited from wearing
them in that road, in which the board of restriction;
does net prohibit pattens from being worn, wbe, the
ceatinel drove his bayonet into her left foot, which
caused a great ethic:on of blvd.

POLICE.


now-vrtraT. [ .4--
A few days ago it was discovered that an site
had been made to break into some cellars undes st" -
Chapel is Essex-street, Strand, rented by the Black
Lead Company, and used as a depot for that article t
the thieves had riot been able to force the door of
the cellar in which the lead was, though they had
b:oke open two other doors that led to i-, hut whicli
they had left in such a state as piainiy iadicat-
ed an intention, of coming again to effect their
purpose. These circumstances being privately
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communicated to the Magistrates at Bow-street, '
Anthony, Adkins, and other of the officer; were
seat there on Monday evening last; and, biiving
taken their station in-.a room adjoining, the back
part of-which commanded a perfect view of the
entrance to the premises in question, they re-
mained there till about half past four o'clock the C.l- •
lowing, morning, when three men were seen to en-
ter the yard contiguous to the cellars, opening z:.e
door of the yard by means of a false key, and lock-
ing it after them. The officers directly went and
secured them, and found four iron el it ws, picklock
keys, and other implements for housebreak ng.
The villains had just commenced their attack on the
interior door of the cellar where the lead was de-
posited, when disturbed by the officers, who imme-
diately recognised them to he old offenders, and to
whom they surrendered without offering the least
resistance. Yesterday they were examined b-fore
Sir R. Fbaa at Bow-street, and committed for a
turthet investigation.
_.•JemLf.0.,..,,
A SWINDLER.

A man of genteel appearance, about 36 years of
age, 5 feet 10 inches high, light hair, lung vier.g.r,
large aquiline nose, fresh complexion, and whi.lie:s
reaching nearly to the bottom of his cheeks, to rk a
handsome house in Kensington-Buildings, near Bath,
about three weeks ago, and by van. us swindliag
pretexts and devices, procured goods from different
tradesmen to a considerable amount, for Asich he
paid notes drawn upon a Banking-house in London,
which he signed and indorsed by the name of '.• Sa-
muel Millward ;" and as he has gone by the names •r
of SamuelWhiley, Thomas Foshan, &c. in other
places, the forgeries are obvious. He had with him *,
his wife, who, the better to carry on the decepli,.p. 1 l'
passed for a housekeeper, and three sons, who an!ed as
grooms, butler, &c. 'art of the goods were se- t.
cretly taken to a warehouse in Bristol, and dire:V.:a ,!
for " Thomas Foxhall, Edmund-street, Birming-
ham ;" the other part were taken away in a cart,
with a shabby tilt, and one horse, and traced on the.
road to Gloucester.
di
Previous to his leaving Bath, he hired, for a few ' ..
days only, a black gelding, and a bay mare, and
a handsome gig, with a bead, and high curricla
springs, deep yellow body, a cypher, G. G. behind,
inclosed ' '
brie-

_ in a gilt circle, and a sword-casein the
.ick. ft is thought he ran the black horse in the
gig. The offender has often shifted to different
parts of the kingdom as a master-,homaker. a Id
carried on his swindling praaices wherever he went.
A reward has beet offered fix his apprehension.

On Wednesday night afire bloke out at a lot•
nig-house for foreign seamen, kept ny nin or the
name of SIORRNOLN, in Sun Tavern Fields, in the
Pal ish of tit. Georg .'s in the East. By the regular
attendance of the fire engines, It was eitiniii7CEir
without much damage, but it had excited much
alarm, as there are extensive rope grounds in the
neighbourhood.
On Saturday last, the workmen, employed in • A,
sinking the new coal-pit at Brans:ay, near White.
haven (close by the sea), got what is termed the
liatviork-Glnd ; which proves to be an excellent seam;
and Monday, the pumping-engine wrs set to work.
This will be the largest pit belonging t Lord Low- ••
TUE it's extensive colliery ; and, probably, the largest
in England. It is fifteen feet in diameter, and is
already sunk to the depth of seventy fathoms —The
work was begun in May last, and has been car. ie3
on with a celerity and success uaprecedented in this
quarter.
The last will and testament of the late EDW•ao
BYRNE, Er.q. of Dublin—an instrument intended
to dispose of an acquired property, little short of
half a million sterling—is, we hear, likely to be
contested by some of that Gentleman's family : in,
which case, no inconsiderable share of that vast
property will hill into the hands of a class of the
community which the testator never meant to Is: of
the legatees; namely—the Gentlemen of the Long
Robe. Thus, " Mao heapeth up riches, but cannot
tell who shall gather them."
A gentleman, lately arrived in town, asking a
frimid the ether day, what bustle was now goi g
forward in the metropolis? the latter reviled—
" Why, that of people hurrying from all parts to
the Lottery Offices, lest every Fi:ket and S:tare
should be disposed of before Monday se'nnight."
Sunday, the 19th inst. being the 21st anniversary
Of Rowa exci Hum'', jun. of Boreatton, sq and also •
Monday the 14th, were observed with every mark of
attention and respell, both in Shrewsbury, and parti-
cularly in the vicinity of Boreatton Park, in the pa-
rishes of Boschurch. Ryton, &c. in Shropshire.
The festivities of the neighbourhood, which were ,
mog respedablyatteniTed. were conduCted with that •.
gtiod order and decorum for which the distriet has
long been remarkable; a vet), fine ox, several sheep,
and various other donations, were distributed.
Among the incidents of this rejoicing, we cannot
avoid seleiting one, which gave very general satis-
faaion : it was that of a rural procession, in which
a venerable old man. who had OCEVCd as g.l'llenet,
from the time of the great grandfather sit tie young
gentleman, and who had planted, and lived us see the
growth of, many of the surrounding woods, was
drawn in his chair, accompanied by all his lace f...
low servants : next came a boy. the eon of the ga ev-
keeper, leading a beautiful black .11,11 a el
Rally decorated. which had been the great tar rite
of Mr. It. Hunt, his brothers aad sisters. and swing
new also in his 21 st year, was-from this blue to
re-
tire from service in the park. )'his was followed' y
a sheep and a barrel of beer. drawn on a carriag b,/
the labourers, being the separate donation of :he
servants, by whom also this procession wes arrangi d •
Bag and band of music preceded t: e wharf*,
which was attended by as numerous and orderly a
con.ourse of people as we ever remember to More
I witnessed 011 a like occasion.
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