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basted witniisei were examined. *beet thirty 0? OM,
SWIM that be was thit real ,11satin Open I surly'd the sank.
bee, that he was Ainauld while 46"
semaiblaricte between the two men was we I'.m that t ".17i coucot
decide decide whether the trriMeer was an immune or hoc e persex.
manof the Judges on this Iteasitan was very great ; 'on tin spite of
y thinprhat wakened his cause, they were the point of
deciding in favour of Austad, when the arrival of the true Mar.
lin developed the deceit. Even when confronted, the impudence
and 'Outer, of Dutille was such as to lead many to doubt, until
the brother aud'siaters of the absent person fully recognised him."
" A child, called Francis Noiseu, born at Paris on the 22.1 of
December, 1754, *as put to nurse in Normandy. When about
sixteen months old h was taken ill, and in consequence was bid
in the right den. It had also a cicatrix on the inner sided the left
knee, from a dithering which had been cured by causfies. •
" On the Int of August, 176 d, this child, aged three years and
eight months, was lost and could not be found i but on die 16th of
June, 1768, its godmother, seeing two boys peas, was struck with
the voice of one of them. Site called him to her, and became con-
vinced that it was her go&oo. The knee and arm were examined,
sod the cicatrices found.
" In the meanv.hile another person, the widow Labrie, claimed
this 's her Inn. It had marks of the small pox on its body, sad this
was, on investigation, deemed a strong argument in her favour,
since it wasnot pretended that Noiscu had laboured under this die-.
ease previous to his being lost. 4leny witnesses also attested to its
being her child. After seeml ruminations before various Courts,
it was decided that the boy was the son of the widow Labile. •
" The Sieur De C e, being a Protestant, fled to Savoy, at
the period of the revocation of the edict of Nantes. His son died
before his eyes at Vevey. Some yeses after, an impostor pretended
that he was the son of tMs person, and claimed the succession to his
pror7erty. He was imprisoned, and his cause remained before the
Pahlansent of Aix for seven years. Hundreds of witnesses (among
which were the nurses and domestics of the family) swore that he
was the son of De Caine, and the public sentiment was strongly in
his rawwet ee be was 4 Catholic. Testimonials, sent from Stellate.
land, that the real me was dead, were of no avail, and the Parlia-
ment declared, in 1706, that he was what he admit to be. The
wife of this impostor shortly after discovered, tbat although she
had been silent, yet his elevation would not profit bee. She deem.
fore began to mention litho he actually was, and de appall the
cause was to the Parliament of Paris. The 'Whites
adduced 'hewed t the late sped De Caine had sortie distin-
guishing peculiarities in shape an mike. He wad of smell height,
sod his knees approaches! each other very closely its walking. A
long head, light chesnut hair, blue eyes, aquiline noes, fair com-
plexion, and a high colour, were his other characteristics. The
mature of the impostor (Pierre Mogi, a soldier) was, on the oft-
wary, five feet six inches, and his Mick hair, brown and thin com-
plexion, fiat nose, and round heed, sufficiently distinguished him.
from the former individual. Other physical conformations were
observed, which it is not necessary to mention, but which strength.
ened the testimony against Slegi. The Parliament accordingly
decided that he was an impostor.
" It is not, however, in foreign countries only that these diffi-
cult eases have happened. An individual was inuicted and tried
before Judge Livingston, at New York, in 1004, on a charge
of bigamy, and the whole evidence turned on the question of his
identity. He was exiled Thomas Hoag by the public prosecutor,
but stated himself to be Joseph Parker. Several persona. swore
that they had knot' n him under the name of Thomas Haag, email
whom was a female whom he had married, and afterwards de-
serted. It was stated that Hoag had a scar on his forehead, •
small mark on his neck, and that his speech was quick and lisp.
in;. All theses peculiarities were found on the prisoner. Two
witnesses deposed that Hoag had a scar under his foot, occasioned
by treading upon • drawing-knife., and that this scar was easy to be
seen, sad had been seen by them. On examining his feet in open
Court, no scar was to be found on either of them ; and it was fur-
ther proved, that at the period of his- alleged courtship of the es.
tend wife in Westcheater county. he-was cluing duty as a watch-
man in the city of New York, The Jury acquitted him."
These cases at least chew, that it is within the pale of
possibility that Itoblnsmi may not have been the perpetrator
of the crimes with which he is Charged, but, at the same
time, we are fully eouvinced, that the jury were perfectly
authorised, by the circumstances of the case, in returning
the verdict they did, and would have been highly culpable
had consideration of the -character, crr rink in life of the
prisorwr, induced them to return auy-other.

PASHIONAIiti INTELLIGENCE.
The Dowager MarchiMwas of Exeter had a dinner party yester-
day, at her imbue io Privy.gardens.
fhe Right Hon. Win. Hoskisson entertained the Duke of York
and a distinguished party at dinner yesterday, at his residence,
Somerset-place, Somerset House.
The Duke of Grafton has issued cards of invitvion for a grand
dinner party en Monday next, to meet his Royal Highness the
Duke of York.
Count and Countess Lieren will entertain a large party at din-
ner to-morrow, it Ashburnham House.
Countess Cowper had a grand ase‘mbly yesterday evening, at
her house in Little hlaildox.street, which was very fashionably at-
tended.
• The Merquis end Marchioness of Salisbury have returned to
town, from their seat, Hatfield.
Lord and Lady Holland will leave Holland House this day, on
a tour ihrtnigh*DevOnshire and Wilts.
Emily Marchioness of Londonderry left town yesterday, for her
seat. North Cray, Kent.
The Hon. P. Ashbumham has left town for his father's (the
Earl of Ashburnham) seat, in Sussex.
The Earl of Beverley has arrived at his house in Portmamaquare,
from France.
Count and Countess de Craton have arrived at moo's Hotel,
Albemarle-street, from Portsmouth. Departures :—Count and
Countess de Chatteleux, for Paris; and the Hon. Thomas Ord
'owlett, for Hams.
Sir Robert Gunning, Bart. left Stevens's Hotel, Clifford-street,
yesterday. fur his seat, Hamm, Northamptonshire.
Colonel Drotherton left the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street,
yesterday.
Arrivals at Read's Hotel, Lmrer Grosvenor-street:—T.B. War-
ton, Esq.. from his seat in Suffolk ; F. Fasrant, Esq., front Bath ;
J. Arkwright, Esq., from his seat, Harm Court, Hereford-
thin ; and B. W. Knox, Esq., from Ire
bard Nugent has left town for his sent, Lifter' Bucks.
The Earl and Countess and the Ladies Ashburnharn are shortly
expected to leave Sussex for the Continent.
Arrivals at LotlinHotel, Bond-street g—Colonel Fiandre and
Captain khans, Spain ; William Felix Riley, Esq., from
Windsor ; and Colonel and lin. Batten, from Paris. De.
nurtures s--Colonel and Mrs. Miles, for Paris; Lord Thomas
Hay, for Scotland; and Colonel Dean, for ditto. ,
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• MAXIMS OF MR. ODOHERTY.
[From Blackwood's Magazine.]
I.—ln whatever country one is, one should choose the
. dishes of the country. Every really national dish is good
—at least I never yet met with one that did not gratify my
appetite. The Turkish pilaws are most excellent—but the
so called French cookery of Pere is execrable. In like
manner, roast beef with. Yorkshire pudding is always a
prime feast in England, while John Bull's Fricandeasa
souffles, &c. are decidedly anathema. What a horror,
again, is a Bijilick of the Palais Royal ! on the same prin-
ciple—(for all the fine arts follow exactly the same pin-
ciples)—on the same principle it is, that while Principal
Robertson, Duald Stewart, Dr. Thomas Brown, and all
the other would-ht-English writers of Scotland, have long
since been voted tame, insipid, and tasteless diet, the real
haggis-bag of a Robert Burns keeps, and must always
keep, its place.
2.—Never take lobster sauce to salmon; it is mere
painting of the lily, or I should rather say, of the ruse.
The only true sauce for salmon is vinegar, mustard, Cay-
enne pepper, and parsley. 'fry this able, my dear Dr.
Kitchener, and I have no hesitation in betting three ten-
pennies that you will never depart from it again while
the. breath of gastronomy is in your nostrils. As for the
lobster, cithet make soup of him, or eat him cold (with
cucumber) at supper.
3.-1 talked in the last maxim of cold lobster for sup-
per; but this requires explanation. If by accident you
lave dined in a quiet way, and deferred for once the main
business of existence until the night, then eat cold lob-
• Sten, cold beef, or cold anything yen -like for supper; but
in the ordinary case, when a man has already got his two
bottles, or perhaps three under his belt, depend on it, the
supper of that man should be hot.
" Nunquatu aliud Nature stint SaW.entia docet."
Such is my simple view of the matter ; but a friend at my
elbow, who is dways for refining on thinis, says, that the
philosophical rule is this—" When you have been drink-
ing cold wine or cold punch, your supper ought to be a
devil, or at least wanething partaking of the der:! character;
and, on the other hand, when volt have been swallowing
mulled wineo.or hot punch. or hot toddy, something cold,
with vinegar, aalloul, &c. should form the supper." I have
given you my-friend's theory in his own wo:ds. If men o'
sense irould but c.:ounteiticate the result of their different
experiments to the public, we should soon have abut:dant
data for the settlement of all these disputes.
4.—lt is a common thing to hear big wigs prosing
against drinking, as " a principal source of the evil that
we see in this world." I heard a very big wig say so my-
self the other day from the bench, anti we have all heard
the same cant, ad nauseam stripe, from the pulpit. There
cannot, however, be a more egregious mistake. Had Vol-
taire, Robespierre, Bonaparte, Talleyrand, &c. been all a
set of jolly, boozing lads, what a mass of sin and horror,
of blasphemy, uproar, blood-thirsty revolution, wars,
I battles, edges, butcherings, ravishing's, &c. &c. &c. in
France, Germany, Egypt, Spain, Sicily, Syria, North
America, Portugal, &c. had been spared within the last
• twenty or thirty years ! Ilail Msliomet been a comfort-
• able, social good fellow, devotedly fond of his pipe and
pot, would not the world have avoided the whole of that
humbug of Islamism ?—a superstition, reader, that bas
• chained up and degraded the intellect of man in so many
' of the finest districts of the globe, during the space of so
• many long centuries. Is it not manifest, that if Southey'
I had been a greater dealer in quarts, his trade would have
been more limited as to quartos? It is clear, then, that
loyalty, rclig,ion, and literature, have bad occasion, one and
all of hem, to bemoan, not the wise-sop, but the milk-sop;
; propensities of their most deadly foes.
• s.—Never boozify a second time with the man whom
you have seen misbehave himself in his cups. I have sten
I a great deal of life, and I stake myself upon the assei don,
' that no man ever says or does that brutal thing when
drunk, which be would not also say or do when sober,
y- lie thirst.
B.—ln literature and in love we generally begin in bad
, taste. • I myself wrote very pompous verses at twenty, and
my first flame was a flaunting, airy, artificial attitudinizer,
several years older than myself. By means of experience,
we educate our imagination, and become sensible to the
charm of the simple and the unaffected, both in belles and
/:I/es-letters. Your septuagenarian of accomplished taste
discards epithets with relig:ous scrupulosity, and prefers
an innocent blushing maiden of sixteen to all the blazing'
duchesses of St. James's.
7.—Nothing is more disgusting than the coram public°
;endearments in which new-married people so frequently
• iudolge themselves. The thing it obviously indecent;
but this I could overlook, were it not also the perfection of
; folly and imbecility. No wise man counts his coin in the'
presence of those who, for aught he knows, may be thieves.
I B.—There are two methods of mail-coach travelling
' —the generous and the ;paring. I have tried both, and
give my voice decidedly for the former. It is all stuff that
; you; bear about eating and drinking plentifully inducing
fever, &c. during a long journey. Eating and drinking
• copiously produce nothing, mind and body being well re-
gulated, but aleepinea—and I know no place where that
inclination may be indulged less reprehensibly than in a
mail-coach, for at least sixteen hours out of the four-autl-
I In travelling„ I make a point to eat whenever
I I can sit down, and to drink (ale) whenever the coach
stops. As for the interim, when I can neither eat nor drink,
I smoke, if upon deck, and snuff, it' in inside.
• N. IL Of course, I mean when there is no opportunity
. of flirtation.
9.—Shew me the youngdady that runs after preachers—
' and I will shew you one who has no particular aversion to
men.
I J.—Your highly popular young lady seleom—l believe
! I might say newer—inspires a true, deep, soul-filling pas-
, stun. I cannot suppose Julie d'Etange to bare been a fa-
vourite partner in a bail-room. She could not take the
trouble to smile upon so many fops.

The Duke of York honoured Mr. Secretary Canning
with his company on Thursday. Among the distinguiahed
guests present to meet his Royal Highness and Prince Leo-
pold were the Dukc of Wellington, the Countess Harrow-
by, and the Ladies Ryder ; the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer and Lady Sarah Robinson ; ',dotal Howard de Wal-
den, &c.
Prince Leopold honoured the Marchioness of Hertford
and party with his company on Thorstlay evening, at her
residence io Manchester-square.
A ('abinet Council was held at three o'clock yesterday
afternoon, at the Foreign Office, Downing-street, which
was attended by the Duke of Wellington, the Earls of
Liverpool, Harrowbv, Wtstanorland, and Bathurst ; Mr.
Secretary Peel, Mr. Secretary Canning, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Mr. Wynn, Viscount Sidtnouth, &c
The Cabinet sat in deliberation till six o'clock.
Yesterday morning l'iscount Melville, Sir G. Cockburn,
and Sir G. Clerk. Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty,
left town in an open carriage, attended by Mr. J. Bartow,
Secretary to the Ailmiralt7 for Portsmouth, to inspect the
Dock Yards, and other ofhcial business.
Yesterday morning Mr. Hunter, the King's Messenger,
arrived at the Secretary of State's Office for Foreign Af-
fairs, with despatches from Sir IFm. A'Court, our Ambas-
sador at Madrid.
The marriage of the Austrian Archduke Francis Charles
with the Princess Frederica Sophia Dorothea, will take
place in September next, at Vienna.
Captain Boxer, R.N., is appointed to the chief com-
mand of the Coast Guard duty on this station, eke Cap-
tain Gambier, R. N.—Weyntoeth Paper.
On Sunday evening the Duke of Lancaster steam-packet
arrived at ‘Vaterford from Bristol, having on boned the re-
mains of the late Earl of Tyrone. They were attended by
Lord George Beresford and Mr. George Nleara ; and, im-
mediately on )nArg landed, were conveyed in a hearse and
six horses to Curraghmore, to be deposited in the burying
place of the family.-IForerThrt/ Mirror.
On Wedneslay last, as the lion. Lieut.-Colonel Finch
was returning to town from Lucan, and driving a cabriolet
with four horses he, and three ladies who sat in the vehicle,
were overturned, and, we regret to state, the Crdonel's leg
was fractured in two places; one of the ladies was hurt in
the arm, the other touch bruised in the face. One lady
escaped totally uninjured. The Colonel was removed to
the Spa-house, Lucan. We are happy to find that he is in
a fair way of reeovery.—Dublia Pllper.
The town of Folkestone, has, after many applications to
the Treasury, obtained from their Lordships the privilege
of having a eltaring office.
It appears that the sittings of the Portuguese and Bra-
zilian Commission for adjusting, the differences between
the two countries, are held in Downing-street. Great in-
terest seems to be taken in the proceedings by the Austrian
Secretary of Embassy, and also by Prince Esterhazy him-
self, since his return from 'Vienna. . .

BRAZIL.—IIy the Caroline, arrived at Liverpool, letters
have been received from Maranham, dated the 10th June.
They state that political commotion had again broken out
'in that place. The members of the civil government had
been arrested by the Governor-at-Arms, with the intention
of shipping them off for Rio. .1 • re-action. however took
place on the night of 4th of June, the members of the
government were released, and the Governor who had
seized !hem whivetgerbto abet-mut The disturbance was
chiefly confittel to ti.e barracks. Duril', the commotion
some b!sotl, we regret to state, was shed, and the brother
of the Gcnerai assassinated. n the Caroline sailetl,
tranquillity was restored to the city but the peaceably
disposed did not scion to consider the danger over. Several
passengers came in the Caroline, and some in the George,
which sailed in company, and arrived at Liverpool on
Tuesday afternoon.

et/I.O3IMAX Loas:.—We understand that another at
tachment was yesterday laid upon the monies raised for
the Colombian Gov,rnment in the hands of the contractors.
This attachment from the former, inastuueb as the
individuals commuting the Government arc now sued, in-
stead of the " Government of Colombia"—no such Go-
vernment, or any other of the South American States,
being recognised in our Courts of Law. It is now con-
tended. that the individuals above alluded to are responsi-
ble, like any other individuals, for contracts entered into
by them, or by their agents duly authorised. It is as-
crted that debts to a large amount have been incurred by
such agent; ; and the question will speedily te determined
as to the liability of the individuals sued. We untlerstatd
that the parties included in the process are Simon Bolivar, I Pi PINT CO NG E Ail (TN- or Aieacc-,:v.—The fact of met.
F'. P. Santamity, Jose AL Strabo, P. Gual, B. Crba- curl, becoming solid was first discoverva by accident.
sego, J. M. Castello, and P. B. Afetalcz. The claim is: A Professor Braun, at Pewit:burgh, in 1739, taking *dean-
made by Mr. Walton,.who, we believe, was for some years tape of a very severe frost, plunged a thermometer in a
agent fur Colombia in Igngland.—Erening Paper. ; mikture of snow and salt, to ascertain the degn e of cold
Azcitrat.—On Thursday evening a grand display of produced. Observing the mercury stationary after it was
archery took place on the beautiful lawn at the house of withdrawn, he broke the bulb of the thermometer, and
the Rev. Chancellor Law, its Lichfield, under the patronage found the metal frozen into a solid mass. Since then, mer-
e Lady Charlotte Law. The evening was remarkably cury has frequently been frozen ; and in this state, when
tine, and a large assemblage of spectators were present. touched, it affects the hand with a sensation similar to
The successful candidates were the Bee. T. 11. white and touching a piece of heated iron, the hand having the same
appearance that it assumes when burnt.—Chemirf.
Miss Proby.—B;rntingliani Gonicle.