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Even.wbtn a boy, Mr. .r. yy's talents forslecla.
mation v erg sa. prompt -and.ambitious, that warn
the Eeni.of -Cowen M one des .heard csf I ta6r's
intention to take him; Ache; with his elder brother,
to hear the dthates in Abe, HOU.se: of Lords, he for-
bade_bip, sayin.g to the .flunt," Vou may take
Jour, but I will not *How Wt has! to go; for
am suje, that he Would rise lipand speak, if he beard
any thini that did not agree with his opinion."
Mr. Fox, when asked his npininn of Mr. PITT,
by-Dow-s-rscra, had the manliness and the jestice
to declare, !hat he thought him the greatest States-
man that this or any other country had ever pro-
duced. Nor is this all ; for, during the last Parlia-
mentary Session, when some pecuniary tramaelions
were alluded to, in which Mr. PITT was concerned,
and which were made the subjea of insinuations'
• e•i.t the purity of his charaeter, Mr. Fox. with
‘, !able earnestness, manifested bis unwillingness
the least credit to the possibility of there
h.og any foundation for such obligee attempts to
tarnish the reputation of his illustriees adversary ;
and liberally declared, that he should be steeply
grieved, indeed, if they were fuund a have the
slighest colour of truth.
. With the interval of Mr. Anoliserotes Adndei.
strAt6ii, Mr. PITT was as the head of His MA.
31ST N's Councils for twenty-two years.
Mr. Pt tv will be buried, we understand, ht
Westminster Abbey, near his father and mother.
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The precise time is not yet fixed ; but it
place id About ten days.
-Three Candidates are mentioned Cm* the seat in
the ',presentation of the University of Cambridge,
vacant by the death of Mr. PITT ; Lurd Heuer
Car v. Laid AI TllO arc, eldest son of Zed
gorse, and Lord Rovstoe. eldest son the

Lot of flamowtcat. Lord HENRY PETTY it t 5
dears of age; Lord ALTHORIPI. 23 ; and Lord
Rorsroo, 21.

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The Princesses AUGUSTA, SOPHIA, and AMELIA,
attended by Gen Fi rut° v and Colonel Desaaow,
took an airing, on horseback, in Windsor Great
Park. •
Yesterday morning, at ten o'clock, the Duke
of Cann-t;nur ar-ivei At \ ;,),I,Jr. from town.
At halt-past two n'c:ock, the Duke of Chou-
crates arrived at Wi'.dsnr, from town.
The D.tite of CUM Ilr.R LA No left Windsor, at half
past eleven o'clock yesterday, for town.
Earl IN.:stunt is A constant attendant in the aline
of Lords t last evening. the Dolma( CL Amulet was
Ektremel• attenti•e to his Lordship.
Mmisterial Per has attended in the flout? of
Lords,eacrpt the Loin CHANCELLOR, since the
unfortunate demise of the Pit mire.

The Dnchess of Buivroar will give a gran.l
f:le at Badminton, Qlnucestershire. on the sth of
i-ehrnary. to eel,^6raß the birth-day of her el.lest
s nn.thv Marcols of Woacastaa. rho wall 1/1•11 At-
tain his 14th year, .
Giros' tlorworso. Esq. and Ns Lady. lett town
yesterlay,on a Wi'tt m the Earl and Countess of
DENBY, a• the
bitClleSA4 BcDfOltti had 1 small party, last
evenings at her house. Stable.vard, St. Jam-s's.
Lady Ha now sr is eapeaed at. her Ladyship's
house in' GI in? •nor-square, this day; from Badmin-
ton. '3lonc-stershire, to prepare for 'the reception of
lain Lardship„ who is expedited ia a few days from the
Cottrinew.
Traczttcri was performed last night. for the
third time, at Drurtlatie Theatre. •I he piece has
been farther curtailed ; and we think it promises
ter prone as great a favourite as the public have had
for a long time. The house overflowed with tsar
pally, as a very early hour.
Vi.conat mai Viscountess SOOLIIII arrived en
Thursday last. at their Bowe, Dover-street. howl
Lancashire.
Sr sett+ Tuatte. Esq. is seriously iiserssposed.a4
his house. Lower Grosvenor-street.
Master Satre •i:aysid the part of Towed last
right at Covent Gerdes. with much success. Miss
Ssellrat in S'rIiMMAJA, resolved mach and deserved
apolause.. The Hesse was but thinly attended.
hut hnasted some fashion in the persons of the Coen-
tfts of Mount Eotsaatoosa, and Lady C. Gas-
vitte.
earl Cowrie is iodiepord with a slight cold.
The Jacobins. who salt to imoto the death of
Mr. PITT/ have beets Way to trim the tame (TIM*
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Lords Siorovuu, St. Vusturt, sad EL:miaow
aoti.H, attended in their plums yesterday, in dal
House Of Peers.... The irst.teeatieaed Peer sat is
one end of the Ministerial Bends, to which the tad
of ST. Vliccincr crossed over from the opposite sides,
and conversed with him a considerable time.
The Duke of Baas/roar, Lord Arramt sad
Lord EDWARD llomanstr, left town yesterday for
Badminton, Gloucestershire. His Gram will ro.
turn in the coarse of eight or tea days to attend
Hr rives funeral.
The commonly called Earl of flAwsuev's titular
rank, was thus equivocally stared on his military pro-
motion, in last .1 uesday's Caulk. rit... Nlajor-Ge-
Tlt.ral WILLIAM KNOWS, who clams: the title of
ler/ of Bank:sty," &c.
Mr. Fissile, of Vienne, has discovered a new
process for bleaching straw. Instead of smuking it
with sulphur, as heretofore, he steeps it in muriatic
acid, saturated with potash. The straw bleached
by this process never grows yellow. is equally
white; hesidas it acquire; great flexibilit►.
ADDISON observes, that Hashes of wit and hu-
mour frequently emenate from humble life.—the
iustanre is somewhat in proof. A Coal-
healer, remarking to his comrade last 'Thursday,
" that it was a very Mustering day,"—" Ayes"
cried the latter, " and if I can raise a strong grind by
what I have in my pocket, bliferr too, and that
speedily, AS well as some of my purse-proud neigh-
)o What do'st mean r'-•' Mean :—Why,
that I have a Sixteenth Share of a Ticket in the pre-
se•rt viols Lottery Scheme, that in less than a month
may /cad me with a tn.srh better sot t of Coil than
what sic sic new heav:.•ti."

TINE MILLER WITFT THREE T.'lUllr'.

A P ILOPM "CY.

Mr. EnITOR—AII persons at all ennienrent with
F.nirlish prophecies, are very familiar,with the pre-
&lions of Nixon.. the Citeshire pinphet, who de.
livered his oracles in the reign of James I. Ninon
.v. 45 a peasan '1.'134. bred upon the estate ot the
Cholmondelry fa.andy. at Real-Rural, in the county
ht Chester. ,dlaistet the, age of Pr pr 16, he ne-
gleaed his %Teri, and began to utter those prophe-
cies which have excited the wonder, and the accom-
plishment of which, forms part of the creed of the
good people of Cheshire, even to this hour. Ills
prophecies, that the park wall would fall down, and
the owner of the mansion be hanged before his own
duor, having been fulfilled, the first unaccountably,
and the second by the Accident of Mr. Cholmon-
deley's getting his neck entangled in the Inop of a
hay rope as he was riding into his court yard, at
night, gave him a reputation through the kingdom,
which has since been enhanced by the accomplish-
ment of the prophecy, that he should himself be
starved to death.
The prophecy which now particularly engrosses
the attention of the people of this county, is that
in which Nixon foretells, that —" in the reign of
George. die too of George. the son of George, the
eon of Georg a Miller shall be bail with thee,
thumbs, who shell bold the horses of three kings.
betwt.en whom England shall be bought And sole."
The people bete observe, that, at the time this pro-
phecy was spoken by the boy, far he could neither
read nor write, it was impossible for any one to foie
see, otherwife than by inspiration, that there wont,.
have Men even doe sovereign, much less a line o'
then, of the name of George, in this country.
Now, Sir. fee the strange solution given here r
this prediaioa. W. all recoiled the interview lie-
men Bonaparte and the Emperor of Austria at
esiS, the then nisi :c.-ace of the former, which
amongst us, is deemed sufficient to constitute inr
a miller. 111.. ciiifiealty which would next pre, is•
itself respe:-...mg the three thumbs, is completely re
wowed by a story prevailing amongst us, that 80.
imparts was tx,:a with the impression of a tharnh
en his left ear, is consequence of his father, wit,
was a surly jealoo -pined little Corsican, having
pulled rather sharply, when the g 0.,.
dam.. wasp ,aeat with the embryo Emperor. It
thi, accouut be coma, and who will take Bona-
pat to by the ears to ascertain it? this nia: k, in addition
to his two natural thumbs, as far as relates to the
Miller with three thumbs, is a literal fulfilment of
the prediction. With respell. to holding the horses
of three Kings, that is equally easy of celutiee.
We have only to suppose, what indeed nicrSt at al,
events be probable, that, when the intetviov to-k
place at Bonaparte's mill. the two kmp tors were
on horseback. Now, these two in thentsecve. con-
stitute three Kings ; as Bonaparte is Kic.q of Italy,
and the Emperor Francis, King of Bor.:cilia and
King of Hungary. In p•sin-A to ..olding .he horses,
it does not signify whe•lier llonap..:l‘. himself
was the groom upon that ,iccipooit or not. it is
ttlAt they were held, and that he, the Miller
WAS the means of doing tr. ; for it is not oeces.aiy
that a priphecy should be fulfilled in the manner
that people may understand it at the time, otherwise
the prophecy which related to Mr. Cholmondeley,
would not have been verlfied by the accident of his
riding into Coe yard, so as to have his neck ritangled
in the loop ot a hay-rope, as was the tad. or octets,
he was executed by a conrse of i iw. W• come,
now. Sir, to the last and most importa t 'p...ant, ot
England being nolight acid sold, et this con
terence between tr.e Kitten, whi,•li must be left
for time and events to determine ; tor, at present.
I think it a mere matter of conjecture. It k-
not mammal for people to buy and sell upon pe-
culation, that which they never mar be in posses-
‘ion of; but. though my opinion c, that it is not in
the power of those, or any other ..ngs. so barter Ise-
tween them a single acre of Old England, and I
believe the Emperor Alexander is as generous an.
honourable an ally as England ever posse.sed,
the attention a& some of my neip lours IS, how.
ewer, so lunch engrossed with this prophecy, I fear
there is danger of our being. this year, deprived of
a considerable part of that excellent old Cho:shoe
elsone, for which, perhaps, you, as well as myself,
have infinitely more relish than for all the boding
prophecies which Nixon ever uttered.
CAsstsri FLui.t.t.cs.

The late severe winds have done considerable mis-
chief at DOM. The new works. constrating on the
heights, have been materially injured, and several
et the barrack-eooms partly unroofed. Th, South
liar has also sustained some damage, though not so
much as might have been ca peeled. The stone jetty.
to the Westward, is almost covered with shingle I
in many parts three and four feet deep, thrown
up by the impetuosity of the surf, which washed, at
times, completely over it. A strong easterly gale will
be required to carry it away again. Not a vessel has
been at anchor, it the Roads, for some weeks past ;
neither was there a sail to he seen at sea for many
days together. A part of Sir Stool IV SU IT tes Pier,
immediately under the Castle, has likewise been
washed away by the violence of the waves, and
otherwise much damaged.
An institution is about to be formed at Peters-
burghe the objeet of which is the improvement of
every thing connefled with the naval service; it is
to be called the Museum of the Marine; and is t,
be under the direition of the Ministers of Masine.
The first-drawn 5,000 Tickets are sure to be
Prizes.—Honasav and Cn. beg leave to state to
their friends and the public, that in consequence of
the arr..agement of the above benefits, it is manifest
to every adventurer, that by purchasing before the
Lottery commences Drawing, an important advan-
tage is obtained : fur instance, the first-drawn Tick-
et will be entitled to 10,0221. ; the fortunate holier
may renew the purchase of an undrawn Ticket
with the C.:l. ni:d on the second day obtain 20,0221
and continue to do se until the firs, 5,000 221. 'I kit-
es are drawn out of the wheel. Tickets and Shares
are selling in great variety of numbers, and at the
lowest prices. Prizes paid on demand by Ho %%%%%%
and Co. the old essAl.li,ted State Lottery Office.,
Cornhill, 5-2, Chan'.g Cross, aid Sc. Margaret's
Hill. Borough. Orders. •y I tter or carrier, ex-
ecuted exatilly on the same t rns as if present. The
Lottery begins Drawing next Monday week.
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L f'? INT!'II,IIL.VCE.

COURT OF RI!IM's BENCH, W
Mr Wt enplisid to the Cou-t for an Attach-
ment ag mist John Cox, for nrsconlua, as a Jury-
man, imrainnelled to try a Writ of Inquiry, beiisre
the Sheriff of the county of Maks.
It appeared that an aClinr, of Trespass had been
instituted, Sittav e. Nita. arr. and the Defend-
ant had snfrets!..l Judzment rn ,wo by Default,
when the Writ of Enquit y was issued to the Sheriff
of Berks, in the usual way. When the Jury was
sworn, the Under Sheriff, who presided, informed
them in the course of his Charge, that it was neces-
sary merely to find nomiaal damages; the grea•et
part of them were satisfied, but four insisted, that
nn damages whatever should be given. Several
boors were scent in altercation, add about the close
of the day, John Coe, against whom the applications
was made, went away, declaring that he would not
stay any longer, let the consequences he what they
might. The Writ had been executed near a year
and half ago, and the Learned Counsel stated, that_
the reason thti application had net been made earlier,
was, because the Sheriff had refaded to make the ne-
eesssry affidavit.
The Court granted a Rule to shew Cause.
The Court was occupied, almost the whole of the
day. in hearing and determining Motions for new
Tnalti, all of which we have reported in former
Papas.
DVRTONSHAW 5. PI ICI.
This was an affirm for an assault, reported in a
former paper. The Plaintiff was a waggoner, and
the Defendant, one of the drivers of the Telegraph,
Manchester stage., ouch ; who meeting the former in
Place called Slienly-lane. near Barnet, tome al-
•re ttion arose, when the Defendant got down
•roin his coach-box, and gave the Plaintiff a severe
en-sewhippiog. Upon the trial however, it be-
,me a matter if doubt, whether the Defendant was
• a person who aetually committed the assault, or
Jahn !Lyle, another driver of the coach, who
ie.k the place of the Defendant, at the White
tiorse, Shenly-bill, near the spot where the trans.t
Ain!' in question took place.
l'he dory, however, found far the Plaintiff; and,
i the course of last terns, 'Mr. Eiszner obtained a
ceiltional Rule for a new trial, on the grounds of
the ih,ence of sufficient proof, as to the identity of
the Defendant.
Mr. teaeowshewed cause against this Rple;
conteudinir, that there was abundant proof !lon
t;:e trial, that the Defendant must have bees the
man, it having appeared that he had acknowlesiged
theliCt'm the PI cotiffs Attorney.
The Court, after attending to a very long argu-
ment, on both sides, thought it a case in which
there was muca reason to grant a new trial, from
the body of evidence as to the place where the
assault was committed. The Rule was accordingly
made absolute.
PAY'S! •. SMALL.
This was an affirm for money had and reeved,
also reported in a former paper, and came before
the Court, on motion for a new trial.
The aCtioe was for the' price of a horse. 4rho
totted . llt to he a roarer. and Unsound; an'd al-
though sho'r'e was no warranty of soundness at the
time of the sale, yet. in a subsequent eonrereation.
the Defendant told the PlaVntlf, that ^if the hors*
printed unsnand. he would return the price ;" and
the question before the Conti was, a Nether these
words were sufficient to maintain an staion for money
had and received ?
After hearing the arzuments id Counsel, on both
sides, the Court considened k a case rf considerable
importance, in which a great number of cases must
necessarily be involv d, and deferred their judg-
ment for a future day.
TOWS/ELL V. CRUD.
This ease
.was Viso repo,ted in a former paper,
and came on upon motion for a new trial.
Detendain was the assiglee of Wane and
Agg, bankrupts, to whom th.. Pltintiff had con-
signed quantity oT .woillen goo s, which were
disposed of in St. Petershil gin e and the question
.vas. whether the goods were consigned to die
811iikrilptS as 1.46.10r1, or sold outright? Atter much
argument, the Court made the rule fora new trial
absolute.
ORIIIS 9. wittrams.
This aCtinn Was ti ied at the last Asslses for Car-
marthen, and the Plaintiff was nonsuited on the
giouris of not being entitled to bring the aalos in
his own name.
The Plaintiff was the Mayor of the Corporation,
and had set up an estate belonging to that body
for puhlic sale, and the Defendant became the pur-
chaser, but afterwards rescinded his bargain. The
estate was then sold at a disadvantage, and, as
usual, the present aAion was brought to recover
the deficiency ; and the question was, whether the
Plaintiff could maintain the present aelion in his
own name.
On the one hand. it was contended, that as the
property belonged to the body corporate, the action
should have been brought in their name. And, on the
other hand, it was contended, that the Plaintiff being
recognised as the Agent of the Corporation, and
one of thiir body, aid from some words in the Con-
traft, it being evident that it was made on behalf of
himself, and the rest of the Corporation, the Non-
suit should be set aside, and a new trial granted.
The Court made the Rule for a new trial abso-
lute.

itLIDOX e. LIITC.
Mr. WI zsou moved fur a rule to atm cause, why
the verdiA for the Defendant in this adion, ob-
tained at the last assizes fur Cambridgeshire, should
nit beset aside, and a new trial granted. It was an
aaiun arising from the following circumstances :
'lhe Plaintiff is a common brewer, and the owner of
a public.house at Royston, which the Plaintiff
agreed to hold of him as tenant, from year to year,
at a certain rent. and under the conflitioth that
.• during the term the Defendant occupied the pub-
lie-hou.se, he should sell no other beer than that
brewed by the Plaintiff; and that he should pay
for the same a reasonable p-ice." Pursuant to
this covenant, the Plaintiff supplied his tenant with
beer, until a consUerable debt was incurred, which
not beingliquidated on demand, but being suffered
to exist, !ling after the time to which the Plaintiff
extended credit to his other customers, he (the
Plaintiff) ret used to suipiy the Defendant w;th any

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more beer, until hie demand I )r what he_higiad sires If.
furni,had, was defrayed : the latter, hi con- .1-m-ce,
resorted to Annther hrewer, all sold in his :io•ase,
other liquor than that bre.s.ed by his landl std. • ',
For this all-.-j iittalinn of the ogre-meat yowl
which he was NthrlittlO ,o the pe.seqsma of the Twos:
an aftion was brougLt, and tried at the lass assAisse •,
at Cambridge. where a vardia, being retureed ter: ',
the Defendant, the Retail now moved taus C curt
nu the meats oftshe case stated, for leave to insti-
tute a new trial . - 'i • . ,
Lord ELLEN sresousie expressed his epinien, that
there must necetsaraf be an implied qualification
et the cove .ator:, by wtlaith the- D-fen.lant bound
himself to sell the liquor of the Plaintiff; and that ...
the Plaintiff had liimsek tensed the violttion of the
agreement, by refusing to his tenant the mama Of
complying with it.
--mmeseme.
COMMUN PLE tS. :
The Court did not sit this morning far 11; .
an hour. No motion, which could be interesting is
the public, was heard.
At twelve n' clock, Mr. Justice GtOie at at
Nisi Prim*. There were hut five causes in thelsaper,
three ot which were Jnaefendecl, of the other tw • '
the foilosviag was worthier of notice : 1 e
eta SOW'S C.O. II 111101,401. . • .
The Plaintiff in this cause was a shipbuilder, sod.' s
brooght his anion again:: the Defendant, who wpm
Captain of a Russian merchant-vessel, to recover
the sous of 711. alleged to he due for the repairs of ,
his ship.
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Two witnesses were calla, on the part of
Plaintiff, who deposed..-that: the charges w _
reasonable, and such as were *may Made, when
ready money was to be paid. • • .
On the pan of the Defendant, Serjeant Brae
stated, that he would call the most resperseable meal
of the trade to prove, that the usual credit wool
twelve minis, and that the charges in the Plaint- ..
,its bill were such as were made for that it.,
' Notwithstanding this, the Defendant. who Ai a ,
stranger in liaglaad, was arrested. and thrown late.
gaol. three days slier the work was finished. r
Witnesses were then called, who proved the cur
torn of the trade, and that ensue of the theiges
were those whicle were usually made, according to •
that SWAM, when the twelve months credit, was to
be allowed. None of them. however, were able to
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speak to an item in the bill for 401. fur new masts I
so that the Jury, under the dirwaian of :be learned
Juoot, found a verdiet for the Plaintiff, damages
701. deducting a discount of five per cent. from •
part of the bilk(
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POLICE.
Mi aim se* WM ii —.wen
Yesterday, the 'keeper of a clothes-shop, in the
neigiArteerhood of Carnsby-merket, was charged'
with having received a quantity of bed•fureiture,'
foot plated candlesticks, sad dives ether littielcr •
knowing them to have been stoles. A singio.bo4
chaise was sees to stop sear the dear of the priventeee'
bt a permit parting, whisk raised his seepieioaluto-,
and he apprised the ensdheilm Two melt well
seen to tate two leer bundiasfana she *aim, dot
carry Maul to the primmer% deee.ieltiall staisopelkell:
witttest blocking sr, sad they were adialesed..lllaol
watchmen followed. and adsednliat rahl batik*
two men elest.td: Froth tstreetelteume add& easaa6
out. it is probable the property was stolen flute:
same house. *CST toles,* es Saturday night last.,
The hearing was deferred, sill additional lieu+
should be throws on the smithery. .

iseammemmotomme.
Joan Mathes, a Corporal in the Cokethorpe
Lo;;il Volunteers, commanded by Enwa an &II se
LAY, Esq. having heen discharged for disobedience
of order-, and refusing to deliver up the do hes be-
longing to the said Volnritee•s, provided b. volun-
tary subscription, was eoneieted before the Hon.
and Rev. Fasecis 'KNOWS, of having forfeited
the stun of lit. 145., which he,veos unable to pay,
and was therefore, on Tuesday se'enight, committed
to Oxford.Clite for the space of six weeks, accor&
ing to the statute.
A new species of fraud has been praaised, far
sonic evenings past, on different tradesmen, in the
west end of the town. A man, of genteel appeao-
enc.,. calls at a shop, and orders different articles to
be sent to a !untie, of which he states him.elt to be
the owner. lie also desires the tradespeople to
►er.d with the goods, change for a one, two. or
five pound note. When the porter is near the
house %Isere lie is to deliver the goods. the per-
son who ordered them, meets hem, and giving
him a forged note, takes the change, and s•-nds tare
man back in a burry for some ether articles. This
ft mid was praiaised at the Iluonh of Crepes Win.
Vaults, Brewer-street, Golden Square; and at the
Gear& au I Horses, King-street ; a Fruiterer's in
Bond-street, and several other places.
It is with extreme concern we notice the alarm,
ing increase of robberies, which have lately occur-
ed in this town. We had occasion to advert to this
subjea about a fortnight ago, since which they
have multiplied upon us in a most unirecerdereed
degree. On Thursday night last, the shop of Mr.
W. Bs &Amex, jeweller, in Church-street, w
broken open and plundered of gold and silver plate
and jewellery to a considerable amount. An attemiu
was also made on Saturday night to break open
warehouse of Messrs. Cosmic and Co. merchants,
at the Goree, in which, however, the villains fail-
ed. On Monday night, the shop of Mr. Hun-
MEL L. hosier, in Paradise-street, was broken into, br
boring boles arough the shutter, so as to admit ;he
arms with a stick, by which miens the window wvs
cleared of all the lace and other articles in h.--
And last night, about seven o'clock, two women
were detefled in stealing articles in the shop of M.%
ORTON, hosier, noir the top of Harrington-street.
In a town which we have been accustomed Ara con-
sider as remarkably exempt from these disgratelial
occurrences, their frequency of late becomes ex-
tremely alarming, and calls loudly for the vigil,ob4
of our polite ofacers.—Liverpool Paper. ✓.a. 23.
The subscription in Liverpool. for raising a
to defray the expence of treeing a ouh:ist ors
mrnt to the memory of Lo►d Net.sors. intr. se.
rapidly. It already amounts to sijsv..t.:. of
&pal. and is hourly increasing,/
The Miner, Congest, from Lisbon, for D.htoi.
got on shore on the Ness Sags], iota off, and is 41
the rocks near Cawhiidge.