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London, England, 1821-05-03 00:00:00

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ARialtabb. lento. Maeltwoosh Ediaborgh; tad Cadell,
Mend, Landow.
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(Continual fists oar Paper of Saturday Met )
The following extract contains a spirited de.
ecription of a combat of Gladiators at the Florian
Amphitheatre :
The prechiontion being repeated a wend time, a dander 1
the bawd of the arena was laid *pea, and a, ;1
IhauoJed, as it seemed to me, mounifolly. labile. I
xidiE
' marched in with slow steps, each man—sake
incept being girt with a cloth about his Moe—bearing on 1
;bit left Min a small buckler, and having a short straight
I award suspended by a cord *rowed his neck. They march-
: cid, as i have said, slowly and steadily, so that the whole
atsembly had fell leisure to contemplate the forms of the
torn ; while those who were, or who imagism,' themselves to
bt skilled in the business of the arena, were fixing, in their
own, minds, or inch as they Honed mint lately to he vie.
taigas, sad laying wagers enceraieg their ehaseesof suc-
cess, with as mach unconcern as if they had tine twettego-;
plating so many irrational soinials, or rather, in 1..
should my, so newsy senseless piece. of ingeniona -iymv-
' therists. The wide diversity of complexion and deaf
I,eldsibited insiong these devoted athletes, affirded at nee a
stelkiestie idea of the extent of the Retinae easpire., and a ter.!
S.
Hole one of the ;ineptness to which that wide sway had NO.
Hoh,„
i often bete Made subservient. The beautiful Greek, with •,,
reetenteaance of noble serenity, and limbs after which the
isealpters of his country might have middle.' their etundie
symbols of giant's! power walked side by side with the
yellow-beardol savage, whose gigantic wieseles bail bens
nerved in the freeaing waves of the Elbe or the Danube, or
' whose thick strong hair was congealed anal shagged as his
brow with the breath of Scythian or Scandinavian winters.—
' Plumy levee Nears and Arab., and curled Fthinpians. were
there, *ln the beams of the southern sun burnt in every
various shade of swarthiness upon their skins. Nov did our
own remote island want her representaiires in the deadly
procession, for I saw among•the armed multitude—and that
nut altogether without some feeliogs of more peculiar in-
' Serest—two or three gaunt barbarians, whose breasts and
shoelders beet uncouth marks of Wee and purple, so vivid
is the tints, that I thought matey mouths could ant have
elapsed since they most have beru wandering is wild free-
' dont along the native ridges of some Sduriau or Caledonian '
forret. As they moved 'around the arena, mime of these
turn were saluted by the whole multitude with noisy accla-
mations, in token, I neon., of the approbation wherewith
tie feats of some ferwser Galva! bad deserved to be noun-
bored. On the appearance of others, groans and kisses were
heard from some parts of the Ansphilbeutre, mixed with roe.
trading cheers and hussars from Others of the spectators. But
by far the greater part were suffered to pass Ott in silence
this heists in all likelihood the first—alas! who could tell
whether it might not sloe he the lasiday of their sharing iu
that fearful exhibition!
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l'heir masters paired them alertly, soil in enervation they
began to make proof of their fatal skill. At first, Scythian
was matched against Scythian—Greek against Greek—.
Ethiopian against Ethiopian—Spauiard against Spaniard;
and I SIM the sand dyed beneath ttoir feet with blood
streaming from the wounds of Ifiadrisd hands. Bet these
combats, although abuudaatly bloody mad terrible, were re.
garded only as preludes to the serious business of the day,
which consisted of duels between Eistopeana sin the oue side,
mid Africans cm the other- whereinit was the well-nigh in.
transgressible law of the Arapbltheatre, that at least one out
of every pair of combatants should site in the arena before
the eyes of the multitude. Instead of shrieking from the
more desperate brutalities of then latter conflicts, the al-
most certainty of their fatal termination 'seemed only to
make the assembly gase or them with more intense ca.
riusit y,and a mss hahassaii message of delight. hirthitalre
I feel as if it were bat of yesterday, wheat—sietened with
the protracted terepre of a undid, that seemed se if it were
' to have as rad, althoagi both the etinalintasts were
already covered 41 over with hideous gashes-1 at last bow.
id down my heed. nitielaelled my banal ens my eye*, to
save them from the Inutare of mixing thereon further: Sod
I had scarcely done so, when Ruhelha laid her banal upon
my elbow, whispering, " Look, look, now look," in a 'eke '
of low steady inspetiesce. I dish look, but not to the areas :
No; it was upon the beautiful features of that woman's fan
that I looked, and truly it seemed to me as if they penned
a spectacle almost as fearful as that from which I had
averted mine eyes. I saw those rich lips parted asunder,
and those dark eyes extended in their sockets, and those
smooth cheeks suffused with a steadfast blush, and that lovely
bosom swelled and glowing; end I hated Rubellia as l gamed.
for I knew not before how sisterly beauty can be brutalised
by the throbblngs of a cruel heart: But I looked nand le
escape from the sight of Lee—sod then the heaskeds of fe.
males that I saw with their eyes fixed, with equal earns'.
eels, on the same spot of horrors, taught me, nee at the
moment, to think with more charity of that pitiless taste
of else.
At *bet Instant all were silos*, in the natemplatin of the
breathless strife ; insomuch, that a gross, the first that bed
escaped from tither of the combatants, although low sod re.
, lacteal, sod half-suppressed. seanded quite distinctly amidst
the deep bosh of the assembly, and being coestrained thereby
to loin min eyes one more duarewasda, I heliehl that, at
length, owe of the two had received the sword of his silver-
sary quite through his body, sad had sank heron him spin
Ilse amid. A beautiful young man was he that had received
this barns, with fair hair, clustered is glossy s ifigleta one
his neck and brows • but the sickness of his wound was al.
reedy visible on hidrooping eye.lida, and Ids lip* were pal*,
se if the blood had rushed from them to the et:timely outlet.
Nevertheless, the Moorish gladiator who had fought suds
him, bad drawn forth again Isis weapon, mid stood there
awaitleg in silence the decision of the entailed*, whether
at once to slay the defencilras youth, or to enlist in is
itraniag bias from the amen, if matinee the blood *Held
be stopped Irma dosing, and some hope of n entity eras
yet estended to him. liereupou there ame, on the instant,
a load voice of costuming ; and :t eressed to use ea If the
wounded man regarded the multitude with a proud, and
withal cnatemptunas glance, belay aware, without question,
that he had executed all Wogs so a. to 'deserve theie ens-
passion, bat aware, moreover, that eves hod that ben freely
vouchsafed 10 him, it was too Isis fur say hope .1 sardly ...m.
But the cruelty of their faces, It may he, and the loadoese
of their crier, were a sorrow to hie, sod filled his dying
breast with loathing. Whether or nut this haughtiness of his
countenause had been observed by them with displeasure, 1
cameo say; but au it was, that Ilion who had cried out to
give him • chance of recovery, were speedily silted, sad the
Emperor looking round. Mil NMI* all the thumbs turned
downwards (for that is, you know. the signal of death), wee
constrained to give the aiga, slid forthwith the young win,
reetiviNg egoist without • struggle the sword of the Near
into his gashed Went. breathed forth kis lan, and ley
stretched out in his blood upon the plan of molt. Wish
that • joyous clamour was uplifted by any of those that
looked upon it, and she victorious Moor Whig amend with
an ivy garland, was carried in precentors around the areas
by certain young men, who leaped down for that purpose
from the midst of the assembly. In the moan time, then
who bad theme of such things, dragged away, with a filthy
book, the corpse of him that had been slain; and thew,
fakir' op the seed over the blood that had lilies funs hiss,
prepared the place, with isidiffenist cousnirmanceche Illeale .
other cruel tragedy of the same kied--while all anand me, ,
the spectators were sees rising from their plans, mid ali. '
lotiug each other; alert there was a haze of talking ne mg.
venal as the silence had been thorny the ossehat; seen
speaking of it, sad win said reosinag money Ina mad'
won Urn, Its ispne; some already Ingbing merrily, width~.
naming coaceraieg other, matters, ever as if within. Ise-
COMMOS had bees witnessed; *IOW ethers again appeated so
he entirely occupied with the menial music shish ever
struck up majestically at such passes in the course of the
crust enteibitspa; nine Initiate time inn the blushes be.:
fora . lightly joiaiag *heir voices in anises with
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In noliehtit ie erftri=loattatafisky apolgoiful
occ orient* at Herne thottd ovisikcireuni-
stirces as lief then iconic to oar korrwhit
sauce . et-
pressiog, at the e i., srhotresthat event
would row provg fatal .to .tissk94tetyskek. Soots)
who had been wounded. Ittstlat expectatioa, we
regret to add, we have been disapnoiested, the unfor-
tunate young mon, after the bill-in the tilloulder
hod been extracted under the armpit, breathed his
last on Friday morning, the 27th ult. tie bad
Motet/01y received the tact-sinew, and deposed to
the circumstances of his &nth Wire Gorge Mot',
Esq. one of the Magistrates of this county, isits•
visited lino let the purpose; mot continued serisifilt
and devout to the •last moment. tis 'mains *ere
yesterday (Monday 30th ult.) interred in 11euie
churvh-yard with the Iwuou,it due to his rank. the
b-stly being preceded by the hand of the 4:li :islet
devisor's aural a firing party of that regiment, awl
followed by Cowan, McCulloch, eight Lientenant•,
and many of his hrinher officers of the Severn ; and
it ',mold he no injustice to his tnernoty not to tecurd
that his e loot since he had been stationed in the
.victuity of the place where he fell, has been uni-
4forooty correct, mural, and humane ; and iii cc-
icordance with that 'robe Of duty which, miter such
would actuate a Briti-lt officer, lie met his
fate. At Otioen o'clock on Suiurdormortittok (the
28th ult.) a Coroner's lotion:it was held w ttle
body, before 'l'. T. Delasatix, Geut. site Of the
Coroners of this county, when, after ttipatient in.
veritigation, its which it appearad' thot'Sysielitiam
Sooty, a Midshipman of his Milkssryis
stationed at Herne Bay fur the prevention of smug-
Kling, hod died from the wounds received on the
Tuesday morning preceding, front u party of armed
smugglers, whilst in the execution of his duty, the
Jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against
some person or persons soklown." From what has
also transpired, it appetis that Mr. Snow, while
attempting to setae the boat, Was slot by some per-
sons oho were behind him, both the holism having-
tottered his body in that direction ; and so close had
the tire-arms been discharged, that the back of his
jacket was burnt front the explosion. 11'hile Dint;
wounded on the beach, lie hail the mortification t,s
see the contraband cargo carried 1)1r, and he would
probably him_ hen drowned by the flowing of the
tide, had not assistance been afforded him, PS SCuli
as the smugglers retired, it is satisfactory, how-
ever, to add, that from infoimarion which fiat been
olonitied, several of the persons implicated in the
trunsactimi were on Sstard night (28th tilt.) taken
ono custody by two of the Bow-street officers assist-
ed by a detachment of tho 4th light dragoons, and
muse, eft out Sunday (the 29th ult.) through this
city In London. The parties apprehended resided
tit Littltbourts, Hoath, and Sturry ;
.and it is some-
what remarkable that time of these prisms are
those who might have beet, supposed, from their
necessities, to have been compelled to resort to this
illegal mode of übtuinitY, a livelihood, or of those
who are said to he " rendered desperate by a total
wart' of rinployiurut."-4 Kentish Gazette.)
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NAVAL 4N7'6LLIGENCIL •
eotttstsotrtg, test 1.
Arrived the Caroline transport from die Maas.
Sailed the Rows, Davison, fur Miranalcbi ; sod Samuel
Whitbread, %Yard, for Quebec.
PLYMOUTH, Mmes. 34,
Arrived the Mary, ShirOertl, from Loudon fur Sorra
Layer t on the 55th inv. befog 72 !tattles S.W. of the
Literal, she carried away her mai ttttt sat by the ruttier of the
ma. Also strived the ?lymph, Watkins, from Lisbon lit
21 dais.
FALMOUTH, AWL 55.
The Lady Arabella packet arrived yeeterday—tspote on the
myro lost. toe mike S.W. ur the Liward, a ship firm the West
Indies, with loss of trideler.
The Plaint Tratskitl, Kelway, frnm Plymouth, is coming in
here last treeing Shlleit on the Slack Suet sod stook : her
cargo cuusiateJ of flour aud spirits.
HAWN /CH, MAY 1.
Arrived the Lord Kelsoo packet with a mail from
Cuxhaven. ' • ' -'''" •
°CAL, MAY 1.
Saikd the %disk of the Itoereviard-boned fur tie Meer.
Come Mews from the River and sailed the Polatobso.
Hartle, fur St. Loris; Lawn* Lune, fur Gemerara ; and
&vole* tmomperi for Cork and Halifax.
Arrived still restate the Express, Wells, from Gibraltar;
sues Ruby, from St. Michael'..
• " Isyvkit.
COOHOeftMit 'IDI ere, repneted yesterday es,4 shore,
was trot off last tt t sod into the harbors', whit trilling
damage.
arty, weir 1.
The sloop Py, Land, of Hall, tlom Newcastle, wits rah
us the sands on Sunday, being leaky, and she so* hes suet
with part of her cargo washed out ; erre, saved.

COHN BXCIIANGE, M•T t.

IVe had no fresh arrivals aster Grain to-day ; but s antsi.
derstble gensttity of ',best firma Ernes slid Kent remit... 4
seer front Ibluterlaes supply, fir Worth there was no alernnertl,
cussespernily prints we nominally the same so last marbet
thy. Fine Barley ►row;M Isat priers, but inferior quatittes
bads dult sale. Oates,* ehttaper. In Ptak and Selma Da

COAL MARKET, May I.
!Moist Markel. Skips Sold. Price.
Ott Meireaitlo
7 Poddeehmed. IS/ 3l. Od to 41.. Id.
I Flidbeatli
Weigle Coal
At Holt fair ots )esterday beirtaight there was s
good show of neat stock. and some lioggets; hot
rety little beanies' was dune. There were but 1r.%
horses, and these of an inferior deaeriptiou.
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY.
dank Stock 0491 Bunk L. Ann.. 18 7-10
3 per crtut. !Imp. 3 per et- An. 701
9 per CI. Cons.. 711 I India Stuck
31 per Cent 81 I Ditto Bonds.. 41 44 pi.
4 per rests. .•• . 99 Ex. BIM, 4 5 pr.
5 iier Ct. N. Aun. 107 Ditto Commercial 1 dn.
100 1 Cons. for Acc...•7210,
MARRIAGE.
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at ft. 126.461 Church, Halioireriwpoir• by
tie Ridge, et M. MOM, Lissismon-ortimet coapar,l9:oarn
the iairafrawater So hi.
*Sopa liggineos tie Wow of
Clarissa. to Mt.. Maker. Ike assoompliaks4 daughter ad do
bite fir Moorge &ear, aim God oaly OW tot ie Peoilsriok
Ulm. Dart.

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