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EVILXING Pages.—An .Imaranthine coloured dress of grog
de Naples, with three ornaments at the border, set on in the
nature of flounces, framing separate leaves, depending, and divided
Ity rottleaux of satin, the upper ore surmounted by three tuck..
The bust is made in the tialio-Oreek style, and the sleeves short
and full ; they are headed by foliage trimming to corrftpond with
that on the skirt ; a narrow lace tucker .tares up round the bus*.
in the flenrietta-Matia style. The haul-dram consists of a turbos
of the l'actoltts gauze, ornamented with full blown Amaranths.
and a rich plumage of white teathers. The necklace worn with
this superb dress is formed of one row of large Oriental
sod each eat.pendant cobsista of one large round pearl.
BAIL DR ESlL—This drews exhibits a very beautiful specimen
of I.ll.llhg's lace; the pattern is of the most ebstly and elegant style,
which is well set or by the soft pink satin slip won, underneath.
Two broad richly figured limners of lace ornament the border„ .and
a falling tucker of the same material is fastened on eat!, side thw
bust, with a half opening rose and foliage. The hair is ditided,
11a Madonna, with pearl ornametitaiin front, and a plume of
white feathers on the left side. The ft...rings are of Opal arid
finely wrought gold, as is the necklace; from whence depends a
very light gold chain, with tin eve-glass set round with
.fewela or
pearls. The shoes are whit- satin.—Psom Lo /idle Assemble.

We understand that Lint! eat:l:nine (well known ac Cal
Hanger) died quite suddeily yesterday morning. lie was
seized with a violent itt of sickness during breakfast, and
expired almost Innen tly.
List night the earrkagm of a lady, in driving ['oriental!
out of Somerset Hour, ran over two fetish's, rind bet** 1111
the leg of one, and wads injured tllO Therievw
taken to Mr. Stanton's, the surgeon.

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DEMERARA.
DECEASE OF 31It. JOHN SMITH.

(Prom the Afiationky Chcohlek.l
Tidings of she affecting conclusion of Mr. Smith's suff.rings
lihm just reached England.
The Directora have not, as yet, themselves received information
of the erect, nee is the intelligence direct from the Colony; but the
mcount arrived by way of Bertodoes, is attended with so many
mares of Authenticity, and is rendered ro probable by a letter from
)lie. Lidos, tilted 11th and lath January, brought by the same
conveyance. (quotations front which ue given hereafter). that it
cannot be reasonably doubted.
The Barkdoes Mt-teary of die 14th of February contains the
following statement :—" Demerara, Feb. 6.—Died this morning,
K B) minutes past one o'clock, in the Colonial Gaol, where he had
Um confined as a state prisoner since the 26th of November last,
N the termination of his trial by General Court-martial, on a
Morse of high treason`, sentence thereon having been. transmitted
to has Slajoety for his final decision, John Smith, missionary. Ile
hid bets in a poor state of health, and had medical advice for a
sonsiderable time peerless: and since he took seriously ill,ahout
throe weeks ago, has been attended tegularly by skilful physicians.
We are happy to state, by personal inquiry and inspection, that
this untnetueute man had the utwust attention and kindness shown
to Mtn ley the humane keeper of the prison (Mr. Padmore) all the
nos of his cordiument. His apartment was airy and conoled!.
gut t and he had always at his command every cannot which his
taste farmed, or bin Deeelivinev required. lie has left a widow to
deplore his tare and lament his lam"
-.the Directors give the extract entire, hoping that the remain.
tattoo of the attentions paid to the deceased (the only alleviation to
their feelinge which, in a temporal view, the case can supply), is
sunsistent with the fut. They understand from 3lr. Eliseo, that
ma chatoeter of humanity attributed to dlr. Padmore, the keeper
of the prison, in well mental; and for every act of kindness and
sympathy shown by him to the deceased, the Directors sincerely
and publicly ogee him their warmest acknowledgments.
Titus h.., been brought to its present close the tragical rune of
persecution, which has been for years preparing in Demerara.
against the faithful servants of Christ; and which has at length
tbund its victim in one amongst them, who, for fidelity and dili-
seece, stood in the foremost rank. The finger of truth, guided by
the en envious voice of the Christian church, will inscribe on it.
meorste the name of John Smith, as one of its martyrs in the crux
of spryest-tog the gospel of their common Lord amongst the en-
slaved /toes of Arms. lint the head of death, in putting a elate
Its the tabulation and sufferings of this martyr, has fixed an im.
moveable seal (tithe guilt of the act, by which that issue has been
produced. The chains of the prisoner here been broken, not by
the act of merry eons has gracious earthly Sovereign (though it
was extended, as otoo as the need of it was known), but by the
antedate of the King of king*, which has separated the accusers
and the accused, till the day when both shall stand before his
throne of judgetent, to hear the irreversible decision of that
supreme court, to which the groanings of the oppressed have car-
ried the appeal.
‘Vith what shadow of justicethe sentence of hie judges in De-
merara, which has led to this awful estaxtrophe, was passed, will
now, more than vote claim front the highest adniinistiators of law
and equity, to all the subjects of them realms, the most serious in-
sessiganon and decision. The question which, it was hoped,
would terminate on the title of Britons to civil rights, must be
1..' adjudged on the laws by which their lives are protected.
e ,erceoever residing under their guardian care. It was a point of
rearresting import at all times; it has become one of momentous
eensequeoce.
Let it not be said, that nut rcy Wes ildendta, ("KWh pulite die.
tated the tyre/ice The friends of the deceased!, now, as they have
ever dune, reject the preonded boon. The last Chrunirk con.
tains, though in the mildest form that the expression of proper
fading's would allow, the claim, and the only claim which their
sense of duty to the deceased pemlitted them to prefer to his Ma,
jetty's Government—that °fie:ace, according to the laws, as ad.
Ministered in these realms. They did not crave; for they never
believed that the criminated and even then condemned missionary
*eery needed mercy, on any charge legally affecting liberty or re.
e.t.a., much 100 on any accusation that, by the laws, threatened
si/). Their convictions, of what the firm and ingenious mind of
Mr. &rith himself would dictate on the subject, strengthened their
sense of obligation towards him in this respect. They could not,
itgleed, but entertain considerable fear, that his keen sense of the
taiustice done him would not allow him to avail himself of the
odne of personal liberty, upon any conditions, which, however in-
tended on the part of his Alajesty's Government, would seem to
imply, if accepted by hint, an acknowledgment of culpability;
especially if it were found that his acceptance would bar his legal
appeal against the whole proceedings instituted against him. In
addition to the impression of injury created by all the transactions
of his trial, he had himself heard the clamorous altercations of his
edges, fn coming to their verdict (for he was at that time confined
in *room near to that in which they assembled); he had heard the
loud shout that arose, when, a* he supposed, the sentence was
more to, and the impression lett on his spirit was, and could only
be, trotirely opposite to that of acquiescence in the penalty so laid
upon him. Ile would be aware, that his enemies in the Colony
ware not ashamed openly to declare their disappointment, and re.
yet that their victim had been, on any terms whatever, delivered
trom their rage. Let not this be said to be calumny ; for if the
public press may justly be taken as a vehicle of public scatiment
or feeling, it stands recorded on one of their journals. The Editor
at one of the Newspapers enures', " We shall not be precluded
Dom adverting to the Nei:vela( "ethers qf distrait and dismay it
has produced. with reference to its poesible tendency."
The Directors feel that the true now so steeply deplored by them
does not relax the duty of seeking redress fur the injury done by
these proceedings to their deceased missionary, to the cause of
miesions, to the violated laws of their country ; nor of endeavour.
log to obtain future protection for the lives and liberty of other in-
dividuals engaged in the same disinterested and benevolent labours.
Vie object Is now somewhat charged ; but that justice which can.
not be done to the person, must be sought for to the character of
the martyred missionary.
The measures of the Directors, since their last report, have more
jperticularly been directed to obtain a emission on the part of his
ejesty's Government, of the recognizance required of Mr. Smith,
not to return to the West India; but the arrival of the news of
his death, on the morning on which an appointment was made for
presenting a memorial to that effect, has rendered that proceeding
snap liable. They had abet submitted a case, embracing the
Laibeatings of the whole question, to the opinion of several
nut, eminent in different department sof the law, and have
required their advice as to the measures proper to be pursued for
obtaining the desired redress. Some hindrance in the further pro-
ceedings must necessarily take place from the change occasioned in
the case by the decease of Mr. Smith, but the Members of the So-
elegy may be assured that no evitable delay shall be incurred. It
is no doubt generally known, that some proceedings have taken
place in the llouse of Consumes, which will probably lead to a full
mvestigetion of the transactions hi Demerara, connected with this
subject, to which the public sill look with earnest attention.
The Directors had received a letter, dated the 12th of January,
eigned and partly written by Mr. Smith probably the last which he
ever wrote, a few days prior to the arrival of the report of his decease,
which is subsequently given. It affords them an unspeakable satis.
tactioe that their own letter to hint reached his bands in time to
prevent him from dying in uncertainty as to the opinion they had
-formed upon bis case, and without the assurance of their conhdence
in his innecenre, and of their sympathy in his sufferings. It seem-
ed to administer to him the only coneelation of a temporal kind
which his mind needed. Mrs. Elliot, in her letter, states that "it
domed hint." A iorasal of the trial had long ago rendered unne-
armory the decheration which his letter contains, in answer to the
inquiry which the Directors thought it their duty to make, whether
he bad, in any degree, by correspondence with other associations
or otherwise, stepped beyond the proper line of his duties to their
Society, as marked out in his instructions. The declaration is
boomer of importance, as containing the refutation given by a sly.
tag man to the assextioni still loudly made in the country—that
tracts of the most injurious tendency are copiously circulated, by
the means of Alissionaries, amongst the Negroes to the Colonies.
The London Missionary Society circulates no tracts whatever ;
and its Directors prohibit the booksellers who send out books, ca-
ts:Mem., and other mastications ordered by them, from putting in
tear packages anything not contained in the order.
The Directors acknowledge with *inure thankfulness the many
testimonies of approbation and assurances of support received from
the Associated Members of the Friends of the Society, in various
parts of the country, during the past month ; and for the declare-
Iron of cordial interest taken in the case of Mr. Smith, by several
atatinguielied personage& and other highly respected individuals,
who had not previously directed their attention to its proceed-
ings. Extracts from resolutions and other communications are
printed on the following pages of their Chrowkte. These expos-
itors of public feeling the Directors regard as of high importance,
net merely to their own institution, but to all societies formed for
the support of Christian Missions to the Heathen, wheresoever car-
ried on. It s ill he ioreroaible for such Societies to proceed in their
benevolent labours v. ith confidence, and to invite, with becoming
integrity. individuate to coonnit their lives and liberty to their rare
az] dirte.ton, if a due security cannot be assured to them, chile
eenduceing themselves blamelessly, in the just administration of
law, especially in the dependeee.es of the British Crown. To this
point the attention not only of the friends of Ili:loons, but of the
community st large, is now directed with the itio.t unequivocal
earnestness ; and the subject cannot be disposed of 011 any terms
short of positive security. The live. of Missionaries must be pro-
tected as effectually as those of other Englishmen, front the cap. ice
or jealouxy, or dhoti, of Governors and other inhabitants of the
British Colonies. The political constitution under which Brassies
live, the generous dispositions which they cherish, the hive of the
laws which they cultivate, all require this; and the Sovereign
and the Parliament of the United Kingdom are too wise, tun just,
mid too patriotic, to wish to withhold it.
The Members of theetiociety will feel, in its full extent, the im.
penance of the cause in which Divine Providence has called them
to engage—not merely in the pruntotion, but in the defence of the
Gospel ; and the Directors are rendered confident, by the assurances
which the occasion has called forth (though they never had &doubt
rem the subject), that they shall receive from them and the public at
large, an thl mippOrt and, countenance which the exigency may
require. The enemies of Christian missions in all parts of the
world, and especially in the Eastern and Western Dependencies of
the British Empire, have ahewn the zeal and arcluur with which
they are prepared to embrace every occurrence that can throw dis.
credit upon, and inspire distrust in, those engaged at home end
in arefrie- -- - '•-inely authorised efforts of Christian
ted their imagined triumph, gained'
misrepresentations of the commo-
Ctilonial writes persist in terming
.. ... found against Mr. Smith, tuts ab.
every legal bearing, has been so ably
' &a. sive. horositos.

don in Demerara, and their fake comments upon it, through the
whole world. Such triumphs ass only be short.
The Members of the London Missionary Society will, from a
conviction of what their duty requires, steadfastly prosecute the la-
' hours in which they have engaged. They will fcel that, through the
sailing% of their Missionary Smith, an honour has been con.
(erred on their body. It has been no unusual thing for 3lission-
aries of all Societies, worn out with labour end the elkets of cli-
mate, calmly to resign their lives as the hod ph lige of their
fidelity : but it has tot till now happened, in recent times, that •
missionary has been called to yield his life to the rage of his perse-
cutors, vented under the (omit of kw. May it be the last which
the history of the Christian missions shall have to record !
The Directors beg to repeat their invitation to Ministers who
may posses the needful qualifientioPs for such a station, to orce
their services, Cif a limited period, in OM interesting part of the
world. 31r. Elliot is desirous of resuming his labours, and the
Directors would be happy if, on his return, be were aczompanled
by one or two fellow-labourers.

LENT ASSIZES.

SURREY ASSIZES, BIARcu SI.

CIVIL SlDE.—Vrerial Jerry.
111:11110ER V. 110V1.11E111 A%DANOTIIER.

This was an action on the clue for wrongfully erecting and work.
ing a steam-engine on the defendant's own premises, whereby the
plaintiff was injured in his trade and annoyed in his dwelling.
Mr. Alarryatt, 31r. Gurney, and Mr. Chatty conducted the plain.
tiff's case ; and Mr. Adolphus and 3lr. Platt the defendants'.
The plaintiff' is a carver and gilder, carrying on busines in
Kent-street, in the Borough; and the defendant, are sheet.
lead manufacturers, occupying premises adjoining to the plain.
tiffs factory. It was all,,ged, that within the last twelve
months the defendants had erected a steam.ingine in their mute.
factory. for the purpose of rolling lead, which, when working,
operated as a nuisance to the plaintiff in three particulars, first, by
the shaking and vibration of the ground; which prevented him from
carrying on his business of carver and gilder, and looking glass
silverer ; seamd, by the smoke emitted from the engine, which
made his habitation uncomfortable; and, third, by the DOXIOUS
smell arising from the melting and working of laid, which allured
his health. _ _

A great number of witnesses were examined on both sides, m to
the question, whether :he plaintiff had any just rause of complaint ;
and after the consumption of • great deal of time, it was Pgr:cd to
refer the cause to the arbitration of Mr. Iklland.

SUFFOLK► ASSIZES. BURY, Idmicia 31.

On Saturday aftenmon the illness of Mr. Baron GuAllAn COl3.
tinuime, the Loan innate JUSTICE arrived in this town; he
clime in his own carriage, and opened the Commission in the usual
form. On Sunday morning his Lurdship attended service at St.
:limes Church, wham the Assiae Sermon was preached by the
Rev. Edward James Moor, the :Sheriffs Chaplain, front Mute-
turomy iv. IL (hs Monday inerning, at nine o'clock, his Lordship
entered the Nisi Prius Court, and the Grand Juries were itunirda-
ately sworn.

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