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PILOTAGE.

If it were now for ths fit st time a question, whether the
system of Pilotage it, force by authority of Parliament in
this country was in its origin legal, we should say (as we
believe every one would say, setting aside the lung-con-
tinued usage) that it was not. We should say, that the
granting of the privilege to navigate and steer another's
ship, by the former Kings of England, was in point of fact
an usurpation and an infringement upon the rights and pre- ,
rogatives of English merchants. How far the introduction
of this system was for the benefit of the elintry, and for
the safety of the lives of sailors of all descriptions, is another
question (a question, too, we can hardly in these later times
discuss), but which we still may venture to say would he an-
swered in the affirmative, if inquiry was made into the extent
and depth, and generality, of the knowledge our mariners in
those times had acquired, not only of the principles of a
navigation, but also of the exact state of the channels of
the English seas and the rivers running into them, as to
shoals, quick-sands, and sunken rocks. It is, however,
indisputably clear, that the knowledge of the art of navi-
gation and the peculiarities of our own seas are now so
widely extended, as to leave the public but little to appre-
hend on the score of loss of property or lives, if masters of
vessels were permitted to navigate their own ships, or had
left them an option as to the employment of pilots or not,
according as their own discretion might point out. Such
option, however, is not left them, but ship-owners are
compellable to take pilots on board without any reference
to the skill of the commander, which most commonly ex-
ceeds that of the pilot. Favours, even when beneficial,
are most ungraciously recrivi d if forced upon us, and they
altogether cease to be favours if their advantages arc ques-
tioned or denied. This seems to us to be the exact
state of the qu, stion between the pilots and the ship-
owners, who now regard the compulsion to take pilots
on board as an additional and useless impost upon
trade: enhancing greatly the cost of equipment (if pilot-
age may be termed a portion of it), and unattended with
a single advantage either to them, or the merchant, or
the public. We do riot mean to say that the Parlia-
mentary pilotage fees are extravagantly high ; we do
'trot mean to quarrel with the Act in this respect or
with the system ; we are only desirons that it be left to the
discretion of the husband of the ship, aided by the judg-
ment of the master, to determine whether the assistance of
a pilot is necessary ; and if not, that they be permitted to
sail without one. In short, that the compulsion to take
pilots on board be done away with, retaining, however, the
rights already vested by the Legislature in the pilots, that
a licensed pilot he employed on every occasion where the
owner and master think it expedient to call in the assistance
of any pilot at all. It is not by any mean, here intended
to insinuate that the pilot system in foree in England is
Atogether useless; far from it, we know that in many cases
it is eminently serviceable and that much property, and
Imany valuable lives, have been saved from destruction by
its means ; but we still think, that in the majority of
British ships that trade with the ports subject to the Pilot
Act, the respective masters would be found fully as com-
petent to steer their own vessels up and down the rivers
'Thames and Medway, and in the English channel, as any
licensed pilot, either of the Trinity-house or the Cinque
Ports. The compulsion too, to take on board a pilot, was
certainly intended as a benefit to the ship owner, and it is,
therefore, somewhat anomalous, when we see a man
obliged to receive a favour whether he will or not; and,
what is worse, that the rejection of it is followed by the in-
fliction of a heavy fire.
The first statute that at all legaliz, the usurpations
of the Crown, in respect of pilots, was the 3d George I.
cap. 13, and this related solely to that body which
are now called Cinque Port Pilots. Since that time
many other statutes have been passed on this subject,
but there does not appear any public general Act which
affects every port of the United Kingdom. The 6th Geo.
IV. cap. 125, is a consolidation of the statutory provisions
relating to the Pilots belonging to the respective establish-
ments of the Trinity House of Deptford and the Cinque
Ports, whilst the pilots of the Trinity House of Hull
are subject to the provisions of the 39th and 40th Geo.
111. cap. 10, and those of Liverpool to the 37th Geo.
HI. cap. 78. All these Acts are, strictly speaking, Local
Acts, and the two latter are accordingly ranged in this class,
but the first has the force and effect of a public general
Act. Besides these Acts, it is possible that others exist
for regulating Pilots attached to other British Ports, as
those of Bristol, Plymouth, Falmouth, &c.
The Act of the 6th Gco. IV., cap. 125, recites in its
preamble, that " whereas the master, wardens, and as-
sistants of the guild fraternity or brotherhood of the
most glorious and undivided Trinity, have, as well by
usage for more than three centuries, as by grants of the
Crown, been empowered to appoint pilots, &c. to conduct
ships and vessels into, and out of, and upon the river of
Thames, through the North Channel, to or by Orfordnrss,
and round the long Sand-head; or through the Queen's
Channel, the South Channel, or other channels, into the
Downs; and from or by Orfordneu, and up the North
Channel, and up the rivers Thames and Medway;" which
shows the extent of the authority of the Trinity House
of Deptford, and Warden of the Cinque Ports, and that
the same, in its origin, was a mere usurpation, founded
on convenience, and the humane notion of preventing loss
of life and property, by unskilful hands conducting vessels
through the intricate channels of the English seas. This
preamble, moreover, is a copy from that of the first Act
which passed on the subject, and thus demonstrates, that
before and up to that time the rights of the pilots existed
by prescription only. The absence of any statute regulat-
ing pilots in general, and the circumstance that even their
prescriptive rights attach only to particular ports, would
almost lead us to conclude that little public advantage is to
be gained by this institution; for, if the employment of pi-
lots is necessary to conduct ships and vessels into and out
of the riven Thames and :Medway, and along the English
channels, it should seem equally necessary that all the
ports of Devonshire and Cornwall, as also those of Hamp-
shire, and those of the more eastern and northern parts
of the island of Great Britain, should have pilots attached
to them ; for the access to them is no less intricate and
dangerous than that to the mouths of the Thames and
Medway, to which, and the ports connected with or near
adjoining them, it would seem that the rights of the pilots
of the Trinity House of Deptford and the Cinque Ports are
confined.

Independently too of the limited extent of the rights of
the pilots, there are many vessels which are not liable to
take pilots on board. Such as all colliers, also ships
tradinF to Norway, the Cattegat, or the Baltic, or round
the North Cape into the White Sea; also all constant
traders inwards' from the ports between Boulogne and the
Baltic, on condition that they be registered, and come up
by the North Channel ; also Irish vessels navigating the
Thames and Medway ; all coasters, and also stone-laden
vessels from Guernsey, Jersey, &c. ; and generally all
British vessels under 60 tons burthen, and all vessels
within the limits of their port, not under special regula-
tions by private Act or Charter; and the master or mate of
any ship of which he is owner or part owner, who resides
at Dover, Deal, or the Isle of Thanet, may also pilot his
own ship up or down the Thames and Medway, or into or
out of any port or place within the jurisdiction of the
Cinque Ports.
The pilots belonging to the Trinity-house of Deptford
act under a licence granted by the Corporation of thtt
Trinity-house, and those of the Cinque Ports under a
licence granted by the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
and Constable of Dover Castle, and after examination
into the ability and knowledge of the candidate to perform
the office to which he aspires. Without meaning to impute
any charge of negligence or ignorance to either of these
bodies, we still must express a wish that the examination was
somewhat severer, and the necessary portion of nautical
skill a little higher rated than at present ; for it not only
very frequently happens that the commanders of ships
(and especially those in the service of the East India Com-
pany) resign the conduct of their vessels into hands who
are not half as well qualified to steer them through the
mazes of the river or the intricacies of the channel as
themselves; but also, that ships have been, by the igno-
• A question has arisen at one of the police-offices, whether this
word is used in the Act as a word of limitation, or a word of de-
scription. In the first sense the ..xception is only operative when
the vessel is proceeding inwards ; in the second and common sense of
acceptation ft would cover both inward and outward voyaces. The
first, however, is held by the Attorney-Gentral and the Police-
office in question.—Sen.

ranee of the licensed pilot, placed in such critical aittilld
Lions, that nothing but the instant application of that
commander's nautical skill has saved them from *reek
or being stranded. As things now stand, commanders can
place no confidence in the pilot; and so far from being
assistants, they become only the means by which many
dangers are risked, which, had the pilots been absent,
would not have been incurred. The establishment of a
system of pilotage is undoubtedly useful, if the pilot could
be wholly and entirely depended upon ; but we appeal to
the commanders of any vessels (and especially those of the
Ea.,t India Company), whether they do place that implicit
confidence in the skill and knowledge of the pilot which
leaves them without apprehension, that, if left to the pilot
alone, the vessel would reach her destination without soloe
accident. We should therefore desire a greater degree of
vigilance on the part of those whose duty it is to licence
the Trinity House and Cinque Port Pilots, and moreover
think it not unreasonable to beg them to require a greater
knowledge in the art of navigation, and generally a larger
portion of nautical skill, than is now commonly found ict
an average pilot of the above establishments.

CURIOUS DOCUMENT.
( From the Anttozgliem Herald, Sept. ILI
A gentleman of this town has been kind enough to
favour us with a sight of a curious document. It appears
that, in the year 17 15, when the peace and happiness of
this country were menaced by the intrigues of the exiled
family of the Stuarts, and when an army of Highlanders,
assisted by a hotly of French troops, and led by the grand-
son of the unfortunate and ill-advised James, had pene-
trated into the kingdom, and were on their march towards
the metropolis, the town of Nottingham was one of the
first to show its loyalty and attachment to the reigning
family. An offer was accordingly made to Government to
raise a body of men to oppose the further progress of the
rebels ; and the document to which we have alluded, and of
which a copy will be found below, was a commission
granted by his Majesty George 11. to the then Mayor of
Nottingham, authorising his subjects of this town to take
up arms anti form associations for the purpose therein ex-
pressed, and the Mayor to grant commissions, and exercise
such troops. The document bears the sign manual of the
Hine, and of the then Duke of Newcastle, and is as follows :
" GEORGE R.—George the Second, by the grace of God, King
of Great Britain, France. and Ireland. Defender of the Faith, &c.
To our trusty and well-beloved Henry Butler, Etq.. Mayor of our
town of Notlinzham, greeting. Whereas several of our loyal sub-
jects, in our town of Nottingham, have testified unto us their
earnest desire, at this time of common danger, when a rebellion is
a:tually begun within this our kingdom, in favour of a Popish Pre-
tender, to enter into associations for taking up arms foe the common
defence, and have desired our Royal approbation and authority for
their so doing ; we, therefore, having a just sense of so commend-
able a zeal, arid being desirous to encourage this seasonable instance
of their loyalty to us, and their concern fur the religion and liberties
of their courtry, have thought lit hereby to give you power and
authority, and we do hereby authorize and empower you to signify
'o our well-affected subjects, our Royal approbation of the said de.
sign, and to form into troops or companies such persons as shall be
willing to associate themselves for the purpose aforesaid, in our
torn of Nottingham, and to grant Commissions in our name to
such of them as you shall think proper to exercise and command ;
and for your executing the power and authority hereby given and
granted to you, this shall be a sufficient warrant.
" Given at our Court at Kensington, the 29th day of September,
1745, in the 19th year of our reign.
(By his Majesty's command.)
" HOLIES NEWCASTLE.
" Henry Butler, Esq. Mayor of Nottingham."

GIPSIEL—On Sunday last several of the gipsy tribe,
with their moveable furniture and donkeys, were escorted
to Lewes by the constable of Ninfleld, and brought before
a Magistrate, where they were examined and committed
to the Lewes House of Correction, to take their trial at the
Quarter Sessions. It appeared that on Sunday, about
noon, sonte hop-binn sacking was missing from Ninfield ;
the owners immediately made Inquiry, and had nearly
given:up their search, when the track of donkeys was dis-
covered, which they traced for about ten miles, not run-
ning into the turnpike once, but leading to Lewes. The
track terminated near Horsebridge, at the turnpike gate :
the keeper informed them that a horde of gipsies had
passed some few hours prior, they pushed on to Ringmer,
where they overtook the travelling fraternity, and searched
their luggage, when the sacking was discovered and re-
cognised by ie owners. Several women were with them,
who were not committed, but moved off with the donkies.
An awful occurrence took place at Buxton on Tuesday.
Mrs. Locke, wife of Mr. Locke, who attends the wells an-
nually from London as ehampooer, arrived on the Monday,
and appeared in good health. On Tuesday morning she
went from her lodgings, and casually met a friend—she
shook hands with her, and in the act of doing so dropped
down, and immediately expired.
A young man, named Jean Verjus. was lately tried at
Melun for the murder of hie wife. The ferocious counte-
nance and apparent indifference of this individual u to the
result of the trial were remarked by all those who were
present. It appeared in evidence that this young man,
who is a baker by trade, was married a short time since to
a female only seventeen years of age. The match took
place contrary to the wish of her friends, and it has
since been discovered (however extraordinary the circum-
stance may be deemed) that she was led to form this
union from no other motive than that of fear. He had
threatened to murder her unless she consented to marry
him. Intimidated by these menaces, and knowing the vio-
lent disposition of the man, instead of communicating her
apprehensions to her relatives, she remained silent, and even
gave them considerable displeasure by her final determina-
tion to become his wife. She foolishly imagined that the via.
lence of his temper would subside after a time ; but, as might
naturally have been anticipated, no sooner were his desires
sated, but he ill treated her under the most trifling pretences.
A respectable butcher, residing within a few yards of her
house, frequently heard her cnes, and was sometimes pre-
sent at shameful and cruel behaviour of the villain. On
one occasion he interfered with sonic warmth, being indig.
mint at the unmanly conduct of the baker, upon whom he
threatened to inflict corporal punishment, if he attempted a
second time to beat his wife. The butcher was a power..
ful and courageous man, and there can be no doubt that he
would have kept good his word had he again witnessed the
ferocity of the brutish husband; the latter fearing that the
screams of his unfortunate wife would be heard were he to
best her in his house, took the cruel precaution of sending
her a short distance into the country, in order to accom-
plish his wicked purposes. He soon followed her, with the
intention, probably, of ill-treating her, but not to take
away her life ; and yet his cruelty towards the unfortunate
woman was such, that he could not easily suppose that she
would ever recover from the effects of his barbarous
usage. He took delight in stabbing her in the fleshy parts
of the body, with a thin sharp instrument, and more than
twenty wounds were inflicted on her person; on the heat
occasion, having stabbed her in the thigh, one of the knee
ries was separated, and the poor creature fell welteeing in
blood. The monster then exclaimed. "Go now to your
butcher; you are covered with blood, you will look like his
wife." The unfortunate female died in consequence of
the wounds she had received, but not until three months
after the arrest of her husband. He was sentenced to hard
labour for life.
We have much pleasure in announcing the publication,
by Hatcher& of a correct report of the speech delivered
by Mr. Huskiston, in the House of Commons, on the 14th
of last May, when the Right Hon. Gentleman entered into
his luminous exposition of the system of our Navigation
Laws. Such a combination of extended research, of phi.
losophical argument, and of logical deduction, deserted to
be rescued from the perishable culumns of a Newspaper.
An Appendix is given, containing the several official ac.
counts referred to by Mr. Huakisson in the course of his
speech, either for purposes of illustration, or as the basis
of his conclusions.

LADY CLARKE'S PA RODIRK ON POPULAR SONGS...
COmiderable sensation has been created k die bluing World for
borne months past, by the annownsameat fee publication of
" Parodies on popular Bangs," by lady Clarke, with whoa
nary talents the public kayo tang boon familiar. They hart at
length made their appsasawee, sat the soli toseifested by the
fashionable pude ef settety bat bon Tolsia in tat fittl
musical treat while is thee ~el *au um* width it
composed and on by Abu Stamm. pesossee most.
dera le hammy; sas she ertesepsnat -of the ewers Ain esdeets
the greatest mikes she Waits and itweetsi=sis.jestly eds.
Mated and sesieses raspeasr. The above haw boos
ushered into the tooth seder the puttees,* of the Nutmegs
Charlevllle, to wheat they we dellested;67aber 14.1
_e!yshl per.
mission. The "Indust l'eselsolsor t h.
work is written with esesideeshis tut. mood sow iii—piedhciag
that whimsical and ludiatous elhet bustmied by the fait Maws&

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2.6. THE EDITOR -OP-.THE Bllll'lsll PRESS.
Sit,—l am neither the shore, now rev:diem. of public opinion.
Ile who is the slave respects not himself, and he who is regardless.
is unwarrantably indifferent to others. I have, therefore, ob-
vett neither with indifference on the nee hand, nor needlests anxiety
tin the other, the pro:testing.' of the public press, and of some
private individuals, with reference to myself, during the past
month.
To parry feelings. private pique, malice, envy, and other similar
sources of human action, I have attributed some of the proceedings
which hsve occurred ; mare-action in public opinion from an in-
ortlinate attachment to a complete and uneout ded abhorrence cf all
Joint Stock Companies, to a love of popularity, and a bendillg to
the feeling of the day, I alto assign a Onion of the proceed: r;
which have taken place; and, finally, to disappointed speculators,
unfortunate share-honkers, and bankrupt stock-jobbers, alike bank-
rum in fortune, in character, and in mind, 1 trace no inconsiderable
quantum of the odium which on me they have endeavoured to
east.
The conductors of the public press, destitute at this season of
maser; filling their daisy columns with the abstinlities or the
t °things of Hire reports, or the trash of calumnious letter-writers ;
have too easily, and I must add. most wickedly, lent themselves to
the gratuitous insertion of the most absurd and erroneous or the
111011 edifying and libellous reports. statements. and mkt temente,
which ingenuity, directed by malice, and the must unworthy
motives, could dictate or invent.
Nor lam this been all. The allegations, on one wale, have been
stuntously anti faithfully reported, but all explanations or contra-
dictions, on the other aide, have been suppressed. The libel has
beets received with mptart—inserted without delay—and dwelt
Upon without intermisaion.
New libels have succeeded to the former in rapid succession, and
the refutations of all have been almost entirely unnoticed. By this
method the country has been made to participate in the feelings of
the town. The editors of the provincial papers—sure copyists of
their respective London Alentors—have transcribed into their co-
lumns the same slanders, with notes of atitiiirmion ; and a few ad-
ditional units have magnified what was bad, even in the London
press, into the worst, and have converted tins into hundreds, and
'hundreds into thousands, with the greatest tacility.
If by these efforts it has been intended to ruin my character, the
object will not be accomplished ; if it ha. been designed to degrade
me in the opinion of my friends and those who know me best, the
objeet hais failed ; if the clamorous, the vindictive, the disappointed,
or the partially insane, helm designed either to supp-ess the truth,
to rob me of my happiness. my comfort, or my ease, they have not
succeeded—for I yet (mins, the rnnfislence of my friends, the af-
fection of all whose frieadship I desire ; and, above all, that peace
of mind resulting from an honest conviction of haring acted with
r •ctitude and honour. as a noon and a gentleman, which na
ss• faithful Reporter, or unprincipled Stock-jobber, can ever hope to
11y eonnestOon with Joint-Stock Companies was originally acci-
dental ; but in no 0.. e with which I have been connected have I
acted otherwise than as the most honourable of men, viz any
lemma honourable. English merchant, would approve. This ate:e-
ine it I am now determined to demonstrate to be true, since I shall
not commence one or two, but many prosecutions, a, well against the
uuthunt as against the promulgators of those inventions, both of
tact and deduction, which hare been of late so current. I will en-
denvour to teach the public press of this country, that private cha-
racter is held too sacred by the laws which tolerate that press, to
withhold fro is it their protection ; and will show, even through
mat tame press, which has so diligently and so wickedly libelled me,
that the licentiousness at the press must and will bring down upon
to conductors the punishment which should ever await the violation
of public decency and of public justice.
11'ith respect to the three Companies which hare been the subject
of attack. no real ground for censure or animadversion on me te-
tte'. It is the fashion now to indulge in the most severe strictures
on all Joint-Stock Companies ; and the public press, therefore,
more desirous of obtaining popularity than eliciting truth, in some
eases raise, and in all continue, the hue and cry. The public
press of the metropolis also enjoys the desirable privilege of daily
appearance. The libel, repeated often, is at length very generally
believed, whilst the refutation appearing but once, and, I regret to
add, in many instances not appearing at all, is either totally or
comparatively disregarded.
First. as to the Cornwall and Devonshire Mining Company.—
The real history of that Association is at once the most simple and
the most correct. I purchased, long before my connexion with the
Association, or before it was in any way established, certain mines
in Cornwall, for certain sums, and afterwards that Association pur-
chased those mines of me at such sums as the Directors and Share-
holder. thought fair and reasonable—in which they acquiesced for
nearly eighteen months--which they never objected to until money
becan.e scarce, and calls on the shares were made ; or, in plain
word., until it was evinced that the Company was no bubble, but
wait established for the bona fide purpose of working the mines pur-
chas d, Even the Scripholders have to cause of complaint, for
non e paid one farthing towards the capital of the Company until
the whole prospects of nearly thirty imps was first printed anti
mrcnlsted, and no fact or circumstance connected with the concern
has ever been made a matter of 'tierces,.
How worse than absurd is it to say, that because 1 sold the mines
at n greaser sum than 1 purchased them fur, that it is fraudulent. If
it he fraudulent, it is the fraud of every teatis transactions in life.
Does the merchant Act fraudulently who purchnses his articles of
barter for a less sum than he sells them at ? Does the loan con.
tractor set fraudulently, who contracts for a loan at 70, and Sills it
to others at ? Dom the stock-jobber act fraudulently who pur-
cliaart2o,ollo consuls at 7U, and sells them at lift ? I have done no
jnore than this: nor so much, for when I wild the mines, I in-
formed the purchasers what I had given for them, and the profits
I should make ; and mare than this, I submitted to them all the
moment, documents, and information, which I myself possessed.
The mines were so bitight—have been for fifteen months worried—
inter yielded large quantities of ore—and one of them alone at a
future day, may, in the opinion of one of the oldest and best miners,
lc.: worth all the money agreed to be pail for the whole of the mines.
But who finds fault with the purchase? The chief wenn is a Wm.
Clark, of whom, to ray any thing that is true, would be a legal
hoel, since truth is a libel—who is no shareholder—who has never
pai I any money towards the capital of the aompany—who actually
borrowed some scrip which is forfeited and of no avail. to appear
to qualify himself to attend the meeting ; but woes considoa that
lie is fully justified in his interference lay his character of being
amiserly a merchant's elm k, and now a stock-brolter and phase-
tlitopist ! !
% ;tether a jury will consider lilt interfetence thus sufliciently
accounted for I will not decide, but Hum seal in the months of
November or December.
Second, as to the Welsh Iron and Coal Alining Company.—
Jo this case I purchased the mines for the Company ; and sold
th.:m of course at the price which I paid for them, and no fault
1. Ames& nor can be found, with the purchase. But then it
is said my bill was loge, and nay charges exorbitant ! No
such thie. An attempt at once malicious d ignorant has
been made to analyze my charge., and to proanmo some in a
hutictuos little ;--but the truth and the whole troth are net
always the same ; and I have no hesitation in saying that the
retended amuse published is not the real account of my
mirages. How absurd would it be thought if • builder were
rejsrehentled because, for erecting a house he should charge ten
ti otimett pounds, without paying any attention to the explanation
o: the on charge which the various item.' of his bill or his contract
would ',imply! And how ridiculous would it be in my one to
allege, that one thousand pounds for paperhanging watt enormous
end unfair, without attending to the stature, quality, and quantity
ofthe paper consumed!.
No. the attempt to presert what is termed an Abstract of m
nhich is wholly free front even the 'mph:onion which the bill
Itself SUrdimsis utigenernus and ungentlemanly. Nor will the
attentpt deceive those who reason and reflect; but themajority of
r. en know not how to season, and reflection is to them trouble-
some.
Am to the other charges respecting the Welsh Iron Company, as
t.ar as 1 sin concerned, I have already, in all the ',melon papers,
reeled them, either at• inventions or as gross exagg !rations.
Third, as to the late Norfolk, &c. Railway Company—Thu
observations impecting my connexion withu this Company are even
mere absurd than all the rest. In the case of the Welch Inn. Com-
pony. my bill is found fault with as large, but in the late Neilson:,
alto. Company., fault is found that there is no tell. end that the Di-
reeler' and Shareholders are largely in debt to me. Ilere a clerk
out of place, violating the confidence reposed in him by his (touter
eniployers, is the accuser; and those who attended the rneetiegs
erat nearly all not only not holders ef scrip then, but never bad
been ; anti like poor Mr. Choir, attended the Meetings for want of
better occupation. By this concern I ant confessedly the Inner—but
because the times are butt, no business is stirring, and money ameng
the stock-jobbeill is Nearer, such a person as George Sheldrick as
allowed anonymously to call a meeting of an Association long since
without existence.
To these and other lats public modes of attack I now,
However, submitted ton long. f have said public opinion will
• Waage. and my reltitatinas will in their turn be heard. To myself,
however, and others, I owe more than this anti I therefore di,
smelly state, that not merely by civil anion but by indictments
and criminal infunnetions, I shall now proceed calmly but firmly !
to punish the vile slanderer', anti shall be awed by no paper. how-
ever great PS cirrolnOen. or well or ill deserved its intim-nee sith
the unthinking portion of the public. For' different libels and
different slanders, as well oral as written, aid as well pent as fu-
gue. I shall adopt different proceedings ; and whilst I will on the
one hand supply to others all the opportunities to which they tray
lee (retitled, to prove tint, allegations, set tin the other I will
:waste any proprietor of a newcomer for civil damages, who has
ro property to lose, as he has no reptemion to maintain, and who
would consider impessonment as no punishment, ninceexintence is to
/inn a Sufficient bleasisz.
I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
New Illroad.strect, Few. 5. 1826. Joint %%rms., jun.

POIRONING ni Su t.rituitto Acto.-.-A scene of con.;
side, able confusion took plate In Bridge-street, Southwark,
fin Tucsdar evening, in consequence of a bhicksmith hay.
ing taken a mouthful of sulphuric arid for vinegar: hirtunately
for the descendant of the tire-proof god, a very minute ',whin, if
any. of ilia destructive liquid passed into Oh. stomach. No time
was lost before he IClit: taken to Mr. Lee, the surgeon. in the same
street, but by the time he got there his tongue became too large tor
his mouth, and hung over his lip in a frightful manner. The'
miselta on one side of his face were partially convulsed, the pulse
at the wrist wee scarcely perceptible ; in short, he presented a most
cadaverous aspect, accompanied by the most piteous groans. The
sargeon filled his mouth with some liquid, and at short intervals
replenished it, which seemed to give him immedire relief, and in e
lbw time he was ambled to walk home with Ws friends.