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yr,','Sr.flliSTEß SCHOOL THMITRIC.ILS.
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sonken on rueslty night. The Epdogue
we win gie.• to-morrow.
pßoto3us TN ANDRIANI.
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M. itaTtaLL.
"nvere—Orator pr ,c 18) in Pruscatnium
Pro rum., veteri rot salatatum, pries
Qualm proferantur, iota' guy parata taunt.
Stith. q.,:e !pubis h74ie agenda est fabuht,
Et qua !, uatu, saris—'vool quicquam novi att.
Ni rairum relu•:, h. to .qotarrt in exterat
Largest tucmur traditam a majoributo
Vici,au.l; csrtis ;limas, et cultu par.,
Da amt Tcrcnti quattv.r eamaci..o,
Jam forte aitio I (rue hoc 'tutus dui.,
Q 'viva. quad sit Mil tli VU'Llfll,
Vs. el clelectum fahulara•t.
An:lst.: nimium continto. finitoo. ;
lit, tither*. a uscuttot pauca que yespanleast,
Ut ituaprti morurnqi ttostinr.i.a
iioc a.leo palmurn inteUige—aihil minus
P,oilcr.itutn ibt notait, Tutu facers histrioniam
Nee nester, ut nos turbo noiret,n, labor ;
fed apyaratum °miters et turauitum. et cx:era
Q. eulgn fiant intheratris puboci.,
Alan& nowt prwerweesso ingetai;

MCC Alai to Tiliettltil stun torta m.
At iste tandem mortals ho, um temp •runs.
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MiC etentm state vas haboo.nihd hodie
Popellue sins carat in re eeenie:i,
Ac es (tourism; dramatis. swat abaoua—

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Quid ergo minim est si qui maw. ratia
Itatiojudicio plebis obsequi student.
quoSsinnis comminiscantur 110Vti.
II splasagelis asagarcinaut insptiis.
einem histsiosem, ct spectra mutt paints
Denique Slialtspeari muscular; intintibus
Salbutientibus cothumos induant ;
Ab i 4.1. ratio nears prevails diseremit.
Unum id nasoti scilicet no.iis taut,.
Ut sit Terentiana puts orate,
I.:lmmunises cum decant ge-tibus.
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Quotient vitiates •mtdati dismmus,
quint vos Tetentl sapitu eleganttant.
Seim women., et lepers, Ammo ;
Non talet, credo, fabuktura quatuat
QUArtillt mantis sat *cis, vet unlearn
Autism, geese 011111011. owniago Comely.—
None Andric, Tog aro, site ante*.
racing Astierso math us facilitate.
Studiusisqese nostrum vaster sdjutst favor.
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•MR. L UDite4 AL

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A Meeting of the Sobseribets to the Philanthropic
Alnuity Society, proposed. ie Mr. Ludlam. of
Weliege:einem. Marysla-honlie. took place at the
Lsrokm Tavern, yesterday evening. Mr. Ludlam
sedered a dinner for himself. after the Meeting was
over, is one of the parloors,which looks intollishops-
gate-street. Mr. Peaanck, one of the proprietors. as
is engtornerl, took its the first dish, and remaining
a:ter the waiters had left the room, Mt L. in a few
militates produced two large horse pistols, and
swore he would blow Mr. Peacock's brains out. if
he attempted to leave the room. Ina short time,
one of the waiters gemmed, when he found Mr. L.
abusing his master, and threaten'ng to shoot hint ;
Mr. L. attacked the waiter with very violent
swage. and said he would shoot him also, and as he
was leaving the room, snapped a pistol at him,
which, previdentially, did net go off. fhe
waiter informed Mr. Farley. another of the
proprietors, of the perilous situation of Mr. Pea-
cock.. and what had happened. At this moment
tie Lord Mayor entered the Tavern ; Mr. Farley
communicated the circumstance to his Lordship,
who immoliately sent for Mr. Nalder, one of the
City Marshals.
While the Messenger was gone, Mr. Peacock
task an opportocity to rush out of the room; but.
as he was leaving it, Mr. Ludlam diSe2yeti
a pistol at hint. and immediately jumped ou.
of the window. and into nit carriage, which was
waiting ; be elan the door of the carriage with
such force as to break the glass The pistol that
was discharged at Mr Peacock proved to be loaded
with several balls. They were sound lodged a little
above the door of the rem. The pistol that was
atternosed to be discharged at the waiter was found
rte ir Mr. L.a chair. and proved to be loaded With
three bullets.
Mr. Noble. clerk to Mr. Ludlam, was also in
the room et the London Tavern, being invite to
dine with him. When the waiter entered the room.
the second time, he caned a message, from Mr.
Ludlam's primer' which he delivered in a low tone
to Mr. Noble. Mr. Ludlam expressed great in-
dignation at 'the impudence of the waiter, in
daring to whisper to hit dell, in his presence ;
and began to Ring the plates and dishes at him.Mo‘t r.f these missiles, however, doh not reach their
destination, but canoe in con.act with the walls, sod
destroyed several valuable paintings—among others,
a portrait of Mr. Welsh, which was cut so several
places, by Ole fragments of a soup-dish. Mr. Pea-
cock appears to have offended, by attempt-rig to
quit the room without asking leave. hit. Ludlam
punished him for his insolence, as nurses some-
times ds naughty children, by ordenng him to
stand in the corner, with his hands hehind his backs
lb-evening every moment to shoot him if he dared
in change his position. As an aggravation of his
punishment, he occasionally shrew boats full of
melted butter and gravy at bias, made him drink
fool or five lasses of Madeira, by way of penance.
aid afterwards irrgated his clothes with the re-
mainder of tier bottle. A bottle of claret and ano-
ther of port, which also stood upon the table,
abated the same fate. The Lcrd Mayor, as soon
as Iris Lord•hip was duly apprized of ohs fad,
*Mei a walla, t for his aloproitemion, and We
of Bets set out to caecux it. . •

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THE COURT.
Yesterday, abnnt twefv., o'clock, Their MAJES-
TIES and the PRINCESSES. attended by Lady ELY,
arrived in town, in their travelling carriages, from
Wiadsor, at th, Quetta's Palace.
At two o'clock, His MAJESTY held • private
I.,rer, which was attended by .it • • •
r.,e Archbishop n( Canterbury.
The Lord Chancellor.
The Fast 1.0141 of the Treasury.
The Secreunes of State fur the Huse anill Fors;gn Depart-
Tito First Lord of ths Admiralty.

The Master Generei of the Ordnance.
1 he Judge Advocate.
The Lout Steward of the Household.
Count MuJajov Frobarg.
htucluta of Saibbury.
Pitzgera:d, Heathfiehl. Hodley, and Ards*.
Sir H B Neale.

G •ueral Huge.
The foitowing had the honour of being presented
to His tvIAJE,T

Count Mon.juy F.onerg, Chamberlain to the late Dike of
Rroiliwicii, by Vivcoont Novick; when the Count delivered
to II s hla.,estv the rrrapua of the Order of the Gaiter wo,n
by the lot Doke,
Lord lies,lley, on coming to his title, by the Maiquis of
Sa:ishurv.
Lord Robert Fitzgerald, by Viscount Hetrick, upon his re-
turn from h:s Embmy at Lisbon.
General Hope, upon hi being appointed to the Command
of the yth Royal West India Regiment.
His MAJESTY gave audiences to Lord; Gars-
'lt La and NovricK.
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Her Maieary and tia• Patac ants laosourad Lady
CNARLDTTS FINCH with a visit, soon after two
o'clock, at her house in St. James's Palace, and
afterwards went to dine with the Duke of CAM•
sal nose, at his apartments in the Palace.
At five o'clock the Royal. FAMILY set off no
their return to Windsor, escorted by a party of light
horse.
His MAjssr• is expefted in town again on Mon.
day. when it is supposed the addresses of the two
Houses of Parliament will be presented to him.

OXFORD. Dec. 13.
Weinesday last, the Rev. Stephen Preston, of
Lincoln College; Mr. Thomas Hawkeshead, of
Brasenose College ; the Rev. Henry Watts Wilkin-
son, of Worcester College; the Rev. George Street,
of St. bon's College; and the Rev. Win. Bayly,
el New College, B. A. were admitted Masters of
Ans.
M-ssrs Francis Bickley Astley, awl James Vo..
lent Voshen, of Oriel Colter ; Enoch H Warriner,
of Lincoln College; Thomas Wood Simpson, of
Worcester College ; and John Cox Russell, of
' Hertford College ; were admitted Bachelors of
Arts.
Yesterday, Mr. J. K.-ble was admitted Scholar
of Corpus Christi College.
On Friday, the Eleßion for Procurators took place
at Hereford Cathedral; tile Chapter met in tue
rColleetate Library. and unanimously eleßed the
Rev. J. Napleton, D. D. to represent them. Af er
Divine Service, the beneficed Clergy assembled in the
Consistory Court, and the Rev. H. Morgan, D D.
having opened the Meeting, with an elegant address,
stated, that the Lord Bishop recommended as
proper persons to represent the Diocese, the Rev.
G. 1) Yates. L. L. D. and the Rev. G. Gees.
D. U. oboes the Elellors instantly honoured with
ri heir approbation, and they were accordingly
cltesen.
LEWES, Dec. 15.

• One night last week, a brace of horse pistols,
'loaded. •and two pair of stockings, were dug up in
a plantation, behind the house of John Boys, Esq.
at Ashcomb, where, it is supposed, they had been
ouried by some soldier, at the period of his deser-
tion from our barracks. The stock of each pistol
is marked with the figure 3.
The heavy and almost constant rains that fell
during the last few days, produced, yesterday, in
our Levels. higher Bonds, and at the Bridge, a
greater swell of water, than had been remembered
tor many years before. The Cliff cellars were in-
undated, and the Bear Inn, and Sir Henry Black-
man's house, adjoining the river, of the east and
west sides, were nearly surrounded by the water.
To secure timber And other property, which the
rapid rise of the flood had fleeted from their situa-
tions, it became necessary, during a part of the
tlay, to employ a number of men in boats ; among
these were four paper-makers. wbo, haying embark-
ed in a little punt from their mill, enluckily upset
it, in Mailing-brooks, and had to struggle with the
difficulties attendant on six feet water, a considera-
ble distance from any shore; under which, however,
they managed to sustain themselves, some by swim-
ming, and others by seizing hold of their capsized
punt, until some persons,•who witnessed the accident,
put off in boats to their assistance, and by whose
exertions, they were all fortunately preserved, and
safely landed at the tan-yard belonging to Mr.
Chatfield. Neither cattle nor sheep were exposed
to danger in these Levels, having been all driven
from their pastures, by the timely precaution of
toeir owners.
Last Thursday, as the young Gentlemen of Mr.
Button's school were taking their walk on Cliff-hill,
a portion of the turf that appeared to have been
newlybroken up. nigh to a small inclosum of trees,
called Spence's Folly, attracted their notice, and to
gratify their curiosity, they removed the sod, when
they tound concealed under it a sack, containing
woman's apparel, by which their curiosity was so
much increased. that they ponied their search to
the Folly, and there discovered a broken caravan-
trunk. from which they had no doubt, the contents
of the sack had been taken. ;Phis proved to be the
fae. for on inquiry being afterwards made, it ap-
peared that the articles were the property of a mi-
litia serjeant's wife, who had travelled in a carrier's
wagaon from tHailsham, and on her arrival at the
Darter Arms, not choosing to cucumber herself
with the trunk, delivered it to the care of the land-
lord, telling him at the same time, that she would
get a grenauier to call for it ; which being spoken in
• the hearing of a soisliev that was carnally standing
►y, he quickly afterwards personated the grenadier
whom Cie woman was toilette commissioned, and
demanded the trunk of the landlord, in his own
name. and:obtained it ; which he had ac sooner
done. than he marched off to the Hill, and dis-
posed of it as above stated. We her he has situ,
deserted. •