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CULFORD H4LL FESTIVITIES.

Culford Hall, in Suffolk, the reat of Marquis
Cornwallis, was on Thursday last the scene of
splendid festivities, to celebrate the coming of age
and marriage of Lady Jane Neville, his Lordship's
eldest daughter. On that in onion all the poor of
the villages of Culfurd, Timaortli, %Von! well, Siow,
and Ingham (upwards of 700 in were re-
galed in the park with a dinner, consisting of good
old English tore, roast beef and plumn pudding..
About twelve o'clock, the villagers advanced in the
most regular order, by sound of bugle, with colours
flyiug,to their respective places for dinner, in booths
very judiciously arranged in a quadrangle, iii front
of which each bodyjplaced their standards on arrival.
The children of the school, established and sup-
ported by the 51archioness, went in procession, with
banners flying, to a tent in the centre, bring con-
ducted by her Ladyship, and were entertained in a
similar manner. At one o'clock the Marquis and
Iklarchiottess, with a large party, among whom were
the Duke of Norfolk, Lord and Lady Ilrilybrooke,
Earl and Countess of Surrey. the lion. H. and
Lady Jane Neville, nod many of the Gentry and
Clergy of the neighbourhood, as well as the truan-
try of the Noble Lord, sat 4111W11 to an elegant
cold collation ; and the following toasts were after-
wards drunk :

The King—Ginl Mena " God Nave the King."
The Prince Regent and Royal Family.—" Role fhitannia."
Mr. Neville and Lady Jane Neville—Proveriiy to the
Mouse of Braylivuolm.—" TIN> Houey-Moon."
The Marquis Cornwallis—Prosperity to the Goose of
Colfool.—" When good King Arthur ruled the Laud."

The !Marano' nessCornwallis—Prusperity to the House of
Gordon --" Lewis Gordan."

The young Ladies of the House of Confining, and may
they all in dae time be as happily situated as Lady Jaue.—
" La Belle Catherine."

Old England, Old Titres, and Old Friends.—" Should
sold acquaintance he forgot."

The respectable strangers who had witnessed the
attractive sight were then invited to share the re-
pot, out of the profusion which covered the board.
Rustic sports in great variety soon lifter began,
which, with numerous groupes of merry dancers,
continued to enliven the scene till day-light was no
more: when the sound of the bugle once more in-
vited attention, and six hearty cheers were echoed
around the Pa►k, after which each happy guest
prepared to retire home. The number of persons
present may be fairly computed at 4,000. The
whole was admirably conducted.

A letter to the hermit Reforniers of Scotland by a
Renfrewshire Freeholder, has been read with lively
Interest by the people of Scotland ; and the reason-
ing has not failed to give them just notions of the
value of our mixed Government. lo stating that
this happy country holds out to talents and enter-
prise, the highest rewards that fortune, rank, ere-
ploymeot, and title can confer, he gives the folios-
ing illustration

'• When, in our own star, we beheld the mitre, the mace,
the coronet, encircling the head of the peasant, the collier,
and the WW11.11...4111111 we deny that humours nre open to all?
When a callus-aphiner's son hail the administrst of tine of

a common soldier had the management

of doe most important department of our army Si Water-
loo—when the master of a coal-lugger cumnianded the fleet
which subdued the unconquered pirate--und All obscure
lawyer governed this land, and guided the whole empire.
while his equally rumble countryman presided over the whole
military establishment; is it possible that any shine desira-
ble or attaiaablo Amok! be folioed the resell of the humblest
individual of the land? Tim Talmo* wh,rli ennobled •
StlrMollll6ll &deli,' which eleyated • tlostaitace--tbe
sehievemesits which immortalised a Ctianiinit.t. —the pro-
lrimism "kb sublimed • CAVENDIIIIII, are leisures en our
alrectino, our admiratiow, and our gratitude, rhick thy con.
owl yet be justly deprived of, mod ors an Uwe IS to our poorer
altsto ; sad the same indosoy, prittles•re, and ability,
which has made property beton.. am, make it now. .These
'Nicola' qualities would remake it sgoiacit all the lond in the
kingdom was divided miaow, the Moly dilreiestee in as Climate
woold,beo that it would hold of a atilitoryi &epos, lammed of
a limited soossek."
Oa liioaday Died Loot tharrert porch of.Coomboo.
poll Chorch orairsompletilly strippod of oil obi hod,
egraissein or,oorp!at hoolitred wart.

ROYAL VISIT TO TNETFORD SPA.
On Thursday afternoisii, oboist three o'clock.
the bells of St. Peter's announced the approach of
the Duke ofGloucester, accomanied by the piece
of Grafton (the Noble Recorder). die Earl and
Countess of Easton, Lord Charles Fitzroy and Rid-
ley Colborne, E•tirs. (the Members for the Bo-
rootlet), Unties Lairra and Isabella Fitzroy, Lady
Shelley, Colonel and Lady Pierrepoint. Sir Archi-
bald Murray. &c. The party having arrived at
the Touts Hall, were received by the Mayor mad
Coroner. His Royal Ilighnese was then introduced
to the Corporation, and on the solicitation of the
Mayor, graciously accepted the freedom of the Bo-
rough, which was immediately voted, and the fol-
lowing Address read by the Deputy Recorder
We the Mayor, Recorder, Enrollees, and Commonalty
of the Borough of Thetford, beg leave is address your
Royal Highness on your arrival within ski* aeleind Borough.
We cannot omit an opportunity of testifying owe loyal at-
tachment to any part of the family of our reveled sad he.
lured Sovereign, and we embrace it in the pinion of your
"loyal Highness with unbounded satisfaction. Our maces.
loss in this Borough enjoyed many opportenities of impress-
ing Ih.ir allegiance to their Suvereigus is pennon, when the
town had the honour to be occasionally a Royal mildewy:
mid while we follow their precedent at this remote period of
time, we Indulge the hope that your Royal Higkoess will sie-
rept thi• bumble Address, and allow es to enure your
Royal Highness, that the distinction of your illustrious
descent does not more endear your .presence to as than the
knowledge we possess of year many eaminest public sod
private virtues.

The Deputy Recorder then presented the Duke
with the docket of freedom, and his Royal High-
ness was graciously pleased to return the following
anywer:--

" Mr. Mayor, and Gentler's—l feel asyeelf extreasely
haltered by the mann►r in which I have been received, sad
by those exprrimions of firm attachmeat to ay family sad
myself which your Atitlrrits contains. I accept from ibis
Co. potation the hoomir of the freedom of the Borough most
cordially, and shall ever have the most lively interest awl
retard for the welfare of the very loyal aid sexiest tows of
Thetford."

The lineal Duke was then conducted to the As-
sembly Room, where an elegant cold collation was
prepared. at a very short notice, by the Mayor, con-
siAting of game, roilectionary, pines, &c. &c. of
which the distinguished party, with the Corporation
sod several Gentlemen of the town partook, his
Royal Highness conversing most affably with all
around him. His Royal Highness then signified
his wish to visit the Spa, and having mounted his
horse, proceeded to the spring, with an immense
retinue, fiequently cheering him on his way. Hay-
ing inspected the pump-room and baths, which are
now in great progress, he went down to the Spring-
head, nod expressed himself moat pleased with the
beauties of its sitnation.

The Mayor having then prevented his Royal
Highness with Amtrak's Guide to the Spa, he ex-
pressed his desire to see the town, and haring been
conducted through the principal streets by the
Mayor and Corporation, about half-past five o'clock
crossed the bridge, where his travelling chariot was
in waitaig, took leave of those gentlemen whoshsd
attended him in the most courteous and conde-
scending manner, and expressing himself mach
pleased with his visit to Thetford, departed for
‘Veeting Hall, the seat of Colonel Dixon. The
amiable and condescending manners of his Royal
Highness by this short visit, are indelibly impressed
upon the minds of the inhabitants of Thetford.

NEW PALACE for the PRINCE REGENT.

ft was lately stated in THE BRITISH PRESS, to he
the intention of the Prince Regent to abandon Carl-
too House, and build a new Palace for his resi-
dence on the site of I;uckingl►am House, St. James's
Park, also to pull down St. James's Palace, and
appropriate the %round to the erection of squires
or streets for private persons. The plan ap-
proved of is a palace with three fronts; the
grand one will be a most magnificent object, and
will have in perspective the long avgnue of trees
and the canal in St. James's Parl4 •the second
front will command the Green Park, sod the
third have a view of the Surrey bills; fur it is
proposed to give the siew Palace sufficient alti-
tude to overlook Pimlico. Thus the pile will have
East, North-west, and South-west aspects. The
two latter will be adorned with a noble terrace, in
imitation of the one at Windsor Castle. To com-
plete this superb structure seven millions sterling
see said to be requisite ; but as the Prince Regent
is reluctant to apply to Parliament, his Royal
Highness has given directions for the sale of the
fallowing 'properly belonging to the Crown, namely.
—First, the ground on which St. Junta's Palace
stin...—Second, the whale of the King's Mews.—
Third, "Warwick House and its appurtenances.
It is calculated that about seven hundred thousand
pounds, in addition, will complete the whole; but
this appears to be greatly under the mark.
Carlton House goes to the Duke of York for a
valuable consideration.

The Triumphal Arch is still talked of ; it will
be the grind entrance into London from the new
Pal ice. and the bottom of St. James's-street is
still thought of.

Flazaari and Co.'a Sale, continue to increase
daily, which prove the preference given to their
Old Establishment, and the popularity of the present wait-
ed Schemes, containing Eight Tartoy Thousands. NEYT
TUESDAY the Two First drawn Priam will be entitled to
20,0061. each (Money and Consuls), Old it will be recollected
HAZARD and Cu. wild all the Ant drawn Capital Prima is
a former Lottery. The whole of the 5,006 Terkel* Ea ea
Sale will be drawn NEXT_TUESDAY, and from paNdlit
appearances there will nut be sufficient to meet the
demand. HAZARDi and Cu. resperfully solicit a cos
once of that patronage they have experienced for 100
at their Office Royal Exelsasge-gate; their other
26, Coruhill; :lad 324, Oxford-atreet, corner assail.
street. .; • .1*

One day last week two men were confined iss4lN
cage et Woolwich, for committing depredetioceis
the amiss!. Shortly after two artillery men wer*
placed in the same situation, upon some trifling
charge. Thus immured in durance vile, the four
held a council, to discover the best means towel's+,
when it was decided to spring a mine : accordingly',
the artillery men searched for ammunition, poll
hiring found a quantity •of gunpowder, they
hammed the lock of -the cage full, laid • train, and
by atiiking the back of • knife with a stone, they
communicated a BOA they'ewder, first ee*isr..
ing-thejr rismel sefety.bY lying flat Uii the tali;
the rejolauen fosk * place. si.ia Ike tick lei& iesit its
jiseies. Tilistienie Wen tit; nisi
• • - • • • •. • • • 1.0 -
as Imre • gage beg beyreC
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L4W INTELLIGENCE.

COMT OF CHANCERY, Wzaressor, Nomura 3.

Theit,OlLD CHAVVILLOS MI, lids day .t Lin-
coln's un Hall. span bankrupt causes. of nu lute.
reat to any but the parties.
ft is, we understand, his Lordship's intention to
receive the Judges and Law (Meer. on the first day
of Term (Saturday next), at Lincoln's-lust Hall,
instead of at his own house, on account or the dis-
tance. his Lordship having removed from Bedford-
mime to liamilton-place,
His Lordship will hold the second seal to-
morrow.

COURT OA KING'S BENCH, SeiutAwes-ls, HALE,
WgDNILIDAY, NOVIIIIIIIIIII B.

TDB •POTHSCA RITA' COMPANY, LONDON,
r. WA RBURTON.

This action, which was tried before Mr. Baron
Garrow, at the Spring Assize* for Cheshire, was
brought to recover certain penaitie• from the De-
(rodent, under the 55th of the king. cap. 194,
Pee. 20. for having practised as an apothecary, in
toe town of Maccle.field, subsequent to the let of
August. 1815, he not being qualified so to prac-
tise according to the provisions of the statute.
A verdict Wit tittered for the Plaintiff's, with
damages to the amount of 20/. In Easter Term
lasts rule was obtained, calling on the Plaintiffs to
*hew cause why the verdict should not be set wide
and a new trial granted, oo the ground that the
Learned Judge who tried the cause had, in his
charge, misdirected the Jury. The rule being
called on for argument, this day,
Mr. Justice BEST proceeded to read the Learned
Judge's report of the trial, from which it appeared
that several witnesses were examined on both
sides. Those for the Plaintiffs endeavoured to'prove
that the Defendant was not regularly qualified to
act as an apothecary—thore fur the Defendant were
called to sheer that he was • practising apothecary
prior to the Ist of August. 1815, and was, on that
account, exempted from the general operation of
the statute, by the proviso contained in the 14th
section. 'lke father of the Defendant, who had
preceded his son in the apothecary line, was examined
at considerable length. He stated that he had
acted as a horse-doctor, a cow-doctor' and a general
doctor. in the town of Macclesfield. He compound-
ed prescriptions, formed of various drugs, the
quantities of which he sometimes ;apportioned by
weight and sometimes by hand. He never had
made ap a prescription from a physician's recipe.
He did not understand the Latin language, and
therefore could not read a doctor's recipe. But
since the year 1817 his son had studied Latin very
hard, under his father-in-law, who was a clergy-
man, and now understood the language aufficiently
to make tip a prescription from the recipe of • pro-
fessioual man. He (the witness) had himself learned
his son the art of ms apothecary. It appeared, how-
ever, that he was hirtstlf totally ignorant of phar.
misty. and did not eves understand the English
language—which was proved by his having spelled
the word surgeon, in five different ways, not one of
•which was correct. In summing up, the Learned
Judge recapitulated the whole of the evidence, and
read the different clauses of, the Act which bore on
the question, leaving it to the Jury to say. whether
the Defendant had. prior to the Ist of August,
ISIS, practised regularly as an apothecary. so as to
come within the meaninw of the 14th section of the
Statute. The Jury found that lie had not, by re-
turning a verdict for the Plaintiff..
Mr. CAMPBELL and Mr. Gow were now heard
naiad the rule. They contended, that the igno-
rance and waist of skill of the Defendant, render-
ed it impossible that be ever could have acted as a
regular apothecary, and therefore he could not de-
rive any benefit from the exemption contained in
the 14th clause, which evidently referred to men of
acknowledged capacity. The Learned Judge, in
his charge, did not touch on the question of skill,
but left it to the Jury to say, whether the Defend-
ant had, prior to the Ist of August, 1815, really
carried on the business of an apothecary, in the
usual and regular way. Under these circumstances,
they submitted that the verdict must stand.
Mr. JERVIS, Mr. PULLEN, and Mr. Twin. were
heard in support of the rule. They argued, that
the Defendant was an apothecary before the Ist of
A ugust 1815 ; that he compounded and administered
medicines. and was generally resorted to by patients
for that purpose. He was one of that numerous
claw of persons in this country. who obtained their
livelihood by compounding and administering me-
dicines, previously to the passing of the 55th of the
King. and was, thertfctre exempt from its general
operation.under the 14th clause. If the verdict
were allowed to stand. a wide field of litigation
would be thrown open. Many individuals of ac-
knowledged skill, both in the country and the city
of London, who bad long practised as apothecaries.
might be. objected to, on the same grounds that
were urged against the Defendant—and the conse-
quence would be, that the means of obi • g a
livelihood would be snatched from them, contrary
to the intention or the Legislature.
The COURT held that the verdict was perfectly
right, and that the Learned Judge before whom
the cause was tried, had sent the question to the
Jury in the most correct form. The question wee,
whether the Defendant, prior to the I.t of August,
1815, practised the art of an apothecary in the re-
gular and accustomed moonier It was clear that
be hail nut so practised—and. therefore, the clause
of exemption did not extend to him.
Rule discharged.

taken awl? a contract. even admitting its ex-
istence: First, Become it was (lowly Weigel. Mr.
Lapse. laming *lied in the transaction in she cha-
racter of a Russian merchant. the subject cf n Power
et war with England, it being subsequent to the
peace of Tilsit, by rhich the Emperor Alexander
bad contracted with Bonaparte, that all ship-,
neutral or otherwise, touching at • British poet,
ehoold be liable to seizure on coming into • fl rrs•
siiii port, which led to the Orders in Council ; ;n
consequence of which no license could, in this
country, be granted for soy cargo in whieli
British commerce was not interested, proceed-
ing to a place from which our flaw was e;.
eluded, and one of the parties being therefore •
person iii adherence to the King's enemies. Se-
condly, Because Mr. De Tondo was not obliged m
effect the insurance without funds, with which
he had not been furnished agreeably to an under-
standing to that effect, et the commencement of
the correspondence. Thirdly, Arc noa.e in not
sending out the vessel that time, lie only exercised
a discretion expressly vested in him. Fosorthly.
Because as it had appeared from the evidence a-
ready given, he heal no faith in the protection of.
forded by the Ukuse; and lastly, because the Ukase
itself had been obtained from the Emperor by fal.e
representation, and fraudulent mean.. With re-
spect to the 'text count, which alleged the breech of
• subsequent similar engagement entered into later
isi the year, in a time of peace with Russia. by the
Defendant. with Mr. Doherty Lined, Mr. Itsper's
agent, in which it had been provided, that for ill.
perfect security of the Defendant's demands. the
whole cargo should be at his control and dia.
pont in Russia till he should be reimbursed—
the Learned Serjeant argued, that Mr. De Testet
had commenced the execution of this agreement,
as was evidenced by his insuring and bringing the
brig up from Falmouth to London, and advancing
suing required for the voyage to the amount of
4.0001.; but afterwards suspended it, and counter.
mended the selling, in consequence of intelligence
which lie had received in the interval. rendering it
probable that the advances of the French in the
Russian territories might produce an accemmoda-
tion between the two Sovereigns, to the renewal of
the exclusion or coniesciotion of cargoes from Bri-
tish ports, and conceiving it not life at the crivis to
suffer the Mercurio Fehr to be dispatched on her
intended destination, the regular news of the risking
of Moscow having 'arrived three or four days after.—
The alteration of circumstances. therefore, pen
fectly justified the Defendant in the course he had
adopted—his change of purpose being entirely
agreeable to, and allowed by, the express terms of
the engagement in question. The lest ennui,
charging a general (rover and conversion of the
cargo, was (in the Learned Counsel's opinim) sn(.
ficiently answered by the facts that it was not Mr.
De Tastet who sold the cargo, but the Captaiaa,
Antiques; and that the Plaintiff had received
credit for any of the property that had fallen into
the Defendant's hands, The Learned Serjesnt
made a variety of observations in defence of Mr.
De Testet's conduct in the course of the transac.
(ions. and to shew that the damages sustained had
beets greatly over-rated.
A greet number of letters, forming a part of the
correspondence between the parties, were then read,
and at a late hour the further proceedings were ad•
journed till to-morrow morning.

OLD BAILEY, CDPICIDAY, Novuisce 3.

Before the CONNOR SIIIItANT.

Jellies Russell was inflicted for stealing a qoan.
tity of silver knives mid forks, •slne 504 the pro.
perty of M . Trimmet and Leslie, of Osendon.
street, on the 6th October.

It appeared in evidence that the articles in goes.
tion were at Messrs. Trimmet and Co.'s to be en:.
graved, and according to the testimony of one of
their apprentices the Prisoner had called for (kern
from the owner, Mr. Kidder, on the 61h October,
but was told to call in an hour, As soot' sq they
were ready the apprentice took thenr for the pur.
pose of being delivered at Mr. Kidder's, hot on the
way be met the Prisoner, who obtained iherif by
staling, that he was rent again. The apprentice
was positive as to the identity of the Prisoner, so
that ho wore at the time a loose brown coat and a
pair of Hessian booty.
The Prisoner, in his defence, totally denied' the
charge, and said, he bad never iu his 'possession
such clothes as were described.

He produced several witnesses to prove an alibi,
His mother, who was a laundress, swore
tivety that he was at home at dinner no the honr of
the day when the robbery was stated to Imes been
committed.

Two women, who worked with the List willies..
also spoke of his being at home at the time %Oleo'
the property was stolen, though they differed in re-
Sating some of the circumstances 'which re-called to
their minds the business of the particular day.
Several witnesses gay, the Prisoner an excellent
character for a long course of years.
The COMMON SERJEAMT summed nit the evi-
dence at great length, and the Jury, after wee
-consultation, returned a verdict of Guilty.

POLICE.
......mr..

MANSION swum.
ROBBERY OF THE WAREHOUSE OF NEUSS.
LONGMAN AND CO. BOOKSELLERS, PATER-

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Hoestows, who were charged with hiring !ebbed the pre-
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us Mowley last, were yestetday spiv /weight 'sit +brier tea
eelsek is the menial; fee farther etansiogie*.
Or. Hamer siteschM is Solleitse teethe proseestiern.
Mr. Castle, clerk to • dittilkry, was the Net witness et-
ewilood ; he stated thee he *sew the Primmer that
he had some bosisetie twebehetieee with him, its the cvewee
which he received Trost a bin of Mr. Cerliele,l bee!_
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