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CURIOUS 7RIA L.

The following curious trial took place on the Mlle
ult. at Aberdeen. the action being brought upon
an old statute of William ill. fur preventing and
punishing duels.
The Court next proceeded to the trial of Lieu-
tenant James Rollo, of the 59:1i Regiment of
Foot, on the complaint of Thomas Ritchie, younger,
of Cultenaluudie, private Prosecutor. with concur.
rence of his Majesty's Advocrte—under an Act
passed iii the sixth Session of the first Parliament
of his Majesty King William, whereby " it is
stewed and enacted, That whosoever, principal or
second, or other interposed person, gives a challenge
to fight a duel or single combat, or whosoever ac-
cepts the same. or whosoever, either principal or
second, on either vide, engages therein, albeit no
fighting ensue, shall be punished by the pain of
banishment. and escheat of moveables, without pre-
judice to the Act already made against the lighting
duels."
The circumstances of the case, as stated in the
indictment, and proved by the evidence, were as
follow :—That on the ‘24th November last, Lieu-
tenant Rollo, when shooting on the property of
Mr. Dron, of Black Ruthveii, was accosted by the
said Thom*. Ritchie, and charged with having a
few minutes before trespassed on his father's pro-
perty, and shut a hare—high words upon this look
place, and the consequence was, that an the ,25th
of November, Lieutenant Rollo addressed to Mr.
Ritchie a letter, in the following words:—

' Perth, Nov. 21, 1117.
" ba►s sent herewith my friend, Captain Dreg-
hem N, dessasul you will give me the mod ample ratiffee-
lion for the gross inatteer in which you fissaltsil me yester-
day, by the Intjoirebbiftle soil elogsatkeialliliks ,wanner in
which yon accosted me.-1 am, Icy.
JASI ES ROLLO.
" To Mr. Thomas Ritchie, sm."

On receipt of the above, Mr. Ritchie declined
either to make an apology, to tome a friend to
settle the affair, o► to accept the
Rollo afterwards addressed a letter to him in the
following words :
" Pertly, 25th November, 1217.
am extremely sorry that 1 have made so gross •
mistake Ibis day, in eoneeiring you to be • genfkiarui, and
au sorry 1 bare stooped so far below ley elution •s 'AMU
condescending to sirs you the satisfaetiou ids gentleman,
mid 'ball ibis night post you m a rowan!.
" 1 am. Sm. ke. JAM EN ROLLO."

Placards accordingly were put up in the Ex-
change Coffee-room, mid on the entry leading
thereto, contoining the following winds:—
" Peru, Nov. 25, 1817.
" 1 hereby pest Mr. 'Thomas Ritchie.. sooner. of cost-
Rudy, ma a coward, sad au outfit mastmeimie Pr amy I:mamma.
~ ~ " JAM La ROLLO.*
/
After the examination of 'eve al witnesses the
Jury were addressed ou the part o the Prosecutor
b
y Mr. Moncrie, nod by Mr. K y for the De-
fender. ..
A minute detail of the evidence was then laid be-
fore them by the Lord Justice Clerk, and the Jury
having retired, soon idler returned with a verdict,
Linditig, by it plurality of voices, the libel proven.
Before the sentence was pronounced, Mr. Mon-
cried' stated to the Comic that his Client lied

• •
authorised him to move his Lordship to defer pro"
nouneing judgment, and in order that the verdict
might not hang over the hesd of Mr. Rollo, Mr.
Ritchie now deserted the diet ageism' the Defender,
and therefore he (Mr.' Mooerieff) moved his Lord-
ship to discharge him simplittiter.
Its doing so the Lord Justice Clerk congratu-
lated Mr. Rollo on the very handeonse manner w
which Mr. Ritchie had terinwated the prosecution.
His Lordahip remarked that he was happy that un
opportunity had been this day oltotiled of 'Mewing
the efficacy of the laws of ear c..untry ; that Mr.
Ritchie's appeal to them had been completely sus-
tained, while his honour and character were vin-
dicated ; and that by his conduct he had completely
vindicated himself Prow the aspersion of haying
raised and carried on the prosecution from any
vindictive feeling. At the same time his Lordship
observed that the Act before quoted hail certainly
been as it were raked up for this prosecution ;
that few trials, and few or no convictions had pro-
ceeded upon it for scaly a century ; but yet the
statute was nut ohooleie. His Lordship, in concha.
Ilion, hoped, however, that Mr. Rollo would now
return, without any slur on his honour or stigma oil
his character, to that society in which lie had hitherto
moved, but from which, had it not been for the
liberal behavour of the private Prosecutor, he must
inevitably have been for ever separated.
This case seemed to excite great interest. Dur-
ing the disetnision the Court was much crowded,
and we observed a considerable uttutber of ladies
in the front of the gallery.

•1.•••

THE SMITS OF IGNORANCE IN PLACES OF
impoftreNCE.

[Frost " Tha New Monthly" llesticine" jb? Octobey.]

The conduct of a man in public life, occupied
in concealiiig his ignorance, is ass absolute system
of tactics. It is curious to remark. his studied
silence when the conversation turns upon a subject
which hr is coosciouslie ought to know well, and of
witless he is equally conscious that he knows no-
thing; to see how he bl i;i k% away when this censer-
sation approaches too near him, and the looks of
the circle around seem to express that they are
all expectation to hear his opinion. He goes up iii
an Assent way to the chimney-piece, takes up some
papers that lie there, and begins to look thou over
with profound attention, while, nevertheless, if
he hears any thing said on which lie may ven-
ture with confidence to post in a word, 'tit so,
says he, exactly so, not inking his eyes however
from the papers till the moment when lie eau
adroitly give 'mother turn to the enniersacion ; aiiil
to this resource he has been obliged to recur to
often, that it has become entirely fintsiliar to him.
Sometime* lie will be a little more adveiitiirous;
stud if a debate arises in his company upon tile
period when some event of antiquity happened, or
upon the distance between two liir4e towns, mid
different opinions on the question are supported
wails equal pertinacity; one maintviiiing, for in-
that it was the year 300. before our era,
another, that it was the year ,200, one that the
distance between the towns was 2,000 leagues, an-
other that it was 2,400, he will lie tiie period at the
year 2.60, the distance at 2,200 league*: this is
a medium he ;ensures to take without having any
notion whatever upon the.. subject, only he feels
confident that lie cannot be very wide of the
mark. But with such fortunate upporti ttt i t ies to
display his knowledge, lie is not often favoured.
h is more easy for him to terminate a controversy
on any axiom laid down, since lie has always some
common-place remark or assertion ready at hand,
suited to the occasion, Sometimes lie takes h 4
revenge; and if he happens to have heel, rend-
ing in the morning, in the way of Isis business, any
paper or papers, through which he has acquired
some piece of statistical knowledge, he does not
rest till he gives the conversation such a turn, as
will enable hint to bring it out. Woe, then, to any
one who thinks he shall pay his court to him by in,k-
Mg many inquiries upon the subject, or who offer*
some blight objection, ilia the may ask fur an ex-
planation; our man of ignerouce is already at the
full length of his tether ; hie answers only by
tnonosyllahies, and becomes evidently out of hu-
mour.—(Marlene de Steel .f

EDWAM MEETING.-.-041 Tuesday, the 27,1 tat.
the Etloam Club met, as usual, to celebrate the
birth•day of the great Poet of the "Sracools", at his
native village; Capt. R. WaLltut, Itoyal Navy,
in the Choir. Many appropriate toasts were given
on the occasion. Mr. LUNDIS presented to the
Meeting a Ronal' painting of the Poet, in miniature,
which hail been sent to him for that purpose by the
Earl of litictiax, with a letter, in which he re.
quested their acceptance of it. This 'Moisture is
• copy from the original portrait of Tputtsox by
which is How in his Lordship's collec-
tion, and gives to the physiognomy of the Poet a
more ples,ing and animated expression than we have
usually seen. The Meeting accepted will, much
satisfaction this appropnate present, and dnshk the
health of the donor with due respect. Au open
Committee, to meet at Ediums on ‘Vedorsilay first,
was appointed to tespect thedifferent proposed silts
for the long-delayed monument, to examine the
plans which have been mode. and to report to a Ge-
neral Meeting in October, by whom it is expected
it will be definitively arranged, so that the work
may be contracted for, and begun as soma as ilia
season will permit.

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DARING ROAR.BRIia.

Two more more of the gouge( Surrey robber■ have lutes *pyre..
headed by nap, Goff, cud Hall, the officers; their triunes
ere Charles BrEntni and WArnarre Merriam The former
was takes at • brothel, iu Artillery-street ; the sober was
takes at shy-place, in an obscure part of Lambeth. Eleven
silver (three-prong) lurks, nearly one hundred pawnbrokers
duplicates of gold rings, watches, seals, cha i us, and plate, were
found upon them, as were els° a dark lantern, crow-bar,
phosphorus-box, matches, &r. used for house-breasting.—
There are strong reasons fur conjecturing that these men
were concerned in the robbery of the house of Mrs. (Naito.,
neer the Coburg Theatre, s few nights back. when phi,
and baberdaithery was stolen of about 5001. valor. The
crow-bars foetid in their possession correspond wills the
marks upon the doors and windons, and their shoe. exactly
Si the print of men's feet on the ground at the back of Mrs.
Chillies house. The officers have beer+ directed to cambium
the property in pledge, trod ascertain, it possible, who are
; the owner., and they have also been ordered to give every
I Information in their power to persons who hare hero rohlud,
that they may apply to them sod obtain a restitution of their
property from the pawnbrokers.

AN HYPOTHESIS
OP TUC
POLES OF THIS GLOBE.
ST ADMIRAL BIS CHARLES nom( KNOWLES, SART.

if the Poles of this Globeitave not earth at their
points (I), there must be at each sit itnnieuras whirl-
pool of water, occasioned by the diurnal revolution of
the globe. This seems requisite to coulteract the
masses of ice formed around the vortices, and much
of this ice must be crushed to atoms by the rotatory
motion of the whirlpools; and the reaction of tt:e
water in its distant ascent, will produce a current (-1)
to force the ice, us now happens, itt a direction
southerly from the North Pole, and in a northerly
direction from the South Pole, when mills d by
solar (3) heat in the prevention of frost. This may
be the case, because it is apparent, everywhere, that
destruction and reprodoction are requisite to con-
stitute the changes on this globe ; and n similar
renovation must take place at the poles ass in other
ports. Our globe flies through space in its orbit ;
but this probably does not counteract the effects of
its diurnal motion at the poles (4), nor impede the
progression of physical causes (5).
(1) II there was land, the ice could never he detached
from Ihrul, but by a convulaiou of nature, and which Macs
not appear likely to be alternate at each Pule.
(1) A current runs from the Polar Bashi 1.110 the Atlantic
Omani, front Norway to America ; but there is no proof of
any torrent running to the northward through liehrinea
Swain', localise that great man, Captain Cook, met will.
11111 l e, but a barrier of ice, which ice came frimi the Polar
Basin, and was jammed there. If a current roil to the tomb.
wild touter this barrier of ice, when the ice was broke up by
the violent gales of wind in February and March, the force
of such a stream would have raised it to the surface, and
driven the we to the north, and Captain Cook would have
had a clear sea to sail throogh ; but the contrary happened,
and parroted his talll'lXl4.4. Neither Captains Cook liar
King, nut with any current nn the N.W. esikst or America ;
nor Monsieur de In Permit* on the coast of Asia, our het wee',
Segaiten Island and the Maio, sitting to the northward, but
a moil bank (too alma! iar the boat, to pass uses, to the
south of the !Liver Amor, ;awl which bank of mod could nut
have been formed bail there been a nun rot .4s the Polar
Basin is nut supplied lay a current rionoinz ti rouali hit hting's
Straits from the North Pacific Ocean, the current from the
Polar Bashi, in every direationotoost proceed from some other
cause, anal that came most be liar diurnal motion of the
globe. Perhaps it will ultionorly lw discovered, that Cuaupe,
Asia, and America, do mit r4O end to the Not its of 730 of lat. '
(3) la the ab.etiee of 11w quo, the tarveraly of the frost
may be such as to lessen the power of the whirlpool, which
a ill art with its full force when the frost ceases, by the return
of the ass.
,(4) The motion at the Poles is slow, and the velocity great
at the Equator, mid this is the same in a whirlpool, for the
motion is commoisicated from the circumference to the apex,
a hil'h has the least motion, as a whirlpool screws down-
wards. This is the reverse in a whirlwind un land, and
water-spout at sea, where the ignition is cbinnionicated from
the centre to the circumference, and screws upwards. Ou
any other theory the water mould not descend in a whirlpool,
nor ascend in a water spouts, woe lanai in a whirlwind.
• Water-spouts are said to he conical and cylindrical;
but though they may firat appear the latter, they sooa-as.
some a 'cal form, and become the (rostrum of u mow, the
smaller part &mustards ; anal this smaller part varies in size,
from two Winifred yards, or more, to twelve fret diameter;
and a point only when sometimes forming in fine weather.
Bait all 11w larger ones, the point (it is to be presumed), is be-
low the surface of the water, and the quantity of wale, raised
in a given time, most he in a ratio to the depth or the apex.
The influence of water-spouts mast extend numb Itclow the
surface, as numbers of fish sac taken up by them, mid which
fall lions the clouds far in laud.
(5) The diurnal motion of the globe, from west to cast, is
the °era • of the trade winds in the Atlantic Ocean, and
1111 al.. of the current of water which runs within the Tropics.
from the roast of Africa to the bottom of the Gulf of
Flexicu, and thence lay the shore, of h' ,ride, through that
Gulf to 'be northward, and past the Banks of Newfoundland
until opposed by the current at the Polar Basin, when it
takes a altrection eastward. If the diurnal emotion acts on
11w water at the Equator by velocity, it sill also act at the
Pules by a rouuter effect.

PIIIOE OF LEATH F.R.
OWN, Ml In 581118 earls 2341 to 25.1 per lb.
Ditto, Ml to 681ini. tack —ll to —l.l
Drreptior Hicks
Fine Conch 11 Me, .. .. 22.t to 2:10
Crop Woks 35 10 4016 fin' ClitilllC elbt to 11;J
MAO 45 to 50 lin .......... ll'iol to 13.1
Calf Skins 30 10 4011og
Dill,, 511 10 70 HIS .............33.1 to 40.1
Ditto 70 to 801114 .... 304 to 30.1
81111411 Scale (thevolaitil) Via tot 30.1
Lorre ditto . ..
Twitted (tom hides I'l to 194
Spouts/1 Nurse bidet 23.1 lu 284

Where en assemblage of talent and ruperienpe is
concentrated in one line of pructice, u sorer►: mo•t
attend their application, not to he found elsewhere. 'i bit
Itas heet, evinced in the F.stahlitilintent of the Medical Board
at Charlotte-Home, Blackthorn road, and at Woodstock-
Home. %Veenl*lva-street, Osford•stnrt, where cares are
every illy performed to eases which have battled the skill of
espitirot professors, nod elicited 111.'4 astonishment. The
Medical Board have particularly attended to those Waft-
queuces of a certain disease, which entails the most ilis.
treating debilities, and unhinges the rnessiittition of both
rms. They also remove the egrets of those ►vmptnms
arising from juvenile Milioeretion, from irregular hying,
and from a lung residence iu irons climates—of this tie-
scsiption they hs particularly In notice °Lomat" eruptions
in the skin, sole throat, pains in the head and limbs, fre-
quently mistaken for rheismstinni, sarirtur.s, fistulas, itra
phyla, lie. Messrs. COOPIR and Co. after forty years
practice in various Hospitals, are consulted at Woodstock-
weal, Oaforthatreet, daily, from eight till I ight ; ■ad at the
Medical Board, Charlutic../bieNe, Great Otairlollc-r•lret t,
Blorktriars-rand, precisely from twelve until eight its the
evening. Ilitcbanies, and pars sill of moderate income,
have advice, gratis, if they attend at errant, hones, nitmrly,
Tuesday, Thier.ilay„ and Sr tidny mornings, until one o'clock ;
and etery v. n.nq. f six A sots dew, and
pritrale rooms fur females,

SUPERIOR ADVICE..
ItT is iinpossible to urge too often, or with too
mud, mttle, the necessity, when Medical er Surgical
Advice becomes requisite, of applying to professional mom
of acknowledged skill and well-earned celebrity Thouck
every oue asseuts to this remark, yet there are few who fell
low it practically, and numbers are every day the victim- .1
inexprrience slid empiricism. The success which has areiont.
pamed us in our limg,.estahlislied practice is the most Wk.
factory proof of our professional skill, ns it is the must our.
quiroeal pledge of the public confidence. Our reputation it
the result of thirty years' successful practice in iliit n11.11U•
and is too well f led to require :Myriad'. u. u‘d ;
during that period, stone of the most distiuzoisheil tutu is
the country have been ler our care, and have famished. by
their perfect restoration to health, the most satisfactory
11010111 RIP of our superior skill and experience. Santroeu.l
by every privilege to practise, es regularly taiiirav d Sir
genus, Members or the Royal Colleges of Loudon and C•fi::-
burgh, and formerly in his Majesty's Service, in which 1..0
capacity we have had the most favourable opportuniii, s
contrasting die practice of other countries with our (mu, ye
have been enabled, from these multiplied advatitagts, to ac.
quire that certain ritpdieuee as well as prompt Wails of re•
lief, which, in a more obscure and less diseisilltol pro 'ie.*,
it I. altogether inspoasiti'e to attain. In all Cases of Vrlterral
Infection, mid in t very Complaint of Debmiity and
whether arising 1.111111 the infatuation of youth, long resid
is
its warts climate*. free living, ur any utiler cause proibiroi7
a deficiency of manly vigour, the Patient may seiy on t
speedy mloisition 10 rind eipeniis health. Stilling"
of the Urethra of ten and twenty years' duratimi, hare
to our so prim plan of treatment in the shwa period M dirge
treats ; many of these cows bad previously loco toolr r rho
care of Met.sts. floors and Heaviside, anti other Snip
equal ernmetite,lTlL) at:coiptial their ewe by the appl
of the bow CA 414111: without success. To the Etaluor !.. ait
will he ctootolatoi y br know, that they may he cur, d ,flllO6l
Debilities whit li defeat conception, and sip the touoiliaaa
of connubial fetidly.
We may be consuPed by Patients of either S, x with*
greatest oldie ley, socresy, snit Atomise, at Our below, lo?,
liallumgartlen. Trims of reinunei at ton are plainly tt
its
in the first interview.
Patieuta in the Country stating the particular. of dell
case, enclosing a ren;litance for Advice and Medi,
have theism given or smut to all parts of the world.
CUR RI E and CO. Swig. oa,,
Members of the Royal Coileges of London and
and formerly iu Joie Nlajesty's Service, No. Ili?, ; "
garden.

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SW" here AJteriirtinents are reale-a s
(purl-paid) nia.t be addressed.—C S 3 iTlh,h,'.
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