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FASHIONABLE DEPARTURES.

The butte df beeelench, from his house in South Audis,-
street. fur hi+ teat, Dalkeith House, Edinburgh.
l'he Earl and Counters of Beshorohdfi, from their house in
Cavendish report, fur their seat at Roehampton.
Lord and Lady Docie and family, from their house in
Dover-street, fur their seal, Minchio Hampton, Glouces-
tershire.

Lady de Clifford, from her house in B. nton-street, Berke
ley-square, fin he► neat, Klue's Weston, near Bristol.
Lord sod Lady Betsey, from their house in Lower Grave-
nor.street, for their seit, West Dean, Sussex.
Lord Boston, and the Hon. Miss Irby and family, from
their house in Lower Grosvenor-street, for their seat, !hel-
ot), Lodge, Baehr.

Charles Booanquet, Emq for bit seat, Wildnved.
Sir C. W. R. Boughton' Bart. from his hens, la DePon.
abire.plate, for his seat, Downton-hill, Salop.
Sir Wm. Parker, But, from Feuton's Hotel, St. James's.
street, fur his teat is Sotfolk; J. H. Powell, Esq. from ditto
for ditto; Captain &notch, from ditto for Praise..
The Earl and Countess of Mansfield and family, from their
house ;u Coodoit-street, for their scat, Sberborne Castle,
Oxford.hire.

Lord Foley, from hls house lo Hamilton-place, for his
seat, Whitlry.eourt, Woreebtersbire.
Mr. and Lady K. Fu eeeee er, front Socketlle-streel, fur
iVortholog.
The Art Itbisbop of Canterbury, and Mrs. Manners Sutton
and family, from Lambeth Padget, for Addsagtun Park, fur
th.'homer.

Lord Cremorae, from Staultope.street, May-fair, on a tour.
The Moo. Mr. Bitrrell, from Whitehall, fur his seat, Lang-
ley, Kest.
The Conning De Grey, from her house in St. James's-
square, fur her seat in BedfordAire.

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Lord Crewe,from his house in Lower
his best is Cheshire.

Lord (linen, front Berkeley-moire, fur Cobham Hall.
The Earl of Dartmouth, from his house in Berkeley-
square, for his seat, Sandwell Hall, Staffordshire.
Lady C. Taney Luhx, from bar house in Upper Grosvenor-
Mutt, fur her seat, Dreycot House, Wilts.

Min Sosteftettte and Mr. CONWAY will per-
form the characters of Bianca and Fazio, iu the
new Play of halo, this night at the Gloucester
Theatre.

It is ; fact little known, even to artists, that the
relebritted picture of the " Woman tukeu in Adul-
tery," painted by Howls, represents the Church
ol Rome ; and the two accusers Of the woman are
•triking portraits of LUTHER and CALVIN. The
young man seen immediately behind the woman, is
au adimrable likeness of VAMPYCI, fur which be
• 4t to his master.
A piirtrait of the celebrated Madame Marrarre,
by a pailiter named Rounix, is exhibiting now iu
Pintos and is meant to be shortly transferred to
London. The likeness is said to be correct, but
%dame NIANSCIII, in a letter to the tditor of the
Yaufadiestwe, expresses her surprise how any painter
can take a likeness without having seen the origiaal,
and dectires that she never sat for M. ROVIEll• Ma-
dame MINION has not so flattering an opinion of a
painter', powers in sketching portraits, as was en-
tertained by an old and amorous Turk residing in
Algiers. This 0141 fellow, willing to multiply
the lovely image of Me favourite mistress, requir.
celebrated artist to take her portrait. The
artist prepared himself fur the task, and asked
when he should be admitted to the lady's pre-
sence. " What. wretch !" said Bite jealous Turk,
dar'st thou to hope for such enjoyment ! see my
111 i tress! Hence. impostor ! or I shall order thee
to be impaled alive, and have thy cirrus thrown to
the 4g%." The painter departed in all haste, and
left the amorous chief to calm his agitation iu the
society el his fair recluse..

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to be impaled ;.I.ly mesa thrown him. Iwu to "he tights im." ' 'he slgnal th-en made for the (ion. which I cannot call for. There can be no twelve Bibles he brou ht back eleven, as he found
tris nowise evening me riisoner went to toe noose ow air.
ciout:swo.itlinreirretsecrutewdi hietesiite,lfhtlodbe.ilxotcizidatreiNio.. lt3h,aVt ithte.
the etu"." The painter departed in all haste, and resat% to deport, and if she does nut iststantlY heave doubt but the Commissioners meant extremely only one Milt% among a community of 110
heft lilt' amorous chief to calm his sgitatiou the her anchor, the batteries commence tiring, and con. well: My opinion then is, that the warrant Of Cam- souls, wli6 could reed: We pledge ourselves foe. swift, lOW experienced the kindness of Mrs Couttsa'hy Itetti;
society sl ins fait recluse. tinue till the vessel bits dramd the bay. mitel is not iu substance; if It wan only • the truth of this stuteuteut.—( Caledonian Mercury.) to iye.io at the Browulos.soect Hospital; that she bd.!
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delivered of lariats in the Hospital on Ratanlay night,
almost aloe o'clock, sod that his wife died 011 Sunday
no, ruin!. awl the atinagers of the Hospital insisted apron
his taking the boils away that emoting; he hail a swill snot
of stoney to pay, hut out areount of his distressed circum-
stance.. stud his apparent grief, the porter was moved with
elViminor, ion front his sittoolon, alma Mr. sod Mrs. Coatis
luoitoz particularly engaged at the time, that hr timid not
make the Prisoner's statentent known to them, be very Isn-
ot tatty gave him a shilling, and collected three shillings and
sixpence more from the other *masts, which he gsve to
him. soil he went away. Oa the porter making the Pri-
siiiier's statement known to Mire. Coatis. she emend limoiries
In he mole at the horstr where he said he resided, and also at
the H.opital. The Pris.tiser eath.l grins at the an
Mr.
out Moseley, and reiweseisted one of his rhildrea to
he timol. The result of the iesquiries was soot then Intowa
to Mrs. Coons, mot he less therefore desired to call *gain.
Ths particulars learnt spas the laquiries are shacking to
8,141 e, as to thefts's* isaporitious practised by the Printer?,
roofer the nook of pretended deep mid affeetiag dishes.. it
tinned out. that his rep-oteatation of having a wife deli-
vered of titian. and dying its Broweinw-etreet Hospital,
was a mere invested tale to extort mosey from the humane,
nn inch person Wag is the Hospital, *or bad say woman
died there foe a emseiderable time pest ; hot the metros
had beard of similar treads haviag been committed spots
pergola by a similar invented tale of woe. It was torn sirtr.
Pained that the Prisoner did not reside is the horse is Vane.
street, Westminster as be represeated.
The Prisoner called at the house of Mr. Coatis yesterday,
when he was taken into casmay, and brought to the office,
*rhea he was committed as a rogue mid vagabond till the
Fit mien&
Three boys were charged with attacking settersl of
the persons coming out of the English Operadomse
In the Strand, on Motility night, at the close of the
*ref's/rosary.. One of them, ally eleven years of age. of the
arise of Radom, yet an aid Orman, was arms taking a
lmodkerchirf tint of a geolliaames pieket.--lis was teas.
waisted fur trial.

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The Wate►waa of the No 4.611, wee coovietert of
refusior to take a Cseattentan tato bis boat, who eintrd that
his object in p•rfrrrior the chart* srninsi she Prisoner oar,
he considered It as act of public duty to endeavore to hying
the Prisoner :tool his brethren of the IMOr trade, if posaible,
to a eerier of duty, and preeeet tbe. fro. their auto We-

lesser mod impositions.
Ire regal cutreinely that the Complainant had not sent.
mimed the water of ',ray boat thew at the Stairs, as they are
all lisMe In he tarnished the sow r hockney•amehmen for
✓tf.solog to take a fare, but he gelecied the Prisoner foe pu-
sishasest, ea he was particularly modals to be hired, till the
Complaisaat told hist he was esgeral with a waterless. whom
be always selected on amorist of his civility, hut whu hap
paved In he ahseut thronch Moroi, sod that the Prisoner
and all the other wateriness refused to take him.
Sarah B trim., the armlet to Mr Josses, Ike lemma,
is Paushamptiss•alrret, Covest.Gardes, was charged wish
eteshne a 61 flank note want of the money.bos of bet master,
which she contrived to do, by htvios previously stolen one
of lise key. in the box, and opened it yeraterday outriding
brewer's eight and wise o'clock. sod look out the suds while
it in Mr. Jones. hed-room.
She was committed fur further esastisation.

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EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.
Yesterday John Water.. Chariot Angela. and AVOWS
iftoktii., young men, were brought up is eastody, charged
on suspicion by Wm. Kebbell, Esq of West Ham Abbey, in
the ounnly of Emmy with robbing his house of silver plate
to • great amount. It appeared that the Prisoners. as • dia.
guise, carried nbout lemma to different ceMlentee's houses,
and when an opportunity occurred. they stole all they
P•owihly rook'. On the day of the above rubbery, the Pri-
',titer 11'arren went to Mr. &ebbelrs house, fur the porpoise
of yelling lemony, or, more probably, on a more lucrative
rn The other two Prisoners, who were suspected of
Laving lierkeil about till Warren gave some signal, then
oroere.leil to lake the property stolen (ions off the suit board
in the parlour, which was wined soon after the Prisoner
left for gal.lrr, and were taken into custody by the officers, and
brought to use above Offire, wberi,frowt the want of sufficient
stideoce, tbcy were ordered for further examination.

RATTON-GARDEN.
lIIGH FUN. OR THE POLICE IN AN UPROAR.
Testerday Hurl Barnet. a young man oboist 18 or 20
years of see. was brought up for goal examination, charged
with stealing 13 yards of carpeting, value 11 19s. the pro-
perly of Allen Missed, of Jodd.place, St. Pancras. Owing
to the 'cleverness of the weather, and the great nnmbtr of
persona in the Office, the large door ice the oar of the bar
WOO ordered to he open, of which the Prisoner availed him-
self, and witching the opportunity of the Officer's bark
being turned, who hail charge of him, he tan out On.tt'Y
the bar into the outer Office, and made his way tutu the
wand. The al.trns bring given that he effretrd his escape,
all wits in a hustle' the crowd following Ailed the passage,
nod retarded the Officers its their pursuit, by which the
isoner had above one hundred yards start of them. Ile
run along Hatton-garden, up Cross-street. Leather-lane,
and alone Roldwin'weartlens, pursued by Wm. Read, just.
John Linilstirk, William Wainwright, and Edward Read,
Officers, besid... several constables. The hue lord cry caul.
all persons to Rork to their doors and windows; the streets
were also crowded to witweas the chase. The officers kept
trying out "Stop thief!" and the Prisoner, alms say per.
sons happened to come before him in the street, kept crying
out, " It's a rate, it's • *race! clear the way. *clear the way!"
by which there was a clear passage made for him; when
he reached Baldwin's-gardens, away of the °Beers and
constables were so blows that they lust ground, and some
writ unable to proceed. Thu Primmer was also much ex.
heisted ; Wainwright, the °Beer, took the lead, and at the
top of Rildivises-prilews. when he was within about lif-
ters or twenty yards of bon, the Prisoner, quite ex-
hausted, stood dill, and suriesdered himself up ro Wain-
wright, who conducted him in triumph to the Office,
lowed by several hundreds, where he sorlerweist an itiami.
'teflon, and was committed to Nenpte fee trial.

THUNDRIt

City hes been

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visited by very heavy storms in rain, accompanied
by thunder and lightning; on Saturday evening,
smrticularly, the lightning was exceedingly vivid,
and the crashes of thunder awfully loud and rub-
lime. The mast of a barge lying in the basin of
the Canal, was strock by the electric fluid, and
splintered from the top to the bottom, • solid piece
Icing carried away from the. lower wt. There
were seven periods on board at the time; but
though most of them felt the shock, and • hand-
round one of their bands was burnt through
be the yet. or,videntially, urine of them
suffered any bodily is jury.
At the Berkshire Asyites, held at Abingdon, there
were thirty-tyro prisoners, of whom six were sen-
tenced to death, and four to transportation.—A t

Oxford, the number of prisoners were seventeen, of
whom four were capitally convicted, and three sen.
fenced to transportatiun.—On Saturday list, the
Commission was ripened at Worcester, where there
are thirty -sere" prisoners fur trial.

At the late Waterford Assizes, held on the 15th
instant, James Foster, indicted fur stealing a watch,
piratical Upon being admonished of the
cuinatipielice of his plea, transportation to Botany
Bay for seven years, he mud that he was well enure
of the circumstance, and anxious to get there or
any where else where he ought get even bread and
water for support. He was an Englishman, n tailor,
and finding it impossible to get wink, he had re-
e.nirse to rubbery as the only means of getting sup-
p•nt in the country, or bring sent out of it. All
swamis wore much affected at the dismal recital.