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HAYMARKET THE4TRK.

Mr. Cutlasses drama of The Africans, was last
rev.*ed. Thy stream of feeling which runs
through this piece, is so ',lvor and pure, that we
were inclined to regret its interrup-
tion by the sudden appearance of Henry Ass-
grams lllag, whose counter-navigation interrupts
tlw regular course of the current, and thus
mischievously interferes with the regular flow
of our sensations. The characters of the three
brothers. Tombs!, Madiboo, and Se!leo. are, in
she marine. drawn with a free and vigorous haml
the colouring is true to nature—and the contrast of
the flan es in the groove, tends to nsake the pie-
turr Indite beautifully striking. These members of
the same fatally are equally attached to each other
and to their twos-it—ben differesice of education
his created difference of manners. Turrihol, ac-
cost 'sued to field-drudgery, il" through that toil-
some and sedentary employment, acipured a harsh
bhustisess—a satirical jocularity—often to be met
wins amongst the ogresses horologes. Modiboo is a
fellow ever employed in ti tttttt aig or
this diversity of scene through which lie passes—the
co.istseit activity- necessary to his course ul life—
b-get a correspoodeist •lertuess mill buoyancy of
I—driving away all crude and inelmiclinly lin-
Mears. .S,lico, the youngest born, while unable
to assist his brother. in the support of their psreut,
hastens to the trawl, to 1.,-ay for her. le yet a
boy. he loves—and, in his minaret years, the lessons
of tenderness which he has received, impart a *moll-
Nicolal d.lir-act. to his feelnigs, which distinguishes
hint from Is • brethren. Probably there is no part
of M. Crit.swes 'lrmnatic works in which greeter
dtscnmiustion is evinced, !ban in the drawing of
these niter chsraciers. The sentiments they utter
hive been censored, as too refiiied for those per-
soufges by who n try are delivered. But it is
certain ii, it they flow from feelings which have
their 'digit' in our common newt —.ma we cannot
Mom• the d-ain,t.st who labours ni render the grin
of seilsibiVty more attractive by Leightenisiz its
polish, 'rid adding to it, brightness. Mf. WA RD6
appeared, for the find tune, as Seiko. There is,
in this character, little of thr viole,e•e, but raitc:s
of tl:e intro/sty of pateion. 'se/,co Teel. deeply
but Isis dislesitino is a gentle one—and lie hates
the isles of toi•oring others with a narration of int-
serir••, over which he swooshes to brood alone. 11r.
Walton succeeded u, pouriniying, very atr ciiiigly,
the Id-Ming feature of the character—hopeless, dis-
appointed how, stud determined &sot tttttt tendered
still snore Jet-nave by Sdieu'vesalaslessitess of him-
self, roe a asutiter's welfare. His acting was cliarac-
t eri•ed by ail imisressive tenderness, where Ina mute.
it.-- w is the Alvente—but when the relation of his
nisitoer's *sots aroused hint, he evinced all the
esserey which. She recollection of her satiation
calculated to elicit. Ji, the lest seem*. his address
to the cooqueror was ashwiraLly delivered. Mr.
Jo •d si sustained the character of Madibno, in
wit cii we have often seen hint with pleasure.
It Nail very harps- both in his lively and sellti
111."'. I scene.. Mr. CONNOR was uts excellent

Tort-dud. He gave full lorry to the horse-jests of
the rough African in his satirical snoods, and lie
issioarted ouch feeling to his oh•erviitinn•, in thane
of a shore serious maitre. M►. I.isvom again
rep.esented his old friend, Henry Augustus
Mug. He not only made the audirsice laugh
heartily at his drollery, hut lie tonsid his
suns., with great success, against lit, therstrocul
brothers owl sisters. Even the good Alaltosurtaii
P ie.t, EOM/6 (4 part well performed by Mr.
Foots.). could not compose his features. l'ontrary
to ilw gravity of his swim', lie, in his interview
with ,Jr. Meg, exhibited a countenance in which
tle• grits and the laugh were soroogglisog hard for
inr.rißlDefirr. Miss E. BLANCHARD played the
Bart of Berissa 'prettily. Mrs. Commits was
the During of the evening. Ilrr conception
of the t•haracter is just—and her execution
nay generslly correct—but her r lbws were
sometimes marred by an eager desire In give
force to ',Articular expressions. Sikes friestrti, per-
hap., too snuck to the ferliug of ilk
Mrs. LISTUN, as Sine, sung sink her usual
sweetness.
The house was greatly crowded.

Mr. STEPHEN KEHNLE has been appointed lie
the Sub-Committee of Drury-Igoe Theatre, Mena-
ger for the ensuing season.
Departures yesterday from the Clarendon hots
Bond-street :-111r. anti Mrs. HENRY PETak: tot
Brighton; J. MAXIE, Esq. for ditto.
The Duke of Wia.t.isatotes Spanish Aide-de-
Camp (tile gallant and able General A LAVA) has
accompanied his Grace to London, and has taken
no his abode at the residence of the Doke of SAN
11;Ax1.09. In Portlarol-place. General A LAVA is
alma, 45 years of age, v.-1y soldlei-hke in his air
und manner, extremely affable and iittalfscted. and
bean the character of a very generous Nod liberal-
minded Officer. He has been attached to the
Duke of ‘VKLI.IIIaToN for many years, and al-
Ways close 1.. lii, (;.ace upon every PIIVICe ad:ln-
ger. Colony, Ils i:vcr. who has Inst an arm in the
service of his eJIIIIII,V. wlft is one Or the must pro.
Milling and distinguished officers of Isis rank, and
who is Secresary to the British Hero, also accost,-
p‘nnesl the Duke of WELLINGTON to lontloa, and
hikell up his abode at A psky-lionse.
llourlav se'imight this city and several towns
to the viciiiitv were visited Milk /1 tremendous storm
of l•ail asst rain, and peals of thunder were heard
at a distaie.e. The vviiiilows in many houses were
hr,ki4l In the I rge hail-stogies which Gil. :roil sr.
tidds of emu sustained great injury. A ball
id. lire Gil at Brund4ll, hot f"""ute'lYsitu "
da.nar.e. Tie Talus &I:refuted in toriellis. NM/ lias
greatly refreshed the earth, assisted vegetation, and
trinperr(l she ..kilitmeer heat ; the bars4itt-.urn are
Alm proceeding rapidly with their work, which has
bar me :•elieral, and so early a courts...ice into of
reanios4 has no been remembered fur nearly go
years.—(Norwich Paper.)

FLORENCE, JULY 15.

On Monday last his Excellency Lord Burst-
hersh, Envoy Extraordinary to this Court, inveoted
with the Grand Coons of the Mont Honourable
' Order of the Bath, Rear-Admiral Sir Freesias'-
, Ile, at the reaidesice of the Embassy. The pew
Knight wan introduced by their Excellencies the
Privy Counsellors Fossombrone and Neei. Grand
Crosses of the Order of St. Joseph, who attended
the ceremony. The ceremony was attended by the
persona attached to the Britimh Embassy, as well as
by Mr. Diwkina, Capt. St. Aubpi, Viscount Dil-
lon, and the Hots. Colonel Kiliburton.
Immediately after the ceremony a grand boll
took place, which was honoured by the 'newsier of
our magma Sovereign, their Imperial Highnesses
the Hereditary Prince and Princeu, and the Arch-
duchess Mans Louisa. The apartments of the
Palace of the Einhassy were magnificently illumi-
nated. The supper on the occasion nos In the first
style of splendour : among the ornaments; were,
the hisste of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent,
hi. Grace the Duke of Wellington, Mr. Nut, snail
Mr. Percent!. The Royal Family and Court were
placed at • separate table of forty coters. The
company. consisting of the noblity, Bcc. unwonted
to above 300. Alter supper the ball recoi 1111 l cured,
their Royal Hightitowes and Com t remaining nearly
the whole of the evening.

103113.1 Y RILITARY APPOINTMENT*. I - MURDER AT EPSOM:
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•• . •
His Excellency Llent.-General Sir Mile. Nightingill„ Yesttaiday (he Machalratr. rade-ismer, to discover
Contonanaer.le-Chief of his Majesty'sand the Hun. She the enter of Mr. lres.ices vamekeeper have helm liner
East India Company's Forret, has been pleased to appoint ing, with shiaut six rather Magistrate', met at the Coffee
Major William Peadock Tucker to he Deputy Quarter. hinny and Tavern. Elseinn, in examine ilie perilous who hail
Master-General to um Forces; and Captain Charlton B. , been taken into cuatiidr.
Tacker, Igth light Dragoons, to be Aide.rle.Camp and May and Hall, riSieers of Union-Hall, mated, that with
Military Secretary to the Lient-I Deneral and Commander-in. the asaisialice of Mr. May, the gameke. per of Lord Arden,
Chief. I they had apprehended 77mitas nod Jmultr Arnold, and a
- ------ - mass manna! Ortaorne, sits suspicion iif being concerned in she
murder of Ely Cox. They bail seas cheil their cottages. in
()stannic 's they limes.,.) A 2All InAlit di, and from his being near
the spot when the AIM lb.,' was committed, and there beinz
marks shout his peraim, they ilioneht proper to apprehend
him, as hr appeared to have lacesi hitely in a setae, and re.
relent a rut on his forehead. They apprehended the Anuilds,
taring informed that one of them wa4 a mass of cu*oil
character, anal from his being from home un the night the
murder aa. perpetrated, and his 11,1Villf slept in the open
fields, according to his own ace tttttt t, not more than a speller
of a mil. from the place %here Cox was murdered.
A minilwr of witnesses were examined their evidence did
not sisal, affect the Priaimeas. The inventigni ion lined
'wren Is a, when the Magni' ales, after a listig and delibe-
rate consideration, discharged all the Piiroueis.

INQUESTS.

•••1111111
Yerierilay afternoon no inquest was 11^bi at the alto of
the (jtaneru before T. STIR I I‘4l.
Esq. on the body of Mr. John Soo' 11, who was killed by
falling owl of a three-story window iii Tooles.roort. on Tort.
slay mantis; last. by which 'mans his bind pitching us. the
wooden piling, !lashed his brain,' ant.
Mies Mary f..;lispinan, being swim., said she resided wills
her parent., who live nest door to where the accident hap-
pened. About ten o'clock nn Tuesday mo g was in the
one pair front room, when she heard a violent noise, as if a
window was broke, and went to the one pair back r to
arc dam the cause on looking sot of the window saw the
&erased, he hail just fallen into the yard ; witness did not
ohsei re hint mote, appeared finite tionless. She ran
and informed tier mot her of what she haul seen, and Ihenshe
beard a bind scream from Ain. Sad'. The t!er,a.eil full
into the yard ailjoiniiig her parent's house. Did not know
by what means he f II soot of the window, or wlietlies it was
from the second or third glory. The Ito ceasrel haul resided
there I.llr 1111. tern I'llll%. tie orettpie 4 a sihtslinn Its a
Clrik of the Reetererter in the Common Pleas Office ; was
in the hail of freipiently En!ling to the riot hen in the yard
from the two pair of Stairs *inflow. Was quite tone.
rolinted with the decimal] extetit by sight
mr. . Owen. sorgeon of Chanel I y-latie. said. he hail
known the d. ,ease.l acid his family het wee!, 10 an: It :
always considered him a very respertaMe into. Almon three
weeks tart vomit to Ibis rieriileot, be came II) Winne,.'. 111/011•C
with Nlrs S reaperting it had finger; he hail since been in.
formed that the demised w4ll 111 the head-ache and
tiros/miaow; 11111 not consoler him a 11,1,1111 Ii it ly to commit
as art of snieide et.rept through derangement. Witness
11/311 .I'lll for by ihe son of the Accessed. a leo minutes offer
the aro-Oleos happened, who told him hi, father hail fallen
nut of a window; lie attended imnndiatsly, and fuoind the
dcreased lying ‘iii his hark in yard quite dead; his 'knit
was shattered to piece., the scalp wls lacerated ; it 111,,,1111.
eti a horrid • pert:ode. On viewing the head the greater part
of the brims bail come init.

Mr Grorgr Clerk, watchmaker. of A lilersr ate-street, said,
he hail known the deceased rarer et years, the last time he
swim bias was ou 11 ))))) .ny afternoon about four o'clock, lie
cline to his shop, and slopped shone a quarter of an hour.
The witness went down stairs, and on his return lie found
the deceased dosinc, when he opened his eyes be looked
quite wild, boil soon recovered lo!nwlf; he consplaisod he
hail not slept fur several niches Witness thinks it was sl t
twelve o'clock on Tiaciolsy mooning when he was sent for,
the deceased was then NH noire. He (IA lust observe suv
alteration in him after his recovery front the dose. This
witness said he weal up stairs to the window from silence
tie deceased had fatten, and requested that it re main
open until the Jury had an opportunity to esrias . ...•• it. The
witness bad !wen informed the deceased had oreesve.l
wound the head when he was a tiny. He had complained
to hint several imes of a parcho..e he had ensile. and felt
himself much dissatisfied on the 111.4..1,11/11, sett ah he be.
hewed the deceased was not the heist it collo:utilised cir-
cumstances.

1 he Jury at this time went In take a view of the body, and
on their return moirreded with the further examine
Rebecca Ralph, servant to Mr. Suffell, stilted, she hall
Bred with the family three mouth.. ; hyoid her master com-
plain nerrral tones the heat did
rause into the kitchen 'haat half.pant eight &chick in the
suoriting of Tuesday Inn*, and wattled hie hands ; he break--
fainted Severally in Ilte first floor hat k room, after which he
usually began to dress for business. lie frequently retired
into the garret, it being a very cool r . One of the t hit.
then at this time was in the yard, and she heard her macler
call oat to It not to make such a noise, and alumni imme-
diately after heard the fall in the yard her g • g lop il.e
status she met the child, ■od (lieu observed hoer master I Mg
in the yin'.

The Crooner then n.l4lre ww.l the Inn •, who, nfirr enn.n't.
ing for a few mi•uter, returned • verdict or—Accidental
Death

Yeaterthy an !wpm Ira% held at the Anchor end Ifone
publie-houxe, New Crane, Shadwell. Wore iOll4
UWWIN, Esq. Coroner, on the boat, of Henry Ccohaly. aged
17, who mart his death under the following' eiceum•
Maur« s

It appals-ea, on the evidence of John Nfalthews, a water-
malt. that on Tuesday mono last he wan vowing along
Ilw Thames joist MT Hermitage Stairs, and in consequence
of hem nog • splash, as if I.ollr nue fell in the water, he
looked round, and saw the deceased struggling in the wader;
he got • bole mid went to the simi. by which time than ii.-
ceased sunk, sail after exerting himself fur shoot fifteeit
mintites he got him mit of the wrier, apparently lifeless.
Ms. Clarlma, of Warping, Wall. a sin germ, was 'tent
for, abuts CAMP aft• r, ana in his ev Menet. stated, that
he found the deceased 01,01.4,1)11y 111,1 can, 13,141 his ri..then
were off ; Ire used every sorrily In restore him to no avail.
From Iletniiisge In Sli;nlwell Ibere in no nppn.stns to 4.1.-
stme thownea person*, and it' tlu•m had been an apparatus
cum.-Mem when lie firat saw the deceased, he 1141 110 doubt
hot lie could have saved his life%

The was the son of %Ir. Crossley, sugar-baker,
of Shads...Al, and the erieent e proved it was trite accidental
The ins, returned a verdict of—" Accidentally dsoormcd."
The feelitizi of the Jury were much hurt that the life of a
felluw_rreature should be lost fur the wash! of douse ',recs.
wary ni,atis to restore iniimslion in Ca.ra of the above kind,
mid which are in highly r toper to have near stint part of the
nivur, *litre orCllllCaCes of a siaular description are almost
lily happening.
SUICIDE.

Yesterday an inquisition was taken at the Fos pnhlic-hnn•e,
ill l'inier-strer t, Lambeth, Is•fure JEMIRTT,
ON. ("mune'. for Surrey, on *sew of the Wily of Mr. Hem y
Iluward, of that place, whn committed suicide.
It appeared, that on the 21tili of July the deceased wrist
about ten o'clock in the sisortlisiz iti the F.4.N, where he re-
mained thinking fur attune an hour, and then suddenly left
the house, and went
afterwards the report of a pottill was heard. On aertich.
ink from whence the repo; I proceeded, the body of the
deceased was found in the hark ground; he was lying ilat
upon his hark, and blood 'ammo: out of his mouth; he liar
Mc •but himself Ihrmuth the head. A Mace of moots weir
(mind Iyiug by his side, and one of them recently dischal
which lift nu doubt but he committed the set himself. The
ttuittesties of the deceased wer► examined, and Hit y all de.
mowed to the law and deltsmiling stale of his mind for some
times previous to his death.
The July ridurtied a verdict—Lamer.

it French Judge, .rot loi the purpose by his
• lull rut, Is rivorird to hr u,iw 1;4)1144 our of thr
circuit., to %Tillie.+ owl report the
jimter, par:icularly a. r,gordwg our
m•
ks of tvideher, soil rtcrpttuu of poufs,