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VAUXHALL.

THIS EVENING. FRIDAY, July 2S, •
GRAND GALA, comprising a Concert of Miscel-
laneous Music. At the end of the first Act Madame and
Mademoiselle Saqui, with Mademoiselle Adelle, will exhibit
their admired Performances; and, at the conclusion of the
Concert, will stiereed a brilliant display of Firewo►ks, by
Signora Headier, when Madame Segni, completely enve-
loped in a volume of fire, will achieve her surprising Evolu-
tions on the Tight Rope, at an elevation of sixty feet from
the ground.
Admission 3s. 61—Doors open at Seven, the Concert to
hezin at Eight o'Cloth.

THE BINDLEY LIBRARY AND AUTOGRAPHS.
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
By MR. EVANS,
At his House, No. 96, Pall-mall, on WEDNESDAY NEXT,
August 2, sad five following days,
TIIE Fourth anti Concluding PART of the
curious and extensive LIBRARY of the late JAMES
BINDLEY, Esq.; containing a singular assemblage of rare
old Poetry, Pageants, curious Tracts and Rarities in every
Department of Literature • also his very curious and valua-
ble Collection of Autographs.

BISFI. Cosktractor for the NEW LOTTERY.
ALL STERLING MONEY! No Classes! Every
Ticket loin be pit into the Wheel aid deride its owe fate,
A%D NO OTOSII.

The Public Patronage so liberally bestowed on T. BilSll
during the progress of the late Lottery, while it demands
his must grateful neknowledzments, calls also for his best
exertions to secure its continuance.
With this feeling, be begs leave to announce to his best
Friends, the Public, that Ire has contracted with Govern-
nitist for Twenty Thonsaud Tickets, to be drawn in one or
more Lotteries.
A Scheme is now submitted, io framing which, T. B. has
endeavoured to meet the wishes of those Friends who hive
at different times favoured bins with their suggestions upon
the subject. This Scheme be has great satisfaction in sub-
mitting, as it has received the sanction of the Lords of the
Treasury, and be looks with confidence to that which can
alone secure its success--Ptinuo ArraovAL.

With only 5,00 Tickets, there are TWO of £20,000!
And various usher Capitals,
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As will appear by the following Scheme t-
-2 ....Prizes of £16,000 Sterling Money, are.. £32,000
V. "Prises 0f....4,000 Sterling Money, are.... 8,000
0f....1,000 Sterling Money, are.... 2,000
2.... Prizes 0f.... SOO Sterling Money, 0re.... 1,000
10.... Prizes 0f.... 210 Sterling Money, are... 2,100
14.... Prizes 0f.... 200 Sterling Money, are.... 2,800
10. "Prises •f.... 100 Sterling Money, are.... 1,800

gg,...prizes 0f.... 60 Sterling Monty, MIL... 1,100
Prises 0f.... . 20 Sterling Money, are.... 1,100
• I,ooo....Priaes 0f.... 16 Sterling Money, ■re....16,000

Total Amount
5,600 Tickets. E 67,200
iu Sterling Mosey
The First and Second 16,000/. to have each 4.000/. more,
waking the above Two Prises of 20,0001.
To be drawn all in One Day, 30th of AUGUST.
T. RUSH, the Contractor,
trusts be kas fulfilled his pledge, by producing a Scheme.
NOT ONLY free from every olticctlim, hut with VERY
SUPERIOR ATTRACTIONS; fur tiltboligh it is the
4011911 f LOtiC77 every Anosen (with such large Prize.)
tt cuntains Two Toasty Thousands, it also contains 11,2001.
in extra Prizes, all in Sterling Money !
The Lords of the Treasury having allowed T. HIM. time
Contractor, to pay an LXTRA SUM of 11,200/., by which
are formed the following EXTRA PRIZES, iucluded iu the
soileited Scheme, viz.
2 Prizes of £l,OOO Sterling Money are ..E2,000
5110 Sterling Money are ..•1.000
10 Prizes of .. 210 Sterling Money are 2,100
14., „Prizes of .. 200 Sterling Money are .. 2,800
10 Priers of 100 Sterling Money arc .. 1,000
22 Prtson of .. 60 Sterling Money are .. 1,100
60 Piizcs of 20 Sterling Muuey ore .. 1,200

F 11,200
Which are par! of the above Scheme.
In all which every purchaser will pirtieipate, whether he
sunk. s hit 'Hiram*s at the Cuutractur's Offices, or at those
4,1 tither Otfiewkeeper.
le this Lottery every Ticket will be pul into the Wheel
oar/ mat will dixide its Oifefule, AND NU °VOIR!!!
TICK Ers sad SHARES are telling by T. DISH,
Shuck-broker, Compactor fur the Lottery, 4, Combat, and
9, Cheri tweross.
••• The prices of Stocks are affixed. hourly, against
DISH'S udire is Curubill, by which the Public can see the
• UNCllhaiUlla.

METHODIST
BRANCH MISSIoIvAHY SOCIETY

FOR THE LOUTH CIRCUIT.

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]

On Tuesday the 18th of July was held in Louth
chapel the third anniversary of the Methodist
Branch Missionary Society for the Louth Circuit;
H. R. Allenby, Esq. in the Chair. On the pre-
ceding evening the Rev. George Cnbitt, of Boston,
preached the introductory sermon from Gen. xxii.
v. 18, in which he described the blessings derived
to man through Jesus Christ ; shewed that every
individual receiving those blessings became, by their
influence on his heart and conduct, ■ blessing to
society ; and proved that the blessings of the gospel
were adapted in their nature, and designed by their
author, for universal extension. The Rev. Samuel
Leigh, • Missionary lately returned from New South
Wales, deliv4ed in the forenoon of Tuesday a very
appropiate discourse from Romans, xv. v. 20, 21.
At the meeting in the afternoon several very in-
structive, eloquent, and impressive speeches were
delivered by the Rev. Messrs. Taylor, Gregory,
Hannah, Leigh, Agar, and others ; but though all
these speeches were truly excellent, that of Mr.
Leigh most attracted our notice. This Gentleman
gave us some very interesting information relative
to the spiritual and social state of the inhabitants of
New Zealand, amongst whom he resisted about six
weeks just before he sailed for England. The cir.
cumstances he related were the more firmly be-
lieved, end more deeply felt, because lie himself
had witnessed them ; sod, on account of their im-
portance, we could wish to have stated them in that
minuteness of detail its winch we heard them ; bat
as such statement would occupy too much of our
Paper. we shall content ourselves by wring one or
two of the must striking facts. One day, whilst Mr.
Leigh was walking on the beech, conversing with a
native chief, his attentiou was arrested by • vest
multitude of people on a neighboming hill. He
inquired the cruse of such a concourse, and, on
being told that they were rouging c /ad, sold hid

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assembled to eat him, he • netlistely proceeded to
the place, in order to ascertain the truth of this
alarmierg info, motion. Being arrived, at the village
where the people wv.e collected, he asked to are the
boy. They appeared much agitated at his pre-
sence, and prirtitularly at his request, as if con-
scious of their guilt; and it was only lifter very
urgent subedit. that they directed him towards a
large fire, at sortie distance, where they, said he
would find him. As Ire was going to dr piece, he
passed by the bloody spot 011 which the heat' of this
unhappy victim had been cut off; sod, on ap-
proaching the tire, he was not a little mottled at the
'tablets sppearance of a savage looking man, of gi.
gautic stature, entirely naked, and seined with an
axe. Mr. Leigh, though iiiwarilly intimidated,
manifested no sympton of fear,. but boldly demand-
ed to see the lad. The cook (for such was the ()CCU.
potion of this terrific monster) theta held him up by
his feet. He appeared to he about 14 years of age,
and was about half roasted.
Mr. Leigh returned to Village, where be
found severe, ',rewired, of the wove, seated in •
circle. with a quantity of eoowery (a sort of sweet
rotator) before them, 'widow for the roasted
body of the youth. In this company were thews
to him Me parents qf the child, expecting to share
in the horrid feast ! His heart melted within him.
After reasoning with them for about half an hour,
on the inhumanity and wickedness of their con-
duct. he prevailed %Sidi them to give up the boy to
be interred. and thus prevented them from per-
forming the most cruel. unnatural, arid diabolical
act of which fallen man can be guilty.
The following is another instance of the barba-
rity of this people, which, in atrocity, even ex-
ceeds the emir. A few years ago, a Captain
(whose name, as well as that of his ship, we do
not distinctly remember), called at New Zealand
to procure a quantity of timber. The natives, in
order to revenge an injury which the Captain had
done to a young Chief, laid a plot for the destruc-
tion of the whole crew. They agreed to supply
the Captain with the wood Le wanted, hut relived to
carry it to the ship till he had inspected it On shore.
This towelled condition raised • suspicion of dan-
ger in the mind of the Captain, who therefore did
not leave the vessel for three days, and took care
to be well armed when any of the natives were on
board. His apprehensions, however, soon began to
die away, alld, being anxious to prosecute his voy-
age, lie ventured on shore, accompanied by a select
number of his men.
_Agreeably to a scheme pre-
viously concerted, 31 party of the Zealanders were
stationed iii and about the ship, and the others
on the beach. These fell upon and murdered
the Captain and his companions as soon as
they reached the lend, and having put on the
sailors' clothes. they rowed towards the vessel.—
This was the appointed time for a general mas-
sacre. Those natives who had remsined in the
ship, perceiving who were in the boats immedi-
ately slaughtered the whole crew. with the excels.
lion of only three persons. Their bodice, sixty.
seven in number, were all taken on shore, roasted,
and eaters.—This account Mr. Leigh had from the
mouths of persons who were actors in this tragic
scene, who also skewed him many of the bones of
the unfortunate sufferers, and the remains of the
vessel. The three individuals who were spared were
living in New South Wales when Mr. Leigh left
that country.
Several other equally interesting facts were re-
lated by this pious and worthy Missionary, which
cannot be inserted here on account of the inadmis-
sible length to which they would extend this pars-
Amish. Let it suffice to notice, that, rintvrith-
shielding the almost incredible &wily of these
cannibals, they are remarkably ingenious awl en-
terp • • g, very respectful to Europtaus, and dis-
covered a surprising willingness and capacity to re-
ceive instruction, and to do as they are taught;
and that Mr. Leigh intends shortly to rail, with six
other minister., for New Zealand, and other islands
in that part of the Pacific Ocrau.—(Boston (se.
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HIGH 7'REASON.

SPECIAL COMMISSION.

GLASGOW, JULY 94.
The Court met this day, at nine o'clock, for
the trial of Williams A7'l►ttyre, who had been
arraigned along with Wilson, already convicted.
The LORD ADVOCATS stated, that it was not his
intention to lead proof against the Prisoner. It
was the wish of the Crown Lawyrts to prosecute
those only who had been leaden in the late disturb.
ances ; and, as it appeared that the Prisoner now
at the bar was not so guilty as loins others who had
absconded, he would allow him to he discharged.
His Lordship stated, that he would consider it leis
duty to watch those individuals, and, ►f possible,
to apprehend them, and still to bring them to trial
for the crimes th'iy had committed.

The LORD PRIESIDINT addressed the Prisoner.
He told him that he was bound, in gratitude, to
reverence those laws by the exercise of whose leniency
he was about to be discharged. The persons who
had beers engaged in the late treasonable proceed-
ings pretended to be iu search of their rights—
the rights of their forefathers. This conduct could
only originate in ignorance of the history of their
country ; fur they now enjoyed ten timer more li-
berty than their fathers ever did. If the Prisoner
had seen the trial of Nilson, he would have seen a,
poor man tried with the same solemnity, the same
impartiality, and the same regard to justice, that
the richest num could have been. The Prisoner
was then admonished to return to the bosom of his
family, send to act more circumspectly in future.
The Prisoner was accordingly discharged.
Matthew Boyle, Ake. Graham, and ,/aim May,
were next put to the bar.
The Low ADVOCATE Iliddrentd the Jury in the
same terms ■s on the former case, they having been

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previously sword); and they found the Prisoners Ilot
(;uilty.
The Loan PRES/DEFT then admonished them In
gnarl against such conduct in future, and he bone+
that they would riot be again deluded by designing
turn; if so, nothing hut the severest purindliment
the law nu inflict will be administered. His Lord-
ship begged of them to return to sobriety sod
hon►.t industry. and dismissed them from the her.
John May then returned thanks to the Court
and Jury, in name of himself and companions, and
promised to be no more found before the Court.
Campbell and George Allan were dia.
posed of in the same mintier.
The LORD JUSTICE CLERK, previous to dis.
missing them from the bar, addressed them in
very pathetic manner, and advised them. on return.
log in the booms of their families, that they should!
fear Gad, honour the King, and meddle not with
those who are given to change.
The LORD ADVOCATE, in addressing the Court,
observer), that the ex.ensive manufactories of the
Lord Provost of this city, and of several other
Gesitlernen; bed not •track work on the ba of
April, which he attributed to the influence they
had over their men. and he hoped the toaster ma.
nufacturers and Gentlemen of the country would
assemble no the first appearance of any such dis.
order. The motives of the Crown Lawyers. in
adopting • lenient line of conduct, were to make
no more examples than was absolutely necessary;
end, as he believed that the spirit which led to the
late disturbances in this pert of the country was
►ubsiding, they were not disposed to proceed
against any or the Prisoners. He then slimier' to
the state of the police of the country, and ex-
pressed his fears that it was not so good as it ought
to be; for if it were so, many guilty individuals
would not have been able to escape.
In the, course of the day repeated allusion was
made to the Lord Advocate discharging the arraign
against Graham. Our readers will recollect, that
when he was arraigned he wished to Weird Guilty;
but on the advice of the Lord President he pleaded
Not Guilty. This act of kindness, on the part of
the public prosecutor, was particularly pointed nut
to the Prisoners as air additional ground of gran.
lode. This bring all the cases before the Court,
Wilson was brought up for sentence. and bring
told that he had now an opportunity of speaking to
the Court. why sentruce of death should not be
pronounced against him, he stammered out a few
words, in an incoherent manner, cud was advised
by the Lord President to communicate with his
Counsel, as he might use expressions which would
be detrimental to him, having been recommended
to the clemency of the Court by the Jury.
Mr. MOREAU then said • few words fur him.

The LORD PIRSIDENT then addressed him nearly
as follows :--44 Janies Wilson, you must be con-
vinced of the impartiality and fairness with which
the proceedings against you hive been conducted.
From the ezeresse of your right of challenge. the
Jury by which you have been found guilty may he
considered as chosen by yourself; and the crime
they have foetid you guilty of is the most dreadful
that can afflict any nation. All other crimes are
trifling when compared to it ; it strikes at the root
of the whole fabric on which our happiness is
founded. The horrors of • civil war, where citizen
is contending against citizen, with deadly malig-
nity, is far more to be dreaded than the most bloody
foreign contest. No doubt, it was never dreamt by
any rational being, that the violent people with
whom you were connected could be ultimately suc-
cemful ; but the intermediate evils your mischief
might have produced are terrible to think of. The
rights and liberties of the peaceable and loyal part
of the community are to be protected as well as
those of the turbulent and disaffected ; and when
they were pleased with the liberty they enjoyed
they were not to be disturbed by the factious pro-
ceedings of the evil-disposed. I advise you most
sincerely to think seriously of your eternal interests,
as you are shortly to appear at the mercy seat of
Christ, and I beseech you to consider well the
errors of your pest life, and make good use of the
short time allotted to you in this world. Remem-
ber that the justice of God is as inflexible as
his mercies are infinite ; and I trust you have not
thrown off all allegiance to your Heaveuly Sovereign
as it appears you have done to yeur earthly out.
The ministers of religion of every sect and persua-
sion will be ready and willing to assist you in pre-
paring for the concerns of your immortal soul. The
recommendation of the Jury shall most certainly be
transmitted to the proper authority, and I sincerely
hope tint mercy will be extended to you ; but it is
often necessary for the Government to consider
the expediency of those recommendations, and the
power vested io the Crown is assuredly not exercised
capriciously, but for the general safety and pros-
perity of the State. I advise you, however, to pre-
pare for the utmost extreme ; and if mercy be ex-
tended to you, you will riot be the worse man for
the attention isich you may give to your religious
conceive. The sentence of the law is, that you be
drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, on the
30th of August, and after being hung by the neck
till you be dead, that your head be severed from
your body, and your body cut in quarters, to be at
the disposal of the King ; and the Lord have mercy
upon your soul."
The Prisoner was then takers from the bar, with-
out shelving any signs of agitation, and confined in
one of the iron rooms.
The LORD Passim:we concluded the business
with an admirable address, in the course of which
he observed that he was afraid the upper ranks were
not so religious as our fathers. He remarked, that
civil commotion feeds to military despotism. and
that liberty without religion ends M licentiousness.
The Court them adjoisrued till the 47th November.
PAISLEY, JULY
The Special Commisdoa met here to-day. The
Judges present were the Lord Justice Clerk and
,Lard
James Speirs, weaver in Johnstede, and Jeha
Lang. weaver in Kill's:chin, two of the perilous

CIVIL SIDE.
EY•NS C. DIiST.
This was an action by a linen-draper of Unser.
to recover the amount of a bill delivered iu the
amount of 404 for goods supplied to the DeGio:.
ant's wife while she lived serarale frotu her bur-
band, with the Plaintiff's knowledge.

Mr. GURNEY and Mr. 13431. LAND were for the
Plaintiff; ■nd Mr. MattnYare and Mr. Seijeak
'FADDY for the Defendant.
The sale and delivery of the goads in piestion
were regularly proved. It was sioggestid in 11,e
opening that the Defendant, by a series of.the must-
cruel acts, had driven hie wife from his sous. shit
had literally turned her out of doors. and that the
goods supplied her by the Plaintiff were necessaries
suitable to her condition.
Several witnesses were called to prove these facts,
but, on their crosaex■mtuation, it appeared that
the Defendant. a wealthy brewer, at Chatham, had
married Mrs. Best, after she had been for some time
living with him in a state of concubinage; that pre-
•ifions to that time she was a notorious Cypriot);
that after they were married they lived like cat and
dog, and generally fought most furiously after din-
ner, when both were in a state of intoxication ; that
■t length Mrs. Best voluntarily eloped from his
house, carrying off with her a carriage load of all
sorts of wearing apparel ; she had two doze's pairs
of new silk Blocking', two dozen pairs of new shoes, •

The CRIEF JUSTICE, under these circumstances,
■nd before the Defendant's cast was gone into,
ruled that the action would not lie. There were
iu fact two defences to the action. In the first
place, Mrs. Best had voluntarily eloped ; and, in
the second, she had carried oft such quantities .•t
clothing, that she could not be said to be in watt
of necessaries. A tradesman, like the Plaintiff,
trusts a married woman at his peril, if he knows
that she is living separate from her husband. I f
she was living with her husband, the case would be
quite differeut.—Nonsuited.

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