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day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
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God same the Queen.

A HERO OF THE OLD WAR.

I(From O'Byrne's "Naval Biography.")
Rear-Admiral Maurice obtained an appointment in Sept.
1802, in the Centaur, 72, bearing the broad pendant of
Commodore Sam. Hood, he aided in that ship at the cap.
ture of St. Lucie, Tobago, Demerara, and Essequibo, and
ea 2tith Nov. 1803, he landed at the head of 40 seamen,
with -the-greater-partref- the ine,ri nes under Captain Crozier,
at Petite Ance d'Aristre, Martinique, and assisted in, de*
straying a battery of six 24-pounders. lothe performance,
however, of this service, he received a wound, occasioned
by the explosion of the magazine, and was in consequence
presented by the Patriotic Society with a sword valued at
501. On 3d Feb., 1804, after nearly a month had *been ex.
pended in planting five guns (three 24-pounders,and two
lung 18's), and placing provisions, stores, &c., upon an all
but inaccessible eminence, situated in the sea near the
south-west end of Martinique, and called the Dimond
Rock, the rating was assigned it of a sloop of war, and digs
counnand given to Lieutenant Maurice, as a reward foithe
arduous and prominent part he had borne in the equip-
ment. Being confirmed in his new appointment, May 7th;
in the same year, he continued to hold it until the 2d Jane,
1805, when, owing to a want of ammunition and water, he
w..s under the necessity of surrendering to a French Iva-
g I ron of t wo sail-of-the-line, one frigate, one' birliett it Ibbliar,
and eleven gun-boxt4, together with 1,500 troops, aft*
sustaining a three days' attack with a degree of gallantry
that /rad the effect of subsequently procuring him not only
the honourable acquittal, but the high admiration of a
mannerj f tlyhe3i
ot.
,isnhlBiwpl sho
iaconhfd
het o a
court martial, -and the warm applause .of Lord Nekoi.
T enemy, during the operations, appear to have had
al'aut 3°ltilledliaKitO kounlea 'on, AIM" in 400404621
His next appointment,
..taefne,vA
nhittehnimlcptt_l3,;lhroe.
ad_ 8
.gunto
re-77:c: and two row-boats. aTe
on
ntment, we find, was to the governorship
edets:fselaaaniti :id ' •
1811, he rendered his name, foo "--........"" w—fre, 112 . . -
er famous by the brilliant
it by a Danish flotilla-goad
4,000 men, who, after. a ClOasr2
Y., congibtiag,in all of nearly
balf,-Werm•
1 verttortirtivm:=l2. foul- hours and a

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pieces of cannon, 14 shells, 484 muskets 470 swords, 1,600
musket-ball cartridges, and upwards 0f.500 Drisoners--s, greater number by 150 than the'garrfliois'itier .Although
the loss of the assailants was most severe, that of the Brgbi-
tish was confined to two killed and 30 wounded. The rimis defence of Anholt, indeed, became the. universal
theme of praise, and its gallant conductor, as a matter of
course, received the warmest plaudits of the'Admiralty.

AN ..4MERIGAN'S OPINION OF ENGLISH
TRAVELLERS.

The following hearty 'denunciation of English travel-
ling weaknesses is taken from Memoranda of European
Travels, published in the New York Evening Post :

THE TRAVELLING RABBLE.—Such is the appellation

(in Gt man, Reisepcebel) now universally applied to that
herd of travellers which are annually let loose from Great
Britain upon the continent of Europe. They are easily
distinguished by their arrogance, superciliousness, and
ignorance of anything except h'England, its manners and
castoms. They travel on foot, by stage, in steam-boats,
and on railroads, " solitary" among crowds, with no
companions except their ever present friend—the red
Morocco-bound "Murray." They eat, sleep, drink, ate
and act as Murray says. That book is the last thing
they read at night, and the first they consult as they
rise. It never leaves their hands, except at breakfast,
dinner, and supper, and even then it has a place by their
,ide. No Englishman is ever seen at a place not noted
down in Murray, nor will he stop at a hotel not recom-
mended by Murray. An Englishman abroad is, therefore,
but a quantity of flesh and bones sent adrift, to keep tra-
velling, for a time, by route prescribed. He carries his
direction in his hand, and it is a well-understood agree-
„nerd on the part of hotel-keepers, steam-boat agents,
&c., that Johnny Bull is to be at the trouble of stopping
foom place to place, and to have the privilege of swear-
ing and grumbling at everything and everybody, and to
;Ind it all again in his bill.
" I have long made it a rule not to stop at hotels
where the English stop, and in every possible way to
avoid them and their company, on the Continent. I am
equally careful to speak English as little as possible
while travelling, so that no hotel-keeper, waiter, stage-
iriver, or others of the ' predatory tribes,' shall take
me to be an EnJishman, and think me, therefore, 'to
be preyed upon.'
The following anecdote is a case in point, to show the
perverseness of English travellers, and the disposition of
the public generally, to let them get their fill of travel-
ling. It was given me by a young German, who re-
sides in the southern states, and I will give it to you in
his own words, as near as I can recollect :
I was going, said lig, from Aarau to Zurich. WU.
in the stage between Aaru and Baden, my wife and my-
self were conversing in English. This attracted the at-
tention of an Englishman, and he said inquiringly :
" From England, sir 1"
" No, sir. From the United States !"
" But you speak German, too, like a native In •
"Exactly. lam a native German, but American by
t doption,"
" Ala ! well, next year I am going to travel in Ame-
rica, and I expect to be treated better than here in this
l—d country."
" What's the matter ?" asked I.

" Why, just think of it. I have tried twice before
this—and this is the third time—to get from A eras to
B.isle, and every time they take me the wrong route."
At this time we were entering Lendsburg, the half-
way place between Baden and Aarau, and I was on the
).,int of telling the pour fellow that he had got wrong
,gain, when he jumped up, of his own accord, per-
fect frenzy.
" Stop, stop ! 0. kind sir, do tell these infernal ray-
.als to stop the stage, for here I am again at that in-
errial station, which will appear, let me try to get out
,f Aaran as I will."
The stage stopped, and I informed the conductor of
:.he perplexing predicament my English friend was in.
" Is that the fellow I" asked he, pointing at the almost
listracted Englishman as he stood near the stage,
swearing.and cursing most vociferously.
" Yes," said I. " Do, Mr. Conductor, get the poor
fellow on the right track."

" It's no use, sir ; the conductors in this part of the
c4untry know him. He will always get into the wrong
tage. This is the second time that I have taken him out
of Aarau, but in spite of us he would at • the. halfway
station get into the coach that runs hack to Aarau.
He pays well, but he is surely bewitched. He won't
suffer anybody to interpret for him, but insists on speak-
mg his broken German, which nobody understan4l.
Re may go, so far as I am concerned, where be pleases.
We call him the crazy Englishman ; and, in tact, 'added
the conductor, "it makes no difference with these Eng-
,iQhmen where they go ; they come to travel, and surely
till.; fellow Lrets etioulh of it."
I tried to explain matters to thc, Englishman, but it
'vas useless. He had cea-ed swearit.g in English, and
.vas then racking his brains for all the French and Dutch
'ciths he could remember.
I looked at his post-card, and it was, as the conductor
had told me, from Aarau to Zurich. The, mistake was,
•0 all appearances in the Englishman, and not the
,fficials. How it happened I could not learn. The

.tage started, and left our disconsolate friend behind,
who would not get in, as I advised him, and then start
rum Zurich to Bask, since there he would find plenty
.1 English friends who would get him right.
He, no doubt., that night went back to Aarau—Mur-
ray in hand ; wbether he ev. r get away from it, and
vhere he now is, I know not. I trust he will remember
my parting advice, to stay away from America ; for as
sure as he gets out upon our railroad lines our runners
will keep him travelling until they send him on a
ourney where " Murray " has not been, and "from
which no traveller returns."

ospuarriltsl:o) rnoden'r
was
A KNOTTY POINT UNDER THE SILK ACT.--JObti
‘'l'siaosnbdroa7,lgchhta rugpe di n wciuths-
ended in
belly, found in the possession of silk supposed to have
bt, ()e dteknyi,na 'et n
it" hfbeGe
zCazri
,t(eyi
de ".1)- so
tiTirceheee-tc,
appreh
Fountain•street, at about two o'clock nu Saturday after.
noon. He then had in the pocket of his coat a quantity
f silk in the gum (China organzine), evidently from
three or four different parcels, which he said he had
found in Chapel-street, Salford. Mr. F. Robinson, who
appeared on the part of the Silk Trade Protection
Society, said that the 10th section of the Silk Act au-
thorised the seizure of material supposed to have been em-
bezzled, when found in a house under a search warrant,
and the apprehension of the person in whose house
it was so found ; and that the 11th section authorised
seizure and apprehension when a person was found
carrying such a• material in the street between sunset and
-.unrise. He submitted that, inasmuch as Lord Den.
Ilan had, in the case of the Queen v. Willcock (14 Law
Journal, M.C. 104), decided that the offence under the
Act was the being in possession,
the bench were bound
to call upon the prisoner in this case, to account, with-
out inquiring how he came before them. Mr. Maude
said it was true that, in the case referred to, Lord Den-
man had spoken of possession rather lolsely ; still. he
meant such possession as was specified in the act ; there-
fore, it seemed to him (Mr. Maude) that he had_st°
power to call upon the prisoner to account, seeing that
silk
•=et. There was no offence in carrying
embezzledend he was
he had been taken into custody between sunrise and sun-
along the street between sunrise and Runt
could .not
of op;nion that a conviction in thisnc'
said that the
be drawn under the act.
D v , to the Court of
:onsider the propriety
''f
ap. -01Zelling the bench to
point was of great imporilairncel
Queen's Bench for a mandamus
account
for
his
possession of
call upon the prisoner to ;°.bhen"should therefore
r at the Court on
ot 501. to appear own recognisance .
complained that he wa, apprelie• dad
Friday next. He ......e
daand kept in prison without
at two o'clock on Saturday, the silk. Atkin was then geerated, being bound in his
food since that time. [A,O-
- he had never t
of which no notice was taken,
cording to this statement,
one
meal in forty-seven hours'.]
anything to eat until easgtedyo''clock on Sunday night, and
Atkin 11 td been allowed .
—J./one/aster Guaritan
ARCHDZACON WILBERFORCE.—In accordance with his
)nt.
;mat)on - , that
he would interpose no technical opposi-
tion to the proceeding necessary to obtain a judicial deci-
sion upon the doctrines contained in his late work, Arch-
dHa.m., Will, rfnrce has furnished the Rev. W. Brock, of
Bishop's Waltiron, with thefollowing document : "Burton
Agnes, Sunday,July 3.6 —1 ain the author of a work entitled
'The Doctrine of the Holy Eucharist,' recently pub-
lished by J. and C Motley, Paternoster-row, and J. H.
Parker. Oxford. They had my authority for publishing
it, arid I shall be willing to take any steps by which I
may make myself legally renoousible for it* coatents, *
this or ar.y otter diocese. -