The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-05 00:00:00

DORSETSIIIRE.

A very beautiful and highly eligible FreehOld Estate, near Poole,
Wimborn, and Wareham ; Land-Tax redeemed, and nearly
Tithe-free; elegant, compact, handsome, and highly finish-
ed Family. Residence, stuccoed, erected within a few years,
and finished in a truly tasteful and superior manner. excel-
lent Offices; productive walled Garden, Farm-houses, and
Buildings for, Agricultural purposes; Park, Farms, and
Heath Lands, about 1,200 Acres, with the Tithes of other
Lands.

By Mr. ROBINS, (of Warwick-house, Regent-street), at
Garraway's Coffee-house, 'Change-alley, Cornhill, London,
on Thursday, August 25, at Twelve, in One Lot,

THE highly improvable FREEEIOLD PRO-
PERTY, the UPTON ESTATE, situate on the
high-road from Poole to Wareham, comprising the elegant
mansion, adapted for the accommodation of a family of the first
distinction. Designed with great taste in the Italian style, and
executed in the most substantial manner; placed on a corn-
mending eminence, in the centre of a handsome park, highly
ornamented with fine timber, surrounded by luxuriant shrub-
beries and plantations, embracing most extensive and rich pic-
turesque views of the harbour and town of Poole, the Pur.
beck hills, and surrounding country. A Noble portico in
front, leading to a splendid entrance-hall, finished in the true
style of elegance ; capital drawing-room, dining-parlour, ex-
cellent library, billiard-room, dressing-room, water-closet. Sr-r•--,
with wings and colonnades. On the nve spacious
iory bed-elituiLutia, wich oressing-rooms, handsomely finished,
a bath-room, store-room, water-closet, &c., all leading into a
handsome gallery. In the attics are two good secondary bed-
chambers, and five servants' room. The offices are well
arranged, spacious, and airy, and concealed from the man-
sion, conveniently planned, and well supplied with fine water;
spacious dry arched cellaring and out-offices; French windows
on the South front opening under a veranda to .a grand terrace,
paved with marble and Portland stone ; and to the lawn, which
is surrounded by shrubberies, flower-gardens, and fine dry
ravelled walks. At a convenient distance from the mansion
is a uniform Brick Building, stuccoed, consisting of two coach-
houses for four carriages ; two roomy stables for five horses
each ; harness-rooms, men's-rooms, fruit-rooms, and lofts
over ; enclosed yard, gardener's-house, and out-buildings, pro-
ductive kitchen-garden, well planted, surrounded by lofty
walls. A good Farm-house, yards, and agricultural build-
ings ; several good Cottages for labourers, &c. Fine park
lands, inclosures of meadow and pasture land, and thriving
plantations; noble avenues of full-grown forest trees, dis-
persed round the buildings ; extensive plantations on the heath
lands opposite the mansion ; many beautiful sites for building,
commanding views of the Channel and River. The whole
about One Thousand Two Hundred Acres; affording cover
for plenty of game; fox-hounds kept in the neighbourhood;
a short distance from the Isle of Wight, Weymouth, &c. ;
and a most desirable and very improvable property for a gen-
tleman,—May be viewed by tickets, to be had of Mr. Robins
only ; particulars may be had of the Bailiff, at the. Farm-
house, who will show the Estate; and of Mr. Parr, Solicitor,
Poole ; Mr. Page, Surveyor, Wimborr. ; Dolphin, and Mail-
Coach. Office, Southampton ; Fountain, Portsmouth • Bush,
' Bristol • York Hotel, Bath ; lien and Chickens, iirming.
ham ; Hotels, Liverpool and Manchester; King's Head,
CoVentry ; at Garraway's ; and of Mr. Robins, No. 170,
Regent4treet, London, where a plan of the estate may be seen.

THE UNIVERt•ITI OF' KING'S COIII,EGN,
AT WINDSOR, IN NOVA SCOTIA.

TO every one who feels an interest in the
moral and religious improvement of his fellow-creatures,
the following brief details, with regard to a very important por-
tion of the North American Colonies, are presented with much
respect and confidence.
The Province of Nova Scotia was erected into an Episcopal
See in 1787, .and the established religion of the Church of
England thus assumed there that prominent and permanent
character to which it is so well entitled, both by the soundness
of its doctrines and the Godly excellence of its • Liturgy and
Discipline.
To preserve those doctrines, and that Liturgy and Discipline,
in Ahem unabated purity, it seemed necessary, at the some time,
that the means of a right religiouS educati,ta should be provid-
ed, both for those who were to teach, and those who were to be
taught the holy principles of our iurch—that so' they might
live and die in the faith and hope of their forefathert.
For this purpose, the University at Windsor was established,
and called King's College, as a testimony of gratitude to the
kindness and piety of his late Majesty King George 111.
under .whose sanction, and by whose charter it was principally
formed.

The statutes of the College were drawn up nfterjhe model of
those of Oxford ; and still more effectually to secure the' wel•
Fare of the institution, it was 'placed under the patronage of the
Archbishop of Canterbury, who has the power of a negative
upon every statute, and under the Government of the leading
official Personages in the Colony, whilst the important powers
of Visitor were entrusted, with equal prudence and propriety,
to . the Bishop of the Diocese.
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A plan of instruction so wisely framed could not fail of prov-
ing highly beneficial ; and the College has in fact brought up
in the principles of sound learning and a religious education,
not only the young men of Nova Scotia and the adjoining Co-
lonies, but also children of English residents in the neighbour-
ing States of America, who had inherited from their parents
au attachment to our venerable Church.

But the principal blessing which this University has been,
under God, the instrument of communicating to the Christian
world, is to be found in the exertions of many pious Ministers
of the Gospel, whom it has sent forth qualified, as far as hu-
man means could qualify them, for the di,eharge of those ardu-
ous and holy duties, which, when speaking of the Clergymen
of these North American Provinces, can be considered in no
other light, and called by no other name, than the labours of
the Christian Missionary.
Men equally learned,,and of equal zeal, might perhaps have
been obtaiped from the Universities of England ; but men of
equal experience, and equally contented with their peculiar
sphere, men equally acquainted with the habit 4 of the people,
and equally attached to the country in which they were con-
tinually to preach and dwell, the Universities of England could
never have furnished. -'

Such was the origin, and such has been the' past usefulness
of the University of Nova Scotia; but it is now unhappily be-
coming daily more inadequate to effect its admirable objects,
from several causes.

1. A temporary wooden building was all that, in the first
foundation of the College, it was deemed necessary or practi-
cable to raise: and that building, from a want of funds to ob-
viate the progress of gradual decay, has naturally, in the course
of nearly forty years, fallen into such a ruinous state, that it
can no longer be inhabited without extensive repairs, and is so
far gone as to be unworthy of being restored. It may be so re-
paired as to be occupied for a short time, but must soon be
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abandoned.

2. But even were the building in a more perfect condition, it
is now no longer sufficiently large to accommodate the increas-
ing number of students, or tit for the dignified purpose to which
it is appropriated, as the established University of a very rising
Colony.
The population of the Diocese of Nova Scotia is becoming
daily more numerous, and the demand for a liberal education is,
in consequence, proportionally enlarged. Men of sound reli-
gious principles and extensive acquirements are wanted for every
department, but particularly for the ministry in the Church of
Christ. An official Report, just received,shews that in one of the
five Provinces which are included within the Diocese, only six-
teen Clergymen are scattered over the immense extent of 27,000
square miles, where the population is increasing wonderfully
every year. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
has, at this moment, occasion for more than fifty additional
Missionaries in the North American Colonies alone; and the
of die two west Indian Bishoprics, and the earnest
endeavours which are so wisely making for the spiritual instruc-
tion of the Negro slaves, are likely to render King's College_ of
still more importance and use. They certainly render its pre-
sent building and its present means, altogether unfit and unequal
to answer its present and probable future opportunitiesiof doing
good. •
3. Without any imputation of improper hostility to other
forms of doctrine and Church government, it may be fairly
stated to those who love their own holy faith and discipline,
that if the College at Windsor be not supported by the pious
and benevolent, an attachment to the principles of the Church
of England and of our, happy Constitution must, in Nova
Scotia, decline. There are other establishments rising up,
which are not conducted upon the same principles, and from
them even the children of the members of the Church of Eng-
land must, if this university fall, be compelled to derive their
education. Or, if they do not resort to the dissenting establish-
ments of Nova Scotia, they Must gather their knowledge and
form their sentiments in the I tepublican Colleges of the United
States of America. Thus nurtured and instructed, it hiliatural
to conceive that they will imbibe opinions which are any thing
but favourable to the religious and political institutions of Eng-
land.

It is impossible to blame others who conscientiously endea-
vour to propagate their own views of the Gospel and govern-
ment, even where they differ from our own ; but surely if we
have any reverence for our own, or any real belief in their
truth and excellence, we must conscientiously contribute to
prevent the utter ruin of an University, which is their principal
support in a very important Province of the empire. We shall
do our utmost to provide a sound Episcopal branch of the
Church of Christ in America, with the means of educating for
itself, what it so greatly wants, a successioip-otisound Episcopal.
ministers.

Impressed with these considerations the Society for the Pro-
pagation of the Gospel has founded scholarships for the educa-
tion of Clergymen, and granted 5001. to relieve the exigencies
of the College. The Society for Promoting Christian Know-
ledge has also made a donation of 5001. for the religious
objects of the Institution; and several distinguished indivi-
duals have followed the example.
But to give some temporary repair to the present Building,
so that it may be used until another is completed ; to engage
in the erection of a new and sufficient edifice ; to provide ad-
ditional Professors, Tutors, and Scholarships ; to furnish the
necessary Philosophical Apparatus and Books ;—these are ob-
jects, to which the Subscriptions already received are extremely
inadequate. It is, therefore, to enlarge these funds, and procure
additional Subscriptions and Donations from the liberality of
those who are interested in the progress of science and the pro-
pagation of sound religious, and moral, and political principles,
that the Governors of King's College have ventured to make an
appeal which they are sure may be properly, and hope will not
be unsuccessfully made.
Contributions in money, books, and philosophical apparatus
of every kind, will be most thankfully received by Sir Scrope
Bernard Slorland, Bart. M.P., 50, Pall Mall, who has been
the kind Agent of King's College for many years. Other friends
of the Institution, in different places, will forward the object
of this Address, and supply informatiou to those who may re-
quire it.
During his short stay in England, the Bishop of Nova Scotia
will gladly afford this information, upon application to hint at
200, Piccadilly. It may likewise he obtained from the Secre-
tary to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 42, Castle-
street, Leicester-square; from the Secretaries to the Society for
Promoting Christian Knowledge, Lincoln's-inn-Fields ; and at
Cambridge from the Lord Bishop of Bristol, and the am the
Masters of" Trinity Trinity and St. John's Coll

The following. Sums have
.been benevolently afforded for
the commencement of. a Contrilintion in behalf of King's
College :
His Grace the Archhishol, of Canterbury - £lOO 0 0 ,
His Grace the Archbishop of I'ooc -
6150000(0/ . , 000
000
The Society for the. Propagation of the Gospel
Theile Society fohrop of London .
Promoting Christian lit.iowledge
- 100 0 0
The Lora. Bishop, of Durham - , 100 • 0 0
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The Lord Bishop of Nova Scotia - 100 0 0
Venerable Archdeacon .M - 50 0 0
Rev. H. 11. Norris boo. 0 • 0
Lord Chief Justice DoNvils - tll 0 0
olion..,(l:cprze. 5.13 c% • - 5 0

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

DURHAM ASSIZES, TUESDAY, AUG. 2.
[Before Mr. Justice BAYLEY.]
MALICIOUSLY SHOOTING.

Matthew Pratt, aged 36, a farmer at Breconbeds, in this
county, was put to the bar, charged with having fired a loaded
gun at his female servant, Hannah Greenwell, with intent to
murder her, or do her some grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Locx stated the case to the Jury as it was detailed in
the following evidence :
Hannah Greenwell said she had lived servant with the pri-
soner. On the 3d of April he came home about 12 o'clock at
night; he was tipsy; her fellow-servant took his horse to the
stable ; the prisoner asked after John Storey, a young man who
used to keep the prosecutrix company with his knowledge ; she
said he was not in the house ; he took down a gun, and. pro-
ceeded to search for him ; but not finding him, he came back
to the kitchen, and said he would shoot her ; he presented the
gun at her, but she concealed herself behind a projection in
the wall, and the shot missed her, and lodged in the wall ; she
put out her head after lie shot, and he seeing her, said, " Oh,
she is not dead ' he then seized the muzzle of the gun, and
swore he would take her life ; she rushed towards him, pushed
him down and made her escape ; Jonas Smith, .her fellow-ser-
vant, came in, and she told him what happened ; prisoner,
hearing Smith coming', jumped into bed, and concealed himself
under the clothes ; she went into the house of a neighbour,
named Gills, where she fainted.—Witness, on her cross-exami-
nation, said, that Storey had visited her for some time ; he had
been with her from three o'clock until half-past eleven on the
night in question ; her master had always been kind to her up
to that night; a person named Turnbull had been using the.
gun the night before, and she saw him draw the shot from it ;,
her master might not have known that the gun was loaded
when he took it down, as it usually remained unloaded. When
she first went to Gill's house, she said the prisoner had shot
John Storey; she was so agitated, she knew not what she said;
when she recovered from fainting, she told him what really had
taken place. He (Gills) said he (lid not hear the shot; she
never told Gills that he would be examined about it, and that'
he must say he heard the shot she had. no conversation with
him on theoubject until he came from Chester-le-street, where
the parties went to be examined.
Re-examined—Some plaister was knocked from the wall
where the shot struck; and some shot were found_ on the
ground; her master did not know that Turnbull had had the
gun until after he had fired at her, nor had he any reason to
suppose it was loaded at the time he took it down and present-
ed it at her.

Jonas Smith dressed his master's horse. On the night in ques-
tion ; on returning to the kitchen he found the smell of gun-
powder, and saw the prosecutrix crying ; she said her master
had shot at,her. Witness went on to detail a proceeding which
took place between his master and him in the fields ; a pheasant
got up, and his master desired him to take the gun and shoot it,
saying, that as he was to pay him his wages, he was bound to
obey him. The pheasant was shot, and his master, a few nights
after, told him, thaeif he did not pay him 51. he would inform
against him for shooting the pheasant ; he then said, " Well,
if you'll say nothing aboutn3y shooting, I'll say nothing about
the pheasant." Witness refused to make any promise, and
then his master mounted his horse and left the house, swear-
ing.he would go and lodge informations at once.
John Storey was called, and admitted his visits to the prose-
cutrix's, with prisoner's knowledge ; he heard a shot, when at
the distance of 400 yards from prisoner's house, on the night in
question ; he had gone away. because it was late, anti not be-
cruse he heard prisoner coming home.
Charles Gills, a neighbour, corroborated that part of the prose-
cutrix's testimony which described her going to his house and
fainting ; but added, that when mention was made of his •going
to give evidence, she told him he must say that he heard the
shot. He said he had not heard it, and she made no reply.
Mr. Loci said that this was his case.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY said, he was of opinion no case had
been made out sufficient to sustain the indictment, and if the
Jury thought with him they would say so. From all they had
heard, it was more than probable that the prisoner was ignorant
of the gun being loaded, and only intended to frighten her.
The Jury said they were of his Lordship's opinion, and pro-
nounced the prisoner Not guilty.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY cautioned him against playing with
fire-arms, loaded- or unloaded, in future. -