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shalt receive an allowance of 3d a
lday in addition to his ordinary pay. The number
of privates to receiee rues of alio eenee shall
be fixed from time. to time. A private appointed as
barber, assistant cook', baker, washerman, shall
receive while wo actin z; 62d a day in addition to his
pay. All non-commissioned officer, and privates of
the corps are to be liable to be employed in any
way that may be required in the performance of
any duties in the medical and purveyor's depart-
ments; and when oar duty with an army in the
field they will be liable to be attached to the field
ambulances, and attend to the wounded, carrying
them off the field, &c. The non-commissioned officers
are tO take rank with those of the other corps of
the army, and are to wear the ordinary distinctions
on their uniforms. Candidates who are not soldiers
may be admitted by permission of the Secretary of
State by special authority. All non-commissioned
officers and privates of the corps will be liable tc
discharge at any time the Commander-in-Chief may
think fit, without any claim to compensation be-
yond the scale of pensions, and they may he re-
transferred, at the orderof the Commander-in-Chief,
for misconduct, unfitness, or otherwise, to the corps
of the army from which they were transferred.
When their services shall be dispensed with they
shall be entitled to pensions on the following scale
after a total service in the corps, or in the line, ex-
ceeding 21 years:—Sergeants•major, after 21 years'
service, of which at least five in that rank, a pension
for life of 2s per day, increasing to a maximum of
3s per day, at the rate of 2d for each additional
year's service,with the further additions of good con-
duct pay of which they may be in possession at the
time of their discharge, and of ld. a-day for every
five years' service as non-commissioned cfficers, but
the maximum with such additions not to exceed 3s.
a-day, Ist and 2d class sergeants. After 21 years
total service, of which, at least, five in that rank,
a pension for life of ls. 6d. and ls. 3d. a-day, in-
creasing to a maximum of 2s. 6d. and 2s. a-day, at
the rate lid. and ld. for each additional year's ser-
vice, with the further addition of good conduct pay
of which they may be in possession at the time of
their discharge, and of ld. a-day for every five
years' service as non-commissioned officer, but the
maximum, with such additions, not to exceed
23. 6d. and 23. a-day. Privates, after the same
length of service, will be entitled to a pension of
10d. a-day, increasing to ls. 4d. at a progressive
rate. For men of this corps attached to any hos-
pital or station, the purveyor is to perform the
duty of quartermaster, and the officers of the pur-
veyor's department will be the paymasters of the

in a first class,

corps.
By direction of the Duke of Cambridge a silver
medal has been presented to Sergeant Cox and
Gunner Lawler, of the depot brigade, Royal Artil-
lery, stationed at Sheerness, for long service and
meritorious conduct. The presentation was made
by Lieut.-Col. Talbot.
Col. Guy, Commandant of the troops' in the
Camp at Colchester, inspected the 9th battalion at
that station on Tuesday. A private of the 38th
Regiment, named Allen, has been ordered to un-
dergo a court-martial for loading his rifle with ball
cartridge, with the supposed intention of shooting
Sergeant Robinson, attached to his company, with
whom he had had an altercation. Another private
of the 38th Regiment, named Grosser, also under
orders for a garrison court-martial, broke out of
the guardroom on Monday, but was soon retaken in
the town. He will now have to undergo a general
court-martial. Another private, named Pattison,
has been sentenced to 80 days' imprisonment for
insubordination.
The preliminary operations for the construction
of the foundation of the fort on the Noman Shoal
have been commenced by the contractor.
Colonel Do Rinzy, of the Ist brigade Garrison
Artillery, and Brigade-Major Milward, who have
been engaged for some weeks past in inspecting the
Volunteer Artillery in the Northern and Western
counties of England, have returned to Woolwich
and resumed their official duties at head-quarters as
heretofore,

THE JOURNAL _EDITRD BY THE DEAN
OF IVESIMINSTR.R.*

Are we warranted in making any allusion to a
vexy curious volume, consisting of extracts from a
lady's journal, kept during a visit to Germany in
1799-1800, and now edited, but not published, by
her son, the Dean of Westminster ? When the
letters, journals, and other papers of his mother
came into the Dean's hands, last year, he states that
he found among them this journal, from which
he has printed certain selections, containing
notices of persons of historic interest, with whom
the writer was brought into more or less familiar
contact. In one case, that of Nelson, they are
notices of a personage of the very highest historic
interest, while in others (we speak only of those
which are printed in this volume) they re-
late to persons who live more or less in the
memoirs of that time, and live on even in our
own time in the oral traditions of social life.
More than one member of our own Royal family,
the Duke of Brunswick and his Court, the Queen
of Prussia, Breteuil, Beurnonville, Bellegarde,
Rivarol, Gentz, Lavalette, Alexis Orloff, Lord and
Lady Holland, Lord Minto, Sir William and Lady
Hamilton, Mr. Elliot, cur Minister at Dresden,
Righini the composer, Fuger the painter, with
many others, all find a place here. Are we war-
ranted, then, in assuming that this contribution to
our knowledge of persons so public in some sense
is public property also ? All the persons mentioned
here are dead, no injury that we see can be done to
the feelings of any of their representatives, and, as
we conceive that a time may come in any case when
there is no longer any reason for the reservation of
such memoranda, however private in the first in-
stance, so we contend that the time has fully arrived
in this case when they may be claimed as materials
for historical portraiture. Had the Dean kept
these memoranda to himself, we conceive that
biographers would have had reason to complain of
their concealment. Having printed them for com-
munication to his literary friends, we can see no
reason whatever why they should not be more
widely circulated ; and, as we have no clear inti-
mation of a prohibition to the contrary, we take
a liberty which we believe no one will think
inexcusable.

It appears, however, that it is thought desirable
that something should be said on behalf of the
writer—that these memoranda were made at such
a very early period of her career as by no means to
show the character to which she attained in
later life. The writer, the granddaughter of Lord
Chesterfield's " Richard Chenevix,' was married, at
19, to Colonel St. George, of Carrick-on-Shannon,
and at the age of 22 was left a widow with an only
son. A period of several years elapsed before her
second marriage, and during this interval she made
the tour of which this volume is partly the record.
She was then, as the Dean conceives, unawakened

to those more setious and earnest views of exist-

eine which later sorrows and trials brought home
to her, though even of that clay there are traits
_ _

unpublished which would, he says, show that she
was of no light or frivolous turn of mind. For

our parts, we are not in the least disposed to com-
plain of Mrs. -St. George for taking an innocent
interest in those) scenes of life which she re-
garded as a passing panorama, and we require no ex-
cuse for anything we see here. W mention the sub-
ject by way of concession to the Dean's scruples, who,
we think, is unduly sensitive on the score of a youth-
fulvivacity which was shortly sobered to a ma-
tronly decorum, and ended, as we are told, in a mood
eminently serious and devout. We see nothing to
scandalize anyone, not even an Archbishop, still less
anything which should prevent one of high ecclesi-
astical rank receiving absolution from such latitu-
dinarians as ourselves.
We absolve the Dean, then, and we claim for him,
on the other hand, the praise of the ghost of Cax-
ton for passing through the press such a very
amusing volume. It is but of small dimensions;
in fact, it is not much bigger, and certainly does
not contain more, than many a pamphlet of the
season, while the entries are of the most concise
character, like the jottings in an ordinary pocket-
book. Nevertheless, they often succeed in present-

jag us in a few sentences, and sometimes in a single

4' Journal kept during a Visit to Germany in 1799-1800.
Edited by the Dean of Westminster. [Not published,]

phrase, with lively, vigorous, And distinctive por- waited for them at Hamburg, and ventured to announce it
11;1'41 vT3a7s. , a nffeeerirdayosi the 'T
fineh e
arts, momentof t htehaetyti tu'veli oofni the ea7td-
traits ; and " altogether there rises before one a cer-
tain pieture of Germany and German Coerte at a
time when Marengo was more re CEnt than Solferino i be':se to scold in French about' some pr'Ovisio ;chich had
' I ime the dancing, and the sinning. Ledv Haticlion's maid
is now, such as is not obtained. from hooks of far
Trot obtained. -
been forgot, in language quite impossible to .epeat, using
greater pretension;,." Only we must be ceetious in certain French words which were never spok bu by men
accepting the impressions of the writer in every of the lowest class, and roaring them out
frow onet boat to
particular instance, and, knowing little of the bias another. Lady Hamilton began bawling for al Irish stew,
of her tastes and predilections, we must read her, and her old mother set ab
as outw washing the o wich
both when highly caustic or highly complimentary,
larth s actresses :he
log did .rs ;.lrlse dressing in the T" b
cleverly
e possible.ham.
, I nt
They
w e p
theex v
a htoes,
cetl ye
nhltink,
with a considerable margin and allowance for differ-
enees of opinion. I went to congratulate the Elliots on their delverance, and
found them very sensible of it. Mr. Ellist would not
Thus we find the writer as severe on the boha- allow his wife to speak above her breath, aid said every
viols of Nelson and the Hamiltons as we should ex- now and then, `Now, don't let us laugh to-night ; let
poet from the descendant of a friend of Lord Chester- us all speak in our turn, and be very, very quiet."
It is suggested that Mr. Elliot was a littl© too field. The facts, however, prove that the sea-king in
easil satisfied with his information to the f •
his cups could be boisterously coarse, and that Ladytt as
jit
Nrigate,
becauyse he was desirous of
Hamilton, when she was not in her "attitudes," was getting
Such
thoi
te. el 'on
and his travelling appendaeegse
quite as coarse and not a little of a slattern. Alto- t e:c per-
formers were too much for the
per-
;ether, these scenes with our naval hero and his nerves ,f a 1 discreet,
decorous, and fastidious Mi i
low-lived enchantress are the most striking in then!ter, and ;voila' excite
h the' ki dof
same n shocking sensecion as a set
volume, as they show both in a new light, and, much
o riotous schoolboys in a young ladies' school. The
unless we allow much for the manners of the '
m
time, and somewhat also for the narrator's fas- manners of the day were coarse, there of seamen
more particularly so, and they would is more than
tidiousness, they must tend to lower our concep-
usually repulsive to persons converseut with the
lion of these popular personages. We are sorry to
amenities of Continental society before the courtlis have our romantic impressions disturbed by this
ness of the old regime had been worn off by the
series of pictures, but for the evident truth con-
Revolution. When, probably, the wet-bred W• d-
tained in them they are valuable, and we print
ham would have sworn in an En,g.ish ballroom,
them in extensor— "
Oct. 2.—Dined at the Elliot:'. While I was playing when the most refined members of Esglish society
at chess with Mr. Elliot the news arrived of Lord Nelson's rarely left the dinner table sober, we should err if
arrival, with Sir William and Lady Hamilton, Mrs. Cade- we ascribed to Nelson any extraordinary brutality
Han, mother of the latter, and Miss Cornelia Knight, fa- because his manners were somewhat uproarious for
mous for her ' Continuation of Rasselas' and ' Private Life the emporium of Dresden china. That his vanity
of the Romans.'
Oct. 3.—Dined at Mr. was capable of receiving enjoyment from very
Elliot's, with only the Nelson
party. It is plain that Lord Nelson thinks of nothing but
coarse flatteries is, we fear, a mere reasonable
Lady Hamilton, who is totally occupied by the same object. imputation upon him and his companions. Among
She is bold, forward, coarse, assuming, and vain. He/ figure the latter the reader will, of course, note Miss Cor-
is colossal, but excepting her feet, which are hideous, well nelia Knight, whose autobiography we shall shortly
shaped. Her bones are large, and she is exceedingly have occasion to examine. embonpoint. She resembles the bust of Ariadne :the shape As to Lady Hamiltonand her mother, everything seems to imply that the
of all her features is fine, as is the form of her head, and
highly satiric sketch •
. of the writer must have been
particularly her ears ; her teeth are a little irregular, but
tolerably white ; her eyes light blue, with a brown spot in the very truth ; but it is more surprising that the
one, which, though a defect, takes nothing away from her fair adventuress should have played such a conspicu-
beauty and expression. Her eyebrows and hair are ous part in history than that her voice should have
dark and her complexion coarse. Her expression is been loud, her dress vulgar, and her vinous exhila-
strongly marked, variable, and interesting; her movements ration at the enthralment of her sea monster too de-
in common life ungraceful; her voice loud, yet not disagree-
able. Lord Nelson is a little man, without any dignity; monstrative. The incident of her old mother wash-
who, I suppose, must resemble what Suevarrowovas in his re the lnte ' potatoes for the Irish stew is emblematic in
youth, as he is like all the pictures I have seen of that gene- so many senses, is so suggestive of their antece•
ral. Lady Hamilton takes possession of him, and he is a dents, the reciprocity of their affection, the style
willing captive, the most submissive and devoted I have of their household, and the creature comforts they
seen. Sir William is old, infirm, all admiration of his wife, derived in common from the compliant Hamilton,
and never spoke to-day but to applaud her. Miss Cornelia
Knight seems the decided flatterer of the two, and never that the picture is incapable of improvement, it is
domesticallytruthful and H •
so. Homeric.
opens her mouth but to show forth her praise; and Mrs.
Cadogan,Ladyllamil ton's mother, is what one might expect. Next to these characteristics of the Nelson party
After dinner we had several songs in honour of Lord Nel- we are most impressed by the writer's desultory
son, written by Miss Knight, and sung by Lady Hamilton. remarks on the society of Vienna, which are very
She puffs the incense full in his face; but he receives it with brief but particularly full of meaning. Since 1848
pleasure, and snuffs it up very cordially. The songs all
this society has undergone some changes, but in the
ended in the sailor's way, with `Hip, hip, hip, hurra,' and . .
t has retained the peculiarities here described.
mains
a bumper with the last drop on the nail—a ceremony I had
never heard of or seen before. The running footmen have disappeared, but the
"Oct. 4.—Accompanied thaiNelson party to Mr. Elliot's passion for dress and the universal good-nature and
box at the opera. Lady Hamilton paid me those kinds of good order remain. It is, however, no longer possible
compliments which prove she thinks mere exterior alone of to live there "in the same manner as in London,
any consequence. She and Lord Nelson were wrapped up
in each other's conversation during the chief part of the as nearly as the difference of each town will permit,
evening, for about one-third of the expense." On the con-
" Oct. s.—Went by Lady Hamilton's invitation to see trary, house rent in Vienna within the circuit of
Lord Nelson dressed for Court. On his hat he wore the large the old walls is now as high, if not higher, than it
diamond feather, or ensign of sovereignty, given him by the is in London, and the tariff of expenses generally
Grand Signior ; on his breast the Order of the Bath, the approximates to it if it does not quite reach the
Order he received as Duke of Bronte, the diamond star, in-
London and Parisian standard. The following ae-
cluding the sun or crescent given him by the Grand Signior,
three gold modals obtained by three different victories, and count of an Austrian bath, though it reminds one
a beautiful present from the King of Naples. On one side of ' The, Bath" of Miss Winifred Jenkins, could not
is his Majesty's picture, richly set and surrounded with now be written of any German watering place :
laurels, which spring from two united anchors at bottom, "June 15-17.—Three days at Baden, a small town two
and support the Neapolitan crown at top; on the other is posts from Vienna, celebrated for its warm sulphureous
the Queen's cipher, which turns so as to appear within the baths. They appear convenient and well attended. In the
same laurels, and is formed of diamonds on green enamel. largest men and women of the best society bathe together,
In short, Lord Nelson was a perfect constellation of stars and appear very much to enjoy the amusement. The gentle-
and orders.
men aro in shirts and trousers ; the ladies in their usual
"Oat, 6,—Dined with Lord Nelson at the Hotel de white morning dresses, and on their heads caps, handker-
Pologne. Went in the evening to a conceit given to him chiefs, laces, and riband, fancifully and becomingly dis- 1
by Count Marcolini. Paris sung—a fine bass, with the posed. It is the triumph of real beauty and freshness, as
lowest tones I ever heard ; and Ciciarelli, a soprano, who no rouge can be worn, or paint of any kind. The bath opens
has lost his voice, but declaims well. From thence went to a a vast field for coquetry. A becoming dishabille, graceful
party at Countess Richtenstein's, Lady Hamilton loading me attitudes, timidity, langour, and an affectionate confidence
with all marks of friendship at first sight, which I always in your conductor, may hero all be displayed to advantage,
think more extraordinary than love of the same kind. The lover leads his mistress, and has perhaps a secret satis-
" Oct. 7.—Breakfasted with Lady Hamilton, and saw her faction in finding himself with her in a new element ; for
representinsuccession the bast statues and paintings extant. Madame de Geniis observes, I think with truth, that to
She assumes their attitude, expression, and drapery with those who really love every new situation ix company with
great facility, swiftness, and accuracy. Several Indian the beloved has a certain charm. Many of those who have
shawls, a chair, some antique vases, a wreath of roses, a no levers obtain, however, half a conductor, as every man
tambourine, and a few children are her whole apparatus. who is not devoted generally gives each arm to a different
She stands at one end of the room with a strong light to her lady. The old, the plain, and the neglected sit round on
left, and every other window closed. Her hair (which by- benches, as it is dangerous for women to walk about in the
the-by is never clean) is short, dressed like an antique, and bath without a guide. Spectators aro admitted, who view
her gown a simple calico chemise, very easy, with loose the scene from a little gallery. To them the heat and sul-
sleeves to the wrist. She disposes the shawls so as to form phureous smell are very unpleasant."
Grecian, Turkish, and other drapery, as well as a variety of The sketch of Lady Holland, whose chastened
turbans. Her arrangement of the turban is absolute sleight- tyranny so many of us remember as very captivat- '
of-hand, she does it so quickly, so easily, and so well. It is
ing, is no less striking, though somewhat spiteful :
a beautiful performance, amusing to the most ignorant, and
highly interesting to the lovers of art. The chief of her "Sept. 7.—Dined at Mr. Elliot's with the Holland:.
imitations are from the antique. Each representation lasts Her ladyship's manner to her husband is too imperious ;
it is not the tyranny of a mistress or a wife, but a governess
about 10 minutes. It is remarkable that, though coarse and
her trembling pupil,
ungraceful in common life, she becomes highly graceful, to
~
Sept. B.—Dined with the Hollands. She has a mixture
and even beautiful, during this performance. It is also
o
singular that, in spite of the accuracy of her imitation off imperiousness and caprice very amusing to the mere spec-
the finest ancient draperies, her usual dress is tasteless,
tutors, Her indolence is also remarkable, and she lies in a
very easy posture on a sofa, with screens between the lights
vulgar, loaded and unbecoming. She has borrowed several
of my gowns, and much admires my dress, which cannot and her eyes, in all the dignity of idleness, employing every
flatter, as her own is so frightful. Her waist is absolutely travels in her party without apology or individual who
in-
between her shoulders. After showing her attitudes she termission. Her husband has the honour of being fag-in-
sung, and I accompanied. Her voice is good and very
chief, but she likewise entirely occupies a humorous clergy-
strong, but she is frequently out of tune; her expression
likewiseinan' a a boy physician, and a young lord. There is
peevish
(1. r. Dickens) who comes occasionally, like
1
strongly marked and various; but she has no shake, no
great families, to do jobs, iniis, but
flexibility, and no sweetness. She acts her songs, which I those who attend servants
he has found out that she dislikes the trouble of repeating
think the last degree of bad taste. All imperfect imitations
evades
are disagreeable, and to represent passion with the eyes her orders, and often them by affecting not to hear."
But we take the sting out of this extract by
fixed on a book and the person confined to a spot must
genial and sparkling criticism on the
always be a poor piece of acting manqua. She continues quoting a
her demonstrations of friendship, and said many fine Madonna di San Sisto, than which nothing can be
things about my accompanying her at sight. She still more happy :
does not gain upon me. I think her bold, daring, vain 44 We then went to the gallery, where the picture that
even to folly, and stamped with the manners of her first most struck me was a Raphael representing the Virgin
situation much more strongly than one would suppose standing on a cloud, with the infant Jesus in her arms, the
after having represented Majesty, and lived in good corn- saints on either side in the act of adoration, and at the bat-
party 15 years. Her ruling passions seem to me vanity, tore of the picture two of the loveliest heads of cherubs I
avarice, and love for the pleasures of the table. She shows ever saw. The Virgin's face is divine. The Child, who
a great aviaity for presents, and has actually obtained some appears about a year old, has more the expression of the
at Dresden by the common artifice of admiring and longing. King than Saviour of the world. There is a beautiful
Mr. Elliot says, ' She will captivate the Prince of Wales, haughtiness, mixed with disdain, in his features."
whose mind is as vulgar as her own, and play a great part Nor is the following judgment on one of the phi-
in England.' Dined with the Elliot:. Ile was wonderfully
losonhie ladies of the end of the last century want-
amusing. His wit, his humour, his discontent, his spleen,
e in faith or humour. It would be worth
his happy choice of words, his rapid flow of ideas, and his ing either
disposition to playful satire, make one always long to write quotation if it were only for the glimpse of the
shorthand and preserve his conversation, writer's afterlife, which the Dean has added as a
" Oct. B.—Dined at Madame de Loss's, wife to the Prime note. In 1825 much that shone so brightly in
Minister, with the Nelson party. The Electress will not 1799 had ceased to dazzle :
receive Lady Hamilton, on account of her former dissolute "Sept. 28—Left Konigsbruck, where I had passed a few
life. She wished to go to Court, on which a pretext was
made to avoid receiving company last Sunday, and I under-
vero pleasant and retired days. Countess Munster is a
stand there will be no Court while she stays. Lord Nelson, warm partisan of the philosophy of Kant, who says per-
fectability, and not happiness, should be the object of hu-
understanding the Elector did not wish to see her, said to
Mr. Elliot, `Sir, if there is any difficulty of that sort, Lady man researches. Madame Munster has adopted this idea,
Hamilton will knock the Elector down, and --- me, I'll
and considers all revealed religion as priestcraft, and Chris-
tianity as depraving our hearts, because it founds our vir •
knock him down too.' She was not invited in the beginning
toes on a selfish hope of future bliss, and contracting our
to Madame de Loss's, upon which Lord Nelson sent his
excuse, and then Mr. Elliot persuaded Madame de Loss to understandings, because it substitutes faith for reason. She
invite her. From Madame de Loss's visited Mrs. ;yew. thinks truth unattainable, but that there is a degree of rola-
man, a very obliging, entertaining woman of the tiers eta, five truth to which each understanding may arrive, in pro-
thence to sup at Mrs. Rawdon's. Here I found Lady W—
portion to its strength and efforts. She is not the most for-
in the midst of a very animated discourse on precedence,
audible opponent to the Christian religion it has yet en-
which I soon found took its rise from Mr. Elliot's having countered ; and I doubt if she perfectly understands herself
on these subjects, which she seeks with an eagerness that
led me in to dinner at Madame de Loss's before her and
another Lady who had place. She politely told me he w denotes a perfect conviction of her on strength. A lofty
contempt of those who do believe and great bigotry to her
showed his ignorance and his impertinence, and she was
sorry he knew no better. I had been so amused by his con-
own system render her conversation on such topics unpleas-
versation at dinner I had quite forgot the indecorum. leg. She has some imagination, extensive reading, but little
" Oct. 9.—A great breakfast at the Elliots', given to the
tact, and a great deal of vanity, yet she is altogether supe-
Nelson party. Lady Hamilton repeated her attitudes with
rior to the general class of females, and neither wants sen-
great effect. All the company, except their party and my-
sibility nor elevation."
self, went away before dinner, after which Lady Hamilton, " I copy (says the Dean) from a later journal an entry
with date Jan. 7, 1825 : At last, after an interval of 21
who declared she was passionately fond of champagne, took
such a portion of it as astonished me. Lord Nelson was years, which succeeded a tolerably intimate acquaintance of
seven weeks, I saw Count Munster, of Hanover again. We
not behind-hand, called more vociferously than usual fOr
met like two ghosts, that ought to have been laid long since.
eeggs in his own praise, and after many bumpers proposed
I witnessed the whole process of the difficulty of persuading
the `Queen of Naples,' adding, `She is my Queen ; she is
him that I was I, and I thought him as much changed in
Queen to the backbone. Poor Mr. Elliot, who was
his degree; as he could have found me. When we conversed,
anxious the party should not expose themselves more
a
than they had done already, and wished to get over the last all the persons we referred to were dead and gone ; and our
day as well as he done the rest, endeavoured to stop the interview added another link in my mind to the chain of
proofs that after a very, very long interval neither friends
effusion of champ igne, and effected it with some difficulty ;
but not till the Lord and Lady, or, as he calls them,Anthony nor acquaintances ought to meet in this world. He was
k
and Moll Cleopatra, were pretty far gone. I was so tired, kindly anxious to renew our acquaintance, and visited me
I returned home soon after dinner, but not till Cleopatra
the next day ; but sti:l it seemed as if seeing me had re-
had talked to me a great deal of her doubts whether the newed some painful associations."'
Queen would receive her, adding, ' I care little about it. I At Vienna, and subsequently at Berlin, the writer
had much sooner she would settle half Sir William's pen • had the entree to the best society, and if her little
sion on me.' After I went, Mr. Elliot told me she acted descriptions were translated into German they
Nina intolerably ill, and danced the Tarantokt. During would doubtless be read eagerly in either capital.
her acting Lord Nelson expressed his admiration by the At Berlin she was introduced to Prince Henry
Irish sound of astonished applause which no written cha-
racter can imitate, and by crying every now and then `Mrs, among other persons, "He looks like a little fiend
o Siddons be -.' Lady Hamilton expressed great anxiety of the minor class, not Belial or any of the noblesse
to go to Court, and Mrs. Elliot assured her it would not of hell. We conversed so little I can speak but of
amuse her, and that the Elector gave no dinners or suppers. his exterior. He appears as if he had just crept out
' What e' cried she, 'no chilling I' Sir William also this of
1 • the embers and was half-singed." Beurnonville,
evening performeds feats of activity, hopping round the originally a corporal, pays her compliments " very
backbone, his arms, legs, star and riband all %
I much in the style of Monsieur Jourdain." On re-
flying about in the air.
"Cct. 10.—Mr. Elliot saw them on board to-day. He
;finds from a party at Madame Engestrom's she
heard by chance from a King's "an immense inhabitant of the Messenger that a frigate hair" on her

tucker. " My suspicions turned for a moment cn
Pignatelli, but on reflection I um sure hp belonged
to the French rcassion,." . She was greatly Impressed
by Gentz, who, with Rivarol, were the two men of
greatest talent she met in Berlin. Moreover, she
went to Court and beheld that Queen of Prussia so
famous in history, and who influenced the chivalry
of her subjects to such impotent results.
" Dec. 28.—S.he reminded me of Burke's star, glittering
with life. splendour, and joy,' and realised all the fanciful
ideas one forms in one's infancy of the young, gay, beauti-
ful, and magnificent queens in the Arabian _Nights. She is
an angel of loveliness, mildness, and grace; tall and svelte,
yet sufficiently embonpoint; her hair is light, her com-
plexion fair and faultless ; an inexpressible air of sweetness
reigns in her countenance, and forms its predominant cha-
racter. As perfect beauty in nature is a chimera, like the
philosopher's stone, and as it is rarely to be found but in
the higher works of art, I take nothing from her charms in
saying sh a is not faultless. An ill shaped mouth, indifferent
teeth, a broad forehead, and large limbs are the only defects
the severest criticism can discover; while her hair, herheight
her movements, her shoulders, her waist are all unexception-
able. These slight faults only prove she is a woman and not a
ettu ue, and altogether she is one of the loveliest creatures I
have ever seen. Her dress was in the best taste. Ifx,r hair
was dressed in the fullest and most varied of the Grecian
forms, going very far back, and ornamented with a heron's
feather, and a number of immense diamond stars, so placed
as to form a bandeau quite round, which came close to her
temples. She wore a chemise of crape, richly embroidered
in emerald-green foil, and a moldave (simply a body, train,
and short sleeves) of pale pink silk, slightly sparkling with
gold, and trimmed all round with sable. Her neck was
richly ornamented with jewels.. She speaks very graciously
and politoly to every one. I was also presented to the
Princess of Orange, a beautiful young woman."
This last extract falls under the date of Decem-
ber 28, 1800, and on December 31 the Journal ends.
At all events, its continuation, if it ever existed, has
been sought for in vain. We long, however, to hear
something more of the writer, and to know her when
the heyday of her youth had been clouded by those
sorrows to'which the Dean alludes. So sparkling
and joyous a nature, though it was, perhaps, sad-
dened, was surely mellowed, in the autumn of life,

. it does :3 o t tally with the statements of some of the
witnesses, and denies the statement that there were
three :nen upon the premises en the n;ght of the
marder, of which, however., there is unmistakeable
evidence.
The same witnesses who were examined before
the coroner were being examined by the magis-
trates, when, at half-past three, Mr. Sheldon, soli-
citor, said he appeared to defend Maddocks, who
had just informed him that he had made a state-
ment to the bench in private, but if he had known
that a solicitor was engaged to defend him he should
not have made the statement. Now, he was so en-
gaged, and, as he had made a statement, he (Mr.
Sheldon) could not defend him unless he saw the
statement. It was further necessary that he should
see the statement, because,although he had applied,
he had been refused permission to Eco his client.
Every obstacle had been placed hi his way. He
had been kept outside the court, and had had
to jump a wall to get into the court. Mr. Claydon,
barrister, and Mr. Bartlett, solicitor, were also
engaged with him in the defence of one or other of
the prisoners, and they too had been refused per-
mission to see their clients.
Mr. Bartlett—lt is a matter of the very gravest
importance and of the greatest impropriety.
Mr. Bag nail—At what time did you apply ?
Mr. Bartlett—At about 11 o'clock.
Mr. Bagnall—You could not see him (Bills) then
we were engaged with him.
Mr. Bartlett—You had no right to be so engaged
with him. Having been refused permission to
see my client, and unerstanding that he was being
' subjected to a private examination, I applied to be
present at the examination.
Mr. Sheldon—l made application to see my
clients before half-past 10 o'clock-, and I joined with
Mr. Bartlett in applying to be present at the pri-
vate examination. I was even refused to be
admitted within the precincts of the station.
Mr. Fletcher—The Bench had no intention to
keep you from the prisoners, or from the court.
Mr. Bartlett—We make no imputaticn upon the
magistrates, but the restrictions of the police were
not becoming. It was very wrong of Colonel Hogg.
Mr. Claydon joined in censuring the police for
their not allowing the prisoners to be seen. If his
client had a statement made behind his back by
which he was affected he ought to hear it ; and Mr.
Sheldon was justified in making the application for
the statement.

7I 1E BILSTON TRAGEDY.

CONFESSION OF THE PRISONERS.

The prisoner Maddocks had at his own request
been taken out of the court just before Mr. Sheldon
commenced to make his application.
The magistrates retired to consider what reply
they would give to Mr. Sheldon.
As they were retiring Mr. Bartlett desired them
to bear in mind that this was a matter of life or
death as affecting the prisoner.
The Magistrates remarked that the observation
was superfluous.

BILSTON, WEDNESDAY.
Yesterday evening, after the despatch of our par-
cel, William Danch, a tailor of Dudley, deposed
that while examining the marks in the cellar he
perceived in the impression of a man's knee that
the trousers which occasioned it had been repaired
by a piece of corduroy placed crosswise on the gar-
ment. He remarked in the cellar that the garment
would be found so repaired. Ho was afterwards
shown a pair of trousers that he was told had been
taken from Mulligan, alias Jones, and those trou-
sers bore the evidence to which he referred. (Wit-
ness here pointed out the patch to the jury.)
Major M‘Knight deposed that the trousers pro-
duced were taken off Jones. Witness added that he
saw the last witness compare the garment with the
impressions in the cellar.
Superintendent M'Crea deposed that on receiving
information that the robbery and burglary had been
committed he went to the deceased's premises, and
found they had been forcibly entered, and that the
deceased was lying dead in his sitting room. He
discovered fire in the bedroom ; brown cloth was
burning on the carpet, and in a few minutes it
would have communicated with the bed. He, how-
ever, extinguished the flames. Shortly afterwards
he proceeded to the Berry-yard. In a house there,
kept by the prisoner Bills (though he lived on the
opposite side of the yard), he heard people running
up and down stairs, and on knocking for admission
he discovered that the key had been taken out,
which was unusual. He saw Jukes on the sofa,
dressed, as though he had just come in. Lilley was
in bed, but his shoes looked as if he had not
long returned home. On Jukes's shirt he ob-
served two spots of blood, and witness remarked
upon it. Jukes replied that he had got in a fight at
the King's Arms some time before. Witness said,
"It is fresh blood." Jukes then responded, "I got
it from striking a girl in the mouth." Bills he
found in his own house opposite, in bed. He found
a sock newly washed whieh Bills owned, and the
fellow to which witness could not find. On return-
ing to the police-station he found Jones in custody.
Looking at Jones's right hand, witness said, " This
hand is very black." Jones, however, made no
reply.
Mr. Larkin, surgeon, deposed,—l was called at
4.30 on the morning of the 29th September to ren-
der medical assistance, as supposed, to a drunken
burglar, but as was subsequently ascertained to the
late Mr. John Bagott, at kis residence in Church-
street, Bilston. On entering a room of the house I
saw the deceased lying on his back before the fire-
place. His dress was disordered and torn. Life
was extinct. From the temperature of the body
and extremities I am of opinion that death had
occurred about three-quarters of an hour previously.
His face and hands were so besmeared and dirty
that at first I failed to recognise him. As directed
by the deputy-coroner, I made pose mortent examina-
tions of the body of deceased on the Ist and 2d inst.
I was assisted by Mr. Smith, surgeon. In addition
to the ordinary effects of dissolution there were dis-
colourations resulting from bruises on the legs, par-
ticularly about the knees, also on the abdomen and
on the more prominent parts of the back and
shoulders. On washing the soot and ashes from the
face of the deceased, an indentation, such as might
have been produced by a finger-nail, presented itself
on the nose, near to the forehead. The nose and
other portions of the face were bruised, and there
was an abrasion of the skin of the chin, from which
there had been some hemorrhage. There was also
an elongated discolouration of the left side of
the neck, immediately below the jew. On
the protuberance at the back of the head was
a contused and lacerated wound, the hair cover-
ing which was saturated with blood. The
veins of the scalp and those of the membranes
of the brain were congested, but there was no
lesion. The brain was somewhat softened, but
otherwise in a normal condition. The heart
and the large vessels of the circulatory system were
free from disease. The blood was uncoagulated.
The larynx and bronchi were unobstructed. The
lungs were structurally sound, but intensely con-
gested in every portion, dark and liver-coloured
throughout. On examining the mouth I observed
that the gums had bled. A tooth had been removed
three or four days before. The stomach contained
about five ounces of ingesta in a chymous condi-
tion, which did not yield either in smell or by test-
ing any indication of prussic acid. The liver was
enlarged, and had degenerated into a condition
which is technically termed " nutmeggy." The kid-
neys and spleen exhibited no morbid appearance.
The small intestines were congested on the left side
corresponding with the discolouration externally.
From the very highly congested condition of the
lungs and the total absence of any other eause of
death I am of opinion that the deceased died
asphyxiated, and the bruises and abrasions before
described clearly indicate that such asphyxia was
induced by compression of the walls of the chest
and forced closure of the mouth and nostrils. In
answer to a juryman, witness said that death was
not occasioned with the poker on the throat. The
larynx was not bruised. Witness should say that
he was " burked"—was suffocated by pressure on
the mouth and chest. The head had been held
forcibly down, and produced a lacerated scalp.
The Coroner now read over to the prisoners the
evidence that was given at the first inquest, and
told them that they would have an opportunity on
a future occasion of calling any evidence that they
wished to bring before the jury.
Lilley, Jukes, and Bills gave the names of several
witnesses whom they wished to be called. Lilley
impudently said that he should wish his witnesses
to be called that night. The Court had heard evi-
dence against him, and it was now their duty to
hear evidence in his favour.

Some time afterwards Mr. Sheldon was called
into the magistrates' retiring-room, where he was
shown a statement that Maddocks had just made.
In that second statement he alleged that Mr. Shel-
don had spoken to him in the dock, recommending
him to deny the accuracy of the first statement.
Maddocks, in the second statement, added that he
had not employed Mr. Sheldon as his solicitor, nor
did he wish Mr. Sheldon to defend him.
Mr. Bagnall drew Mr. Sheldon's attention to this
statement.

Mr. Sheldon denied that he had given the pri-
soner any such improper advice ; said he only in-
formed him that he was empldyed to defend him,
and that, understanding that he had made a state-
ment, he wished to know what it was. Policemen
must have heard the conversation, and he appealed
to the magistrates to describe which of the two,
himself or Maddocks, was the more worthy of belief.
The magistrates said that the prisoner denied
having employed him (Mr. Sheldon) to defend, or
that he wished him to defend him ; and they must
therefore decline to let Mr, Sheldon see the state-
ment, which in due course would come out in evi-
dence.

The Coroner said that a full opportunity would
be given to him on a future occasion, when he might
also make any statement he pleased.
Lilley then thanked the Coroner, and sat down.
The inquest was then adjourned till Friday next.
The sitting occupied eight hours.

Their warships then returned into open court, the
taking of the evidence was resumed, and it was being
proceeded with when our report was despated.

INDIA'S LAST AND BEST DIAMOND.

This morning the magistrates were engaged in
privately hearing a confession of four of the pri-
soners.
The public examination commenced at half-past
one, before the Rev. H. S. Fletcher and M. J. N.
Bagnall.

Great excitement continues to prevail in the
town, and both within and without the Petty Ses-
sions Court there was a great crowd of persons.
The inquiry had been adjourned till 10 in the
morning ; but considerably before that hour the
magistrates nt: rued assembled, and were engaged
till one o'clock in hearing a confession from Had-
docks; and it is understood that three other of the
accused were with him before their worships. These
were reprted to be Bills, Webb. and Lilley. Mad-
docks was the spokesman, and his statement occu-
pied 18 brief sheets. This statement the magistrates
decline to give to the press until after it comes out
in public court. It will, so they say, on Friday
next, to whichthe proceedings were to be adjourned
at the close of the inquiry to-day. The surstance
of the statement is understood to be that Mullighan
and Brancirick only entered the deceased's house;
That he (haddocks) watched the house for them,
and that the other four prisoners had nothing to do
with the affair. If this be the purport of the confes-
sion, it must be taken. for only what it is worth, as

When reviewing the operations of the geological survey
some two years ago, we asked if it were not possible to col-
lect mining statistics in India, similar to Mr. Hunt's valu-
able records published from time to time in England. It
unfortunately happens that India is the despair of the
statist. Figures collected in India, unless only by Euro-
peans and relating to Europeans, are valueless except for
very general purposes. Any attempt to obtain statistical
information from a native, if conducted by a European offi-
cer, is at once regarded as a preliminary to taxation of some
sort, and is met by a refusal or by deceit; while, if made by
native agency, it becomes a source of gross oppression, and
the result is ludicrously inaccurate. What is called the
census of India, for instance, which fixes:tho population of
the British territory at 132,000,000, was taken very much in
this way :—The police were called on for a return of the
number of houses and huts in each town, and the whole
was multiplied by five to represent the population. Not-
withstanding the difficulty, however, Mr. Oldham, the able
and zealous director of the Geological Survey of India, has
collected and published the first of a series of mineral sta-
tistics. The returns refer to coal, and will be followed, we
trust, by similar information regarding iron, copper, lime,
building stone, slate, golddust, and precious stones. Mr,
Oldham does not pretend that his first attempt is free from
errors. But he did his best, going from pit to pit, cross-
questioning the superintendents and making inquiries of the
proprietors and agents of the several companies. He has
succeeded in. giving us figures for three years from the
Ist of October, 1857, to the same 'date in 1860, all accounts
being made up to this period, known as the " coal year,"
from the circumstance that before the construction of the
railway all the Raneegunge coal was sent down the river
Damooda, so long as its waters, swollen by the rains, per-
mitted the transit. The result is not a cheering one for
India. Over the vast peninsula, which has an area of
800,000 square miles, coal is found only in the valley of the
Ganges, and neighbouring hills, in Rewah to the south
of the Soane, in the Nerbudda valley, and in the Sylhet
hills on the far north-east. There is no workable coal else-
where in the North-Western Provinces, none in Oude, the
Punjab, Scinde, Bombay, or Madras. This fact is the less
cheering that iron and lime are generally associated with
coal in the same formation, and that India, except in the
east, is comparatively destitute of these great elements and
necessities of modern civilisation. It is no great consola-
tion to say that where coal exists it is abundant, that Beer-
hoom, for instance, is one mass of mineral wealth. India
is as large as Europe, and the coal of Raneegunge or lime
of Sylhet is more useless to the cotton mills and building
firms of Bombay or Madras than that of Newcastle is to
Moscow. Coal is most bulky for carriage, and railway
carriage will always be so expensive that it will probably
be cheaper for Bombay to use good English than indiffe-
rent Bengal or even Nerbudda coal. The following ab-
stract contains the result of Mr. Oldham's inquiries :
Districts 1858 1859 1860
Raneegunge c0a1fie1d5....5,917,000 8,919,600 8,559,097
Itajtaahal hills
Kurhurbari
.... 4,000 108,182 275,256
Talamow
Sylhet hills 22,319 32,498
T

otal in rnaunds 6,162,319 9,961,928 10,088,113
Or in tons
These figures show the healthiness of the trade, which, not-
withstanding the local fluctuation, has steadily progressed.
In the Runeegungo coalfield, which is now tapped by the
East Indian Railway, and which will shortly be pierced by
two branches, there were last year 49 collieries with 27
steam engines at work. This is the result of little more
than 20 years' operations. The number of collieries in the
United Kingdom is 2,654, and the out•turn of coal is
72,000,000 tons annually, or 200 times that of India. Our
readers will form a better estimate of the coal-producing
power of India if we place in order, with the assistance of
Mr. Hunt's mining records, the out-turn of all the coal
countries in the world in 1857. We regret Mr. Oldham
has not given the proportion of the coal area to that of the
whole country :
Countries Proportion in area. Production in tons.
British Islands.. 1-10 66,000,000
Belgium l-22 5,700,000
France -100 4,500,000
United States -9 4,500,000
Prussia -90 3,500,000
British N. America 1-20 900,000
British India
Bohemia -20 300,000
Spain l-52 250,000
Of the nine countries India is thus already seventh on the
list. What a future for America is involved in the fact that
nearly a fourth of her whole area, so far as investigated; is
covered with coal. India raises a third more than Spain,
and about the same amount as Warwickshire. The con-
sumption of coal in India and by vessels leaving its ports we
may estimate at 700,000 tons annually,the amount imported
in 1857 from England being 329,157 tons. Reckoning the
price of Indian coal in Calcutta at 5 annas a maund, or 17s a
ton, and English coal at the same rate (though it is higher).
we have more than £500,000 spent on coal yearly in India,
As the trade and manufactures of India increase, and as
machinery comes to be more and more largely introduced,
indigenous coal will become mot e important. The fact that
the supply is in certain districts inexhaustible, and that the
demand is annually increasing, is one full of hope for the
coal companies and proprietors who already occupy, or like
the Bengal Coal Company, monopolise the field. It is pos-
sible the Nerbudda fields, worked by the company just
established, may supply Bombay and the southern por-
tions of the North ,Western Provinces on the completion of
the railway. But Oude, the Punjab, and Madras must still
look to their forests, which, onb othsanitaryand c°
cial grounds, it becomes daily
of morn importance to utiliser-
and renew.—Friendef India.

SAILING OF THE ETNA, The Liverpool, NEB.
York, and Philadelphia Steamship Company's screw
steamer Etna sailed from Liverpool yesterday for New
York. The Etna took out upw
andhad 179 Woo of cotton freight; of 60 cabin P asoeugera