The Sun.
London, England, 1821-10-11 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

ENFIELD RACES, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 10
The pleasurable sports Of the Marsh were again renewed this
day, after a lapse of three years, when the Course assumed its
wonted assemblage of beauty and fashion. The weather was
most favourable, arid notwithstanding there was °ills, one Race,
it aft' rditd high gratification, the particulars of wilich are as
follow :

The Gentleinens Plate of Fifty Pounds for Horses tint never
won Plate, Match, or Sweepstakes. Ail Ages.
Mr (iLnv's.b. m. Souvenir, 3 yrs old, est. Mb.-
Mr{'. Day's g. f. 3 yrs, est.
11r, Messer's g►r. tp. h yrs, Vst. 71b.

1 l
3 2
2 3

Nine started the tirs't heat, and eight the second. But little
betting. Souvenir against the Field at starting—aiid 5 and 6to
4 on ::_ouvenir di second heat.

Rom.tN-. A tiTIQUITI ts.---=The Roman A ntiqui-
tin•which have been lately discovered at Castor, near Peterbo-
rough, have led some persons to suppose that the ancient
Roman town cf Durobrevie, mentioned by Antoninus, was at
that place. But it is differently laid down by almost every sub.
sequent topographicA writer on the subject; some placing it on
the right, and others on the left Beak of the river Vene.—
Camden, Bridiqs, and Morton, severally notice it, and have
assigned it to the t]ifirent stations of Castor, Water Newton,
"and a spot answering to what is at preSent known by the name
of the Castles, on the• right Bank of the River below Chester-
ton in Iluntirivdcnshire. • Whether the City ever extended so
far as to indudc ah these places, it is probably now too late to
deterinine ; but from the olseoveries lately made, no doribt can'
exist that an 'impcntant part of it stood upon the ,ground now
occupied by the ville 2 e of Castor. It is probable that here stood
the Prectorium, or residence of the principal officer, as the beau-
tiful parement.composing the floor of some of the apartments.
laid open may lead us to infer; and it does not appear that
pavements of a like description have ever been discovered at any
of the other places above mentioned In an historical point of
view, these discoveries, if !ncourasred and prosecuted, may
, •
lead to important results ;—first, wito regard to the Preetoriurn:
second, the Tunis Exploratoria, which Morton conjectures to
have been ,:aced on Mill-hill and, third, the regular fort, on
the bask of the river below Chesterton. It is highly de-
sirable that a part of the public money, voted to the support of
the British Museum, should be laid out in the purchase of these
interesting antiquities, which connect the history of England
with that of that warlike people.—The ruins of a Roman theatre
have been laid open lately at 31endeure, in the-department of
Doubs, is Fiance, and the antiquaries !are busied in ascertain-
ing its dimensions, and conjecturing what town it.belonged to,
as the cornices and ornaments found near it proVe it was not
a temporary erection for the entertainment of the Roman
soldiery.

PoTAToE FATTENINO:-The following instance
of the value of the potatoe -in the fattening of cattle, is-deserv-
ing of notice-:--Twenty-One acres were phuited with potatoes,
from the produce of which .forty fat beasts have been kept from
the first week in February, to the end of last month ; also,
seven cows, many pigs, &c. There still remains sufficient for
the beasts for three weeks to come, and peed for twenty-one
acres. The Gentleman who made the experiment considers
one acre of potatoes equal to two of turnips; with this advantage,
that when the potatoe begins to germ, it is even more nutri-
tious than when 'first taken out of the ground. The beasts
average fifty stone : cost. er acPe
POTATOES.—A Gentleman' residing peal-Sher-
borne, who has this year adopted the plan of planting potatoes
at the distanoc of a foot from each other, a few days since dug
up. a single root, which produced an increase of no less than
t flirty -silren, twenty-seven of which were remarkably large.

Mils. ,O,Rii§;

The follO%ring Correspondence appears in the
Morning Papers of this 'day • .

To J. W., ESQ.
45, Sing:strect, Soho, Oct. 8, 1821.
Dian Sfft —AS the friend of the late Duke of Kent, and the
lover of juStice, I call upon you to contradict a report that is in
the World, that 1 have bOrrowed large, sums.of money frouz
yourself, and that eery friendshiphaS .existed bet Ween us but
ot a sacral, iieniini•aijle, and dignified nature. ConSpiracy upon
conspiracy- haS been operating, but the independency of pout.
disposition and the sentiments that yOu have always evinced
against OpPresSion, lead nie to hoPe that you will, by a letter td
the public, do justice to myself; as cousin to the late lamented
Duke Of Kent, and as Prin6eas of Ciimberland, obliged to yod
for many kind attentions shown nay late beloved cousin and
myself. To sour distrimination this.will be Sufflciebt,-and you
have;my perthissien to say hovi ill I hav'e been treated.
trident thatnothing bat truth And justice will gUide your pen hi
the affairs of utyielf Or inditidttals in general,

I am, `fir, your faithfid

To J. W. l'arkins, Esci

OLIVE.

TO Sins; o. strutr.s7 Sot disdntc P ItiCRSB of

CUMBERLAND.

10, 11ridp.e-Street Oct. 9? 1021;
•
• ••
A/AiikiiLj hare ihiS instant received yOur's of yesterday's
date, from 45, King-street, Sehti, -" 'calling upon me, as the
friend of his Royal Ilighnesa-thelate Duke. of Kept, and as
lover of justice, to contradict the reports that are in the
world, that You hOe berro4red iarpe siams of money from
in; and that every friendihip has existed between • its
but tat of a sarr,ll, hon,uras e,.. and dignylol viitlare."
I can rrilq readily and consclentiOusly answer the fere-
goirg that I haVe not bra you any money !
and, in the latter instance, any friendship or conside-
ration towards yott od:zinated entirely in the belief of your
being en uritertunae descendant' of the Royal Family of this
kingdom, and in proof 01 which you have slieWn me Many cu.:
ri Ga.; documents ; and as a further persuasion that you were sci,
the late. mach-respected Dillce of Kent, in his correspondence
with Too up to a day or two before his death, as also by a dOcia
wiitten with a tretrit:ling hand, as you state, the hsur be,
fore his death, he seemed to have gene to eternity under that
belief, and in some letters frOm Sidmouth, which I have, in the
Duke's hand-writing; he acknowledges you as his cousin. This
much I think proper to publish, ai areason why I hai;C noticed
you in my private and p4lic character.
You are perfectly right aS to " the indeprndency of my dispo-
sition and sentiments, which I have always evinced against op-
pression ;" and 1. can only say, that I am extremely sorry that
you are not the only one by many hundreds who have corn-
pl.j;-ed to me of ranapiracy and iii trealseenl2vihich I only lack
p,,wer, and not indigo/ion, to redress !
You are also'perfeetly right when you say, that you are " eon:.
fidert that nothing but tr,th and ins, ice will guide me m the
mini7s of yourself or individuals in general." hoping this Will
be a satisfactory voucher to your,crt-ditors and acquaintances,
I remain, Madam, your's most obediendy,
To Mrs. 0. Serres, 6 (Sgned) PARKINS.
.1-. i rttlisae Princess of •Ctimberland:

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

THE CITY 01.4 CORk.
COUNTY RECORDS.

31L-nrinr, in Replevin, eersirs the ComlonAtroti of the
CITY Of CORK.
. '

This important case, which is professed fo be instituted for
the purpose of trying the right of the Corporation to the 'roils
claimed by them at the different entrances to the City and
sftburbs, came on yesterday Morning (6th Oct.) before Baron
fennefather and a highly respectable Jury. The Counsel on
both sides are numerous, and for the Corporati6n Mr. Edward
• Pennefather has been brought down special.
The Pleadings were opened by 31r. Francis 11I`Carthy, as
Junior Counsel for the Plaintiff; they were extremely com-
plex and intricate, but were rendered very intelligible by the
clear manner in which they were recapitulated and tlistingtrished-
by Mr. M'Carthy, who was complimented by the Bench. •
The defendants having avowed the distress of which the plain-
tiff complained, it devolved upon them in the first instance to
maire out a jtistificaticn accordingly ; J. 8. Townsend stat-
ed the case, which he did with considerable ability, after
which the remaiuder of the day writ, oecupied in read;ng
the various Charters of the Corporation, and Various other
. These having becu gone through, and it being.then
a late. hour, the Court adjourned till this day, when the trial
was r;:sumed, and was going on when our paper was gokig to-
pri.ss, with no prospect of its being over till (TEE
ley.pouTr fc)
• [The question in this case was of great importance to the
Corporation of -Cork, and was decides in their fay our.
shalt give further particulars in a few .days.}

The (101 l Medal, given by the St. Andrew's Golf Club,
was played for ova the Links, on Friday week, and won -by Mr.
HENRY Low, younger, of ('latto. On the preceding Wed-
nesday, the Society appointed Mr..:11.:x ander 11ethune, oflllcl3o,
to the office of Captain, in place of the Earl of. LIVEN and
MEL viLLE.—(Edinburgh Courant, Oct. 8.)
The colliers at Westhorn and Eastfield,
near Glasgow, have already returned to ;thegr
work. •Some' others. are to begin on Monday,
and, it is probable, they will all be at'
as usual, by the end of next week. The '-coals
are at present selling from I'2s. to 1.55. a vrag-
gon ; but they will, of coarse, soon. fall to
,their
former prices.
We lately noticed the melancholv death, at Newcastle, of
Capt. 31ack,nzie, of the Julia, of Perth., Two or three pei,sans
are in custody on suspicion of being concerned in that circurn.
stance and, we understand, a pair of boots, suppo,,ed to have
belonged to the decef.s,A, have been found at a-pawnbroker's iii •
Newcastle.—(Edinburgh Star.)
Four assassinations have taken place within
the last eight days in. Paris. The last victim was
a woman named Denise Calpin, who was mur-
dered 'by a man with whom she had cohabited
many years, and by whom she had several chil-
dren. He was arrested immediately after corn.:
mitting the deed, and conducted to the Prefec-
ture of the Police. •
• A fatil accident lately occurred at Poictiers.
A young man went into the garden of the house
in which he resided.. with his wife's family to.
amuse himself with firing at a mark. The•door
of an old greenhouse served for a target. The
moment he discharged the pistol a shriek -was
heard from within ; he rushed forward,- and, his
wife fell into his arrns, expiring as she uttered
these words, " Jules, you have killed me !"
(Paris Paper.)
.ACCIDENT.--!-This morning, a small house,
nearly opposite the COboUrg Stage-door fell
down ; a boy, with a master. builder, who hap-
pened to be in the house, received serious injury.
A summer-house, in the grounds of Mrs. G
RICK, at Hampton, was broken open and robbed
last Friday night, and the carpet and various ar-
ticles of furniture taken away.- Very fortunately
one article, which its original owner had highly.
valued, was left behind, on account of its cum-
brous dimensions' and weight. This was a large
arm-chair, made by the direction of DAVID GAR..
ItlcK, out of the celebrated Mulberry Tree,"
planted by the immortal SHAKSPEARE.
• EXTENSIVE BURGLARY.-13etwet.n the hours
of one and three o'clock
.en Thursday 1T10,1711-
ing, the dwelling-house and shop of Mr.
Cumtr.ts CoorEn, grocer, No. 50, Upper North-
place, Gray's Inn-road, was burglariously en- ,
tered, and robbed 'of one hundred and four sove7,
reigns, 151. in -notes of the Kingston Bank, a,
101. note of the Guilford 13ank, 261. in the Bank
of England notes, and 131.'in silver, amounting
in the whole to 1611., and one silver caddy spoon.

THE LONDON JOURNALS•

DAILY. EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING TAPERS,
October 11.

[MORNING POST.]
The 'French Papers to the Bth inst. are almost
entirely filled with the details of an interesting
trial (given in another column), in which an in-
dividual was charged with uttering words which
led to •a belief of his having been the accomplice
of the assassin Louvel. According to the evi-
dence produced, he had not only expressed the
most unqualified approbation of the murder of
the unftirtunate Duke de Berry, but had openly
procliimed his complicity. , The Advocate-Ge-
neral, however, seemed indisposed to prosecute
him on that ground, and only charged him
with the lesser offence of uttering seditious
language. The Jury were still milder, and
so worded their_ verdict as to satisfy their
consciendes, and yet to acquit the prisoner.
—They pronounced him guilty of" outrages
against public morals, and of insults against
certain members of the Royal Family ;" but they
contrived to save him from punishment, by add-
ing, that those outrages and insults bad not been
committed in a public place, in consequence of
which the French law directed an acquittal, and
the Convict was set at liberty ! The intelligence
brought by theSe Papers with respect to the sa-
nitary state of Spain continues to be favourable.,
The fierce heat of the -summer having subsided,a
corresponding alteration had taken place in the vio-
lence of the fever. Even at Barcelona and 13arce-
lonetta, the progress of the infection had grown less
rapid, and the number of deaths had. diminished.
The appioach of winter held out an encouraging
prospect, and little doubt was entertained of Spain
being freed in a few weeks from
.a.disorder, the
ravages of which are as extensive and as fatal as
those of the plague itself. It is astonishing
how little attention is paid by the Red4cleurs
of the French Journals, and by some of their
translators -and copyists in this country, to
the frequent repetition of articles. • The Paris
Papers, of'Saturday last contained'verbatim What
they had. published a 'fortnight 'before, in the
shape of additional conditions required by the
Emperor Alexander -after the acceptance of his
ic:finzatunz by the Porte. These very same con-
ditions had also appeared at the time in all the
English Newspapers, and had been made the
subject 'natter of various comments. Yet they
were greedily re-translated and republished on
Wednesday by all our contemporaries, and even
re-commented upon by some with a_ degree of
forgetfulness which is little short of miraculous!

[MORNING HERALD.]
• The alarm created by the- rumour of " conta-
gious disease at Marseilles has_ been completely
removed. The state of health there is most
satisfactory, and the few cases in the lazaretto
are of the ordinary character. It appears
by accounts from Cadiz, that the 'report of. the
existence of infection in that quarter was also
unfounded. Neither in that city, Xeres, or
Port St. Mary, are there any symptoms of yel-
low fever among the patients in the hospitals.-L--
In Catalonia, however, the state of the people
within the infected and encircled -dfstrictsjs still
dreadful, although, there is some slight allevia-
tion. The cordon of health is drawn 'closer
round Barcelona, from which it would appear
Oat the distemper is receding, or perhaps that
its extent was over-rated in' the first instance".—
Soirie attempts have been made by Spaniards to.
pass into France, but without success. In one,in-
stance a band of smugglers made the attempt, but
were repulsed with the Icis of three or four men,
whose bodies were buried, together with the smug-
gled goods left behind. ;There are no political ar-
ticles in'Saturday's Paris Papers from the Spanish
Journals, r even in the suspicious form of private
letters. From Frankfort thcire is some furthernien-
tion of a plot.discovei•ed by the Austrian Govern-
thent in Transylvania. Its authors and even its
Ofjects are not stated. Two Hungarian Noblemen,
Count Testclitz and Baron Orozy are said to
have been arrested, but only for the offence of
" having used language little agreeable to the
Government." The- obsequies' of the murdered.
Patriarch of Constantinople have been solem-
rtiZed with great • pomp at St. Petersburgh, by
order of the Emperor of Russia.

[NEW TIMES.
It is not many months since a prOposition was
brought before the Legislature, and strongly sup-
ported by some medical Gentlemen, as well as
others,fOr Wholly abolishing ou r quarantine laws—
and how we find a clamonr raised against Go..
vernment, because they do not
,introduce into
those laws " some regUlationS of amore exact
and rigorous nature !" We Certainly do not go.
along with those who think the laWs should be
relaxed ; and on the.cantrary we trust that they
vi,lll be carried into execution with the utmost
vigilance ; bin the indignation of every candid
mind will be excited; at the malignant insinua
tions which accompany the discussion of this sub-
ject in The Tunes of yesterday. , The. Govern-
runt of France is 'described, by way olcoutrast
to our own, as a " parental one;'' and this is
foll Owed up with the horrible suggestion that/he
British Government may perhaps think it 6 4 a
piece of justifiable policy to expose Eng-
land to the preventive check of pestilence,
lest those of war, and. occasional want of
food, should fail sufficiently to reduce her
numbers !" How so wicked an idea could pass
through a humin mind, is really inexplicable
still more so how a public writer could -prevail
on himself to circulate it among the _Prejudiced
and ignorant part of the people. Here is a Jour-
nalist, who only five days ago affeeted to be
shocked,lhat 'ignorance and self-conceit should
be attributed to an individual Member of the
House of CoMmOns ; and yet this -same Jour-
nalist now imputes-0 the whele body, of his
Majesty's Ministers, 'the cold-blooded project of
introducing pestilence into the country, for the
express purpose of causing a laige destruction
of human life ! This
,atrocious calumny will, no
doubt, be attempted he excused, as merely
hypothetical. But will the.reuders of The Times)

of whom the majority are now to be found among
the lower classes of society, be either able or
willing to make this distinction ? If it be not
meant that they should receive the suggestion, as
at least probable, for what purpose- it stated ?
It is to be observed that the passage on which we
are remarking forms the conclusion of a.. pretty
long article, and must appear to the cotnmou
reader to be the result of the facts previously re-
lated. And what are those facts ?. Why that
three vessels have come to different ports in Eng-
land with- the yellow fever on board, and that
proper precautions (as is alleged) have not been
taken to'prevent the infection from spreading.

[THE TIMES.
The Bank of England, it is said, have decided
on calling in the 51. notes, as they have already
withdrawn those of 11. and 21., thus leaving none
of a lower denomination than 101. in circulation.
This is, on the whole, a gratifying circumstance.
It tends to confirm the confidence entertained by
the public in the steadiness and duration of the
restored metallic currency, and in the abundant
resources of the Bank. It will further diminish
the number and the risk of forgeries ; and, in-
deed, it is but common justice that the Bank
should by indirect means accomplish that good
which they have told the country they will not
do in the natural and obvious manner—namely,
by an improvement in the quality of their notes,
and an immediate enhancement of the difficulty
attending their imitation. But, on the other
hapd, if it be recollected that one of the ob-
jections stated formerly to the adoption or
search. after a more perfect Bank-note, was the
immense number of small ones issued, amount-
ing, as it appears, to 80,000/. per day, there is
now, an additional argument for desiring from the
Bank a more elaborate and finished performance,
since their own objection is thus removed ; and
the greater value of the note which the public
accepts from them in exchange for gold, can well
bear and defray the expence of a more high
wrought manufacture. At the same time we are
ready to acknowledge, that as notes for 101. are
seldom taken but under circumstances which
afford some facility of tracing them, less tempta-
tion will present itself to crime, and less danger
to fair and open dealing, in the compound ratio
of the. increased value and reduced number of
the notes which still remain current.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
Our intelligence from Dublin affords some in-
teresting particulars as to the cause and effect of
the Lord Mayor's obnoxious toast given at his
inauguration dinner. On such occasions, it is
the etiquette to submit the list of toasts to the
Lord Lieutenant, and in this instance the usual
ceremony was not omitted. His Excellency,
therefore, must have given his approbation, or the
" Glorious Memory," in its new dress, would not
have been proposed.. Alderman James is an expec-
tant, and too cunning to venture on a speculation
likely to involve important consequences, without
he had been fully authorised by the Viceroy. The
Lord Lieutenant is considered responsible for
this new breach of faith with the Catholic body,
which is an act of direct disobedience to the
King's injunction. Whether Lord Talbot re-
ceived any slight frorrrhis Majesty while in Ire-
land, or that he wished to set his mark of dis-
approbation on Mr. Grant's measures, it would
be difficult to ascertain, but it is pretty evident,
that he has thrown himself into the arms of the
Orange faction, and the Protestants, desirous of
conciliation, think a party man, of this descrip-
tion, unfit for the Government of Ireland at
the present conjuncture.—The Catholics, we un-
derstand, are conducting themselves very calmly
under the new insult they have received. They
consider it more a matter that concerns their Pro-
testant brethren than them, and they coolly wait
until they shall learn what step'his Majesty will
adopt to render them justice. The good work of
conciliation was List spreading throughout the
country, and many Protestants of high Church
principles had abandoned their objections to the
Catholic claims, from the conviction, that peace
and harmony would certainly lead to the pros-
perity of the people; but unless some atonement
shall be made for a gross and premeditated
breach of a solemn compact, it can scarcely be
expected, that the Catholics will permit direct
insults to pass with impunity, especially when
they think that such means of provocation are
countenanced by the Government.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
We took occasion a few days since to observe,
with reference to the arbitrary removal of Sir
Robert Wilson from the half-pay list of the
army, that an extended half-pay list, placed thus
absolutely under the controul of the Ministers of
the Crown, Was, in its nature, calculated to pro-
duce, a constitutional evil of no inconsiderable
magnitude. Parliament most probably will
not think it wise to interfere, for the pur-
pose of rendering Officers on the half-pay more
independent of the Government than they are
at present, for we must confess that we do
not readily see how any difference in principle
can be admitted between the power of the
Crown over Officers on the half-pay and Officers
on active service ; but by a happy disposition in
our Constitution, to which we have had occasion
more than once to refer, this evil can be safely
and effectually corrected by a careful and gradual
diminutio t of this particular head of the public
expenditure. The integrity of our Constitution,
the boasted liberty and privileges of Englishmen,'
may most eniphatically be said to be bound up
with the strings of our purses, and so long as
Parliament shall watch carefully over the pUblic
money—parsimoniously granting, and jealously
controlling the supplies, no serious evil can arise to
the interests of the country. Our half-pay list was
one of those points of the public expenditure to
which the attention of Parliament and of the
Country was particularly directed on the return
of peace. The great reduction in the army and
navy at that period necessarily swelled the half-
pay list to.a very large amount, and our readers
may recollect -the very nice calculations which
were then used by Lord Castlereagh, in the
House of Commons, to shew that in a very few
years this list, either by the deaths or promotions

of the Officers, would' be retiaced to little or
nothing. Parliament and the Country were, then
assured-that every opportunity would be eagerly
seized for restoring the Otrice-rs of •the half-pay
to active- services but in this our hopes have
.been utterly disappoi►;ted. The number of Offi-
cers on half-pay is still shamefully great ; pro-
motion is suffefed to run on 'in the several regi-
ments withoyt the slightest regard to the half-
pay list ; and the interests of the public are sa-
crificed, at the same time that the "claims of a de-
serving body of men are ungratefti'lly and cruelly
forgotten. This subject has been already too long
neglected by Parliament, but possibly the recent
occurrence of Sir Robert Wilson's removal may,
by exciting some feelings such as we expressed
a few days since, awaken the vigilance of the
House of Commons. The country cannot afford
to pay two sets of officers ; national gratitude
would doubtless stimulate us to many exerticns
and many sacrifices, but this gratitude ought in
most cases rather to induce us to change half-pay
to active service•, and we would thus at once
disburden ourselves of this moral obligation, and
'afford a seasonable relief to our depressed finances.
But if from circumstances the half-pay Officers
are driven to become in their respective cir-
cles of society mere agents and partisans of
the Ministry —if they are deterred from
avowing their own -sentiments, or from refus-
ing to embrace those of their masters—if
they are beset by spies, and taught to feel
that the most effectual way of, rendering
themselves acceptable to their superiors is to act
the part of spies themselves, the country will not
consent to maintain so pernicious an establishment.
The public will insist upon having the nuisance
abated : they will not endure in a free form of
government the anomaly of having a large body
of men bearing the false appearance of free citi-
zens, while subject to the caprice of the Mini-
sters, and exposed to all the worst consequences
of military authority without being amenable to
the operations even of ,military law.

PROCESSION EXTRAORDINARY. -Yesterday,
about five o'clock, considerable curiosity was ex-
cited in the Strand, by the exhibition of a coal-
heaver seated on a ladder, slung on the shoul-
ders of two coal-heavers, who proceeded from
Ssouthamptim-street iu the direction of. Charing-
cross. The circumstances were these :—The
proprietor of a coal-wharf, having a workman ill
at one of the hospitals, Sent him a bottle of wine,
which he entrusted to the care of the man's wife,
who, instead of taking it to her afflicted spouse,
thought proper to carouse with one of her husr
band's fellow-workmen. The effects of the wine
thus enjoyed were productive of a closer approxi-
mation than probably was contemplated by either
of the parties. The male offender was paraded
as above described for a considerable time, and
instead of finishing by giving him a ducking or a
castigation at the cart's tail, they adjourned to a
public-house, where oceans of blue ruin were
eagerly inhaled by himself and -conirades• to a
late hour. lturnour .states that this candidate
for notoriety has already three wives alive and
thriving.

MELANCHOLY CA.TAsTizoPiir.. —On Friday
evening last (ith inst),- about ten o'clock, as two young men
were walking down the end of the East Pier, at Ramsgate, they
observed a bundle wrapped up lying behind one of the stone
posts ' • they took it up and unpacked it, when the contents were
found to be a Lady's bonnet,. Bath cloak, and a shawl, and
from their, not being witwith the dew they could not in all pro-
babilityhave been there long. The extraordinary circum-
stance was immediately made known, but nothing transpired
that evening : the clothes were lodged in the hands of Lieut.
Woodward,. the Harbour Master. On the following day pub-
lic.notices were posted, stating that a Lady had left her home
that evening about a quarter before ten o'clock, and had not
since been heard of. The dress was carried to the Lady's late
residence, and it being recognized.by her, husband, there was
too great reason to fear the unfortunate Lady had thrown her-
self into the sea in a state of despondency. Too much credit
cannot be given to Lieut. Woodward for his truly laudable zeal
and unremitting attention, in sending the boats and crews un-
der his command to search for the body, but their attempts
were fruitless, and nothing was ascertained respecting it till
about five yesterday afternoon (Monday, the Bth instant), when
the body of the above Lady was washed ashore on the bathing
sands, and the intelligence being communicated to the proper
quarter, it was ascertained that the Gentleman had left Rams-
gate on the same morning in search of her.—(Kentish Gazette.)

CORONERS' INQUESTS.—Yesterday an Inquisi-
tion was held at the Penitentiary, Millbank, be-
fore Mr. IllGcs, Coroner, on the body of Char-
lotte Moss, a convict, who died in the prison on
Monday last. The particulars of the case have
already been given. The Jury returned a ver-
dict of, " Died by the visitation of God."—There
was another inquest, held before the same Co-
roner, at the Greencoat Boy, Tothilifields, on
the body of Mr. James Brill, aged 47 years.
The deceased lived in Greencoat Walk, he was
in good health on Sunday, and made a hearty
dinner with his' family ; he retired to rest at an
early hour in the evening. Next morning groans
were heard in his room by his son, who went in-
stantly to ascertain the cause, and found him in
the last agony of death. A medical man was
called in, but the deceased expired before his
arrival. Verdict, " Died in a fit of apoplexy."
—A third Inquest was .held by Mr. Ilicros, the
same day, at the George-, George-court, Strand,
on the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Child. The de-
ceased was the wife of Mr. Child, of Castle-
court, Strand ; she was about 24 years of age,
had been married three years, and had three
children. On Monday night she went to bed in
her usual state of health, and next day her hus-
band found her dead lying by his side. Verdict,
" Died by the visitation of God in a tit of apo,
plexy."

ROBBERY IN HYDE PARK.—On Sunday night,
about dusk, a gentleman named Hemming, resid-
ing in Goodge-street, was walking alone along
the dead wall in Hyde Park, when two men
came up to him ; one of them pretended to be
drunk, reeled against him, and the other at, that
moment came up, 'and asked Mr. Hemming what
he meant by striking his friend ; at the same mo-
ment he knocked him down, and both beat him
most severely and rifled his pockets, and stole
his hat, watch, &c. leaving him weltering in
blood. A gentleman who witnessed the outrage,
but who was afraid to offer any assistance, fol-
lowed them into Park-lane, where he endea-
voured to secure them ; but the watch not being
set, and no person assisting him, he was knocked
down and maltreated himself) and the ruffians
suffered to escape.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN SEAMEN'S SOCIETY
AND BETHEL UNION.

Yesterday- evening, the `Anniversary Publk
Meeting of the aboVe most excellent SOCiety,
which has for its important: object the diffusion
of the Holy Scriptures and religious principles
among Seamen, by establishing Floating Chapels,
was held at the City of London Tavern. "The
great room was filled; almost to suffocation; by a
most respectable assemblage of ladies and gentle-.
men, and so
"numerous were tl►e persons who
could not obtain admission, that the Report of
the Society's proceedi►igs for the last year was
read in the large dining-room .below, which also
was filled with persons of both sexes. Over the
raised platform in the principal room the royal
standard was displayed, and on each side the
blue Bethel flag. with the word. " Bethel" in-
scribed on each, and a star and dove. Several
beautiful models of naval ingenuity were exhibited
in the. course of the evening. At half-past six
o'clock the Right Hon. 'Lord GAMBIE►.,
took the Chair amidst warm applause. He was
supported by several Reverend and .Naval Gen-
tlemen. The Noble Chairman briefly addressed
the Meeting by congratulating therri on the com-
mencing of the Institution, and on its progress.
The Report was then read .by the Secretary, and.
presented a gratifying detail of the labours of
this Society, which appears to have elFected great
and lasting good for Seamen. Many instances;
some of an affeOng nature, were read to . the
Meeting in support of the utility of the Institu-
tion. On the Report being read, several Gen-
tlemen addressed the assembly. in furtherance of
the Society, which appears to be
_in a flourishing
condition. The usual routine of business having
been gape through in the selecting of officers,
&c. thanks were voted to Lord Gambier, who
expressed his acknowledgment's, and the Meet-
ing broke up.