The Sun.
London, England, 1826-11-02 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOTIMIALS.

The story of gaming in high life, which has for a
few days occupied so much public attention, and
which, if not for a purpose we shall presently allude to,
at least with a singular bad taste and love of the Mar-
vellous, was compared to the crimes of Thurteli.linki
.Probert, is already dying away ; and who lost or who
won the money, and whether it be paid) or the pay-
meut most honourably resisted, are matters which will
soon , cease, to interest any body besides the parties
concerned. " Indeed we strongly suaptet that the
Press has been made use of upon this occasion merely
,to intimidate one party, ankt benefit the other..---
Such things happen too frequently ; and those Who
trace the beginning tmf this affair in the nawspapers
from the vague paragraph about its hastening the re-
turn of Mr, Canning from nance, to the artful and
overcharged explosion which at length appeared,
probably think we are not very wide of ere mark in
Making such a guess. But though the affair itself, as
well as the parties engaged in it, are much too insig-
nificant to merit the notice it has attracted—not. so time
vile system out of which it arises, and which is every
ray gaining ground among us to a frightful extent:-7-
Let a man only pass down the principal streets at the
Court end of the town, and view the temples of plun-
der which are there already existing, and about to be
erected, in a style of splendour, and to an extent which
snore than rivals the Royal Palaces ; let him inquire
how many hells of minor note exist within a stone
throw of the same spot ; and he will cease to woLider,
ille.ever has done so, at such disclosures as that to
which we have alluded, and will milt.; 'be astonished
that they are lid more frequent. lint vile and loath..
some as these places are, and, fraudulent and hellish
as the practices carried on at most of them are known
to. be, it is not even at 'iteem that many of our young
men of rank are fir;"c initiated into. scenes which un-
dertnine their characters, corrupt their minds,'root out
every sense ors honesty and, right feeling, and ultimately
render thism either beggars or cheats, constrained to
maints:m a precarious existence by practices, with
vsli;,ch those of the common sharper bear no compari-
uon, except in ingenuity and skill. Strange to say, it
•ts before a young man's entry into the world that he
lost often becomes an adept at the means of his own
'future ruin ; it is at those places where he ought to
learn better things that he is allowed—we might
almost say, encouraged—to dedicate to, horse-racing,
to gambling, and to drinking, those hours which ought
'to be appropriated to far different pursuits, and would
he so dedicated were those places what they profess
to be, places for the cultivation of 44 sound learn-
ing and religious. education." And can we wonder
at the produce, when we see the nature of the
seed that is thus sown. Can we with justice up-
braid the youth who are thus misled ; or can we won-
der at the ignorance and indiscretion which come
from places where wisdom and discretion are so little
etiltivated or attended to ? Sincerunt est nisi vas,
rodcanque itylaidis.acescii." Every man who moves
in the world must see and know the truth of what we
are stating, and must weirder at the indolence or cri-
minal connivance by which such practices are permit-
ted; and so many noble minds corrupted and undone.
It 6 but a day or two ago that we ' saw it announced
that a Noble Duke was so disgusted With: the prac-
tices of the sharks and hlack-legs at Newmarket, that
he had determined to withdraw hinnielf altogether from
the,turf. Yet at this place, and at them-hells with
1141 st abounds, many, of the youth educating at
Cauibriage are permitted to attend, there to imbibe
the first rudiments of that vice which is to stigmatize
• and blast their' future reputation, bringing ruin and
misery upon themselves and their connexions. If some
of the sleepy drones who rule over such places and per-
mit such practices, would awake for one moment from
their dreams of future mitres, and ask themselves how
forthe sufferance of such things can be " doing their
duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God
to call them," conscience might perhaps, with its
" still small voice," whisper 'them a lesson more use,
ful, both to themselves and others, than any which
has beers yet taught within their walls.—Morning
Herald.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, %mannAy, Nov. I.

His lordship sat, for the first time. lifter the long va-
cation, this day, at u quarter past eleven o'clock, it being
the first seal.

At the sitting of the Court,•Mr. Pepys, who appeared
behind the bar, dressed in his silk gown and wig, was ad.
dressed by the Court in these words :--" Mr. Pepys, His
Majesty being pleased to appoint you one of kis manse],
Mrwill please to. take your seat within the bar ;" which
. Pepys accordingly did.
His LottosutP having, during his stay in the country,
employed ito much of his time in looking. into the different
cases, hoped to be able ou Monday morning. to give a
kind of syllabus of what eases he intended to dispose of.
His Lottosulp thought it might be convenient for the
tar to know that he should not be able to it to-morrow,
in consequence of his other engagements. Several mo-
tions of no interest were made, and some were postponed
till the next seal.. His Lordship having nothing to pro'.
ceed with, rose about one o'clock

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, WltsTstaxwritn, Nov. 31.
(Adjourned Sittings after Trinity Term, before the Lon Clu
Juswee and Common Juries.)

SrEVI.:OII3 V. WHITINP

This VVEI4 an action by the plaintiff, an auctioneer and up-
holder, residing at Staines, to recover compensation in da-
mages for an assault committed on him by the defendant,
a bilteher of the same town.

Verdict for thepli;irtir-:—Damages

NOM a, ItIAT Awn ormegs.
This wait an action brought by the plaintiff, a labour-
ing man, to recover a compensation► in damages from the
defendant, Mr. Rust, a man of property, and from the
other defendants, who were parish constables, for assault-
ing and falsely imprisoning the plaintiff.
Damages, 405., and a verdict recorded for both the
other defendants.

DAVIS 0. mnscir Ann Alityrinta
This was an action by the plaintiff, ft tailor,itr osl)Ortia-
Vreet,"Wiliteehtlpill, to recover from the defendant, "1 •5
next door neighbour, a boot-maker, 189!. val.-lathe claimed
to be entitled to under the following circumstances.
The defendant having occasion to make some alteration
ip his own premises, neglected to underpin the wall of the
plaintiff's house, in. consequence of which it gave way, and
the plaintiff was obliged to remove his goods and suspend
his business from June to the month of November follow-
ing, for which he claimed for suspension of trade, 100/. ;
damaged goods, 60/.; .rent and taxes, 2J/.: making in all
a total of 180/.
The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, la

Srktvootallo.—On Friday morning a Cotter, the
Hebe of London, loaded with tabs of liquor, wee brought into
Mahlon, having been taken at the month of the river. She was
a noted fut ligiter, strut would have baffled all purettiti had she not
run aground on the Westboro" Sands. There were five men on
board, fbur Of whom moped in a boat with a largo part of the
tarp; one WAS left OA hoard, and WM taken with between 60 and
10 tuba. Be is a Kentish woos from Whititahle....—Maidatone
Journal.

VOilti6N ,II4TELiAGENCE.

(Vrom the 'toile.)

ST. PETERSBUR6H, OCT. a report, dated 24th
Sept., General Yeri'Aaloff has stated to the Emperor, that
very soon after his victory at the river Schatatters e.ed 1116
cupation of Elizabethpol, Maior43tcheral Prince Matta-
toff learned that Abbas Nieza had effected a junction with
Allaiar Kiwi; son-in-law of the Schuh, and that be was
mulching to meet him, and had already passed tire; 'Ferrer.
The General immediately Kent to General
,
Paske-
witch, who joined Itut ott the•night of the 2lit, at Eliza-
bethinit. Tttese joint forces amounted to 8,000 infantry,
13;660 tolerable cavalry, as many more hilly armed; and
25 pieces of cannon. No intelligentie nt the Schah him-
self has, up to this ivt*tilA, been received. The Persian
troops haVe been obliged to raise the siege of Schouchi,
'LA 01. Reut having made a sortie, has gained a contsi
&rabic advantage over them. Arnett khan, Abbas
Mirsa's uncle was killed iii this battle of the 15th of
September, in which the hiss of the enemy was much
greater than et first announced ; at least 2,000 men
killed and wounded. On the side of Erivan, Hassan Khan,
brother t)f the Sardar, attacked; on the night of the 11th
Sept. the village situated eh tilt steppe of Poloritt with
3,000 cavalry and cnried off the cattle. The troops sta-
tioned in the ditttict of Djelal-Oglou, immediately march-
ed-to the number of three companies, with their artil-
lery, and pressed so hard on the enetny, that they were
obliged to Abandon the greater part of their booty, and to
retire with some loss. Major General Prince Menchikoff
• was present at this affair and took part in it, with a com-
pany of the 7th Regiment of Carabineers, and a piece of
artillery. After the sortie from 14:lizabethpol, the Sardar
of Erivan directed his march upon Chamchadil, by the
lake Nekha, where he encamped near the mouth of the
little river Djeham, and endeavoured by his menaces to
excite a revolt among the tribes that had continued loyal
to us. He intends also to pillage the natives of the dis-
trict of Kazask, who, from the sojourn of our troops, near
the river Akstapha, have been, for the most part, redu-
ced to obedience, and armed against the Persians.
General Yermaloff adds to these details every thing is
quiet in Dhaghestan, and on the line of the Caucasus, and
that he set out on the 24th for the districts of Kazask,
and Chamchadil, in order to repress the ravages threatened
by the Sardar of Erivan. His detachment is composed of
the second batalion of the combined regiment of the
guard, of a battalion of the infantry of Chirvan, a batta-
lion of mixed troops, 400 Cossacks, and 12 guns. Lastly,
General Yermaloff informs his Majesty that he had re-
ceived a report from General Paskewitch, stating that on
the 25th of September, at seven Versts (.5i miles nearly)
from Elizabethpol, he had been attacked by the Persians
under Abbas Mirza, two of his sons, and his son-in-law;
that the force of the enemy was 1.5,000 infantry, about
20,000 cavalry, and 26 pieces of artillery ; but that, after
a short combat, they were completely beaten and routed.
The enemy lost in this action 1,100 soldiers and nine offi-
cers taken prisoners, as well as 2 Khans, 4 standards, 3
Rns, a falconet, and 80 caissons. On the side of the
ussians, the brave Lieut.-Colonel Grekoff, two officers of
the infantry of Chirvan, and forty-five soldiers were killed;
and one superior and eight subaltern officers, and two hun-
dred and forty soldiers, wounded. The enemy were in
complete route; they had abandoned their baggage, and
were closely pursued by General Paskewitch, and there
was reason to believe that the whole province of Karabagh
was thus delivered from the perfidious inroad of the-
Persians.

On this news being announced yesterday at mid-day,
the cannon's of the fort, were fired, and in the evening there
was a grand illumination.

OCT. 30.—Letters from the frontiers of Ithssia,
on the faith of letters from Moscow, state, that the Empe-
ror would not leave that city before the 11th. It
that the cause of this, new prolongatioit of the Emperor's
stay, has been rendered 'necessary by the negociations at
Akermank, the result of which the Emperor war; to wait
for up to that period.
(From the Journal des nebula.) • ,

Moscow, OCT. B.—The Cham of the great horde of
Kirgnshes Djanguir.Bu-Keef, the Princess Fatima, a Cir.
cassum by birth, and three Sultana of their suite, will ass
the winter here, to avoid being in the neighbourhood of
the theatre of the war. The Emperor has given orders to
General .Yermaloff, Commander-in-Chief of the army of
Gruainia, to transmit the declaration of war, as soon as it
reaches him, to the Persian Government.

ALTONA, Orr. 20.—The epidemic, which has raged for
some time past in almost all the coasts of the North, from
the Scheldt to the Eyder,has also most extensively ravaged
our district. From an approximate calculation, it is affirm-
ed that, during the months of August and September, not
more than one in five has remained without being attacked.
Although the type of the malady was not uniform, exhi-
biting in the Month of August symptoms of bilious and in-
flammatory fever, and, in the month of September, those
of intermittent fever, yet the nature of the disease, strictly
speaking, was the same throughout its course.

• 01R WALTER SCOTT.--A correspondent writes
to us as follows :—My departure from was so sudden,
that I had not time to seek letters of introduction ; and the
Scotch are not naturally fiord of introductions which only give
them trouble ; but I bad resolved upon seeing Sir Walter. Scott
before I left Edinburgh, and had Constable been open, I could
have been et no loss, but his door was unfortunately shut. I
contrived, however, to get an introduction to Mr. - , the
historical painter, with whom I knew the 'poet was acquainted,
and with whom it appears he spends many an hour, but I was
just thirty minutes too late ! Sir Walter had been there, had
told the painter some anecdotes which he assurred me threlv him
into convulsions, and that he had been laughing ever since; and
I believed bins, for be was hardly out of a convulsion when I
entered. Disappointed—l proceeded to the Parliament House
(where Sir W. sits as Chief Clerk to the Lord Commiseionsia),
undies soon as I found my way into Court, I had the good luck to
find the object of my pursuit. I needed no monitor to point him
out—l knew him imaantly. I had never seen him before In my
life ; but I bad seen many pictures of bins, and I had read some
of his works, and from the pictorial and ideal together, I had
formed in my mind his face exactly—and had I seen him hob-
bling
,in his favourite " Princes-street," I should have known him
to be Sir. Welter Scott, I pushed on to rime Advocates', limit (a
place reserved exclusively for the AdvoCates), to he' as near him
as possible—there I had no right to be, certainly, but much to the
credit of Seoteh manners, they saw I was a stranger—knew no
better—and they suffered me to remain. On first beholding Sir
W. Scott, I Mt all the veneration which is due to the good and to
the great. I confess I could have knelt down and worshipped
hint, though to man I never bent a knee. I shall endeavour to
describe his person—heis:tall, five feet ten or eleven inches, ra-
ther stout than otherwise, but not corpulent—appears to be about
sixty. Is healthy, but lamed in one of his legs, and walks with
difficulty. His hair is pure white, and' falling thinly over his
ruddy forehead, gives him it,venemble aspect. You might fancy
him the '1 Village Preacher " of Oliver Goldsmith, and his cos-
tusue heightens the resemblance. His complexion is ruddy. His
bead is singularly formed ; uncommonly high from the eye-brows
to the crown, and tapers upwards, somewhat in the conical form,
but there is no projection of forehead, which the bump philoso-
phers lay so much stress upon as being a sign of great intellect.
Hiss eyes are small, and I think dark blue—you can seldom catch
eye-
brows exPression, on account of the great projection of the eye-
roivs ; but when you do, the look is divine; they express amine
?f. intellect, and a kind heart: I wondeV many who lave seen
eTolo'isezouninnten. an.e.e. is expressive oft shrewd entwine--
Hi, g um looks—nothing but goodness and genius..
".:4!te't prepossessling, and he is very accessible. per-
csbitnivei uhteloZhviemr atn. A. dvoeate or law man came to speak with
by the hand—and then looked so kindly.
The Scotch venerateints7
znpenoaaa hots 2„."", as well they may suum magnum
man mud his joutio':"Vmucii:;'.
_.I gazed upon, this extraordinary
vision ; and wore I a portmitoh.birengrasen on my organs of
fair glmevheitur,,,Lltousirhtiat
Iwo from redouutiou.
ohhervpaiinnter., could now paint Isis like-
the advocate's seat, and no advoet
and
a stranger, placed in
doubt, very curious, he gazed open ,„4,......ltealrokwriinagt,
each
other,chhaye. no
mne—dditvweraisisceru.rios-i
like poor Sterne and the
ity in me, but condescension

CHIT lAN AND PERUVIAN MINING MEETING.

A-IVlceting of the Shateholdeh:i belonging.to the Chi •
liakand Peruvian Mining ASsoCiatiou was.. held yesterday,
purSuant to an advertio.eintlit hi the Lanfititi eiazette, in
th6;r rooms, O. 4, White7lion-court, Conant'. NO one
was admitted, except those. who had signed the deed of
settlement, 1111 persons who requested permiSsion,' as Con=
nected with the press, were
.rodily admitted, except the
repoitei• for the Molitit Herald, who- was, in the firet
stance, expressly excluded.

A Shareholdersstated, that he Aad been interceded with
b the reporter of the, Moraine Herald; and he conceived
tbat in this :opinicini if 64 dtiiitted tinY repbrieisi they
admit ail.

One of the Directors said there was nothing on their
part to conceal ; but there was an attack made upon them
h the Harald of that Iporiihigi which Manifested an unfair-
ness that) in his *idiot), would justify the exclusion of
the representative of that paper.

The Directors having entered the Meeting, Mr. WM:
HERPOIICR, jun: was called to the Chair : 'when he diretted '
that the reporter fur the Morning Herald should be ad-
mitted, which being done, the Chairman said, " The
Directors, I am requested to state, have ordered the doors
to be thrown wide open to gentlemen belonging to the
press, because they are willing that all their proceedings
should be made known to the world; but -they thought it
due to themselves and the shareholders, to make a distinc-
tion as against the representative of a paper which could
insert so unfounded a statement as that contained in the
article which I shall now read. It says—
" A meeting will be held to-day, to consider t; Nether the share-
holders in the Chilian and Peruvian mining scheme shall proceed
with the thing, or give it up before more money flies from their:
pockets. We recommend the shareholders to give it up as soon
as possible, for from the first it is as precious a bit of humbug as
ever John Bull was inveigled into. We recommended the public,
when first we heard of it, to have nothing to do with it ; but no,
John Bull's mouth was open for large gains ; little capital to be
advanced, and no trouble, but merely meeting to talk and pass re-
solutions for miners, secretaries, and other worthies to execute.
Oh, John ! what a blind buzzard bast thou been for the last two
years; and yet you call this the intellectual age."
The CHAIRMAN proceeded to say, that the charge of
fraud contained in' this paragraph was as unfounded as it
was gross and unqualified.

The Secretary proceeded to read the report, when he
was interrupted by the door-keepers, who entered in a
fright, and exclaimed, " There's more than a dozen Scrip-
holders at the door, who say they'll force the door, if
they're not admitted."

The CHAIRMAN sent word eut, that those only who had
signed the deed could be recognized as shareholders, or be
admitted to vote and take part in their deliberations. The
directors had come to this determination, in conformity to
the opinion of Counsel.
A messenger came in with a note from Mr. W. Clarke,
making a similar request as a scripholder. He desired a
separate answer.

The CHAIRMAN.—The answer already given is an an-
swer to all.

The report proceeded to narrate very minutely the ori-
gin and progress of the. Company ; after which,

Mr. Alderman LUCAS, Mr. GOLUSIIIDT, and two other
of the directors, gave it as their opinion, from the difficulty
of raising more capital under the altered state of the public
opinion with respect to these speculations, not from any
want of confidence in the success of the company, if ade-
quately supported, that it was prudent the company should
be dissolved.

A motion to the effect that. the company should be dis-
solved, and its concerns wound up by a committee, was
then carried. Fourteen days were given to the scripholdcrs
to come in and sign, though it was stated to be irnprn-
bable there would be any thing worth contending for to
receive.

Thotlss'were :voted to the Citaitinttit, anti the meeting
wepttrated.

POETRY.

TIIE ILLUMINATED CITY.

BY MRS. BEMANS.
The hills all glowed with a festive light, •
For the Royal City rejoiced by night
There were lamps hung forth upon tower and tree
Banners were lifted and streaming free ;
Every tall pillar was wreathed with fire—
Like a shooting meteor was every spire ;
And the outline of meny a dome on high
Was traced, as in stars, en the clear dark sky.
I passed through the streets ; there were throngs co throngs—
Like sounds of the deep were their mingled songs;
There was music forth from each palace borne—
A peal of the cymbal, the harp, and horn ;
The forests heard it, the mountains rang,
The hamlets woke to its haughty clang ;
Rich and victorious was every tone,
Telling the hind of her foes o'erthrown.
Didst thou meet not a mourner for all the slain ?
Thoueands lie dead on their battle-plain !
Gallant and true were the hearts that fell—
Grief in the homes they have left must dwell ;
Grief o'er the features of childhood spread,
And bowing the beauty of woman 'a head :
Didst thOu hear, irrjrist the songs, not one tender moan,
For the many brave to their slumber gone?
I saw not the fve of a weeper there—
Too strong, perchance, Wait the bright glare.
I heard not a wail 'midst the joyous crowd—
The niusie. of victory was all too loud!
Mighty it rolled on the winds afar,
Shaking the streets like a conqueror's car;
Through torches and streams its floods swept by.-..
How could I listen for moan or sigh ?
Turn then away from life's pageants ! turn,
Hits deep story thy heart would learn:
Ever to bright is that outward show,
Hassling the eyes till they see not woe!
But lift the proud mantle which hides from thy view
The things thou /Amidst gaze on, the sad and true ; •
Nor fear to survey what its folds conceal:
So must thy spirit be taught to feel! •
(Monthly and European Maya:ine for November.)

The attention of the French. Government seems to
have been called to the subject of the Mineral Pro-
ductions of France. The Moniteur of Sunday last
contains an official article on this subject from the
office of the Minister of the Interior, in which the
Director-General of Bridges and Roads endeavours
to prove the great probability of France containing
numerous mines, which might be worked with great
advantage, though little attention is at present paid,
except to those of coal and iron. In many parts of
been abandoned at different periods, and there are
the kingdom there are traces of mines which have
many parts not Yet explored where the nature of the
ground gives reason to presume metallic mines might
be found. Many mines were given up before the
discovery of America, when the processes used in
mining were rude and imperfect, and those might be
now worked with success with the aid of modern fins
provements. Others, perhaps, are forsaken, because
they could not sepport the competition with those of
America ; but the case may now be different. The
Revolution, too, may have had some influence. After
pointing out some farther reasons which may have
brevented the French from turning their views to this
ranch of industry, the Director-General states that
it has been judged advisable to publish a summary of
principal metallic beds not
the information possessed by his Board respecting the
now worked. He has
accordingly annexed a n View of the Metallic Mines
which have been abandoned, or not yet worked."-'--
This list fills nine columns of the Moniteur.

IMPERFECTIONS OP sidid.

(From Abeigktl;p's Zeetures.)

On one occasion, when I was riding/ my horse's head
Ind my own came pretty near together. I wan tiding, and
on putting the Spur to hiM; and pulling the bridle, he
threw up his head and stluelt me with it right upon the
Mae: The blood flowed from it, just Ifke as if it had been
Streaming from.an arm after you had introduced The lancet.
I got off; got into a stable near at hand; washed nip'
hands, and squeezed the bdties into their proper situation
tilt well as I could. The people were certainly very kind,
And wished to send for a. surgeon to me ; but I told them
I would rather they, sent for a hackney-coach---04kb
laughter,)—which they did, etiel I went home in it.
then perceived, for the first time in my life, an imperfec-
tion in My sight. I could not see more than twosthirds of
an object. First of all; however, I should tell you My
vision was indistinct, but I found it arose from the eclipse
of the third of every object on the right hand. I ascer-
tained this particularly as I went home, &Cause if I saw
such a long name as my own, for instance, ratione-My,
in a bookseller's shop, or any such place, I Cdtild
see A-her-knee but I could not see the thigh at all.
—(Loud laughter.)—Well, I looked with one eye, then
I looked with the other, and I looked with both,
but still I perceived that the third of every object was
eclipsed, on what I May call my right side. Now this
sort of case is alluded to by Db Woollaston, and he con-
tends that it might be a defect in the (vim nerves. Well,
I was telling all this to a medical friend of very
clever man, and he said it was impossible. I said, Welli I
don't know whether it is impossible or not, but I know
that what I tell you is true. It afterwards happened that
be had a fall from his horse, I believe, or something of
that kind, and lie had the same imperfections of sight, the
eclipse of the objects being on the opposite aide. I said
to him, there was only one thing that I regretted, which
was, that when I was in that state I had n:t squinted, to
hive seen haw the things would haire looked then. He told
me he was convinced it arose from the nerve. " But," I
said," did, you squint ?" " Q gad, no," said he, " I never
thought of squinting." But since that time I have been.
entertained with it often, and
.often without having bad
any blow ; and I have on those occasions squinted too,
and it's just the same. And let those who can account
for it, as arising from the decussation of the nerve, do it :
my own opinion is, that it arises from the irregular actions
of the retina. You know there are people who see ghosts,
and goblins, and so on; not blue•devils ; I suppose they
don't see any of those.
There is a very curious case related of a man who was
a well known character, and a man of sense,—where it was
said, he used to see a number of people in the room with
him. Now, he himself bas described the whole of the
phenomenon, and all the adjuncts to it. He has said, after
taking a cup of tea, coffee, or so on, they came into his
room in great numbers; and as he got better, and less ner-
vous, be has only seen the arms or legs of the persons.
Now this is all an irregular action of the retina. A gen-
tleman sitting in his library one day, reading or writing,
on turning round his head, saw, sitting in 'a chair, a wo-
man in a red cloak. And he said, how came you in here,
good woman ? No answer was made. Yeu have no
right to be here; go out of the room. She took no notice
ofhim. He got up and rung the bell for the servant; the
servant came ; turn this woman out. What woman,
Sir ? Why the woman in a red cloak. There's no wo-
man, nor any red cloak, Sir. Well, go and, fetch the doc-
tor for me ; tell him I am ill, and I wish to speak to him.
The man, however, was not to be frightened by this, be-
cause he knew it was a delusion of the sight. Now, I
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fore. a glass, and seen the upper part of my head, and eyes,
and nose, very distinctly ; but I never saw that I had any
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There is a very important case related by .111 r. Pott—a
case of concussion. An otlicer standing on the deck of a
ship, after some sleet and rain had fallen, began to walk
upon it : he slipped, and upon feeling his feet go from
under him, he put all his muscles on the stretch to save
himself. He came down on his bottom—merely on his
bottom, nothing more ; but his head was jarred ; there
was a complete concussion; .he was stunned;, an inflamma-
tion came on, and he became delirious. .Now that's a very
capital case. The bead received no outward hurt.

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event than that which lam now about to describe. On Saturday
last, a private soldier, belonging to the 6th regiment of the line,
and stationed in the barracks of this city, was condemned to be
shot for desertion, and for uttering various disloyal and seditious
words with intent to.sednee others of his corps from their sworn
allegiance. The prisoner, after receiving the last offices of reli-
gion, was brought forth, accompanied by two Catholic Priests,
and escorted by 40 soldiers of his own regiment to the place of
execution, which was on the Campo Grande, a short distance
from this city. His coffin was carried just before him, which
tended considerably to heighten the solemnity of the scene. He
kneeled and prayed frequently on the way, which, in Consequence
prolonged the time of going. About 10 o'clock he arrived at the
fatal spot. At 11 he was ordered to march round the troops to
admonish them, the two priests dictating what be said to his com-
rades; after which he returned to his former place, where he
fell a victim to an overact of ceremony on the part of the com-
manding officer. There were nine picked men ordered to shoot him.
He kneeled, and was desired by
.the officer to pull the cap over
hie face, which he did ; and whilst the officer turned round to
take a reprieve from his pocket) the poor fellow dropped his hand-
kerchief from his hand, which was understood by the men who
were to; shoot him as a signal to fire, which they did, end six
bullets taking effect in different parts of his body, he fell a corpse.
The officer had received the reprieve only that morning
privately, but in endeavouring to convey a salutary dread of the
crime, (which in the present state of affairs here, was considered
necessary), and to heighten the terror of the scene, err be pro-
duced the pardon, he over acted his port, and, by a dreadful fata-
lity, the poor fellow lost hie life."

LORD BYRON.—We have been favoured with a
sight of a print which is about to be published by
Ackermann, of a full length figure of Lord Byron, as
he appeared in Italy. The original was cut in paper
by Mrs. Leigh Hunt, arid is a remarkable instance of
the spirit and expression which may he given in a
form of representation apparently so unfavourable to
their display. The niceness is said by those who saw
Lord Byron at that time, to be striking, and it is be-
lieved to be the only genuine one ever taken at full
length. The following description is appended to the
print :—" He used, to sit in this manner (after his
daily ride) out of doors, with the back of the chair for
an arm, his body indolently bent, and his face turned
gently upwards, often with an expression of doubt and
disdain about the mouth. His riding-dress was ei
Mazarine blue camlet frock,
of the same colour, lined withwith a cape ; a velvet cap
green, with a gold band
and tassel, and black shade ; and trowsera, gaiters,
and waistcoat, all white, and of one material. The cap
had something the look of a coronet, and was a little
pulled forward over the shade. His lame foot (the
left) but slightly affected his general appearance—it
was a sii
t. run I, en, not a club foot, was turned a little on
one side, and hurt him if much walked upon, but as
he lounged about a room the defect was hardly ob-
servable. The rest of his person, till he grew fat, was
eminently handsome, so were his mouth and chin, fit
for a bust of Apollo. The fault of the face was, that
the jaws were too wide compared with the temples, and
the oyes too near one another. Latterly he grew thin
again, as in England. His hair had been thick and
curling, and was rapidly falling off."