The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-24 00:00:00

rASHIONABT.,E INTELLMINCE.

WINDSOR, AUG. 23.—HiS MAJESTY did not
leave the Royal Lodge on Sunday or Monday, to
take his usual exercise. Yesterday afternoon, at half-
past two o'clock, his MAJESTY, with his attendants,
left the Royal Lodge, and took and airing for nearly
two hours in the Great Park. There arc no visitors
at the Royal Lodge.

BRIGHTON, AUG. 22.—The Royal Commander-
in-Chief continues to improve in health. Again the
gratifying answer to inquiries at the Palace to-day
is
—" His Royal Highness has had a good night, and
is much better." The Duke has taken his usual air-
ings, and returned refreshed, and with an increased
appetite. His Royal Highness dines by himself, to-
wards eight o'clock. Sir M. Tierney, and the Surgeon,
Mr. M,Gregor, remain his only medical attendants.
Mr. Canning was on horseback to-day. Mrs. Can-
ning was with the gay world this morning, at the Ger-
man Spa, as ' usual, and drinking the mineral waters
there ; her health has been considerably improved by
her salutary visits to the Pump-room.
Lord and Lady Charles Somerset, after a month's
sojourn at the New Steyne Hotel, and Lord and Lady
Barnard, gave importance to the departure list this

morning.
The Right Honourable the Speaker, left us this
morning, but with the intention of returning on Fri-
day. Lord Lisburne set off for London, on Sunday
morning, but returns to the New Steyne Hotel to-
morrow.

The horses attached to the carriage of the Earl of
Howth, a kind of double phaeton, but which for-
tunately was empty, took fright in St. James's-street,
on Thursday afternoon, and overturned the vehicle.
The coachman was much hurt, but not dangerously,
and he is now better. The terrific animals, at a furi-
ous pace, dragged the carriage on its side down St.
James's-street, turning the angle of Turner's Library,
and then on the west front of the Palace, where both
horses fell, having previously broken the carriage to
pieces, the wheels excepted. Here they were secured,
neither having received any material injury.—Brighton
Gazette.

EXTRACTS from the STATUTES of the PENNILES PAR-
LIAMENT of Thread-hare Poets, made in 1606, but 'adapted
for 1826.

2. It is agreed upon, that long. bearded men shall
seldom prove wisest ; and that a niggard's purse shall
seldom bequeath his master a good dinner : and, be-
cause water is like to prove so weak an element in the
world, that men and women will want tears to bewail
their sins, we charge and command all gardeners to
sow more store of onions, for fear widows should want
moisture to bewail their husband's funerals.
9. Furtherinare, it shall be lawful for footstools (by
the help of women's hands) to tly about without
wings ; and poor men shall be accounted knaves with-
out occasions ; those that flatter least, shall speed worst,
and pigs (by the statute) shall dance anticks with bells
about their necks, to the wonder and amazement of all
swineherds.

12. It shall be lawful for some to have a palsy in
their teeth, in such sort, as they shall eat more than
ever they can pay for ; some such a megrim in their
eyes, as they shall hardly know another man's wife
from their own ; some such a stopping in their hearts
as they shall be utter obstinate to receive grace ; some
such a buzzing in their ears, as they shall be enemies
to good council ; some such a smell in their noses,
as no feast shall tscape their company ; and some shall
be so needy, as neither young heirs shall get their own
nor orphans their patrimony.
15. Sycophants, by the statute, shall have great gifts,
endgQ94 anti godly labours shall be scarce. worth
thanks,: it is also thought necessary that maidens, about
midnight, shall see wondrous visions, to the great heart-
grief of their mothers.
19. It is also agreed upon and thought,neceassry,
that some women's lips shall swell so big, as they shall
long to kiss other men beside their husbands ; others
cheeks shall be so monstrously out of frame, as they
cannot speak in a just cause without large fees ; some
with long tongues shall tell all things which they hear ;
some with no brains shall meddle much and know lit-
tle ; and those that have no feet may by the statute go
on crutches.
26. Furthermore, we think it necessary and conve-
nient, that the generation of Judas should walk about
the world in these, our latter days, and sell his neigh-
bour for commodity to any man ; but usurers rtiall be
otherwise disposed ; for having monthly taken but a
penny in the shilling, ever since they first began their
occupation, shall now, with a good conscience, venture
upon three pence with advantage ; beside, many men
shall prove themselves apparently knavish, and yet, in
their own opinions, will not be so ; and many women
shall imagine that there are none fairer than them-
selves.
29. It is further agreed upon and established, that
many strange events shall happen in those houses where
the maid is predominant with her master, and wants a
mistress to look narrowly to her.
33. It is also thought meet, that sonic men, in these
days, shall be politick beyond reason, and write more
in one line, than they can prove in an age.
38. The images in the Temple church, if they rise
again, shall have a commission to dig down Charing
Cross with their faulcions ; and millers, by custom,
shall have small mind to morning prayers, if the wind
serve them in any corner on Sunday. Those that go
to wars, and can get nothing, may come home poor by
authority ; and those that play fast and loose with
women's apron strings, may chance to make a journey
for a Winchester-surgeon ; for prevention thereof, drink
every morning a draught of nob me tangere, and bey
that means those shall be sure to escape the physician
purgatory.
46. Chaucer's books, by Art of Parliament, shall in
these days prove more witty than ever they were be-
fore ; for there shall so many sudden or rather redden
wits step abroad, that a flea shall not frisk forth, un-
less they comment on her.
54. lie that bath married a shrew, and by good
chance buried her, beware how he comes into the
stocks again.
Some shall be sad when they want money: and
with widows rather for their wealth than their
honesty.
6'7. It is also thought necessary, that some shall
suspect their wives at home, because they themselves
play false abroad.
69. But above all other things, spirits with aprons
shall much disturb your sleep about midnight.
70. Furthermore, it shall be lawful for him that
marries without money, to find four bare legs in bed:
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that is plsgued withhana-gavties.en wife have his pate broken
quarterly as he pays' his rent.
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NAVAL IllerELtaiGtger,

The Barham has been commisaifiri red'at WOOlivieb, for the flag
of ths new Commander in Chief, at Jamaica, to which command
it is supposed, that Vice Admiral the lion. Charles Elphinstone.
Fleming will be appointed.
Lieutenants J. Fraser and C.11.7-DZilititer have been .ap-
pointed to the Barham.
The Leven And Harrier have been ordered to be paid off at
Deptford, and the Ringdove at Chatham.

LLOYD'S.--(THIS DAY.)
DEAL, A u G. 23. —Wind W. S. NV—Arrived the Lady Campbell,
Murphy, from Bombay, Gibraltar, and Cadiz ; she parted her
cable in bringing up in the Downs this morning, and has been
supplied with new anchor and cable, and remains under quaran-
tine. Arrived and sailed for the River, David Lyon, Berry, from
Jamaica ; Eliza, Soper, from Grenada ; Tropic, Brazdfordarom
Barbadoes, and Smeaton Castle, Willis, from Quebec. Passed
the Brunswick, Chase, from Baltimore to Bremen. Arrived from
the River and remain, Magnet, Todd, for New South Wales;
Patriot, Guild, for Trieste, and the Fawn, Hale, for the S. sue.
Po ItTSMOU rit, Auo. 23.—Wind S.W.—Arrived tbe_Cameleon
and Eagle cutters, from a cruise, and the John and Thomas, Gor-
don, from London ; H.M.S. Clinker, came into harbour.
PLYMOUTH, Ana. 22.—Wind S.—Arrived the New John,
Ayre, from Quebec, in 31 days, and Speculation, from St. John's,
iu 32 days.
FALMOUTH, AUG. 22.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Albion,
Burrell, from London to Leghorn ; and his Majesty's brig Royalist,
Lieut. Robellaird, from Lisbon in 12 days, with despatches.
LIVERPOOL, Ana. 22. —Wind S.—Arrived the Niagara, from

Jamaica.
Dona, Ann. :23.—The Ann, of London, Wilstead, from
London to Exeter, having shifted her cargo off Beachy Head, yes-
terday, in coining for this harbour, not answering the helm, got on
shore behind the South Pier and sustained damage. She was
then floated off and brought into port.
The Hope, Fraser, from London to Hambro' was on shore, on
the Schaarhorn, on the 20th instant.
GIBRALTAR, Aug. I.—The Algerine squadron, consisting of a
frigate, two corvettes, three brigs, and a schooner, were seen off
Majorca five days since; and it appears, intend to crnize in this
neighboUrhood. The Angel de la Guards, Bantam from Via,
co* to Marseilles, and the Virgin del Carmen, Carbone], from
Barcelona to Marseilles, prizes to the Republican Colombian pri-
vateer, arriv4„ here on the Slat ult., and this day.
The Britiai brig Inca, William Prouse, hound to Callao, on
entering the Bay of that port, from Chorillos, by the Boqueron
Passage, one not much frequented by merchant vessels, ran on
shore on a hank called the Camatal, where she remained three
days, and was got off after lightening her only by great exertions.
It is supposed she has not sustained much damage, as the water
she makes is trifling. The United States frigate United StateiW
and French corvette La Diligente rendered her every assistance in
the absence of the British men of war.

HORRIBLE MURDER.

A most terrible event has occurred here, that has filled
the whole town with
. horror and amazement, and it in at-
tended with circumstances perhaps never exceded in the
annals of crime. From what we have collected, we are
able to lay the following particulars before the public :---
The murderer's name is Burt ; he is a shoemaker by trade,
and formerly lived at Ditebling. About twelve months ago, he
married the unfortunate woman who now lies in a dreadfully
lacerated state, from the wounds inflicted by the bands of her
husband ! After they had been married some time, a die.
pute arose between them, occasioned, it is said, by her refusiug
to chew him the contents of a letter she. was writing., This
so exasperated him, that he took up a poker and beat her molt
severely with it. For this offence he wart brought before our
Bench of Magistrates and committed, and at his trial, was sen-
tenced to several months imprisonment. His wife iu the interim
had resided with her mother, who, we mulerstand, gets her living
by working as a charwoman, and relief from this parish ; but his
wife, in consequence of the above usage, has ever since resolutely
rethaed to live with, or have any connection with him whatever.
About three months ago, she was delivered of a fine male child ;
and we now come to the most painful part of our task. It sp.
pars, that on Tuesday afternoon she was at her mother. house,
and seeing her }maimed coming towards the place, she was
apprehensive of some violence. There being no other person
besides herself in the house, she snatched her infant up,
and ran into a neighbour's house for protection; she was
instantly followed by Burt, who pursued her to a room on the
first floor. Unfortunately, there was no person in this house to
protect her, and the infuriated wretch began his attack on the help-
less woman and child. He was armed with a knife, such as shoe-
makers use in their trade ; the blade was worn away at the point,
so as to make it very sharp ; this instrument he instantly plunged
indiscriminately, it should seem, into the poor infant and woman;
the woman screamed dreadfully, sod implored mercy in the most
piteous terms. Nothiug however appear,*to here appalled the als-
eassin,, and he continued his mordent'', work till the *moo fall,
exhaiseted by loss of blood and the exertions she had made to
screen herself and infant from the effects of his maddened
age., Some pervous had by this time assembled at the
door below, and one, with more courage than the rest,
rushed up stairs and seized the murderer by the collar, and
after a desperate struggle, threw him on the ground, by which
time more assistance had arrived, and the wretch was secured.
There is no doubt but he would also have stabbed the man who first
came to the assistance of his with, had not the handle of the knife
come off from the blade, which remained sticking in the mur-
dered infant. The woman, wounded and lacerated as she was,
fled into an adjoining house with her infant. Every assistance that
could be given to her was immediately afforded by the neighbours.
The infant died in a short time afterwards. The woman was con-
veyed to her mother's house with but faint hopes of recovery she
has received a severe stab in the thigh, another in the right arm near
an artery, another under the eye, and a fourth in the temple; her
front teeth (at least six or seven of them) are dashed out, and sheltie°
received a kick in the side, from which more danger is appreheuded
than even from the wounds. The infant, we understand, is a
most beautifUl little creature : its body and head are almost lite-
rally covered with wounds. The room in which the murder was -
committed, preseusted a most appalling sight when the people en-
tered; the murderer, and his wife and child, were emtred with
blood, which was streaming front their mangled persons, and the
floor was covered all over with gore, which was trampled about
in every direction. The man was then taken to the black-hole,
where he remained till yesterday morning, when a Coroner's In-
pest was held on the body of the infant. Verdict_a Wilful
Murder."--Brighton Garai*.