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THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1827.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, MaRcH 21, 1827.

THE COURTof DIRECTORS of theUNITED
COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENGLAND Trad-
ing to the EAST INDIES, do hereby give Notice,

That a GENERAL COURT of the said COMPANY, will
be held at their House in Leadenhall-street, on WEDNESDAY,
NEXT, the 28th Instant, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon, by
Adjournment from this day.

JOSEPH DART, Secretary.

SIR JOHN PERRING, SHAW, AND BARBER.
No. 72, Cornhill, March 19, 1827.
A LL Persons having BALANCES in the hands
-CIL of Sir JOHN PERRING, SHAW, and BARBER, may
receive a SECOND INSTALMENT of FIFTEEN PER CENT.
en (or after) FRIDAY next, the 23d instant.

STRICTURES CURED BY AN INTERNAL MEDICINE.
This day were published by Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Pa-
ternoster-row, price 4s.
PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS on STRIC-
TURE, and other Diseases of the Urethra. Describing
an effectual mode of cure by an Internal Medicine, and proving
the application of Instruments unnecessary, and generally produc-
tive of injury, illustrated by Cases ; and on the Origin, Symptoms,
and Treatment of Stricture in the Rectum.
By W. RENOU,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, 11, New Ormond-
street, Queen-square, London ; where personal attendance for
consultation is given every day between Eleven and One.
The Medicine for the Cure of Stricture is entirely a new com-
position, which, owing to the difficulty of its chemical process,
cannot be dispensed by prescription, or prepared in the usual
course of business ; it is therefore sold in packets, 11. 2s. each, by
Mr. Gifford, 104, Strand ; Colk, 29, Fleet-street ; Barclay,
Fleet-market ; Chandler and Sanger, Oxford-street ; Weldon,
Bond-street; Rogers, and Gibson, Cheapside ; and Stradling and
Nix, Royal Exchange.

RICHLY CHASED PLATE, WINES, AND VALUABLE

EFFECTS.
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
BY MR. WILLIAMS,

At the Auction Mart, Bartholomew-lane, THIS DAY, MARCH,

22, at Twelve,
TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED
OUNCES of SUPERB CHASED PLATE; Handsome
Plated Articles of the very hest description, richly mounted in
Silver ; Elegant French Clocks, richly mounted in Or-molu,
Capital Gold Chronometers, Trinkets, Indian and Chinese Articles,
an excellent Mahogany Cabinet, Alabaster Figures, Vases, and
Ornaments ; a Service of Rich Cut Glass, Forty-seven Dozen of
superior Old Port, recently bottled, and Forty-six Dozen of fine
Sherry ; also, One Hogshead of Sherry, and One • Hogshead of
Teneriffe, of excellent quality, lying in the London Docks.
To be viewed and Catalogues had at the Mart, arid of Mr. Wil-
liams, Throgmorton-street.

SPLENDID STOCK OF AN EMINENT CUINA
MANUFACTURER.
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
By Mr. WILLIAMS,

At the Auction Mart, iAartholomcw-lane, To-MORROW, FRIDAY,
Alatteu 23, l8:27, and following Days, at Twelve,
AMAGNIFICENT and extensive Assortment
of CHINA ; consisting of Dinner and Dessert Services, in
great variety; Tea, Breakfast, and Coffee Equipages; Chamber
Services, highly embellished ; Safety, Rockingham, and Hydra
Jugs, in sets and pairs ; Barclay's Porter Mugs in sizes, Broth-
bowls and Stands, Siamese Jardiniers, UmmerapOora Tea-pots,
Finger-bowls, Ice-pails, Wine-coolers, Butter-tubs, Honey-pots,
Celery Vases, Drinking-hdrns for Schools, Breakfast Cups and
Saucers, and Tea-cups and Saucers in dozens.

The ornamental part is of the most superb description, and
comprises Jars of the first class, in the form of antique ewers ;
Neapolitan Vases, Beakers and Sideboard Jars ; Vestibule, Draw-
ing-room and Boudoir ditto ; Fish-pond Bowls, of peculiar mag-
nitude and costliness. For the Mantle-piece—Jars, in form and
decoration highly resembling those produced by Sevre, Berlin,
Dresden, Madrid, Chelsea, Chinese and Japanese Manufacturers.

For the Cabinet and Console Tables every requisite will be
found.

There is likewise included in the Stock an excellent Collection
of Blue Staffordshire Dinner Services, in this year's forms and
patterns, also Green Dessert Sets ; particularly adapted for the
use of Hotels, &c. &c.
To be viewed and Catalogues had at the Mart ; and of Mr. Wil-
liams, Throgmorton-street.

A PASTORAL BALLAD.

BY JOHN BULL.

I have found out a gift for my Erin,
A gift, that will surely content her ;
Sweet pledge of a love, so endearing !
Five millions of bullets I've sent her "."
She ask'd me for freedom and right,
But ill she her wants understood ;
Ball-cartridges, morning and night,
Is a dose that will do her more good.
There is hardly a day of our lives,.
But we read in some amiable trials,
How husbands make love to their wives
Through the medium of powders and phials.
One thinks, with his mistress or mate
Some ratebane is sure to agree ;
(A medicine, which Ch—t—r of late,
Exhibited, Erin, to thee)—
While another, whom Hymen bath blessed
With a wife, that is not over placid,
Consigns the dear charmer to rest,
With a dose of nice oxalic acid.
Thus, Erin, my love do I show,
Thus quiet thee, mate of my bed !
And, as arsenic and hemp are too slow,
Do thy business with bullets, instead.
Should thy faith in my medicine be shaken,
Ask R—d—n, that mildest of saints,
He'll tell thee, lead, inwardly taken,
Alone can remove thy complaints ;
That, blest as thou art in thy lot,
Nothing's wanted, to make it more pleasant,
But being hang'd, tortur'd, and shot,
Much oftner than thou art, at present.
Even W-11—t.L.n's self bath averr'd,
Thou art yet but half sabred and hung ;
• And I lov'd him the more, when I heard
Such tenderness fall from his tongue.
So, take the five millions of pills,
Dear partner, that herewith I send ;
'Tis the cure that all quacks of thy ill,,
From Cromwell to P 1, recommend.
And you, ye brave bullets that go,
How I wish that, before you set out,
The De-Al of the Freischutz could know
The good work you are going about.
For, he'd charm ye, in spite of your lead,
Into such supernatural wit,
That you'd, all of you, know, as you sped,
Where a bullet of sense ought to hit. E.---[ Times.]
Dublin, March 12.—Friday, after the arrival of the packet, bring-
ing the-account of the defeat of the Catholic Question in the House of
Commons, orders were sent to the Pigeon.house to forward 5,000,000
rounds of musket-ball cartridge to the different garrisons throughout
the eountry."..Freeman's Journal,

LENT ASSIZES.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—STAFFORD, I‘ll.acm O.
CROWN SIDE.

Daniel Osborne and John Cooke, two navigators, were in-
dicted for violating Elizabeth Fisher, and also Susannah Fell, on
the 21st of November, 1826.

It appeared from Elizabeth Fisher, the only witness examined,
that she and Mrs. Fell had been
,from Birmingham, where they

lived, to Warwick, and returned home in a canal boat, navigated
by the two prisoners. No one but the prisoners, herself, and
Fisher were in the boat. They had passed from Warwick, through
Birmingham. In the night the offence was committed. The
boatmen went out of the boat near Birmingham, where the canal
runs, which was not far from the residences of the two prose-
cutrixes, on the day preceding the night in question, leaving in it
the witness, with Mrs. Fell, and neither of them expressed any
wish to go out, which they had the full power of doing.
Mr. PHILLIPS.—My Lord, I do not think this is a case that I
oughtto press. _ _

Elizabeth Willett: was indicted for bigamy, in having married
Joseph Parsons, her husband Edward Willetts being then alive ;
and she was also indicted for the manslaughter of Parsons on the
Ist of August. A bill for petty treason had been presented, but
thrown out. The prisoner first took her trial on the manslaughter.

Elizabeth Bennett, of Rowley, a nailer (a maker of nails. )--
I knew Joseph Parsons, the deceased, and the prisoner; they
were living together as man and wife ; on the Ist August last I
was working in the same shop ; he came in after breakfast, a little
after ten ; the prisoner and Parson, had winds, and quarrelled
nearly five +ours. The quarrel arose about his breakfast not
being kept warm for him ; when they came to work after dinner,
between two and three-o'clock, they continued quarrelling, and
the deceased told the prisoner he would bring her two or three of
her old customers, and they should all give her "sixpence a-piece."
The prisoner said, " If you tell me that word again, I will throw
the red-hot iron at thee." They were then both making nails;
the prisoner had a little short iron rod foil that purpose; one end
was in the fire, the other in her hand. The deceased had a ham-
mer, or a ecoving, in his hands; the prisoner said to him,—
" If thee do'st —, I'll be sure to do it." • I did not
well see whether the deceased had his hand up. I saw what
the prisoner did, but could not see what the deceased was doing.
—The prisoner immediately threw the iron towards him. I
could not see whether it hit him. She made to the door, as if
she was afraid of being beat. When she got to the door, she
turned back, and ran to the deceased, and put her arm round
his neck and her hand on his breast, and she said,—" Oh ! Joe,'
what have I done? I have killed him, I have killed our Joe, but
I did not think of doing it." I had seen no blood before, but on
hearing these words, I looked 'and saw the blood running; I cried
out " Murder ;" the deceased dropt upon his knees, threw him-
self back three times, and died within three minutes after the blow ;
he was carried into his own house, and I saw the wound ; it was
a little hole, a small place ; I never saw the iron after it was
thrown, until I saw it in the constable's hand.
Cross-examined by Mr. RICHARDS. —They had been quarrelling
for five hours ; Parsons' words were very offensive, and such as
would cause a woman most pain: he did not strike her while I
was in the shop; from what I saw I believe he was going to strike
her, and sbe must have thought the same ; after the iron was

thrown, she expressed as much sorrow as it was possible ; the de-
ceased was in fault during the quarrel, and the prisoner had en-
deavoured to pacify him.
Mr. RICHARDS submitted that the offence laid was not proved ;
the chances against the instrument's producing death were almost
infinite.

Mr. Baron VatronAx thought the act amounted to man-
slaughter.
Mr. RICHARDS called Sarah Perry, but she did not answer.—
Verdict—Manslaughter.

The prisoner was then, after a short 'discussion, again put up
Lo take her trial for bigamy.

Mr. Snurr, for the prosecution, called
Catherine Smith—The prisoner was married to Edward Wil-
letts, at Dudley, in December, 1820. I was present at the mar-
riage. They lived together as man an-4 wife. I have not seen
Willetts for the last four years. I was present at another marriage
of the prisoner with Joseph Parsons, in:August, 1823. They
lived together as. man and wife. •
Cross-examined by Mr. IticnA aos—Willetts was transported.
Thos. Partridge, constable of Rowley.--Knew Willetts, and
knows the prisoner. Saw Willetts in Stafford Gaol on the 4th of
last August, at the time he took the prisoner there.
Cross-examined—Willetts was first transported in 1822, and
escaped and came home.
Mr. RICHARDS, for the defence, called
Mr. Spurrier—l know Mr. Lewis, of West Bromwich, the
magistrate. He is in an infirm state of health, and cannot attend.
Sarah Perry went with prisoner to Mr. Lewis, who told her
she might marry again, as her husband was transported.
Thomas Brutton, the governor of the gaol, said the prisoner
had conducted herself with very great propriety whilst in his cus-
tody.
Mr. Baron VAUGHAN observed, that the presumption of the
death of the husband from his being transported, did not arise,
and therefore the prisoner was legally guilty.
Verdict— Guilty.

Mr. Baron YALTGIIAN (to the prisoner)--I have attended to
your case, and lament that you gave way to your passion, which
produced the fatal consequence you could not have contemplated.
It ought to be a lesson how we suffer our passion to lead to acts.
There are many circumstances of mitigation. lam willing to be-
lieve that you really fancied yourself the wife of Parsons, and
therefore felt more deeply those expressions which induced
you to
do the fatal act. There are shades in crimes, and I think yours
is of the lightest kind. The judgment of the Court is, that you
he imprisoned for two calendar months.
Jane Dyke, a young woman, 20 years old, was indicted for
tittering counterfeit coin.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and his Lordship sen-
tenced her, under the Act, to one year's imprisonment, and to
give sureties for her good behaviour for two years more.
John Perry was found guilty of stealing money and notes to
the value of 1501., in the dwelling-house of William Moore, at
Rhutt treen, Illigeley, on the Ist of October.

Mr. Baron VAUGHAN-Perry, you are an old offender, any
must not hope to stay in the country.

LANCASTER, MARCH 19.
CIVIL SIDE.-GREENHELGH V. TAYLOR.

Mr. SCARLETT stated that this was an action for assault.
The defendant, a powerful man, had wantonly assaulted the
plaintiff, who was much inferior to him in size, and hurt him
very severely.
A witness who had been present at the assault, stated that the
plaintiff was a publican at St. Helens, and that on the 27th of
July he had been present with witness and about 20 others, at a
dinner given in celebration of the opening of a public-house at
Birtenhead. On that occasion the defendant and another per-
son had intruded themselves without an invitation. The defend-
ant had scarcely entered the room before he struck the plaintiff on
the head with a stick ; the plaintiff took that in good humour.
After dinner, when the defendant got up for a moment from his
chair, one of the company removed the chair, and the defendant,
in attempting to sit down, fell to the ground. The plaintiff as-
sisted defendant to get up, and immediately the defendant levelled
a most violent blow at the mouth of the plaintiff.
The witness was cross-examined by Mr. 13ftoucTum.—The
plaintiff now keeps a gin-shop, does he not ?—Yes ; he keeps a
public-house.
But at one time be was something else, was he not?--Yes, a
lieutenant in the army.
And were you his ancient—his ensign ; did you follow him to
the wars ?-ob, no.
Well, now, did the blow on his head or his mouth produce the
most hollow sound think the blow on his bead sounded most
hollow.-_(A laugh.)
I dare say ; poor man, he could not help it ; lie did not make
his head. You had a pleasant evening, eh ?----Yes, a very plea-
sant evening.
Plenty of joking and laughing ?—Yes, a good deal.
There was a Mr. Lawrenson from Warrington there ?—Yes,
there was a gentleman from Warrington.
And he was very witty on the defendant's large mouth, eh?--
Yes.

Now, did you not hear him say that it was a shame that the
trustees of the Birtenherd-road had made a turnpike, because the
defeadaut's mouth would have done just as well, *ince it 1.41$ urge

)—Yes, he did say

enough for any mail-coach to drive through?
so.—(Great laughter.)
And you all enjoyed the joke, didn't you ?—Yes.
To be sure, who could help laughing at so much wit. The
plaintiff laughed a good deal, I suppose ?—Yes, a good deal.
And kept whispering with that humorous man, Mr. Lawren-
son ?..—Yes, he whispered a little.
So, then somebody took away the defendant's chair, and plump
down he came—not-on his head, was it?—No, it was not on his
head.

And you could not tell from the sound that followed whether
his head was empty ?—No.
Another witness proved the assault in nearly the same terms as
last witness.
Mr. BROUGHAM-A very lively evening you seem to have had?
—Not so very lively ; I know I went away sober.—(A laugh.)
Mr. BROUGHAM addressed the Jury for the defendant. • He
regretted that, instead of coming to Lancaster, the parties had not
made a second expedition to Birtenhead, and had another night of
feasting, wit, and practical joking. Now that the plaintiff had
exchanged his spear for a pruning-hook, and his helmet for a
pewter pot—now that he no longer pursued the bubble at the
cannon's mouth, but quietly watched it at the mouth of the bar-
rel—he ought to learn to live in peace with his tustomers, instead
of proclaiming the empty sound that issued from his head to the
whole county palatine of Lancaster. The Learned Counsel can-
eluded a most ingenious and humorous speech by calling on the
Jury to give trifling damages.
The Jury found for the plaintiff—Damages 101.