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An Account-of the Exti•aordinary Expenccs of the Army

for 1247.

Accounts relating toWidttrs P.:nsions, viz.:-1. Return
of the Nuwber of Widows of Officers ,of his Majusq's Land
Faces of the 11.4!ik of their late Husbands, of the annu4,
Pates of their Pensions, and of thr total Charge of the same ;
from 25th December 18W to 24th December 1817; bAli in
elusive. 2. Copy of a Warrafit, prescribing a new Rule in
regard to future Grants of Pension's to the Widows of Officers
of the Land Forces, dated 17th Fr! roftry, 1618.

Am... Account of theNuniber of Pardons granted under the
qreat Seal for Ilie-I,:cit-Tieu Yeats ; • so fur a* regards fir:l--
Crown iu Chancery.

An Account of the Number of Persons prosecuted for
Counterfeiting the Dollars and Tokens issued by the Biu,l; of
England, and for uttering the same, knowing .them to be
counterfeited distinguishing the Years, and the numbei
Convicted and acquitted of such Offences respectively, to
the end of the Yeat 1817. , -

An Account of the Amount of Salt Bonds taken at the se►
veral Ports in England, in the last Three Years: distinguish...
ing the Amount of such as have been cancelled, frim: such
as are outstanding; with the-Amount of Deficiency, or the
Reason for not being cancelled.

Second Report from the ,tieket,Cornmittee on the Poor
Laws (1818) : with an Appendix. (Nlines.)

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COLtIITOFKING'S BENCH, MAY .7
.Middlesex Sittings before .llr. Ju.stice ABBOTT.
LIBEL.
HAMILTON V. BELL AND 1-IARMFB.

Mr. SCARLETT state], that this was an action
brought against the Editor and Pit,prietor of a
Sunday Paper, to recover damages fora libel,
grossly reflecting on the character of the plain-
tiff. His client was, he believed, a widow woman.
In order to provide for her children, she engaged
herself as a performer at the H:iymarket' 'rhea( re,
where she played some time, and was rising
her reputation. Her family having kindly pro
vided for three of her children, mateinal affeellon
induced her to quit her promising prospects, anff
accompany her daughters to France, for the pur-
pose of superintending their education. This was
in the year 11315, and- she remained there, living
in respectability, two years. In July, 1611, a
woman, names: Harriet r4l,,lineanx flamiltott, was
tried on a charge of child stealing, and being con-
victed, was sentenced to trans] nation. §non
after the trial, viz. orb 20th of July, 1517,
the Libel in question appeared in the defendant's
paper, and purported that the plaintiff was the
person thus convicted.
The appearance of the above paragraph, aridea
Mr. Scarlett, giving 9 desct lotion of the plaintiff,
induced many of Mrs. Hamilton's hiends to be-
lieve she was Convicted of child stealing. Many
went to Newgate to see her, and her own son
came front a distant part of the country to Lon-
don, to comfort and condole wi'h his parent. At
length, Mrs. Hamilton came to liaglaild, to in-
vestigate the paragraph and defend her character.
The paragraph had been copied into several pa-
pets, all of whom, with the exceptian of the de-
fendants, apologized and contradicted the Libel.
—On that account she did not meats to proceed
against them, but •the defendants uniformly re.
fused to be seen.by her Solicito6 and to answer
letters calling on them to make ajinlogy, • under
these circumstances, the plaintiff had been obliged
to bring the present action. The Learned Cowl-
set said, the object was not so much to • obtain'
money, as to defend her character.

Mr. GURNEY addressed the Jury for•the defen-
dant. His LearUed Friend had said the plaintiff
was a widow, lint she had not described herself
as a widow on the record, -and there was reason
to believe she was not. As to giving up the au-
thor of the paragraph, the Jury well knew it was.
possible the-author might be unknown to the de.
fcndants, which was 'the fact. They therefore
could not give up the author. One- thing his"
clients were ready to do, namely, to state their
conviction, that there was not the slightest foun-
dation for the paragraph. Mr. Gurney did not
consider
,this a case for damages ; indeed the
plaintiff did not expect large damages ; therefore,
if the Jury gave-any, the amount ought to be as
light as possible.
Mr. Justice ABBOTT slimmed up• the evidence,
and observed that the publication of die libel had
been proved. No doubt the insertion was the
effect of ignorance ; but ignorance was no excuse
in the eye- of the law. The defendants were
ans►verable for misrepresentation. The quesiion
of damages, in such a case, he left emit ely to the
Jury. •

The Jury, after a short consultation, found a
verdict for the plaintiti—Daniages 200/.—Costs
40 shillings.

OLD BAILEY..—NoThing particular yesterday.

Dr. BREWSTER, of this city, has lately obtain•
ed a patent for a new optical instrument, which
be calls the Kaliedoscope. It consists of two
mirrors inclined to each other in an angle of about
30 k The object looked• at is coloured glass, con-
tained between two parallel object-glasses, and
the whole is fitted up like a small telescope, about
eight inches long. Nothing can exceed the beau-
ty of the objt'cts it producei, and their changes
are truly magical. The instrument is intruded to
assist jewellers, glass-painters, and other .orna-
mental artists, in the formation of patterns, of
which it produces an infinite.numUr;—(Edin.
burgh Courant.)

LITER.ARY REVIEW.

MEMOIRS or 'rue COLTII:E nr ELIZABETII, by Ixcr
AJK!N, in 2 V°burrs, BVO. LONGMAN and Co.

ELIZABETH was unquestionably the tnost popu-
lar Sovereign that ever swayed the Engli4
Sceptre ; at the distance of almost three centuries

treditiothil iitt4climelit is still preserved for lier

memo! V.

IVe team hi childhimd topronoutice

her name with reverence, to celebiate with pa-

triotic pride the niumphs of the maiden. reign,
and iudiisOlobly to connect them with the Golden
days of England.—Yet there are, perhaps, few
readers ho, comparing the annals of this
Hocpicions period with the eltlier pages of Eng-
lish Ilistory, -have not expetienced something
like dissatisfaction and disappointment—the per-
sonal character of the Queen (at first so captivat-
ing to the imaeination) loses much of its attraction
on more familiar acquaintance ; her domestic
administration is regulated by certain fixed pi in-
eiples of economy, which,. when once known,
offer little variety for observation, 110 r is her
natne emblazoned by military achievements.—
We miss the sldendid trophies of CR VSSZY and
PoiCTIERs, we look in vain for the imposing
.though fatal laurels of AGINCOURT ; we are in a
.manner sensible of the void left by the restless
spirit oilier father, who, with the energy invited
by passion, cast from his country the yoke of
Papal Usurpation, and in that vigorous toner un-
intentionally ,aroused a spirit which was hereafter
to arrest the p nig esS of Royal Despotisln.
nearly halt a cell:my the pacific reign of ELIZA-
BETH, like a long protracted but undecided game
of chess, exhibited a repetition of the same
moves, and ended as it began—with the subject of
Protestant Jiiptentacy, and the nomination of a
Successor. It is a question of no common inte-
rest., in what manner the character of ELIZABETH
corresponds with the Gloriana whom poetry and
romance have made her prinoiype—and on what
grounds !he age iti which she lived has beenoin-
vested with such lofty pretensions to praise and
pre-eminence. It belongs to Miss AIK IN, of
rather' to her captivating memoirs of ELIZABETH
and her Court, to resolve this question. From her
tee learn to contemplate this maiden Queen as the
animating soul of a Court, which, in its masques,
its tournaments, its minstrelsy, still presented an
image of chivalrous gallantry and feudal hospita-
lity. ‘Ve behold at that fortunate moment,
some lingeriog shades of gothic barbarism, con-
trasted with the beams of truth and science, lend
a romantic tint—a picturesque expre.sion, to
evca y surround ng object, Front emulation or
sympathy with their learned Queen, the Courtiers
cultivated the flowirs of poetry and fancy; and
svhilst they fostered with seditious cat e the Exotics
of Italy and Spain—the English Drama, self-
planted: took vigorous root in its native soil, and
still flourishes in imperishable bloom and beauty.
It was reserved for Miss At KIN to present this
finishi-al portraiture of ELIZABETH, and not only
has she copied its customs and manners, but even
exhibited the twins and fancies, and recalled from
oblivion, the spirit of the age. By a peculiar feli-
city of arrangement, her descriptions are inter-
woven with the narrative of which they appear to
(um a part ; political events are relieved by do-
mestic sketches ; the characters-are ably drawn,
and with a force which renders them rather per-
sonages
of the Drama, than passive subjects of hist o-
rical narration. To have planned, to have 'success-
fully planned, and executed such an undertakiu't
secures to its writer indisputable claims to literary
eminence. Miss.A !KIN has achieved that which
has never before been attempted ; anti in her
Memoirs produced a work of which there exists
no model, and scarcely a tival, in the English lan-
guage. The history of ELIZABETH commences
from her birth ; of her splendid baptism we
base a minute description, from which ice offer a
few extracts ; they are preceded by a passage of
Inn h rare beauty as renders either criticism or
panegyric on the Author's style superfluous :

" By the King's special command, Crann►er, Archbishop of
Canterbury, stood godfather to the Princess, and Shakspeare,
by a fiction equally poetical and coin tly, has represented him
as breaking forth on this memorable occasion into an ani-
mated vaticination of the glories of the " maiden reign."—
Happy was it for the peace of mind of the ankle personages
there assembled, that nu prophet was empowered at the same
time to declare how few of them should live to share its
splendours; how awfully large a proportion of their number
should fall, or bt hold their nearest connexions falling, un-
timely victims of the jealous tyranny of Henry himself, or of
the convulsions and persecutions of the two troubled reigns
destined to intervene before those halcyon days which they

were taught to anticipate.
" Early in the af,ernoon, the Lord Mayor and Corporation
of London, who had been summoned to attend, took boat for
f:teenwicb, where thwy found many Lords, Knights, and
Gentlemen assembled. The whole way from the Palace to
the ericry was strewn with green rusheS,.and the walls were
Lung with tapestry, as was the Friers' Church in which the
ceremony was performed.

" A silver font, with a crimson canopy, was placed in the
middle of the church ; and the child being brought into the
the long procession set forward.
" It began with Citizens walking two-and-two, and ended
with Barons, Bishops, and Farts.
" The salt was borne by Henry Marquis-of Dorset, the un-
fortunate father of Lady Jane Grey; who, after receiving
the Royal pardon for his share in the criminal plot for setting
the crown on the head of his daughter, again took up arms
in the rebellion of Wyat, and was brought to expiate this
treason on the scaffold.

" William Courtenay, Marquis of Exeter, followed with
the taper of virgin wax; a Nobleman who liad the misfor-
tune to be very nearly allied to the English Throne; his mo-
ther being a daughter of Edward IV. He was at this time in
high favour with the King, his cousin, who, after setting
aside his daughter Mary, had even declared him Heir Appa-
rent, to the prejudice of his own sisters : but three years
after he fell a victim to the jealousy of the King, on a charge
of corresponding with his proscribed kinsman, Cardinal Pole;
his honours and estates were forfeited;. and his son, though
a child, was detained in close custody.
" The chrism was borne by Lady Mary Howard, the beau-
tiful daughter of the Duke of Norfolk, who lived not only to
behold, but, by the evidence which she gave on his trial, to

assist in the most unmerited 'coindtmuaticn -of het brother•
the gallant and accomplished earl of Surrey. . •

"The Kiug, by a trait of arrogAnce, selected ttit
Lady, descended &inn our Saxon Monarchs, and allied to
the first Nobility or the "vile of his bfW;-horn sail, created
Duke Riclunmitljtt ut it does not appear that the spirit of
the tim;.,.ards ‘vklitiii 'enough in this reign to fer<~ tll insult
as it deserved.

"'Tie Royal Infant, wrapped in a mantle of purple Velvet,
having a long train furred with ermine, was carried by one
of her godmothers, the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk. Anne
Boleyn was thi4 Lady's step-grand-daughter but in this al-
liance with Royalty she had little cause to exult; still less
in the closer one which, was afterwards formed for fru by
the elevation of her owu grand-daughter Catherine Howard.
On discovery of the ill conduct of this - Queen, the aged
Duchess was overwhelmed w►th disgrace ; she was even de-
clared guilty of misprisiOn of tre:►son, and committed to
custody, but was released by the King after the blood of Ca-
therine and her paramours bad quenched his fury•

" The Dowager-Marchioness of Dorset was the other god-
mother at the font. Of the four sons of this Lady, thrre
perished on the scaffold ; her grand-daughter, Lady Jane
Grey, shared the same fate; and the survirhug son died a
prisoner during the reign of Elizabeth, for the offence of dis-
tributing a pauipblet, asserting the.-title of the Suffolk line
to the Crown.

" The Marchione.s of Extter was the godmother at the
confirmation, who had not only the affliction to see her hus-
band brought to an untimely end, and her only son wasting
his )(Nail in captivity, but, being hefself attaiutedi of high
treason some time afterwaids, underwent a lung and arbi-
trary imp ison uncut.

" On eitlitr hand of the Duchess of Norfolk, walked the
Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk, the only Nobles -of that rank
then existing in England.

,‘ Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire, the proud and happy
grand-father of the princely infant, supported the train on
one side It is not true that be afterwards, in his capacity
of a Privy Councillor, pronounced sentence of death on his
own son and daughter : even Henry was not inhuman enough
to exact this of ; but lie lived to witness their cruel and
disgraceful end, and died long Mope the prosperous days of
his illustrious grand-child.

" A splendid canopy was supported over the infant by four
Lords, three of tl►c►a destined to disastrous fates. One was
her uncle, the elegant, accomplished Viscount Rochford,
whom the impartial suffrage of posterity has fully aciiuitted
of the odious crime for which he suffered by the mandate of
a jealous tyrant. Another was Lord Hussey, whom a rash
rebellion brought to the scaffold a few years afterwards. The
two others were brother of that illustrious family of Howard,
which furnished, in this age alone, more subjects fur tra-
gedy than ' Thebes or Pelops' line ' of old."
(To be continued.)

THEAFRICAL REGISTER.
Performed Lust Night.
MEATRe ROYAL, DaunT-T.ANE.—Dougla.: Young Norval,
Mr. Kean ; Lady Randolph, Miss Macauley. After which,
Amoroso. To which was addcd,The Sleeping rintualit.
CovENT-GARDEN.—The Skive: Captain
• Clifton.. Mk, •
_ Zelinda, Miss Stephens'. After
which. (2a tirne). The errowslif Werther. 'fiy4hich was
added, La Chasse.