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LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1827

PUBLICATIONS.

ANCIENT ENGLISH FICTIONS.

EARLY PROSE ROMANCES,
Edited by W. J. THOUS,
Published in Monthly Parts, price 3s. 6d. each,
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On the 31st will be published,
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MA-
GAZINE, No. CXXXIV. for January 1828,
CONTENTS.—I. Christmas Dreams—ll. ChristmakPre-
tients—lll. The Bachelor's Beat. No. 3. The Bachelor's
Christmas—lV. Battle re. NaVarino—V. The Caufies;of
the Decline of the Brit4Atrama—Vl. Trials of Temper.
By the Ettrick Shephetv4-' VII. Moralitas. By the same.
—VIII. Notes of a Journey in the Kingdom of Kerry
IX. Chapters on Churchyards. Chap. 13. The Hastfited
Churchyard—X. British Africa—Sierra Leone. Ifeport
of the Parliamentary Commissioners. By James 111‘Queen,
Esq.—XL Projected Cathedral at Liverpool—XW-Ma-
nagers of the Opera—Xlll. Military Uniforms—XlV.
steam Carriages—XV. Health and Longevity—XVl.
Noctes Ambrosianze. No. 35.
Printed for William Blackwood, Edinburgh ; and T.
,Cadell, Strand, London.

This day were published, in octavo, price twelve shillings,
and in quarto, on India paper, price one guinea,
TWENTY-TWO ENGRAVINGS (ac-
companied by Quotations and Descriptions) illustra-
tive of All's Well that End's Well, and Hamlet, being No.
V. of the Spirit of the Plays of Shakepeare : a Series of
Outline Plates, exhibiting the Story of each Play. Drawn
and Engraved,
By FRANK HOWARD,

And Dedicated with Permission to Sir Thomas Lawrence,

P. R. A.

London: printed for T. Cadell, Strand (bookseller to
the Royal Academy) ; C. and J. Rivington, St. Paul's
Church-yard, and Waterloo-place, Palbmall ; Baldwin,
and Cradock, Paternoster-row ; and J. Booker, New
Bond-street.

To be had also of Mr. F. Howard, No. 5, Newman-
street, Oxford-street.

INTERESTING TRAVELS.

Just published, in 2 vols. Svo. price 1/. 11s. 6d. with
Portrait, Maps, and Plans,
APILGRIMAGE in ITALY and A.IVIE=
RICA; including the DISCOVERY of the
SOURCES of the- MISSISSIPPI, and a Description of
the whole course of that River, and of the Ohio, &c.

By J. C. BELTRAMI, Member of various Academies.
Printing for Hunt and Clarke, York-street, Covent.
Garden ; of whom may be had,
TWO HUNDRED and NINE DAYS; or the JOUR-
NAL of a TRAVELLER on the CONTINENT. By
THOMAS JEFFERSON HOGG, Esq., of the Middle
Temple, Barrister-at-Law. In 2 vols. crown Svo. price
18s. boards.

" This is a most instructive book of travels, and as
amusing as a jest brok. If grave sense, grave humour,
sharp wit, and classical learning, make an agreeable com-
pound—here it is. As a mere guide in matters of taste,
it is preferable, in cur opinion, to any one of the multi-
tude of books written by travellers who have pursued the
same route : and for force and originality of remark it far
surpasses Forsyth. In popularity, we expect it to exceed
Matthews's ' Diary of an Invalid,' as much as it does in
merit."—Atlas. .
" Mr. Hogg has talents which would make a journef.
from London to York: or from Hyde Park Corner to White-
chapel, or from any place to any other where hum.= beings
could be seen in the intermediate space, new and amusing.
Italy needed such a traveller."—London Magazine.

NOTES of a JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE and
ITALY. In Bvo. price 14s. boards.

"1; the world's volume,
Our Britain seems as of it, but not in it;
In a great pool, a swan's nest. Pr'ythee think
There's livers out of Britain ?"—Cymbeline.

A TOUR IN JAMAICA. Second Edition, Bvo. price
14s. boards. . _ _

" A more amusing and a more instructive book has not
lately been written about these most remarkable and inte-
resting countries."—London Magazine.
" A clever, amusing, and well-written book."
Edinburgh Observer.

THE ARMY.

Recruiting Department, Horse Guards, Dec. 12.

MEMORANDUM.

The minimum Recruiting Standard for the Infantry of
the Line (with the exception of the Regiments serving in
India, whose standard is to remain as at present) is to be
five feet seven incites, until further orders ; by which ar-
rangement the regulation notified in the Official Memoran-
dum of the 4th instant is cancelled.

By the Commander-in-Chief's command,
H. TORRENS, Adj.-Gen.

War Office, Dec. 21.
The corps of Yeomanry Cavalry under your command
being released, after the 24th inst., from its present mili-
tary engagements, I have the honour to request that you
will be pleased to inform me whether, after satisfying all
out-standing claims for the public service of the corps,
there is any and what balance of the contingent and
clothing allowances of the corps remaining unexpended,
in order that I may give directions that such balance may
be paid in to the account of the Paymaster-General of the
Forces.

I have also to state that his Majesty having been gra-
ciously pleased to order that the Adjutants and Sergeant-
Majors on constant pay, belonging to those corps of Yeo-
manry whose engagements are about to cease, shall receive
a gratuity of six months' pay on the discontinuance of their
services, I have to desire that you will pay to the
of your corps, on the 24th instant, a
sum equal to the amount of his pay at
a day, from that day to the 24th of June, and charge the
same in an account, a blank form of which I enetuse, and
will be pleased to fill up and return to me at your earliest
convenience.

I have the honour to bt,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
PALMERSTON.
To Commandants of 0.-aps of Yeomanry Cavalry.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

CONVERSATIONAL TALENT.

Good conversation comes 13,f nature, it is a
gift of heaven ; and he whom " the gods have
not made" conversational, will never attain to it
by mere la)our and industry. Study will do
much to improve a happy predisposition, but he
who cannot " snatch a grace beyond the reach of
art," can never figure in the first class of talkers.
To arrive it this eminence requires a powerful
flow of animal spirits, a retentive memory, a dis-
cursive imagination, strong social sympathies, a
ready wit, considerable versatility and facility of
character, a nice tact for the apropos, and just a
sufficient spice of vanity to love display, without
making it the sole entl of existence, To these
natural and constitutional gifts should be added
extensive and miscellaneous reading, (espe-
cially a' thorough knowledge of the French
memoirs), much intercourse with the world,
good manners, and an early acquaintance
with whatever is passing in London, Paris,
and Vienna, if not with the chit-chat of
all, the smaller European capitals. A
good talker, in fact, should know every
body, every thing, and as much more as he can
scrape together. He should never baulk curio-
sity with an " I don't know," nor suffer him-
self to be thrown out by the starting of a sub-
ject in which he can be taken by surprise. He
must be au, ait, not only to the greater interests of
religion, politics, literature, and science, a good
musician, a tolerable judge of pictures, a politi-
cal economist, something of a stockbroker, a
lawyer, and a physician,—but he also must be at
home upon all minor subjects of discussion,
deep in green-room secrets and opera squabbles,
a very Aristarchus of pirouettes, and have a per-
fect taste in women, horses, and dogs. He must
be able to tell the odds without hesitation ; he
must perfectly understand the racing calendar,
be at home in the Fives' Court, the confidant of
all the intrigues and flirtations ; and au courant
with the whole subinfeudation of h—lls in St.
James's parish. He must have travelled over
half the habitable globe, and be personally ac-
quainted with every remarkable man, wit, states-
man, artist, or literati, in Europe.
These and many other excellences being re-
quisite to form a conversationalist, it is not very
surprising that the personage should be some-
what rare. The proverb, it is true, says, that
where there's a will, there's a way; and, gene-
rally, the proverb may be as true as any other
specimen of public wisdom ; but, as far as it
applies to conversation, it knows nothing of the
matter. Nothing, indeed, is more common than
the noisy and pertinacious pretender to after-
dinner conversation, " cramming his words into
mine ears against the stomach of my sense," and
making the most desperate efforts to be agree-
able, while he succeeds only in being troublesome
or ridiculous.

Fortunately, however, for those who love these
distinctions, if good talkers are rare, critical lis-
teners are not more common. There are com-
panies for every class of conversationalists ; he
who' has the skill to know himself, and to choose
his circle with discretion may dine out, even with
a very decent reputation. A man who is con-
scious of his own deficiencies, has only to look
out among some of the upstart rich, the fellows
of a plumb or a plumb and a half, and he may
sit in their company " for a long summer's day,"
without being, called upon for a word ; if he can
but keep himself awake, and look sympathy
through their never-ending self-satisfied accounts
of themselves, nodding and staring in due time
and place, he will be sure not only to pass for a
very agreeable companion, but for a man of un-
common understanding and sound sense. The
same plan succeeds also to the life with your rural
lords,. your landed gentry, and your second-rate
authors. Madame de Stael mistook a poor dolt
' of an apothecary, accustomed to any thing ra-
ther than a parler aux viages, for a Venetian
senator of political and literary eminence ; and
she declared that he was the most eloquent per-
son she had ever listened to, merely because be
had preserved unbroken silence during one of
her interminable harangues upon things in gene-
ral, and herself in particular.
If, however, you " feel the god within you,"
and cannot submit to this system, just cast a
glance around, and you must be a queer chap in-
deed, if you don't find some latitude in the great
city that suits your calibre. A safe company
for a dashing experiment at " all in the ring,"
is that of a set of plain matter-of fact men, if
you catch them in the humour,. They have no
ambition to shine themselves, no desire but to
get rid of their own stupidity, and they are very
easily pleased. Good animal spirits, ease, and
a tongue that never ceases, with them is suffi-
cient to earn the reputation of a merry fellow.
But bewaice of all grave subjects ; no politics, no
price-currents, or they'll set you down at once
foi a nincompoop. Talk of every thing they
know nothing about, and then you are safe. Set
them staring, and you are sure of success. I
remember passing a rambling summer among
" the country gentlemen," very agreeably, and
came off with the name of an uncommonly
learned and pleasant companion, only by dint of
interesting my audience with marvellous com-
mon-places, concerning every thing that they
had never heard of before.—New Monthly Ma-
gazine.

RAMSGATE.-011 Thursday, Mr. Sawkins,
was found dead in his bed, by a neighbour who used to
attend him. As he lived alone in the house, and not find-
ing him up as usual, she thought she would not disurb
him. About noon she went again, when, finding the
shutters still closed, and the door fast, she made an entry
by the cellar window, and on proceeding to his room found
him dead in bed. An inquest was held on the body, and a
verdict of " Died by the Visitation of God" recorded. He
had been in good practice as an attorney in the early part
of his life, but latterly had fallen into a slothful habit.—
Kentish Chronicle.

Yesterday afternoon an inquisition was taken
in the Committee-room of St. Thomas's Hospital, before
Titomas SIIELTON, Esq., the Coroner, on view of the
body of HENRY COOPER, aged :35. MATTHEW SWAN
knew the deceased. On Saturday week last, witness, the
deceased, and some others, were engaged in a mill in re-
moving sacks of flour from the ground-floor through two
well-holes to a warehouse at the top of the mill ; the
sacks were being hoisted up by means of a tackle ; they
were in the act of raising one of the sacks in this manner,
when the tackle grappling-irons unhappily parted from
the sack, which fell from a height of 20 to 18 feet,
through the loop-holes, on the hack of the deceased, who
was at work underneath ; he was conveyed insensible to a
surgeon's. Verdict, " Accidental Death." The deceased
has left a family.

PRICE 7D.

CHRISTENINGS AND BURIALS.

The following is a General Bill of all the Christ-
enings and Burials within the City of London and
the Bills of Mortality, from December 13, 1826, to
December 12, 1827, according to the Reports made
to the King's Must Excellent Majesty, and to the
Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, .by the Worshipful
Company of Parish Clerks :
Christened in the 97 parishes within the walls, 1,022 ;
buried, 1,065.
Christened in the 17 parishes without the walls, 4,768 ;
buried, 3,646.

Christened in the 29 out-parishes iks Bliddlesex and
Surrey, 19,847 ; buried, 13,512.
Christened in the 10 parishes in the Cities and Liberties
of Westminster, 4,288 ; buried, 4,069.

Christened.

Males
Females

In all

Whereof
Under two years of age 6,580
Between two and five 1,875
Five and ten
Ten and twenty 862
Twenty and thirty 1,565
Thirty and forty
Forty and fifty
Fifty and sixty

Increased in the burials re]
ing principally from two yeas
from St. Leonard's, Shoredit

Buried.

Males
Females • 10,996

Iu all
iave died,
Sixty and seventy ... 2,044
Seventy and eighty... 1,630
Eighty and ninety ... 666
Ninety and a hundred 74
A hundred
A hundred and one 1
A hundred and two

lofted this year, 1,534; aris-
s being included iu the return

MURDER AT OXFORD.

OXFORD, DEC. 26.—This morning, at ten o'clock,
the examination of witnesses into the conduct of the
prisoner Williams, on the night of the murder of
Ann Crotchley, was resumed l.efore Mr. Hickson,
the Mayor, and the other Magistrates, aided by Mr.
.Robertson, the town clerk.

Williams was brought up from the city gaol in the
custody of the head gaoler; and the crowd, whose
sympathy for the prisoner was considerably heighten-
ed by the length of time he had been in custody,
was still more numerous within and around the Ma-
gistrates' room in the town-hall, than on any former
examination.

The young man (Williams), whose appearance is
not affected by his imprisonment, as the Mayor had
kindly allowed him every indulgence consistent with
his safe keeping, bowed to the Magistrates, and stood
within the bar.

The first witness examined was Dr. Kidd, the
Regius Professor of Anatomy to the University,
who deposed to the state of the body at its exhuma-
tion last week. The details of the Professor's evi-
dence need not be entered into; but it went to
prove the nature of the wounds inflicted on the de-
ceased, and the sort of instrument with which they
must have been committed; the impossibility of
their being inflicted by the deceased herself, and the
excruciating nature of the torments she must have
endured between the perpetration of the inhuman
deed and the period when they were terminated by
death.

Mr. Tackwell, Mr. Wingfield, Mr. Paxton, the
medical gentlemen who assisted in the examination
of the body, were also examined, and their testimony
went to the same purport.
Other witnesses were examined, with a view to
account for the appearance of the stains on the linen
of Williams, and to speak to the fact of his having
said that he had drawn claret, from a gentleman
with whom, according to his own account, he had
been engaged in a row on the evening when the
young woman (Crotchley) was so cruelly and in-
humanly murdered. The most decisive -evidence
was given that Williams had no stick or umbrella
(with either of which, it is conjectured, the wounds
must have been given) in his possession, either when
he left the City Arms public-house on that night,
shortly previous to the time when Crotchley was
found lying drunk in Blue Boar-lane, or at any
pe-
riod of the same night.
In explanation of the circumstance of Williams
turning up his coat when he talked of having drawn
the claret from one of the gentleman who had, ac-
cording to his own story, assaulted him in the street,
it was proved, that what might, upon a slight and
indistinct view, appear to have been blood (or rather
the impression that it was such made on the minds
of the witnesses by his having just spoken of draw-
ing the claret) was not really such. It was given
in evidence that he occasionally bound up his wrist
with a riband, in consequence of its weakness, from
having formerly been sprained, and that he used an
old red watch riband for that purpose, which had
been given to him by Mrs. Barton, the landlady of
the City Arms.
The mayor and magistrates retired after the entire
of the evidence had been gone into, and after some

consultation with Mr. Robertson, the town-clerk, as
to the power of magistrates to admit to bail on a
charge of felony of a serious nature, the latter gen-
tleman consulted Mr. Peel's Acts, and advised the

magistrates under all the circumstances of the case,
it being in his opinion one which had all the at-
tributes belonging to those which Mr. Peel's Act
contemplated, viz.—where the presumption of guilt
was much weakened by the examination of the wit-
nesses, to allow the prisoner to stand out till the
period of the sessions on bail.
The Mayor accordingly intimated to Williams that
he would be discharged from custody upon his en-
tering into recognizances, and finding bail to answer
any bill of indictment which would be preferred
against him for felony and murder at the next Ge-
neral Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the city of
Oxford, to be holden in the course of the ensuing
month. The bail to be, himself in 500/., and two
sureties in the sum of 2501. each.
The prisoner was then removed, the bail required
not being at the time forthcoming. The discretion
allowed the Magistrates by Mr. Peel's Act, resorted
to by them, appears, in this instance, to have been
judiciously exercised; as whiie there seemed from
the examination of the witnesses, as far as it has

hitherto proceeded, not sufficient grounds to commit
the prisoner fully, still there does appear some cause
of suspicion, which, for the prisoner's sake, it were
well, in the present highly excited state of the
public mind, to have removed by the decision of a
Jury of his country.
It is doubted whether the prisoner will be able
to make out the required security; but as the time

of trial approaches so nearly, only a temporary de-
privation of liberty will be experienced by him.
The city of Oxford enjoys a privilege possessed by
no other city within the British dominions, with the
exception, perhaps, of Bristol—namely, the power
of trying at the sessions of the peace, by its own
legal head, the Recorder, felonies of the worst de-
scription, treason, murder, &c.

It is said that upwards of 30,0001. have been
expended this year by the booksellers upon their annuals.
The Keepsake alone cost HURST, CHANCE, and Co.
6,000/. Forget Me Not cost AcKERm,..NN nearly as
much. The Bijou cost 3,oool.—Edinburgh Observer.

GRAND LODGE OF DRUIDS.—Last night a
meeting was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, for the pur-
pose of electing officers for the ensuing quarter, when, in
addition to the members who usually attend the weal)
lodge, many visiters from the country, and other London
branches were present. After the election of three Mem-
bers of the Council of Direction, and the appointment of
the Bards and other officers, the Lodge proceeded with the
harmony of the evening, and continued in conviviality to 1‘
late hour. It appeared that there were more than a hun-
dred Lodges, most of which were in a state of great pro-
sperity.

The arrangement of the various donations
made to the Society, during the recess, had a
pleasing effect. Our readers will be best able to
judge of their number and importance from tho
following list :
Thirty-two ancient vases and fragments of
vases—several of them containing human bones
and ashes—found [at : Colchester, Dean near
Edinburgh, and Bavay, a celebrated Roman sta-
tion (Bajacum Nerviorum) in the north of
France ; also, solar head, thirty inches in diame-
ter, of a cast taken by Mr. W. Bullock, in
Mexico, from the Great Calendar, vulgarly styled
" Montezuma's Watch" of basaltic porphyry ;
casts of the sacred serpent; and head of the vic-
tim within the jaws of the colossal serpent, in the
cloisters of the Dominican Convent at Mexico—
being the munificent gifts of E. W. A. Drum-
mond Hay, Esq. secretary.
Several dies of the coin of the realm—found
in the possession of forgers tried before the
Court of Justiciary—froth Thomas Thomson,
Esq., Advocate.
Parts of a Collection of Scottish Melodies—
George Thomson, Esq., Edinburgh.
" Samlinger for noderns fornalskare"—Alex-
ander Seton, Esq., Stockholm.
Pamphlet, describing Hindoo Bellows—W.A.
Cadell, Esq., F.R.S., the author.
List of the Examinable person within the se-
cond bounds of the N. K. Parish, 1704—(M5.)
—James Law, Esq., York-place.
Part I. vol. 11. " Archcelogia
Adamson, Esq., Secretary.
Eulogium on Thomas Jefferson, Esq., by
Nicholas Biddle—printed 1827--American
Philosophical Society.
Account of an antique metallic vase discovered
in the bed of the Severn—General H. Hutton,
royal engineers.
Illustrations, Graphic and Literary, of Fonthill
Abbey—John Britton, Esq. F.A.S., the author.
Union of Architecture, Sculpture, and Paint-
, ing. Description of Rosslyn Chapel. Beauties
of Vk, iltshire. Lambeth Palace. Portrait of the
author. Javanese spear—Mr. Robert Fergusson.
Gift of the late Miss Foulis of Colinton,
daughter of Sir James. Her father'S Journal
from Portugal in 1761-2. Poems by Sir
James. An unfinished translation of Hesiod's
Weeks and Days, in the handwriting of Sir
James. Several of General Paolis' Letters. His
speech
French, his a
June
ld7h6e r9e.nt s
Letter wln ie
to surrounded
scoti t
rbyy the
countrymen,
May 1, 1794, and his address to the citizens of
Corsica, 1795—W. Dallas, Esq. W.S.
Ancient vase found at the Roman _ Camp

Limeworks. Antique Bronze, in shape of brace-
lets, found at Pitcalpin, near Dundee, 1732.
Asiatic Shield of Buffalo. A description of the
Isles of Zetland, by Thomas Gifford of Busta,
1733, (to all appearance the original MS.) Dr.
Farquharson of Broghdarg's Dissertation on
Ale, MS. 4t0., 7 leaves. Ancient inscriptiOns
on stones found in Scotland—Countess Dowager
of Morton.

A matchlock, shield, and steel coat, part of
the arms of a Ghaut soldier, killed at the siege
of Bhurtpore, and taken from the fort after the
storming—By Alexander Murray, Esq, lieute-
nant 59th regiment.
Twelve Tov arrows, said to have belonged to
King James IV.—Master J. Stevenson, 15,
B ccleuch Place.
" Religion der Babylonier"—Von D. Fred-
rick Munter, B. of Zealand.

A Malay Creese—Robert Allan, junior, Esq.
Edinburgh.
The will of Rob. Josey, and of his grandson,
Joseph Herriot, 2d February, 1660—W. C.
Trevelyan, Esq. through Dr. Greville.
Ancient Sandal, and Coins found at the Mag-
dalen Guard, Dundee—Lieut. A. Sutherland,
Edinburgh.
" Nordiske Kaempe Historier," 3 vols. and
in 3 vols. royal Bvo. " Forumanna Sogur."—C.
C. Rafu, Ph. D. Prof. in Un. of Copenhagen.
Six Burmese idols, formed of a thin plate of
silver—George Swinton, Esq. Secretary to the
Government, Calcutta.

Chinese hat—Thomas Thomson, Esq. M.D.
Canon ball found at Castle Campbell—J. G.
Dalzell, Esq.
Specimen of vitrified fort at Cullen, and series
of coins—John Gordon, Esq. of Cairnbulg.
Six small Greek vases—Alex. M'Donald,
Esq. Asst.. Curator.
Vol. XXI. Part 11. Archfelogia—Through
Sir Henry Jardine.
Some wheat found among the Roman remains,
near the Forth and Clyde Canal—J. Robison,
Esq.
Vol. 1. Transactions of Perth Antiquarian
Society—Earl of Kinnoul.
An Essay on the War Galleys of the an-
cients, with a model—Mr. John Howel, (the
author.)
Blowing pipe, with quiver full of arrows—
some poisoned—from Demerara—William Gor-
don, of Evie, Esq,
A pass, by Charles Earl of Sunderland, 1708
—James Drummond, Esq. writer.
Fac simile engraving of the signatures of the
Commissioners for settling the Union between
Englandalido
Scotland—Thomasfalithe
above
donTathioomnss, byon
Esq., Dep.-Clerk-Reg.
A Description
Mr. M'Donald, Asst.-Curator, was read at the
meeting, and wholly occupied the Society during
the evening.—Edinburgh Observer of Tuesday.

It is pretty generally known that the jbrk,
which is now so universally adopted with knives at our
tables, was introduced into this country from Italy by the
celebrated traveller CORIAT, about 1600, and who was
called furcifer, from using this implement. The spring-
guard, which is now so commonly affixed to our carving.
forks, is a modern improvement ; and it may be entertain-
ing to many fork users as well as fork makers, to be in-
formed that we are indebted to the ingenuity of a cutler of
the name of BARNETT, who resided at Warwick, for the
introduction of an appendage, which, as most persons have
observed, is equally simple and useful.—Shejfiekl Iris.

GRA VESEND,DEC. 20.—lesterday morning,
about ten o'clock, four men came to this place for the pur •
pose of going to London by the packets ; but being tots
late, they went on board a small decked boat, about 12
tons burden, and the man agreed to take them up ; the
wind at the thee was blowing very strong from the S.W.
Shortly after the above got on hoard, five persons were
brought on board by the Tilbury ferrymen, from Esaex,
they also being too late for the packet. Shortly after the
boat started ; but dreadful to relate, the boat arrived near
to Greenhithe, when, by a strong squall of wind, she was
upset, and eight out of the ten were drowned, including the
waterman. Three of the passengers were taken up by a
boat belonging to a brig which was passing at the time,
kme of whom died before he could be got on shore. The
five that came from Essex were of the same family.—viz.,
husband, wife, two children, and the uncle of the wife,
who all shared the same disastrous fate. The otb9r
two who are drowned are not known at this Plsce at
present.

BATTLE OF NAVARIN.

(Extract of a letter received in Glasgow last
week, by a fatly, from her son, dated his Ma-
jesty's ship Genoa, in the harbour of Navarin,
24th October, 1827.)
"Two or three days after I wrote from Malta
we sailed to join the squadron off Navarin,
where we cruised until the morning of the 20th,
cleared for action all the time, but with very little
expectation that we would require to fight. The
-English Admiral, who had the chief command
of the combined fleets, having waited long past
the time that the Turks were to have given him
a decisive answer with regard to their intentions,
determined, after consulting with the French and
Russian Admirals, to enter the harbour of Na-
varin and demand an explanation. The wind
being favourable on the 20th, the combined fleet
entered ; the Asia (our Admiral's ship) first,
the Genoa (Commodore's ship) next ; the Asia
and we took the principal stations a-breast of the
Turkish line-of-battle ships; the stations of the
other ships, as well as our own, I cannot pro-
perly describe without a drawing.
" They allowed us to pass their batteries
without firing a shot, from which we thought
they were likely to come to terms; but we have
learned since the action that they intended to
have sent their fire-ships adrill amongst us in the
night, and boarded us in the confusion with
boats which they had on shore, well manned and
armed for the purpose, but most providentially
their plans were frustrated. While we were
coming into harbour, one of the Bashaws came
on board .to our Admiral to inquire his reason
for entering their port. The Admiral stated his
reasons, and said, that if they fired one shot at
him, he would destroy their whole fleet. The
Bashaw pledged his honour that no insult would
be offered to the flag ; after which he was
allowed to return ashore ; and it was observed,
that as soon as he reached the first battery
a signal gun was fired from it, which we
at first thought was a signal to the Turkish
Commander-in-Chief that a proper understanding
had taken place between all parties,.but which
in reality was a signal to prepare to destroy
us in the night; and it is my opinion, that one
of the Turkish Captains mistaking the signal
was the cause of saving us, for we had scarcely
dropped our anchor, when one of the Turkish
fire-ships, which was within pistol shot of us,
was set fire to and cut adrift ; and tier Captain
and people were in the act of making their
escape ashore in their boats, when the Dart-
mouth frigate commenced a fire of musketry
upon them ; which they returned ; the most of
them were killed, and their Csptaiti escape„ on
shore, and had his head immediately cut off for
setting fire to the ship too soon. The fire-ship
was now drifting towards us, and a partial ex-
plosion took place it her about midships, when
the French Admiral immediately fired his whole
broadside into her, and sunk her. I was at this
time on the poop, standing beside our much-
respected Captain) Commodore Bathurst, who
was mortally wounded in the action after-
wards, and died in about an hour after in the
most composed manner ; and I believe, if
ever there was a man with a pure and unspot-
ted character, and a true Christian, it was he.
" The action now became general ; our men
and officers fought with the greatest bravery, and
the Turks fought like devils ; they would not
strike to us ; we sunk many of their ships with
their flags flying, and many were blown up in the
heat of the action. Our ship was placed in a
very critical situation all the time, and we suf-
fered more than any other ship in the squadron ;
we had a Turkish line-of-battle ship on our beam,
another and a frigate on our quarter, and two
frigates on our stern, firing into us in every
direction ; but we had the satisfaction of blow-
ing part up, and disabling the remainder.
The action commenced about half-past three
in the afternoon, and continued more than four
hours and a quarter with the utmost fury ; their
batteries were likewise playing upon us in fine
style, and we were terribly cut up; our mizen-
mast was shot away, and our main-mast very
much disabled, as well as most of our rigging.
" During the action the French and Russians
fought with the greatest bravery; it was rather a
strange thing, by the by, to see the French and
English fighting together in the same cause.
The English corvette, the Rose, acted in the
most gallant manner ; one of the Turkish fire-.
ships was cut adrift and set fire to, and was drift-
ing down upon our Admiral and us, when she
manned her boats, and towed her off' in the heat
of the action, and placed her alongside one of
the Turkish frigates, which she soon set fire to
and blew up.
" The day after the action the Turks, finding
the most of their ships destroyed, and the rest
completely disabled, commenced setting fire to
them, and to see them blow up was one of the
grandest sights 1 ever witnessed. One line-of-
battle ship and seven frigates were thus de-
stroyed."—Glasgow Courier.

In the garden of Harviestoun, in the county
of Clackmannan, several hundred almonds have
this year ripened, in the open air, upon standard
trees. The trees are all young; and the fruit,
which is now gathered in, is fully as large, and is
said to be as finely flavoured as the best Jordan
alinonds.—Scotsman.

A GOOD STEAM BOAT.—About mid-clay
on Friday it blew almost a hurricane in this
quarter. At the time the gale was at the strong.
est, one of the passage boats was about mid-
channel on her way from Kirkcaldy. As the
bow was bounding over a huge wave—the mast
not " boring but approaching the moon, a
stern sea tossed the small boat upon the deck,
and next minute it was washed away by a sea
shipped a-head, which rushed across the deck
with irresistible force. The vessel made the
pier in fine style and landed the passengers in
safety, a little sea-sick of course.—Scotsman.

THE LATE GALES.—During the whole of
the present month there have been strong gales
in this quarter, particularly from the west and
south-west. 1 hese, in various ways, have been
particularly against the seaports in the Frith, and
for a number of years they have not experienced
such.a luckless December. Very little good has
been done at either the white-fish or herring
fishings. The Newhaven people have suffered
particularly, for besides doing no good in the
fishings, they have been very unfortunate with
their oysters and mussels. On Thursday at
three o'clock a number of boats from that town
set off to try for herrings. After shooting their
nets in various quarters, they fell in with a stray
shoal beyond Inchkeith, and caught from 605 to
1,000 a boat; but when about to return home,
a Strong gale came
on,
and it was with considera-
ble labour and hazard they made Kirkaldy Bay,
where they were detained till noon on Saturday.
Some fishermen belonging
to other towns on the
Frith within these three
weeks have been detained
six, eight, and ten days
on a run.--Scotsman.