Star.
London, England, 1824-01-26 00:00:00

NAI'4L lATELLIGENCE.

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY.
The Scout for the Admiral Tariffat n the 29th ins:. a: No. 10t,
Lyon's Inn, Strand, where the same will be recant:l;

The Spanish Patriot, Down, from Oporto to Bristol, is wrecked
near Boscastle—crew saved.
The Union, FRENCH, from Liverpool to New Yark, was lost the
31st uh. on Long Island—crew saved. '•
The Caeol.r., lately arrived at Portsmouth, left Tlin Janeiro on
the 2Gth of November, when the SPA RTIATK, 74, (tag-ship), Cap-
tain GottooN FaLent; ; and Donis, Captain Iloec JOIINSTRNE, were
lying there. The Taisran, Captain Banws,.arrivt d at Valparaies
on the 3d of October, in thirty-four days frOniltio, to retie:7. the
AURORA, which ship was to continue in the Pacific some time
time longer, along the coast to the Northward. The Ilt.ossom,
Captain M‘l.r.ax, was to sail for England, with specie, in the course
of November.
The 131.Axelte frigate is commissioned at Chatham, tor the South
American Station. Lieutenants Henn Notts& and WILLIAM PITT
CANNING are appointed' o her.
It is said that the PHAETON, 46, Captain STURT, is to take Com-
missioner Lewis and family to Malta.
Admiral Sir Geoanz Mimes, O.C.R. will succeed to the com-
mand at Portsmouth, anemia his Bag on board the literoar, 100,
Captain CHARLES INGLIS, on the 25th of March next. Mr. Tait-
Imola is to be Secretary to the COMMANDER-IN.CIIIET.
FALMOUTH, JANUARY 24. Witid W.-- Arrived the Stanmer
packet, from Lisbon—sailed the 14th inst. Heart of Oak, Sroxr.,
from Gibraltar—sailed the 4th inst. and the Osborn packet, from
the Leeward Islands. Off the port, the Priscilla, Alirettent., from
St. John's, New Brunswick, in thirty-two days, and received orders
to proceed to Plymouth.
PLYMOUTH. JANUARY 24.—Wind W. ,blowing a gale —Arrived
the Priscilla, MITCHELL, front St. John's, New Brunswick.
PORTSMOUIII, JANUARY es. —Wind S.W.—Arrived the Indian
Trader and Fanny transport, from Gibraltar; his' Majesty's ship
Cations, from South America; and the Denmark, PLAvroxa, frant
Hamburgh.
Cowes, JANUARY 25.—Wind W.S.W.,Artiied the Rising Sun,
STOKES, front Fayal. His Majesty's ship SERINGAPAT AM has been
got off, with the assistance of two frigates and a brig, and pawed
through for Postsmouth.
Dawn, JANUARY 25. Wind W.N.W. Arrived the Mellish,
Cone, from Calcutta; Surriy, Powts, from New South Wales;
Perseverance, Leac, from the South Seas; Helen, Easinsr, from
Charleston; Asoph, Wessels, front Pernambuco ; Coventry, I iORN,
front Demerara; Ilebe,• FORD, froth' Naples ; Caroline, Fowaan,
from Faro; Sir David Ogilvie, front Genoa; and Cassia,
BA KULA Y, from Messina. •

CUSTOM-HOUSE, J4!S2AITY 21.
Slurs Tr:TaaED Irrvfattos-411e Jacoba iletirietta, from Lisbon;
Fame, from Sr. Übe's; iris, from Belfast; and•george, fwm Rouen.
ENTKRED OtrrseAstos—The JOnge Sophia, and Orie*rienden, for
Rotterdam; Ruby, fur Lisbon; Zeplytylps Belfast ; and Loudon
packet, for Limerick.
• •
CLEA RING OuTwattos—The Salacia, aid Cambria, for Jamaica;
Vrow liendrina,.for Antwerp; Autel•p4 fo; ,Llaboti ; Fox, for
Ostend; and Lushington, for St. Kitt's.
EAST INDIA SIIIPPING. •

ARRIVALS AT BiNGAL—The Norfolk, Crag ; the William Miles.
Beadle ; -the Lord Suffield, Brown; tke Supisia, Sutton ; and the
('adieu}, Talbert, Coin London ; the 13tidget,.1.edie ; and the Lfs.-
dun; Brown, from Liverpool.
The Ogle Castle, Bsiwn, hound to London, put back to Bened
to be docked, previous to the ltd of Septenib,r. '
The Mary, Boyd, which arrived at the Cipr, from London, on
the tOth of October, has been condemned as not sea-worthy.
The brig Eclipse was lost in the Blozanthique ChanneL—Crew
A
SaVe". _ _ . _ - . . .

The Margaret, Andercon, from the Mauritius, had arrived at the
Cape, and sailed for Gibraltar on the 12th of November.

IliS MAJESTY will return to Carlton Palace this day
week for the purpose of opening Parliament in person. Previously
to the KING'S departure for Brighton, his MAxem is fully expected
at the two Theatres Royal, and the Italian Opera-house.
Mr. WARD, late his MAJESTY'S Charge d'Affaires at
the Court of Portugal, has arrived at Stevens's Hotel, Bond-street.
The Earl of MACCLESFIELD, as Captain of the Yeo-
man Guard, has appointed Mr.WArrs, late one of that Corp., to be
Messenger of that Corps, in the room of Mr. HUNT, deceased.
Friday a Board of the Lords of the Treasury v.-as held
at the Treasury-office, Whitehall.
Saturday the first general assembly of the Cishinet
Ministers for the season, previous to the meeting of Patliaint.nt,
took place at the Earl of Livitsrooh's house, Whitehall. the sum-
monses for which were issued about a fortnight since, There wcfs
present besides the Noble F.arl, the Loan ettAncettos, the Earl of
IlAssowsv, the Earl of WESTMORLAND, Mr. Pact., Mr. CANNit",
Earl of BATHURST, the Duke of Witutiterott, the Owlets-Los ut
the ESCHEWER, Viscount Mtt.val.x, Mr.• WYNN. Mr-
Lord Brxt-tv, and Viscount Sulasourn, being the whole of the Ca.
binet Ministers. The Noble Earl of Livstroox entertained the
Ministers with a sumptuous dinner.
The first Cabinet Dinner, this season, will be g;vea
on Wednesday, by Mr. Wye+, at his house at Whitehall, at which
the whole of the Cabinet. 'Ministers will attend.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Thursday, at the parish
church of Eye, in the county of Hereford, Ensetiun Poririf Ex
BASTARD, Esq. of Kitley, Devonshire, and M.P. for the county, to
the lion. ASNI JAN/ pourer, daughter of the late Lord RODNEY
The statue to the memory of the late Duke of KENT
is to be put up in sae course of the emoring week, in the centre of the
gardens of the Regent'avark Cresccut,

BRIG;ITON, JANUARY

'I:OEsTy, we regret to state, owing to a sudden
a the gout, did not attend Divine S.m•vice to-
l). in the Palace OW el. The It- yal Equerries and
Hon,ehold were present, and the boiy of the Chapel
vas iic by the Nobility, Gentry, respectable in-
tiiizants of the town.

7'llBE 1131 V.

7ilondav, a company of Artillery arrives] at Leith Fall, from Fort
replace a company which hail left there for Woolwich.
lhe-.teal Regiment have arrived At Castleb.ir.
•••has eeil: ate to do duty in *Cork until next Marco, when they
wo. tini 'it hrk there for the Isle of France.
The 9-. id Regiment, which sailed Irons Cork on the .oth Nov.
- West Indies, is ordered for Bath 'duet,
\ detachment of the Ist battalion of the Ist (or Rosml) Regiment,
eared ae Clotimel, has received itttleri to prinet:d to eh align,
to embarking for India, to join the 9d battalion of that
gallant req..•
fuse er,,,i.gearters of the 7.1til Ileeineent of Foot arrived on Vri-
' day g Portsmouth, on board the ‘Villiant Harris craosport, from
i ;Oval:4r.
It is understood that another Regiment of Font will be raised
forthwith, to he named the 96th, Mal three more Regiments of In-
;mtry will raised in •March.—lt is said that most ut the Officers
the Stith Regiment have h. en already named.
111 ILITA Y I'IIO3IOTIONS.
WA H•OFFICE, JAstfolti* 23, 1S21•.
7.h Regiment of Dragooti Guards—Lientenato Richard Doyne
front half pay of the ltob light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant and
Adjutant, vice Joshes Danwoody, who exeliatiges, receiving the
?iffereuce.
eth Het:Moen of Light Dragesons—Cornet 'Matthew Chitty Downes,
St. goietin to be Lieutenant. by purchase, vice (7oney, promoted
iu the 17dt Light Dragoon-; Harry Shakespear Phillips, Gent.
to he Cornet, by purchase, vice St. Qaintio.
eth Regiment of Dragoons—Lieutenant William Henry Snow,
from ball-pay of the 4th Dragoons, to he Lieutenant, vice Ed-
ward G. Cahill, who exchanges.
o• Regiment of I:ol3C—Liettenant Richard Bennett, from half-pay
tile elih Foot, to he Lieutenant, vice J. Clayton Cowell, who
eechatiges.
51S Ditto—Ensign Edward Henry Dodd, from the Sad Foot, to
tae Ensign, vice Brooke, promoted in the 27th Foot.
V;th Ditto—Colonel Sir Robert Travers, from inspecting Fidel-
Officer of Militia in the lonian Islands, to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
:ice Mathew Stewart, who retires upon half-pay.
27th Ditto—Ensign John Brooke, from the .sth Foot, to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Drewe, promoted in the Royal
African Colonial Corps.
I''th Ditto--Viisign John Burns to he Lieutenant, without pur-
Aisoe, vire Baynes, promoted in the Royal African Colonial
Corps ; Vm. Sacheverell Coke, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Bunts.
4,1 h Ditto—Major Michael Creagh, from the 86th Foot, to be
vice Stretton, who retires upon half-pay of the 84th Foot.
Ditto—Brownlove Knox, Gent. to be Ensign, without put-
chase, vase Dodd, appointed to the sth Font.
:Sib Ditto—Lieutenant Richard Percy Pack, from the 60th Foot,
to hr Leutenant, vice-Edward O'Brien, who retires opiate hail-
er; of the e9th Foot.
e•th Ditto—Lieutenant Johan Rein Adair to he Captain, without
pnrcha-e, vice Purtlon, promoted in the Royal African Colonial
Corp*; lieutenant George Frederick (;reeves, from half-pay
cf the tl9th Foot, to he Lieutenant, vice Pack, appointed to the
'Stu Foot.
t• 1 Ditto—Ersien John Gibbons to he Lieutenant, without pur-
dose, vice Campbell, promoted in the Royal African Colonial
Corps'; Lit,igH James Gordon, front the 93d Foot, to be Ensign,
rice Giblmnt.
1 Ditto—Lieutenant Alexander Ink to be Captain, without
;et:chase, vice Nicolls, promoted io the ed West India Ifegi_
rele Fe-;:e: 'Michael Adair to be Lienootant, vice Logic;
Ilei.ry llobitison, Gent. to Le Ensign, without pu'rchase,
vice Adair.
awh Ditto—Y..7.Dr Michael Chamberlain, front half-pay of the
84th Foot, lie Major, vice Creagli, appointed to the 40th Foot.
Sloth Dittos-bei,;il John Wilson to be Lienteinan, without pur-
-ch:or, vice lidarsine, promoted in the Royal ALicau Colo-
nial Corps.
l's be Emigns, without purchase—Hugh Massey, Gent. vice San-
key, deceased; Austin Mackenzie, Gent. vice Wilson.
93d Di:to—Gentleman Cadet Andrew R. Evans, from the Royal
31ilitary ('tali.; e, to be Ensign, without rut chitoa, vice Gurtion,
nppoieted to the 6551 Foot.
!..fl: Brigade—Dievet Major William Eeles to be 'Major, by put.-
;Ma-, vice Ross, promoted in the Cape Corps ; Lieutenant John
N. (•...ssott to he Captain, by purchaec, vice Ears; Second Lieu-
etuat Matiners John Ker NVilliam Logan to be First Lieute-
rue, by purchase, vice Gossett ; Gentleman Cutlet John St.
Saumarez, from the Royal Militery College, to be Se-
cried Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Logan.
Si West India Regiment—lirevet Major William Burke Nicolls,
from the 72,1 Foot, to be Major, without purchase, vice Grant,
promoted in tile Royal African Colonial Corps.
Ceylon Regiment—Second Lieutenant Thomas Skinner to be First
Lientenaut, without purchase, vice Auber, appointed to 8.5 d Foot.
lobe Sand Lieutenants, without purchase—Gentleman Cadet
ThumisWilliant Rogers, from the Royal Military College ; Gen-
tleman Cadet John IL. Ileyland, from the ltuyal Military Col-
lege, vice •I,;:tner. •
(Lye (7..ri,s—:.rave! Colonel John Ross, from the Rifle Brigade, to
he Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Fraser, deceased.
l'oyal African Colonial Corps—Major Alexander Grant, from the
id West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without
purchase ; Brevet Major Edward Purdon, from the 60th Foot,
to be 514jor;without purchase.
Tv be Captains, without purchase—Captain Mitchell John Sparks,
tram the eal 'West India Regiment; Captain John L' Estrange,
from the 2cl Wrest India Regiment ; Lieutenant Charles Dowson,
:rum the 90th lout ; Lieutenant David Campbell, front the 63J
. 'Foot; Lieutenant Edward Ward Drewe, front the 27th Foot;
I.ieatenant Thomas Baynes, from the 39th Foot'
Ti he Lieutenants, without purchas- —Lieutenant Frederick Cle-
ments, Lieutenant AVilliam Francis Cartwright, Ensigns Duncan
Maclean, and James Rogers, all ftmin 2d West (aided Regiment..
UNATTACHED.
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel George •Fitzclerence, from the 6th Ma-
roon Guards, to be Lieutenant-Colonel of Infantry, by purchase,
vice Major-General Alexander, who retires.
BREVET.
Dr. Robert Walters, t•o half-pay as Assistant Inspector of hospi-
tals, to be Inspector of Hospitals, by Brevet.
STArn
Colonel Sir Charles Sutton, H.C. B. from half-pay, to be Inspecting
Mehl ufficer of Militia in the lonian Islands, vice Sir Robert
ts, ap2einted to the 10th Foot.
110S1•ITA1. STAFF.
Conway '('Nice:', front Half-pay to be
tal- Assistant to the Forces, vice Cocking, resigned.
CuTitii-sions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of
h Comity of York, City and County of the City of York.
1,1 II 'l4 York alilitia,lohit Dearden, EA. to bb Captain.
it)tit'!.fe Hussar Yeomanry Cavalry—Samuel Barwick Bruce,
Gen:. to be Cornet ; A ss:stant-Surgeor Francis Gibbs to be Sur-
Z:totl, vie,. Shaw, resigned, Samuel Barwick Brut,.', Gent. to be
,41rostant-Siitgeon, vi• e Gibbs, promoted.
6' 'lit"' Rilliment of Yorkshire (West Riding) Yeomanry Ca-
I.•:aITYT-Captain John t',‘tillarton to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice
inty,; Lord Viscount to be Cap-
'nos A •
resigned ; John pullartoti,jun. Esq. to be ditto,
biCe 11:11artUll, ; Cornet Jolts Foster to be Lieu-
naee,%l •
• ce Mawe resigned; William Sheardown, Gent. to he
n•tt, vice ' m
(*u-. ' •
• Larch resied • Christopher :14E1-L.:xi, Gent. to be
rice Futter,
protinsoted:

It
a; pears by a Quebec paper of the 6th ult. that the I
f•
,9n,,nons of Lower Canada, in their sittings of the 3d,
"yiked 'Le question of an acknowledgment Our the very
57•411St't VICZS Of the Lttc Sill G CORO E l'itEVosr, Governor
province during the sat with the United States.
II the sitting of the list cf ?March, 1315, there had
tict:i ewe(' by the Commons, the sum of 5,0001. to be
ei!iployecl iu the purchase if a piece of plate to be
ine,el.ted to Si: GEOliGk: os r, as a testimonial of
the entertained of the taielits and wisdom of his
Akinian,tration, and of his successful detente of the
Plovince; but this resolution, solely from C.LIIIeS beyond
CouLroili of tl.e Comnion, had not hten can ied into
tthct. A committee of five members has now been
44. to determine the best filmic of cornmerno-
- ;Iwo sense of tae tvislogt cf Sir
(14tniuL

!IL Nrs ACCOUNT OF THE LAST MOMENTS

OF 711 ItTELL.

T

While we were upon our trial, ',lumen treated me
very distantly ; and when his brother was giving his
evidence, I could not help expressing my astonishment
at his attributing to me the very expressions which
John Thurtell himself had used, respecting our being
" Trapin Lads." I said, " Good Goo! here's work."
John replied, " Yes, don't alarm yourself, you'll have
more of it presently ; we have not half done with you
yet." But when he afterwards, in addressing the Jury,
wanted to lay the whole crime on me and Probert, I
was lost in astonishment, and everything appeared
enveloped in mist; but I shall never forget his horrid
expression of countenance when he ;poke of Barber
Beaumont and Mr. Springfield —I was really frightened
to look at him.

Directly as w•e left the bar, Tlittrtell addressed me in

the most Iriendly and familiar manner, and, shaking
me by the hand, said, It's all up, Joe; we must now
make the best of it, and behave manfully. I forgive
you for everything with all my heart."
As we came along back in the chaise, That tell asked
Mr. Wilson if- he were not to be executed in the gravel-
pititopposite the gaol ? Mr. Wilson answered, " he be-
lieved so." "'Then,' said Thurtell, " I hope you wiil
have two half-hundred weights to my legs, and a good
fall, so that I may die instantly." I was greatly de-
pressed, and begged him not to talk so. Timrtell re-
plied, " Don't tell me, old fellow ; what's the use of re-
pining ? I hope you will meet your fate like a man, as
I shall do. lam prepared now, as I told the Judge,
to-sight, and the sooner the business is over the letter."
While we were on our way Thuttell expressed a great
desire to have sonic refreshment, and addressing Mr.
Wilson, said, "I hop:" you will be able to give us
something to eat, for lam almost famished." Mr. Wil-
son that it was against the law to allow any
thing but bread and water; and that a gaoler would
be liable to lose his situation and forfeit a hundred
pounds if he broke through the rule. .Thurtell said,
" I hope, old fellow, you will manage to get some-
thing better than that." Mr. Wilson said be would
try what he could do when he got up to the prison, and
he hoped the Sheriff would not be very strict in obey-
ing the law.
After we bad been kindly furnished with some re-
freshment by Mr. IVilson, I was confined in one cell and
Thintell in another.

Throughout the night of Wednesday I was in great
distress and anguish of mind, as I fully expected that I
was to suffer on the Friday morning with Thurtell ;
but early in the next day, Mr. Wilson told me he be-
lieved I was not then to be executed. About twelve
o'clock on Thursday, Mr. Wilson came to tell me that
Thurtell wished me to be in the same cell with him,
and I accordingly went. On entering his cell, I found
him talking with Mr. Sutton, the High Sheriff, and Mr.
Franklin. Mr. Sattou told me that Thurtell was per-
fectly reconciled to me, and wished me to be so with
him ; and Thurtell came and shook hands with me, and
said, " 1 do freely forgive you, Joe, but I have no one
to thank for this hut you."
We were together at the condemned sermon onThurs-
Lhiy, and while in the pew, 1 was greatly affected.
'nulled endeavoured to sooth me, but at the same
time said, " Hunt, you brought it all upon yoorself; if
you had not told where the body was, there could have
been no trial, arid we should have been safe." I an-
swei ed, It was to be so, and it cannot be helped ; and
if it had not then been divulged, it must have come out
at some other time."

In the course cl the afternoon and evening Thurtell
talked a good deal about the trial, and said to Mr. Wil-
son, "Il it had taken place at the Old Bailey we must
both have been acquitted, for who could believe a word
that Probert swore, after his stating that Hunt told him
where to set him down, when it was well known that
Hunt was never there in his life ; this ought to have
been enough to have acquitted ns."
Thurtell also said to me, " If I had known as much
when the trial was first to have come on, as I do now.

.
I would have asked Mr. Harmer tolet you say that I
was innocent, and that ) ou and Probert did the murder;
and I am sure Mr. thinner would have consented, be-
cause, if I had been cleared, you must have been ac-
quitted, and Probert only would have suffered."
Ile several times declared that he would not change'
situations with I'roberr, because his sufferings would
soon be at an end, butProbert must lead a wretched life.
In the course of conversation, Tuurtell told Mr. ‘Vil-
son, that if he had been acquitted, and obtained his
liberty, there was one man whom he should certainly
have destroyed, but Le would forbear mentioning the
n true. Mr. Wilson said, " Then it is much better as
it is, because you would only have been mote deeply
in crinie."—Thurtell answered, " Perhaps it is, and I
am satisfied."

In the course of the evening, Thurtell told several
anecdote; about Probert and his associates, particularly
Lawyer and Mr. 11. amongst others, he sail
that Probert and these two persons were in the jigger at
Gilt's hilt; that it was a most saccessful business, for
they were getting 30D1. a-week when the following ac-
cidental circumstance broke it up:—The man who set
up the still, and worked it,passed as Probert's gardener;
and burn his working occasionally in the garden, and
weating a suitable di ess, everybody in the neighbour-
hood supposed he was the character which he assumed,
until one evening he went to a public-house to smoke
his pipe, where there happened to be two Excise Officers,
who knew him to be an old hand at private stills, and
they directly asked him where he lived? As this ques-
tion was in the hearing of the publican, he could rot
disguise the fact; and he thin clove said, " I have left
off the old trade, and have gone to my own business,
and am living as gardener to Mr. Probert, at Gill's-hill
cottage.- The Excise Officers appeared satisfied with
this exphination. but the man went kome as expedi-
tiously as possible, and communicated what had oc-
curred ; when, expecting that they might be soon fa-
voured with a visit, they all set to work, and removed
every vestige of the illegal distillery in the course of
the night. Next morning, sure enough, the officers
came, but found they were too late, and got nothing
fur their journey.
In the coutse of the evening Thurtell read to me and
the peolle who were sitting up with him, and about one!
o'clock he prepared to go to bed ; before he went to
sleep lie asked me to read to him the LORD'S Prayer,
which I did ; and he then fell into a sound repose, and
although thine was occasionally a considerable noise in
the roem, and every time I moved or turned, my fetters
made a great clank, he did not awake outright but
only ni,w and then while I was laying by'his sidecry-
. ing, he muttered out in :i low tone, " Goo bless you,
Joe. I hr?e yeti w ill be saved." -
Aboat ~..v, :l Q'ci,xl:, ;:r. Wilson cam)! irto the cell

with some. breakfast, and Thurt:ll was then to sound
asleep, that Mr. Wilson was obliged to shake hintby the
arm two or threestimes before he awoke.
Mrd'Franklin, the Ordinary, came soon afterwards
and assisted him in his religious duties, but when Mr.
Franklin
.proposed to read prayers, u►tell said he
would, with the Clergyman's permission, read them
himself, and he read them aloud most beautifully.—
After we had taken the Sacrament, and about a quarter
of an hour before he went out to suffer, Thurtell said
to Mr. Wilson, " [ have one more favour to request of
you, if you can oblige me," Mr. Wilson asked what it
was ? Thurtell said, " h is to tell me how the great
fight terminated." Mr. Wilson said he did not know,
but would go out and inquiie ; he did so, and on his re-
turn, he said, " It has been a very hard-fought battle,
it lasted for two hours and five minutes, and Spring
was a great deal punished, but he has won it." On
which Thurtell said, " I am glad of it, Gou bless him,
he is an old friend of mine."
In about five minutes after this, the Under-Sheriff
came into the cell, and lie said he was quite wady. As
we were walking to the place of execution, Thurtell
said, " M y courage has not forsaken me up to this mo-
ment," and then shaking his head at me, he said,'' Joe,
• Joe, you should have kept voor own counsel, and then
it would not have been thus!"
We were now near the last door which he had to pass!
• to ascend the scaffold, and I, in the greatest :action,
• took his hand to bid him a final farewell ; he receive,:
• my hand in one of his, and lilting up the other as high
; as the handcuffs would permit, he clapped it down upon
, my grasped hand, and pressing it fervently, he said.
' " Goo bless you, old fellow, I hope you trill be saved!"
. I pressed his hands to my lips, and w,as tottering 'with
, agony, and should have sunk down on the ground had
not Mr. Wilson and some Gentlemen kindly come to
• f my assistance.