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London, England, 1824-09-10 00:00:00

INDIANS At W AILNINOTON.

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A little spirit slumbers here,
Who to one heart was very dear;
Oh! be was more than life or light,
Its thoughts by day—its dream by night!
The chill winds came—the young flow': faded
And died t the grave its sweetness shaded.
Fait boy ! thou shouldst have wept for me,
Not I have bad to mourn o'er thee ;
Yet not long shall this sorrowing be--
Those roses I have planted round,
To deck thy dear and sacred ground,
When spring-gales nest those roses wave,
They blush upon thy mother's grave!

HATS.

In the reign of Elizabeth the wearing of hats- was
considered as a kind of luxury, or that assumption of
superiority which rendered those that had so far stept
out of their rank liable to a fine; for by the Statute of
13th Eli:. every person above the age of seven years,
and under a certain degree, was obliged, on Sundays
and holydays. to sear a woollen cap, made in Eng-
land, and finished by torn- of the fraternity of coppers,
under the penalty of paying 3s. 4d. for every day's me-
glect.—Repealed 39 Elia.
In the churchwardens' accounts of the parish of Fulham, is the
following curious item:
" 1578. Paid for the discharge of the parish of Fulham for
wearing hats contrary to the Statute, Ss. ad."
These, it appears, were a species of hat imported from Geneva.
Arrangements are trymaking for lighting York
Cathedral with gas during the ensuing winter. The branches for
the lights will be of a highly ornamental form, and strictly in ac-
cordance with the noble architecture of the edifice.
Mr. Incledon is now residing at Exeter, and though
apparently lost to the world, has resided there for some
time. He has a comfortable residence there, and mingles
freely with the society of the city. In his retirement,
it is gratifying to know, that he is neither without the
comforts of society, nor the solaces of good company.
In II•illand the heat of the weather during the last
week was more intense even than with us. For five days
the thermometer in the shade at the Hague reached the
extrace-dinary height of 9211 degrees of Fahrenheit; and
in the night did not fall below 88.
Yesterday morning, at two o'clock, a fire broke out
at Mr. Merritt's, baker, Store-street, Bedford-street,
Comme• cial-road ; and another at nine o'clock, at Mr.
Roberts's, baker, Grange-road, Bermondsey, both of
which buildings were greatly damaged.
A very sir.gulai circumstance took place at Wolver-
hampton, on Monday morning last. A man and wo-
man, between whom the banns of matrimony had been
duly published, made their appearance at the door of
the Collegiate Church, for the alloged purpose of having
the contract ratified, when the female asked for the ring,
under the pretence of trying it, and, having got posses.
Lion of It, immediately decamped, leaving the intended
bridegroom. in the utmost consternation.
MARIIIAOII EX7'S4AORDINARY.— The Brighton G -
mile says, " A 'young man, abcut eighteen, had for
some time past courted a young woman about his own
age, with great assiduity, and an old woman, upwards
of fifty, had with an equal assiduity courted him. The
young fellow in this predicament hardly knew what to
do ; on the one hand was the weeping beauty, whom he
could not for a moment bear the thoughts of resigning;
but then she had no money ! On the other there was
an old woman, but who had got an old stocking, con-
taining above fifty good pounds. At last he hit upon
this very ingenious plan to obtain both objects. It was
agreed between the young woman and himself, that he
should warty the old woman, taking care to get her
money first, and as soon as that was accomplished, to
abandon her, and set off with the young one. This
project was accordingly put into execution. He wheedled
the foolish old woman out of her money, under the pre-
tence of opening a splendid butcher's shop and on
Monday se *might they were married in Brighton church.
During the ceremony, the young woman was in the•
church-yard, and as soon as it was over, the fellow came
out, leaped over the wall, and bid farewell to his
spouse. The young woman followed him, and they
have not since been heard of; and the old woman is left
to bemoan the loss of her husband, and the contents of
her old stocking."
181PR0VESIENTS IN Eteis.—One of the things that
most attracts the attention of strangers who come to
Paris; is the extraordinary quantity of new houses which
are seen in every direction. Those who do not build re-
pair their dwellings. It might be supposed an immense
fire bad spread through different parts of the town, and
that the people were zealously repairing its ravages.—
Everywhere we see scaffoldings eiected, ladders fixed,
and materials heaped together. A multitude of woe k-
men are hewing stone, making mortar, squaring tim-
ber, and continue their work with an activity that is
rarely suspended. Elegant houses, commodiously laid
out, rise as if by enchantment, and the Parisian himself,
who goes for a short time out of town, hardly recog-
nizes on his return the place of his abode. It is remark-
able enough that private hotels are now built, and that
grand hotels are changed into houses, which skews a
general state of opulence, and no colossal fortunes.
The latter belong chiefly to the Bark, and prevail most
at the Chaessee d'Antin. It may be observed, that

building speculations are not limited to tllt districts of
the rich, but are extended from the Fauxbourgs of St.
Germain and St. Jacques to the Barrier du Trone. It
appears that the industrious class has a tendency to in-
crease their pleasures, to be better lodged and better
clothed than formerly. Cynic moralists find this change
pernicious, and cry out against the progress of luxury
and the corruption of morals; we, however, only see
in it the natural effect of the present state of society.
Among the curiosities exhibiting at the fair of St.
Lazare, at Marseilles, the Etoile notices a giant, named
Martin Ruboga, who is seven feet two inches in height,
with finely proportioned chest, hands, and thighs. His
stiength, it appears, is prodigious, for he breaks with
facility a marble slab into pieces by a single blow with
his naked fist. He is an Italian by birth, and the de-
scendant of Gigli, whom Buffon has honoured with a
particular notice in his Natural History.
The Mayor of Huntingdon, being in company with
the late Losd Sandwich, at the finish of the evening his
Lordship taking up a glass, said, •' Here's bon reps."
The next day, after dinner, at his own house, the Mayor,
being called upon for a toast, said, he would give them
one which had been given by no less a man than Lord
Sandwich—" So here's bon FT", my boys r
M. DROUTTI, the French Consul-General in Egypt,
has made a present to the Museum at Lyons of eight fine paintings,
In excellent preservation, representing the ancient mode of bulal
in AMA.

The deputations of Indians, now at the seat of Go-
vernment, visited General Mason's cannon foundry, in
Washington, where they had an opportunity of seeing
a thirty-two pounder cast, and of inspecting the
boring machinery. It was highly interesting to wit-
ness the deep impressions made upon these red men of
the woods by this exhibition of fire and tacked iron,
and by the music of the augurs, as they made their
slow and difficult progress-through the body of the
cannon. The whole was a scene of wonder to them ;
and that peculiar faculty of concealing their emotions,
which the Indians exercise when strange sights are dis-
played to their view, furnished but a thin veil over the
inward workings of surprise. One of the interpreters
requested them to look well wall they sa W,Rsthey might
some of these days have occasion to mike guns- too.—
" Impossible," replied one of them," that can never be."
After the Foundry and its operations had been well scru-
tinized, they were invited into the second story of the
boring mill, where refreshments were served out ta
them, cautiously prepared in the form of saugaree, le.
monade, &c. While this weaker sort of drink is better
for the Indians themselves, it serves, at the same time,
to impress them with a grater respect for, those who
present it. Whiskey, or other strong liquor, on the
contrary, though they prefer it, leads them to feel a
disrespect and contempt for those who serve it upon
them. They left the Foundry about six o'clock, to visit
the Secretary at War, at his residence, followed by at
least 2,000 men, women, and children, attracted by the ,
strangeness of their costume, if an almost entire nudity,
with painted heads and faces, may be called costume.

Not less than 60 horses have been stolen in the neigh-
bourhood of Abergavenny within a few months.
EXECUTION.—J. Reynolds, for the murder of his un-
cle, was executed at Ilchester, en Monday last, pur-
suant to his sentence at the last Wells Assizes. Ile was
only 19 years of age, of short stature, florid complexion,
and black hair, and his countenance not unpreposses-
sing. The prisoner's behaviour since his condemnation
was quite changed ; he acknowledged the justice of his
sentence, and became calm and resigned to his fate.
Yesterday afternoon, about the ee o'clock, at the end
of Fleet-market, one of those frightful vehicles, called
" vans," either through its own unwielJiness or the neg-
ligence of the driver, was forced against a single-horse
chaise, which it crushed to pieces in a moment. The
Ipersons in the chaise were, fortunately, by the prompt-
ness of people on the spot, extricated from their very
perilous situation.
Monday last, Mr. Baowx was to have ascended from
Barnsley, Yorkshire, in a balloon, but owing to a very
heavy rain which fell during that morning, accompanied
with thunder and lightning, he deferred his aerial ex-
cursion till Tuesday, when he ascended in grand style
from that place, and passed over Pontefract Park during
the time of the Races, and appeared to the view of the
numerous company assembled in the Park for upwards
of a quarter of an hour. He descended near Fryston,
and arrived at Pontefract at five o'clock, all well.

The tranquil state of the country having rendered it
unlikely that their services should be required, the Glas-
gow sharpshooters have discontinued their annual train-
ings, and their arms and accoutrements are to be re-
turned into the Government stores.

Thursday se'nnight, said to be one of the hottest days
ever experienced in this kingdom, an extraordinary phe-
nomenon occurred in the immediate neighbourhood of
Wolverhampton. About three o'clock in the afternoon
a heavy storm, the skirts of which reached the town,
extended from Priestfields in a north-easterly direction
over Willenhall, where the hail, rain, and solid pieces
of ice fell in torrents, accompanied by lightning and
most tremendous claps of thunder. The sewers were
choked up by the fierceness of the tempest, and the
streets were flooded with water, which emitted a strong
sulphurous smell. Scarcely a building in the place
escaped without injury in broken windows from the
pieces of ice, which measured more than three inches in
circumference, and 190 panes of glass were broken in
one house at Moseley's Hole. The thermometer that
day stood at 89 in the shade.
EXTENSIVE Rona eae.--Wednesday, about one o'clock,
as Mr. John James, a porter belonging to the firm of
Snow and Co. bankers, Strand, was passing the corner
of Shoe-lane, Fleet-street, after having been his round
collecting money, he was sullenly overtaken by a tall
man shabbily dressed in black, who pressed hard upon
his shoulders, pretending to be passing him in great
haste. The porter suddenly turned round, %Oren the
fellow made off, and James immethatAy missed his
pocket-book, containing the sum of 2,9551. nearly all
in notes. The porter, a man advanced in years, and
being lame, could not give the alarm before the robber
had made clearly off with his booty. It is fortunate
that the numbers of all the notes are known, and pay-
ment stopped; and as the porter hai given a good de-
scription of the fellow, it is probai:le that he may soon
be traced. The police are on the alert. The porter was
struck with a stick as he was passing through Sr. Paul's
Church-yard, but oinkd not perceive where the blow
came from, and no doubt it was done as a signal to
mark him out to some of the gang.
The celebrated anatomist and chemical lecturer, Dr.
GEORGE FORDYCE, dined every da7 for more than
twenty years, at Dolly's Chop-house. His researches in
Comparative Anatomy had led him to conclude, that
man, through custom, eats oftener than nature requires,
one meal a day being, sufficient for that noble animal
o the lion. At four clock, his accustomed hour of
dining, the Doctor regularly took his seat at a table al-
ways reserved for him, on which were placed a silver
tankard fall of strong ale, a bottle of port wine, and a
measure containing a quarter of a pint of brandy. The
moment the waiter announced him, the cook put a
pound and a half of rump steak on the gridiron, and
on the table some delicate trifle as a bonne bouche, to
serve until the steak was ready. This was sometimes
half a broiled chicken, sometimes a plate of fish : when
he had eaten this, he took one glass of brandy, and then
proceeded to devour his steak. We say devour, because
he always ate so rapidly, that one might have ima-
gined he was hurrying away to a patient to deprive
death of a dinner. When he had finished his meal, he
took the remainder of his brandy, having, during his
dinner, drank the tankard of ale, and afterwards the,
bottle of port. He thus daily spent an hour and a half
of his time, and then returned to his house in Essex-
street, to give his six o'clock Lecture on Chemistry. He
made no other meal until his Return next day, at four
o'clock, to Dolly's.
STEAM VIEERLE.m......A citizen of Maryland, in the
United States, has lately invented a kind of cabin fee steani.boats,
which is proof quilt all accidestaby espiesieNeed se convected,
that the passengers who are thdoso4 in this part of the vessel are
secure from ail danger, in cue the boiler should beret or forte tir
its cover.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

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M ANSMR-11017SE.
An aged MIN named Kimberley, a sleeks Otitis law's delay, ap-
plied yesterday to-the Lori Maros, in the hope of obtaining some
redress of his grievances, who had all the appearance of pauperism
aboutbim, and made 'a statement to the following effect :
His father Wu Mr. William Kimberley, of New Windsor, in
the county of Berks, who was nearly 6 years a Member of the
Corporation of that Borough, and was possessed, in 1790, of more
thin 25,0001. but by some unforeseen calamities his fortune was
reduced to 5,0001. at the period of Ms death, which took place in
1908. - • The will named litr. March, of Dover-street, Piccadilly,
and Mr. Kinsey, of the Imperial Hotel, Covent-garden, as cleft-
tors ; but those Gentlemen refused to act, and administration to the
will was granted to the applicant's younger brother, as residuary
legatee, be (applicant) being_ the eldest son, and consequently heir
to the freehold property. The residuary legatee, after obtaining the
administration, instead of defraying the funeral expenses of their
father, appropriated the money then in band to his own private use,
and suffered himself to be served with a subpoena from the Court
of Chancery by a creditor of their father for the sum of 501. in
which applicant was included as heir at law, and to which he put in
an answer, stating that he bad not ally money whatever out of his
father's property, but that nevertheless he was 'willing to assign over
any part of his interest in the freehold property for the payment of
his late father's debts. The younger brother dying in 1812, the
property remained subject to the Court of Chancery, which, by a
decree of a Master of the Court, sold the freehold by public auction
at New Windsor, in February, 1817. The money, amounting to
1,570/. arising from the sale, together with the interest thereon, had
ever since remained in the custody of the Lord Chancellor. No
creditor to the estate had been paid, and be,the heir to the property,
notwithstanding the acknowledged validity of his claim, was com-
pelled, at the age of 67., to beg a weekly allowance from his parish
So suppot an existence which had been dreadfully harassed by dis-
appointments and misfortunes. The Overseers of New Windsor
allowed him the sum of 2s. tid. a week, upon the stipulation that
the abovementioned allowance or loan be refunded whenever this
business is settled.

The Loan Maros regretted that he could not interfere.
This unfortunate suitor in Chancery is aeicted with hysteric Su,
and lame front a fall, and be bas outlived all his near relations, as
well as those who, if alive, would have rendered him assistance.

BOW-STREET.
Yesterday. Matthew !joy, an Irishman, was brought before Sir
It. Them by Reed and Miles, two of the day patrol, who stated
that about ten o'clock that morning, as they were on duty in Bolton-
street, Piccadilly, they were informed by the under butler of Mrs.
Colitis, that the prisoner had been offering a silver spoon for sale to
a Jew named Alexander, who, having a suspicion whether or not
the prisoner bad become honestly possessed of it, inquired at Mrs.
Coutts's house, to know if there wire any spoons missing ?
Miles and Reed being informed of the circumstance, they appre-
hended the prisoner in Holton•street, and on searching him disco-
vered five silver tea-spoons, two rings, two sovereigns and a half, be-
sides some silver, concealed about his person, of which he not giving
them a satisfactory account they brought him to this office.
Sir IL Brom now interrogated him as to how he became pos-
sessed of the property ?
Prisoner—l found the spoons as I was coming up to London
from Bristol about six months ago, and the rings are the property
of my wife.
Sir R. Bums asked why, if the table-spoon was his own, the
crest bad been oblit d?
The prisoner said it was done by a Jew, to whom he had of-
fered it for sale.
After some further questions be ins put to the prisoner, Sir It.Bia-
xra
said,that from the unsatisfactory account which the prisoner gave
of the property, he should detain him until they had been adver-
tised ; on which Matthew very innocently inquired how long he
was to be detained ? and followed the gaoler out of the office.
Bastin tr. Bakst.—This was a proceeding by summons againit
Mrs. Bailey, a stout lady, dressed in the extreme of fashion, and
who occupied her leisure time in the office with eating nectarines,
charging her with breaking and demolishing the goods and chattels
of the plaintiff, to wit, two squares of glass in his tenement.—Mrs.
Bailey pleaded guilty, but said, the was anxious to state the circum-
stances that had led to the demolition. _ _

Sir RICHARD BMWS said, be was not desirous of going into a
long history of events as the Lady had pleaded guilty ; but she press-
ing his Worship to hear her story, described how she resided nest
duor to Mr. Barnett, who was as short of understanding as he was
in stature; how Mr. Barnett's servant made it a daily practice to
annoy her, by tittering a loud " Hem!" or by pretending to be
seized with a violent fit of coughing; how Mr. Barnett said she
was in the habit of riding out with Gentlemen in light-coloured hats,
to the great detriment of her character ; bow the servant repeated
this " Hem !" and how, on the day that the windows were broken,
she went to the gate to receive a note, when the aforesaid servant
repeated his loud " Hem !" and bow that she, in the irritation of
the moment, catched up the stone which Mr. Barnett had carefully
treasured up, and by giving it a backhanded Bing, it came in con-
tact with the windows aforesaid,splitting one and erecting another ;
but this, she added, she would not mind paying far, so long as she
was able to recount these difficulties to the Worshipful Bench.

" And now, Madam," said Mr. HALLS, you have gained your
point, and have nothing more to do than to pay for the windows
and the cost of the summons.—" All this, your Worship, has
arisen," exclaimed Mrs. Bailey,," because Mr. Bailey is a Scotch-
man, and Mr. Barnett has a particular aversion to Scotchman."
Sir Moulin Biatsta was anxious to transfer the business into the
hands of Mr. Halts, as he (Sir Richard) was himself a Scotchman, and
did not wish to incur the censure of either party on that account.
Mr. Haus seas equally fearful of engaging in the case, as he wu
labouring under a cold, and might also cough or " hem i"
" 0, Sir," exclaimed the Lady, "this' hem !' which is practised
by Mr. Barnett's boy, I consider an insult, and done to annoy me."
The parties would have said more, but the matter was cut short
by Mrs. Bailey being ordered to pay .19s. 6d. for the costs and
damage done.
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GUILDHALL.
James Davis, a youth 18 years of age, was charged with felony.
—Mr. Wells, clerk to a Mr. Janner, a solicitor, deposed, that on
Tuesday evening, at Bartholomew Fair, he got by accident into one
or those crowded streams, out-of which it was impossible to extri-
cate himself. He was hustled about on all sides by a gang of fel-
lows. The prisoner was the first who attacked hint, making a fruit-
less attempt at a pair of silver spectacles, then on his nose ; but not
daunted at his failure, he faced about a second time, and succeeded
in capturing the spectacles by violence. In endeavouring to secure
thy prisoner, the witness was assailed by his companions, who soon
rifled his pockets of their contents, such as handkerchiefs and
moner.• When the officers came up, there was a violent but fruit-
leaf attempt at rescue. The spectacles, value 20$. bad been handed
to one of the gang, wbo made off.—Tlie prisoner made no defence.
The Alderman said that this was one of the most barefaced rob-
beries that ever came under his notice. _ _

The prosecutor, on account of the prisoner's youth, did not wish
to press for a committal on the capital charge.
The Alderman said that there was no doubt on his mind but that
the prisoner would be convicted on the capital charge if be was•
committed on that. As the prosecutor behaved so humanely to-
wards him, he would only commit him for the transportable offence,
which be hoped would be the means of ridding society of so auda-
cious a character.—He•wu then fully committed.

HATTON-GARDEN.
Gene Oliver, about thine's) years of age, was charged with
robbing his employers, Messrs. Beckwith and Son, Wilderness-
row, of a five-pound note, his mode of spending which was rather
singular. It appeared that a short time after the boy entered the
service, various articles of jewellery were missing, but no parti-
cular suspicion attached to the prisoner until last Monday week,
when he absented himself for an entire day, after mentioning, as
au excuse for absense, that his mother had been taken suddenly 111,
and he was compelled to accompany her to different hospitals,
where she sought admisdon. This conduct, on the part of the boy,
led to an examination of the money chest by Mr. Beckwith, when
a five pound Bank of England note was missed. After much
searching, the constable, on the preceding evening, met the jockey
in Southfield, booted and spurred, riding a donkey up and down,
which seemed to have suffered from a hard day's work, and its
sides were quite lacerated by the goadinp of the spur. The boy,
after some hesitation, acknowledged that he took the five pound
note, with which he immediately purchased the donkey, boots, and
spurs; that contemplating a continuance of his prosperity, he had
hired a stable its Cow-emu, at a certain rent per week, of which he
paid four weeks in advance, and had laid in six trusses of hay for
his favourite animal—The Magistrate committed Ma for trial.