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LITERARY INTELLIGENCE

Thesaurus Ellipsium Latiisartna. By ELIAS PALAILLT. A new
Edition with Additions' by EDMUND IlExay BARKER. WWl'.
TAKKR.
The present learned Editor deserves the thanks of every scholar, for
this judicious reprint of a very excellent but almost unknown work. The
late erudite Dr. Parr bad a very high opinion of the value and utility of
this work, and strongly recommended it to the notice and diligent study
of all persons engaged in the acquisition of the Latin language. It
was first printed in 1760, and of its learned author little or nothing
I appears to be known; a few particularsof his history, as contained in
Ntatots's Literary Anecdotes, are given by the Editor in his intelli-
gent preface. Speaking of the Utility of such a work, Mr. BARKER
very justly observes, that " a knowledge of Latin Ellipses will enable
the student to see the origin of many expressions, and to account for
syntactical constructions, which otherwise prove great stumbling-blocks'
in the way of learning. The scholar who is extensively acquainted with
Latin Ellipses' can decide on the falsity of many emendations of Latin
authors, which are proposed by critics ; he can vindicate the integrity
of many suspected passages; he can restore to their original parity
many corrupted phrases ; he depends, not on his acuteness and inge-
nuity, which may bs misapplied, but on clear principles in the struc-
ture of the Latin language, which will admit of no dispute."

Whitaker's Monthly Magazine.
The September Number preserves the spirit which has characterize
this miscellany. There is enough to amuse—enough to instruct—some.
thing to praise in taste and sentiment; and, we are sorry to say, some-
thing to condemn. We are, however, of that class of readers, who
make allowances for difference in opinion, and who are nut censorious
on all with whom we cannot agree. One fault to the critics of this
Magazine is, that they err from pursuing a different maxim, and trans-
form a difference of sentiment to a general chagrin with all an author,
or even party, can produce. What anomalies do time and events pro-
duce ! Who would believe that the " History of the French Revolu-
tion of 1830," which commences this number, was the work of an
Eldonite Magazine ? A Magazine, that on a few articles farther on in the
number, advocates the cause of West India Slavery. " The Essay" on
the Rising Generation and March of Mind, is a little too caricature to
be elketnal in its humour.
Ot" Stanzas on Tobacco," as we have no taste for it, we say, as a
Frenchman would say—Bali ! The " Arch-Druid" is a curious and
interesting fiction—rather too long. " Notes on Haiti" should be read
by all who take an interest in that interesting Island ; but it should be
read with suspicion and due scrutiny ! " The Notes of the Month"
are, as usual, smart and amusing; but we condemn the want of gal.
!entry and want of feeling displayed, on the honourable exertions of the
widow, to preserve in memory the virtues of a deceased husband. The
sneers on this subject are we think, misplaced, and, after all, founded oa
very trite sarcasm. The most amusing and instructive article in this
Number is" Love, Law, and Physic, in Barbary; from which we shall
quote the following description of the Moorish Ladies. On some future
day, we may quote a specimen of the amusing verse.
" The Mussalmans were slowly moving down the steep descent et
the mountain city to join in the evening prayer. This is the hes
when, in Barbary, the females, who are not allowed to walk amid
withdut being closely muffled Sup, resort to their terraces to enjoy theme
freshing sus.set breeze. The sight of a stranger, and an Europeanaa, et
first seemed embarrassing, and startled the fair Morisooe, who, Wm
the gazelle of her own land, stood hesitating whether to advance a
retire. I was reluctantly about to withdraw, but having reached the
mirador of my terrace, she took courage, and playfully beckoned me
to remain. Aware that from my situation I was unobserved by any
one but herself, she 'hewed how far she noticed and sympathised with
my curiosity, by throwing aside her shawl, and leaving me to gaze on
a face and form I shall never forget.
"She was evidently proud of the impression she had made, but it was
a pardonable vanity; for her beauty would have compensated fora whole
race of deformity—though it did not possess all those requisites gao-
-1 rally esteemed handsome amongst other females. She was above the oa
dinaryheight of women, and yet without sacrificing one iota of her true
grace of form, and finely proportioned limbs, so visible when the
Moorish costume is disencumbered of the heavy drapery of the al-haicka.
Her skin was white, and her cheeks so beautifully blended with a rosy
tint, that were it not known that the Barbary women are fair, it would
have been difficult to have supposed her an inhabitant of so warm a cli-
mate. A deep blue line intersected her face and bosom ; this is effected
by a liquid dye being introduced beneath the cuticle when very young ;
it has die appearance of a full starting vein, and is meant to set off the
complexion. Some ladies cause flowers to be traced on their bodies with
this dye and some completely disfigure their faces by its too general
use. The dress of the female in question was of blue silk, trimmed
with black braid ; she wore ear-ring.' armlets, and anklets of silver, and
her totally bared legs and arms formed a curious contrast to the notions
of costume entertained by European ladies.
" The mind would willingly attach something of romance to so lovely
a creature, but I could learn nothing of her history beyond her
having been just married to a rich old Moor, and her being only
sixteen years of age. She was a slave ! yet her pensive look indi-
cated that she possessed a soul, although the Moors will not believe
in the possession ; consequently they deny them the benefits of edu-
cation, or the taste of liberty; and thus their days pass on without the
slightest reciprocity of feeling to alleviate the monotony of their exis-
tence. The whole life of a Moorish woman from infancy to death may
be comprised in a few words. Although every thing is hid from public
view, and information can only be obtained by indirect means, still
the deficiency is supplied by the uniformity of the picture; and the
history of a single one is a standard whereby to form a judgment of
the whole. In that which appears the greatest cruelty—the with-
holding from them the benefits of education—there is certainly the
attendant consolation that any development of the mind could but
awake them to a keener sense of their miserable destiny, namely—
that of being kept as horses in a stable for their masters' uses, and
being prized by the same rules, the beauties of blood and limb, the
consciousness of which is now lost in apathy and ignorance.
" The Moorish females spring into womanhood with astonishing rapi.
dity ; scarcely do they leave the arms of the mother before they an
clasped by those of the husband. At twelve or thirteen years of age, the
Moorish maiden is a bride • at twenty-five an old woman • her evanes.
cent charms arc then already on the wane, and take a flight as rapid at
their coming on. The tide,: and raven tresses of youth become thinned
and grey ; the once symmetrical form becomes a mass of corpukneei
wrinkl, a furrow the brow, and notwithstarelink; their former attractions,
nothing is left to tell the beauty of the broken flower, but the never.
failing lustre of the eye, now set within a sallow cheek. This sudden
change is not difficult to be accounted for; they marry by far too vow*
Were Otis not the ease, front the plurality of wives allowed to Mussulmwas,
a population would be created much beyond its actual amount ; whereas
at present a Mussulman with four or five wives has fewer children them
compose a single family in England. Again, the food which they eat
to superinduce corpulency, by no means strengthens the constitution,'
which soon yields to the ravages of tune and climate. Such is the
anxiety of mothers in Barbary to render their female children fat, that
they stand over them at meals with a stick, and punish those who do not
eat a sufficiency of the cous.courou set before them. That which in
Europe is termed a well-shaped lady. is in Barbary compared to " the
back-bone of a fish," and would be the very last to excite the favour-
able regards of a lover ; whereas a fat lady who could scarcely walk,
would need little recommendation beyond her size.
"A Moorish woman of distinction is seated all day long upon her car-
pet, where she is waited on by a number of little slaves, a laziness
which also contributes to render her unwieldy ; then her dress does am
confine any part of her form, so that the universal allakka may be said
y to conceal a much gnaw: proportion of deformity than beauty.
runcrallthim as a small waist or well-turned ancle is a rue and un-
common eight.
It is certainly not the fault of the fair sex in Barbary that they are
not better known to strangers ; fear alone compels them to comply with
the harsh dictates of their "lords and masters." Beneath the ample folds
of woman's guise has many a love affair been carried on. The unsus-
pecting husband, misled by the slippers° at the door *ibis wife's apart-
ment, has often turned aside to make room for bis disguised rival's
escape, making good the truth of the old axiom, that " the best padlock
is that of the mind." A Moorish woman will not make the slightest
scruple of discovering her face to an European, and exclaiming Shoof

• The dippers outside the apirtment denote thit the husband mina]
inter the room, a strange kmak being present.

sidi, &hoof aidi I—Look, air—look, sir !" provided none of Let own
people are near to betray her; and will at any time ratter invi:e that
repel the curiosity of a stranger, whose risk is as great as her own in so
doing, and who if detected in any more serious offence would subj.er
himself to the penalty of death.
Marriage amongst the Moors is brought about by the intervention
friends; no interview whatever can take place previously to the rap
tials. The good or bad qualities of the lady are explained to the lover.
and also her abilities and personal charms. hove, that rare ingre.:itri
in Moorish marriages, may sotnetimcv be found subsequent, bu: t;t•::: et
be known previously to matrimony.
On the evening of the wedding the lady is placed on horsec.ck,
enclosure which resembles a large paper lanthorn ; in this way 1.!:t is
paraded through the streets to the hou•e of the bridegroom, by the male
;friends of both parties. Rude music, the vhouts of the rabble, sail the
firing of powder, assail the ears of the brill.•, whose union anal le tro-
duction to her husband are coeval.

The validity of the marriage contract &Nada on the same proof .1^
those required by the Levitical law, but the lady may be returned fur
leis material,defects than their absence, or the husband is at liberty to
take another wife if he please. It is to meet the difficulties arising irons
a total want of prior acquaintance between the parties, that the law of
Mahomet allows a plurality of wives to those who can prove they are
able to maintain them. Barrenness is a ground of divorce, as like
a repugnant breath, for both of wbith causes women in Barbary at;
often repudiated.

A translation of a piece, entitled Ambition. or Marie lingual, %Melt
has excited some interest in Paris, was last night produced at this The_
stye, with general success. Marie ifiguol is a young laundress, and
wooed by Laguriie ; she, however, gives her hand to a rich attomey
and in the next act (a lapse of ten years having taken place), sbe is ri—
mmed to us as the rich widow Modeau. Here Lagardie returns
Paris, and having obtained an eminence in the law, with u •
altered affection sues for the hand of the widow, who. a.•. •
a great deal of coquetry, marries a Marshal of France. . • !
Lagardie is again doomed to despair. In the third set.
(another ten years having elapsed), filarie is again a widow, and weaving
meshes for the ex-King Casimir, who has vacated the throne of Po:ar.t:,
but who is again invited to the sovereignty. This invitation is brought
Layardie, now a Marshal of Sweden : the King, however, reselves to r •
tire to the abbaye St. Germaine' and Marie, disappointed in her ambit ivi• ,
in the bitterness of her heart exclaims—" To the convent of the Cans
litre !" On this the curtain falls.

Magnet, a celebrated cook, and uncle to Marie, was played by Far.
ren ; the part is not. first-rate, but yet received sonic or his most ad.
mirable touches. Vining's Layardie was spirited ; and Cooper's Car; •
sir extremely respectable; his delineation of the old King was natural
and esiective. Willianies Madam was the perfect man of ink and
parchment. Marie Mignon was played by Miss F. H. Kelly ; and we
are happy to say that we lime not of late witnessed in her so few faults ;
there was less affectation—lens monotony than is usual in her acting ;
she played the part, and it is one of considerable difficulty, with much
discrimination, and was deservedly applauded throughout. Mrs. Glover's
Arietle !Icier:Re, a somewhat hazardous character in common hands,
was rendered extremely efficient.
The piece abounds in touches at the times, such as allusions to the
sovereignty of the people, the facility of making a bag of money repre-
sent voters in his Majesty's Parliament, and to the fact of men making
fortunes by the abuses of the law, and then dealing forth a seven-lines
spwch in condemnation of their atrocity. All these points were ap.
pleaded to the echo. The piece was given out for repetition with ap-
plause, though we trust on its next representation it will be curtailed at
least three quarters of an hour.

THE KI.VG'S COURT.
BRIGHT. IS.

The dinner party of the Royal Family yesterday consisted
of the Bishop of CHictiEsrta, Mr. and Mrs. LLOYD, the
Hon. G. POWLETT, and Captain G. Ss:moult, in addition
to the Royal suite.
The departures from the Pavilien this day were Col. F.
FITZCLARENCS, the Earl and Countess of ERROL, and Sir
F. WATSON. The arrivals there were the Count and
Countess of MUNSTER, Sir WILLIAM WALTER, and Mr.
WALTER.

The KING, the Princess AUGUSTA, and the Landgravine
of HESSE Hon BERG took an airing this afternoon in an open
carriage. The QUEEN, at the same time, accompanied by
Prince GEORGE, took an airing also, in a pony phaton.
Miss BOYLE and MISS FITZCLA RENCE rode out on horse-
back; and Mrs. Fox and Lady AUGUSTA FITZCLA REN CZ,
in an open carriage.
Among the Nobility and Gentry who left their names at
the Pavilion were—
Sir EDWARD and Lady EAST,
The Countess Dowager of CLARE,
Lady ISABELLA FITZGIBBON,
Lady CHAMBERS,
The Countess of NEW BOROUGH
The Dowager Lady BROMLEY, and
Colonel LE COUTEUR.
His Royal Highness tbo Duke of CA msai DOE returned
from his shooting excursion this afternoon.

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The Duke of Cumberland, attended by col. Poten, lett
his residence at Kew yesterday morning, on a visit to Prince Leopold.
at his residence at Claremont. Their Royal Highnesses spent the day
shooting in the grounds adjacent to the Prince's residence.
The Duchess of Cumberland, accompanied by Prince
I George, and attended by her Ladies in Waiting, and her Chamberlain,
the Baron Linsingen, arrived at Claremont in the afternoon. Prince
Leopold entertained the Royal party, and a select party to dinner in the
evening.
M. Bermudez, the Spanish Minister, had an interview
with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday, at the office of the Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs.
Count de Ludolf, the Neapolitan Minister, transacted
business yesterday at the Foreign
Despatches from Lord Heytesbury, our Ambassador at St.
Petersburg, were received yesterday at the Foreign Office.
Prince Esterhary left town on Saturday for Childwall Hall,
on a visit to the Idarquis of Salisbury.
The Marquis of Camden has arrived at his seat, the Priory,

The Marquis of Stafford is at present sojourning at Bath
for the benefit of the waters.
The Earl of Aberdeen is expected to leave town this day
on a visit to hie Majesty at Brighton.
The Countess of Aberdeen, with Imly Harriet Hamilton,
hoc left town for the Priory at Stemware.
The Prussian Ambassador, and Baroness Bulow and fa-
oily, have taken an elegant mansion at Brighton for the season.
His Majesty has most graciously condescended, since his
accession, to become the patron of the order of Freemasonry.
MARILIZD—On Saturday, the 11 th inst. at Henbury.
by the Rev. Walker Gray, Henry Martin Blair, Esq. of the Hon. Eiot
India Company's Civil Service, to Caroline, second daughter of the
late Henry Brooke, Esq. of Henbury Hill, near Bristol.
The Duke of Buckinghatu is fast recovering from his re-
am attack, which, though severe, was nut of the alarming nature that
hoe been represented.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury left Hatfield
House on Saturday, for their seat, Cinidwall Hall, near Liverpool. A
grand public breakfast and other entertainments will be given by the
Noble Host to the Duke of Wellington and a numerous party of the
Nobility, on the occasion of the opening of the Manchester and Liverpool
railway.
The King of the French, Louis Philip, has given instnic-
does to a distinguished litteratessr to obtain for him a correct list of all
the literary and scientific bodies in Europe. with a precise account of
their charitable institutions, in order that he may subscribe to those
which he considers most deenving of support.
A very splendid dinner took place at Leicester on Monday
last, at which Mr. Paget took the chair, in order to congratulate the
trench people on the acquirement of Constitutional liberty.
It is said that Prince Tobosky, the Russian Envoy Ex-
traordinary, and his highness Prince Carolath, filling the same diplw
made office from Prussia., are to be introduced to his Majesty
to.mortow, for the purpose of delivering two autograph letters front
their respective Ilobarchs, congratulating his Majesty on his accession
to the throne. The Prince Tobosky is expected to leave the Pultency
Hotel, and Prince Carolath, Mivart's Hovel, this days for:Brighton.'
The appointment of Beau Brummel to the Consulate of
Caen, as announced in the Gazette of Friday, is said to have been in
fulfilment of a wish of his late Majesty to provide for his discarded ta.
'minim Yet it is by appentnients so independent of talent and capa-
city that the cause of Royalty has been brought so low in Europa.
Most of the secret springs of the American revolution arc,
and must remain for ever unknown, owing to the most important dia.
caesium. of Congress having been carried on with closed doors, and 100
Member having made, as far as is yet known, any Dotes of *at
took place.
So great has been the increase in St. Martin's parish of
the new police aver the watch rate, that it causes, as we me cadibly
Informed, a difference of 2001. pie annum on the Moguls of litalerd's
mansion (late the Duke of York's), in Stable-yard, alone: such le a
small part of the result of the wonking of the artless;

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ItiI!ERIC.IN FACTS AND NOVELTIES.
From le of Boston and New York papers now before
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ns. tehi•ly received yesterday. we make a few selections; which, if
theftsera of forth in them are not highly important, are, at all events,
~4uting
DELPII IA The Census, it is reckoned, from the
information now obtained, will give Philadelphia about two hundred
titoutsind inhabitants vir--about ninety thousand within the city
bounds. and about one hundred and ten thousand without: about one
hundred and seventy thousand in the contiguous dwellings, and about
thirty thousand in the rest of the county. Kensington alone has in.
creased from se:en thousand to twelve thousand in the last ten years.
Two hundred thousand inhabitants will give this district another
n.ernber of Congress in the ratio of fifty thousand for each member.—
Pi.ilodaphia

A Bosom; Buo.—A person called this morning to show
up a bug which has just been taken from his ear; it was about three
quarters of an inch in length, brown legs and back nearly black, haying
small pincers in front of the head. Immediately on entering the ear,
it e•uleavoured to penetrate as far as possible, causing the most excru-
e;atihg pain as the insect progressed ; and which, had it not been spec.
diis alleviated, the gentleman thinks would have produced insanity in
a phi rt time, or something more fatal. His companion fortunately
thought of applying a remedy which has recently bees mentioned in the
eew-papets. and which was luckily at hand. He poured a small
quantity of whiskey into the ear of his friend, which had the effect of
paralyzing the efforts of the insect to penetrate, and by applying a pin
it was extracted with little difficulty, and the sufferer immediately re-
leased from all pain and apprehension from an assault so unexpected
and dangerous.

MUSIC AND Buos.—By an advertisement in one of these
papers, by Bourne. musia.seller, 359, Broadway, New York, we find
that a reformation in music, means in America lowering its price ; and
oy another advertisement of Demaret, an innkeeper in Waterford, New
York. we are informed what are the qualifies of an American Inn, viz.
—..a good clean hair mattress, and no bed bugs, or black-legs, to annoy
ur disturb the guests.

LONGEVITY OF VEGETABLEIS.—The vital principle of
vegetables, it is well known, may be preserved for a great length of
time, but the following instance, which we find mentioned in an abstract
of a lecture delivered by a professor of Botany, seems scarcely credible.
It is stated that a bulbus root, which was found in the hand of an
Egyptian mummy, and in which situation it had very probably been for
more than two thousand years, germinated on exposure to the at-
mosphere, though, when discovered, it was apparently in a state of pe.
feet dryness. The root it is said was subsequemtly put into the ground,
where it grew with readiness and vigour !

TREATY OF PRAIRIE DU CIIIEN.—We have been per-
mitted by the politeness of John H. Kinzie, Esq. to examine a copy of
the treaty concluded on the 10th ult. between the Sacks and Foxes on
the one put, and the Sioux, Winnebagoes, and 31enomonees, on the
other part, and assented to b the-0' Mahan, loways, (Woes, and Mis.
souriaa, in presence of the United States Commisscners, Gen. Clark,
Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and CoL Willoughby Morgan, of the
United States Army. The negoolations commenced on the 7th. The
treaty provides that there shall lze firm peace and friendship between the
two tribes. That the boundary line, settled by Oen. Clarke and Gov.
Cass, 19th August, 1825, between the Sacks and the Foxes and Sioux,
shall be re-established. The Yankton and Santee bands of Sioux, who
were not represented at the meedng, and who are interested in the boun-
dary line from the Forks of the Damoine river to the Missouri, shall
be invited to send a deputation to St. Louis, as soon as possible, to
meet a deputation of the Sacks and Foxes, to adjust that boundary under
the superintendence of Gen. Clarke. That the same bands may become'
parties to the present treaty of 1825, and that the 13th and 14th ar-
ticks of the treaty of 1825 be revived and enforced.

BROKEN BANK NOTES.—Several advertisements appear
in these payers, offering the highest prices for certain broken bank
bilk; and the New York Daily Sentinel has the following communi-
cation on the " Pkasures of Failing !"—Some talk of the pleasures of
trade ; some of the pleasures of polities ; others expatiate on the plea-
sures of law, physic, and divinity ; many speak of the pleasures of a
married state, and others again on the pleasures of single blessedness;
but as those are topics which have already become threadbare, by their
constant use, 1 shall, for the sake of variety, speak of the pleasuresof fail-
ing. After, at least, twenty-one years had performed their regular re-
volution since my first appearance on the stage of life, full of high hopes
and expectations as to the future, I launched forth into trade, and, for
a while,

Dame Fortune and all was mild,
She frown'd, which brought me to the ground.
But I must stop and apologise for intruding on the muses ground, and
keep my place in the old prose road, pretty well behind the 'multitude.
The nearest I ever came in my life to being a poet, was at a dinner
table with an uncle of mine, who could make the ends of every line jin.
gle like two old tin kettles. A sheriff one day popped into my store,
and without stopping to inquire whether he intruded or not, monopo-
lised at once every thing around him. I discharged my clerks, and in
fact myself from business, and for a while employed myself in doing
nothing; but, strange as it may appear, this business, as well u most
others, is now completely overdone. owing to the great numbers going
into it of late. Formerly I laid awake half the night, contriving how
to meet the payments of the next day : now I sleep sound, get up in
the morning, read the news after breakfast, walk out, fall in, if possi.
ble. with one of the happy insolvent fraternity, talk about the proceed.
inns of Congress and Legislature, dispute as to the merits of the presi-
dential candidates, the utility of the safety fund, circulation of small
bilk, hear and tell great stories about bursting steam boilers on the Nis-
siuippi and other rivers, contrive safety valve', and bulkheads for the
greater security of passengers—but all is project and no execution. To
attempt to speak to a business man before three o'clock,
world be almost useless, unless you have a pocket full of money
to lend him. After three, he is worn out by the fatigues of the day—
I hear of accidents, and losses of property by sea and land, entirely un-
concerned who suffers ; 1 see some so anxious for the arrival of a vessel,
that they can scarcely contain themselves • other* feel as though their
fortune was dependent on the the or fall of cotton at some foreign
market ; one wants the wind changed; another wants fair weather, and
another rain ; in fact, none are exactly suited. I pass the fretting group
entirely unconcerned, and think, within myself, they are now wading
through the tribulations of trade, and will soon find that ours is the only
course of ease and comfort, notwithstanding the sneered bankruptcy
which they cast at our enormous, but respectable body. Should there
be a large fire, a failure of a bank, or any individual in extensive busi-
ness, cambia more or less to be regretted by all, according to their
respective business—the news, however, affects me as a mere circum.
stance, and I am sometimes constrained to break out, with " blessed be
nothing, for I have not the least fear of losing anything,by sea or land."
In tact, we are in every respect safe characters; and from the picture I
have; drawn, no one can doubt the truth of the assertion, that "A
man's life consists not in the abundance of things which he possesseth."
I am now free from the noise and bustle of active life, no payments to
make but my own personal expenses, and at present where bank notices
cease from troubling, and where bill books are at rest.
POCKETS TO LET.

THE CHEROKEE PHCENIX.—This American curiosity
favours us with about three columns of an address of the "Committee
and Council of the Cherokee Nation, in General Council convened," to
the people of the United States, setting forth, that some months ago de-
legation was appointed by the constituted authorities of the Cherokee
nation, to repair to the city of Washington, and, in behalf of this na-
tion. to lay before the Government of the United States such repruen.
tations as should seem moat likely to secure to them, as a people, that
protection, aid, and good neighbourhood, which has been so often pro.
raised, and of which they stand in great need. Soon after their arrival
in the city, they presented to Congress a petition from the Cherokee tui-
tional Council, asking for the interposition of that body in their behalf,
especially with reference to the laws of Georgia, which were suspended
in a most terrifying manner over a large part of their population, and
protesting, in the most decided terms, against the operation of these lawn.
In the course of the winter they presented petitions to Congress, signed
by more than four thousand citisms, including, probably, more than
nineteen twentieths, and, for ought we can tell, ninety-nine hundredths
of the adult males of the nation (the whole population being about Wt.
teen thousand), pleading, with the assembled representatives of the
American people, that the solemn engagements between their fathers
may be preserved, as they have been till recently, in full force and con-
tinued operation ; asking, in a word, for protection against threatened
usurpation, and for a faithful execution of a guarantee which is per-
fectly plain in its meaning, has been repeatedly and rigidly enforced in
their favour, and has received the sanction of the Government of the
United States for nearly forty years. This document, which is really
interesting, and ably compiled, and from which we may make some ex-
tracts on a future day, then proceeds to recount the exploits of the Che-
rokees, and that they wish to remain in the land of their fathers, having
a perfect and original right thereto, without interruption or molestation.
It is subseribei by the annexed extraordinary names :
LEWIS ROSS, President Committee.
James Daniel, . Dah-ye-Site,
David Vann, John Baldridge,
John Timson, Deer in the Water,
Going Snake, Speaker of Sleeping Rabbit,
the Council, Bark,
Charles Reese, Chnkowah,
Chu-Nu-flee, Walking Stick,
Laude, gh-st-Mu uake, ki J. R. Daniel,
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MIDDLESEX SESSION, SEPT. 13.

Before F. CONS?, Esq. Chairman, and a full Bench of Magistrates.
ASSAULT.

John Grslks. aged 36, was indicted for violently assaulting, on
the 12th of May, Francs Birmingham, a lad scarcely ten years old,
and doing him merlons bodily harm.
Mr. ADOLPHUS conducted the prosecution, and Mr. C. PHILLIPS
the defence.

Francis Birmingham resides with his mother at Knigtsbridge, in
furnished lodgings belonging to the defendant. On the day mentioned
in the indictment he was, by the direction of his mother, standing on
the outside of the room-door ; was not making a noise there ; had not
been long there, when the defendant came up and kicked him twice so
violently as to render him unable to walk for some time; was obliged
to be put to bed ; bad 28 leeches and some liniments applied to the
groin; a medical gentleman attended witness several days.
Cross.examined by Mr. C. PHILLIPS—Had not frequently been de-
sired by Mr. Griffiths to get off the stairs. A policeman was called
I in, and examined witness, and saw some marks of violence upon the
lower part of his abdomen.
Charles Farrel, on the day mentioned in the indictment, was playing
at cards on the stain with Birmingham; was making no noise;
Griffiths came up. and struck and kicked the last witness very violently
in the lower panof the belly, and threatened to do so again it he did not
go into his room.
Cron.examineel.—Did not see two kicks given ; saw one kick and
one cuff given. Never was in prison.
Francis Newbury, a surgeon, residing in Slaane.street, Chelsea ; at-
tended Master Birmingham in coasequence of two very severe blows he
had received; it was five days befere he could rest in the least degree
upon his foot; the blows were very severe, and might have proved very
serious.

Cross.examined...—The demand the witness has for leeches, medicine,
&e. amounts to two guineas.
The Learned Chairman having recapitulated the evidence, the
Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the Court, considering it as the
better plan, requested Mr. Lee, the barrister, to see all parties, and ad-
judge what compensation is due to the youthful prosecutor.
Mr. Lee returned into Court, after being absent nearly an hour, and
awarded the sum of 141. including compensation, costs, &c.

EXTRAORDINARY AND MYSTERIOUS CHARGE OF
PIRACY.

Yesterday four seamen underwent a long examination at the Thames
Police Office, charged on suspicion of being concerned in taking posses.
sion of the colonial brig Cyprus, in the month of August, 1029, and
subsequently with being concerned in some nefarious acts of piracy.
In the month of August, 1829, the colonial brig Cyprus was pro.
eeeding from Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, to AlQuarrie Dar.
boor, with 30 prisoners on board and three months' provisions, when she
was iken possession of by 18 of the convicts, who, after murdering some
of the military guard, put the rest ashore with the other prisoners and
the crew, on a desolate place, without food, and effected their escape with
the vessel, which has not since been h of.

In the beginning of the month of March last the President and Select
Committee of Supercargoes at Canton were informed that four persons
in a sbip's boat, who stated themselves to be part of the crew of an
English merchant vessel wrecked on the coast of China, had visited the
port. The one who represented himself to be the master of the vessel
was sent for to Canton, and examined before the Select Committee. He
was sworn to a deposition, In which he stated himself tc be Wm. Wal-
den, of Sunderland, in the county of Durham, and commander of the
brig Edward, of London, of 202 tons, which left the London-docks on
the 14th December, 1828, bound for Rio de Janeiro, which place be
reached in 72 days. He remained there nine days, and then sailed for
Maranham and Pernambuco. After touching at these places, he sailed
for Valparaiso, and after calling at some other ports of South America,
proceeded to the Sandwich Islands and Japan. At the latter place his
vessel was damaged by the fire of the batteries opened upon him, and in
that state he bent his way towards the port of Manilla, when the vessel
became so leaky from the injury sustained by the shot passing through
her, that the crew were obliged to abandon her near Formosa. Two
boats contained the crew, amounting to 16 persons, but only one of
them succeeded in reaching Canton, whither they were towed by a fish-
ing-boat. Weldon, in his deposition, further stated, that he had heard
no tidings of the other boat, but supposes they would have reached
Formosa.

The Select Committee, on hearing the above deposition, the truth of
of which appeared to be confirmed by Weldon, having a sextant with
him, and also a boat, on the outside of which was painted, " Edward,
of London," and on the inside " William Walden,", transferred Wel-
don and his three men to the Charles Grant East Indisman, in which
they were allowed a free passage, and the deposition he had signed
was sent over to Mr. Auber, the ecretary of the Honourable East India
Company.
On the 29th of March last, a few days after the departure of the
Charles Grant, another person, stating himself to be George Huntley,
made his appearance at Witampoa, with three men, who stated then.
leaves to belong to the brig Edward, wrecked on the coast. Huntley
I was sent for by the Select Committee, sad examined. He said he was
Ithe steward of the Edward, and that the master's name was James
Wilson (not Weldon) ; that she left London on the 14th of
June, 1828, for the Cape of Good Hope, and that his brother was
first mate of the Edward. His account was so much at variance with
the statement of Weldon, that the President and Select Committee im.
mediately suspected that some nefarious acts of piracy were connected
with the brig Edward, and detained Huntley, who was consigned as a
prisoner to the Keine Castle East indiamen, which arrived a fortnight
since. The boat was also sent to this country in the same vessel._
Huntley, when before the Select Committee at Canton, said he quarrelled
with the Captain of the Edward, and left her in an open boat with three
of the crew, and ultimately reached Lingting, where the East Indiamen
were stationed. He stated that his friends resided in London, and that
his brother was a Mr. Huntley, optician, of 191 or 192, High Holborn,
opposite Great Turnstile. When Huntley was transmitted to the Nellie
Castle as a prisoner, his three companions could not be found. Mr.
John Jackson, the Secretary of the Select Committee at Canton, how.
ever, sent a full statement of the affair to the East India House, and in
the event of the &Ilk Castle arriving before the Charles Grant, inti-
mated that Weldon and his three companions might be secured before
they left the vessel These statements were all forwarded to the Secre-
tary of State, who gave the necessary directions to the Magistrates of the
Thames Police, to secure the boat and the persons of the four prisoner,
on the arrival of the China fleet in the river. On the Ist inst. Huntley
was lakat out at the Kerne Castle with the boat, and brought to
the Thames-Pollee-office before Mr. Ballantine. He was very reserved
and expressed greet reluctance to answer any questions. His account
of himself, however, differed materially from the statement be made at
Canton, but stated that he left the Edward at one of the Ladrone Islands,
and that the Captain's name was James Wilson. In answer to ques.
Lions from Mr. lisllantine, he said that, when the vessel left Blackwall,
she went to the Cape, from thence round a lot of lands, and took In GOO
Otter skins, and gave cutlery for them. The vessel then ran up that
coast, and came to the Lathan Islands, where he left the vessel on as
• of the quarrel with the Captain about the bad bread they bad to
eat. He said his friends were opticians in the city, but declined giving
any further information, and said he was wrongl detained.
On Tuesday last, the Charles Grant East having arrived in
the river, Mr. Evans, the chief' odlca, and several constables of the
Thames Police, went to that vessel, for the purpose of securing Wal.
don and his three companions, but found the forma had left the ship
at Margate, the commander having no authority to detain
The others were secured, and brought before Mr. Ballantine. They
gave their names John Anderson, AI meatier Tolford, and Charles
Williams. They were all examined rely. Anderson said he
was a native of Edinburgh, and ship on board the Edward, at
Gravesend, on the 14th of December, 1 ; she was laden with cotton
and other goods. After leaving Gravesend they went to Rio de Ja.
who, to Valparaiso, Sandwich Islands, and igen touched at Japan,
where they were fired as by the natives, and, in consequence of the in.
jury done to the brig, she went down off Formosa, in 60 feet water. A
pan of the crew tools the boat, and ultimately reached Canton. He
stated that the owner (Allen) died a few days after the vessel left Val.
pardon, and his body was thrown overboard He (Anderson) shipped as
His wages were M. 10s. per month.
who wee next examined, said he was a native of Leith ; that
be shipped at Gravesend as seaman, but contradicted Anderson in
=Lparts of his testimony, and said the latter was taken in at the
icit laa no earpenta on board until they reached
that plate. He also stated that Allen, the owner of the Edward, died
at Valparaiso, and his body was taken ashore and interred.
Williams, who was next called in, said he was a native of Bristol ;
that he shipped as butcher in the Edward, at Gravesend, some time in
1828. He confirmed Anderson's statement respecting the route of the
ship, but stated that Anderson did not come on board until the vessel
reached the Sandwich Islands. He differed materially front his two
companions respecting the manner of Allen's death, the number of the
crew, &c. The three prisoners declared they had never been to sea be.
fore they 'hipped in the Edward.
After their examination was concluded, Huntley was brought in.
They changed colour at his appearance, and were ordered by M. Bat-
warring to look at him. They declared they had never seen him
until that moment, and Huntley expressed himself to the same effect,
and mid he was wrongly detained, and the Bench should get no in.
kamadae from him, or where his friends resided. They were then taken
hem the bar, and ordered to be kept apart.
The inquiry had raaattled thus far without much success, when Mr.
Evans, the aid dicer of Thames police, was struck with great re.
semblance the four prisoners bore to the description of four of the con.
rims in the Hue and Cry of the 13th of March last, as having been con-
cerned in the atrocious act of murdering some of the military guard, end
running away with the colonial bag Cypres, in Aug. 1829. One of the
convicts was William Watts, a native of Bristol, who arrived by the
Leal iklon coaviet.ship, at Van Dianan's Land, is 1817. Mr.
gm., am aishia die Williams, found he exactly answered
in miry 18; aaaa of that convict. Another of the convicts
is desedlisiM the tepee amp James Davis, engtaver, triad In
Midas= In al 1 et etrlseesee, 1820; sentenced to seven years'

nanspeetadon. Huntley answers to bis description in almost every
respect.
Alexander Telford states himself to be a native of Leith, and answers
to the description of one of the convicts, named Alexander Stevenson.
who was tried at Glasgow on the 13th of April, 1824, and arrived in
the colony by the Sir Charles Forbes, in 1828. He was sentenced to
fourteen years transportation. The fourth prisoner, John Anderson,
who said he was a native of Edinburgh, answers to the description in
the Hue and Cry of another convict concerned in the murder
and piracy, viz. John Beveridge, tried at Perth, March 4th, 1821.
The brig Cyprus, seized by the convicts, was never heard of after-
wards, and it is generally supposed that the fellows who seized her
scuttled the vessel on meeting with the Edward, and took possession of
the latter ship, to carry on their piratkal practices. Inquiries are being
made to ascertain whether any brig called the Edward left Gravesend in
the year 1828, and if any tidings were heard of the crew, who, it is
feared, might have been left on some desolate place, or disposed of in a
more atrocious manner The story told by throe of the prisoners, of
their being fired at by the Japanese, is probably correct, and strong sus-
picions are entertained that they touched at the Japan Islands for
the purpose of plunder, and also at other places, and commit-
ted acts of murder and piracy. The man who escaped, and
took the name of Weldon, is supposed to have acted as Cap.
taro of this lawless gang, and to have seamed the name of the master
of the Edward, after that vessel was kited. His person is well known
to the officers and crew of the Charles Grant, in which ship he came
over, and it is probable he may be met with and secured. The story
told by Huntley at Canton, of a disturbance on board theship of which
he mentioned he was steward, has given rise to a conjecture that the con.
victs quarrelled amongst themselves respecting the division of their
booty, and that after the Edward foundered, each party took their own
course in open boats. Three, who were in company with Huntly at
Canton, it is probable, may be sent over by the authorities there.
The four prisoners were again brought before Mr. BALLA/MINE
yesterday. The worthy magistrate, who has taken great pains to elu-
cidate the mystery in which the affair is involved, again examined them
separately, but they were very sullen in their replies, and refused to
give any more information. Huntley denied all knowledge of the
others, and refused to state where his friends resided. The prisoners
were ordered to be brought up again on a future day. In the mean-
time, the local authorities at Scotland and Bristol will receive notice to
attend and identify the persons of Anderson, alias Beveridge; Telford,
alias Stevenson; and Watts, alias William:. When the case is Com-
pleted against them, they will be sent over to Van Dieman's Land, to
meet the punishment due to their crimes.
Since writing the above, we have been informed that the identity of
Huntley is placed beyond a doubt as George James Davis. He was
examined before Mr. Enemas, at Hatton-garden police.office, on the
19th of July, 1820, for stealing some silver spoons, and tried at the
ensuing Old Bailey Sessions, before the Common Sergeant. The pro-
secutor's name was Charles Rawlins. Davis, alias Huntley, is a
of good education and address ; and at the time of his being
with the felony, resided in Clerkenwell.
13y the accounts in the P.oban-town papers, it appears that the pas-
sengers and crew of the Cyprus endured the greatest privations after
they were left by the convicts, and several perished for want. it is pro-
bable that all the parties concerned in the seizure of the vessel may yet
be brought to punishment. The boat sent over from Canton, on which
are inscribed the words " William Weldon, Edward, of London," is in
the possession of the Thames Police.