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London, England, 1825-07-07 00:00:00

PEERAGE.

. HOUSE OF LORDS. JULY 6.
Tffi STAFFORD PERRACIE.
The parochial register of St. Andrew's, Worcester,
WAS produced at the bar of the House on Tuesday last,
in order to ascertain the marriage of those ancestors
through whom Mrs. All•Carthy claimed the above title.
The entry of the marriage appeared in the register,
hot under such •circumst antes as to warrant -A suspicion
of its not being genuine : in the meantime the Bishop*
of Worce•ter's register was sent for, in order to corn-
• pare it with the parochial register, and a transcript of
it was produced to-day by the It- gistrar of the Diocese.
On examination, the suspected interpolations did not
• appear in it: yet, in every other respect, it perfectly
• corresponded pith the parochial register. The Rev.
Mr. Faillkner, Rector of St. Andrew's, Worcester, un-
derwent a severe examination by their Lordships, in
order to elicit from him how the. entries were made.
Ile said th it a person, whom he did not know, called
• on him lb mt a year ago for the register in question,
and having found out the names he wanted, he re-
quested to he Al need to take it to another apartment,
and to be left alone. With this the witness complied,
and the applicant had i; a considerable time in his pos-
session. Oa timber examination, the witness did not
recollect whether it was before or after he gave the re-
gistet ont of i is custody that he saw the entries in ques-
tion. At the conclusion of the examination,
Mr. ADAM said, that Mrs. *Cattily had made out
• no case. She could not shew that she was descended
from the Earl of Stafford, as she was not able to prove
the marriage of the ancestors through whom she
.claimed, nor was it likely that delay could 'throw any
light on it. The descent of Sir George lerningliam
,being proved by the will of the Earl of St..ffird, and
the only other obstacle, the attainder, bring done away,
he hoped their Lordships would recommend to his Ma-
jesty the establishment of the claim.
The ATTORNEY-GINSSAL being asked if he had any
thing to say? replied that his predecessor, Sir Vicary_
Gibbs, after a minute inquiry, was satisfied of the p .dt-
pee f Sir George Jerningham; he, therefore, did not
intend to impeach his claim.
After a short consultation among their Lordships,
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY put the questions that the
claim be allowed, and that Sir George Jerningham be
called to that H.,use? which were agreed to new. cox.
ATFRALS.—ORART V. FEDI&
After the Committee of Privileges had adjourned, the
Lono CHANCELLOR gave judgment in the above appeal
which he said involved no less importance than whether
a man born in Scotland should be subject to the Scotch
laws from his birth till he died—in whatever part of
the world he should live. The appellant was a Solicitor,
residing in London, and the Court of Session of Scot-
land exercised a jurisdiction over him rotioxe oqgutes ;
though he had neither property nor representation in
Scotland, nor was he ever served with notice of the ac-
tion, and, what was more extraordinary, the subject of
the action arose from a contract made in England. By
the laws of Scotland, if a contract was formed in that
country pursuant to a particular form, it woted give
jurisdiction to the Court of Session to proceed against
a man in his absence; but this did not come under that
head, nor did he (the Chancellor) think it consistent
with the spirit of any law: he certainly could not re-
'cnncile it to reason ; and therefore he should move
that the interlocutor be reversed, which was a:cordingly
agreed to.

LADY HOLLAND'S WILL.—The will of the late
Dame Harriet Holland, of Cranbury] Hants, and of
Piccadilly Terrace, Middlesex, relict of Sir Nathaniel
Holl Ind, was registered in the Prerogative Court on'
the 12th ult. Probate under the sum of five hundred
thousand pounds was granted to the Right Hon. the
Earl of Cardigan, the nephew, the so'.e executor: The
will, dated the 12th March,lBlB, and most of the codi.:
cils (of which theme are nine), ate in het L•mdyship's
own hand-writing, and duly executed. The legacies
• ate considerable ; amongst the principal are these—
To her sister, the Dowager Countess of Liverpool,
50,0001. ; the lion. Miss B udenell, 50,0001. ; nephew
and niece Ili,hopp, 30,0001. each ; Lady Charlotte
Rivers, 60.0001. the interest for life, and principal to
her children; the Rev. Sir Henry Rivers, 10,000/. ;
the Rev. Thomas Penton, Vicar of Wellon, 10,0001.
These sums ate all in Stock I f 3 per Cent. Consols.--
To the Duchess of Dorset (niece), her best diamond
necklace and cross, ear-rings, tiara, and bandeau : t.
La ly Rivers, all the rest of her diamonds and trinkets.
The E srl of Cardigan is residuary legatee of the per-
sonal, and sole devisee of the real estates.

BALLOON ASCENT AT SrAssroeti.—Saturday, Mr.
Green ascem'ed at Stamford, accompanied by Miss
Stocks, being tie first exhibition of the kind in that part
of the country. A vast concourse of people were pre-
sent, and among them the Marquis and Marc!tioness of
Exeter, Lord I'. Cecil, Miss Poyntz, and many persons
of rank and fashion. About twenty-five miles from
Stamford the balloon descended, near to the village of
Thorney. Mr. Green very carefully first grounded the
ear of the balloon, by means of the grappling-iron, in a
field of wheat, and advised his intrepid companion to
alight, which she did with great promptitude. Mr.
Green was now aware that by letting out the remainder
of the gas considerable damage might be done to the
green corn, and was also apprehensive that a crowd
might gather round him, and destroy a great part of
the standing wheat. He desired a labourer who now
arrived and had got hold of the rope, to quit his hold,
it being his intention to go a few fields farther off. The
grappling-iron having lost its bold on the ground, the
balloon and car skimmed the edges of several fields,
and weal nearly three-quarters of a mile more before it
finally grounded itself. The man was pulled up a
heigr tot ten or fifteen feet, and falling down, appeared
at brst rather stunned, but soon recovered himself, and
v.as able to follow the balloon and render further a:•
sistarce. The bold aeronaut being joined by Miss Stocks,
procured a chaise and four, and safely reached Stam-
ford at half-past nine o'clock, where the brother of the
Marquis of Exeter was waiting, and kindly invited him
to Burghley-house. It is computed that Mr. Green has,
cleared 1401. by his trip: it was his 86► h ascent.
An arrest of judgment has been moved in the Court
of King's Bench, Dublin, in the cast• of the four men
found guilty of an outrageous assault, of a murderous
'mune, on the 29. h ult: Their conviction was under,
Lord Ellenborough's Act, and the basis of the excep-
tion is the word a 4 waind" in *the indictment, *hid)
word is not in the Statute. The decision of the Judos,
was not known when the last Dublin Papers came away.
In 1607. Dormington Park, in Leicestershire, con-
taining 300 acres of ?wares was :deed at only 134 if. id. per
atuatos.

FIELD-MARSHAL MACDO.VADD.

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The Comet steam-pailiei, which left Inverness at Your
o'clock on Monday morning the rth ultimo, arrived at
Glasgow on Wednesday morning, after a quick passage.
Feld-Marshal Macdonald, Dike of Tarentum, &e. &c.
attended by Colonel de Conessin and Mr. Macdonald of
Staffa, took their passage in the Comet from Inverness
to Fort William, from whence his Excellency proceeded
to Arising (on Tuesday), whet; a sloop of war was in
waiting to receive him, and to convey him t' the Isles
of Sky, South Uist, &c. &c. and afterwards his Excel-
lency intended returning by Staffa, lona, Inverary, &c.
His Excellency breakfasted and dined with the passen-
gers on board the steam boat, arid by his affable man-
ners made himself extremely agreeable to all present.
After dinner his Excellency ordered a quantity of wine,
and requested the company to join in drinking it : he
gave with much animation the health of King Uxonos
IV. which was drank with three times three, and the
time given in very good style by Colonel the Count de
Conessin, his Excellency's Aide de-Camp. In return
for this compliment, Mr. Macdonald of Staffa proposed
the health of King CHARLES X. of France. Mr. Mac-
donald took this opportunity In express the hope that
the good understanding which at present subsisted be-
tween their Majesties and the two cobntries might long
continue, and that their Majesties might long live to
bless the great nations over whom they respectively
reigned : in this hope he was most cordially seconded
by his Excellency. Upon the Marshal's health being
drank, he returned thanks to the company, and said that
he had read much of the Highlands of Scotland, and
the Scottish clans, of their genirous disposition, their
genuine avid sterling parr iotism, for which they had
icng been renowned; but that, much as he had heard
and read of the Scotch nation, now that he had visited
thern,he saw still more reason to ad :ni re and respect taem,
especially the clans of the II ghlands, than whom no
people deserve more to be esteemed for their national
characteristics and eniform good conduct. The health%
of the Count, Mr. Macdon IJ, and others with whom
they were clasrly connected, • weie after wards suc.es-
sieely draa k, aad suitably -acknowledged; and the
evening clo.ed on the conviviality of the company, all
of whom were much gratified by the affability and good
humour of the distinguished nelsons present.
The Marshal appears to be about 60 years, thin in
person, and rat! er above the middle s ea ; his heir is
quite grey, his eyes dark, his connt..nance rather mind
and beeline. He was plainly dre.sed in black, and,
like his celebrated friend Bonaparte, takes snuff in
great quantities. Ile speaks very little Engli 9t, and
that little imperfectly. The fatigue of a soldier's life,
and the anxieties of political struggles, appear to have
brought premature age, for he walked feeble, appear.
ing in an infirm state of health. When on the field of
Culloden, he expressed his surprise at the insb cility
which dictated the choice of that spot for the position
of the Pretender's army. No spot could be worse chosen
for the position of an irregular.body of men actiqg on
the defensive against 'regular troops; and the wonder
was increaser, the General ob,erved, when the neigh-
bouring high wounds behind the water of Nairn af-
forded so hne a position to obtain the objects, and suit
the circumstances of the Jacobites. Of Marshal Mac-
donald's life little or no.hing is known in this country.
His merits must no doubt 6assumed to be great, since
they conducted him at an early age to a high command
in the French army, and have sustained him in that
rank amid ail the vicissitudes which his country and
his colleagues in arms have experienced during 80 ye rs.
The first time, we believe, that his name became fa-
miliar in the country, was in the year 1799, when the
French, having been totally defeated by the combined
armies of Russia and Austria, under the direction of
the celebrated Suvaroff, General Macdonald was up-
pointed to command a division of the French army
directed to act in concert with another division under
Moreau. The rapid and enterprising manoeuvres of
Macdonald on this occasion disconcerted the plans at
Suvarcff, and obliged him to withdraw from the pro-
secution of the deign; he was engaged in, and hasten
td the relief of the Austi ians, then on t'ai point of being
overwhelmed. By astonishing exertions and rapid
marches; Suvaroff succeeded in effecting a junction
with the Austrians, and the combined minks were
enabled to make head against the French General. The
battle which ensued on the banks of the Trebia, a deep
and rapid river in the North of Italy, was, for duration
and obstinacy, wholly unequalled in that war which
has been characterised as a " war of giants." For
three summer days, however, in succession, the contest
was maintained with almost unremittara obstinacy.—
At length the French army was compelled to retire,
leaving 12,000 of their number extended on the field
af bat le. General Macdonald, who had been wounded
a few weeks previously was again wounded in this
action. He managed his retreat, however, so ably,that
his opponents, gallant, active, and skilful as they were,
could gain no further advantage, and the shattered
wrecks of the French army were conducted, without
any further loss, through the passes of the Appenines
into Fiance. Suvaroff being congratulated on his ver
tory, answered in the words cf the monarch of Epii us
_B4 Another such victory and w e shall be undone." So
far as we have heard, Marshal Macdonald was eever
employed in the Peninsula, nor opposed to British
troops. He bad a command in the French army which
invaded Russia, but he was nut a iai that part of it
which advanced to Moscow. . During the campaign
which ensued after the disastioas retreat from Russia,
be was actively engaged with Bonaparte, Ney, Van-
damme, and other celebrateJ Generals, in the attempt.
to retrieve the affairs of their country, then bending
berme the combined • fforts of Europe. In this struggle,
Marshal Macdonald, having had one half of his division
of the army separated from the other by an unexpected
rise in the river Bober in Germany, was attacked in his
weakened state, and defeated by Blucher.

MANUFACTURE OF ANTIQUITIza.—Not far from
the ruins of Vesta 's Temple, at Rome, was heard some
months ago a subterranean noise, which foretold, ac-
cording to some superstitious people, a great calamity.
The Roman police went down to the place; they dug,
and soon eiscovered a subterraneous passage, and
seized upon a man who was amusing himself with
forging pieces of money stamped with the effigies of
Caner, Masitgilian, Caracalla, Heliogabalos, &c. &c.
This novel sort of coiner owned that he had been
carrying on this trade for more than ten years, and
that, thanks to his industry, the antique cabinets of
many English, German, and French antiquaries had
been enriched by these means. As the laws did not
provide against so extraordinary a case, this nuttstifee•
Curer of mail:titles has been released upon promising
to sell no more o6oh for piastres, or TALENT% for
Louis-d'ors.--Le Petit Mereare.

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NEWCASTLZEI:LIK TYNE* JULYS.
AIIXAT WITH ?H$ &MIT RT.--laturda, after the
Band of thod, or ring's Own Light. Dragoons, had
been parading the streets of this town for recruits, and
had retired to Egerton's, the F gliting Cocks, in the
Bigg-market, on that evening, to take refreshment, an
affray commenced about ten o clock at night, and . the
Band proceeded, playing as well as the jostling of the
crowd of people that accompanied them would allow,
as far as the Darn Crook, when the shouts were truly
awful from the pressure of the people, who then began
to use brick bats, stones, and mud, so as to provoke the
few soldiers who were of the recruiting party, and ac-
companied the Band, to draw their swords. Great vio-
lence continued to be evinced on both sides, along the
road up Gallosvgate and towards the Barracks ; many
bruises were the consequence, and one m in, who had
been very obstreperous the who!e evening, receives a
cut in the cheek from a sabre. The serjeant is said to
have behaved well on the occasion, and the solder
bearing the instrument vulgarly callel the Great Toni
of Lincoln, used every means to persuade the mob to
allow-the Band to go peaceably to the Barracks. To-
wards 12 o'clock, a file of men' was dispatched to quell
the disturbance, but we are glad their interference was
then rendered unnecessary by the people dipersing.—
The desk uction of the musical instruments belonging to
the Band must have been serious, as the fragnieuts of
clarioners, &c. found strewed in Gallowgate on the
Sunday morning, amply te,tified. We have not been
enabled' precisely to learn how the affray originated, or
on which site the prov.•cation was first made.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN COMMISSION, JULY 1.
Till MUD ISLAND AFFAIR.

Our Readers may recollect that we some time since
gave an account of a monstrous outrage committed
at Mud Island, upon a patty of L 'dies and Gentlemen,
when returning about the hour of two o'clock in the
morning, from a patty at Phibsborough.
Paul Spencer, Patrick Flinn, John Flinn, and John
Muldoon, were put to the bar, And indicted for a riot
and an assault upo% Richard Glass, Andrew Ferguson,
and others.

Mrs. Catherine Kane was the principal witre,s ex-
amined. She stated that their party consisted of seven
Ladies and eight Gentlemen, who were returning to
town on the morning of the 9th of May, from Phibs-
borough, where they had spent the evening, and that
when passing through Mud Island, one of their party,
named D'Little, was in advance, and they heard him
cry oat for Doctor •Gafney, and murder and robbery ;
and when she and the rest of her company came up to
the spot from whence the cry proceeded, they saw
Doctor Gafney and Mr. Ferguson holding a young
man, one of the prisoners; and that Mr. D'Little said
he had attempted to rob him, and the
.young lad de-
nied it: upon which Mr. Ferguson said, that if he
were innocent, he could make it appear in the morning,
but that he should go along with them to the Police-
office. In a moment Mr. Glass was knocked down by
a blow of a cudgel, and upon Mr. Ferguson coming to
his assistance, he was also knocked down; could not
say wl.o gave the first blow to Mr. Glass, but the pri-
soner Fly nn hit both Mr. F. and Mr. G. and when they
were down, he flourished his stick and hnzzaed three
times ; that all the rest of witness's party ran away,
leaving Mr. Glass, Mr. Ferguson, Mrs. Gl ass, and
herself ; that Mr. Ferguson, apparently quite dead,
aid Mr. Glass having a little sign of life, witness re-
quested of Flinn to spare him, wl el Flinn told her to
take care of her own life, and then Flinn shook her,
and Spencer and Muldoon shook Mrs. Glass, and struck
Mr. Glass again; witness described the manner its Which
Srencer, with his shirt sleeves tucked up, and Muldoon,'
were both engaged in striking the party. Mrs. Glass
went for assistance to Mr. Glass, while witness watchei
by him for about fifteen minutes. Witness identified
Spencer, Muldoon, and Flinn ; there were several of the
prisoners' party, all armed with cudgels.
Mr. Glass, Dirs. D'Uttle, and Dr. Garrity, were examined,
as was also Mrs. Glass, but none of them were able to identify the
prisoners.
Dr. Gafney thought he beard the prisoners called by their names,
hut would not swear positively that they were the same names,
nor would he swear positively to the persons of the prisoners.—
There was no provocation whatsoever given by Dlr. Glass's party
to provoke the assault.
Mr. Glass stated, that he lay insensible for many days, from
the wounds in his head, and was attended by Surgeon Carmichael.
Mr. Ferguson was also badly wounded.
To a question from the COUXT—Mrs. Kane replied, that it was
a little atter break of day, and that she never hesitated about
die identity of the prisoners, whom she pointed out from about
fifteen other men.

The prisoners examined several witnesses from the neighbour-
hood of Billybough Bridge and Mud Island, to support an alibi.
After Judge 'fuitavis charged the Jury, they retired, and in a
few minutes returned a verdict of Guilty, against Spencer, Mul-
doon, and John Flynn.
Judge TORKENS pronounced the sentence of the
Court, which was, that the prisoners be each confined
for twelve months in ltichmond .13ridewell, and kept
to hard labour; and in older to convince the people
in the pi isoners. neighbourhood, of the power of the
laws to protect the unoffending, and punish the crimi
nal, the ni-ct should not be discharged till they entered
into securities, themselves in forty pounds, and two
suraies in twenty each, to keep the peace for seven years.

MARGATE, JULY 4.—A numeious concourse of per-
sons, many of then of the highest respectability, assembled to wit-
ness the laying of the first stone of the intended new Jetty. opposite
Buenos Ayres and the Marine Terrace, leading into the town from
the London Road.

Toe young Lady, Miss Cuuncri, whose elopement
has been mentioned, has returned to Brighton with her loverotaw
her husband, having, it seems, been married in London, instead of
extending their journey to Gretna Green. It is singular enough
that, white for years past there has not, with one solitary excep-
don, being any such thing as an elopement beard of at Brighton, the
above event bad no sooner occurred, than it was followed by
another of a similar kind, in the person of Miss the
daughter of a respectable builder.
A fine boy, son of Mr. Jousts, of Montague-place,
Manchester-square, fell from the dining-room window,
on Monday evening, and died in consequence.
A halibut, of the species usually caught on the
Dutch coast, was brought to Falmouth market on
ThurscLry, weighing above 70Ibs.
By an ordonnance issued at Hanover, on the 24th of
June, it is decreed that all actions for a divorce between
Persons of different red gioas in the province of Eriksfield,
shall be carried before the Civil Tribunal of the defen-
dant, and there decided according to the Prussian civil
code. Those already pending before the Consistories
are to be removed into the Civil Courts.
The Bremen Gazelle contains as accou.tt of the ter-
rible ravages caused by the fall of torrents of rain, with
,a most Acipictive hail storm, by which not only the
harvest is annihilated, but all the cattle in the Ws ;
and even the houses, with their contents, are swept away.
To add to the calamity; many persons per Lira.

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• PUBLte SAlgt
Mr. 11006 ART. ' •
Manor Estate.—The *ittior of Drayton, near Ablngd..n,
with its Courts Levi and Baron, fines heriots, quit rents, and ap.
purtettances ; the Drayton Estate divided into farms, containfut
1,245 A. la. SOP. of arable, pasture, and meadow host, inc'uding
chief rents of se Ss ed. let at rents amounting yearly to A:2,2U
I Si. 6tl. also the great and WWI tithes of the estate. which are
let to the tenants at rack rents during the term of their leases,
amounting annually to XIS; Ss. who also pax praportions of
XlB6 19s. BJ. the gross amount of the land-tat ; timber included
in the purchase—sold for £50,000.
Steam Vessel Shares.—Eight Shares, amounting to £422 16c 44.
being the capital stock invested in the. City of Edinburgh, Jam...
Watt, Soho, and Tourist Steam Vessels, and the Kolas Store-shirt
trading between London and Edinburgh ;. sold by order of the
executors of the late T. W. HetheringtOn, Esc—£4,llo.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE,
A Mr. Beaumont, of Wapping, charged the book-keeper of
Spread Eagle Inn, Chteechurch Street, Avila having illegally
minded Is. 4d. portera're on a parcel.
The complainant stated and proved that on the parcel less wr t..
ten "to be called far," notwithstanding which it was sent to h. r.
upon its arrival, and the porterage charged. The Act of l'atliani.i.t
relative to the porterage of parcels was then produced, to move th it
the defendant was riot ju.tiiied in charging fur the removal of it, as
that removal was contrary to the tents of the Statute.
The defendant said he had acted to the hew of hi• judgment in
sending the parcel. The direction, he contended, should have beets
" to be left till called for." to justify him in keeping it at the ware-
house. Besides, it was not mentioned " where" the parcel was to
be left. He had, be said, received a lesson at Bow-street, on the
subject, where he was fitted for not having sent borne a parcel which
was directed to an office, under exactly .imilir circumstances.
The LOAD ?.layoa decided against the defendant; who n he
fisted in the lowest penalty of lOs. and ordered bits to pay huh
the Is. 4d.