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Luckless is he, whom hard fates urge on
To practice as a Country Surgeon;
To drag a heavy galling chain,
The slave of all for paltry gain ;
To tide, regardless of all weather,
Ifhro' frost, and snow, and hail together;
To smile and.bow when sick and tired,
Considered as a servant hired.
At evermuarter of the compass,
A surly patient makes a rumpus,
Because he is not seen the first,
(For each man thinks his case the worst.)
And oft at two points diametric,
Called to a business obstetric.
There lies a man with broken limb,
A Lady here with nervous whim,
Who, at the acme of her fever,
Calls him a savage—if he leave her.
For days and nights in some lone cottage,
Condemned to live on crusts and pottage,
Or pork in pendotudle, the fare
Some Cbruisli Surgeons eat, but stare.
To kick his heels, and spin his brains,
Waiting, forsooth, for labour's pains;
And that job over, hippy he,
If he squeeze out a guinea fee.
Then worn like culprit on the wheel,
Ile sits him down to hasty meal;
Ile sits! when lo! a patient comes
With rotted tooth and putrid gums;
The Doctor takes Isis dentist tools,
Fixes the SCITW, and tugs and pulls;
His dinner cold, his hands this mess in,
AU for a shilling, or a blessing !
Now comes the night—with toil opprest,
lie seeks hi, bed in hope of rest;
Vain hope ; his slumbers are no more,
Loud sounds the knocker at the door;
A farmer's wife, at ten miles' distance,
Groaning, calls out for his assistance :
Fretting and fuming in the dark,
lie in the tinder strikes a spark,
And as he, yawning, heaves his breeches,
Envies his neighbour, blest with riches!

SUMMER ASSIZES.

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THEXOUNTRY SURGEON.
(A TRU/ SILL)
Ain an Elegant Hudibrostic attempt to describe his Profasiossol
Enjoyments

CHELMSFORD, JULY 26.
THE KiNG V. ARCHER AND DROWN.
This was an indictment against the defendants for
a conspiracy to obtain 152 sheep, by offering two bills
of exchange, one of which was drawn upon and ac-
cepted by Brown, by the title of Lord Viscount Mon-
tague, and addressed to him at Storrington Hall,
Sussex, and payable at the house of Mr. Champ, in Lon.
don, and which, when presented, the answer was, that
no such person was known there: and the other, a
bill equally worthless, and accepted by another per-
son, payable at a banker's in the City.
Mr. KNOX stated the case for the prosecution,
vuhich, according to the evidence, was in substance
this :—An ignorant and Elite:ate \Velchman had
been em; lo)cd by his master, a Mr. Edwards, of
Delbighshire, to sell the sheep in question, and for
that put pie he went to Harlow-bush fair on the 9th
Sopternber, IS2O. Two of the alleged conspira-
tor-, At cht; and Church (the latter of whom was con-
victed at the last Assizes for this county, and sen-
tenced to s x montl)s'imprisonment), went down in
a to the fair, and pretending to be great cattle,
deaier,, I)o:chased the whole of the flock, for which
they g.ive the v.. 0 bi'.ls of exchange in question, and
received limn the unsuspecting ‘Velehman £lO as
the difference between the amount of the bills and
the stipulated price Of tl.e sheep. 'They took them to
London, and sold part of them to a Gentleman near
Kentish Town. Whilst the sheep were in the posses-
s an of the latter, the pretended Peer (Mr. Brown)
came, and sail that the sheep were his, and not
Church's, and that Church was merely his drover.—
It appeared that the soi-disant Lord had a dilapi-
date„ house in Sussex, called Storrington Hall, but
did not reside circle. This was the substance of the
. case. The formality of proof requited to support the
indictment having been gone through,
Mr. AnoLPitus addressed the Jury on:.,:half of
the defendants, and contended that there was not suf-
fitient prof to support the indictment against the
Noble Lord, even if all that had been proved against
were title. All that the evidence amounted to
was, that he had given a bill of exchange to the other
defendants, of which a bad use had been made. His
claiming the sheep eight or nine days afterwards did
not alwaint to proof that he had conspired to obtain
the sheep by means of the bills. It had been proved
that the Noble Lord had a house in Sussex, called'
Storrington Hall ; and, although he did not reside
there, still it could not be doubted that the bill was
genuine, though it did not produce any effects.
The Jury found both defendants Guilty. The de-
fendant Brown was sentenced to six months' impri-
sonment, and to pay a fine of ten pounds ; and the
other defendant to a like term of imprisonment, and
to pay a fine of five pounds.
Mr. Brown was a man of respectable appearance,
rather above the middle age. It is said he is pro-
-s.,ectiting his claim to the title' of Viscount Montague,
and the estates thereto belonging.
YORK, JULY 25.
LIBEL.-TILE FANG V. SIMON AND OTHERS.
This was an indictment preferred against Mr. John

Vrook, Solicitor, of the city of York, and seven other
defendants, as proprietors and acting managers of a
N 1 eekl y Newspaper, called the Yorkshire Gazette, pub-
, lished in that city, for a libel upon Mr. W. Hargrove,
the Editor of the York Herold. The Under Sheriff
being one of the defendants, the panel for the Jury
vas returned by the High Sheriff in person. Ten
• special jurors were in attendance, and the two Gen-
tlemen to complete the Jury were returned from the
Grand Jury. The libel which formed the subject of
this prosecution was published so long ago as the 19th
of October, 1819 ; and the indictment was preferred
at the July Sessions, for ihe city of York, 1821. This
prosecution would probably never have been insti-
tuted, had not an indictment been preferred against
Mr. Hargrove, for a libel upon some of the present
defendants, of which he was convicted and fined £5.
Mr. BROUGII4ISI addressed the Jury in support of
the prosecution in a very able speech, the object of
which was to establish the principle, that the Editor
of a Newspaper was entitled to the same protection
for his character, and the same redress when it was
traduced, as any other individual; and the Learned
Counsel strongly insisted that the refusal of this pro.
tection would have the effect of degrading the Press,
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ely throwing it entirely into the hands
principled men. The libel in question

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PALACE COURT, JULY 26.
FEAN V.

was contained in a letter addresieCtO the Editor ,of.
the Yorkshire Gqietle, and consisted of strictures on
an article which had appeared the preceding week in
the York Herald, upon the 'proceedings at Manches-
ter, in which the Editor of.the. Herald contended;
that the Public had a right to form and express their
opinion upon that'procedure of the 16th of August,
without waiting until it had been- investigated in a
Court of Justice. The letter charged as libelous
contained a quotation of considerable length from
the paragraph which formed the subject of its ani-
madversions. • The following is the passage which
formed the subject of the prosecution :
" Combating dm opinion that the Magistrates at Manchester
should not be condemned until their case has been regularly
heard, the man of Yoik, in his last week's vehicle of falsehood
and faction, thus scoffs at that hitherto boasted bulwark of our
liberty, the trial by Jury."
—The whole or this letter, including the quotation
from the York Herald, was read by the Clerk of the
Court. The necessary proofs having been given that
the defendants were proprietors of the Yorkshire Ga-
zette, evidence was given to prove the iniendoes, as
they are called, that the " man of York," and (4 the
insolent demagogue," meant Mr. William Hargrove,
the Editor of the York Herald.
Mr. SCARLETT addressed the Jury on behalf of the
defendants. The serious part of his argument was
this—that the strictures which had been made upon
Mr. Hargrove, in his editorial capacity, were not
calculated to injure his character ; that it was a spe-
cies of phra. eology ad )pted by newspaper writers;
and that tl e express ons " treasonable and " fac-
tious," when used by them, meant no more, if ap-
plied by a M nisteriai writer to one of opposite sen-
timents, thin that he was an opposition man. And
if newspaper writer,. instead of writing against each
other, as was gen:rally the present commendable
practice, ii ere to indict each other for libels, the
whole time of Co ins of Justice would be occupied
with their quarrels.
The following are the names of the defendants :
Messrs. J. hn Brook, Jonathan Grey, Daniel Tyke,
J. D. Tweedy, William Askwith, Hewley Graham,
James Russell, and John Wolstenholme.
The CHTEirJusTlce, in charging the Jury, said
it was undoubtedly true that the Editor of a news-
paper had the same tight to have his character pro-
tected by the law as any other individual ; but he
observed, that when a person published his sentiments
on any subject, he laid himself open to reasonable
and moderate criticism ; and it would be for the Jury
to determine whether in the present case the publica-
tion complained of went beyond ir. Ka writer at-
tacks another by slander and calumny, he is amenable
to the law, which will not tolerate it. If the Jury
should be of opinion that the publication in question
was confined within the bounds of reasonable and fair
animadversion, they would return a verdict for the de-
fendants: if they wel e of opinion that it was slander-
ous and calumnious, they ought to return a verdict
of guilty tinder this indictment. The evidence did
not apply to either Mr. Tweedy, Mr. Askwith, or
Mr. Graham, who must at all events be acquitted.
The Jury retired for about half an hour, and on their
return into Courts found all the defendants Not Gidaty,

CROWN Si DI.—JULY e".
Joshua Hodgson, of Scholes, in the parish of Bir- .
stall, was charged by an indictment with wilful and
corrupt perjury, in a deposition made before Thomas
Ilorion, Esq. one of the Justices of the Peace of the'
West Riding, in which he charged Robert Sellers
with tl:e comm;ss-,m of an unnatural clime with Jo-
shua Hodgson, the uncle of the prisoner; and for'
whi h offence Robert Sellers was tried at the last As-
size-, when the perjury of the prisoner was so appa-
ent that he was committed to the Castle by the Court.'
The evidence in this case is so involved in the horrid
crime which was charge.' against Sellers, that it is
impossible to enter into any details of it without an
offence against public decorum. The prisoner was
the nephew and heir at law of Joshua Hodgson of
Scholes, who died. in the latter end of December,'
leaving by will the greater part of his property to
Robert Sellers, and leaving no part of it to the priso;
ner, which was the probable motive for this; act of
diabolical revenge. The crime was stated to have'
been committed on the Bth of December, and to have
been seen by himself and his son ; and the first infor-
mation given of it was on the 15th January, after the
death and funeral of his uncle, and Wilco the contents
of the will war known to the prisoner. The fahehood
of the prisoner's deposition was borne out by a great
variety of evidence, both positive and circumstantial;
one striking feature of which was, that the prisoner,
on the 16th of January, made a deposition, contra-
dicting, in the most important and essential particu-
lots, the statement he had made upon oath on the
preceding day.
The prisoner was defended by Mr. Pottocx, who
strongly insisted upon the circumstance, that in the
year 1819, gobert Sellers was charged before Mr.
Stocks with a similar offence, in connexion with the
same person, which was somehow compromised; and
the Learned Counsel insisted that a person who, had
sat down under the imputation was utterly unworthy
of credit, and might be supposed capable of commit-
ting the clime which had been imputed to him. The
evidence of the surgeon, who evinced great ignorance
upon the subject, was commented upon with severity.
The Learned Judge, in charging the Jury, made
every observation in favour of the prisoner which
could possibly arise out of the case.
The Jury retired to consider of their verdict, and
after remaining out of Court for a quarter of an hour,
they returned with a verdict of Guilty.

Mr. Tummy* obtained a rale, last Friday week, calling on
the plaintiff to Whew cause why a writ of inquiry, issued against
the defendant, should not be set aside, for irregularity.
Mr. Mammes now, chewed cause against the rule, and con-
tended that as the defendant had not received the copy of the
writ, nor notice of declaration, the service of the notice of in-
quiry was not ghod.
Mr. Hindle being engaged In a Wale of books in Bond-street,
was there inquired for; a person came down, and said his name
was. Hindle ; accordingly the copy of the writ was served on him,
and afterwards a notice of declaration was served on him, at his
house, In Chancery-lane, he at the same time saying to the per-
son who brought it, " I suppose you have got a notice of de-
claration for me."

Mr. Tnetinosa said that Hindle swears most positively he re-
ceived no notice of declaration, nor was he served with a copy
of the writ, which alone was sufficient to ground a motion. He
should observe that there was positive direct swearing on the
part of Hindle, that he did not receive the notice, and on the
other side, that he was served. There is an affidavit (continued
the ',earned Counsel) imputing collusion on the part of Hindle
and a person of the name of Collinson. Is it because the first
person they meet and serve a copy of a writ on, that Mr. Hin-
dle is by that to defend the action Supposing Mulls had

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received a note front eollbason, iaybigAelad been aerted wit"
a copy of a writ, that he is to defend it? No! not until be sees
whether the plaintiff lambast° procesokor sot, Instead of going
to his house in Chancery-lane, they go to Bond-street, where be
is engaged in a sale of books, and there serve a person who an-
swers the name of George Hindle. On the affidavits it appears
that the first notice he had of this action was the notice of in-
quiry. At all events, the defendant was entitled to have the in-
quiry set aside. a •
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Mr. Justice Moues said that certainly, under all theistreutn-
'tamest the notice of inquiry ought to be set aside: No blame
whatever, he said, could be attached to lir. Abrahams, the at-
torney; he had done all he Could; but as the defendant had
sworn to merits, the rule must be made tboolute, particularly as
the money had been paid into Court)
Samuel Briant, one of the officers of the Court, was called up
for arresting a-person in open
Mr. Justice Monica said he certainly had done wrong, but no
doubt be had done it ignorantly. The Court, he said, was not
to be a scene of broils. The law in old Courts of Justice, in
Westminster Hall, was, that if there were any broils in Court
the man would lose his bead. He should, however, only put a
tine of a sovereign upon him, to be distributed among the poor
prisoners in that prison.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.
THZ LAWS EXPENSE. •
Rickard Horton came up to be heard on his Petition to be dis-
charged, Cid was opposed by a creditor napel Preston, en the
ground of having been put to vexatious expense.
Preston stated, that he held an acceptance of the insolvent's
for £lO, which he bad taken for a debt long due, and not being
able to obtain payment, be at length brought an action for its re-
covery in the Marshalsea Court, as the least expensive.. The in-
solvent removed the action to the King's Bench, where be suf-
fered judgment by default; and witness's taxed coats amounted
to £3l. He sold the insolvent's goods under execution for his
debt and costs, but the sale produced no more than paid the
landlord, and witness was left without a shilling. After he had
brought his action, payment was often promised him, but no
money was ever produced. When his costs were but four gui-
neas be offered to take two in full, and a time was appointrdfor
paying him, but the money not being sent, he went to Serjeant's
Inn, where he expected to see the insolvent, and met him in
company with another person, when they both laughed at him,
and said, " you're too late now." He afterwards found that
they had just then lodged the Habeas for the removal of the ac-
tion to the King's Bench.
The insolvent said in his defence, that on the day he removed
the action he had money to pay the bill, and half the costs,whicii
Mr. Preston had agreed to take, and he intended td do so, but
was advised by a professional man to remove the action into the
King's Bench and defend it. He paid three guineas for the I la-
beas, and spent the rest of the money before the trial, and was
unable to make-any defence.
The COURT said, the professional man who had advised-the
insolvent to spend the money with which he should have paid a
just debt, in putting his creditor to vexatious expense, had cer-
tainly given him very had advice, but that could be no justifica-
tion of the insolvent's conduct. The judgment of the Court was,
that he should not he discharged until he had been six months
in prison from the date of filing his petition.

MARLIOROUCH-STRIET.--TnE LASS SHOCKV.IO AFFAIR..--Sa-
turday application was made to the sitting Magistrate at this
office, by the desire of Colonel Downes, in whose regiment the
soldier served who was detected in company with the Bishop of
Clogher under such dreadful circumstances on the night of Friday
week, to know if he lead or had not been admitted to bail ? This
inquiry was induced in consequence of a rumour having been
circulated than he had been bailed. and was then at large. The
Magistrate said that the man was rill in custody ; but that as
the charge against him amounted only to a misdemeanour, he was
entitltd to his discharge on producing proper recognizance%
The Serjcant Major, by whom the application was made, said,
that his inquiry was solely induced by the regulations of the re-
giment. If the men had been set at liberty, he ought to have
returned to his quarters; and in default of so doing, would of
course be considered as a deserter.

Bow-STREET.—Saturday, a ludicrous investigation took place
before T. HALL% Esq. the Sitting Magistrate, arising out of the
circumstance of a depraved young woman, who is now in the
lowest and most abandoned course of life, but who a short time
since rode in her carriage, being brought to the Office; chargeil
with making a disturbance, and raising a hue and cry of a mob
against a respectable Serjeant belonging to the Coldstream
Regiment of Guards, by calling after him, and saying he wss
the soldier who had lately disgraced himself with the Bishop
of Clogher ; and however groundless and truly ridiculous her
attack, by a slanderous tongue, for she made it a complete
burlesque,* by asserting, that a chimney-sweeper present, who
resembled " Sir Jeffery Dunstan" in his person and defor-
mity, as well as his eccentric manners, was the Bishop, and
thus raised a hue and cry of the Bishop and the Soldier, and.
however ridiculous, the mob were inclined to attack them both.
Serjeant William Butterfield stated, that on his return home from
duty on that morning to his residence in Church•lane, he found
a mob, amounting for about one hundred persons, assembled
round his house, occasioned, as he understood, by the prisoner
disputing with the chimney-sweeper. lie found much difficulty
in getting to his house; and, on his speaking to the prisoner to
make way to enable him to pass, she answered him with much
ridiculous language, pushed the chimney sweeper against him,
and told the mob he was the soldier above described, at which
he felt extremely indignant. He bad served the King for about
thirty years. and never had his character impeached, and he was
afraid the insinuation would attach to him all his lile.

The: Alagistrate, in reply, said he considered a soldier a very
honourable character, and had no doubt he was such, and he
should experience every protection and support from him against
so foul and groundless an aspersion.
The chimney-sweeper also complained of the 'defamatory
words spoken against him, and said that although he was not a
Bishop, yet he considered the insinuation thrown out against
him as a stain upon his cloth !
The prisoner conducted herself in a very violent and inde-
corous mannner, so much so, that she wu obliged to be removed
from the Office and locked up in the strong room. She was
committed for want of bail.

Wi!lians .Hatton was brought up by Bond, who apprehended
him on Saturday morning, charged with a most 'extensive rob-
bery. It appeared from the evidence adduced, that Mr. Han-
stead, who keeps the Porto Bello public-house in St. Martin's-
lane, had, on the 10th instant, his house robbed of £546 12s. dd.
in which sum was a forty pound note, which he succeeded in
tracing before finding its way to the Bank, where it was changed.
It had passed through the hands of several individuals, all of
whom accounted for the possession of it until It came to Hatton.
Mr. Smith, of the Marquis of Granby, in West-street, Seven
Dials, knew the prisoner, and changed Vie note.—Hatton was
remanded on the capital charge. .

Admiral Marry and his Lady (Lady ANDOVER)
were lately upset in their carriage, and severely in-
jured. The Admiral had one of his ribs broken, and
her Ladyship one of her arms. We are, however, ex-
tremely happy to hear that both are recovering.
Monday se'nnight, as %Madam, the second son of
Mr. THOMAS DEANE, of Exeter, was bathing in the
liver Taw, near I3arnstaple, he was unfortunately '
drowned: he arrived from Exeter, to spend a few
days with the young Gentleman who went in the
water with him, and bad not been in Barnstaple
above one hour before the accident occurred. 1

The only son of Mr. WILLIAM STOCKDA Le, of Pic-
cadilly, was drowned on Saturday se'nnight, at Tun-
bridgeWells. He had been playing in the garden'of the
Sussex Hotel there' and being suddenly missed, was
found in a small shallow tank. Two daughters of Mr.
Smith, the proprietor of the Hotel, were in the garden
at the time. Though he was supposed to have been
but a few minutes in the water, and every medical
aid was instantly given, it was all ineffectual.
Wednesday se melt, a quarrel took place between
two females, which terminated fatally to one of them,
and offers a terrible example of the folly and wicked-
ness of giving way to the force of anger. The parties,
whose names were Cox an Fox, were neighbours, re-
siding in New Bromptor., at the bottom of Chatham
Lines. They had some altercation, when the former
kicked the latter in the stomach with such violence
that she died shortly afterwards,

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CAMBRIDGE, JULY ft
Friday, John H. Hall, FAq. LL.K was admitted into the
Fellowship of Trinity Hall, vacated by the marriage of G.
Banker, Esq. M.P.
OXFORD, JULY tr.
At an Ordination, held at Salishary Cathedral, en Sunday, the
14th instant, the Bishop of that Diocese admitted the following
persons into Holy Orders:
amlicoats.
William Batchellor, B.A. late of Exeter 'College.
William Cookelley Thompson, B.A. Wadham College;
John Sloper, Queen's College.
Thomas Smith, B.A. ditto.
George Dewdney, B.A. ditto.
Thomas Foster, B.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Wm. Huntingdon, B.A. Trinity College, Canlbridgc.
Henry Thomas Barns, B.A. ditto.
Henry Good, KC.L.Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
John 1100-per, Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge.
•Wm. Wigzell Jordine, B.A. Christ's College, Cambridge.
John Horsley Dakius, S.C. L. Trinity College, Cambridge.
PRIESTS.
William John Gilbert, M.A. lirasennose College.
George Percival Sandilands, Trinity College.
John Pierce Maurice, M.A. Brasennose College.
George Thomas, B.A. St. Mary Hall.
Thomas 'hai•ler.
Henry John Duncombe, B.A. Trinity College, Cambridgr.
Charles Wesley, Christ College, Cambridge.
John Slingsby, H.Q. Fellow•of King's College, Cambridge.
George Baker Norris, Literate.
ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS.

Wednesday, John Willis, M.A. was admitted Fellow of Mag-
dalen College, Oxford, for the county of Wilts; and Mr. Rie.).:rd
Durnford was elected Demy of the same Society, for the C6.1.::1ty
of Berks.
The Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel, M.A. Bodleian Librarian, t-ul
late Fellow of New College, to the Rectory of licrughton-:
Skerne, near Darlington, vacant by the death of the Rev. Th.
mas Le Meunier.
r •f Dean and Chapter of Durham have presented the Re►.
J. Arrnwsmith, M.A. of Sedgefield, to the % icarage of Fishlaie,
near Donca-ter.

Tuesday, the Rev. George Tucker, S.C. L. was instituted, by
the Rev. Canon Ileberden, to the Rectory of Musbury, Devon,
on his own petition as true Patron, void by the resignatiuu of
the Rev. Richard Lewis.

Extract of a letter from Armagh, dated July 16.-.
Fi i day evening, his Grace the LORD PIIIMATI: ar-
rived at his Palace in Armagh, On Saturday he wai
enthroned in the Cathedral, and on San,iay he at-
tended Divine Service. On theseoccasions the Church
was very much crowded.—A melancholy astray ta;,k
place on Friday evening; the 12th instant, at Cra.-
keeran, on the return of a body of Orangemen frcra
Middletown, wheie they bad assembled to Lear t!,e
Rev. JOHN MEE preach. Patrick Grimley, a yom:g
man, the only suppoit of a widowed mother and
sister, was killed ; two others were most seveteiv
wounded, one of whom is not expected to survive.—
, A number of houses, inhabited by Roman Catho:ic;,
were entered, and everything there that ccal.l he
broken, destroyed. An Inquest was held on the !-A),:v
of Patrick Gi imley, and after much swearing on bon
sides; a verdict of Wilful Murder was returned againi:
a man of the name of 11? own (who is fled), and others
unknown. Two so:s of Mi. SMITH, Rector of Mad-
den, were sworn to as having cut the deceased on :1e
he d with a sword, and proof was given that Rrov ft
had struck him on the head with the butt-enl
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pistol, the lock of which broke his skull. Of this
wound a medical man swore that Grimley dieL"

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