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London, England, 1825-04-23 00:00:00

i• James Wright worked for Mr. Moore, and received
the shabraque for alteration. ,He made the article,
and altered it nearly twelve months after it was first
sent home.
Other evidence was given to prove in contradiction
to an assertion of the Noble Lord's, as to its not being
military, that it was so. Evidence was also given to
prove that the charges were moderate. The sward had
n made according to his Lordship's direction, for
him to lean upon, it might therefore not have been
Perfectly regimental, his Lordship being a very tall man.
Mr. Sitacnonat. gave up the item for the dishonoured bill as
incapabk of being proved. •
. Mr. Moore, who was present, and was requested
mofe than once not to interfere with his w itnesses during
their examination, here cried out, 46 I lent Lord Bing-
ham the money to pay that bill."
Mr. PH ILLIPS called upon the Secondary to interfere
once more to prevent such conduct, and contrasted it
with that of Lord Bingham, who sat silent during the
whole progress of the abuse levelled at him.
The Secondary admitted that the reproof of the Learned Counsel
was just.
Mr. Pnicura spoke at considerable length for the
defence. It was admitted that the art:cles specified
had been received, but then they had been all re:urned,
and for why? Because they were unregimencal, and
of course wholly unfit for use. His Lordship was mo t
grossly treated also in the prices charged.
It was proved that his Lordship hid made an offer to refer the
bill to any tradesman, which was refused.
Mr. Philip Sydney, an Officer in the Guards, said,
be saw-the sword, which was laughed at by the whole
regiment. It was most deci,ledly unregimental, and
one of the Officers, who was rather a small man, could
not draw it, it was :a long—(A laugh). Lord Bing-
ham was one of the most pelfectly regimental men in
,the regiment. The Colonel would not allow anything
ttriregimental to be worn. The shabraque was not
regimental. His. Lordship wanted one particularly for
the review, and was obliged to order another. Witness
.thought the plaintiff's charge for the shabraque exorbi-
tant, and that seventeen or eighteen guineas was
enough for it.
Adjutant Emans deposed, that his shabraque was regimental,
that be had got it made up himself, and it cost 14/. stars and all.
Further evidence was heard at great length, when Mr. hi...c-
omma replied, and the Jury assessed damages at 2781. being a
deduction of 301, from the plainer. account.

The ports of Andalusia have been opened for the ad-
minion of foreign grain, pulse, and flour.
Accounts from Laguira to the Ist instant state, that
the American merchants there were complaining of the
illiberal conduct of the revenue officers, and of the dif.
acuities experienced in obtaining justice. All the gun-
boats, except one, bad arrived fram Philadelphia.—
Markets were depressed, and business in general dull.
By a Cabinet Order of the 16th of February, the
King of PRUSSIA has decided, that as, according to
the regular course, a young man enters the service as
a soldier. hen he has accomplished his twentieth year,
and consequently, after having served his three years,
he is full twenty•three years old, this young man shall
then be considered as being of age with regard to his
voluntary resolution to continue to serve in the troops
of the line, and therefore the consent of his parents or
guardians will not be necessary for this purpose.
Thursday, the Eighth Anniversary of the Royal
Westminster Infirmary for the Cure of Diseases of the
Fie, was held at the Thatched-house . Tavern,. the
Marquis of LONDONDERRY in the Chair, supported by
Lord LYNRDOOK and G. BYNo, Esq. M. P. There
were also present-Mr. WATSON
Sir C. TAYLOR,...M. P. Colonel
Wool),
HALKET, Sir WILLIAM JOLLINIE, and
many professional Gentlenien. Several speeches were
delivered, which want of room prevents us from ii-
serting, and we regret that we cannot, front that cause,
enter into details. After dinner * subscription was
made, amounting to Mt.
Wednesday last, an Officer of Worship-street, was
making search after stolen property, in a house occu-
pied by a Mrs. Travers, a charwoman, in Coach and
Horses-lane; and also in a room there, tenanted by
a person named Newman, a journeyman carpenter, liv-
ing with two female servants, having just quitted the
service of George Priest, sq: of Newington Green.
The officer, on his return from searching, where seve-
ral of the articles were identified, with Collyer, the
constable and green-keeper, on passing the house te-
nanted by Mrs. Heath, observed in the first floor two
men sitting at tea with two women, whoM he recog-
nised as two notorious horse-stealers he had been in
search of for some time. He stopped, and on enter-
ing the honse, they both bolted from the back of the
house. The officer pursued and caught one, whom he
conveyed in a coach to prison: they are in diligent
search for the other.
At the Middlesex Sessions, Thursday, Mr. Shew, the
auctioneer, of Holborn, was fined £9, for tiding over and ILarve-
Vibitigitig a Mr. Hudson, carver, and glider, of Henrietta-street,
Coesatfpram, at Chiswick, in December lut. 'There is another
action over the head of defendant, which reduced the fine from
fiurteen pounds.
The sailors belonging to the port of Berwick, con-
vinced of the folly and unreasonableness of some of the
articles of the Union, have abandoned them, and are
now willing to serve upon these conditions to which the
ship-owners readily acceded at the commencement of
the strike ; but the latter having procured men from
other places, whom they cannot with propriety dismiss,
nearly thirty of the former have been obliged to go to
other ports in quest of employment.
The county of Leitrim, it is ascertained, possesses a
stratum of coal,e rending to nearly 50,000 English acres,
little inferior to Newcastle or Whitehaven, and obtain-
able by machinery so low as 4s. per ton. The coal field in
Munster extends through two or three baronies in the
county of Cork, part of Kerry and Limerick, passing
under the" Shannon to the county Clare, for an extent
of 1,000 square miles, but it is of inferior quality to the
Leitrim. The copper and lead mines also are not cou-
sidered infe:ior to those of Aiglesea or Cornwall.
Toe squares are at length beginning to put on their
Spring livery; but asparagus and other early vegetables
are still as scarce as they are sometimes in the mouth
of February.
An Inquest was he'd at St. Bartholomew's Hospital,
on the body of James Dunning, a child two years old,
who on Wednesday- week set fire to his clothes, in Ship- II
yard, while playing with a lighted candle, and expired
on Saturday morning. Verdict—Accidental Death.
L )rd Chancellor Hardwicke was very fond of enter'sry
taining his vis.tors at Wimple with the following to
lof his Bailiff. who having been ordered by his Lady to
procure a sow she particularly described to him, came
one day into the dining-room, while full of company,.
proclaiming with a burst a joy he could not suppress,
46 l have been at Royston Fair, my Lady, and got a
sow exactly of your Ladysh.p's size r