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London, England, 1831-07-27 00:00:00

PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH

LITERATIII.I7, AND SCIENCE.

LIBRARY OF rnr. FINE ARTS—No. b.-JULY.

(AIIPoLo.)
I,Ve nre glad to see this new magazine proceed I
with spirit. The articles are all such as must
imp:cre ete artist, and interest the amateur. A
lievic..% of Vb'illianis's Life and Correspondence of
Law...cuce,
_includes a number of most amusing ex-

travts and judicious remarks. An essay on orns-
inent:l Cable ends, gives some curious informs-,
tion on the ornamental Domestic architecture of'

our ancestors The " Sketches of a Travelling Ar-
tist" are amusing.; Lut, ni far as are seen of them,
in this Number, have little immediate reference to
the Arts, unless some graphic description of French
manners may be considered as giving them that
character. The following sketch, for instance,
of a French Diligence, has merit as a very accurate
delineation :
Scene—Bureau des Menageries-
&hold yon multifarious compound of wood, iron, and
wicker work—put together, seemingly, to show how large a i
quantity of material can be used within a certain compass.
Though mounted on wheels (apparently the cast-off set of
a Bristol waggon), it is difficult, at first, to persuade your-
-1;:lf that the machine has a locomotive power, and that it is
riot some chaotic malts of vehicular form ; or some rude
1,4(.4: of antiquity, which, rather than for present service, is
suitable to bold companionship with the mammoth's bones
in a museum of antediluvian curiosities. Like Falstaff, It

011iggin:, formerly director of this republic, (and,
by the bye, although arbitrary in his acts, the best
ruler this people ever had,) was banished to Peru
during Freyre 's directorship; and that at the last
year's revolution, Freyre was himself banished to
the same country. The other day, a Colonel Bil-
sao, formerly governor of Santiago, but who left
the country during some of its troublous times,
arrived here in a French sloop of war, from Lima;
the authorities, however, fearing he was an emis-
sary of O'Higgins, would not suffer him to land in
Chili. There is a former president of Peru in
banishment at this place; and another, General
Lamar, in exile at Gnatimala. One small brig, of
five or six guns, is all the Chilino vessels of war
there in commission ; they have a frigate and a
large brig, however, dismantled, which might, with
some considerable expense, be fitted. The senior
officer, Com. Foster, is an Englishman; the second
in command is Captain Delano, of the United
States. Charles W. Wooter, of the United States,
was at one time Admiral of the Chilino Navy; but
lost his place during the last revolution, and is now
on Post-Captain's half-pay.--Commercial business
is very dull at this time ; this country is full of
goods, and little money to buy them. The coun-
try is so harra'sed by civil commotions, that the
mines are very little worked, and coin is becoming
scarce.—An English brig, Mary Ann, Collins,
from Liverpool, was, the day before yesterday,
lost on the rocks, ten leagues south of this.—
Morning Advcrtizer.

needs no more weight than ha own weightiness; and yet,
they encumber it with luggage upon luggage, until we ex-
pect to hear the very wheels put forth their spoke against
such inconsiderate oppression. But, what are the animals
destined to draw this Leviathan ? Elephant.? or Hippo-
patami ? for such they should be. Perhaps an adequate
number of dray horses may be found. No such thing— i The Court of Claims held their first meeting
See, there come the poor devils destined to the work ! Five yesterday morning in the Council-chamber, Whitehall, la
as stony jades as any hungry dog might covet for a week's hear and determine on the claims for services to be renamed'
sustenance. How languidly they hang their heads ; how at the coronation. There were present the Lord Pendant,
quietly they take their places; and how patiently they await the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Howe, Lord Auckland, tbe Duke
the deferred time of departure. They are now harneased— of Richmond, Sir G. Warrender, and Mr. Taylor. Mr.
three before and two behind—charming uniforntity ! Be. Greville attended as Clerk of the Court. Claim* were made
hold their caparisons. No useless glitter of japanned by the Marquis of Cholmondeley to officiate as Grand
leather and polished brass: all as plain and simple as Cob- Chamberlain ; also on the part of the Earl Marshal; and
hett could wish; unless, indeed, we except the horse collars, a petition was presented by the Solicitor to the Barons of
which, crowned with a huge heap of coloured woollen, give the Cinque Ports. Their Lordships adjourned about one
to each animal the semblance of a camel or dromedary. o'clock.
All is now ready for departure—Monsieur le Conducteur, The cause of the late riots at St. Petersburg was
in lieu of a bugle-born, puts a cigar into his mouth ; and the the„ police ~ they had been in the practice of seizing
postillion, rousing affrighted Echo with the cracking of his
whip. and bawling ro his stud (in a manner which no well.' persons in the street, saying they looked ill, and
bred English horse would allow to be compulsory), drives off had the cholera morbue, and without a bribe the
at a pace which (considering our anticipation) must needs persons were arrested. When the hospital was
astonish us. i
broken into, many of these unhai • captives were

It is amusing to see the poor beasts, bumping against
tacit other one moment, and flying off right and left the
nest, with a perfect contempt for every precept of regu-
larity. Instead of trotting, they rather tumble onwards, I
and the vast machine rumbles after them. When disen-
cumbered of its live stock, during the ascent of a hill, It
looks like a great hen surrounded by her chickens. Of a
truth, the great notion is, in this instance, too great.
THE SPORTSbaIiIir—IAGAZINE.—Jotv. •
BALDWIN AND CZADOCIC.
The editors of this spirited Magazine have the
merit of producing a miscellany, which, while it I
must delight those for whom it is specifically in-
tended, will be found interesting to the general
reader, i. e. the man who wishes to know a little of I
every thing—and to know what those are doing 1
with whom he seldom or ever associates. He who
shows forth his patience in a punt all day, will, in
the retirement of evening, be sure to catch some-'
thing by angling in this stream ; and the sports-
man, even in the chimney corner on a rainy day,
may bag more substantial game by running intel-
lectually over the literary field here submitted to
him, than he would, perhaps, have been able to do
by the fatigues of a fair one. We have nothing to
do with dogs, although now and then we endeavour I
to keep puppies in order. Although always
striving to shoot folly as it flies, and hunt down
vice, we never go forth actually with a dog and
gun ; and yet we can assure our readers that we
have been both amused and instructed by this
lively periodical. Among other sprightly articles
we select the following extract, being one quite in
our own way:
EDITODIAL DILZSIMA.—Daring the dead season, the
editor of a country paper being much distressed for matter,
ransacked every hole and corner for intelligence, and after
baying, as he thought, completed his task, sat down to
dime: with what appetite he might. In the middle of it he
was interrupted by the entrance of his familiar, sash the
Devil," demanding "more copy." " D—n the fellow, I
mote copy,'" said he, " shy, have you put in the story of
the tremendous mushroom found in Mr. Jones's field ?'
"- Ycs, sir." "And the account of the prodigious crop of
apples gathered from Mr. Timm's tree." " Yes, sir."
" And about Mr. Thompson's kitten being suckled by a
hedgehog, ?"—" Yes, sir." "And Mr. Smith's dreadful
accident sith his one.horse chaise as he passed down Hol-
born-hill ?"—" Yes, sir." " About the men who stole the
corn out of tbe stacks in the farm-yard ?"—" Yes, air, it is
all up ; but there is still a line and a half awning." " Then
add," said he, with the utmost dignity, " that they most
au-tia.ci-ous-ly took and threshed it out on tic premises."

many -.nappy v
quite well, and fled to escape the contagion.
The report of the plague at Smyrna is confirmed
the deaths were only stated at five or six a day, but
the alarm was excessive; all the bazaars and shops
were shut, business was suspended, and out of a
population of 200,000, about 20,000 had left the
place. Constantinople was free from the plague
up to the 25th ult.
A meeting of the " National Union Society for
improving the condition of the Poor," took place
last week, which was numerously and respectably
attended. The object of this society, which is to
have auxiliary branches throughout the kingdom,
is, to open schools of industry, in which all in die
tress may be fed, clothed, and taught, under proper
regulations. As soon as practicable, all capable
of labouring will be placed upon land, or in situa-
tions, where they may be supported by their own
earnings. This plan, if patronized by the King,
would promise shortly to free the nation fiom pau-
perism, and greatly diminish crime. The half of
what is now wasted in ardent spirits and gambling
houses would furnish the means of accomplishing
this noble design.
Tit E SEA SERPENT.—This monster made his
first appearance this season at Boothbay, on Sun.
day last. He was seen again on Tuesday by two
gentlemen at a distance of about sixty feet, and
afterwards by ten or twelve citizens of Boothbay,
as he passed and repassed several times about 150
feet distant from them. He is described by the
Editor of the Wiscasset Journal, who was on the
s; or, as from 150 to 200 feet in length, of a
brown colour on the back, and a yellow brown on
the belly. He moved with an undulating motion,
like that of a leech, which his back the appearance
of ills) bumps described by those who had previously
seen him.—New York Paper.
The following extraordinary case has been lately
before the Tribunal of Correctional Police :- -A
young Englishwoman named Isabella Dale, being
found one night about eleven o'clock, seated on a
bench in the street, was accosted by some police
, officers, and being, from want of a knowledge of
the French language, unable to give an account
of herself, she was committed as a vagabond.—
' After remaining two mouths in confinement she
was brought before the court, and on being interro-
gated through an interpreter, declared, that having
lost her way and become fatigued, she had merely
sat down to rest herself, that she had sufficient
means of subsistence, and a home at the house of
la M. Devillier's, whose wife was a fellow-coun-
I trywoman. In consequence of this declaration the
trial was put off for a week, and the court directed
that M. Devilliers should be summoned to appear
at the next hearing. Being called before the court
again at the expiration of this period, the summon-
ing officer returned the warrant, with a declaration,
that he had inquired at the address given him, but
the porter replied, that no such person resided there.
The young woman was consequently upon the
point of being condemned as a vagrant, when Coun-
sellor Wollis requested a fin ther delay, in order that
be might apply to the British Charitable Fund for
the means of removing the prisoner out of the coun-
try. This further delay was granted, and the matter
coming again before the Court on Tuesday last, M.
said—" This affair presents a circumstance.
which to me is totally incomprehensible, but ta,
which I beg leave to call the most serious atten-
tion of the Court. The prkoner.referred to M.
Devilliers: the summoning officer returns a decla-1
ration that he could not find hint at the address
given. Now, gentlemen, M. Devilliers is a rich
manufacturer in the rue des Gobelins, and is well
known to every person in the neighbourhood, and
lives in the identical house which the prisoner
pointed out, and he is now in Court to verity my
assertion. Nay, more, gentlemen, be was twice
interrogated before the examining magistrate, and
yet his depositions are not found among the docu-
ments laid before the Court, nor can any trace of
them be discovered. (The judges here expressed
their astonishment.) Whatever may be the cause
of this, it cannot be sufficiently lamented, that such
an occurrence should have caused the unjust im-
prisonment of an innocent woman, and have brought
her to the very point of undergoing a sentence that
would have loaded her unjustly with shame and
disgrace." The Court thanked Mr. Wollis for his
conduct in the matter, and lamented the circum-
stances he had exposed. Isabella Dale was imme-
diately acquitted and discharged. Galignaes
Messenger.

trams occasioned by the Assessed Tame are beyond the
power of language to describe ; tradesmen are often dis-
tressed b
,tlem, and widows and orphans are driven by
them to
spa WILT7II.I-13;IIME1 APIIIZZ. these sashes an.
menced, Mr. Justice Taunton in the Crown
Court, and Mr. Justice Alarm M SY Prius. The
prisoners on the calendar wire digs's& etas follows :.•
MATH RIICORDID.-4111111111iplas fir bombing
and stealing sundry articles Boos, the dwallingehessebt
Thomas Taylor, of Sas* Ashton ; Thomas Barnes,
George alien, and Balsa Stevens, for sealing a we-
ther sheep. the papaty of Isaac Fussell at Lack ;
George Rose, Jams Jaime, and Jemima Chapman, for a
highway robbery, segwalllal In Devises on the night of the
90th of June, on the paws of James Noad ; Reba Phillips,
Joshua Field. and James Bourne, for breaking into the dwel-
ling.houa of Joseph Watts) at Donbas& St. Mary, and
stealing a quantity of Snead:spay ; Wm. Dix, for break-
ing into the dwelling.house of Geo. Frankham, at Caine,
and stealing various articles of wearing apparel; Thomas
King, and Thomas Weaving, fat breaking into the dwelling-
house of Miss Martha Bailey, at Chiseldon, and stealing
wearing apparel; John Paddock, for entering the dwelling.
house of John White, at Farley, and stealing wearing ap-
parel ; Joseph Gray, for stealing a larnb,ithe p.5...,_.!!
Christ. Rose, jun. at Mere; Joseph Meek, for
open the dwelling.house of Thos. Gleed, at Chariton,
stealing lOs.
Transportation for Life.—Job Hadar.% for having sent
a letter to Mr. Robert Jefferies, of Dauntsey, threatening
to burn his hay and corn, and to hamstring his cows; in.
eluding also in his threat the destruction of similar property,
belonging to other farmers in that neighbourhood ; Sa.
rah Wheeler, for maliciously setting fire to certain
out-buildings, belonging to the premises in which she
resided, the property of Mr. James Slade, at Codford,
St. Peter.

EMPIRE.

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CHELTENHAM JOURNAL, July 25.
AaalvaLs.--Lord and Lady Rodney, Lord and Lady J.
O'Brien, Hon. Craven Berkeley, Hon. Mr. Godsal, Dean
of Cork and family, Sir Lewis Versteine, Sir James and
Lady Ramsay, Sir C. MOIARII' Col. Mason Col. Timm,
CA Sherwood, CoL Nichol', Col. Crooks's:ink, Col. and
Mrs. Drewe, Col. and Mrs. Gilbert, Major Gardinerigot:
Lewis, Major Hogartb, Major Barrett, Major N
Major Ormsby Gore, Capt. Waller Capt. Stanton, Capt.
C. Boyle, Capt. Addington, Capt. Cleveland. Capt. Joyce,
Capt. Carter, Capt, Ongley, Capt. and Mrs. Hepburn, Rm.
Dr. Butler, Dr. Wynne, Rev. A. Tooke, Rev. R. Downes,
Rev. Mr. Nepean, Rev. Mr. Sayer, Rev. J. Sheeham, Rev.
C. B. Renville, Rev. Mr. Jones, Rev. Mr. Lieldiard, Rev.
W. Warburton, Rcv. J. and Mrs. Ond.
When we say that the races passed off with brilliant solar,
and that the success of these justly popular sports has been
equal, if not superior, to that of former years, it willbe seen
that all our most anxious anticipations have been realised,
and supporters of the nationol amusements have been grad-
lkd to the fullest extent. From an early hour on Tuesday
Morning, every road leading to Cheltenham, every street,
every avenue by which the race course could be approached
was crowded, and the course itself looked like one moving
mass of human beings. The Grand Stand, built under the
superintendence of the Messrs. leaned was much admired,
and afforded ample accommodation to at least seven bundled
persons. The course was laid down and formed under the
personal direction of our bye-road surveyor, Mr. Maule,
and was pronounced by, many moat competent judges to be
second to none in the kingdom. It commands some of the
most picturesque prospects in this district, and the gentle
and scarcely perceptible ascent of the ground on each
side of the winning poet, forming a spacious amphi-
theatre, Pre an excellent and unbroken view of the most
interesting part of the race to upwards of tea thousand
spectators.
On Wednesday evening, thanks to the enterprising spirit
of the proprietor of the Assembly Rooms, the dtstiaguisLed
and fashionable residents and visitors of Cheltenham and its
vicinity were gratified by the singular performance of the
one-strin,ted violinist, Paganini, twice at the rooms, and
again at the Theatre, in the brief space of twenty-four hours.
At his first concert, the splendid ball room, specious as it
is, was crowded in a very short time after the doors were
thrown open, and nearly eight hundred personages of rank
and fashion eitjoyed the rich musical treat afforded by his
extraordinary powers. All that report has said of him,
falls short, far short of the reality of his exquisite and
masterly performance. His hand is extraordinarily wide
and flexible ; and the ease with which he made the most
Tepid shifts, and leaped successive octaves, must be heard
to be credited ; and we can only add, that at the snood
Concert on Thursday afternoon at the rooms, the audience
was of the first order in fashion, brilliancy, and number.—
Having said thus much of Paganini's performances, and
paid due tribute to his professional deserts, we must depre-
cate the practice which the Signor seems to have too success-
fully adopted, of raising the prices at every place of exhi-
bition where lie appears. We are also bound to &siert. that
after the very liberal, considerate, and very gentlemanly
1 manner in which the Messrs. Scarred sacrificed their own
, interests to his advantage, and to the gratification of the
public, 11 Signor behaved ill indeed to them, in bargaining
.for a third performance on the evening set apart for the
Steward's ball at the Montpelier Rotunda.
Notwithstanding the crowded audiences attracted to the
Assembly Rooms on Wednesday evening and Thursday af-
ternoon, by Paganini, there can be no doubt that the Theatre
would have been thronged, but for the excitement occasioned
by his unhandsome conduct not only to the Messrs. Jearrad,
but also to Mr. De Ville, the manager, to wham he verbally
agreed for two-thirds of the receipts, but afterwards refused
to perform unless Mr. De Ville would pay him two hundred
guineas ! At the time Paganini was to appear, the audience
grew impatient, when the manager came forward and stated
that the Signor was ill,and could not come; but said, that
he knew his illness was merely an excuse, for that be had
just left him at the Plough quite well, but that he would not
move without having 200 guineas paid him. The manager
deeply regretted the disappointment, but to show that he was
no party to it, the audience might have their money repaid
them at the doors. This offer lwas promptly accepted, and
the cash refunded ; upon which a cry was raised, • To the
Plough I to the Plough I" and hundreds of persons crowded
down the streets, loudly vociferating for what they WY
Pfoanini. After a great disturbance, and many negaisdas
1 between different gentlemen on the part of the Signer soil
the manager, the Signor agreed to play, and to give his shme
of the profits to the charitable institutions of the town, and
off he started in a fly, escorted by some hundreds, and was
well received at the Theatre, which filled to about 271. at the
old prices. The crowd had taken every precaution to pre-
vent his escape ; and as popular indignation was roused,lsad
it not been for the interference of several gentlemen, the
Signor would have been very roughly handled.
About 10 o'clock on Sunday morning, a fire broke out at
Hill Farm, in the parish of Burleigh, near Glastonbury.
which destroyed the whole of the cellars and a great part of
the dwelling house, together with a quantity of wheat, peas,
and cider ; in about au hour the fireman, accompanied by
several individuals from Glastonbury, arrived with the
engines, and succeeded in getting the flames under by one
eclock.
GREAT Tint or LINCOLN IN RIIINS !—The bell—
the whole bell—exists no longer. On Wednesday week
while some workmen was driving a wedge in progress of
tracing a flaw, a large piece of the rim or skirt broke of,
weighing 0 cwt. and about 8 feet long : the total weight
broken off the bell is about nine cwt. Tom, when entire,
weighed 9,894 lbs. The project of restoring the tone had
been considered as abandoned before this last occurrence.
MARRIED.—At Pershore, Thomas Warrington. Eaq.
of London to Jane, eldest daughter of the late C. Oldaker,
Rsq. of Penthore.—At liradninch, Devon, the Rev. John
Tucker, of Ham House, near this town, to Jane Rogers,
eldest daughter of the late Thomas Shepherd, Esq. formerly
of Butcotube Court.—At Campelen, G. F. Tilley, Esq. of
Chippina Norton, to Miss Cottrell.
DIED.—At Cheltenham-place, Bristol, Wm. Grainger,
F.sq. of his Majesty's Customs.-84. at Worcester, Airs.
Wakemen, relict of Thomas Wakeman, Esq. of Paradise.
sow..—At Croft Castle. Herefordshire, the Rev. James
Kevin, 52.—At the Post Office, Mr. J. Packer, 52.
BATH JOURNAL, July 25.
AERITALII.—Sir Thomas Bloomfield, Sir T. Champ-
neys, Admiral and Miss Shield, CoL Cleveland, Col. Frank.
land, Col. and Mrs. blinchin Major and Mn. Gilbert,
Major Johnson; Captains,Baker, M•Farlaine, Dr. Morley;
Rev. Messrs. Johnson Ellis ; Mr. and Mrs. Astley, -
well, Burd, and family, Dinsdale and family; Lei ,
Big
Griffith, Lovell, Neild and family ; Ruskin and fermi y;
Simple, Tomkins, Matock, Joy and family, and Decie.
Every exertion is being made on the part of the Collec-
tors of Assessed Taxes, to make up their accounts
before the close of the present month, by which
doss they have instructions to put the law in force
Is compel the poorest of the poor to pay up their arrears.
The misery consequent on taxation, which meets the eye,
is very dreadful : many wandering objects of public bounty
without home and without friends, owe their misfortunes to

ARCHERY.—A meting for the exercise of this elegant
amusement was, a short time since, held in the demesne of
W. Loche, &q. and subsequently another meeting, about a
fortnight ago, at Wins House, the seat of C. L. Phipps,
Esq. abut, under "greenwood tree." the sport was main-
tained equal in spirit if not in skill to the "goodc shoot-
ynge ' of Maid Marian and Robin Hood, amid the wild
glades of merry Sherwood. These meetings passed off so
agreeably, that a club has been permanently established,
under the name of the " Blaekmoor Foresters," which will
hold its meeting at Melksham ; the first to be at the Spa
Assembly Rooms, on the 26th.
REFORM BILL.—A requisition is now in course of
signature at Exeter, requesting the Mayor to convene a
meeting of the inhabitants, for the purpose of considering
" the propriety of petitioning Parliament to pass the reform
bill of his Majesty's Ministers with all possible expedi-
tion."

DoncuzsTaa.—Monday, in compliance with a very
numerously signed requisition. The mayor, Christopher
Cooper, Esq. convened a meeting of the inhabitants at the
Twin-Hall, " to take into consideration the propriety of
petitioning Parliament for such an alteration in the Parlia-
mentary reform bill, u will enable Dorchester to return, as
at present, two members for the said borough."
The well.known name of " John Stansbury. electioneer-
ing agent," lately appeared in the list of insolvent debtors
applying for discharge at Exeter. No wonder ! The poor
fellow's trade is now quite up.'—Lord John Russell being
such an indifferent respecter of " vested interests" and more
especially to those who refer to abuses. No more bribery,
no more post.ckaise.and.fouring it—no more doffing
of bate in respectful submission from gulling potwollopers,
—no more blue ribanda, with five pound notes between
them, for their wives—in short, no more election roguery.
Mr. Stansbury's fall is worthy of an ode from the hands of
Hood : the materials are ample, and if that renowned pos-
ter have any doubts of the fact, let him come into the West
—Devon and Cornwall would supply him with matter for
fifty odes, and all under the head John Stansbury.'—
Manton Courier.

There are now in the employ of G. George, Esq. clothier
of Frome, three men who are the fathers of no leas than 54
children, viz—Job Penny, 20, James Butler 17, William
Tinibury, 17.
BATH, Jut.: 23.—Wheat, per quarter, 484 to 70 ; Flour,
57s to 621; Seconds do. 51s to 525; Beans, 40s to 50s;
Barley, 30s to 40s ; Oats, 28s to 325.
Tbc 41b. loaf, wheaten 104; standard wheaten, 9d.
811TPT011 NALLIT, JULY 22.—Wheat, per quarter, 60s
to 665; Barley, 30a to 40s; Oats. 26s to 321; Beans, 401
to 46 ; Flour, per sack,'49l to 50s; Bread, per quartem, 9d.
DEvrzes, JULY 21.—Best Wheat, 32s lid to 35z 6d;
Seconds, 28. to 30s; Thirds, 22s to 2b; Barley, 30s to 365;
Oats, 22s to 31a (id ; Beans, His to 23a ; Flour, per bag,
60s. az 64s ; Bread, per quartenz, 9d. 1390 sacks uf Wheat
sold at the average of 29s bd.
81All RIED.—At the Abbey Church. the Rev. Owen
Rees, Wesleyan Minister, to Mrs. Lucy Mann, eldest
daughter of Peter Payne, Esq. of the Society of Friends....
At Churchill, T. F. ' 13ym Esq. to Anne. daughter of
the late W. Perry, Esq.—At KeUoways, J. Ending, Esq.
of Kensington Bath, to Miss Harding.—At Compton
Dando, the Rev. T. Collins, Rector of Timabury, to Slim.
beth Ayliffe, youngest daughter of the late Edward Boodle,
Esq. of Brook-sueet, London. —At Clifton, M. Pringle,
Esq. late of Oakendean, Sussex, to Julia Fanny, only
daughter of the late J. B. Irwin, Esq.—At Clifton, James
Lovell, Esq. Shirehampton to Louisa, only surviving
daughter of John Warne, Eeq. Clifton.—At %i est Laving-
toe, Mr. Deane, of Imber, to Miss Jane Newman, of Lit-
tleton.

DIED.—At Caine, 71, Mr. J. Mouihman, a celebrat
quack doctor. His practice extended to many miles round
Caine, and his numerous patients were in the habit of at.
tending at his levees in the public house within his dr-
cuit.—At Sidmouth, Lieut. R. H. Baker, of Wilton Cot-
tage, near Taunton, 34.—Farah, wife of Air. W. Golding,
of Forefield-place, Lyncombe Hill, 38.—0 n Kingsmead.
terrace, R. Tovey, Esq. 61.—J. Brown, Req. of Salmon pa.
rade, Bridgwater. His sister died in the same house within
half an hour after.—At Reading, 81, D. Fenton, Esq. father
of Mrs. Jarman, Bath.—At Clifton, Charlotte, wife of
Alajor.General Fitsgerald.—Elisabetb, relict of W. Mork,
Esq. solicitor, of Bristol.—At Clifton, 84, Mary, relict of
the late J. Anstie, Esq. formerly of Devises.—.3lrs. Betty
Stephens, Gloucester.street, Brunswick.square.
LEICESTER CHRONICLE, July 23.
NORTHAMPTON Assizsa.—At these assizes, judgment
of death was recorded against William Peach, for sheep.
stealing at Fortheringhay ; Ursula Dunckky, for sacrilege
at Welton ; Joseph Granger, Thomas Freeman, and Edward
Raye, fur burglary , Newman Hillier, for stealing a ram, at
Yardley Gobton ; Thomas Jones, for stealing two watches,
at Toweester ; Samuel Cole, for killing a lamb, at Harding.
ston ; W. Moore, for stealing a sheep at Clipstone ; and
Richard Hall, for stealing a pony, bridle, and saddle, from
Courteen-hall. Seven years' transportation : William and
John Clarke, for stealing a flitch of bacon, Ike. at Heade ;
and Elijah Change and Efhtaim Brown, for destroying the
parapet wall of a bridge over the grand junction canal.
LINCOLNSHIRL Asstass.—On Tuesdaylthe Jury re-
turned a true bill against the Rev. Matthew Robinson, of
Boston, for perjury, committed, it is understood, in an affi-
davit sworn in the Court of King's bench, wherein he stated
that his life was a moral and continent one as became a
clergyman of the established church, and also that he was
not the writer of any party squib in connection with the
election politics of the town of Boston.—ln consequence of
an arrangement made on Tuesday night between the counsel
In a cause for libel, which was to be tried on Wednesday in
the Nisi Prins Courti3theitieristndietment against Mr. Rubinson
was not tried. Mr. y came into the Crown Court on
Wednesday, and stated it would not be pressed. There
are three prisoners left for execution, namely, Wm. Hall, for
the murder at Grimsby, (to suffer on Friday,) and Richard
Cooling and Thomas Motley, for setting fire to premises at
Lusby and Stickford. The two latter, we understand, will
suffer in a fortnight.—Sletqford Mercury.
Sir Charles Colville, in an address to his tenants at the
rent day, at Duffield, on the 6th inst. said, " As seven can-
didates have already started for the county of Derby, and
as four only can be elected, there will probably be a severe
meek at the-next dissolution. Most landlords expect their
toasts to vote as they vote. I do not. Ministers give up
the old system of patronage and interest, and wish to govern
the country by the mature judgment of public opinion. I
throw in my mite in furtherance of these views, and cheer-
fully resign a privilege which custom alone can entitle me
to. Vote therefore at all elections as you choose, without
consulting me. or even inquiring how 1 shall vote, and be
assured you will never hear any complaint from me on the
subject. I claim no merit in resigning what does not be
to me ; I am not the landlord of your votes, nor do you bold
them under me as tenants at will. 1 am not our proxy by
any legal aseignment ; your votes are not pledged to me by,
any dams Inagreements; you are bound to cultivate your
land well, ,and keep everything In good ceder, and to pay
your rents punctually. Having doom these things your
duty to me is %Wok and bother you have no respodde
bility.”
The ^"
conveyancers" were particularly successful at the
fight near Waswiek ; they tubbed Mr. Hall, of the Mattock

this (initial source of woe; but such exhibit not a tenth
pan of the afflictions caused by the assessed taxes. Little
traders and labourers, with families. for whose sustenance
the profits of their labour very inadequately provide, are
forced to-deny the wants of their children, In order to pro.
vide money fur the tax collector. We will cite one instance
out of a thousand such,—that of a poor man, who,
being obliged to attend the asst eslast spring as a wit.
new, found, on his return that his goods bad been seised
for rent. Though having been so 11l previously as to be unable
to follow his accustomed employment, and his wife having
been ill for a considerable time also, he was unprovided
with either rent or taxes. Previous to his attending the
Amuses. he bad pawned one bed to pay the taxes, and his
landlord, the very day after his rent was due, took all his
other furniture for it. Commiseration fur the poor is a rare
virtue. This poor man having pawned one of his beds, as
before rated, was enabled, by the kindness of a benevolent
friend, to redeem it, and it was the only one for himself and
wife and four children. Was this a fit object of whom to
demand taxes? in this miserable state, the poor man, who
took a severe cold at the Assizes, died of consumption.
Should his widow be pressed for the taxes? The Sur.
veyor, when applied to, to relieve her from the taxes,
having, no doubt, too many applications of the sort to
listen to details of wretchedness, looked at the rate.
book, and observed in reply, " She has not been excused
her p!ordetes ; she cannot, therefore, be excused bee
taxes." The fact is, the reverend gentleman, above
seeing the distress of the family, a alert time since. slipped•
three half.crowns into the hands of the afflicted mot ;-
immediately after which, the Rate Collector called, to
whom the poor woman • paid it. with sixpence more, the
amount of his demand, leaving her family destitute of a
meal. Thus charity was perverted; and through this, she
will be enforced to pay a half year's taxes. The dirt

and Spade, Warwick, of 3001. of which 1031. wu in
a gessan of Coventry of 261.; and several
.trht pockets :iettasenpickeden
ofamanlol.chsLests:rsd
wasothereast:edms.of
7001.tunt1 gi:lati
Mulberry Tree Inn, at Stratford, was robbed of 24;
sovereigns, and notes to the amount of 100 L true. qrt
Unicorn Inn, at the same place, was also robbed of 90L
Both these robberies were effected by parties who requesqd
to be accommodated with upatair apartments, contiguous to
which the property, in both instances, was Sepositeti....
Warwick Paper.
MARRIED.—Mr. T. R. Estlin, of Liverpool, to Xls
Mary Ann Bilditch, of the Soutbgate.streeL
DIED.—Mr. J.:Price, 30 years proprietor and awe
the Leicester Journal, 09.—AtBelton, Mrs. Ann Lacey, gic
relict of Mr. Charles Lacey, of Loughborough.—At Qui.
dying, Mr. Edward Gibson, 06, twenty years motor of :11,
Particular Baptist congregation at Donington.

SCINTILLZ.
TORTATZ—IRA3IB.
Old Ragland .........G01den land.
Radical Reform .....Rare mad frolic.

Revolution ..To love ruin.

The Whig. .. Weights.
Universal Suffrage Guess s fearful ruin.
Annual Parliaments I am an unreal plant.
Sir Francis Burdett Frantic disturber,.
Post.

MAXIMS ON WISDOM..—.The wisest men is,
undoubtedly, be that looks brthest. The wisest sad
best, amrog to Horace, is be that has the least fault'.
But the end of all wisdom' and the bardest to gain,
knowledge of self, for which we must look without ceasing,
at home. F. E.

The composition of bread from saw-dust is likely
to become highly popular with parish Boards.
A DIVIDED HoVSE.—About four o'clock on
Wednesday morninoker met Lowther in PaLimy*
who was just seizes from " the fifth division 1" de
being asked whether the House was sitting, replied...44k
yes ; and the reason why It sits is, that a home &kW
against itself cannot aaad I"
HINT TO A POETICAL LADY.—The li/k(any
Journal has the following notice to correspondents
'"R.F. B. has mistaken her vocation. Her time would be
more profitably employed in mending her stockings than in
writing bad poetry, and worse prose. He would recommend
her the use of a cold bath and class book—the one to coo:
her love, the other to improve her spelling."
MARQUIS OF Low DOW DERRY.The Xob'e
Marquis observed, in the course of a luminous speech or,
Tuesday—" When he saw individuals going through their
political tergiversations, he was reminded of the three ages
The golden age, the saves age, and the iron age." It :s
evident that the Marquis thinks but little of himself; foe
had he reflected on his speeches, he might have added am
titer age, i.e. the leaden age. The golden age was of mum
the palmy time of Gauen and Old Sarum • and the iron
age, any other than the days of yeomanry brosdawords, and
Manchester massacres.

POLAR PLAN TO.—Dr. Richardson, after one of
his Polar expeditions, presented to a friend a few rare sped.
mess of the vegetable productions of the dreary frozen
llons. That gentleman, not having, at the moment,
ure to attend to their planting and preservation, con.
signed them to the care of his gardener for a few hours.
when the learned horticulturist, conceiving that all rare
exotics must necessarily come from tropical climates, forth.
with turned them into the hot-house, where, it is seemly
necessary to add, the hardy children of perpetual winter
perished—( Mirror.)
TILE CONCERT PITCII.NOt long ago, in the
town of Bremen, a poor devil of a lute maker, encumbered
with debts and a numerous progeny, and his affairs all
going wrong together, was on the point of being made
pt and seized. Watched day and night by a hest of
arnelless creditors, they effectually prevented him removing
even the smallest article of furniture from his house. Thu,
unmanned and beset on all sides from without, and not our
math solaced at home, he bethought himself of a Awe
sinby which he hoped to elude the Arguses, get ridable
seeds in the gross, send off his lutes, and peradmatest,
Mier some more auspicious planet, he might healable tab
—. This was shortly after eluded into erect Saari •
Airier manner :—He arnounces a concert in the repk
Ilan, assembles together about a hundred sod forty mod.
dams and friends ; turns the shop into an mamma, al
makes them perform with his own unseasoned inelormosta,
the popular overture, La Garza Latins. The pejo
worked wonders. As it was night, and the weather mow
moaly gusty, at every strong movement of the perfuming
hithrtw out from a window at the back, all that re.
intearned of his household property. This was so cleverly
done, and above all the time so well marked, that not a sod
heard them fall, such a devil of a tintamar was kept op by
by the music, Wind, wind, was the order of the night,—
Boren within, and boreas without—Wind, blow, high sad
low ; nothing but bias! At length, when the concerto we
done, pour oossbk de bonhear. each of the players bad the
tact and forethought to walk of, his instrument tucked sag
like a chapeau bras under his arm without hirbdrancs arks
on the part of the Philistines. Ries blew, qui firs Is at.
rsfer—He laughs successfully who laughs the last, said the
artiste, as he watched out the hindmost twelve doses Ire
Bremen lutes, more or less, at a sweep—pardie! not bad:
pour le corp. Then bidding good night, and shwa, sp
shop, he made his own exit sure by the attie behind, ler.
ing his creditors no sort of inheritance save a sleeks best
of Hannan which, ranee, turned out to be no ranges la
—golden bough.
July 1.

1?. E.

BIRTHS.
The 25th inst. at Manehester-buildings, Mrs. Fi:nil•
Liam, of a daughter.—The 26th inst. Mrs. J. Evans, of Prl.
lin's-row, Islington, of a son.

MARRIED.
The 26th inst. at St. George's, Hanover-square, E. ]lit•
dell, Esq. of Chippenham, Wilts, to Anne, widow of de
late T. Edridge, Esq. of Moulton-house, and only daughter
of John Figgins, Esq. of Chippenham.

DIED.
Tbe 26th inst. at his hones at Streatham, Coles Child,
Esq. of Belvedere-wharf,. Lambeth, aged 56.—The 2.641
inst. at Houndaditch, Mrs. Sarah Elisabeth fioper..—The
23d inst. in Chapel.btreet, Islington, at an advanced sic,
Frances. widow of the late G. Butler, and sitter to the late
Harry Hooky, Esq.—The 26th inst. at Highgate, IL Co.
bould, Eaq. aged 76.—The 24th inst. at Chelmsford, Jot
Badeley, M. I). aged 84.—The 21st inst. at Old Baum
House, East-street, Brighton, Captain Charles Alii7a —The
23d inst. at Worthing, Mr. E. Page, aged 24.
DEATH OF Met. hi UDO E..—Tbe rumour which
prevailed on Monday respecting the melancholy fate of
Mudge, Private Secretary to his Excellency the Lieuteasa-
Governor, was confirmed by the arrival of last nighti
mail. A friend at York has furnished us with the tel.
lowing melancholy particulars :—" I am just returned aria
seeing the body, and I now regret that I ever looked at it.
He dined, as usual, at the Government House—retuned
home and went to bed, and even put out his light, for the
candlestick was near his bed's head, with the extingui•l'd
upon it. He used his rifle for the purpose—lying on his
back, he must have taken it near the muzzle, tea his
left hand, and with the ramrod in his right, toutki
the trigger, the muzzle being in or very near Ms
mouth. The ramrod was in his band when I Pe'
him. The contents went through thej upper part of tiz
front of the head, carrying away a large portion ni the two
part of the skull over the nose and left eye. His servant tVd
not hear the report of the rifle, and therefore his master's
situation was not distovered until he went up to call On
about seven o'clock on Friday morning. The only iota-
ginable cause that I have heard mentioned is, that a rails!
of his lately committed suicide in England, and therefore it
is thought that there has been a constitutional tendency to
that unhappy state of mind which leads to this melanebelf,
extremity. I am just told, that yesterday at dinner see
during the evening, ha did not appear to pay his usual sue'
lion to those who addresad him, and to thegentleman who took
particular notice of his conduct, he sometimes appeared ha'
ried and talkative, and again silent and &went. 1 have DeLex
witnessed anything which has made to deep an imPres"
ea my mind, as the remains of this unhappy young man.—
But yesterday be lived in youth, end apparent health sna_i
prosperity—to-day he is a spectacle fearful to look upon, 23,"
most melancholy to reflect upon. Verdict of the Cororne
,Inquest—lnsanity. Mr. Mudge was a gentleman of antiabk
manners, and In every respect qualified for the important
tuition which he held. His death must be regretted by A"
who had the pleasure of being personally acquainted will
him, and a loss to the public service.—Upper Cersai.o
Herald.
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