Star.
London, England, 1824-02-14 00:00:00

STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

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The Right Honourable THOMAS WALL Act: was el
Thursday unanimously re-elected, free of expense,
' Member for the Borough of Weymouth. We have not
space for an account of the proceedings on the occasion,
but we have much .pleasure in giving the following ob-
servations of the Right Honourable Gentleman with re-
spect to the present condition of the country.:—
" The expression of your approbation of my exertions in Parlia-
ment affords me peculiar gratification--exertietis which have ht'
directed to emancipate the trade of this country from the restrictiors
to which it was snippet, and to place it cm a more enlarged and lihr.l
system with turret to other nada*, and to mankind in genres!, an .4
to open a way for the monomial interests of Great Britain to partake
of the benefits resultiog from ao 'inelegant with the whole world.
At itch a moment as the present, I deem it !glibly secrisary to
refer to the general state of the country. When I last addressed
you in this piece, the country exhibited many symptoms of desaer,
dewy, arising frosi•the transition from a long protracted war to
state of peace; our trade languishing, our agriculture in a awrt vC
unparalleled depression, and, as a natural consequence, our revvnle
diminishing. But what is the present state of the country ? Agri-
cidtpre rapidly reviving; commerce extending itself beyond any
former period ; the revenue not only such as to finable us to ch,m-
nisis taxation, hut also to afford relief to many important branc;,,,
of national industry; our manufactures co flourishing as not to he
able, with the utmost powers of machinery, to answer the dens.m4
both at home and abroad ; and I am induced to believe that *he
measures which I had the good fortune to introduce into l'ut-h..-
went, have, in some degree, cOntributed towards so favo;:r..ble a
result"--(Cheers). •
ACCIDENT IN DUCEY-LANE.
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FURTHER. PARTICULARS.
In addition to our account of yesterday, of the above
accident, we are now enabled to state, that the house
had been examined only a day or two before, and con-
sidered pfifectly safe. At this time, there was sufficient
cross-polling to keep up the wall, but in digging the
foundation for-the men to begin to build upon, they hid
undermined the premises of Mr. Braggs. The inmates
in the house at the moment, were the 'family of Mr.
Braggs, whose wife had that instant been called down
stairs ; the men at work in the bakehouse ; the wire
Mr. Gyles, and an infant child, and the wife of a pei suu
named Watts, and her infant, in the upper story. 'rue,
escape of the two latter persons, and their infants, was
truly miraculous. Mrs. Gyles had been busy about the
rCcan, and her infant was playing at-the drawers, which
'inow in the ruins. On seeing the wall noosing, she
snatched up, the child by the hair, and had scarcely time
to crawl out, ;L.:after for the moment preserving her
life. The poor wornan.up stairs, had not the poAer to
escape, and was seen holding her infant in her anus,
Witl 'Oat the power of moving. This poor woman's case
was truly awful, she being in a very advanced state
of pregnancy. She, boweVer, was rescued -from her
perilous situation by some firemen who happened to be
Passing. The loss of Mr. Gyles is very great, at kast
1001. Mr. Braggs' loss is also very great. The melt
were this Morning clearing away the rubbish.
•SHOCKwo SPECTACLIC—Eztract of a letter from Ma-
drid, January 29:—On Monday last took place the
execution of a male and female Servant; fer having rob-
bed their master. It was a day of indignation and sor-
row, for at least the female hart of the' POptilrtion of
this capital. All the women were in tears on seeil,g
yonng and interestine-looking girl going with firinne:s
and resignation to suffer the vile and-disgusting punish-
ment of the gibbet ; and whiclr, as they did not fail to
recollect, had been abolished by the Constitutional Go-
vernment. What a spectacle for the inhabitants of a coil-
try who pride themselves Upon a chivalrous and alm,:a
devotional feeling towards the sex,-to see aR able-bodied
ruffian of an executioner get astride upon the shoulder
of a young female, writhing in the avaies of death,
and with one of his horrid hands forcing a handkerchief
Into her mouth, while with his heels be struck her re-
peatedly and violently on the stomach. Such au atro-
cious and revolting sight is calculated to do more inj.iry
to-the cause of absolutism, than the fusilading of a whole
village of Constitutionalists., When the man servant
arrived at the gibbet, he gazed with the most intense
and anguished attention upon the disfigured body of his
unfortunate wife, and then submitted himself to the same
dreadful fate. When he was turned off, a tremendous rush
took place amongst the crowd, withbut any one knowing
for what cause. Several persons were seriously injured.
The confusion commenced at the moment when the cry
of Viva el Reg Absoluto was hear'd, which is now. inva-
riably sent forth at . the death of unfortunate wretches,
no nia:ter what their political opinion, or even if they
have nohe; as was the case in this instance.
Anecdote of
,Mr. JOSEPH BRASIRIDGe, late siii,Cf-
stitith, Fleet-street:-,A Gentleman came into Mr. 13:s
shop to purchase a pair of sleerb-buttons, having lost
one of his own in the street. " I told him (says Mr.
Brasbridge) Thud given up selling them, but that he
was welcome to take a pair, if he would accept them.
He said he wanted two pair. 1 told him, he was wel-
come to. ten, if he liked them. He accordingly took
kwo pair, expressed his thanks, and departed.--Some
months after, he came again, and with a very ec-
pnt woman; who was, I found, his wife. He ailkc4
sue" if I recollected him ? I told him, I certainly
iked-had the
_honour of seeing him in my shop be-
fore; hilt I could not recollect precisely when. He
thew reminded nie of the sleeve-buttons, and added,
Since that time, Sir, I have had the misfortune to have
my house burnt down, but why should I call it a misfoo.
tune, since at least it affords me an opportunity of
shiviing my gratitude: I haie brought my wife, Lady
'Catherine Stanhope, here, to give you an orderfor plate,
feeling assured that you will use her well.' I told him
:he might rely upon it, I would nut disgrace His recom.
.inendatioa.- ;lacy laid out three hundred pounds with
ire at that time ; I afterwards bought a service of
'plate for them, of tivPl.undred pounds in value ; and for
forty years they remained my.kind and constant fricad§."
--Literary Chronicle.

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AFFAIR BB WEN
MR. RICE. M. P. .6.6
MR. e O'GRADY.

svaesrsa IPA
Saturday, (the 7zl) instant), Mr. Rice attended the
Court of King's Bench, and remained, there firing
the hearing of the case of - Lynch v. Lord Farn-
ham. At about three o'clock, on passing
_through the
Hall, it was said, he was accosted by. Mr. O'Grady,
that Gentleman inquiring for a certain Noble Earl, at
present in London. Mr. Rice said he was well. Mr.
O'Grady then expressed himself respecting that Noble
Lord in a manner quite disagreeable to Mr. Rice, who,
politely bowing, said, he understood ; and if the re-
mark, conveying a harsh opinion of his Noble relative
was intended as an, insult to him, he knew the course
to take. On Saturday morning, at eight o'clock, the
parties proceeded to decide the quarrel. Baron Robeck
and Mr.-Franks were the seconds; Mr. Franks being
second to Mr. Rice. The servants of the principals,
with two xurgeoni of eminence. proCeeded to a field of
smmond's Court-avenue, on Donnybrook road. The
..round was measured, and the parties were about to re.
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cave the signal for firing, when. the police appeared, who
tad no.prevrous knowledge that a duelled been on foot.
Their presence there was for the purpose of preventing
violation of the Sabbath, and in order to disperse the
individuals who had on previous occasions assembled in
that quarter for the purpose of hunting badgers, tcc.
It was the appearance of the canines in that retired
sane that discovered the intended duel as the officers
passed by. The seconds, on the appearance of the police,
were immediately apprehended; the principals effected
their escape. The seconds were bound over to keep the
raze. Colonel Cuff, M.P. was afterwards requested by
Mr. Rice, to act for him ; br some means the Magi's-
trates heard of this, and caused that Gentleman to be I
bound over in rio less a penalty than £5000.-officers
were also stationed at Howth and Kingstown, with war.
rants to apprehend the principals, in case they might
have felt inclined to decide the mader in another king-
dent—Dublin Ppper.
We learn, with great pleasure, drat an accommoda-
tion has been effected, awe that Mr. Waller O'Grady
has apologised far his expressimis. We need not s.ty
that we congratulate our readers on the termination 01
this unpleasant afair.—Dublin 1, ring Post.
IRISH DUELLING.

Without pronouncing any (Onion en the usage of
duelling; we have nu hesitation in saying, that the bar-
barous extent to which it is carried in Ireland, is.one of
thegreatest earses with which that unfortunate country
i; affiicted. It is destructive of all virtue, all justice, all
park spirit. It places the most valuable men at licit;
mercy of every brawling blockhead who potsessesenuugb
of a quality, which is,so vulgar in these Nor them parts,
of Burope„that the want of it in any case, even among the
lowest of the populace, is almost a matter of wonder,
to hazard his own life to take away that of another.
In Ireland everything becomes the subject of a duel.
The late Mr. Edgworth tells us,- that having been ap-
pointed an executor, he sent letters to the -different
debtors to the estaterand for etc'', letter he received a
challenge. Mr. Wakefield says, that, at a fair in Ire.
land, he saw a Gentleman of distinction lay the cheek
of a poor unoffencling man open by a blow of his whip
that feeling indignant at this act of brutality, be said to
several Magistrates then present--" Good GOO! why do
you not interfere, that this brute may be punished as he
deserves r-:-Whea they all excused themselves saying
they did not wish to involve themselves in a duel. No
Magistrate dare receive a complaint OF he were dis-
posed, which is not very likely) against a landholder
from any-of his tenants—the consequence would be a duel.
In the-Irish House of Commons, there was always a
band of Fire-eaters, who worked their way to office by
singling out formidable Opposition • Members.
Now this system is really productive of a cowardice
of the most disgraceful kind. A man cannot be Awe) s
fighting, and if he attempts to do his duty, he aunt lay
his account -with having as many duels on his hands as
there are individuals affected by, his acts. By degrees
he comes to witness the most shocking.acts of atrocity
with indifference, if they have no relation to himself or
his friends. Why should we involve ourselves in a quer-
re: ? is the common answer which an Englishman re-
ceives when some signal act of injustice excites his in-
dignation, and leads him to demand redress for the
victim of oppression.
We are awate of the difficulty there is in changing
the manners of a nation. We know well that .a Gentle-
man is obliged to defer to the opinion of the class to
which he belongs ; and that no Irish Gentleman will
ieel himself at liberty to set the notions of his country
at detiance. But something may be done in England
towards rectifying the evil. Were the Gentlemen of
England to mark, by their reception of Irish Duellists,
their strong disapprobation of every attemptto fasten a
quarrel on honourable men for merely discharging
t!.eir duty, we cannot help thinking that it would have
s.sme effect in diminishing the evil.—Morning Paper.
It appears, by the Navy Estimates which have been
laid upon the table of the House of Com Mons, that the
imber of Seamen to be raised for the present year will
be twenty-nine thousand, including nine thousand Royal
vines. This will he an increase in our naval service
between three and four thousand, men. The extended
commercial relations which may be expected in South
America, and the necessity occasioned by what has
taken place in our %Vest India Colonies, of augmenting
our force in the Lee Ward Islands, are the only causes for
this increase. -
Considerable Cantracts have been entered into within
the lass lo.tnight tOr Steam Engines and other Ma-
chinery, by the ANGLO-MEXICAN MINING ASSOCIATION.
/Me Neath Abliey Company, Messrs. WALKER and Co.
znil Mr. fixonoe STEPHENSON, of Newcastle, we under-
31antl, ate the Contractors. •
A TIL‘UTITHL WOMAN. —We do not remember any
Exhibition i, London that appears to possess so great a
share of distit)„,nrisht‘ d Patronage as the celebra•ed
''viss Giantess, Misl, CATHARINE BOEBNER, her extra-
.;:nary 5r lure, being Ss feet Seven inches high, and
veil II -planned, and otOv Nineteen Years of Age,
:low Exhibiting, at her resioence, No. 63, Piccadilly,
.:11)posite St. James's-street. Durit:g. her short stay at
Brighton (which is the only town in which she has been
.hibi,e,i since her artival in this Country), she was
visited by upwards of 4,(x0 persons in a few days ; and
although she is universally allowed to be the finest and
most beautifully propoi thine& woman in Europe, we
howe our fair coantry women to decide whether
they will yield to her the palm for amiable manners,
beautiful s)mmetry, or ,ielicate features ; but she cer-
tandy..has tn.huast ul taking the lead among the Vs
thionable Aniusements of the day : and perhaps. the
.S i,s Cuituine, in which she is exhibited, adds mach
4.• the noseltY otten fire extra, rJinary figure.

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LIFE ABROAD.
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NAPLE.4, JANUARY 0.
Mr. Bacon, an English gentleman stabbed in a scuffle
with a Roman tradesman, still mains in edangerous
state;
.the English apply to the Government of his new
Holinesrto offer a reward for t:te apprehension of the
ruffian, who has absconded, .and are only insulted by a
paltry,promise of twenty dollars. Gonsalvi is no longer
Minister—and the loss of old Pius is every day felt.
Before. the demise of the late Pope, a subscription was
commenced fot erecting a monument to the memory of
Canova, to which every traveller in Rome contributed,
(the Duchess of Devonshire, of course, included); Thor-
wahhon was to have been the sculptor, and the church of
.Santa Marl degli Angell was allotted for the purpose.—
One of the first acts of his present Holiness was to signify
to the subscribers the postponement of the measure.
-Another Englishman, Captain. Bulkeley, was stabbed:
near Florence by an ostler, anti died upon the spot.
Without at all adverting to. this unfortunate. case, our
countrymen abroad would certainly do better to carry
with them -a greater spirit of conciliation, and to leave
at home that aristocracy of feeling and severity of man • ,
tier, which render them ridiculous to foreigners, with-
out .grining them respect.
Myles becomes the rendezvous of fashion. English
travellers no longer need be deterred, by the difficulty
of procuring apartments, horn coming here, as his
Highnets the Prince Esterbazy now lets lodgings on
very moderate terms, having made a ten years' pur-
chase of a palace her this purpose, and reserving but a
single floor for himself.
The Marchioness of Downshire is still at Naples. The
Earl and Countess of Blessington, Lady Caroline Mor-
rison, Lord Augustus Hill, Gei ieral Grant and suite, the
son uf the Ex-King of Sweden, Lady Drummond, Lord
and Lady Ponsonby—cunt muftis aliis of the nobility
and mobility, too fashionable to omit, but too nume-
rous to insert. San Carlos taken for six years by'Glos-.
sop, formerly of the. Coburg. The two largest Theatres
in Europe, chose of Naples and Milan, now under his
direction. The Government pay him annually about
1,500 pounds, exctuilve of the receipts of the house.—
Itoslini's new opera of Semirands, applauded ; much of
its success due to the powerful talents of Fodor and La
Blache, The latjer is, perhaps, the first bass in the
s world, and best performer in lin lux! serious opera.

LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL
Yesterday, a Meeting of the Governors of the -Lon-
don Fever Hospital took place at the Freemasons
Tavern, for the purpose of receiving the Twenty-third
Annual Report of the Committee. J. L. MALLET, Esq.
Treasurer, in;the chair.
The CHAIRMAN observed, that the Committee bad
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conceived it necessary, in presenting their Report, to
remind the Public that. the objects of this Institution
. were to diminish the mortality of contagious malignant'
fevers, by a speedy removal of the persons first infected
into the Hospital ; and to prevent the spreading
these fevers by purifying the apartments of patients'by
means of white-washing, fumigation, &c, Two
important advantages were thus acquired which •
unattainable by the ordinary regulations of P •
Charities. First, the admission was not delayed by fern.
realities of recommendation, or stated and distant pe-i
nods for the reception of patients ; so that,• if early ap.
plication be made, the disease might be taken in the,
commencement, and easily cured. And secondly, the
assistance being mended beyond the walls of the Hos.
pital to the infected apartments of the sick, those who
had not already suffered were preserved to their fami-
lies ; and the patients once recovered, escaped the clan•
ger of a fresh infection on their return home.
Dr. CLIWZRLY presented the report of the Committee,
which was read.. It stated, that in the year 1823, the
admissions into the Hospital amounted to 336, of Which
number 283 had been dismissed cured; 14- were dis-
missed as improper objects; and 46 died. There Were
remaining in the Hospital 23 ; and the total number Of
admissions since the opening in 1802, amounted to
4,871. For the four years preceding 1822, the cases of
fever were gradually diminished, the admissions being
in the first year 608 ; in the second, 539 ;•in the third,
477; and in the fourth, 323. An increase of one bun.
Bred took place in 1822, for the number rose to 456..
Last year the number had declined to 339: so that
the Committee considered malignant infectious Tever
as stationary for the last three years, so far as they
could judge from the Hospital records. It was not &E..
ficult to determine, a priori, and upon simple inspection,
where the typhus fever originated and most abounded.
The parishes containing the greatest number of sick
were St. Pancras, St. Andrew, Holborn; St. Luke,
St. James, Clerketiwell ; St. Matthew, Bethnal-green;
Christ Church, Spitalfields; St. Giles, and White-
chapel. In no preceding year had the Institution ren-
dered such important services as in the present. Se-
yenty?five domestic servants had been admitted, and so
many families had been relieved Irons the anxiety and
ralanger naturally attendant upon persons in contagious
(fevers. The progressive improvements in the metropolis
leaded to mitigate the violence of fevers, which were
usually engendered in the habitations of the indigent.
The benefits of light and air were increased, the paving
and cleansing the streets, the eptistruction and support
of the common sewers, and the copious, supplies of
water, all formed an enemy to the typhus, not easy to
be resisted ; while in the close abodes of the poor, the
disease raged, and would rage, until the miserable re-
cesses were less crowded IA ith inhabitants, and habits of
cleanliness were adopted.
Dr. SHEPHERD rose to move a Resolution to the]
Meeting. He believed the Public would be highly gra.
tified at fiading that the London Fever Hospital stood
amongst the highest in the list of charitie>,-and he hoped
that the immense advantages arising from it would sti•
mulate them to exercise a spirit of liberality propor-
tioned to the acknowledged merits of the Institution. He
then moved that the funds were inadequate to the ex-
tensive objects of the Institution, and that it should be
referred to the General Committee to adopt measures
for increasing-the resources of the Institution.
Some conversation took place upon this Resolution,
which was unanimously agreed to.
The Duke of Solazitser was then re-elected President
'for the year ensiling, and the name of Lord Baxtetg
added to the hit of Vice-Presidents.—The Meeting t
separated.
• LUTHER'S WEDDING ItIND.-7A peasant lateli sold to
a jeweller at Darmstadt a ring, which turned Oa to be
the Wedding ring of LUTHER and the Nun, CATIfk
atm: de Bowlers, his Wife. 7 Their names are inserilpet
on the ring, as well as the date of their Matriapi the
13th of• June, 1525.—This moluelentel relique is to be
deposited in the MuseuM of 17.sisttseeit.

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'ME COMET.
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. Mk, EDIT(!R:YOU keep telling Your R,eaders, from
day to day, in. what part of the heavens the Comet, with
which our hemisphere is now visited, may be seen ;
but if you, or some of your learned Correspondents.
'would state what this stringer portends. if it does por-
tend anything, it would be highly gratifying urrnany.
That earthquakes (of which there have lately been
in '
from
divers places, and pestilences, and great signs
heaven (and such surely Comets may be consi-
dered) do portend great and striking political events, is
not a doctrine of modern invention. The man, how-
ever, who would, now-a-days, profess to pay any atten-
tion to such prognosticators would run some risk of
being counted a fool. I beg, nevertheless, that you will
have the goodness to give a place,-in your columns, to
the following observations respecting the Cornet of the
year 1811, which I have transcribed from the Pro-
phetic Almanack for this year : and 1 would Cu-titer beg
that one or other of your Readers, who may consider the
coincidences, pointed out by the writer, as resting on any
'Natural foundation, will have the goodness (if he can)
to inform us what singular event may be predicted by
the present Comer. A Cossra :yr READER.
On Me Comet of 1811. •
46 The facts I have to adduce with regard to the omi-
nous character of Comets, though not Scriptural, are
such as carry, in my mind, conviction with them.—
We knoethat an individual of our own time has been
'deitined to act an extraordinary part in- carrying into
execution certain moral dispensations in that course
ordained by Pnoviossce. Napoleon the Great was
-born in August, 1769; and for several months preced-
ing his birth, the Northern regions of the boa -,ens were
visited by one of those Illaziag Messengers for the por-
tentous chiracter of which lam here contending. He
reached, in 1811, the zenith of his glory ; and though
all of as may remember that-luminous prodigy which
appeared at that time, few could know the peculiar
characteristics which mark its astrological import. In
September, 1811, when it first, became fain* percep-
tible, it was, in its diurnal course, vertical at Corsica.
Its splendour continued to increase until it had reached
48-deg. of North latitude; and, when at its highest de-
gree of lustre, it was on the Zenith of Paris AT NOON.
It then retired, gradually declining in brilliancy, to-
wards the Sonth, until it seemed to fade away to
nothing on that latitude of the heavens which biought
it again daily vertical to Corsica. These are circum-
stances that deserve the attention of those who dispute
its having the ominous import attached to it ; and they
are bound to account for such peculiaricoineidences by
someThetter argument than mere chance. But even this
is not all. During the few latter weeks, as the spirit of
life was evaporating from the mortal :body of that ex-
traordinary man, the Blazing Star of Fate again ap-
peared to beam upon his bier on that obscure rock,
severed far from the social world, where he was doomed,
amidst a drear of waves to 'years of lone reflection on
-the precarious tenure of all human glory, and to die
leneath his Fiery Star. Having adianced these facts,
f leave them to their effect on every rational mind."

NAVAL INTgLLIGENCE.

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The Favourite, CUMMiNaI. from Liverpool to Africa, was driven
on shore near Holyhead, and bilged, on Tuesday evening—most of,
the cargo landed in good order.
'the Thames, from London to the West Indies, was on
*ore on the ?diddle Ground, off Margate, yesterday morning, Mit
inns expected to be got off.
The New Packet, Bata., from Petersbvrgh to Portsmouth (New
altanmattire), was driven on shore at Lochmaddy, during a gale on
the 25th ult. but got off after cutting away her masts.
The TAMAR, 26 pins, Captain J. G. Dunce, C.B. arrived at
•Portansoeth on Thursday, from, the River, on her way to Plymouth.
• The SAMARKAND, 26-gun ship, 'was commissioned at Portsmouth
on Thursday.
Commissioner Lewis and family, going cut to Malta ; and Mr..
Motu; his Majesty's Consul at Malaga, are arrived at Portsmouth,
to embark in his Majesty's ship Paarrort, • Captain Sewer; which
ship is expected to sail for Gibraltar end Malta in a few days.
The Reowntai 111-gun sloop, Captain A. D. T. Agar/mom,
sailed front Portsmouth en Thursday fort:bedlam. The Masora;
20-gun shxsp, it ordered to be docked and re-conitntsiddised.-
The Crewe, 20igun sloop, Capt. nice' &Ace, which artive'd
at Portsmouth =Sunday from the Western roast of Africa,leic Siting
Leone on the With of October, and Cape Coast the 14th December.
She experienced dnrWj her passage home, rifter passing the Western
Islands,on the 30th January, a most tremendous hurricane and
threw overboard eleven of her guns for the safety of the ship.—
Captain Fu.stoia, the senior OfSeer on the coast, had proceeded-to
Sierra Leone in the -Owen Gtemowas frigate. The Bata sloop of
war, Captain Coustexar, was left in Cape Coast Roads. The
Derma, Captain Bowen,. hid gone to Rio Janeiro to refit. The
SIVINORR gun-brig, Lieutenant Scorn, hid sailed for the Bight of
Benin, far the purpose of landing Mr. Buxom, the celebrated tra-
veller, who intended to pursue his travels from thence to trace the
source of the river Niger. When the Ceases sailed from . Cape
Coast, the squadron employed on the station, as Weil as the sevetal
British settlements were in a very hekithy slate, and had been so
'for some time previous. Mr. STIWART, Surgeon of the Bane, and
a few seamen, invalids, came pasaingers in the CTRIDUG The CT*
azutwent into harbour on Wednesday, to rah. • , •
PLYMOUTH, FRASUART 12. —Wind W.S.W. Several vessels,
bound round the land, that sailed yesterday, have put back this
afternoon ; wind very high, with dirty Weather, and every appear-
ance of an approaching gale. A survey has been held on beard
the ship Mercator, from Drontheim to Tricate, the result of which
is that part of her cargo must come out.
PORTSMOURN,A4IIIVAILT 13.--Wind W.t.W.—Arrived the Al-
fred, LaUGHTOX, from London for Van Dleman's -Land ; Sprightly,.
Newton, from ditto for Lisbon ; Neptune, Waters, from ditto for
,New Orleans; Watson, Facer, front ditto for Lisbon; Rewind,
'Naar, from ditto for St. Vincent', • Sir Joseph Banks, Braces,
from ditto for Jamaica; and Si. Mary's, BURTON, from ditto, for
Madeira. •
Ships at Spithead —Palermo, Tana*, and JAMUL In Har-
bour—Qum Cu...awns, Vicroav, Arsine, Jurists, Twain,
SPASSORNAWK, PANDORA, ORAMDIOMI, AatCHJe, Mamma;
Cr-
eame, Cromer, and Proven.
Dear, FROSUARY 13.--Wind and remain, the
Charlotte, Tarrivoassx, from Harnburgh; Oscar, Jammint..from
Demerara, and sailed for London. Put back; the Dominica, lim..
age, for Dontinica•Five r. at. A large ship, apparently an India-
man; two other ships, and several brigs, are turning through the
Gulls, from the River.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, FEBRUARY 15.
SNITS ENTRAIN INWAROD..•The Iblitfprd, from Mogadore ; Leslie
Ogilby, from Palermo ; Pere de Famine, front Havre ; Friends,
from Archangel; Taniarlane, from Leghorn ; Ariadne, from Zante.
RATTIRID OUTWARDS The •MulgraVe Castle, for the Isle of
-France; Thetis. for Hamburgh; Hopewell, foe Lima; Syren, for
Calais; Rising San, for at. John's ; Lady Combermers, for Trini-
dad; Three Sisters, for Rotterdam; Dauntless, for &armor ; Nile,
for Berblce ; Atalanta; fur Demerara • and Aurora, for Algiers.
CLtaanw Otrriemios--The Iris, Tie Fayal ; Hero, and Royal
Eagle, fur St. Michael's ; Vrow Jane*, for Antwerp ; and D.mtzic,
for Dantric. '
Azeia-50.....At Marseilles, the Olean, *tethers. front Genoa;
America, Pattipon ; and Cadmus, Crowell, from Boston ; Golden
Grove, Smith, from Odessa; and Nayadeti, Dan, Rau Cork. At
La Gaits, -Robert, Simpson, front the Clyde. At Limerick, Han-
nah. Swenson, from New 'York. At Lima, Garland, Caner,front
Gibraltar. At Van Dienlan's Land, Competitor, Ayscough ; Brea
to* OW* Commodore Hayes, ; and. Frances, Benson, from
Laudon; Success Andersou; and King George, Bryant; from the
Or of Good Hope ; also the Avon, (rem the Mauritius.
MP,. Aurora, Cavan, froM Hambulh.
Considerabledansagev as done by the torrents of rain
at-fell' yesterday, intbelower parts of Rotherbithe and
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arts adjacent; many ceibus.bave horn LwO to three
of water in them. •
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Monday,
was elected
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that Society.
OXFORD, FEBRUARY 14.
Wednesday, Mr. Henry Leinesurier was admitted a•Sc'solar of
New College.
Wednesday the following Degrees were conferred:
'Alit's', or AILTS.IteI. Gilbert Gilbert, WadhaM College.;
Rev. Francis Orton, St. Mary Hal; Rev. Samuel Howe Harrissaii
St. John's College.
BArtirLoas or Atert.—Francis Chambre Steele, Jesus College;
James halms, Pembroke College. Hon. Francis Curion, Bra: •
sennose College; William George Sawyer, lialliol
ECC I. ES I A STIC A L PROMOTIONS.
Tuesday, the Rev. John Thomas !Bride, M.A. Chaplain of Cbri
Church, Oxford, was presented to the Vicarage of Petherotocie, in
the county of York,vacapt by the decease of the Rev. G. IX Ktliy:
Rev. W. Dowell, Vicar of Locking, Somerset, has been pram
sented to the Vicarage of Home-Lacy, Herefordshire.
Rev. Edward Davis Slade, B.A. to the Rectory of Walser/ow.
Soniersetshire' vacant by the cession of the Rev. George
Ilan Bethune, I).C. L. •
*Rev. Hobbs Scott, to be Archdeacon of Australat. la,.Wew South
Wales, with an annual income of .42.000.
' Rev. Stephen Slade has been appointed Dean of Chichester.
' Rev. H. Woodcock, D. D. of \lichelmersh, Hampshire, is apz
pointed Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, in the room of the Ret;
Dr. Smith.
Tuesday se'nnight, Mr. John Crambe, Assistant to the Rev.
Walter Fisher, of Cranston, was elected Minister of the Low
Meeting, Berwlck, by awery large majority, in room of the Rev.
tlr. Henderson, :low of ClaremonuChapel, Stockbridgt.
The Itev. Samuel Smith, D.D. Rector of Dry Drayton, in Cam.;
bridge.hire, and Canon of Christ Churchy Oxford, has been ap-
pointed to the Deanery of that Society, vacant by the promotion
of the' Rev. Dr. Hall; to the Deauery'of Durham.
The Rev. Dlr. Childers has been presented to the Prebendal Stay
in Ely Cathedral, vacant by the death of Sir H. B. Dudiel.
The Archbishop of Canterbury his appointed the Rev. Richard
Lockwood, Vicar of Lowestoft) to the Prebendal Stall in Peter:
boroogh Cathedral, vacant by the death of the Rev. Francis Tune,

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CO/MAI:RS' INQUESTS. .
A Coroner's Jury was =panelled on Thursday evens.
ing, at seven o'cluck; before THOMAS SHELTON, Esq..
Coroner, in, the Board-room, St. Bartholomew's ,Uosa
pital,
,to inquire how' and by what means Sarah Laws
tence, aged fifty, came to her death.
It appeared from tire evidence that the wretched wts-
min lived with a That; of the name of Gouldswortb;
on Saffron-hill ; that there had been a quarrel between
them ; that she received a severe wound on the temple •
from some earthen vessel, of which she afterwards died ;
and that the charged GouldsWortli with having •
flicaed it, while, on the other hand, be said it was accir.
dentally caused by a fall.—The Jury returned a verdict
of " Manslaughter against George Gouldsworth."
At the return of the verdict, the accused begged the
Coroner and Jury to hear him for a few minutes, before
they affixed their Signatures to the depositions He was
an Englishman, he said, labouring under great reverse •
of -lot tune, although he might hilve been supposed to
come from the Sister Kingdom, by his place of resi,
dence. Adversity had driven him to seek shelter in so
humble an abode; and although- he had degenerated in
forming a connection with the deceased, it was the least
of his thoughts to have committed any personal vio-
lence to -destroy her life. The fact was, that she three
water over him when in bed, on which he certainly_got
out and rushed her, when she fell over the ea' then
vessel in question that had proied so fatal to her. The
origin of the affray was that, which lo others as it had
been to him, had been a bane of lasting discord. Laws
rence was unfortunately extremely jealous, and this, he
bad no doubt, had prompted her, though withiait cause,
to the commission of that violence which had been the
prelude to their quarrel. He trusted that the Jury
would view his situation as a hard one, labouring, under
the rheumatic gout as lie did, and let their feelings sway.
with the urgency of me causes
The COR?NEIt said he bad violated the liw even in
pushing her, as that led to deprive her of life. The vet,. .
dict therefore could not be ui.terbed:—The Cilruher's
warrant was then issued; whereupost the delinquent was
takes into custody, and fully committed to Neo gate.
Yesterday vicathet Inquest was field at the Three
Compasses, New-cut, Lambeth, betore Mr: JIIMMETT)
Coroner for Surrey, on the body of Mrs. Catharine Da-
vis, wile of Mr. Davis; landlord of the Spanish Patriot
public-house, in the New-cut. •
Mary Coleman, servant to the deceased, stated, that
on Tiresday morning, between twelve and one o'clock,
she took some bran and Water to her mistress'Prootn,
as an application to' her face, and shut thy ;sites her miss
tress went to her room. • About one or two o'cat ck her
master called her, saying that something had happened
to her mistress; they could not open the door, and were •
obliged to procure the assistance of the watchman, when
she was found in a most horrid state. Witness was of
opinion that the deceased had stood 'Mime a glass above
a table to curl her hair, and that the candle un the table
had caught the sleeve of her gowns
tie dairy proceeded to view the body, which presented ,
a most hors id spectacle, there being scarcely any putt of
it but what was so hurried as to bear the uppeatsince of -
scorched patchment.—The Jury returned a verdict—
" That the deceased came.to her death by being acb
cidentally burnt."
Now that the Lottery system is drawing td a combs.
sion, it must be a subject of proud exultation for Mr.
SIVEWRIGHT that he took the last Contract, and by .
garnishing his Scheme with Saves 1:2,000 Prizes,
has succeeded in rivetting the attention of the Public,
in a most unusual degree. Nsits• ThuttsoAy; Fe-
'bruary 19th, is the-First Day of Di awing, and a memo-
rable day_ it will probably prove to many; tor the Twct
First. Prizes are each to have £'20,000 Sterling extra;
and all that are drawn Blanks will be put in the Wheel
and drawn again, so that if they miss the Twb First,'
they will still have 'a Chance for Five other Prizes
of 5:20,000.
INTERIOR OF AFRICA; PORTRAIT OF ROSSINI, ISCc.—si
The Literary Gazelle of this day, in addition to Its usual Reviews
of New Works, Criticisms on the Drama and Fine Arts, and &len,
,tille intelligence, contains a ChM Acterist iv Likeness of Rossini, cut
in wood, from a print. Drawing, and •accompanied by a Papei of
Personal and Mpsical Chit-Chat—A very curious and copious coma
munication front Mr. Moffat, the
,Missionary at Lattashoo, giving a
particular Account of the African !Lode which approached the
Cape Settlements; of the liechuana Parliament, and ut the sauguis
nary Rattle which led to the Retreat of the Invaders-s. Interesting
Details of the Proceedings and Papers read at the Royal Society of
Literature Account of the matchless Claude Drawings, discovered
and brought from Spain—Kalendar of Gardening; cid many abet
Novel Anicles, 'so as to form altogether a Number of uncommon
Variety and Intelligence. With the year 11124, a Seri/mot new Sub-
jects has been commenced, which will render The Dienvy Gass*
valuable to Agriculturists, and those who. study 'Astronomy, Bo-
tany, Gardening, and Domestic Economy.Publiabed every ISAL.-
TUIIIiA 1r by W. A. Stares, 362 (Rester' Change), Strand, price ed.
or stamped, fOr Country Circulation, by Post, price is.
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RSITY and CLERICAL INTELLICIEATCE4
CA MIMI Dairia.CORVAILT At :1
, Mr. Benjamin Hall Kennedy, 41 joniis College;
University Scholar on the Pitt foundation:
Brett, En. B.A. and James Bowstead, Esq. -B.A: of
Asti Coliege, were on Friday lilt eletted Iteltows of