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TRIBUTARY LINES
TJ THE MEMORY OF THE iATg AMIABLE AND BEAUTIFUL
MRS. C. ALDRICH, WHO DIED JANUARY
' TUB 15TH, 18091 AQED

Fair as the lily or the mountain snows,
Arci fresh her blooming cheek, like new blown rose;
be glowing tints that exquisitely shone,
Nature's own sweet and cunning band laid on ;
Soft were th' expressive beauty of her eyes,
The mild blue radiance of the Summer skies !
Her gentle accents born on roseate breath,
Through coral portals now are clos'd in death-,
Fled are those smiles that sweetly gave the sight,
Rows of pure pearl enchas'd in rubies bright !

Oh! bad I Guino's magic skill to trace
Each striking feature of her lovely face !
The Grecian cast her beauteous profile took,
Her lighi arch'd brow, her chaste Madona look ;
lier amber tresses wreath'd in glossy folds,
Alas! no more th' admiring eye beholds;
The pensive softness of her modest air,
Blushing unconscious of a frame so fair ;
That graceful height which finish'd beauty gave,
As movt•s the peerless swan on lucid wave ;
That form the sculptued statue still outvies,
As fair in death the Parian marble lies.

Oft bath the Poet with fictitious grace,
And soundirg hyperbole, adorn'd a face;
Oft have the Painter's glowing tints display'd
A high-wrought piece too flatt'ringly pourtray'd;
iut here in Natures mould soft beauty such
Swr ye that knew her—have I said too much ?
C h ! when I saw ker last, (how short the space !)
Maternal fondness height'ning every grace;
Her cherub offspring gambling o'er the plain,
Her happy husband In the jocund train;
I joist to see such mutual love so pare,
And, oh ! rash thought ! thought human bliss secure.

Hater let Beauty bend hei gay career,
And all apply th' instructive lesson given ;
Transient, uncertain is life's tenour here ;
Oh! may we be prepaed, when r-an'd by klenvsts !

SLIM*.

Fl AT CHRIST'S CHURCH, OXFORD.

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INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, MARCH 4. ' ,
The Loan CHANCELLOR heard a long nqtrunt ii
the case of the Cbrporation of Lazars, v&ich being
extinct, the lands dedicated to that charity are now
claimed by the Crown, on the one hand, and, on the
other, by the Prince of Wales, as Duke of Cornwall.
His Lordship stated, that he should give judgment
in the case on Monday.

../INEW.M.•

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MARCH 4.
PEACOCK V. PEACOCK. •
This was an issue out of Chancery, to try whether
the Plaintiff and Defendant, father and his son, were
partners. In 1806 the son came of age, and his fa.
ther, who was a law stationer of great business, at
that period took him into the firm, and had all Cis
bills addressed to Peacock and Son, but 4 was not
settled what share he should have. He was allowed
15s. a week and his board also. In 1807 the father
quarrelled with his son, turned him out of doors by
violence, and took in a Mr. Thompson who had bean
a servant of his, to share one-third of the business
without having paid any premium. It was admitted
that as to third parties the son was a partner, but the
father contended that he was not to be a partner as to
profit, till the end of 1807, when he should have as-
certained what portion of the profits he could allow.
The son contended, that he had been taken in as a
partner from the first altering of the firm, but that it
was not ascertained what share he was to have, but
his father had said he would give him what any one
should think reasonable. He was soon afterwards
turned out of doors without any provision. Both the
father and son were examined, and differed very little
in their statements.
Lord ELLENEOROUGH said he was glad to see the'
young man conduct himself with so much propriety,
in so delicate an affair. As the father was to have it in
his own option to say what share of the profits should
be given, it was quite absurd to suppose that the part-
nership was not to commence from the alteration of
the firm. There could be no necessity for that sus-
pence ; and, under his direction, the Jury found that
the plaintiff (the son) was a partner from 1806, and
entitled to a fourth share of the business. His Lord-
ship recommended the son to make every attempt to
procure an amicable arrangement with his father, and
that the latter should procure the partnership with
Thompson to be dissolved.
simian 6.-•-•CHILLINGWORTII V THE SUN FIRE OFFICE.
Mr. ATTORNEY-GENERAL stated, that this was an
action brought by the.PlaintifF, residing in Hampton-
street, Lambeth, against the Sun-Fire Insurance Of-
fice, to recover the amount of their insurance of two
paintings, one of the Wise Men's Offering, by Leo-
nardo da Vinci, and the other of Christ on the Mount,
by Vanderwerf ; the former insured at £lOOO, and
the latter at £3OO. These insurances were made on
the 6th of September last, and on the 26th of the same
month the pictures were destroyed by fire. The defen-
ces to the present action were, first, that the Plaintiff
set the room on fire which contained them, and se-
condly, that the paintings were over-valued.
Several witnesses were called to prove these facts,
and also the value of the pictures ; but it appearing,
with respect to the latter point, from the testimony of
one of the witnesses, an artist, that the Plaintiff had,
in a convers•ttion about the pictures, particularly re-
quested his assistance in the affair, and had offered
to give him 100 guineas fora picture, obierving, that
to give him money would look like -a bribe, the At
torney-General here dropped his case, as there was a '
clause in the Pro' osals of the Insurance Office, stating
that if there were any thing like collusiorioriraud on the
part of the assured, the insurance sbouldbe void; and
the plaintiff was accordingly Noniuited.
HARPER V,
LAIICG. -
This was an action brought to recover damages, of
which it was agreed to refer the amount, sustained by
the loss of the Hope, which was run foul of, and,
sunk by the Mars, vessels trading London to
Dundee, by which accident the and all its crew
except one, amountinkattoe tight persons, were lost.
It was proved by the of a third vessel in sight,
that the night in which the accident happened was
clear, and that the vessels might have seen. each Other
for nearly two miles ; that the Hope hailed the Mars
three times, and that the first hail was. a quarter of a.
mile before the vessels met. The Mars did not an-
swer. It was also proved by several witnesses, that
the Mars had the freer wind, and was lighter laden.
—Verdict for the Plaintiff.
MARCH 7.—COLLIS v. BUSIINAL.
The Defendant was in the coach-making business,
and the Plaintiff hadbeen in his employ. -zu latter
resided in a house of the former at Highgate. A dis-
agreement arose between the parties, on account of
the plaintiff's setting up in the same business as the
defendant, on which the defendant accused the plain-
tiff of robbing hint of some of his goods, and obtained ;
a search-warrant from the Marlborough-street Office,
to search his shop in Holborn, andhis house at High-
gate. He proceeded with the Police-Officers first to I
the shop in Holborn, where he laid claim to some
buckets used in the coach-making business; and from,
tE-nce he went to the house. at Highgate, where he
claimed some house venetian blinds, a mouse-trap, and
a shoe-brush. After having completely searched every
drawer in the house, and the room in which the plain-
tiff's wife lay ill, he took the plaintiff to the office, and
charged him with the robbery of these things ; and
the Police-Officers proved, that in the coach the par-
ties had high words, in which the defendant said he
had £5OOO lying at his banker's, and he would spend
that to ruin him.- The Magistrate proved his dismis-
sal of the defendant's complaint as frivolous. The
defendant likewise arrested the plaintiff for some fic-
titious debt. It was proved that those buckets were
I sold to the plaintiff by a tradesman • and that the
blinds were repaired and altered at le plaintiff's—
, Verdict for plaintiff-v.-Damages £lOOO.

FURTHER PARTlcuLAfts.—At about half past eleven
en Friday night, Mr. Bnowx (a Student), on enter-
ing his apartments in the Great Qua le, found
them completely enveloped in one blaze of &e, which
is supposed co have been occasioned by some spaiks
communicating to a beam which ran. across the chim-
ney. The alarm was immediately given, and in the
course of an hour most of the engines in Oxford were
assembled. The conflagration was most alarming,
resisting for a long time the united efforts of the en-
gines of Christ Church and of the City, consuming
in a few hours the gleater part of the south-east an-
gle, ani threatening with destruction the most mag..
nificent mum of the kind in Englatul: most forte-
nately the night was calm, and thne was a plentiful
supply of water, otherwise it would have been im-
possible to have preserved the Hall from the ravages
of the fire.

The principal sufferer is Dr. Wiwi's, Canon of
Christ Church, and Hebrew Professor, the whole of
whose furniture and library (including several valua-
ble Oriental manuscripts) were consumed. The other
apartments which are entirely destroyed were those ,
of the. Rev. Mr. SMELT, Messrs. Bnoww, MEYLER,
KEOGH, JAMES, ROE; those of Lord APSLET Messrs. ,
PINCH and BrXTON, are partially burnt.----The rooms
on the south-silt of the quadrangle, viz. those of Mr.
ItAms, Mr. Macttc, Mr. Buxvox, and Mr. Pane's,
were involved in the flames ; and as they join the
weste:n extremity of the Hall, it was thought that
nithing could have saved that splendid edifice. But
the night being still, and the exertions of the gowns-
men, as well as the inhabitants, being greater than
we ever before witnessed on a former occasion, the,
fire was got under before sit o'clock in the- mornipg.
—No lives were lost. Mr. StutTty of Oriel ; Mr.
hUGHES, of Jews ; . and Mr. ALLEN, of St. Mary 1
Hall, who were indefatigable in their exertions, were
severely bruised by the falling of a large body of
lead. Dr. and Mrs. WHITE were conveyed to the
house of Canon Duirros, whose hospitable mansion
was filled with all the books and furniture that could
be saved from the flames. We noticed Lord Down-
snotc, Sir CHARLES FARNABY, Lord GEORGE
GREN-
V and Mr. EDEN, mixed with_the populace, car-
rying buckets, and working the engines.
The Dean of Christ Church, throughout the whole,
night, exhibited that firmness and composure for
w'--ten be is so eminent. The removal of the lead
from the top of the building, by his order, was at-
tended with the best possible effects. The exertions
of ate Gentlemen of the University were most spirit-
ed. Each vied-with the other in preserving from de-
struction the most superb edifice of the first Univer-
sity in the world. Nor was this spirit confined to the
male part alone : we must not omit mentioning the
amiable Miss BURTON, daughter of Dr. BURTON*
Canon of Christ Church ; who, with the accomplish-
ed Lady of Sir CHRISTOPHER Pfr.GGE,72S most actively
and usefully engaged in distributing wine, &c. to the
fatigued. The estimate of the loss is 812,000.

MURDEII.—Friday night; the 24th ult. T.Courtney,
of the parish of Hcnstridge, Somerset, died in conse-
quence of poison introduced into a barley cake, of
which he had been eating since the preceding Sunday.
But the cause of his death etas so little suspected, that
the remainder of the cake, which was loft when he
died, was eaten (Con Saturday morning by a woman
c the name of Jane Clark, aad a boy of the name of
Guillford, both of whom died in great torments in
less than six hours after partaking of it. A dog, to
which a part of the same cake was afterwards given
:by way of experiment, was also killed by it. A man
who had eaten a small portion of it recovered. The
bodies et the three persons, as well as that of the , All the higher descriptions of. Adventurers feel so
dog, were opened by three surgeons, who were all unusual, so povierful an interest in the chance of ob-
of opinion that their deaths were occasioned by some taming the 1000 Tickets, on the first day of drawing
mineral poison. After a minute investigation of this of the present Lottery, as such Tickets may ultimate-
horrid business before the Coroner, in lie course of ly possess all the Capitals of the Scheme, or, in other
which it was ascertained beyond a doubt that the poi- words, Prizes to the amount of above 100,001)1. that
• son must have been designedly mixed with the cake, the dtmand for wholelickets is now unprecedented.
the Jury, atter a few minutes deliberation, returned Such, therefore, as are inclined to possess Shares of
• verdict br—lfilful Murder by 40tne Huron or perrosu * Tickets, would do well to consider this matter, lest
wasocins" The perpetrator or perpetrators of this . they might soon lose all opportunity of obtaining any
ak °citing transaction have not yet been discovered. lof the 18,500 for sale.