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London, England, 1825-07-26 00:00:00

YOU REMEMBER ELLEN.*

Ton remember Filen, our hamlet's pride,
How meekly she blesed her humble lot,
When the stranger, William, had made her his bride,
And love was the light of their lowly cot.
Together they laird through winds and rains,
Till William at length, in sadness said,
" We must seek our fortune on other plains;
Then, sighing, she left her lowly shed !
They roatri'd a long and a weary way,
Nor much was the maiden's heart at ease,
When now, at close of one stormy day,
They see a proud castle among thc trees.
" To-night," said the yOuth, we'll shelter there;
The wind blows cold, the hour is late;"
So hr blew the horn with a Chieftain's air,
And the Porter bow'd as they pass'd the gate!
Now, welcome Lady, reciainid the youth—
This castle is thine, and these dark woods all;
She believ'd him wild, but his words were truth,
For Ellen is Lady of Rosna Hall!
And dearly the Lord of Rosna loves
What William, the stranger, woo'd and wed,
And the light of bliss in these lordly groves,
Is pure as it shone in the lowly shed!
• This ballad was suggested by
,n-well known and interesting
story, told of a certain Noble family, in the West of England.

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EXTRAORDINARY CHA CB.

The town of Market Bosworth; Lecestershire, has
been thrown into an unusual state of excitation during
the past week, owing to the committal to the county ,
gaol of its principal Inhabitant, Sir Willoughby Wool.
ston Dixie, Bart. on a charge of maliciously shooting.
It appears that as the Rev. Mr. Wright, the Vicar of
that plsce, and his son, who is also a Clergyman, wete
returning in a gig from the visitation h:ld at Leicester.
Saturday, they were .fired at from a window in the Ba-
ronet's house. Not having been living of late upon
the best terms with their wealthy but eccentric neigh-
bour, the Reverend Gentlemen naturally because
alarmed at the occurrence, and lost no time in laying
the facts belie the Rev. Mr. Fell, a Magistrate of the
Cssunty, who appointed Monday last to investigate the
matter. Mr. Bond of this town, Sir Willoughby's So-
licitor, having been sent for, the affair underwent in-
qitiry at the Public-room at Bosworth, which ended in
the Rev. Magistrate making out his warrant of corn
mittal against the Baronet, who is to take his trial
upon the charge at our Assizes next week. This cir-
cumstance becoming known, the inhabitants, with peat
numbers of whom the Baronet is very pepular, be an
to assume a tone and attitude which rendetei it
necessar yto call in a strong civil power. In conse-
quence thereof, the Under-Sheriff (Nlr. Miles) procured
the assistance of a considerable number of constables
fr m the surrounding neighbourhood, who, arming
themselves with staves, hedge-sakes. &c. took their
station in the town, to preserve the public peace. Not-
withstanding these precautions, however, a chaise,
which had been sent for from Ilinchley, had its traces
cut, and other symptoms of a turbulent disposition
were manifested, which rendered it advisable n •t to
remove the prisoner till the crowd had dispersed.—
There appearing little probability that this v.r3uld be
the case up to a late hour, it was determined that he
should be brought to Leicester early the next morning.
Accordingly, at break of day, a chaise and four drove
up to the George Inn, and Sir Willoughby having
taken his seat therein, with a constable on one side, and
his Solicitor on the other, drove off for Leicester, fol-
lowed by six constables on horseback. About five
o'clock, the Baronet reached the county gaol. On
getting out of the chaise, he surveyed the building, and
then walked into prison with his usual sang froid. his
carriage and four fine iron.grey horses entered the town
shortly atter, and drove to the Bell Hotel. Sir Wil-
loughby has apartments in front of the gaol, but is not
allowed to have his servants to wait upon him. He
has, however, a person in attendance, who is constantly
with him. His Solicitor, of course, is also permitted
to scc him. We understand that the Baronet has been
in the habit of frequently shooting at birds from the
window above alluded to, which is his billiard-room,
and that the defence to be set up to the charge upon
which he is committed will be, that he was doing so on
the day in question. The distance of the premises
from the road.on which the Messrs. Wright were pass-
ing, is more than 150 yards ; and the shot discharged
at them was of the description used in killing small
birds. None of the shot took effect upon their persons,
although they fell very near them. Bail to any amount
has been offered, but refused. Mr. Serjeant Vaughan.
Mr. Clarke, and Mr. Denman, are to conduct the de-
fence, should a true bill be found.—Leicester Journal.

A letter from Aix-la-Chapelle, of July 19, says—
Tim Septennial Fete of the Relics continues to attract
'vast crowds. On Sunday, between 9 and 10 o'clock
lin the morning, about 40,000 pilgrims entered the city.",
FlRES.—Saturday morning, between two and three
o'cleck, a fire broke out in the Logwood Mill, at the
Dye Works of Messrs. Ashton and Sons, at Broughton
Bridge, and communicated to the engine-house and
machine-room adjoining, which, with nearly the whole
of their valuable contents, were destroyed.
Sunday afternoon se'nnight, during Divine Service,
a fire broke out in the premises of Messrs. Sharp, Hill,
and Co. at the bottom of Falkner-street, Manchester.—.
The greater part of the building was what is denomi-
nated fire-proof, but it is said that the flames were com-
municated to one of the floors from some dry timber
which was piled in the yard, and the fall of that floor
laid the other; open to the ravages of the flames. The
smiths' shops were burnt down, and the most valuable
part of the machinery and mill-work escaped.
At two o'clock on Sunday morning se'nnight, an
alarming fire broke out in the stables belonging to
Mr. Coffey's Inn, Carlow. The negligence of one
of the helpers to the hostler, who slept in a loft over-
head, and had forgotten to extinguish a c indle, was
the cause. The fire was got under. with a trifling loss.
A dreadful fire broke out on the 14th of this month
at Zuidvolde, in the Netherlands, and destroyed above
$0 houses, together with the Roman Catholic Church.
One of the men lately apprehended at New Orchard,
in the act of coining, escaped from the Kilkenny jail
about noon on Sunday sennight, by scaling the wall
into one of the gardens which open into the adjoining
lane. He has not since been heard of.
It is said that the Directors of the several Insurance
Companier have succeeded in gaining a promise from
the CHANCELLOR of the Excumuen that he will, at
the next reduction, remit the greatest portion of the
duty on fire insurance.
Sunday se'nnight a young man, an itinerant vender
of last dying speeches, Stc. was unfortunately drowned
in the river Test, at Tiling. whilst bathing in the heat
of the day. His friends, by name Templeman, are re-
spectable glovers, at Yeovil, and the deceased was lately
bequeathed considerable property, by a relation, on con-
dition of his giving up the vagrant life he was leading,
to check which all the earnest applications of his friends
had been in vain. He was in his 23d year.
Several complaints having been made to the Magis-
trates of Mary-la-bonne Office' of persons bathing in
the Regent's Canal during the day, to the great annoy-
ance of the inhabitants and passengers, officers have,
been appointed to parade the banks to apprehend the
parties so offending.
The heat of the bummer appears to have been as ex-
cessive in the United States as in this country, and an
abundant harvest is confidently anticipated throughnut
the Union. Amongst the many gigantic projects on
which the Americans are employed, is the grand state
road, which *hen execated, will form a continuous un-
interrupted highway of %SOO miles in extent, through
-the territories of the United States and the Mexican Re.
public, to the city of Mexico.
In some parts of Abyesiwa fossil salt is used as a sub-
stitute foe money.
,Dr. blaamara has discovered that if a dog is fed on
-white bread and water, and continel wholly to that
diet, he will die within fifty days; but if the br.in is
kit in the bread, no bad effects arc experieuced by
a:he swim:al.

COLOMBIAN PRIVATEERS.
•
Several instances halm occurred in the course of the
year, in which the Privateers of Colombia, under pretext'
of attacking the commerce of Spain, have committed
outages on the trade of neutrals. A well authenticated
case of this kind took place with regard to a ship called
the John and Anne, of London. it was captured by
the Clara, a Colombian schooner, when about to enter,
the Havannah on the 13th January. The ship was of
British register, the seamen were British, and they
sailed under the British flag. The commander of the
privateer, upon coming up with the John and Ann, or-
dered her Captain to surrender his register, manifest,
and letters. He then commanded him to leave the ship,
and go on board the schooner. Having seized the let-
ters, he informed him that the vessel was lawful prize;
and then substituting some men of the privateer for
seven sailors of the John and Anne, who were take')
prisoners, the captain of the former ordered the latter to
sail for Carthagena. The cargo of the John and Anne
was there conAmned as lawful prize, on the ground of
t)eing Spanish property, after proceedings which lasted
from the 7th February to the 7th March. During all
this time, the Captain, with the assistance of the British
Consul, protested against this violation of international
law. When the sentence was passed, on the 9th M *rch,
the Cal.t sin was asked to declare, by signing it, that the
cargo was Spanish. This he refused to do. A bribe of
2000 dollars was tendered for his compliance. This
likewi,e he rejected ; but neither his remonstrances, nor
his courageous honesty, could save the property of his
employers. The cargo was condemned, and sold by
auction as Spanish, while the ship was given up as being
British. Redress, we understand, bas been already
demanded, and we have no doubt will be granted for
this outrage; otherwise the conclusion of treaties of
commerce with the new States, and the appointment of
British missions to maintain amicable relations with
them, would only provoke insult and lead to spoliation.
It would be absurd to allow the principle on which this
condemnation proceeded—namely, that property con-
signed to a Spanish house, or on the point of entering a
Spanish port, was lawful prize, as being necessarily
Spanish property. The French and North Americans
have demanded and obtained redress in cases similar to
the one above stated.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

--or---
MANSION-HOUSE.

Saturday, a flour-factor appeared to a summons, charging him
with selling five sacks of adulterated flour' contrary to the provi-
sions of an Act of Parliament of the 4th of Geo. IV. commonly
called the Bakers' Act.
The complainant, a baker, residing in the Hackney road, stated,
that on the 7th inst. he purchased the flour in question from the
defendant, who warranted it to be household flour, but on making
it up into bread a few days afterwards, the loaves were found to be
so bad, that he could not offer them for sale to his customers, and
on tasting the flour, he felt convinced that there was a quantity of
plaster of Paris, beans, Ste. mixed with it, and to satisfy himself
sent a sample of it to Mr. Clarke, of Apothecaries' Hall, to be
analysed. He then produced a sample of the flour and one of the
loaves, which appeared to be of the coarsest' description, and
very brown.
plr. Clarke stated that be had been in the habit of analysing
Sour and other articles of food for Government, for the last twenty.
flee years, and that he had analysed the sample of flour produced ;
the result of the experiment convinced him there was no plaster of
Paris in it ; but he found that 1-15th part of it consisted of beans,
and the remainder was dour of the coarsest description. Mr. Dixon,
a baker, who happened to be present, then tasted the dour, and
said he was convinced there was no plaster of Paris in it, but that
there was a quantity of beans in it, and, at all events, it was any
thing but household flour.
The defendant's Solicitor said, his client was most anxious to
meet the case fairly and openly. and therefore would not take ad-
vantage of the 14th chose of the Act, which directed that all infer-
Madons under it should be Sled within a certain number of days
from the delivery of the Sour; be would wave that objection, and
let the case proceed.
The LORD PILITOR asked Mr. Clarke, if there was anything in
the flour, unwholesome, or likely to prove injurious to the consu-
mer? To which he replied in the negative. His Lordship said that
being the ease, he could not convict nada the Act of Parliament,
and the complainant must seek his remedy by an action at law, and
he should therefore dismiss the complaint. His Lordship then asked
Mr. Clarke whether dour was ever adulterated with piaster of
Paris? To which Mr. Clarke replied, that a short time since he
went down to Hull, by order of the Lords of the Treasury, to
analyse samples of 1,447 sacks of flour, then at the Custom-house,
there, to be shipped for Spain and Portugal ; and on examination,
he foiled one.third of it was plaster of Paris, one-third burnt bones
and beans and the remainder Sour of the coarsest deacripdon. On
his reporting the result of his examination to the Lords of the Tree-
sorb the dour was condemned, and ordered to be thrown into the
sea, and the (movers of ft fined to the amount of 3E10,000. The
value of the flour was between £3,000 and £4,000.
His Lordship then asked Mr. Clarke if he bad ever analysed
any adulterated tea (his Lordship is a tea-dealer)? to which Mr.
Clarke replied, that he was at present engaged by order of Go.
Vernment in analysing' several chests of Caper Souchong Tea, and
although he had as yet only examined a few of them, yet be found
that one-fourth of their contents was lead ore, or poison of the
rankest description, and be knew from experience, that a great
quantity of tea was adulterated in a similar manner; and the
result of his observation convinced him that the greater part of the
statements contained in a work published some time since by Mr.
Aecum, the celebrated chemist, respecting the adulteration of food
(although they were disbelieved at the dose), were 'triedy correct,
and not at all exaggerated. The adulteration of tea had been cep.
ried un to a most surprising extent lately, and he would convince
his Lordship of the fact, by sending hint a sample of the Souchong.
A long conversation then ensued between Mr. Clarke and his
Lordship on the subject of the adulteration of various articles of
food, at the close of which his Lordship thanked Mr. Clarke for the
valuable information he bad given him, when the latter bowed
and withdrew.

Sunday night, be the hours of :icier and twelve o'clock. the,
accompanied by her son and daughter, went to ,:ee a young Lady
home, who bad been spending the day at her house.. Upon their
return from the Lady's house, in passing down Regent-street, the
primmer, in company with another person, came up and endea.
voured to force thetneetres between her and her daughter, when
she desired them to walk away, as their company was not wanted.
Her son also spoke to the prisoner, who immediately caught hold
of his collar. and said, " I will-give you what you want," accom-
panying his observation with some improper expressions, and in-
stantly struck her son: she directly interfered, When the ptisOnvr
struck het on the face, and dim her daughter on the breast. lu
consequence of this wanton assault she called the watch, and tars
the pdKmet into custody.
A Gentleman who was passing by at the time, deposed that he
was going down Regent-street, on the opposite side of the why ;
hearing some words, he crossed over, when he beheld the prisoner
strike first the son, then Mrs. Goodyer and her daughter.
The son and daughter also proved the assault as committed by
the prisoner on them.
Mr. Richard Prate Smith, in his defence said, the son was very
impertinent to him, and also struck at him; he certainly struck t'.
eon, and he might by mistake have hit Mrs. GOodyer,but he would
deny ever having offered to bit the young Lady.
The Magistrate observed that his behaviour was very unwar-
rantable throughout, for he bad no right whatever to force him.
self into their company, nor, when be was desired to leive, to cum-
mit a breath of the peace by striking three persons, and two of
them females. To prevent such improper behaviour he should
order him to find bail upon the three charges of assault, when Mr.
R. P. Smith was locked up in consequence of his bail not being
forthcoming.