Star.
London, England, 1821-09-11 00:00:00

ADDITIONAL PARTICULAR&

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At five o'clock yesterday morning, the whole of
the houses between Messrs. ATTIVOOD and Seommit's,
No. 27, and the house Nn. 31, Gracechurch-street,
Were one complete mass of ruins, and the whole of
White Hart-court appears utterly destroyed. The
scene presented about noon yesterday passed descrip-
tion : an area of upwards of one hundred yards square
is made by the devouring element; and on a spot
that was on Saturday crowded with buildings, and
overflowing with population, not one stone is left
upon another. It is difficult, and indeed impossible,
in this scene of confusion and distress, to ascertain
accurately the number of houses destroyed. Three
houses fronting Gracechurch-street, in the occupation
of Messrs. Low and PEwrons, Mr. RYAN, and
Messrs. Fossicx and Co. are completely levelled
with the ground, independently of the dreadful de-
vastation in the court. The unfortunate man, named
Itlun, who was on Sunday conveyed to the Hospi-
tal dreadfully injured, is said to have expired yester-
day morning; and it is certain that Perkins, belong-
ing to the London Assurance, and the turncock of
the New River Company (the keys belonging to
whom have been found), are buried in the rums.
The loss sustained is immense, but it is impossible to
ascertain, for the present, anything like the amount.
The firemen were yesterday busily engaged in dig-
ging for the bodies of their unfortunate companions,
but hitherto without success. The engines continued
playing on the ruins; the fire was completely got
under. In addition to the fireman and the assistant
turncock, two of Mr. RYAN'S shopmen are missing,
and great fears are entertained that many others have
lost their lives by the falling of the house, as many
persons were seen actively employed in saving pro-
perty a few seconds before the fall.,

WILLIAM ALLEN and Co. having seen, with much
surprise, in the STAR Paper for this day, k report
that some gunpowder was upon their premises when
the fire in Gracechurch-street broke out, think it ne-
cessary to state that there was no foundation what-
ever for the report, as they have not at any time
received the article into their premises; and further,
that so far from being " filled with combustibles," as
the same report erroneously say s,thei► premises in town,
for the last sixteen years, have been rendered parti-
cularly safe, by making a laboratory in the country
the manufactory and store for certain preparations
deemed objectionable.
Plough Court, Loatbard-street, 10th of 9th Month, 1921.

When the KING presented a superb whip to the
Duke of LEINSTER, at the Curragh Royal Meeting,
his MAJirrry turned to Captain BROWNE, the Ranger,
and was pleased to express himself in the following
gracious manner:
• . " Mr. Bums; I intend this Whip to be presented to the
owner of the best horse in Ireland, weight for age ; and I wish
you to fix the weights, and draw up an Article, according to
which it is to be run for ; and in addition to this Whip, which is
to be run for every year, I give a Stakes of One Hundred Gui-
neas annually. As I wish to encourage the breed of strong
Horses in 'this country, you will take care to make the weights
vefy heavy, and that no horse younger than four years shall be
permitted to run for it."
In these few words the Reader will recognize not
only a very handsome compliment to the Gentlemen
of the Turf, but an instance of his MAJESTY'S earnest
feelings to promote the interest of the country ; for
there is no doubt that the breed of such a noble ani-
mal as the horse, successfully and judiciously at-
tended to, would serve very materially to advance
that interest.

At Exeter Races, the gold cup, value 100 guineas,
was won by. Mr. FaaQuirmisoN's Spindle, heating
two othert.—The County Members plate of £5O was
won by Mr. GA RDINER'S Imo,gene ; as was the City
Members' plate of fifty pounds by Mr. FARQUIIA R-
SON'S Spinetta.
We are happy to state, that Mr. COKE has per-
fectly recovered his health.
We hear with pleasure that the Grand Musical Fes-
tival which is to take place in the city of Bath, next
month (and for which CATALAN! and Mrs. Sausiox
are engaged), has excited so much interest among the
neighbouring fashionables, thpt several scientific Gen-
tlemen Amateurs have offered their assistance in the
orchestra on the occasion; and that Sir C. NV. BAMP•
FYLDE, Bart. is named as one of the performers on
the violincello. As a completion to the arrangements
of the week, we hear that a Grand Ball will take
place at the Upper Rooms, on the evening of the last
performance, under the patronage of some Ladies
and Gentlemen of the first distinction.

Monday se'nnight, a bird of the eagle kind, called
the Osprey, was killed in Stoke's Bay, by Mr. JEANS,
son of the Rev. Dr. JEANS, of Egham, now residing
at that place, measuring, from the tip of the bill to
the tip of the tail, two feet, and the expanse of the
wings, five feet nine inches; the talons one inch, very
crooked, sharp, and black, and the claws an inch and
a half long. The head is dark brown, approaching
to black, mixed with white; back, wings, and tail,
dark brown, with the ends of the feathers white ; the
covert wing feathers white, some barred ; inside of
the wing. dirty
.white, barred ; belly quite white;
throat like the head, rather whiter; bill black; the
roots of the under mandible are greenish sky-blue ;
thighs white ; legs naked, and of a greenish sky-blue;
the eye is rather large, with a large circle of yellow.
In shape it is somewhat like a goshawk ; the bill,
thick, strong, and very crooked ; the five outward
wing feathers are of a good shape, but with a re-
markable increase of size in the middle; The bird is
remarkably fat for one of the rapacious kind ; the
legs are of immense size and strength, and though
both its wings were broken, and hit in different parts
of the body and head, yet no dog would venture in
after it when it fell in the water.

Tuesday last, a boy of Mr. MARK, hatter, at Rom-
ford, coming home from school, swallowed some fly-
water, which he mistook for sugar and water; and,
though assistance was immediately procured him, the
child died on the following morning. The water had
been placed in the parlour window by his mother till
she answered somebody in the shop, and during her
temporary absence the fatal draught was taken.
A melancholy accident occurred at Redcar on
Sunday last. A young man, groom to Colonel
MURRAY, went down to the sea to bathe, it being
rough, and the tide ebbing, he swam out beyond the
breakers ; but, from the strong out-set of the tide, he
was unable to reach the shore. lie was seen struggling
I tome Lite,i and then sunk to rise no more.

LA

COURT OF CHANCERY, SEPTEMBER B.
INADEQUATE PURCHASE.
STILLWELL V. WILKINS ANA ANOTHER.

-------- ---- A short time Suite application was made to his
Honour the Vice-Chancellor, to appoint a receiver
of the rents and profits of an estate, claimed 'by
the heir at law of a poor sailor, of weak intellects,
who had been induced to part with his property,
worth nearly £2OO a-year to his father-in.lw, for
£250 and an annuity of £5O. The Vice-Chancelltir
addressed himself to the transaction in terms of sevire
reprobation—expressed his belief that the plaintiff
must ultimately prevail in his suit, and therefore
granted the receiver to take care of the property in
the meantime. The defendants were dissatisfied with
the judgment pronounced by his Honour, and ap-
pealed to the Lord Chancellor, before whom the
whole case was re-heard. His ordship, after consi-
dering the arguments of Counsel, and looking into
the pleadings, expressed himself to this effect :-
44 This is an application to discharge an order made
by the Vice-Chancellor, appointing a receiver. It is
a case in which the plaintiff states himself to be the
heir at law of a man who had been a sailor, and en-
titled to a real estate, which was bought of him by a
person of the name of Collier, his father-in-law.—
The estate is represented to be of the clear yearly
value of £lBO. The amount of the purchase money
was 250 guineas, and an annuity of 50 guineas for
life, which may be valued at six or seven years pur-
chase; so that the consideration for the estate was
about £650, the ordinary value of a fee simple estate
being twenty years purchase. This motion was made
by Mr. Ilan. He represented it as a case which
brought forward the dry question, whether inade-
quacy of price was sufficient to set aside a sale and
purchase? That the Court is with difficulty pre-
vailed upon to do it is most certain; but that there
may be such an inadequacy of price—an inadequacy
so enormously great as to induce the Court to grant
a receiver, I take to be clear. This is a very hard
case upon the defendants, upon whom there is no
possibility of imputing anything that can affect their
honour and character, for they took it under a devise
in the will of the person who purchased the property
in 1801. Yet it is impossible to deny that he had
procured a purchase from a person utterly unable to
judge for himself—a common sailor on board a King's
ship, dealing upon terms with the nature of which
he was unacquainted, and the purchaser perfectly
Iknowing the value of the property. The degree of
inadequacy isgreater than in any purchase lever knew
or heard of. Six or seven years purchase for £lBO
alear, is a very inadequate price indeed. I cannot
agree with Mr. Hart that inadequacy of price is the
only circumstance in this case. The bill charges
many other circumstances, which will be very mate-
rial when the cause comes to a hearing. The de-
fendants have put in an answer, stating that they are
ignorant of all these circumstances; but they do not
go the length of stating that they do not believe
them to be true, or that they have endeavoured to
inform themselves of them. It does not appear that
they have sought for information or knowledge of
the circumstances that are extremely material. The
question that struck me was of a different kind, and
that was, whether a Court, in the case of a bill to set
aside a purchase fraudulently obtained (I repeat it,
not by these defendants), had the power, or ought to
appoint a receiver prior to the hearing of the cause;
that is, whether it should take the possession of the
estate from those who have the present right to the
possession, or leave the parties to struggle for it ? I
put it to Mr. Roupel to tell me whether he could
find a single instance where it had been done? I
have looked, with a view to see whether the money
paid to the grantor had been satisfied by the rents
and profits received; for if not, at any rate those who
bought the estate would be incumbrancers for so
much of the purchase money as had not been re-
ceived back by the perception of the rents and profits.
But this latter ground fails; for I understand that
the amount of the rents and profits must have been
more than the 250 guineas, if they were ever paid,
and the £5O annuity, which most probably was paid,
because I observe the representative of the deceased
has received the 50 guineas for the last year. I
admit that I cannot recollect a single case in which
a receiver has been so appointed ; but the question is,
whether there may not be a case in which such re-
ceiver should be appointed? If the case stated is
true, and it is more than probable it is, the inade-
quacy of value is so monstrous, and the state of in-
tellect of the young man who sold it was such, that
it is hardly possible to suppose the transaction can
stand ; and I think, upon the whole, that such an
order may be made, though it is not the general
practice. I will therefore, not disturb the Vice-Chan-
cellor's judgment."
LAWYERS' FELL

In the course of a motion for reviewing the taxa-
tion of a Solicitor's bill of costs, the circumstances of
which we are not disposed to enter into, a discussion
incidentally arose upon the subject of the fees paid
to Counsel. It appeared, by the statement of Mr.
Agar, that, for some years past, a practice had pre-
vailed, which was wholly at variance with anything
of which the Lord Chancellor, when he was at the
bar, had any notion. It seems that Counsel, instead
of being paid their fees instanter, upon the delivery
of their briefs, and more particularly with their in•
structions to draw bills, answers, and the various
matters of pleading, are obliged to give credit to
their clients—that a great part of the business of
their clerks is the keeping running accounts with
the Solicitors. " Generally, said Itir. Agar, " when
the Counsels demand reached a certain amount,
they received regularly, from the more respect-
able class of Solicitors, drafts upon their Bankers
for the money ; but in many instances they were never
paid at all." This .had happened to himself to a very
considerable amount, and he was sure the same had
taken place with regard to many of his learned Friends.
The LORD CHANCELLOR appeared to be perfectly
surprised at hearing this statement. He had no idea
that anything of the kind prevailed; he thought it a
very improper practice. He recollected, when he
was a very young man, one of the first fees which he ,
ought to have received was for signing a plea.-1
Having signed it, the Attorney put his hand in his
pocket, and, feeling about, expressed his regret at
having forgot to bring any money with him ; but
from that day to the present he had never seen either
[the Attorney or the lee. Generally speaking, no

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teottiv.el in his time ever thonglit himself retained tin
he had actually received his fee; and, As an iostance
of this, he recollected the circumstance of a brief
having been delivered to Serjeant Davy; WithoUt any
Indorsement of the fee that should have accompanied
it. Same short time after, the client called til on the
Learned Serjeant, and asked him what he thought of
his case ? Think of your case!" replied the Ser-
jeant, drily, Why, to tell you the truth, I stave
never been able to look any farther into it than here"
—taking up the brief, and pointing to the place where
the fee ought to have made its appearance.
Mr. ROAR said, the practice had got to an extent
beyond anything his Lordship could imagine. The
fact was, it was in a great measure unavoidable. The
Masters, in taxing the costs, allowed the Counsels'
fees according to the length of the proceedings they
had drawn ; so that the Solicitors could not always
knew what Counsel were entitled to. That practice
had a most mischievous consequence with regard to
the suitors, and made the proceedingi of a Chancery
suit unnecessarily expensive; for, if a Counsel, em-
ploying his utmost ability, compressed a voluminous
mass of matter into a very small compass, as he often
might do by imposing upon himself additional la-
bour, he would only receive, for drawing a bill, per-
haps, two guineas • whereas, if he recited and de=
tailed, unnecessarily, a quantity of deeds and docu-
ments, swelling .the record to an immoderate length,
he would perhaps be allowed sixteen or twenty gui-
neas. That was one of the rules in the Master's office.

In truth, the Masters in Chancery exercised no talent
whatever themselves; they generally left the business
to be transacted by their clerks. The whole practice
of the Court had been altered : formerly, the Solid-
torsadrew the bills, answers, and pleadings, them-
selves, and laid them before Counsel to peruse and
settle; but now the entire labour of drawing plead-
ings of every description devolved upon the Gentle-
men without the Bar, the Solicitors themselves doing
little or nothing but laying the instructions and pa-
pers before them. When Lnrd Erskine increased the
fees of the Solicitors, it was an increase given for
what they did not do. Formerly, they had sixpence
a folio for drawing the pleadings themselves—now
they had a shilling a folio for doing nothing; the
whole duty fell on the Bar. Ile threw out these ob-
servations in the confident hope that they would, at
some time hereafter, meet with the consideration of
his Lordship and the other Judges of the Court.
The Loan CHANCELLOR observed, that when he
was at the Bar, he had paid more to the law-stationer
for copying many of the bills he had drawn than
the amount of the fees he had received for draw-
ing them.
ATTORNIES...-BRICHENO V. THORPE.
This was a case somewhat of a singular and novel
nature. A solicitor of the name-of Day had served
his clerkship with a Mr. Fisher, who was employed
as attorney for the plaintiff in the above cause; and
in the course of his duty he had occasion to copy
come of the proceedings and documents in the cause,
and consequently acquired a general knowledge of
the plaintiff's case. Upon his coming out of his
clerkship, and setting .up for himself, he was en-
gaged as the Solicitor for the defendant; and the mo-
non now made was, that he should not be permitted
to act as the defendant's Solicitor, on the ground that
as clerk to the plaintiff's Solicitor, he had obtained
that sort of information of which he might enable his
client to avail himself in consequence of his previous
situation in the office of his adversary's Solicitor. The
matter having been heard on both sides,
The Loan CHANCELLOR refused to grant the
prayer of the motion. He would not make a rule
imperative upon one branch of the profession which
did not apply to another. Every one knew that
Counsel, after having been engaged in a cause on
one side, were frequently retained and obliged to
give their services to the other. He had himself been.
placed in that situation. During a period of his prac-
tising at the Chancery Bar, it was his habit to attend
the Circuit, and whenever he-had been engaged in a
Chancery suit, which subsequently became the sub-
ject of litigation, by an issue or otherwise, upon the
Circuit, he uniformly applied to the Solicitor of the
party whose Counsel he had been in the Court of
Chancery, desiring to know whether it was intended
to retain him in the Court below ? If he was not sd
retained, then, rather than not be in the cause at all,
he felt himself at liberty to take a brief from the
other party.
Mr. AGAR informed his Lordship that no such de-
licacy prevailed now. A retainer in an original cause
was not considered as a retainer in any interlocutory
motions or subsequent proceedings. On the con-
trary, by the universally prevalent custom of the Bar,
Counsel were obliged to take a brief from the Solici-
tor who, in the particular stages of the proceeding,
first offered it. This imposed upon them very pain-
ful and unpleasant duties. It often happened that a
Counsel, who had originally advised proceedings,
was called upon to argue against the interest of the
client by whom he had in the first instance been env.
ployed. The practice, to the extent it prevailed at
present, had originated in a famous cause—in which
one of the parties retained all the leading Counsel,
so that the junior Counsel held all the briefs for the
other side in every future proceeding in the suit : it
was, therefore, now a rule to take the first brief that
offered upon any distinct proceeding, though the
Counsel had been engaged adversely on some prior
occasion. _ _

The LORD CHANCELLOR expressed his astonish-
ment at this system. He thought it was a situation
of difficulty in which Counsel ought not to allow
themselves to be placed. With regard to the present
motion, for the reason he had stated, that he would
not make a distinction between Solicitors and Coun-
sel, he should refuse the application.

Sunday, one of the Turnham-green coaches broke
down in Piccadilly. The passengers escaped without
any severe contusions, but their habiliments, from the
dirty state of the street, were tetribly disfigut ed.
Tuesday evening, a travelling jeweller, from Edin-
burgh, was stopped on the Renfrew road, near Glas-
gow, a little to the west of Braehead, by three men,
and immediately eased of his pack, containing five
gold watches, eleven silver ones, with go'd neck..
chains, watch-chains, seals, keys, &c. to tt:e atnout.t
of £126. From his pocket th 4 took his own silver
watch, and pocket-book, which was opened, and Di• 2
in notes taken from it. The book, with its other con-
tents, was thrown away. The box was after.vards
found in the grounds at Draeltead.

ABELH A MAR,
A POETICAL ROMANCE.

The following lines are extracted from the above
Work, published 14st week, by Messrs. LONGMAN
and Co.

" filer eyes are rolling wistful on the Fast,
While nought is there, but the horizon's surge ;
She seems to think on joys whose date hash ceas'd,
Though memory still prolong a wakeful dirge :
Echo of echoes ! from thy shells emerge
A thousand airs to glad the pensive heart :--
Echo of echoes! still around us urge
Thy winding iterations, and impart
T"' weenie" of regret--oh, lull as wit► thine art!
• Rise not, ye thoughts of happiness decaed,
(She said—she, weeping, said) ob, do not come
To fling a dear, but melancholy shade
On my miuntber'd mull--Depart ye—nass
'lust ever lidger--like the stilled kern
Of voices on the Ws where spirits dwell;
Themes arbiter blasts *dr strains at times benunsb,
When the snows thaw, their airy members swell,
And to the vernal shaven their auttering tales they tel
" Think'st thou on me, my love, tldolest thou as me?
Bring, bring him back, ye odoriferous sales,
And waft him smilingly, thou azure sea,
On thy expanded waters, as he sails,
To her that his Long absence fondly wails—
• me ! still, still I dream—what should he here?
The fascination of the prospect fails.'
Ills life's-blood is the pain if he should steer
His bark upon this coast, or at these walls appear r
Thus she complains ; nor of her sorrow strives
To mitigate th' interminable sway:
Birds have been known to sing away their lives—
The swan pours forth existence in a lay;
And the appears to weep bet soul away.
She weeps! and is there none to sympathize?
The drops with drops congenial to allay,
Mourning to mix with mourning, sighs with sighs,
And of departed joy to share the obsequies?

Thursday, Mr. G REIM, the celebrated aeronaut;
again delighted the inhabitants of Hants, by ascend-
ing a second time with his balloon. The following
interesting particulars are communicated to us:
st Thursday, I made my second ascent from the Duke of
York's Bastion, Poem& The morning, although cloudy,
seemed nevertheless to presage farestably; the crowds assem-
bled to witness its secession were wanaiderably greater than on
a former occasion. I should think Ike number assembled must
have exceeded 20,000 persons. About eleven o'clock the opera-
tion of filling commenced, and the balloon was inflated by half-
past twelve, under the superintendence st Mr. Outhett, engineer
of the Gas Company.
a About halt-past one o'clock I took my seat in the ear, after
whicb a signal gun was fired go assemble the Gentknien of the
Committee on the ground: I had the pleasure in this situation
of taking a glass of wine, and retuning to those Gentlemen my
warmat chalks fee their disinterested behaviour. The balloon
basing been carded round the ring, I took my leave amidst tbe
plaudits and anxious good wishes of surrotustling thousands, and
ascended slowly. but raajesdcally, towards the celestial regions.
Ott leaving the ground, my barometer stood 29 7-10ths, and
thermometer 72. Finding I could not ascend to a great altitude
without enteritis the clouds. I discharged. ten pounds of ballast,
and ascended to the • -W,* of three thousand fest. I intended
at this altitude to have dmcmdd my parachute, bat finding my-
self immediately over the harbour. the safety of the animal (a cat
belonging to Mr. Charles Moog) obliged me to aka my deter.
nainadon ; I immediately discharged more ballast, and ascended
to die height of 4,500 feet. I been found the course of the bal-
loon taking a direction N.B. which afforded the spectators a
longer and better view. After being up ten minutes and a half
I descended my paradises and cat, which reached the earth in
safety, but was unfortunately at too great a distance from Port-
sea to have it observed, unless by the adstmce of the telescope.
The descent of the parachute was astonishingly rapid for about
500 feet ; it afterwards became distended, and its oscillation very
inconsiderable : I suppose it reached the earth eight or nine
minutes after its se from the balloon.
is I now ascends with great rapidity to upwards of 10,000 feet:
knowing this to be the greatest altitude I could reach with safety,
so as to enable me to make a few philosophical experiments, I
applied myself to this interesting purpose : the mercury at this
altitude stood at 20 and 5-10ths, and the thermometer at 38.
After completing my observations, I looked at my watch and
found it 20 minutes after two • I determined on descending ; and
by repeatedly discharging ballast, my descent became gradual
till half-past two: at this time a heavy shower of rain added
considerably to the weight of my balloon, and occasioned
likewise the condensation of the gas, so that its rapid de-
menden might have been attended with considerable danger,
had I not thrown out a great quantity of ballast, which had
the desired effect of checking the rapidity of my descent; after
which I descended in a meadow belonging to J. Holiest, Esq. of
3ffitchett Lake, sear Frimley, Surrey; completing a voyage of
nearly 45 miles in 45 minutes. The rebounding of the balloon
was extremely violent; but I at last secured my landing by the
assistance of some men working in the fields, and partook of a
good dinner at the hospitable mansion of J. HAest, Esq. I
afterwards took a post-chaise, and arrived at the White Hart,
Guildford, at seven o'clock.
ee On the following day I reached Portia, and was re-
ceived with a hearty welcome by the Gentlemen of the Com-
mittee, to whose liberality and distinguished benevolence I
shall ever feel gratefuL I cannot forbear giving publicity to
this fact, viz. that after their paying me the sum stipulated,they
voluntarily surrendered she overplus of the motley for the use
and benefit of my only child. To the Committee my thanks
..are particularly due ; to Mum Barlow (brothers), for their
gratuitous supply of gas ; to Colonel Dickson and other Officers
for their kind assistance ; and to the Public at large for their
patronage-and support."
The balloon passed over between Wymering and
Cosham, over Purbrook Park, to the westward of
Petersfield a quarter of a mile ; between Ampshot
and Greatham, over Kingsley, one mile to the west-
ward of Farnham, and a quarter of a mile to the
westward of Farnborough, and landed at Frimley, in
Surrey, four miles S.W. by S. of Bagsho; and about
45 N.N.E. of Portsmouth.

The handsome new tower of St. Helen's Church,
Worcester, is now finally completed ; and the musical
peal of eight bells belinging to that venerable struc-
ture, which have been for so many years mute on ac •
count of the dilapidated state of the old tower, have
been rehung.
In addition to the new Semaphore erecting at
Portsmouth, others are to be' stationed at Lump's
Fort, Portsdown Hill, Hobbs Down, Beadon Hill,
Holder Hill, and Hask Hill, forming a line of com-
munication from Portsmouth to the Admiralty, in
London, which will in future enable the Govern-
ment to receive and transmit communications be-
tween those places in a few minutes, and often pre-
vent the delay occasioned in sending.orders by express.
The newly opened road betweed Sheffield and Glos-
sop forms a level of 23 miles in length, cut through
the rocks and hills, and ravines filled up, which be.
fore intersected this alpine part of England.
The following melancholy accident append lately
at Formby, in the neighbourhood of Liverpool :—As
three boys were playing iu a boat which was anchored
close to the shore, the tide insensibly came in, and
left the boat at a considerable distance from the beach.
'When the boys perceived their situation, and that they
seemed to be gradually getting further out to sea, they
became alarmed, and in their fright leaped into the
sea, and were all drowned.

Yesterday, the LORD MAYOR gave a grand dinner
in the Egyptian Hall of the Mansion-House, to the
Corporation of the City of London, and a number of
the principal Citizens of the Court of Aldermen.—
Among them were—Aldermen HRYOATI, MAGNAY,
GARRATT, VENABLES, C. SMITH, and Lova ; She-
riffs WAITIIMAN and WILLIAMS: the Masters of the
twelve Companies of the Livery, and those who of
at the Coronation ; T. Waso*, Esq. M.P.
the Hon. C. LAW, CounsellorsCounsellorsßOLLAND, ARABIN,
and Nosurou, the City Chamberlain, and H. WOOD-
Tumult, Esq. In the whole, there were not less than
$OO who partook of his Lordship's hospitality.
The dinner was sumptuous beyond precedent in
the annals of civic festivity. The wines.were plenti-
ful, and of the most superior description. After the
cloth was drawn, the health of " The King" was
drank by each guest oat of his Lordship's gold Co-
ronation cup, and the usual patriotic toasts and
songs followed.
The LORD MAYOR, in an elegant and appropriate
speech, proposed the healths of " The Magistrates
of the City of London," and regretted that those who
had passed the. Chair were prevented, by their absence
in the country, from honouring him with their pre-
sence ; but they had, his Lordship observed, the plea-
sure of the company of all those who nem looking
forward to that honour. The toast was drank from
various pacts of ,the room, to Aldermen HEYGATE,
MAONAY, and WAITHMAN.
Alderman MAow4Y, as the senior Alderman pre-
sent, shortly returned hanks, and thought it due to
mention, that it was his intention, on Michaelmas
Day, to tender his services to the Livery of London,
to fill the office of Chief Magistrate, and in so doing,
he had no ambition but to meet the approbation of
his fellow-citizens, and had neither purpose nor party
to serve.
Alderman HRTGATIC returned thanks for the man-
ner in which he had been noticed, and said, that he
looked forward, in the suffrages of his fellow-citizens,
to serve the office of Chief Magistrate for the year
ensuing, as he considered himself the next in rota-
tion, and would, if chosen, endeavour to serve the
office with impartiality. He looked forward to this
honour with the more confidence, as he was not
conscious of having done anything which could give
offence to any.
The health of the Sheriffs was proposed by the
LORD MAYOR, when Alderman WAITHMAN, as the
senior Sheriff, returned thanks in a forcible speech.
Whether his public life had been beneficial or not to
the Public, he could with confidence say, that it had
not been beneficial to himself, and it would be no
vexation to him if he were never to be raised one step
Ihigher than he was. His fellow-citizens had brought
him forward—he was in their hands, and they might
dispose of him as they thought proper.
The health of the LORD MAyon was then drank
with acclamations. He returned thanks in a speech
of much energy. He had endeavoured to serve the
high offices which his fellow-citizens had raised him
to, with diligence and fidelity, and would continue
his endeavours not only for the time he had to serve
the office he then filled, but during the remainder
of his life.
The company remained together in the utmost con-
viviality to a late hour.

COURTS ow CONIERVANCY.—Saturday, the LORD
MAYOR held a Court of Conservancy at the Town.
hall, Southwark, when he received the Report of the
Jury appointed to examine the present state of the
river Thames, particularly with respect to the Gas
°Establishments in the Middlesex district. The Re-
port stated, that the nuisance from the establishment
of the Suuth London Gas Company still continued.
The Jury were so fortunate as to come on the spot at
the precise time that the gas water was running into
the river, which it contaminated to a visible extent
of at least thirty yards from the stream. They took
some of it, for the purpose of making experiments,
in bottles, and found it poisonous to a most serious
degree. The poor of the neighbourhood made loud
complaints of the nuisance, and stated, that the water
was rendered in general quite unfit for culinary pur-
poses. Some bottles of the gas water were produced,
for the inspection of the LORD MAYOR. A Juror
stated, that when the Jury went below they procured
a quantity of live fish, eels and flounders, which they
put in a vessel containing a quantity of fresh water,
and added a portion of gas water to it. The result
was, that all the eels died in less than four minutes
and a half; the flounders died in a minute after they
were put in.—Another Court of Conservancy was'
held on the same day at the Swan inn, Westminster-
bridge. The Report of this Jury stated, that nume-
rous witnesses had been examined on the subject of
the gas. Some fishermen who had obtained their
living on the river from infancy, declared, that if the
practice was not stopped, the fishing would be ulti-
mately destroyed : on passing the gas works they
had the fish in the wells of their boats destroyed at
one time by the gas water. The Report stated fur-
ther, that the Jury had caused the bed of the river,
close by Vauxhall-bridge to be dragged, when they
found the rubbish brought up strongly impregnated
with the residuum discharged from the gas works.
The LORD MAYOR ordered prosecutions against the
parties offending.
Thursday morning, Mr. William Scarborough, of
the Horse and Jockey public-house. Kirkstall, was
found lying dead, in a lane leading from Bramley to
Kirkstall. There were no marks of violence upon,
his body, and it is supposed that be had fallen from
his horse.
DEATII sY Roars:co.—Friday se'nnight, an In-
luest was held at the Raven Inn, Brid gnorth, on
view of the body of Thomas Bason, an itinerant be-
st= maker, who was on that day killed in an affray
with a chaise-driver, of the name of William Pep-
low. The deceased Peplow had been drinkin
together at the house for some time; the deceased
was much intoxicated, and upon some slight provo-
ccation given by Peplow, the deceased struck him,
when Peplow returned the blow, which hit the un-
fortunate man under the ear, and laid him prostrate:
he died instantaneously. An adjournment of the
Jury till Tuesday evening was unanimously agreed
to, that circumstances may be fully investigated, at
which time nothing appearing to shew any malice
aforethought against Peplow, the Jury returned
their verdict—" Manslaughter."—Peplow stands
committed to take his trial at the next Assizes.

CONSPIRACY.
J. Ravenscr9ft, Sarah, his wife, Daniel, his son,
Hannah Raven:ere, and Nancy Woodcock, his
daughters, and another, were indicted for a conspi-
racy to injure J. Roby, in his profession and credit,
as a surgeon arid apothecary.
Mr. ALLEY said, the prosecutor was a young Gen-
tleman who had commenced practice on his own ac-
-Icount, as a surgeon and apothecary, about two yeas
since, and had exercised these professions with great
credit and success. About four months since the de-
fendants had united together to do him the greatest
possible injury, by representing to his customers that
he was not qualified to act as surgeon and apothecary,
nor entitled by law to make any charge for having
so acted, being nothing better than an impostor ; and
that no one who employed hiin need pay him, as he
could not recover by law. For which, he understood,
the only assignable motive was, that one of the fe-
male defendants had formed the opinion that he in-
tended to make her an offer of his hand, and finding
herself disappointed in that expectation, she and her
farally had resorted to the above means of revenging
the supposed injury.
Mr. Roby stated that he has practised as surgeon
and apothecary in Old-street for two years. He had
previously lived as assistant with surgeons at Lam-
beth and Plaistow; that he had several patients, one
of whom of the name of Davis left him lately ; he
served his apprenticeship at Kennilworth, in War-
wickshire; that he was articled in the year 1810, and
came to town about four years after.
Dr. Forbes, of Argyle-street, dep3sed, that he
knew the prosecutor since the year 1815, and con-
sidered him perfectly competent to carry on the busi-
ness of an apothecary. His opinion was founded on
the knowledge he had of the prosecutor, in conse-
quence of his having attended two courses of wit-
ness's Lectures at the Surrey Dispensary, and also
from his having attended other Medical Institutions.
Mr. Hyde, surgeon, stated, that the prosecatOr
lived with him as assistant in the year 1818, during
which time he attended the poor at Lambeth, where
he saw 30 or 40 patients daily, and he considered

him a very clever young man.
Mr. Greatorex, surgeon, of West Ham, with whom
the prosecutor lived in 1816, also poke highly of his
professional abilities.
Catherine Collins, of Gee-street, St. Luke's, stated,
that the prosecutor attended her during an illness
early in the summer ; that some time after Hannah
Ravenscroft and Nancy Woodcock, neither of whom
she knew at the time, came to her house, and in-
quired whether the prosecutor attended her. Being
answered in the affirmative, they said they came to
tell her that he was neither a surgeon nor apothecary;
that he might be clever, but could not recover any pay.
meta in a Court of Law, and they should won get a
printed paper from Apothecaries Hall to prove rt.
William Collins, the husband of the former wit-
ness, confirmed his wife's evidence, and stated, that
soon afterwards Daniel Ravenscroft called on him,
and brought him to the George public-house, where
he found John Ravenscroft and T. Hopley, who
asked him whether he had paid the prosecutor? Hop.
ley told him, if he Should be pressed for payment, be
might,defend it in the Marshalsea Court along with
two others, and the costs would come light on all.
Eliza Davis proved that she had employed the
prosecutor, and found great benefit from his pre-
scriptions. Hannah Ravenscroft and Nancy Wood-
cock, called on her, and told her the prosecutOr was
no doctor, but a good-for-nothing fellow from the
country, and that she need never pay him, as he
could not recover by law.
W. Davis, husband of the former witness, stated,
that Ravenscroft, sen. desired him not to pay the
prosecutor anything. He went to Ravenscroft's house
a few days after, when he saw all the family, who
said the prosecutor was an infernal villain and good-
for-nothing scoundrel, in consequence of which wit-
ness ceased to employ him.
J. W. Bickerton stated, that Ravenscroft told him
the prosecutor was not a professional man, and could
not recover payment ; and Hannah Ravenscroft said,
her father and two other Gentlemen were determined,
when they came from the Isle of Wight, to ruin him.
The defendant Hopley was there, and offered the wit-
ness a note to an Attorney in the Rules of the King's
Bench, who, he said, would defend him against the
prosecutor, hould he sue for payment.
Here the case for the prosecution closed.
Mr. ADOLPHUS made an ingenious address to the
Jury fur the defendants. He attributed the expres-
sions that had been used to the too warm resentment
of a female, who supposed herself injured, and the
lexcusable sympathy of her friends.
The CHAIRMAN said, a clearer case of conspiracy
could not be proved ; and the Jury found all the
prisoners Guilty.
The prosecutor requested that the female prisoners
I might be allowed to remain at large, on their under-
taking to come up to receive judgment.
The CHAIRMAN complimented the prosecutor, and
complied with his request.

•
Monday se'nnight, the funeral of Mr. &MOM;
which took place at St. Michaers-Coslany, Norwich,
attracted an immense concourse of spectators. It was
supposed between .5000 and 6000 were present : the
cause.--the enormous bulk of the coffin, which was
seven feet two inches long, three feet four indleS
wide,itsdeptirwastwenty.three inches, and its weight
upwards of 12 cwt. It was carried on a bier, as no
' hearse could contain its and lowered by tack into
the grave.

Bow-stoner.—Yesterday, John Ta,rlrtr seat examined be fat
llltettaau Ithaate, Esq. and fully column for tii-1, stn tce • te.
of house-breaking.—lt appeared that the proi...ctr.,r, Wig;
Francis, a green-grocer, residing in Little („;u:blford-rtreet, 1144111,
sell-srare, on the 4th of August last Taitted his house aiwx
five o dock in the morning, leaving the same securely feetwill
for the purpose of attending Covent-garden Market ; on bra re.
torn he discovered that it had bean entered by means of f
keys, and property to the amount of d'ao stolen. A peryan
copying the house opposite had observed a man Mad 4'3,17.,
Francis's house, and a descriptien of him being ;:iver,
the conductor of the Bow-street Patrol of that district, he .a 2
prehended the prisoner that morning in Wells-strect,
Bonne, and on searching his lodgings, several of the stden
Iles were found.
ge,„„Queee.„—A footman in the family of T. F. x Ts
ton, Faq. the Barrister, was charged before the sitting
'l'
trate on suspicion of robbing his master's hnuse. :al the renrctue.'
of the sth instant, of plate to a large alueunr, and abot,t £t9
notes and sovereigns.--It appeared that inhumation et tbe rob:.
bery had been given at this Ofrce, and Gilmore the Oecer 1,4
been sent to examine the premises; he tinual that a piece
been cut out of a pannel in the street door, but so clumsily that
he was clearly of opinion it had not been dent by regular thieve. •
he found a gimbiet in the house which corrc.ronded with the
boles bored in the door ; and, on closer insitection, he discotree4
the holes had been bored inside. 'Nis itiduced him to vanilla
the servants, and be learned the ptisoner did 113 t go to heti till
two or three o'clock in the morning. Ile net: scathed th; •e a.
toner's- box, and found a phosphorus box and nutchm, six ,;;e:
reigns, of which he could not give a satisfactory account, a p:ir
of silk stockings belonging to his master, and other anklet, aag
consequently he took hint into custedy.--"ir. Terten said he
bad not given any of those articles to the prisoner.
band-bills to be circulated, offering a reward of 4:44) for a din
covery of the robbers. Since that lie received a letter, giving
some information upon the suleect ; but the writer pretends
he is afraid of being murdered if he conies forward. The m,„;,_
trate thought thisletter was to mislead the prosecutor more.ll;
anything else, and ordered the prisoner to be remanded.
Information had been received at the Office a short time sus
that several Noblemen had lost some valuable dogs since the
commencement of the sporting teason. G. l'ople and Corm
subsequently discovered a gang of dog-stealers residine,:tt
sea, and they apprehended two of them. Amongst the deg,
stolen were ten pointers, the property of the earl of Fas'
,e 1;
two fine setters, the property of Mr. Mr:lish, M.P. a brace d
pointers belonging to a Gentleman in Queen-=glare, mid several
others, each of which were worth front LSO to 4:100. oeed
the gang went into the country in the char,lct, r of a 'pertain;
and the officers traced hint to Cambridge, where they tool: La
into custody. Ile sold several fii:e dogs on I,ls travels, and ae
the day he eras apprehended he received Xlett for two stoke
pninter:. They brought him before a Magistrate, tt.ltere tk
charge was proved, and he was committed to the Ho% t oiCor•
rection for six months. His companion was remande,l.
Aforr,ao, a youth, was charged with picking the } oAet of
.1. W. Gardant, while the soldiers were mounting guard on Its.
day 'wailing, of his pocket handkerchief. He was !Catskill as
the spot by a Constable who witnessed the transaction, ad
found the handkerchief on him.— Fully committed.
Harros-Ganneir.—Yesterday Edward Hancock, a constable,
residing at Battle-bridge, brought a fine boy, only eight ye.in
old, before the Sitting Magistrate, to whom he related the id.
lowing particulars :—About eight o'clock ou Saturday del
the boy was found crying inMaiden-lane, by a woman, d
whom he was inquiring his way to Rumford; he had on an.
titer bat, shoe*, our stockings : and being asked how h.t cam
there, he gave the following account of himself; he stated
that he had no mother, add that his father was at sea, and h
was placed at Mr. Perry's •boarding.schnol at linmford.—
Last Wednesday week be had a half-holiday to sec the Fa,
when he met a man in a brown coat, who gave him a phis
and desired him to come with him, and he would give him sons
gingerbread, and shew hint the shows ; he went with the met
who took him into a caravan, where he saw a rattlesnake; that
were three other men and a woman in the caravan. Oneafk
men blew a trumpet ; they kept him all day, and at nighttime
off, taking him with them, and threatening him it he cried. list
night he and three men slept at Laytonstone, on Epping Femit
and they sent the woman and the other man to Loudon AI
' the caravan. Next day they remained in the forest plc*
blackberries, and he lived upon them, some %beat, and apiece
of red herring. They slept en the forest all that wick. Mlt
the men did in turns, he could not say ; but one night he hal
the watchman, and he called to him; one of the men tole*
to hold his tongue or he would murder him. One of the ism
robbed him of his new shoes, stockings, hat, frill, and !Auk
neckerchief. On Saturday they arrived in Loudon, and at hilt
deserted him In Maiden-lane, where he began to inquire ki
way to Rontford, when he was brought to ilaneeck, the Osb
stable, who kept him ever since, and furnished him with sham
and stockings to appear in. He is a fine fair child, and appeals
to be well educated, and to have been accustomed to company.
The Magistrates made him sit on a chair between themselves,
whilst they examined hint very strictly. Ile did not vary ia
the least in the statement delivered by the constable. Ile was
handed pen, ink, and paper, and desired to write his name, and
the school front whence be was enticed away ; he wrote, in a
very fine hand, " Mr. Perry's Boarding School, Ilomturd, Wil-
liam Brown." The Magistrates expressed their surprise that
Mr. Perry did not advertise him, as he was taken away a week
last Wednesday. The Officers intimated they had a strong ma-
picion of the parties who took away the child, and thought
.they
could apprehend them. The Magistrates ordered the Othct.rs
to make eeery effott to take them, and desired Hancock to keep
the child, that he might be brought forward to prove the case,
particularly of robbing hint of his hat, shoes, stockings, and
neckerchief, and to proceed instantly to Rumford, and acquaint
Mr. Perry, which he promised to do, and thus the case rests

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1311iTH.
Sept. 8, in Hatton-garden, the Lady of John Sim, kt. D. d
a daughter.

MARRIED.
Sept. 4, at Cadder, Thomas Dunmore, Fag. Commissary-GF
seal, to Mrs. Stirling, widow of the late Hoist. Stirling, bal.
Tuesday, at Dronlield, the like. W. IL Vale' one of the As
sistant klinistets of the PaiLh Church of Sheffield, to Ilia
Emily Spencer, daughter of the Rev. William Spenco, Vice
' of Dronlield.
Sept. 5, at St. Martin's, Coney-street, James C. Chanute;
Esq. Captain in the 4th Dragoon Guards, to Anne, youage
daughter of James Atkinson, Esq. of York.
Sept. 3, at Ballintempk lurch, county of Tipperary, I%
ham J. She'll, Esq. of the Medical Staff of the Army, to
lotte, widow of the late John Southcote Mansergh, Est d
Grenene, county of Tipperary.
Saturday, at Ahinger, in Surrey, Jobn CampbrO, d
Lincoln's Inn, Barrister at Law, to Mary Elisabeth chit
daughter of James Scarlet, Esq. M.P. for Peterbo.-ough.
Lately, K. B. Wrey, Esq. second son of Sir T4T.-
of Tawatock House, Devon, to Mary Ann Jatarh nxa 1.
William Peterson, Esq. Chief Magistrate of Lyme.
Sept. 2, at Belfast, Lieutenant-Colonel T. Gsraer. of tbs
Hon. East India Company's service, to Maria, eldest d"411181.
of the late Major Edm.. Burke, of Greenfield, iu tae cued!
of Galway.

DIED.
On the 9th inst. Amelia Maria, wife of .11r. larao7li

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Forbes.
July 12, at St. Ann's Barbadocs, the relict of Capt.
ming, Deputy Assistant Quarterm.tster-General of that isidai
Tuesday, in Dock, Plyntoteb, after a lingering dine*
Sunning, Esq. many years 31aster in the itnal Navy.
August 30, at BourJeau.c, the widow of Cite.
was killed at the batte of P:es.len, in I st S.
Thursday, at Tunbrick4e9 after a sh-t t but tcv.re Maw..
RteVicesimus Knot, D. 170. Rector of llunweii dad Itailo

Crays, in Essex. siA o 8 years.
July 16, in Auzusta, (3corgia, r;:ates,
N'Lea, r.,erchant, a native of

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