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house, Leeds. March 8, Joseph Moore, Manchester, corn-dealer.'
at nine, at White's gotel,:Manr:hestri.. Navels ps Peel* Smith.
htevaglatey, grocer, at eleven, as the. Ship but, Nevaitisimy.
hinds' Philip Ban . late of Alevail eurnitistt, at eleven, at
the White Mart lan, St. Austell. Mprdl, 1 Lawrence Prim'.
Liverpool, timber.snerchant, at eleven, It the ogee of Mr. Alison.
Liverpool.
CERTIFICATES--Maacn 7.

Valentine , Clutten' Halessiortb, Suffolk,. brandy-merchant.
Joseph Vat 4 Cooper, Daimon Middlesex, wine-merchant. George
i Shirp, Leeds cordwainer. llionelgnewks, sm. Lionel Knowles,
jun. and Stephen Hartley Knowles, Gumersal, Yorkshire, mer-
chants. Samuel Dorton, Oak-lane, Cheapside, warehouseman.
Lazarus Barron, Strutton-ground, Westminster, and Old Kent-
road, Surrey, linen-daaper. James Booty, Newport, Isle of Wight,
Hampshire, grocer.
- DISSOLUTIONS OF PARTNERSHIPS

Matthew Winder and William Levtrett, Saffron-Walden, Essex,
spirit-dealers. John Dices and Ruhr. Wood Richardson. attorneys,
Manchester. James Hatfield and Edwin Emerson, Cambridge,
linen-drapers. Joseph Kendrick and Henry Tattnn, Vauxhall-
bridge-road, oil . and colourmen. :Robert. Syers and George D.
Syers, Liverpool. chymists. Thomas Mimes, and Gilber Rim-
tner, Liverpool, timber-merchants. Henry Sibley, Joseph Sibley,
and:Frances Sibley, Oxford-street, haberdashers. Henry Silvester
and George Bishop Smith, Liverpool, millers. JosephEveleigh
and Sarah King, Liverpool,' hatters. Gregory Cook, and John
Mott, Southampton, linen.dtapers. George Sanderson and Joseph
Scott, Watling-street, warehousemen. John Jakemen and James
Morris, Gloucester grocers. Robert Fairclough and David Fair-
dough, Farington. Lancashire, skinners. Joseph Fearon and
Joseph Fry, Liverpool. William Mallard and Mary Dudwell,
Goodgesstreet, St. Pancras, oil and coleurmen. Thomas Hickin-
botham and John Hickinbotham, Great Wakering, Essex, farmers.
Joseph Bracewell, Robert Shaw, and Mary Shaw. Lees, cotton-
spinnent, Henry Newark, Joseph Watson, and William Newark,
Goldsmith-street, riband-manufacturers, solar as regards -William
Newark. Robert Latham and William Frederick Latham, Den-
mark-street, Soho, goldsmiths and jewellers. Thomas Richard
Codmer and William Merritt, St. Dunstaria-bill, Lower Thames-
street, ship-agents Jonathan Moon and Charles Buckland, New
Bond-street, linen-drapers. George Carr, Anthony Carr, and
Anthony Thomas Carr, Leicester, hosiers. Nicholas Isaac, sea.
.Nicholas ham, jun. and Thomas Arnold, Marshfield, Gloucester.
shire, brewers.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, VEIL 13. 1825.
Corps of Rjyal Engineers..--Seeond Captain Robert Sloper Piper
to be Captain, vice. Booth; First Lieutenant James Patrick
Catty to be Second Captain, vice Piper; Second Lieutenant
George William Dixon to be First Lieutenant, vice Catty. •
Royal Regiment of Artillery.—Second Lieutenant Joseph HO-
lingworth to be First Lieutenant, vice Townsend, retired on
half pay.
Commissions in the Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalrytsigned by the
Lord Lieutenant of the County of Stafford. •
Brierley., Gen. to be Lieutenant, vice Web?. resigned;
Henry Charles Winos Graham, Gent. to be Comet. vice Mod-
ems, deceased. • *
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A FEW REMARKS RELATIVE TO ARTHUR
3IURPHY, ESQ,.

PROM Tug PANORAMIC MISCELLANY, nit MONTHLY
MAGAZINE AND
PCOM the year 1798 to 1801, 1 had the pleasure of
living in the same hamlet (that of Hainmer,mith) with
this Gentleman; his house was situated at the corner of

the Lesser Mdll, and his garden, which overlooked the
Thames, bad a pleasant drooping willow in it, under
which I have nften seen him, on a fine summer's after-
noon, sitting reading by himself. A few doors from
him resided that bold and enthusiastic painter, De Lou-
therhough. The habits of Mr. Murphy, from the op-
portunities. I had of peeing him, and they were malty,
were recluse and solitary; perhaps his, age, which was
then considerable, and the narrowness of his pecuniary
mean, which was piincipally derived from the situation
he held as a Commissioner of Bankrupts, might be a

leading cause for his seldom associating kith others.
He ist‘ one time osed to frequent the -Hammersmith
Coffee house, in the Broadway.. to ~%be purpose of
perusing the papers. 'The society was so very uncon-
genial to his cast of mind, that he soon 'refrained from
resorting there, except in a few instances, where he
took the chair at meetings of a public nature. His regular
and favourite attendance was at thePack-horseTavern, at
rural am-green; bere,upoo an evening,in the long ctiffee.
rooms,was to be seen this Nelson of literature, at a table I
ligheed by two.cand'es, in a corner, by himself, perusing
the daily Papers; if any party were sitting near him
and engaged in the most ardent conversation, he pre-
served the same taciturnity, except now and then giving
orders to the waiter. general beverage appeared
• On-brandy and water, which he drank slowly and
with great moderation. I never recollect his exceeding
a shilling glass at one sitting, which. would frequently
last two hours. I recollect once dining at his house
a a Sunday, and that be had his tea Ai soon as his
meal was Over His appearance in dress and personal
phisiognomy, was completely characteristic of the Gen-
tleman. He was a tall, spare figure. He was one of
the last professional auttiors who woe: a bag-wig. I
used to like to look at him. for there was a placidity
and mildness in his features which would invite a.
stliager to-commune with him, but there was mixed
with the same an inte:lectual gravity and seriousness
that repulsed any one from making rude advances.
.He would frequently walk around the district of his
evidence, and I. have often seen him stop and give
pecimiary aid to poor persons he chanced to meet with.
there is a little anecdote, which I had from Mr. Marlow,
of Hamintrsmith, relating to this Gentler:ran and the
late King's cook, Louis Weltjie,. who lad retired on a
handsome fortune in the immediate- neighbourhood
where Ur. Murphy lived, which created much laughter
at the time, and may perhaps be worth detailing.
" This Welijie. was one of those lucky Germans who
was • so liberally patronised by the Queen, and who by
his cooking abiaties (for he had no other}, had raised
himself from very low begianings to independence. He
as paving nee morning by Mr. Morph y's house, whose
servant maid was cleaning the door, and who by some
,accident slightly soiled some part of his dress, which
caused the splenetic foreigner to abuse the poor woman
`molt unmercifully. She endeavonred in vain, by the
meekness of apology, to subdue his unreason able '
anger. Not content with this; he 'sent one of his pow-
dered footmen to state to MI. Murphy the great crime ~
his housekeeper had committed. ending his harangue .
with this thin 'My master says, Sr, if you do nut
•urn this insolent servant away he shall write you a
-letter immediately upoa.the subject.' • My good man,'
rej. fined the man of letters, 4 tell your master I do not
intend to please him so fat as to, turn my nitwit away
for so trivial an accident; and, as.respectt any letter he
may intend to honour mo with, tell Oh Welijie that
shill be exceeding happy to receive a letter !calm
him now or at.any other time, provided he /Rows how
to write one." E S.
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Q',K IL has I:iced-living tl,.ichester, for the last
twelve years in a vew retired
.roaniser. This prat dra-
matist valid scarcely give utterance to his fevhngs on
the late visit of the respected diocesan, In pte.ent to hi®
th KIWI'S donation of one handsel guineas.
Ye.terday being Valeutine's Day, the numbt,r of
[letters tor delivery was 'urea that upwards of thin)
lestra hands were added to the Twopenny Postth:part-
went, togethst with a number of eztia soitku.