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London, England, 1818-08-12 00:00:00

LANDO' AI/MATS, .4116 UST I i .

THE ARTISTS CHAMBER.

A SKETCH 014 THE SPOT.

Ilse room was low and lone, but lingered thefts
Is careless loveliness, the marks of mind;
'the page of chivalry, superb and drear,

Beside a half-filled vase of wing rciained,
Told how romance anti 'gaiety combined.
And there, lilt% smappof famneietaity,
Stood Statue{ In thelr master's soul enshrin'd,
VtNtv.:•, Ninth the sweet smile and heavenly eye,
And the sad, solemn beauty of Moat.
seatterl round, by wall and sofa. lay
Emblems of thought, that I.oVid from Earth td spring.
';peon a portrait fell the evening ray,
Touch,* with splendour many an auburn ring
That vedi:d a brow of snow, and crimsoning
Thy cheek with beauty like an opening rose.
And there by a guitar, whose silver string
It murmuring, as the soft wind o'er it Soo.,
The tones It brcath'd so Spaniah hills at evening's close!
*nu'.

POWERFUL EFFECT OF CONSCrENCE.—The body of
young woman was, a few months ago, discovered
t the waxer, near: Barming, in Kent, with marks of
wiolence which seemed to indicate that she had been
murdered. Nothing, however, transpired which could
tend to fix the guilt on any individual, and all further
Inquiry into the circumstance had ceased, when, on
Monday, a young man at-Maidstone declared him-
self the murderer. He said, that ever since the exe-
;ution of Hussey, the horrible thought of his own
guilt had rendered his life a burden to him ; that he
could find no rest night or day ; and that he had at
last come to a resolution to deliver himself up into
the hands of kistice.
MANSION-HOUSE.--THE CHARGE or POINOWIRo.
—A few days since a young gentleman attended be-
tore the LORD MAYOR, and alter relating a variety
of circumstances touching the sudden death of his
father, directly charged his uncle with having been
concerned in hastening his dissolution. The charge
was at that time treated rather as the chimera of a
disordered mind than as having any foundation in
fact; but in order more fully to satisfy all parties, it
was agreed upon that an application should be made
for the disinterment of the body, which had been
buried in the church-yard of St. James's, Piccadilly.
Mr. Lewis, the Coroner for Westminster, was accord-
'agly applied to, and the 'circumstances which gave
rise to the application were fully detailed to him.—
Mr. Lewis, in answer, regretted very much his ina-
nity to comply with the wishes of the patties, for
dithout stronger grounds of suspicion than those he
had heard, he could not grant a warrant for taking
ap the body ; if he did so at all, it must be for the
perpose of having the matter investigated by a Jury,
and from the distance of time, as well as the corrupt
gate oldie remains of the deceased when interred, it
would, he conceived, be impossible for any man to,
come to a fair conclusion upon a view of the body.
The matter thus remaining unsettled and unexplain-
i, it was resolved upon to aptly to Dr. Meyer,
who, it was recollected, attended the deceased a
short time before his death. The Doctor imme-
diately declared the death to have been perfectly
natural, and expressed much astonishment that any
doubt should have arisen upon the subject. In or-
der, however, to set the question finally at rest, he
-ame yesterday to the Justice-room, and was sworn
a statement, of which the following is a copy :

" London to wit:
" I John Meyer, M.D. do hereby make oath, that I attended
the late William M—, Esq. a few hours previous to his daub,
and i . my judgment he plied of the cholera marina.
- (Signed) 6" gam sierra."
The uncle of the young man was present, and
stated that this would be quite satisfactory to all par-
les, although Mr. M. jun. still continued in a state
of mind truly distressing to his friends.
The LORD MATOR expressed much pleasure at this
satisfactory termination of the matter.
It was intimated, that the young gentleman who
preferred the complaint was actually insane at the
time of his coming to the Lord Mayor.
BOW-STREET.--We mentioned some days ago, the
application of Mr. Hall, a gentleman in the law, and
several of his frienjs, who complained of a violent
assault upon their persons, by Lord Ranelagh and
five of his servants, armed with a double-barrelled
gun, Indian clubs, and a pitchfork, at the time when
they bad taken shelter from a storm, under a tree,
nea.r his premises at Fulham. Proceedings had in
the interval been stayed, and a written application
tiad been made by Mr. Hall and his friends, for a
satisfaction for his Lordship's and servants' conduct,
but no answer was returned by Lord Ranelagh, who
all:Iliad to Sir N. CONANT upon the charge that had
been exhibited against him and his five servants,
saying that if any charge was regularly made against
lim and his servants, be and they would attend to;
tnswer it. Warrants were accordingly applied for,
iesterday to apprehend his Lordship and his ser-
vants; and Mr. Hall was informed by Mr. Birnie,
that his Lordship and his servants would attend or
future day.

~.........-: sarvirantt-green) of Mr.Clprianl, ,
the Treasury, were broken open, on Saturday last.
isnd robbed of several articles of value. On Mon.',
day a labouring man, named William Haw e, haw,'
ing found sputa of the articles, in a neighbouring
ditch, and haying heard from Ms. Cloud, of Ham-
mersmith, that gr, Cipriani had been robbed, went
to the house of the latter with the p but in-
stead of being thanked, be was take 4 "di
pg=ycinite
and commiued to the cage ; there he remai
night, and was yesterday dragged Le Ihrn-stye
'
a charge. of felony. The MAGlLviritAtz OK
was not an atom of foundation fob jim charge, a
dismissed it instantly. The man t asked for rt.
dress, but the Magistrate said, he Mahst apply for
that to those who had irirprisimed hiro.
'Harrox-nanneir...—Yesterday Jason Aimee,
driver of one of Mr. Morris's Paddington Stage.
coaches, appeared to a summons, charged with ne-
gligently, and through misconduct, sunning against
the togs Paddington Stage-Oath, by which the
liYes of the passengers were in Jaeger. It was stated
in evidence, that the defendant betag asked why he
ran against the coach P ante/tied that he did it wil-
f illy by order of his master t and that he had hi 4
niastcr's authority to:elm aOltiet the coach wherever
i.e. met with it. l'he Magistrates convicted the de-
t‘ii.lant in the penalty of St and one shilling costs :

the latter signified his intezition of appealing against
the conviction.
Ileum Lye!, who was stated to
rise living in splendour with a courtezan, was charged
by the parish officers with deserting his wife, and
leaving her chargeable on the parish. Ordered to
make a proper allowance.
A negro, in a sailer's dress, aaplied yesterday to
the Magistretes of Union-hall, and complained that
he had been robbed of £l5 in Bank-notes. -He ex-
&ined to the Magistrate in broken English, that on
IDhursday last he was paid off from a vessel at Chat-
ham, called the Ann, and on the same evening ar-
rived in town with a shipmate, named John Harris.
)ever having been in England before, and under-
standing but little of the English language, being a
native of Surinam, he eagerly accepted the proposi-
tion of his comrade to go with him to a house where
'they should find comfortable lodging and plenty of
provisions at a reasonable rate. lie was conducted
to a house in Black Lion-court, Tooley-street ; the
tvoinan•cif ;he place was remarkably civil, and a
quart °Nit', was sent for, which Harris insisted he
would himself pay for. Herecollected nothing more
that passed, being seized with a stupor arising from
intoxication; but on Friday morning found himself
lying on the stones in front of the house, without
..packet, hat, or neck-kerchief, and all his money gore.
He made some persons in the neighbourhood under-
stand that he wanted a constable, and he was di-
meted to one, who went to the house and took Harris
into custody, but instead of taking him before a Ma-
gistrate, suffered• hint to escape. A £lO note was
seen in the possession of the constable, a few minutes
afterwards, and the poor complainant conjectured,
With some show of reason, that he had shared the
plunder with his dishonest shipmate. The Magis-
trate desired Glennon, the officer, to make imme-
diate inquiry, and discover, if possible, the parties
concerned, and take them into custody.
SnAtowELL.—John 11PCarthy, Tim. Foley, and Ann
Foley, his wife, were brought up in the custody of
several officers, charged by them with nearly mur-
dering a man named Patrick Splaghan, an Irishman.
It appeared from the statement of the witnesses,
that the neighbourhood of Poplar was frequently
thrown into the greatest confusion in consequence of
national rows, or fights with shillalehs, pokers, &c.
taking place, in which serious injury was done. Spla-
ghan, who was a desperate fellow in fighting for the
party to which he belongs, became obnoxious to the
other party, who determined on having revenge the
next time they met him. The other night, about the
commencement of dusk, Splaghan, with one of his
companions, was walking along High-street, Poplar,
and the prisoners, on seeing him, commenced an at-
tack, and abused him much ; the watchman came to
prevent the row, but found it useless ; when he had
proceeded a short distance, the prisoner Foley, who
had gone in doors, rushed out with a large poker,
with which he gave Splaghan a tremendous blow on
the head, which felled him to the ground in a sense.
less state; a general riot took place, and sticks, &c.
were flourishing in every direction ; while he was
lying on the ground Foley came up again, and struck
him on the head with the poker ; the female Foley
then came up, and struck him with something she
held in her hand as he lay on the ground. M'Carthy
also came up and kicked him, and jumped on his
body, and with a stick he had flourishing over his
head, struck him with it ; another person named Pa-
trick Donovan, not in custody, likewise ran up to him,
kicked him and jumped on his body and set off: by
this time a strong party of watchmen had arrived,
but from the flourishing of different weapons, they
were too much alarmed to attempt to take any of the
parties. In a short time Drummond, and several of-
ficers arrived, and with the assistance of the watch-
men, they with much difficulty quelled the riot, and
secured the above-named prisoners. Splaghan, who
lay for dead on the ground, was taken to Mr. Blau-
chard's, surgeon, of Poplar, in a most dangerous si-
tuation, being covered with blood and wounds. Va-
rious remedies were resorted to which shortly re-
stored him to his senses, when he requested that
none of them should be taken in custody, as per-
haps it was no more than he should have done him-
self. Mr. Robert Blanchard, surgeon, of High-street,
Poplar, dressed the wounds ; he stated, that Spla-
ghan ad received a most desparate wound on the
right orbit of the eye, about three inches long ; he
had two or three other wounds on his face and head,
and was very much bruised about the body ; he was
in imminent danger, and in the course of a few days
he would have a change for the better or worse.—
From Mr. Blanchard's he was taken to the work-
house, with little hopes of recovery.—The prisoners
were all remanded for further examination, till the
fate of the unfortunate man is known.
Flat IN RATCLIFFE HICHIWATMOSI of the un-
, fortunate individuals who were burned out in conse-
quence of the late calamitous fire have lost all their
property, but happily no lives were lost. The whole
of yesterday was occupied by the firemen in digging
the ruins, in hopes of finding some of the property ;
but they only succeeded in finding some stvereigns
and other trifling articles. A desk belonging to Mr.
Henniker, mitring property to a considerable
manoaM, tar misting. One of the firemen yesterday
found nee of the supporters of the desk in the ruins,
most In a perfect-state; but On digging for some
afterwards, not the least symptom of any par-
tick of the desk appeared.
Opsossuto's Immairr.—Yesterday an inquest was
held at Mr. Oxley's, ljoyil Armoury Mills' Enfield-
Lock, eels; Waltham Abbe, on the body of Master
Smith, aged 13, son' to Mr. Smith, of Wood.
street, Cheapside. It appeared in evidence, that the
'deceased wee at the boarding school of Mr. Williams,
of High Beach, Enfield; he proceeded to the river
)lea, about half a mile from the school, with Mr.
Williams, jstn. 6bn to the master of the academy, and
her boys, for the purpose of bathing ; they
iently gone to the same place to bathe; the
___ and the other boys undressed themselves,
And went into the wafer. Unfortunatelwthe deceased
went out of his depth among some weeds, and was
seen by M. Williams drowning. The latter instantly
sent two of his school-fellows who could swim in
,after him, and another for assistance (not being able
to swim himself); he ventured in about a yard from
the deceased, but farther was out of his depth. A
young man came in a boat, and got the deceased out,
after being under water about twenty minutes; a sur
geon eras sent for, who did every thing in his power,
but to no purpose. Verdict—Acddental Death.

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Conroe,-The accounts from the manufacturing
districts continue unfavourable the spinners do not
return to their em ploy ment.-The sales of Cotton last
week were very considerable; the greater propor-
tion of the Pernambuco and Bengal Cotton were for
exportation. The purchases were-1300 Peruams
25. Id. to 25.. lid. 100 Maranharns 2s. 36 Boweds
21d. and 21 id. a few Orleans 211 d. Demeraras 23id.
'to 2s. 48 Barbadoes 2l d. to 220. a few Montser-
rats 201 J. Suriname 2s. Ofd. to 2s. lid. 74 Laguiras
19d. and in the house, 1640 Bengals 90. to 1111 d.
90 Sutats 121,d. to 150.
L tvenPoot, AUGUST 8.-The principal part of
the spinners Who had turned out for an advance of
wages still continue out of work ; the dealers also
having supplied themselves with Cotton during the
two preceding weeks, the demand this week has been
very limited. Yesterday there were brought forward
by auction 600 Bengals, which went off very heavily
at std. to 10fd. for inferior to fair quality. The
Bengals went at a decline of id. to id. per pound
from last week's sale, and the fine marks of the De.
meraras sold about Id. per pound lower than the
previous nominal prices. Brazils have also declined
about id. per pound, other descriptions remain with-
out alteration.
COFFEE.-After Tuesday last the prices of Cciffee
declined ;3s. to 4s. per cwt. and early on Friday the
market had every appearance of a considerable de-
pression, and we believe one or two holders who took
the alarm, sold at very low prices St. Domingo was
then reported to be sold at 1475. The public sale
brought forward on that day, however, went off
with great briskness, nearly recovering. the depres-
skm of 3s. to 4s. which had the day previously taken
place. T..ere was some appearance of a revival in
the enquiries after Coffee this forenoon, previous to
the public sale being brought forward ; the holders,
however, would submit to no depression, and ap-
peared more firm than for some time preceding-for
St. Domingo 151 s. was offered and refused. The pub-
lic sale consisted of 233 casks 13 bags, chiefly of Ja-
maica Coffee ; the whole went off with uncommon
briskness at a further improvement of 2s. to 3s. per
cwt. the greater part good ordinary Jamaica selling
1455. and 1455. 6d. a shade better, nearly fine ordi-
nary, 1465. ordinary to good ordinary 1435. to 1435.
6d. very ordinary 1395,-The alterations in the Coffee
market, since last Tuesday, may thus be stated-the
better descriptions of Coffee 2s. higher ; the ordinary
qualities 3s. higher than on that day, and fully ss.
advanced since Thursday last.
Soomr.-This morning there is more enquiry for
Muscovades ; the sales are more considerable than
last week ; the prices are without the slightest varia-
tion. The stock in the West India warehouse, on a
comparison with the quantity last year, at the same
season, is found very deficient. There was a consi-
derable demand for refined goods, yet, on account of
more supplies, the finer qualities were offered at a
small depression. Lumpsare in request for shipping
to the Baltic. Then has been some request for Ha-
vannah and Brazil Sugars last week ; yellow of the
former had been reported Ms. the latter 525. Yes-
terday 14,808 bags East India descriptions, at the
India House, went off much about the prices of the'
former sale. _ _ _ _

HEMP, FLAN, AND TALLnw.—The demand for
Tallow since Tusday last has been limited ;—the
prices giving way. In Hemp or Flax there is little
variation.

ToaAcco.—There have been rather extensive pur-
chases of Tobacco ; Virginia (Richmond inspection)
has been sold at 755.

IRISH Paovlsroxs..—The demand for prime par-
cels of Beef continues ; India and Mess York have
been in very great request, and it is reported that
there will be a further quantity wanted by the Go-
vernment, in addition to the late large contract.—
Bacon is in increased demand. The prices of Butter
advance rapidly on account of the late excessive
drought ; the supplies of Irish are quite inadequate
Ito the demand ; several late arrivals of Friesland have
met a ready sale.
Itree.--There is a great revival in the demand for
Rice ; Carolina has realized 50s, and the holders of
parcels in bond are asking 425. to 445. There are
also more enquiry after East India descriptions ; the
prices are advancing.
Rum, BRANDY, AND lIOLLANDS.—The prices are
little varied ; the request had in a great measure
subsided until this forenoon, when a greater disposi-
tion to do business was evinced ; 200 puns. Leeward,
2 per cent. under proof, were sold at is. '2d. and ge-
nerally of the market it may be stated, there is an
appearance of an improvement, on account of the
very-short supplies. A public sale of Brandy was
brought forward last week, and went off much higher
than was expected ; it consisted of 98 puncheons ;
the best Cogniac sold Bs. 4rl. to Bs. sd. remainder 7s.
9d. to Bs. 4d. There is little doing in Geneva, the
prices remain the same.
Orts.—There are no accounts yet received of the
Davis Straits Fishery.--The prices of Oil in London
are nearly nominal ; the purchases are confied to
small parcels for immediate use, too trivial to mention.
Greenland cargoes, for arrival; have been sold a
shade lower. Southern has also declined. There is'
little variation in Seed Oils ; the few purchases lately
made are at prices a shade lower.
GLASGOW MARKETS, AUGUST S.

Corrox.—The sales of the week amount to above IWO pack-
ages. prices—Sea Island Georgia 45, at ss. Id. to :s. 6idl.—llo.
Stained o, at Os. od.—Bowed do. 562, at Wed. to 21 id. a few
at 2114—New Orleans 73, at 22“. to 23d.—Pernatubacco 65,
at Os. Od. to 2s. 20.—Maranham 15, at os. Od. to 2s. Id.—
Bahia 10, at its. Id.—Bahama —, at Os. Od.—Demerara and
Dorbice 165, at WO. to 2s. Od.—West India, CY, at 111 d. to
• id.—Bengal :10, at 13d.
On. is quoted at the following prices :—Whale, Greenland,
(to arrive), at 341.—lkst Seal (:ht: only description of Oil at
Market), at Z. 61. to 571. Cod, at 36/. to 40/.

The following vessels belonging to Peterhead are
arrived there from the Greenland Fishery :
Resolution, Capt. Sutter, 11 fish, 140 tuns of on.
Perseverance, 3lllne, 30 do. 1;0 do.
Jean, - Bruce, 3 do. 35 do.
Gleaner, - Shand, 5 do. 45 do.
Alpheus, Duncan, 8 do. 100 do.
Active, - Gray, 21 do. 120 do.
Enterprize, --- Philip, 15 do. It do.
Alert, - Penny, 12 do. 200 do.
Superior, - )danson, 8 do. 40 do.
The Dexterity, GEARY, has already sailed for
Archangel, and Sunderland ; and the whole of the
Peterhead Greenland vessels arc freighted fgr the
paltie, and about to sail.