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London, England, 1810-04-24 00:00:00

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SUG rED BY THE I:KORBTAM FATE ON MONO° PARK,

THL CELEBRATED AFRICiR TRAVELLER.

From Miss MITYOID'S Poems, just published.

Oh ! when at length through Afric's dreary wild,
Defying death and danger, PARK had toil'J,
How proud the day ! how blest the vent'rous man,
That saw accomplish'd all his mighty plan !
Saw Niger roll to meet the morning beam,
And Sego's tow'rs reflected in the stream !
Delighted of the mystic wave he drank,
Hail'd the kight flood, and dropt upon the bank ;
And on that spot, then first by Christian trod,
Pour'd forth thanksgiving to the living Gon.
Proud was that day ! But lengtken'd labours rose ;
By sickness wraken'd, and begirt with foes.
Reluctantly he turn'd ; and pass'd again
The dreary wilderness, the fiery• plain ;
Through barb'rous tribes and warring nations toss,
Till health and strength, and all but hope was lost,
When negro friendship bore him to the strand,
And science hail'd him to his native land.

Then was his hour of bliss ! success had crowed,
The daring youth, and spread his fame around;
And pity's sigh, and admiration's smile
Flush'd his pale cheek,•and sweeten'd every toil.
Then high-born beauty join'd th' applauding throng,
And added grace to nature's sweetest song. •
Whilst in the "white man's woe, the negro's care,"
The gentler sex a double triumph share.
Oh ! when secure in Albion's happy land,
He trac'd his dangers with recording hand,
He little thought, when HOUGHTON'S shorten'd date
Drew pitying tears, how similar hi: fate ! •
How soon those blood-stain'd shores should seal his doom,
Ur slav'ry close him in a living tomb!
Again he went, with hope and ardour fir'd,
With mild philanthropy's warm zeal inspled ;
Again he went ! untrodden worlds to scan,
To meliorate the lot of savage man !
To ope the track for England's peaceful train,
That wafts her commerce o'er the azure main,
To bid fair science bless the sultry shore,
And art diffusive spread her golden store ;
Bid pure Religion, 'mid the trackless wild,
Rcar her high fame, and pour per precepts mild,
• Converted nations own the sacred tie !
And Afric tin day-spring from on high !
For this the wand'rer went. And how he fell
Another Park, in future years, may tell.
But fall howe'er he might, whether he died
Swept by the fierce Tornado's furious tide ;
Or, whether in the desart met his fate,
With famish'd eye, alone and desolate;
Or, still more wretched, destin'd to endure
The ling'ring tortures of the barb'rous Moor;
Howe'er he fell, let glorious was his end,
Of truth, of nature, and of man the friend!
But loni; shall Science mount her vent'rous son
Untimely lost; her arduous task undone.
Long o'er his fate Philanthropy shall sigh ,
And Faith and Virtue waft him to the sky !

In the Bill now before Parliament for amending
the laws relative to turnpike roads, it is enacted that
where any cart or waggon entitled to exemption from
toll on acco.int of its conveying fodder or manure,
shall have paid toll on passing through a turnpike.
gate empty, the driver shall be entitled to receive back
such tolls on passing the gate loaded with fodder or
manure, in the tourse of the same day. Another
clause enacts, that the names of all towns and villages,
shall be inscribed ir. legible characters at their en-
trances. A penalty is imposed on toll collectors giv.
ins; base coin in change, and refusing to take it back.

A man in Forres, who was blind from his in-
fancy, and whose ingenuity in mechanics has excited
much astonishment, was lately committed to gaol,
on a charge of entering into several shops by means
of keys which he had made for the purpose, and car-
rying off goods of every description. It is said, that
owing to the peculiar construction of one of the locks,
he had devoted a great portion of three years in mak-
ing a key to fit it.

A journeyman weaver, named Appleton, on
Tti-
day, undertook for a trifling wager to eat 36 penny
buns and drink two quarts of alse in 40 minutes, at a
public house near Long-alley, in Mootfields ; he de-
voured 30 of the buns and drank half the ale in little
more than half an hour, but he had by that time be-
come so ill, that he fell from his seat, and was carried
to his apartments in Wheeler-street, Spitalfields, in a
state ct. insensibility.

Late on Friday night a gang of thieves got over
the garden wall of Mr. Taylor, at Hampstead, with
intent to rob the house, but, being alarmed by the
watch, they made their escape, leaving a man's fur-
cap, a pair of gloves, a bludgeon, a pair of slips, and
an iron crow behind them.

M. Joiner, the younger, charged with having ma-
liciously set fire to a plantation of fir, and other tim-
ber trees, belonging to C. Spurrier, Esq. on the night
of the 24th of March last, situate in the parish of
Great Canfurd, is committed to Ole Castle of Dor-
chester.

At Glasgow, on Tuesday last, a boy, of about
three years of age, was left sleeping in a folding bed;
NI hen a servant coming in to arrange the furniture,
and clean the room, negligently fplded the bed with-
out taking notice of the child. About a quarter of
an hour thereafter, the mother came in, and missing
her child, turned down the bed, and found it com-
pressed and smothered by the bed-clothes. Every
mean of resuscitation was instantly tried, but without
success. •

A boy, seven years of age, snme days since play-
ing near a windmill, in the neighbourhood of Brigg,
was struck by one of the sails, and his head was
shattered to atoms.

Saturday noon an elderly woman, crossing the
road near Ratcliff-cross, fell down as a cart was pas-
sing along, one of the wheels went over her body, by
which she was so shockingly hurt as to cause her
almost immediate death. •

Yesterday a Coroner's Inquest was held at the
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,:, on the body of J.
his apartment, in Roe-
Verdict—Died by the

P..II2LUIGIENTARs- PRECEDENTS.

,We alluded on Saturday to the upright conduct of
Chief Justice Hon. on the subject of the right of the
House of Commons to commit. The following ex-
tract from Lord HOLT's Reports contains the opinion
of that Learned Judge upon this most important
question :

.THE QUEEN 4. PATY AND AL.' MICH. 3 ANN.

On a writ of Habeas Carpus, the Defendants, who had been
committed to Newgate by the House of Commons, were
brought into Court ; and the cause of their commitment was
returned to be, for having commenced and prosecuted an action
at law against the Constables of Ailesbury, • for refusing their
votes in the election of Members of • Parliament, in contempt
of the jurisdiction, and breach of privileges of the House
of Commons. The Counsel for the Defendants prayed that they
might be discharged for several reasons; and for that they hid
done no unlawful act, &c. But three of the Judges opposed it,
and said, that the House of Commons were the proper Judges of
their own privileges, &c.
HOLT, Chief Justice.—" I am of opinion, that the prosecution
of the suit is lawful, and no breach of the privilege of that House ;
nor can their judgment make it so, or conclude this Court from
determining contrary; and when the House of Commons exceed
their legal bounds and authority, their acts are wrongful, and can-
not be justified more than the acts of private m"i. There is no
question but that their authority is from the law, and as it is cir-
camscribed, so it may be exceeded. If we should say, they are
judges of their privilege and their own authority, and nobody else,
that would make their privileges as they would have them. In
such case, if there be a wrongful imprisonment by the House of
Commons, what Court shall deliver the party ? Shall we then
say, there is no redress, and that we are not Mlle to execute those
laws on which the liberty of the subject depends ? It is true, all
Courts are so far judges of their own privileges,•hat they may pu-
nish for contempt ; but to make any Cour_ final judges of them,
exclusive of every other jurisdiction, i 3 to introduce a state of con-
tusion, by making every man a judge in his own cause."
In a case on a complaint of a Breach of Privilege
by a publication, pending the proceedings in Parlia-
ment against Sir ELIJAH INIPEY, Lord GnEswILLE,
then a Member of the House of Commons, endea-
voured to account for the House c f Commons having
formerly sometimes proceeded summarily, when they
ought to have sent the subject to be inquired into in
.a Court of Law, from the following circumstance :
t. the King granted commissions to the Judges
quamdiu sib; placutrit, the House was afraid of trusting
their privileges to the examination of the Judges ; for
the questions in dispute were most commonly relative
to the prerogatives of the Crown, and they feared the
influence of the Crown over Judges, removable at the
King's pleasure. But now that the King. grants
commissions to the Judges quandiu re Lew gesserint,
that ground of apprehension is at an end." The Rouse
of Commons ought, therefore, said Lord GRENVILLE,
never to attempt to oust the common law of its juris-
diction.

ENSIGN Cowell.. —Our Readers will recolLzt the
circumstance of Ensign Cowell having been fired at
near St. Margaret's Church, in Old Palace-yard, dur-
ing the late disturbances. On the morning of the
Wednesday following, as Thom as Hassell, groom to tl e
Duke of Cambridge, was exercising a horse, in St.
James's Park, at the time the Guards were about to
march off to St. James's Palace, a townsman of his,
of the name of Henry Blackin, a gentleman's servant
out of employ, .entered into conversation with him ;
and Blackin observed upon the purple ribbon on the
head of the hone, and asked if it was Sir Francis
Burdett's colour, or if it was put on the horse to re-
joice that Francis was gone to the Tower ? The
groom replied, that was not the case, but that the
ribbon was merely the regimental colour, to which
his Royal Highness belonged. Blackin observed,
that the Life Guards had behaved extremely ill dur-
ing the late disturbances ; one of them had been
killed, and he wished they had all been shot. .Ye
further observed, that he knew the man who shot at
Ensign Cowell, in Old Palace-yard, and was stand-
ing within two yards of him, when he discharged the
pistol ; Blackin also made some other observations
respecting the conduct of the troops, which induced
the witness to mention the conversation to the Duke
of Cambridge the first opportunity, who reported it
to the Secretary of State for the Home Department,
and on the Saturday following a warrant was issued
from that office against Blackin, who underwent an
examination, when lie denied the principal parts of
the conversation with the groom respecting his know-
ing the man, and being near him, when he shot at
Ensign Several Gentlemen who were on
the spot at the time the pistol was discharged, at-
tended, to see if they could identify' the prisoner,
having been there at the time, but they were not able
to do it. The prisoner was, however, committed for
a misdemeanor, upon the evidence of the groom,
charged with refusing to give evidence upon the ca-
pital charge, to Tothill.fields Bridewell, where he
remained till yesterday, he was then brought to Bow.
street 'Office, and admitted to bail, when a respect-
able Gentleman attended for him, who said he could
prove, beyond the possibility of a doubt, tlstt the
prisoner was not on th spot at the time Ensign
Cowell was shot at, but that he was at another place
—and he was at a I.ss to conjecture what could have
induced him to say he knew the man who discharged
the pistol.

Three men named Bennett, Isaacs, and Abrahams.
were yesterday brought to Bow-street Office, from St.
Clement's watch-house, charged with knocking a
Gentleman down in the Strand, on Sunday night,
and behaving in a very outrageous manner. rhe
•Gentleman very humanely agreed not to prosecute
them, on condition of their paying £5 to the poor of
the parish. Mr. READ observed, that the Gentleman
had exercised a deal of forbearance, and that they
would not have fared so well if they had gone to the
Sessions.

Yesterday Sarah Purrier was fully committed, from
Worship-street, charged With the wilful murder of her
husband, in French-alley, Shoreditch, by striking him
over the head with a mallet.

IV. Clad was likewise committed, charged by M.
Wall and others, with stealing a quantity of books
and paper, belonging to the India ctmpany ; as was
T. Crothall, for stealing a quantity tin, the pro-
perty of Mr. D0..-ding, in Banner-street, St. Luke's.
Wednesday morning about two o'clock, as Mr.
Gray's carter was driving his master's waggon from
Newbury to Basingstoke market, he was stopped near
the White Lion, at Ewehurst, by three foot-pads ;
one of whom held the horses, another presented a
horse pistol to his head, and threatened to shoot him
if he spoke, or moved, while the third robbed him of
4s. 6d. and afterwards searched the waggon, and stole
a cheese and a ham.

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EDINBURGH, APRIL 19
Yesterday, Sir GitotioE V.AcimztE, accompanied
by Mr. HENRY HOLLAND, and Mr. RICHARD BRIGHT,
of this University, sailed from `Leith for Stromness,
from whence they are to proceed to Iceland, in a
vessel which is expected there from London.
The object of this arduous undertaking is to ex-
plore part of that inhospitable coutury, which, with-
out British commiseration, would, in consequence of

the war,.be deprived of the absolute itecessarles of life.
In the circumscribed state of our commerce, this
country is very well worth the attention of Great Bri-
tain. In return for our coarse fabrics, we :night pro-
cure such articles as Iceland, under proper manage--
ment, Would afford in great plenty ; such as fish,
oil, feathers, and sulphur, the scarcity of which last
article has been such as to have already attracted the
attention of Parliament.

L NDON :AMR ICA TS.
RETURN of WHEAT in Marklaie,-im • adinponly from the
9:h of -April to the 14th of April. Total 8,772 quarters.
Average 945. 54d..25. 20. lower than last return.
A RETURN OF FLOUR,
Prom the 7th of April to the 13th of March.
Total 13,193 sacks—Average 89s. Sid.
Os. od. higher than last return.
RETURN PRICE of GRAIN on board Ship as under :
Wheat 66s to Stir boilers 6.2 s 6°s
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Fine 96s to 104 s Sutieilks —s ;Ls
Superfine 108% to 110 s Grey Pease 40.10 46s
Fine White OCs to 00s Beans, 40; to 43i
Rye 40s to 486 Ditto, fine Oos to 64s
Barley • 30s to 45s Ticks, 34s to 40s
Fine 47s to Oos Ditto, fine 00s to 54s
Malt titts to 76s Oats 22s to 28s
White Pease 56s to 62s Polands 30; to 34;
Rape Seed 511.108. per Last. Fine Flour 90s per sack.
INSPECTOR'S RETURN AT UXBRIDGE, April 19.
Wheat per load 211. Os. to 301. Os.
Barley, per quarter 325. —d. to 4.55. —d.
Cats YBs. —d. to 435. —d.
Beans 40s. —d. to 645. —d.
Peas .50s. —d. to 565. —d
SMITHFIELD M.ARKET, April 23.
To sink.the Offal per stone of slb.
Beef 4s. Bd. to 6s. Od. Veal ss. od. to 7s. Od
Mutton Ss. Od. to 6s. 4d. Pork ss. Od. to 6s. 04

Lamb 7s. Od. to 9s. Od.
!MAO OP CAT'I LE '1 OIS DAY.
Brut., about 1890—Sheep and Lambi, 10,600.
Calves, 1:20-1'ii,s, 2.50.

NEWCATE AND LEADEN HALL MARKET. •
Per stone of 81b.by thr carcuie.
Beef 4s. (Ml. to ss. Od. Veal 4s. 4d. to 63. id
Mutton 4i. Bd. to ss. 41. Po:•k 6's• cd. w GA. tid
Lamb Gs. Oa. to Bs.
Lamb Skins, 2s. 6d. to Ss. 61.--Sheep Skins, 4s. 01. ro 7s. 041.

PRICE OF HOPS IN THE BOROUGH MAit
111/311. POCIELI s.
Kent 41. 41. to 51. 10s. Kent 41. 4s. to (31,
Susses 31. Os. to 41. Os.. Sussex 31. O. to 41. lOs

PRICES OF NAY AND STRAW.
ST.JAMES'S. WU 11 ECHAPt L .
Hay 51. Oi. to 61. 16s. Hay 51. 10s. to 61. 13-
Straw 21. 17s. to 31. 9s. Clover I. Os. to si. (•s
Straw 21. 16s. to :A. 10.
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PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW IN SMITHFIELD.
Meadow Hay 41. Os. to 61. 15s. Clover 61. 5s to 71. 10,
New ditto 01. OM. to 01. Ms Rowiu. 2). 104 to 31. 15s

Straw

SI. S.. to St. 10s.

PRICE OF LEATHER IN *LEADENHALL MARKET.
Butts 21, I. 22id. Calf Skins 112 i. 42s
Ditto 2211. 11-11 Ditto :as. 40s
Merchants' Back 21.1. e2d. Ditto .275. SS,
Dressing Hides 19d. 20d. Small Seals 30. Od. Ss. 2d
Fine Coach Hides 20d. 21t1. Large ditto 100 s. 150 s.
Crop I tides for curt. 20d. 22d. 'fanned Horse Hides 101 id 294
Ditto Ina. 1,1,d. Goat Skins 60s. 70s

Turk's Head, Turnmill-street, on the body of .1
Bunce, who died suddenly, at his apartment, in Roc
buck-court, in the said street. Verdict—Died by tb
, visitation of Gov.
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