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London, England, 1817-04-04 00:00:00

LITERATCRE.

NARRATIVE OF A TEN YEARS' RESIDENCE AT THE
Count. or Tuirott.—The Public will be pleases to
hear that the new edition 'of this very curious and
interesting work, which has been so long and impa.
tiently looked for, is at length published.
THE LITERARY GAZETTE AND JOERNAL or BELLES
Larruzs, &c.—The Eleventh Number of this new
Weekly Journal. published this day, contain', among
other original articles—
A Second Letter on the Poetical Talents of Lord Direr;
ClAnforts of Old Ago, by Sir Thomas Bernard, Bart.; scott's
New Poem ; French Travellen in England ; Adventures of the

11. Übe Captain Gotown's', a prisoner among the Japanese In
1811, it, and IS; History of Mozart's Requiem ; Sketches of
Society ; the Elegant of the 18th and 19th Century ; Mceurs
Prancolsrs; M. Jouy ; Progress of Science; Royal &witty ; Dr.
Wollaston; Mode of determining Heights, Ste. ate.; French In-
stitute; Progress of the Am; Dr. Valli, fce. ice.; New Musi-
cal instruments; The Belloneon and Cardrulodion, ace ; Italian
Opera; Mozart's Don Juan; Revival of The Double Gallant;
First Representation of Les Deux Philiberts; Poetry; Le
Flagellate Ministerial; Baron de Bergamo, &c.; Remarkable
Occurrences; The Little Orphan of Vilna, Ike. ice.; Politics;
/be South American Revolution; numerals Articles of Literary
end Fashionable Intelligence, tee. &c.

A partridge's nest of 16 eggs was found the week
before list, on an grounds of Mr. CHAP►fAN, of
Baddingham, in Norfolk. The old birds were disco.
♦eyed sitting on the nest, and their eggs in a forward
state of incubation.

The garden of Mr. Woowta, of Gatesfield, York-
shire, now presents the agreeable sight of a pear-tree
and apricot tree is full blossom.
It is a common saying, that u there is nothing new
under the sun r" but, as there is no rule without an
exception, so is the Scheme of the present Lottery a
contradiction to the proverb. Never did any Lottery
combine so many advantages, or contain so many
ducements to Adventurers, as the present. But, as
mere assertion is no proof, hear what the Scheme
will tell you.—There are Four Prizes of £20,000—
there are Four Prizes of 02,000—there are 10,090
other Prizes—and there are only 4 502 Blanks—and
every Prize above £2.5 will have a Ticket in another
Lottery, by which means the Possessor of One of the
Four Prizes of 420,000 in this Lottery. may also ob-
tain One of the Prizes of .£15,000 in the next. The
Tickets are selling at only Eighteen Guineas, and
Sixteenths only Twenty•six Shillings. at the Offices
of G. Cannou., 7, CorMill, and-26, Oxford-street,
where 7,735, the L:tst Prize of £30,000, was sold in
Shares, with Seven other Capitals also sold in Shares
in the last October Lottery.
_ . .

On the night of Saturday se'nnight a range of ont-
offices, belongirg to Alderman llone, at his farm,
called Stormanston, in the county of Dublin, corn-
pri.ing stabling for twenty horses, a barn, and cow-
house, were maliciously set on fire, and totally con-
sumed ; as also a rick of straw, consisting of about
la) loads. AU the farming utensils which bad been
awed in the offices were burned, together with a
horse, five cows, and a ♦ast quantity of seed, pota-
toes, and oats ; there were likewise a number of
cattle severely injured. At the time the fire was first
discovered, and the alarm given, the door of the
apartments in which the steward and his family slept,
which communicated with the out-offices, was on
lie, and they narrowly escaped suff 'cation. Prom
every opinion that can be formed, it must have been
set on fire in many places, as the offices were nearly
yards in extent, and all appeared in one general
RAM at the same time.

Tuesday night the house of Mr. Smith, the Ship,
in Gate-street, Shad well, was broken open and robbed
of £lO in notes, a dozen of shins, and other property.
The thieves gained entrance by the cellar, at an hour
too early to begin their depredatioos, and secreted I
-themselves until the family retired to bed.
A few evenings back, Mr. Jones, a farmer, was
stopped near the Serpentine !Lisp by a boy of capti.
rating address, who walked with him some distance,
and then asked him for some money. Mr. Jones said
be had none to give away ; upon which the boy made
a signal, and a fellow jumped from behind a tree,,
and with a horrible oath, said that Mr. Jones was
talking improper liberties with the boy, and- that
if be did not give him ten shillings he would follow
him, and expose him to every person he met. Mr.
Jones did net think proper to comply with this extra-
ordinary request, and was walking on, when the fellow
pulled out a knife, and swore be would run it through
his- body if he did not comply ; upon which the far-
met. from motives of fear, was compelled to give up
ten shillings.
Comma's INQUEST.—An Inquisition was taken
yesterday before the Coroner for Westminster, at the
eaitentiary, Milbank, on view of the body of Ann
Stubbs, a convict who died on the 90th of March.—
John Pratt, surgeon to the Penitentiary, deposed, that
the deceased had been in confinement twelve' months;
she was taken ill in January last ; be had regularly
attended her ever since ; her complaint was a dropsy.
She had been attended with all possible care, and had
two nurses to wait on her during her illness. She was
allowed every thing to nourish her, fish, fowl, and
rabbits, besides from a pint to a bottle of wine each
day. She bad expressed to him her gratitude for bis
attention to hers she died with the usual symptoms
awe:agog a dropsy.—The Coroner and Jury having
viewed the body, expressed their great approbation of
the treatment Of the deceased. and•returned a verdict
" died by the visitation of Gun."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, APR TL IL
MARTZ STORK IN THE MATTER OF STONE.

Mr. Moirraour stated that this was a petition of
the bankrupt, William Stone, praying his Lordship
to take into his consideration the hardship of his case.
The petition stated, that while he, the petitioner, was
in France, a commission of bankruptcy had issued
against him, of which he had no knowledge what-
ever ; that the respective meetings of his creditors
had been held, and in the event he had been decla-
red, or in other words, proclaimed an outlaw. The
gist of the petition now presented was, that the Com•
missioners might be directed to appoint a time and
place for the bankrupt to surrender himself, sad he
examined touching the state of his affairs.
Mr. Carttex, on the part of the Assignees, would
not object to the prayer of the petition, though, from
the instructions which had been given to him, !•e felt
confident that be c'uld controvert all that the peti-
tioner had stated ii. his petition; but conceiving that
it would better answer the ends of justice to grant
the prayer of the petitioner, he should give no oppo
sition to it.

The Loan CHANCELLOR granted the prayer of the
petition. bot at the same time desired it to he under-
stood that it was taken at the request of tl•e BAnk-
rupt himself.
.The Lotto Ctraxtxmon, in the course of the yr orr-
jag, took occasion to notice the alarn,iug increase of
Bankrupt petitions, which he regretted to srate.
bad now arrived at a most alarming extent. From
the increased number of petitions at present pre-
sented, the ensuing vacation would be of very short
duration, but, however, his Lordship would exert
himself to the utmost to get rid of them, and there-
fore he should devote the first week after the recess
to the hearing of those petitions in particular.

INSOLVENT DEB roßs' COURT, APRIL 3.
TIM ZAN, OF MORLEY V. KBILSWiLL.

Th:s day Mr. BASSET, on behalf of Lord Morh7„,
opposed the defendant, who applied for his discharge.
The Learned Counsel stated, that the defendant, in
1815, stood indebted to the Earl of Morley for rent
and tyth.s, in arrears and being arrested, he endea.
vouted to get his discharge as an insolvent, at the
Assizes for the county of Devon. Having been re-
manded on the ground of a fraudulent removal of
his furniture, he put in specill bail to the action, and
a verdict was found against him for £3550. After
sae became a debtor in execution, he filed a fresh
schedule without the leave of the Court, add, in the
present instance, came most irregularly a second
time to take the benefit of the Act. Mr. Basset said
he had a certificate stating the ground on which the
defendant was remanded, but as it was not transmit-
ted by the Clerk of the Peace, according to the provi-
sions of the Act, he was not allowed to read it.

Mr. HZATH, for Kerswell, represented to the Court,
that the defendant, who had becn tenant to Lord
Morley, was totally ignorant how his debt, which
was no more in the first instance than £2O, bad been
swelled to the sum of ,83550.
Mr. Bassin would not admit that the verdict bad
been taken on oRe debt alone, but as the evidence he
had to offer of the defetAlant's application at the De-
von Assizes was informal, he proposed to adjourn the
beiring till regular information cotrk; be obtained
from the Noble plaintiff. The hearing was adjour-
ned to the 22d inst.

SURREY ASSIZES.--XINCSTON, APRIL S.
Tug KING V. TINKLER.-

This was the same case which was tried at the last
Assizes. It was an indictment against the detem
dant, the prnprmtor of some gunpowder mills in the
neighbourhood of Guildford, fora nuisance. The
evioei,ce given !fir the prosecution was the same as
stated last year, namely, of two explosions, and the
danger to certain houses within reach, particularly to
the house of the prosecutor, if another explosion
should take place. '
In answer to this Mr- MARRYAT stated, that last.
year, when the close was tried, it was agreed to re-
ter the examination of all the works to some Officer
of Engineers, who should direct what buildings
should be altered or what defences made, and accts..
diugly the defendant bad called in the aid of Major
Bye. of the Artillery, and under his orders he had
constructed every delence, and made every alteration
that the Major directed. Notwithstanding this the,
prosecutor had preferred a second indictment. The
defendant then wrote to him, and desired to know
what more he wished should be done, promising .he
would do it ; but to this letter .the prosecutor never
returned any answer.
The Learned Judge asked if it was referred the
last time, under the advice of the Judge ? he was
told that Mr. Justice Burroagh, vaLo tried the cause,
advised it : he then said, if it turned out as stated, he
certainly should advise the Jury to acquit the defer:.
dant. Although the manufactory was one of danger,
yet it was also one of absolute necessity. both for :cit.
defence, and to repel foreign aggression.
Major Bye was then called, who stated, he was
Major of the Artillery, and had the superintendance
'of all his Majesty's powder mills. Hz stated, that
being called in last year to examine the powder works
in question, he had directed traverses to be erected
for the protection of the prosecutor's house in case of
explosion, and that his directions had been complied
with to the utmost, and every thing he had ordered,
punctually executed. He could say now, that it was
much safer than NV d his Majesty's mills.
The defendant was about to call other Military
Engineers, when the Jury said they were satisfied, and
returned a verdict of—Nht Guilty.
By one-lease put in, it appeared that the powder-
mill bad existed 117 years.

Awed, a labourer, was indicted for setting
fire to a barley stack at Thorpe, in this county, the•
property of Henry Brenshige.
The prosecutor stated, that he was alarmed by the
stack being on fire on the last day of October. It
was upon a piece of land which he had boughs of the
prisoner family.
Several witnesses, who saw the stack on fire, also
saw the' prisoner there ; he told them that he had
done it, and that be bad a right to burn any thing on
that land, which belonged to himself. They also
spoke of him as a harmless an whom duly believed
opt to be right in his head.
A medical man deposed,- that about six months
back be was called in to the prisoner, who was then,

decidedly deranged. He recovered after a short
time ; but he thought him so liable to a relapse, that
he advised that he should always be watched. Ver.
elict—Not Guilty ; but the Jut y found him lame.