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London, England, 1827-12-28 00:00:00

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The Hanes 4 114/1141- *" 1'.3 '
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b laid in hely Slums :, ~
flat breathes fr,n" !
Solemn; yet set, Iva~rr - ' chime
Fleets arm* diet issedsst SOS ;
.Al ether oot in thst militias
Ot keine and leaf are Wes !
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The Cottage Mines of Angled!
By tbessends, on her piles, .
They are salon o'er ths silvery brooks,
4 Anted's* the ismeeletAnse.

Through growing ceshgedpAerth they peep.
Barb from its nook of Mas.
And fearless there they p'
As the bird beneath their laves !
The free fair Hanes of England ! a
Lemke& in but and hail.
May hearts of naive proof be marl,
To guard each ludiersed vuY !
And green far ever be the groves.
And bright the Meta
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Where Ara the illad spirit loves
Its Catgut and its Oo%!

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tIFE VF MAHOMET, AND RISE OF-THE
Tintium ZMPHUL

is great impostor was born at Harib, near Mecca,
in Arabia Felix, on Stls May, A. D. S7O, and notwith-
standing his followers will have him to be of royal ex-
traction, and have deduced his genealogy from Adam,
be was the son of Abdala, a Pag4n, who married Emina,
a Jewess, and they were obscure individuals, and poor.
Poverty at first obliged Mahomet to serve Kero Pa-
40ba, an Arabian merchant, after whose death he per
waded his mistress to marry him, which put him in
possession of his master's riches, and being tactually
ambitious, he called in the asUstance of his mother's
brother, who, pretending to be a great astrologer and
magician, predicted that he would become a mighty
king and lawgiver.

After this, assisted by Batiros, a Jacobite, Sergio', a
Nestorian heretic, and some Jews of his acquaintance,'
he compiled the Alcoran, a volume full of incoherencies
and absurdities, composed in Arabic, pure as to the
style, but void of method, forming a jumble of incon•
groiti, yet is held in such veneration, that if a Mussul.
man, or True Believer, as they call themselves, handles
it without washing his hands, be is reputed criminal ;
and if a Christian or Jew toadies kiosks. be changes
bit religion, he is, put to death. All who do not be.;
reeve in it are held in detestation; all who oppose it are
executed without form of process or trial, and they pie.
tend that GOD seat it to Mehemet by the angel Gabriel,
-written on a parchment made of the skin of the ram
'which Abraham sacrificed instead of his son.

Hating thus made up his religion, partly of Judaism,
and partly, of the ravings of condemned heretics, adapt-
ing it to the sensuality of corrupt nature, he canted a
parcel of vagabond rabbets, by the powerful argument
at his wealth, sod sly insinuations, to embrace it. With
these n en he bad recourse to arms, and by degrees
subdued several nations, more particularly those of
*rub a. He bad under him tenchief lieutenants. Abu-
bekin Cedie, his father in law, Omar Ben el Hatab,
o.lman l3rn•afer, Ali LW Abitaleb, Moavia, Ali Zibeir,
Alslazed, Abiasid, Ali Obeid, and Abutul Hard Anaiii

a!ias Zeid Aben cehel : all that were his prime doctors

or divines as well as commanders. The thine first suc-
cessively became Caliphs After him of all the dominions
he had ruled over, contrary to what he had appointed,
namely, that Ali, his son in law, should su:ceed him.
blahomet in a short time was &awed by a vat
Multitude, and the mbreeffectually to blind and deceive
Lem, being troubled with epilepsy, be had a tame pi-
geon, which an such occasions would come and peck
his ear, and that he persuaded his followers was the
angel Gabriel, sent by (ion to tell him what he was to
do. It is also reported, that• having once caused one of
his coMpaoions to hide himself in a dry wellebe order •
ed him to cry aloud as he passed by, " Mahouset is the
true prophet,' This man did so, and the people ad-
mired the wonder, but the impostor fearing his knavery
would be discovered, immediately caused the well to be
filled with stones, and the wretch within it perished.
The Arabs being fond of novelty followed Mahornet.
het his countrymen, when they perceived his design
was to set op for a prophet and lawgiver, expelled him
with scorn, and be was compelled, on the leth of July,
A. D. 622, to By from Mecca, ,and take refuge.* Me-
dine' at Nabi (the city of the prophet), distant 176
miles, and from that day the Mahometans reckon their
Hegira, that is, their computation of time, as Christians
do from the birth of our Saviour.
• He had several wives, yet left only one daughter,
Fatima, who married Ali before mentioned. Ddahomet
died on the 17th of June, A.D.651, having reigned eight
years and some months, and lived 67 lunar or Arabic
years.. Since that time his followers have made them-
selves masters of Palestine. Syria, Persia, Egy pt. ti recce,
&c. and a very great part of the world has submitted
to his law.

His body is deposited in the principal mosque of
Medina, called Mos al Elba (the most holy), which is
'Appalled by 400 pillars, and illumined by 3000 silver
lamps. A little tower covered with plates of silver,
hung with cloth of geld, and guarded by 40 eunuchs,
cqqtains the coffin under a canopy of silver cloth, em-
broidered with gold, yearly sent by the Basso of Egypt,
at the Grand Seignor's expense. The coffin is not sus-
pended by loadstones, as soir.e have said. but tests upon
very small columns of black marble, encompessed by
silver canisters. The Turks are obliged by their reli-
gion to undertake a pilgrimage once in their lives to
worship the tomb, but at present only the meaner sort
perform it. The rich easili_ob.aittAispensations from
tjse Multi, who is the higtt'ffiebe of-the Mahometanst
and no Christian is allowed to go within 15 leagues of
the place, under pain of death.

•
LAX% King of Siam. being awakened from sleep,
aid aped fri. amenelpatlen by the braving of an ass. etnentendat
la the manor et hie puitede. that all matakipd should be called
ann. The story tat es. that whenever an Ambassador from
Mee mate to the lime Comm the Okya Vary, or Master of
tie Celemeetes,ezdelmedi "_llllett Sith. e. absolute Lard of
the Unbent, King of the 1111dha and Yews at the
Sacred Tooth ! a peat Jackass froth ben teen to speak with
your Moja*, ".

Bald,
afterwards,. sold fourteen spies of land near his own
Please for the sum of 5,0001. The increase of inhabitants
til the most wealthy and respectable class has beentreat
rthat time. The new/Church ofClapham was removed
at its original situation by the Wandsworth road to
she North-east corner of this common in 177, end

cost 11,49001.metely with a view to accommodate this
increase of inhabitants ; and near the same tins a reset-
•voir of fine wate4 from which the whole village is sap-
plietl. was constructed near the road frau& Clapham
Common to Wandsworth; and may be denominated
not one of the least improvements of the place ; the well
being formerly so small that a shificient quantity of
wateriausaid not, without much difficulty. be procured
from. day •to day.

blot tnlq have the Common and its immediate
!vicinity become the um of numbers of the greatest and
most opulent City osmium% and mansions and grounds
of the most splendid descr poon been formed there since,
but the whole line of road from the C 011111101) to town
has felt the benefit of these improvements; and from
being, a few years since, a dark, lonely thoroughfare, it
has now become, on each side, a continued range of
Gentlemen's houses. Kennington Common, with its
handsome residences and Church—the 'whole of the
Brixton road, filled with houses of the most elegant de-
scription—and even the Vauxhall-bridge, Kennington-
oval, and the new-formed road kadiog thence to Cam-
berwell, with all the immense neighbourhood forming
around them, may be said, in a great measure, to have
originated from the laying out of Clapham Common.

The name Clapham is in Doomsday Book called
Clop/east, and it is there said to contain seven plough
lands, or about 1,120 acres.- Mr. Lysons thinks this
name to have been derived from some former posses-
sor, and hints at Osgood Clapp—Me cognomen of the
Danish Lord, at whose manor least, at Lambeth, Har•
ditariute died—as having been, probably, that person.
In the reign of Edward, the Confessor, it was held by,
Turburnus, and valued at 101. Geoffiey de Mandeville,
a Norman follower of the Conqueror, is mentioned as
the owner in the survey alludLd to, which entices a re-
port of his holding it unjustly,. to the prejudice of one
Asgar. In the reign of Edward the Fourth, Richard
Gower was Lord of the Manor of Clapham, and sold it
to Sir George Ireland, Lord Mayor of London. It
passed afterwards through several descents to Henry
Atkins, .Physioan to James the First, who purchased
it fot 6,0001. which money is said, by the traditions of
that family, to have been the produce of presents be-
stowed on him by the King, after his Ireton from
Scotland, whither he bad been sent to attend Charles
the First, then an infant, who lay ill of a fever. His rots
was afterwards made a Baronet : the manor descended to
his brother, and in 1790 was the property of the Right
Hon. Lady Rivers, sister of Sir Richard Atkins Bart.
with whom the title became eatioct. Lady Rivers's
rental, is: consequence of the improvements mentioned.
arose, between 1771 and 1790, from 1.3331. to 2,0311.
per annum clear value—an increase of tool. and has
since continued to rise with the progressive improve-
ments which have taken place.
Battersea Manor was given by William the Conqueror
to Westminster Abbey. At the Dissolution it came to
the Crown, and, after being twice leased out, was as-
signed in 1610 fot the maintenance of Henry Prince of
Wales; and in 1627, on that Prince's death, was granted
in reversion to Oliver St. John Lird Viscount Grandison' '
and continued in the St. John family till 1763, when it
was bought in trust for John Viscount Spencer.

There has been a dispute of very ancient standing
betwLen the parishes of Clapham and Battersea, respect-
ing this common ; the inhabitants of Battersea claiming
about owe hall of it as within ti.eir pari,h, whilst the
inhabitants of Clapham, on the contrary, assert that the
whole Common, as far as Battersea-rise, is in the Clap-
ham parish. In 1711 the inhabitants of Battersea en-
closed with a ditch and bank that part of the common
which they considered to be within their boundaries;
this was resisted by the inhabitants of Clapham, who
filled up the ditch, and levelled the bank, for which as
action of trespass was brought against them by Lnrd
Viscount St. John, the Lord of the Manor of Battersea.
The cause writ heard at the Lent Asians for October,
held at Kingston in 1718, when, after a long trial. Lord
St. John sufeted a nonsuit. The inhabitants of Batter-
sea, nevertheless, kept up the claim, and included the
disputed ground in the perambulations.

Speaking of manorial claims, in regard to the appro-
priation of commonable lands, those claims, we are told
by a late celebrated writer on the subject " should be
regul ited by the particular advantage which the Lord
of a given manor may enjoy, and which he may con-
done to enjoy while they remain open and uncultivated,
whether they may arise from mines, quarries, water,
alien tenants, fuel, eitover, peonage. ii&c. The claim
of Lords, as guardians of the soil, which is productive
of pasturage only, is, in most instances,merely honorary;
and it is fur the Legislature to apportion the share of
lands to which they are entitled, as an equivalent for
such. But their claims in right of the soil on which
thriving timber is standing, are more substantial, as out
of them they have in effect a real yearly income, equal
to the anneal increasing value of the timber— a sort of
aaventage which they, of course, will continue to enjoy,
if the commons remained open and unenclo,ed, as long
as the timber continues to increase in value. Their
claims, in this respect, consequently, depend on the
quantity of timber, and its state of rowth, conjo:ntly
taken—young thriving timber, affording an annual in-1
crease of value, if surered to continue ; whereas stinted
trees RI ifrosding such jucreale, or entitling their °Wa-
ters tunny Owe of the toil they stand upon, the trees
themselves, or their intrinsic value, appear to be all
that the Lard of the Mapor has a right to claim." How
far this definition msa seem to justify Lord Spencer io
his attempt to enclose Claphaila Crimson, after the
statement above made. is for the public to determine.

was always is taw habit istnitgliirtba -airy banal.
le slept any where.--He was ..

GUILDHALL
Patrick Pik*, a labouring snap, was charged with leminsahrown
hli wit, out of a ono pair window, wherdryake hod wicskodesios
ski/rabic injury. Chad's -Lewis, • watchman of
stated, that in catalogue* of an alarm he went into Green Arb ir.
court, in the Old Bailey, about halfliast one o'clokii that moraine;
and found • woman lying apparently lifeless upon the pavement,
and the prisoner looking at ber nut of the lint II tor window of the
beam against eritichilat waslying. He asked; the prisoner how
the came there; and be replied, 4 She is my wife, I threw bet out
myself." Witnesetold him be moat take him into cuotodb amid
observing the key of the door in tho woman's baud he took it Irian
her, let himself into the house, aid took the primate to the CoMpter;
The pane woniau was placed on • Mutter, and carried to St. Ban.
Moirimow's flospiteL
• -Tie prisoner said, that bis wife sod her sister had been out all the
Sin Christmas boxing, sad did not return till one o'clock in the
Meriting. She thee alliblii to go mat again, and because be ?s-
-limed tu arm the diesdpie Oared out of the window.
*man mkt be hod mad upon Mrs. Welch that morning. sod
die said dieliapped em edit windiest because ber husband would
etsrt alt beige ells et the door.
TbeCinitalle irfl, he had Ale spokes to tie women in tire
Elimgial. and ffilis said die mowed cwt of the window because ber
&WNW was ill Wisher, and had threatened to kill her.
• Surgeon's Inite stated, that the wawa was moaned in
fir lad, but shy waist seriously MI. The piston was remanded
Ir Saturday.

Chad —_
disclearged , cenusittat Tres far teak
TIMM= POLItZ.
Taelet• fit woo, ward Anse apse washes* Woo
dimabir W. Do rev, Eel. Sorest aid a rubbery
lambi cirewasteacca—.Pran the seamen et de
Jim Taylor, wheal/ she vendee ie Orees•reir, SM.
thallikappeered dial. ea Msdayaeondes lea, she had suds es
sae r bothwes, sod biked*. *nut deer canfolly. Alga
se that thermos the named home. sewed her tow,
preiesiled up mks. 0. deos is. barbel-nee., eke bra etipie
prosemod hsdlso OW Sew was therhater. who In* Waft
Oar die bestride, media the as et satin • ewes el hers, with
illhhediplesed apes a stied sae to her bed. The wes.tut
rahis she nelsiesd. Oh, Goa, these Is a tit!—The plower
draliewsdbeivered, quickly Sawed teem& leer, ad
aata~ hell aka by the throat, be plathed bee very .shady,
dm pas her • violist New so the chest, which felled fac is
illoathised t moth whilst she was far s sidonee se two ie a oast tit
itilendlithy, bane stemmed lay the blew, the primmer made bis
doolipotiewa sane, losing the lowa behind bleu. Wks tie ra
alwerodi thaw her Meet, sad the eases et the Welcome set at.
suede her, she See she shwa to bar weatodoer ariebba4 tithe
marenneed a pone& et the prieser, who was sea readei dew
dosthes. ,The cry et "fop thild•i" sweitth the Omar
wee sopped by two sea, to as said dist seeking eras the
inthintithot wis sly a kirk 111epoisener set sway treat thew,
bag wools. aka* Wowed, auk elan the peewit, ebe Father
Waseeerved is throw seemaldog WIN", width was picked up ads.
weeds by use of Ms pansers, and owned es to be the Adam
keys. The prisms was et het sawed sad taken is tit Taal.
lesee, wed ea bathe stheabod ao property at ay ka wet fad
epos Moe. The her iso whose awe* the Adman kepi use
Om wen to Mrs. MONA hose, mod triad it the Intatmene
bar doenewed bo Mad den they did.
Mr. lonanow asked the priests It he hod eardiseg b We
deems et this those I
The psle.sr said that be had oohing to say.
Mr. said they es a dear ease et felony was oath at
Agatha hlr, k mashie they essmit his to Newest* to Sake be
trial fir We abash
The pods than dna band ter to prosscole, ad the rhos
wee flay thlthildtheillet tart

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ollobiob by Lord Spencer so )idly *sated the do ~per.- wia, ha.,1„1. "et and „i a i,onon,isostia;;;; ..."_!: =raj 411011•:_,_'" dibhod,„„,____ *Jab woe. es he eta :.
of the inhabitants sod solgbboorbood—contaitits i'le 1 • to the slip Albion. it ippeerfd Vase IMO= "el =:an'plg "" " Si.'' •••" "M.= 1 net *lkea he me, dim
hundred and two acres of hid, and lies partly in Clap- sWitowsday sil.t.. Ire Alelhadass we= ita MOW whew. merry )4 tko. Mu dPiellior owl web" with] hha
elsistaramind woe MAIN etwidsoot playlet him,. I
hate parish, sad partly in rtizt of Bat:E.g.:l%e 16'1760 ft• °in"' "rd""'"i* (billit 41:34446 wil witsr illg b". gen .14Ma4riva$1041 On mak is mid 4,7 •
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(three years after *lllo%4:Lordship's in it• sto dwesstliere aboothelf =boor, 'ankh two caber ass west ton had a ico minium Jane Now be.. awe W ' 010101,
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board the nine barge; and a general =wed, and 'Shirt was __ _ _____...L ,
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purchased of the St. Johtelihotil?, to which it bed Won. woossaed to 'the beat taw :trip he the omit -baseg* softer. "'""""'a,'•---..:‘:_:_z_: , - I. • ,
belonged) the spot is described as being little better with a ream Visa worllibig =abaft*. two wawa weeecelestade. ==e7r.dow=imsoZgelsibilisw.liebig de, faesg"sen. . ei.
Town! -
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than a morass ; the roads to it were almost impassible, swoobalsoageorilliaht: .to:4l.ooNefibinisols wed besahaadiwasesurdsesedumer
marethetsentered Wilt •
.nd the whale. comparatively valueless. The .late ikeseolikw*eadtti,mail Plinks' to Bodo. to tithe =roof tee Mat. .
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Christopher Baldwin,
.. of, a ...ow
ee_Mointlignion.__ web_ glser..,__st Ws tuft win pi
•years, and whose name is well known to the ama. wane*, and dist *ft (6,......) „Nov sesio ii, 6„N they Da. &FOUR Rid aar WM. atiNgria OM Mt FultOstOißOON Slerolal . i
dhs-ltaqri sod robbery oonnsined =Abe ~dot .1 peise7c :.•
tours of 'agriculture as a zealous promoter of the
,toraldiortlesir ouro dame&
sciences, was the person who first began its present ins. art the ._ i'tbmrp_s_i4, thil° whoa ih° °cal° esummia•mi din lie*
war is
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bo.irworsecee---- -14"tjewenra.sten— twillo(4" "e1k.1"."16"‘
tett, and that they were innocent of the „dm von and aus. mad. inns
itee% looted dies;
. proventents. These he in great part completed by a :17,,,71 n wait, hry were mid to be pneageirenes.
.1 I subscrirt ion of the inhabitants, aided by hisysien puffed* me LORD Maros said the mask was a swat dreadbil woe. and bnaltildwilo,:h,. er. reell.Pbilievib, im.4,odi.6he.l64l4ll.llrlSegillir44Bll. di"'
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• influence and eaertions aa a Magistrate. They consisted might be cheat. His Lordship salmi shot the PlinDers should's* diertgycnce en isiondetaii. wish, pima sae
in. oh whoa
'in drainin; and laying•out the ground, and planting re?!.a_ed. for °••_l"tii• swat deplorable .6. .
eel 4 hammy", &rex war entertained stirs having lad ail parslpes
opoismsrdiew
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• that beautiful variety of trees, both English and exotic, '"""c" "
war thargeo with baying gonewst ladder which misplaced before equ'l""leb. /""' th" $l6 Mar" 4frege°ll64 iht °show= to aue
with which it is ornamented, which give to it the ye- •Mr. aode's home, is street. this accedes, is elver to inartais wbetker the lamiabila-: 'le
solo MSS concerned with his fellow meow io the charge....% . semblance of a park, and have long made it naive,. The watchman stated that maw the defendant, a iaa, ems- 'OO
tkdre Mew, appeared is she Priter %gen of two o'clock on Wedoesis morning, mown up the . ?so* 'o°
sally.admired. As _a proof of the great improvement eia!rd, asap,
~,ea!, ~,, 7 day'-- grinmess Arrow dad Waimea, they bad of ,„ ihe am
of property on the spot in consequence, and the great to verity, or she house. •• itnr" gate the "Inn' ilanarr examination • whits the M elm
The prisoner shook his bead whets asked what he had to say, cod .„ . I,_ . 1.--rate being 4 tykes thig -iii
request in which it is held, Mr. Baldwin, some years declared that be did Dec Wow why be chose the mg of a hare sae sat bees access 'd ht the may. =lewd hisi tog
hot IVIDOIitRINI
a fterwarde_. anlel fflairrawn seeps of land npair hia own la/11,114 was Alvms In r4luhir nf alloonbuy at the very bottom_ _ . TOM kw till.