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London, England, 1819-09-14 00:00:00

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COUNT FORBIN'sTRAVELS in EGYPT in 1818,
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4. Another View of the same.
S. Colossi in the Plains of Gournah.
6. Massacre of the Mamelukes at the Castle of Cairo. •
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9. View of Jericho.
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SOCIETY FOR THE BENEFIT OF WIDOWS OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT.
OFFICERS OF THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF
THE ARMY.
Lieutenant Alexander Paterson, on half-pay of the
THE GENERAL MEETING appointed in May King's German Legion, was remanded. According
ja- hat to receive the Report of the Select Committee, Will to the statement of Mr. ADOLPHUS, the above person
be held at No. 5; Berkeley-street, on WEIRMSDAY, the 29th in- `went to Mr. Watson, coachmaker, of Long-acre,
stant, at One o'Clock. JAMES TANNER, Secretary. using a customer's name, unauthorised, and purchased
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a gig and harness for L7O, for which he gave a bill
on Messrs. Di ummonds, where he had no effects.
The gig and harness he sent by sea to Aberdeen,
where it was wad immediately, without being used,
for 1.:10. The statement of such a transaction on
the part of a military man, created disgust and
in-
dignation in the mind of every person in Court.

LONDON SESSIONS.

Yesterday the London Sessions commenced before
the LORD MAYOR, the RECORDER, Aldermen J. J.
SMITH, ►Sir JAMES SHAW, DOMVILLS, COX, and
ROTHWELL.

The RZCORDER stated to the Grand Jury that the
oTences they had to inquire into were neither so nu-
merous ror so fiagriint as in cot mer Sessions at such
a period o. the year as tl e present.

IRON COFFINS.—Edward Jacob Bridgman was in-
dicted for having assaulted Jacob Prewin, one of the
parish officers of St. Andrew, Holborn, in the exe-
cution of his duty.
Mr. WALFORD opened the case. The defendant,
he said, was patentee of the newly-invented Iron
Coffins, about-which there had been latterly so much
discussion. There had been a law-suit in the Eccle-
siastical Court against the Parish of St. Andrew,
upon this subject, which was terminated by the death
of the nominal' defendant. On the 10th of June last
the defendant took a corpse to the burying-ground
belonging to the Parish in Gray's Inn-lane, where a
Minister and Sexton attended to receive it. The for-
mer, upon finding that the body was inclosed in an
Iron Coffin, objected to the interment of the body,
unless a wooden coffin was substituted. The defen-
dant refused to comply with this proposal, saying,
that even if be was inclined to uncase the corpse, the
experiment would be unsuccessful, it being one of
the virtues of the new expedient that the coffin could
never be opened. The consequence of the dispute
was, the defendant took the coffin to St. Andrew,
Holborn, and laid it upon one of the tomb-stones.—
He disregarded all expostulation, and continued to
insist upon the burial of the body. A mob collected
about the place: the defendant addressed them, ex-
hibited a model of the coffin, and explained the pro-
tection it afforded against-body-snatchers; he also
said, that the objections lay with the Sexton, who
would be deprived of his emoluments derived from
a connivance at the practice of body-snatching. A
serious disturbance arose amongst 1500 or 2000 peo-
ple, who were collected in and about the church-
yard. The Churchwardens came, and ordered the
defendant to leave the church-yard ; he refused, and
was Liken into custody, and resisted violently—the
mob called for a rescue ; he struck the prosecutor a
desperate blow on the mouth. Mr. Walford stated that
the question before the Jury had no reference to the
right of inhumation in iron coffins, but regarded the
assault committed upon the officer.
A conversation here took place between the RE-
CORDER and Mr. WALPORD, on the practice of bury-
ing in iron coffins, in which he stated that much in-
convenience must- arise from it, especially in small
church-yards where the_graves would soon be tilled
up to the surface.
The defendant denied this, and said that the cof-
fins being made of sheet iron would be eaten up by
the rust as soon as the corpse would be devoured by
the worms. The process would be much quicker
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