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The dust is eking, like a eked,
And yet no gale bas past ;
It hovers now a mighty shroud,
And bark ! a trumpet blast!
. And surge on surge the lances glow,
Like a war deluge's eerdisw
They tome, they come, the Desert sena!
The tramplers of the shield,
Their track is white with warrior's beset,
Now, Roman! fly or yield.
nog but a spear, thy reenlist blood
Mall be the dog and raven's food
Whence come they? From the acs's own land.
That gives them all its are ;
Their's are the red, resistleu hand—.
Tbe fleet that never tire;
Whitil is their grasp, the scyntetar,
Is deadly as a shooting star!
Fly, Roman, fir—to stand were death....
Go chain the thunder stern;
Go brave the Simoont's burning death.
That blasts thee—haughty worm.
Go drain the ocean with thy targe,
Then shah thou stand the Arab's ;barge
Now, Raman, count the desert saode
New, count the ocean waves;
Theo count you thousand. tisommod bases
Then fight—predestin'd slaves!
As well to your faint eye were gives
'o must the midnight hosts of Heaven !
Look on the crimson lag that swings,
A meteor o'er that deed ;
flh dye •
was in the blood of Idols ;
Now proudest of the, pissed !
Iferaclius It shall drip wkb these.
Last king of thy devoted line

PORTSMOUTH, Fasavitair 3.

/110311 tilt MAKPSIIIILI MINISATIL.
Thursday wives! the Diligence, store ship, Mr. Lee,
Commander, from the Mediterranean: she has brought
home a cargo from Civita Veichia. She left Gibraltar
on the lath ult. on which day the Windsor Castle and
Melville, the former having en board the 23d, and the
latter the 433 Regiments, sailed for Lisbon. The !Wis-
ner passed the Gut, on her way up to Malta, on the 7th
ult. The Pyramus had preceded her. They are to
bring troops thence to Gibraltar. The Borodino trans-
port, sailed on the 12th ult. for this port, baring on
board a Company of Sappers and Miners, discharged
men of different Regiments, and about 200 women and
their children, belonging to the 231 and 43d Regiments,
who were not permitted to accompany their husbands
to PortugaL
His Majesty's ship Mersey, 28 gaffs, Capt. Ferguson.
returned from South America, having been employed
upwards of three years on the Pacific side of that sta.
tion. There is no politic al news by her of any import-
*nee ; the common enemy having been completely
etpelled from Upper and Lower I'eru and Chili. the
seteral Governments were engaged, amid numerous
difficulties, in taking mea.ures to consolidatiand secure
their independence. The presence of a British squadron
of ships there being nu longer necessary, the Cam-
bridge, Blanche, and F.claire, were under orders to
return home; the Doris frigate, Sir John Gordon Sin-
clair, and Jasseur brig, Captain Handfield, were to
take the station for the present. The Mersey left the
Cambridge and Blanche at Callao, on the 27th of July ;
sailed from Valparaiso on the 7th of September ; Co.imbo on the 2hth ; came round Cape Horn in fifty
io
.yi, to Rio Janeiro, and sailed again thence on the
th November, leaving there the Gangesi 84 (Rear
Admiral Sir Robe; tWaller Otway), and Doris, the latter
being about to sail for the Pacific. fie Elmer and
Fisittm v ere in the river Plate.
We are happy to learn, by Ikeda which we have re-
ceived from Port Royal (Jamaica), dated the 24th Dee.
that the squadron on that station was very hartithy.—
The Aurora frigate, Captain C. J. Austen, killed on the
sp for the Bar badoes station, to relieve the Dryad,
Captain Chambers. The ships in Port Royal were—
Isis (fi ig-ship), Magnificent, Rattlesnake, Bustard, Bri-
tomart, Fertet, and Nimble schooner. The, Espiegle
ill It the Havannah; Harlequin at St. Drilningo;
Druid, Valorous, and Primrose, on the lkeward.statipn ;
Pilules on a cruise; the Tweed had sailed for Vera
Cruz, Havannah, and England. Mr. Arthur, Midship.
man, Isis, was promoted to be Lieutenant of the Va-
lorous; Mr. Bond, Aurora, to be Lieutenant of the
Pylades ; Mr. Hope, Scylla, to be Lieutenant of the
Ferret ; and Mr. Squires; Second Master if the Aurora,
to be Masser of the Magnificent.
His Majesty's ship Barham has been, op a cruise to
tie Westward, in order to ascertain her qualities. and
particularly her fitness to bear heavy guns upon her
quarter-deck and forecastle; and we are gratified in
hearing that it is the opinion of the Officers she is fully
competent to do 0, and proves a remarkable east aid
handy ship. This experiment justifies the expectation,
that a number of ships of the same elms (small seventy-
fqol.'s ,knowlo
.by, the name of the " Forty Thieees,")
Which' were not good Men of ear, May, he turned into
efficient ships at a small expense. The Barham mounts
50 32-pan:Went as a complete frigate, the lower deck
being now the mai* deck, and the main deck MeV:atter
deck and forecastle; she has no pail:, and her masts
Ind yetis ate the, sisne In all. *peal its fsketrierlf, the
courses having only a red more drop. Thus she is equal
to any frigate that has ever been sent to sea, in point of
armament ; but we must observe, its point of crew, she
is very deficient, having only a compl:ment of 450 men,
and by the usual allowance to the weight of metal
(without taking into consideration the masts and yards),
She would require 539. The Brandywine, American
frigate, which visited this port last year, had only car-
meek* on her upper deck, yet sue had a complement
of OS meow Taking the number of boys, volunteers of
the different; classes, schoolmasters, chaplains, master's
aaaostaa(a, it.e. into the calculation, all. of. which are
included in the Barham's complement, the inferiority of
useful hands in action, in this ship, is too considerable
to Via a contest with ai fall manned mays ship.

A short time since, Mr. John Clirk of the black
tilqrsek Tuxford, went outcattonspanineby his son, to
cut some hay for his cattle, and hitjint mounted the
4, ladder, when the son exclaimed. Father, father, the
sleek is felling!" which was actutfty the case, and it
buried Mr. Clark beneath its ponderous weight. An
alarm was immediately given by the youth, and the
passengers of the Leeds Union coach. which happened
to be near, very much to their credit.. gaye prompt as-
sistance, and Mr. Clark, though severely bruised, was
aescued from a miserable death-, althoagh he was about
tweoty minutes beneath the prawn of the such ; but
be was enulded.tt Respire, from xle,eircamstance of a
large stone supporting apart of the weight, and admit.
Ring air.

COURT OPAtteihtf, *I. s.
&moist
His LOansote said, this question was a ger, iMport-
' ant one, namely, whether sureties were to be charged
with interest, where a receiver was to be charged with
interest. The application wag first made to the Vice-
Chancellor; be directed an issue to be tried by the
Court of King's Bench ; that Court returned the case
with an intimation, that they could recognise nothing
but the sum stated in the bond. His Honour subse-
quently considered the question himself, and decided
that the sureties were not chargeable. There wag an
peil to'this Court; it thought it a question deserving
eithe greateit attention—the greatest attention of all
the Judges, whether a surety should be responsible or
not in such a case for interest, but as that full and
united attention had not yet been given ter the question,
and considering that there was a great difficislry in even
getting sureties for a receiver for the amount, he might
become possessed of, he thought the safest way was, to
confirm the Vice-Chancellor's judgment, and which he
new re-confirmed.
avows v. ix TANTA:
Mr. HORN* stated that the parties wire ertreenely
anxious to have judgment in this ease, which had been
now for a very long time pending.
His LORDSUIP said, he should t Ike it very loan. h
was a case espemely heavy In its circumstances, but
the Court would grapple with it.

mums P. asmuriza Ale TIM MAROS OP RIIIIHS•
Mr. HitaT was desired to apply to the Court to' ap.
point an early day for the hearing of an appeal Petition
in Gillespie d. Alesander, against an order made by,
the Master of the Rolls. The case lay in a very narrow,
compass; and unless the appeal could be beard insine4,l
diately, money under the order would be paid out di
Court, which it would be impossible ever to get back.
lib LORDSHIP desired to have Mr. llart's Wit, which be moll
read, and then say what he might Mak alma It.
Mr.HART added, that byhis Lordship's attention beisss
given to this case, the Court would be enabled to di a.
pose of the case of the Emperor of Russia, because both
'cases involved the lame question; nouritif, Whether
creditor, coming in at a late hour, coeds-tip the din.'
tribution of property among those who had come in
within indisputably proper time?
COURT OF KiNG'S WINCH, lizzaeasi 5.

DUMAN 11/. [LIM.
This was an action.by the assignees of Messrs. tort.
drinier, the paper-makers, against the defendant, for in-
fringing a patent obtained by a Mr. Gamble, for a
machine to make paper from one to twelve fret in
width, and from one to forty feet in length, With-
out seams or junctions, which patent had been as-
signed to the bankt opts for a valuable consider*.
'rem. At the trial before the Lend Chief Justice, the
:plaintiff had a verdict establishing the Fated.—
A rule nisi having been obt ‘insid for a new trial, among
other objections taken to the paten, one was that of;
M. Didot, a French Gentleman. the errigioil invenuft of
the Machine, and Uwe Whom Mr. Ginible obtained it,
had a latent interest in the pair.t granted to Mr.
Oamblet and es M. Didot was, at the time the patent
was obtained, an alien et dilly, the prevent wits toid,=.
Another objection was, after Mr. Gantible had obtainid
the patent, in 1801, several important improvenients
had been made in the m..chine, among which was a
contrivance by which the artisan was, enabled, by the
same machine, to make paper of different width a ad
libitum. This imps ovement formed Ad Fiart of the ori-
ginal invention, and wat eatrientidtitle not specified in
the patent. Some years after the patent was obtained,
the Legislature granted en extentidn of it to the partids
interested, in consideration of the likstottiternertts affuded
to. Tice question then wis, *Whet slit defendants
were liable for the infriagenietttrif a patent, in which so
material a circumstance of its Utility was wanting
The Loan Cum/ Jtisettil said, it aFfse.,red
.to the
Court that the objection above referred to was fatal tb
the plaintiff's tisht of 'action in the piesebt tate. The
rule must, theieinte, be shade absolute for a Ise* trial.

mg war v. arras, oafs _
This was a rule :Mu, obtain d liit Term, tot
minal information *pink Lie defendant, an attdtael at
Pownhaai Market, ft iendeavoicrifig to eieitE ltdr. Vary
Heythusen, a London attorney, to a-SteaCh of the peace,
by fighting a duel.
Mr. Doman and Mr. E. Aibsttiiitr now chewed
cause; and it appeared, from their, itiashiteot, that the
prosecutor and the defendant hid had an.angiy
eorret-
pondence, in July last, in consequence utthe non-pay-
ment of some sewage-rate, doe in iispsiet of land in
Norfolk, of Which Mr. Van Heythusen was the pro-
prietor, and for which, it was supposed, 1%1 ri linen ought
to hates advanced the needful. Some offensive remarks
bad been made by Mr., Van Hey thuseq to some of
Utteb's friends upon the subjectiirbith Mr.Utten thought
injurious to his eharacter. A letter was written by him,
requiring some explanation. Note ivas,tiven; and in
July Mr. (Jaen wrote to demand of Mr. Van Heythosen ,
the satistiction due to a Gentlealam Mr. Utten after.;
wards circulated a statement in vindication of his cha-
racier, whereupon Mr. VAR Heythusen applied to the
Court for the above tole.

payment of eons by Mr. Utter.
We ire happy to Imo that Mr. Jostles 111141•11) was well
enintgb to take bid swat on the Raub thh day.

CONSISTORRT COURT. Fn. 7.
7Nj OIFF/Oft OF JUDOS V. COTTON.

This was a suit instituted by the lay impropriators of
a parish in Worcestershire, against Mr. Cotton, for
erecting a monument in the Churchyard, without leave
I ot the Ordipsry.
The CAR now came before the Court' app} the ad-
mission of articles, aid it was objected that although it
was allowable for the Rector of a parish to institute
such a suit, there was no instance of a lay inspropsiator
commencing it.
The Collar were of opinion, that when the grants of
parishes were made to lay impropriators, upon the ex-
tinction of religious houses, all rights were conferred in
as full a manner as they ha 4 been held by the religious
communities. A lay impropriator was bound to keep,
a Church in repair, and subject in other respects t the
ecclesiastical authority of his Diocese, the Court, there-
fore, gave no weight to the objection, that the suit was
not promoted by a Clergyman; and having ordered
the articles to be reformed in some immaterial particu-
lars, pronounced for the admission.

ramontsesex SU VAPAWILIMOIL
This was a suit of nullity of marriage, is which the Com ono-
awaked against lbe promotant with mats. The meth set behlitg
beat swished, the case was now brought to the ateindis d the
dissifit by whom it wasd__...it2._.etgdamo_staud p
tour convicts, under the custody of Mr. d'ot.LErr,
Governor of the Exeter bud, Were a fee lays 'oboe pbaat ea
boarttthe Captfrity ball. Meow& Aldb war as am We. bn-1
posed open 40 many Lawyers in Ito* and on illaterdey bit,
five more from the County Gael were skipped es based the
seine balk.

rm. ice." ittft" wiftkir
et.
*mu. clays a Ar..ia et.wretcheofitts presented than's*"
at tbs./waist Arnim, seeking relief. Rimibad been disabled, sad
Wanted Miniadomi into the noslikgigkittlwri were able to work,
but they declared that at thinasnaMpfMntber could Dot get any.
They bad all been draws bap tiliCkft ti seek shelter at the &-
fermi:sr the }towels's. .
Loan blavoa--I MidstNS will allow the City to he
hardwood with these cases • must seek relief tbs .
where, or we shall bi • with them. His Lordship
then, turning Is agfe.indlitannEthaVaissaon Crier, me Melva Cons-
mince of manomehMtsf die Zohas for the Houseless, said, `, If
you bring the post BUS 1.1 pans late the City, you Mutt see that
they do not become hurtismsemasYou most be aware how burthen-
some our own poor are."
Mr. Beddome declared that the Committee were placed under
great &Scotties. The Magistrates of the City complained of their
attracting the poor thither; and if they did not give the relief
which proved so attractive, the public complained that the foods in
their possession were not appropriated to their intended object.
Theis was no escaping censure from one or the other. The con-
sume of poor was Mt to be an evil, and pains were taken to di-
minish It. Soup was given at one time; this drew immense crowds,
and was discontinued. They now gave only bread and water, nor
did they do so indiscriminately. Himself, and another Gentleman
of the Committee, the other night were compelled to refuse ad-
mission to a camber, at a time. wben the weather was particularly
inclement, and when them-was reason to apprehend that some of
theni might die in the streets. He, for one, was for sending as many
I as possible home to their parishes, but the majority of the Commit.
,'tee were against exploding any More money than was absolutely

iareeseary.
The Logo Mayes wished distinctly to be understood, that he
,by no means blamed the Gentlemen for what they had door. lie
cooly tegretted that they bad rot dole snore. lie was bouhd
m` dint tie Qty aught to be.prottcted against suck molts,

16. Nedassre saidObas the ecesdion wdrerings of the poor at
tido-period ware increased tea fold by the.distresses in trio. Hr
triluted that to wear* = season would not siain occur.
ns Loss Maros said there seas no doubt of the best intentions.

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am the pan of der Comaitte% best the index 'ache* poor people, ita
Inch innnon, wn agent to the City.- which nowt fM 40111 C way or
other be remedied.
OTTE L L L.

James Prio►, Se frisk pilgrim; clothed In satkeleth, whose go.
.pearance before the !Magistrates at Bow-street, and also in different
pane of the country, we have brfore noticed, war brought before
'Ur. Alderman Seitontv on Saturday, asla vagrant:

Tamplin, the rtreer.keeper of St. liride*; ;aid he found him In.
Fleet.. Ate-et that morning, followed by an immense crowd, which
ignite obstructed the thoronglilare. The prisooer walked into every
,steep to beg, and be bad a bundk of Catholic boOks under his mot,
which, he believed, he offered tor sale. •
Prior said, that to beg war no fault, according to the tenets at
,the;Catholic religion. He was born iu the county of Sligo, and his
father was a grocer and dealer in wine. For himself, he had chiefly
'obtained his living by teaching the chitlren of cottager.; but for
Item years prior to November, 18.41, be wars private in the eth
•Ileginvent of Light Dragoon; and when people in Ireland Were in
;distress, they were always permitted to beg from door to door.—
, He had attempted to make his way to RIMIC, but some intornoa.
lity was discovered in hie passports, and he was mitt back from this
/madman. His intentions were to endeavour to get encloietered•rit
La Trappe, and if he failed in that, to God hts way to Spain.
Mr. Alderman Scuocer rah; that thaw& begging :night
offence according to his religion, it was an acne.: agaiost the Ltw.of
this country; and remanded him.
wonsfitr-stizierr.

Siturdtt, the Stewardesses of a Female Benefit Society, tai-
led the " Last Monday Union," (from the circumstance Of its
Meetings being held on the hat Monday is the reoniblaysere
messed before the Magistrates for sapping the pension Margaret
Tawadall, one of their most ancient Members.
Tie complainant Was an old Lady, sesterity.leveir years of tits
Deafly dressed in garments if a very antique cut. It appearedthat
she bad 'imported herself during the greeter part at her life as a.
laundress; but being now past labour,, she had some time since,
claimed the pension of 6s. per week allowed by the Society to
superainiusted Members; but seven weeks since, the Stewardestes
thought proper to stop the pension. on the ground that she bedtime'
detected in the act of working. The charge, however, was pia.
proved before the Magistrates five weeks ago, and the Stewardesses
were ordered to resume the payment of the pension.
The hlagletrate (to the Stewards-seed) The poor woman has
been a Member of ytior Society forty yearns Mil dew' in he 77th
year, Tee have the baseness to deprive bee of Mr pensive." The
Magistrate added, that if the arrears were net immediately paid up,
a warrant of distress would be issued forthwith
Mr. Heritage Wit chief Clerk)--" AM fined, the dlftresil will be
levied on your Own goods."
The defendants now promised a cotepSame wish the order of she
Magistrate.
Qt/EIN•SIitJAAIL
Saturday. a Middle-aged rase, of *lender Alai, vrarbtoligit tFp
euwody of Polite. the tater, charged with steehAtiffr ark*
George Pople, the alter, sated, thee from laferreetiow Set re-
ceived on Friday Mealag, be went to a Muse in Recheeter.row,
Westminster, and at the back of the premises he sew the prisoner
with a cart Ind horse and twenty sheep in the yard, the gate of
which was elated. The plitoner wit In the set of tying some of the
fbeep's lett, end placing thins In the cart. Wheel* ailed who they
Weeded to? when the prisoner replied, they were his property,
ad be bed bought them at,Sioltbaeld the same morning. lie the&
titivated to ktiovi the salesman's Mime: this he also refused telling,
and observed, you need not trouble yourself to ask questions, for I
shall answer nous% Witness then took down the name on the cart,
written in chalk, " G. Williams, Bermondsey, No. 165,1341; be
consequently took him into custody, having the strongest suspicions
i that the whole ut the sheep were stolen ; there was no usual salts.

mans mark on them, but merely the farmer',, a crease along the
Math, and they appeared from different kinds of Amts.
Mr. Werra—Let the prisoner be locked up *lone, until he thinks
proper to state who and what he is, and suffer no one to communi-
cate with bins.

He wes then removed, and ordered to Le locked op.

VOLTAIRIL--Whefi VOLTAIRE was writing his
Tragedy of Move, he called up his servant one morning at three
o'clock, and gave him some verses to carry Immediately to the
Sieur PA ULIN who was to perform the tyrant. His man alleged
that it was the hour of sleep, and that the actor might not like to be
'disturbed, " Go, I say," replied VoLmax, " Tyrants never sleep."
—Mirror elf Literature.
EXTRAORDINARY TALENTS Discovsnara—A poor
self-educated shipwright, of the name of John Cordingly, a native
of the town of Ipswich, on the Banks of the Orwell, has recently
been found to possess the most brilliant powers of sompooltloe in
prose and verse.

•
The new Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals very laudably employed their inspector, Whee-
ler. dining the late frost, in superintending the employ-
ment of a strong hone upon Holborn-hill, in assisting
the teams that were too weak to drag up their loads,
from the quantity of ice on the carriage way. The
Society also caused a quantity of breeze to be thrown
upon the road at Pentonville-hill, which was in an un-
usually dangerous state, from the glassiness: of the
surface.

Monday, the 29th ult. between s'x and seven in the
morning, a dating robbery was committed in the shop of
W. Knight, cheesemonger,of Upper K ing-street,Blooms-
bury, during the absence of Mr. Knight ; and the thieves
who must have watched his departure, succeeded in
effecting an entrance by means of skeleton keys, and in
can-Ting off a very valuable booty. Unfortunately, at
the time of the robbery, Mr.Xnight had a large sum of
money deposited in the house, which he intended pay.
log away on the following day, and from the circum-
stances attending the robbery, there is every reason to
believe that the thieves bad been previously acquainted
with that fact. The amount stolen; consists of 161. in
silver, 591. in sovereigns, and one half sovereign, with
1151. in bank notes, cheques on various Bankers, and
sundry tills, constituted the residue of the property ;
but these wrapped up in paper, were left at the shop on
"Tuesday, by a young luau. On Mr. Knight's return,
he dibcovered the robbery, and though every exertion
has been made on the flirt of the police to apprehend
the offenders, any laivre for the present eluded their
vigffantell