The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-02-06 00:00:00

THE STATEMAN.

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them a valuable
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and in the other act nn the supposition of,* dtietori- the charge. If even no orders were disobeyed, they „ L.,41F Milffs&/0/7SNCE.' . Officer who was with klm, , immeittistehr punned
them, and succeeded in'securteg tt'ie two Prigoaers;
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negt not to be expet'oed front the' most sluggidifoe? would have another part of the chafe to consider,
Instead of governing his proceedings by a rational and that was " neglect of duty." Sir John Mur- COURT Of lettitril WENCH, FEB. is the others escaped.• Onsearehing
calculation of probabilities, Sir Joint Murray seem- ray's sudeesses in Catalonia and Valencia were car. ' VIE ICING V. HERBISON. watch, two gold seals, and some silk handkerchiefs,
hese the Magietrate ordered
ed to rely altogether on chance, and he who chose tainly not of that description that could have warranted • This was au indictment against the Defendant foe were found on them. T
to commit himself to such direction must stand the him in departing from the meaning of 'the Duke of not repairing a public bridge over a certain canal in to be advertised, and commitledthe Prisoners for re.
hazard of the die. Another ground taken to the de.. Wellington's instructions. It *certainly 'did"ipissir Ake county of Suffolk. The Defendent had been examinAtinns
fence was, that all this was done from an excessive to hint that Sir John was aptetti form Me decision OV :Convicted, but a point was reserved for the Court on BOW-STREET.—Saturday Thomas Harris' was
' care of Sir Edward Pellew, one a fear that his ope. ' the intelligence of the •last hobr, 'without Iturseinarthe fellotaing grounds s the canal passed through a brought to the Offi.ce by Donaldson and Woodeerry,
rations in the Bay of Roses might be impeded by not. 417 consistent plsn. If the' Own %fere. of opinion ternpike-toed, acid the proprietors erected the bridge two, of the constables attending Covent-garden
leaving the guns behind at Tarragona. If this really '.that he had' acted contrary to a plaits Intimatioit;in question ; but it was now contended, that they were I Theatre, charged with cutting several persons' clothes
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Was one of the motives, he must really say that it ' given him by the'Duke of Wellington, a:s a guide: litle. bound to keep it in repair, inasmuch as it was in the pit of Covent-garden Theatre, on Pridy
was paying too high a compliment to 'Sir Edward , for his conduct, he thought that they mast find hid ' elegiel. for the service of the public, 'and therefore I
Pellew at the expense of the honour and'character , guilty on this part of the charge. What he cone the repairing it was a tax which the public ought to levening.
The Prisoner's sister, a very respectable female,
attended, and stated that her brother was frequently
of the-country. lie had been not a little surprised ceived to be Lord Wellington's motive for giving that- discharge. It was further contended, that the pro-
in the course of the defence to hear a British Gene.',' order was thistL-The Spanish armies had generally prietors were not bound even to erect the bridge in ,in a deranged state.
rat speak of the loss of his guns, as if it were ! betted thattheir defeats were owing to not having sr the first instance, no such provision being made in I Mr. BIRNIE observed, that if he was subject to
merely the loss of so much old iron, and as if it' sufficlent peopoettow of• cavalry in their army. The' the Act authorising the cutting of the canal. I have fits of derangement, he ought not to be suffered
was a matter of pecuniary value, and not the wound ; Diikei -of Wellinitton, • therefore, thought that It Lord ELLENBOROUGH observed, that the I pro. Ito goat large to injure other persons, he therefor*
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inflicted on the natioual honour which Was alone in would give great tonfidence to the armies of the Dec prietors, by cutting the road, had destroyed the pub-
ordered him to find bail on two of the chargeseehies
question. Idel Parque and Elieetiehave with them in Valencia lic way, and were bound to make it good again, al. ; would be sufficient for public justice.
He now came to the second charge, at which Sir that small- but wellliippotated 'Cavalry that vas at. though no mention was made in the Act of Parliament' George Frank, the driver of the hackney.coach,
Joho Murray had described himself to be equally 1 tached to the army of Sir John Murray. Arbil, a of building bridges. In the Acts incorporating the No; 616, was convicted, with costs, for refusing to
shocked and astonished. The charge consisted of variety of other observations; the Judge.Advtieate different Water-work Companies, power was given to carry a fare.
two parts—first, with respect to the disobedience of concluded,' by expressing his• entire conviction, that them to break up the gronntlifor the purpose of lay. I HarrON.GaRDEN.-011 Saturday morning a small
instruction a and secondly, of a neglect of duty.— from the high ch'e#cter of the members who con- , tog down their pipes. Not a single word was said brown paper parcel came from Aylesbury to the lip':
Sir John Murray had' overlooked this distinction, i- posed this Court, their decision, whatever it might ;of making the streets good again, by covering the iof the Old Bell, in Holborn, by the guard of the
and confined his defence to the accusation of disobe. I be, would 'be. such as to give perfect satisfaction ' pipes, and restoring a level way for the public; Kidderminster coach, directed to Mr. fliggergae;
dience. He had considered it to involve merely a. to every thinking man in the community. i yet, he was inclined to think, if the ravages No. 82, Smithfield, with directions that it should
question of policy, which question was net at CO The Court then adjourned till ten ' o'clock on ! committed by these companies in the public thorough. ;be delivered immediately, in consequence of which
before the Court. From this doctrine he must beg Monday, when Admiral Hallowell is to 'bake ,his . fares of the metropolis were not made good again, ,it was sent by the porter. On Mr. Biggerstaff open.
leave entirely to dissent. lie denied, too, that the ' reply. I and that in a more speedy manner than had been ing the parcel, he found only two letters, one of
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t'a,P was' made out, admitting the trusts committed 1 ! the case on some former occasions, many of them !which was from his brother, advising him that he
to Sir J. Murray to have been as discretionary as he A deep laid scheme, end of *a novel 'nature, for two' would dieeever, to their cost, that though no provi. , sent him 601. in Bank-notes enclosed in that parcel. represented. it had been urged that there was no. 'prisoners charged with capital offences confined in , Ilion for that purpose was made in the Acts of Ines's.. ! Mr. B. concluding the notes *ere stolen out of the
precise time fixed 'in Lord Wellington% instruc- 'Exeter Prison, to make their escape, has lately permits's', they were not less liable for the restore. ' parcel, had the porter taken into custody, who WAS
lions for proceeding with the army to Valencia, and . been discovered. About two months since Vickery,l non of that which they had destroyed. The pro. afterwards examined at this office.
thaesit.. woe-left to his own judgment as a question . the Bow-street Officer, appreheyded an Officer in ' prietors of the canal were also bound, having de.l Read and Limbrick, the officers who apprehended
Oftime and means. lie would put it, however, to any , the navy of the name of Glisholni; on a cheap of stroyed the public highway, to restore to the pub- , him,stated that they searched his person, and the
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Ceneral pre,ent; eheiher, if he were ordered by the.; forgeries, when he was vested with the arduous and tic a free passage, by building the bridge. With re. cart in which he carried the parcels, but found none
Prince itrgent to take the command of an expedition I
perilous task of conveying him a long journey with- : spect to the question of repairing it, who, be would ' of the property.
for the accomplishment of a specific objectehe would'. out any assistance. Having occesiOn to lease him ! ask, derived advantage from it 2 Did the proprie. I in order that Mr. Robert &oersted', who le.
not conceive it to be his duty to proceed to execute it' but a few minutes in a room at an inn, in 'the care of tors of the canal, who received the profits of that closed the notes, and Mr. John Lovell, the landlord
with all possible dispatch, or wheth4r he would feel 1 a man belonging to the inn, he contrived to make his canal, or did the public, who having before had a of the. Royal Oak, in Aylesbury, where the parcel
himself justified in staying some time on the way to :,escape ; but Vickery, after considerable anxiety, up- ' solid and level road to pass over, but now instead of was left, might attend, and also a girl who camels
try a little eiperiraent of his Own ?—Tbat the ques.! prehended him again at a friend's haute. near Snip-lit had got a bridge? Those whose plans required passenger by the coach, the further investigation of
Lion was one of means, or, io other words, of prac. Jord.pareerel, and 'afterwards safely )odged him in' the erection of a bridge on that spot, were bound to ' this mysterious robbery was postponed; and the Pre.
ticability, he could understand ; but he did not see ' pelsen. lie has since been planning a scheme for his ' keep it in repair. The order of Sessions, which soner was remanded for further examination.
the force of the logical distinction between means escape out aprison in coujunctiorcwith another pri- I called on the
Defendant/ as the representative of the
' Untort-nar.t..—The parish of Newington has of
and time on this occasion. The fact was, any : tonere* wolf-knOwli character of the name of W 1 hir. ' Company 7 to repair the bridge, was therefore este- late been much infested by progitotes of the lower
positive time was utterly out of the questitm ; but toe, codfihed in' the same prison and ward,, on a blished. . ' class. Friday five of them, the oldest of whom did
Sir John Murray having* been compelled to raise the! Charge of horse stealing. They were 'assisted by a EMBEZZLEMENT. I not appear to be more than 1 S years of AM were
- M#.. Johnson, the Int* ahrit Of the Trustees of committed to the house of Correction, and directed
siege of Tarragona, which was the first object of his man of the name of Ellkin, in Salisbury. It has
expedition, had only:to refer to his instructions to ! been discovered that they. had falseheys 'conveyed tel Liverpool Dock, convicted at Lancaster Assizes of to be kept to hard labour for one Month.
passage ! the offence of embezzling
discover that his next and immediately consequent: them to open' their celis; 'and the several the Dock duties, was this I
brought into Court, in custody, to assign errors ' .
object was to land the hrmy at Valenti*. If in net ' gates leading into the Court.yard,' where it was its. day . • .
Antoine Sevres de Saint Cledr, i Csiptii* of re.
thus acting Sir John Murray was not guilty Of pos. ,- tended a •repe, was- to he' ihrineti over the wall to, upon his indictment. He accordingly delivered his '
nadiers in the 31st French regiment of the line, was
suite disobedience, he was still liable to the charge of them, front their friendi on 'the outside of the prison.: assignment of errors to the Clerk of the Crowo-
condemned to death at Paris, on the Ist inst. for the
a neglect of duty. If it was said that any advan. kepi Were Made from IMpressions, and conveyed ; (meet and. was then desired to name the Counsel .
tnge Was to be derived by remaining, why wit the 'to Chishohit and IVhartoir, in a large leg of mutton, 'he wished' should argue the errors en his behalf.—of agirl of rho called Ceruelia Pliers-
muraer
embarkation from betiire Tarragona so hastily exe. I and a large fovi I ; however, on trying On.i. of the He named:Mr. Startett and :Mr. Williams, and both makers, but common.y.known by the name of the
cuted—and why were the guns abandoned lest an' keys, the pipe'of it was found too small for to act, those Learned Gentlemen having ondertakeh to ad: Handsome Dutchwoman. The reorder was committed
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action with the enemy might be hazarded ?—What,' and they were obliged to send it out to be enlarged ; , voceter his cause, the Court appointed Wednesday totn the 14th of November lest, ehOot nine osqlock in
ie eveniug,. of
a weman in the hope wbertt;tist
when this was once the state of things, was left to , this circumstance led to the discoveey, and the mail next fer hearing their arguments in the Exchequer
Dutch girl hied; was alermed by herorims, latialaale
Sir John Murray but to proceed immediately to Va. , who was assisting them was apprehended, and on ' Chamber..
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ing run to call her neighbour*, found, on her reeeke•
lencia, and carry into effect the other object of the' searching him, letters were Amid which had passed !• There'nas no business of public importance. The, .
the unfortonate girl on the landing-place, mortatly
expedition a—lii not so doing, it was evident that the between the parties respecting the execution of the, Cotirt,rose 'veil' early, and their Lordships proceeded 3,
wounded; she died almost immediately being cut %
plan of Lord Wellington was frustrated, and every ;I plot, which was found 16 be a very ingenious one. !tribe' &equines; Chamber to hear arguments on , t • -
end of the campaign on the eastern Bost of Spain so , The night of Siturday se'rnlibt was the time used on • eats of error in several chit causes. 17 places. The bed in her room was pressed down,
, • as if by the fall of one parson ; the moan was not
far counteracted. Sir John Murray has supposed for their final escape, aed theta ii.ne doubt but they •
a case in his own exculpation, which case was, how-leroald have effected it, if the pipe Of the key lied not SMIPORD Q-17Arr•ER SESSIONS. otherwise in disorder ;on the chimney-piece was a
TUE *matt. ICOWARD.IIIAVSTON intiv:irat. auntatoxi knotted purse,, three pieces of five.francs, and some
ever, not founded in fact. He had supposed the proved tbo small. A gig was presided with an excel-
FOR A CO9FSPIRACNV . ... ' , i trinkets. 'St. Clair came - seas after the time mena
possibility, that after the battle of Vittoria, which lent horse, and was actually in waiting to receive „
, iLe trial of the Defendtiots in this prosecution ' Boned to the Case—di L'Earope, where he took. irishappened to occur at this period, Suchet's retreat . them. The whole Of the' circumstances have been
into France might have been intercepted bY the armylfittly investigated'befiire the der; hir:sElticomb, Mr. I came en •at these Sessions. Edward Mayston was meals, and stated that he had been apaekisd, at the
Dutch irl's by two Germans • that she having t
;formerly a resklent in London, but had from the 8 . s 49 ,7
under his command. Ile could hardly suppress a ; Lyouoind Mr; Corlin,the Magistiatee for the district,
month of November last carried on business in tempted to. oppose them, they had turned their vin;
smile when he thus heard this little army, which saes and measures hie been taken to guard agaiust future 1 . .. eManchester, as a calico printer, to a consider- knee against her, during which time he had waited.
unable to remain at Tarragona, or to move any escapes.
• • i able extent. William Mayston was a Marches- He was wounded in the head • his clothes were
way except towards their trinspertse by ispeeies of, Saturday evening, between five. and' sic o'cleck, ;
ter warehouseman, in Friday-street, 'London.— , .
. bloody apd torn. He was ailviied to go tq tlie Po-
pantominsical metamorphosis `suddenly ceeireited into 'is a Lady was passing along Oxford-street, she was • •
• , i The charges against the two Defendants, as made' lice, whither he went after some delay: awe saes
a force competent to fight Salle, with aria y attacked by a'ttelg. which' infest that part of the .
. out in artdence, were, for having conspired together, I were taken up on suspiciope b,ut were discharged:
swelled in its limners 14 the united strength of all Metropolis, eh •rotibedef a terse black veil which
on the 12th of December last, to defraud the' eree ' The contradictions in the different versions which St.
his garrisons. Without, hoWever, adverting further she had on her head, and *rib' 44;0 tie rillaios'gotl .
,ditori of Edward Mayston, by creating fictitious Clair gives of this story—the state of the apart:
to any such sanguine hopes or schemes of visionary 'clear off.
~ ,_ ' debts, and given fraudulent securities ; for Navin
g . ments, and his conduct after the murder caused 5011.
ARCMs, he should proceed to another topic of the! THE SOYEttEtON TRA*SPOHT.—One 09 the pas-
an the same day conspired to obtain goods, wet, ail picions to fall on him :—be was art; :tad, tried, and
defence. It had been said, that a great latitude of , *eters' ill the•Sobereite transport, lost on the i Sth
Intent to defraud the owners; and for having, on the
as n
condemned. '!'here w . o apparels; motive foe the
construction had been left to Sir John Murray, in ' of ()Lieber list, in the ricer St: Lawrence, is arrieetl
13th of December,, obtained goods to a considerable , murder. St. Clair had lost large sums at play, but
order that his discretion might remain unfettered, ili town and glees a Most distressing peewit
.or,tivit
and his judgment dependent on events and circum. ' disasteotie peek. He say!;
that thit the lilcant (ha Tease!
• amount from a number of country menufacturers; !there did not.appear any probability of his replecia*
under the pretence of giving good banker's hills, , them by the murder of a Atli de joie.
stances. This was described as what in law would' struck, every Man that cobid rely on his eigiertneas in
when, in fact no such bills were meant ta.be given ;
be called a condition precedent. Undoubtedles ', ilimniing prepared to confide himself ee the mercy of AI'HIVAN SVPIIIISTITIQN.—A Special Slave Oelert
Lord Wellington never had supposed that Sir John I die waves. The sea ran mountains high, but the dia. the bills actually given being nothing more than bills was held at the Alley, in Vere, on the 6th of *Dee
drawn by the Defendants, upon a bauking house where ' for I • lofthe following••
Murray possessed any dominion over the elements, i fence to the shore was short. Many, who could not .11 cemJer, tie trial
t they had noeffects, and werenot even known. 'lt ap.
that he was endowed with any supernatural attri. ; Swim, endeavoured to secure whatevei they could meet 1 Aberdeen, Adam, and Preston, belonging to Salt
butes, or that he could achieve impossibilities. Had': with that was buoyant; others, conceiving there was peered also in evidence, that far some time past ISavantedi Estate, charged with the murder of another
Edward Marton bad been in the habit of sending
the elements, however, interferred to prevent him', do chance of escape, 'went below, and there awaited!stave, named Thomas, the property of John 'Holmes
from embarking his cannon ? Was it so imperious-' their unhappy destiny. Amongatthe latter was Mr. Itowls to a large amount to Wm. Meysten, the other tee. by burying him alive. It appeared Poets the
efendant, of which we account had been kept, az-
)), necessary to leave his guns behind him on account . SAHEII GOLDSMID, one of [beams of the late Mr. .levidence, that the parties were all congeeie end btu(
of the near *approach of the enemy, anti yet to send B. Gee/main, Who was an excefO gept. in the carrier's delisery book ; which book Was. nt, swimmer, bat •made a play, according to the custom of their cowry,
his cavalry forward to the Col de Baiaguer, on the had hid the misfortune to sprain 'his arm a few days 111layatoty had attempted to bribe a servant of Ed. when Thomas dug a grave in which be laid himself
very road on which that enemy was advancing, (0 ; Befote,' Which deprived him entirely of the use Or it. , Vvard ayaton to get into his possession. And, that down, desiring his companions to cover him up for
be exposed, as cavalry meat always be when con- ' lie plaretited upon a brother officer (Mr. FBe,ssae) ' sheDefendants had proposed to pay a creditor a' the space of one hour; but that if he did apt rise
tending without support igainsta colinist of infantry ?, to mem irfth dies to the cabin, and meet Artie fate glarr- be of 30001. and upwards, if he would sane. ' again in another place in that time, they were to
Sir J. Murray had represented the instruction to , quietly there, alleging that it was preferable fetrest-. 'll".a proposal for a composition to the creditors at open the grave. Aberdeen and Preston were op-
proceed to Valencia as only a casual observation, ; fog to a piece of wreck, which. could only Protract bugs% of what would *mar on the face of the pointed to close up the graves and Adam to play on
and a kind of anticipation of what was probable, by! their lives for a few iniuutes, but could not ultimately beef% keowing *that the -greatest pert of the pro. the gombah (African music), all of which was pone-
Lord Wellington. This construction he differed stave them. lie urged similar. arguments ts. Captain . -
perty had not been entered. • .
• tuehly performed. Spme other negroes belonging to
from altogether, and was satisfied that a simple re.' HAStttrt, whit) replied, he was not afraid to meet After a trial of eight hours, the Jury, from II few • the estate appeared, however, before the Ceremtry
ference to the letter of his Lordship would justify `the destiny which awaited him, but he had not cou-i
minutes consultati on, declared the Defendants guilty, was completely finished, and, had sense enough to
his interpretation. Here the Sedge-Advocate re-i rage sufficient to witness the agonising grief of his I and they were sentenced to three years imprisonment open the grave ; but it was too late, the er uufot nat
al
Castle.
Lancaster ,
marked on Sir J. Murray's observation, that the ; wife, who was then below, and was screaming aloud invictim of his o,whiredulity being dead. His Honour
second charge would uever have been framed but for !for his assistance. When it is considered that be- ----, se
* PO,L Xt.. the cuatoe charged the Jury can the crime, when
Admiral liallowell's letter. TM statement was ; lei/en 250 anti 300 souls were on board, some faint they found them guilty of Alanslateeeter; and the
quite incorrect, the charge having been framed without lides may be formed of the scene of confusion and leemmoss-- following sentence was passed, viz.: —Each to re-
ally reference whatever to the complaint or opinion . digress which was then exhibited. Au officer en- ceive 39 lashes on the spot w here the catastrophe took.
of that officer on the subject of the embarkation. Sir geavoured to arrest the attention of the sufferers for place, in the presence of all the estate's Devoe',
J. Murray seemed to have forgotten that his letter, i moment, just to request that such as_ might have
then to be severally burnt in the hand, and to suffer
expressly stated the object of embarking the whole of the good fortune to escape would apprise their relit- one month's solitary confinement in the county gaol.
the infantry to be to cut off a 'division of Sachet's Oyes of the hapless fate of their companions. A —(Jamaica Paper.)*
er my at Vandillos. That attempt appeared to him. eery short time elapsed before the vessel
,separated
to be most idle and hopeless. He must contend that Bad went to pieces. Out of the whole number on
Sir J. Murray had acted contrary to the instructions board, 37 only were saved.
of Lord Wellington toembark and return to Valencia, The mysterious accusation of a Gentleman at
and immediately join the right of the Spanish army Brighton has terminated in vapour. The simple fact
there, in case of failure on Tarragona. Ile submitted , wire that two *Olsen lervaute, in 0 &mil/ *Nis..
to the Court that the word immediately must apply liuction, made oath before a Magiatrato, ais gip;
to time, and not to his place in the Spanish line, as coachman Lad said that he bad hags apacked stwri
Sir John Murray had construed it. In that sense, most severely wounded by bit young steam!, in 4;401
the word would have been quite superfluou's and of passion. But this coachman his -14 teed* epir
void of meaning. Sir John appeared to rely in his complairiti nor Solis forward to just* the hear*
defence, on the word "express written orders" be. accusation? It has since come out that one of the;
ing introduced in the charge.. If the Court were, females had beets prevented from contracting a swell
however, of opinion, that the word " express" marriage with airther son of 'her master, and it tel
could not be proved to •be the proper description of probable that an indictment for a conspiracy will bil
those orders, they might find him guilty ou part of the consequence of this tramped-up accusation.

MAnstow-trouse.—E. IVebb and Robsrf and
William Searl, were brought op on Saturday for re-
examination, charged.mkk robbing Messrs. Magna/
and Pickering of a tiriatlty of writing paper. The
particulars, as far es thitjr bad transpired, were de-
tailed by us in our last ;• in addition to which it now
appeared, that Webb is bow in the employ of Messrs.
Gadney and Field, .machine-refers, who had extol-
sivP.dealings with Messrs. %lagnay and - Pickering,
sod it was by ordering the piper us for, them, that
the Prisoners got possession of it. It being expected
that further evidence will be obntined, the PriSOUEIB
were remanded.

GUILDHA reniffi Mid John Cooper,
two welt-known characters, were brought up by
Marden, the Officer, who stated, that he had followed
the Prisoners and two others about 311 Friday morn-
ing, and observed them try several pockpts.
length, on Ladgate.hill, he saw &own, one-of those
who had escaped, thaw .a handkerchief from a Gen.
I ilea:ma's pocket; The whines end Scott, another'

MARRIED.
On the ILA inst. Mr. W M. Macquire, of his Majesty's Sta.
tionary Office, to Mips Elizactlt Sayre, of Piccadilly.
(Indio die Inst. Mr. (4. N. Ranhin, of the Old Jewry, soli-
citor, to Susaq, °ph 4au‘hter of Thomas Hanky, Esq. of
Herbleydown.

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DIED.
On the Yd kost. at tigeele4ol.T.gen, hir. Peßignoi, Podgian,
of Chorleh In Ltneissittre, in ihts tenty-third year.
6" °he v'th efJasuarY, George' A him, Usq:late or Banner-
peace, AggitryttlY AK*itlllod of St. (:roof:. 85.
At Stoke eirington, oa the 9dlnst. !11.4. , relict of
.1. IX Lues4ou,
.13.4. . •
On the 15th titt.tt yienoa, Wm. Montain, Fag„ !emit! son
'l4 flbtaew **Maga, log. Itif POrtmaii44lsire.

0440011... Ai.Mg sod Pubei•lseol by O. Loyola., at
Orrica. 87, ttleetiarret.