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duced by the description which had been given of his wines wore reedy' for delivery atr; the places msit
dim'', hut 144 rondilinn in life never had any effect tioaed. The Defendant was not guilty of a tortious
upon the judgment which his Lordship prettorsneed, conversion in acting under this letter, and the Plain-
it •was very immaterial whether he Has or not an tiff having entered into a positive contract to supply
itenerant showman. The Learned Counsel, there.- * given quantity r f wine, he was not at liberty to
fore, thought him quite right' in saying, that that•fact atop short, anti refuse to perform his contract, under
was nottseose to. be atated to the Lord Ciaincellor.— the citrumsfances in which it appeared to have been
He submitted that •Onbank was a more clerk of formed. lie had nO right to retract his agreement to
frank, without a shilling of his own to purchase, the prejudice of those who were to be affected by its
and Frank had lout hint all the money. The ques. operation.
tion was, therefore,..mhttherre,clerk could do what The Jury, after some consideration, found a vet.-
his master .was prohibited frbet•doingo de knew of diet for the Defendant.
no distinction its prineiple-bet wee, the master and l ---- -- - servant on this point. The master, as a Commie. !
The prisons of Vienna are filled with malefactors.
sinner, was precluded from buying, and his clerk '
was subject to the same rule of pablie.policy. Expeditions are sent into the mountains and forests
' Mr. Ltacu appeared for Mr. Beckwith, who had of Moravia and Bohemia, to destroy GILASEL'S bandZ'
no objection to that part of the Petkion which pray. which has now lost its chief. Gut am. was shocking-
wt! that the purchase should be completed, but as to ly wounded before he could be taken, end now lies
costs, he conceived himself rather entitled to re- in prison in a cfangeros state. Sevens) of his ban-
Mee, than pay them. There bad been no collusion i d Iti have been taken, some of whom, it is said, are
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between him and the bankrupts in the former Peti. even more culpable than himself.
tions, end he had always been desirous of carry- i Sir THOMAS LAWRENCE has executed an admirable
ing the contracts into effect. He contended, there- portrait of Signor CANovA, the Roman sculptor, who
fore, that the costs ought to be paid out of the bank. , lately visited this country. This work is finished in
ruptit' estate. the best style, and is decidedly one of the happiest
Mr. Cuxtre followed on the same side, insisting, efforts of Sir Tstostas's correct and steady pencil.—
that as the former Petitions stated a great variety of The first consideration in a portrait is, that it be a
circumstances, independently of the question of pur- perfect likeness of the sitter—the next, that it is a
chase, his Lordship ought to have them before him, good picture—in both of these points the artist has,
in- order to determine upon the MSC It was very on the present occasion, been eminently successful.
material to.consider, whether a commissioner CUM He has depicted not alone the contour or outline of
purchase as agent for another person. In exparte CANOVA'S countenance, hat the striking and Intel-
IL rris, his Lordship decided, that a commissiener , lacteal features of the man have been admirably pre..
could nut purchase for himself, nor as an agent for , served. In fact, he has embodied in the portrait the
another. In the present case, however, the party . mind and spirit of the original. The accesserial
was agent for his own clerk, and advanced the mg.! parts of this picture are handled with equal taste and
ney to him for the purchase. Mr. Frank had chosen judgment: the shaft of a column in the back ground
to tipper as a. witness on this Petition but hie zeal, is introduced with effect, and corresponds with the
had quite overstepped his prudence. He hail slated, character of the subject. It is due to the facility of
that a few years age, he saw the bankrupts at triter. Sir Themes LAWRENCE'S Pencil to state, that he had
pool, in the character of snowmen. id wt. hut two sittings fry Castoya —that the work -as

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• attie-eitailelter‘Yeaterday, the drivet oftthe hack.
neY-charlot, 1148, watt brought to the o*N:charged
with misbubarieer•te his fare- It appeared frprn tier
statement of the Gentleman .complainlng, that it
was an aggsanted case. On his leasing Coreet.
garden Theatre a few nights since, he engaged the
chariot at the Piazza. It WAS about a quarter or m
hour before the Prisoner could he found, and tt0,,1
he, with difficulty, mounted his box; he hod not
proceeded hut a few yards before he locked his wheel
with a Gentleman's carriage, and he wet found to he
so Intoxicated, that he could not speak. ishe G,.„,
tleman in consequence left the chariot, And had to
walk through the rain, and caught a violent c,,lti.
lie %%as convicted in. the full penalty, and not
ing it,. he was committed for seven la) s.
WORMIP-STREET.-1,2 ammo was char;eil be.
fore J. Gmonn, Esq. tot at w...t ~.ttempiog to Commit
a burglary at the house of Pope, at Islingt,n.
Mr. Pope, jun. stated,- ibet his father resides at
Dalby-house, D:Thy.-teriace, Islington ; shout two
o'clock on last TrAtthry rttarning he heard some
thieves attempting to,break into the house; he listen.
led some time, until he was convinced they were et
the drawin;.room window., then he got up and
dressed, called opal! the•family, aid' came into the
drawing-room, accompanied by his father; one .f
the windows was burst open ; ht the 'meats time the
i young ladies saw from their bed-chamber windows
two men run from the house across the garden, and
at the same moment perceived two watchmen, *he
had heard the alarm, coaling across the garden wall,
by means of a lamplighter's ladder; whir happened to
be then going their rounds. Miss Pope cried out to
them, " seize -him, that is one of •the thieves,"
meaning the Prisoner, who ifigzards the corner,
attempting to escape across 11 .but not suc-
ceeding, he was secured by the watchmen: the other
man got clear off: on being searched at the vr-'

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/MPH, and wanted the
Court to believe, that an order for coats on them
would be useless ; but he did not say what he meant,
by a few years ago, nor expllin how they were re-
duced to their present state of poverty. The (set
was, that the commission was issued in 1802, *lnd
nothing was done under it for 10 years. At
Inst the -r►y %op Id, ',her, he '

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altogether finished some days before the. sculptor's
fortnight visit to the metcoplitis expired—and that the
distinguished stranger, in the elevated circle of so-
ciety in this cpuntry, in which his company was
courted, candidly and freely conceded the palm of
eminence in portrait painting to the artists of this
count,- This.uni,-^rsall, admitted distinctir leads

house, he had not a single penny about
The Prisoner said in defence, that ha • came to
Islington on Sunday morning, lccotripapied by au.
other man, with a view of going by the coach, to
Luton, in Bedfordshire, on Mow*, but that he
missed the coach, an(F set off at that hOur to walk it ;
on goil along Dalby.terrace, be heard the -

,untry. -,cis. ,versally orient ...sanction .____ . ,ding ,ag ~ ,oy..- ....e, _ ..card It, cry of
One to.lantent the discouragement of historic paint- i
der some assistance if it should be necessary.
thievbs, and went lute the garden, intendistg to ten.
irtg in this country, and the limitation of acknow-
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lodged talents to the comparatively inferior walk. I Mr. GIFFORD remarked it was pot a likely thing
which portrait painting is entitled to hold in art. i that he s'inuld attempt to travel so far pennyiess ;
and although there was no. positive proof that he
Tuesdny evening, a female child, about four years
broke open the window, still considerable suspicion
of age,: belonging to a poor woman in Cursiter, ,
street, being left alone During the absence of her attached to him: hut, at all events, bemuse be come
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mother, by some accident her clothes caught fire,{
she was immediately enveloped in !lames ; a person mitred under the Vagrant Act.
QUEEM-SQUARE.—YesterdayUeorge Burn, brought
in the house alarmed by the screams, ran to her as- up in the custody 'of Polite, the :officer, Charged
sietentewnd *languished the flames ; the child was , with defrauding his master, Mr. Thomas -Prt,•
mach scorched, bat hopes are entertained df her re. , landlord of the General Howard, In'HostAtir 7
I Cheisee, of various sums of money, his p •
covery. :-..... y,
shi test I cap examined before Mr. Coratuottx, thr Cites
A few evening* since, Isabella Blunt, a
years of tree, WAS burnt to death, at a btausw , Magistrate.in •
Bennet-street, Ra I hbone-place. She was beard to I Mr. Price stated, that betook the Pxleost atoll.
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kecause. he ' was 11.
try ‘' Fire," and the distracted mother, instead of commiseration into his hoUse,
p, poor pensioner, and quite destittfe; that wilt far
.going to her assistance, ran into the street for help..
On the room heitig entered where the child was, she . the practice of ' sellin&beer for • him- inthril.iffolpita
'ires friend shockingly bursae; 9118 wetyrltusti- eclese wards; aid thit .4
w*n las civii-10 relics 1410
baud -happened..., , he received whew he came heels, hur liffEad..
ssel was not able to tell how it
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An hiquest was held at Mr. Lancaster's, the Bunch doing he excused'himself by saying, A Iris- die to
him ; at last it was found that 'he curled oat some
of Grapes public-house.—Verdict, Accidental Death.
on pretence of bringing it to one lathe nurses,
Forma Da.—Wednesday evening between five and • rum,
six o'clock, as Capt. Irving, of the Royal Navy, was . who, on applying to her for the money some time
travelling in a Hounslow post-chaise, neat Cola- ' after, declared she always paid on delivery ; he also
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took some
„hes!. to a Mr. Rodgeri, a grocer, and
brook, in Buckinghamshire, he was stopped 17 two
neighbour, who paid him Is. 81 for it, for which he
desperate footpads. Capt. frying being a resolete
never accounted.; this created alarm, and on en.
man refused being robbed. The robbers-were a rated
quiry it was ascertained etat.l•e. carried on this e! •.
with pistols, and resorted to desperate means Ita
tern a long time, and soot I setqa
,to the ainount of
force the Captain to a compliance with their de.'
mends, endeavouring to dist-his rge their
pistols, lift' 201. was discovered be hid talee,n up, on which he
fortunately it was a wet evening, and, in cense.
l was discharged; hut, to make bed worse, he ems.
quence, both the pistols only flashed iu the pan.—.l ployed his, influence with the
pensioners, and by that
mese. pretested his successor. to sell. any beer.
Having failed in their murderous intent, they Sal
tacked the Captain with the handles of their pie: The Prisoner said, in defence, that he certainly
received some of the money, which got out of his
feint, with which they cut open his head, and wound.
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he pocket by some means that. edid not know ; the re.
tad and bruised him in various parts of thy;
mainder is still due, and if he were suffered to go
in consequence became exit/morel, which enabled
about the different wards inn the Hospital, he could
them to overpower him, and they succeeded in
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Dn. 21. I emptying his pockets of his property; among it was collect it, and make up the de6cieucy.
MOORE 117. DANIEEL• 1 Bank note s and cash to the amount of 301., his : The Magistrate said, the greatest criminal would
This was an action of Troyer, to recover the value watch, &e. They then kit the Captain in nearly a' be found to promise to make retribution when
of 11.436 cantaros of lisserta Wine, under the lifeless
i state. Yesterday he was so bad in consequence brought to justice, bat he must be remanded, until
lowing circumstances :—The Plaintiff carried on the that he could not leave his room. •: those persons of whom he received the monies at.
business of a wine merchant at Alicant, and the De.;
The fallowing paragraph is extratted from a cat.' lend• fondant was Commissary General of the British,
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forces during the campaign of 1812, in that district of
culla Gazette of July last :—" A tragical incident; Thos. Gee. RM.', brought op by Oilman for 9C•
Spain. In the month of November the Defendant
happened on board one of the Compry'srow-bOats, strutting Sergeant Wingfield, on the • reCrailog ser-
employed with Capt. Maxfield, in ineve,ing the vice, at his rendezvous in Tothill-street, was fully advertised fora supply of twenty thousand cantaros
eastern passage. A tyger swam
.from the. shore, I committed, for want of bail.
of Thiene Wine, for the supply of the troops, and
sprung into the boat, and seized an aged man, a Its_; ws
presented his gun at • able
1 niaer.nouoven•szneet.—Mrs' Wild, a respect-
ordered that persons desirous of contracting to '
live, nn hoard. An European
supply that quantity of wine, should send in their
the animal, but it flashed in the pan. A Seeang .widow, who resides in r.rrykirstotte.street, It'v-
tenders to the Commissary General's office in Ali- !
r. eeized the animal by the tail, while another netive tgr:u_r.-Ple_r.e,.came to this Office .yesterday, and ttlar,‘4l
„Intends
Junes,ti tong Magistrate, !truck him on the head nit,' a hatchet.
cant. The Plaintiff sent in a tender, which was ac-
The blow , wilted, and he accordingly contracted to supply the • I he, other
../ocksitO,icalottrtriher liou.o,
Laid his skull open, note iilistemling Which, he set- •
,and'
wine required. On the 30th December, he setit a ; agreed for her two epartmeats ; from their BP.
everted In retiring with his prey.'"that two persons, cue
written notice to the Defendant, informiug him that pearance and manners she had not the slightest ret-
wines to the amount of 11,436 cantaros were lying at ' The house of Charles -Mary Wentworth, Esq:nt !son to sus act *Dry inteWtion• of freed; a referenc4
Sunning_hill, has been discovered to have been robbed• 7 lilts gi
different plantations, in the neighbourhood of Aliening,
of various articles for some time past, consisting of attedrpedntio 111"Itretn"
Cinsliewell' but
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naming them, and were deliverable at those places to
the most choice wines, china, linen, wearing-appa. : session _tv._ On Wednesday night they took p' -
his
and at length a silver brend-basket, of the value i yesterdayormiohreniap•pga,"treeynteossntarnieed
his order, in pursuance of the contract. The very
next day, however, he sent notice to Messrs. Figures,
of 601. He caused an enquiry to be made, and
the sub-contractors, of whom he had purchased the ;counterpane, a pair of sheets, the pillow, five silver
Richard 'Westbrook, of One Bow-strect office, going ; s ,
wines in question, countermanding the instructions i oous,some books, and a few other smaller arti-
down there,
they had received of him, to deliver tine wines to the discovered that Mr. W.'s housekeeper ; .
and her husband. a livery set cant, were the robbers, ' tit:sst" • :Pleasures are being taken to bring them to
contrived
send
de
aow'calo;cak
order of the Defendant. In the beginning of January
and. several articles of the stolen property were-found I•• ce..
the Defendant sent a Spaniard and Sicilian, in the ser-
vice of the British, to receive the wines, but they were ',in the house of their mother, inn the neighbourhood.
Schutz the Magistrate, at Reading, who committed
Westbrook took them before Mr.
told by Mr. Figures that they could not be delivered; n hoes
Westbrook
but upon being informed that they would he taken by 'he
t them to the prison of that town to take their trial
for the offence nt the ensuing Berkshire Assizes. .
force, he at length delivered them up to the Defend-
Tuesday evenings a horse and cart was going along
tish bead-querters, and distributed to the troops in
rations. In the month of April the Plaintiff applied
against the window of Mr.WilE
to Defendant for payment of the wines this taken, into Cursitor-street, proceeilml with
.grant violenceg
*ien the latter replied, that the contract bad trot
thrown clown by the animal, e d I k•
WTI!, milliner; a poor
been fulfilled, and that hecould not pay for detached "'min In coming nut of the shop at the time was
says:
portions of the wine, after positite agreement to map. n s sun iagly hurt,
ply 90,1100 eautaros. The Plaintiff now brought his she was taken to the hospital.
action of (rover, under the circumstances in which A letter from Dublitr, dated December 16,
. -" We have had no: Its than seven Atterities, a
the wine was token by the Defendant.
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Lord ELLENHOttounn was of opinion that Storer eight other persona, rypectable in public credit till
sentenced to tr hs nrtation • b
did not lie, inasmuch as the Plaintiff had waved the now,
p f I eiug convicted be.
g f
tort, by the letter which he had sent to the Defend.
tort, a special cr, non iolc
OR 0 mauutacturing mid feud-
ants •on thelt.teb of December, .antrowndnd that the big forgbd isampoo,
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property was sold, when t. bankrupts pits.,
sewed a, Petition to have the accounts taken, on thar.i
ground of a considerable surplus after paying the co*.
ditors.
Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY replied. He observed, that i
Frank was absent from Stockton when 11w purchase
was made by Dobson, and there could be no groupd
whatever for charging, him with impropriety in may{
of the transactions under the commission. The only t
question in this case was, as to the costs ; and the
extreme misery of the bankrupts had been only stated'
for their relief. Ile had never yet heard that a clerk
of a comsnissioner could nut legally purchase, ad
thought Stubb's letter a proof, that the bankroll's.
had ikothing to do with costs.
The LORD CIiaNCELLOR 60%101 it Opt justices's,
observe, that Frank slid not appear to hog actod,oo.
der the commission for many years, and its,c,o4lll
had purchased the premises, it would, have beemt
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a public sale. That would not have made it a gond.;
i purchase; but as ferias•rasitectPd the morality ctf
I transaction, nothing improper could hove been im.A
puted to him. As a conimissioner,he could not AM{
purchased. The purchase was made by Dobson, the)
clerk, and his Lordship had thought it very impors
I ant to look at the case with jesiOnSy, but could net
find any principle that went farther than to exclude.'
the commissioner from buying. If this principle
were to be extended, the Court would never know
were to begin and where to stop. His Lordship,
therefore, could not cut down the transaction fur
!that reason, but had directed an issue at law,..awd
Frank had proved that he had nothing to do with
Dobson's being'the purchaser. The question of costs
as to Beckwith, should be considered Kith reference
to the different stages of this business, particularly
! whether Beckwith had aided the bankrupts' objet.
. 'ion to the title. All this depended on the affidavit*,
which his Lordship must read.
Judgment postponed.

T! ewe whzi are lingcriog under painful and obstinate Disem'et
mus feel a p'easure when they are iitroloeu De. Coon*.
and thrc^ Suree,ms of thirty years' experience to Strtrin,•-•
Fisittlas, and Srr.rfu ous Dhere.e., have c.4ablidlcil
a Medical Board nt Cuurlotte- boost.. lineal Ch.irl..tte.streelt
onposite the Rev. -Ilowlaud. Blackfriare-nr,
by whom the Public are cured without entivatio., ut r""6“e-
mect. The LWIIIIIII in claims the nnetlibm of flew:, ahu
attempted the cr.e, or ahn hare consulted illiterate too.
who e improper 'readapts, hate mine+ thon,tivel... Eruption
nn the hend, face, :mu Tinily, sore throat, inflator. *,d ea'r(
ani.e in the vars. swellii, to the neck. rt,onor,s of t•ight .
litre., pains in the liedd and I.inh-,•fieque,tty rni.t.,fien
rhentiottisin ; weakness in the 10 ande# on the shio ho,r`,
r*velled mocks, ifc. are stenptinteo which appear trar'"fl"`'
and 100
often emiHtle" the matrimonial state. hi.-areCnOIPLA
Co. are iconfitfted tinily by .Illraidcs of rople, foto. "
lilt eight precise', ;anti five advert. el Mi.'. Oil •
day, nod Sirofay al,rrags, till twelve o'‘lock. Ad.or r• vat
the corner, and priwae.raoms for (contra..
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