The Duke of York left tow...
The Times, 1824-09-01T00:00:00

The Duke of York left town yestertlay morning for Windsor on a visit to the King for a few days. Mr. Secretary Canning camne to town yesterdlay morning from the seat of MNr. Hoiton, at Sudbrooke, and wvas busily engaged till about six o'clock transacting official busincs'. xG , Aug. 30.-Thie Archlbishiol) of Can- terbury to-day laid the first stone of the churchl about to be erected in this tovn. An immnense assemblage of people witnes3ed the ceremony. The wvill of the late unfortunate Sir Charles Mi''Carthy was registered in the Prerogative-office, in Doctors' Corn- mnons, on the 28th (August) ult. Probate was granted to his sister, Adelaide Gueroult, Countess de Merve, wife of Charles Francois, Count de Merve, as sole heiress and ex- ecutrix, the property being stated (within the province of the Canterbtury jurisdiction) to be un(ler the sutn of 20,0001. It is contained in a series of papers, marked Nos. 1, 2e, and( 3-the last being merely an envelope wvitlh a super- scription, and the first a lettt r (leclaratory of the purport of' 'No. 2, which is written throughoutt in P'rench, and contains all his testamentary dispositions. It conlsists of three letters adfdressed to Iiis sister and her hushand: the fitst of them is dated, like the paper wvriting No. 1, the 27th of October, 1821. The tenour of the whole is expressive oi'the utmost af- fection and confidenice in the Countess and( hiis brother-in- law, to wholi he gives the bulk of hiS property, with certain provisions,at thcir entire di5cretion,for his natniral children: of these there are four; he menttons them) witlh inuci so3ici- tude;and lamen tsbh is ntverhavi ngforincdI a lawful connexion: t wo of them are by the same mo'ther. 'rhe secondl letter in the testamentary paper, No. 2., is date(d the 14ith of Nov. 1822, and begins in this manner-" Thinking it wvas my duty to repair to the t'ol(l Coast on account of a hostile ag- gression fromn the clhief of the Ashantees, a barbarian to whom they give the title of King, andl who in the bosomn of peace has seizeil anti ma(ld prisoner a sergealit, whom he I'ay nmurder under pretence of hii having spoken ill of him, I think proper to inform vou," &c. &c. TLhe last of the letters, dated the 2iith of Oct. 1823, at Sierra Leone, consists cliefly of an eniumeration of property, and inotices the probability of his shortly having anotjser chlild, for wlhom lie entreats his sister's kindners and( protection: 'Tihe testator has left annuities of So0 franics and 300 fraics to two aunts. 'I'lie other bequests are very trifling. All the docum-ents are in Sir Charles's ownu handwriting. [Advertisement.] pt'USSIAN LOAN NEGOTIA TFnD BY Nit.. N. M. RoTHsCHI.D, 1N LONDON, IN 1818.-The half yearly dividenid in the above loan, which becomes due on Fritlay the 1st of October next, wvill be paid by Mr. N. AT. Rethschild, on that and every succeeding day (Stndays ex- cepted) between the hours of ten andI two, at his counting- house, Nt 2, New-court, St. Svvithin's-lane. 'ITledividend warrants, with a list thereof in numerical order, mulst be left one day for examination. DESTILVCTION OF TIuE TraEs OF TllR BOULEVARDS.- (Fromn USEtoile.)-For sonic tinme past the citizens have observed, with eqtial pain and surprise, the rapid decay and sudden death of most of the trees in the inner Boulevards, cliefyin the quarter of the Pa. noramas and the Italian Theatre. The cause of this mortality was gencrally supposed to be the emanations from the conduits of the hy. drogen gas in the neighbourhood. Thiis sapposition induced the Mla- gistrates to commis,sion some scientific nen, versed in vegetable pliilo- 8ophy ard chymistrv, to make experiments to determine the effects of the gas on the p0antations. The first results tended at least to throw a doubt on the deleterious influence ascribei to the gas, and the experimcnts were going on to obtain certainty otl the subject, when circumstances wholly unforcseen pointed cut a very different cause of the accidents in question. Young plants have been found mutilated and broken, old trees cut with a saw all round, or piereed to the centre with an auger, the holes being intended to receive substances destruc- tive to vegetable life; Lnd lastly, with their roots to a great depth watered -ith these substances. The facts have been described lin regular protocols, and every one niav convince himself of the facts, by the first examination of the Boulevards above-mentioned. It is dif- ficult to perceive, and painful to suppose, the malice which have induced ill-disposed persons thus to devastate the most agreeable proineinade in Paris. However it be, the authors of these proceed- ings wil soon be known; justice is in pursuit of them, and they will not all escape the punishment decreed by the penal code against crimes of this nature. Mrs. Coutts arrived at the British Hotel, Queen-street, on Wednesday evening, after spending a few days at Sir John Alar- joribanks'sjin Berwickshire. Thursday, Airs. CoutUs, in acarriage and four, accompanied by two other carriages, took an airing to view thetown and public buildings. Mrs. Coutts arrived at Lees on Satur- day last. On Sunday she went to Allanbank, which had beea the residence of the late Ir. Coutts during the holydays of his boyhood (hiB mother being a daughter of Sir Itobert Stuart, Bart,), and at- tended divine service at tne parish ehurch of Edrom. The poor upom;. this, as on many other occasions, will have reason to remernber her generous and charitable disposition. She Jorwarded to the paPiister. of the pa.ish 201. to be distributed among those w,ho stood in irnme- liate want of assistance; and genlerously gave to an old servaut Or :he Allanbank family, vwho remembered, and bad perhaps beeb the rompanion of Mr. Coutta during his ehildhod han perhlti sf 2e0ith cod, nidimntj of' 201. Or the remainder of his life. lVe understand that 201. hiave been vedn bay the same friendly ha)t1 to the poor of the parisa aof