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KING'S THEATRE.-Mademoise...
The Times, 1824-07-02T00:00:00

KING's THEATRE.-Mademoise1)e Nob]et last night took her benefit She selected for the occasion Rossini's ope of Taxeredi, which, aided bv the rare genius of Mltadame Pasta as the bero, and AZadaTn Ronzi dc e t. as the beroine of the tale, wentoffwith very greateclat. .MadamePasta'sdeliciousexecution of Dr tents po1pit; insured, as it uniformly does, an enthusiastic eM core. After tie opera, anew cornic balet, composedlbv M. Aumer was produced. It is entitled Jadis et Aujourdui; ozt, Le; dewx Tantes; and the story, which has been dramatized, turna on the opposite disposition of the two aunts of Rosalie, Oac of them conforms to the taste of the time present, but the other, under whose especial care Rosaoic is placed& delights in nothing that does not savour of the time past. Actuated by this feeling, she determines to bestow tne hand of Rosaic a n aneient coxcomb. But the lady not having any predilection for antibuity places her affections on a voung Prencli officer, to wlhom her reasox'. able aunt bas introduced her. The plots wrhich this spark, assiste by a roguish servant, and an equally roguish dancing-master, sets on foot to defeat his anCient rival, form the incidents of the scene There are several well..imagincd and well-executed darces in tbiS ballet, particularly in the- last, or ball-room scene; there is %IsI some very good comic acting by Mademoisel'e Noblet and hSes sieurs Ferdir.and, Boisgerarn, Bertrand, and Venafra. The rausic by Gyrowitz, is of too solemn a character for a tzife -of this linj T7he ballet was well received. We understand that the prayer of the iMesnoridl oa the inhabitantc of Bridge-street, Chatbamn;place, &c. siansttheexten. sion of the rules of the Fleet to those places, has been reFizsed by the Clhief Justice of the Common Pleas. The brother of the present Lordl Farewooi was .so like to his present Ua5esty 3S to give him the name of Prince loseelie, The present Sir Allan Park, itn his 7til prEiar wig, Is tbe y en, counterpart of outr 1nte reverecs Sovereigsn. Bndflyr. Villao4s and; M?r. Nunez, twomasters of separate paicks of foi..hoantds, used to be continually taken for each other, and the most ludicrous miistakme occerred among persons who hunted with their respectivo estiblishb. nients.
Middlesex Sessions, Thurs...
The Times, 1824-11-12T00:00:00

lmis ntay tle sessions were held pursuant to adJournment, to dis. pose of the cases which l:ad been travetsed at the last sessions. Willi:tm Dwiger was indicted for assaulting Williamn Hzard. The parties were mere lads. The prosecutor stated,that he was one evening, at the end of Octo. ber, proceeting very quietly along Brill-row when he received a blow on the right side of the head. Hle turned round to look for his assailant, but the latter as if aware of his intention, ctnningly hit him In the left eye with. such force and precisiln, that the blow at once closed up that necessary ori-n, and lodged its possessor In the kennel, to thc serious detriment of a new suit of clothes which he ha4 ort. Theprosecuter, however, had still one eye left, which enabled him to discover that it was the prisoner who used him so roughly. The prisoner, when called on for his tdefence, proceeded to tell his story. On the night in question he saw the prosecutor walking arnn-in.arm with a young lady, with whom hehad - kepi com any" for a year and n months, and, as he imagined; to some yurpose. Tlrany a lover under sutch circumstances would have ventured tipn some desperate act, but he, fortunately, was all self-possession, ad con- tensted himself with asking the prosecutor what business he had with the lady. The prosecutor, in retetrn, asked the prisoner what that was to him. The prisoner, still all meekness, said " It was some. thing to him ;" whereupon the prosecutor inquired'conerpptuously HRow he eould help himself ?" From words they came to blows, but which struck first he could not for the life of him tell. The CHACRCCAs-.W.hy the prosecutor swears that you' struck him, and knocked Iiml into the kennel. The prisoner could not account for that drcuuistance. The Jurv found the prisoner Guilty. The COu RT sentenced the prisoner to pay a fine of 51 ,with liberty to speak to the prosecutor. _ MIIDDLESEX SESSIONS, THiURLSDAY. Nov. II.
Ship News.
The Times, 1824-11-18T00:00:00

CALDnIGAW, Nov. IS.- esterday evening a brix, with a figure head, came to anchor in this bay; it blew a gale at N.W. by W.; her masts were cut away in the nigkt. She is now (I p- in.) riding heavy,apparentlY with ioss of rudder; wiRd N.N. w. blowing a gale- no boats can go to her. A topsail vaTd, with a sail tO it. has been driven on shore; maker's name, " Benson and Co., London." DovEu, Sept. 16.-The Swift, from Cork to London, was driven on nhore yesterday morning, at Cucq, near Boulogne. Crew saved, and hopes are pntertained of saving the vessel and cargo. G133RAtTAR, Oct. 26.-The Englisb bombard Paulina Maggiolo, of ind for this pOlt, from Girgenti, wsas lost 19th inst. near the river palmorics. A Sicilian brig was also lost on the other side of Point Camero, with barley, from Sicily to this port; and three Spanish craft were driven on shore at the same time, on the eastern Spanish beach. It is reported that a Swuedish or Dinish ship, almost new, laden with salt, is on s7hore on this side of Estenora, and is going tO pieces. .J)LFRACOMZB5, Nov. 15.-'The paeket, hetween tltia place and Swsnses,picked up a boit,marked ' olive of Pembroke,JohnLoymn.' KOsTOSrow, Jamltaica1 Sept. 18.-The John Biggar experienced anevere hurricane on the 11th inst. about 60 miles to windward of Turk's I'Jand, which carried away her radder and deck load, and did her considerable damage, her foretop-mast being shivered by light- ning, and staysails butrt. On the 13th, off Cape Maize, she fell in with a, long black schooner, under Spianish colours, having an American ship in company,.on.hiiling wliich the Captain of the schooner, a black man, informed Captain Baxter, she was his pnize, and, after inquiring hiis destination, adcisedl him to proceed. 1From the nuinber of men jon her deck, antd theis motley zppeaxance, Cap- tain Baxter believes them to be pirates.-HIis Mlajesty's ship Hussar fell,in with His Majesty's ship Parthian, anid learntt fiom the Hon. Captatin Barrifgtom, that he had captured a piratical schoo4er, andi sent her vitli despatches for Ycra Craz. SIHIP NEWS.
South America.
The Times, 1824-11-25T00:00:00

Letters have been received fronm Panamna, dated the 14th of September, but they communicate nothing of the progress of Bolivar subsequent to t;ie action with Cainte- rac's cavalry. Inteliigencc had arrived from Callao of a joint attack having been made on that fortress by the troops under General iMiller, and the blockading squadron under the command of Admiral Guise. Some ships had been captured in the harbour of Callao, though inder the protection of the batteries. It is supposed that Lima was opcn to the troops of General Miller. The NVewv York papers to thCe 2d inst., received yesterday by the Florida packet ship, contain reports of a second action having occurred betweeni Bolivar and Canterac, in wlich the latter wss defeated, and lost his life; but these ap- pear to deserve little credit. Letters from Carthagena of the 27th of September, also received yesterday, raention the arrival there of the official accounts of the battle of Junin, whiclh event ha(l been celebrated by public rejoicings; but they comimunicate no additional in- telligence. Bv the Ann, Nlordaunt, arrived at Liverpool from Buenos Ayrcs, whenice slie sailed on the 10th of Septeni- ber, advices of the 4th of July from Lima, and from' Val- paraiso oftthe Ist of Anigust, have been obtained. No news is communicated through this channel; but at Valparaiso, up to the date of the letters, tlherc were no tidings of the arrival of' the Asia and( her coInvoy in any port of the Pacific. It appears, thereforc, notwithstanding the arrival of so many letters yesterday from different parts of South America, that we have little additioit to our previous information. SOUTH AMERICA.
Surrey Roads.
The Times, 1824-12-08T00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIAIM;S. Sir,-Allow me to correct a mistake into which yoar corretmond- ent has fallen respecting the witshed-for improvement in St. George's. fields. It tas the mne jority, not the minority, of the magistrates and trustees who expressed their anxiety, that the magnificent building of Bethlehem Hospital should remain fully open to the public view. The minority, on the contrary, propose carrying a street to its very walls; fo that, asdemonstratedby the surveYorto the trust, no part of the building, except the colonnade, would be visible from theObe_ lisk, and that would be seen but obliqucly. The trustees are wiU- ing to maintain the new road lately made, to awsist that object; but they deprecate the stopping up one of the greatest and most ancient thoroughfares leading to the rmetropolis, viz. the Lambeth-road, which extends from La,nbeth church to the Stones'-end, South- wark; and they depracate the filling up with law houses a plot of land capable of being converted into a noble approach to the city by each ef the five bridges. The resolution, wbich was moved by lMlr. Jackson, and seconded by the High Sheriff of the county. who have neither of threm a narticle of interest in the question bevond that of their public duty, '-will show that their object was not to tlitvrl, but to pronote the improvement of that populous neighbourhon-. As she resolution, however, will speak best for itself, I have the honour to nff-r. n- fnr v-,r in-trrionn.l _rn v.nr - -P.- A TRUSTEE. nis meetmg naving neara reau tne opinion or coun6se respect_ ing the proceedings of this trust, in regard to the exchanee of certain pieces of land with the Comnmiuteeof the Biidge House E;tates, ande the diversion of the Lambeth-rokd, and having taken into their con- sideration the stopping up of the ancient hizh road leading firom Lamnbeth church, through St. George'se-lds, to the borough of Seuthwark, in order to effect a circuitous wav by Bethlem Hos- pital, are of opinion that such measure will be highly inconvenient and injurious to the public, as well as to the neighbouring inba- bitants, and that the samne is not an improvement within the mean- ing ofthe actof the 3d of Hispresent .Majesty, c. 112, for the Manage- ment of the New Surrey RoadrE. nor of the geueral Turnpike Acts of the 3d and 4th of the King. " Resolved, therefore, that such part br parts of the proceedings of the trust, on the 30th of October, 1823, and such proccedings or resolutions as have been made or taken to cffectuate those objects, be rescinded. At the same time, this meeting declares its readines6 to concur with the Corporatien of london, or the Committee of the Bridge House Estates, in any measu(re for the enlargement andim- provement of the soutbern approaches to the metropolis, by West- minster, 'Waterloo, Blackfriars, Southwark, and London Bridges, by maintainingtheNew Road from Bethlem Hospital to theObelisk, or by such other means as shall b^;udged expedient, as far as may be consistent with the lezal powers possessed by this trust." SURREY ROADS.
House Of Lords, Monday, A...
The Times, 1824-04-13T00:00:00

The roval aasent wa'. eiven by commilssion u) the Irish 4 lier cents. bll, the silk diiiuier bill. the uinion du.ies bill, the postrige -art bill, the Mlillbank Peririiteiaily l,ill, the irish bo-ard of reorks bill. and a mniber of private 7ill7. The commissioners were the LORPi (In4AScCEL.oR. the Earl of SHIAFTESBURY, anid Earl BATtit-RST. The Bishiop of EXETER presented a petition for the abolition ot slaver, from a place ii Crrrnwall.-ord ROMN'cEY presented a petition front the clergy of Sutton. in Kenit. arainst tire Unitarian marrLaFe billI.-Lord (At. ritnRpFE nresented petitions from Shef- field. D)onrast'r and Btridlport. avainst criieltv to aninials.-The Mlarquiis of l.AWsflDOrse presentedl a petitioni from the journey- nieco bmot and ,4oemakers el' (flagow. againat the combination law, tb1liS petition waq afterward, withdrawn on account of in. firnljitv. tilheword ' titnibly" heinvontittedl) * a petitioti front I)ar- lineton, nerving for a hill to, facilitate thIe rec.;verv of smiall dlebts and a lprition froin certaini miniiters atiti elders of congregationis in connexion with the establishoel chuirch of Scotland. in thie north andl wet of England. praying that thev imav be permitte.i to cele- brate m:.rriage accordiie t! tihe firms of their own cihurch. The Marqtiissof' LANSD)WN eave notice, that lie woul(l on Tuesilay. the 4th of Mav, move the comiTi ttal ot the Uinitarian Inarrise hill. The nahle tMarquis also took that oropprtunity ol' p.resenting ftr a tirst readina. a bill sitnilar tir one wlhichl la(d becen broueht undr dtheir lordshia' considerationi in the last session of Parliament. The obiect of the bill was to enable tire Romnan Ca- tholics t,f England to s ote at elections in the samne manner as those of' Trelan(l. lie woulMl rrrove the second reailinz on an earlv day after the holyd3lvs. lie also ititendel. at a subsequent peri&I, to bring in another bill to enable KoeHish Roman Catholics to itoll tire same offices as those to which Romatn CLatholics in Ireland were eligible.-The bill was read a first time, antI the house adjourned. Fl(O)lSF. (lF [l.P)RI) Nnrrn- APT 19
Court Of King's Bench, We...
The Times, 1824-06-05T00:00:00

LAW' REPCflRP This was an action to recover the rent of lodgings occupied by the defendant in the house of the plaintiff, No. 214, Tottenham-court- road, in the year 1819. It was proved that Miss George took the lodgings at 35 guineas a year, and thatthere was halfa qtiarterunpaidfor. A claim was also inade of 11. 7s. for a Leghorn bonnet. to which a new front was added by Alr. WViggins. The Cosx-ox SERGEANT, for the defendant, stated that the bonnet had been paid for, and that he should show the plaintiff was not entitled to recover for the lodgings, as thev were let tbr the pur- oses of prostitution. To prove this case, he called Elizabeth Parker, the servant of Aliss eorge, who proved the s)ayment for the bonnet, and that her mistress received the Visits of gentlemen; but she did net prove that Mrs. WViFgins knew the charmCter or pursuits of her lodger when she received her; but, on the contrary, tbat she desired her to remove, '- as she could see what she was with half an eye."s MIr. aMARRSXT,fortbe plaintiff,observed, that though if a person knowingly let roomns for vicous purposes he could not recover, yet if he reccived a lodger without knowing her intention, he was not to be deprived of his rentbecause she afterwards conducted herself in an improper manner. The LoRD CHIEF JUSTICE said, the law hIad been correctly stated by theleared counsel for the plaintiff, vwho wxas clearly en- titled to the d ne; but whether the bonnet had been paid for or not, the jury would judge. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintil, for the amount of dte rent, 41. Ils. lOd. lu consequence of the expectation that the trial of " The King v. Thurtell" would not be finished in one dar, the parties were not ready in any caases but the remaners of Thursday, and therefore the Court rose before one o'clock. COURT OF KING'S BENC. IVE-STtINSTER. JUNE 4. WIGGINS V. GEORGE.
London, Saturday, June 26...
The Times, 1824-06-26T00:00:00

The French papers of WVedniesday, which arrived last night, contain no news. They had all received thc Eng- lish journals, with accounts of the events in Portugal, aiid descant upon them according to their different political views. The Journal des Dehats (the paper of M. de CH&TEAUBRIAND) expresses satisfaction at the conduct of His Faithful Mlajesty, and the prospects of anaeliorati6n held out to Portugal. Did M. HYDE DE NEUVILLE, the Envoy of M. de CHATEAUBRIANI'S choice, recommend or obstruct this salutary change in the counscls of Portugal ? FREXCH FUNDS, PARIS, June 2.3-Five per Cents opened at 102. 60.; closed at 12. Go0.; Bank Stock, 1,962. 50. Neapolitan Five per Cents, in ducats, 89j.: in francs, 97. 75.; Reate d'Espagne, 19.J.; Royal Spanisb Loan, 1823, 593. Exchangeon Iondon, one month, 25. 30.; three momthg, 25. 15.-Coers Authentigue. LOiN'DON,V SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 182t
We have seen a letter fro...
The Times, 1824-08-28T00:00:00

WVe have seen a letter fromn Valparaiso, dlated May 22, written by an English officer, who had seive(l in the Co- lo nbian army, which contains, we believe, an autlhentic account of the situation and resources of BOLIVAI1 Iup to the middle of April. " 'The ,IBERATOR," says the writer of this letter, " marched from 'rruxillo on the 12th of April - towardls Huanteayo, *ith 9,200 vetcrans, for thc purpose * of attacking teleral CANTARAC at that place, before General V.%l.DES could tbrin a jtiietioni. The latterGene- ral, however, having settled hiis differences with O,A- Of .;FTA, wvas understood by the last accounts to be too far "advanice(d oni his march to rejoin CANTAARAC, to allow 't!;e attack meditated by BoI.tVAR to be made before the "junction. This imovement, therefore, on the part of the ' General, will probably not answer the view witlh w which it was undertaken by hiim. The most san- "guine hopes are, howe'.rr, entertained of BOLIVARt'S "final success. He h:s left General SueaE in a very strong position in the Sierra (mountainous district), " with all the recruits under his command. The natural di advantages of this position of SUCRE's are strengthening by fortifications, ania he has orders to await there the " arrival of the reinforcements. The Mexicans, it appears, " as well as the Colombianis, are lendinig their assistance to " this great conflict, six transports from the former Go- vernment having arrived at Guayaquil with troops, vwich 6 are on the march for the helad-quarters at Truxillo. Ninc "mere Colombian battalions hadl also arrived, so thlat Bo- Of LiVAR, by the end of this imothli (Mlay), will have under Of his banners 16,000 Co!ombian atn(d Mexican troops, exclusive of the Perttvians and the Chilians. Thce possession of Callao by the Spaniardis will tend, thowever, to protract the war considerably. They lhave already fittecl out six privateers, and( arc eipecting the arrival of the Asia hlie-of-battle slhip from Cadiz. " (,UISE, lihC Peruviatn Atlmiral, is blockading Lima, or I ' shoul(d ratlher say ('allao, but he has only l,is frigate '' with him and an 1-guni brig, all tlic other men of war being emiployed in convoying the troopi froin Colombia." The only part of the prece(diing informationi we fe.l dis- posed to dotubt is that of the expected junction of VALES -with CANI rARAC, and( it is evidenlt that shouLld it not take place, it mi,ght easily be in the powcrof BoI.IVta to crown his glory, anld put an cei(n to the contest in Peru by a vic- tory over CANTARAC.
The Fine Arts.
The Times, 1824-11-08T00:00:00

- Mr. Newton, Mr. LeAlie, 1nd Mr. Edwin L,ndzeer hb2 lately returnel fom .a visit to Scotland, which war under. taken chiefly for purposes connected with their profcssion Each of these gentlemen resided for a short time at Sir Walter Soott'g, and each has brought away a portrait of his host. The three portrait differ in ssme respectr from each. other, but they are all considered very like the original. There is nothing of an elevated character about the head of Sir Walter ; the predominant expression is shrewdness-.we had almost said cunning. In l r. Leslie's picture Scott is represented sitting in a chair, holding in hii3 right hand a. stickj which an account of his lameness is his inseparable co mpanion. eThe lhair and the marks of approaching bald_ ness are well depicted. Mr. Leslie has reverted to the prac. tice wlbich once generally prevailed, of painting the arms of the sitter in a corner of' thc picture. The colours of the arms in the present instance are very quiet, and- the ob- jeet does riot appear amiss. The motto is "Wat it, weel." 1Messrs. Newton and Landseer have painte& Sir Walter in his library. The rress is the same in all the pictures-namely, 2 green coat, yellow wyaistCoat, light trousers, and a black neck-cloth. Messrs Newton and Landseer have added a leathern belt, attached to which SirWalter carries a bammer and a srnall hatchet, wbich he uses very frequently in pruning the trees on his estate-aa eecupatxon of which he is very fond. Mr. Landseer, who is known to the public only aS a painter of animals, has profed by this effiort that his taIents are not limited to that. branch of art in which he has rendered himself eminent. Although the portrait was made in a very short time, and- under some disadvantages, the likeness is considered excel- lent. Mr. Newton's picture, which we should have before- stated to be a very clever production, is to be immediately engraved. Mr. Leslie's portrait is destined for a gentleman in America, for whorn it was expresslv painted. In our notice of the copies at the British Gallery, we omitted the names of two young artists, who deserve to be- mentioned with praise-namely, Mr. Davis and Mr. Reins. gle. The former made a copy of a head by Rembrandt, and the latter one of a landscape bv Ruysdael. Mr. How. ard, also,hasmadesome spirited sketches from Vandykeand Rubens. The landscape by Wilson, belonging to Colonel Hugh Baillie, which we stated to have beeu well copied by Mr. Bradley, has also been succe.ufully copied by Messrs. Watt, Child, and Wilson. Tshe landscape in question is a work of the highest merit. Perhaps the liqnidity and. transparency of wrater, and wvarm glow of anltaflan sky, were never better imitated than in this picture. Iths been not unjustly compared_lo th est of_Cilaue's_works. - WIE FrNg ARTS.
We insert a letter on the...
The Times, 1824-12-25T00:00:00

WVe insert a letter on the subject of Dissenting marriages signedl " W. S.," the beat of many we have received, chiefly for the purpose of noticing an error of our own. It is certain that in looking over the ceremony, the passage cited in the letter somehow or other escaped our notice - and observing only the other passage in which the Priest pronounces the couple '? man and wife in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost," we too hastily concluded that Mate was the only passage in which the persons of the Trinity were introduced. The other parts of the letter we leave to work what good or harm it may to the cause which it espouses.
Marriages
The Times, 1824-05-21T00:00:00

MAt.\RRIED. On the 18th inst., at Trull, Somersetshire, by the Rev. Pinkstan Arundel French, Chaplain to the Right Honoturable Lord Audley, the Rev. David Smith Stone, only son of Wi ebb Stone, Esq., of Comeytrawe-house, near Tatnton, to Isabell3 Ann, eldest daughter of rhe late Captain Thomas Elpbinstone, of the Royal Navy, and of B1lair.house, in the county of Devon. On the 1Mth inst., MIr. Thomas Churchyard, of Spital-sqtarc, to, 3iss G-il. of Nottingham. On the 20th in3t., Mr. Francis Gatfora, of Poplar, toAnne, third daughter of George Pringle, Esq.. of Stoke Newington. On the 20th inst., ;zt St. John's church, Mlargate, by the Revs Wiliamn Frederick Baylay, GeoTrge Fniend, Esq., of iLondon, to Anne,' figest daughter of Robert Tomnlin, Esq., of Northtdown, in the Isle tfThanet. At St. MaMiv.s" Jrmbeth, on Thursday, the 20th iDDt., George Washington Abbott%fEsq., of Hay, Brecon, to Elizabeth Caroline, second daughter of the late Villiam Van, Esq., of the Counril. office. (n Thursday, the 20th inst. rat Tottenliam, by the Rev. Thornaq Roberts, the vicar, i,lr. Henry Ming of Falcon-square to Sarah, youngest daughter-of John ChapUnq hsq., of Tottenham.