SINGULAR AFFAIR.-The conv...
The Times, 1824-09-16T00:00:00

SI N'GU LA R AF'rra.-The concersation of the fashionable cotcriei at- Brighton for the last few days lis been entirelv engrossed by the affair between thie Earl of S"tr and a Mlr. TwistlXn the latter gentleman having unceremoniously poste(d his Lirdslhip at Lu- combe's Librarv, and othier pablic places. The following particu- fars we have gathered f'rom report: -The gentlemen above-mentioned agreed (as it is asserted by Air. T.) some years back, that 2,0001. sheuld bc said to the othek by the individual who should first succeed to his expected estates. His Lordlship having ebtained nossession of great property by a recent death, the sum as stated was dernmnded by 3r.- ' liis.lrdship, however, (tenied ever having entered into tl:e co011tatt alleged, and consequently refused paying the money; on which Sir. T, is said to hiave offere( to produce a third gentlcenan, who was lpresent at the time o' the agreement being made, and who, doubtless, c,uld speak to the fact. It is stated by the friends of his Lordslip and webave not heard it contradicted, that this gentlenan, on being calted on, hadi no remembrance of the alleged coutract. Jlr. T., towerer, insistcd, and again reiterated hi:s demand; and on his Lordship's again refusing paynment, sent a challenge by a friend; a 51r. R'sdln, which his l,ordship refused to accept. The con4e- quence of which was, the deternmination of Alr. T. to post his Lord- ship, which he immediately did. Deposition on oath having been made by lQr. AMn, before Sir David Stott, that a challenge had been sent, and that certain valuable lives were thereby endangered, warrants were instantly.issues for the apprelicnsion of.ll the parties. His Lordship was taktn at the York Hotel late on Friday evening, and ca,tered into heavy tsecognizancea to prcserve the peace. Every effort to *liscover the opposite parties has hittlerto Proved ineffectual it is reported they havc left Brighton. We furtler learn that his L_ordship bas submitted the eas~e to counsel, who have advised ulte. ior proceedings, which, w*e e futther infotmed, are in active pro- gress- West SusseX Adverleser. ' Mr. Wallace aind the Commissi6ners of Parliamentary Revenue Inquiry are expected at Glasgow for a few days, in the edarse of ihis wveek, previouk to thve meeting of thsat Board in Edins- burgh, It i' underttood tiseir inquiries here will have reference to the revenues of-custems, -excise, stamps, assessed taxes, and post- office'; fts also to the commercial iltercourse with Ireland, as affect- eby 'the-regqlatdons of the twro first-mentioned departitodsts.- GlasgO'z teourier. It may ngt be generally known, that by ani Act of Par- lianient; (0 Anne, cap.:31), tihe cbtirchwardens of every parish in london and. Westminster -ae directed to fix plugs, or fire-cocks, in thstrdets ;and, ia tlifault thereof, are liable to a penalty of 101. tad the lmeans possessid by the parish bceat used at the fire in Gra- vel-lane, Houtnsditch, ive nre credibly informed that an immediate sapply of water nmight have been obtainesd. : he death of Ja2nes Drone, in the service of Mr. Hull, of Blelkman-street, in the Borough, who died on Monday morning, at GVv',t Hospital, iD a dresadfgllStatC of hydrophobia, as mention- ed in our paper of Tiesday, hba proveA a most interesting case to i he-tudeetseat the.Hotpital. The soggestion of the French surgeon, MbnottsieutMtlaendie', fir inijectib viarin water Into the veins, was tried upon tie late case of James Drone, by Dra. Addison and Blun- lell, wf ho, after lsavi-g taken front his arwn upwards of hO orances of blood, pr.c-ecdetl to adopt the new experiment of injection, but waithout success, the poor fellow dying in the greatest tortures. We understand that a woman has given information that has led to the apprehension ef a iman at Greenwich, on a charge ,f being concerned in the murder of Mr. Goodhart's gardener, at Beckenham,-Maidetone f3azette.