Prince Polignac, the Fren...
The Times, 1824-07-08T00:00:00

Prince Polignac, the French AmTbassador, transacted b isiness at the Foreign Office yesterday, as did also the Baron de Falck, the Dutch Ambassador, for a considerable period of time. Prince Leopold left town on Tuesday evening for Clare- mont. His Royal Highness returned to town yesterday afternoon, and had a granld dinner party at Marlborough. house. The Duke of York returned to town about 4 o'clock yes. terday afternoon, from the reviow at Hounslow. Letters were received yesterday from Alvarado- dated the l16th of May, wfhich mention the arrival there of His Majesty's ship Cameleo7 with despatehes for Mr. Harvey. No event of importance had occurred in that part of Mexico, which remained traulquil. DEATHt OF A W1TCHs.In the department of the Drome a woman was lately killed, under the extraordinary imu- pression that she was a witch. This woman was paid by the peasants of her neighbourhood for telling them good f'ortune, or for abstaining from doing them harm. She lately went to thie farm of apeasant, and asked a reward for conjurizg the danger which threatened his cattle. He re- fused her request, and treatedl her pretensions with insult. Soon after he lost some of his cattle, and his wife and chil- dren fell ill. He immediately ascribed these calamities to the supernatural influence of the hag; but so far from being terrified at her power, he took his gun, repaired to her house, and deliberately shot her dead. The misguided man is to be tried at the appreaching assizes for the depart- ment of the Drome. He acknowledges the act of whiEh he was guilty, but deolares that he shot the devil under the form of the wicked hag. LoaD ByaoN.-Yesterday morning the furniture and effeets of his Lordship were cleared from the vessel, and conveyed to the residence of Sir Edward Knatehbull, No. 20 Great George. street, Westminster, where the body ROW lies. It iS the intention of his Lordship's executors to let the body lie in state for a few days, asd the front parlour of Sir Edward's house is to be appropriated to that purpose. It is lined throughout with black clotli, and has a very sombre appearance. Yeaterday morning the Hon. AIrs. Lec, sister to his Lordshlp,. was shown the corpse of her noble brother, in the presence of the executors. The coffin is of a most beautiful description, and there are tour vases which are to contain the heart, &c. It is not vet decided whether his Lordship wiU be interred at Newstead.abbey, or at Wcstminster. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the ahips Alojact. and Juitiatia, taken up on the 30th ult. for China,were thus tined, viz. to be afloat on the 12th inst., and sai fromGrasesendat theexpiration of 20days after thatperied. His Majesty has expressed himself exceedingly pleased with tbeliberal spirit of the general residents at Brighton, in conse- quence of their havlngdemolished, or agreed to demolish, the new building recently erected between the Palace and the sea, which, if permitted to remain, would entirely have intercepted the view of the ocean from the Pavilion, ' The Ring, it is said, intends to return to BriglitoR towards the amltumn. The plans for the additions and improvements in -Windsr.sCas1le, (with the exception of those for the alterations in His MaNesty's state-rqoms),thathave been approv- ed of by the noble Commissioners, were to be presented on Tuesday to the King for hid approval, and are then to be signed by the Coin- nsissioners. The Emperor of Russia was on Tuesday unianimously elected an Honorary Fellow ofthe&Horticultural Society of London, by his own express solicitation. The Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar has long been a felow, and a very useful corresponding Illeiaber likewise. A party of gentlemen, Mr. Ross in the ohair, dined to- i gether at the George.inn, Pertb, on M1onday, to testify their plea- sure at the restoration of Viscount StrathaUan to the Peerage.- Leeds Mercury. We are sorry to hear that Mr. Wilberforce is again se- riously ill, thougb we hope not dangerou,lsly. He was on a visit to Lord Gambier at Iver, when the disorder commenced, and has been detained diere by it for a week or more.-BRvening paper. Miss 13;elly, wvho has been for some years past in a state of health in which excessive exertion in her profession was consi. dered highly dan erous, is now suficently restored to appear in va. rious characters she had made sa exclusively her own. Ante,in the Mlaid and Magple, is to be the first performanc of this delight. fuI actress. Lord Clive has become oue of the most ardent biblio- manists of the present day. His Lordship's library received ome splendid and rare additions from the dispersed collection of Sir Mark Sykes. It is said that the Palace of Cardinial Fesch, in the Rue tl'Antin, has been sold to At. Berchut, a tailor, for 3,000,000 francs. Two landscapes from the pencil of Mr. Constable, the eminent English artist, have arrived at Paris, and are to occupy a place in the approaching exhibaition of the works of living artists at the L,ouvre. These landscapes have attracted great attention at Paris, and are justly adnired!by the French painters. RoSsANreC PASSxON.-The Paris papers mcntion that a, young man of 21, and a young womari of 17, belonging to respect. able families committed suicide on Thursday, hy tying themselves tegether and tbrowing themselves into the Seine, with a stone at- tachedl to theit feet. 'The cause of their fatal resolution was the re- fusal oi'their parents to permit their union. A letter was found on the bank of the river, besides the young lady's shawl and jewelsb, de- scribing wlat thayintended to doarid asking forgiveness of their pa- rents for the sorr6w whieb tlhcir aeath would( occasion them. They only begged, as a last requWst, that if their bodlies were found, they mighst becuedtogether-that they inlghtbe uited in death, asthey could Oot be so in life. Their bodies were found on Saturday under one of the arches of-the .Porit Royal. They were tied together in the manner describect4n their letter. They were carried totie Morgue, but not exposid. Thtoir phients have iesolved to coraply-with thexirast rqucst,an4tbbiizry thtem in tbesame tomb.