WINDSOR, April 20.-This m...
The Times, 1824-04-21T00:00:00

WINDSOR, April 20-This morniing betwben oi and two o'clock, His Majesty took bid accustomed ride in the: park. Yesterday the Duke of Dorsei, the French Ambas.' sador, Marquis Graham, Lord and Lady Gwydyr, Loi and Lady Cowper, Lord Strat'haven, and the RussianAx bassador, had the honour of dining with the King. h band of the 75th attended at the Castle during the eVefiin.e and played some delightful pieces for the anfuseene,t & ihe noble guests. After dinner the French Anmibpao took leave of the King, and left the Castle for L,j This morning Lord and Lady Gvydyr, Lord and Lads CowVper, the MIarquis Graham, the Duke of Dorset, Lo-; Strathaven, and thne Russian Amb3ssador, left the Royal Castle. The Duke of Glocester is attended by Sir Henry Half&ld and Mr. Brand. Yesterday Mr. Cat.ning transacted business at the Fo. reign-office. 'The Bank, with the English -and Foreign Stock Ex. changes, were shut yesterday for the holyday. A few bar. gains were ef?ectedI in most of the current securities, but without any variation on the concluding prices of Monday- Earl- Grosvenor will leave Eaton for London in the last week of the present month. It appears by the Paris papers, that Mr. Magalon, a young author, whoseveral months ago was arrested for libe, andin. humanly marched along the public road, chained to a felon, has at length been released from confinement, on payment of the fine of 4,000 francs, which formed part of his sentence. At the early hour of six o'clock yesterday morning, the Sheriffs of the city of Cosk waited on Mr. Ses eant Lefroy, to escort him out of their bailiwick. Previous to their departure, they pre- sented him (as is customary when there has not been a capital con- viction, or as it is otherwise termed, when it ha2 proved a maiden assizes), with a pair of gloves, handsomely frinozed which the learn ed :Sergeant said he accepted v ith more than ordinary pleasure, aris.. ing from the grounds on which they vere presented.-Cork paper Sittings appeointed in WINiddlesex and London before the Right HIon. Sir W. Draper Best, Knight Lord Chief Justice of his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas at WVestminster, in and after Eaaster Term, 1824. MIDDLESEX. rN TERM. LONDON. Friday ....M May 7 Saturday .. -lay a Friday ......1;. 14 Saturday ............... - 15 Friday ...... 21 Saturda y ............. .... 22 Wednesday ...... 26 Thursday. 27 AFTER* TERM. Tuesday ...... June I W'edResday . June 2 The Court will sit twelve on May 7, 14, and 21 ; at one Alay 8, 16, and 22; and half-past nineprecisely on each of the otherdays. 'i'he receiving of signatures to the petition to Parliament hv the mechanics of Edinburgh ngainst the combination laws, was cfosed on Alonday evening; the number of persons who have sigaed it amounts to nearly 5,000.-Scotsman. COVENT-GARDEN BIBLS ASSOCIATIO:qs.-The general anniversary meeting of the subscribers and friends to the above asso- ciations was held yesterday at theAppollonicon-rooms, St. Martin's. for thepurpose of receiving the Committee's Report of the pro.. ceed.`gs of the las: year, and also for the election of officers, &c. The Rev. Dr. Randolph, President of the SoCiety, took the chair,. supported by several eminent clergymen, and a most numerous and retpectable assemblage. The report, which was read by the secretary, detailed at considerable length the progress the Committee had made towarls improving the condition of the poor in their district, by the distribution of a large number of Bibles and Testaments; they had been ffateriaDy assisted by the co-operation ef the Ladies' Com- miiittee, whose exertions, the report etated in warin and deserved terms, had been most beneficial to the cause they hadin riew-that of placing a copy of the Scriptures in the hands of every individuaL The treasurer's statement showed the necessity of further pecuniary aid, to carry into cffectthe objects of the institution. Several gentle- men addressed the meeting in able speecles, enforcing the utility of the associations; and it was moved a.ad carried'that the report should be adopted. The Committee for the ensuing year being ap. pointed, and the routine business disposed of thank were voted to the Chairman,who expressed his acknowledgments; and the meet. ing adjourned. Mooday being the anniversary of the coronation of his Altest Faithful MIajesty John VI., king of Portugal, Brazil? and Algarves, a selemn Tc Deem or hymn of thanksgiving to Almighty God for the anniversary Of his 1 qajesty's ascension to the throne of his ancestors2 was celebrated at the Portuguese Chapel, in South- street, Mlay-fair. There wvere present at the service, the Austrian Spanish, Bavarian, Russian, French, and Portuguese Ainbawsadors. Two Roman Catholic Bishops, and a number of clergymen, were within the sanctuary. The service was very inipressive. The chapell was ctowded witb fashionables, and a number of the nobilitv of the Established Church and others were present. In the Police Court, on Thursday, a complaint was pre- ferred by a servant-girl against her mistress-a lady who keeps a lodging nouse; and the subject of complaint was an assault of a most singular description. The defender had invited a number of female acouaintances to drink tea with her and the -1-o, - h- 11 tmployed in tasttng the bread, when her mistress entered the kit- 'lien, and made the appalling discovery, that she had toasted one hlalf slice too much ! This was more thean flesh and blood could bear; and it is not to be wondered at, that the defender should bave lost her temper upon this trying occasion. She abused her hand- rmaid for " a wastefu' jade," and, snatching the bread-toaster from her hand, she threatened to thrust it, bread and all, down her throat. ThIis the complainer dared her to do; upon which the- lefender actually attempted to execute her threat; but rage rather :han skill directing the blow, the prongs of the towster struck the loor girl immediately under the eye, and inflicted a very seriott wound, which required to be dressed by a surgeon. It did not ex- ictly appear what effect this tragical occurrence had upon the sen- iibility of the ladies assembled; but it is to be presumed,if they did partakc of the hospitality ofthe defender, they took special care not .o exceed the bounds of moderation, and felt as Damocles did when 'eated at his sumptuous banquet. The magistrate expressed his ibhorrence of the defender's savage conduct, and ordained her to Pay three guineas of damages to the complainer-a sentence which produced bursts of applause from a group of female servarts who had assembled at the door to testify against bread-toasters being ased as an instrument of correction.-Thc Scofszman. A plortly dame of 40, walkin'-in her weeds at Hampstead, was met by some Sunday bucks, who, in passing, rudelsv observed, ' L'here's a shop to let." " You mistake, gentlemen,' said the 6vitty lady, " the shop is let, onlv the biU is not yet takeh down." FATAL AccIDENT.-On Mlonday night, about nine 'clock while a boat belonging to a waterman of thc name ot ,l'Neiil, was conveying passengers from (Oreenwich Fair to town, having 11 passengers on board, on passing JUr. Kane's wharf, it came in contact with a canal barge, when, melancholy to relate, the boat was upset, and the entire rarty, except the boatman, an old. man about 70 years of age, and a child about eight months old, met a watery grave. Three bodies were found yesterday, near the spot, at low water, who turn out to be, a young man f'rom Whitecross- street, about 22 years of agc, a hatter; the mother of the child which was saved; and a child about four years old, which hes been recognized as the daughter of a respectable engineer, who resides at linehouse, and who, with his wife, met an utntitnely end. It has not yet been ascertained who the other sufferers are. AVANTON ACT OF VANDALISMt.-On Tlhursday, the 8th instant, a party of sailors belongring to his Majesty's cutter Nimble, on the preventive service, then lying off the Landis-end, command- ed by Licutenant Goldsmuith, came on shore for the purpose of re- moving from its situation that great natural curiositv, the Lo 'ng (rocking) Stone; and which oblect they were unfortunately enablel to accomplish. This mass ol granite, which is nearly 100 tons weight, wvts one of those objects that excited the curiosity of everv visiter to the western part of Cornwall; it stood on the summit of a mass of rocks,. at the Land's-end, and was sKo poised on a natural pivot, that the force which a miian could exert was sufficient to cause it to vihrate. In this situation it remained front a period antece- dent to our authentic historic records, as it is noticed by our earliest writers, until the barbarians above mentioned, in sheer wantonness. removed it from its place. This act of Vandalism has excited the greatest indignation at Piizance, as it will in every part of Corn. wall and throughout the kiagdom. It appears that Lieutenant Gold. smitl_we hope that he is not of the family of the celebrated natural historianl and port-who, in an evil hour, was aDpointed to watch smugglers near the lIand's-end, not finding the dutiZs of that station sufficient to occupy his attention, as a recreation for himself and his crew o,fidlers, devsed the overthrowing of site Logf'ilng-'stone lle landed at thehead of 14 of his pien, and with the assistance oahanda spikes rad- -a tand screw,'cUeil bk Ibe sailors, Jack ialhe Box, with rnuch labour and eerseverance, threw over the stone. Weliave ito doubt that the Adlmiralty and the Commissioners of-Customs will inark their sense of the seruicc performed by Lieatenant Goldsm..ith ini the proper way ; and tbat, as to replace the Lo<kg'stunc is be- yond human ptower, they will give the perpetrator of the oatrage cause to recenber the deed, which, like tlat of the destroy er of the Temple of Diana, will carry his name to posterity as a disgrace to his country and the honourable profession to which he unhappily belongs. Wrhat renders the act most atrocious is, that two poor fa- tilis, who derived a subsistence from attending visiters to this stone, ale nov deprived ofthemcans of support.- West Briton. SHOCKING OCcu tRENcE.-(Extract of a private letter.), -CAInsUDGE, April 19.-On Sarurdav evening, the lQtb inst., as Henry Linsdell, of ,Ialsham, in this county, was retusning through Great Shelford in his way home he stopped at the Prtince Regent public-house othiave some beer, tie landlord seeing he was in a stateofintoxication refused letting him have aay, but he ae- manded it as he was on his travels, anti the house not being shut;(it was then about 10 minutes 1?ast 10 o'clock,) the landlord drew him a pine, but woald not let him mto thehouse; however,Linsdell seelog- a person whoam lie knew,pushied in, and gave the person some d' the beer he had in the pot, and requested the landlord to tatke a phi)t in the yard to a young man whbi held tlec horse; the landlord took tlu: beer so ordered, and found the yoangi man to be Thomas W hitby when the latidlord returned, be found Linsdell exposis his nnonev, end behaving in a very diaordeslymanncr. The lantlord. renmonl. strated with, and asked himu if he was not afraid of beintg robbed ? Linsdell replied, no; he bad a black protector.-a knife, which he carried up his sleeve: it wvas such as are used in hiis protession as a collar-maker-sharp at the point and broad in tle middle. After he had paid for thehbeer and put tile moneynp,Vhitbycameint6the. house, and ,aid, "Come,master, let's go; lwill notbold thehorseany longer; aad set the pot down which he had bad the beer in. The. tandleed them ledI Li.adell to the yard.; saw him get into the cur , and W7\hitby leading the horse. They wenttowiuds the Three HIorse sboes in the same village, which was lWhitbv's way home, and the road leading to Balsbain. Linsdell pulled up and wanted drink, but the landlord refused him, at well 2s 1W' hitby. They then 'went on, I.insdell making a great noise, and sev'ral persons 'following him. In a shert time tbe landlord heard.the cry of " Murder I" lIe took a limht although it was moonlight, but not bright, and saw a young P.man leading Ayhttby, who was bleeding profusely. ic asKe4 what was the matter ? Whitby said Linsdell ad stabbed him. Presntl after, another young man, who is now in the hospital, camne Blec4- ing from wouads gOven him also by Linsdell. A surgeoTI was p. cured with all speed, and the. youtngmen conveyc e tnes hospitalin this town. Linsdell has at te present escauped; a warant is out ?ainrt him tbr catting and maiming. On Saturday, the 17th inst., ydied.An inquiest was hela at the Bd'l, in Traumpngtorz, street, before Aaron Lhevell, Genat., coroner Fo the towfn otf Cmt bridge, when the jury returned the following verd}ct t-" That Linsdefl was wa-1aid, and stood inhis ?own defenie."