The Princess Sophia and t...
The Times, 1824-11-19T00:00:00

The Prin cess Sophia and the Princess Sophia Matilda visited the Duchess of Glocester and tlle Princess Augusta yesterday. The answer given to the namerous inquiries after the Duchess of Glocester yesterday was, that Her Royal High.- ness was a little better. Thie Ormond estate in Derbyslhire was sold yestertav at the Auction Mart. Mr. Arkwright was the purchaser, for the sum of 2J (,0001. Among the yearly supply of ornianieiital books for pro- ssnts, wre think the Pocket Alnranat1ck of Lupton Relfe the best. It is particularly remarkable for somue very well. executed engravings of several fine views of citiest-a spe- cies of engraving which looks such better in miniature than engraving,s from heads; tor a head reduced to a very snall size loses all expression, and bccon3es almost a carica. ture. A (duel took place on Saturday morninlg last between Jean Dumas andL John Rainy, two coloured lads not ex- ceeding 16 years of age. The former was shot (lead otn the spot, the ball passing tlirough his body. A coroner's in- quest being held, their verldict was Wrifiul Murder against the survivor and the seconds ; and thle father of the latter and the mother of the deceased were also chargae( by the coroner and the jury as accessories befbre the tact.-Domi nice Chronicle, Sept. 16. A German mail arrived yesterday morniiig, bringing the Azustrian Obser-ver to the 6th inst. It gives accounts of tihe formal entry of the Kfng and Queen of Bavaria, and the three Princes ac. comnpanylng thern, into Vienna, on the 3d; and of the marriage of the Archduke Francis Charles to the Princess Sopliia? on the 4th. Extraet ofa letter from the Agents to Lloyd s, at Genoa, dated Nov. 6:-" lIetters from Palermo of the 18th ult. state, that an Algerine squadron of six sail had been cruising on the south coast of Sicily for several days. On the arrival ot Pis Alajesty's ship TrTbunzc on the 31st ul., trom Malta, in Aiviilg a salute to the King, some of tie guas remained shotted. Ithe A{lbion1, Pattison, of Newsstle, was struck on the larboard, run in the copper head which has been provisionally repaired, to enable her to proceed to Leghorn. A mast and a yard of two other veasel were also struck." A letter from Barbadoes, by the Leeward Islands mail, has the followving statemenit. Tihe kquadron reterred to is probably that seen 6enme time ago off Aladeira:-." On the 18th of September arrived the Lancaeater, Willis, from Liverpool. On the 21st ot August, lat. 35. 40, long. 18. 10., feU in withtt a French squadron consisting of two eighty-fters, eight frigates, a corvette, a brig, and two schooners, laying-to,theirheads to S.S.E., in a light air of wind; observed them in the same position on the 25th."n BaaaAAOFS, Sept. '28.-Arrived the Duke of Yorlk from Antigua: she fell in witl a French W0-gun shlip-and a brig of Iwar on the 23d, steering for Guadaloupe. Canterao, the Royalist Commianider in Peru, is informed, a Frenchmnan by birtbh and a native of Borde a e served for some timie ii the French army, where lie di3fingished iimseif'by his activity and cottrage. fle went early to south Anie. rica ; bat has constantly kept uip a friendly corre"Wnence with, 'nany of his former acquaintauces in Bordeaux, tco whiom lie wtites )n every occasion that presents Ittelf. in all his letters lie lhold, the nost confident language withi respect to South Armertp--Ra...ertiog