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Births
The Times, 1824-10-05T00:00:00

BIRTHS. On the 3d iust., Id rs. Albaa, of Great Coram -street, Brunswick- square, of a daughter. Or Frnday night, the 1st inst., the lady of Mr. Sargeant Prere, Master of Doiwning College, of a daughter, at Downing-lodge, Cam- hridge.
Our paper yesterday conta...
The Times, 1824-05-12T00:00:00

Our pap.r vcsterdav containied, in the report fromi Bow- street-office,a slhock.ng insta'lce of the abuse of power which soinetmes hanppens in thbi country (free as it is), wlhen the cxecution of it is litruste(I to improper hands. As the case will be aglin (liscussed, we shall for the present sus- pend any rbscrvations: we trust that the law will be foutid adequatZ tvi thei remraely of the cvil ; otherwise England must uo: !hojit of its protectioni ot the hbcrty of the sub- ject. Adimitting a I the facts to be as stated, a worse case could hardly havo h pned inl rurkey or Algiers.
Letters of the 10th from ...
The Times, 1824-05-13T00:00:00

Letters of the 10th from Paris, received yesterday by ex- press, supply the following explanation of the recent move. ments of some ships of war along X;A coasts_of Spain and Portugat -An ordef has, it is said, been given by the French Government, that the squadron befere Cadiz shall take advantage of the favourable season to make marine ex- cursions, for the double purpose-of exercisijg the crews and preserving their health. It was in obedience to this order, say the letters, that Admiral ROTOURS lately paid a visit to the Tagus. Another arrival at Lisbon which caused some speculation here, was that of two corvettes, which, it seems, had put in there on their voyage from Brest with provisions for the garrison at Cadiz. These facts are rein- afced by the frequently repeated argument, that France, during the progress of -the great financial measure about to be carried into elfect, cannot but have the most solid reasons for preserving peace in every quarter, and that, having established at this moment the firmest friendship and good understanding with England, it would be impossible for her to'-embark in any designis against Brazil or Spanish America, -without the ful knowledge and participation of this Government. This argument ought undoubtedly to hwve weight in calming any appre- hensions that may still eXist on the subject; but it is equally certain, that the daily increasing stake, both finan. cial and commercial, which this country has at risk on the other side of the Atlantic, predisposes those concerned to the influence of every idle rumour; while numbers are de- terred altogether, by the present uncertain. situation of South America, from sharing in the benefits of that inter- course.
CALAMITOUS FIRE AT BRISTO...
The Times, 1824-07-14T00:00:00

CALAMITOUS F11ts AT BfRISToL._Vrry Soo1 after 1I o'clock on Friday evening the sbhop of Air. Baser, bookseller, No. 19, Clare-street, was discovered so completely filed with flaes as to leave but very faint hopes of even limiting the destruction to those premises, surrounded by, and contiguous to, shops, warchout^ and of Eces, on all sides. The several warehouses of llears. Ur4der. wood, above, aud Mtr. Tuckett, below, were repeatedly an fire; -wige the office of this paper was, mere than once, so completely eavelone by the flames, and ignited at so may points, that its rescue mute,be considered as ose of the aost signal proofs of unweari;d psever. ance, skill, and intrepidity, in our knowledge. T4t alacrity end kindness with which, at a mnoment of peculirr ?resswre to theswelves (the very eve of publication), the proprietors of Ftir ParZe . eel, and the Bristol Mfirror, detached every Poable aid to tEeirun- tortanate contemporary, with the erertion on she part of their men, joined with those of our own establishment, are no less gratifving to the best feelings of humanity than it mulst be to those who can more immediately appreciate the sacrifice amd cost of such an offering to disinterestedness and feeling. It is with some Dride that we inform our readers, that h2d the calafnity been still wider in itb ralages, we need not for an instant have delayed our publication ; and it is with infinitely 'reater and mnore exulted feeling, that we should have been so enabled from. the continued kindness of the gentlemen ahegey al- luded to. To our friends of the Bristol Gazet& we oweequal at- knowledgment. The exertions of the firemen left nothing luatticao ble unaccomplished; but we must, in personalgratitutde, bear evi- dence to the unremitting aad judicious conduct of the eDgineer of the Bristol Union-ofifice (Barrow), to whichi w very considerablr attribute our escape fron total destruction. The utter loss of every thing in the shop and preniises occupied by Mr.FEsex, together%wit serious injury sustained by Mr. Underwood and Mir. Tuckett. inr dependent of our own, render this visitation one of the most severe calamities Brsitol lias experienced for many years-Bristol.fercrg,. A pitched battle for a sovereign, and to decide a wraii- gle, took place on Monday morning, in Copenhagen-fields, between Smith, a driver of one of the Xentish-towu stages. and Will thr. waterman, at the Blue Posts in Holborn. The battle lasted nbtz}t two hours, but the first hour was occupied ir, a tri-l of str_ngth rather than hitting. At the latter part of the combzt, S Sraittx re. ceired heavily abott the body, and was t3iimatelv beat so as to 1e unable to walk off the ground. He was conveyed hcmne' in a bad state, and died in two hours after. The body lies for the inspection of a Coroner's Jurv. lAdvertisernent|-A correct statement of StOong Beer brewed by the twelveprindpalPorterBrewversin Londv,n. fT T..1.. 0 1C
Deaths
The Times, 1824-09-09T00:00:00

DIED. On Saturday, the 4th inst., to the great gRtief af his friends, Alark Hairison, Esq., of H.atoc, near Tring, Herts, formerly of Finch. bne, banker, aged 76. On Sunday last, in his 35th year, Afr. John Ecc.es, of Canter- bury.row, Kennington. On the 26th ult, Esther St-amton, wife of Air. John Davies, Mi. lodies, ad 35 after a seriesi of years of acute eufferings, which she bore with exemplary fortitude. O WFednesdjay rnig the 8his. ? Blair Finlay, book.
Middlesex Sessions, Tuesd...
The Times, 1824-10-27T00:00:00

Two watchmnen of St. Martin's parish, named Do uahl and Ollet, were indicted for assaulting a publican of the name of Sprinzi. Only one of the defendants, Donald, was forthcoming to take his trial. It appeared that the prosecutor, who is a native of Rome, keeps the " Star and Garter" public-house, in St. Martin's-lane. On the night mentioned in the indictment, about eleven o'clock, these two watchmen went up to the prosecutor's door, and asked him what persons were in his house ? S~tinti replied, that there were no persons in it, bat two friends of his own; and they might observe that the lamps were all out, and he was shutting np the house. The watchmen answered, that there were 12 or 14 peraons in the house (which was untrue) * and they immediately insisted on taking tl:c prosecutor to the watch-house. Accordingly, without further delay, they seized him, and dragged him along, not even suffering him to put on his cravat, his coat or his hat towards St. Martin's watch. house. The prosecutor, however, feeling indignant at this treat. ment, grappled one of shemby the eollar,and declared thathe wrould go quietly with them but would not submit to be dragged like a felon; upon wvhich bonald called out for a knife, that he might " cat his b-y hand off;" and gave a wrench to his arm, which severelyinjuredit. lVhen they reachied the watch-house, the conzta- ble of the night refueed to take charge of Sprinzi, as he knew him to be a respectable man; and allowed him to go home, upon his promise to appear before the Alagistrates. When the parties were at Bow-street, Sir Richard Birnie asked the defendants how they came to be guilty of such an outrage? They replied, that they had the Magistrates' order for doing what they had done; but on being told to produce it, they said that they acted by order of the overseers ant churchwardens. Sir Richard expressed great in. dignation at their conduct, and directed the nrosecu to indict them; which he did accordingly. The jury found the defendantguilty. The COURT severely animadverted on the unwarrantable and outrageous conduct of the defendant; and sentenced him to be im. prisoned four months in the Houao of Correction, and there kept to hard labour. The remainder of the day was spent in hearing cases of assault, of too-paltry a nature to be of public interest. MIDDLESPU SESSIONS, TUESDAY, OCT. 26.
News in Brief
The Times, 1824-11-18T00:00:00

The inquiries after the state of the Duchess of Glocester yesterday were very numerous; the answer given, was, tbat her Royal Highness was much better. Yesterday morning the Chancellor of the Excllequer and Lady Sarah Robinson and famnily arrive(i at their resi- *lence in Downing-street, from the seat of Earl Verulam at Goxhambury, and left town about S o'clock for their resi- dence at Beckenham. Yesterday a 'Court of Directors was held at the East India House, wvhen Captain Charles S. Tiinins was sworn in to the cominand of the ship Royal Gcor4e, consigned to Beigal and China. General Anderson, of the last Inlia Company's service who died lately in London. han bequeathed the bulk of his fortune, amount1njs to about 7O,fOi., for the putrposc of eatablishing two in_ rilutitons in Elgm-the one f&r the rcecption of inldigent natives of that counitry, who are upwards of li5 years of nge: the other ter tthe eriuc3tion of' peor c'Ritdren..-.Epeuniz^ paper.
On Tuesday last, Mr. Hope...
The Times, 1824-12-30T00:00:00

Olt Tuesday last, Mr. Hope, a butcher, residing at EpsOm directed a1lid to take oat a spirited horse belonging to him, and walk the animal up and down in front of his house. The bov -had no sooner got out of sight of his master's house, than he was advised.by a man to mount Lhe horse, which he accordingly did, and the moment hc was in the saddle, the horse set off at full speed on the 'Losidon road. In his career the horse came in cowaact with a chaise..art, the shaft of which, at the rapid rate the animal was going, entered his chest, penetrated to the dep h of above a foot, and then broke off leaving thebroken part of the shaft in the wsound. The hoy was thrown into a ditch with the shock, antl received but little injury. The poor animal, after having met widi the shiacking accident, r;un tpwardti of 5) ya2da, and thun dtopped down dead in the road.
Parliamentary Intelligenc...
The Times, 1824-05-21T00:00:00

I ne I;arl ot5l-RAIFTISB URY presentud a petition fromn the in. habitants of Mlacclesfieldl, agninst the general gas coliipanv bill. The Earl of LAkUDERDALi ptDesented a petition from -ihe Bristol gas light eomnlpany, against the samc bill. The consolidatc-d fund appropriation bill was reae a second time, and several private bills were forwarcled in their stages.-Adjourned. PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE: IIOUSE OF LORDS. TviukSDAY. M*Av 9.
French Papers.
The Times, 1824-06-15T00:00:00

(Frm 'th. zLreruay, at seven O'clock i the Tnorninz, the Duke d'Angou- lemne, accompanied by his aides-de-camp and a numerous stalf, pro- ceeded to the Champ-de-'Mars, where his Royal Highness reviewed erel regiments of the Infantrv of the Royal Guard. We are requested to publish the following notification:- " Conformably to regulations concerted between the Minister of Miarine and the iltinister of Finance, it has been decided- " 1. That the Spanish ships which were sequtstrated during the late war, and given up to France bv the trcaty of Madrid, of the gth Of January, I824, will be admitte,d into the perts of the kinldom *Witheut paying any tonnageor import duties, and will be sold as qualified to become French vessels fcomme aptes a la Francsation) under the conditions stipulated by the laws of the 21st of September, 1793. and the 27th Venzfemieirr, An. 2. ?2. That the cargoes of these ships shall pay the customs' dulies, as having been imported by French ships, from the same countries from wbence the Spanish sequestrated ships came. " 3. That the prohibited goods shall be sold upon condition of re- CT,orratios." A. the Count de Ja Bourdonnaye vesterday laid upon ihe bureau of the Charnmer of Deputies, the following proposition, which will be read to-day in a secret committee:- " I have thebonour to propose to the Chamber to pretent an hum- ble address to his Majesty, praying tbat be will cause to be present- ed to the Chamber,during the present session, aprojectoflaw,hav.- lng for object-.. " 1. To declare that an integral indemnity is granted to French- mnen, whose property immobili2re has been confiscated and sold, con- formnably to the decrees ana acts of the Revolutionary Government. * 2. To determine the bases of a valuation of the property imnmo- 7Z02rc, by which the said indemnity is to be granted. "3. T fix theorder in which the distribution of this indemnity ihall be made amongst the proprietors still living, the succeeding heirs, or those having claims of inlheritance, and the creditors of the former proprietors, deceased. " Toreculate that these indemnities shaU be acquitted in rentes, at 4 TDer cent.. with interest, to conimence Mf arch 22. 1822." RP;ENCH PAPERS. PARIS, JUNE 12.
French Papers.
The Times, 1824-07-06T00:00:00

The King received in private iudience the Duke de Laval- Montmorency, the Ambassador to the Holv See. AM.de Viliele transacted business with his Alajestv. Neither the King nor the Princes have been out i6-day. PARIS, JULY 4. The Circ6 frigate, commanded by Al. Duplessis-Parseau, arrived at Bresn on the 256h ult., from the Isle of Bourbon, and last from ;Mortinique, which latter island she left on the 1st. IIIANIEIAI, JusE 28. WVe have received here some private information respecting the dismissal of Al. de Chateaubriand; which, if not wholly confor-m- able to truth, is not less worthy of being recorded in the chronicles of the day. 'i It was not," says our correspondent, " either the individual views of the esr-Minister with regard to tde affairs of South America, or his conduct.during the discussion of the project of law on the rentes, whicb was the motive of his disgrace. Nl. de Chateaubriand is accuisedof having favoured the recent conspirations inPortuagal. Mr. CanninghavIiigrceivedtlfemostiauthenticinfor. rrmtidt7 n this pbimt; iminei'iately communicated it to the Prince ae Polignac, the French Apmbassador. The latter forthwith in- formed lsh French Ciabinct, and hence the real motives of the sud- den journev of the Ambassador to Paris. The Monarch could not do otherwise than highly disapprove of the conduct of M. de Cha- timubrimnd wbich was diamnetrically opposed to his private senti. ments, and thus it is easy to account tbr not only the dismissal of ihatMinister, but also the manner in which it was signified to hin. There are, however, important reasons for concealiug the real cauSe of this dismissal, and for leaving the public in incertitude. This iufficiently explains why his dismissal did not take place until after the rejection of theprojet on the rentes although it was already dc- cided at the mnoment when' the proofs trought by the Prince dc Po. lignac had rendered the fault of the Alinister notorious." FRENCH PAPERS. AT. c.TAOrl)- Jn T.v 3.
We insert a letter on the...
The Times, 1824-10-13T00:00:00

We insert a letter on the subject of the publication of Police-office examinations, becausc the writer strongly presses it upon our impprtiality, though we on maniy parts entertain a different opinion, and though we are wholly untouched by thosc imputations which he endeavours to cast upon the Press generally. The first thing that made Thurtell, the murderer, an object of less horror than on the first discovery of his crime, was the stupidity of endea- vouriug to stop up the access of legal advisers to hirn. The trash which he spoke on his trial was Do subject of our praise; but, on the contrary, wve were greatly shocked to hear of any approbation bestowed upon it by a higher au- thority than ours-the learned Judlge who tried him. With respect to O'Connolly, we never ceased- from repre. hending the wicked and venal efforts which were ma(le to save him froin a merited punisliimient. It is a present case which seemr to give the writer pain: but the life of a cri- minal is an object, we maiiitain, of just and rational cu- riosity ; and the supposition that juries are so ignorant as not to be able to distinguish between the evidence adduced before them on a trial, applicable to the. oQfence charged only, and the anecdotes which they may have heard out of doors, is a proof of the ignorance of these (of wliom there are many) who make the supposition.
Some extracts of despatch...
The Times, 1824-11-24T00:00:00

..-bome extracts of despatches from India will be found in tsisday's paper, which describe as much of our military iperations against the Burmese on tho cossts of Aracan and Peu as it ris deemed prudent to make public. These relate,to a stockade cor,test at Kemmendine, by the trbops undertSir ARCHdBALDCAM Be LL; and some further details of the cilture of the island of Cheduba,byBrigadier-General IM'CREAGH, -who attacked 600 of the Barmese entrenched in it, with a force of S00 men. We are assured, that not. withstanding the above local and detached successes, much dissatisfaotion, and no small alarm, prevail at Calcutta re- specting the state and prospects of this uRtimely war. Since the affairs of the 10th antt 11th of June, the accounts agree in saying that nothing had been either done or attempted on the side of Rangoon-the reason assigned being a scarcity of provisions; a-ac that our troops were unhealtlhy. In the mean time, the campaign was to open on the northern frontier; with a force (as estimated) of 20,000 men, under the orders of the Commnander-in-Chief; although Sir E. PAGET is alleged by other comm nieations to have actually thrown up his command, after a strong but vain remonstrance against the supineness and imbeclity of Lord A2isiEnsT'a Government. The declared object of the nortbern army was to march by Chittagong, upon the lBur- I mese capital, depending on t1w. co-operation of the force collected at Rangoon. The combined expeditions were to include a bQdy of $o,ooo men-a proof in itself of the seri- Qts importance attached to this contest with a people whose numbers are formidable and their admsitted courage more so. But a proof still stronger of that real importance is, that even the above broad scale of preparations is held lby the authorities most looked up to as not commensurate with the accasion. It may, perhaps, be worth recollecting, that in the list of arms and ordnance captared at Cheduba are enumerated 5 European 6-pouaders, 40 European muskeis, and a qaantity of European flints. We admit that suchi means of destruction may have been procured by open commerce., and that no inference at all unfavour- able to the feelings of the State supplying them (in regard to England) ought to be drawn, without a more particutlar knowledge of the facts. It is even very possible tbat Carren and Birmingham may have been the birth-places of these military supplies. If so, it would be a relief to the public distrust of foreign Powers to make known a truth so tranquillizing. People are looking to the frontier of the Indus-unreasonably, perhaps, but almost instinctively-for grounds of complicated apprehension on the subject of Asiatic affairs.
To The Editor Of The Time...
The Times, 1824-12-10T00:00:00

ISir,-The property le&t by Ra,lph Lamb, in augm3entation of the Hospital of St. John, for the mnaintenanee of six jleor persons to be added to the ahnsfolk there kept,was stated by the Snlicitor-Genel to be worth 5001. per annam and upwards: whereas, by thereport in The Time, it is stated that the donation was only 20s. per annum. This is evidently a mistake_ Ail the old hosnitil proerty, amount. ing to 1,00X1. per annum, waa also stated to have been claimed anI appropriated by the Corporation to their own corporate purposes. his the V'ice.hancellor unequivocally declared waR Al-.6r-M ,.1 a I wLmi a cliarizaDjC trust. ~JOIIN DErERELL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. I ATTORNEY. rvr,t, _
We understand Mr. Payne K...
The Times, 1824-05-04T00:00:00

We uuderstand Mr. Pay:e Knight has ibequeathed his matchless collection of medals, drawings, and bronzes, worth at least 30,0001., to the British Museum. They indude a single vo- lumne of diawings by the inimitable Claude, which we recoUect Mlr. Knight purchased for 1,6601. from a private individual, who a sbort tine prenously, had given 31. for the same volume. Mlr. kni&ht's general library is by no means particularly distinguished for either rare or splendid works.-Evcningpaper. CoummITMENTS TO PRISON.-In jutstice to the Magis- trates at the Policc-office, Union-hall, it ouFht to be stated, that although the return of commitnments for the county gaol of Surrey is numerically correct; yet that many of the commitmaents were or acts of vagrancy, charges for disorder, and bastardy before birth, for want of sureties, in which cases to bills would or could be preferred; and in other instances for common as%aults and misdec meanours, for want of sureties, likewise, in neither of which cas- a were the prosecuting parties bound over, and consequently used their own discretion as to preferring bills of indictnent betore thnc grand jurv at the assizes or sessions. Tlhe only way to arrive at a fair estimate would be, to select only the commitments for felony where the parties are bound over to prosecute; and by leaving out aUl other commitments, it would be fbunid that the sluniberof bills fnund upon the several commitments for felony, and convictions thereon, will be comparatively equal with those of any other police. office including a dis'ict so extenaive and populous.
To The Editor Of The Time...
The Times, 1824-06-09T00:00:00

Rir.-It appears from Ea pper on the table of the House co' C nons, and also from other authentic documents I have before me, that more than thirty thousand pounds ot the nu;r vomica, and more than twelve thousand pounds of the cocml= indicus, are, upon an average, annuaUy im- orted into Great Britain. They are both highly poisonous 5lugs, but in small portions may, like some other poisons, be swlallowed without producing any other immediate efect than a kind of stupil intoxication. Alarming conjectures and susPIcionsare entertained, and, I may add, fearful assertions made, in regard to the use of these drugs in this country. But, nevertheless, the apprehensions of the public seem to rest more upon inference and implication than upon proof. The argument used is this-that neither in England, nor m any other part of the world, is there any known putrpose for which the articles in question are used, with the ex- ceptionl of a smaU quantity occasionally consuaned as poison for vermin; ergo, there is good ground for believing that the grand consumption is for some end or purpose secret, mys- ternous, andillegal. I am aware that it is stated that the larger portion of these poisons is exported: but it may by Possibility happen, that the hrticles either return hither in a coincentrated form, or that the alleged exporta- tion extends not beyond Beachy-head or the Isle of Wight. Now, Sir, the wholesale tlealers in the nu. v0omica and the cociulus intdicas have an easy mo(le of remnoving any odium or suspicion attaching to themselves or their supposed customers, and at the same time of making the public mind easv, by plainly statiug to what honest use such enormous quantities of these highly deleterious drugs are devoted in this or ir any other country; and I do most sincerely hope, that some one of the many highly respect- ble individuals engaged in the drug trade, wvill, through the mediuml of your paper,.gire the required explanation. 1 thtlis be not done, you may probably receive some further hints ont the subiect from rour most ohelient servant. SCRUTATOR. June 7. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.