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It is asserted that a rec...
The Times, 1824-07-12T00:00:00

It- is asserted that a recent despatch frorn Sir C. STUART has brought some highly interesting explanations, furnisheed by the French Government, relative to the proceedings of its active Minister in Portugal, M.f. HYDE XAE NEUVILI.E. It may be a delicate matter to touch upon official facts L but what we receive from respectable authority our readers are entitled on all occasions to knowv. The stateinent affirms that M. HYnD DE NEUVILLE, during the late temi. pestuous scenes at Lisbon, undertook to assure his Most Faithful Majesty, that if he felt hipself in any danger, the Cabinet of the Tuileries would authorize him (the Am-' bassador) to summon a body of French troops, which werc at no grcat clistance from the Portiguese frontier, to his protection. Had M. IIYDE Dg NEUVILLE Made suelb atn offeri by the command of his Court, and had it been even! tually acted on, a case might bave arisen in which Englandj fromn purely defensive considerations, woult have beed forced to Adopt sqtll reass. of more th. commrion energy. As the thng sands, an avowal of their intentions appears to have been demanded from the Hoa-se of Bouat BoN, when it was declared that M.HvDE DE NEUVILLE hall exceeded his instructions-that the French Government had given him no authority to offer its military interference in the affairs of Portugal, and that it had no desire to inter. fere. It is now believe(d that the effortsof our Govei'nment will be confined to a moderate incerease of. the number of marines on board the British men of -war o1x the Lisbon station; and before Ministers conclude uponI adopting even so limite(d a measure, they are sai5l to wait for furtbert despatches from Portugal, trusting in the mean -time tbat the improved situation of the KiRNG's afiTirs may render his Majesty secure against domestic disturbance.
London, Wednesday, August...
The Times, 1824-08-25T00:00:00

Thil EttiIe, dlated Monday, which has arivcd withil the otier fal-ri joutrnals of Sunday last, contains a report of a success obtainel by thc Giecks, whichl we should be glad ji Ivc couldl coj6firmn. Tthe German and Duch papers have already announcad, that arter the taking of Ipsara, a Greek-squadrof appeared off the islan(, and that the re- Sli of its operations was not onilk thc destruction ot thc q'tukish jlfct, but of ali the Ottoman tWoops on lanid. The siatemeent now giveni by L'EIiile ig as follows:-"We 'hgve -this instant reeived information, by way of Con- C stantinople, that the Orceks have attacked and re-entcrc(l .4 prsar Three or four thousanid Mlussulmen perished, anid 'jji. Grceks dicl not leave Ipsara till they received in tlli- .C gence thllt tIe'C .IrT AN PA CHIA was coming back to attack h6eid.-The news has revived the coitrage and the hopes of "he -Greeks. lThe Egyptian expedition is the only thing mb"hicli ';an be wholly fatal to them." So much uncertainty at2X~4.ti 10the new s fromn Greece; that we cannot regard this a-epethit l of a favouiable report as a proof of its trath. 'We eau onk>p.y, we hope it may be realized. There is nothing else i hse papers worth noticing, except, it rnay be men- iorned, jat te King of. FRANca, lnotwithstanding the re- parts of iS iedispositien, is still represented as holdinglevees and giint aurhehees. L(ON,')0.Vr. WFEDN?ESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1824;
Winter Assizes.
The Times, 1824-12-03T00:00:00

Yesterday these assizes commnenced before Mr. Justice Bunx ktouuTm ant. Mr. Barom GAn.eowv, wvho, after attending divine ser- vice, proceeded to the Court-house, when Ceo7ge A-fills alias Old7mti, and Joscp)e Afor,nn aliz s ali sdhci were capitall' conmicted of breaking open and entering the dwelling. house of Joseph-Anderson, &q., at .erk-itreet, in the said rounty- - (7,al 7l;t-Deutjt Sentence thereof' recorded. The plitsoner Dlilb was a principal witnet 7q at the lat . assizes to prove an aTihi in favosr of Harris, now confined in ourgaIS ussnder sentence of' death, *for the robberv at Earl Cowper's stewardis. Oac! of the 'ear ed Jadges recoiectedh2e circtrmstance, and expressedi hizs s urpnse at behoiag Ellls inl another part of the nrtintbe-presept instance. Jaiuws Saggers and WVillianz Miles were capitally convicted on separate indictmnents of .?hccp-stealing, and sententeofdeath will be passed on them at the close of the assize. To-morrow (this day) arn investigation wiU be mad,s whliCi ex_ ctes conxiderable interest, r0latlve to Ear] Cowper'a robbery. . , I Viliant Jones, aged 24, late of Rotherhith-, Surriy, btutcher, stand2s indicted tbs breaking and entering the dwelling-tonse 0of John liaynes, of Hertitugfordbury and stealing tberefrom on- the ?th of June Inst, divers Bank-notes and gold coin, the property of 'thb Right llon. Earl Cowper. The said prisoner is also charg'ed with divers burglzries, committed in the coiltv of York, in ther month of September, 182S. And Georgc WeFvera who was removed by 1uTbeas corpus o03 'rueslay lIst from Aylesbu-y gaol, also smar, clarged with the aforesaia surglary. The event of the trial of these persons involves in sonme degree the fates of Harris and .Davis, v ho asve been alreadv convicted of the same offence, but whose execution Ias- been stayed. owing to the mysterious disclosures shice their trial: as also *hat cf George Ddlfield, whio awaitsi his triarstttie enaning Surrey assizes, for be- ing an accessory after the fact of the said robbery being conmnitted, and-receiving part of the proceed% thereof VINTBR AS'SIZEZS.' HERTFORD. DECEmErB. 2.
To The Editor Of The Time...
The Times, 1824-12-10T00:00:00

Sir,-Observing that the lines " What is praver?" are said to be anonymous, I beg to state they are the Prodction of the lae Mr. Samuel iM1edley, a Diasenting 1Tininster, and atppear in a tselec.. tion of hymnq, printed a few months.ano, for the uise of a Dissenting congregation mecetlng in Burvlstreet, St. Alary-Axe. o r. Medley was well knowvn ia London and Liverpool, and Aied about the -o.. - as TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIA,MES,
Portugal And Brazil.
The Times, 1824-12-31T00:00:00

L- . A '- -wurt fts Lately been the scene of t.ome con phd eated diplhunatic intrigues, in which the British MitaistPef is supposedto have taken a very leading part. It is tow generally understood to be an object twhich the British Mi- nistry have very much at heart, to bring about tlhe acknow.; ledgment by Portugal of the inidependence of Brazil; and this point ir W. A'Court has receivea in6ructimons to press with aU the weaanr in his power. The lirazilians, on their side, take a very high tone in the negotiation, since thev require that the treaty under which their independence ahall be recognized shall be concluded with the meiation of Great Britain, probably because they have felt that no de-. pendence can be plaed on the sincere good offices of any other power. Altlougl this point added considerably to the other difficulties of the negotiation, it was in appearance fa- vourably received, and no obstacles of importanec presented themselves. At this perio4,1however, it wvas ascertained, and the information weirhith transmitted to London for the guidance of the;;il1sh Cabinet, that the Portuguese Mi.. nisters were p1a#iig a treacherous part-that they were secretly determinEd on refusing the recognition of the inde_ pendence of Brszil, and that they bad received untder. hand assurances tf sqppsot from setne of the Foreiga Ministers. The Spanisit and Russian Ambassadors are sup- 'pssed to haVa manircotmi, as would naturally be expected,. the greatest4cit on fiis sulgeet It becTne necessary, there. fore,foSr .Wouto2 for over- thre,fowirg W.Aurte to take vigoros measUres for over.. throwingEllis intigue, of whiche had intimation some weeks e&,- and baa c6nrequently had time to receive new instrUctions fom home. These, it is said, required of hizm to demand of tbe Portuguese Ministers a disclaimer of any participation in the intrigue imputed to them, or otherwize to declare that the countenance and support of the King of England would be withdrawn from his Faithful Ma- jesty. In auswer to this demand, nothing of a satis. faetory nature having been returned, Sir W. ACourt is believed to have presented an address to the King, in which, in the name of the Britizh Ministry, he has per_ emptorily aequired the dismissal of the Portuguese Minis. try as a punisbment for their treacherous conduct in re. gard to the teetiation respcoting Brazil. To this, at pree sent, no answer has-begn returndd; or at leas, with all my? ?ndeavours to obtain information, I have bena able to gevi% no clue to the event. There is- little doubt, however, but that the Ministry will be diz&lssed, raier than give um- brage to Great Britaini" - - P01?OGAL, JMD SO 2i.4I ? _IMII?kOT (V-A L'ZTTZF-. DATYn rtVP. lti
There was a report curren...
The Times, 1824-05-18T00:00:00

There was a report current yesterday, that Mr. EL- I oTrT, who has arrived in Paris from Mladrid, has brought the unqualified refusal of the Spanish Government to. en- tertain, in any shape whatever, the question of a recogni- tion of the independence of South America. A similar statement also appears in letters from Madrid of the Gth instant, which have beep received in Paris by ex- press. It had the effect of dlepressing most of the Souti American securities yesterday, as if the holders of them could ever have committed the absurdity of supposing such a concession possible from the present Government of Spain, or indeed by any Government under whose rule the country could fall. Howvever desperate the circumstances, all Spaniards cling with hope to the possibility of recover- ing the colonies. If these reports should be confirmed, the stubborn- ness of FFRDINAPD on the subject of South Ame- rica will soon compel Mr. CANNING to redeem his positive andi reiterated pledges, and to acknowledlge, as perhaps it would have been wise to do long since, a sovereignity whichl no declaration of his can hence- furth secure or overturn. Thhe Foreign Secretary told the House of Commons a few week-s ago, that he had made certain gracious and courteous offers to Spain ; as that she should have the first refusal of a recognition of the Ameri- can independence-that she should have the benefit of commercial preferences from the republics, and so forth, to be enjoyed by her to the exclusion of British enterprise and of the British inerchant; but if Spain shouild refuse these liberal, and in the eye of many persons these improvident proposals, that then iwe must take our own decided line of policy-that is, acknowledge the Republics. The time, therefore, is come. Unless yesterday's accounts of Mr. EL- ).I 1OT'S mission, and of its purpose, should be contradicted, Mlr. CANNINc. may lay up the ' ifs" in ordinary for the next occasion, and tell the commercial interest broadly and plainly what it is that they have to expect.
Prerogative Court, Friday...
The Times, 1824-05-22T00:00:00

titeargument or counsel in this curious case was resumedi to-dIay; and the Judge annonnced his intention ofgiving sentence in it at an early day after tse close of the Tern. The COUtRT also expressed an intention, in consequence of the great premsure of business in tile lRegistrv, Ct) devote several days af- ter tile close of Terin to the hearine nf' estamentary causes. PREROGATIVE rOURT. FRIDAY. MA KY 21. WILKINSOS (FOPNIERLY LAWES) V. GORDON.
Dutch Papers.
The Times, 1824-04-19T00:00:00

ACcounts have been received from Batavia of the 13th of Decem. ber, from which we learn that the Padries in the island of Sumatra had had the boldness, during the absence of Lieut-Colonel Rasff, to re-commence lhostilities, and to attack some districts occupied by us ; that they were, however, repulsed with greatbravery by the Ne- therlauld troops under the command of Major Lacmlin. This officer, pursuig his advantage, attacked the Padries in their fortified posts at Kapau and Biero, from which they were driven, sword in hand, on the 2Cth and 28tlh of SeptemRber: the loss of the enemy was con- siderable. Great raise is due to the officers and troops employed on this service and his Excellency the Governor-General has testi- fied his unqualified approbation. The loss on our side is very small. Some companies of infantry, provided with every thing necesssry, have been sent by the British government in Bengal to the west coast of Sumatra, to strengthen and fortify the Company's settle- ment at Natal. As the wholeisland of Sumatra is noweeded to the Netherlands,we learn vith peculiar pleasure that Lieutenant-Colonel Raaff, on a journey into the iiteriorof that important island, found it not desti- trite of population; and at the same time properly cultivated and adapted to all kinls of produce. Ile also found traces of an interual legal government, nay, even of a pretty geneial local government- the most certain proofs of an advanced degree of civilization. This nflicer, who has given a verbal accountof these and other particulars, has lately returned 1rom Batavia to Padang, with troops to completehis military force, and sonie Young civil officers, acquainted with the language and manners of the inhabitants, anid with the regulations in force in Javs. DUTCH PAPERS. AMSTERDAM. AprrL 14.
Post-Office.
The Times, 1824-10-06T00:00:00

TO THIE EDITOR OF TIIE TIMES. Sir,-Seeing your remarks the other day upon the Post-offi4e, and knowing your readine8s in inserting any communication forthe good ofthe public, I address you upon a subject connected with it. I have just retumed fromr. a viait to my friends at the county town of ilamorganshire, which is very populous, and where there are a great many letters daily received; and although the mail passes within a mile and a half of the place, at five o'clock in the evening, yet the letters are not delivered tell the following morning nor do the bags reach the town till seven o'clock on that day. The ietters are deliver- ed at two very populous places, the one 20 and the other 30 miles farther on the same road, the same night. There is no excuse for the mail-coach not passing through the town, as there is a very good road, and the coaches pass through It twice a dav, and upon re- suming the present mail road, find they have not lost anv timle by so doing. This neglect on the part of the Post-master calls loudly for redress; and having left my wife and family there, I feel it very much, as (if the mail pasaeed through the town) I could hear from them in three, instead of five days. Your insertion of the above will oblige, and I hope lead to the ae- complishrrent of so desirable an obiect. A CONSTANT READER. POST-OFFICE.
PHOENIX GAS LIGHT and COK...
The Times, 1824-10-28T00:00:00

. i'HMN1t GAS LIGIUT nd cOW .COMPANIe &TOTICE is Jrel given. thiat a aGecerl Mlfeeting of * ~ the *roprleters of ths Company vwill be held at the Museuml) ravorn, G}reat Surrey-street, DlhiekfrIars-roAd, on Frlday, the 5th daY of Novemnber next, at 12 fir 1 n'eloet prect'sely, for the purpose of msklng a CALt onl the S'I1SCRIBERS and on other business. la*ed this 25th day of October, 1824. 1VM. PETLEY, Clerk to ilie Company. ( OLOMBIAN LOAN. -The HALF YE3ARLY 'Li DIVIDEND, due on the 1st of November niext, on the Bonds lissod by the Hon. Mttanuel .rose l4urtado, will be PA ID on thrt and every succeeding day, at the countirghouse of Mlessre Herring, Grahamn. and Puwvles, 3, Freemas's-vourt, Corniilli, between the hours Of 10 and 3 oclock. The dIvIdend warrant*s. 1ith a list thereof In nu- mneries order, are to be left one day previous for examInation. 1,f R. MIATHEWS's celebrate(l TRIP tG AMERICA J haring been Interrupted inl June last, at the period of Its ighe,t attraetIon, by the necessity of comnmenicing the English Opera season: and rnany famIiles of dIsdinetion then absent from Londoil baving ureed Its repetition: *It ls respscttully announced, Mr. .virill be found AT HOMRE. for a few nights in the dreary monlth of NovenS- ber, at the THEATRt. ROYAL, ENrLISH OPERA HOUSE. The fltst night of performance will be on Tueeday next, Nov. 2.
London, Friday, April 30,...
The Times, 1824-04-30T00:00:00

The Pares papers ef Tuesday are chiefly filled with the debate of the preceding day in the Chamber oz' Deputies on the reduction of zhe fivc per ce!ts. After several speeches for and against the mea- sure, the discussion was adjourned, and it was expected would oCcuey thic three next sittings ot' trc Chamber. The Afoniteur contains a report makle to the Chamber of Peers by the Marquis de PASTORET fromi the Special Comnmittee appointed to examine tbe law project for thL septenrial renewal of the Chamber of Deputies. The Com- mittee terminate their report by recommending the adoption of the measare. Tne Etoile states that the Mlinister of lrar is having compara- tive trials made at Toulouse, Douay, Metz, and Strasburg, betwecn the English, French, andi modified English srstem of' artillerv, with ttie view of adopting thiat vhich shall appear' to produce the greatest advanrage in war. FRENCHI FUXrcDs.-PAitIs, April 27.--Five per Cents. opened at I 02'. 10., closed at 102. 95. ; Bank Stock, 1990.; Neapolitan S per cents., in duicats, 95., in francs, 101. 10. Rentes d'Es,pagne, 18. - I'Roval Snasish Loan. 1823, 63J Exchange on London, one imonth, 25. 5. ; tirce uionths, 25.-%'ours Aut1.c,ftiquer. !.ZWDO.\'. F'RIDAIl', APRIL 30. 1324.
Demerara.
The Times, 1824-05-27T00:00:00

(From the Guiana ChronWice and fnpmrrar- P-ti. i ntmeugence OI ratner an unpleasant nature, concering the con- duct of the negroes on the east coast, reached town this morning, -which induced his Excellency the Governor to tum out the George- town brigade of militia, and to place a guard at the Colony-house. The battalion are ordered to hold themselves in readiness at a mo- xnent's notice. A proclansation from head-quarters appears below, regulating the period, &c., during which the Easter festival is to be observed by the negroes generaUy throughout the colony. Those on the east coast arc not to be aUowed any indulgence whatsoever. Tbe reports regarding the intelligence we have just hinted at are so cnnradlctorv, that we do not eel oursvees justified in stating what we have beard, even froni sources wbich, under other circumn- stances, might be considered as tolerably authentic. It may not be amiss, however, to state a fact, generaUy credited, that some plots, and of an extensive nature too, have been discovered, which were to have ma.1e this colonv another seat of warfare on Easter Mon- day the 19th inst- The measures adopted by Govemment will pro- bably enable us to state something decisive on this point in our next. " PROCLAMATION Byv his ExecUency Mlaior-General John Murray, Lieutenant- Governor and Commantfer-in-Chief in and over the United Co- lonyof Demerara and Essequibo, &c. &e. &c. " WVhereas the conduct of the slaves within this united colony (save moly and except those resident on the east sea coast thereof, trom Georgetown to DMahaica Creek) hath been such as to render them nvorthy of being allowed the usual indulgence of Easter holy- days,at the approaching season, I have thought fit to issue this my proclamation, hereby authorizing all persons, having charge of alaves within thiaretdement, to allow such slaves the iadul ences on such occasions customary-namely, the Easter holvdayss2all cons- amence on Sunday moring next, the 18th instant, being Easter Sunday, and shall be at an end on Alonday evening, the 19th inst.; after which no dancing nhall, on any pretext, or in any district, be allowed. " And whereas the conduct of the slaves on the east sea-cast bath been sucb of late, as to render itdangerous to the peace ofthe settle- ment to alow them to congregate in any manner; and to debar the;n from any claim to the indulgenceswhich itis deemei e-oedient to allow to well-disposed slaves, beyond what is due to the Sabbath, I do hereby peremptorily forbid all proprietors, attorneys, managers, overseers, or others whom itmay concem on any accountto adnit of nny holydays or indulgences, of whatsoever kind thev may be, among the slaves on the estates situated between Georgetown and Mhnbaica Creek, as they shall answer to the contrary " Given under my hand and seal of oflice, at the King's House, in Georgetown, Demerara, this 12th day of April, 1824. "By command of his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, - "JOHN MURRAY, Gov.Sec." DEMERARA. - GEORGETOWN, APRIL 12.
Marriages
The Times, 1824-09-10T00:00:00

*MAPdtIETh Yesterday, at Camberwell, .1Mr. Theophilus Lightfoot, to Ails Ann Loscumbe. On Thursday, the 9th inst., at St. ilarvlebone Church, Mr. Hesnry Rossi, eldest eon of Charles RDstl, EFq., R.A., of JAsson. grove, to Catherine Anne, only daughter of thc Rev. Richard W"il. son, late rector of Desford, and curate of Lutterwoth,ii7 the county of Leicester.0 On Tuesday last, at St. John's Church, Hampstead,1 Mr. W. Smith, mercerand draper, to Charlotte, youngest daughter of Charles Deudney, Esq., of Gensing-lodge, near H astings. On 1thurgday, at Putney Church, by.tbe Rev. Thonmas Chapmani! Air. Willlfam M11ackiatosh fluttoni bf CaPMbrwell, to Ulizabeth daugihteraf Janjes Chapman, Esq., of Putney. - I On Tuesday, the 7th inst., Dr. Williams, of Betdford-place, tu~ MliiS E. L. Al. Philipps, younxestr daughter of the atc J. G. hbiJ lipps, Esq., Al.P.,of Cwnvlvillv- CaimrsthRn-1-.
CASTLE OF EXETER.-James W...
The Times, 1824-10-19T00:00:00

CASTLE OF EXETER.Jarnes Wriglht was brought for- ward on Friday by summons, for frcquently assaulting his wife, and leaving her with their chlldren unprovided, though his earnings were very considerable, and he had received with her some fortune. The parties were mutually very desirous of having their matrimonial connexion dissolved, but they were informed that hitherto the Le- gislature had not invested magistrates with that yower. How- ever, in case thev were determined to live in a state of pacific separa- tion, reconciliation being at present apparently out of tho questien, the magistrate would readily give his opinion as to the fairness of any terms the husband might pro0pse ; this was acqulesced in, and it was finally arranged that the children should be divided between the parents, and the hus'ond should Iallow the wife 69. per week, till ineir reciprocal dislike should subside, which the inagistrate hoped would take pla ce at no remote period; he also thought it right for the husband's own sake, :as he confessed hia uncontrollable irritabi- lity, as well as far the sake of his wife, to bind him in a recognizance of' 1001. to keep the peace toardsall His Mlajesty's subjects.-De- svonslire Freenolder. A heart-rendliig occurrence took place at Pallas Green on Tuesday ; the'particulars are as follow :-A men of the name of Phelan having gone to view a steeple-chase In that neighbourhood, left his wife and two children in his cabin behind hinm, and in some time afterwards his wvife had occasion to proceed to a ield quite con- venient, in order to dig potatoes for dlhner. Tho unhappy woman left her children (the eldest of whom was not foar years old) alone in the house; and it is supposed that they contrivedto set fire to tome straw or flax in it, for, on her return, she beheld her c4bin in flames, and, dismal to relate, one of her infants burned to a cinder, and the otlier was so dreadfully injured, that death terminated Ite sufferings on Thursday evening..Devoushire Freeholder. [Advertisement.1-The .advantages of cheap litetrture to the me- chanical part of the community are very strikingly exemplified in the new edition no: publishing of Fergwon's Lecture& on Mecha- nics, the last number of which contains thehistory, complet., of the steamn-engine, illustrated with 10 cuts, price only 3d. Another work, bv the same editor, entitled the echanis Gaery, firnishet dof intormation in every department of mecbanical science, at a similar cherp rate; the art of clock ind watch.making, for ins2ance, being conpned in tv.'o parta, price 2s. only-; thus con- centrauing, within a smnall cornpta 3a muci1-pJaticcl fhnilrmation as is elsewhere only to be obtained tbrough cellaxpee volumct. Published by Sherwood and Co., Paterr.n<otesfrow.