WINDSOR, March 30.-Soon a...
The Times, 1824-03-31T00:00:00

IVI NDS OIL, March 30.-Soon after two o'clock this' day5 I the King took htis urual ride in his carriage in Windsor Great Park. Yesterday Count Alunster arrived at the Cas- tle, on a visit to His Mlajesty. This morning thse Earl al)d Countess Bathuirst, Lvtdy G. Bathurst, Lady A. Harvey, lthe Dukeof Dorset, the Earl of Bristol, Earl of Ancram, Lord and(I Lady Maryborough, an d the wvhole ot' the distinguish- ed party on a visit to the Kinla, left the Royal Castle. '1 he Earl of Liverpool wvas better yestcrday. Yesterday, at twvo o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at the resi(lence of the Earl of Liverpool, at hitehal1 This vas the first Cabinet that Lord Melville has attended since his indisposition. The Cabinet sat in deliberation till a quarter past four o'clock. Yestcrday afternoon, at fbur o'clock, the Duke of York held a levee, as Commander-ini-Chief, at his office in the Horse-Guards. WNre have received the Jamaica Cotrant of the 11th and 12th ult., being two days later than the packet. The Calnmbridgc transport, from Cowes, had arrived with detachments for the dif- ferent regiments on the island. No Dther intelligence appears in these papers. Wfe are authorized to state, that the report,again revivedl in a letter from MIadrid, of Alessrs. Hullett crothers and C'o. hav- ing offered to furnish l2,000 Irish troops for the service of Spain, is utterly destitute of fbundation. COrPOeR rTIoN Busiisss.-Yesterday the Lord Mayor held a (,ourt of Aldermen, for the general despatch of public busi- ness. .r. Joseph Yallowley and Mr. Deputy Hanson attending, were sworn into the ofnice of coal-meters, in trust; and Alr. John Sauaders a:nl Mr. Benjamin Blake&ley weresaworn into the office of cornmeters, in trust for this city. The Inquest of the wvard of Cole- inian-street atten(ted, aiid iade a presentment of sundry non-free. men, which was referred to the Chamberlain, as usual. Salarieti and bills were ortdered for payment. Sundry persons were sworn, and others allowed to be swaora, brokers of this city ; and coal. undertakers wvere li ensed. In the House of Commons on Monday night wyas notic.d& the discovery of a posthumous work of Aliton, by Mr. Lenemol-n De- putv Keeper of State Papers. The existence of'such a wota, and its title, are mentioned by Wirood. in his Athcnrct Oxorcl'sle, and afterwardls by Birch in his Life of the poet; but, until the discovery of Mr. Lemnon, of the Siate Paper Office, no clue was possessed for tracing this valuable literary treasure. It was only known, upon the authority of Wl'eod, that the manuscript lhad been last seeni in the possession of lr. Cyriac Skinner, a merchant of London, and, as all the readers of Milton know, the intimate friend of our great bard. Hlow it afterwards got into the State Paper Office cannot flow be ascertained; but it is a singular fact, that when discovered tie mnanuiscript wvas wrapped in an envelope, with the address au it, - To jllr. Skininer, merchant." A bill of precisely the saine tenour as the present Slave 'ira-v Bill wa, several years ago actually drawvn up and prepared . .r Parliament by the utuited exertions of Sir James iMacintosh, Mlr. Steplhen, Mr. Broughamn, and Dr. Phillimore, and was only abandouied from the utter hopelessness there then appeared to be of any prospect of success. BULI.-I Al-lii.S i-The honourable mnember for Galavay, it should seem, has it in cnteenxplttion to being his act into opera- tion agaipst bull-baiting. 'cor tlis purpose a question has been raised, whether, after the particular eftumeration; of' cattle .nade by the act, the wvords * other caitle" are sufficient to include the bull, wlho is not specifically named ; and on the point a case has been st,hilittcd to the Attorne-Gyeneral, who has given it as his opinion that the words " other cattle" are sufficient to include the buU, though not specifically named in the act. IIEL.ANCHOLY Si-t1PiwREca.-Qn Tuesday, the 23d inst., the schooner HIero, Christopher Bartlet master, fronm Swansea, for Brixhant, after experiencing a strong gale and heavy sea the pre- zeding night, was found to be water.logged, and nearly unmanage- tble In this state the crew endeavoured to reach Padstow harbour, but just as she came to the entrance, sbe sunk; and as, froli the tateof thie wedather, no assistance could be afforded, every person on hoard perihed. TIhe celebrated Roustan, the ttaithful Afam&luke of Bae- laDarte. arrivepl in I-A- - , ,._i- I.- decoraIted, as is his invariable practice, the su erb suitcof sres, plistol, sabre, and carbine, presented to him hy his tate mtaster. A respite during his Majesty's pleasure was yesterday evening received at ?N ewegate from the Secretary of State's Office, for John Castle, who was capitally convicted at the last Admiralty Sessions, and ordlered for eixecution on Friday next. DEA1it BnY SUFFOCAT10. .-A melancholy occurrence took piece at the Lewishans Cage niLMonday night. A boy lati been remanded uion a charge of throwing vitril Over a fellow. servant's gown. the raght be and another boy, wbo had goaeto the cage to keep hint company, got a light conveyed to tler, setfir. to the straw in the watch-house, and were both foune yeerdiy morning sufcntedc.