WINDSOR, April 15.-Yester...
The Times, 1824-04-16T00:00:00

N-DsoR, April *1-ested`e v evening, fboi t ,x o'clock, the King aiid suite arrive d at the Cstle, from London. Yestrda ya fn jujj ntleft town BogrB hton. Yesterday morning, AMr. Hill, the King's AMessQnger, I arrived. at the Foreign.office, Downing-stret, with de- spatches from Sir Hrenry Wellesley, qur Ambassador at Vienna, dated up to the Bth inst.- Air. Draffent, the King's ASessenger, arrived at the Fo- reign-offiee ort Tutesday itight, with despatches from Sir C. Bagot,at St. Petersblurgh, which place Mr. Draffei left on the 29th ef Waftclt. Yesterdty, according to annual custoln, being Mauniday- _'rhursday, -a confirmation of the juvenile branches of t1le nobilijy took place at the Chapel Royal. 'T'he confirma- tion was performed by the Bishop of London, as Dean of the Chape. eYesterdayr the uisual annual Royal donations were distri- buted at Whitehall Chapel to as many poor men and vwomen its the Kiig is years old-viz., 62 of each. One of the feinalc receivers of his Majesty's bounty was in her l01st year, and was receivedl witlh eyery attention due to her ad- vancedl years: two men led her in to her seat, although she hlad no appearance of decrepitude: she walked very upright; she attracted the attention of a number of the spectatorx. At thle dinner for the support of the Highland Charity Schools, on lVedpesday, Sir James Mlacintosh did mot say, as he is reported to ,have sait, that MIr. Cannins was " re- spected by his opp6nents'as the map whom t ley would have chosen for Lheir head '" but "as the mall whom, in his own party, the'y woul, -Bost Wish to, hold his office." Trhe inistake of' the reporter wvas probably occasioned by the noise of. plaudits which dlrowned the last words of the sentence. General Vigo, the late Governor of Corunsta, has arrived in London. Ile is about ts present a mensarial to the French Go- vemment for the recovery of his property, which has been confiscated by the Spanish Government. The. name of the French General who delivered hii Up to the Spaniards in violation of the convention taCanoel. It is unierstood that his conduct is disap'proved of by his own Government, and that the memorial of General Vigo, there- fore, i,; likely to receive attention. GilBRALTAR, iMfarch 24.-His Alairsty's ship Alacr-ity will sail to-morrow for AMa!ta, and take charge ot vessels bound to that island. MIESSINA, March 17.-By a vessel just arrived from Aalta, we leain that vessels werc pernitted to sail from thence to the westward without convoy. Yesterday a Court of Directors was lheld at the East India-house, when the new Directors, elected on lWednesday last, viz.-Josias Du Pre Alexander, Esq., Robert Campbell, Esq., Neil Benjamin Edmonstone, Esq., Hon. Hugh.Lindsav, John Mor- ris, Esq., and John (ioldsborougti Ravenshaw, Esq., iook the oath and their seats. William Astell and Camlpbell Allarjoribanks, Esquires, were chosen Chairman and Deputy Chairman for the year ensuing. Not long ago we paid as muclh as 5001. a week to t.he casual poor: this weck the same class of poor have been paid with less than 141.-Siel "chld puper. The Dublin Star states that the AMarquis WVelltsley's grandmaothler, and the grandfa.ther of Mr. Dudley Colley, a respect- able tanner in Higfh-street, Dublin, were brother and sister. There are upwartls ot 100 vessels gone foreign from the port of Siunderland since tile commencement of the present year, whilst last year, to the same date, there were not above 50.-Tync ,l cury. Mr. Buckingham, editor of the Boston Galary, has becn tried nt Bostoni for a libel on the Russian Consul, found gxilty, and sentenced to 30 days' imprisonment'in the common gaol, and costs of suit.-Neu, York Advertiser, M arch 16. NAVAI. AN'OMAI.IEs.-EFrom alt Americani paper.l- Why are vessels of rhe feritinte gend(er i-W-l e read ot the. King (;eorge having lost ier bowsprit; the Queen Cblarlotte sprung a leak; the John Adants stove in her bulwarks; the Lady Adams shifted her ballast; the Jupiter founidered in the Gulf of Mlexico ;. and the Buiiperor on hter b,eam ends. Thle geographical, astronomii- cal, and political blunders are still more gross. rite United States tars put into Holmes' llole; the North America bound round Cape Hor, the Clhesapeake cleared out for l,onden, the Massachusetts blown offthe coast; the Mediterninean high and dry on Cape Cod; the Atlantic *onde;tned as unseaworthy; the Vesuvius capsized in the North Sea; the Free Ocean plundered by pirates; the Equator in lat. 69. N.; the Globe burnt at sea; the Zenith seized for u breach of the revernie laws; the Zodiac in quarantine; the Constel- lation under jury inasts; the North Star shipped a sea on the line; the Congress hauled into dry dock; and the Constitution under- goin repair. A few general cases, and we have done. We find the JSagle soiling for the coast of Guinea; the jEolus waitilng for a wrind; the Dolphin taking whales olF Brazil; the Leopard run down by the Flying Fislh; the Ph,enix; sunk in ten fathoms water; the Cornucopia short of provisions; the Invincible taken by a Dutch galliot- the Sales witlh the small-pox on board; the Adamanlt rotting at the wharf- the Golden Age sold for the benefit ot the underwriters the floward with a cargo of slaves; and the Palinurus ins want ofa vilot; not forgetting the Wh/o -oujld a-tlwight it running fcts of the Catchi ne if you can !. LECTUItES O.S ASTaONo-atvY.-lVe regret that the great pressure of iniportant nmatter has hitherto prevented us from direct- ing the attention of the public to Mlr. Bartley's lectures on astro- nioniy, delivered at the English Opera-house, and from bestowing upon them the praise which they justly merit. Ir. Bartley explhins his subject in a -ery clear manner, and .the machinery by which lis observations are illustrated is ingeniously contrived, and calculated to render tee lectures perfectly intelligible to the youthful spectator, for wlhose instruction, we suppose, thiey are principally intended. On Friday se'nnight, as the condemned prisoners were entering the t:-ol in this to-, aone of ltheml, of hn na.no oCf R- nunt, convicted of the burglary at Glemstord, was thus accosted by his mother--" IVlell, boy, what are you to be done to?" " Hanged, mother," replied the son. " Well," rejoined the mo- ther, " be a good boy, and don't be hanged in your best clothes, but let me have them. I had better taLe your red waistcoat now Bury PO-Vt. During the niglht of IVednesdag last, a respectable old woman, a widow, residing in the lane off Chatles's-street, was un- fortunately burnt to death. It is conJectured she had risen from her bed for the purpose of taking a smoke, as she had been latterly ac- customed to do, and afterwards fallen asleep at the fireside, when a spark from the fire had ignited her clothing, and occasioned the dreadful catastropbie. A young girl who slept with her in the same room, accidentally awakening, and missing her troin the bed, im- mediately rose, and discovered her lying before the fire-place, in a shocLing state. She directly gare an alaras to the rest of the in - mates in the h6use, but it was toe late, as life was extinct.-Cale- donzian Mlercuary; Al AltMItNG AND ttES'rRtJCTtVE FIRE.-EFrom the Derby i'Jercury of Wednesday.]-Yesterd-ay nborring about three o'clock, the inhabitants of this town wvere thrown into great terror and alarm by the discovery that the shot-towet of AlMessrs tox and Poyser was on fire. The alarnm, which was first given by the watch- man. soon became general bv the reiterated cries of " fire," the sprintglg of rattles, and the broken peals of the bells of the different churches, and the scene of the destructive element shortly became awvfully coffspicuous from the flames which burst fronl the summit of the tower. The inhabitants, and the firemen with their respective engines, hurried to the spot witlh great alacrity. All Saints' engine was the first to arrive, attd being in perfect order and directed by Mr. Chatterton with his accustomed energy and ability (assisted by the engines from St Peter's and St. Alkmund's), did great execution; whilst sthe entine froum St. cVrbtrgh's was tnost effcaciously con- ducted by Mvlr. Hovod in itie opposite direction. ''lte tower is 150 feet ini height, divided into seere stories by floors or stages. with a circt- ar opening in tbte centre frotm top to bottom for the manufacture of tte shot, a spiral atone staircase le,ading to the top, where the lead is melted and the shotcast. The worknen had been engaged in the moanutactorc tlie preceding evening, anAd the fire is supposed to have been occasioned by the easter havitng incautiously left some wood too near the furnace, in consequence of whici tt was communicated to the floor. The burning fragmnents fallingdown eonreyed the tiis- chiet to the stories below, and it descended with 0so mucn rapnuity- that notwithstanding the active and unremitting exertions used to stop iti progress, five of the doors were consumed betbre it could be ove}powered. The weighty apparatus and machitnery used in the dianufactare of the shot and thie winding up of the lead, de- scended at intervals with great violenee, breaking, in their course, the uiassy aind partly consmned beanms of the building, and forcing mnany of the stmone steps ffon the wall, a.nd in consequence the two lower floors were completely broken down anid destroyed. i'he prin- cipal aim of the firemen was to prevent the devastation from extend. ing beyond the tower, and by their unwearied lgnd active exerltons,for the space of about three hours, the wvhole of the adjacent works and buildings have, utnder Yrovidence, been Preserved from destruction. lhe appearanceof this catatrophe was particularly grand andawful whlen the flames first issued from its summit, arising in a considera- ble volume, accomp3nied witl innumerable fragments of ignited mat- ter, whIlc formed in their descent showers of fire, and itS red and murky appeardste presented a striking contrast to the pure light of the moon, wshichl shone at the timie in an opposite direction with un- cloudedl bri;htnless. As the fire decs1ede- the flames vere confined to the interior of the building, and the ekect became less striking. The utmost terror and confusion prevailed anong the inhabitants in the imniediate vicintity, many of them flying precipitately with thleir families from the apprehenided danger, bat we -re happy to learn that no accident of iny serious nature occurred on the occasion. Notwithstanding the freqfuent and violent concussions occasiotied by the fslling of (h'beams,and the breaking down of the stonC stair- case, not a brick of thiR imniense tower has been displaced. It was built by our townsman MIr. Joseph Gascoyne, daring his apprentice- ship with the late Air. John WVelelfd The extent of the loss cannot at presentbeascertained, but it consists chiefly in the injury sus- tained by the bulldingi It is thought that it will be necessary to take down and rebuild the upper part of the tower, buit its present state is so dangerous, from the precarious situation of tire inipeding fragnments which remain within, as to render any cxarninatim of it impracticable. AIARLiORtOUGsI-STr=gET.-Iir.'Tatlham,arespectable solidtor residing in Goldcn-squatei appeared at the office, and stated to Sir GEORGE FARRAN T, that he carne there witim a view of giving pub- licity to a circumstance that had occurred in his family on the day before, and which it was very ecsential to the public safety that it should be generallv known. Alr. Tathain said that he had had a party of friends athis house on Wednesday; and, as usual on such occasions a quantity of contectionery was procured from a very re- spetable shop of that description in the neighbouirhood, amongst which was a number of' what were caUed "1 wafer cakes, which are variously coloured to give them a mote ornamental appearance- some green, some blce and red, &c. Mr. Tatham here prd several of these cakes, and said that his servants, is appeared, had eaten a number of them on Wednesday night particularlv the man- servantand houscmaid, and in a short time atter eating em, they became to ill, that it was found necessary to send for Alr. Shelton, the surgeon to the family, who, ois hearing what the servants had talten nid examuinigitiese" wafer-cake5," declared that thiepatients wvere laouring under the effects of poison, as these cakes were al- ways mixed with verdigrise. sugar of lead, and other poisonous ingredients, for thie purpose of colouring th'enm, besides their being baket upon sheets of copper. They were, therefbre, lie said, higlhly dlangerous, and shiould never be used. Air, Sh*lton applied the pro. per remnedies as in cases ft poison, and.succeeded in retieving the see vants fromi their sufferings ; but the mlass.servaut is still very uRWCll and apt altogether out et' danger. Sir G. FAu1tAqT said tl;at it was highly necessary the publi should be made acquainted with this case, and cautioned against thi useof these cakes, which, however pleasing to the eye, were so dan geosto the health, although used. at every eveninx 'partY at tablt bruti c fhielyhe blieved, for ornament. The public, he said, wer