Yesterday Mr. Finersey, a...
The Times, 1824-08-04T00:00:00

Yesterday Mr. Finersey, an extra messenger, was sent ofF with de-spatches from the Colonial Office, ih Downing- street, for Ancona. Mr. Canning transacted business at thc Foreign Office yesterday. In the evening the Right Honourable Secretary ,eft town for Coombe Wood, on a visit to thle Earl of Liverpool, wliore there was a select party to dinner. Yesterday morning the Chancellor of the Exchcquer came to town from Charlton, Kent, and after transacting business at the Treasury, returned in the evening. Arthur O'Connor, who married the daughter of Con- dorcet, has a letter in the Paris journals denying the an- thenticity of the work published under the title of Me- moires de Condorect sur la Revolulion. He states, that he has examined the MSS. from whicll the pretended Memoirs are said to be extracted, that he found them to consist of 29 notes or letters, scarcely sufficient to afford 34, pages of printed text, and yet out of these scanty materials two v.hlms>u rAnnni..inot, 79Q *rawet l] tvr hoen m2mir-f-.dlnt A letter from Paris says-" F or two or three days past the shop of Ladvocat, the bookseller, in the Pasmage de Bois, Palais Royal, has been crowded witlh visiters, to exanaine the beautiful bust f L,ord Byron, by Flatters, which is finejy executed." The Archbishop of Paris, M. de Quelen, and MIonsieur A. Soumet, known by two or three tragedies of no brilliant reputa. tion, arc the two candidates who hare been elected members of the RoyvalAcademy of Paris. Thle former had 22 votes, the latter 18 - and Nf. C&s9imir Delavigne, 15.' The-newly-restored Lord Viscount Stafford (Sir George Jerniagham) is now on a visit to his son-in-law, Mr. Fraser, of Lovat, at fleaufort Castle, in our neighbourhood._Invcr,wss Cot icr. OCCULTATION 0F THE PLANXT HEzScHELL.-(From a Correspondent.)-In the evening of Friday next the 6th instant, the planet lerschell wUil immerge on the east side of the moon at 2 min. 45 sec. after ten: the planet will remain obscured tila 14 tnin. 45 sec. after eleven, when it will emerge on the western side. At the immersion, the planet will be 94 min., and at the emersion, 4j min. north of the moon's centre. The moon will have passed the meridian of Greenwich about ten mninutes previous to the occul- tation. An arrangement has now been made by the Steam Packet Establishment at MIilford, to effect a passage, averaging frem ten to fc irteen hours, to Dunmore, from whence a coach will depart itniediately to Waterford ; and the same evening the Cork lail is to be despatehed, so as to arrive in Cork bv nine the follow- ing morning; thereby delivering letters in Cork from London in the short space of 58 hours. The extent of the accommodation to Waterord and Cork by such an arrangement must be great.-Glo. cester JournaL Yesterday the Grand Rowing Match took place on the river, for the zherry given by the Noblemen and GeHtlemen com- posing the Fumny Club. Thia prize was founded by the Club for the purpose of encouragirig honesty and sobriety among the water. men, and in consideration of the rank of the donors, some very di5- tinguished patrons of the aquatic sport appeared in their galleys. Among the cutters were the ' Guards," the "Whitehall Club," and indeed nearly all the principal one; the gallant band who rowed the great match from Oxford to London were in their galley. The prize was won, after twvo heats, by Charles laynard (Lambeth), and James Joyce (Arundel Stairs). tin the afternoon of Thursday last, a flne bov, three earsof age,sn to Mr. Arthur Barclay miller at Drf ps, near N.gleshsm,had a surprising escape Whrie amsuing himsef on the brink of the watpr that drives his father's mil, he feU m, a few yartls from the wheel, which was going at fall speed at the time. Being precipitated, along with the -van-r *1own a fall of twelve feet, into one of the buc;,.ets of the wheel, which fortunately gave way at the one end and allowed him to get through, he was swept by the stream down a pen or tail-race of thirty feet in length, into tbe mi'ldle of the cart, where a Irge stone, to which he clung, arrested his further progess. When a person approached to tal-e hirn out of the-water, he thirew a wistfiul eye towards the pen frdm which he bad just ernerged, and exclaimed ' Whar's my bannet ?" He is Inrt In one of the legs, and bruised in various parts of the body, but he is fast recovering.-Ghegow Chtronicke. The house in which (Corneille died has lately beeh dis- covered to be No. 18, Rue d'Argenteuil, it Paris. The propnietor has placed ablack marble bb in the front of the hoiise, indicating tbhat this great poet died there in 1684, and that the house w-as built in 1624. A handorre bust of CornelUe-ls ako placed-in the court. yard, crowned with laurcls, on which is written "Le Ci, 16316' lR1MG'91TrnIATftE-Mter the operat of Loa Donna.del Lago vhcwspaed hiere last evening,. Noblet. and 0141rdii1ad I oil their leiave in the ballet, of Le Pagc 12wi6iieetant. ?ihis listhie best. ballet that hos been produced during, the preient season. It is founded tipon. Tlse X4rriagie of.- fiPnro, sd unts as' far as is possible, the beaiuties of tho conietly aTnd the opera. Nearly'the w Vole.of thie mu'sic Is from MAoz~jt, and the acting of -some, of the parts isso good, that one hasnoGreasontor reettjiajt,the pIayprsexe- cute thejVt-askwith their el nsedo 'their tongues.' konzi Ve3tri8 makes Clshernhin~o juist as arcli, Samorous, atid inia- chievous as' he sahould be." Noblet's Sseeanna is not -less re- markable for its conice power than for the arac6fulness with which abe executes it'; and Ferdlinand, as Figaro, is amost arnusing fripon, anid acts the siong of Narn pil; andrai in very good style. Ihle scene of hiding in-the chair, andl that in-the Countess's closet, coujd niot -be done better, -and they have the adlditional charm iDf very i.- genious and elegant dancing. For the intrigue w~ith wh'ich the plot. abounds?. it is as well, perhaps better carried on without speaking- the wsttlest dialoguc,in the wporld could 9carc&l imnprove the smart and passionate things which these dancers express in "dumb show.~'. -Moniday.being the anniiversary of the accession of the House.of Brunswick to the thirone, the Fishmongers' Company, ac- cording to annuol.custom, gave agrand dinner to commemorate'that event., Among the ditinguished individuals present wvere the Duke of Sussex, the'Lord MAyor, Sir James Mlacititosh, Mr. Bqnnet, Mlr. lIambton, Lord A. Will, Lord Darnle , the Hon. A&gar Ell ist, Sir T. Lawrence, W. Williams, Esq., Ali. P, General Quirogn the GreekDeputy General Orlando,and uolenel Riego,the brothier o1 the late Spanish General. General jlina had promised to attend, but wras' prevented by indisposition. There wag also a number of other celebrated Spanishi officers present. Mlr. Alarioribanks and Air. Astell, and a number of othier gentlemen eminenit in the commnercial world, wvere preseit. An English Protestant chapel was to be opened on Sun- day, at the Hotel Mlarbesuf, Champs Elysee, Paris. When the Dulte tie Nivernois, whio was a little thin man, arrived in London (iih 1762), Mr. C, Tow nshend observed that the French had sent the prelitisinaries of a mana to sign the preiliminaries of pae Tahieefollowing singular direction of a letter is copied ver- batin'e et literatimr...-To the Care of Als G-, Pa.rk lean for ms mary Wililson no 36 Liverpool England near London. CURE FOiR THE BiTE OF MAID DoGss.-Dr. Heller, Mom- her of the Royal Asademy of Mfedicine, rariS, communicated to this society, on the 27th of this month, that in Greece it is a practice to observe thle tongues of those persons who lhave been bitten by dogs, becaese att the end of eight or nine days there aLppear on eacti sideof he tngu andnea dieundr part, pustules, called 4'sses by te Geek. ?'hes putuls cntan the whole rabidI n'atter, and mmeiatly heyappar heyarecut out, and the wounds cau- terize, whih preents ydropobia.This circumstance ha ceen also ecenty obervedhi ~aucc,and erits attention.-Jouua des The L-ordI Mayor of Dublin seenq dletermined to close hiis labours with sitill mbre vigour than that with which his Lord. shlip commenced his career. His disicovery on Alonday of a frau- dulent compact between the garrison-baker and a quarter-master, produced a very great sensation throughout the city. The quarter- master, it apas received Is. in the potind, or 5 per eent., on the amout ofall readdelivered for the use of the Dublin garrison andtheconequncewas, that the baker, in, order to cover this enor- mou dorcer, av liht eigt,and had brea'd to the worthy fel- low wh foghtandble fo thircouintry in the late campaigns! Disese, n soe intances, was the conisequence. The discvery~ of thisnefaiou comactby thte Lord Mlayor has natural~ly to much minue ivestgaton;and our chilef magistrate, and Lrd Comber- mere thecommnderof he forces, were on Mlonday closeted toge- thier a considerable ie in planning ulterior measures. The quar- ter-master is to be dsised, and the baker loses his contract and uipwards of 4,000 laves of bread !_Belfast C'hronicle. The plan of lendling money on goods for chiaritable pur-. polses, as fis the case withi the Moait de Pidtd in Paris, has been. tried in this country. In liondon, under the reign of Queen Anne, a charitable cornoration was erectedl for the relief of the industrious poor, for enabling indigent manufacturers anid traders to take up mioney at common and legal interetst, there being a sum of 30,0001. raised for that purpose. The money was lent to the indus- trious poor at five per cent, interest on pawns andxledges, to psrevent their falling into the hands of pawnbrokers, anX hence the society derived its apellation ; but they likewise took five per cent. for the charge of officers, warehouses, &.c. In the 5th year of' King, George I I. toe chief officers of this corperation, by connivanc-e of the prin. ciPal directors, abscondled, andl failed, and defrauded the public pro- Prietors of great sumis ; and for the relief of the sufferers, as top art of their losses, several statutes were enactedt in the bth anti 7th of George II. Trfe BIRMAN8.-Among these people, every thing be- longing to the King has the wordI Amo, or 1 gold," prefixed to 'it, because gold among them is the type of excellence; even hiis la~jes- ty's person is never mentioned but in conbexioni with that lprecious. metal. When a subject means to affirnm that the King has lieard any thiing, he says it has reached the "'golden ears." Hle who has obtained admiittance to the royal person has been at the " golden feet." The perfumec of otto of roses is descriled as being grateful to the " golden nose;"1 and no doubt it hiappens in Ava, as in other countries, that the " golden hiand" finds its way into the subject's pocket, and instead of' dropping a finger there, does not 4tisdain to carry away a share of the baser rr'ptal it finds in that receptacle. RIOT is GL.ASGow.-On 'Wedlnesdaynight, about eight O'clock, the Oallowgate, Glasgow, exhibited a scene of extreme confusiqon and alarnm, owing to the dlisorderly conduct of a number of young recruits belonging to the 99th Regiment, who having been drinking their arreat-money, liad got quite initoxicated, aLnd com- mhenced fiighting amnong themselves, and at intervals attacked such Of thle sPectators as came in their way. The people retaliated, and tile whole were intermixed in a general fight the combatants fre- quently knockcd downi and tramnpled on each other, and rise blood was beginning to flow pretty freely, when several of the sergeants with a party arrived from the barracks, anid with great difficulty in. not w!sh to quarrel with thec town's people, and if any of them were injured they sliouild have every redress. The sioldiers then endes- vourod to drag the druinken recruits along with thiem, buit thiey be- came quite refractory, struck at theirt supertiors, and made dluperate struggles to get free ; some of them broke loose and renewed the tight with the inhabitants, but they were at length mastered, after they hati receivedt a severe chastisemeint fromi the sergeants, and driven withiin the barrack wall, the gate of which was instantly closed an themn. A partv of soldiers theni searched all the adjoining public..houses, and force~d ot1chi of their meni as were found in them into the barracks. The officers in the miost conciliatory tone re- quested the crowd to dlisperse, as.1 it was quite unworthiy of Scots- men to be following a few ladls, 16 years of age, who had merely got themselves dlrunk, a state to which they were all far from being strangers. A sergecant said the regiment wishied to be frientds with the town's people; he had foutght and bledI for the cause of his coun- try, and her enemies, not her sons, were the people he wislhed to enicounter. The gentle persuasions used seemed to have a muchi better effect than driving the peopleawayby the point of the bayonet, and he cigourood as oonaftr qict.-S'cot3 paper. Ots undy aternon,as oloel Duincan non was ridiiig a fne pirtedhose n te snd atRaiagae,the animal soddenly too frght an rsisingallcotro oftherier, violently plunged intothesea Boh hrseandridr wre oonafloat. As the horse continued to swim from the shore, the Colonel diseng-aged himself from the animal. In this situation, the Colonel swami towards the shiore, whiceh lie reachied quite exhausted. Two ladies whio were walking, andI saw the accident, fainted away; and the greatest anxiety was evinced for the gallanit officer's saf'ety. The horse swam ashore, and was not stopped till it reached Broads9tairs On Thlursdlay, as two bullocks were proceedinig over Bllackheath, on their way to London, one of thoen, which had slud- denly become furious, attempted to le-ap over a rail oppostite thec Green Alan, to attack a lady-, Who Was WaLlking with her cliildreni inside'thie enclosure. The lady, nearly siinking with terror at her perilouis siituation, had clasped one of the children in her armns, and anticipate(I destruction, whien, momentarily, a bull-dog, wvhich be- longed to the drover, sprang forward, and seized the animal by the ns,dragged htim fromi off the railing, and acrosthrodote dthby the Green MNan bowling'-grcen, before lettinig go hiis hold. This fortunate interposition enabled the lady to escape. Mfr. Lloyd, a respectable farller, of Pen Castel, near Llanidloes, Allont~wrmeryshire, was killed by his bull on Mlonday week. Mlr. Lloyd was driving the animal into s cow-sited, when he suddenly turned upon hisz unfortuinate owner and gored him to death ha the presence of several of the famnily. The ferocious animal could not be driven from the body until a dog was brought to worry him away. A few dlays ag'o a melancholy accident took place at Mill- hil qurr, nar~)ufemiie.Two workmen had been employed in tirring a'deep bank of earth from the surface of the qurryn had moace some piogress in undermuining apart of it, when a heavy, shower of irain camre on, and the unfortunate men- took refuge from the shower in the excavation they had made in the bank. Before the rain ceased, a groat 5uantity Of the earth, immedliately above them, fell down and huried them below. They hiad bean left but a short wliile before by their employer, and the accident was first dis- covered by the wife of one of the workmen, who had brought hist dinner, and who perceived a man's leg which lay uncovered by the earth. Slie Instantly alarmed some men at work in an adjoining quarry,-who inmmediately dug out the dead bodlies. Thebody of one of them was dreadfatlly mangled, and the other had hts rneck broken. On Monday last a Iabouring man, named Jameis Barnett, applied at the shop of MVr. Klimber, druggist, of this city (Glocesrer), for an ounce of oxalic acid, with which he was served by Mr. ]Knm. her, but not until he had very properly questioned the man closely as to the purpose for whlch It was intended, and warned him of the deadly nature of the poison; to which Barnett, who was cool and collected in his manner, replied that he was quiite aware of its cf.' facts, and that it was for the purpose of cleaning booattops. The acid was then delivered to him, with a printed label on, the outside, speifyng lsa i wa "dadl poso."~ Barnett mmledliately pre- ceedd to~he ouseof hs moher-n-lw, with whom he had had som qurrl rspctig is if, ad issolving the substnce in a pin bttl o ber,drak t ot;at hesame time announncng that he hd pisoed hmsef. n afw mnuts th posonbegan to ope- [rae, nd amet, ho,as e hs snceackowldge,"had calcu- lated that it would take a week to kil3 him," repented of his rash- ness; he was therefore easily persuaded by his dreadfully alarmed mother-in-law to accompany her back to Mr. Kimber's, where, upon powerful antidotes being copiously and promptly administered, his stomach was soon relieved from its deadly contehts, and he is now in a fair way of recovery though his mouth and throat still continue in a horrible state from tise corrosive action of the acid.-Glocester Joutrntal. Ann Stevenson, the vife of a labouring man at Blen- kinsopp, Is in custody on souspicion of poisoning her husband's bro. ther a boy about 12 years of age. As the fatal story is reported, the iusband suspecting her fidelity, set the child to watch ber con- duct; and she destroyed him with some poison on bread and butter. -Newcastle Couraq,t. An attempt wvas recently made by the convicts or. board. the srdlk, at Cove of Cork, to destroy the vessel at night by fire. It had prQceeded some way before it was detected, but the alarm' being given, Captain Riboules, ot the Senziramris, and a partv from the ship, boarded the Hualk, restored order, and extinguished the fire, witb no other damage but the partial burning of one of the eimbers,'and of the end of one of the fusttoeks, the compassing tim- bers which make the breadRth of the vessel. A venerable-looking old lady, 80 years of age, residing in Lambeth, of thc name of S Jsannah James, was yesterday even- ing passing through Carlisle.lane,.ia that parish, when, owing to im. perfect viston se mistook the centre of the road, whichv was two feet below it, for a continuation of the foot-path, and fell with great violence. The sad eflfects of wvhich mischance was, the breaking the right thigh bonc close to the hip jilnt. She was conveyed im. 'mediatelyto wGy' hospitsl, where she still is, but without hbpe of a cure being'effected at her advanced age.