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Poison In Sugar-Plums, &c...
The Times, 1824-05-24T00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,-I was a little ainused by a valuable conmunication rnade by a" Friend to the White,' in your paper of Thursday, wherein, afe ome attept atsinii nweg,we are advised not to eat laurel leaves, as they are poisonous bat he says we may eat Jordan almonds, amitting to tcll us the skin of Joralmonlmonds are oison. cMs also, if taken too freel. Indeed, Mr. Editor, you well know many as man has taken little else than bread and wate r years, and died at last--.rga, the bread5 and water poisoned him. But, Sir, the colouring matter of sugar-plums are deemed poisonous, and the greens are said to be verdigris; now any confectioner, pastry.cook, or any other cook, must be indeed a bad calculator of pcnee, who wo a use verdigris, as a good green may be produced of much cheaper artklesnamely, P russian blue and garnbouge, both of ich maybe taken in moderation without,dangef; and if our white riend wastoeathalf a pound of conmfits, or beans coloured with t~scnt.pNow, they woulg2de dohim eno harsi; slioufd thev prove a lttlearthifrmtyc, It would bhe tmeas of earrying ofF sohie of the constipated anonshe seemns to hlave formed. Here, then. we lhave the rctsyllo, tasteblue colours; the white, he will allow, ii a -ural colour, himtdeclf being naturailya " Friend to the WVite"di theZ Uy foedit'hav ? - ra small portion of the blue and wfite; the re Is-what think you P Red precipitate. or rec lead? Oh, no, these are bad colours, and ticlrefore never used ; butninetingout often, it isq ro3e pink, lake, o-rcochineal, each of which are perfectly inno. cent. Now, Sir, having mnade this exposition of thte c:alour of our art, in firm verity, I would give outr white friend a hint. If lie Ims. ressed any cbymical knowledge, he wouTd riothave taken his chtild's opinion, that becuse the bean ta3ted like a halfpenny, the colour.. Ing matter mnust of'ncsiybevrirs I confess I have never had he urisit totast eihera hlfpnnyor verdigri'g rather pre. feric~nsyowngreit uga plme.Ourfrend- should' have ds r~i~~bza"i- a ?lttl dLtilld waer,with a sniaU portioai of e~tic cid;$~aaliac ~tcith soetin wtha few drops of liquid nmn~~h.~i7t ~t.:~ ~igzi,a lueprecVistate -would-have i~.ae ben moe esive than thp onn.. Klaur- Ar PATTYPAN anq;2UI n _fI POISON IN SulGAR-PLUJlfS,1 c.
Letters were received yes...
The Times, 1824-07-23T00:00:00

Letters were received yesterday from Frankfort by ex- press, (lated the 18tb inist. From these we learn that-the Teeting of Ministers at Johanoisberg had broken up, and that Prince METTEHNICH, wlhose healtli was materially improved, was about to return inimediately to Vienbla. This meeting, wbich the political alarmists throughout Europe have magnified into " a Congress on the affairs of South America," (does not appear to have assumed a re- gular deliberative character, or to have entered on any dis- cussions of genieral importanlce. InOeed, their assembling on that spot has becn entirely aceidental, owinig to the in- dispositioni under which Prince METTERNICH laboured, for which the air of Johainisberg vas prescribed byhis physiciains; and it vas out of compliment to that statesman that the major partof the foreign Ministers resident at Vienna also repaired thitlher, for the purpose of continuing the same sort of official intercourse which would have been carried on had the Prince remaiied in that city. lVe are assured that the repcrt of another meeting of Ministers at Coblentz is wholly without ioundlation.
Lisbon Mail.
The Times, 1824-07-27T00:00:00

-iLne "treecra of m he B;nl of Uisbonacquaintthe proprietors,that the dividend for the frst sixr months of the present year is 131, (tre--e e 7ejo) per 100, or 1 7,500 for each share, the paymniernt of which wiUl commence on the Ist of July. A nOtice fronm the War~office contains a, deetee of his Majesty, to the effect, that the -departments ol' the Chief bf the Staff and -M ilitary Secretary being abolished by a decree of Mav g, his Majesty thinks fit to,aismiss~ fromn their entPlovmcnts all parmons who were attach- edI to thiose (epartments andl theose wvho were transferiedi to those ,enploy meats from the o1fice of tlhe Secretary gf' VAar may be re- jplacetd in the lutter withi th-, samne title andi salary t~hat they hiad beIf,re.the decree of the I 8th of August, 1823, if it shiould be neces- sary, in consequence of the final organization which is ordered by he decree of this date, atid ifthe conduct anti circumstances of each 1ender hr l worthy of cru15 nwV ndmission, it is further ordered, that all teose persans rls rployed int the saitd abolished departments, who are bot tdt1st:y, end tviho by virtue of this decree ate not employed arv th.-s e of the Secretary of State, shall receive two monthis' sa- lay~ea free gift. The Isebon Gazcttes, from the 30th of June to the 5th of July, .re chicfly tilled vith extracts f om the Spanish, Frenc l, axd Eng- lsis Journais. Front the Spanish journals are extracted the ac- counts from Spanish A.merica, tuch as the reconquest of Lima and Callao; and various news from Mlexico tothe 22d of April, from (2adiz papers of the ISth of June. In the. lst of *esse's arrived o~ siled, are several to and fron Rio de Janeiro, Pernambuco, andi Bahia.-Liisban Gtzeite to the .th of J,liCusv. _ LISBON D A U= . I.ISBON, JUmE 30.
We have had the satisfact...
The Times, 1824-07-28T00:00:00

Wfe have had the satisfaction of lcarning on gcod autho- rity, that the difFerences wvith Russia, occasioned by her preposterous elaims to dominion and sovereignty in the Pacfic, which gave this country such unirersal and such ijist offence, arein a fsir way of being soon and completely adjusted through the negotiations of Mr. CANNING. The rights and commercial interests of England are said to have bcen provided for by the treaty, the bases of which are alreadty laid; and to have been recognized by the Rus- sian Government.
We present the new projec...
The Times, 1824-10-20T00:00:00

WVe present the new project of a loan, wlichl FERDI- RAND-the wortlhy FERDINAND-has cndeavouted to ne- gotiate in France; but the attempt has agaii failed. The termswere such as one would think might tempt cupidity; but one condition, says the writer of the letter, was want- ing.-" the honourable fulfilment of former contracts." Now this is to a certain dlegree, or rather in a certain sense, truc; andl in a certain sense false. If the writer supposes that the money-lenders of this or any other capita] will not lend their money, except to an honourable man, and for honourable purposes, he is grievously mistaken. WVere FERDINAND that dark mysterious personage himself, whom he so much rcsemblcs in every thing but abilities, and were the enterprise in wlhich he was engage(d such as would even make the " dark mysterious personage" ashamed of his iniquity, he would stiU find no difficulty in raising money for the accomplishment of his object, providled his interest was exorbitant, his fands sure, and his credit good. It is the want of these two last ingre- dients in the composition of every project for a new loan, that makes them all fail. Our opinion is, that His Catho- lic Majesty will be able to raise no more money by loan; but the foundation of that opinion is, that he can give no security, and find no funds for the payment of the interest.
News in Brief
The Times, 1824-12-18T00:00:00

I lventismcnt.1-ENGLtAii GENt iu.EmAN.-To.,norrow, the 19tnn inst., a new journal. under the itylc and title of Tie English Go,SLk1mwr, will be firit publishled, by Edward Dixon Pouchee, at No.7, Brydges-strvet, Covent-garden. To be hal of every news. yerder, piico 7. * AdvCrtl?esnent.1-As USUAL !-BxsMe snld the 20,0001. prize drawn or Thuirsday, No lb.3GI. It waadfivideel into a1iaree,and s~old at his fiotunate offices, No. 4, Cornhill, and 9, Charing-cross; where, in the late dramingp,werealxo shiaredaiud sold, 1b,76. 30,0001.; No. 6B9, 20,0001.; 15,3556 20,000).; anl 25 other capitals. The holders of the athares may receive the value of4heir rm3pective prizes on demnand. Brsa Li now selUng ticketsand shares for thcgrant and ftlal dr-awing of tlie 9Ist Decewber,wben two30,010O. prizts,all the other capitals, and every pqter prize, must be drawvn, all in one day,and not a single blnuk,aseve;ry ticQ et tuat teceive ;t least .51.,and shares in proportion. [Advertisement.]-To,YER5s' ToNIc PILLS, a tilid aperient stotiachie, vwithout a pnteicle of nmercury or afitimony,. are recom- mnended for indigestion, paiins in the stomach, nausea, head-acite, giddiness, arid other concontitant gysrptoms or a wenk or deranged atate of the dietive nrgans. They are designed to renovate the tone and cnerKy of the stomach; to correct torpidity of the bowels, by actibg as agentle aiid effiieat~laxative, but not as a direct purga- tive; and thus to prxrinote digestion wJithout distressing or weakening the rwenstittttios. The Totxjc PILLFS mnay bc had of respectable eaders of public medicines in l ondon, DJublinx, Edinrburgh, Glas. poi, ind niost principal towns. E;anh packet Is signed " John v fon the labe, and sealed itl the Royal arms.
Deaths
The Times, 1824-05-15T00:00:00

DIED. On ihe 11th inst., at Dulwich, aged two years and two months, Rose Ellen, youngest daaghter of James Haliett, Esq., formerl'yo?f Bombay. It has plesedG the Almighty to remrove from their afflicted parents two lovely intants in the shortspace of one month, the brotherWilliam' s death having been announced on the 14th uItL On Thursday, the 13th inst., at his house in Renrietta-street, Brunswick-square, Mr. Samuel John Neele, of the Strand, in the 66th vear of his aze. ________
INVETERATE TECHNICALITY.-...
The Times, 1824-09-25T00:00:00

INVETERATE TECHNytCA .mty.-The usuial place of re- sort for Dublin duellists is celled "the Fifteen Acres." An attorney of that city, in penning a challenge a short time ago, thbught, most lik2ely, he was drawivnz a lease, and invited his antagonist to meet hirm at " tl:e place called Fifteen Acres, be thesurae rnore or lest !" [Advcrusenient.l-W'e are requesteti bv Mr. Pope to state, that thc teath edition of his work jtst published, includes not only every alieration in the Duties, )ra wbacks, and Bounties of Cus- tomns and Escsie, but also every otlher new regulation (and there are tiany very important ones) sith regard to shipping, navirration, and commiierce, to Aurgust 1, 1824. -Moreover, lMIr. Pope asse-ts, that the bifbrmation contained in his book cannot be acquired from ariv other publication whatever. Published by Baldwin and Co., Pater_ noster-row. LAdvertisement.1-Ross anrl Soxs, 119, Bishopsgate-ttreet, who nave sold for the last 30 years pure and unadulterated Bs.A-'s G,nEAsE, obtaitmed fromn th-e ani:nal properiv treated and fatted (by which the coat, the criterion of the ruality of the fat, is in_ r-re sed to nearly dooible its osusalthicknea, aws well as being more agreeab.e for use), are induced to offer it to the public as the best sptcific hi herto discovered for promoting the growth and thickneess ot tae humian hair. In ordet to distingilih the genuine from the csamtny aznl unwholesome miade-uip trash which is frequently sold as bear's grease, it may be necessary to mention, that the fiat of the bear. whether wild or tan2e, is of the purest white, inclining to an oil, and in imioderate or warni weather dissolves instantly on being tounesrd by the hand.
To The Editor Of The Time...
The Times, 1824-10-14T00:00:00

1 ADVERTISEM?IE1T.1 Sir,-In consequence of the various paragraphs in most of last Sundav's journals, animadverting on the atFair with Miss Foote and Mr. Ifayne, I beg to be perrnitted, astheattorney of that gentlema, to intorm you,that the public will probably ere long be in pessesmion of facts in stead of &rpnrtC and miis-statemernts ; and that aithough Air. Mayne's p.lofessional advisers do not consider it poper that he should condescend to notice every extravagant and ridiculous statement which may appear in the public prints, it is aot from fear of his being able to cnswer them tO conviction, but because tha legal steps taken are the mest proper to secure a full developrm.erit of every transaction between the parties, by which their moives and acts will be judged. I am, Sir, Your obadient sErvrnf- W. A. CARTER. I xurmTIws-inn, Uct. 1J. I _ TO THE E DITOR OF TrH TIMES.
Shock Of An Earthquake.
The Times, 1824-12-13T00:00:00

[From the Hampshire Telq,raph.) l,ast Mponday, a few mintutes before two o'clock in the afternoons a shock of an earthquake was very generally felt in Portsmouth saln its neighbourhood, also at Hiavant, Einsworth, and Chichestern The sbock, although it was not accompanied by any report, put both light and heavy farnitture in a tremour for about four secods of time. The floors seemed to heave up a little, the windows in CORsequence shoak as they do by means of heavy gusts of wind ; and suspended articles, as birdcages, &c., oscillated some secohds after the shock had subsided. There was no unusual appearance in the state of thesky, or about thesun at the time-; bt during themorn. ing the sky had been filling with light clouds, and soon after the .hock a stratum of low electric clouds sprang up with the wind from the S.W.; and the upper stratutm changed from a gry to red and lake colours tsome time before the sun had set. If the shock was not caused by the fall of a mcteoritc upon L'IC earth, it probablJy was the efrect of the earth sinking somewhere in the southern part of Eng- land, in consequence of the great quantity of rain thuat has fillen during the last three months. It is now about twelve years since the last shock was felt here, which occurred in the night, and was more violent than this one. A smart shock of an earthquake. a(- comrpanled by a loud report, was also felt at Comrie, in Eertbshire, on the 8th of last August. - - (Jhichetatr, Den. 8. The earthquake here on Nonday was very alarming. Many flmiles ran eut of their houses In great trepidation; scveral people fdt the A chairs move from under thern. The bells rung In many bouses, and glasses jingled. In the market-house, apples were seen rolling off the stalle. At Aldwick and Bognor is was also very sensibly felt, as likewise in the parts adjacent. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. On Alonday afternoon, about two o'clock. the shock of an earthi qaake was very sensibly felt in the city of Chiicester, vvhich alarm.ed a considerable portion of its inhabitants, many of whom ran into the streets in the greatest consternation, under the impression that their dwellings were aciuaily faling. In several houses the bells were set a ringing end the window blirds unrolled; And one indi. vidual states, that he was sitting in a small room, and distinctly saw the walls move from south to north out of their perpendicular. and as instantaneously resume their position. The shock lasted from three to five seeond's. We have not heard that it was felt further in this direction than the vicinity of Arundel. -f1any persons imagine that there has been an earthquake in somne place abroad, as in the year 1812, a shock, but much slighter, was experienced in Chiches- ter, which at the time proved so destructive to property in the city of Caraccas (Wlest Indies.) SMOCK OF AN EARTHQUAtV.
Births
The Times, 1824-12-13T00:00:00

BIRTHS. On Thursday last, in Devonshire-place, the lady of WiN3. Clay, On Saturday last, in Bernard-street, the lady of Frederick The- siger, Esq., of a daughter. On Friday, thc Isdy of Dav.d Wilkinson, Esq., of New Broad- street, of a daughter. On the lh inst., in Br60k-street, Grosvenor-square, Mrs. Horace T-tt n{ , dAu rter.
Ship News.
The Times, 1824-08-30T00:00:00

On the 3d of August, in lat. 31.t &i. N.jong. IS. 30. W 4,t1e High,- land Lad, Vickerman, arrived in the l)owns, picked wp part of & lower matst and lower yard, much iLjured by fire; the rn'ast appnL; rently burnt offbvor near the *eck. rhe lower vard was fitted wvith patent iron slings, marked bh- patentee. Wells, of Boston. CoBFiU, July 21.-The Neaa.olitan paranrza Netituno, fromr Ithaca to iBrindisi, was boardeLd on the 14th inst. by a telucca unde& Greek colours. near the small is1and otf Merlere, to the N. XV. of Corfu. who plundered her of 2,000 dollars and some merchandise, besides maltrcating the captain and the crew, and detaining her two, days. It is said there are other suspicious sails ir, these seas. TwD ve;sels of war. an lonian schooner, and other armed vessels, are gane in search of themn. DOvEER, Aug. 27.-By advice from Boulogne, we iearn that the careo of the Jrno nad been saved. with little damage, and the ves- sel had received bo much injury it was necessary to condemrn ier, and she woul(d be soldl on the spot. UWHI rs}, Aug. 2ti.-The Harrison. of South Shields. arrved tirf this plaoc, yesterdav, leakv. Sne has taker on board additional hialds, and poceedeld for Londion. The schooner Y'ork Packet &r. rived this day, in balast, wvith considerable damage, havini been run fool of yesterday, off Bobin Hood's Bay, by the blig Na-cy, of London, a collher. AFMo U T Er, Aug. 2;.-A large galliot, supposed to be PrAs- sian. struck on Corton Sand last night, but got oft' with assistaCne. and proceeded on her voyagte. .S'!fII' NEWS.
cian as recent accounts w...
The Times, 1824-11-19T00:00:00

cian as recent accounts would make him. It is already notorious that the paper called the " South African Adver- tiser," wlhich Mr. Gat-EIG had conducted, was suppressed some time ago by official authority ; but late arriyals from the Cape inform us, that the noble Governor, indignant, no doubt, at being accuset of putting down) the liberty of the press, has enideavoured to swing clearof the odious in,yuta_ sion, by setting up another newspaper! SucI, however, is the distrustful and( censorious temper of mankind, that his Lordship has unfortunately failed of his purpose, in so far as cliaracter might be concerned. The " satirical rogues" have the malice to allege, that anl old Government printer of his Lordship's own choosing has been appointe(d to direct the mechanical part of the business, and that public money has been applied to this constitutional undertaking in support of " the liberty of the press." Then, for the name of the paper, a precedenit was found in the trick of a paltry fellow, who some years since had the impuadence to steal a title for his new catchpenniy prilnt fiom that of an eminent London journal, but whose miserable and well- merited fate ought to have beeni a warning to all swindlers to let their neighbours' goods aloine, and their neighbouts' fame unscan(lalized. In this new fraud the words " Smutth African" were filched from Mr. GaREG's title; and instead of " Advertiser," " Chronicle" was superadded.-." Tam " .ifericurio quamn Marti," says the sagacious manager of our colonial press.
Court Of Common Pleas, Mo...
The Times, 1824-12-07T00:00:00

The Lord Chief Justie BEST and a Special Juru were occupied for the whole of the day in trying an issue out of the Vice Chancery Court, inl the mnattcr of " Burrand v. Nerot ," but it was of nO in. terest whatsoever, save to the parties imniediately concerned. COURT OF CommCbvJ PT.&'AQ nf-.- t e
London, Thursday, August ...
The Times, 1824-08-12T00:00:00

The Paris papers received yesterday confirm the intel- Iigence griven in our last respecting the failure of the nego- tiation for the recognition of t'he irndependence of Hayti. ThedJeatrnal des Delgd.9, after quoting a letter from l-lavre, which states that the rupture oi the negotiatiolns had spread conmternatioei through that port, annd( anticipates, from that result, v ery disagrecable constrquences to the Frcncli traders in St. Domingo, adds the following notc :-" WVe are ae- sured that MM. ROUANNEZ andti LAIIOZF, thIe -laytian Cotnmrisioners, are on their return, and will embark iin two or three days for Port-au-Prince." The following is the state of the funms:- FRENCH FNDS.-PARIS. Aug. 9-Five per cents. opened at 100. 90.; closed at 101.; Bank Stock, 1,902. o.; Neapolitan 6 per eant, in ducats, 87k; Royal Spanish Loan, 57.; Exchange on Lon- don, one month, 25. 10.; three months, 24. 95--Cours duthen,tqe. L ()NDO.V. THE LUR W4 Y,AUGUSTp 12. 121
By the German papers, we ...
The Times, 1824-12-14T00:00:00

By the Germun papers, we find that some of the States of Germany arc emrployed in mutual bargainings for an abatement of these vexatious and pernicious duties which impede the transit of useful merchandise between neigh- bours the most favourably situated for an intercourse reci- procally advantageous. In a country so sub(tivided as Ger- many, it is difficult to imagine the anoyances experienced, particularly by the better classes of inhabitants, from the wrctched system of iniquisition and obstruction established on every point of the frontier, in even the most petty sove- reignty. The examples appear to have been set by the more powerful, and forced, in mnany instances, upon the, minorStates. It is naturally among these latter, also, that the mischief seems to have bcen most severely felt; or, at least, that wisdom enough has been discovered, to provide the necessary remedy. Wurtemberg and Bavaria are en. gaged in conferences on this interesting question; and Switzerland, a deep suffierer from the same evil, has become 2 party to their negotiations. As for Austria, we mlght as well expect to see sehools of political economy opened at ong the Abyssinians, the Esquimaux, or Caifres, as any improvement sanctionied by her in the existing relations between individuals, or in those betweeiu sov'ereign and suibject. Prussia, we believe, might be brought to reason witlh less difliculty thant the Leviathan of the Souith.
To The Editor Of The Time...
The Times, 1824-05-31T00:00:00

Sir,-Having th'b pleasure of being known to Mlr. O'Connell, and seeing the Misconception into which the Courier of this evening has fallen respecting him, in alluding to a speech which he latelydeliver.. ed at the CatholicAxsociation in Dublin, andin whirh hie hbreported to have said thiat"1 the Irish cannot be addicted to assassination, nince Dr. Alagee still lived ;" permit me to re_quest of you, to u.nde.. ceiverte ublic with regard to the matter, as J have now before me riFO ubi ae of Monday last, in whichi M5r. hadonbeen disreiortldediby the exprestion, stating that his speech had een nistportd byt )e uNin Correspondent, from whiceh paper, I presume, the Couirir has gathered its intelligence, and on which the editor has comimented withi so much unnecessary alarm. - -- ~~I remain. Sir. &c. &-c. ? riuay evening, ilIay !8. . G. L. A. TO THE EDITOR OF TIHE TllME&.