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The Times, 1824-11-09T00:00:00

His Majesty the Emnperor of Rlgssia arrived on the 18th of September at StacoropoI, in the governmeni of Semn- birsk, and thie ne4st morning, after inass, went to, the camnp of thte Calmucks, near the town, wvho received him in their kibitkas, surrounded by their flock;s, and all their baggage; His M'vajesty then embarked on the Wolga, and jDA the 20th arrivedI at Jamara. Whien he landed, the banks of the Wolgra were crowded with innumerable spectators from tlae town and neighbourhiood, who welcomed their Sovereign withi enthusiartie acclamations. The next day, in the after- noon, His Maesty continued his journey to Orepnbu,.rghi MN. (le Vargas, M'-inister from Spaias to, Rome, died on the 2z3d of October o.' a 1itAof apoplexy. M. le Che-. valier de Villena, his Secretary of Legation, became Charge d'Affaires. CORONATION OF TIHE KING oF FRANCE.-A COM- mission has been appointed, consistinig of the Archbisihop of Rheims, the Mtinister of the King's Household, andi the Baron de la Ferte, the Intendant of the M'e7se-s Plaivirs, to miake thle neecessary prepa- rations for his Maiesty's coronation. The latter lhas set ouit for Rheims.-C'on4ituti-ornel. The newv comedy to be acted to-night at Covent-garden theatre, called " Ae I Vroinat never Vext; or, the WVidowe of Corn- hill, is, we undersitand, altered anti adapted for the stage by Air. Planchet, freon a play written by William Rowley, in the reign of James I., called "' A ntete Wonder--e Woman nwver Vext."' A steam-packet of large diixnsnsions andl considerable power, fitted for conveyinig shbeep amd cattle from the northern coun- ties of Scotland to the 13dinb'irghi and Newcatle markets, is about to be establislied, under thle pateonage of a noble proprietor iin one of these counties. Tile aiivWantse whlichl the stock-farmers will de- rive fromn the establishment of this conveyance will be incalculaLble, as they can siend their sheep a-id cattle, in a faLt state, to mnarket, which hitherto was itnpoqsible for them..-C.aled4ndan Mercurv,. The Thtrluaem County' Advertiser gives the letter of a Dr. Marshall, claimifig the authorship of' the Ode on Sir John Moore, which rirst appeared in a London pa~per, and adds the folowing note:__" This Ii. Mlarshiall, M.D., is an eccentric bein%r, who re- -ides in this; city, where he is generally ktnown as' Veterinary Doctor Mlarshlall.' lie hias long been celebrated for hiis doggre'l rhymnes, bet we were not be-fore atware that lie baa ever wrote even a sitigle couiplet of poetry." A mnan namned Rlobert Cuirry arrivedI in WVhitehavcni list week, who was reported to have dlied tn America so-tie time so A sbsciptonhadbee enerd ito orhis supposed widow anid er famly;andat he imeof is nexeced return they were all in A sinularcircmstace ws exerienieetl off Selsea Bill, durig te nap f te he srin ties.A great part of the 1,edge, was isile romtheslee oftheLigt Sip,at the rocks termned the O werst and some of thie crew had leav toothither in a small boat. For a distancee the meni really walked dysod, and onle of whom brought ofl a flat whiite stone, now cor,et into a -head-stone for a chiild he had recently buried in Selsea churchyardl. Such a low tide was never reniembered to have been spoken of in the mentory of the oldest inhablitan t-Ifamnp.shire Chroniclee. SCILLY..-It is greatly, to be apprehetidcd thlat distress, amounting to the extreme of suffering, will shlortly he experienetti by numecrous faniilies on thec Offi-Islands of Scilly, through the Va. nious niuses which have s;o long combined to keep the nativesq poor. Adided to this, tlw~ hiave lately been called upon to pay p art of their aarrear of rent to thie Duike of Leeds, who-se term on thle island is now near expiring. To meet this emergency, miany of the people have been constrained to part with their only cow, and others to Bell thecir pigs, shecep corn, &c. Thnere is no employment to be had on. the isilands; and all barter;with passing vessels is annihilated by the ~ -,-rity nf the. ursors of the Plytepttvpe uTato,tit ar(t, some of whom appear to exercise their I brief authority" in a mnanner which it is hardly possible to imagine that a huntiane Legis. lature ever intend(edl to sanction.- West Britoni. ATTEM PT AT ASSASSI-N.5TION.-~The El oile of Saturday gives an account of two mnurderousi attempts. A domxestic of the namte of Verv, in the service of Al. de Gatigny. I~ntendant-Gcneral to the Duke of Bouirbon, was alarmed by hearing some one in the lhouse at a late hiour. This proved to he thie Sieur Fort, comptroller of hie Royal H'ighness's establishment. He desiredI to see Al. Gatigny, hut was told that that person, was in bedi, and could not then be spoken with. The domnestic was re6olute, and Fort, in con- sequence, attcked hnim, and repeatedly wounded him withi a razor. Al. Oatignly heard the noise which tliig occasioned, but was, called to by the- faithfuil servant not to open his door, as it was evidently intenided tomre im i igny call- ezd assistance, and the assaehin, after inflicting many wounds on the domestic, took to flight. It is not known what could induce Fort to act this crimninal part. Ile appears to have fled, and by means of a false tale to have proctired a disguise. Froml' Versailles lie wrote to his wife, that he was about to commit ruicide, and propoxed to bequeacth his fortune to the State. rThe pollee are in pursuit of hint. Very's wouinds are not likely to prove miortal. The oth er outrage was oti the l'larqtsis de .-.-.Having been to St. Denils to see t'he preparations for the interment of the late King. lie was benighted in a cross; road on his return. He was attacked by a band of ruiffians, robbed, covered withi wouinds, and left for dead. The Mlarquis, hiowever, inade shif-t to reaich a neaighbouringr town. There he obtainedi somie assistance, and was conveyed thence to Paris in one of the smnall conveyances which ply between St. Denis antI the c-apital, where lito arrivedl in a stats of perfect exhaustion. It is, hiowever, added, that nione of htis wounsis are dangerous. AssASt1INATION AT 'Vt NcE,,NNs--Tlae e-xamination re- la,tive to this circumstance is still going oii wit'h nctivity, andl is far fromi being finishedl. The following is the statemtent of Mladame M4alservait. " On October 10th, the dlay of the assassination, at half- past eight in tile morning-, a Mlr. F- caine to Mladame Alalser- 'ait, an d askedl her to accompany Iimn to the country, where he bad business. D)uring the time that -he made herself ready, Itorepaired to a neighbouring coftee-hiouse to breakfast, and shbe joined himn there. They set out at hnalf-past ten. A short distance before reaching the crossing ef the roads to 'Vincenneg and so St. II1 aude, Alr. I'-. said he would rejoin Madame Mfalservait in an hour in a coffee-house as Vincenner, that he pointed out, and left her, hie going towards St. Mautle. She cotitinued heir route slowrly, an after proceeding for somye minutes, sthe observedi a man was fol- lowing her verY Closely, anlid examininig her. She cotinClued liar route, and tlte man followed hier, and had not left her when she reached Vincetines. She went into a shop, thinking sihe should thus -cat-pe bu iews like her shadow, and rensained at a short dis- tanecntatyloin"thr She left tt'e shop atid went towards the wod, and did not then see thec man. P.uit sihe bad hardly em1- braced the two children, and proceeded a few steps, whien the sayne man cat-ne up and said so her, " Do you know these ehiildrenh? Why do you enibratce thlem ?" And he went away. This mran was Pa- pav'tlne. M5adlame AMalsenvAit is posiitive in reecognizing him. SALFORD SESssoNs.-loc i( AUCTrsONs.-RicbardI Poy- scr, Josephi Gartsitle, and Edward Yates, were charged 'With a con- spiracy to cheat asid defraud Thomas Percival of his rmoney, by In- dtlcing hiim to buy a mnetal Watch which they represented to be a goldl one. The partiCUlars Of this oase have already been befhit our read- era. Percival, the prosecuitor, they may recollect, on the 3d of Au- gust last, was passing up fihude-.hill along with his wife, when they entored the auctionl.rOOal of thle prisoner Poyser. The only persons in the room were the prisoner, witness's wife, anid himiself. Poyser was selling silk handkerchiiefs, and on his etntering the room, a lot was knocked down to one of thlem. A gold watch wast then p4t up, which was warranted Lo be the reelthing, and Percival talcing it to be a goldlen baTgain, bid g1. 35., and it was knocked dowvn to himi insaa,uter. The gold watch turning out so he not worth a farthing, a warrant was obtainedc, and the parties taken before the . magis- trates, as we beforo described. The jtury founiid all the prisioners guilty. The Chairman in passing senitence said, that tliecase was a very serious tone, and of great impottance to the public, particu- larly to the poor of Mlanchestpr. Thlese mock auctions had done more to defraud the loweir classes thanl any thing else. He was happy this prosecution had taken place, -and he hsoped it would have th'e eff'ect of putting downi mock auctions Eltogether. At the conclusion of th is adres he sentenced Poyser and Yates to -two years,' imnprl- .sonmens in Lancaster Castle, and Gartside, who was a pensioner, and in humble circst,nstautiees, and moreover a nmere servant, to Aix, 'months' imiprisonment in Mhanchester gaol. Poyser then shook Gartside -heartily by the hand, and withi Yates, left tbhe bar with much apparek ntdiffelrence.-.Mancheesler paper. RACK-TrTaM~.-Th5O exactioins of the clergy, seemn to keep paee wvith'tlhe advancing rates of huiman subsistence, and the increasing inability of the people to bear further burslsas. Within thiese few days a considecrable sensation has been exeitoel in this city, by the novel demand of tithe forfow'ls-a custoMt unprecedented here, and therefore considered by many to bo equally rapacioug and panjuat. Under the influence of this opinion, sorAe individuals, foreetting the "1hbly- aliance"' of church and state, aLnd conceiving thattlhe law wras on their side, had the temerity to resist.tbe iinusuial claim but the prompt decision of a lilagistrate Aoon convincead them of the futility (under the prersent happy ayteta)of any atteincit to dispute-whatare, *nldicrously enough, terme "clerical riglits,"-. VIheungracious offise of collecting this odious tribute has been undertaken by a man niamed Dodd, whose authority, however, was opposed. thaugh unsuecess- fully, by Isaac Howe, of Newtown, andl Gorge Diamire, of Ijewby, who, confiding in the rectitude of' their cause, and the usage of psst times, refused to piay shhq1 "heni-pennies ;" but on being summnoned before a justice, they wvere compelled to submit,. .nt only to the de- mand, but to costs also. 'We inxert tkis statenten't for1his informa- tion of those who might be ifnclined to resist this inew inti extrAtor- dinary impost of mother church, and thereby addl additional ex- penseg to the -sum claimed, the payment -of which, it appea-rs, can certainly be enforced; -bait with what pretensionis to eqisty, let the publie. detoxminsc.-Carli.4s Journal.- - .--