there appears to be ears of wheat, some of them upright, and others with the stems broken, hanging down in disorder.

26. SECONDARIES'-OFFICE. Stephens v. Brogden. This was an inquiry to assess damages, the defendant having suffered judgment by default. The damages were laid at 1,000l.

Mr. C. Phillips stated the case. The plaintiff, Mr. Stephens, is a jeweller, living in Castle-street, Holborn. Mr. Brogden, the defendant, is also a jeweller, living in Bridgewater-square, Barbican. It happened, that, some time since, information was given to the master goldsmiths, that the jewellers were in the habit of selling mourning rings without the Hall stamp, by which means they avoided the payment of a fee that is charged on affixing the stamp at the hall. The master goldsmiths, in consequence of this information, summoned a court of warders to take the subject into consideration. The jewellers were alarmed, as they had great numbers of these unstamped rings on hand; and they called a meeting on the 31st of May, to consider how they should act. This meeting was respectably attended, and Mr. Stephens was present. A Mr. M'Gregor, asked who gave the information to the master goldsmiths. A person who stood near Mr. Stephens replied Brogden. A friend of Mr. Brogden's said, "Whom does he say ?" Mr. Stephens answered Brogden. The next day Mr. Stephens received a note from Mr. Brogden: they were acquainted, and were both creditors of a person who was then insolvent. The note was as follows:-" Bridgewatersquare, June 1st. J. Brogden's

compliments to Mr. Stephens, will feel obliged by his calling on him at Bridgewater-square, on business equally important to both, before four o'clock to-day, or tomorrow morning." Mr. Stephens immediately went to Mr. Brogden's house, where he found him in his counting-house, a clerk, and the porter who had brought the note, being present. On Mr. Stephens's entrance, Mr. Brogden sent the porter out, and after shutting the door, went into an inner room, from which he instantly returned with a large whip in his hand. He addressed Mr. Stephens, saying, " And so, Mr. Stephens, you called me an informer before 18 persons last night;" and without waiting for any reply, he struck Mr. Stephens over the eyes with the handle of the whip, in a manner that caused his blood to gush out and stain the silver articles that lay on a counter in the room: he continued beating Mr. Stephens about the head with the whip, till he broke it; and even then, not content, he seized the larger part of the handle and continued to beat Mr. Stephens, till the clerk, who was present, interfered to save his life. Mr. Stephens offered no resistance; he had a complaint in his eyes, and the first blow he received rendered him incapable of making any defence. Soon after the clerk had succeeded in saving Mr. Stephens's life, a Mr. Taylor came into the counting-house, and on expressing his amazement at what he saw, Mr. Brogden said-" If I am deceived, I never can make him amends." But should not a man of mature age and of sound mind have made inquiry, before he ventured upon such a violent

attack on his fellow-citizen. Mr. Stephens was taken home in a coach; his life was for some time considered by his surgeon in the most imminent danger, and even then his recovery was doubtful. If the plaintiff sought for compen sation for his personal sufferings, and his pecuniary loss, which, from being unable to attend to his business, must be considerable, the jury would feel he had an irresistible claim; but Mr. Stephens had much higher claims: he was a most respectable citizen, deservedly esteemed by all to whom he was known; he possessed honour, and feeling, and sensibility-these had all been deeply wounded; he was a husband and a father, and had seen the dearest objects of his affection weeping round his bed in all the agony of anticipated widowhood and orphanage. For these wounds of the heart the jury were now called on to make him the very inadequate satisfaction that damages could give.

Mr. Taylor stated, that he knows plaintiff and defendant. Went to defendant's counting-house on the 1st of June. As soon as he entered, Mr. Stephens exclaimed

"Oh! Mr. Taylor," and pointing to a whip that lay broke on the floor, proceeded to tell him that the defendant had violently beat him, at the same time putting the defendant's note, inviting him to call on him, into the witness's hand. Mr. Stephens's face was cut, and there was blood on some plate that lay on the counter. Mr. Brogden put a letter into the witness's hand, and desired him to look at that, and he would judge of his feelings. Witness followed Mr. Brogden up stairs,

and on coming down said to Mr. Stephens, that if Mr. Brogden was wrong he would make reparation. Mr. Brogden had authorized him to say so. Mr. Stephens denied having used any expression against Mr. Brogden, and men tioned several persons, who could prove it. Mr. Stephens's head appeared to have been washed, and he went away in a coach.

Mr. Beveridge stated, that he is a surgeon, and attended Mr. Stephens on the 1st of June and about a month after: he had inflammation of the eyes, a violent contusion in the temple, and a laceration of the scalp: his life was in imminent danger: inflammation still continues, and he should not be surprised if fatal symptoms should even yet take place he had seen death ensue from less violence.

The plaintiff's case closed here. Mr. Wilkes, for the defendant, conjured the jury to judge by what had been proved, not by what had been stated. The defendant's clerk had been present from the beginning, and he was not called.

Some of the jury asked whether Mr. Wilkes would produce any evidence to disprove the evidence they had heard.

Mr. Wilkes declined to produce any.

The secondary summed up the evidence, telling the jury that if the defendant's clerk, who was present at the beginning of the assault, could state any thing in mitigation, it lay in the defendant to produce him.

The jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict — Damages, 8001.

were covered by it. On the 2nd the rain was so abundant, that the arm of the lava reaching to the sea was extinguished, and on the 4th it could be passed without much danger.

"I am told that at this moment the second arm of the lava has reached the high road on a base double the breadth of the former, or 60 poles, and that the third is 200.

Having long resided in Naples and Sicily, I have ascertained, that the lava produced by the volcano of Bourbon does not at all resemble that produced by Vesuvius and Etna: the lava of the two latter volcanos is compact, hard, and not porous, and will take a polish finer than marble. The lava of Bourbon is a species of scoria, of a black colour, and presents the aspect of iron dross. (Signed)

"The Mayor of St. Roze, "PREYNE DE BALLERGUE." "St. Rose, April 9."

2. THE QUEEN." Her Majesty has an obstruction of the bowels attended with inflammation; the symptoms, though mitigated, are not removed.

"W. G. MATON. "PELHAM WARREN. " HENRY HOLLAND." "Brandenburgh-house, Aug. 2, half-past ten p. m."

This was the first bulletin, which announced that her Majesty was indisposed.

7. Early in last week her Majesty felt herself greatly indisposed, in consequence of having taken a very large dose of magnesia, which was supposed to have created an obstruction in the bowels, which was followed by inflammatory symptoms. On

Thursday last she was attended by three physicians, Dr. Maton, Dr. Warren, and Dr. Holland. In the course of that day, her Majesty was copiously bled; she passed a quiet night, but her symptoms remained the same. The following day she was immersed for about a quarter of an hour in a warm bath, which moderated the pain, but in other respects was unavailing. Connected with the inflammation of the bowels was a nausea at the stomach, which repelled both food and medicine. Another physician, Dr. Ainslie, was now called in; and her Majesty's legal advisers, most of whom were on the point of setting off for their different circuits, also attended for the arrangement of her property and other legal matters; and it is understood that her will was then drawn up. She passed an indifferent night, but towards the morning of Saturday obtained some tranquil sleep, and in the course of the day was able to keep some gruel on her stomach. She slept great part of this day, which induced some observers to believe, that an inward mortification had commenced. She, however, continued tolerably easy, and passed that night better than the preceding one; but Sunday produced no apparent change in her symptoms. In the course of this day, Dr. Baillie was sent for by express from Gloucestershire. During the night of Sunday she had some relief, and, for the first time, hopes began to be entertained that she had passed the crisis of her disorder. In the morning of Monday, her state was certainly more favourable than it had been. At half-past two o'clock on that day Dr. Baillie

arrived, and immediately held a consultation with the four other physicians. Her Majesty had been bled with leeches, and found herself able to retain on her stomach a little arrow-root, and some medicine; she had also, at her own request, been raised from her bed, and was seated in an arm-chair when she was first seen by Dr. Baillie. From these and other circumstances, the medical gentlemen viewed the case in a more favourable light than they had before done, but hesitated to pronounce the Queen out of danger; though, as was natural, the hopes of her domestics, and others personally interested in her recovery, outstripped the caution of the physicians. Still her Majesty was extremely weak and feeble from her long and acute sufferings, and the small portion of sustenance that she had been able to take: and when she spoke (which she did relative to the disposal of her property and other matters), she was very faint, and felt it necessary to be revived from time to time by a smelling bottle. On Tuesday morning (the 7th) it was evident her Majesty, after a sleepless night, had suffered a relapse, or rather that the favourable appearances of the day had been merely delusive. The primary cause of suffering had, in fact, been permitted to go too far, before medical advice was resorted to; and the disorder was, therefore, much beyond the power of medicine when it was first attempted to be relieved. At this time the Queen herself gave up all hope, and declared she could not survive the day. About noon she complained of violent pains in the abdomen, which were shortly followed by

convulsions; a strong opiate medicine was now administered, which allayed the pain for a moment, and produced for an hour or two a disposition to doze. About three o'clock the pains returned, attended with the most alarming symptoms. Every means, that skill and attention could devise, were now employed by the physicians; but it was all in vain. About four o'clock her Majesty became rapidly worse; her respiration grew difficult; about eight, she sunk into a state of entire stupor, and, having lain for two hours and twenty-five minutes in that state, at length breathed her last.

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CEREMONIAL OF THE PROCESSION FOR CONDUCTING HER MAJESTY'S REMAINS TO HARWICH.-"The remains of her late Majesty will be privately removed from Brandenburgh-house Tuesday morning, at 7 o'clock, in a hearse decorated with ten escutcheons, and drawn by eight horses, preceded by the knight marshal's men on horseback, with black staves, and followed by the carriages of her late Majesty, each drawn by six horses, conveying the chamberlain, the ladies of the bed-chamber, and others of her late Majesty's establishment.

"The whole will be escorted by a guard consisting of a squadron of the royal regiment of Horse Guards, with a standard, which will be relieved at Romford by a like guard of the 4th Light Dragoons; and similar reliefs will take place at Chelmsford and Colchester.

"Upon the arrival of the procession at Chelmsford, the remains of her late Majesty will be placed in the church under a military guard during the night.