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ed to James Douglas and Thomas Greston for machines used in casting, pressing, and rolling sheets of lead.

LORD BYRON.-It appears that lord Byron's fame has penetrated across the Pyrenees. One of the last received Madrid papers observes" The Byron who said to the Greeks, Do not expect your liberty from the Franks,' is not the marshal de Biron, but an English lord, a man well known for his writings in prose and verse, and for his travels. Want of attention has caused the English lord to be confounded with the famous marshal of the Opera!" DISCOVERY SHIPS.-Letters, dated the 16th of July, have been received from the discovery ships, which were then at Resolution Island, in Hudson's Bay. They had met with some heavy icebergs, and considerable obstructions from the ice, which was then melting fast, but were past these inconveniences and pursuing their voyage of discovery up the inlet at the north of the bay. The officers and men were all in the highest health and spirits; well supplied with every kind of provisions and comforts, and delighted with the security and excellence of their ships.

15. Mary Ann Carlile, tried in July last at Guildhall, for publishing a libel, was this day brought up for judgment in the court of King's-bench. Mr. Justice Bayley pronounced sentence, as follows:-" That you, Mary Ann Carlile, do pay to the king a fine of 500l.; and that you be imprisoned in Dorchester gaol, for a period of twelve months; that at the expiration of that time, you do find sureties for your good behaviour

during five years, yourself in 1,000l. and two other persons in 100%. each.

16. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.As the civic procession with the address to his majesty was turning round the corner of Kingstreet, the horse on which Mr. Wontner, the city marshal, was mounted, took fright, reared, and threw him. Mr. Wontner retained the bridle in his hand, when the animal plunged forward at him as he lay, fell down upon him, and rolled over him, still plunging in the most frightful manner. When it rose, it plunged again at Wontner as he lay, being probably agitated at the sight of his scarlet uniform. Few of those who witnessed the scene conceived, that the marshal was still alive. He was immediately carried into a shop, and thence to his house in Aldgate, where sir William Blizard promptly arrived. One of his legs was broken in two places. The fractures were compound. His leg was amputated a little below the knee. His recovery was rapid.

17. ROME. The marquis Antaldo Antalde, and the advocate Tommaso Felici, appeared on the 31st of October last, before the chancery of the civil tribunal of the first instance at Pesaro, and there made a declaration, which is to the following effect :

"That, by an act of the 3rd of August last, dated at London, they have been named by the deceased Caroline Queen of England, her trustees (heritiers fiduciaires) for all the property which she possessed in Italy, with the obligation to apply it in the manner which she should herself direct by any act whatever signed by her hand.

"That the death of queen Caroline having taken place on the 7th of the same month, the will has been executed for the benefit of those who had a right to it.

"That having learnt that by a separate act, drawn up and signed in the presence of William Fox, and of Hattebs, notaries of London, who have preserved the minute of it, the said deceased queen of England has determined how the above-mentioned property is to be applied, paid, and employed, and the said sieurs marquis Antaldo Antalde, and the advocate Tommaso Felici, not seeing good to retain the quality given to them of trustees, or any other quality depending on the same, they do by this present declaration renounce the quality herein above specified; urgently

demanding that their declaration be received and brought to the knowledge of the public, by all possible means, and even by insertion in foreign journals, to serve as a guide to all those who may have any title or claim to the property left by the deceased queen.'

PRESENTATION CONVENT, GALWAY.-Miss Joyce, daughter of Walter Joyce, esq. of Mervieu, was received on Monday last amongst the pious and exemplary sisterhood of the Presentation convent.

At half past nine the "O gloriosa virginum" was sung from the higher choir, with the masterly accompaniment of select musical performers. The procession then began to move from the vestry, through the lower choir, to the chapel, in the following order :

The Thuriferers.

The Acolytes.

The Master of the Ceremonies, Rev. Mr. Daly.
The Sub-Deacon, Rev. Mr. Gill.
Deacon, Rev. Mr. O'Donnell.
The High Priest, Rev. Mr. Finn.
The Celebrant, Very Rev. Warden Ffrench.
And his Train-bearer.

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shalt leave thy people and thy father's house, for the king hath greatly desired thy beauty; and he is the Lord thy God."Psalm 47.

After mass the novice retired, whilst the clerical choir chanted in full tone, the psalm "In exitu Israel de Egypto," and at its conclusion, she appeared disrobed of her worldly habiliments, and vested in the simplicity of penance and retirement. In the different answers to the questions put to her by the Celebrant, she was clear and decisive, like one whose determination of embracing a life of religion and of chastity was that of long and conclusive reflection. The ceremony created a deep and general interest.

17. DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. -A person calling himself James Baines, had been lodging for nearly six months at the Ploughinn, in this town, kept by Mr. Blake. Baines was indebted 307. to the innkeeper, for board and lodging, and being pressed to settle his account, he made various excuses, and at length meditated to leave the island, without settling his bill; for which purpose he obtained a pass, on Saturday, the 10th, and occasionally from thence to the following Friday, left the inn under the pretence of dining from home. On the morning following, a pursuit took place, and Mr. Cleator, the chief constable of Douglas, accompanied by some of Mr. Blake's family, and other assistance, discovered him amongst the cliffs at Port Soderick, about twelve o'clock at noon; from thence to three he kept moving from one frightful cliff to another, when at length,

getting on a rock round which the flood-tide was rising, he sat down with much apparent composure. The chief constable, on observing his situation, sent for a boat, on the appearance of which Baines descended from the summit of the rock, and walked into the sea until it reached about his breast; at this crisis, Mr. Cleator, who was on the cliff above, called to him to return, and not risk his life: Baines returned to his former station, but on finding the boat was fast approaching, he rose up, waved his hat three times to the persons on the cliff, and immediately plunged into the sea. The boat was heavy, had but two oars, and those manned by ploughmen, it was, therefore, nearly twenty minutes before they got up with the unfortunate man, from whom the vital spark had then fled. The swell being great, the men inexperienced, and Baines a very weighty man, the persons in the boat were unable to get him on board, but towed him from the place where he was to the land, a distance of about 200 yards. What is remarkable, Baines never sunk, nor was he noticed to make any other exertion after he got into the water, but that of putting his hat down over his eyes.

19. KILKENNY.-A respectable farmer, named Edmond Shea, who resided within two miles of Ninemile-house, in the county of Tipperary, and near the borders of this county, felt himself obliged, in consequence of the undertenants and cotters of his farm having refused either to pay their rent in money, or to labour for him in its discharge, to dispossess them, and to bring labourers to dig his potatoes from a neigh

bouring village. On the night of Monday last, his house and offices were surrounded by an armed banditti, who set fire to both at the same moment. In the former were Shea, his wife, seven children, and three female servants; in the latter five la

bourers slept. Such of those unfortunate victims of brutal ferocity as attempted to escape from the flames, were fired at by those miscreants, and driven back into the blazing tenements. In short (for who can bear to dwell on any account so revolting to every feeling ofhumanity?), the whole of the seventeen inmates of this family were hurried into eternity.

21. Eight miserable convicts were executed at the Old Bailey: -Josiah Cadman, Edmund Sparrow, and Thomas Tapley, for uttering forged 51. notes; George Ellis, for uttering a forged 10%. note; William Garton, for stealing in a dwelling-house; George Smith, for robbing on the highway; William Harding, for stealing six sheep; Isaac Cobelia, for robbing on the high

way.

At half-past seven the two sheriffs, accompanied by the under sheriffs, &c. proceeded to the cells, where, after the sacrament had been administered, the irons of the convicts were knocked off, and their hands and arms bound. During this process they were supported by the sheriff's chaplain. Harding (an old man) trembled exceedingly, and a cold sweat burst forth on his countenance, when he looked down upon the hammer, and the block on which the irons were removed.

Cadman was called out first, and ascended the scaffold with

composure. When the rope was placed round his neck, he addressed the spectators with much firmness and deliberation. As nearly as his expressions could be collected, they were these:

"Friends and fellow-countrymen ;-It is with the agonized feelings of a husband who has brought his wife into the same disgrace with himself that I now address you. I have drawn down upon myself the sentence of the law; to that I bow. Let it be told to my king, to my sovereign, that I revere him in his situation as a king; and may the scene which is now before you keep you all from an evil so dangerous, and a temptation so powerful, as that to which I now fall a sacrifice."

At the conclusion of these words, the people who were near the scaffold exclaimed with vehemence, "God bless you! God bless you!"

After a pause of a few minutes, and when the last man (Cobelia) was brought out, Cadman again addressed the people-"Tell the world that I die in peace with all men. I love my wife-I love my king-I love my country-I love my God." These were his last words. Every thing being now arranged, the drop fell, while the ordinary was in prayer; and these unhappy men were launched, almost all of them without any apparent struggle, into eternity. After hanging an hour they were taken down, and their bodies given to their friends for burial.

Cadman had for a considerable period been engaged with his wife in the unlawful pursuit for which he suffered. They sold forged notes to the utterers, who

paid them 7s. for a forged 17. note, and 30s. for a forged 51. note; and several persons have been convicted who were their instruments in putting off the false paper. Distress it was, in the first instance, that caused Cadman to join the keeper of a coffee-house in Drury-lane, in dealing by wholesale in the dangerous traffic; and, on his being taken into custody, he offered to impeach all who had been connected with him, if he were allowed to plead guilty to the minor offence. The Bank took his case into consideration, but having clear proof of the extensive guilt of the prisoner, they could not, in justice to others, suffer the most guilty to escape. No hopes were ever held out to him, that mercy would be extended towards him.

22. COURT OF CHANCERY.The Attorney General v. the Skinners' Company. The lord chancellor gave judgment in this case. It came before him in the shape of an appeal from the vice-chancellor; and it originally was an information by the attorney-general, as to the conduct of the Skinners' company, with respect to some property left by sir A. Judd, to endow a free grammar school at Tonbridge, in Kent. His lordship went through the whole of the pleadings on both sides, by which it appeared, that sir A. Judd, an alderman of London, had, by a sort of testamentary deed, given previously to the year 1554 the sum of 30%. per annum, arising out of two estates; one in the parish of Allhallows, Gracechurch-street, and the other in the parish of St. Pancras, Middlesex, for the payment of 201. a year to a master, 81. a

year to an usher, and 27. a year for the reparation of his grammar-school at Tonbridge, in Kent. This was bequeathed, if it could be called a testamentary deed, to the master and wardens of the Skinners' company, to be by them applied for the purposes before mentioned. There were also other estates purchased by the money of Judd, but left in his name and that of one Thomas Fisher, for the maintenance of some alms-houses. All this property had, in 250 years, augmented so much in value as to be worth several thousands a year. The vice-chancellor had declared, that an account should be taken of all the messuages, lands, tenements, hereditaments and premises, and of the rents, profits, and issues, arising from the same, with the nature of their application by the Skinners' company, bequeathed to them by sir A. Judd, in trust, for the maintenance of the school at Tonbridge. Lord Eldon said that he should no further disturb that decree, than by introducing some words, in order to leave the question open, whether the will of sir A. Judd was valid or not.

QUEBEC.-Four hundred and twenty vessels arrived here this season, with 8,050 settlers.

23. AMERICAN LAW CASE.State of Maryland v. Jos. Thompson.-Indictment for the murder of Miss Ann Maria Hamilton.

This important and interesting case came on for trial in Baltimore city court. The facts disclosed in evidence were the following:

The prisoner had boarded for four or five years in the house of the father of Miss Hamilton: during this time he had become ardently attached to the

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