lady is possessed of a fortune of 50,0001. and a Ward of Chancery, where the affair is to be investigated at the instance of the young lady's mother.

Eaton, the Blackheath Pedestrian, successfully finished his task of 1100 miles in 1100 hours on Saturday, July 20, amidst a great concourse of spectators.

The warehouse of Royds and Brockbank, wholesale woollen-drapers, Bucklersbury, broke open and robbed of broad cloths, va lue one hundred pounds, on the 11th instant a neighbour saw the thieves loading away the goods about six in the morning, but suspected nothing wrong, one of the gang acting as clerk, with a book in his hand and pen and ink, as if marking off the numbers of the pieces of cloth as they were put into the

cart.

The Diet of Norway closed on the 6th of July by Bernadotte, the Crown Prince, who was accompanied on the occasion by his son Oscar, the intended future Sovereign of Sweden.

The Lord Mayor & Lady Mayores, with the Sheriffs, Aldermen, and City Officers, arrive ed at Rochester on Wednesday evening; a public breakfast given by his Lordship next day at the Crown Inn, and the same day a dinner to the Mayor and Corporation of Rochester, Duke of Sussex, Earl Darnley, Lord Clifton, the Members for Rochester, Admiral Rowley, General Winter, and Sir J. Brown; Captains Sir J. Gordon, W. Hoste, J. Louis, R. N. &c. ; a ball and supper at the Assembly Rooms in the evening; the Lord Mayor and party went next day to Cobham Hall, to the Earl of Darnley, to meet the Duke of Sussex and a large party, to whom Lord Darnley gave a public breakfast; the Lord Mayor afterwards returned th London.

The Magistrates at the late Cambridge "Quarter Sessions, voted their unanimous thanks to the Rev. Sir H. B. Dudley, Bart. for his firm and judicious conduct during the late riots in Ely.

Most melancholy and distressing accounts received of the situation of the labouring classes in Staffordshire, thrown out of employ by the decline of the coal and iron trades; 717 families, in the township of Bilston alone, without food, excepting what is given by the hand of charity!-in five parishes alone 15,000 out of employment!though reduced to starvation, they are yet patient and honest, in the midst of their sufferings.

British fine cloths are said to be so scarce and dear at New York, that a coat costs ten guineas in that city!

British goods, value six millions, now ly. ing at Jamaica in want of a market, owing to the success of Morillo on the Spanish Main.

Paris papers describe the wheat crops in France as very promising.

The harvest is very abundant on the northern shore of the Black Sea, so that numbers of vessels have arrived at Malta, looking out for markets for their cargoes of grain.

The parish officers of Christchurch, Surrey, held a Vestry on Thursday, Aug. 1, and amended their poor-rate, by assessing Rowland Hill's Chapel at 6751, pursuant to a decision at the Guildford Sessions ;-Rowland Hill states in a pamphlet, that the law expenses incurred by him and the parish offcers in the contest with Mr. Farquharson, will be defrayed by the Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty.

Vauxhall Bridge opened for carriages.

"Windsor Castle, Aug. 3, 1816. "His Majesty has enjoyed good bodily health, and has in general been very tran quil during the last month, but there is no change in his Majesty's disorder.-HENRY HALFORD, M. BAILLIE, W. HEBERDEN, J. WILLIS, R. WILLIS.”

Barnet, the Essex pedestrian, finished his wonderful task of walking 1000 miles at the rate of a mile and a half an hour, in the midst of a very considerable crowd, who escorted him off the ground with lond hazzas: considering his advanced age, 72 years, and that he walked half a mile more in each hour than any of his predecessors, it must be allowed to be an extraordinary undertaking.

Private letters from Paris state that the deficit in the French finances is three millions sterling; in consequence of this deficit, it is said, that as soon as the legislative bodies meet in October, some address will be moved to the King, to intercede with the Allied Powers to withdraw or diminish the number of foreign troops, and to prolong the period of paying the tribute.

The master, mates, passengers, and crew, 17 in all, of the late brigantine the Surprise, of Glasgow, wrecked off the west coast of Barbary, and made captives by the Moors in December last, have been redeemed from slavery by the Ironmonger's company; the ransom money was 5000 dollars, exclusively of other expenses.

The Secretary of State for the Home De partment, in order to effect a more complete investigation of the conspiracy, which hai occupied so much of the public attention, has determined to bring it immediately under his own eye. His Lordship has, therefore, appointed a commission of Magistrates, presided by the Under-Secretary of State, for the Home Department.

Brock, whose name must be fresh in the recollection of our readers as an accomplice with Vaughan, the Bow-street Officer, on Aug. 8, made his escape from an upper window in front of Giltspur-street Comp. ter. He was observed descending by a butcher's boy, who immediately rang the alarm bell at the prison door, when his flight was immediately made known to the keeper,

massacre

the Ultra-Royalists incited against them at Marseilles, where they had orders to repair, are said to have materially contributed to the fury of the Barbary Powers against the Christians of Europe.

A letter from Madrid, of July 22, states the assassination of a King's messenger :"I have just heard that the King's messenger, Mr. Lisle, who has been here about five weeks, was assassinated yesterday in the Retira; you may depend upon the fact; he was buried this evening in the garden of the Recoletas; for, to the shame of our government, there is no burial place for Protes tants. I have just seen an Englishman who has been at his funeral.

On Wednesday, Aug. 7, Mr. Graves, aged 21, landlord of the Lamb-tavern, Bullstreet, Birmingham, undertook, for a wager of 201., to go from that place to Walsall and back in three hours, being altogether a distance of 18 miles. On his return, and when about three miles short of completing his task, and within 35 minutes of the time allowed, he was unable to proceed any further. He was immediately conveyed to the Handsworth tavern, and medical aid was obtained, but without effect: he died on Thursday morning at nine o'clock.

Lately, Charles Fludder, aged 71, in greasing the cogs of the logwood-mill, belonging to Mr. Ansel, at Carshalton, and which was necessary to be done while the mill was going, his sinock-frock caught some of the works; he was in consequence drawn in amongst them, and was literally ground flat, first his head, then his shoulders, and so on his whole body was spread like a cake. The deceased had worked fifty years in the same mill, and for the same family, He has left a widow and twelve children, five of them are not able to help them

selves.

Blackwell Hall, which occupies the space from Guildhall-yard to Basinghall-street, is shartly to be pulled down, and upon the scite the Corporation of London intend to erect a number of handsome mercantile residences and extensive warehouses; the tenants of the adjacent houses, which are the property of the City, have all received notice to quit: the hall has long been in a delapidated state, though partially used as warehouses,

An auctioneer of Bond-street submitted for sale by public auction, upwards of 300 original manuscript letters of John the Great Duke of Marlborough, chiefly addressed to the then Secretary of Stave, Sir Charles Hedges, and many of them con

Europ. Mag. Vol. LXX. Aug. 1816.

taining matter of very considerable interest. These letters, together with three notes of her Majesty Queen Anne, to her favourite Secretary, were sold for 570 guineas.

A short time since it was announced that Sir Eyre Coote had been deprived of his rank in the army; and, last week, in consequence of an order from the Herald's-office, the proper officers proceeded to the stall in Westminster Abbey, where his insignia of the Order of the Bath were deposited; and from that place they threw down his banner, kicked it away, and degraded him from the honour which had been conferred on him. The cause of this proceeding is reported to be the commission, by Sir Eyre Coote, of an offence of a peculiar nature.

It is stated that the Duke of Bedford, at his audit last week, reduced the rents of his tenants from 10 to 25 per cent, according to the quality of the land they occupied, and held out an assurance that his Grace had expressed an intention of adopting the same liberal deduction from his rack-rented estates in London, particularly Coventgarden, most of which leases have been renewed since the imposition of the Income Tax, and the rents, consequently, advanced in many instances to double and treble their preceding rents.

Monday Aug. 12, being the day when the Prince Regent commenced his 55th year, it was celebrated with the same demonstrations of rejoicings as the King's birth-day, except that there was no drawing room. The morning was ushered in with ringing of bells, and flags were hoisted from the church steeples and public buildings. At one o'clock the park guns fired a double royal salute; and just as the last gun was going off, a man, who was stationed for the purpose, knocked off the temporary inclosure from the large mortar. The following is a description of this immense instrument of destruction, and of the circumstances relating to its transmission to England:-During the war in the Peninsula, the city of Cadiz was bombarded from a distance previously supposed to be beyond the range of projectiles--a circumstance which attached so much consequence to the ordnance employed and left by Marshal Soult on his retreat, as to induce the Spanish Regency to send one of the mortars to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, intrusting it to the care of the Hon. Rear Admiral Legge, who was instructed by the President, the Duke del Infantado, to request it might be placed in one of the royal parks, His Royal Highness was pleased to accede to this request, and directed the mortar to be suitably placed on the parade of the Horse guards, to record the glorious victory gained at Salamanca, the consequent liberation of the south of Spain, and in honour of the Duke of Wellington, to whom hoth countries were indebted for it. His Royal Highness com manded the Earl of Mulgrave to direct a A a

carriage to be prepared for the purpose, which has been made in the royal carriage department at Woolwich,

DESCRIPTION OF THE CARRIAGE.

An emblem has been selected (in allegorical allusion to the means by which the siege of Cadiz was terminated) from the Jabours of Hercules, who destroyed the monster Geryon, the tyrant of the isle of Gades, thus figuratively describing the raising of the siege, and to illustrate the fanie of the hero who had broken the enchantment of the modern Geryon. Some liberties have been taken with the principal figure, in substituting wings for the heads; the tail twists round to the vent, in order to convey the scorpion fire. The heads of the tyrant's guardian dog are represented in the alterDate state of activity and repose, to denote eternal watchfulness. The mortar is left as it was found, being mounted on its carriage at an elevation of 45 degrees, upon a bed of brass, representing a rock on which the monster has alighted.

Dimensions-length of the bed, 9 ft. 2 in. -breadth of ditto, 4 ft. 6 inches-general height, 9 ft. 10 in.-Weight of the whole, 16 tons.

INSCRIPTIONS ON THE SIDES OF THE BED. Devictis a Wellington Duce prope Salamancam Gallis

Solutaque exinde Gadium Obsidione hanc quam Aspicitis

Basi superimpositam Bombardam, vipræditam adhuc inaudita

Ad Urbem portumque Gaditanum Destruendum Conflatam,

Et a Copiis Turbatis, Relictam, Cortes Hispanici, pristinorum haud-quaquam Beneficiorum Obliti summæ venerationis Testimonio donavernnt Georgio, Illus. Brit. Princ.

Qui in perpetuam Rei memoriam hoc loco ponendam, et his

Ornamentis Decoram Jussit.

To Commemorate

The raising of the Siege of Cadiz, in consequence of the

Glorions Victory obtained by the

Duke of Wellington

The Committee of the Association for the Relief and Benefit of the Manufacturing and Labouring Poor, have already extended relief to those of Spitalfields. Hinchley, Bilston, Bolton le Moors, Stockton, Dudley, Tipton, Dauldston, Wednesbury, West Broomwich, Rouby-Regis, Kingswinford, Sudbury, Bridport, and Stockport. They have also voted considerable sums for the relief of distressed parts in Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, and Buckinghamshire.

The plan of preparing Cumberlandhouse, Pall-mall, for her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales and the Prince of Coburg, has been abandoned, on account of the expense; they have accepted the apartments in Kensington palace, lately occupied by the Princess of Wales, to which will be annexed those of the Duke of Kent, during his Royal Highness's absence on the continent.

Advices from Buenos Ayres, to the 1st of June, state, that as fast as British vessels arrive out, the seamen desert, and enter on board privateers under Buenos Ayres coJours, but which are supposed to be Ameri They offer no insult to such British vessels as they fall in with, but they capture all Spanish vessels, as enemies of Buenos Ayres.

By a letter from Brighton, of the 21st, we learn the melancholy account of the death of Captain Partridge, of the Nancy packet; she sailed from that port on Saturday, Aug. 17, and arrived off Dieppe; about 20 French custom-hou-e officers came off to her on Monday morning at four o'clock, and desired the captain to bring-to、 bet immediately complying, they fired into the boat, and wounded Captain Partridge, one shot went through his body, and the other ́entered his neck; he languished two pours, and died in great agony, leaving a wifs and ten children to deplore this melancholy catastrophe.

Papers and letters from Paris, dated Aug. 21, have been received, states that the Duke of Wellington arrived on Tuesday in that city.

The trial of General Lallemand, the elder, has taken place, for having quitted

One of the private letters from Paris contains the following statement:-" Three days ago the police did not allow the Quotidians of the day to be sent by the post into the country. This is a common way of panishing a newspaper which inserts articles displeasing to authority; but, besides, in this instance, they have attempted to levy a fine, or at least to make the paper pay 10,000 francs. The proprietor, M. Michaud, who is a member of the House of Deputies, refuses to submit to this exaction: he tells them that he recognises their power of suppressing his journal if they please, but he den es their having any right to extort money from him: he says, with truth, that if he pays this sum to day, there is no reason why, for some pretended fault, 100.000 francs should not be demanded to-morrow, in the same arbitrary manner. It is supposed that this matter will be brought, in some shape, before the House of Deputies when they meet."

The French funds continue low, but steady. Their depression has been falsely attributed to the disturbances at Strasburg, Nantes, and elsewhere. The fact is, that the government has it in its power, without the intervention of the legislature, to create new stock to any extent it pleases; and the fall is usually to be attributed to a large creation of this stock, which pours a quantity on the market, that the monied interest is unable to sustain.

Advices reached town, Aug. 22, from Rio Janeiro to the 8th of June; and it is with pleasure we state, after the long uncer-, tainty as to intelligence from that quarter, that we have at length authentic particulars, on the accuracy of which we can confidently rely. Almost the whole attention of the cabinet of Rio Janeiro has been directed to fitting out the armament for the south, and it was preparing to sail on the very day of the date of our information. It consisted of several ships of war and transports, with 4000 troops on board, and 2000 more were to be embarked from the island of Santa Catharina. With this united body the squadron was to proceed to Maldonado and Monte Video, where detachments of the trooops were to be landed, and of which possession was to be taken in the name of the King of Spain. It was apprehended, that before the arrival of the Portuguese the patriots would take the precaution of destroying the fortifications of the place; and that that of Monte Video, which had on a former occasion received considerable damage, would be converted into a heap of rains. Although the two fortresses already stated were to be occupied at first in the name of the Spanish court, in order not to shock the free sentiments of the insurgent party by those alienations of stock and soil with which we have lately been so familiar in Europe, it was perfectly known at the capital of the Brazils, that the whole of

the left bank of the western course of the Rio de la Plata had been reluctantly surrendered by the court of Madrid to the ambition of the house of Braganza, on the condition of the assistance now afforded, and on which was calculated, as the quoti ent, the entire reduction of the remainder of the viceroyalty of Buenos Ayres under the secure dominion of the Spanish crown.Whatever might be the opinion of the Portuguese cabinet on this subject, very different were the expectations of the military; and not an officer employed in the service believed that it would be attended with any favourable result. The Portuguese army has already been diminished very consider. ably by desertion, and it was assumed that the independent party of Buenos Ayres, supported by Artigas and his numerous ir egular cavalry, would maintain a desultory but destructive warfare, never allowing of any general or decisive action; and that thus the forces now sent would be frittered away, until they were no longer in an efficient state for any enterprize worthy the expectation entertained from such magnificent preparations.

The letters from Holland by the last mail are to the 21st of August. They express great surprise at the fall of the English funds, and they inquire the cause, particu larly as the funds of Holland have declined purely in consequence of the reduction of the English stocks. The answer to be given by the first post is, that there is no cause but the rage of speculation, and the consequent interchange among the dealers.

The Dutch papers contradict a report that several foreign officers, who lately emigrated from Europe, had been received into the American service-such a report needed no contradiction. There is not a more confident man in existence at the present moment than an American Admiral or an Ame rican General. All the aspirations of an infant and prosperous country favours this presumptuous feeling. It is the genuine and generous ambition of youth, before its spirit has been chilled by corruption, or its energies paralyzed by the decrepitude of old age.

America is now Hercules in his cradle. The old accoucheurs of the French Revolution cannot assist his growth, and are too late to facilitate his birth. In fact, there is not now a naval or military officer in the United States who does not think he could act his part as well as any European Admiral or General of them all, and who would not think himself very ill used if any foreigner, however great his fame in arms, was put over his head.

Advices from St. Domingo of the 27th of June, mention the arrival, at Cape Henry, of the American schooner Firebrand, with despatches from Governor Claiborn, of New Orleans, demanding the liberation of Citizen Duplesis, who was confined in that island. It appears that Christophe continues to treat

foreigners, and particularly those from the United States, with great disrespect. We should not be surprised if at least equal disrespect were shewn to the British, as the principal agent of his government is a Frenchman.

The late gale in the Gulph of Florida has done considerable damage to the Spanish, as well as to the British and American trade. We have received accounts also from Trinidad to the middle of June, which state that a storm had been experienced there from the 3d to the 6th of that month, during which time fourteen sail of Spanish and English vessels were driven on shore; and several of them, to use the words of our correspondent, 66 were left high and dry after the gale."

The PATENT TWINE CLOTH, sold at Mr. MILLARD'S in Cheapside, (vide advertisement on the 8th page of the Intelligencer), is found to excel every other de. scription of cloth yet manufactured in any part of the globe; it surpasses the linens of Germany, in beauty and cheapness; it surpasses those of Ireland and Scotland in the same degree, and in addition to which is its peculiar advantage of being much more healthful to wear, il naturally promoting the health of the wearer; it surpasses the longcloths of India manufacture, in fineness, durability, and economy, and does the highest honor to the perseverance and inventive genius of this country; and no family should be without it, nor individual who travels,

LATELY, at Bermondsey Church, Mr.

J. Jones (Glan y Gors), the celebrated Welch bard, to Miss Mundel, late of White. haven, Cumberland..

Lately, by the Rev. Mr. Trenot, of Bradwell, Suffolk, John Penrice, Esq. of North Yarmouth, to Miss Jarrah, of Hobling Hall, Suffolk.

JULY 6. According to the Rites of the Protestant and Catholic churches, the Count Jules de Polignac to Miss Campbell, sister to, and co-heiress with, the Hon. Mrs. Archibald Macdonald.

8. Thomas Cundy, jun. Esq of Pimlico, to Arabella, daughter of John Fishlake, Esq. of the same place.

9. Alexander Nicoll, Esq. of Baliol College, Oxford, to Johanpe, daughter of the late A. Anderson Feldborg, Esq. of Copenhagen.

Lieut. Col. Brownrigg, son of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Robert Brownrigg, Bart, G.C.B. to Emma, daughter of the late Major-Gen. Colebrook Nesbitt,.

10. At Dublin, George Rich, Esq. son of Sir C. Rich, Bart, and Comptroller of the Household to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, to Catherine, daughter of the late Dudley Loftus, of Killyon, Westmeath, Esq. and niece of the Earl of Arran and Marchioness of Abercorn.

Benjamin Goode, Esq. of Howlandstreet, Fitzroy-square, to Miss Bishop, of Cardigan-place.

Mr. Webber, Master of the Commercial and Mathematical Academy, Teignmouth, Devon, to Elizabeth, daughter of Mn Perks, of Stovely, Warwick.

11. Major-General Sir Dennis Pack, K.C.B. to Lady Elizabeth Beresford, daughter to the late, and sister to the present, Marquis of Waterford.

Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart. of Lochrane, to Madeline Carnagie, daughter of the late Sir David Carnagie, Bart, of Southesk.

13. William Drake, Esq. of Gray's inn. to Frances, daughter of the late Robert Liacoln, Esq. of Lamb's Conduit-street.

16. At Edinburgh, Lieut.-Col. Duncan Cameron, 79th Highlanders, Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, to Catherine, daughter of the late Lieut.-Gen. Mackay Hugh Baillie, of Rose Hall.

17. Mr. D. W. Williams, of Stratfordgreen, to Mary, daughter of Jarvis Buck, Esq. of Arundel-street, Strand.

18. The Rev. J. G. Bull, A.B. Vicar of Stubbing, to Catherine Martha, daughter of Mr. G. B. Smith, of Great Dunmow, Es

sex.

At St. Pierre du Bois, Guernsey, by the Rev, Thomas Brock, Robert Woolcombe, Esq. of the Royal Artillery, to Elizabeth, second daughter of Bonamy Dobree, Esq. of Beau Regard, in that island..

20. At St. George's, Hanover-square, Alfred Thorp, Esq. of Walthamstow, to Louisa