reprieve.

Sir Charles Wolseley and the Rev. Mr. Harrison, were found guilty on the 11th, at Chester, of seditious language at a public meeting. Mr. Harrison has since been convicted of using seditious language in two sermons at Stockport.

CORNWALL.-At the Cornwall assizes, the grand jury found a true bill against L. Evelyn and J. R. G. Graham, esqrs. the members lately returned for St. Ives; also against five others, for a conspiracy to return the members at the late election, by means of bribery and corruption. The grand jury have also found a true bill against Mr. Halse, the town

clerk.

SHREWSBURY.-John Rogers, for a burglary at Llanyblodwell, and stealing a large sum of money, was capitally convicted, and left for execution. Seventeen others received sentence of death, but were all reprieved. At these assizes, a suit was brought by the Rev. T. Vaughan, rector of Hope Bagot, in this county, against the Rev. Lawrence Panting Gardner, D.D., the preceding rector, for dilapidations, when the jury gave the plaintiff as follows:-for the house, 901.; hog's-stye and privy, 14.; chancel, 10l.; barn, 100l.: total for restoring the original premises, 214., and for putting the present premises in a state of repair, 647.

BUCKS.George Wiggins, lately executed at Reading, for cruelly using and robbing Mr. Leach, confessed to 11 highway robberies and burglaries, and 49 other offences.

At Buckingham assizes, twelve prisoners received sentence of

Lately, at the Market Cross, in Leeds, a man led his wife in a halter, and sold her for one shilling and sixpence !

The carpet manufactures of Yorkshire is in such a state of depression, that it is diminished three-fourths, and the woollen considerably.

At Snaith, a man and his wife, of the name of Coates, who had been married only ten days, were both found suspended by the neck-one in the stable, the other in the dwelling-house. The wife is likely to live; she states that they lived comfortable during the first week; then began to quarrel, and so continued until

the above dreadful event.

There has been considerable agitation at Huddersfield, owing to a discovery that a great number of the populace in the neighbourhood had armed themselves with pikes and pistols, and meditated an attack on the place. Bodies of them were seen together, and one party was not dispersed without violence.

At Brunswick chapel, Liverpool, two learned heathens, high priests of the Budhul religion, from the island of Ceylon, were baptised according to the ritual of the established church, by Dr. Adam Clarke, before a large congregation.

MAY.

1. This morning the five leaders in the Cato-street conspiracy -Arthur Thistlewood, James Ings, Thomas Brunt, Richard Tidd, and William Davidson, underwent the sentence of the law,

at the usual place of execution in the Old Bailey. An account of the behaviour of those unhappy criminals since their condemnation, in prison, and during the last dreadful ceremony, will be found in the Appendix annexed to the report of their trials.

William Henry Stanford was capitally convicted at the Old Bailey, of having passed a forged 10%. note, knowing it to be forged, to Dr. Tewson, of Percyplace.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer states, that his late majesty has left a will. We may suppose it was found by the present king on his late visit to Windsor. It is said, that his late majesty, but a few days before his mournful calamity, as if conscious of its approach, ordered a master-key to be made, with which he locked up a drawer containing all his other keys. This master-key he delivered to general Taylor, with an injunction to preserve it in his custody, and deliver it to no one but himself, or in case of his decease to deliver it only to his successor. This key general Taylor delivered to the king on Saturday se'nnight.

Windsor terrace was opened to the public on Monday last after a lapse of above ten years. This beautiful promenade has been closed in consequence of its proximity to the apartments occupied by our late venerable monarch.

A most laudable institution is about to be established, under the patronage of her royal highness the princess Augusta, which has for its object the placing out in the world, and being a home for, the indigent orphan daughVOL. LXII.

ters of deceased unbeneficed clergymen and subaltern officers of the army and navy, who are to be received into the institution at fourteen years of age, and taught those qualifications they are capable of receiving, to enable them to obtain a living above the common ranks of life. For this truly meritorious purpose two houses have been taken near the Regent's Park, which are now forming into one. The institution is to be superintended by ladies of rank, and proper assistants.

Societies of ladies are forming in France, to provide funds for buying masses for the soul of the Duke of Berri, and prayers for the safe delivery of his widow.

The king of England has subscribed 2,500 francs, about 100%. sterling, towards the monument of M. Malesherbes.

The death of Volney is announced in the French papers; he expired in his 65th year.

The Club Lorenzini at Madrid, and the papers written under its influence, attack so hostilely the dynasty on the French throne, that the Spanish pamphlets and papers are prohibited in all the reading-rooms and coffee-houses of the south of France.

2. A very violent eruption of Mount Vesuvius has recently taken place. The hereditary prince of Denmark, who visited the mountain several times, and made observations upon the eruption, read a report of the several visits he made to the mountain in one of the sittings of the Academy of Sciences at Naples, of which the prince is a member.

A smart shock of an earthquake was felt at Brest and the K

adjoining country, about nine o'clock in the evening of the 21st of April. It was accompanied by thunder. The motion seemed to proceed from east to west. The weather was very fine and the sky serene.

OLD BAILEY.-John Robinson, alias Thomas Turner, was indicted for passing, on the 29th of February last, a 1. forged Bank of England note, with intent to defraud Arthur Morris.

The first witness examined was a boy named Richard Hill, about 16 years of age, who said he had been to sea, and on his return to England could not get any employment. He was loitering about Charlotte-buildings, Gray'sinn-lane, on the 26th February last, when he fell into conversation with a man named Lloyd, who introduced him to the prisoner at the Black Dog in Gray'sinn-lane, saying, "Here is a boy who will pass pap for you, and he is all right.' Prisoner said, Very well," and gave the boy a shilling, and appointed to meet him on the 28th, the Monday following. On the evening of that day (28th) he accompanied the prisoner and Lloyd to garret in Broad-street, St. Giles's, where Lloyd wrote on the backs and fronts of five Bank of England notes, and put them into witness's pocket. The prisoner said the water-mark was so good that no person would know them to be forgeries. Lloyd promised him six shillings for every note which he might do for them.

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The several persons with whom the boy changed the notes confirmed his testimony in that respect, and produced the notes which he gave them.

Mr. Glover, a Bank Inspector, proved the notes to be forged.

The Common Sergeant summed up, and the jury immediately found the prisoner Guilty.

In the Court of Common Pleas, this day, Mr. Sergeant Vaughan rose to show cause against a rule which had been obtained on a former day by Mr. Sergeant Blossett, the object of which was, to take off the file of the Court, for some irregularity in the endorsement, the proceedings commenced against the warden of the Fleet, for suffering the escape of Robert Christie Burton, esq. from his custody. This gentleman, our readers will recollect, was, a member of the House of Commons in the last parliament, and was discharged by the warden, under the authority of the Speaker's order. The Court, in consideration that the point was new, arising as it did out of the act of 59th Geo. 3rd, by which the practice of that court was altered, took time to consider before they gave a decision. [The affair was dropped here.]

Repetition of the diabolical attempt to fire Hereford College.About a quarter past ten last night [May 2], the inhabitants of this city were again alarmed by the cry of "fire," at our college, and, in consequence, a large number of persons hastened to render assistance. The flames were discovered on the north side of the ceiling of one of the upper rooms, which was on fire in two places, and there is but little doubt, but in a very short period, if the providential discovery had not taken place, the whole of that part of the building would have been in flames. The judicious exertions of those who first rushed to the spot effectually subdued the fire, which had made considerable progress, and nearly

burnt through a large beam and some rafters with great injury to the apartments like the former attempts.

Between twenty-six and twentyseven thousand pounds have been awarded as the sum to be given by the commissioners of the Menai bridge, to Miss Williams, the proprietor of Bangor Ferry, as the Menai bridge is to be situated within the limits of the ferry, and will of course render the ferry useless, which has upon an average of the last eleven years, produced the young lady, who is a minor, about 900%. per annum.

A living insect of considerable size was extracted, a few days ago, from the external part of the throat of a poor woman, which had generated into a tumour of nearly two years standing, by a medical gentleman at Aylesford, near Maidstone.

Most of the young men who have recently emigrated from Scotland to America, got married before they embarked and took their wives with them. Previously to the sailing of the Alexander, last week, from Greenock for Quebec, many were asked in church three times in one day, and immediately after the ceremony went on board.

A German paper says, that the Austrian clergy oppose the intended marriage of the Imperial Prince of Austria and one of the daughters of the king of Bavaria, on the ground that it would confound the different degrees of kindred in a manner not conformable to the Canons of the church. In case of the marriage taking place, the Imperial Prince would be brother-in-law to his father; and the Empress would

at the same time be his motherin-law and sister-in-law.

It appears by the American papers that 16,355 of the men who served in the revolutionary war continue at this day to receive pensions for their services.

3. BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.-The sixteenth anniversary of the British and Foreign Bible Society was held, in Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen's-street, and since the commencement of the institution, it never has been more respectably attended.

The Report of the Committee was read. In France their exertions had answered their most sanguine expectations. The duke d'Angouleme had expressed himself most friendly towards the society and their objects, and the duke de Cazes had subscribed 1,000 livres in support of their funds. In the United States and their dependencies, Christians of every denomination, and even Jews, exhibit the most earnest desire to possess the Scriptures, and to support the societies by which they are distributed. From Switzerland, Hanover, Saxony, Wirtemberg, Prussia, Denmark, Russia, Sweden, and Norway, the intelligence was of the most gratifying kind. Similar accounts had been received from the Ionian Islands, and from Athens, where Bible Societies had been established. The eighth report of the Calcutta Bible Society, and that from Madras and its depen dencies, furnished abundant proof of its advantages. In China, though the jealous power of the government still operates to prevent the admission of the Holy Scriptures, yet well-founded hopes are entertained, that the

exertions which are making will eventually succeed in shedding the light of the gospel over that vast empire. Under the direction of Dr. Morrison, the whole Bible has now been translated into the Chinese language, and the one thousand pounds voted by the Society for that object had been appropriated thereto. The New South Wales Bible Society had been zealously supported by all the civil, military, and ecclesiastical authorities in the colony, and its establishment promised the most beneficial results. The reports which had been made from the South-Sea Islands were most gratifying. The whole Gospel of St. Luke had been translated into the Otaheitan language, and 3,000 copies had been printed and nearly distributed. In Africa and America, the kingdom of Hayti, and the western Archipelago; there was unquestionable evidence of the great and growing success of that holy cause, in which the society is engaged.

Dr. Adam Clarke introduced two Ceylonese priests to the meeting. He said these young men had been brought up as priests in the Temple of Vishnu from the time they were five years of age. About three years ago, a translation of the Bible fell into their hands, and their faith in the worship of Vishnu was immediately shaken. They happened to be of the class, or caste of fishermen in Ceylon, and were particularly struck with that part of the Scripture in which our Saviour tells the Sons of Zebedee to follow him, and he would make them fishers of men. They became curious to see the people who had the means of

sending throughout the world the glorious truths of the Gospel. They applied to the then governor (about to return to England on account of his lady's illhealth) to be allowed a passage in the same vessel; but they were refused. So great, however, was their desire to visit England, that they actually took a boat, followed the vessel to sea, and were taken on board whilst she was under way. He took them into his house, gave them every instruction in his power, and eventually admitted them into the bosom of the church by Christian baptism; and he had now the pleasure of presenting them as the first-fruits of the British and Foreign Bible Society in the island of Ceylon. The assembly broke up at a quarter past five o'clock.

Yesterday [the 2nd] the friends of the families of the unfortunate men who were executed the day before for high treason met at a public-house, and after some discussion upon the subject of raising a subscription for the wives and children of those who were transported, as well as of those who were hanged, adopted a resolution to apply to lord Sidmouth for leave to take away the bodies of the deceased from Newgate.

They accordingly sent a request to his lordship that the bodies might be given up to the friends of the deceased, and stating, that the object was the humane one of raising the means of support for the wives and children by a public exhibition.

It is unnecessary to state that lord Sidmouth did not hesitate to refuse the request.

It appears that a channel was