or their ignorance of the channel, -The Fortune 21. Portsmouth. cartel returned to that port from Morlaix, having on board an interesting woman, a native of Ireland, 22 years of age, who having been married to Colonel Berthon, a French officer of artillery, lately on his parole at Chesterfield, received the permission of this government to follow her husband to France, and embarked for that purpose at Portsmouth on the 17th of August last; but has now been cruelly driven back, together with her son, an infant of 19 months old, by order of the French authorities, and is arrived at Portsmouth, as above mentioned, in a state of the greatest misery and distress, destitute of the means of subsistence for an hour, until relieved at the charge of this government, as is done in all cases of English women arriving from France in a state of distress. The conduct of the French government towards this unfortunate young woman affords an additional proof of a fact which cannot be too publicly known,-namely, that all marriages contracted by French subjects, detained in foreign countries as prisoners of war, are considered by the present French laws as to tally invalid. 153 Carlisle, Dec. 26-Robberies.Saturday night, about eight o'clock, as Mr. Hudson Scott, of Caldbeck, was returning from Carlisle market, he was stopped and robbed by three footpads, on Hawksdale Pasture.-As Mr. Irwin, of New-` houses, Salport, in company with Mr. Tinniswood, were returning home from Brampton-market, on Tuesday evening last, between six and seven o'clock, they were attacked by four footpads, between Brampton and Irthing-bridge, who robbed the former of bank-notes to the amount of 181. with which the villains made their escape.Monday night, about six o'clock, as Mr. Raper, of Bothwell, was returning from Wigton, he was stopped near Red Dial, by four. villains, who robbed him of 8. guinea notes, and a parcel of cloth.. Tuesday morning, a poor man was robbed of 101. on the road betwixt Penrith and Appleby, by two villains, who inflicted such wounds: upon his person, that in consequence he is since dead.-Wednes-, day night last, the weaving shop of John Robinson, of Cumwhinton, was broken into, and two webs cut in the looms, which were taken away with the cloth-beams. 28. A party of Luddites, eight in number, this evening entered! the house of Henry Cox, of Beeston, Nottinghamshire, one of whom stood guard over the woman (who` happened to be the only inhabitant then in the house), while the remainder proceeded up stairs into the workshop, where they broke and destroyed an 84 gauge yard wide frame. Lady Brownlow, a son. Peel, bart. M. P. to Emily, second Sep. At Palermo, Right Hon. daughter of J, Swinfen, esq. Lady Montgomerie, a son. Lady Lindsay, Lately, Lady H. Fitzroy, a daughter. Lady of M. White, Esq. M. P. a son. Lady of Gen. Sir Robert Wilson, a son. Lady of Sir Thomas Dyke Ackland, Bart. a son. ter. ter. Henry Fynes, esq. M. P. for Aldborough, to Katherine, third daughter of the bishop of Bangor. Captain Cochrane, R. N. eldest son of vice-admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane, to Miss Ross Whishart, eldest daughter of lieutenant-general Sir Charles Ross, bart. Charles Whitaker, esq. of Rosefield, Lincolnshire, to Eliza, eldest Countess of Shannon, a daugh- daughter of Samuel Horrocks, esq. M. P. November. Countess of Clonmell, a daugh Lady of the Hon. Robert Cur G. Woods, esq. only son of John Woods, esq. county Dublin, to Sarah, only daughter of Hans Hamilton, esq. M. P. At Baron's-court, Tyrone, Sir C. T. Morgan, of London, to Sydney, eldest daughter of the Irish comedian, Owenson, and author of "the Wild Irish Girl," and "Woman or Ida of Athens." T. D. Blonder, esq. of Kippaxpark, Yorkshire, to Apollonea, daughter of Lord Stourton. Major-general Oswald Younger, Lady of Right Hon. G. Canning, of Dunhikier, to Charlotte Murray a son. Lady Bagot, a son. At Stockholm, the wife of E. Thornton, Esq. Envoy extraordinary, and Minister Plenipotentiary at that court, a son. The wife of J. Archer Houblon, Esq. M. P. a daughter. MARRIAGES. January. C. T. Wood, esq. of Thoresby, county of Lincoln, to Jane, only daughter of sir John Thorold, of Syston Park. E. Peel, esq. third son of sir R. Aynsley, daughter of the late Lord Lately, Lord Palmerston, to Miss Dennis M'Carthy, esq. to Anne, daughter of Richard Power, esq. M. P. Chappel Woodhouse, esq. to Amelia, daughter of Sir Charles Oakley, bart. At Gretna Green, hon. William H. Lambton, esq. of Durham, to Miss Cholmondley, daughter of the late celebrated Madam St. Alban. February. Rev. Walter Radcliff, of War leigh-house, county of Devon, to Miss Abbey Emma Franco, niece of Sir Manasseh Lopes, bart. Edward Thornycroft, esq. to Anne, Dowager Viscountess Barrington. The Earl of Ilchester, to Caroline, second daughter of the late Lord G. Murray, bishop of St. Davids. Lord Berwick, to Miss Sophia Dubochet. John Parkinson, esq. to Frances, daughter of the late T. Foster, esq. member of the late Irish parlia ment. Macdonald, esq. to Lady Caroline Edgecumbe, second daughter of Earl Mount Edgecumbe. Sir Alexander Mackenzie, of Arock, county of Ross, to Miss Geddes Mackenzie. J. Storey, esq. of Bingfield, county of Cavan, to Louisa, daughter of Sir P. Gay, bart. L. H. Kingston, esq. second son of J. Kingston, esq. M. P. to Frances Sophia Rooke, daughter of the late hon. Mr. Justice Rooke. In Dublin, Matthew Talbot, esq. eldest son of W. Talbot, esq. of Castle T., to Anne, only daughter and heiress of the late Edward Bourke, esq. J. L. Yates, esq. of the army pay office, to Arabella, daughter of P. Reinagle, esq. R. A. Sir Francis Hartwell, bart. to Miss Aldridge. Thomas Butler, esq. eldest son of Sir R. Butler, bart. to Frances, daughter of J. G. Clarke, esq. Durham. Sir J. Blunden, bart. to Miss Helsham. At Cassel, the Prince of Hesse Philipsthal, to the Princess Caroline, of Hesse Philipsthal. March. G. H. Elliott, esq. lieutenant 20 light dragoons, to Mary, daughter of major-general Slay. Honourable W. Elliot, brother to Lord Elliot, to the eldest daughter of Lieutenant-general Robinson, of Denston-hall, Suffolk. William Wellesley Pole, esq. to Miss Long, eldest daughter of the late Sir T. Long, bart. J. Vetch, jun. M. D. to Henrietta Maria, eldest daughter of Sir Alexander Grant. In Dublin, Lord Ennismore, to Miss Latham. Major William Napier, 43 light infantry, to Caroline, daughter of the late General Fox. Benjamin Burnett, esq. of the Crown Office, to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Burnett. At Edinburgh, Major-general the honourable Alexander Duff, to Anne, daughter of the late James Stein, esq. I. H. Holder, esq. to Anne, daughter of the late Rev. Jeffery Ekins, dean of Carlisle. Lord Charles Townshend, to the daughter of General and the late Lady Elizabeth Loftus. Lately, the eldest son of Sir T. Whichcote, to Lady J. Sherard, daughter of the late Earl of Harborough. Robert Nixon, esq. Major of 1st foot, to Cath. Henrietta, daughter of Colonel Ram, M. P. April. At Petersburgh, Sir Robert Ker Porter, to the Princess Maria Scherbatoff. Major-general Lindsey, to Miss J. Baillie. |