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THE GREEK LOAN.
THE GREEK LOAN. Pray, do the Bonds of Humc and Co. intelligibly speak; And are the fatal words "I owe," [n English or pure Greek 7- In Greek, and poor enough, they say, Plainly by7 110 Oxonian; They're *Attic promises to pay, In dialect I, O. nian. Attic promises," were proverbial for non- performance. -tc,
SONNET.
SONNET. I heard (alas 'twas only in a Strains—which, as sage Antiquity believed, By waking ears have sometimes been received, Wafted down the wind from lake stream; A most melodious requiem, a supreme And perfect harmony of notes, achieved By a fair Swan on drowsy billows 1,1 O'er which her pinions shed a siher gleam • For is she not the votary of A polio 1 Aiid knows she not, singing as he inspires, That bliss awaits her which the ungeniul hollow Of the dull earth partakes not, nor desires ? Mount, tuneful bird, and join the immo, tal quires She soared—and awoke slru -.ia- iLl V-i;js to follow.
To the EDITOR of the NORTIJ…
To the EDITOR of the NORTIJ WALES GAZETTE. 8m ACCORDING to promise made a few months ago, I herein enclose & send you two very remarkable traditional accounts of what happened in two places, viz.—One in Anglesey, and the other in Carnarvonshire, for you to insert in your valua- ble paper—doubtless, many of the subscribers thereto, will be glad to see them. From your's &c. March lli/f, IS21, HEBOG. TRADITIONS. Tyrfrydog, was the son of Arwystle Gloff, who was son of Owen Danwyn, son of Einioa Urdd, son of Cynedda Weledig, he built his Church at Llandefrydog—-which Church Giral- dus Cambrensis makes mention of, and of a me- morable accident that happened in it in his time. The accident was as follows:-A certain person robbed the said Church of Llandefrydog, and stole; every valuable article ttieieiii-tnd made best of his way, he travelled upwards of a week, with his booty—and being' overcome with fatigue, he laid himself down and slept, his pursuers acci- dentally came that way, and saw him asleep alongside of a large stone, within half a mile of Llandyfrydog, and there taken, and to his great surprise, found himself so close to the Church.- The stone where he layed by is to be seen to this day, within half a mile to the said Church—and what is more uncommon, the stone is lowsy.— There is no firm proof notwithstanding tradition oftentimes possesses a firm foundation. SECOND TRADITION. Opposite Beaumaris, between that and Tre- gaiv.vy, in the sea, remains the ruins of an old pa- lace, called by the country people (Llys Ellis), and tradition says, that it was swallowed by the sea, time out of memory in a strange manner.—• A daughter of the family, belonging then to that (Llys) fell in love with a poor young man, and her family not willing to give her in marriage to the man by reason of his poverty, the which she communicated to liim, and told him, if he could find money enough any how, either by7 robbery or murder, it mattered not by what means, and her family then would give their consent. So the young man, accordingly, went to the moun- tain, and killed a man, by which means he got a vast treasure; and coming the next night to in- form his dear of his success, she told him that the next night lie must go to the place to listen what he should hear,—the which he accordingly did, and he heard a voice crying woc, woe woe the which he told his dear, and she order- ed him to go and ask the voice when the woe should come and he going accordingly, and hearing as before, asked when ? and the voice answering, not in thy days, nor in thy children, nor grand-children. And the young woman find- ing by the answer, that it should not be in her time, married him but according as the voice told some time after, when all the family were met together, and being merry, one of the ser- vants going to the cellar, found that the sea was coming on, made the best of his way, and called those that he met to follow him, and ran to a place of safety before they looked back on the dismal sight. For the sea swallowed the place, and the old walls are to be seen at this day, and the name given by the country people, to the place where they stopped to look behind them, seems to confirm the tradition, as it is called Trwyn-yr-wylfa, or the point of weeping, And it stands in Dwy-gy-fylchi parish, (Divy-g)l- fylehui) within four miles of Conway, &c. And the place where the young man committed murder and robbery, is called Afon Has sals, or the liver where an Englishman was killed and the river is up in the mountain, not far from the aforesaid Dwy-gy-fylchi.
THE JEWS.
THE JEWS. AT what period, observes a late writer,* the nation of the Jews first obtained a footing here, is a question involved in considerable obscurity, arising as well from the distance of time when this event is supposed to have happened, as from the few memorials that have been (since their dispersion) transmitted down to us concerning them. It has by some been conjectured that they set- tled here when the island was first subjected by the Romans but if we reflect on the unculti- vated and barbarous state of Britain and its in- habitants in that distant age, we can hardly be induced to believe that a people, accustomed to a more favourable climate, and more softened manners, would seek a country of this descrip- tion, and undertake what must, to them, have been a long and, in the infancy of navigation, a dangerous voyage, not to mention the silence of all contemporary historians, who have treated of British affairs, of such an event and its improba- bility on other accounts. The first information that can be relied on, as to the settlement of the Jews in this kingdom, occurs not until about three centuries after the introduction of the Saxons, when it being per- haps feared that they might gain in England too many converts, and become more numerous than was consistent with the safety of the church, a Canon was issued, directing "Ut nullus Chris- tiai-ius judaizare prwsuniat nec conviviis eorum participare." This Canon is still extant, and was made in the early part of the eighth century. It is observed to be not a little extraordinary, that none of the ordinances of the Anglo-Saxon Monarchs^ made any provision for the govern- ment of this people, or indeed noticed them with the exception of one only, among those generally- styled, for distinction sake, the laws of Edward the Confessor, and which were afterwards con- firmed by William the Conqueror and of the au- thenticity of this there are doubts. That they were long before this time pretty7 numerous in England may be inferred from a charter of Wit- laf, King of the Mercians, to Croyland Abbey, in which he confirms all lands, anions others, be- stowed on them by eiiher Ciii-isti,,tiis or Jcii-,Y. According io the testimony of one of their his- torians, the Jews were banished this realm, though he does not say for what, early in the eleventh century. That they were recalled by William the Conqueror is a fact mentioned by several other writers, who state his motive for so doing to have been a pecuniary one. IIol- linshed says the Conqueror brought them from Rouen, in Normandy, and appointed them a place to inhabit and occupy but it is not indicated in what particular year of his reign this event happened. The place here alluded to was that called the Old Jewry, in London, where they were permit- ted to have a synagogue, the which, we are told, was in 1204, defaced by. the citizens, after they had massacred 700 Jews, and destroyed their property. They increased under the protection of William Rufus, who favoured them so far that he is said to have sworn by Luke's face—I his common oath,—that if they could overcome the Christians in argument, he would himself be- come a convert to their religion. By this Pi jnce they were allowed to settle in other parts of the kingdom besides London, in consequence of which they soon chose for their residence the principal trading towns, such as York, Lincoln, Norwich, Cambridge, &c. In some of the.se towns they built synagogues, and c irried on the business of bankers, by letting out I heir money at interest to merchants, and oilwrs concerned in trade. Though considered as no bener usurers, raid obliged in such cases to ■1 wear an ignominious dress to distinguish their profession, they were found to be a necessary people, and very useful to merchants and others, in places where commerce was improving for which reason they were placed under the parti- cular jurisdiction of one principal ofiicr, appoint- ed by the King, called the Justicer of the Jews, whose business it was to protect them in their I just rights, and to decide all suits between the Christians and them. In Dr. Tovey's Anglia Judaica," may be I found many curious facts concerning the Jews, with an ample detail of the various forms of cru- elty and extortion practised upon them, some- times under the pretext of religion, but more frequently by attributing to them erimes they could have no idea of committing. Such was the charge against thein of crucifying children, which, it. is justly observed, only happened when our ancient Kings were in great want of money. — Hence Fuller, in his Church History, says, How sufficiently these crimes were witnessed against them I know not in such cases, weak proofs are of proof against rich offenders and we may well believe, that if their poisons were guilty of some of these faults, their estates were guilty of all the rest." Among other oppressions, Henry oil a charge of their corrupting the current coin of ihe realm, is said to have most grievously punished them. Richard I. forbid Jews and women to be present at his coronation, for fear of enchant- ments. For breaking this prohibition, Stowe in- forms us, "many Jews were si-iii, who being assembled to present the King v, iih some gifts", one of them was struck by a Chiis.ian, which some unruly persons seei forei fill upon them, beat them to their houses, and burnt them there- in, or slew them at their coming out." A still stronger instance of oppression, is the well-known story wh'ch Matthew Paris relates of the Jew at Bristol, from whom King John ex- acted 10,000 marks; a prodigious sum of money in those days, and whose refusal of compiying drew upon him an order, that he should lose a tooth every day, until he complied with the de- mand. Nor is this the greatest instance of bar- barity which might be advanced on this subject. Our ancient records and historians unanimously agree, that the condition of the Jews in this 13 kingdom, in early times, was vassalage. The words in the Confessor's law respecting them, strongly countenances this idea. Bracton, the old law writer, has also a passage in his works still more conclusive, to the same effect. The humiliating situation in which the Jews were then placed, may be fairly assigned as a reason why no charters of a very early "date are discoverable, in which they appear as parties. The most ancient deed to which Jews are par- ties, is a final concord, dated 35 Henry II. Pre- viously to that reIgn no deeds are printed at length, wherin they occur as principals, since their restoration by William the Conqueror.— The Jewish deeds are very rarely seen with seals appendant, and where there are exceptions thev seem to have been done more from conformity to established pitictico at the time, than from any custom prevalent among themselves of adding validity to their charters by the use of seals. None of the Hebrew coins now extrant are ob- served to bear the impression of animals, which was formerly, as a well-informed writer takes notice, prohibited both to Jews and Gentiles through tear of idolatry. Accordingly we do not find on these seals, wherever any of t hem occur, any representations of this sort, exccpt in one in- stance, where a deed was found, the selll of whieh nau an impression which somewhat, resembled a aiS?,it-Wrtch-iy(,™,that, as a late wntu facetiously remarks, it Mas in no danger breaking the commandment, not having the likeness of any thing ia the heavens above, or in 10 earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth. Many repositories for the Jewish deeds, when they began to multiply, were established in dif- ferent parts of the kingdom bnt the greatest of them was in a particular part of the Exchequer at. Westiniiister, which, from the use made of it m-m feYS' Ext;hequer. And here all Z ZVA h -the JeWS had an-v conCern ere • ? 1i .1 yioI,er officers, appointed to that the0 Je^s §'Uadei"the title of Justit*s of A. D. 1290, a second banishment of the Jews from this kingdom by Edward 1. took place, without any cause being properly assigned for then expulsion, and more than three hundred and fifty years elapsed before their re-establishment. Since then their transactions are so recent as not to require any illustration. Besides the old Jewry by Lothbury, where, as it has been observed, they first resided, the Jews had several other places allotted for their habita- tion in the metropolis. Stowe mentions another ancient neighbourhood of them in the following terixis ° There was a place within the liberty of the Tower, called the Jewry, because it was inhabit- ed by Jews, where there happened in the reign of Henry I It. a robbery and murder, said to be committed by William Fitz-Barnard, and Richard, his servant who came to the house of Joce, a Jew, and there slew him and his wife Henna.— The said William was taken at St. Saviour's for a certain silver cup which lie had stolen, and was hanged. Richard was called for and outlawed. One Miles le Equier, who was with them, was wounded, and fled to a Church, and died in it. No attachment was made by the Sheriffs,-because it happened in the Jewry, and so belonged not to the Sheriffs, but to the constable of the Tower." Jewin-street, Aldersgate-street, is the site of an ancient burying ground of the Jews, and was, until built on, called the Jews' Garden, and Jewin Garden. They had also other places in and near town, in former times, both for resi- dence and interment, but which it is not necessa- ry to enumerate. Mr. Caley, "Archæologin," v. 1.
POETRY® ""';..:,¡:¿>r.:''H-
"¡:¿>r.H- THE iFASDEUKR'S ADDRESS TO HOME. O 'now I love the spot where first my eye, Delighted,gazed upon the 'origin blue sky Where blithe I strayed in childhood's happy hoar, th,- n, flower; Whore, lingVrng, oft I lisien'd to the lay The loticl t,,) the" parting day," Then thank' the minstrel, for his matchless softg, And, homeward, slowly trod my way along. Scenes of my youth now many a year has pass'd Since I 'upheld yon.— green and lovely—last; And I have wande/d far—but still to you Fond mem'ry turn'd, v. id; pleasure ever new. When on th' Atlantic billow mounted high, Or, stretch'd above me, shone Columbia's sky, Or when Arabia's hreeze-a breath of balm— Play'd o'er my cheek, reclined beneath the palm, I thought on home, and sigli'd for those gay bowers, Hill, vale, and wood, and stream, and songs, and flowers. Yes !—I have wander'd long and far from thee Land of my birth now doubly dear to me Not that thy meads are green, thy scenes are fair, Songs fill thy groves—O! no—my home is there! And thou art lovely now as when my eye, Enraptur'd, view'd the. beauty of thy sky Wdven evening came, and threw his golden beam O'er Edgcombe's woods, andblush'donTamar's stream. The gun loud echoed and the curfew bell Flung o'er the wave its long and sullen knell, As, ling'ring till the eve's last ray had fled, And Dian o'er the deep her silver shed, I turn'd, while tears of sorrow dimm'd the view, Towards my lov'd home, and bade a long adieu Adieu !-tInt word shall pass these lips no more- The wanderer strays along his native shore—• And there will stray, with home and beauty blest, Till the green turf is pillow'd on his breast.
A BRIDAL SERENADE.
A BRIDAL SERENADE. BY A MODERN WELSH HARPER. WILT thou not waken, Bride of May, While flowers are fresh and the sweet bells chime ? Listen and learn from my roundelay, Now all Life's Pilot Boats sailed one day, A match with Time. Love sat on a lotos' leaf afloat, And saw old Time i,.i his loaded boat Slowly he cross'd Life's narrow tide, While Love sat clapping his wings, and cried, Who will pass Time?" Patience came first, but soon was gone With helm and sail to help Time on Care and Grief could not lend an oar, And Prudence said (while he stay'd on shore), I wait for Time!" Hope filled with flowers her cork tree bark, And lighted its helm with a glow-worm spark; Then Love, when he saw her bark fly fast, Said—" Lingeiiiig Time will soon be past! Hope outspeeds Time!" Wit went nearer old Time to pass, With his diamond oar and his bead of glass A feathery dart from his store he drew, And shouted while far and swift he flew- 0 Mirth kills Time!" But Time sent the feathery arrows back, Hope's boat of Amaranths missed his track Then Love bade his butterfly pilots move, And laughing said, They shall see how Love Can conquer Time." His gossamer sails he spread with speed, But Time has wings which Time hath need Swiftly he crossed Life's sparkling tide, And only Memory stay'd to chide Unpitying Time. Z, Wake and listen then, HI ide of May! Listen and heed thy minstrel's rhyme- Still for thee some bright hours stay, For it was a hand like thine, they say. Gave wings to Time.
BOW-STREET.
BOW-STREET. ABUSE OF Tili-, POLIC'I, ACT.-There has latterly sprung up, in many parts of the Metropolis, a new species of civil force, under the denomina- tion of street-keepers—being neither parish con- stables norheatiles, nor patrol, nor police offi- cers but, as it were, an epitome of all these, and yet entirely independent of them—a sort of imperiian in imperio, for the more complete ad- ministration of the law to the lawless, than any which the lawmakers themselves have had the wisdom to appoint, all which will very plainly appear by a perusal of the following c,-ise James Carrol and Aaron lianjicld were brought before Sir Richard Birnie, and Thomas Halls, Esq. Wednesday, by John William Lowe, a street-keeper of that part of Oxford-street, which is in the parish of St.. Anne, and Thomas Roberts, a street-keeper of Bond-street, on suspicion of felony. John William Lowe deposed as follows About half-past eight o'clock last night I was passing along Whitehall, in company with my bn ther street-keeper Roberts, and I there saw the defendants, Carrol and Banfield. Carrol had a basket on his shoulder, and we stopped them and asked them what they had got there ? They refused to answer this question, and told us we might satisfy ourselves, and upon searching the basket we found two unfinished tools, and some tools, such as are used by slaters. Thomas Roberts corroborated his brother street-keeper's statements, and produced the bas- ket with its suspicious contents. Sir Richard Birnie asked them what was their cause of suspicion. They replied, the late hour of the evening (half-past eight) and their refusing to give a satisfactory account of the property. The prisoner Banfield in his defence said, I am a slater. I live at No. 13,'Wilton-street, Horse-ferry-road; and I have worked for Mr. Strutlien, of Parliament-street, more than fifteen years. My fellow-prisoner, Carrol, is also in Mr. Struthen's employ as a labourer. Last night we were going' home from our work when we met these two men. Carrol was a lis tie before me, and they stopped him and asked hilll what he had in his basket; and he replied that he had working tools in it. They then began to search the basket, and I told them it belonged to me with ail that was in it. They asked me what trade 1 was and I replied tjut 1 was a slater in the employ of Mr. Strutlien, of Parliament-street. But without mere ado, they pulled out. their staves, told us they were constables, and we must go the watchho:tae. Accordhis.ty they took us off to the walchhouse, and there we have been locked up all night." Carrol gave the same account of the matter. Sir Richard now asked Messeurs the street- keepers, by what authority they had acted with all this excess of They replied, by the authority of theirappoint- ment as strait-keepers they having been dlly appointed and sworn in as constables before the Led Jury. Indeed!" said Sir Richard, 1 know of no authority the Leet Jury has io appoint men of your description to be street-keepers at all.—But. their authority is not the present question; and be that as it may, you were not appointed street- keepers for White-hall. Your conduct has been extremely improper and oppressive, and I will not have it go foith to the public that I am one of .hose persons who have no regard for the li- berty of the subject. I sh.ili therefore require you to find bail for your appearance at the en- suing Westminster Sessions; there to answer any charge which may be made against you, and I recommend these poor men to indict you," The poor street-keepers had. previously began to discover that they had ''brought their hogs to the wrong market," but they were quite aghast at having the tables turned upon them in this manner; and they were not a whit more at ease, when his Worship filled up his decision, by directing the clerk to take the deposi.ious of the following witnesses against them. Banfield and Carrol deposed to the assault and folse imprisonment. 1U,. Andrews, of S t. Mar- tin's watch-house, substantiated the imprison- ment. Morris, a conductor of patrol, deposed that he had known one of them (Roberts) six or seven years, and had frequently seen him Lithe company of ihieves. Bond, another conductor of patrol, deposed that he had seen the said Ro- berts at this office, charged with felony and t'ioiu lepeatedly seeing him in the company of thieves, he always considered him a bad cha- racter. This done, they were both ordered to find bail, as aforesaid; and they were consigned to the charge of the gaoler, in Hen of the two poor fel- lows they would have ruined. The sentence of transportation for life passed upon Mr. Connolly, at Hertford, will, it is said, become a subject of discussion in the House of Commons. The Culford estate, late the resilience of the j l\l1'n_ I'_u.nl! I marquis tomvviuus, was DonglU. in at lbi,t)0t). at the Auction Mart, ou Friday, but has been since purchased by Richard Beryon :!eBeauvoir, Esq. (a Gentleman possessed of a very tine estate in Berkshire, and .i'/OO.OOi). funded property), at about jt'20 ,000., including the i Paper. The 7ist Regiment at present at the Fennoy Barracks, Ireland, are under ordei's to emba; k for Quebec, to relieve the 1st battalion of the 60til Regiment, which is ordered home. The 60th, it may be remembered, is what is termed the co«- detnned Regiment and has always been kept abroad these orders are looked upon -as matter of great grace and favour; it is supposed that, the Battalion is ordered home for the purpose of recruiting. At our monthly fair this week there was but a small supply of fat sheep, which were nearly all sold, at from 5d. to (3d. per lb. Of fat cattle there was a large shew, they fetched from ad, to 4fd. per lb. fresh store bullocks well 4 small sheep as well as small choice cattle sold a halfpenny per lb. higher than large ones. Pigs obtained about the same as at last fair. There was a small supply of butter, and a great many- was a sinall supply of butter, and a great many- buyers lumps 6d. to Ud.; tubs bd, to h;1. per lb. Of cheese a good supply, and nearly all sold; skim 24s, to 4bs. middling dairies to 575,; best dairies 58s. to ODs. per cwt. Bacon 6d. to 7d. Hams 7d.—Shrewsbury Paper.
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Major Ormsby Gore, of Porkington, has de- clared himself a candidate foi the representation of the county of Lei trim, Ireland, vacant by the death of Luke White, Esq. A smart contest is anticipated. A French surgeon, Doctor Civiale, has suc- ceeded in effecting the destruction of stone in the bladder, without the operation of cutting. The method is by introducing a newly invented instru- ment, which seizes on the calculus, breaks, and reduces it to powder. Thisingeniorsprocess is by no means painful, nor does it compromise the life or health of the patient. M. Civiale has ope- rated on 2 persons, in the presence of several emi- nent physicians, and succeeded in extracting the calculi, which were each as large as a nut. Two sittings are enough for effecting a complete cure. ,SCIATI(!A.-Dr. -,Nlartiii(,t, of Paris, has publish- ed a treatise on the use of oil of turpentine in Sciatica, and similar disorders of the limbs. It contains a number of experiments, exhibiting the advantageous effects of that essential oiL The resu't is, that of thirty-six persons affected with Sciatica and similar disorders, whether acute or chronic, twenty-six were completely cured by 1 he application of oil of turptntine, seven received great relief, andinonlyjthree cases was h inopera- tive. The average length of time during which it was found necessary to persevere in the applica- tion of this remedy was only six days and it seems to deserve the attention of other medical practitioners. INSOLVENT ACT.—Tne Insolvent Debtors' Acts," are to receive still further alteration and amendment." There is now before the House of Commons a Bill for such purpose. One more Commissioner, or Judge is to be named the Commissioners,or Judges, are to go Circuits;" their travelling expenses" are to paid Pri- soners remanded, to be confined within the walls of the prison" Prisoners to be remanded for offences, whether opposed or not;" everv prisoner to be remanded who does not PROVE his insolvency to have arisen from misfortune so much of I. Geo. IV. c. 110, as directs an al- lowance to be made to prisoners, to be iepeated, and "prisoner omitting any property or books from his schedule as finally amended, aiictpel-solts aiding him (in writing out the schedule, &c. ) to be liable to the same punishment as under' the Bankrupt Laws—to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the common gaol or house of correction, if the Court think fit." Such are some few specimens of the proposed "amend- ments" oj the nlready numerous Aets regarding Insolvent Debtors! ° On Saturday an inquest was taken at Smarden, before James Ottaway, Esq. on the body of a little boy, seven years old, named John Wood son of Mr. Richard Wood, a farmer at that place'. It appeared that the deceased, who was a fine lively little fellow, on Friday, being a wet day, was prevented from going to school, and there- fore amused himself in a cove attached to the dwelling house, by playing at hanging, and actu- ally suspended himself with a piece of small cord from a cross pole in a cove, and was found quite dea-i. He was alone, and seen in the yard only ten minutes before. All efforts to restore anima- tion wereineffectual. The Jury returned a ver- dict—Accidental Death, A general till prevails, that the sentence upon the unhappy man, Conolly, recently convict- ed of manslaughter at the Hertford Assizes, is extraordinarily severe, and strong applications have we understand, been made on ihl subject to the only quarter in which the im fortunate "ob- ject of it can find compassion, or the Sentence it- self qualification. Some observations as candid as they were pointed, on this subject, have ap- peal ed in an Evening Paper, and such we believe is the general feeling, without any distinction of op nion on oilier matters. It would be equally presumptuous and improper to revive the circum- stances under which the act was done, or-question thej udicial discretion which dicta) ed the sentence but it is impossible to shut one's eyes to the monstrous inequality of the punishment in this, and in many other cases. Transportation for lite may. he a light punishment to one offender- be more grievous than death to another. He knows but little of human nature that is generous and refined, who does not know, that to a person accustomed to live in the esteem of those who now -him—in the affections of those who are dear to him—in the hope of prospering in honest ptlrst.its-tl,ie hopeless deprivation of character is worse than the loss of life To the hardened ruffian, or the mere animal without cultivation or sensibility, transportation is light indeed. To a character of a different, or of the opposite kind, it is death liy the hour, from which there is but one—and that the most desperate—the most cul- pable, but at the same time the most pitiable mode of escape. It is evident that the unhappy CONOI.LV was himself unprepared for the seven- ty 'l's sentence. He appears to have reposed on the consciousness that his moral guilt was not of a deep die, and upon the sentiment of his own remorse. He employed none of the artifices to which hardened and expert criminals resort. He did not employ in his defence a tissue of flimsy sophistry and maudlin declamation. Let it no't be supposed that we palliate the act for which he has been convicted and judged. Far from it there is no doubt it deserved punishment-but not a punishment which outrages the gradation of ciime. If eyery offence equally presumptive of bad moral feeling were to be visited with trans- portation for life, it would be no very easy or short enduring task to weed the community. [n truth, it is impossible to forget the natur.e of the debt for which Mr. CONOLLY was proceeded against—the irritation and taunting which pre- ceded the act—the mercenary desperation of those who in the first instance acted under the authori- ty of the law,-in viewing the judgment which h is subjected him to despair. Happy happy are they who have the good fortune to be raised above the shocks and casualties of human condi- t'on—or who have the merit to be spiritualized be- yond the sphere of human passion but they shouid not torget that fraily and misfortune are the portion of humanity, and evil a necessary in- j gretiient in human life. At Heading Assizes, Daniel Grimshire, a shep- herd, was convicted of the murder of his infant child by pouring b iiing water into its mouth, in the temporary absence of the mother. On being- taken back to prison after conviction, the prisoner persisted in adhering to the defence he had made before the Jury, that it had occurred by accident. The next morning when the chap- lain visited him, the prisoner made a full confess- ion of his guilt, with all the circumstances at- tending its perpetration; from which period he thrice attempted to carry it into execution, but his courage had as often failed him. On the evening this horrid crime was committed, he availed himself .of the absence of his wife, and taking the kettle of hot water from the side of the fire, poured the liquor into the mouth of the in- fant in its cradle.—The motive for this diabolical act-appears to have been a desire of separating from his wife, with whom he had had some quar- rels, and returning to his employment as a shep- herd. Immense numbers assembled to witness the execution of this wretched malefactor, and many of the spectators appeared much affected by the awful spectacle. A very singular reverse of fortune hasjust hap- pened to an Irishman of the name of Arthur Burns belonging to the county of Tyrone, who at present resides in jhe nigh-Street. He came to this country a number of years ago, and has since wrought in the humble capacity of a builder's labourer, and bore the character of a sober and industrious man. An uncle of his who went to the East Indies in early life as a merchant, ac- cumulated a large fortune, and while on his death- bed at Calcutta, made a will bequeathing the whole of his property in favour of his relation.— The will was I sent home, properly sealed by eight or ten different executors, whose names are at- tached to. it. Inquiry was made after Burns in the north of Ireland, where it was ascertained that he long before had gone to Scotland. A mes- senger was immediately dispatched from Dublin to this city, and careful inquiry was made among the various kinds of labourers, till he was at length traced out a few days ago, and the good news imparted to him. lie was furnished with a copy of his uncle's will, appointing him sole heir to his immense property, amounting to £ "190,000 in cash, several valuable estates, five merchant vessels at sea, besides an inventory of furniture of the richest and most costly description among other articles are a gold table, the length, and breadth, and superficial dimensions of which are stated, a beds'ead mounted with gold, a pair of slippers with gold buckles, two carriages finely mounted with silver, and various oilier aiticles equally splendid. One of the vessels, called the Margaret, is on her passage home with some of these valuable effects, and a large stock of the choicest wines, and several puncheons of rinn consigned, on behalf of Mr. Burns, to the c; re of a respectable merchant in Dublin. Mr Burns is about 40 years of age, is married, but without children. IS one of the money or effects have yet arrived, as the will was despatched before the mercnant was dead, but accounts of his de- cease and the arrival of his effects are daily ex- pected. Mr Burns in the mean time has never ceased a single day from his employment, and is much less elated on the subject than might have been expected. He- regularly carries home in the evening his usual bundle of sticks under his arm for fuel. As is always the case in matters of this kind, new friends and acquaintances, whom he never knew before, have sprung up on every su.e, who are eager in their endeavours to serve him and offers of accommodation with money are unbounded; but he has declined their services and prefers working in his homely garb and abstemious fare, till he be able to touch his own. Three thousand pounds were sent by his uncle to him in Ireland some years ago, in- trusted to the care of a gentleman, who kept it up, and when he failed in London he ranked the labourer as one of his creditors. The compos- ition was 7s., but he haj not yet received it, and ■JRAAESJGMR,. < it would seem that his on him all at once.— G/a.si.ow Chronicle -LONGEVITYThe salubrity 0f England has considerably increased, and the mortality dimi- nished, for many years past. The results of the Population Act afford satisfactory evidence that our ancestors did not enjoy the same degree of, health and longevity that we do at present. The annual mortah.y has decreased nearly one-third ill foi-ty years. In 1780, the rate of mortality was taken at one in forty; in I?93, at one in foity-five 111 1801, at one in fortv-seven in 1811, atone in fifty-two; and in 182!, the're- sulls of the census show a mortality of one in fifty-eight. The limits of hmnan life are tho-iim; now as formerly, and will, probably, always con tinue the same; but more persons iive now to an advanced age than in former times.—Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, J S'at impulse has lately been givea ;vt r-d- in some instances, to the value of land in con- sequence, no doubt, of the change inJhe rate and of the steady lise iu the p. ice of ft°ic «." • |U PJ'om?ee* Th" proprietors of land, wnV • are to look again to wares r /IT'- !la.ve ]u'a;'d it mentioned, that > tsta-e in a neighbouring county, for which the proprietor, about twelve months ago, would have been glad to have^loski for < £ 50,000, has JIM been disposed of for ^TS,000 and another i^ah^CtU)"y>.S0,ld'ab0;,t the san,e ti'»e for ces'h which, from particular circumstaJl' latelv i>lng asaia brou»ht t« market, hats ,lately bee;l sold at the ,uh'aned price 31 ,0001 IMPORTANT TO PAKKNTS.—It was latelv NDP 1 r" T'wCtlnt B<'Bch' in a case iS' .tllat t,he of the birth in a baptismal nnft u ■ e'7-mce to i!rove the aire of the pai ty. It is nothing more than something told to the clergyman at the time of christening, con- cerning which he has nol power by law to make an entry in the register. In this case thedefend- ant was born in ISOI, but the entry stated that he was born ill l/OJ.—The above verdict should be a caution to parents to comply with the Rubric, in not deferring the baptism of their children longer than the first or second Sunday after their birth, as the most important questions in our Coin ts of Justice often turn upon them. At the last Maidstone As sizes, Vaughan, a no- tonous resurrection man, was convicted of steal- ing five dead bodies, and sentenced to two year: imprisonment, but contrived to escape, and a re- ward of £ o0 was offered for his apprehension— A week since, kinsey, the vigilant officer of ttic- lownfiall, Southwark, received private infor- mation that this maraudcnvas practising atMan- chester, and lost not a moment in going in quest othnn. Yesterdayatetterwasreceivedat this office by Mr. Newman, Chief Clerk at the Town HaH, staling that he had succeeded in eaptm j ug the object of his search, with the assistance of Mr. Lavender, at the of tile tliprnin tift ♦» l,erate resistance, and adds, agitation *00 bTv -Was in a state of much a-.nation, -00 bod.es having been ton fiom 'heir last resting place Yesterday morning at* one o clock, he passed tnrough the Borough on is way to Mauistone w ith his prisoner. At VV orcest^r Assizes Mr T> I the following remarks on 1 fr,<, n,a"e cent battle £ that ciy ™T f it"' ?? IT Tnrin-Q ni l V* i Ile ease.011 wtHcn the learn J id e wished to offer u few remarks, was that of James Sand ford, William Ray am Robt. Bing, charged with killing Levi in a pugilistic contest, at Bromsgrove. The law was ciear, inai wneu, oii. a sudden provocation. angry words arise between two parties, and they come to blows, if the death of one of the comba" tants ensues, the parties are, although no unfair advantage may have been t iken, guilty, of the crime of Manslaughter. It was no nmlter who gave the first-blow, or even that the parties had agreed to fight; the main point to be considered was, that it was an tint-awful act,, and had been always so held. A case of death ansino- f,-om fighting must be either murder or mansIaiM (r" Snds^n ?,° P1-CiS° fU,eS laid doiK it merfa n oht w C1™fances of the case.- quarrel and"the fiIht' t0 olaPse b{>tween the Murder; and sh ud J, 7°"™ undoubtolIy him hp si,„ n sucb a case come before theseconda U his du!y to leave both tion Tn SS as the Princii,al for Execu- ter < n° ^accessaries in Manslaugh- T m-il.- Parties being equally implicated. His i'Oi uship here adverted to a case which had come before him in the Court of King's Bench, and in, which he had sentenced the Principal and both the Seconds in a duel to the same term of iiii pnsonment. Which of the parties, he would ask was the most guilty?.the1 principals, heated pro bably by anger, by intemperance, and by animo- sity. or the two persons who stood by in cold blood to aid and assist? In point of morals the seconds were undoubtedly the most criminal.- r naturally led him to notice a or ritv lii' recently occurred in this county deaKf WaS SUre -Vhich hl' to the ought to have prevented i/ 1 Ma""h'acy' aud of persons and inn,, was no respecter the Magistrates of t!T e.ther ]t woul:l fflU 11 iion ed partly upon hnt £ :°Unty ,°r Clty he belioy- one of it, he cared not which. (Here ship said 'VmLfIapStrales ™Se,\ but ,lis Um[- what thi l0t hear V°u Srr- J 11 had said of mio Tm<1 of a socond was and if the death nll.„t 1 f combatants had ensued, in the case 'inn- Jo every person there aiding and assist- "s would have, been equally guilty of the crime of murder. The toleration of such proceedings could not be justified by any pecuniary adVintage derived either by individuals or by the city. He was sorry also to understand that the erection of the scaffolding, which occupied three days, al- though so insecurely put up, was proceeded willt on that sacred day which ought to have been de- dicated to God: this respectable and opulent city and county, which he had so much admired, ought by no means to have permitted such disgraceful scenes, and he sincerely hoped that they would never again occur."
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