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11,IIE I d be a Butterfly, bom in a bovver, Where roses and lilies and t ROling for tycr from flower tu flower, A"(Igki "iii?, all buds that an' pretty and sweet. I'd never languish for wealth or tor power; 1'.lne\'er .;ih to see slaves at my feet- I'd be a Butterfly', born in a bower, Kissing all buds that are pretty and sweet. O ('olll,11 pilfer thr wand of a fairy, I'd have a pair of those beautiful wings Their summer day's ramble is sportive and airy, Tnev sleep in a rose when the nightingale sinafs. Tiinse wlio have wealth must he watchful & wary Power, alas! nought hut misery brings- I'd be a Butterfly, sportive and airy, HuckJm-t rose when the nightingale sings. What though ou tell me each gay little rover Shrinks Vrum the breath of the first autumn day Sure it is better, when summer is over, To die when all fair things are fading away. Some in life's winter 111'" y toil to discover Means of procuring a weary dday-- l'il be a Butterfly, living a rover- Djing when fair things are lading away. IMITATED. Ah sim Papilio natus in 1hlSo\\lo. Hosæ ulii Jiiiuque et vida, patent; Floribus advolans, avolans, oseulo (Jemmulas tangens, (pia? suave- olent' Regna et opes ego neuticjuum postuh), ol" ego at! p"de qui se voluteut— Ah Silll Papilio natus in floseulo, Oseulans gemmas qua> suave olent* Magieam si possem virgam furari, Alas has pulehras aptein mi, eheu Aistivis aetis diehus in aeiv, Piosa cuhant Philomelas cantu. Opes quid aflerunt ? C'uras, solllllum rare; IteglHL nil prseter wriiiiiiias, eheu Ah sim l'apHio, die volans aere, ttosa cubaus cantu <^i' mque horum vagulum dieis borrore Frigora Autumni rerit's suo: iEstas ijiiando abiit, mallem ego mori, Omni Iln.,d dulee est eadente I'ukliro. 13 J'U 1111' (jui cupiunt captent lahore (audia, et moras breves trahunto— Ah <i?n Papilio; vivatn inenorr, ( lUK'idamque 0111111 eadente pulehro.

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TO CAM If. 010, tjiidy, if i!ie lips of love Snould w"j per dying- sweets to thee. Til), I, lie a dream of hliss above, Earlh seem an immortality— Beware of cliazi gt, and pray for truth, hesr joy be blighted into ruth, For love deceived will wither youth. Then, farewell all thy spirit's lightness, Fthereal smiles will fade in tears. AmI l'.HS of deep and melting brightness. Grow dim with dread vf coming years: The soul uf mirth will then bo dumb, And all tiiy loveliness become A 1IllUul')'sad to look upon, Would I were joyous as thou art, Tnen might I I'rnt1<r love to thee But I am grown too old in hea, t, And gloomy lhonght uow dwell with me: Far frolll the lond wurhl's ravening prowl ] live, nor reek its smile or scowl— With no companion but all owl. It grave, boar, melancholy thiug, Aged ill looks 1,1'\0,1<1 his years, With silver beard and solemn win, And coally eye that blinks and glares fldel1t, in hermit weeds bedight, All day he sils, hut fierce [or fight. Shouts to the spirits of the night! We Iwo thus live in brotherhood, "Nu quarrel e'er disturbs the hOlls" ¡ For I taU read, or write, or hroOfJ, II liitv he at leisure picks his mouse 11"1 il srtv, dear Cain,—I guess each word— Thi may be well for man and bird, But who te deuce would make—a third; Some iuk, some paper, and some books, Besides a rather old guitar, With quills froiu wings of geese and rooks, )j worldly chattels soldy are Bnt Ulenc.. is like the stitch; 'Tis Sl) much labour to gr;>w rich. I'd almost sooner wun a witch Yet by thy lips. and those fond e\os. And tiowmg air \dtq;tu4lu'" Ires»e>,— 1$1 every Lt"uiJ smile that iies Deep ttS a of sweet ('.u-ese8- 1 w,1d that summer years tome Fould back return, for tbeu might we liveu !l)l' into reality.

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—— jfoirign IntrlUgwff. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING. The (ierman mail contains news from Greece, which is of solCe little importance, if any from (1 l'tO' C, since tile active interference of Ilnssia.,can be said to he important. I hu plague, or some other disorder as fatal, has broken out in the e imp of Ibrahim Pacha, and lie appears heartily tired of his position. A corvette belonging to him has heen tahn by the Russians. We should not be surprised if wc soon heard of' his having evacuated the :\iorea. Independently of other considerations, his presence with whatner troops he could com- mand might be found more useful in the north thall in the south of the Turkish empirc, The Kiaja Bey is pone f to Adrianople with the van- guavd of an army of 00,000 men, the levy of the capital, whieh is commanded by the l>rand Vizier, who has, however, not yet joined it. A summons for all Mussulmans, from It to tit) has been or dered, and it is said that the decisive measure of' hoisting the standard of the prophet is to he rc- sorted to. This is the ultimate appeal. Every believer in Mahomet, wheve*er dispersed, from India to Greece, is bound to appear in arms to de- fend the caust: of his faith, 011 this imperative ap- peal of the head of his chmch, What may be its effect '11' is not cas" to say, but it will at all events exalt the fanaticism of those whom the Sul- tan can muster. ( )i r f,?,iii f the 2!iti? J. ?t?t, that the Rnssian fleet sailed from that port on the 2?th, for Copenhagen. It was ClhllpOSI.,1 of the St. Andre, Constantin, and St. Vladimir, of 71 gnns; I'Vre Challlpclloise, of 84 Emanuel, of 1;4; the friates Marie, Olga, Alexandra, and Mer Smiavin had hoisted ins (lag oil board the St. Amire, and Hear Admiral Kieord his on hoard the Constantin. The Fere t'hampenoise. {'onstantin, and Uraaiiucl, with the frigates .Marie, Ol. a, and Alexandra, under the orders of Hear Admiral Ricord, would join the tlClt under Vice Admiral Hevdeii; the three other vessels would return with Admiral Siniavin h Cnmstatlt. The second division, consisting of the Jmperatrice Alexei d.ia, of 81 guns, the Grand Duke Michael, and 1 rincess I.0wi. 0f 7-1, anil the brigs Telamaipie ;cud Vlys,e, would put to sea in the course of the present month to join the fleet of Vice Admiral Ileyden. The Admiral to commallll this division was not yet known, t'y,,t, ill. to it)(. :"Ilillst. iiiciiti(§Il that Connt Pahl"1l has received orders to follow the Russian army in linlgaria, and to confide the administration of the provinces to M. de Sturdza. On the 5>th of June a requisition hail been coin mUIlit-at. d to thl' Hil'an of :Uoldalia for 1,;)UO oxen.thcpriee fixed was 20 piastres per head. Thesetwo uiifoiUmalj provinces are treated in the shape of rClluisitium so severely, that it was it not the intention of the Russians 10 retain possession ultimately, or they would not tnlis drain their resources. On the yitli of June, Bucharest had been visited by a storm, which had done damage to (If three HlilliOlJS of piastres. Lienor i' lloth was advancing upon Bul garia. It was said to be the plan of tlie Emperor Nicholas to possess himself of all the fortresses of Asia belonging to Turkey, as a guarantee for the indemnity lie daims of that power. Advices from Toulon state the arrival of the Trident, from the l.evant, with accounts to the latter part of June. According to these, the Sul- tall had accepted the mediation of England and France, ami an envoy of the, Porte was about to set out in a Turkish corvette for Corfu, under the ,,ate I)atiiitii?e. It ?vt? iiii. escort of the French frigate I'alinure. It was IIn derstood that the Gland Vizier had set out for Chouinla, for the purpose of forming an en- trenched camp, and that he would there await the approach of the Russian force, and dispute the passage of the Balkan. Two vessels s.ule.l from Toulon 011 tile lttli, for Egina, with powder aud other mnnitiolls of war, aud upwards of iiOU,UUU francs addressed to ill. Capo d'lstrias. lh aeeountsfrotnHavannahofthe XthofJunc, it appears that the yellow fever had entirely sub- sidcd, and the harbour was more healthy than it had been for years during the season. The dandy Itner had also ceased after having attacked almost every individual in the place. A new duty of live dollars per barrrel had been imposed on Spanish flour imported in foreign hot toms, Thi", order was given in consequence of a d« fi.it of 300,000 dollars in the revenue upon the ar,idc of flour. Dispatches (Yom the British Charge d' Amtires at Madrid, bring intelligence from that capital to the 10th inst. They contain an account of very serious commotions at I.ogrono, near Burgos, where considerable parties of vuerilla troops had assembled, aud openly opposed ihe 1!)Vtmllnent. A strong hody of tlw royal army was illlIl1e,liatdy dispatched to disperse them, when all ohstinatc engagement I'uued, whieh ended in the complete defeat of the Royalists. The insurrectionists, em lioldcn by success, .lH\ l'ontinnnB)1 receiving all ditions to their numbers, were, wheu these ac- ('Ht1\t.. cam away, taking every advantage oftlw victory they hwl obtained and It was apprehended that Ferdinand would experience no slight diffi- culty in crushing this rebellion. It thus not ap- pear that this event was oecasiouul by any com- munication with the Portuguese constitutionalists ,dthlIuh it is very prnhablc Ihat such might have lieetu the ease. We IInlkrslar.d that the aft'.iir is "Hn"jdtn<l hy the Spanish .Ministry as seriously important. It 'ti?,? i!,t?'li!?(? troubles of the unhappy natives of the Peninsula were yet far from heill at au eml Report has readied us through Vienna, that a great hattle has been foudlt near Sehuumia, ilf which t; c Turks were defeated and that the Rus siÙll" were rapidly a(bl<lI1('j'H{ It appears from various letters t: at an assassin had engaged for a certain sum to administer puison to Couut Capo d'lstrias, but the plot having heen discovered, many persons were arrested, and put on board a Russian frigate. It is said that the fa mousColetti is one of them. Hkui.in, Jn.Y 18.—A bulletin from the camp at Karassau, dated July 5, gives some farthlT details of the siege of Brailow, which hegu i on the ijth of May, and ended the 18th of June, having lasted '.t:) days in all. Though the Russians w. rc un- ucccssful in their attempt to carry the place by I storm, the loss the Turks had sustained (amount- I JIR according to their own accounts to 1,000 men) all,1 thc ivuiage with which the Russians repulsed all their sallies, induced the garrison to capitu- hll', without waiting the result of another attack. The total )0S' of the Russians, in killed and woulHkd, is tat,d at 3,000 men thc greatcJ part iof the laUcl' had rejoined the army. I SWINDLING. One of the most audacious and successful cheva- liers triiifiiiS'rk to be met with in the history of ?.;?[[i,? is !?w.t convict at the Bagnio of Roche, fort. He is named Anthelme Coller, <11141 was con- demned eight years ago to twenty years' hard labour. The s n of a working cibintt- laKer at Helloy (department de l'Ain), he was brought up at the I'ritanie, ami has since appeared ill the world under the following various characters:—First a lieutenant, then captain and major of the J'tli regiment, deserter, thief, bishop, inspcctor-geiieral, ambulatory surgeon, brother of the Christian doctrine, and no.v a galley convict at the age of 43. In his military eareer he owed his commission more to intrigue than bravery. Not liking the profession of arms, he deserted, threw off the niilj- tarv uniform, and assumed the dcrkal black cassock, whid! he soon after chanced into a doltt coloured one, forged a bull nominating himself to the episcopacy, and was, as a Loid Bishop, re- ceded ill the most flattering manner, led, and almo t sanctified at Nice, where, by way ol il'1"1! him honou the bishop of the diocese allowed 33 priests, ami as many deacons and sub-ileacons, to iceeive ordination at 1lis hands. To mae a suita- b] return for these compliments, lie mounted the pulpit and preached a sermon of Bourdaloue's (this being the eighth time lie had preached the sc:t.i u in different places), which got him the limitation of a most eminent preacher. Shortly after this, a party of gendarmes, who had got a descriptIOn of his person, came to arrest him, but he supported his ecclesiastical character so well, and gave them his episcopal blessing with so such dignity and unction, that they dreaded they were under some mistake, and allowed him t,) pass.— On his quitting Nice, several pious persons made a collection amounting to 8,000 francs, which they intrusted to him to employ in works of charity. Some time after, considering the dignity and re- venues of his ecclesiastical character precarious, he renounced it, and again returned to the enjoyment of military honours. In 1810 he conferred upon himself the appointment of Inspector general, and in that capacity called upon a Commissary of W ar to submit his registers to him for inspection, got from him a considerable sum of money under pretence of organizing an army in Catalonia, and left the commissary enchanted with the promise he had made him of procuring him the Cross of the Legion of Honour. At Nismes, by similar prac- tices, he got into his hands government money to the amount of 300,000 francs ( £ 12,000), and at Mimtpellier other latge sums. But his stay in this last town proved fatal to him. One day he re viewd the troops at six o'clock iu the morning, then (alled upon the prefect, whom he compli- mented upon his excellent administration of the department, and promised to have made a superior olIiter in the Leg-ion of Honour; but, unfortunate- lv, two hours after, he was arrested, together with -j 'j officers who formed his staff'. His adventures, however, did not close here a few days after his arrest, the prefect, having a numerous company to dinner, wished to let them see this famous swind lcr. He was accordingly brought to the prefecture by two gendarmes, and placed i a room contigu- ous to the dining room, nntillle should be brought in al mg with the dessert. Finding in this room une of the cook's colton night caps and apron, lie put them on, and, taking a dish full of some viands or other in each hand, he kicked, as if in a great hurry, against the door, which was opened by the gen- darmes, and the pretended cook wralked boldly into the dining room, and ill a few millutes was clear out of the house. When the ex-inspector- general was called for, he was, of course, absent without leave. Great was the confusion of the prefect and the disappointment of his guests and the former, in the Jirstmomentofhis anger, offered a reward of 10,000 francs to anyone who would hrillg him the fugitive, alive or dead. This, how- ever, proved useless, though the object of his pur- suit was concealed in a house next to the prefec- ture for an entire mouth, and could see the prefect every day making his toilet. Whilst in this retreat he happened to find a treatise on Osteology, by Sabatier, so much of which he got by heart, that it enabled him to pass himself off as a surgeon-major, and in that capacity was actually cmployell by General Donadieu, then commanding at Saamur. lie afterwords practised as a civil surgeon but in some time, becoming less mundane in his ideas, he became a member of tlie Ernies ChniintwrH, at Toulouse, where he took a house, and set up an establishment for novices. When he had the house filled with thelll he disappeared, and left them to settle accounts willi the proprietor. Pursuing the course of his adventures, he arrived at Roche Beaumont, where, to lull the vigilance of the police, he took lodgings in the house of the Commissary of Police. Here he made the acquaintance of some officers, to one of whom he talked a great deal of his estates near the Rhone, and his desire to find a trust worthy person to supply the place of a steward, whom he had discharged. The officer proposed to accept the place, and was given it, on condition that he should marry, as a further guarantee of his steadiness. The ofifcer consented, his marriage took place, and he set out, furnished with a letter giving him full powers to enter upon the stewardship of estates, the precise situation of which he has, of course, not yet been able to dis cover. It was not until 1819 that the adventurous career of 1\1, Anthelme Collett terminated, by his hdng: arrested at Mons, for some obscure and ill- significant infraction of the laws. For the last eight years Collet has been dead to the world. It is singular that a genius of such infinite resources should not have before this hail the bagnio adien; but, as yet he has made no attempt at escape, and has conducted himself remarkably well. I ADMIIlAIi GREIG. It may he interesting to our readers to be in- formed, that Admiral Greig, f whum honourable mention is made in a late Russian Bulletin, re- eeired his first knowledge of naval tactics in the British navy. During the reign of Paul, Greig, like many other worthy men, fell under his dis pleasure, and was ordered into the interior under surveillance, because he ottered his resignation when the infatuation of Paul led him to a breach with England and young Greig, from high seme of honour and gratitude to the country of his fore- father, and to the attention received in the British service, preferred offering to r, sign his rank (then captain in the Russian nary) than to serve against Britain. He is said to lie the pcrfect model of his father-hra"e, considerate, entirely void of listen tatuin. 'ind disinterested. His age, we believe, is about fifty-eight. lie btl the happiness of being in high favour with the late Emperor Alexander, I,II;e his father, the late Admiral Greig,* his ambi- tion hes ill performing Ills duties, and the love uf Intrc hc cunsiders he neath his notice. In this he ,e.cmhles our immortal Nelson, and in another trait the resemblance between their characters is marked, as was also the case with his father, per- fect coolness in action, and adored by persons serv- ing under him. Greig, when a youth, received his education at the High School oi Edinburgh. The father of Admiral Grdg was horn at In- verkeithing, North Britain, entered into the British navy, and attained the rank of lieutenant, was ac- tively employed in 1760 at the siege of Havanna. The Empress Catherine wished some British officers to enter her service, and amongst them were two lictit, nants from the same place, and connected by relationship, Greig and Roxburgh, the latter dieil an admiral. In the war in which Catherine shortly afterwards became engaged against the Turks, a fleet was sent to the Mediterranean. The nominal command was bestowed on her favourite, Count Alexis Orloff, but he not being experienced in naval matters, had the judgment, in a great mea. sure, to trust to Greig, and otlici- liritisil (ififcers, under whose direction the planning and the des- truction of the Turkish fleet was accomplished, in the bay of 'l'chesma. The present Admiral Greig is named Alexis Orlolf, after the friend uf his fa ther.) Admiral Samuel Greig was promoted to situations of the greatest trust and importance by the Empress Catharine, was governor of Cronstadt. and after his success against the Swedish fleet, he was taken dangerously ill, but ennld not be pre vailed upon to enter port. He then was blockading the Swedish fleet. At last, the officer next in com maud ordered the admiral's ship into Revel. The Empress, 011 hearing his dangerolls state, immedi- ately ordered her own body physician from Peters burgh, Dr. Rogerson, to attend Greig, but all availed nothing; he died, in a great measure, a inartvr to his duty, and his sovereign caused a hautl<ome marble mOllument to be erected to his memory, in Revel church, where his remains are deposited. INTERESTING NARRATIVE. The following extraordinary allll deeply interest ing- narrative is extracted from the Meiitt,ires Hit- tniii/iies of M. de la Bussicrc. It exhibits a frigh ful picture of the savage butcheries perpetrated by the monsters of the French Revolution and an afllii ting example of how much human misery may be averted uj" one intrepid heart allill1atc,1 by the loftiest virtues:— Bussiere was plunged, hy the Revolution, into the lowest poverty pt last a friend procured him a situation in the dreadful Committee of Safety, which shed the blood of Frenchmen in streams. In the hope that lie might be able to devise some means, even here, at the source of destruction, in some degree at least, to check its irruptions, he undertook the hazardous office. His employment consisted in taking charge of the papers of accusa- c h arge of the palier!i tion sent to the committee; and here it was that the noble minded youth could best exeentc his plan nf snatching thousands of guiltless beings from the knile of the murderer. 011 the first day that Bussiere entertd upon his office, thirty five, some of them mllst respectable in dividuals, were executed and from that moment he resolved to save asiiiaii.), lives as he could, what ever may be the risk to his own. At first he attempted it by concealing, for a time, the papers containing capital accusations, and in this manner he saved the lives of sixty-six men at the outset. Afterwards, however, when he per- c.'ived that these papers were not looked after with any sort of regularity, he determined to push his work of preservation to a greater extent, and wholly to destroyed as many papers as possible. But flow?—To burn them was hazardous; the fire or the ashes might have raised suspicions; lie contrived, therefore, another scheme; every three or four days, about midnight, when theCom mittee of Safety was assembled, he stole to his office, and in the tiark tuuk ftom it the papers which he had already selected, steeped theiu in a bucket of water, squeezed the mass into balls, betook himself to the baths on the Seine, COlt- verted the balls into others of a smaller size, flung them about into the stream, and let them be swept away, lIe did not dare to remove all the papers of accusation in this manner, because thus the who)" alfair would have been discovered. He took, therefore, into particular consideration who were fathers or mothers of families and useful members of society. He likewise took into ac count such persons as were accused merely because of their rank or wealth. In a very short time he secreted upwards of eight hundred accusations. In the number of persons saved were Josephine the futuie Empress, the wile of La Fayette, the wife of Gen. Custine, Madame de Buffon, and the whole of the most celebrated actors of the great French theatre. (They afterwards gave a benefit to their preserver, as a proof of their gratitude.) But the preservation of these last had nearly brought his own neck under the knife. He had not been able to convert the whole pile of' doc u- ments into balls, as usual, and ventured to carry the remaining papers away in his pocket. lie had already reached the stairs, when he heard ap- proaching the voices of the wretc hes, Robespierre, St. :I:;fe;TIe' ;f'v .ic'j Fouqnier Tinzillc, who harljnst quitted the cham- ber of meeting. There was not a moment to lose. He threw himself into a chest for holding wood close by this chest the demons stopt to take coun- sel ilow they might cut oil' a greater number of victims than .heretofore and Robespierre and St. Just even seated themselves upon the chest.— Bussiere durst not breathe audibly much less move, and was almost suffocated by the heat; at last they went away, and he was released. But now the sentinel would not let him out by the great gate at so untimely an hour; he therefore escaped by a side-way, and went to the adjoining Boulevard, there to wait the morning. Suddenly the furious- I.epelletier, a creature of the destroyers, passed by, seized him as a suspicious night traveller, would hear no excuses, and dragged him to a watch- housc-But, luckily never thought of searching his loaded pockets, otherwise Bussiere, and the whole ef the performers of the great opera had finished the performance of their parts. The noise attract- ed several persons to the spot, and, amongst others, oiie of the inferior officers of the Committee of Safety, named Pierre, a friend of Bussicre's. Pierre, considering it a point of honour to liberate his brother functionary, resolutely demanded that Lepclietier should be taken into custody, bccause he had put an indignity upon the public oiffcers of the State, and apprehende,1 one of their most faithful servants. Lepelletier, in his turn, was uow seized with great terror, and earnestly en treated that his mistake might be overlooked.— Bussiere was instantly liberated, and hastening to his bath, he forthwith emptied the contents of his pockets into the Seine. Not long after this Robespierre himself, and all his associates, perished on the scaffold. 'They left behind them l.j0,000 captives in the prisons tlimugh out France. THE LATE BISHOP OF CANTERBURY. The Archbishop of Canterbury had been ailing for about a month; but, as it was only for the last ten da) s that he was confined to the house, so speedy a termination of his life was not expected. On the contrary, all alarm on the part of the fa inily was, for the present at least, removed, by the evident improvement in the state of his disorder on Sunday. In the course of the night, however, symptoms of internal inflammation began to ap- pear, and in the morning it became too evident that his dissolution was fast approaching. His Grace, besides being Metropolitan and Pii- mate of all England, was a Lord of Trade and Plantations, an ofiicial Trustee of the British Museum, aGovcrnorof the Charterhouse, a Visitor of All Souls' and Merton College, Oxford. His grace was brother to Lord Manners, the late Irish Chancellor. His father, Lord George Sutton, was third son of John, the third Duke of Rutland, and he is uncle to the last, and great nncle to the pre- sent Duke. The name of Sutton, in addition to that of Manners, was takeu on succeeding to an es- tate, bequeathed to his uncle Robert by Lord Lex- ington, his maternal uncle, which, on the death of Robert, devol ved to George, the father of his grace. Dr. Sutton, by which name his grace was chiefly known, was early destined to the church, and com- plctetl his clericl education in Emanuel College, Cambridge, where he took his degree of A. B. in 1777, when he was about 22. In 17'91, on the death of Dr. Tarrant, he becam. Dean of Peter. borough; and in the following year Bishop of Norwich, on the death o I the celebrated Dr. Home. He then relinquished his other preferments for the deanrv of Windsor. Dr. Prettyman, afterwards Tomline, who was Mr. Pitt's tutor, had counted, through his influence with Mr, Pitt, on obtaining Canterbury on the death of Dr. Moore; but though no time was lost by Dr. Tomline in posting to Windsor when Dr. Moore's death took place, he only arriveli in the presence of the King in time tQ hear Dr. Sutton express his thanks to his Ma jesty for his elevation to theMetr.qin.i: See. Dr Sutton was tall, and if^nely formed. Uts uj pearauce ill the HUllse of Lords was digllified allll becoming. I lis voice was mellow, and his deliver- anee clear and impressive. He neier spoke but when the church was directly or indirectly con cerned, and then he always expressed himself with much facility. He was an elegant icholur ali(I a polislie(I gelitieniall. llis graee married, early in lilc, it ladv of the name of Thornt,HI, by whom lie had a numerous family. 'The Speaker of the House of Commons is his eltlest son, and one of his daughters is the ladv of Dr. Percy, late Dean of Canterbury, now Bishop of Carlisle. Another daughter is the wife of the Rev. Charles Croft, Archdeacon of Cajit- i- bury, HORRIBLE SPECTACLE— I: ¡ "('HOLY AND DISTRESSING SHIPWRECK. The brig Catherinean,1 Hannah, I); and from Sunderland, Captain Lum-al.n, anived at Cork Flarbour ( n Thursday the lith inst. and we have been put in poession oftlw o'lllwing- distn s ing particulars, which tend to re, all, in t'.eir ildTa ior, the t.orrihle trap;ed wI, .11 had s r. eentlv taken place. The captain states, that on the ftii of p, ill., lie picked up a boat belonging to the Superb, of and from Bristol for Quebec, whkh ran foul of an iecher!{, on the iils; of April, which stove in her bows This IInforturate occurrence obliged all hands to toke to the pumps, at which the) eon tinned without intermission for two days and a night, when a schooner hove in sight; and the captain proceeded in the jolly boat, to treat with them to take the crew. While the captain was so engaged, the vessel being quite in a sinking state, the crew left the pumps to get the boats out to leave her-Ihey succeeded in getting a boat (the one subsequently picked up) and seven men got into her, on wluch they unhooked the tackle, slip- ped the ship, but could nnt ag-ain regain her, and it coming on thick, they could not find the Schooner; the unfortui ate men were left to the mercy of an all wise God-without provisions, water, masts, si i s or a iy thing that would enable them to struggle for existence, save and except two oars In this state, they were bufl'etted about for eleven days, not knowing in what direction they were m,whg-, and with feelings it is totall) im- possible to describe—when they were fallen in with the Catherine and Hannah, when the scene that prcscnted itself was sufficient to "ppal the stoutest heart-as it had already struck ti.e crew with honor! Of the seven mën only two wcre alive. Two of them died about twent? four hours after leaving the ship, from their previous sufi"r. ings, and un their bodies the otheis subsisted for some time. Three others were also dead in the boat, whose blood afforded drink and their ho dies sustenance to the wretched lIIen, who lived to narrate the heart-rending tale-iii a word, they were endeavouring to prolong a wretched exis- tence by eating and drinking eaeh other's and to add to their misery, thev had all been dreadfully frost bitten before death had terminated their sufferings. Captain Lums.len instantly took the living men ou beard, hut one of lliem only survived al),)tit tw. itt v ff)tir other sur vivor is so much frost-bitten, that it is supposed his legs must be amputated, and f om all he has suffered his recovery is considered doubtful—it seems that his being 'able to sustain himself longer than his companions in misery, was owing to to- bacco. He states t ;??: ,t th? I mate, and eight of the crew, were left on board the Superb, and when they parted her the carpenter was en aI'd in cutting away the stauncheons to ,??t the long boat over the side it being washed to leward against them. It is to be hoped that Captain Keane remained on board the schooner, and lives to give a more authentic and detailed account- and that we shall hear of the safety of those on board the Superb. — FRENCH CRBIINAL JCDICATf RE. The Keeper of the Seals has made a report to the King, of the administration of criminal justice in France during the year 1827. The following are the results:- The different courts of assizes tried, during the year, 7,77-f persons, of whom 84.'j not being present, were condemned as contumacious. The uumber of accused, which, in reference to the entire popula- tion, was in IS:!6 only one in 11,.507, was ill 1827 one in 4,69, The proportion of crime against per- sons and property was as follows:—28 in every 100 of crimes committed against the person, and 72 I :i(;2f¡1:Id,b\V:; the same as in 1826. Of the 0,02!) accuse d w h o took their trials, 2,(i03 were acquitted, f,23fi condemned, ri2. :-IO!J to death, 317 to hard labour forlife, 1,062 to hard labour for different periods, 1,223 to reclusion, 5 to the pillory, 6 to deprivation of civil rights, 1,110 to imprison- ment, and 68, who were under sixteen years of age, to confinement, for different periods, in a house of correction. Of the 1u!J sentenced to death, only 76 were executed, the others haring had their senten- ces commuted by the clemency of the King. The nnmher of females tried was the same as in 1826 viz. 18 in every 100. The tittinbet- of accused under iii vears of age, which, in 1826, was 121, was last year 126; but the number of accused fiom Iti to il years of age has diminished by 79. The aecused under 30 years of age form the .il-lOOth of the totalllumber. In 1826 they formed the ■} ) 'louth. The mean term ol acquittals of accused persons who had been be- fore in the hands ofjustice was 17 in every JlJO,- The number of liberated convicts tried for crime committed after their liberation, which was, in 1826, 179, was last year only 173. The total num- her of liberated convicts now in France is 11,404, and the number of persons liberated from impri- sonment i,S!lll In comparing this number with that of those who have committed fresh olfences, we find among the liberated convicts I in (iti, and among those liberated from rcclusion, I in 70. The greatest number of persons tried for second of- fences, was among those condemned for theft; of these there were GH6 in 893, being in the propor- tion of 770 to 1,000. Among the accused for se- cond offeuecs there were only 3;i who had been be- fore condemned for vagrancy, and 122, or 13 the 100, who had been before condemned for offences against the person. It appears certain, from the number of second offences of theft, that the propen- sity to theft is the most difficult to be corrected in 173 liberated convicts who wore tried in 1827, ten had committed theft whilst uml rg ing their punishment, 42 in the first year of their liberation, 29 in the second, 27 in the third, 11 in the fourth, 9 in the fifth, and 42 after an interval of j years, The proportion of persons who have committed crime in the first year of their liberation is as fol- lows 24 in every hundred from hard labour, 23 from reclusion, 30 from imprisonme\Jt 1'1' one year or more, and 31 from imprisonment for less than one year. The Correctional Tribunals of France pronoun- ced in 1827, 11V",48S judgments against 171,2-16 accused. Of these, 23,980 were acquitted; 6,180 imprisoned for one year or more; 20,976 impri- soned for less than a year; 117,999 simply fined • and 11 captains of vessels rendeied incapable of future command. Of 191 persons accused of of fence ected with the press, 93 were acquit- Wiitrds Of the 115,488 cor ??trjudgments, 5,548 were appeaied against ch 2,6o? were reused or modified The number of accused in affairs of simple police, Was 18,006 less than in 18?.6. of iiiin p le p(,Iice, was In the prosecutions hy the government, the p.o- Eritrytr"1- «•> in other cases It was 48 in every 100, '?' 97 ^bl'C '?""?'c' were accused of cor,-i?l,tioii, or misconduct in their cnlcc of these 45 were prosecuted by permission of the cbiefs of tthhe eTdeep™arttments to which they belonged, and 24 by permission of the Council of State permission to prosecute was Chamber of Accusation, Is acquitted, :;mi th., mainder condemned criminally or cwrtrii. n!j In matters of simple police, of which w'eie appealed against, .>!> were LOUD MANNERS. Tin; truly classical and elegant testiinnni, f, the bar or lieland, whid, h, heen prepared his lordship's departure frolll that el'UIJtn, scnted to his lonhhip on Wedm^Iav ];1 presents a temple three feet high, atid two fut acn,s tlie I tilth, which is a curved sided <|uadra>i. V, uj, which stan d s figures of Egyptian horses. |„ ti. ecnirof die quadrangle rises an octagon hasescvm inch's deep, of great architectural beauty. On four entablatures, surmounted J: hu -k^are represent.d in alio ri l iivti, the following ets:— •, ng signing -M agna Chart a—Itie n.tt ■• o h iiuus kgt ■; Anglire mutari /loses rue 'ing tin mniieand ments on Mount i¡¡;¡j. 'wtli e i ;■ w HI t.erspeet;»; of the Hebrew encampment and iAeui na-wear, ing the Spartans. Oil the octagon base stand a ei- culi-r rentro.or- namented at the bottom with ton s. Jt;¡\idl his .'nrd. ship's arms beautifully cl.i.i.-ni, i ;i oslie vi huh are the anns 01' ireland, v.i;h tv.o sai usc.ij-t;. in wreaths to l'onespond- "TO THOMAS 1,01,11 :}o:n. Fl>I Till: I). (H};I.ASJJ. The centre is surmounted by a highly en.! e-ed sir 01 border, with four lions' h. ads, ti. l.. r eh spring four consoles richly (La\ and atL,tl:t.1 tQ foursquare pillars—the basui of four Egyptian pilasters. On each uf the consoles stauds" statue of exquisite wor)¡lIIansl¡i!J- ¡..I"m, Prudence, Justice, and Piety,so arranged that the attribute of each figure corresponds with each sub ject of the en- tablature beneath. The pilasters support a noble frieze highly ornamented with "II ouk band an,1 Greciau honeysuckle. The top ri presents the law regalia, Chancellor's purse, mace, iv. surmounted by a crown. All the chased or embossed parts are of white or dead siJrer-wdght of the entire 1620 OllJ1<:es. SELECTIONS. Llnr:nT\" or 1ïn: Pkfss 1\ rl'f,0, the editor of the Annahs du Co.-nni.-ice, w..s trii if h the correctional poli"<1 l'a is, \i stcrdey week, fôr publishing a political journal without "¡;illl7. and on the followiI11{ day he was tritd 1'.1' an ;t rage on the i\ ligioti of the state, on the public 1"0 ntls. and good manners, in having published in the Annates du Comrncice seme fragm(¡¡b of a poem entitled St. Guignolct. lie W"S found gnilt of both offences; <?rt)if' f!?t))u?'as?-n ten,1 tl) imprisonment for six months ami a 1m," to five years' imprisonment and a fine of 6,000 francs. Produce OF Wheat IS Franc E,t one of the mot recent meetings of the Academy ur Sciences in Paris, the secretary read a p.er on tito •' pre- sent and former produce of win at in Frame," from which it appeared, that foi'y years ago, the amount of wheat annually grown in France "as sufficient, reckoning the population at the time at twenty five millions, from which five millions au- to he deducted lorcluldren under tell years of inc. to give to each peison 0S31b. of wheat per annum, or one pound nine ounces of bread daile, after taking away the wheat necessary for seed for the ensuing year. The population s ince the pi re i here referred to has increased to thirty two n., lions, but there has heen no increase in the w h i, c produce; from which it is inferred that the lav. I brought into cultivation since the revo'ution lies been chiefly laid out for vineyards, plants, and potatoes. Monomania.—A remarkable instance or nru.'o mania was recently brought under the notice 'H' the Royal Ceivrt at Paris, as an appeal from Ihe decision of another court. The person in quts- tion received, when yoliig, an education cxcl i- sivcty religious. From the warmth of his nation, and from the course of his education, as he grew up his fanaticism increased upon him, am! more especially when he was excited with drink, which he was occasionally in the habit 0, indul g'ingin. li? th?,t tl,, ("?] ,I, j?i, ',tll,r had inspired him to indulge in the most extrava gant religions performances, aii(I if the priest of the parish interfered in any wav, he was in t.0 habit of insulting and maltreating him. On one occasion he threw himself into the river, with the intention of drowning himself, at. he said, the command of his father. Oil another occasion he opened all the doors an,1 win,lows in the hous for the purpose, as lie said. oflettin in the Holv Ghost. He was also in the habit of knocking down persons, ami especially p: i",ts, whom 1:" might meet, because his father ."ommaiMlcd hi", to do so. His dress and person were in the most disgusting condition. At the same time lie car- ried on his business as a cattle dealer, its usual, with care and attention; and on other subjects than tha' of religion and his father, was perfectly sane, The court deeJand that lie was in a state of derangement, and ordered him to he confined.

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