tatorial language may have on the Spanish Government, and whether or not the other Courts of Europe will sanction the views of this Memorial, remain for time to determine.

The number of Jesuits in Russia, when the decree for their banishment was issued, amounted to 800 at least. It is said, that some are gone to China.

ASIA.

Accounts have been received, of a very unpleasant kind, of the issue of the expedition under Sir William Carr to the Persian Gulph. Report says, that the pirates, who in the first place abandoned the fort, which some time ago the public were informed had been quietly taken possession of by the troops under Sir William's command, returned and made, a formidable attack on the fort, in which the 47th and 64th regiments suffered severely. AFRICA.

The crew of a Spanish slave ship is said to have poisoned 396 slaves on board, in order to prevent their being captured by the English.

The John transport has arrived at Portsmouth from the Cape of Good Hope, The John took out 600 settlers for Algoa Bay, principally from Lancashire. The passengers were severely attacked with the measles on the voyage out; but from the great attention paid them, they soon recovered from its effects.

AMERICA, &c.

New York papers to the 29th ult, contain no political intelligence of any interest; but they give us the details of two dreadful fires that had taken place, one at New York, on the 22d, and the other at Troy, on the 20th, the capital of Rensselaer County, about six miles above Albany. The latter was the more calamitous. The number of buildings destroyed was about one hundred and twenty-seven. A law has been enacted in the State of Louisiana, declaring that no debtor shall be detained at the suit of a creditor, unless the latter pay him three dollars and a half per week for his support. In case the

creditor neglect to do so, the gaoler is empowered to set the debtor at liberty.

Among the laws passed in Massachussetts, is one, by which no person in health, and having the use of their limbs, from the age of 12 to 65, shall be maintained as poor by the State.

The kingdom of Hayti is said to be in a state of insurrection: there is an implacable hostility between Christophe and Boyer, which Sir Home Popham in vain attempted lately to reconcile. Boyer is said to have an army of 25,000 men marching against Christophe.

The President of Hayti has dispatched a communication to the Societies in Ame

rica for the promotion of colonizing Africa, stating, that in place of sending them to such a distant and inhospitable climate, his territories are open to the emigration of the blacks from the United States.

Accounts from Jamaica to the 10th of June, bring information, that an expedition of 1000 men, under the command of the patriot Colonel Montilla, succeeded in getting possession of Rio de la Hache, on the 12th of March. They then took the road towards the interior; but a body of Royalists having advanced from Santa Martha, Montillo returned to La Hache, where the Irish soldiers mutinied, demanding their arrears of pay; finding their appeal fruitless, disorder and plunder commenced, and eventually they were put on board some merchantmen, and conveyed to Jamaica, where they arrived in a starving state. The inhabitants of that part of Spain which has so long been the seat of war fly to the woods and mountains, being completely worn down with so protracted a contest. Fifty years will not restore these provinces to the state in which they were at the commencement of the present century.

The fortress of Santa, in the island of Santa Maura, has been destroyed by an earthquake.

Lord Cochrane has had 20,000 acres of land given him by the Government of Chili: his Lordship appears going on with success in his operations on the coast of that country.

cons, at his Palace at Bishopsthorpe. His Grace, on this occasion, refused ordination to one gentleman, who had passed his examination, for some irregular conduct afterwards.

Chatham, July 26. This was the day appointed for the launch of the Trafalgar, 112 gun ship. At two, the Duke of Clarence and a party arrived, amidst the most enthusiastic greetings; and in a few minutes afterwards,

afterwards, the usual preparations being ready, the Trafalgar was raised from her moorings, and shot into the water like an arrow, whilst both sides of the river reechoed the joyous shouts of the assembled multitude.

July 26. A Special Commission sat at Dumbarton this day. Robert Munro was tried for high treason, and acquitted. The Lord President then said, as the evidence was the same against the five other prisoners, he would receive a verdict against them of Not Guilty.

July 26. A distressing affair has occurred at Greenock. Between twelve and one o'clock this morning, a dispute took place in a low public-house, between seven soldiers of the 13th regiment, and some sailors; when they came to blows, and the soldiers were worsted. Maddened by drink, and the beating they had received, the soldiers ran immediately to their quarters, whither they were followed by the crowd, and, loading their pieces, commenced firing from the windows. The interference of the Police having been in the mean time called for, a party of them came up to the soldiers' quarters, when two of the police-men were killed by the soldiers, and a sailor so severely wounded, that he has since died. The soldiers were handed over to the civil power.

July 31. The house of D. R. Poulter, esq. Cheyney Hall, Bucks, was consumed by fire early in the morning. It originated in the laundry, where a fire was made over-night, preparatory to washing. There were two servants only in the house (the owner being in London), and one of them was much burnt in escaping. The flames were so rapid, that in less than an hour the whole was a heap of ruins. A range of coach-houses, stabling, &c. caught fire and were consumed, with two small tenements, before any assistance could be had. Two horses locked in the stables were burnt. The damage done altogether is to a very great amount.

July 31. Thomas Hungerford and Robert Travers, esqrs. young gentlemen of the neighbourhood of Cork, quarrelled and fought a duel; when the ball entered the forehead of the latter, and he instantly expired.

July 31. About one this morning, the town of Maidstone was visited by a thunder storm, accompanied with hail stones of immense size; and a more tempestuous storm had not been remembered by the oldest inhabitant. The hail-stones came down in such profusion, that the noise proceeding from them strengthened the idea that the place was on fire, as it appeared like the cracking of burning timber.

The storm did considerable damage to the vegetation in general, and the house of Mr. Hulkes had all the windows broken;

trees were torn up, and great injury was done. A child was struck by the lightning, and was seriously hurt by it; and at North Cray and other places the hailstones were of considerable depth, and as large as marbles.

Extract of a Letter from Sudbury, in Suffolk, Aug. 1:-"You had not so terrific a tempest in London as we had here and in the neighbourhood. We were at Hedingham yesterday: it is really quite distressing to witness the devastation there. The injury done in the two parishes to the crops, &c. could not be repaired by many thousand pounds. The hops are stripped off the poles as if they had been cut off with scissars. The hail was larger than was ever known. A friend of mine picked up a solid piece of ice eighteen inches long and six broad, yesterday morning; it had made a deep hole in the ground. The hail-stones were lying several feet deep in places where they had drifted yesterday, and the thermometer at 84. - One gentleman at Belchamp, holding a large farm, had his crops entirely destroyed."

The storm on Sunday evening extended to the Sussex coast: at Worthing it raged uncommon violence, and exceeded any remembered by the oldest inhabitant. The flashes of lightning were very quick. and vivid, and the rolling of the thunder awfully grand and sublime; while the hail and rain descending in torrents completely deluged the whole town. The hailstones were particularly large, and fell with such force and velocity, as to demolish the windows in many of the houses; upwards of 200l. worth of glass having been destroyed. So great was the devastation among the feathered tribe, that in the morning 2000 sparrows were picked up dead in the streets.

At Warwick Assizes, the Trial of Major Cartwright, Wooler, Edmunds, Lewis, and Maddocks, on the charge of exciting disaffection against the Government, and of seditiously conspiring to elect Sir Charles Wolseley to be the Legislatorial Attorney and Representative of the inhabitants of Birmingham to the House of Commons, came on. The prosecution was conducted by Mr. Serjeant Vaughan; Mr. Denman defended Edmunds and Maddocks, and Mr. Hill appeared for Major Cartwright; Wooler and Lewis employed no Counsel. -The chief evidence to prove' a concert and conspiracy between the parties, James Boyce, a brass founder, in Birmingham, residing in Cannon-street, deposed to Major Cartwright lodging there, the other defendants calling upon him, depositing the flags there, apparently concurring in one object, and subsequently departing from thence, in a landau, to hold the meeting. Several other witnesses gave accounts of what passed at the meeting,

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and the words spoken by defendants.Mr. Denman and Mr. Hill then spoke with great ability in behalf of their clients, which closed the proceedings of Thursday. Mr. Wooler addressed the Court, in a speech which occupied three hours and a quarter; after which a written defence of Major Cartwright's was put in and read, which consumed four hours.-Mr. Serjeant Vaughan having replied, the Chief Baron Richards summed up the evidence. The learned Judge, in the course of his observations, remarked, that although it would be much more gratifying to him to find that any man was innocent than guilty, yet he felt it to be his duty on this occasion to state, that he had, from the statements of the defendants themselves, received an impression that they were fully guilty of the charges which the indictment set forth against them.-The Jury then retired, and after consulting together for eighteen minutes, returned a verdict of Guilty against all the Defendants. -Six other persons were tried for political offences at these Assizes on Saturday, and all found Guilty.

Aug. 4. The Special Commission at Stirling closed; when 22 prisoners were ordered to be executed on Friday, the 8th of September. Twenty were recommended to mercy: it is probable that the Royal mercy will be extended to them, and that two only, Hardie and Baird, will suffer.

Aug. 5. A ferry-boat from Anglesea to Bangor, containing 22 persons, chiefly females, with their commodities for Carnarvon market, upset a little above the latter town, and all perished, save one man, who escaped by clinging to the side of

the boat.

At the Lincoln Assizes, Mr. Baron Garrow took occasion to deprecate the prac tice of bringing Constables as witnesses, merely for the purpose of producing stolen property which had been delivered into their custody; it was quite an absurdity to suppose that the property might not be retained by the person from whom it was stolen, and who might produce it in evidence at the trial. Human ingenuity, his Lordship observed, could suggest no reasons for such a practice, except those of increasing the charge of the prosecution, and thereby adding to the expences of the county; of unnecessarily occupying the time of the Grand Jury and of the Court; and of running a risk of losing the identity of the property.

Sarah Polgrean, aged 37, was condemned at Cornwall Assizes, and since executed, for poisoning her husband with arsenic she had been heard to threaten "to poison the villain, and marry again."

OCCURRENCES IN LONDON

AND ITS VICINITY.

Wednesday, July 19.

In the Consistory Court of London, the Office of the Judge promoted by Gilbert, versus Buzzard and Boyer, was heard before Sir William Scott, the right of interring in Church-yards in Iron Coffinsa question, which, from its novelty, has excited considerable interest. A responsive allegation had been given in on behalf of the Churchwardens (the defendants) which now stood for admission, and upon which it was mutually agreed the general question should be decided. The circumstances of the case as detailed in the proceedings are shortly these. In the month of, March, 1919, application was made at the burial-ground of St. Andrew, Holborn, in Gray's Inn Lane, by Bridgman, the patentee, to bury the corpse of Mary, wife of John Gilbert, in an iron coffin; and on the sexton refusing to receive it, a forcible entry was effected by the undertakers and others. After much altercation, interment being still refused, they carried off the corpse, and deposited it in the church-yard of St. Andrew Holborn, anı! by their conduct collected a great mob, and excited disturbance (see vol. LXXXIX. i. 575); the Churchwardens of course could not permit it to remain, and ordered it to be taken to the bone-house; and the interment being still withheld, the present proceedings were commenced against the Churchwardens. Dr. Arnold, for the promoter, observed, that the present was a question whether parties had a right to inforce the interring corpses in iron coffins, or parishes to refuse their admission, and contended, that the choice of the material of which coffins were to be made, rested with the executors, and was a matter quite discretionary. It was known by the remains that were occasionally discovered, that our ancestors were buried in stone. It was now frequent, to be buried in lead, and at all events, that wood was chosen which was the least perishable. In the present instance, iron had been selected, in order that the body might be secure from removal, and he contended that parties were fully justified in finding some means of preventing that violation of sepulture, which must at all times be so revolting to our natural feelings; the objection rested upon the speculation of the interment of another body, in the place of the former. Now the church-yard belonged to the parishioners, and every parishioner had a general right of interment therein, but when the interment took place, that general right became a particular right, and surely was not temporary; the inviolability of sepul

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ture was one of the most acknowledged of rights; it was called our last home.

Drs. Jenner and Phillimore followed on the same side, and observed, that the question appeared to them to be, whether there was any law to prescribe the material of which coffins were to be made, and contended, that iron coffins of this description would not last longer than those now in use; and that if there were no law on the subject, the determination of the question must be left to the Legislature, and therefore prayed the Court to reject the allowance.

On the 25th July, Drs. Swabey, Lush ington, and Doven, were heard at great length on behalf of the Parish, and contended that this mode of burial would be attended with the greatest inconvenience, particularly in populous parishes, from the imperishable nature of the material, and if admitted, what means would there be of preventing these coffins being made of any thickness or dimensions. It was argued by their learned opponents, that the law had given no directions as to the material, but they would auswer, that this Court, whose jurisdiction was undoubted, had the greatest discretion. It was wellknown that no alteration, addition, or improvement could be made in any Church or Church-yard, without a Faculty from this Court, and so attentive had it been to the interest of parishes, that even a faculty for a vault could not be granted without the written consent of the Minister and Churchwardens; it had also been urged that burial was of common right; this they admitted, but it was a right subject to limitation, so that it should not be used as an injury to others; and was there any law that a parish should be under the necessity of purchasing additional ground, and parties compelled to bury their friends at a great distance and an enormous expense, to indulge the superstitious feelings of others? This Court was entitled to exercise the largest discretion, so that sepulture might be performed without inconvenience to those left behind. The only right that could be claimed was, that of being buried in the usual and accustomed manner; the Learned Counsel strongly enforced the large discretion of the Court, contending, that as representing the Bishop, it was to see that the ground was properly kept, and appropriated for the benefit of the parish in particular, and the country at large. No monuments, no vaults, not a brick could be laid, or any fees demanded, without its sanction; in the present instance, therefore, the Court was called upon to exercise that authority, and as they trusted the Court would see the strong objections to the use of these iron coffins, that it would admit the allowance

An alarming fire broke out at the house of a cheesemonger, Stepney Green, Mile End. Such was the rapidity of the flames, that the stair-case was totally consumed before the unhappy family, who had retired to rest, were awoke to a sense of their extremely-perilous situation. Fortunately, on its discovery by the watchman, and consequent alarm, a number of the neighbouring inhabitants soon collected together; blankets were procured; and the family, by leaping from the balcony of the first floor, were happily rescued from their hazardous situation, without personal injury. The walls only remain; and of furniture, stock, or even of wearing apparel, not an article has been saved.

Thursday, July 27.

This morning, pursuant to their sentence, J. Gardiner, H. Brown, and P. Miller, for forgery; T. Cumber, for sheepstealing; and W. Wilkinson, for extorting money on the King's highway, suffered the awful sentence of the law, opposite the debtors' door, at Newgate, The behaviour of the three unfortunate young men who had been convicted of forgery was decorous and becoming. They were all well dressed, and were respectable looking men. A general opinion had gone abroad, that the sentence of the law, as far as regarded these prisoners, would not have been carried into effect. Cumber displayed symptoms of derangement: and we understand that on the Sunday preceding, during the sermon of the Rev. Mr. Cotton, he exhibited similar appearances. He came dancing on the scaffold; and so boisterous was his behaviour, that it required extraordinary assistance before he could be properly secured. Wilkinson (a man of colour) shortly addressed the spectators, declaring his innocence. He repeatedly wrung his hands, and appeared in great distress.

Sunday, July 30.

A storm of thunder and lightning fell in and near the Metropolis, which for grandeur has not in this country been exceeded for many years. It commenced about eleven, and did not cease till one o'clock. lu a preceding page we have detailed its effects in various parts of the country (see p. 173.) During the storm the electric fluid fell on two houses, Nos. 12 and 13, in Tuttel-street, Liquorpond street, shivered the chim

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ney-pots to pieces, and broke in the second floor of No. 12, shivered the cupboard door, and set several parts of the wood on fire; the family were in bed, but they got up and fortunately extinguished the fire. At the adjoining house, No. 13, the electric fluid broke through the roof and ceiling, caught the bell-wire, and descended by it to the street door, destroying the wire and cranks, leaving a black mark of smoke along the wall as if from gunpowder; an ozier cradle on the first floor was scorched all over, and some clothes caught fire; fortunately the child was in bed with its mother at the time. An old man who lay in the room, and who had been unable to walk for six weeks before from rheumatic pains, received such an electric shock, that he jumped out of bed, ran down stairs, and recovered the use of his limbs; he was as well the next day as ever he was in his life! the hair on his wife's head was very much singed, but she received no other injury. The fluid, after descending as far as the street door, shivered open the parlour door, and took a direction along the passage wall, which it tore to the back door, caught the lock and hinges, all of which it wrenched off, and threw the door in pieces into the yard, leaving a strong smell all over the house as if caused by gunpowder.

Wednesday, August 2.

John Henry, esq. Barrister-at-Law, aud formerly Chief Justice in the Ionian Isles, left town with a commission from the Queen, to arrange and prepare the evidence in Italy, for her defence on the Bill of Pains and Penalties. Mr. Henry has received from Government the most satisfactory assurances, that every facility shall be granted to him for procuring passports to every individual whom he may think it necessary to send to England

on the occasion.

part of the premises was destroyed. Damage estimated at 20907.

Thursday, Aug. 1'1.

Lord Byron arrived in town from Italy. His Lordship proceeded to Lady Francis's house, in St. James's-square, having brought over letters for her Majesty. The Noble Lord has finished a Tragedy.

This morning, about ten o'clock, a melancholy accident happened at the buildings now making for the new improvements in Swallow-street. As several men were at work clearing away rubbish placed under an old wall about 20 feet in height, and upwards of 40 in length, the whole fell down on a sudden with a most tremendous crash. Three of the poor fellows employed were under the wall, and instantly enveloped in the midst of its ruins; a fourth providentially escaped. The three unhappy sufferers were extricated in a few minutes, when they presented a spectacle totally indescribable; their heads were literally dashed to pieces, and their bodies so dreadfully mangled, that every person shuddered who had an opportunity of seeing them. The bodies were conveyed to a public house, to await the decision of the Coroner's Jury.

scenery beautiful.