all correct, he made a signal of recal, and then went to the bottom in 27 feet water, accompanied by Mr Pope, ship-builder, and two of Mr Sedley's boat's crew, as volunteers. After exploring the marine regions for half an hour, they rose, and brought up with them a very large iron ladle, which had apparently lain in the water a considerable time, highly pleased with their adventure, and without having sustained the least inconvenience.

11th.-On Thursday a proclamation was read at the Cross by the heralds, relative to an alteration in his Majesty's arms, in consequence of his having substituted to his ancient title of Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, the title of King of Hanover, but directing all money already coined, although not having the arms so alter ed, to be current coin of the realm.

Died, on the 4th July, at Calgarth, his seat on the banks of Windermere, in his 79th year, Richard Watson, the right reverend Lord Bishop of Landaff, D.D. Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge; formerly Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, as well as Professor of Che mistry to the University. Dr Watson has been long and deservedly reck. oned amongst the literary ornaments of this nation, being esteemed for the purity of his classical taste, the ease of his style and conversation, his scientific acquirements and his abilities, as well as the polite manner shown in his controversial writings.

13th. MR SHERIDAN.-Mr Sheridan lingered till 12 o'clock yesterday, when he expired. For several weeks prior to his death he lay under arrest, and it was only by the firmness and humanity of the two emiment physicians who attended him, Dr Baillie and Dr Bain, that he was not removed from his house to a deathbed in a gaol. He enjoyed, however, to the last moment, the sweetest con

solation that the heart can feel in the affectionate tenderness, sympathy, and attention of his amiable wife and son. A great number of curious persons and men of learning are gone to Villiga, in the duchy of Placentia, to be present at the excavations, which were to be continued on a great scale; they have been resumed upon a plan opposite to that which has been hitherto followed. Since the death of the duke nothing has been done to discover the city of Villiga, the capital of a flourishing republic, and which disappeared by a catastrophe, of which the details are in Pliny. Some private baths have been discovered, and gold medals of the reign of Trajan. Two statues of Vesta have also been discovered by several marble columns. It is hoped the whole city will be discovered. Two hundred thousand frauks have been placed at the disposal of the antiquary Peter Lama, to direct all these labours, in concert with the engineer Circoncelli.

CURIOUS BRIDGE. The wire bridge, at the falls of Schuylkill, in Pennsylvania, is supported by six wires, each three eighths of an inch in diameterthree on each side of the bridge. These wires extend (forming a curve) from the garret windows of the wire factory to a tree on the opposite shore, which is braced by wires in three directions. The door timbers are two feet long, one inch by three, suspended in a horizontal line by stirrups of No. 6. wire, at the ends of the bridge, and No. 9. in the centre, from the curved wires. The floor is 18 inches wide, of inch board, secured to the floor timbers by nails, except where the ends of two boards meet; here, in addition to the nails, the boards are kept from separating by wire ties. There is a board six inches wide, on its edge on each side of the bridge, to which the floor timbers are likewise secured by wires.

Total weight of the bridge... 4702 Four men would do the work of a similar bridge in two weeks of good weather, and the whole expence would be about 300 dollars. This was the first wire bridge.

15th.-PRINCE ESTERHAZY'S BANQUET.-Chandos-house, in Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, was opened on Sunday night, for the first time for more than twenty years, with a grand dinner and concert. This magnificent structure was erected by the Grand Duke, a title conferred on his Grace in consequence of the style of regal splendour in which he lived. Every one acquainted with the Old Court, recollects the celebrated preparations made for the christening of the infant, when the king and queen stood sponsors in person; they also must call to mind the extraordinary and agonising catastrophe, viz. the child being seized with convulsions, and dying in the nurse's arms during the ceremony; the presumed cause, che glare of light! Once more terrestrial greatness appears in that quarter of the town-the prototype of the Chandos family may be seen in that of the Prince Paul Esterhazy, their possessions exceeding 350,000l. sterling per annum.

The party consisted of 26 persons, comprising the Prince Regent, Prince Esterhazy, Lord and Lady Castle. reagh, Marquis and Marchioness of Hertford, Duke and Duchess of Montrose, Marquis of Anglesea, Earl and Countess of Bathurst, &c. &c.

At six o'clock the domestics were

arranged in the hall and on the grand stair-case, dressed in new and magnificent uniforms, namely, twelve livery servants wore yellow cloth, with broad stripes of silk lace, embroidered very richly with the family arms, an equal number of those usually out of livery were caparisoned in superfine darkblue coats, waistcoats, and breeches, embroidered with silver in a style of great excellence; those dresses had only arrived from Vienna in the preceding week. At the head of the corps appeared the celebrated hussar, who is seen only on occasions of state. This person wore a dress of which the pelisse and pantaloons cost 270l.

At seven o'clock the Prince Regent arrived, and was introduced in the great drawing-room to the Princess Esterhazy, a very beautiful young wo man, just turned of 20, and highly accomplished. The principal apartments were furnished after the Grecian taste; rosewood and gold, the cabinet work; the curtains, chairs, and sofa covers of crimson striped silk, very rich and handsome. At half past seven the company sat down to dinner. The banquet consisted of three courses, comprising every delicacy; the wines. excellent, and the desert was extremely fine. The Prince Regent staid until a late hour.

The following appearance is not very unusual in the streets of London, viz. a man with an umbrella, with cloth gaiters and spurs, and a straw hat. A writer, however, in a French paper states, that the Parisians were perfectly thunderstruck at such an ap parition, and hints that it is only fit for a grotesque habit at a masquerade.

EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.A young woman, who keeps the turnpike near Henley-upon-Thames, Oxford, and who has been married four years, has now nine children, who are all living and well. At her first ly ing-in she had three children, at her

second three, at her third two, and at her fourth and last one. HICK'SHALL BRUTAL ASSAULT. -CHIMNEY SWEEPING. On the 9th instant the trial of Willyam Molys took place at Hick's Hall. The prisoner was a master sweep, and lately stood his trial at the Old Bailey on a charge of murder, for having, by brutal treatment, caused the death of John Hewlings, a child of five or six years of age, his apprentice. He was, however, acquitted of this charge, but retained on an indictment for an assault on the same child. To this charge the prisoner this day pleaded Not guilty.

Mr Walford, for the prosecution, stated the case. He related several cases of atrocious violence on the part of the prisoner towards the deceased John Hewlings, who was little more than five years old, and had been for a few months his apprentice. The learned gentleman's statement was fully confirmed in evidence.

Elizabeth Ware said, on the 2d of April last the prisoner came there with a boy, between five and six years of age, to sweep the chimney, and shortly after she was alarmed by the violent screaming of a child for help, this screaming was accompanied by the sound of blows or slaps. On entering the room up stairs she heard the boy crying bitterly, and exclaiming, "Oh dear!" and found the prisoner stooping and striking at the child's legs with a brush, to force him up a chimney which he was unable to ascend, and then dragging him down and dashing him with violence upon the floor. The child screamed bitterly.

Sarah Reeve stated, that she lived in the same house with the last witness, and that on the day stated she was called by her to go up stairs in consequence of the noise. On enter ing the room, she saw the prisoner

with his arms extended up the chimney, and soon after saw him draw down the child and let him fall on the ground all of a lump. He then sent the child up the chimney again. (This happened after Mrs Ware quitted the room.) The infant roared that his knees were sore; he then drew him down again by the back part of his small clothes, and dashed him upon the hearth; there was no stove there at the time, and swore to the child that he would serve him out when he took him home.

Ann Chandler, of Brick-lane, Whitechapel, deposed, that the prisoner came there on the 23d April to sweep her chimney. He brought with him a little boy, whom he called Johnny, apparently about five years old, and another about 12 or 14. He put the child up the chimney, where the little thing stuck for upwards of an hour. He sent the other boy, whom he called David, to try and move him, without effect; he called out to the child, but received no answer. Witness then got alarmed, and wanted the prisoner to get a ladder, and go up to the top of the chimney outside. He did at length go up, and somehow or other eased the child from the outside. The latter then came down by himself, and stood at the room door, waiting until his master, who had gone up from the outside, had returned. The moment the prisoner came back to the room, he struck the child a blow with his fist, and knocked him up senseless against a set of drawers that stood near him. The witness stated, that at this both herself and a child then in her arms cried. The boy who was struck began to recover, and as he was beginning to move, the prisoner gave him a kick which drove him across the room to the fire-place. He then desired him to pack up his things, whilst doing which he repeatedly knocked

his head against the brick-work of the fire-place. He also kept chucking him up under the face while the little thing stooped to tie on his shoes, and when they were on he gave him a thump, and swore with an oath, that he'd serve him out when he got him home.

Mary Craig, who lived next door to the prisoner, proved, that on helping the wife of the latter, who was drunk, into her own house, she saw the child on the ground near the prisoner, who desired him to get up, which he was unable to do without the assistance of a stick. Witness looked at the boy's leg, which she found greatly swollen. At her suggestion the prisoner rubbed the wounded part with ointment, and when the latter found the boy still unable to walk, he dashed him on the ground.

The Court then summed up the evidence, and the jury instantaneously returned a verdict of Guilty.

The Court inflicted upon him the severest punishment in its power for an assault; its sentence was, that he should be imprisoned for two years, This conviction gave the greatest satisfaction to a crowded court.

The Paris papers, for these many days, have been occupied with a detail of the trial of a number of infatuated persons, who had attempted to plot against the government, and call. ing themselves patriots of 1816. Those of the 8th instant, notify the conclusion of their trial, and the fate of these miserable beings. They are 28 in number.

20th-PROGRESS OF THE DIVINGBELL.-The beneficial effects of this curious machine begin to display themselves in a prominent manner, as was strikingly evinced in Plymouth Sound on Tuesday last. The anchorage of the Sound having been swept for a mass of rock lost from one of the Breakwater vessels in May 1813, and

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the same being found, the bell-vessel was placed over the spot, and the bell, with Fisher and two other men, and proper implements for boring, lowered in 33 feet of water, who succeeded in boring the stone, securing a lewis, and making fast a purchase for heaving it up, all which was safely effected in about two hours and a half from the time of descending. The rock thus recovered weighs four tons, and an entire summer had been spent in trying to get it up, but ineffectually, owing to its peculiar form, which evaded sweeping. The rock has been landed at the King's Quarry, Oreston, for future conveyance to the Breakwater.-Plymouth Paper.

A common gull (Larus Canus) in the possession of a gentleman in the neighbourhood of Elgin, has this sea son built a nest and laid three eggs, from which she has produced two young birds; the female bird has been domesticated for nearly ten years, and the male, which paired with her, has been so for five. They are both extremely attentive to their young in feeding them, and will suffer no person to approach the nest.-Inverness Journal.

FUNERAL OF MR SHERIDAN.-On Saturday last the mortal remains of this distinguished person were interred in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey,aspace being fortunately found for the body near to those of Addison, Garrick, and Cumberland. Many of the highest rank of all parties have concurred in paying testimony of respect to the remains of a gentleman with whom most of them had lived in habits of intimacy, and by whose delightful powers they had been so often charmed both in public and private. The procession was viewed with the most lively feeling by thousands, and there was the most perfect order throughout the immense crowd.

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of dismal accounts of the effects of the rainy season on the continent. Great part of the lower districts in Holland are under water; and they assert that even although the weather were to take a favourable turn, the calamitous consequences of a summer inundation are now inevitable. Nothing so destructive has occurred since 1756. All over the continent they appear to be suffering from the same cold, wet, and dark weather, în an equal degree with ourselves.

The Belzebub bomb, preparing for the expedition to Algiers, is almost completed, and took in her mortars last Tuesday. The largest of these is of the following dimensions, and may give our readers some idea of its extraordinary powers to do mischief:

Length from ditto to the muzzle 2 For charging mortar 21lb. gunpowder, On Thursday an order was received at Plymouth for all the ships to receive iron cables, and have bits fitted fore and aft for fastening springs to them, in case it should be necessary to lie broadside to the enemy's batteries. The launches and boats are to carry small mortars and carronades.

The police intelligence from the British metropolis has lately assumed a character of dreadful interest. They develope scenes of iniquity like those of the days of Jonathan Wild, and of the same nature too as that villain's atrocity, inciting others to commit crimes in order to obtain the reward of their conviction. One individual engages with another in this horrid employment, and their different parts

are thus divided:One selects the wretched victims who are to be incited, while the other, informed by his accomplice of the time and place where the crime is to be committed, apprehends them in the very act; the committal, trial, and conviction follow→ whilst the thousand times guiltier deluders riot on the price of the blood and lives of their fellow-creatures they have sold. It is not as yet known how many have fallen beneath the arts of these demons, but the investigations are followed up with great zeal and ability.

So much apprehension has the weather excited in different parts of Sweden, that prayers are offered up in the churches daily to the Deity for a favourable change.

The situation of America is also extraordinary in this respect. From an article from Quebec, dated 12th June, it is stated, that on the afternoon of the 6th of that month, the roofs of the houses and the streets were covered with snow. When the clouds cleared away, the of the mountops tains to the north of that city were perceived to be covered, the most distant apparently to the depth of a foot.

27th.-On Monday evening, at nine o'clock, the marriage ceremony between her Royal Highness the Princess Mary and his Highness Prince William, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, was solemnised in the Queen's palace. The duke has declined countenancing any application to Parliament for a marriage-dower to the princess, his highness declaring that he thinks his own income, witli that of the princess his spouse, suffi cient for their joint support with a degree of splendour appropriate to their rank. In the present crisis of public distress, this determination is highly creditable to the illustrious pair.

29th.-CAUTION.-In consequence of a young man, a passenger by the