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which, he stated, he was prepared to prove by several witnesses then in Court.-The Learned Counsel further observed upon the importance of the case, not only affected the character of the Members of the Heralds' College, but the general interests of the Public; that it had not been brought forward to answer any vindictive purpose, but to protect an honourable Body from the stigma which might attach to it from the improper conduct of one of its Members, and to shew that the valuable records entrusted to their care would not be neglected by those appointed to preserve them.

Mr. Serjeant Hullock made an able speech for the defendant, but called no evidence for the defence.

Mr. Justice Park summed up in a comprehensive charge to the Jury, in which be stated the law as applicable to the case, and said, if the forgery had been committed in a parish register of a date subsequent to the Marriage Act in 1753, it would have constituted a capital offence; but that, in the case before the Court, it was only a misdemeanour at common law.

The Jury retired for about a quarter of an hour, and returned with a verdict of Guilty; whereupon Mr. Justice Park sentenced the prisoner to pay a fine of 50%, and to be imprisoned in York Castle for the term of three months.

March 23. This day the trial of Sir Francis Burdett was brought forward at Leicester, before Mr. Justice Best and a Special Jury. The information set forth that Sir F. Burdett had addressed a Letter to Lord Sidmouth, on the 28th of August, containing seditious and libellous aspersions on the Government of the country, and tending (by scandalous animadversions on the proceedings at Manchester) to excite disaffection amongst his Majesty's subjects. Sir Francis pleaded his own cause with considerable eloquence, and contended for the illegality of the proceedings. The learned Judge, in sunming up, pronounced the Letter written by Sir Francis, to be a seditious libel. The Jury immediately returned a verdict of Guilty.

His Majesty has been graciously pleased, by a Royal Grant to the Master, Fellows, and Scholars, of St. John's College, Cambridge, to remove the restrictions in their Statutes, which prevented the election of more than two Fellows from the same county, into the Foundress's Fellowships. These Fellowships are now open to all candidates born in any part of England and Wales.

OCCURRENCES IN LONDON

AND ITS VICINITY.

His Majesty, it is said, has presented Captain Fitzclarence with a valuable sword,

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as a mark of his approbation of that gallant young officer's services in Cato-street.

COMMITMENT OF THE CONSPIRATORS.

March 3. The Conspirators who were arrested in Cato-street underwent a final examination before the Privy Council; and at the close of the inquiry Thistlewood and seven of his wretched associates were committed to the Tower. The following are the particulars of what occurred at the examination:-Soon after eleven o'clock, Lavender, Salmon, and other officers of the Bow-street police, arrived in three coaches at Coldbath-fields Prison, with orders from the Secretary of State for the Home department to bring immediately to Whitehall the Conspirators confined in the House of Correction, for examination before the Privy Council. Mr. Adkins, the Governor of the prison, immediately delivered over the following prisoners into the care of the officers, viz. Thistlewood, Monument, Wilson, Davidson, Tidd, Gilchrist, Ings, Bradburn, Shaw, Cooper, and Brunt. They were immediately conveyed in the coaches provided for their reception to Whitehall. The prisoners were all handcuffed to each other. About the time that this detachment reached Whitehall, Mr. Nodder, the keeper of Tothill-fields prison, arrived at the same place in a coach, with Preston the cobler (who had been apprehended in the course of the week), Simmonds (the footman), Harrison (late a Life Guardsman), Abel Hall, and Firth, the keeper of the loft in Cato-street.

The Council having assembled, they issued their orders that the prisoners should be brought before them separately. Thistlewood was first taken up-stairs to the Council Chamber. Lavender, the officer, of Queen-square, went before him; and Lavender, of Bow-street, and Bishop, on each side. He walked in a hurried step, and appeared a little agitated. He was attended by the officers to the presence of the Council, and was simply told that he stood committed for high treason and murder. He was then taken back to the room below, and Brunt was led up in a similar manner. The same course was observed with respect to all the other prisoners, Preston excepted. Simmonds was, twenty minutes before the Council, and Monument about the same time. The latter is a man of very diminutive stature, but is said to possess some intellect. On the present occasion he seemed to be suffering under the agonies of terror. After they had all undergone an examination, they occasionally entered into conversation. Thistlewood wore his hat, and looked as if he had made up his mind to meet his fate with firmness.

The Council, after a deliberation of nearly two hours, announced through the

medium of Mr. Hobhouse, the Under Secretary, that eight of the prisoners were to be committed to the Tower upon a charge of high treason. These were, Thistlewood, Brunt, Davidson, Ings, Wilson, Tidd, Harrison, and Monument. These were then handcuffed in pairs, and an escort of the Horse Guards were sent for. On the arrival of the guards, four hackney coaches were procured, in each of which two prisoners were placed. They were accompanied by the Fort-Major of the Tower, Captain J. H. Elrington, Lavender, Bishop, Ruthven, Taunton, Salmon, and several other police-officers. The Horse Guards surrounded them on all sides. Every thing being in readiness, the carriages were driven over Westminster-bridge, and by that route over London-bridge, up Fishstreet-hill, through Fenchurch-street, and the Minories, to the Tower. An immense crowd witnessed their departure, and followed their course; but there was not a single sympathizing expression uttered by the throng.

After the departure of the men thus committed for high treason, six of those who remained- Bradburn, Cooper, Gilchrist, Strange, Hall, and Firth, were committed to the custody of Mr. Adkius, Governor of the House of Correction, under different charges; some for murder, and others for shooting at persons with intent to kill. They were conveyed to their place of destination under an escort of Horse Guards, and accompanied by several police-officers.

Each prisoner is confined in a separate apartment; two warders, armed in the usual way, with cutlasses and halberds, are in each room; and at each door is stationed a sentinel armed, to whose care is intrusted the key of the room, with strict orders not to permit more than one warder to be absent at a time, and that only for occasional purposes.

Thistlewood is placed in the prison known by the name of the Bloody Tower. -Davidson is in the prison over the water-works.-Ings is in a different room of the same prison.-Monument is in the prison at the back of the horse-armoury.

Brunt and Harrison occupy separate apartments in the prison over the stonekitchen.

Tidd is secured in the seven-gun battery prison,-and Wilson in the prison over the parade.

The prisoners have, by the indulgence of the Law, what is called state allowance, for their daily maintenance.

The iron gate at the East end of the Tower is closed, as is usual upon such occasions.

The examination of the prisoners before the Council, the questions and replies, are, of course, confined to that Chamber. As to the possibility that there are ramifications of this plot, which is a subject of

great interest, no proceedings on the part of Government indicate such a belief.

The accounts published respecting Thistlewood are very incorrect. His father was a surveyor and civil engineer in Lincolnshire; where his brother, a gentleman of handsome fortune, now resides. Arthur (whose real name we are informed is Thistlethwaite served his time as an apothecary at Newark-upon-Trent, and afterwards held a commission in the Militia. With his first wife he had a fortune of 20,000l. the greater part of which he lost at play and on the turf. The present Mrs. Thistlewood is the daughter of a respect able grazier at Horncastle.

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Monday, March 6.

Mr. Baker took his seat, for the first time, at the Public Office, Bow-street, as Chief Magistrate, in the room of Sir Nathaniel Conant, who has retired on acof ill health.

Thursday, March 16.

This morning a fire broke out at the house of Mr. Jeffry, a potatoe merchant, in High-street, Ratcliff, which communicated to the next house, Mr. Colson's. Some tenements at the back of the house sustained damage, as did several houses in the front street. We regret to add, that three poor sailors are said to have perished in the attic of one of the houses.

CITY ELECTION.-This being the day appointed for the publication of the Sheriffs' formal return of the names of the 'successful candidates, a most respectable assemblage of Liverymen took place. The Common Crier then made proclamation that the Sheriffs did declare, that the votes polled by the several candidates during the election were:

For Mr. Alderman Wood.........5,370
Thomas Wilson, esq..

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..5,358

.4,259 ..4,119

Sir Wm. Curtis, Bart......... .4,908 The Lord Mayor.......... Mr. Alderman Waithman........ Mr. Alderman Thorp......... .3,921 And that, consequently, Alderman Wood, T. Wilson, esq. Sir W. Curtis, and the Lord Mayor, had been duly elected. THEATRICAL REGISTER. New Pieces.

COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.

Feb. 22. Too late for Dinner, a Farce, by Mr. Richard Jones, of this Theatre.It is lively, amusing, and has been very successful.

March 2. Ivanhoe; or, the Knight Templar, a Musical Drama. Some good scenery, and excellent acting, has made this piece popular.

DRURY LANE THEATRE.

March 2. The Hebrew, a Play ascribed to Mr. Soane. It is founded on the story of Ivanhoe; but is in our opinion, notwithstanding the acting of Mr. Kean as the Jew, inferior to the above piece at Covent Garden.

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Baxter, residing at No. 6, Monkwell-street, of three children (a girl and two boys), who, with the mother, are all likely to do well. The parents are extremely poor, and have two children besides.-11. At Clay Hill,

Beckenham, the wife of T. P. Courtenay, esq. a son.-16. In Lower Grosvenorstreet, Lady Catherine Whyte Melville, a daughter.-In Upper Grosvenor-street, the Lady of Hon. Capt. Knox, R. N. a son.

1819. Dec. 28. At Kingston, in Upper Canada, Lieut.-Col. Lightfoot, C. B. A. Q. M. G. to Cornelia, second daughter of Capt. Edward Williams.

1820. Feb. 1. Geo. Marshall, esq. of Godalming, to Sarah, third daughter of James Alexander, esq. of Eden Bridge.

2. W. J. Levi, esq. of Barbadoes, to Rebecca, daughter of Lemon Hart, esq. of Fenchurch-street.

3. The Rev. Rich. Sandilands, jun. of Putney, Surrey, to Miss De Bretty of Sloane-street.

John Hodgson, esq. of Lincoln's Inn, to Mary, daughter of John Godfrey, esq. of Purfleet.

5. J. Early Cook, esq. of the Nunnery, Cheshunt, to Sarah, daughter of Isaac Munt, esq. of Jamaica.

10. Charles Palmer Dimond, esq. of Gray's Inn, to Mary, daughter of John Woods, esq. of Chilgrove.

W. S. B. Turner, esq. of Newington, Surrey, son of the late Sir Barnard Turner, to Mary Anne, daughter of the late Sam. Steele, esq. barrister-at-law.

12. Thomas Davis, esq. of the Inner Temple, barrister-at-law, to Jane Ayerst, daughter of John Houseman, esq. of Sohosquare.

Thomas Flower, esq. of E. 1. C. Civil Service, Bombay Establishment, to Miss Elliott, of West Cowes.

14. A. N.E.Mosley, jun. esq.of Park Hill, Derbyshire, to Mary Theresa, only child of the late W. Stables, esq. of Hemsworth, . Yorkshire.

Chas. Gordon Gray, esq. of St. James's, Jamaica, to Mary Augusta, second daughter of M. Faveaux, esq. of the War Office.

Rich. Hannam, jun. esq. of East Retford, solicitor, to Frances Mary, only daughter of the late Charles Sam. Fitzwilliam, esq. of Clixby, Lincolnshire.

15. Robert Hartshorn Barber, of Hayton Castles, Notts. barrister-at-law, to the daughter of Samuel Wordsworth, esq. of Edinburgh.

Arthur Hinckley, esq. of Lichfield, to Mary, daughter of the late John Jefferys, esq. late of Woodhouse.

17. Rev. Jas. Cumming, Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge, to Sarah, daughter of Chas. Humfrey, esq.

John Loch, esq. to Rabinia Maria, dau. of Arch. Cullen, esq. one of his Majesty's Counsel.

G. J. Parry, esq. of Lincoln's Inn, to Mary, daughter of Lieut. Col. W. Brooks, of E. I. Company's service.

18. Capt. C. S. J. Hawtayne, R. N. to Anne, daughter of the late Charles Hope, esq. Commissioner of the Navy.

23. W. T. Heath, esq. to Matilda, and the Rev. F. Dollman, of Milton, Kent, to Amelia, both daughters of James Heath,' esq. of Russell-place, Fitzroy-square..

F. W. Campbell, esq. of Barbreck, N. B. to Sophia, daughter of the late Sir E. Winnington, bart. of Stanford Court, Worcestershire.

24. Rob. W. Partridge, esq. of Oakly Hall, Essex, to Frances Anna, daughter of P. Lafosse, esq. of Turnham-green.

Major Spedding, of the 4th, or Queen's Own Regiment of Dragoons, to Sarah, daughter of Hugh Parkin, esq. of Skirsgill House.

26. Mr. John Whitehead, clothier, to Miss Ross, both of Gomersall, Yorkshire; the bride is daughter, niece, and sister to her father and mother; aunt and cousin to her brother and sisters; niece to her husband; sister to uncles and aunts; and daughter to her grandfather.

Lately, Capt. Laugharne, R. N. to Mary Amelia, daughter of the late Sir Stewkley Shuckburgh, bart. of Shuckburgh Park, Warwickshire.

The Hon. R. W. Penn Curzon (now Viscount Curzon) to Lady Harriet Georgiana Brudenell, dau. of the Earl of Cardigan.

At Bath, John Benyon, esq. of Newcastle, Carmarthenshire, to Mary, daughter of the Rev. C. Russell, of Lydeard St. Lawrence."

March 1. Lieut.-Col. Colquhoun Grant, of Forres, to Margaret, dau.of J. Brodie, esq.

4. David Jardine, esq. of the Middle Temple, to Sarah, dau. of J. Martineau, esq. of Stamford Hill.

6. Wm. Hen. Neville, esq. of Esher, Surrey, to Mary, daughter of the late H. Frogley, esq. of Hounslow.

9. James Oldham Oldham, esq. of Montague Place, Russell-square, to Mrs. Quintin Craufurd, of Belle Vue Place, Cheltenham.

J. Attersoll, esq. of Portland Place, to Augusta, dau. of the late Thos. Neville, esq.

11. The Hon. Charles Augustus Fitzroy, of the Royal Horse Guards (Blue), to Lady Mary Lenox, daughter of the late, and sister to the present, Duke of Richmond.

Wm. S. Harvey, esq. of Londonderry, to Jessie Mary, daughter of C. Roberts, esq. of the Exchequer.

20. Mr. John Rees, of London, to Esther, only child of the late J. Price, esq. and presumptive heiress of the late William Willis, esq. of West Ham.

THE DUKE OF BERRI. Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berri, second son of his Royal Highness Monsieur (whose melancholy fate we recorded in our last, p. 167), was born at Versailles, Jan. 24, 1778. This Prince gave from his earliest years indications of an ́ardent and promising disposition. His education was suspended for a time by the past events of the Revolution which obliged him to withdraw from France with his august father. He prosecuted his studies at Turin under the direction of the Duke de Serent, Governor of their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Angou leme and Berri. The earlier part of his youth was passed in the midst of camps. He had the bonour of receiving lessons from the illustrious Prince of Condé, who was then gallantly supporting the honour of his name and the glory of his King. He was the relative and friend of the Duke d'Enghein, who was like him the victim of assassination.

The Duke of Berri in the chequered eircumstances of his life was always be. loved by those who were about him. In the army he was a strict disciplinarian ; but he moderated the rigour of his orders by the kindness of his manner. At home he was affable, and displayed in all the relations of private life an address full of mildness and amenity. Whenever he was hurried by the characteris tic ardour of his mind beyond what his cooler reflections would have allowed, he was always ready to anticipate the person who might have supposed him self ill treated, in order to offer satisfaction.

During the period of his emigration, he happened one day to reprimand, too severely, an officer full of honour. In a moment, perceiving his error, the young Prince took the gentleman aside, and said to him, "Sir, it was never my intention to insult a man of honour. On this ground I am no longer a Prince-1 am like yourself, a French gentleman, and am ready to give you all the repara tion you may demand."

The campaigns of the Princes display ed in foreign lands the characteristic bravery of the French; but Providence reserved for other times the return of the Monarchy. The Duke of Berri, after having exhibited in vain his warlike disposition, was 'under the necessity of -becoming a sojourner in England, as at that time all Germany bowed to the fortunes of Buonaparte, and his arms GENT. MAG. March, 1820.

appeared to have closed throughout the Continent all the asylums which Europe had, till that time, afforded to the Bourbons.

The Prince passed several years in London, whence he was in the habit of making frequent journeys to Hartwell. In fine, he had the good fortune to return to his native shore in 1814. He landed at Cherbourg the 13th of April, when, placing his foot upon the shore, he exclaimed in tears, "Beloved France, in seeing you again, my heart is filled with the tenderest 'emotions. Let us bring back but an oblivion of the past, and peace and the desire of giving happiness to the French." Upon the road from Cherbourg to Bayeux, he received the most affecting testimony of the love of the people. Delighted with their transports, he could only reply to their acclamations by these words: Vivent les bons Normands.

It was in the environs of Bayeux he went unattended to meet a regiment, which had up to that time refused to recognize the authority of the King. When conducted by the Commander into the presence of the troops, “Brave soldiers," said he to them, "I am the Duke of Berri. You are the first French regiment which I have met. I am happy to find myself in the midst of you, I come in the name of the King my uncle to receive your oath of fidelity. Let us swear together, and cry vive le Roi. The soldiers replied to the appeal: a single voice only exclaimed vive l'Empereur. "That is nothing," said his Royal Highness; "it is only the remains of an old habit: let us repeat the cry of vive le Roi." It was done unanimously.

The Duke of Berri signalized his arrival at Caen by setting at liberty several prisoners, detained for two years for a pretended revolt, occasioned by scarcity. On the morrow they represented at the Theatre the hunting-party of Henry the Fourth. The Prince was present. The Mayor had the happy idea of introducing these poor people upon the stage; and at the rising of the curtain they were seen upon their knees with their wives and their children stretching out their hands towards the Prince, and loading him with blessings. Similar traits accompanied the progress of the Prince to Paris. Arrived at the Thuilleries, he ran to throw himself in the arms of his august father, and turning towards the Marshals who were present, "Permit

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