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The petition of Mary Jones was then read. It stated that she had five children to support, and that about 301. would enable her to begin business again.
Lord Dudley and Ward being satis- fied of the fraud, and desirous to de- tect its author, wrote to the pretended Dr. Yates to wait on him at his house. In reply, his Lordship received a let- ter, purporting to be from the Rev. Doctor's Lady, in which she stated that her husband had been thrown from his horse, and was very ill, but either Mrs Jones's niece or she would wait upon his Lordship, or if he would wait until the recovery Dr. Yates, that gentleman would do himself the hon- our. This letter was signed Catherine Yates. This answer strengthened his Lordship's suspicions, and he sent one of his servants with an officer to discov- er the Reverend Doctor, and take him into custody.
Mr. Dyer. Whatis your name and business, and what do you say to the charge ?
Prisoner. My name is Thomas Yates, and I am a cooper by trade, and have worked in the West India Docks for 19 years ; but, by old age coming on I was discharged ; but l never wrote my letters to any noble- man in my life, nor did I ever go by the name of Rev. Dr. Robert Yates.
Lord Dudley's servant stated that he went to Peter's-place, Walworth, when, in looking about for the suppos- ed residence of the reverend gentle- man, he saw two females come out of No 6. They inquired who he was looking for ; and when he had told
them, one of them said, ' Oh, there is the house, I am his daughter.' He went with her to the house, where he saw the prisoner, and informed him that he came from Lord Dudley and Ward, who had sent a sovereign for Mrs Jones; on which the prisoner acknowledged himself as the reverend gentleman, and desired his compli- ments to Lord Dudley and Ward, and that he was much obliged to him for the money.
The prisoner, on being asked for an explanation, still denied all knowledge of the transaction, when Mr. Dyer said that he was only surprised that humane persons were to be found to give credence to such tales when fre- quent exposures had taken place at the office. He had no doubt but that he had imposed on various other per- sons by similar practices, and he would therefore remand him for a week. British Press.
Mr. Cobbett's Character of himself. " What trouble have I not taken my- self ? what labours have I not per- formed ? what risks have I not run ? what perils have I not encountered ; aye, and a numerous family along with me : and, if I had preferred ease to labour ; if I had preferred inter- est to duty, how rich might I not have been ? and in what complete ig- norance might not the country have been with regard to the cause of its ca- lamities. Whatever else men may say of me : whatever else they may even think of me ; there is not a man in the kingdom who will look another man in the face and say, that I might not have wallowed in wealth ; that I might not have been covered with what the world calls honours, if I had chosen to aid in the works of delusion and oppression, instead of having with- out the exception of one single act of my life, endeavoured to dissipate the former, and to put an end to or miti- gate, the latter. It is agreed, amongst all descriptions of men, that I possess extraordinary powers ; that I wield a pen more powerful than that of any | other man now living in England."
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AND CITY RECORD, APRIL 22, 1826.
MEDICAL COLLEGE.
The public will perceive by the fol- lowing communication, that the long and lamentable disputes in relation to the medical College of this city, have resulted in the resignation of all the Professors in the Institution. We know not the immediate cause of this result ; but we presume that it will lead to a dissolution of the Institution. A new University is in contemplation, to be founded upon a broader, and, we hope, more permanent foundation. Comm. Adv.
To the Hon. the Regents of the Uni- versity of the State of New York.
CITY OF NEW-YORK, April 11, 1826. We, the undersigned Professors and Officers of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in the city of New York, in correspondence with the views by which we were influenced in our com- munication we yesterday made to your honourable body, and reflecting, moreover, on the peculiar government of the College, an anomaly in medical schools, are fully persuaded that we best consult our self-respect by with- drawing altogether from the Institution. We therefore hereby tender our resig- nation of the professorships and offices we respectively hold therein ; and we take this opportunity of renewing our grateful acknowledgments for the various and distinguished marks of confidence the Regents have seen fit, from time to time, to place in us.
We have the honour to be, with high respect and consideration,
DAVID HOSACK, M. D. Vice President and Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic and Chemical Medicine.
WILLIAM JAS. MACNEVEN, M. D. Professor of Chemistry. SAMUEL L. MITCHILL, M. D Professor of Materia Medica and Botany.
VALENTINE MOTT, M. D. Professor of Surgery. JOHN W. FRANCIS, M. D. Professor of Obstetrics and the Dis- eases of Women and Children, and Registrar of the College.
A new law is before Congress, to oblige Merchant vessels to carry Med- icine Chests, &c. Each Chest must be accompanied by a competent Phy- sician's Certificate of the quantity, va- riety and quality of the medicine. In- struments and dressings are to be pro- vided ; and Dr. Parsons's Book of Directions is to be carried.
CHARLES WHITE,
Corner of Marlboro' and Winter Streets,
Has received by the London Packet and other late arrivals from Europe, a full as- sortment of Drugs, Medicines, and Sur- geon's Instruments -- among the instrumente are Syringes for removing poison from the stomach-Amputating, Trepanning, Op- thalama, Dentist, Pocket, Dissecting, and Midwifery instruments-Cranatomy, Tooth Dressing and Dissecting Forceps-Setor Needles, Frocars, Bestorias, Lancets, Pins for Hair Lips, &c.
0 3' Strict personal attention paid to Phy- sicians' Prescriptions, and to the delivery of Family Medicines.
Medicine delivered at any hour in the night.
April 19.
IMPEDIMENTS OF SPEECH.
DR. W. WILSON, of the New York In- stitution for correcting Impediments of Speech, is now opening an establishment of the same kind in the city of Boston.
The reputation which Mrs Leigh's Insti. tution has acquired in the city of New York, and the cures performed on persons afflict- ed with every species of impediment, war- rants Mr. Wilson in assuring the citizens of Boston that he is enabled to correct stam- mering in all its variety of forms, and res- tore the power of easy and fluent utterance.
Mr W. possesses testimonials of success in the New York Institution, which will satisfy all persons who may feel interested in the inquiry.
No compensation will be required of any stammerer who is not cured or materially improved, provided he conforms to the rules of instruction.
For further particulars application may be made at the Institution, Court street, in the house formerly occupied by Josiah Marshall. esq.
HISTORY OF BOSTON
JUST published, and for sale by MUN- ROE AND FRANCIS, 128 Washington- stseet, HISTORY OF BOSTON, the Metropo- lis of Massachusetts, from its origin to the present period, with some account of the Environs. By CALER H. Ssow, M. D. Embellished with engravings
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Maarrieu, IN THIS CITY,
Thos. W. Haskell to Miss Mary Ann Soren. Henry A. Hovey to Miss Rebecca Francis. Warren Bowles to Miss Elizabeth B. Hunt. Joseph Virto to Mrs. Sophia S. Spear.
In London, Feb. 28th, Dr. James P. Ray, of Virginia, to Miss Elizabeth, third daugh- ter of Jacob Perkins, esq. of the United States.
In Newport, on Thursday evening last, by Rev. Dr. Patten, Edward T. Channing, esq. Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard College, Cambridge, to Miss Hen- rietta A. S. Ellery, daughter of Wm, Elle- ry Esq.
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Reported at the Health Office during the week ending Thursday noon, April 20.
Ap. 13. Margaret Anderson, 2 years. Mary Ann Dana, 12 months. Sarah S. Thompson, 4 yrs.
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14. Anne Kelly, 40 years. Samuel Bell, 7 weeks. Christopher Rowley, 73 years. Ann Gaffrey, 23 years.
15. Cornelius Murphy, 30 years.
16. Nath'l E. Smith, 23 years. John Williams, 60 years.
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17. Mary Ricketson, 40 years. Ebert H. Munroe, 7 months. Harriet Otis, 36 years. Nancy Rumney, 59 years.
1S. Jane Farley, 46 years. William Geyer, 26 years.
19. Samuel Williams, 61 years. Geo. Frederic White, 1 year. Sarah Higginson, 74 years.
20. George Waldo, 38 years.
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In Littleton, Mass, 28th ult. Rev. Ed- mund Foster, aged 74. He was an able and skilful divine, and in the ministry 45 years. He had frequently been a repre- sentative aud recently a senator in the state legislature, and was one of the firm repub- lican patriots of Massachusetts. He has left a widow and seven children.
In Augusta, Me. Lieut Samuel Davis, aged 81. He was an officer in the revolu- tion ; he served in the old French war in Capt. Abbot's company under General Am- herst : he was taken by the Indians, and was a captive two years.
At his house in Durham, on the 18th Jan. highly respected, aged 73, Andrew Philip Skene, B. A. of New York, Esq. of Hall- vards in Fife, and Kilmacoe in Wicklow, Ireland, only son of the late Colonel Philip Wharton Skene, of Skenesborough, United
States, and Hackleton, Northamptonshire, Governor of Crown Point, and Ticondero- ga, North America. This gentleman was a descendant of the famous William Wallace, and traces his descent from the year 1014, from the first Skene, of Skene, Aberdeen, according to tradition, a younger son of the (Donalds) Lords of the Isles. He also held a Military Commission in the British service about sixty years. His remains were interred in the Cathedral on the 21st inst. and were borne to his vault, according to his request, by eight old soldiers. A few weeks before his death he requested the following Epitaph to be placed on his tonib.
" Terræ filius, in terram hic reposuit."
[ Lond. Paper.]
Port of Boston.
April Entered.
13. Sc Bornco, Tishew, Rochelle.
14. Sh Beverly, Calcutta.
Sh Galatea, Lisbon.
Br Henrico, Havre.
Sc Chrysanthus, St Lucia.
15. Br Maria, Davis, Matanzas.
Br Sarah Maria, Cole, Matanzas. Sc James, Holmes, Rotterdam. Se Mary Jane, Dyer, Havana.
16. Sc Betsy, Rogers, Trinidad.
Sc Billow, Barker, Halifax.
18. Br Lucy, Thaxter, Matanzas.
April Cleared
12. Sc Glide, Smith, Port Au Platt.
13. Sh Milo, Winslow, London.
Sc Sarah & Maria, Hall, Matanzas.
14. Br Attentive, Nash, Carthagena.
Br Samuel & John, Shaw, Honduras.
15. Sh Canton Packet, Bowditch, Gibraltar. Br Marion, Cole, Aux Cayes. [deaux. Br Amiable Matilda, Chaipella, Bor- Br Hannah, Hinkley, Matanzas. Br Kamhawa, Reed, South America, Sc Mary, Stevens, Madeira. Sc Rambler, Wilder, Bermuda,
18. Br Orleans, Smith, Havana. Br Telemachus, Fuller, Tampico. Br Tamworth, Girdler, Antwerp.
MUNROE & FRANCIS have it in contemplation to reprint the LIFE OF REV. JOHN MURRAY. It will be handsomely done, and fur- nished very low to subscribers.
NOTICE.
PELLAGRINO MAGNONI, Hair Dres- ser, informs his friends and Customers, that he has removed from Elm-street to his for- mer stand, in Wilson's Lane.
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CITY RECORD.
Vol. I.
APRIL 29, 1826. No. 19.
$3 pr. ann.]
" TO OBSERVE AND PRESERVE."
[IN ADVANCE.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, BY ABEL BOWEN, NO. 2, CONGRESS-SQUARE.
POETRY.
The Boston Bard has arrived at Providence, on his way to Newburyport, where, we believe, his mother resides. He is extremely feeble, being in the last stages of a wasting consumption. The following effusion, from the pen of the Bard, was first published about three years since :- Gaz.
TO MY MOTHER.
What shall I bear thee, mother dear, When thy embrace again I greet, And feel upon my cheek the tear That flows when child and parent meet.
What shall I bear thee ? Wealth and fame, Or gems that grow beneath the wave ! Gold have I not ; and Glory's flame Hath seldom shone but on the grave !
Nor wealth, nor fame, nor gems to thee, My mother, will thy offspring bear ; Mean such reward indeed would be For all thy love-for all thy care :
But I shall bear to thy kind breast
What heaven nor thee will e'er reject ; .
A wasted form-pale sorrow's guest- A broken heart-a spirit wrecked.
MATRIMONY IN LONDON.
The annexed advertisement is cop- ied from a late number of the London Morning Herald.
' A gentleman of family, 29 years of age, and who is almost immediately going out to India, wishes to meet with a lady willing to be united to him, and share his fortune. She must have the immediate command of 4,000l. ; if possessed of more, the surplus will
be entirely at her own disposal. By a union with the advertiser, the lady will be mistress of a most comfortable and respectable establishment, and will have the entre into the best socie- ty the country affords. The most satisfactory references will be given, and secrecy and honour will be observ- ed .- Letters (post paid) addressed to No. 256, Post Office, Bristol, will be attended to.
An elopement took place in the vi- cinity of Blackheath, on Wednesday. The parties were Miss T -- 1, the daughter of a retired tradesman, aged 22, and Mr. P --- n, who was admitted to the table of the family on terms of friendship. The parties were pursued to Canterbury, having gone the Maid- stone road to avoid detection. The fugitives were surprised at a small inn, and the lady was brought home by her father and brother, with much re- luctance. They were to have been married at Ashford, the next day.
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Sheridan's Funeral .- Moore has omitted one of the most touching and heart-stirring anecdotes connected with the funeral of poor Sheridan. The noble and select company had assembled te pay the last tribute of respect to departed genius, and the cof- fin was about to be placed in the hearse, when an elegantly-dressed per- sonage, who pretended to be distantly related to the deceased, entered the
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chamber of death. At his urgent en- treaties to view the face of his friend, the coffin lid was unscrewed : and, to the horror and surprise of the by-stand- ers, he pulled out a warrant and ar- rested the body ! Mr Canning and Lord Sidmouth went into an adjoining room, and paid the debt, which, we believe, amounted to 5001. This an- ecdote we derive from authority. Dumfries Mag.
The following remarkable instance of deliberate suicide is recorded of Count de Hoyms, who was Minister of State to the King of Poland, but had been afterwards disgraced, and confined two years in the fortress of Konigstein. On the night of the 21st April, 1736, he hanged himself with a handkerchief fastened to a hook in the wall, leaving the following note for his two servants :- " Be prudent, make no noise or alarm ; untie me immedi- ately ; put me to bed, and then shut the door after you, by bolting it when you are out, which you may do by the help of this packthread ; by this means nobody will know you have been in my chamber. The world will, doubt- less, believe I died of apoplexy. If you execute my orders discreetly and faithfully, my family will pay you 1,000 ducats upon your producing this note to them."
: Lucky Rogue .- An Edinburgh Pa- per of September 1, 1746, relates the following fact :- " Charles Brown, a notorious thief and house-breaker, hav- ing been indicted at Stirling in May last, was, till his transportation, con- fined in the closest prison, or pit, in the tolbooth of Stirling, and each night shackled, and inclosed in a wooden box made for that purpose, he having before broke 14 pair of handcuffs. However, in the night between Au- gust 20th and 21st, he got out of his box, broke off his shackles, cut the iron stanchions off the only window in the prison, and made his escape."
In consequence of the engagement of Mrs OGILVIE instead of Mrs M'GIB-
BON, to perform the leading female tragic characters, at the Manchester Theatre, there have been very serious disturbances there every evening this week, with the exception of the last ; a number of Mrs M'Gibbon's friends having attended for the purpose of pre- venting the performance from being heard, until their favourite was re-en- gaged ; and we regret to say, that on Monday and Tuesday evenings, con- siderable violence was offered to the performers, by pelting them with or- anges, apples, marbles, bullets, copper coin, and other missiles .- Lond. Pap.
KENTUCKY.
Keeping a Governor's Son .- On Wednesday last, a claim was present- ed at the Treasury department, allowed, and paid, amounting to one thousand and thirty dollars and twelve cents, for the expenses of mere- ly guarding, and boarding Mr. Isaac B. Desha, at the jail in Harrison county, since the 13th of October last. The costs of the preparations for another trial, consisting of the claims of venire men, witnesses, &c. are to come yet-another heavy pull on the treasury. A gentleman, talking about the Governor's attack upon the University, and his apparent dissatis- faction at the appropriations made to that noble institution, observed that " more money had been taken from the public, for his Excellency, and his family, and his new court, in one year, than had been given to the Uni- versity since the separation from Vir- ginia." The remark seemed extrava- gant at the time, but we incline to think that an examination of the ac- counts will show that the gentleman was correct .- Commentator.
We have received a marriage notice for publication, appended to which is the following proviso : " This couple were married on condition that the usual fee be paid to the Justice within one month, otherwise the contract is to be void !" Excellent. This penal- ty is enviable .-- Yates Repub.
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AND CITY RECORD, APRIL 29, 1826.
A rustic in Connecticut, in paying his evening addresses to a cousin, past the volatile age of thirty, said 'dear Polly, you have stolen my liver .?- 'Poh ! Mr Huntly-don't you mean your heart ?' 'Ah, true, I knew it was some of my inwards.'
A lady asked a gentleman, sitting at the same dinner table, a few weeks since, what he supposed Job intended when he said, 'O! that mine adversa- ry had wrote a book.' Why, said the gentleman, I suppose he would like to have reviewed it.
Fire .- The windmill owned by Mr S. Simpson, in Rivington, near Allen- street, was destroyed by fire about 12 o'clock on Friday night. The spectacle was striking, as the wheel continued in motion during the fire, whirling the flame and sparks in every direction. The mill being detached from the adjacent buildings, no other damage was done .- N. Y. Adv.
The Govt. of France, in conse- quence of recent frauds, has just called on the French Academy of Sciences to ascertain whether a paper cannot be fabricated from which writing can- not be effaced by any chemical pro- cess. This discovery was made and patented in the United States some months since, and the Legislature of Pennsylvania has purchased a right to use the discovery.
The French Chamber of Peers has agreed, 85 to 64, to prohibit the Slave Trade in the Levant, the motion was made by Chateaubriand, and opposed by one of the Ministers.
Mr Shepard will repeat his introduc- tory lecture on Botany, on Wednes day evening next, at 8 o'clock, at the Pantheon Hall.
'The Literary Cadet and Saturday Evening Bulletin ?-- A new weekly journal, was commenced by Messrs. Smith & Parmenter of Providence on Saturday last.
Pizarro's Standard .- Among the trophies of victory brought to the capi- tal of Colombia, and presented to the Vice President of the republic, is the standard of Castile, with which 300 years since Pizarro entered into South America.
DEATH OF THE KING OF PORTUGAL.
London March 20 .- The Etoile dated yesterday, which we have re- ceived this morning by express, an- nounces the death of the King of Por- tugal, intelligence of which reached Paris by a telegraphic despatch.
HOUSE FOR SALE.
For Sale, a Brick Dwelling House, near- ly finished, situated on High street, near Summer street, being the house adjoining the house of Mr Thomas Whitmarsh. It will be ready for occupation in a fortnight. Said House is convenient, well built, and pleasantly situated. From the upper cham- bers there is a delightful view of the Har- bour and South Bostont A liberal credit will be given on a large part of the purchase money. Apply to EBEN MORGAN, Car- penter, Sister street, near Federal street. April 25.
CHARLES WHITE,
Corner of Marlboro' and Winter Streets,
Has received by the London Packet and other late arrivals from Europe, a full as- sortment of Drugs, Medicines, and Sur- geon's Instruments-among the instruments are Syringes for removing poison from the stomach-Amputating, Trepanning, Op- thalama, Dentist, Pocket, Dissecting, and Midwifery instruments-Cranatomy, Tooth Dressing and Dissecting Forceps -- Setor Needles, Frocars, Bestorias, Lancets, Pins for Hair Lips, &c.
15- Strict personal attention paid to Phy- sicians' Prescriptions, and to the delnery of Family Medicines.
Medicine delivered at any hour in the night. April 19.
REMOVAL.
HENRY S. KENT has removed from No. 89 Court Street, to No. 110 Washing- ton Street. April 29.
NOTICE.
PELLAGRINO MAGNONI, Hair Dres- ser, informs his friends and Customers, that he has removed from Elm-street to his for- mer stand, in Wilson's Lane.
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Alarrieu,
IN THIS CITY,
Mr James W. Smith, to Miss Abigail Jennings.
Mr Francis Wade, to Miss Mary Ann Lisher.
Mr Josiah Edwards, to Miss Martha Martin.
In Charlestown, Mr Benjamin Tapley to Miss Esther Hathern.
In Brighton, John Norcross, esq. of Brighton, to Miss Elenor Estabrooks, of Cambridge.
In New-Hampton, N. H Master Wheeler Spilton, aged 15, to Miss Sally Gross, aged 50.
At Portsmouth, Mr Nehemiah Mann, of Boston, to Miss Elizabeth Pitman.
At Woburn, Mr. Samuel B. White, for- merly of this city, to Miss Sarah Richardson.
At New Bedford, Mr David L. Mayo, of Boston, to Miss Mary B. Russell.
In Providence, Mr Robert Goodspeed to Miss Elizabeth E. Winslow.
To let the world the matter know,
He long and anxiously did plead :
Ah! gently, says the Bride-Win-slow, And when united make Good-speed.
Deaths
Reported at the Health Office during the week ending Thursday noon, April 27.
April.
19. Andrew Dowlin, 28 years.
John Williams, 46 years.
David Batchelder, 27 years.
Isaac Homes, 17 years. Thomas Chubbuck, 38 years.
20. Lewis Kelley, 3 years.
Mehitable Hall, 41 years.
21. John Baker, 40 years. Sarah Curtis, 71 years. Margaret Fuller, 4 days.
22. Mary Ann Lovejoy, 4 months. Isaac Mallet, 25 years.
23. Elizabeth Knapp, 48 years. Joseph Morse, 46 years. James Peters 66 years. Wm. G. Lord, 18 months.
24. John Shales, 39 years. James Russell, 27 years. Cato Prince, 90 years. Sarah Langdon, 78 years.
25. Ruth Donallan, 61 years. Wm. Smith Shaw, 48 years. Priscilla Phillips, 75 years.
26. Eliza A. Fife, 52 years.
DIED,
At Dear Isle, (Me.) Capt. Thomas Thomp- son, aged 83, formerly of Roxbury, (Mass.) one of the first settlers in that town, and a patriot of the Revolution.
In the city of New York, on the 19th inst. after a short illness, Rev. Samuel A. Peters, L. L. D. aged 90 years, 4 months and 7 days. Dr. Peters was born at Hebron, Connecticut, graduated at Yale College, in 1757, went to England and took orders in 1759, returned and took charge of the churches at Hartford and Hebron in 1762, and emigrated to England in 1774; he re- sided in Europe until 1805, when he again returned to this country, and in 1817, made a journey, by way of the lakes and rivers, to the Falls of St. Anthony, whence he re- turned in 1818. This gentleman has been known by his authorship of a history of Connecticut, written in 1782, and also by several other publications in England and this country. He was a man of vigorous intellect, and uncommon memory, and pos- sessed many amiable traits, blended with much eccentricity. His remains were in- terred at Hebron, Connecticut.
In Philadelphia, Rev. John Banks, D. D. pastor of the Associate Presbyterian church of that city.
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