all parts of the room: however, on the arrival of some domestics, the flames were extinguished. After lingering some days, her ladyship died.

IMPORTANT CAUTION.-The infiammability of muslin dresses may be prevented, by rincing them out in alum water, made by dissolving the proportion of a hen's egg (or even less) in a quart of water. That by this simple means, all danger of life may be prevented, any one may assay, by burning a rag of muslin so rinced and dried, against another rag unprepared; the first will burn gradually, and with difficulty, whilst the second will flame away instantly.

R. B. Sheridan, Esq. is appointed by the Prince of Wales to the office of Receiver-General of the Duchy of Cornwall, in the room of the late Lord Eliot. This is considered the very first office in the gift of the Prince, and the manner in which he has disposed of it, reflects the highest honour on His Royal Highness's discerniment.

LORD CAMELFORD.-On Monday, March 11, Mr. Hodgson, coroner for Middlesex, and the jury, having assembled at the White Horse public-house, Kensington, where the inquest was to be held, they repaired immediately to Little Holland House, to take a view of the body, which being done, they returned to hear the evidence produced.

James Sheers, Lord Holland's gardener, said, that he was digging in Holland House Garden, on Wednesday morning last, between the hours of seven and eight o'clock, along with another person, when he heard the report of a pistol. He remarked to his companion, that the noise, most probably, proceeded from a duel, and they ran down immediately to the pailing, at the end of the garden, to see what was the matter. Witness saw from thence some smoke in the second field from Holland House, the distance of about ten yards from the hedge. Not far from thence, he observed the deceased lying on the ground, with his second supporting him. As he was running to the place, he met two gentleinen coming from the deceased, who he found, on reaching the spot, was still supported by the same gentleman he had seen with him at a distance, who desired his assistance in supporting the unfortunate gentleman on the ground; but before the witness complied, he called to the man he left behind him, and others, to stop the gentlemen who were making their escape, which they endeavoured to do, but without success. The deceased then begged the witness to support him; the gentleman who had hitherto done so having left him, and was running off. The witness then sent one of his people for a surgeon. As soon as the man was gone, the deceased wished to know whom the witness was calling out to have stopped; on his saying it was the gentlemen who were running away from him, the deceased said he did not wish it, for he was the aggressor; that he freely forgave the gentlemen, and hoped God would. The witness then asked the deceased, if he knew the party who had shot him? He replied, he knew nothing; he was a dead man. Sheers obtained assistance as soon as he could, and had the gentleman put into a chair, and taken to Mr. Otty's, Little Holland House. On stripping off the deceased's neck-cloth, and opening his waistcoat, he found a wound between his right shoulder and breast.

George Robinson, also a gardener at Holland House, deposed, that on Wednesday morning, about a quarter of an hour before eight o'clock, he saw four gen

tlemen walking in the field before described, and soon after heard the report of a pistol, and two or three seconds afterwards, that of another; he then saw the de ceased fall, and two of the gentlemen go up to him, who, after remaining with him a short time, came away towards him (the witness), and desired that he would go and assist the gentleman on the ground. When witness came to the spot, he found Sheers supporting the gentleman; he could see the deceased fire first at one of the gentlemen who went away. They stood off about thirty paces,, or twenty-nine yards, as well as he could judge of the distance from the marks of their feet in the dew, and from the place where the deceased lay.

Mr. Nicholson, of Saville-street, surgeon, stated, that he was called, on Wednesday last, to a gentleman, at Mr. Otty's, who had been wounded by a shot from a pistol. The deceased complained of a severe pain shooting through his chest to his back, and also a pain in the lower extremities, from which circumstance witness supposed that a pistol ball had passed through the lungs, and lodged in the spine. The deceased never recovered the use of his lower extremities; he languished till eight o'clock on Saturday evening, when he died. On opening the body, Mr. Nicholson said, he found that the ball had fractured the fifth rib, and passed through the right lobe of the lungs, and had lodged in the passage of, the spinal marrow, through the sixth vertebra of the back, which had occasioned the death of the deceased. The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of Wilful murder against persons unknown,"

Lord Camelford's antagonist was a Mr. Best, a near relation to the gentleman who, some time back, had the misfortune to shoot his friend Lieutenant Jones, at Ibbetson's Hotel. The quarrel originated from some words which Lord Camelford supposed Mr. Best had uttered, reflecting, in some degree, upon his lordship. The honourable Mr. Devereux was second to Lord C. and, Mr. Nihell to Mr. Best.

The following are the precise words of that part of Lord Camelford's will which relates to his unfortunate duel with Mr. Best.

"There are many other matters which, at another time, I might be inclined to mention, but I will say nothing more at present, than that in the present contest I am fully and entirely the aggressor, as well in the spirit as in the letter of, the word; should I, therefore, lose my life in a contest of my own seeking, I most solemnly forbid any of my friends or relations, let them be of whatever description they may, from instituting any vexatious proceedings against my antagonist; and should, notwithstanding the above declaration on my part, the laws of the land be put in force against him, I desire that this part of my will may be made known to the king, in order that his royal heart may be moved to extend his mercy towards him."

It has been mentioned in the papers as something remarkable, that a pound of cotton yarn should extend twenty-three miles: a gentleman in the spinning. business, however, states, "that a pound weight of cotton yarn, spun upon the mule jenny, No. 250, will extend one hundred and twenty-four miles, and one hundred and sixty yards; and this is not the finest yarn that has been spun upon a jenny."

An extraordinary robbery, of a very fine colonet of emeralds, has lately engaged the attention of the people of Paris, where it was committed. This splen

did ornament is the property of a Madame Demidoff, and the other proves to be the Countess of Schwiechelt, widow of a Bavarian general, who was a great favourite with the late Elector. She had made herself acquainted with the place where it was kept, and, at a ball given by its owner, the lady contrived to purloin it. The theft has been proved, and the beautiful thief was conducted to prison. Her youth and her rank in life, have induced many persons to solicit the pardon of this interesting stranger; but it is generally believed that Bonaparte will be inflexible, and leave her to public punishment, to which she has been condemned. The love of play, and to repair the immediate loss of fifty-thousand livres, impelled this unfortunate lady to commit the offence, for which the laws of France are preparing their pains and penalties.

THE INVINCIBLE STANDARD.-The right to this long and eagerly contested spoil, is at length decided by the highest authority against serjeant Sinclair, and in favour of Anthony Lutz. The mode of decision is as delicate as it is positive. It has been declared in the following manner :-"His majesty has been graciously pleased to allow Anthony Lutz, late of the Minorca, or queen's German regiment, at present serjeant of the king's German regiment, a pension of 201. a year during his life, for his courage displayed in the capture of the invincible standard from the French, on the 21st of March, 1801."—The king's brevet was sent off on Wednesday night by Messrs. Cox and Greenwoood, to the head-quarters of the king's German regiment.

The wretchedness of the people of Paris is at present so very great, that 111,600 people are supported by charity, in their own houses; 13,900 in the hospitals; and 4500 in the country, and yet the streets swarm with beggars.

During the midnight mass, at the cathedral at Rouen, on the 25th of December, where a great crowd was collected, one man whispered to another—“ I have taken three," " and I four," said his friend; "and I two," said a third person, taking hold of them both. The third person was a police-officer, who seized two pickpockets, upon whose persons were found seven watches, stolen from different persons in the cathedral during the celebration of mass.

A letter received from an Armenian merchant at Salonichi, in Macedonia, contains the following particulars relative to the present state of Persia. The late king, or sophi, having been assassinated last year, in the midst of his seraglio, at Ispahan, the possession of his throne is contested by his three sons. Two of them he had by his sister, and the fair Zirza, whom he carried off from her father, the late high priest of Thibet, and who is still in full possession of her beauty. She is, at present, in the power of the two eldest sons of her late consort, by whom her party is narrowly watched.-Her own son, Mavedeck, is master of Ispahan, and three provinces in the interior. His force in elephants is very great, and he is assisted by a skilful general who served under Paswan Oglou; but as the other brothers are equally powerful, the issue of the contest is very doubtful.

CURIOUS ANECDOTE.-We give the following statement from the Paris papers; but there are good grounds to think it unworthy of credit :-" George II. had a natural son by the beautiful English Lady Wilkins, to whom he allowed, yearly, one thousand pounds. Young Wilkins entered the military career, and married, in 1745, the daughter of a merchant, at Ghent, and by the per

suasion of her parents, made himself a Roman Catholic. From that time, the pension of Wilkins ceased, and every petition sent to England was left without any effect. He died in 1768, and his widow in 1801. They left behind them six children, one of whom has for a long time been professor at Ghent. This citizen has now, in the name of his family, presented a memorial to the First Consul, in which he demands indemnity in Hanover for the loss of the pension, which, since 1746, has been unpaid. The sum he demands amounts to 220,0001. sterling, or 5,028,571 livres.

LISKEARD ELECTION.-A double return has been made for this borough, in favour of Mr. T. Sheridan and Mr. Huskisson.

The following is extracted from a private letter, dated Paris, the 14th ult. "You may form some faint idea of the state of morals in this country, by the following detail of facts, which occurred in the city of Paris alone during the last year:

400 Men and 167 women committed the act of suicide.

81 Men and 69 women were murdered.

644 Couple were divorced.

7 Fathers murdered their children.

15 Children murdered either father or mother.

10 Husbands killed their wives.

6 Wives killed their husbands.

470 Gaming houses, &c.

308 Brothels were authorised by the police."

IMPERIAL PRESENTS.-The presents which the Emperor Alexander made the late Captain Pacha, in return for the ten Arabian horses he had accepted from him, were magnificent, and the admiration of the beau monde at Constantinople for weeks. They consisted of three basons and ewers of the most beautiful rock crystal, four silver chandeliers of eight branches each, highly finished; an elegant sable skin cloak, which, though very large, weighed no more than twenty ounces, and is regarded a unique; four looking-glasses of a dimension never before seen in the Turkish capital, and with splendid frames, corresponding with the value of the glasses. The representation in rock crystal of a mosque, of which each piece was numbered in a manner that the whole might be taken asunder or put together at pleasure, in ten minutes, though of the height that a person might enter it with ease: and finally, a dozen of amber pipes set with diamonds, half a dozen gold pendulums, a dozen of gold snuff-boxes, richly encircled with diamonds. A Russian frigate carried these presents to Constantinople. The Captain Pacha gave two hundred purses to the captain, and several other considerable donations were distributed among the officers and the crew.

A point of law of a singular and interesting nature was lately determined by the Court of Session, at Edinburgh. The question, taken generally, was, whether a man, after having signified his intention not to live any longer with his wife, could insist on her leaving his house, and to betake herself to another which he had provided for her? In the particular case before the court, the lady had resisted this mandate, upon the ground that the husband had no power to dissolve the marriage society, without previously verifying the cause. Me

morials had been ordered in the case, which were taken into consideration, when their lordships, after severally delivering their opinions, found (by a majority of seven to four) that they could give the lady no relief, thereby confirming the right of a husband to assign the place of residence of his wife without his society.

A law has been passed in Mississippi legislature, against duelling, imposing on aggressors a fine of one thousand dollars, imprisonment for twelve months, and incapacity from holding any office for five years. If either party fall, the survivor and his associates to suffer death!

BIRTHS.

At Blenheim, Lady F. Spencer, of a son. At Streatham, Lady Paget, of a daughter. At Melton Mowbray, the Right Hon. Lady Elizabeth Norman, of a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

In Lincolnshire, Chevalier D'Aragon, to Miss B. Mitchell, with a fortune of 20,0001. At Dovercourt, Essex, W. Cowper, Esq. to Miss J. Bridge. At Navestock, Essex, N. Micklethwait, Esq. to the Right Hon. Lady M. W. Waldegrave. Major-Gen. Congreve, to Mrs. Eyre. Col. Elliot, to Miss Lettsome, of Grove-Hill, Camberwell. Mr. Charlton, of Colchester, aged 86, to Miss Charlton, aged 79. W. D. Adams, Esq. to Miss Mayow, of ElyPlace.

DEATHS.

At

At Pisa, aged 66, the Right Hon. Lady Mary Eyre, sister to the late Eart Fauconberg. Suddenly, in her 22d year, Miss O'Hara. She was seized with a fit in Drury-Lane theatre, on a Saturday. She was taken to Carpmeal's house, in Bow-street. Doctors Rivers and Hunt were called, whose medical aid was, however, without effect; and she expired on Monday morning at four o'clock. At Holyrood-house, Colonel J. Hamilton. In Norfolk-street, Mr. Gotobed. At Grosvenor-place, Anne, Countess of Upper Ossory. Brighton, the Hon. H. Pomeroy. In Harley-street, the Bishop of Kildare. At West Woodhay-house, Berks, Lady Sloper. At Kingston, aged 109, G. Gregory, supposed to be the last of the crew of the Centurion, which ship circumnavigated the world with Lord Anson. At Dover, Mr. Smith, the father of Sir Sidney, and Mr. Spencer Smith, the English Minister at Stutgard. Mr. Smith was formerly a Captain in the Guards, and Aid-de-camp to the late Lørd Sackville, at the battle of Minden. The evidence he gave on the trial of that nobleman, was so offensive to the ministry of that day, as to occasion his quitting the army. At his seat, in Cornwall, Lord Eliot. He is succeeded in his title, by his son, one of the representatives for the borough of Liskeard. Duke of Roxburghe, K. T. and K. G. Lord Chief Justice Alvanley. Right Hon. Sir W. Fawcett, K. B.