THE Coutcr.—The King held a Court on Monday, at Windsor

Castle. His Majesty and suite left the Royal Lodge iu Windsor Park about two o'clock, es- corted by a detachment of the Royal Horse Guards, and proceeded to the Palace by the Long Walk, which was thronged with spectators, who cheered the King as he passed. The Court was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Presi- dent of the Council, the First Lord of the Treasury, and the other Cabinet Minis- ters. The King then held a Privy Council, when Parliament was further pro- rogued front the 9.0th of August to the 15th of October nest. The Duke of Wel- lington and the Earl of Aberdeen remained to dinner. There never have been so few parties at the Royal Cottage as during the present season. With the exception of Lord and Lady Strathaven, Lord and Lady alountcharles, and Lord and Lady Maryborough there has been scarcely a visitor bevend the usual and unvarying corttge of ;he Court. Even the Duke of Chartres's visit occasioned few additional invitations.—Morning Chronicle.

The anniversary of the birth of the Duke of Clarence occurred, and was cele- brated, yesterday, when his Royal Highness entered upon his .sixty-filth year. His Royal Highness received visits in the course of the day from several members of the Royal Family, who came to Bushy to congratulate their relative. Among them were the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland, the Princess Augusta, and the Duchess of Gloucester. Most of the nobility and gentry residing in the neigh- bourhood of Bushy called to make inquiries after his Royal Highness. The Duke and Duchess gave a grand dinner in the evening to a numerous party.

The birth-day of the Duchess of Kent was on AIonday. Her Royal Highness is now turned of forty-three. The Duke and Duchess of Cumberland entertained the Prussian Minister and a select party to dinner on Sunday at St. James's Palace.

The household of Queen Donna Maria of Portugal have received intimations that their services will not be required after the 30th of the present month ; at which period the Queen is expected to leave this country, and return to her father, in company with her intended mother-in-law.

The Prince of Saxe Cobourg arrived in Brussels on Monday from London. He will return, it is said, when his health is restored.

It is pretty generally credited by those who possess the best information on such subjects, that the office of Commander-in-Chief will be given to his Royal High- ness the Duke of Cumberland.—Morning Journal.

The same journal, tired of predicting the dismissal of Mr. Peel, now beseeches that Minister to retire, of his own free.will, to save its credit.

The Morning Chronicle hints that Mr. Courtney, the Clerk of the House of Lords, is likely to be the new Judge.

The Alaster of the Rolls, who is now at Worthing, is so far recovered as to be able to take exercise on horseback.

Princess Polignac, accompanied by her children, left Portland-place on Wed- nesday, in two carriages and four, to join the Prince at Paris. A great con- course of people had assembled before the house of the embassy to witness her departure. The Princess appeared much moved in taking leave of the persons composing her household, whom she leaves behind.—Courier.

Great preparations are making at Adingbourne for the approaching nuptials of Lord Andover with Miss Isabella, second daughter of Lady Henry Howard, and niece of the Duke of Norfolk.

Lord Eldon has gone with his gun and Lady Eldon to shooting-quarters. His Lordship remained so long in town only that he might welcome the consort of the Duke of Cumberland.

Egharn races take place on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday next, and pre- mise first-rate sport. The King is expected to be present each day, his favourite mare Fleur-de-lis being engaged.

A house of some note stopped payment yesterday, whose connexions are chiefly with the Mauritius. Its outstanding engagements arc about 45,0001. ; a liability Which wnuld have been thought small at many former periods, bat in the gene- rally contracted state of trade, is thought considerable enough to occupy a good deal of attention. The house was originally confined in its business to the Mauritius, bet was led to form an establishment in London by the favourable prospects that were presumed to present themselves on the admission of East India sugars on better terms into the home market.—Times, Saturday. [We believe we violate no confidence or delicacy in stating that the house alluded to is that of Saunders, Brothers.]

An application is likely to be made to the Lord Chancellor, by the Solicitor- General, in consequence of a gentleman named Johnson having called upon him to retract an assertion which he had made professionally in a case some months ago. He had forgotten all the circumstances, but he proved that he had only spoken from his instructions, Under these circumstances, he refused to apologize, and in consequence Mr. Johnson addressed a letter to him on Friday, which contained these expressions—" Your conduct throughout sufficiently shows that you are destitute of the feelings of a gentleman and a man of honour ; and 1 am now only withheld, by the respect which is due to myself, from inflicting upon you that personal chastisement which you so richly deserve."

Mr. Huskisson has been well received by his constituents at Liverpool. Sir Harcourt Lees is making a tour of inspection in the manufacturing districts. Mr. Herwood, naval architect at Pembroke, has presented a model to the Navy Board for constructing ships without beams, by having the decks laid across, and of a greater thickness, instead of being laid fore and aft.

We understand that the Court-martial on Captain Dickenson is expected to produce some disclosures equally extraordinary and lamentable. The facts to

which we allude are of so delicate a nature, that we cannot, until the evidence has been given, describe them more minutely; but we venture to say they are with- out precedent among naval men. Brighton Gazette.

The inhabitants of the parish of St. Martin's have had a meeting, to assert the right of the inhabitants at large to assemble in vestry, to impose rates, to elect parish officers, and to get rid of the select vestry by the appointment of a respon- sible committee in its stead. All this, of course, the said inhabitants agreed to do. Moved by the numerous complaints which have been made of the velocity with which steam-vessels pass along the Thames, the Lord Mayor has issued a notice directing that all vessels bound up the river, upon arriving oft' the east wing of

Greenwich Hospital, shall reduce the steam so as not to pass through the water with a flood-tide at a rate beyond four miles per hour, or against the ebb-tide at

a rate beyond six miles per hour, until their arrival abreast the Limehouse en- trance of the West India Doelts ; and that from thence to their moorings, they do reduce the steam so as not to pass through the water with a flood-tide at a rate beyond three miles per hour, or against the ebb-tide at a rate beyond five miles per hour. Similar regulations are also to be observed upon their outward bound voyages.

One of the Hamburgh steam-packets was seized on Thursday, by the Custom- house-officers; on account of parcels of struggled silk goods, ribbons, and tea.

Street-preaching is carried on to an incredible extent in the vicinity of London. On Sunday last a fertile subject presented itself for peripatetic eloquence, in th t fair to be holden on Camberwell-green. Hand-bills were distributed in the neighbourhood, containing a solemn remonstrance against attending this place of ungodly revelry; and urging the faithful, and those who were balancing between good and evil, to avoid giving encouragement by their presence to such wicked- ness. The following speech was uttered by one of these preachers, on Sunday last, in the Camberwell-road, with a dramatic effect that was irresistible :—" Now, my dear hearers, I'll suppose that one of you—I don't care whether it is a man or a woman, girl or boy, was thinking of going to Camberwell Fair—mind it's the Devil that's driving you to it, and he whispers in your ear, ' Torn or Mary,' as the case may be, won't you go to the fair ?' An Angel on the other side

answers, no, you must not—'tis a bad place for wicked people, and you must not think on sich a thing." What !' asks the Devil, you won't have a glass,

or the like of that?' ' You must Dot' says the Angel again, who cocks his ear, and hears all that the enemy of mankind is saying to poor Tom. The Devil says, ' Come, come, my poor fellow, you have been working hard all the week, come along, you fool, and have a lark.' The Angel says, You are a lost man, Thomae, if you go. There's a good fellow—go home, and read your Bible, or an in- structive Tract' Then the Devil says, Come along, may heart of oak. There's

fine music—come and see the wild beasts, and Miss Saunders. They will do you

no harm' Mind, my dear bearers,' added the Preacher,' cunning Satan is doing all he can to make you go ; do you mind his arts and his wiles about the wild

beasts, and Miss Saunders, and all them kind of things that they show at the fairs? To be sure there's no harm in looking at these creatures, if you do no more, but you will do more ; and I say, my dear hearers, stay at home, for God's sake !"

In the villages around Maidstone, bills have been distributed, announcing the destruction of the earth by flood and fire. The event was to have taken place on

Friday last. It is impossible to describe the sensation this stupid prediction cre- ated amongst the country people, many of whom placed a firm belief in it;. and actually offered up prayers for their preservation on that particular day.—Kentish Chronicle.

On Thursday evening, the neighbourhood of Brompton and Chelsea was astonished by the novel and imposing appearance of an immense Montgolfier balloon, tastefully constructed of differently coloured paper, and gracefully orna- mented with ribbons, which arose majestically to an immense altitude, and ultimately descended near Kennington. We understand it was sent off from a

mansion at Old Brompton, and was one of the manifestations of joy expressed upon the occasion of the birth-day of a distinguished member of a family residing in that district. The festivities of the day were concluded by a display of tire-works. THE Heevese.—Without departing from the general opinion which we ex- pressed two weeks ago on the subject of the harvest, we are willing, on the testi- mony of the country journals, to suppose that the weather has been less unpropi- tious in many quarters than in the neighbourhood of London. Sanguine hopes are entertained that the harvest will yet prove good, if' the rain hold qr. There is not much appearance of settled weather at present, but we hope for the best. GAME.—There is but one opinion in the country on this subject. The par- tridges are numerous and strong, and so are the grouse ; though the latter are wild, a proof that the hatching season has been early over. This speaks better weather in the North than we had previously calculated on.

RECORDER'S REPORT.—At the close of the Privy Council on 'Monday, the Re- corder of London was introduced, and made his report of the nine convicts capi- tally convicted at the Old Bailey during the last Sessions, when the law was or- dered to take its course on James Brown alias King for a burglary. The other convicts were respired during his Majesty's pleasure. FEMALE SWINDLERS.—An old %roman, who on this occasion gave the name Mary Johnson, but who is known to pass by a variety of names, and another fe- male, who acts the part of the old lady's servant, were charged at Marlborough Street Office, on Monday, with obtaining goods from tradespeople in a fraudulent

n:anner. It appears, that the servant, or the old dame herself, goes to the house of some person in one of the fashionablestreets at the west end of the town who lets lodgings, and hires a suite of apartments for an elderly lady of fortune, who is just arrived in town, and of which possession is immediately taken by the pair. They then set about ordering in goods of all descriptions from the surrounding tradespeople, who do not hesitate to supply a lady occupying such respectable lodgings. No sooner are the wines, brandy, tea, sugar, cheese, &c. delivered, than they are quickly conveyed away again from the lodgings by the two prisoners, who are regularly harnessed with a convenience for the purpose. This conve- nience consists of a large sack made to buckle round the waist, and reaching almost to the heels like a petticoat, which each wears behind ; and even when filled, it is but little observed in this position under a cloak or other loose covering.

In this sack they stow away the goods, and carry them off to some depot chime for sale or their own use; and having thus got all away, they decamp from the lodgings. On the present occasion, the prisoners took up their abode at the house of Mr. Swaile, in Clifford-street, Bond-street, where they hired aparttnents on Saturday last. The old dame told Mr. Swaile that she had just arrived in town from the neighbourhood of Heston, where she had a country-house, and that she would stop in his lodgings fur some weeks, as she had business to transact in London ; but in the course of the seine day, the suspicions of Mr. Swaile were excited by the quantity and variety of goods that were corning in front all sorts of tradespeople, and the frequency with which both the mistress and the maid went in and out of the house without any apparent business. He first ascertained front a neighbour, that there was no Mrs. Johnson at Heston. He then kept a sharp eve upon his lodgers, and observed, that when either of them went out of the house, there appeared rather an unnatural protuberance upon their persons be- hind, which led him to watch an opportunity of feeling the bulk as they went through the passage; when, whatshould he chance to lay hold on but the neck of a wine-bottle : and his worst suspicions being thus confirmed, he immediately sent for a constable, and gave both the mistress and maid into custody. After an adequate examination. they were committed for want of bail.

FORGING ON THE Cusroettiouse.—The case of a young man charged with forg- ing a bill of 17001. on the Customhouse was yesterday gone into at great length,

beorfe Sir Richard Birnie. No fewer than twenty-three witnesses were exa- mined. The utmost privacy was observed, as some of the parties suspected are still at large. Jones, the person in custody, is described as a nephew of one of the Commissioners ; we hear he has been committed.

CRIMINAL ASSAULT:A very serious assault case has been for some (lays in discussion at Worship-street. The parties were Miss Damenbergen, daughter of

a foreign merchant, and Henry Jarvis, a mechanic. From an attempt on the part of the mother of the young lady to effect an arrangement with the prisoner's rela- tives, the Magistrates were inclined to doubt how far a charge of felony could be brought home to him, and held him to bail, in consequence, for the misdemeanour only. MR. PEEL'S GataT-COAT.—Mr. Peel seems to be considered, among those who live by their wits, as game which every rogue has a right to have a pluck at. Yesterday a fellow named Taylor was brought before Sir Richard Birnie for steal- ing the Secretary's great-coat from the carriage which stood in waiting to convey him to the Court at Windsor. The coat" lay in his way, and he found it," accord- ing to his account. He was sent to the Sessions.

STEALING OF STANips.—A robbery of stamps to the amount of 15501. took place about four weeks ago. The thief some time afterwards offered them to Mr. Balch, of Great Ormond-street, for 3001.; and on Mr. Balch's information, he was arrested. The case was heard yesterday at Bow-street, when the prisoner was fully committed. MEANS OF favesa.—A miserable looking fellow was charged with obtaining six-penny worth of oysters without the means of paying for them. The prisoner admitted the charge, and said that he had no other means of supporting himself, and he should therefore continue to pursue the same title of conduct. Mr. Roe asked him why he did not apply to the parish ? Prisoner—" Because I can live better without it." lie was committed in default of bail.

RADICAL. Ass:At:LT.—William, John, and Richard Cobbett, sons of William Cobbett, the political writer, were on Monday bound over at Bow-street to answer at the Sessions for the attack on the person of Mr. Ffrench the barrister, mentioned in our last paper. The assault was admitted ; but one of the defend. ants said that the provocation was almost too dreadful to be named. MultDEIt AND SUICIDE.—A very horrible case, precisely analogous to that of the female who murdered herself and child in the tap of the "Bull," Holborn, oc- curred on Monday at the " Hat and Feathers," Blackfriars-road. The name of the uuhappy maniac was Sadler : she was also mistress of the public-house--her infant was three months old only. There seems little doubt that the details of the former case, given in all their coarse and revolting minuteness by the Daily Journals, operating on a highly nervous mind, produced this lamentable result.

A few days ago, during the preaching of a charity sermon at a church near Newington, seven robberies were effected.

On Saturday morning the 8th instant, about half-past two o'clock, three men got into the yard of M r. Wilmot, currier, of Kirkby, Nottinghamshire; and his daughter, a young woman about twenty-one years of age, hearing a noise, went nut, and-saw one of the men mount the brown pony ; she immediately returned into the house to alarm her father, who was in bed, and, taking the dog with her, went in pursuit down the gang road. On getting near, she encouraged the dog, who set on the man, so that he speedily dismounted ; and the three cowards gave up their prize to the heroine and her dog, and they were coming back in triumph when met by Mr. Wilmot, three quarters of a mile from his own house I—Boston Gazette.

ROBBERY OF TIM Sr. NEOT'S BANa.—On Tuesday, a long and most interesting examination of Thomas Hollinshead, alias Bugly, took place at the Town-hall of Huntingdon. The bank at St. Ncot's was broken open and robbed of between 6001. and 7001. some time ago. Mr. Gates, the solicitor to the committee of bankers, sent off the most active members of the police to scout after the persons suspected. For some time it was supposed that the thieves had escaped, and the search was believed to have been relaxed, if not abandoned altogether. There was, however, a mistake here : Hollinshead was apprehended about a fortnight ago, and sent from the Mansionhouse, where he underwent a private examination, to the place in which the robbery was committed. As some other persons who have not yet been laid hold of were concerned in the plunder, it has been thought necessary to suppress the particulars of the examination, which lasted a consider- able time. The Magistrates, without hesitation, committed the prisoner for trial.

In the Consistorial Court, Dublin, a criminal suit against the Rev. \Valiant Hughes, which was instituted in this Court in 1825, was lately decided. The defend- ant, it appears, was incumbent of the united parishes of Kellinick and Maglass, county Wexford; and the charges were blasphemy, habitual profaneness of lan- guage in cursing and swearing, and drunkenness, lewd, immoral, and depraved practices. The Court was occupied several days with the investigation; and after hearing a great deal of evidence, the Archbishop decided, that though the testi- mony did not warrant a conviction of the impugnant, yet that even on his own showing there was ample ground for his reprehension, and therefore dismissed the suit without costs.

ARISTOCRATICAL OPPRESSION.—A curious case was tried at the Leicester As- ' sizes last week, in which the Rev. Mr. Trimmer, rector of Buckminster, was plaintiff, and Lord Huntingtower defendant. It appeared that the previous incum- bent of Buckminster did not reside in the rectory ; and it was hinted to Mr. Trimmer on his induction, that it would be well, if he valued his comfort, to follow his example. Mr. Trimmer did not feel inclined to yield to the advice given him ; on the contrary, he took possession of the house, and determined to keep it. , The first overt act of offence to the noble Lord, consisted in certain firings of pistols, in the rear of the parsonage, by two young gentlemen, pupils of Mr. Trimmer. Lord Huntingtower swore he Would drive out the parson ; and he immediately set about it, in rather a whimsical though very offensive way. The parish pound was dug up by his direction, and placed close to Mr. Trimmer's house ; and by way of augmenting the noise and nuisance, a jackass, and after- 1 wards a stallion, were added to the parish bull ; and in the evening, when the quadrupeds were at rest, pipes and beggars were procured in order to pro- f long the annoyance through the night. Lord Huntingtower was in the habit ! of visiting the pound, and marking the effects of his operations. Mr. Trim- mer, on his side, endeavoured to drive off his antagonist, by beating tongs s and shovels and pans under his nose as he sat in his carriage (his Lordship is )me)—but to no purpose_; it.onlyaugmented his ire A room was fitted up in the neighbourhood, and a notorious woman Wirs-placed in it, and allurements were held out to the boys to visit her by the peer himself. He wrote also under a feigned name to the mother of one of the pupils, and the consequeuce was that he was withdrawn. What rendered all these doings more atrocious, was the circumstance of Mr. Trimmer being married to an amiable lady, who could not open her window nor leave her own house lest she should be saluted by abomina- tions of his Lordship's contrivance. The facts were dearly proved, and the Jury gave Mr. Trimmer 2000/. damages, being the whole sum claimed by the plaintiff. The reverend gentleman is grandson of Mrs. Trimmer of good-little-book notoriety.

THE WasTmEATii CAUSE.—We understand that this long and interesting suit has at length been brought to a conclusion by the decision of the King and Coursed, on the appeal of Lord Westmeath against the decree of the High Court of Delegates. His Majesty and Council confirmed this decree of the Delegates, by which Lady Westmeath has obtained separation, and separate maintenance, pursuant to the terms of her deed of separation.—Westmeath Journal. STAGE COACH LIABILITY.—Ar the Shrewsbury Assizes, time proprietors of the Hereford mail were found liable in 1751. damages to Bernardo Moro, a young Spaniard, in the service of Mr. Gerard Watson the barrister, who was grievously hurt, and in some measure disabled for life, by the upsetting of the coach, on the 4th of August last year. The coach was overloaded with luggage on the top; and the upsetting was occasioned by a vicious horse, which on being saddled, be came so unmanageable that Broome, one of the proprietors, exclaimed, "Damn his eyes, put hint in the mail:" This sage counsel was followed. A BAD WILL—At-the York Assizes, last week, Dr. Turnbull, a physician at Hull, who is reputed to be very fortunate in bequests fromihis dying patients, failed in proving a sufficient execution of the will of Mr. Stephenson at Beverley, under which the doctor would have inherited considerable property, that the rela- tions of the deceased conceived they had a better right to. It appears that the wit- nesses signed before Mr. Stephenson, whose subscription they attested. This trial excited great interest ; Sir James Scarlett, Mr. Alderson, and Me. Patteson, were on the one side, Mr. Brougham, Mr. Pollock, and Mr. Coltman, on the other; and the Archbishop of York sat on the bench with the Judge, Mr. Justice Bayley. - — EXECUTIONS FOR MURDER.—Kezia Wescombe and Richard Quaintance, tried at the Exeter Assizes last week, were hanged at Exeter on Monday, the former as principal and the latter as accessory in the poisoning of the husband of Wes. combo. A criminal connexion, as is usual in such cases, subsisted between the culprits ; and so determined were they to come together lawfully, that repeated attempts had been made to poison Quatntance's wife also; and she is still suffer- ing from the last of them. There was nothing in the case to interest. The par- ties were brutally ignorant, and obstinately wicked. The murder was clearly proved, and acknowledged by both.

Another case of poisoning was tried last week at Norwich, and the guilty party was executed also on Monday. His name was Stratford, a man in respectable business as a blacksmith in that city, and having, like Quaintance, a wife and family. He had an illicit connexion with a woman named Briggs, the wife of a miserable pauper, an inmate of the parish workhouse, and she proved with child. Dreading the exposure, he determined tobave poison administered to the wretched husband,—though how his dying any more than his living was to benefit the murderer, was not shown on the trial. The poison was mixed with flour, amid delivered as for Briggs by Stratford himself; but by mistake was made into a pudding, and eaten by a man named Burgess, who died in consequence. The guilt of Stratford was clearly proved; and he confessed the whole particulars of his offence subsequent to his condemnation. He attributed his first falling into criminal courses to his perusing the Age of Reason! He died very penitently, and seems on the whole not to have been so depraved a person as murderers usually are. His father, a man of ninety, is still living. LANIBOURN THE ASSASSIN.—Lambourn is now in that state, that his death is

daily looked for. He is quite sensible, but speaks very little. He prays fer- vently night and day for forgiveness; • and is attended constantly by the chaplain to the hospital. His children are frequently with him; to whom he has ex- pressed himself satisfied that he shall end his days in the hospital, and not on the scaffold.

Res-rem—Vial', the young convict at the Bury Assizes, has been respited during pleasure. This result was generally expected.

STORM AT SEA.—The accounts received from the coast of Dublin give a la- mentable picture of the ravages effected by the storm on Thursday and Friday last. The whole line of coast, front Tusker to Kingstown, is said to be strewed with wrecks. The Betsy, from Liverpool to Dundalk, laden with iron and rock- salt, was wrecked off the east pier of Kingstown. Of the crew and passengers, which consisted of eighteen persons, five were lost. The Duke, laden with coals, from Whitehaven to Dublin, was wrecked in Sandy-cove, but the crew were saved: both vessels soon went to pieces. The St. Patrick, steam-vessel, which sailed from Bristol on Wednesday, did not reach Dublin till late on Friday evening, and had a most providential escape. During the whole of Thursday and Friday the wind blew a violent gale at east, with a tremendous sea; the rain fell in torrents; the passengers were able to take their meals only by sitting on the floor of the cabin, at the side of inverted tables, on which the plates and dishes were placed; the stewards of the vessel could only move about by crawling on all-fours; the ladies, of whom there were twice as many as could be accommo- dated with births, lay crowded together on the floor of theiknahitk• . At length,. by much exertion, the passengers were all safely landed at the Custom-house in Dublin, on Friday night at ten o'clock. EFFECTS OF THE FLOOD IN SCOTLAND.—The loss of property on this occasion has necessarily been much greater than in 1768, on account of the improved agriculture and general condition of the north. The demolition and injury of the bridges and roads betwixt Aberdeen and the Grampians must amount to 100,000/. Of time loss on crops and fields—for in many places the soil has been overlaid with stones and gravel to the depth of about two feet—we dare not hazard a cal- culation' and it will be some time yet ere it can be accurately told. The toss sus- tained by the Duke of Gordon will, it is said, be at least 30,000/., and that by the Honourable Colonel Grant, M.P., about 20,0001. The fine and extensive district of Strathspey has been comparatively desolated. For miles along the shores of the Spey and Findhorn there is yet a broad fringe of Highland wreck—trees, bushes, peals, turfs, hay, straw, &c.—with a great number of hares and drowned birds. On all hands we meet with traces, and hear tidings of the storm; and when we consider the extent and variety of the injury in crops, cattle, furniture, implements of farming, buildings, woods and shipping—added to that on the roads and bridges—we fear that half a million is but a moderate estimate of the loss sustained. Several applications, we understand, have already been made by tenants to be freed from their leases. Others are at present roupina their live stock, having nothing on which to subsist ahem. Many cases of suffering and utter destitution must also have occurred which will never meet the public eye. Inverness Courier, August 12.