Surrey Southwark Middlesex Sussex Gazette (Newspaper) - April 24, 1819, London, Middlesex Agricultural and Commercial CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT Prior lo all Country Papers in Foreign and London APRIL PRICE 7o rOTICE is hereby That a is now l pending in Parliament to Regulate the SUPPLY of WATER by the Company of Proprietors of the West Middle sex Water and the Grand Junction Water Works Com and to limit the Bates to be charged for such Supply of JOHN April WEY and ARUN JUNCTION Notice Is hereby That the YEARLY GK MEETING If the COMPANY of PRO of the WEY and ARUN JUNCTION will be holden at the In in the county of on the day of May at Eleven oClock in the when the together with such Proxies as shall be present are to elect and make choice of Fifteen Proprietors of Fire or more Shares in the said to be the Committee of Management for the year pursuant to the directions of the Act of Parliament and that a General Meeting of such Committee of Management will be held at my in Guildford on the 25th duy of May at Eleven o Clock in the JOHN of the April for the First Prize and for the Second Prize On of next of the Old State Lottery and most respect fully reminds his best Friends and the that the State Lottery begins on the of next Month on which the Two First Prizes drawn out of the Wheel will receive in addition to whatever Prizes may be attached to The Scheme consists of only yet contains Prizes ef Twenty Thousand Pounds and Eighteen other capitals and the total amount of the Prizes in Money and Consols is The of BHH are so well known for their good that it is needless to enter into any particulars suffice it to that in the very last Lot tery drawn they were as usual as BISH sold a number of Capitals than any other having sold Fourteen including One of and One of the Grand Prizes of Sixteen by which three individuals afterwards obtained great The Prize was distributed as A Quarter to A Sixteenth to An Eighth to Saffron A Sixteenth to An Eighth to A Sixteenth to A Sixteenth to j A Sixteenth to A Sixteenth to I A Sixteenth not A Sixteenth to Tickets and Share are selling by and by Agents in this THE SARACENS HEAD GOOD AND EXPEDITIOUS To all Parts of the Four Inside the best and kept excellent by MOUNTAIN and Saracens Head The following POST MAIL set out from the Saracens Head Snowhill Tha a new Liverpool Light only one night on tha carrying four insides and four sets out every day at One arrives at Liverpool next afternoon at Six through North Litch and and Basing new four inside at Eight oclock in the only nine breakfast in and dine at the Dolphin This is a most delightful conveyance to the Isle of and Post at Five new Post every at Three Packets to Alder and new Post every at Six through and Only one night out be tween London and and Hunting ion new Royal Mail sets out every Evening to and BATH and BRISTOL Flying Post Chip and every afternoon arrive at the Greyhound and the London and next to LEEDS New Light called the sest out every Morning at Eight oclock carries four Insides and goes with a Guard Passes through to the Golden next standing the uncommon expedition of this it is allowed to L the most agreeable and complete public conveyance on the North being unequalled in accommodation by any Dum Kings and all Parts of Newcastle and Edinburgh New with a Guard sets out every Morning at Eight by wav of and Passengers finding themselves fatigued from the length of the may rest what time they and then proceed on without any addi tional to the Black from Whence Coaches run to Whit and other and Doncaster Post every at half past to the Cross and Whitehaven Post goes with Four Horses and a Guard all the Passes through and the nearest way by 18 sets out every and performs the journey with the greatest Passengers detained on the road by or have the peculiar advantage oi their seats being secured in the Kirby and Garstang Post every After at Five and Newbury Post at Seven oclock in the Post Coach every and Litch field Post called the every at Five to the Saracens Head Liverpool Guarded Wai and Wolverhampton Post every BIRMINGHAM Mercury Post with a sets out every and reaches Birmingham next day at Passes by and W the Saracens SHEFFIELD and Post called the Rock every and Yarm new every to the George and every morning and and Cheshunt every TOTTENHAM and Edmonton at and Eight CLAYs original WAGGONS and to Wootton and all places To and all parts of Ly Isle of and Waggons and twice a GREENWICH and every TOTTENHAM and WILLIAM MOUNTAIN and respectfully ac quaint their Friends and the that they will not be ac countable for any Parcels or of more Mian Fire Pounds or atthe Saracen s FOUR PRIZES of TWENTY THOUSAND and TWO of them must be drawn in the FIRST FIVE New Lottery begins drawing Scheme contains FOUR PRIZES of TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS 500 200 Only First Prize drawn out of the Wheel will have Second Prize drawn out of the Wheel will have Percent in the country may be supplied with Tickets or Shares by application to any of the or by sending their with to any of the Licensed Offices in This Day is in 2 price SISTERS of a A By ELIZABETH CULLEN Printed for Newman and The following are in the and will speedily appear and ADELINA The Monk of a by Miss Author of the Foundling of The Oath of a by Ann of 5 MAN AS HE by the Author of Man as he is 3d edi 4 of BOHEMIA The Black 3d 4 a German new Z MARGARETS CAVE The Nuns by new 4 vols The Hero of by Arthur 3 SALES BV To be LET by Desirable Residence and at at the Auction on May at in Two MOUNT PLEASANT the present Residence of being most delight fully situate between Bexley and about 12 miles from on the comprising three large four excellent best two dressing and six with housekeepers large arched a stall double coach cart cot excellent kitchen and small pleasure with sundry enclosures of rich Arable and Meadow surround ing the sume also a small Farm and other situate in now in the occupation of Henry with sundry other enclosures thereto and sundry containing together about 187 which will be divided into Two and Let upon a Lease for 10 years from when possession will be given but the taker of Mount Pleasant House may have earlier if Printed Spp mav be had at the Dartford Bear and Crayford 1arninglmm of Parkin and Great Broadstreet atthe Auction Mart and of Surveyors and Land at their New where a Flan of the Estate and a Draft of the intended Lease may be very Desirable Freehold Estate at Pens ATTFIELD and at the Auction on May at previously disposed of by Private of which due notice will be by order of the Representatives of the Stileman COLD HARBOUR and FA situate in the several parishes of Penshurst and in a fine sporting part of the in the centre of well wooded and and abounding with Cold Harbour Farm comprises a substantial Farm with suitable and Out buildings also a and 61 of and Pasture Land and Hop Ground and of Wood Farm adjoins the above and of a Bailiffs Cottage and with Barn and and 33 ef and Wood The Timber on both the Farms is of the finest growth The Tax is The Estates are admirably surrounded by good and are distant from Tunbridge four from the Wells from Seven Oaks and from London The will shew the White and of are authorised to sell by Private and at their a Map of the Estate may be and Particulars procured after the Attfield and Whetstone and Hadley atthe Lei 10th of April Particulars may also be had after that period ef cester Penshurst j Rose and Tunbridge the Sussex Tunbridge Wells the Seven Oaks White Riverhead Bromley Maidstone and at tlm Auction Freehold and Two Genteel Family at the Auction on May at in Two unless previously disposed of by Private of which due notice will be by order of the Represen of the Stileman Lot NEW PARK si tuate in the parish of in the county of consisting of spacious farm hop sta and of excellent Water and Hop in a high state of cultivation held by William for a term of which three years willbe unexpired at Michaelmas but immediate possession may be had upon an which may be en ured into between the tenant and the The Estate it very abounds with surrounded by good and watered by the River aad distant from Seven Oaks three Bromley Tunbridge Dartford and from London The Hops grown in the parish of are in quality to any in the The Land Tax is Two substantial FREEHOLD DWELLING with and in good situate in the village of in the occupation of William Immediate possession may be had of this whole of this Property may be viewed by applying to the on the Premises and Particulars may be had after the 10th of April of White and who are authorised to sell by Private and at whose Office a Map of the Estate may be Particulars may also be had of and Whetstone and Hadley atthe Bull Seven Oak Rose and Tun bridge White Riverhead Bromley Leicester Black Farningham Kings Bell Maidstone Dartford and at the Auction Capital Freehold walled and Close of Pasture a truly desirable and improvable centrically situate in the market town or JAMES at the Red Lion on April at Three oclock in the in One if not previously disposed of Uv Private that Spacious Brick MANSION situate on the south side of the Highstreet of in the occupation of with large Yard and very sub stantial and capacious and other con adjoining which is an excellent Walled and behind that an Inclosure of Pasture The Estate is en tirely is Freehold of and will be Sold with out reserve with an unquestionable and with possession of the whole at The importance of this property from its truly desirable situation in a commanding part of the Highstreet of the and in the centre of the market with the singular facilities it of being rendered a commodious and comfortable or of easy conver sion into various tenements and it may be presumed will be so obvious to the builder or particularly from the real deficiency of houses and the rapid growth of thatll prove a desirable acquisition for the investment of Premises may be viewed at any time by applying at the Particulars with Con ditions of Sale will be ready for delivery in the second week in April when they may be obtained at the Auction Lon don tin Place of Sale Reigate White Guild ford Coffee Epsom Kingston and of the In the mean time any further informa tion may be be had of Henry Oxford and to treat for the purchase by Private application may be nude to or to the at SALES B Y A Oak Holt ALLEN and at tha Bull at near the said by order of the Right Dacres and Henry Commission ere of andLand THE BARK of upwards of Nine Hundred Oak Timber a large portion of which are for the Ute of in his Alice Holt near Day of Sale and other Particulars will appear in a future April Freehold with Gardens and Stables and Leasehold near Vauxhall at on May at in Five by direction of tha Executor of John FREEHOLD and at very pleasantly and cheerfully situate at an agreeable distance with fore courts and good gardens each house contains four bed two and cellaring in the basement two of the houses ara let to and respectable ten ants at will and one house of which immediate possession may be had two Leasehold containing four bed two wash and good gar situate in adjoining near held for 25 at ground rents of property may be viewed eight days preceding the sale when particulars may be had of and at the Prince of Wales at the place of sale and of Throgmorton Valuable Freehold Land Tax re now let at ground with the Reversionary In terest at the termination of the present part of which will expire in and the remainder in eleven at on May at in Nine THIS Desirable FREEHOLD comprises that the SALUTA next the river in the occupation of Let with three Houses in the several occupations of and part of that respectable Con the Ship next the river now in the pation of good brick Houses in in the occupations of and others two old Houses in opposite the Black Boy five brick Houses in and one in in the occupation of Estates may be by leave of the ten preceding the Sale when Parti culars may be had of Gatty and An at the of Sale and of Freehold and Eighteen Acres of at the Auction on Fri June at HADLEIGH a capital Freehold Re situate at Hadleigh and South ins beautiful part of the county of within five miles of South three of the market town of and thirtytwo from with suitable attached and detached shrub large with an extensive brick and Acres of Meadow and Pasture The House stands upon a pleasant was erected a few years since by Lady and finished for her own suitable for a re who may have immediate be viewed till the Sale by tickets and Particulars had atthe Royal South End Kings Rochford Rayleigh and of opposite the Auction Singularly desirable Leasehold Residence and Live and Dead and Va luable on the near the on Monday April and following at THE Excellent HOUSEHOLD a fine toned pianoforte in a mahogany case with additional an elegant French clock mounted in an clock in a mahogany alabaster vases and a valuable collection of original drawings and proof handsomely framed and glazed a Library of near 1000 in elegant bindings Cellar of Choice consisting of flue old crusted and Hock a capital fowl ing piece in a mahogany painted and stained glass win a Chinese harness a pair of black a grey a draft three milch cows in a pea two three stacks of cucumber frames and iron green house and arden utensils a and numerous other The Furniture comprises lofty mahogany 4post canopy and servants with white dimity prime Bay feather and suitable bedding mahogany cabinet articles in wardrobes commode chests of dress ing rosewood and Pembroke a set of patent mahogany dining cellaret mahogany parlour and japanned rosewood library writing ma hogany library large chimney and Brus sels and Kidderminster domestic At One oclock precisely in the First Days will Ue Sold the very desirable Leasehold seated in the centre of twenty acres of meadow with attached and detached pleasure farm suited to a small family of who may have immediate The Residence to be viewed till the Sale by and the Effects on Friday and Saturday preceding and mornings of Sale and and Catalogues had at each on the Premises of Alliston and Cornhill of strect and of FROM THE LONDON APRIL BANKRUPTCY from April 17 to at BANKRUPTCY and Bishops to surrender May at the Dolphin April May at the Angel April May at the Town May at the George Liver April May at May at the Court Philip and April May at the Rummer April May at the Bush Carpenters May at the Castle Mitchel April May at the Not April May at the April May at oil April May at Mo New April May at APRIL BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED steel to der April May at the Old Clock May atthe Pheasant and April June at Punch Bowl April May June at Spital April May June at Guildhall Great April May June at Whita April May June at Kingston April Duck Frome May June at the George Frome May June at the George Frome April June at the Punch May June atthe Littleton Arms 1 cotton May June at the Star THE ARCTIC In Captain Rosss account of the voyage to the amazing effect upon vision which was pro by the refraction of light in the high latitudes explored by our were wonderfully raised by and on one he The sun passing in served delineate them on the horizon in a distinct and beautiful manner the reflections of light on the icebergs were particularly the eme and being the prevailing What a scene to gaze upon for 140 or 150 miles round the standing in the centre of a cir cle where his vision embraced a diameter of 300 miles Other natural appearances were equally if not equally Here we have a vessel of ice in a boundless ocean of glaciers and optical We were says Ross occasionally visited by in extremely and of a very white appear while in the zenith the blue sky was his time August 76 the thermometer is generally at the freezing point the moment this fog touches the ropes of the it and these are in a very short time covered with to the thickness of a mans and at every evolution of the ship it covers the deck with its In the absence of these we had sometimes the atmosphere most beautifully clear the objects on the horizon were often most wonderfully raised by the powers of while others at a short distance from them were as much The use of the was totally as no satisfactory result could be obtained from it These objects were continually varying in shape the ice had sometimes the appearance of an immense wall on the and here and there a space re sembling a breach in it and even small pieces of had often the appearance of trees and on one we had the resemblance of a forest near the pieces of ice on the other side were so greatly as look like loag low 76 32 Since our leaving Wolsten holme the ice which we met with had assumed a very different character from any we had before met with it hud ge a green and appeared to havu been a long time at being in a state of decay it was in huge pieces ef irregular forms heaped upon each other by some tre mendous and then frozen 76 10 It is worthy of remark that the icebergs here were only threefourths under while those to the south were This singular fact is not and we are left to conjecture whether it was owing to the greater specific lightness of the water or the lesser specific gravity of the The furthest latitude to which the Expedition penetrated is marked 76 37 when on the 23d of August Successively made out the North and South points of the land across the bottom of a or which answered Baf fins description of Joness These they named Capes and Gale and as a ridge of high mountains was seen to extend quite across the bottom of it was deter mined that there could be BO passage in that and they began to beat to the At a piece of was picked up it had nails in and the marks of the plane nnd adze were also evi This seems to prove that it must have drifted up the probably by the strong southerly Many seals were and the tracks of bears were visible on the ice in many Otherwise the desolation was extreme There was no appearance of nor did the land ap pear habitable very few birds were and no whales or any other living Next day they made fast to the This position was remarkable for variety in the depth of the and quality of the substances at the When we made fast we had 78 soon afterwards we had then then and within a short time of each other in the shallowest water we had muddy sand and shells at one time a small piece of coral at 85 fathoms we had rocky bottom at stones at mud and at mixed blue and grey with worms in The marks of a bears paws in this region were of extraordinary sizer the forepaw measuring fif teen by thirteen and the hind paw twenty by twelve about a fortnight after they killed one of these powerful When the boat was two large bears swam off to the ships which were at the distance of six miles from the land they fetched the and were immediately attacked by the boats of that ship and killed which was shot through the unfortunately sunk the when he was attacked the and shewed considerable but was at length secured and towed to the Isabella by the boats of both This animal weighed 1151 besides the blood it had which cannot be estimated at less than He was seat to the British Museum in excellent His length from the snout to the tail was seven feet eight inches to the shoulder two feet 1O inches circumference of the body near the six feet of three feet two inches breadth of ten inches of height at the foreshoulder above four icet tail four inches the tusks 1 inch One of these to avoid his plunged from the edge of an icy precipice 50 feet into the sea another was seen on some loose a hundred miles from land The other animals ob served were and common coloured in numbers so considerable as to offer a pro spect of a good fur combined with the ivory of the and the teeth of the seahorse and There were also plenty of white The natives described an animal which they called but said it was too large for them to kill it by their ac a horn on its and is very I therefore sup pose it must be a They have also an animal known to both countries by the name of but which I cannot find to be mentioned by writers on it is not uncommon about Bay and Disco where its cry is continually heard at It is very and cnn seldom be being very active and fierce the are afraid of it He says it resembles a but is three times that it moves by jumping more than run and lives in holes and caverns in the rocks that it eats hares and which it lies in wait and catches by springing on The dogs are the only animals domesticated by these Arctic they are of various chiefly a dark brown of the size of a shepherds a head like a and a tail like a The natives appeared to prefer Weasels and mice seem to finish their known list of Nor are their birds very The merlin eider sea and almost exhaust the A new species of called was associating with the greater which in its habits it nearly Of inverte brate animals a few novelties were also round but ae they were not well we shall not de scribe them further than by stating generally that they belonged to the and A gull was 2 feet 5 inches in which disgorged a little awk and these werein such my that they covered the whole surface of the and sometimes the boats killed 1500 in a day for commonly bringing down fifteen at a OF JAMES James at the late Surrey was capitally convicted of and cutting George his namesake and and condemned to be suffered the dread ful sentence of the on Horsham on the were knocked off about one im mediately after which he was conveyed in a accompanied fiy the with his coffin behind to the fatal on his he appeared as if from but unaccompanied by any symptoms of iear at the nigh of or agitation at the operations of the hangman on tl e he with apparent at the surrounding spectators not as if to afford some one an of catching his eye he next uttered a few words in a low tone of which we understood amounted to tin acknow ledgment of the justice of his and then joined the Gaol Chaplain in a short after which the cart moved from under and launched him into eternity Having harboured no hope of he was resigned to his and met it in a becoming After the usual his body was cut and delivered over to his The following is a copy of his confession to John a fel who was generally with him after his tion only an hour before he was summoned from his cell to the On the 15th about eight at after I bad sup I left my fathers house to go to a young man of the name of On my return about mile from my fathers I was taken with a violent pain in in jr uid laid myself down by tlm I then felt noise in my head like a ring of The gamekeepers son had been to deliver a letter for his he WM return ing I heard some person coming towards and when he was neur enough for me to know I rose up and knocked him down with a which broke from the violence of I then fell upon pulled a knite out of my and cut him across the The lad cried out for and dont kill and in struggling to save his life caught hold of the and in the received a stab under his His cries of murder being heard by a man of the name of he ran towards still hearing the cries of Seeing he was making towards 1 left the and ran home and hid in my fathers on to the lads and on being told that rt was James Gibb who had so cruelly treated got more and went to the house of my who was gone to They inquired if I was my father They then demanded ad ami having obtained searched and then the I saw them coming towards a upor which I rose pulled off my put it across my and ran the main The men pursued and took They asked mv and I told I was also betrayed by the as 1 bad not washed It Had 1 not been discovered in the it was my intention to have lain until all was then to have gone in changed my and fled to another in the hope of not being appre My father aud gamekeeper were at variance and the gamekeepers son had oftentimes ordered of the I had malice in my and it was that which prompted me to the commission of the crime for which I am now going was an action brought ibr a compensation in damages for the loss of the services of plaintiffs Plaintiff is a butcher at and defendant a farmer residing in the neigh Serjeant Pell that under afl the circumstances of he much damages were not expected as plaintiff had been injured by defendants she entitled to a dict wit and from his brief a which excited considerable merriment in the and which was as follows you that four hearts you but three of them you lent to the other one you keep in store only for me if that is had I ninety and they are all for you but I have only and that you have for years which 1 hope dear for ever you will keep as I shall I for ever I would wait for so 1 will 1st mother say what she I am full bent not to have no one bat you never As for for leaving the dear I never ask you and I hope that you will keep it till such time as I shall be able to make you my adorable which 1 am resolved by your As to giving up the business to me as you mother if I would have either or but sooner than 1 would have either of refuse all the riches in the Caul forget the injury I have done and have an other Mary Its I am trying for the busi and shall have it in a year or but never without dear Oftentimes do I when I lie down on my I only live for thee Believe my dear the sight of you does me a deal of that I could meet you at a convenient to talk to you Make dear a proposal in the next letter where I shall meet 31y answer this and very I wait for Mary Boley said she became acquainted with defendant about eleven years He addressed himself to her as her sweet her and in three or four years she had a child by The banns of marriage were put up before she had the and once On the 2d of June last she was again put to bed of In defendant married Defendant always promised her marriage and a fortnight before he he said he wai going to Bristol to Say his mothers and she should go with him to be n consequence of having the she had been unable to assist her father as with eloquence and that if an action of this nature were to be the most serious results to the morals of society might The Learn ed Counsel concluded nn animated appeal to the Jury at consi and that if damages were one farthing would be the highest amount in justice could be The Jury decided in favour of the TOWN CROSS A Jury was assembled this day at our Town under Writ of Inquiry of This cause was an action brought by Peter of against the John formerly a ropemaker but now living at to in damages fur the seduction his Tabitha The case on the part of the plaintiff was stated by in an eloquent and impressive speech of considerable in which he developed the whole system of base duplicity practised by the and from which it appeared that the part of the year the then 25 years of came to lodge at the house of the with whose family he was before that time in the habits of intimacy he had shewn attention to Miss at that time 15 years of and availing himself of the facilities which the situation as a lodger afforded effected her result of which was the birth of a child in the early part of In he was detected in an extensive traffic in Kings for which he was tried at the Lent Assizes in sentence of in execution of which he was sent to hulks at In the summer of he was relieved from the sentence of by the of a pardon which had been procured for him and during whole time of his imprisonment he kept up a correspondence with the unhappy victim of his base promising every reparation in his if he should succeed in obtaining a mitigation of his punishment but though his business of a was still carried on for him at he had not contributed any thing to the support of Miss or the which died ut the age of hve The letters by which this correspondence had been maintained were produced and and contained the strongest expressions of interlarded with and were pointedly upon by Mr No did the defendant obtain a than instead of fulfilling his promise to this still confiding and affectionate he basely by every possible to repeat an intercourse which bad al ready proved so destructive to her peace and impress ing upon her the belief that he intended to marry up to the very time in October last at to her unutterable she found he had become the hn band of another woman This statement was fully confirmed by the evidence of Miss several respectable inhabitants of testimony it that up to the time of her unhappy con with the and since that to the present her conduct had been wholly irreproachable such the sympathy excited by her unhappy and the in ability of her the to support her and her that a subscription had been raised neighbour hood her The defendants case was conducted by and of Callington but the united ingenuity these gen tlemen could not single circumstance to weaken cre of the evidence for the plain or one at all favour able to the character conduct of the 1 he Deputy Sheriff having summed up the evidence in a most perspicuous and able in the course of which hf more than once ttat except in her unfortunate intercourse with the the slightest breath of suspicion did not rest upon the character of Miss the Jury remained of an hour in returned with a for the