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of the Admiralty; it was carried by a ma- 
jority of 54—the numbers 182 and 128. 
— 2. The extensive premises of Mr. 
Bagster, bookseller, of Paternoster row, 
were destroyed by fire. 
— 6. At the Old Bailey sentence of 
death was passed on fourteen prisoners— 
six for burglary, two for highway robbery, 
and six for stealing in dwelliug-houses. 
Six prisoners were sentenced to transpor- 
tation for life, and thirty-six for seven 
years. A great number of prisoners were 
sentenced to various minor punishments. 
— An extraordinary phenomenon hap- 
pened on the river Thames—the wind 
blowing with violence from SW. the tide 
was interrupted for several hours—the ri- 
ver was fordable, ships were aground in al} 
parts of it below London Bridge Four 
distinct islands were formed between Lon- 
don and Southwark bridges. 
— 12. It was announced to the House of 
Commons, by the Chancellor of the Exche- 
quer, that the King had given up £30,000 
per annum from the Civil List for the pub- 
lie good. 
— 14. A numerous and highly respect- 
able meeting took place at Hackney for 
the purpose of considering the propriety of 
petitioning parliameat on the general dis- 
tress of the country, the amount of taxa- 
tion, and the necessity of Parliamentary 
Reform. The High Sheriff took the chair, 
and the Rev. Mr. Draper proposed several 
energetic resolutions. 
— 26. This day the Court of Chancery 
determined that Mr. Lawrence’s Lectures 
were not entitled to legal protection, owing 
to their teaching doctrines of materialism, 
assumed to be contrary to Holy Scripture. 
Messrs. Shadwell and Wetherell made 
learned polemical discourses on the occa- 
sion, whose tenor carried us back to the 
trial of Joan of Are ‘for witcheraft, and that 
of Galileo, for asserting doctrines which 
were also assumed to be contrary to Scrip- 
ture. These attempts to controul the free- 
dom of enquiry and discussion, and to mix 
force with faith, must be regarded as re- 
trogradations of human interests, and can- 
not but fill with deep concern every lover 
of Truth, and every believer of that Reli- 
gion which is not of this world, and which, 
therefore, requires not the presumptious 
protection of fallible man. Those, on the 
contrary, who maintain that it requires 
such legal or forcible protection, concede 
the best argument in proof of Christianity ; 
and are, in truth, guilty of greater blas- 
phemy against divine revelation and the 
Omnipotence by which, as such, it must be 
sufficiently supported, than those whom 
they prosecute in direct opposition to the 
doctrines of the very religion which they 
profess. 
A new club, intitled The United Uni- 
versity Club, to cousist of five hundred 
Marriages in and near London. 
[ April 1, 
members from Oxford, and the like num- 
ber from Cambridge, has been lately 
formed in London. A superb building is 
to be erected for the club on the space 
near the King’s Mews, Charing-cross. 
The following is a list of the number of 
beasts, sheep, calves, aud pigs sent’ to 
Smithfield Market for sale, from Monday, 
Jan 1, 1821, to Monday, December 31st 
following, both inclusive, viz — 
Beasts, total quantity - 149,466 
Average per week = - 2820 
Sheep, total quantity - 1,298,180 
Average per week - - 24,493 
Calves, total quantity - - 21,487 
Average per week - - 405 
Pigs, total quantity = - - 19,192 
Average per week = - 362 
MARRIED. 
At Weybridge, Surrey, Lieutenant Na- 
thaniel Barwell, R.N. son of Osborn Bar- 
well, esq. to Susan Anne, daughter of J. C. 
Middleton, esq. 
At St. Michael’s, Cornhill, John Robert 
Turing, esq. of Rotterdam, to Jane Stewart, 
second daughter of Alexander Fraser, esq. 
of Aberdeen. 
At Lower Tooting, Mr. H. W. Lord, to 
Miss Gibson, of Upper Tooting, 
At St. Mary’s, Lambeth, Mr. William 
Senior, of Bush-lane, Cannon-street, to 
Dorothy Anna, daughter of the late Richard 
Price, esq. of Stepney. 
At St. Luke’s, Chelsea, Mr. James 
Turner of Fleet-street, to Sarah Ann, 
daughter of the late Mr. Phillip Powell, of 
Hereford. 
At the Earl of Albemarle’s house, in St. 
James’s-square, by especial license, Mr. 
Coke, of Norfolk, to Lady Ann Keppel, 
second daughter of his Lordship. 
At St. George’s, Bloomsbury, the Rev. 
Thomas Hyde Ripley, vicar of Wooten- 
Bassett, to Caroline Augusta, daughter 
of J. B. Tyndale, esq. of Lincoln’s Inn- 
fields. 
John Whalley, esq. of Caroline-place, to 
Charlotte, daughter of Jacob Goodhart, esq. 
Manor-house, Tooting. 
David Stow, esq. of Glasgow, to Marian 
Sarah, daughter of the late John Freebairn, 
esq. of Colebrook-row. 
Mr. R.S. Ashby, of Stoke Newington, to 
Ann, daughter of John Brett, esq. Luton, 
Bedfordshire. 
Robert Browne, esq. of Welbeck-street, 
to Maria, daughter of Thomas Nisbett, esq. 
of Kingsland-place, Middlesex. 
The Hon. George Agar Ellis, esq. fo the 
Hon. Georgiana Howard, second daughter 
of Viscount Morpeth. ; 
At Chatham, Lieut.-col. Dashwood, to 
Caroline, daughter of Sir Robert Barlow, 
K.C.B. 
Aaron Joseph, esq. of Churcb-street, 
Minories, to Matilda, daughter of the late 
Mr. Lyon Phillips. 
Thomas 
