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INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS, IN AND NKAH LONDON. 



CHRONOLOOy. 



November 18 Carlile was liberated from Dor- 



thcster gaol, after an lm|>risonmcnt of six years, 

 without any fine being paid, or any bail required. 



13. — The Old Bailey Sessions concluded, when the 

 Recorder passed sentence of death on seventeen ; 

 eight were sentencetl to transportation for life ; three 

 for fourteen years ; thirty-six for seven years ; and 

 several to various terms of imprisonment, hard- 

 labour, whipping, &c 



21. — A deputation, consisting of the Churchw.ir- 

 dens and other inhabitants of St.Jamcs, t'lerkenwell, 

 waited on the Rev. Mr. Dillon, chaplain to the Lord 

 Mayor, at the Mansion House,^ to present to him 

 the Bishop of London's license to perform the third 

 additional service with a sermon, in theif~parish 

 church. This appointment, we believe, is the first 

 under the Act of Parliament (53 Geo. III). The 

 reverend gentleman will, we understand, commence 

 the new service on the first Sunday of the new 

 year. 



23. — The silk trade was thrown into a state of the 

 greatest confusion by the sudden and unexpected 

 act of the Government, the lowering the import 

 duty on thrown silk from 7s Cd to 5s per lb. The 

 throwsters are much dissatisfied, and allege they 

 cannot compete with foreign-thrown at the lower 

 duty, while the alteration is satisfactory to the 

 manufacturer. The present difference between .'Is 

 on foreign-thrown and 3d on raw, leaving 4s 9d 

 protection, is said by the throwsters to be altogether 

 insufficient. 



— A Special Petty Sessions was held at the Ses- 

 sions House, Newington, upon the subject of the 

 nuisance of Camberwell and Peckham fairs, when 

 the magistrates, after hearing evidence, decided that 

 there was not before them any evidence to sliew that 

 a right existed for these fairs, and that they there- 

 fore felt it to be their duty to require the lord of the 

 manor to enter into recognizances. 



24.— A general meeting of the members of the 

 Western Literary and Scientific Institution was 

 held at the Freemason's Hall, for the purpose of 

 taking into consideration the report of the provi- 

 sional committee, and the laws proposed for the 

 regulation of the institution : T. Campbell, Esq., 

 in the chair. The secretary read the report, from 

 which it appeared the subscribers amounted to up- 

 wards of 300. Donations of books had been re- 

 ceived, one from Mr. P. Moore, M.P., of 150 

 volumes; Mr. Drummond presented f 50. The 

 laws of the Society were then read and adopted, and 

 a subsciption opened for a building fund. 



30 The St. Andrew's Festival of the corporation 



of the Scottish Hospital was celebrated by a dinner 

 at the City of London Tavern. His Royal High- 

 ness the Duke of Clarence and St. Andrews in the 

 chair. The company, though not so numerous as it 

 frequently has been, was highly respectable ; and 

 the contributions, though not very satisfactory', d'd 

 not fall short of the usual average of this half-yearly 

 collection. The objects of the charity are as une- 

 quivocally laudable as its affairs are confessedly well-' 

 managed. Poor or disti'essed Scotchmen, who in 

 London camiot obtain a settlement, and who of 

 course caimot apply for parish support, are by its 

 funds either relieved by small contributions, or, if 

 they choose to return home, are provided with a free 

 passage. 



Dec. 2 The members of the London Mechanic's 



Inttitution ceie'jrated their second annivers;iry by 



M.M. New Senes—\OL. I. No. 1. 



a dinner at the Crown and Anchor, which was at- 

 tended by His Royal Highness the Duke of .Sussex 

 (who presided!, Mv. Brougham, M.I'., Mr. Denir.an, 

 M.P., the Hon. Mr. Alwrerombie, M.P., Mr. Alder- 

 man Wood, M.P., Dr. Biikbeck, and the other 

 principal officers of the institution, and about six 

 hundred members. 



— The King's scholars of \\ estminster gave th<ir 

 annual representation of a Latin come<ly; it was on 

 this occasion the Andrian of 1 erence. 



5. — A meeting, for the fonnation of a Mechanic's 

 Institute, was held at Hammersmith. 



6 The members of the Western Literary and 



Scientific Institution assembled at the rooms of the 

 Society of British Artists, in Sullblk Street, for 

 the purpi^e of electing twenty-four members to fonn ' 

 a committee of management, in the place of the 

 provisional committee, that had been previously 

 appointed, pro tempore, to conduct the affairs of the 

 society. 



8 The rector and parishioners of St. Olavcs,- 



Hart Street, held a vestry meeting for the purpose 

 of receiving the report of the tythe committee, on 

 the subject of their contest as to the demand of two 

 shillings and sixpence in the pound tithes. The ' 

 parishioners ofl'ered^fl, (120 per annum, exclusive of 

 surplice fees, which the doctor agreetl to accept, 

 provided that they can settle with the bishop the 

 sum to be paid to his successor. 



17- — The Duke of Buckingham was convicted at 

 Mr. Lloyd's office, Winchester, in two penalties and 

 costs, incurred in consequence of his christian and' 

 surname not being painted on his waggons, as ra- 

 quirol by the statute. 



20 The King held a privy council, when it was 



agreed that the Parliament should be further pro- 

 rogued from the 5th of January to Tiuirsday the 2J 

 February, then to meet for the dispatch of business. 

 The Recorder afterwards made his report of the 

 convicts capitally convicted at the October Sessions, 

 when Richard William Jasper, for forging an accep- 

 tance to a bill of exchange, William Henry Austin, 

 a letter-sorter, for secreting and stealing ^ letter, 

 and John Edmonds, for horse-stealing, were ordered 

 for execution on Tuesday the 27th December. 



A day school for the education of the children of 

 poor British subjects has lately been established in 

 Paris, under the patronage of Lord and Lady 

 Granville. 



The whole of the materials of the houses, guard- 

 room, and lodge to the lower mews. Charing Cross, 

 were sold by auction, to be pulled down, to make 

 way for the grand new street, to be constructed from 

 Charing Cross to the British Museum, Great 

 Jtussel Street. 



The Enterprize Steam Packet arrived in safety at 

 the Cape of Good Hope on the 12th of October, 

 after a passage o£^7 days. 



MARRIAGES. 



E. Packe, esq., to Jane Sarah, daughter of — Gil- 

 lausfield, esq., M. P., of Birstall-house. 



J. C. Wright, esq., son of S. Wright, esq., of 

 Mapperly, Notts, to Theodosia, daughter of T.Den- 

 man, esq., M. P. 



R. Bethell, esq.. Middle Temple, to EUenor Mary, 

 daughterofR. Abraham, esq. 



A. Barclay, esq., to Isabella, daughter of \". 

 Crulman, esq. 



T. Kent, esq. of Berks, to Lucy, widow of Major 

 Murray. 



The Hev. B. Yound, B. A., of Watling, .Sussex, 

 to E. Susanna, daKgiiter '^f J. H.lloway, esq. 

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