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of various other shapes. 
ment on which the pavement is laid 
is about an inch thick, and appears 
to be composed of sand, pounded 
brick, and lime, forming together a 
very hard substance. The inter- 
stices are filled up with cement, so 
hard that it is even more difficult to 
break than the tessere themselves. 
The white and pale tessere appear to 
be of hard calcareousstone, and bear 
a good polish ; the red are of a fine 
sort of brick; the bluish grey are 
-of a hard argillacious stone, found 
in many parts of Gloucestershire,and 
called blue yas ; and the dark brown 
appear to be of the granite found at 
St. Vincent’s rocks near Bristol. 
As some workmen were employ+ 
ed in sinking a cistern at Messicurs 
Gardiner’s factory at Leicester, they 
found, 10 feet below the surface of 
the earth, the remains of a large 
Roman building, the walls of which 
were 4 fect thick, composed of alter- 
nate layers of forest stone and Ro- 
man brick. From the similarity of 
the structure to the ancient temple 
of Janus or Jewry Wall,it is suppos- 
ed to have formed part of that 
work, from which it is about 100 
yards distant. 
The King George Packet, of and 
from Parkgate, for Dublin, was 
lost at night, near Hoyle Bank, and 
all on board perished, except five 
men anda boy; 125 persons were 
drowned, among whom were seven 
cabin passengers, 
16th. Mr. Daniels was brought 
up for examination before the lord 
mayorat the Mansion-house ; when 
his buying 30,000I. worth of omni- 
um, selling it again, and running 
away with the money to the Isle of 
Man, with a variety of other cir- 
cumstances, being proved by Mr. 
Montifiorc, his broker, and other 
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persons, the lord mayor ordered 
the prisoner to be brought up next 
day. 
17th. The lord mayor, after con 
sulting with the council for the pro- 
secution, and the. prisoner’s coun- 
sel, determined to liberate Mr. Da- 
niels; which being done, he was 
detained on lord Ellenborough’s 
warrant, to make his appearance 
to a commission of bankruptcy. — 
Ile has since been liberated. 
18th. A court of bank proprie- 
tors was held ; when it was an- 
nounced by the governor, that the 
half-yearly dividend, about to take 
place, would be 3} per cent, toge. 
ther with a bonus of 5 per cent. 
The bank likewise to pay the pro- 
perty tax on the dividends. 
On the 25th of August his roy- 
al highness the prince left London 
and called at Bushy Park, to take 
with him, as by appointment, his 
brother the duke of Clarence. —At 
half past. five, the royal brothers 
set out from Bushy Park, accom- 
panied by culonel Lee and major 
Bloomfield. Theirs royal high- 
nesses slept that night at Benson, 
Oxfordshire, and passed through 
Oxford about one o’clock on Tues- 
day ; they then proceeded to Blen- 
heim, and drove through the Park, 
expressing themselves highly gratifi- — 
ed with both the internal and exter- 
nal beauties of that magnificent place, 
and at the same time testifying their 
regret that they could not devote 
more time to vicw and inspect them. 
Their royal highnesses next pro- 
ceeded to the earl of Guildford’s at 
Wroxton Abbey, where they dined ; 
on Wednesday a round of enter- 
tainments were provided for the 
amusement of the royal guests du- 
ring their stay, among which was 2 
play, performed on Friday. Their 
royal 
