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stop to this spurious chivalry of tlie 

 compting house and the counter. 

 The court has been for these two 

 days occupied with cases of this 

 sort : yesterday it was an angry 

 linen-draper of Bristol, who iiad 

 been a httle time in a Local Mili- 

 tia ; long enough to imbibe all 

 the worst prejudices of the army, 

 that thought proper to post a prac- 

 tising surgeon for not accepting a 

 challenge; and to-day we have a 

 mercantile man in the same predi- 

 cament: instead of posting their 

 books, these tradesmen are posting 

 one another. The court desires it 

 to be understood, that it is not ne- 

 cessary for the party applying for a 

 remedy against such an outrage as 

 this, to come perfectly unblemish- 

 ed before them ; and that if il shall 

 be shown to be necessary for pub- 

 lic quiet and justice, they will in- 

 terpose the remedy sought for. If 

 the challenge in this case had been 

 sent eo instanti upon the defendant's 

 quitting the coffee-house, the court 

 would have contemplated it as 

 emanating from the venial irrita- 

 tion of the moment ; but it appears 

 that he at first applied to the pro- 

 secutor for an apology, upon the 

 refusal of which, his friend the 

 other defendant, was sent upon 

 this mischievous and malignant 

 mission to the prosecutor, in the 

 country ; and then, because a man 

 refuses to be hunted down when 

 dining out at a friend's house, and 

 challenged at six o'clock in the 

 evening, he is to be posted for a 

 coward at Lloyd's coffee-house the 

 next morning.'' — Rule absolute. 



2 . Falmouth — " A most me- 

 lancholy occurrencetook placehere 

 this afternoon. Our church being 

 enlarging, it was thought necessary 

 to take part of the materials of the 



old wall to form the new one ; this 

 it was supposed, had weakened 

 the old wall, and this afternoon, 

 part of the plaster having fallen 

 down, the congregation became 

 alarmed, and made a sudden effort 

 to rush out : in the confusion ma- 

 ny were trodden down ; many 

 were taken up apparently lifeless : 

 four have since died ; and there 

 are at least 15 persons more in a 

 dangerous state, from the bruises 

 they have received." 



30. His Royal Highness the 

 Prince Regent went in state to/ 

 open the new parliament, and it 

 being eight years since the king 

 attended parliament, great interest 

 was made for tickets of admissioa 

 to the House of Peers. The 

 Princesses Augusta, Elizabeth, and 

 Mary, came to town from Wind-; 

 sor; and, with the Princess Char- 

 lotte of Wales, were conducted 

 to the House by the Duke of 

 Cumberland. 



At one o'clock the Prince Re- 

 gent went from Carlton-house to 

 St. James's Palace, where he was 

 received by the Lord Chamber- 

 lain and officers of the household. 

 His Royal Highness was dressed in 

 regimentals, and was conducted 

 to the levee-room, where he re- 

 mained till the state carriages were 

 announced to be in readiness ; 

 when his Royal Highness and his 

 attendants entered the carriages, 

 of which there were four. In the 

 first carriage were the Equerries 

 and Page of Honour; in the 2d, 

 the Earl of Macclesfield, Captain 

 of the Yeomen of the Guard, the 

 grooms in waiting, and gentlemen 

 ushers. In the 3d, the Earl of 

 Harrington, gold stick in waiting; 

 and in the 4th, the Prince Regent, 

 attended by the Duke of Montrose, 



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