Incidents in and near London. 
17 ? 
eers, Breton, Jones, and Mason, were found 
guilty at the Middlesex sessions, of a con¬ 
spiracy to extort money. Breton and Jones 
were sentenced to two years imprisonment 
in the House of Correction, and Mason to 
six months. 
■— 24. A grand musical festival was 
given in the Abbey, to raise funds for the 
rebuilding of Westminster Hospital. 3000 
spectators were present. 
—— In the Court of King’s Bench, on 
an information for libel, the following was 
quoted from the Republican of Oct. 20 th, 
1820 ^ There is not a vice which the 
King can put his hand upon bis heart and 
say I am innocent of. He has inherited 
the gross obstinacy of his father, with the 
avarice and meanness of his mother, with¬ 
out any of their domestic qualities; and 
to these he has added all that vice can 
teach or conjecture,’’ The defendant, Mr. 
Beve, admitted the grossness of the libel, 
but pleaded ignorant of the contents of that 
number, and brought evidence to his loyal 
character. Verdict—Guilty. 
On the same day was an indictment for 
a libel, which, among other things, spoke 
of the Bible as (i a book so full of wicked¬ 
ness and contradiction, that it could not be 
the word of God.” The defendant, Mary 
Ann Garble, had copied the article from an 
American paper, and alleged that she was 
a servant, at fixed wages, to her brother. 
“ The common law,” she said, “ was com¬ 
mon sense.” Verdict—Guilty. 
— 25. At the Old Bailey, the foreman of 
the London Jury, by direction from his 
co-jurors, requested permission to read an 
application for mercy to the convicts of the 
session, but was repeatedly interrupted by 
the Common Serjeant, who threatened to 
commit him. The paper stated that the 
jury were embarrassed in their verdicts by 
the sanguinary character of the criminal 
code. 
26. A letter tq the different Revenue 
Boards, from the Treasury Chambers, an¬ 
nounced an act of grace for the release of 
certain prisoners confined for penalties. 
31. This day’s Gazette contains a notice 
respecting the claims of British subjects on 
the French government. Established 
claims to receive 65 per cent.; 813 claims 
settled, since passing the act, May 19th, 
1819, 
Aug. 7. The following appeared as a 
supplement to the London Gazette of this 
date: “ Wednesday, Aug. 8 th, 1821. Yes¬ 
terday evening, at 25 -minutes after ten 
o’clock, the Queen departed this life, after 
a short but painful illness, at Brandenburgh 
House, at Hammersmith ” 
- 9. Intelligence received by the pri¬ 
soners confined in London and its vicinity, 
at .the suit ot the Crown, of their discharge 
by an act ot grace 5 a measure of benevo- 
-Monthly Mag. No. 358. 
lence for which we feel it our duty to com¬ 
pliment the government. 
— 9- W. Thompson, Esq. elected Aider- 
man of the ward of Cheap, vice Rothwell, 
deceased. 
— 10 . The Earl Moira packet lost off 
Liverpool, and 60 persons perished. 
— 11 . The King landed in Ireland. 
— 14. I he Gazette of this day contains 
an order for the Court going into mournin'- 
for the late Queen,on Wednesday the 15th" 
--The Queen’s funeral; for further 
of which see the Memoirs, and Public 
Affairs. 
From the report of the Common Council 
committee, it appears that great abuses 
have been practised in framing the special 
jury lists. The secondary has the power 
of placing or removing names, at his option 
Out of an immense number of qualified 
persons (resident householders worth one 
hundred pounds) only 485 are named, and 
of these 226 are not resident. Of the re¬ 
maining 259, only 88 are merchants. Se¬ 
veral jurymen have served thirty, forty, or 
fifty times each in a term—while 87 served 
but once and 28 but twice j 
— 24. The Coroner’s inquest on Francis, 
killed on the 14th, brought in a verdict of 
wilful murder against one of 1 he Life 
Guards. 
— 25. Public funeral of Francis and 
Honey, when the Sheriff of Middlesex, at 
the head of the posse eomitatus, was as¬ 
saulted by the Life Guards, at Knights- 
bridge. 
MARRIED. 
J. Graham, esq. of Lincoln’s-inn, to 
Eleanor, daughter of E. Curties, esq. of 
Windmill-hiil, M.P. for Sussex. 
R. Angelo Browning, esq. of Stamford- 
street, to Elizabeth, daughter of the late 
H. P. Engs tram, esq. of Loughton, Essex. 
Is. Wilcox, esq. of Bread Street-hill, to 
Miss Giblet, niece of J. Hunter, esq. of 
Brixtori. 
Lieut. Col. J. C'amack, of the 1st regf. 
of Life Guards, to Miss Wingreve, of Brit- 
tenbam Park, near Ipswich. 
W. S. Best, esq. eldest son of the Hon. 
Mr. Justice B. to Jane, youngest daughter 
ot the late W. Thoy'tes, esq. of Sulliamp- 
stead House, Berks. 
At St. George’s, Hanover-square, CapL 
Hyde Parker, R.N. to Caroline, youngest 
daughter of the late Sir Fr. Morton Eden, 
hart. 
The Rev. J. Brewster, vicar of Great- 
ham, Durham, to the eldest daughter of G. 
F. Lockley, esq. of Half Moon-street. 
W. A. Oriebar, esq. of Charlotte-street, 
Bedford-square, to the 2 d daughter of the 
late B. Longuet, esq. of Bath. 
J. M. Bennet, esq. of the East India ser¬ 
vice, to Miss Bennett, of Upper Norton, 
street, Portland-place. 
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