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her servant what fellow that was? pointing towards him. The servant replied, she did not know. Miss York then said: "I shall take the liberty of firing at him," and presented the gun at him. It snapped twice. He then got behind a tree to avoid its contents. She snapped the piece again, and it went off, presented at him. He saw Miss York put shot into the gun out of a shot belt, and saw her prime it with powder; her servant supplied her with powder to prime it. After the gun was fired, he and Parker got over the paling, and took the gun from her.

Henry Parker, a carpenter, of Sunbury, confirmed the above, and said, as he was walking along the road, he saw Miss York fire off the gun; her servant was close by her side at the time; he observed the ball from the gun strike the gravel road about three paces before him; he, in consequence, went to the paling, and asked her what she was firing at? She replied, if he insulted her in her private walks, she would shoot him: the ball made an aperture through the paling. At this the other witness, Coombes, came up to him, and related what had happened: and he, Parker, with Coombes, jumped over the paling, and took the gun from her. The defence set up by Miss York was, that the witness, Coombes, had made use of some very improper language to her, and had thrown some pieces of the paling at her, which induced her to send her servant for the musket, and she had discharged it at Coombes in her own defence.

This was confirmed by the servant.

Mr. Rolfe, the uncle of Miss York, the proprietor of the house where she resides, and the joint proprietor of the park, attended in behalf of Miss York, and in extenuation of the conduct of his niece, stated, that there was no road through the park, and therefore the witnesses, and those who were playing at cricket, were committing a trespass; but he, by no means, justified the conduct of his niece, in discharging a musket at them. Mr. Rolfe endeavoured to throw discredit upon the testimony of Coombes, insinuating that he was not a respectable character. Mr. Nares, however, did not consider any thing that had been said in defence, to amount to a justification of one of the most serious and outrageous acts that ever was committed, and particularly by a young lady; but would give it another hearing, upon Mr. Rolfe undertaking for the future appearance of Miss York and her servant, who, he conceived, had acted equally improper in fetching the gun, and in assisting in loading it. The prosecutors undertook to produce three witnesses to corroborate what they had stated, and on Friday the parties were again brought up to be examined, but on the witnesses being called, they did not answer. Some suspicion was entertained that they had been tampered with, and the magistrate ordered Miss York to be committed to New Prison, Clerkwell. Elizabeth Too, the servant, was admitted to bail, to answer what shall be objected against her at the next Quarter Sessions, herself in 3004. and two sureties 150%. each.

Order for the Lord Mayor's preparing the Ceremony of the Solemn Entry of Charles I. of Spain into London, A. D. 1522.

THE meeting of the emperour, his grace, with the lord mayor of London, and his brethren, with all other crafts of the said city in their liveries.

First, the said lord mayor must meet him at Deptford, and there shall receive him with procession.

Also at London bridge, there shall be two great giants standing at either

side of the gate, which shall deliver to the king's grace the keys, and the king to deliver them to the empe

rour..

Also upon the drawbridge shall be one pageant of Jason with the golden fleece; because the emperour giveth the golden fleece, as the king of England doth give the garter.

Also there shall be set, the like ness of the emperour, and all the kings that hold of the emperour, with crowns on their heads.

Also at the conduit, in Gracechurch street, there shall sit one man, in likeness of king Charles, with an emperour's crown upon his head, the emperour sitting on the right hand, and the king of England on the left hand of him; and he shall have two swords in his hand, and deliver one sword to the emperour, the other to the king's grace.

That is to understand, to the emperour as heir apparent, and to the king's grace as heir and governour generall.

Also, at the Leadenhall shall be one pageant of the duke of Lancaster, how he was married in Spain, and of all his lineage that came of him since that time, and targetts upon them, that they may be known, and their arms upon the targetts, to be known thereby.

At the conduit in Cornehill shall sit king Arthur as an emperour, and all the kings crowned that did hold of him.

Then he shall present the king with one sword, and welcome the emperour with a speech.

Also at the conduit in the Stocks, there shall be made one castle and

an orchard, and one garden made by advice, and shall be with birds singing upon trees, and divers manner of wild beasts, and motes with sluices, with fishes swimming in them.

And out of two ports of the corners shall come two men, one like the king, another like the emperour, having two swords in their hands, clean armed, and shall meet and kiss, and the Father of Heaven being over their heads, blessing them.

Also at the great conduit in Cheapside shall be two ports, one shall be the east gate, and the other shall be the west; and at the coming of the east gate there shall be there a rose, like to the bud of a rose, and so to come down and open more and more, and at the last it shall be opened all.

And there shall be a maiden with a red rose and a white in her hands, clothed in cloth of gold, delivering unto the king the red rose, and to the emperour the white rose.

Also at the standard in the Cheap there shall be the storie of king Solomon, with his progeny.

Also a cross in the Cheap, gilded after the best manner.

Also at the little conduit in the Cheap, shall be the assumption of Our Lady, as goodly as can be wrought, &c. angells, archangells, patriarchs, prophets, with the apostles in the heavenliest manner. The sun, the moon, with the stars shining bright, which shall open and bow down to the honour of Our Lady, with voices of young choristers, the which shall sing most sweetly, as may be devised by musick.

CHARACTERS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

THE specimen which follows is very whimsical but very expressive, and may serve as a lively picture .of former manners, of parts of dress now unknown, of delicacies perfectly

foreign to the present taste, and of national peculiarities to which modern customs bear not the smallest similitude. It is extracted from Thomas Reeve's Sermons, delivered with

in the city of London, and entitled, "God's Plea for Nineveh, or London's Precedent for Mercy. Printed by William Wilson, for Thomas Reeve, B. in Divinity, living at the Bunch of Grapes in Chancery Lane, near Lincolnes-Inne. 1657."

The Drudge.

If thou beest for profit, thy ranges are known; after thou hast called up thy servants to hunt for gain at home, thou thyself, as one in full quest for lucre abroad, art visiting other men's storehouses, searching their warehouses, ransacking their cellers; thou goest to the customhouse to try what exporting and importing there hath been, thou repairest to the exchange to examine what merchant thou canst meet with, with whom thou maist truck in minivers, and tissues, musks, and civets, the teeth of elephants, the bones of whales, the stones of bezars, the claws of crabs, the oyles of swallows, the skins of vipers, yea, be it but in black coal, black pitch, white chalk, white sope, rusty iron, or abominable mum. my, it will serve the turn; or if thy merchandising fail there, thou turnest thy trading another way, to seek about for a license, or a patent, or perhaps to pry out some decayed heir, or foundered gallant, that thy ferret might be sent forth into that burrow, or thy setting dog let loose to drive that covey, to hook in some mortgage, or to prey upon some forfeiture, and if all these devices will not take place, then thou stirrest thy legs to go suck venome from a pettyfogger, or magick from some conjurer. And thus doth the Drudge of the World spend his day.

The Gallant.

If thou beest for bravery, I cannot follow thee by the track, nor find out thy various motions. The gallant is counted a wild creature; no wild colt, wild ostrich, wild cat of the mountain, comparable to him; he is, indeed, the buffoon, and baboon of

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the times; his mind is wholly set upon cuts and slashes, knots and roses, patchings and pinkings, jaggins, taggins, borderings, brimmings, half-shirts, half-arms, yawning brests, gaping knees, arithmeticall middles, geometricall sides, mathematicall waste, musicall heels, and logicall toes. I wonder he is not for the Indians branded skin, and ringed snowts. His phantastick dotages are so many, that he hath a free-school, bookish about inventions for him; nay, an academy of wits studying deeply to devise fashions according to his humour: know ye not the mul titude of students, artists, graduates that are subliming their notions to please this one light head? Then hear them by their names, perfu mers, complexioners, feather-makers, stitchers, snippers, drawers, yea who not? yet amongst these doth the nited spark spend out his time: this is the Gallant's day.

The Epicure.

If thou beest for dainties, how art thou then for spread-tables and plenished flagons? thou art but a pantry-worm, and a pastry-fly. Thou art all for inlandish meat, and outlandish sawces, thou art the dapifer to thy palate or the cup-barer to thy appetite, the creature of the swallow, or the slave of the wesand. The land hath scars flesh, the sea fish, or the air fowl curious enough for thy licorous throat; by thy good will thou wouldst eat nothing but kids and fawns, carps and mullets, snipes and quailes; and drink nothing but Frontiniack, white muskadines, leathick wine, and Vin de Pary. Thy olies, and hogoes, creepers and peepers, Italian cippets and French broths, do shew what a bondman to the paunch thou art; even the idolatour of the banquetting house. Thy belly is thy god. Thus doth the glutton waste out his pilgrimage: this is the Epi cure's day.

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HISTORY OF ALI, PACHA OF JANINA: His Origin, Character, Power, Subjects, and Resources. IN a regular government, as understood among ourselves, we admit as an incontrovertible maxim, that the exercise of power should flow from one source. That source is the paramount officer of the sovereignty in Britain, the crown. We know no divided, or parallel authority: no principle on which an individual holds an office, or governs a district, in contradiction to the will of the king, as advised by his council. We know of no army paid from any other purse than that of the nation. Even the king himself dare not show a single troop clothed and accoutred from his private purse; still less dare a noble to raise a regiment, or train a batalion without a commission from the chief of the realm. When our sovereign thinks proper too, he can withdraw his commission, and the party who held it is no longer competent to perform acts of government. No governour considers his province as his property, and therefore refuses to relinquish the appoint ment: no governour presumes to enlarge his province by acquiring influence in another, or by carrying his arms into neighbouring districts, and forcing the inhabitants to acknowledge his supremacy. No governour considers the duties on commerce as the revenue of himself, or of his province, exclusively, further than may contribute to, or at least than consists with, the general welfare of the state, as one body. But every dominion is not so happily constituted. The connexion between the supreme power and the delegate is, in some constitutions, but feeble and a man of intrepidity shall sometimes cause the sovereign, whose subject and servant he profess es to be, to tremble. The cause of this is despotism. A despot must be served by other despots: they individually tremble before him: he trembles before them, collectively.

Or when two or three of these cquire influence over their fellows, and become leaders of a party, the head of the government is not safe in his castle.

It has lately been our duty to record revolutions and re-revolutions by which the Turkish court and capital have been convulsed. We saw Mustapha Bairactar expel the drones who formed the Ottoman ministry. In a few weeks we saw Mustapha overwhelmed by an insurgent multitude, and his enemies prevail against him. The means employed to accomplish this are known to few: and most of our countrymen who have taken up the persuasion that the Grand Seignior is a despotick prince (as in truth he is) are at a loss to conceive by what means his deputies can organize insurrections against him, and imprison or destroy their master, almost at their pleasure.

Among the adherents of Mustapha Bairactar, Ali, pacha of Janina, holds a conspicuous place. The army and the publick have directed much of their attention to his conduct, and have watched his proceedings with anxiety. We have thought, that the history of this chief might contribute to throw light on the cause of this publick attention, while at the same time it would show what sandy materials are combined in the service of the Sublime Porte. On this sandy nature of these materials Buonaparte places his reliance, for the accomplishment of his projects against the Turkish empire. lle conceives, that this subdivided government, when invaded by his concentrated forces, will yield with little resistance, and that he may substitute himself as the centre of allegiance, instead of a descendant of Ottoman, at a word speaking. On the other hand, we suspect that the approach of extreme danger would induce these now disunited pachas to com

bine for their mutual protection. That they would have discretion enough to perceive that the destruction of the Ottoman authority would not fail to issue in the ruin of their own houses, and the formation of dukedoms, and marquisates, &c. for the generals of the emperour and king. He will meet with a resistance in detail. The nature of the country favours his adversaries; and there is a possibility, that some desperate genius of a Turk may teach him to think less of his own abilities, and not to sell the bear's skin till he has conquered and flayed the bear. The present war with Austria has Turkey for its object, on the part of France. If Turkey is wise, her troops will take a position that will not permit Russia to direct a great force at her pleasure. Turkey, in short, may hold a kind of check on her neigh bours, if not properly speaking, the balance of her neighbourhood; and Buonaparte may find, that the road to Persia and India, his ultimate object, is blocked up too strongly to admit of his passage.

But waving all further reference to the politicks of Napoleon le grand! we wish to introduce our readers to a Turkish chief, who, in spite of adversity, has raised himself to distinction; who studies the newspapers of Europe, and foresees that one day these cursed Europeans may give him uneasiness; a chief who wants nothing but skill in the discipline of the unbelievers to make them tremble in their turn, and dread the very name of the pacha of Janina. The attachment of a semi-barbarian to his savage independence, may present greater obstacles to the progress of infuriate ambition, than all which have affected to oppose the triumph of the insolent victor, throughout the regions of civilized but infatuated Europe.

Ali, the present pacha of Janina, was born in a village, in the neigh

bourhood of Tebeleni, or Tebdélem, a town of the ancient Thesprotia, now a part of Albania, distant about 60 miles from Janina, north. His father was, it is said, a pacha of two tails, who commanded there; and his mother, who possessed the courage of the Amazons of that country, imparted it to him with his existence. When his father died, Ali was too young to defend his dominions, and would have been despoiled of them, had not his mother seized the reins of administration, put herself at the head of the Albanese, and by her undaunted courage, aided by the sacrifice of her property, successfully repelled the repeated attacks of his numerous enemies,

In the midst of battles, by which the peace of Thesprotia was frequently disturbed, Ali, in rising to manhood, imbibed the first principles of war, and the habit of command. As soon as he was able to carry a musket, he took his place in the ranks. Bravest among the brave, he successively went through all the steps of military promotion, and did not presume to command his companions, till he had proved himself worthy of preeminence, by military achievements which secured their friendship. He then succeeded his mother. He was not indeed always successful; and Fortune, more than once, betrayed his courage without daunting it. Ali, expelled from Tebeleni, having lost almost all his villages, was at one time reduced to a few parats with which to pay his troops. Undismayed by adversity, he knew how to create other resources, and the consequent revolution decided his fate.

From that moment his power was. on the rise; men of courage from all parts flocked to his standard; and his dominions were gradually extended. He soon carried his thoughts beyond the narrow limits by which his youth had been circumscribed. The late pacha of Janina, from want of energy, had left the whole of

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