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servants, who did not live on board-wages, entertained a great deal of company to breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper parties; they sometimes went to a dress ball, concerts, plays, and a servant's masquerade in Piper's rooms, Little Guildford-street, which it appears is not licensed. Mr. Antonio was master of the ceremonies. At those rooms servants got acquainted with each other, and with other characters whom they invited to their master's house, and entertained them at his expence. She stated, that on Thursday last, James Fanshaw, a spruce little tailor, who a frequent visitor to Mr. Barber's servants, called there; after dinner he told her he had had a shocking dream concerning her -he dreamed three times that he saw her lying in her bed murdered, stabbed in several parts of the body, and covered all over with blood, and the room in the greatest disorder. Next day, Friday, the little tailor called again, and said to her, "I called to see if you were murdered." She answered, "for God's sake do not be alarming me." That day Mary the house-maid and Steed the footman left town for the country, her master and mistress intending to set out the next day, and they were expected to return on the Monday week after. Before Steed left town he assisted her to collect the plate and pack it up in the plate chest, which, for security, was locked up among the wine in the wine cellar, which was inside the beer cellar inside the back kitchen, and the three doors were locked. All the drawers, cupboards, boxes, &c. were packed up by her mistress and locked. Saturday morning the prophetic tailor called again,

and said he was come to see if she was still living; she begged of him not to be frightening her, and leave off his jokes. Saturday afternoon her master and mistress left town. Sunday morning as she was standing at the door the tailor came up to her and said he was glad to see her alive; he did not remain for any time, and did not come in. She did not like to be alone, and she had company all day on Sunday. On Monday she had a char-woman named Patten to clean the house; she paid her a shilling a day out of her own pocket. At five o'clock on Monday evening she secured all the doors and windows, double locked the street door, and put the key in her pocket, and went to tea to Mrs. Duck's, a chimney-sweeper's wife-Fanshaw, the tailor, was there, but he went away shortly after she went in, and she did not see him again that day. She returned home about seven o'clock, being about two hours absent; on putting the key into the door she found it on the single lock, although she had double locked it on going out. She gave the alarm to Mr. Dickenson's family, who live next door. Mr. Dickenson, his son, and another gen. tleman entered, the two latter armed with a gun and sword. A constable, who lived convenient, was sent for. They found that the three doors leading to the wine cellar, where the plate was kept, had been forced open, the plate chest broken open, and all the plate, to the value of 400l. entirely taken away, and every drawer, chest, closet, and cupboard in the house from the kitchen to the attics, forced open, and completely ransacked and plundered of every

portable article of value, in lace, trinkets, watches, seals, and lady's wearing apparel; the tea caddies, and the most minute private drawers did not escape search; even the lady's harp and piano-forte appeared to have been searched by them. The cardtable was laid in the back drawing room, round which were placed four chairs, and on it four bottles, two of which were full of wine, and the other two partly empty, with the necks broke off, and a full glass of wine standing on the piano-forte. It was the constable's opinion, that it would take four persons at least four hours to open and examine all the places that were plundered. The little tailor was examined with respect to his prophetic dream, or where he was at the time the robbery took place. He stated that he told the cook, he dreamed he saw her lying in bed with several stabs on her body, but that he did not say he saw blood, or that the room appeared to be in confusion; he called twice to congratulate her on not being murdered. He was at Mrs. Duck's at five o'clock on Monday evening, when the cook came there, and he went then to No. 3, Corbet-court, Cornhill, where he drank tea with Munchen and Corbet, the cook and housemaid at Messrs. Salmarsh and Co. It appeared from the evidence of the watchman in Great Jamesstreet, that it was usual for Mr. Barber's servants to have much company when their master and mistress were absent; he frequently heard music and the noise of merriment in the house. One morning about one o'clock he saw a large mob of persons come out of the house: he often saw

the footman go out at night out of livery; one morning he saw him and young Mr. Duck come home about four o'clock-this was the masquerade night; the footman got over the iron railing into the area to let himself in, and young Mr. Duck, a chimneysweep, handed him a bundle containing his masquerade dress. Mr. Price attended as solicitor for the cook. No further clue being discovered to this mysterious robbery, the prisoners were committed for further examination.

31. FUNDING EXCHEQUER BILLS.-An extraordinary scene took place yesterday morning at the Bank. It was announced in the late message from the Treasury, that subscriptions would be received on that day to the funding exchequer-bills in 5 per cent stock. On account of the opinion very generally entertained that the whole of the 7,000,000l. would be immediately filled, great anxiety existed to obtain an early admission to the office of the chief cashier, and several persons in consequence assembled at the outer door of the Bank soon after two o'clock in the morning, where they remained for several hours, their numbers gradually augmenting. The opening of the outer door was followed by a general rush, and the crowd next established themselves in the passage leading to Mr. Hase's office, where they had to wait a still further time before the regular hour of transacting business. When that period arrived, another contest took place who should be the first to obtain admission. The usual practice is, to deliver tickets to each person on entering, num

bered in regular succession, and on those numbers the right of subscribing is claimed. The struggle who should have the preference was tremendous, and the pressure so great that the door of the chief cashier's office, which is of a very substantial thickness, was forced off the hinges. By far the greater part of those who made this effort failed in their object, the whole of the 7,000,000l. being subscribed by the 10 persons who had first gained admission. As soon as this completion of the list was known, exchequer-bills, which had been at a premium of 11s., fell to a premium of 2s. only.

The whole of the seven millions of exchequer-bills were subscribed in the names of 60 persons, making an average of more than 110,000l. by each individual.

The following is a correct list of the successful candidates for the funding of exchequer-bills, with their respective numbers, as they received them from the Bank-No. 1. Mr. Turner funded for himself and others near 1,000,000l.-No. 2, Mr. John Barns, of the Stock Exchange, supposed to have funded a great sum, about two millions.-3. Isaac Cooper.-4. Mr. Isaac L. Goldsmid.-5. Mr. Levine.-6. Not known. 7. Mr. Easthorpe. -8. Mr. Hoare.-9. Mr. Isaac Cohen.-10. Mr. Wyatt.

JUNE.

1. THE QUEEN.-Her majesty reached Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, which is about 60 or 70 miles

from Dijon, on Monday morning, at three o'clock.

LOUVEL THE ASSASSIN.-It is stated in advices from Paris, that Louvel confesses, in his interrogatoire, that he went to Fontainbleau at the epoch of the fête given to the Duchess de Berri on her marriage, expressly to assassinate her husband, and that overcome by the joy which the presence of the Prince imparted, and by the acclamations with which he was greeted, he felt his mind arrested in his sanguinary purpose, and said to himself, "This man cannot be the enemy to his country which I thought him," se peut il que tu aies tort? He returned to Paris to reflect, and in a little time his remorse vanished, and his infernal project obtained its primitive force. In one of his examinations he was told, that his name would pass to the remotest posterity with those of the assassins and monsters who had the most disho

noured society. He replied,

"Brutus is not considered an assassin-history will judge me." It is remarkable that on all other topics, he has not an idea above the sphere he was born to move in, and appears to possess very limited intellectual faculties. The accounts add, "It appears that the mayor of Passy made a deposition, that two persons had waited on him at the epoch of the assassination of an obscure individual in the Bois de Boulogne (four or five months previously to the murder of the Duc de Berri) to engage him (the mayor) to declare in his procès verbal that this individual before his death had confessed that two persons had endeavoured to

enrol him in a band of assassins who had sworn to murder the Princess, and that on his refusal they had given him the mortal wounds which were putting an end to his existence.' He declined entering into further details, for fear of committing some very considerable personages." M. Bastard, in his report to the Chamber of Peers, taking no notice of this incident, nor M. Bellart, in his requisitoire, a peer on Friday last demanded some information on the subject. M. Seguier, one of the commissioners of the Upper House, in the affair of Louvel, invited the Peer to repair on the Monday morning to the Luxemburg, half an hour before the meeting of the Chamber, and offered to read with him the documents which related to the event he inquired about, and to give him any other information in his power. The Peer replied, "I cannot address to you any request upon the subject, except from my seat, nor receive any answer from you but from yours. The morning after he repeated his interrogatories, and a debate ensued, in which the proof of the intended subornation was so manifest, that only eleven peers opposed the proposition of sending the delinquents before the tribunals."

FRENCH LIBELS.-On Tuesday the 30th ult., the Court of Assize pronounced their respective sentences upon the following persons, convicted of seditious libels, viz. MM. Etienne, Pajol, Gèvaudan, Merilhou, and Odillon Barrot, to be imprisoned for five years, and to pay a fine of 6,000 francs; and the responsible editors of the Constitutionel, the

Independant, the Renommé, the Censeur European, the Courier Français, the Aristarque, the Lettres Normandes, and the Bibliotheque Historique, also to be imprisoned for five years, and each to pay a fine of 12,000 francs.

The proprietors of the Drapeau Blanc have instituted a suit against the Duke de Cazes, for the injury sustained by the illegal seizure of several of their numbers; they lay their damages at 20,000 francs.

STATE OF SPAIN. The following account of the state of public feeling at Madrid, is taken from the Journal des Debats.

"Respecting the disturbances at Madrid on the 18th ult., reports are various, the only fact which can be relied upon as agreed to on all sides is, that the ultra Liberal party which has taken the title of the Miscelania, has for some days manifested symptoms of extreme agitation.

It appears that the Club Lorencini determined upon obtaining the dismissal of the Marquis Las Amarillas, minister of war, and nephew to general Castanos, under whose influence he is supposed to act. On the 16th the Club signed a petition for this object, which they caused to be presented by a deputation of three persons, who at two hours after midnight laid it before the assembled council of ministers. The language of the deputation was of the most threatening character, and it is said they even went so far as to speak of eight thousand daggers which they could command.

"Part of the Club awaited the return of the deputies with the

answer of ministers. This was in their opinion evasive. The obnoxious minister tendered his resignation, and his example was imitated by his colleagues. On the 17th, the Club assembled in still worse temper, proclaiming that they must proceed directly to the palace, and extort a definitive answer from the king in person. His majesty, however, being apprized of these movements, in concert with the Junta, caused the two persons who drew up the petition, to be arrested at two o'clock of the morning of the 18th, and formed the garrison under arms in their respective barracks. Upon this the disaffected were observed collecting in small groups throughout the day; but the appearance of a few small patroles was sufficient to maintain tranquillity."

FLEMISH POLITICAL WRITERS. On the 25th of May last, the Police announced to M. Cochol and M. de Ribbing, the editors of the Vrai Liberal, that they had orders to conduct them out of the Low Countries, under an escort of gens d'armes; the latter to Condé and the former to Givet. The cause of this arbitrary step has been attributed to an article which appeared in the Vrai Liberal, " in favour of the man formerly so great, but now so unfortunate, and who from his rock still attracts the attention of a world unsettled by his fall; and to another article, in which that courageous philanthropist Gregoire was justified from the calumnious attacks of the French Oligarchy!!" M. Cochol being one of the proscribed in France, was not allowed to enter that kingdom, and was left under surveillance at Nivelles, waiting the

ulterior orders of the king. M. de Ribbing was exiled into Germany.

SANDT. The further information relative to Sandt in the Foreign papers, strongly illustrates the wild and dangerous spirit which pervades a numerous body of the people of Germany:"As soon as his head was severed from his body, thousands of spectators hastened, if possible, to get some drops of his blood, or some of his hair. The chair on which he sat when he underwent his punishment has been purchased of the executioner by a society for six Louis d'ors. No disorder however took place.

UNITED STATES.-A long and minute report has been published from the "Committee of ways and means" of the United States, on the public revenue and expenditure. The income for 1819, it appears, exceeded the charges by 767,000 dollars; but the estimate for 1820 leaves a prospective deficit of 3,773,000 dollars, part of which it is proposed to cover by an application of the sinking fund to the amount of 2,288,000 dollars, and the remainder by loan.

VESUVIUS. From Naples, under date May 20, we learn that Mount Vesuvius was pouring forth torrents of fire, not only from the crater, but from a new opening on the south side.

NEW CHURCHES.-St. Luke's, Chelsea, is the first parish which will build a new church through the aid of the commissioners for building new churches.

CORN RETURNS.-Last week an information was heard by the magistrates of Liverpool, against Messrs. J. and R. Allison for making fraudulent returns of