The failure of Messrs. Ma...
TLhe f'ailure of Messrs. MNarshi, Stracy, andt Co., aniti the extraorliniary circumnstances connected thierewithi, hiave excitedl a more than usuad scn8ption in Brighton, from- the residence of Alr. Faunitleroy inthis place. It is stated that,in addition to othier causes, hiis conduct is siopposedl to hiave arisen) from huilding speculations in Brighton, as well as in the inetropolis. This we have reason to be- lieve is incorrect ; nior do we kniow that INIr. Fauntleroy possessedi any property lhere, except tile house in which lihe resided. This lis consitderedI one of the finest specimens to be met withi of (Greciani ar- chitecture, tncli the elevation) is particularly admired thie house is hiandsiomely fittedI up, and has an elegant billiard-table. Mlr. Faunt- leroy wvas in the habit ot comiing hiere almost every wveek. Several gentlemen in this place had moniey in the bs.nk.-BriglIon Gazette. ENGLIizs TP AVELfLEaS is AFRICA.-It is probable that we shall receive some niew and interesting details from the Eniglishi travellers in thie centre of Africa. A t'runk was lately senit fromi T~ripolin,-in Barbary, fitill of manuscripts aLnd papers, whichi Is not to b1e oend till it arrives iti London. Dr. `iudney, after reaching Souidan, tlilet fromn the climate ; anii Mr. Toitle also iliied of a f'ever at Kouka, in the kingdom of Borniou. Mlajor Denhami and Mlr. Tyrwhitt were bothi there last Mlay, wlhile Lieutenant ?'ha tsperton was rocetlng lonethrughSooan,beyond the Nile of lhe Are- grac. Tesedetils re ontine ina letter written by M1. Grm- seeptieHeme, onsbOeera ofSween nd Norway, andI Corres- nonditof te Fenchinsitut. Hs ltte is dated Tripoli in the LAST MoENTs O ScntLss~it.-celinig thatlIiis end( was comie, lie prepared himself so mneet thiis stern ancd suddlen call as be- caine himi ; not withi affected carelessniess or superstitious fear, buti with, a quiet, ttnpretending mianliniess, whiichi hiad markedI the tenior of hiis life. Of his f'riet)ids anid tamiily lie took a touching, but a tran- quiti, farewell :lie ortleredtl tat his f'tinieral shouild be private, without any ptomp or paradle. Somne onec inqjuiring hiow lie f'elt, lie said " almer'-shimple antd memorable wordsy, exptressive of the miildl heroismn of' tile man. About six lie sittik again into at sirepl, which dierpeiurti anid theepened ill6 it chiangedl inito the sleep f'romn wliiclt titere is no awakening ; and all that remintiie( of Schtiller was a lifeless loIbem, soon to be mitigled withi the clods tif the valley. I Schiiller's age was 45 years aithl a few mionthis. Sickness lael long wasted his foim, whiich at no timeL couldl boast of faultless symmietry. Ile was tall,anti stronigly iiroad, but miimiiuseular and lean ; hiis both-, it imight be perceived, was WlsliDng unider the energy of a spirit too keen for it ; his face was pale ; tie cheeks anti temiples rathier Imol- low ; the clhin somaewhtat dleep anti shigltit, projecting ; the nsse re- gularly aquillitie ; lilalhair inclined to' auburn. Withal, hlis countenance wvas attractive, and hlad ai certain manly beauty. The lips were cuirved togetlher in a linie, expressing (telicate and htoliest secnsibility; a silent enthusiasnm, impetuosity not tt'iiclieckedI by mile- hancholy, gleamed in hfis slof'tly kinitled eyes atid pale rhteeks, and tuie brow want hiighi antI tlioughitful. Tio -judge fromn his portrait, Schiller's fece expressedl soell ithe features of hiis mind ; it is niild- cK )5i tegl-ir rqrsii hog h clotidls of it rpr tint tie chieeks and temrples werc at beat hiollow. There itre few fatces that affect tus inore tItan Sclilller's ; it Is at once mieek, tentler, unpretenutlig, and heroic. Ini his dress and moanner, as iii aill thing3, lie was plaiti anti unaffecteth. Amotig stranigers some- thlingsh anti retiring rnii~ht occasionially hbe observeth in him .in flila own faiy, or amnonig his select friendi, lie was kind-hearted, f'ree, andi gay, ats it little chilul. Duritig lii,9 last 15 years hie wrote hiis tioblest wiorks ; yet it hias been itrovedl ton ivell, nlo (iav coultl] have p,assed withioutitsh load of' pain. On a sur11gical insp'ection of hiis liodly, al'ter tdeathi, the myost vital Organs were fousdi totally (teranged(. ,'I'lie strutcture of the lungs wvas in a great hiart destroyed, thie cavi'ieo of thec heart nearly grown tip, the liver itatd becoume hard, authI the gall-blasitler was extentded to an extraordinary size."--Loitdom Aiagoaipie. EARtLDOs. Ot~ SFTO.N AN4D WmN,1'owte.-A new claitia- ant has lately appearedti or thie BHtrithoni oflSeion and 'uVintown. At thie bre:aking out of the rebellion, 1715. the laEt Itarl joined that part of' the rebel armiy wvhichi marlchd into Eiiglantl, andi was taken at Preston, aen conveyed pirisoner to Lontdon, irietI andI (sund guilty, hut contrived to malce his escape in womani's clothies, ttite 4thi of August, 1718. His estate of' 3,3931. per annum was forfeited to the Crown lie wenit abroad, and wats for many years confidtant and secretary of the Clievitlier St. Gecorge till lie tiled, in 1749, aged up- waLrds of' 70. Ile has beeni hitieteto undcrratood to have dlied uiniar- ried ; hut thie reecetit restoration of attainted Peers has hiad the efilect of bringing to light documents proving tite contrary. It appears fromi the paplers of the puerson claiming the Earitlon, that timie last Earl marr..ieth a lighluind Itltdy, named Masrgaret St. Claire, whlo dtied August 8, 1714, leaving an infant soil. This child 'rums semit to Northufitberlautd to be horsed. Af'ter the rebellion, amid exile of the tarn, a board-wage was continuted to be pad for the cliil(i by an agent in Edthiobtirght, ataddtite re- lations of time niotlier paidt suchi attenitioii to it as provedI their concern for its welfare. Thie Earl himnself, eveni after Ihis escape, entcleavouretl to see the child, andI landed at Berwick- uLptn-Tweed iscogntito for thiat purliose but, e)wing to some uti- expecietI clircunstance, it wats not prodluced by thec iiurse, and he hadi to leave the country Without accomplishIlng Ihil objiect. Alt the samie tithie lie placed such documents in the commantd of hiis son, as coiuld enable him at any tiiiie to prove hiis birthi arnd le- gitimacy. The chiild grew up), aiidtl ettletl in trade in the village of Bellinghiami, in Northumberlanti, whiere he died about tlhirty yeats ag,leaving a, son, wvho also dying a teclveawintli ago, at the sm hilace, letaso, corge, the younlg man whio lately camie to Edtibtingli, withioust frienids anid without recommiendationis, on the cliAlOt enterprise of assetting his claim ote aioisu Wintown. This personi, whio is about 211 yecars of age, atid wise IeI s h'itherto lived in peaLCe andI content at 13ellinglmamn, in the exercisie of a litinible calling, arrived in Eidinburgh oni the 1st of' May, anti immediately prooemedet to lay his case before one of he iiio-st respectable prof'essiotial gent'lemein, whio hias cx. pressed a flAttering opiniion of his papers and documents. Hec is in hiOsisesionl of aL miourning ring, in whichi thiere is a large Sind beautifiul iliamietid, enclosing a smiall tablet, on whlich are represczit- ed adeat's ead nti ros-bons, ithi the letters Al. All., being theiniial ofthi lte ounedis uam. He states, that there lisa beenlust of ate ars,in tefaily acing, containing miiniature portaitsof te kal an ~~utesstogther, whichi would certainly havebee a roo of he reaestvale. His othier famiily telics endpaprs re f te mat uthnti ad useful kind. The claimant possesses a miost prepos;sessing exterior. Ilis features bear a striking resemblance to hiis anceestor, Rtobert, the seventh Lord Seton), as re- piresented in the f'amily portraiit. It is. well known how long a pe. culiarity, of countenance somectimes clings toi a family, and( how often the features of- a disatacsr eive in the fa ces of thecir dec. scendarnts...Everi,1i paper. On the 16th instant, tvliilst the workpopile of Mr. thaGreiso eiiriner, were digvging for a foundiation of a wall upon teGc'aFjoiling Little Chiester, necar this3 towvn (Derby), -tki greater part of thle bones of a male skeleton were discovered, lyinlg it] a horizontal position, 15 inches below the surface, ivith the headl to- 'vards tile notth. The worknmen destroyed the skull before they were aware of thle existence of the skeleton, tiitd thle sof'ter bones of the iaiids anti feet hiad nearly niouldlereit away. Fromn almnetustrc. ment of tile hones whichi remiained, the niuin must have stood up). wards of' five f'eet ten inclhes. Iroit rivets rmuch corrodeti were found near various parts of the hotly anit( limbs, antI tliin strata of an oclire Yell9w surroundling the tcumjmk.and extremiities, situiatedi ani inch and a lusH fro the boiie thec colour of these strata was sinmiar to that of the sivets, whlich tgether with their sittuation, cani leave but litledobttht he remains are thos Of a warrior, buried in ar- isiOur. Although this skeleton was sturrounded by a clay ver im pervious to wee, which tended greatly to its preservation, still on ex.. posure to the atmlosphere it wvas evident that tie bones, whlich were f'ractured in many pairts, would soon crunible tiway. Inconsequence of whichi, an accurate cast, was taken in plaster of' Paris on the spot, whilst the specimen remTained partially emnbedded in theelay. Mhat is now called Little Chester was formterly a Rornan station, beariiig theancient appellation Of "Dervenitio," and was staLted by thec celebrat- ed Dr.:Stukely, about a centuryao to have liad the track of a waill rout d ant in t ome p la.ces he isaw uncder ground the foundations of t i th pstures ; somse pacts of ilie station whitih verer then Yhsiblenace now perf'ectly obliwteraet..Derby Alercusry. An isiqtiest was hield at the Lord Nelson liublic'-1sousc, Traffilgars8treet, WVlworthj, on Tuesday eveninig, on the body of a elilidt, two vears and a hialf old, thefeon of' a tabossxing vnar 11ameilX Kelwey.It appered by the evidlence, that the ehild, atfter duiiner, went ito theyard wth a tathein ia hand ; in eless tnisi a quarter ofan our iler,his atherhavig goe into thie y,arti, Easy 3iiis lying isitioles, wth ilahea ina sal itool of'water. On taking imir up, it was fouiid ~lie hdapeeo h potatoe sticking in hmis throait, whichwas sppose to hve ca Se tich a degree of smufibcation, ,air to ocasieon lir fligwt iaha in, the water, fruni wlilch hie was unbet aise himsef Srical assistance was imimedialtel pro- cured, bu vr nevo o resor animatioll wa,~itsbsffetai Verdict-.Accidenitaf efu