and binding themselves by a solemn compact, to adopt its precepts as the rules of their policy and conduct. I feel it my duty to add, that though legal and constitutional difficulties prevented the sovereign of this country from acceding in form to this treaty, yet this government was confidentially acquainted with every stage of the proceeding, and fully concurred in its principles and spirit." 13th.-A letter from Bristol, dated June 10, says, "A letter from a gentleman in Barbadoes, received here, states, that in pursuit of the negroes a flag was found, divided into three compartments; in the first of which was painted a white man hanging by the neck; in the second, a black chief, with a white woman kneeling at his feet, with clasped hands, imploring mercy; in the third, a black chief crowned, with a white woman at his side. It states that the insurrection was a regular concerted plan, but that it burst forth a week before it was intended, by some of the chiefs, who, having become infuriate by drink, commenced the work of desolation." Josiah Eaton, the celebrated pedes trian, who, in the course of last sum. mer, undertook to walk the Barclay match on Blackheath, namely, 1000 miles in 1000 successive hours, has undertaken a new match of greater magnitude and difficulty, upon which he started last evening at twenty minutes after six, from the Hare and Billet. The nature of his present arduous undertaking is this:-He is to walk eleven hundred miles in ele ven hundred successive hours, to finish every mile at precisely twenty minutes after each hour has struck, so that he can at no one time get above three quarters of an hour's rest. The ground chosen for the task is the same on which Wilson walked. Eaton is a respectable baker, and has VOL. IX. PART 1. long been bitten with the pedestrian mania. EXTRAORDINARY CASE.-A soldier, of the African corps, was on Monday landed at Portsmouth, from the Isle of Wight, where he has been for more than four months under medical care, apparently in a state of total insensibility. When viewed at the guard-house, he appeared as if in a natural sleep, breathing slowly, his skin moderately warm, pulse regular, limbs flaccid, and moveable in every direction. The pupil of the eye obeyed the stimulus of light, contracting and dilating as it was admitted or withdrawn. He had a short time previously swallowed some bread and milk. A medical gentleman placed his hand on one of his temples, and with the other attempted to open the mouth, by pressing down the lower jaw, but the temporal muscle was instantly thrown into action, and the jaw firmly closed. This circumstance was con- : sidered by the medical gentleman as extremely indicative of imposture. We have heard, that since his conveyance to Hilsea, he has withstood prettyfirmly the shower-bath and electricity; but that, on a proposal being made to apply a red-hot iron to his skin, his pulse rose fifteen or twenty beats in the minute. It is the opinion of a medical gentleman, who has had some experience in the detection of simulated diseases, that, had this man been: in any but a feigned state of insensibility or sleep, during so long a period, there would, by this time, have occur red a derangement of functions, and a train of phenomena, very different from what are now exhibited. He is a native of Wimbourn, in Dorsetshire; was sentenced to be transported for poaching, connected with other crimes, but which sentence was afterwards commuted to his serving in the Afri can corps for life. Being conveyed d to Guernsey, which is the depot of that regiment, he soon after discover ed these signs of catalepsy or insensibility, and he has hitherto withstood all the efforts of medical persons to rouse him. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales has sent from Tunis, to the care of General Pino, two yong lionesses as a present for the Emperor of Austria. They are so young, that three she goats have suckled them. SOLAR SPOTS.-There is now a very large spot on the sun, visible to the naked eye; when viewed through a small spy-glass (which magnifies fifteen times) it appears in shape like a bee, the black part, or nucleus, representing the body, and the lighter shaded parts, or umbra, resembling the, wings expanded. The length of the nucleus appears to be about equal to a 25th part of the sun's diameter, which would make it 35,320 miles; the umbra is doubtless of much greater extent. It has advanced about two thirds across the disk from the eastern side, and seems to have passed rather above the centre. It will, probably, be visible three or four days longer, and will gradually move to the western side, and disappear behind the body of the sun. Should it continue, it will be seen again; (after being invisible for 13 or 14 days), when the sun's revolution on its axis will bring it round to the eastern side, and it will again travel across the disk. Solar spots of so large a size have been very rarely seen; Dr Herschell saw one in 1779, which he estimated at 50,000 miles in diameter. The present one is, including the umbra, probably quite as large. 15th. A private letter from Nottingham, dated on Sunday, states, "that the system of frame-breaking recommenced this morning about two o'clock; nineteen lace frames were broken at New Radford, near this town, working to Mr Waynman ; nine of them were his own, the rest belonging to different people. The cause assigned for destroying these frames is, that he had just sold nine to the workmen, to be worked out by stopping one-third of the work. There was an armed party, upwards of 30, and sentinels placed at different avenues whilst the work of destruction went forward." A SINGULAR CHARACTER.-On Tuesday the 28th May, died at her house, No 12, Coldbath Square, at the very advanced age of 116 years, Mrs Jane Lewson, commonly called Lady Lewson, from her very eccentric manner of dress. In recording this instance of unusual longevity, some account of her may not, perhaps, be uninteresting to our readers. Mrs Jane Lewson was born in the year 1700, during the reign of William and Mary, in Essex Street, in the Strand, of most respectable parents of the name of Vaughan, and was married at an early age to a wealthy gentleman of the name of Lewson, then living in the house in which she died. She became a widow at the age of 26, having only one daughter living at the time. Mrs Lewson having been left by her husband in affluent circumstances, preferred to continue single, and remained so, although she had many suitors. When her daughter married, being left alone, she became fond of retirement, and rarely went out, or permitted the visits of any person. For the last 30 years she had kept no servant, except one old female, who died ten years ago; she was succeeded by the old woman's grand-daughter, who got married about three years since; and she was succeeded by an old man, who attended the different houses in the square to go on errands, clean shoes, &c. Mrs Lewson took this man into her house, and he acted as her steward, butler, cook, and housemaid, and, with the exception of two old lap-dogs and a cat, he was her only companion. The house she occupied was large and elegantly furnished, but very ancient; the beds were kept constantly made, although they had not been slept in for about 50 years. Her apartment being only occasionally swept out, but never washed, the windows were so crusted with dirt, that they hardly admitted a ray of light. A large garden in the rear of her house was the only thing she paid attention to: this was always kept in good order; and here, when the weather permitted, she enjoyed the air, or sometimes sat and read, of which she was particularly fond, or else chatted on times past with any of the few remaining acquaintances whose visits she permitted. She seldom visited herself, except at Mr Jones's, a grocer in the square, with whom she dealt. She had for many years survived every individual of her relatives within many degrees of kindred. She was so partial to the fashions that prevailed in her youthful days, that she never changed the manner of her dress from that worn in the reign of George I. She always wore powder, with a large tete, made of horse hair, on her head, near half a foot high, over which her hair was turned up; a cap over it, which knotted under her chin, and three or four curls hanging down her neck. She generally wore silk gowns, and the train long, with a deep flounce all round; a very long waist, and very tightly laced up to her neck, round which was a kind of ruff or frill. The sleeves of her gown came below the elbow, from each of which four or five large cuffs were attached. A large straw bonnet, quite flat; high heeled shoes; a large black silk cloak, trim med round with lace; and a gold headed cane, completed her every-day costume, for the last eighty years, and in which she walked round the square, on which account she was known by the name of Lady Lewson. Her manner of living was so methodical, that she would not drink her tea out of any other than a favourite cup. She enjoyed all her faculties until that period, when she became weak, took to her bed, and refused medical aid. Her conduct to her few distant relations was exceedingly capricious, and she would never see any of them; and it was not until a few hours before her dissolution that any alteration was observed in her temper. She was buried in Bunhill Fields burying ground, on Monday last. 17th. A copy of the treaty of marriage between the Princess Charlotte of Wales and the Prince of Cobourg, has just been laid before Parliament. It grants them jointly while living 60,000l. per annum, 10,000l. of which goes to her royal highness as pin money, independently of her husband's controul. If she becomes a widow, she will have the whole 60,000l. If he becomes a widower, he will have 50,000l. per annum. The eldest child, being presumptive heir to the throne, must be educated as the king directs. The treaty of marriage is signed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, the first Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the three Secretaries of State, the President of the Council; and on the part of the husband, by Baron de Just. BRUSSELS, June 8.-The king has recommended to the States General the project of a law for introducing an uniformity of weights and measures upon the decimal system. One of the articles orders that the system be taught in all the schools of the kingdom. It will be recollected that, soon after the battle of Waterloo, Colonel Gordon, in the service of the king of France, was sent to the garrison of Condé to summon it to surrender. The commandant, General Bonnaire, not only refused to recognise the orders of his sovereign, but caused Colonel Gordon to be put to death. For this atrocious violation of the laws of war and of humanity, Bonnaire and his Aide-de-Camp Mielton have been brought to trial before a council of war. Bonnaire alleges that Colonel Gordon did not take the necessary precautions that his character, as the bearer of a flag of truce, should be recognised; and that he (Bonnaire) did not give orders for the colonel's execution, but that his death was occasioned by mistake. It will be somewhat surprising if excuses of this kind be accepted as a justification of such a deed of horror! PARIS, June 10.-Yesterday, after hearing his sentence, General Bonnaire said, I beseech you, and it is the only favour, which I ask, to order me to die rather than condemn me to degradation. I have not the slightest reproach to make against myself." The trial of General Bonnaire has presented a remarkable peculiarity; it is the first in which, independent of his duties as a good citizen, the ques. tion was agitated respecting the obligation in the oath of a Chevalier de St Louis. During the trial of Marshal Ney, an English general of the highest distinction, having seen a copy of the oath, asked if Ney was a Chevalier de St Louis?" Assuredly," was the answer." Then," said the Englishman," after such an oath, I do not see how his sentence can be delayed three minutes." The oath taken by those who obtained that honour: after promising to live and die in the Catholic religion, it proceeds I swear to defend the honour, the authority, and rights of his Majesty, and those of his crown; that I will never quit his service to enter that of a foreign Prince, without the permission and agreement in writing by his Majesty; that I will reveal all that comes to my knowledge against his person and estates." As Bonnaire's sentence implies infamy, he has been formally degraded from the Legion of Honour. The assassin Mieton, while the judges were deliberating on his fate, tried to escape from his gaolers by leaping out of a window, but he was prevented and secured. We are assured that Marshal Massena is very ill, and the state of health of Marshal Augereau is very precari ous. At the late installation of the French Academy, M. Cuvier, perpetual secretary, read some observations on the progress of the sciences, and their relations with society, in which he made the following remarks on the applica tion of the steam engine:“ A vessel has crossed the sea, without sails, without oars, without seamen. One man to keep the fire, another to guide the helm, are all its crew; it is propelled by an internal force, like a bird of the sea floating on the waves. Every one perceives to what an extent this invention will simplify the navigation of our rivers, and the saving it may create in men and horses. But we may also be permitted to look forward to consequences more remote, and perhaps of still higher importance, namely the change which may result from it in maritime war, and the power of nations. It is extremely probable that it will be placed, at some future time, in the list of those experiments which have changed the face of the globe." Certain arrangements, favourable to Eugene Beauharnois, have been made with the Papal government.-It appears that negotiations are also in train with the courts of Vienna and Naples, for the restoration of the estates he possessed in the latter kingdom as well as in Lombardy. They were granted to him by Napoleon; and their recovery would render him one of the most opulent individuals in Europe. The painful labours of the Special Commission at Ely are at length con. cluded. Sentence of death has been passed on 24 misguided men, and five of them have been particularly marked out as likely to undergo the dreadful sentence of the law. We have understood that many of the prisoners were very young, and, almost all of them deplorably ignorant. 20th. We have received letters to day from Nottingham, which inform us that two of the frame breakers, both of them daring and notorious characters, had been apprehended and positively sworn to, so that these persons being strictly identified, they would soon be brought to that punishment which their conduct so just ly merits; but whether the punishment they may meet with will have the salutary effect of checking the Luddites in their lawless proceedings, is a question of some doubt. Up to the present time, they seem as determined to put in execution their wicked and mischievous designs as upon any former occasion. Mr Waynman, who has already suffered from their abominable conduct, is actually selling off his property as expeditiously as possible, in order to leave this country for America. Such is his situation at present, that he conceives not only his property but his life in danger. So desperate and blood-thirsty are these villains, that they seldom allow their victim to escape if they can possibly prevent it. 21st. The following interesting letter conveys much information on the subject of the slave trade :— Extract of a letter from an officer on board his Majesty's ship Bann, off Sierra Leone, April 24, 1816. "I have just time to acquaint you of our arrival here again, with two valuable prizes; one of which I have been prize master, is the Portuguese brig Temerario, of 18 guns and 80 men, that enga. ged us an hour and a half-great slaughter on both sides; that we took off Widah, in the Bight of Benin; she was to, have taken her cargo on the following day, March 8, 600 slaves, but seeing us at daylight on the 5th, cut her cable and came out to engage us; I was sent away to Sierra Leone in her; the Bann stood to the southward, and two days afterwards captured the Portuguese brig St Antonio bound to the Bra zils, with 568 slaves on board, no resistance, 57 of which died on the passage up here. We sail to-morrow at day-light in quest of five armed vessels slaving to leeward, which we have information of; thence to the West Indies and England. The slave trade is carried on still to a great extent. The colonial vessel Princess Charlotte arrived a few days since, with her prize, the French brig Louis, belonging to Martinique, after an action of several hours.-Princess Charlotte, 18 killed and wounded; French brig, 7 killed, 19 wounded. It would take at least 30 small fast-sailing men of war, or more, to put a stop to this infamous trade." 22d.-ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO.-Tuesday, between five and six o'clock, a party of nearly 400 noblemen and gentlemen sat down to an elegant dinner, in George Street Assembly Rooms, in commemoration of the Battle of Wa terloo. 23d.-MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.— On Sunday evening, about eight o'clock, a boat, with six men and four women, of genteel appearance, approached London Bridge, in its way down the river, from an excursion on a party of pleasure, in the course of |