tions, at a meeting at the Old Ship, on the 20th of August last. We regard these proceedings, in the unfortunate difference which has taken place between the two authorities, to have been entered into, more to bring that difference to a decided conclusion, than from any spirit of animosity, or hostility, on either side.

The "Gunpowder plot" anniversary was celebrated here, with its usual annoying display of ignited tar-barrels, streaming serpents, bouncing crackers, and fire spirting squibs, on the Old Steyne; but, excepting the demolition of a few squares of glass, and a gross or so of scorched faces and blistered fingers, the whole, fortunately, terminated without mischief. Not so was the couclusion of the anniversary at Hove-a lad named Bartlett, discharged a pistol, loaded with powder only, so near to the face of another lad, named Grove, that it broke his jaws, laid open the flesh to the spine, and dividing the jugular artery, caused his immediate death. A Coroner's inquisition followed on Friday-a very close investigation of circumstances distinguished it-from all of which, without dissent, the eventual finding was "Accidental Death."

The Brookside hounds meet on Wednesday next on Lewes race hill; on Friday, at Telscomb; and on Monday, at Rottingdean.

We have heard that our Commissioners are about to take into consideration a plan for widening the Cliff from Middle-street to the Marine-parade, by erecting a wall on arches (similar to that which supports the King's-road,) along the front of the town, thereby saving the expence of purchasing the Gun and White Horse Inns, and escaping that miserable piece of road through Pool-lane, &c.

It is rumoured, that, amongst our daily improvements, two new and elegant squares will be forthwith commenced, one at the eastern, and the other at the western extremity of the town.

The break-water erecting on the side of the Black-rock groyne, for the future security of the latter, is nearly completed. The groyne, in consequence of the removal of some of the planks to give a free passage to the beach over its top, and the disappearance of some of the piles, is now a mere skeleton.

Great progress has been made in the formation of the intended new road between this place and Shoreham.

POLICE. It is with sincere satisfaction we state, that the business before our Bench this week has been altogether unimportant in a public point of view. It was noticed by Sir D. Scott, on Thursday, with evident pleasure, that a committal for felony had not taken place for the last six weeks.

The annual meeting of the Brighton Wesleyan Auxiliary Missionary Society was held at the Chapel, in Dorset Gardens, on Monday last the Rev. Walter Griffiths, of London, in the

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chair. The Report was of the most satisfactory nature, and described the wonderful success of the Missionaries in converting the Heathens of Africa and Asia to Christianity. There was a collection at the doors, which amounted to a considerable sum.

According to the most accurate information we have been able to procure, there are, on the average, each day, 300 passengers going to or coming from London by the Brighton coaches, and 100 more by carriages of various descriptions, making, in the whole year, upwards of 140,000 persons, travelling between this town and London. If to this number we add the arrivals from all parts of the country, and from the continent, we may safely assert that 200,000 persons visit Brighton annually.

In the night of Thursday last, a shoemaker, residing in Dukestreet, was awakened by a suffocating smell of fire, when he discovered that his bed was burning, though not in open flames. His wife and child, who were sleeping by his side, he with great difficulty roused from their perilous situation; and succeeded in extinguishing the fire. His hands, however, in effecting it, were severely burnt. The accident was occasioned by his having incautiously placed the candle too near the bed at the time of his retiring to rest.

LOCAL CATCH AND GLEE CLUB.-The last meeting of this institution, but one, founded by Incledon, was one of the most numerous of the year, and at which the amateurs, the result of perseverance and practice, eminently excelled. A duet, Though hurricanes rattle, &c." excited a sensation of pleasure of which all present partook—it was sung by the founder of the Club, and Mr. Cooke-encored, and repeated with improved effect. The melodious tenor of Incledon, at intervals, burst upon his auditors with a force that powerfully reminded them of the "days gone by," when, as a national singer, he was unrivalled; and, in the records of which, his towering, his justly acquired fame, shall never die. The fine baritono of Mr. Cooke was heard to very pleasing advantage. Many glees and chorusses were finely performed on this occasion. In the course of the evening, Mr. Incledon proposed a gentleman, who had paid repeated kind attentions to the society, and who was held in high estimation by its collective body, as an honorary member of the Club and which proposition, it is almost superfluous to add, was universally assented to, and "applauded to the echo which applauds again." The reply it called forth, by the acceptor of the compliment, was as flattering to the active amateurs of the body, as distinguished for pithy remarks, and good sense in the orator. This incident much increased the pleasures of the night. The Club closed at the usual hour, eleven o'clock.

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EPITOME OF BRIGHTON.

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CHURCH YARD.-As you enter the church, by the chancel door, near to the south-east angle of the edifice, there is a monumental stone of black marble, which often excites interest, and which has the following inscription:

"P. M. S."

"Captain Nicholas Tettersell, through whose prudence, valour, and loyalty, Charles the IId. King of England, after he had escaped the swords of his merciless rebels, and his forces received a fatal overthrow at Worcester, September the 3d, 1651, was faithfully preserved and conveyed to France, departed this life the 26th day of July, 1674."

And, nearly effaced by time, beneath the above, are the following lines :

"Within this marble monument doth lie

Approved faith, honour, and loyalty:

In this cold clay he hath now ta'en up his station,

Who once preserved the church, the crowne, and nation :

When Charles the Greate was nothing but a breath,

This valiant hero stept 'tween him and death;

Usurper's threats, nor tyrant rebels' frowne,

Could not affright his duty to the crowne;

Which glorious act of his for church and state,
Eight Princes, in one day, did gratulate—
Professing all to him in debt to bee,

As all the world are to his memory,

Since earth could not reward the worth him given,

He now receives it from the King of Heaven.
In the same chest one jewel more you have,
The partner of his virtues, bed, and grave.'

This monument, as strikingly tending to shew the inviolable loyalty of this place, is mentioned and regarded with no trifling degree of pride by the inhabitants of the present day: the brief history of the cause is as follows:

Charles the II. in his flight after the disastrous battle of Wor

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cester, attempted his escape by sea; but being not only disappointed but nearly betrayed to his pursuers, in the west of the country, he sought and found an asylum at this place; and hence he was safely conducted to France by Nicholas Tettersell; to perpetuate whose memory for the patriotic act, the monumental stone in question was erected. At the restoration, the King acknowledged and rewarded the merit of the service he had received, by granting an annuity of one hundred pounds to Tettersell and his heirs for ever; but this annuity, notwithstanding, has long since been discontinued, though the descendants of the same family are yet numerous in the place. It is probable that the Monarch would have extended his bounty to the town likewise, had he not been a Prince too dissipated and necessitous, for he had often borne testimony to the loyalty of the inhabitants, to many of whom he was personally known, as well as to Tettersell-and not one of these, he was well convinced, could any species of temptation have seduced from their allegiance to their Prince, nor for an instant inclined to favour the designs of his enemies.

The King arrived in this town on the 14th of October, 1651, and was secreted in a public-house in West-street, then kept by a person of the name of Smith, and which house, since that time to the present day, has borne the sign of the King's Head, in consequence of that event; and hence, soon after, he was landed, from Tettersell's bark, at Fecamp, on the opposite shore, but a short distance from Havre de Grace.

In this church-yard there is also a very handsome monument, erected by Mr. Kelly, to the memory of Anna Maria Crouch, of Drury-lane Theatre, who was born on the 20th of April, 1763, and died in this town, on the 2d of October, 1805.

The living is a vicarage, value £20. 2s. 34d. in the gift of the Bishop of Chichester: and the parish of Brighthelmston is in the hundred of Whalesbone and rape of Lewes.

THE CHAPEL ROYAL.-The Chapel Royal, situated in Northstreet, or, rather, Prince's-place, was built in 1793, in consequence of the parish church, from the increased population, becoming insufficient for the accommodation of the inhabitants. Of this edifice his Majesty laid the first stone, and which was finished after a plan of Mr. Saunders, of Golden-square, London, and will, conveniently, hold a thousand persons. The east front of the structure displays, neatly carved in stone, the arms of the Prince of Wales. His Majesty has a pew here, and where, before the erection of his private chapel, he often attended divine worship. The interior of the building is spacious and lofty, and is more remarkable for its neatness, than any peculiar splendour of decoration.

RELIGIOUS EDIFICES GENERALLY.-In the true spirit of universal tolerance, no civil nor political interest ought to be blended

with religious dissentions, the great unerring Deity of the universe having the capacity only of deciding who is right, and who wrong; we have, therefore, religious edifices of various denominations, to be resorted to, as the dispositions and persuasions of parties may direct-viz.: the Huntingdonion Chapel, which is situate in North-street; the Presbyterian Chapel, in Union-street ; the Baptists' Chapel, in Bond-street; the Armenian Chapel, near Dorset-gardens; the Quakers' Chapel, in Ship-street; the Unitarian Chapel, in the New-road; the Methodists' Chapel, in Church-street; a new chapel, called the Free Chapel, but dissenting from the orthodoxy of the established church, in St. James'sstreet; a Roman Catholic Chapel, in High-street; a Chapel belonging to T. R. Kemp, Esq. in Ship-street; and a Synagogue in West-street.

LIFE AND REIGN OF CHARLES THE FIRST.

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During the time of these restraints, he betook himself to meditation, then he composed that most excellent book, entitled "The Pourtraiture of his Sacred Majesty in his Solitudes and Sufferings." The honour of this work, some mercenary sticklers for the two Houses of Parliament have laboured to deprive him of, and to transfer it to some other, though they know not whom. But it was well known that his Majesty had always a fine stroke with his pen, which he practised at all times of leasure and recesse from businesse, from before his coming to the crown, to these last extremities, by which means he became master of a pure and elegant stile.

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Now the subjects of both kingdomes, which before had joyned in arms against him, began to look upon his estate with commiseration; and seeing they could obtain no favour or freedom from him in the way of petition, they resolved to try their fortunes in the way of force. And first a very considerable part of the royal navy, encouraged by Captain Batten, formerly ViceAdmiral to the Earl of Warwick, was put into the power of the Prince of Wales to be made use of for his Majesty's service in that sad condition; and next the Kentish, who twice or thrice before had shewed their readinesse to appear in arms on his behalf, put themselves into a posture of war under the conduct of