INDEX. Complaint of the Dying Year, 360 Dissection of a Beau's Head, 498 89, 129, 169, 209, 273, 337, Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, 23 Extraordinary Circumstance, 300 Fleurette, 103 Frederick the Great Defeated, Corn Markets, 80, 120, 160, 200, Chinese Justice and Mercy, 141 1 Information, 207, 271, 333 Life and Reign of Charles I., 13, Miscellanies, 33, 72, 112, 151, Marriages, Births, and Deaths, Mountain of Miseries, 91 Prayers, 357 Pompey's Pillar, 358 Pavilion, British Court, &c., 457 Remarkable Discovery in Gal- Rencontre between a Missionary Remarkable Anecdote of a Sheep, 344 Mercury, 189 Mount Hecla, 222 Ætna, 298 On the Music of Nature, 27 126 Tide Table, 79, 119, 159, 200, The Sun, 105 Translumination from the Che- Parias and Pooleahs of the Hin- The Revenue, 308 doos, 31 Power of Genius, 147 Providential Deliverance, 220 The Boa Constrictor, 352 The Spectre of Pont Pathu, 366 The Almanack of Life, 426 The French Soldier, 432 The Two Heroines, 481 Vaults of St. Michan's, Dublin, Westminster Hall 109 The Oak, 196 Sal Sapit Omnia, ib On the Birth of a Child, ib. Widow Chilcot, and Old John Fragment, 257 Lines written under a Lady's The Invitation, ih. The Primrose, 319 Battle Song of a German Sol- THE BRIGHTON GLEANER. "Honour and worth from no conditions rise; No. 1. OCTOBER 7, 1822. VOL. II. Brighton. LOCAL AUTHORITIES. For some time past, there has appeared to exist a regretted difference in opinion and action, between the Magistracy, who hold their sittings, twice a-week, in this town, and the legally constituted and numerous body of Local Commissioners. This difference, in an abstracted point of view, has puzzled many to account for, and may puzzle many more, who merely content themselves with looking at the surface of things. To render the matter, therefore, more easy of comprehension, a slight retrospect is necessary. The fashionable celebrity of our town, every one knows, is but of recent origin-less than sixty years ago, it was little better than a mere village, and its revenue chiefly depended upon its fishery. The salubrity of its situation -proximity to the metropolis, and other causes, at length, brought it into fostering notice, and the resuscitating rays of royalty completed what fashion, in pursuit of health, had begun. The government of the place, of course, was with the democracy; but loyalty, vivid and active in its principle, was never absent from its councils. As the place rose in importance, and increased its population, an Act of Parliament was obtained for its government, with executive vested in the body called Commissioners. This Act, as the town enlarged, after a lapse of years, was con |