... ROBERT RAIKES, OF GLOUCESTER. (Continued from our last.) About the year 1805, Mr. Raikes was attacked with a severe complaint, which affected his brain, but he recovered, and was then advised by his friend to relinquish busioess be did so, and a successor being found in Mr. David Walker, it was agreed that a joint annuity should be settled upon himself and Mrs. R.) from the proceeds of the ...

... ..NFCESSITY OR FREE WILL has in former times agitated the publid mind more than in the present day. boerhavesays, It has been either by chance or necessity that all the great dis- coveries in Medicine have been made i but still he has leflthe question of NECESSITY V. FREE win, undecided and although Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills are manifestly one of the greatest discoveries with which ...

... Commissioners present—Messrs. Edward Dowling. Jere miah Carnes, Thomas Powell, William C. Webb, Richard Burton, Richaid Mullock, George Gething, Tom Benjamin Batcheior, and Lewis Edwards.—Mr. Dowling took the chair. Resolved,—That a committee, consisting of Messrs. Gething. Bateheior, Cairns, and Webh, be appointed to consider the kind of buoy to be placed at the dock. The committee appointed ...

... On Wednesday last, the staff of the Monmouth Militia wis inspected by Colonel Spencer, of the 37th Regi- ment of Foot. It is rumoured that the militia are likely to be called up in the ensuing spring. On Wednesday week, a bailiff, in the employ of Mr. Phillpotts, of 1 relesdee, near Monmouth, named Richards, was killed by falling on his head, whilst jumping from a waggon, the horses of which ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. THE INSURRECTION IN ITALY. PARIS, OCT. 5. The Journal des Dehats confirms the news of an attempted in- surrection in Italy, haviog extensive ramifications, through the legations mentioned in yesterday's Herald. Numerous arrests had taken place. The Papal government had ordered Ancona to be reinforced, and ihe coasts to be well watched. The Pontifical volunteers had beeo ...

... DEATH OF EARL SPENCER. EARL SPENCER has passed from this life, and we cannot permit such an event to transpire, without some brief notice. This honest-hearted and philanthropic statesman, -better known as Lord Althorp, since it was under that title that he appeared befote the public during the most prominent portion of his life-was a man of sterling though not brilliant qualities. He had but ...

... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. SIR,—Most of your readers seem to have had quite enough of the Cymreigyddion discussion, and as it has now assumed a form of interminable prolixity, I shall at once put an end to it, so far al I am concerned, by requesting you to withhold from publi- cation my second letter to the Rev. T. Price. I have come 10 this determination the more readily, ...

... .1 V,Ie^?lre,.e.ree!iin2,y ,hllt il b{,come!» our duty to announce the demis of the abovs nobleman, who espked, after a short ill- ness, on Wednesday week, at his scat, Wiseton Hall, Yorkshire. Ihe noble earl was tuken ill about three weeks since, and the symp oms which then manifested themselves were considered so serious, that Mr. heate, the eminent surgeon, was sent for from town to attend ...

... THE lively author of Six Thousand Miles Ram- ble through the United States, in his off-hand way, observes, it is the duty of every man in a free country to be a politician. Our object is to shew how this may be done, without breaking through that spirit of friendship which should ever characterise mutual intercourse. The fundamental cause of the ascerbities which prevail in political affairs ...

... FOREIGN RAILWAYS, AND RAILWAY COMMITTEES. Our attention has been called to a small unpretending volume, entitled The Englishman's Legal Advi-er Abroad, published by Stassin aud Xavier, Paris, the authfr of which, though it is published anonymously, believe to be Mr. Chailes E^an, of the English Chancery Bar. We have frequently intended to indulge our readers with a few revelations on the ...

... SIR,—On reading M-r. John Phillpotts' letter, addressed to you, in your paper of the 27th instant, it appears to me that he has omitred to allude to a most important consequence, of the decision in the case of Parfitt, the pilot—viz., that a precedent, very detrimental to the interest-, of the merchants of this port, has been established. It now appears that vessels will not be per- mitted to ...

... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Mertin. SIR,—Well aware that the present discussion cannot claim an exemption from the general fate of all discussions, but that it is doomed to folbw in the track of ils predecessors.and pass through the several stages of eacitement, exhaustion, and inanition also believing that symptoms have made their appearance of its having already reached that atage of ...