honour this ancient Corporation with _his_ presence, in their tour to
Coxheath; in order to prevent his Majesty from no impediment in his
journey, the worshipful the Mayor and Bailiff, has thought proper the
following regulations should be prohibited as following:--Nobody must
not leave no dirt, nor any thing in that shape, before the doors nor
shops. And all wheelbarrows, carts, dunghills, oyster-shells,
cabbage-stalks, and other four-wheeled carriages, must be swept out of
the streets. Any one who shall fail of offending in any article, shall
be dealt with according to law.

J. DUNSTAN, _Mayor_.

_Punishment of Death._--The _Morning Herald_ of the 14th states--"We
have it on the authority of one who heard the fact from a member of the
Privy Council, (at present a Cabinet Minister,) that he frequently saw
George the Fourth in a state of extraordinary agitation at the meeting
of the Council, when the fate of a criminal was under consideration. He
would contend the matter with the ministers and leave the table, and
lean sometimes on the chimney-piece, advocating the cause of mercy,
until overruled by his responsible advisers."

_Erratum in the Washington "Globe."_--For "Bumbleton's storm destroying
porringers," read "Hamilton's worm-destroying lozenges."

_Plain Sermons._--Bishop Heber has the following sensible remark in his
Journal of Travels:--"I am, on the whole, more and more confirmed in the
opinion which Horsley has expressed in one of his Sermons, that a
theological argument, clearly stated in terms derived from the English
language exclusively, will generally be both intelligible and
interesting to the lower classes. They do not want acuteness, or power