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Lord Kenyon in a Trial relative to a gambling transaction observed < ' The prevalence of these practices is deplorable in the extreme , and calls for the utmost exertion of Magistrates to correct . I have seen the case of the unfortunate young man , Mr . Weston . It was laid before me by a learned Divine , to whom he had submitted it . In this he declares , that he had received 50 , 000 ! . and paid upwards of 40 , 000 ) . without any means , but gambling ! Tisbury ., Wills , May 12 . Two brothers were lately drowned here , in the fol . lojv ^

ing manner : they were the sonsof apoor man of the name of Odbury , in Tisbury , ^ nd one of , them had been confined some time on account of his being disordered in , his senses : the father at length thinking him better , set . him at liberty , when ; he ran out of the house , and threw himself into the river Nader , which runs near : it . The father jumping in to save his son , was near drowning , when . his other spn a young man aged twenty-two , ran to his father ' s assistance , but jumjp . i . ng in too precipitately was the'first drowned . Two men at , a distance saw the transaction , and came to the spot just in time to save the father , who w : as w . ith difficulty pretwo

-vented jumping in again to share the fate of his sons . May 2 , 1 . A person , said to be an American Captain , haying imprudently ventured himself into a house of ill fame in Dean street , East . Smithfield , near live May-pole , was robbed and murdered . The body was found concealed , the hands tied behind the back . It appears he , had been hanged to a bed-post , as the . cord was , also hid among the feathers of the bed . Several women of the house . are . taken up , on whom the property of the . unfortunate deceased was found . His icoat was pledged for eleven shillings . A child was the principal instrument in .. discovering -this horrid business .

LAMENTABLE DEATH OF LORD CHARLES TOWNS ^ D . May 27 . This morning Lord Charles Townsend , twho , with his brother , Lord Frederick , , was returning to town from Yarmouth , was killed . by . the discharge of a pistol . While at Yarmouth , during the "Election , their Lordships ' . conduct was ; 8 o extraordinary as to induce Sir Edward Layton , the Mayor , to . follow , them to town with a view of overtaking them on -the road , and to prevent that . danger ¦ which : the very deranged state of : their minds threatened . T ; he servant . of . the

deceased , in his examination at the Marlborough street Police . Office , stated . his . master to . have shewn strong marks of insanity while at Yarmouth . The . chaise-¦ drivers deposed , that when the chaise stoppedat Ilford , about fouro . ' clock to change » Iiorses , . they only saw Lord Frederick , . who did not alight , but ordered them . to drive on to Hanover-Square ; at Mile End they heard the ^ epQrt . of . a . p . istol , . \ yhich -they observed Lord Frederick afterwards ; thro \ v out of the > vindo- \ y ; , thinking no . other person was in the carriage they drove on , until they reached Oxford-street , land then drew up to know which side of the square the Bishop , of Norwich

Jived : on this Lord Frederick d—d them -for their ignorance , and . leaping -out of the chaise struck . one of . them . qn the face , and insisting thatjie . would fight , stripped to ; the skin : a . crowd being soon collected ., the body , of Lord , Charles-. * , viis discovered , . warm , » but , no pulse : ; it . was immediately take . u to a chymist's . close , fry , sand Lord Frederick . conducted . to , Mary-le-bone watchouse , where he said that -his broiheribad shot » bimself . on . account of some . religious dispute that tookj > lace ¦ between them . omthe road , . and-that-he , had . endeavoured to . do the same , but , the pistol would not go off ; a pistol which appeared to have been recently discharged ,

-tvas found in the chaise . The Coroner ' s inquest ,. after a iiiiinute investigation , at twelve olclock on Friday night , returned the following verdict : " U . pon the view -of the body , . and -from the . evidence obtained , » that Lord . . Charles Thomas TownsendJs death was . occasioned by the pistol shot , they have no proof . by whose hand the pistol was fired . " Lord Frederick , abo . ut two years since , \ vas for nine or ten months under thecare of Dr . ' Willis , * drinking to excess during . the Election , it is supposed has caused ; a return of this malady . Lord Charles , -while at Yarmouth , threatened tto go on board a vessel under way , l \ e . -said , to sput an . end to all his troubles . Lord Charles Townsend was twenty-seven years of age , and remarkably handsome . Lord Frederick is again placed under the care . of JRr . " vYiJlis .