The Times this morning brings a new charge of suppressing
accounts against Alderman Gibbs, Lord Mayor elect. In 1816, the Reverend Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick Frey, who edited several works on the conversion of the Jews, incurred a debt of 906/, to Messrs. Bowles and Gardiner, of Newgate Street, for paper, on account of a Hebrew Dictionary and a Hebrew Bible. About that time he went to America, leaving 447/. to be paid for the Dictionary by a Mr. Millar, and 454/. for the Bible by Mr. Joseph Fox ; friends who seem to have taken some interest in the publications. Mr. Millar's part was duly paid. Mr. Fox died soon after ; leaving a will which recognized his interest in the Hebrew Bible, and appointed as his executors the late William Allen of Plough Court, Mr. Michael Gibbs of Walbrook, and William Gyles of Greenwich. Bowles and Gardiner claimed payment in 1817, and many times subsequently, of Mr. Gibbs, as acting executor ; Mr. Frey came to England in 1837, and demanded an explanation ; but the exe- cutor refused all payment, account, or explanation. Lawyers employed by Bowles and Gardiner considered, that in the mean time the Statute of Limitations had been suffered to bar the claim; and there the matter rests.
The bride of the Ojibbeway Indian has returned to the parental roof. The "happy couple" could not live comfortably together.—Patriot.
An awkward transposition injures the reports of Lord Ellenborough's speech at Calcutta. We have been favoured with a corrected version; of which we avail ourselves for our second edition.
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