Star. — London, England, 1816-09-04 00:00:00

. POLICE OFTHE METROPOLIS. MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE THE COM . MU !ME OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. ON THE. IR OF THE POLICE OF THE METROPOLIS. 11e 14011.1tiliNAT OUT BIN N tT ill the Chair. .. i (1. T. RAILIStit esausseee, Ese.exankined). You are a Magistrate for the County of Middlesex? —r am. Have you ever directed your attention to the gene ral system of the Police of the Metropolis ?—I have. State the result ?—There is too little exertion used in preventing the propagation of crimes, and too mach exertion ill punishing them when they arrive at maturity. The children of dishonest parents are suffered to infest the streets in a state of destitution; the first instructions these little creatures receive are in the arts of begging and thieving. I have seen children seven or eight years of age initiated into the trade of picking pockets, under the eye of adult% seemingly their mothers. Wline parents thus dime their children upon the public, the public ought to take such children in immediate charge. By separat ing them from their bad connexions, and giving them tome education, tbey_might be made useful members . of society. The impunity with which small thefts are committed, is a great encouragement to crime; the first thefts of children take place at ton tender an age wit them for legal prosecution ; and when in the next stage of their education they are introduced to' , Sash houses, there they see thieves and thief-takers sitting together on terms of good fellowship; all they tee and hear is calculated to make then) believe they may rob without fear of punishment, for they do not reflect that the forbearance of the Officers will conti nue no longer than until they commit a se4o crime, when they will be sacrificed. The system of offering great rewards on the perpetration of a capital offence, and no reward or encouragement for the discovery of minor felonies, is radically bad ; the thief-takers are thus interested in encouraging rising thieves, until their crimes arrive at the highest growth. If rewards upon a small scale were given for the discovery of thieves in their earliest acts, and for the apprehension cf reputed thieves, the trade of thieving would in its first attempts be so exposed to the harassing of in formers, as not to be worth following. Impunity is still farther assured to petty thieves by the general indisposition to prosecute ; the trouble, loss of time, and expense, discourage even the public-spiiited from prosecuting. To lessen the waste of time in austodiag prosecutions, lists of the causes set down for trial ought to be fixed up in the hall of the Ses sions as soon as the bills are found; they ought to be taken up in regular order, and be marked off as they are disposed Of. Crimes against the public peace ought to be prosecuted at the public expense : this would secure the ends of justice, and prevent collu aion between the prisoner and prosecutor—at any rate indictments ought to be prepared, subpoenas serval, and advice given, without expense to prosecutors ; and their loss of time and expenses ought to be paid. Impunity is visibly enjoyed by pickpockets to a very great extent; gangs of this class of robbers impu dently look us in the face, rob us, and contintte to elude punishment. One reason of this is, the facility with which adepts in the art pass their booty from one to another, whereby it is difficult to identify the thief; if lie be detected, it must be while he is in the act, it is then only a misdemeanour, and is bailable; the production of two sureties in 4310 each is usually ' deemed sufficient to let the felon loose again on the public ; he does not appear to his trial, the recogni minces are esueated ; but the penalties are not sought after for two years, when, I have authority to state, not one in 500 is recovered. Indeed the present sys tent of dealing with recognizances is a mere mockery. A casualjrausgressor may pine in gaol for want of sureties, but a professed villain is never at a loss for such assistance to set him free; there are men in abundance who make it their business to stand bail for hire ; they know at what tirae the estreat will he in process, when they shift their quarters, and are unseat inventor. I was in JIM 1814, surrounded by a gang of five or six hustlers, in the Strand; one of these put Itis hand into my breeches pocket, where I seized it, secured the man, and took him. to Bow street; he WAS •committed for trial: I attended two days at the next Sessions, when I at length heard that the offender had put in bail, and might not ap pear until the succeeding Sessions; he appeared no more. I find that to this day no process is issued against his Jew bail; the only penalty indicted was on myself, in the money I paid for the bill of indict. anent, &c: and in the time I was confined at the Sessions, blagistrates ought to be well hasured that bail admitted in such cases is substantial, that the penalties Of the bond are large, and that the proeecu ter have notice when bail is put in, that he may not waste his time at the Sessions to no purpose. Persons under accusation only, ought ta be kept separate from convicted or reputed thieves, and persons im• prisoned for assaults ought not to be mixed with con victed or accused felons. The objects of imprison Meat being to deter by its sufferings, and if possible to work the reformation of the prisoner, I conceive these objects may be achieved with more certainty and at much less expense by making the confinement str ictly solitary, refusing access of friends restricting the diet to coarse bread and to water only, and in aggravated cases adding to the imprisonment a cer tain number of floggings during the term. Subject to this abstinence and discipline, I think one month's confinement would be more dreaded, and more completely subdue daring spirits, than aim in the common way, and with the customary indulgences ; contamination would thus be avoided, and the re formed culprit be exempted from theTuture con tagion aad disgrace of prison icquaietances.— Discharged sailors have latterly committed many --e)bbenes ; the interest of these poor fellows has been sadly neglected; some thousands of them, when paid off, have received aims which, rightly applied, would have secured their remaining days from want; but, as helpless as children in the use of money, they are immediately script when they reach the shore which their valour has defended, and left to perish through distress, or subsist by plunder. If Govern ment bad managed a little for these men, the evil to a great extent might have been averted. - Receivers of stolen toads are by no means udder ilffectual check. The subject is by far too compli esiseE for my preseatUvidence ; I will, therefore, only SUggsS4 that it would tb 4 row considerable impedi- Malt at &elm of *V :waiver's drogue, if it were . - 7 .7 - r ' enacted, that no person should purchase weond-hand 1 wearing apparel, lin,en, or piece Bonds, ironmongery, or metals, for re-sale, withost taking out an annual licence. Among the'immediate cause of thefts and nther offences, Lotteries hold an isndoubled place. But I am tiow come to a subject of universal influence on the morals of the public ; it is my opinion, that low public-houses, and gin-shops, are the hat-bed of nearly all the vices and eriroes which disturb the metropolis in these, thousands odnsume their time, money, and constitution, and acquire ipsenobility to all the moral duties; from these they sally forth to commit depredations on,the public. It is lamentable, that public-houses, whieh are indispensible to public accommodation, shoul*, thus be rendered public nuisances. The evil,V‘esever, is inseparable from the law, which gives to certain individuals the power of setting up or putting down such houses, subject to no other controul than that of their own will. This despotic Power WAS given by the Legislature for the purpose of more effectually repressing disorderly houses; but in this, as in all similar powers, the abuse supersedes the use. Whatever the object might be. the effect of the law is to throw a very great propor tion of the public-houses into the hands of brewers ' and gin.sellers, whose interest consists is procuring 1 , the greatest consumption of their liquors, the effect also is to exclude from the ownership of such houses, the owners of the surrounding houses to which the public-houses are appurtenant; the interest of which owners consists in preventing their public-houses from becoming a harbour for drunkenness or disorder, and in promoting industry and sobriety among their te nants. It is capable of ful) proof, that some brewers. procure licences for new houses at pleasure, which the right owners have in vain applied tor; and that they are able to preserve licences to old houses of the most disorderly kind; whence the publicans are taught to depend, not on geed conduct, but on kood interest, for the preservation of their licences. These brewers are men of great wealth and influence, and know how to apply both; but where the licences are above the brewers' influence, the procuring of a licence is still so much a work of intrigue, that an estate owner, who is aware of licensing practices, will not risk his property, or commit his independence, in erecting a public-house, when one is wanted for his tenants. If. then, the brewer does not stand forward in his own person, some avaricious intriguer supplies his room s and administers to his objects. My conclusion, there fore, is. that licensing houses for brewers should be prohibited by law ; that gin shops should be speedily abolished altogether; that a preference should be se- I cured to the estate owner, where a new public-house becomes necessary ; and that licensing decisions should be subject to an appeal to the Quarter Sessions. And I am of opinion that considerable benefit would arise, were parish officers personally to visit the haunts of vice, and direct the apprehension of disorderly per sons, instead of leaving all to the frequently interested selection of pike officers, constables, and watchmen. Do you think that the morals of the lower orders of people are better or worse than they were formerly ? —Worse. _ Do you think that drunkenness is considerably in creased think that, by the profusion of new gin shops drinking has largely increased, and that the low tippling-houses which have been newly licensed, are calculated to promote hard drinking ; whether, upon the whole, there is now more intoxication among the lower orders than tormerly, I cannot say. Do you think the existence of the gin-shops, where a beer licence is merely nominal, one of the great causes to which is ta be attributed the increase of inebriety ?—Most cemainly. Have you ever been present when the licenses were given by the Magistrates at their Petty Sessions ?-4 have, both in the Tower Hamlets andain Kensington Division. _ _ Can you state to the Committee any particular sate or cases in which negligence on the part of the Ma. gistrates appeared to you ?—I will state one, of which I have an intimate knowledge. I have considerable estates in the neighbourhood of Stepney, upon which I have lately bunt, and caused to be built, nearly 100 houses, besides two large manufactories. Part of my land lying between the Mile-end road and Stepney Church, is planned in streets capable of containing about 500 houses. White-horse-lane, a great tho roughfare, passing through these streets, is without any public-house, although there are more thau 350 new houses in and by the line. At the desire of my tenants, between three and four years since I ordered a public-house to be built, midway on this line. While I was having _it built, I WU applied to by the agents of Maws. Hanbury, the brewers, and Mr. Stables and Williams the spirit-dealers. Who are Messrs. Stables and Williams ?—They are both near relatives to Sir D. Williams. Is Mr. Williams his relation ? I understand se. How long have they set up the spirit trade ? About five or slx pears since. I was asked to enter into an engagement with Messrs. Stables and Wil liams, for the supply of the house; intimating, that if I complied, my house would be licensed, but not otherwise. Conceiving that the wants of the neigh bourhood must ensure a licence, I rejected all these applications. Bat when the licensing day anived, in 1813, the houie was not even noticed. I then shut up the house for st•year, until the licensing in 1814. It was agate refused. I shut it up another year, and applied again in 1815; but my house still remains unlicensed ; and from further application: that have been made, I am persuaded that the house will not be licensed, unless I comply with the conditions of pre viously selling it, or letting it much under its value, to Messrs. Hanbury, or use other exceptionable means. In illustration of what I have here asserted, I will name two instances, from among maay that may be adduced. In 1813, Mr. Humphreys, noir a publican near Stepney, offered to introduce me to a Mr. Stables, who had interest to procure a licence, and would do so if the spirit trade were secured to him. I declined the offer. Mr. Stables is Clerk to the Commiuioners of Sewers, a very near relative of Sit; D. Williams, who, about three years previous to, this application, under the support of Messrs. Han bury, was set up at a dealer in their bottled porter, and in spirits ; in which trade he . was 'hardy afterwards joined a Mr. Williams, another relation of Sir Da ' niers; they have sineemet with extraordinary success, as I are blamed, among the publicans in SirD.'sdivi dont In Anson lut I spoke to Mr. Robson, a leading Magistrate an the TOM! Hamlets Division, and the ,ctinidgetial, friend of Sir Daniel : exprenOg toy hope 'that *Mariam width had lobsiftd kerma ire and t he Magistrates in that neighbouthidod Mould not be the means of preventing the public-house, of which I was the owner, from being licensed. Mr. Robson said, that as a friend, he would advise me to engage the trade to Messrs. Hanbury, for that it was ex• fleeted the Magistrates wished to s erve them. Seeing t hat it was in vain to contend against this issue, I therefore offered to sell the house to Messrs. Han bury, for what it cost me out of my pocket, with. out interest, or to let it to them on a loug lease, at a rent ytelding me between C 5 and 46 per cent. in terest on what the house cost building; with this they seemed willing to close. I then went to Mr. Robson, at Whitechapel Office, where he was sitting with Mr. R. Davies, and told him what I had done, and that I conceived my offer to be accepted. Upon this, Mr. Robson expressed his satisfaction, and intimated there would be no difficulty in licensing the house; he freely stated, that three of them (whom I under stood to be Sir D. Williams, Mr. Merceroe, and blr. Robson) met previous to the licensing day, when they predeterniined what houses should be licensed: and he added, " if necessary our friend here, (Mr. Rice Davies) will attend." He then proceeded to eiplain to Mr. Davies the necessity of licensing the' house—its remoteness from any other public house; the very great number of new houses around it ; the large property I had on the spot, and the circum stance that I had taken down an 'old public house, the Marquis of Granby, on the same estate in Mile end-road, where public houses were too crowded, while in Whitehorse-lane, the situation of the new house, there was not one; so that the public were greatly benefited by the exchange of place, and ob liged to Mr. Beaumont ; and he, Mr. Robson, parti cularly desired that the circumstance of my having pulled the old public house down should be men tioned in the Memorial for licensing the new one.— Mr. Davies concurred in all that was said ; promised to attend if necessary; and added, it would be a great shame if, holding so much property on the spot, I could not get a house licensed. On the following day I SAW Sir D. Williams, and stated to him the terms on which I had offered to part with the house to Messrs. Hanbury; remarking that I should still lose the interest of my money for three years. Sir Daniel entered with seeming zeal into the arguments for licensing the house, and observed that it was no bad thing to get my principal back. A few days before the licensing, Messrs. Hanbury declined taking the house on the terms offered ; that an in ferior house would be more to their interest. On the 18th of September, the Justices met, SirD. Williams, Mr. Rhode, Mr. Story, Mr. Merceron, Mr. Robson, Mr. Windle, Mr. Flood, and Mr. Mashiter. The licensing was opposed by Sir D. Williams and Mr. Robson, in which they were followed by Messrs. Merceron, Flood, Windle, and Mashiter, who usually vote with them, as lam informed and believe. Mr. Rhodes and Mr. Story appealing strongly against this decision, were shortly answerei _by Mr. Robson, that it was A better house than necessary ; and, per haps never would be licensed. The connexion here evinced, between these Magistrates and Messrs. Han bury is made no secret of by the agents of the litter. L had heard it freely avowed by them. At a licen sing meeting its 1814, a Mr. Ventom, the broker rot Messrs. Hanbury, was introduced to me by Mr. Hubbard, a Lieutenant in the Tower Hamlets, saying " This is the Gentleman to get your house licensed." Ventom said, it would be licensed directly, if I gave Messrs. Hanbury the trade; and in answer to a ques tion, added, Mr. Hanbury would not, of course, be at the expence and trouble of using their influence with the Justices, unless the trade were made sure to them." LONDON MARKETS. SEPTEMBER S. Thi towar cers &hie 107 i latter be cif more an read; the 2.55. . r left ei sup Gars. Lndi the hill yell whi comb seqr tin, COTTON.—The export request continued very con siderable during the last week, but from the favour able accounts from Liverpool and from Manchester, the holders were generally asking prices a shade higher, which prevented business being effected to any extent. The sales of last week were—Pernams at 2s. 2d. Bahia/ 2Sj,d. a 2s. Maranhams 2s. 133 weds Grenada' at 21fd. Bengals were sold in the house at 'Std. a ISid. Surats at Kid. There ap. peared in our market last week a speculative demand for Cottons, several houses being of opinion the ar ticle has reacheel its lowest, and that the prices will advance, as the weekly sales will now probably greatly exceed the imports, and the eutensive de mand for home consumption, added to the export request, will rapidly reduce the present stock, which is non considerable ; the quantity -taken on specula tion last week, -was reported to be between 2 and SOO bales. Ltintaroor., Amnia Sl.—gg During the greater part of the week we have experienced from the uncle a steady *demand for Cottons, particularly for Bowed:, and the prices of last week have been tully main tained in all descriptions. Yesterday there was a public sale of Carthagena, which went off well, chiefly at 19d. per pound a Hid. also good fair St. Andrees at 200. but the demand yesterday by pri vate contract was rather limited. The sales of the week were—Boweds at 190. a aid. for ordinary to fair, 19d. a 20id. for good fair to good, and a few very prime at 21d. a 214 d. Orleans at ISid. for ordi nary, and Ind.. a 293. for fair to very good, Sea Islands at 2s. 2d. a 21.5 d. for fair to good, Including stained at 20d. a 2s. Id. Pernams at is. ltd. a 2s. 2d. Maranhams at 2s. 00. a 2s- Id. Bahias a 26. a 2s. Id. Minas at 26. Peres at 2Sid. Demerara: at 2Sid. a 2s. 2d. Surinaras at 2s. Id. Barbadoes at 20,td. a 2ld. Bengals at 14d. a 141 d. per pound." SUGAR.—The sales of last week were not extensive, owing to the great number of importers withdrawing their Sugars from present sale in anticipation of the duty being 17s. after the sth inst. the few Museo wades that were on sale went off freely at the former currency ; a few boards went off a shade higher, being allowed duty at SOs. per cwt. but no general improvement in the prices could be stated. The stocks of Muscovades- in the warehouses are about nine thousand Ilds. MOM than at the same season last year ; the prices -20s. per cwt. lower ; the defi ciency in the crop of Jamaica is reported front 25 to 10,000 hhds. but the quantity in the islands and in Demerara is to exceed the usual supplies in nearly thesarne proportion. There was very hide business done in Muscovades thii forenoon. as the sellers generally would not allow the SO:. duty without obtaining higher prices ; the buyers *road not purxhue on these terms ; both in aonbesuence my,* the aggregate averages which will plan' sh me say trai spirt opini. be taken metro• wai the. nAry 68F pri4 littl mai cair the Mart. thousal son ' low , wer abl, 12. i prices no ' ail la: reported T. the prices Bank s s - I . . . tJr P . . i T tr h °w. d ir e 9ul' d forß lined S 6ar r th°lBl4 till till ll' . . s pas er brisk wards the close of last week ; the wholesale rs were the chief purchasers ; the request ' h e et l i h 'hie was also very considerable ; L umps 4114 4 , . ushed Sugars were in great demand , the termer, . 7s. a 108 s. since advanced to 109 i, a i jos rite : :ter 675. 68s. and 70s. the prices this forenoon seL ns ,. .------- quoted 68s. a 70s. Double loaves er • el 'o 7 - n Igrree 'PER 92C , ore demand. and generally the ci,:rchasers shew t 4 , ' .. .....- 1 anxiety to secure any goods that coutd h Bw . " ----- enizA T. it - ',. ady in two or three weeks at the present prices 0 or Braal r,ro. ' e market. Molasses met a regular demand al si .o . , puBT. i t Is. 6J. a 265. - T 1 - Hp; 111F.A . • The demand for Refined Sugars last week and .! l am s te ts:miser 7 • tsterday was so extensive, that there are few geed; . r e' , a M:INODYO . i f p t p t i y no ot Lu s •-en this for trioon , cidt. , ,, 21. :which tt. li-l thar rti:io m A i N j:.. ; s o' xn etly of P le Crus hed s v a a r S r e j u A t i i a o r t : e i i s tl v i e i r . y i trivial . van na i THE sC. I There is li m tt ars. A public sale Of eleven thioub.lod 1,,, i4 , E, , - i i t p e ter Teasie. Idle descriptions were last wei:k hrtoigia 1,4-. 0 , 'erharscter): Sir Ms- 2s. A :i l le whole went off freely ; the prices Writ' igher ; ordinary brown 335. a ni. fi•ie and aro: 2 Crabtfia, Mr Kohil . ellow 48s. a .565. and soft white 54:. a Os. e i ,,,T, t In those chanter-- 'bite 675. a 68s. 6d. •• •., nard ; Snake, Mr I. COFFEE.-The business done in Coffee 1 • .st ees i pady Sneerwell, M - ' dour , Mrs. osier ras not so extensive as the preceding : the ri ctsii . , C an s ' In Act 'wa ll° ° rein te r' e M l r n . i t i l a w ri ‘ c e l. se ordinary descriptions went a elude high er ; „ id To Wftk :try Jamaica 625. a 635. 6,1. good or...final), Ess. indi Bs. fine ordinary 695. (fd. 70s. a 735. Cy ni the OR, TI I rites of the other descriptions or Co ff ee de re was . o . ' la ilesdstrones , the variation ; the deficiency or the crop i, i . a ha a Mr' t I 1 J : . y o slatt„ Mr. Haney; mica (owing tc the hurricane) is very clearly nett . Mil. urger; Mary, ained ; the imports have been very elefi:i ele, .floct iroxes IlDd Places s e eke print pal emrion he present stock of Coffee in the Le te m on tour, and nf rarehouses is about ten thousand casks, aue pity oon to he open bousand bags short of the quantity at the time sea , ' to regin at ha t ' past si on last year ; the prices are 26 a is. per cwt. Boxes 71. Seeing , ower. No doubt Coffees would advance maternity t e r), O N were it not for the immense imports fr:im ; l ir E n arm' % Seooco 4 This Public are i :ndies, and from the very extensive sales declared by t h e k , secomminiatioo , he Company whenever there is the least deniandl o; a nd cronstolirrsbly ii c toffee in cur markets ; the quantity imported direct 7 Dress Circle of Boxes nto Holland, &c. both from the East and num the i e ., :ve 10.,,.. aceronno , I,f .hr estored colonies in the Weet ladies, is also reputird ' 4'l'4' • ~r - obe very considerable. There were no public sake . THEA 'lt 17. ' •-qta pri ni if Coffee this forenoon. . OiLs.-The demand for exportation has been vac the THE.VI It as :ensiderpble ; the prices of Whale Oil have, in c ' I. " °r " a " MUND b ri . E PUBL.' ;equence, improved al. a ‘172 ; the request still as play :Mows ; the success of the Greenland and Dar . Peruvians-/tall' Straits tisheries this year is now ascertained to be. •, swap. Miro 140e31-tia ull average supply ; the import into Hull consider ' 1 11 ' 1 5.4 4 I ,: n P li m e L ki ... Ably above 5000 tons, to the kingdom a little beim' r it r .f . ,V, - .;;;i: - ,,; -• 12,000. Pale Seal Oil is cxcecdir.4 scarce ;-the , Priests, %intr.. - prices have advanced see a re 3. In Galipoli there ii ? m oot, Mr. o apt.:; no business doing, and in Seed Oil there is no traria. line ", 24"`"'` I. " tion from the late currency. eon, W.ll,aues; Messl Find'ay. Greet., Grin Rum, BRANDY, and Hoetetens.-The prices of ' serve, Loston.l.o.:an. Rum for a length of time have been so exceedingly itseel. " I ' l ** "" 1 " . Spaniards - P iss lew, that it has promoted the home consumption of . the couetry and the export demand ; the West Indic Las Cass-. Mr r.. planters have been deterred Irons meleiug_the usual • Gom P a ' , Mr Hi.* shipments ; transmitting Rums to the British settle. , Louis; Bernal, N r mews in Ante; len and to the United States, in ez• . C - tis ii au: Gotosa.o, change for lumber, provisions, &cc. the consequence THE • -•1 . harries. , E ro lo w ira h , ic M h is, t h at the present stock in the warehouses i s abet: ' ; : 5OOO puncheons sl.ort of the supply en hand at ?Le Tbe Overture an sane: season last year ; these consideraticT.4 have .:. • Gritid,sir (the To tracted the attention e:r Teculators, and much busies Mr. haste*; Ka has Lately been effected ; Isst week the hairs are er . ,.• . Abbott; Keirnar (a bun), Master Barn mated betureen 16 and 1806 casks, but, es die stock W. Chapman sold still considered very heavy, the prices are little vane. •. Tiebg...; Londe**. Jamaica may be stated at the improvement of le tett, has Carew; and Leewerds 2st. per gallon ; the business effecei i ' A Private :11 is chiefly in the latter. Several parcels purcheed" - a The 'it Doo I wt . e n two and three weeks ago have been resold et a a IR Half-past six. 3d. per gallon advance ; any Leeward% of %twee Boxes Ts. &wood quality, cannot be purchased under 2s. 61. to day; ' • " 43 anw i l 111 ' the quantity of Ruin delivered from the warehouses ; P . riCe p ia i es aL for tile last week WAS above 900 puncheons, about 700 were . a . Wks, Hart-street, I reported for exportation.-brandy has advanced 2.!. `,.. a 3d. per gallon.-Geneve unvaried. €, TIM FIRST 1) IRISHPitoVISIoNs.- Prime Provisions continer is To F.) demand by the trade ; the holders are realizing a , farther improvement of the prices. Prime Polk is stated particularly scarce, :Ind the supplies repo& • 'LION& The at,, to be inadequate to the demand for sbipping, Stc.- IN p a g d an di o i , i b o : i those Adventure, s lot The request for Ilecon continues .- The Butter nudist .II Priv s is still depressed. ' 2 000000 •..••••• 11111.1113, FLAX, AND Teeeow.-The demand fr • ll Tallow Isecanie brisk on Foiday last, and since does • e the business effected has been very considea.l4l , , at e 10 .e.... OOOOO • OO prices gradually improving ; the advance since eta - so last may be stated fully 16. per CWI. lirrnp is a .. re. 72 078 000000 ...- • shade lower. Flax without variation. . Sesces.-The demand for Pepper and Pimento 21.000' Ticks% continues brisk, the exports arc very extensive. Tlis inquiry after Cloves is censislereble, but there are few Tickets ..r , sellers. In other Spices there is little variation. No. 7, CO tt ' TonACCo.-There is more iiiquiry tor Maryland *sere the above Ali business in C TObACCU, but little business has yet baser el.cred ;- Country immed-at cargoes of Virginia offer 70s. per 100 pound, mai Prete Infest weight, lur the Continental ports; for thos MAir . Half - - - ket 10d. a 11 d. per pound. . Qua An Equal 1; -............. ' ' • ro• Au F Comas Ws Isougs7.-Yestereay evening an Inquisition Int : . a ll ;"" 4 ClllllOl, de LAI . t held at the Polite:Met Castle, Edward-street Portinan•sq.iars, 'sus NOtilA Ull upon the body of Mr. Peter Cooke, who fell Sown dead on :ion. 4 4 si.. 7. Carnhill• 1 day morning last, at his house in aarratt's-court, without a:ty .y . e ,, or entreiulse 0 previous illness. Mr. George Manning, a surgeon, atttnd , d " deceased within five nonutes after be fell ; he wed to hir!l LOCK hint, but without success; be then inflated his lungs, awl t•-ed His Rota; other methods to restore 811111016011-Mr. fectual : as the dectasett wt: only •A; years of a g e, Iv: v.. 1 surprised at such a tats) attack upon so young a man; up. ,, ! on. 4 Ca "t" 01111 quiry, bowner, be found that he had been subject to dr IA spirituous liquors to great excess; and be (Mr. hissainvg) WA , ~ 1 THE Roy* opiniJu tloat the deceased died of an apoplect:c At broegl:: on -IL SMUI 1 ) by drinking spirits.-Verdict, Died by the Vibitarlunot Goo. COMPLAI N*l d ~.... -- - ' --- --- - ...: - ._::..-. .:_.-2._:_.:_._-..._:=- - . - - - 0 bum t h e b,,,,,,r, PRICE OF S COCKS YESTERDAY. UMW' Its barge, Bank Stock,2l6i laths Stock too 1;91 ' Erimmi \wing di, s per ca.kted. 62i 62 infix Wade 7 8 pr. Liman eoncesv 3 per Ct. Eons. sift Exch. lads 2 :s pr. by point 4 per Cent. 781 i Consols for Account Gilliff Mart, le; 5 per etat. Navy 9211 I Imp. 3 poor Cent. Anus. - . of Persons MUM Long Ann. 16 546 it 1 Lottery rickets, .1E22. 18s. . . "about being sa oq Dual reports of ' _ • PRICES OF GOLD AND SILVER. 121C4t dangerous Portugal Gold in Coin, per ca. ,23 i9l CI lacurabte affecolo Foreign Gold in Ears • - 3Ws Od, . dicolly and ntec New Doubloons . . 31 is 6d.. Mr. A Lerma New Dollars " . 0 es I old. .. . Bones, Dl i L ew Silver la bars • 0 Os Od. Ora front i•own - i . 41 ,, tit . - id min. a;:er 1 ' , j;:: '' tiltH orn W in A g TE . RllO MORROW AT LONDON ERIDGIis , diar Yg ini l dli w iev iair ld ' d Afternoon • • _.„. rlintet LONDON: Primed by Lsvii. ;:v 5T 4 , 2 1;: .-. clre; O 00 0 0 O . ile. ; '". ille P f hlisk,c4 there, sad a: the tota:--Q;fice,Tenv e le Ulr.