Star. — London, England, 1824-10-19 00:00:00

- WEST kNIDII ,VERY. -- rErrEw I. . TO THE EDITOR OF TEIX STAR. • Sia—My'attentkm was attracted to a letter wh . appeared in The New Tines, of the 6th instant, signed Artor us, and hailng theaippearance of being•the first . of a series. This letter contained an attack upon an article which was published in ,die last number of the QUarte7l.9 Review, as well as on the Order in Council, • ...4ich has recently been issued by the direction of the Government for the improvement of the. Slave Code in the island of Trinidad. The charges brought against • the Government for the' issue of that Order were of so extraordinary a nature, that I was induced to examine, with considerable attention, the article in question, as w ell as the Order 'itself : and having since read two other letters, with the signature of •ANGLUS (who has presented himself as the advocate of ultra-abolition prineiples, as, contrasted with the more temperate course, ,which it appeals that the Government has felt it neces sary to adept). as well as an article in the British and Colonial 'Weekly Register, of the 4th of September. tip ' yarentlY from the same pen, I find so much of what I presume to call mistatement and inconclusive reasoning, that I propose to address some letters to ANGLUS, - . thrOugh.the medium of yoqr Paper ; as there is an in • .Iqinosition'on the part of the Editor of the New Times to permit the appearance of an answer in the columns of that Newspaper, which would have been its most .•convenient situation, as far as the einridation of truth "iliay'lledeenied an Object of the respective parties. • I consider the examination of what is called the West India Slave Question, to • be of such paramount import , ilea.; both fir a moral and national. sense, that I do,not hesitate, without clealification, to affirm, that any per- Son professing to convey correct and accurate informa tion to the Public upon who intentionally maintains • an argument, founded Oti data . which he himself knows Vase, gutiltfOla, positive crime. A writer so . • cireumstanced can haveno hesitation in stating that to he true which he positively knows to be so ; if he only believes . •his assertions to be true, he should limit his statement to the expression, of that belief, and, not take the adirantage of reasoning as on a certainty where ma terial dioubts may exist as to the fact ; but, as I have already said, he is positivcty arimligd if he is guilty of 'an intentional mistatement. • I consider. that the circumstance of a person writing under an assumed signature in no degree infringes upon this principle, unless the vine of hi* reasoning be such 'as plainly to' 'thew that I is, id' 'it, polemical character, . having for,.its,ebject the trinornkultiguntent, rather , than the elucidation of truth. But if, under an assbnsed ' signature, 'a writer states that his object " is purely the ''effuse of morality and religion, the'fauseof his country, shill tha t caita of Goat". he can have no sort of apology for any deviation from the rules which I have laid down, and is as much responsible as if he were to appear tin der his real name: If this be true; as predicated of a writer professing to be influenced by such sacred prin ciples of Conduct ; it is equally true with respect to any perm who may choose to meet and oppose his reason ing under a similar disguise: And if there be no indis po,ition on the pact of ANGLUS to embark in a corre spondence on these conditions of personal responsibi lity (if such a term may be applied to the relations under which an anonymous correspondence is necessarily car ried on), much public and national good may be elicited from an investigation, so conducted, of the complex and intricate problem of the best and the safest mode of terminating the system of West Indian . Slivery. •Upoir the conclusion, or even in third:is - gesso( such a corre spondence, the Public or at least that part of the Public who are disposed to give a patient attention to subjects of this nature, will be able to ascertaiiiwith 'whom the negative merit of fair and impartial rea soning, and cot red statement of facts, resides; aad if, fortunately for the cause of truth, it should appear that this merit belongs to both parties, no :inconsiderable advance will be made in theraCtical exttnination'a a subject the importance Of *uch is beyond all calculation. ~If the reverse of "this shOuld take place, and bath parties should be at tempting cc:deceive; the correspondence would naturally •beslittegaided as worse than useless :—And, in a third Isoakilile case; that one party should attempt to deceive, While the other was only anxious to adhere-to the truth, in rem pciesible•sense 'of the term, expostire and merited disgrace would attach tct the deceiver. • • the expectation that ;this proposal will be met by Airows with that eagerness which belongs to a con& • denote in 44141 cause oflight,• I . propose, in a subsequer.t toltdvert, to thistle Hot's, i l n;his letters which ap pear to 1 . 1• e; heerever Unintentionally, to have been stated • `arelsOned upon by MM in error, when arguing the ge 'um.' qiestions-But his remarks on the Order in Cciun .o art•stiprepristertiuslfinOrrect, And spew such com plete ignorance of hissnhject; that I feel it necessary to adiert to them without loss of time, as they are stated with such gravity, .elid with such assumption of know. hedge and authority, is to• be hit hlf calculated to mis lead the ptiblic. ••• • ANGLIgi considers the recent Order in Council for the regulation of Slavery in Trinidad, " as a very int *llan, and beneficial measure." Yet, if it 'were really 'such as he proceeds to describe it, if it really " holds ob( an actual premium to murder,"if it really deprived Slaves of leisure' which the anterior law had secured theM, if it enables a hard-hearted proprietor to break aainder the most sacred domestic ties which Spanish • la* had rendered indisscluble, if it renders inadmissible Slave evidence which could formerly have been re ceived, in other words, it it were such a law as Atiocus describes it to be, then I should agree that it was " im portant," because it Would bring to light the otherwise incredible ignorance and inhuiaanity of our Colonial Administration, and " beneficial," because such a dis closure would most effectually prevent the repetition, of • such enormities. As; hOwever, lam not accustomed readily to conclude that Other men fall into self-evident absurdities, and as I think it least of all reasonable to impute such extreme ignorance and wickedness, so gra tuitous to those who stand on an eminence from which they have the Most extensive survey, and where they themselves can never escape the most rigid criticism, I untried 'from the paper of ANGLUS to• the O r d er i n CoUncil, which be censures, and having done so, take upUr lite to' melt 41Strieith your permission will pro. cetd'its - pteve, that•instead of being afilitted with acruel .and ignorantGoverdiuent, we have cd) , to bear with a raslesusdill;itiforrned ' critic decidedly the lighter evil . .of th e tseti. • • Ist. ANGLUS asserts, "that by the Spanish law the slaves,•his" ides Sunday, art entitled to a day in each Week'aidiu *SO hotldays'in the year, to be employed for their Own bitiefii - .7 By "the Differ in ; Council: be . pfuceeds," no time 4.clusitre opt sunday itt allotted to, 1 •~ • • offillagrrcgr-r7:— 1 19 4 PPPM 4 0 , 19 -3-e-.+~ the slaves." I ready regret that AltoLus has not stated the authority upon which he makes this assertion re specting the lair rifSpain: In what title of the leco pilacion, or io whatian of .the Particles, is this privi lege granted? In. neither of these cedes. will any sad) . law be discovered. Probably, however, -Anocusotsay refer to the Cednla •plibliThed at Aranjnez On the•Slst , May, 1789, and printed by order of the. House of Com mons onthe Slst 'May, 1811. Yet even in this cele brated enactment, I perceive 'to law to-the effect stated by him. Perhaps it may be unknown to him, that.be fore Trinidad became a possessioo of the British,Crowi, the law of 1789 had been repealed by the Somish Go vernment. But I will admit, for the sake of argument,. that such a law as that mentioned by Amax*, did form a part of the Slave Code of Trinidad. I ask him, then, in what part of the recent Older in Council does hefind one word which directly or indirectly, repeals It?— Where, then, is the " oversight so confidently imputed to the framers of this Order ? 2d. AtioLus complains that the Order in Council, while it prohibits labour for the master on Sunday, has given,the slave no other time to work upon his provi sion grounds . . A less determined, objector. might, per haps, have discovered that the law which interdicts la bour on Sunday,' recognises, by necessary implication, the principle that the labour of six dayi is to provide for the maintenance of the labourer. The master is bound to feed his slave, and the law will enforce the obligation. There would have been little wisdom in prescribing to the . master the mode in which his slave's should be supported. If the sy stem of granting pro vision grounds be the most economical , the interest of the master affords suffilient'secusity that this system will be pursued. Sd. A NGLOS asserts, that by the Spanish law, husband and wife cannot be separated by sale or transfer; but that by the Order in Council, " the prohibition to separate is - restricted to judicial sales" I can find no such restriction. The Order, it' is true, relates only to judicial sales but if such a. law as Anocus mentions already existed, it certainly is not repealed by this Order, and as certainly it would have been idle to re-enact it but again I assert; that no such law did exist, and if . I am wrong, ANOLOs will perhaps have the goodness. to quote it verbatim. 4th. " By the Spanish law, the testimony of Slaves is received in all cases quantum valertt." For this assertion ANGLUS does not. quote hi authority, and though I be lieve it- to be an error, I a ill, for the purpose of argu ment, admit that he is tight: but what has this to do with-the Order in Council? That Older expressly•re serves to the Slaves every tight of giving tergimony which they before enjoyed!' How then can _they suffer ' by it any diminution of these rights ? or how can is be' explained that so acute a writer as ANOIsUS has not per- . ceived this answer to his own objection?' Does he con found the draft of the - A der in, Codacit • aobjoined oo the Parliiinentary Papers with the Orden. itself ? sth. But theOsder bolds out ”Julactual premium to murder." Strange, indeed, if true! To this most sin gular conclusion Amount is led ; by the following chain of reasoning. " he says, " a white man shOuld be twice convicted of cruelly treating a Slave, be forfeits, l according to. the Order, all the Slaves he possessei. Would he escape this calamitous result, he has nothing to do but to kill the Slave outfight, and then, his life being in jeopardy, no. Slaveortdence.,Can, be received against hop. To this I answer, first, that if, as- ANOLUS asserts, such evidence was admissible before the Order, the admissibility of it is expressly declared by the Order;. and r aecondly, that,'the.mane reasoning might be applied,to cases mischanorts familiar to most of us. Do I contemplate picking a packet—a much better plan will be to begin by costing the throat of the bearer, be: Cause then: the . 4(004 . or my ; guilt laonot be , ptoduced agiitist urel . .otcrelbie Ora Jaw as,vee firtfeet premium to the cutting of sod directly tends to convert' pickpockets into assassias. After this explanation I would inquire from Atiocos, Whether he really thloksgsat be ii serving the cause ,of the Slaves,". by giving rack fallacious and incorrect representations of the measures adopted by his Majesty's Government; and whether,, with, ;respect to the Order in Council, of which rpapy personi".coanected with the West Indies complain with. bitterness, though not, as I think with reason,—the•Government has riot a right , to expect a candid and ciotious construction emit from ASGLUS 401 !IC• •• ' ftwief C lee Sce • • • iTIr • . The wards of the Order are, si Prneittet alwaystlias, herein contained shall extend id ske•away of dasiaish mar and authority which any Court a Cif of Jitisefetlea fir* said Colony now bath to admit in any we tie eihisafge of person! Ow ins in a state of Slavery." - Adeices.were received by the family ef-Pdr..Asea ittrnamt, at Kensington, on • qatmdey,, that that Pen *slims was killed in.. a doel. with l a CaPtain .4004 PP Tuesday last, ibmit foot miles,flom Konen, .14 , the canal side, a ball having entered his right side, and 'lodged in the bodj ! freSa the erects, cif keh :he . gur. vived but a few 'boors. Ilus Anatgek,ortgrontgd a nt 1 1 ball-room. A Convention has , been concluded between the•Em peror of RUSSIA and the -King of , Pitel.iita to abolish reciprocally die DOei i miti'cen all ; tetnostals Of personal property:from the , territories of the one, Sovereign io those of thectber. .This Convention vitae signed on the' 28d of 14ay,7by .ihe;Ministet's Bata. STORFF and giOsuesuctis, gi ttg mgrefl,hy the - 414 peror of Rnsita on e,Sigd • ptember. This ilea sure is the result of views similar' to those which in imp produced in France.the .abolitimi t pf _the Droit d'Ast-- beine ; and both ,piotoflyslis discmc%.All4oo* e(1-: vance of the age. iktrueAtruireation. nuie Ages the. Sovereigns derived „eittelument from many sources of revenue alike oppoedlo the' ptinciplii.of humanity and of jt4tice. Thtrimniels ,isnd . gpcids s iVrei„ked s on their 'emits became furgekeii.er;.thesp • and- chits, under the title of Droll d'Ankaine, they setae/Loa the. property. of all foreigners dying within'their &Minons. former of these claims has *Taing . since ceased, and the, latter has in many in hoes behuntridifedinto duty of ten per cent. called air impost cif 44trasiips, AO suc cession and legacies to . faieigners. oailalr t4zes have been imposed in tiles of duwry, donation, ,er emigra. Lion; and, in short, on all transfers ofpri,vate property (other than coMmercialexchanges)fpuu Quo country to another. These are wholly abolishetd,bgeween Russia and Prussia by the Convention jib; rati4rd for the Sniffs reigns wisely consider, that in thus e fasilitatirg a liberal intercourse between their respective subjects, they frill Ultimately promote the advantage of both kingdoms.. • True Cover or Lova.—A )ciiing lawyer being very l issiduous in his attentions to a Lady, or wit observed,. that he never heard of pe9pip,nlaking love by °gone: Very true,", replied the other.; is but yuti 4h9Uid Planks. that all Cepiirs.votaties are eulicilors • POLICE INTELLIGENCE. . . • " • NANS1014:110US& The public are use tofirdly informed of the Fact•thae thiedikiV eipathin of a slaveliteli'Weit 'bass ifs proass of a very expen sive nature; the slave-owner, Iteirever lscxious he may Se to give freedom to thous who have sefried MO faithfully, not having the power to resign his instbrity at an expense less considerable than a num amounting to troy % seloo io 'tit° fee the emancipation of edch slave. The slave-owner is obliged to deposit this large sum, in order to indeniulfy the perish in the event of the former becoming chargeable: The Colonial Governs : tient have long established this deposit, as keine qua Min in the Act . of Manumission. The Act is besides clogged with a variety of expensive provis!ons and forms, Iwhich present hi many cases an insurmountable barrier against the lacquisition of liberty by a slave. Some time since, a Mr. Halstead addressed a letter to Mr. Hob ler, stating, that he had lately returned front the West Indies ' and . bad received a power of attorney from two soldien of the Ist West India Regiment, stationed at lirrbadoes, to manumit two of their children, born in slavery. Mr. llaLtead wished to be informed how he should proceed to procure the freedom of the children? Mr. Hobler, jun. wrote alt answer, stating, that the object of Mr.llalstead could not be effected by transmitting the power of attorney : that the manumission must be performed personally by the applicant (to whom the children were assigned as slaves), and that an oath must be made before the Lord Mayor, by a I,erson who witnessed the ceremony. The expense of the manumission by this process, it was also stated, would not amount to more than £5 fur each slave. As Mr. Ilsistead had received no' more than £5, the expense of . I the manumission presented an impediment, bat Mr. Hanbnry, the Secretary to the Anti-Slavery Society, promised to obviate that &f -aulty, by appropriating the funds of the Society to the furtherance of the object. Some correspondence has taken place on the sub ject, and the result is that the slaves *lll be assigned to Mr. Han bury himself, who will manumit them, and send the deed of menu- Imission to the Society's Agent at Rarbadoes, where it will be duly registered, and the process will be complete. Jt was stated to the Lord bl.:eor, who had taken a strong interest in the measure, that the two slaves will be thus manumitted at little or no expense, :..nd that the facility of this mode of manumis sion will enable a great multitude of persons to become free. who would not have it in their power to attain their freedom on the spot where they are subject to such unnatural cootrouL The process is extremely simple. The slaves must be assigned,,secording to cer tain forms of law, to some one coming over to, or actually in, this country. That person may manumit them before the Lord Mayor, according to law, and all the impediments thrown in the way of ac complishing so paramount a labour of humanity by the Authorities in the West Indies, will be effectually remove& The expense of this course can never exceed £7, whilst in our colonies it would in some cases amount to £l6O, in conformity with the regulations established by them. Mr. Hailer, jun. has just manumitted several slaves according to', the peinciple described, upon deeds of assignment. The manumission of a slave in this country is decidedly valid, and the Colonial Government cannot exact a deposit or security from a person made free under these circumstances. and has no powee of preventing the necessary forms from being administered here. GUILDHALL. -. Yesterday Maur& .Cranger, a *tall, dekly-looking man, was brought up for su ff ering his wife and family to become cbarieabie to ntre parish of St. Andrew. The wife appeared with two children, and she stated that for the limiest. the prisoner bad left her quite destitute; allowing her no oteintenance for bereft and children, whom she had entirely wr ested through her own hard labour. At one time he took one of the children to support ,• but the child soon returned an her hands again, being extremely distressed and in want. • Mortimer admitted the charge, but said it was in consequence Obis incapacity to work, having burst a blood-vessel some tithe ,dose. He is at present under the hands of a surgeon; but did Wit run away from his family. Mr. Frain, the beadle, said that the prisoner had been ptayintin this manner with the parish for the last year. He bad left his fa tally in want when ice was in health and 'could support them. The Alderman . (liatnots) said, that if he was so ill as he repre sented, the parish would support hie family. The beadle must -therefore go to the surgeon, and :..certain if he was capable of working to that extent which would enable him to support his fa mily. He should be severely punished if it was found that he had been deceiving or playing ticks with the parish. The wife and children should be supported in the interim. The beadle said he would procure the certificate, and the family Muhl be rendered every assistance. The prisoner was discharge& BLIW-SIKENT. •o•n•-• Clovis, a poulterer, in Crown-street, Soho, was charged on suspicion of hawing received a great number of pigeons, stolen Irons the dote-cote :of Sir 'G. East, of Hill-place, Betts, and was or dered to find bail. • T-Thaospsoit, a plasterer, was charged with interrupting a con gregation of Dissenters, who bad assembled for Divine Worship in ~tleigh-sweet, Strand. Sir R.-Iltiona said, the penal fo: this offence is 401. and if the Elders meant to proceed, be should hold the prisoner to bakhossions 'of worship being one of. the most ea- Isolate rights •of.lßapftidowin. The Faders, however, with a truly Christian. spirit Salditlipiod ins wish. to.proceed to. ememities ; but would bo..;addlied-iinitli auipologycebe prisoner basing been confined in She watdidlonse all night. With this he gladly com idiodsgadwas slischarge,d, with stoners admonition. A . Mame, aged 17, and agars+, aged 12, were remanded, charged with robbing J. Wofids . alm aged 12, of a watch, on Saturday, in a adfloagar Millbrae& • • . BATTON-GARDEN. • Aide* Abini "Ude ind M /loony tvrewbssitestlriebinen. rrOld,ingon wire brought up from Saffron-Idil watch 7 hifsee. - Bartuiley, the'Constable, stated, that an Irish party had met oitolooday idgllt ibdot nine o'clock, in a public-house on Saffron. Ontsvoinikitthitylad drank to each other's heakhohey pro ceeded to ascertain each other's constitution by the fist. lie had ..ferFatf4ll.ifitarfert'dzt4 stop the• experiments, but at 11 o'clock, ese,defendatits wishing to beat the landlord as well as one another, Barardey took them into custody. Albs Moke.wben... called on: for his defence, prnceeded 'sr tbl- I—" Mit your Arnow, I,was just goio to my bid, about ce4l9.cks at!len.feelitlit shocking dry, I only stept out to moisten my • • a bit, when I was seized by these Gentlemen negly • I'll say nothing alacut my . eye (laying his'finger on one on • iimostinto shading•was very judiciously hid), that, your . godvadordwelf." • AGISTnAIIit....." Well, Rooz:bat,have you tu say?" , Pjaae your .ho ', I was just coming out of the when I saw about two hundred parsons running down abithill;.says - Iloisrpadf,4l I•goes out , I'll be smothered by those devils; Mil I stops, MI be they'd play the devil with me, so amp I nuti,as tast. as any two Iris could carry me, to find a place to ana all the thanks I got was to be dragged to the watch-house." 'After this eh:latent defence. Mr. Maiony stepped forward awl hibitod.on his head many marks of the defendants' violence, ea mated that.* could not. positively iatleosnify them as the persons, but that some of their party had carried oft his watch, upon width Ite immediately referred his case to the watchman. • 'The 'Magistrate conceiving that Mr. Burke's thirst, and l i itiatmey's terror of parsons was not satisfactorily accounted 144 - Amid them to find baiL Marylou', but better known by the name of Waterloo - Pull, was brought up to this office by the clerk. of inquiry, charged with corn Analog ars,actof vagrancy in chaocerplaste. The clerk stated, that he observed the prisoner in the morning sitting in Chancery-lane, with her face almost entirely covered with a handkerchief, and her hand extended for the purpose of receiving charity. Notwithstanding het disguise, he recognised her as the notorious Viraterloo,Poll, ,and had her taken into custody. It appeared from the documents of the Society, that the prisonef had followed a soldier of the 9th Hussars to whom she was attached,. to Waterloo,.and there joined a regiment as a drummer, assuming the name of -Tom Jones, and was in the battle of Waterloo, where * saved the life of an officer. On the peace slur was discharged,' aid during the officer's life, whom she rescued, she was allowed by hiss a shilling per day. She has been in every police office is London, from which she has been committed for different pstiodo of imprisonment. She is now allowed a pension from Goverome of ts. 34. a day. The clerk stated, that tie Society had used !very exertion to ,sou: claim her, but to ithout effect; and this& she had a settlement in. the parish of St. Oiles, she refused to go into the workhouse. She bid been beta few minutes released, in • the morning, from Tuthill: maids Prison, when she took lap her station in Chancery-lane. Magistrate--How do you get your living? . Poll—By fighting until I die (army noble King and country. • Blagistrate--Have you not got a pension? Poll—Yes, your 'Woribip, and well I deserve it; I fott-ht very hard for it. . • Magistcate— How much is it? Pitlf--nly Is. 3d. a day. • On hearing.this acknowledgment, the 'Magistrate coMmitted het I for one month so the 11„use of Correcti on. - .• . . : pp I • :~ . . • ARLBOROUGUASTREtT. DILICATt istvuelisianettse-Yesterday, .Jan . M. Caro . tit - Captain . P.devaras tie lliussars, was N . maght before. Srt Gamma nature", charged with having. ben found in heti i n holey elf Captalit Durant, of thi*Otli Regiment Of Foot, in Loui e fielgroreitiaet. Pimlico, at eleven o'clock on Sunday night. • Master T. Robinson,. nephew to gapiain Durant, deposei t h at about eke_ i en on Sunday night, he was alarmed at he ar in g hi s , tste, !;'young L a dy about . eigliteirti 'yeirs it age iliheking and r e d i r ; out 4 Thieve ;, . murder r. Winiiecl himself and rata .I.to • tu t hall, where helound his sister at the door calling for the watthlho She seemed terribly alarmed, *tiering there were robbers up 'Litt"; the watchman and several - persons came in, and in the q-eant. maids' bed-chamber, found the prisoner, partly undressed i„ the housemaid's bed. Miss Robinson, lister to the 'last WIT/tea s stated, that as site s k , going to put away her wearing-apparel in .her wardrobe, ninths,, in Jane's chamber, just as she had reached the doom she servant say, " - Get out, bush, here's a Lady coming e. 1e. 10.:t ascertaining whit were 'inside, site, in the greatest slat; of a l am, ran down, calling out as bird- been deathbed by the 14.1 She was in the bed-room when the prisoner was di , cov.N.d. John Harrison, a watchman, said,. that when he we4e, into th, room, he, on turning down the clothes . , found the pri-e.wr, ate, rend) , asleep, with his coat and one of his boots off; the coat w a , placed under the pillow; and he appeared is if he w.:s settled for the night. Re inttantly took him into custody. li e end that he had been introduced into the room by Martha, whotn to had courted for the last three Months. Martha, the servant, a Pretty-looking girl, about 17 years Oars. declared that she never had let tie pelsorter . into the house ; sh e h ad seen hint about ten o'clock, und 'bed Biesired him to go away. eleven o'clock she went tip stairs to bed, andrjuit as she got into th e room, Miss Robinson called to her not to fasten her door, :; „ I , e 'wanted to put 'away her think. On looking to the bed, sh, the prisoner there, and was much alerniad - ; she desired him to tt ! ... t out, a 8 there was a Lady coming ;" but never -said " liush."—et at had kept the prisoner company, 'but had never given him a:q proper encouragement, and knew not how he came into the It Dlr. Robinson said he wished to know whether the prz,tot. t had got into the house by the permission of the servant-ghl or net She had sworn that he did out ; therefore he should prosecute hint tor the offence. The prisoner again declared that the girl had Introduced him. That whenever it was convenient she would make a sign.d, by placing a piece of paper at the window. This the girl admitted, but strongly denied introducing hint in:,) the room. Captain Edwards, the prisoner's master, gave him an irreproati. able character for honesty, •and would hin►s:lf he revokable lie the appearance of the man, should Captain Durant, on hawker it. quiry, think there were any grounds to suppose a felokkious intention on the part of his servant. Captain Durant said he felt quite satisfied with Captain E.". wards pledge to have the prisoner forthcoming, should any grounds for felony be brought against him ; and, with this arrangement, the prisoner was discharged. The following is a statvnivi,t of the comparative prs. duce of the Davis' Straits and the Greenland whale. fi heries, In the years 1823 and I 824: Davis' Straits . 1823, 13;000- Greenland . 3,700 182% 4,000 ' • '1,700 ._ . _ At the period of Sir Joshua Reynolds' visit to (toms; it was a custom with il.e English pointers theteio meet in the evenings for conversation; and frequently to make little excursions together in the country. • On one ci those occasions, on a summer-afternoon; when•the season was particularly hot, the whole coot pany'tshrew oil their coats, as being an Incombrance to thetn, except one, named Astley,who alone shewed great reluctance to lol low this general example: this seemed very unaccowit. able to his companions, when some jokes made on in.: singularity at last, obliged him to take his coat off also. The mystery was then immediately explainec, lo it ap peared that the hinder part of his waistcoat s, as make, by way of thriftiness, out of one of his own pict us e , , and thus displayed a tremendous waterfall on his back, to the great diversion of his companions. BIRTHS. Monday senalght, st Romsey, the Lady of the Rev. John Ford, of a son. Friday se'snight, t►e Lady of Colonel Sir William Williams, K.C.B. of a son, • In Dorset-street,Vublln, the Lady of the Rev. Charles ELtdin, of a daughter. MARRIED. Friday,tieutenant-Colonel Haddock, late of the Portuguese ur vice; K.T.9. and Major of thi 97th Regiment, to Elias, daughter of Wm. Randall, of the Retreat, Battersea. Monday setunght, at Dublin, the Rev. Arthur rrwin, to Jemi,lia, eldest daughter of the late •A. Richardson, Esq. of Itichmuuut, county of Dublin. Friday Vanilla; at tbb Rev. J. Horsey, of the Meet ing at Salem Bodktgb, ti srs. Brake, relict of the late 3lr. So:o. moo Brake, 'schema& At Burnside Cottage, on Tuesdef, the Rev. David Cammel!, Kirkintilloch, to Agnes Scott, only daughter of Waltsr. Scutt, Ea v of Nikon Monday seNtaight4 In. Nip, Lieutenant Cochrane, of the I7th Regiment et Soot. to Catiorrinei daughter of James Heddessou. .Beq. of Farm Hill. neat that town. October 5, at Creagh Church, Robert Stewards, Lq. late of the 57th Regiment, to Amelia St. George, daughter of Richard Hedges Beecher, of tioliiebreek; Owner of Cork, Thunder, at Dublin,. the Rey. Thomas Curtis, /CAL to Cathe rine, daughter efJohn Barber, Bieq. of Harcourt.street, Dublin. • Dl At Geneva, on the Inth ult. Miss Robin Burnside, niece of the late Colonel Robert 'Wright, of the Royal Artillery. Monday, at Me house in Great Coratit-street, Dr. de Brodutu, is the e9th year • of hit age. The 4th of list May, at Nagpnre in the !last Indira of a jungle fever, caught in the too anxious dis charge of his duty (as Supei in tendant of the Trigonomettical Survey of the Nagpnre lerritoryso • Captain Alexander" Stewart, of the itith Madras Native Infantry; Aindr.fOr many Tears he held the situation of Auistant .Quartez insoterlereneral of the Madras Army. .Mr. John Whitten, of Enniskillen, many years Deputy Grand Master of the Orangemen of Fermanagh. ' Oct. 9, Maryi the Wife of the Rev. Net. Fletcher, of Lee House, near , Ramsey. Sept..l9, at Gilisalitar,+Meien' Orr, youngest child of Major Jas. Bogle, 94th Regiment. NBAVGATE •ss LeADENII ALL MARK ETS,'Oet. 111. Beef Mutton .84 to 43 04 l' Pork .... 5s 04 to Ss 4.1 Lamb 3s 41 to 4s 13d. PRICES orliAY AM) STRAW Y.F.STRROAY. ST. JA MSS'S. W MITOSI/ VIM Ray 31 os otl to 51 los cd Hay 31 to .41 Ss 01 Clovcr 3110$ Otl to 51 10s Od Clover 51. es to II 64 of Straw 11108.4k1 to 21 9s td Straw 2! 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