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6ilN. of Common Council wii held fiber, to confider the following .RATT, refpedling Wheat and apprehending that Wheat and other front the reguLer Markets, ar.d that unreafonably advanced.-IDo tefolve t he price . pc iOn PailanCnt, praying, that a Survey of the Grain I.,,i,gbich Bread Is made, be taken from time to time ; and p ox the proprietor of Potfeffor theseof, be compelled to make a il eu m, upon oath, of the Qllantieles in his poet:Mon, fpecify. k vara te (4.antities of Wheat, Wheat Flour, Barley, gney, door, Oats, and Oatmeal, Rye and Rye Flour ; alto a F o wl of the probable produce of the different forts of Grain, ohm Waked . " Alto, the following Motion of Mr. Dixow:— a That an humble Petition be prcfctocd to Parliament, ar og,that the prohibition to ellitil from Grain may continue jai ha months from the tit of January next, and until the next S tain: of Parliament after the expiration of that period." A very long difctiffion took placen the above quellions, but they p were at length tarried by a confiderable majority. The Court of Aldermen have refolved to confi der the As 3y Geo. 111. for fettling the Price of Brat+) and the Law Officers are to give opinions thereon, to try to enforce the means to reduce ;1 4 price of that moll neceffiary article. SreTHwARC MlllTlNO.—.Yeiterday a Meeting of the inhabitants tf the Town and Borough of Southwark Was held in the Spiritual Court, at SaintSaiibut r s Church, purfuant to public notice , PITER tILOADLEY, Efq. the Chairtnan, opened Me bufinefs of the Meeting, by dating,. ;hat they *ere called together for the purpofe of confider ing the propriety of petitioning the Houfe of Com mons againfi the expeEted meafitre of allowing the Diffillenes to recommence diflillation from Corn, from the IR of January next. Having Aid thus much, he hoped Tome Gentlemen would deliver their lintiments on the tontines. Mr. Correa faid , that opinions of the nature tley were it prefent called on to give, would ope. !ate fo as to induce a belief that there was a fear eity,,or a reafon for railing the pi-ice of any of the neeenaries of life. He intlanced the Duke of Port lanci's letter, and argued on its mifehievous ten dency. The prefent caufc and confequence of the Meeting, he took to be this :—A number of weals thy Weft-India Merchants had fpcculated in fugar and molaffes to a very great amount; they wifhed to keep up the pticts for their own benefit, and fearing that the diflillers of ikirits might be allow ad to ufe corn, in place of tieing obliged to ufe mo- Ja'les, which would bring down the price of their articles, they contrive to oppofe it. The dealers in corn Would of courfe do every thing in their poWer to get the allowance : then how Rands the bufinefs wit b refped to the Public ? Why, which ever party has the advantage, they Will not reap ant benefit; for whether the ditlillers make ufe of Ora or Molallbs, the Public will not get the quartern loaf one farthing cheaper. He was therefore of opinion, that the meeting could not do better than refrain from any interference in the buil:lea. _ Mr. STONI3TREIT, a Magi (irate, and late Sheriff of the county of Surrey, replied to Mr. Coffee, and pointed out the diffimilarity, As it (truck him, be' tween this bufinels and the Duke of Portland's let. ter : that, as he premed, was fent by his Grace, then in the confidenee of Goveinment, Rating an expelled fcarcity, and recommending a aria econo- Thy in the the ufe of the neceilaries of life, to avert the evils with which it was then thought we were threatened : that period, thank GOD, was now over, and it was not neteffary for him to fay at this time whether his Grace was right or not. — Gob be praifed, we have a plentiful harveß, a great impoitation of bread corn ; and what has it as yet availed us? Have we leen that fair profpeft we were led to expert ? Can we get a quartern loaf for M. or gd. ? No : what is it owing to ? Why, to the monopoly of certain interefted Indi viduals, who avail themfelves of every means in their power to get up the price ; among other means, this of the dilblleries was one ; and there fore he could not but fay, that if the meeting did not agree to fuch a Petition as was intended, they would not do themfelves juftice. Mr. ORME, as a Dißiller, did not confider him felf entitled to vote; yet he thought he might, with propriety, lay before the meeting the information had received. He then adverted to the Rate anent ef the Committee of the Houle of Commons, (for which fee the STAR of Thurfday)—Could it be fhppofed that diftilling 250,000 quartet-sof bars ley out of s t ooo,ooo, could difirefs the country ? Did not the Dißillers, when in full work, feed 60,e500 bacon hogs, of forty lone each, annually ? —Put this in addition to the duties they pay, full 400,0001. a year, to the articles of food they fur nifh, in addition to the frefh meat brought to mar ket, and, on the whole, fay, can any ferioas in jury arife to the Public from granting perrnigion to the dillilleries to woi k on malt ; for he denied that any wheat capable of being made into flour was ever aced in that line. Major GAITSKILL, alfo a Diailler, followed on the fame fide. MT.STON IST R a sT faid a few words in reply,when Mr. Oasts mentioned a circumftance that, he faid, occurred lull Monday week at Mark-Lane.-- A great man came into the market,and went round to all the Failors, and faid--" Put by all your ben wheat s for me, and I will give you (even fhillings per quarter advance on lea Monday's prices." — Ht fucceeded with them all but one, who would not let him have any more than ha1f....-He tried the market lea Monday in the fame way, but could not fucceed from the quantity in the market.-- What was all this for ? to get rid of the large quail *Lai foreign corn he had in hand. Mr. jolty Aacoca now mend that an adjourn ment Mould take place, for the purpofe of having a general Meeting called in form by the High Bailie. This was agreed to, and a requifition figned ty all the principal inhabitants pent. To meet on Thurfday next at the Town Hall. Wlaik we are on the fuhjea of Corn we mall take the opportunity of mentioning one faa out of *any timilar ones that might be brought forward. At a meeting of creditors which took place at •_, 4 14 kit Summer, (before the late abundant :l 41 among oil= isms of lOU. Mai 20t00°L ' for damage of Cor n In granaries, which Corn had coil 40,0001.-one of the Corn had been fold.— If fo much corn was hoarded up, and waited in the hands of one individual only, how large a quan tity mutt have been in the whole country, rotting in the granaries of the Monopolifers, at the time when the poor were ltarving ! After the bare Rate- went of fuch a fa& who can believe that the pub lic would have fufgered, as they have done, had the meafure we recommended,ofhaving a return upon oath of all the corn in the country, been adopted. We are happy to fee fuch a meafure now recom mended by fuck refpeflable Bodies as have taken up the fubje&—But we hope, if reforteil to, it will be done in an dreamt, manner ; for if half meafures only are reforted to, as was the cafe in obtaining the voluntary returns; fre(h in every one's recolleftion—we than have • ficond artificial !earthy, while imrnenfe quantifier of every Enid of corn will continue to rot in the granaries l ervict, [ ELDER. I to St. :..:1 Llel' :hannc - 1 DU r repair, le 1.. a y. I off;-- come belong. 'arbour bock Sat the hard. if Yar this af- Slaples ; ZI E UM: 'acne i❑ Peggy, he 16. ilia t!-• , f:; %1 7ragr, ;[LA_pr! - :iaii; l ider in aj:fly% her U t:‘ ulv, Geo.! abOLi In the ILLIAM 11l th n ur r rda the C oan y , C our a t m a to clon of Mr. CARP other Groin, 0 'nut this Court, am AN C Grin may be withheld En Ie A. tt price may be thereby t IRN of ',petition Parliament, pr. fel which Bread 13 made, gum, t it the Proprietor or Poff T, of itetura, upaa oath, of the • tits." Icrably morn. ier tl : if D. ,r t, and luently EAIACA ed; in Mott lit file At th pia) traaer y kid ethir.,; tom he r, A% ith iatural he de- y look ender- ea el. having , whole moon .male; tir , rr turn oa ca im ed ad th a P the roof to 1- inve npoit. who, t a Will End fa low 1• le m. d fr. ' Lon t lon Ic; o. —A cre )frn - orti le .e. ;re. Pc' LAY/ IN7 ELLIU&NCE. COURT OF RING'S BENCH, NOV. 17. M. Vipont was brought up for judgment, for libelling the MifsEagletons, of Deal, in a frurri lons ballad, as mentioned in Seal of the a3d He was fentenced to a fine of thirty marks, three months imprifonment in the King's Bench, and to find fureties for good behaviour for two years. Mt. ATTORNEY CERIUM prayed for judgment on three men of the names of Dunk, Davis, and Kinnaird, found guilty of obaruaing the revenue officers in Suffer. They were remanded till next term. It appeared that there had been a body of them, amounting nearly to a hundred, all well arm. ed ; and the judges obferved that it was the moll atrocious cafe that ever came before them. Mn ATTORNEY GENERAL was proceeding to move for leave file a criminal information againft a Gentleman in Lincolnfhire for libelling the Corn miflioners of the Income Tax, when Lord KENYON Paid, that in private matters the Attorney General had as good a right to move for I a criminal information as any Gentleman at the Bar ; but in what concerned the public he was to ufe his own difcretion, and if he judged a protect'. Lion fit, to file an information ex ecio. He re• membered Lord MAN El E having laid down this exprefsly, and he was convinced there Was no pre cedent to the contrary. Mr. Avroatasy GENERAL obferved, that he thought a better opportunity would in this way be given to afcenain the truth of the fags (worn to in his affidavits before the information was filed ; but snore particularly. he was in hopes that when the Gentleman perceived that he was about to be brought under the lath of the law he would he in duced to make proper fubmiftions, and that from this cafe the public might learn that lilagifirates would be proteAed in the esercife of *tee Tall duty. Mr. CLAIRE moved for an information again ft a gentleman in Lincoln of the name of Allanby. The affidavit Rated, having refuted to at:end a meeting of Tax Commiflioners, a penalty was im• pofed upon him, which was levied by dill/ads, and that nut of revenge he had fent to each of the Com miffioners a hempen bolter.—Rule ay; granted. An attachment was ordered to iffue again fl Kendal, Efq. Captain of his Majc fly's !hip the Flora, for obffruding the procefi of the Court. The learned Mover Rated, that a writ being taken out againft Lieutenant Campbell, an Officer of the Flora, it was carried down to Hampfhire to he executed, the !hip then lying off the Ifle Cli • Wight. The Plaintiff and a Sheriff's Officer proceeding to the Flora in a boat, met Captain Kendal coming afhore in his barge. They (hewed him the writ, and Aced if he knew any thing of Lieutenant Campbell ? He Laid he did not. d , How can you fay that, (replied the Officer) when I fee him fit ting by your fide !" After tome altercation, Cap tain Kendal Aced them to accompany him to the Flora, alfuring them that there all fhould be put to sights. Upon reaching the !hip's fide, Lieu tenant Campbell went on board, and the party with the writ wiffied to follow him. The tailors, however, would not permit them, and when they remonftrated, Captain Kendal ordered his men to get ready a fhot, and threatened the people in the boat if they did not immediately return, to fend them to the bottom. Richard Mountain, the gentleman found guilty at the Maidßone Affizes, of ufing feditlous words in a difpute with the Dartford mail coachman, was again brought up for judgment purfuant to the order of the Court. The As-rousse GsmIRAL fAhli-••••" I have matde inquiry retpeßing the circumftances which are Rated in the Affidavits read on behalf of the De fendant, who is now Banding before your Lord (hips for judgment. I believe there is confiderable reafon to be convinced of the truth of the material circumftances Rated in dick affidavits, which were • that the Defendant, at a period of confiderable peril, that of the mutiny at the Nore, had rendered confiderable Cervices as a Volunteer, in quelling that mutiny.' I therefore with, my Lords, that this which was a deliberate all of the Defendant's life, may have its effeaft againft that which took place when he was in a condition, in which he was I not able to deliberate, but which favours of bad habits : I with this g ood ail of the Defendant may have its full effea upon this occafion. While I fay this in favour of the Defendant, 1 fhould alto add, that the public cannot be toe thankful to the worthy Alderman who brought this profecution forward, and by whore exertion it was brought to its preterit flage. Under the cmsfideration of thefe circumftances, pedlar. if this Defendant enters into a recognizance, and that which he has to of fer, I underftand, is ample, he may be allowed to go at large. I hope, that coupling all theta con fiderations, with that which the Defendant has already fuffered, your Lordfilips will think die purples of Juftice will have been fatisfied." The Defendant then entered into his own re cognisance in pool. and two perfons of credit in that of spot.each, fur the Defendant's appear ante, this day three years in Court , if called up on, and in the mean time to be of good behaviour. —Dikharged• TOR RING O. EMT. I J. Wee. late Purfcr of the Sirius. eonvided of defrauding Government, by forging Captains and Mailers names to falfe Returns,was again :nought up to receive fentence. When he was lan before the Court, on Friday lag, he produced All Ala. vit in mitigation of Judgment, that it was clifiont: ary fur Porters fo to fign the Officers names, which affidavit Lnrd KEN YON then advited to be laid be fore the Admiralty. The Arroasity GENERAL faid, I fhould Rate to your Lordfhips, that in confequence of the di. reetion of the Court, to inquire into the circum fiances Rated in the Affidavit of the Defendant. and to lay them before the Commiffioners of the Admiralty ; they have been fo laid, my Lords, and they have been fent down to Portf*south, and your Lordthips will remember, that the Defen dant's Affidavit Rated it to be an inveterate prac tice in the navy, for Captains, and other Officers, to fet their names to certificates of the fort which is now before your Lordthips. That was the de fence which this Defendant has had the hardinefs to make upon this occafion. My Lords., when this cafe was laid before the Lords of the Admiralty, they thought it a duty incumbent on them, for the honour of the fervice, and the fatisfthion of the public, to make infant inquiry into the pra&ice which the Defendant has made the ground of his defence before your Lordfhips accordingly they fent down to Portfmouth, and to Plymouth, from both which places, I believe, but, certainly from Portfmouth, there are anfwers.—l have the anfWer of no lets than eleven honourable Officers, Admi rals and Captains in the navy, and they wholly de ny that any fuch praitice ever obtained to their knowledge, nor do they believe its exillence at all. I have liAewife the Affidavits of feveral Pnrfers, and others, to the fame effeft. The Defendant has Rated, that Mr. Grove, and other Get - Ale:nen, did know that he had fet down their names to the certificate, and that they had permitted him to fa down their names. I have alfo an ACidavit tiating, that one of thefe very Gentlemen was pre fent at the trial of this Defendant, in another cafe fimilar to this, in which he was, fome how, acquit ted, and that the Defendant did not venture to afk that Gentleman that queflion. Mr. Justice GROSE faid, he had fume recollec tion of that trial, which took place before him, he believed, at Winchefter. That cattle, tome how or other, broke down in the middle, from fome defe& Mr. ATTORNEY GENERAL.— " Mr. Grove proves, that the Signature of that cenikate is not of his hand writing. 1 underßand, my Lord, that the acquittal, at leaf, it is fo Rated to me, very much furprifed your Lordfhip." Mr. Jußice GROSE." I do not know how that was—it cei tainly was an acquittal." Lord Ken r 0.4.—" The affidavits you allude to, Mr. ATTORNEY GENERAL, have nothing to do ith the cafe now before the Court. From what was Rated in the Defendant's Affidavit; I thought it right that the Lords of the Admiralty might know the Ratement, that they might order an In quiry to be made into a Praaice, which, if true, would have refleaed on the honour of the Service, and that they, as moft alluredly they would, fhould endeavour to put an end to fuch praaice, if it ex- Med : but Rill, that has nothing to do with the cafe now before us." Mr. ATTORNEY GENERAL." It was really the with of the Admiralty that this flanderoes putation fliould not reit upon the Service ; and, my Lords, I do hope your Lordthips will think that the perfon who 'lands before you, whohas fogrofs ly and impudently, in the fhape of a defence, flan. dered the Service, which he is convieled of be traying hs trult in, is, in the opinion of the Court, a fit fuhjea of an infamous punifhment." Mr. Juilice GROSfi.—" John Clayton Weft, you are to receive the Sentence of this Court, being conviaed of a very great mil - demeanour, in having obtained from his Majelly 571. is. Bd. under a forged Certificate, direifted to the Commillioners for viaualling his Majefty's Navy. Upon the Report of the Cafe, it appears that the Fraud of which you have been found guilty, was effetted by the forgery of Captain King's hand-writing to a Certificate ie which there are two falfe Ratements, one bearing date the 29th of November inilead of the a9th of December, by which the Public were defrauded of the amount of certain fiuns of money which would be due for thirty days allow ance to you as Purfer. Another in the fame Cer tificate, 103 are made in fact 106 days, fo is your crime complicated, and we find it was committed in a place of trait and confidence, that you have violated that confidence and betrayed that trult by forgery, by the foigery of the name of Captain King. by which you have obtained money under Falk pretences, charging a number of days as al. lowancc to you of which the allowance had before been made. There are grievous offences—no lefs than that of defrauding your employer by the means of forgery; and by fare pretences burthening the State, and unneceifarily burthening the State. by which you rob the Poor, for every man whether rich or poor, mutt directly or indirealy contribute to fnpport the State ; and if fuch a Cafe as your's were not to be marked by the fentence of the Law, it will be in vain that the Captains and Matters of his Majefty's (hips are required, and very properly required, to fign Certificates to denote the regula rity of charges which it is their duty to examine, if by fuch proaices as yours, they may fe caddy be forged. Such was the nature of your cafe as it ap ared on the part of the profeention • it was but rat, however, that we fhould hear ;hat you had to fay in mitigation—we have heard, and attended to it carefully. I have attended carefully to the Contents of your affidavit ; it is urged there, that the trial did not come on when you were prepared to enter properly on your defence, and that when it did come on, you were unable, on account of pecuniary embarraffment, to defend yourfelf : if you had really a glimmer of hope by any defence which you could have let up, you could have no reafim to defpair. Goo forbid that your convic tion (hould have been founded on your diftrefs but your fecond trial has totally invalidated your action on the former. and has proved you coo- , pletely guilty. It has been urged by you. that the' fa& of which you are conviaed, is the praftice of the Officers of the Navy. that to fign vouchers, as you have done, rf certificites of goods furnifh:d for the nfe of the King, thus Wkly., has tallied time immemorial. It was very difficult to believ,: that affertion, and I am very glad his &fajta •'s Arroans.v GENERAL has authority to contiadk it ; a tale meaning nothing elfe than that thue were among the honourable Officers of the Navy two clafres of diffioneit men, who carried on their iniquity with cafe, fur it required only that the one fhould commit, and the other connive at forgery and fraud ; if it were fo, it would, in lime MCA fire, account for the means by which the Public are daily robbed; and his Majefly's ATTORNEY GENERAL may well complain that the Public are defrauded : there is no doubt the Public are de. frauded : the Records of a Court of Juftice'prove it. I have feen an infiance in which a Ihip was fur ' nilhed with Naval Stores, almoft all new, with fpoils from his Majelly's neighbouring dock-yards ; and in another, where (totes from the Tower were taken at noon day, on a day which was called a holiday, and carried to a houfe, which, when fearched by proper Officers, was found to be full of his Majefty's Stores, from the cellar to the gar ret. If former praftices be a ground of mitigation of punifhrnent for fuch offences as there, Courts of Juftice will fit in vain to hear complaints ; but, in a Court of Criminal Jurifdiaion, it cannot be urged even in mitigation, that fuch a cuftom wills, not only is it impoffible to hear without pain, but w e cannot hear without horror, the ltatcment of a ci minal practice to juitify a crime: however inch piaftices might have prevailed, this Court, hr el emplary punifhment, is to correEt the notion that it is therefore to be juftified, and teach thole who want the !dim, that he who ads diffioneftly car.- not be otherwife than criminal. " In your Affidavit, there are (fated circum ftauces that plead, eloquently and powerfully, to our mercy ; but we muff remember that extremes border on each other, and that mercy, however amiable in theory and engaging in the abfiraa, it not guided by difcretion, will operate as cruelty both to the public and to the individual. To the public, by the effea of a greater crime ; and to the individual, by fuffcring a greater punithment.— There have been cafes in which thofe convicted Mifdcmeanors had their prifon door opened to them, and they have, afterwards, committed rob bery. I (peak not upon conjecture, but knowledge of what I fay. I know of a variety of inflances in which fuch a cafe has happened, and I am lure fee many in which it may happen in future, r.v: only in this Court, but other Courts of Cdminal Jurifdiaion. That the public may be fatisfted that no cuflom fhall fAnaion fraud, and that others who have truft repofed in them may be taught by your example, this Court, having confidered duly all the circumflances of your cafe, dab order and adjudge, that for your offence you be imprifoned in his Majefty's Gaol of Newgate for one year ; that during that time you do nand in and upon the Pillory for one hour, between the hours of twelve and two, in the open ftreet between Char ing-Crofs and Whitehall, oppofite to the gate of the Admiralty." LITTL (DALE V. DICKSON This r,afe came before the Court on a motion to let afire an award. The parties live in the town of Lancafter. In the year 1796 the Defendant propofed to let up a line coach to Newhaven.— The Plaintiff objeeted the weight of duties to be borne by a coach. The Defendant laid, that by the intereft of a noble Lord in the neighbourhood he fhould get it made a mail coach. Still the Plaintiff remained unfatisfied. 4. Then (laid the Defendant), if you will pay me 211. a year, and give me and my wife the privilege of riding in the coach as often as we like, I will indemnify you from all taxes and duties whatever." Upon this al. furance the coach was let up, and it continued to run, having frequently the honour to convey Mr. and Mrs. Dixon to and from Newhaven, till the beginning of the prefent year, when this anion was brought. When the agreement was made. there was a duty upon Rage coaches of one penny a mile, and almoft immediately after it was doub led. The fum in which the coach was at this time indebted to the Crown amounted to 3001. and this fum conftituted the Plaintiff's demand. The De fendant allowed his refponfibility for isol. but maintained that with the taxes implad fithfecittent ly he had nothing to do. Aft , r the caufe had ad vanced feveral (tags it was fubmitted to arbitra tion, and the arbitrators thinking that this indem nity extended to fubfequent, as well as exiling du ties, fentenced the s'efendant to pay vol. The grounds for fettingafide the award were, a rrittake in point of law,and the impoffibility of the contrad being meant to be to exttnliv., As 211. a year, did not nearly amount to the duties fiibliiting at the time. Lord Krx YON laid, the award met with his full approbation. The law had nothing to do with it, and there was no reafon to believe that the con ftfuftion put upon the agreement by the Defen dant's Counfel was the true one. There was no Lying how high a value Mr. and Mrs. Dixon might let upon riding in a coach. A noble Lord had declared driving fait in a carriage to be the greateft pleafure he knew in life.* Betides, the Defendant had a chance to gain all there advan. cages without an equivalent. The duties might have been repealed, or they might have been ef c3Eed by the coach being employed by the Putt Office. • The fame faatiment was often eirreffed by the great Sa muel Johataa. DANCING being in univerfal pranice, it may in. tereft many Ladies and Gentlemen, who, though grown up. are deficient or quite 4;n: , rant of tLat accomplahment, to know where they can really belt acquire it molt fafhionably,erprelitionfly, and privately. For this, the Dancing Academy. Nn. to, Sherrard-ftreet, Goldenlquate, has efts blifhed its reputation among the belt Dancers and molt refpeEtable people at the Welt end of the town ; as has Mr. Attam's Dancing School, No. to, Great Ayliff-ftreet, Goodman's.fields. at the Eaft.—Ladies and Gentlemen refiding in the Country, find there Academies particularly con venient, both boufes having accommodation to board, lodge, and give constant private inftruc• tion : thus may be acquired in a few days what crh:rs an years ltarrOng.