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comparison, between the expense of free and of Slave. labour, as state.) by him. T.) those - who may ecnsider that I enter too minutely into the various statements which have been made, I can only' sa , :, that I have been induced to do so, in con sequence of the daiiy experience I have of the extraor dinary maiii,er in whist. the most ro.founJr..l assertions are taken up, and reasoned upon a; establi , lle , l truths —a system of deception for which the general igno rance which prevails as to the real merits of the affairs of the West In:lies, afFords bet too mai)) , facilities.* Tne following extract of a letter from Mr. Steele, will shew to %%hat extent punishments were actually abolished no the estate. " As a b.-ginning of my' general pl iu, sap Mr. • 44 Steele, 1 had, towards the end of 1783, taken the whips, and all power of arbitrary punishment from " All the Overseers, and their white servants, which oc-1 " castanet' my chief Overseer to resign ; and I soon dist " missed all - his deputies, who could not bear the loss of " their whips: but at the same time that a proper " subordination and obedience to lawful orders and " duty should be preserved, 1 created a Magistracy out " of the Negroes themselves, and appointed a Court or " Jury of the elder Negroes, or head men, for trial and " punishment of all casual offences (and these Courts " were always to be held in my presence, or in that " of my - superintendent), which Court very soon grew " respectable. Seven of these men being of the rank of " drivers in their different departments, teete also con-, stitated RULERS, as Magistrates over all the gang, and " were clenrged to see, at all times, that nothing should go " wrong on the plantations; but that on all necessary 44 occasions they should assemble and consult together 4 • how such wrong should be immediately rectified ; and " I made it known to all the gangs 'that the authority of " these R MI/EFS should supply the absence or vacancy of " an Overseer in all cases: they making daily or occa ".sional reports of all occurrences to the Proprietor, " &c. r t On some occasions, it has been stated by those acquainted with the system, recourse was had to a more ,semmary process, not altogether dissimilar to a drum head trial. The punishments inflicted were, in extreme cases, flogging, in others, fine or imprisonment. It therefore appears, that the change introduced chiefly affected the time of punishment, and the manner of its being authorised, by a Court, or Jury of the elder Negroes. The mode of punishment by flogging, does not appear to have been altered, and as to the general Management of the Estate, it appears that seven Slaves, of the rank of drivers, were authorised " to supply the " absence or vacancy of an Overseer in all cases. I therefore think, that the change of Overseers was more in the colour, and the name, than in the principle of coercing labour. These were, however, important mitigations of the hardships of Slavery, as it existed in 1783. But what are they compared with the great measures now in progress for the general mitigation of Slavery? What would ANGLUS say, if the Trinidad Order in Council contained no more beneficial provi sions than were comprised in Mr. Steele's general plan? What are the mitigations of Slavery effected by Mr. Steele, under this system, compared with the abolition of the use s2l the whip altogether with respect to females, and in a very great degree with respect to male Slaves— with the abolition of Sunday-markets—with the addi tional time for the cultivation of provision-grounds— with the admission of Slare-evidence—with the insti tution of the office of protector or guardian of Slaves— with the provision made for religious and moral in struction—for the promotion of marriages—for the establishment of Saringt-banks, and for the encreased facilities of manumissions? And these too, are pri vileges not held at the will of another, but irrevocably established by law. It is clearly quite out of date now to refer 'to Mr. Steele's general plan as anything but an interesting experiment at the time when it was made: and Assosus, in supposing that it was so essentially different in principle from the Slave.system in general,_ shews that be either has been misinformed, or has not studied the system. There is one more point to which I . must advert. We are called upon by ANGLUS, and Mr. Clarkson, to observe the great profits which were realized on the Estate, during the time of the " general plan,' estab lished in 1783. Without now insisting much on the fact, that Mr. Steele only introduced the plan where he could cln so with the premium of a collateral advan tage—or upon the ruinous mismanagement of which Mi. Steele so frequently coMplained, before the estab lishment of the " General Plan,"—or upon the ruin which had overspread the land in liarbadoes, for many years previous to the -year l7Bl—fiern the want of seasonable rains, and the consequent diseases of blasts and pernicious insects,* although these losses are placed in opposition to the profits of the " Genet al Plan," in order to swell the amount of the latter, it will be suf ficient to refer to Mr. Steele's own words, to shew how far the assertions of Mr. Clarkson and ANGLO - are at variance with the fact. " Some few months after the dismission of the chief rr Overseer, and his five deputies, who could not sub " u'it to my new rule of government, and which took 44 the power of arbitrary punishment out of their hands, 44 1 accepted the offer of a near neighbour, well recom " mended (who rented a Plantation bounding with 44 mine) to set ve me as superintendent over my new 44 magistracy:l Hero follow the terms of agreement between them, &c. Now, as Mr. Steele began his gene • A French author, last July, wishing to prove that " L'Esela " vage West pas ce sped y a de plus avantageux pour les planteura " eux wines," quotes the speech of Mr. Whitmore, in the Douse of Commons on the 13th May, 18'.:4, when that Gentleman intro duced the Common, document, and the case of Mr. Steele, in sup port of his argument. The French author takes no notke of the argument arising from the Haitian document. as in France that case was too well uneler- Aood, but he thus reasons on Mr. Steele's case :—" Ou a prouvCr au • Pailement d'Atigktetre. dans la stance de la Chambre des Com " munes da 13 Mai, gar dansks Colonies Americaincs, un Itomme " libre fait deux fois plus - de travail qit'uti escity,... Al. Steele, • voyant dicroltie sensUernent le revenu d'une. (s..nde plantation " qu'il wait a la liarbade, s'y traesporta en 1790, pour en decouvir "la cause et pour Maer d'y remedier. Davait tulle saixatite acres, " tic terr, et virus cent quatre-vingt , ltuit esciases; nonihre eles l l nas..wees await e:i "{Wont dans les teal , dern l i:tres armies et ' "ce ni des de cittquante sent. 11 suppi ima le bow, transfer " ma sea octaves en petits fermiers, et etablit un tribunal de Negres " pour rink les offenses, et les contraventions. Dans les goatee " annr•es suivantes, les naissances s'atverent a quarante-quatre, les " quarantemn, rt k remold se gram triple." —Affaire des De part ;:s de la Martinique. Page 11. This cat of Mr. Steele was also held out for imitation in the rashisborsh Review, and inmany cheap publications, written in order to influence public opinion, and they appear to have succeeded with some Mctith:rti of the House of Carnmons, alto, it is presumed; did not Mend their enquiries farther than the perusal of pam phlets, written by .persons_ misuse. minds were under. a peculiar bias. It is most probable, if these Gentlemen had extended their enquiries- that they would have come to the same concfusio,u which the iteviewce ad, " • . t'Sre4 the Letter written by AD...Steele to Dr. Dickson, dated 13ubadoes, SeptoMbet 30th, 1799, p. 9, of Dr. Dickson's work. ~/ !4~? K ral plan is towards the end of the year 1783," and thel superintendent now employed was not appointed till some few months sifter the dismission of the former chief Overseer, it appears certain that the auperur• tendant now spoken of was placed -on Mr. Steele's Estate in the year 1784. Mr. Steele adds afterwards, 44 But this man (the 44 new supeiintendant appointed in 1784) was one of the old stamp, or school of Overseers, who pro mised everything, but perhaps only on the probabi. " lily that some favourable accident, of my death or ab " sense, might in some short time leave an uncontrouled " ironer in his ha;:ds, not only grew careless and indo-, " teat, but was so imprudent in conversations among " his old acquaintances, as to publish his opinions that 4: my plan of lenity to the Negroes counteracted all his " endeavours, and that he held himself in no way ac countable for the ill condition of the estate and its " ruinous CROPS, for he could obtain no labour from " the Negroes ; and his insinuations and hints among the ' a Negroes themselves tended to the same malignant "purpose. , ' • Here we have the distinct admission of Mr. Steele, that the estate, during the period of the management of the Superintendant appointed in 1784,was in "ill condition, .and had " ruinous crops." Now, as the Cane plant re quires nearly 12 months to come to maturity, there must have been the experience o f two years before these " ruinous citops " could have been produced. It is therefore cei tain, that these ruinous crops were those produced in the years 1785 and 1786. However, as if to remove all doubts on this point, Mr. Steele, still speaking of the Superintendant appointed in 1784: 44 He, like all my former overseers, obliged me to hire all "my holing at the rate of per acre, he himself, with " his gang of Negroes, being one of the undertakers to " serve on these occasions, while, as my Superintend " ant, he was indulge n enough to let them do their " work so ill, that my Owes sunk alniost to nothing; " and everything was dosie so much out of time, that " many species of produce never came to perfection, but " wasted away, choaked up with weeds." This is no very flourishing account; but such, according to Mr. Steele, was the condition of Plantation Kendall, during the years 1784, 5, and 6. I must, however, now refer my Readers to the statements made by ANGLUS, in his 6th letter, as to the profits of the estate for these three years. " From the year 1773 to 1779 (a period of " seven years), through bad management, the annual " average profit of Mr. Steele's estate had been only one " and a half per cent. but in the years 1784, 1785, and " 1786, of en'his new plan was in operation, besides in " creasing his stock, rt cared four and a quarter per " cent." ANGLUS refers to the page, where, in a letter of Mr. Steele's, he alleges that the statement which he has made will be found. The solution of this extraor dinary discrepancy affords a striking illustration of the inconsiderate manner in which Asours will catch even at a shadow,, if he can found upon it a statement conso nant with' the prejudices of his party. The mystery may be explained in a few words. In the years 1787 and 1788, Mr. Steele published anonymously, in a Bar badoes Newspaper, some imaginary dialogues, in which he recommends, among other things, the experiment of the Copyhold System, nearly on the same plan as that which he adopted in the year 1789. These imaginary conversations are published in Dr. Dickson's work. " Mr. F." one of the imaginary speakers, makes the statement given, to prove that the system was also pro fitable, and to confute his imaginary opponent, " Mr. W." no specific reference is made to Mr. Steele's estate; and ANoLus, who cannot have read that part of Dr. Dickson's work which I have quoted, takes the imagi nary statement of this imaginary speaker, and gravely 'inserts it in his letter as the genuine authentic version, given by Mr. Steele himself, of. the actual net profits cleared by virtue of the effects of his "general plan," established in 1783, without noticing the statement given in his own letter, which I have quoted ! And yet ANGLUS, who thus dips at random into a work for a quotation for his purpose, and makes a fundamental er ror on the very point on which he himself declares the whole weight of his case to depend ;—who puts forward Mr. Clarkson as a standard of accuracy, notwithstand the detailed and pathetic account of Mr. Steele's death,' five years before he made his will ;—is so cautious, so sceptical with respect to evidence on the other side of the question, that he cannot recei7e the public testi mony of a Gentleman of property, on a matter of fact, for fear that that Gentleman might prove a West Indian in point of feeling and judgment ! But then, I have no doubt, it will be said, that ANGLUS and Mr. Clarkson may have been mistaken, but that they never could snean to misrepresent. I think it highly probable that they neither of them intended to misrepresent; but I will ask, if ANGLUS were taken as a guide in legislation, which he might be, if all he said n ere cor rect; and that some great experiment, made on the strength of his statements, were to fail altogetherin vol wing in ruin the subjects of it, and, in disgrace, itsos tensible authors ; what consolation would it afford to be told, that ANGLUS might have been mistaken, but that he never could have intended to misrepresent? It is by these very mistakes, arising out of a hurrying impa tience in research to discover statements which shall tally with preconceived opinions, no less than by the extreme scepticism on the one side, and, on the other, the ' equally extreme facility, in admitting testimony, that we discover the precipitate eagerness and determined bias of the Partisan, and mark him as one whom it is unsafe to follow, and whose statements never can safely be received without every precaution that rigid sera tin2is can provide. /Omura and his friends have unfor tunately ranged themselves on the popular side of this momentous question. They undertake to prove what all men must wish to believe; and the majority of mankind are never backward in giving credit to that which they desire to believe. ANGLUS, then, will have many advocates, whether or not his statement be delu sive; hut it is obvious that all public measures, founded on delusive statements, or any other erroneous data, can only produce failure and disappointment ; and I shall rest quite satisfied, that to the thinking part of the community my remarks will not have been ad dressed in vain. I h.:ve now only to sum up the conclusions which I consider to have been incontestibly established, by my examination of the evidence on vi hich the success of this far-famed experiment has been upheld. Ist, It is said that Mr. Steele's " General Plan" este-. blislie fin 1783, was very profitable, and ANGLUS refers especially to the profits alleged to have been realized on the estate in the years 1784.5, and 6. It is not impossible that the estate may rave been mo.e productive than fur twenty years before, when the !F Vide Mr. Steele's own statements in Dr. Dickson's work, page 29. t Ville, Mr. Steele's own Letter to Dr. Dickson, dated 80th September, 1790, in Dr. Diekson's Work, pages 10, 11. • •state, as Mr. Steele himself states, had been ruinonsl) mismatraged, and when the crops annually failed, in con- sequerice of drought, blight, etc. However, it has been , sliewn that Mr. Steele only introduced the plan on the estate where his slaves were liable to be attached for his debts, and that he always worked the other by the usual Slave system. The clear inf.srence to be drawn from this is, that he found the slave system the more productive of the two. Again, I have exposed the mistakes on which ANOLU9 has founded his statement, and shown, that at the very period when ANGLIJ alleges that 4j per cent. profit was realized, Mr. Steele was complaining of his "ruinous crops," some of which never came to anything at all. 2,1. It is said, that the slaves laboured at a cheaper rate for wages than they did tinder the stimulus of the whip, when the labour of slaves was contracted for, with an unda taker of such work, commonly called a jobber, having a task gang. It is a hackneyed saying, but none the less an esta._ truth, that he who holds his lights at tha o ill of another, has no rights. The Slaves, under Mr. Steele's " general plan," had no rights, and when they had the choice on the one hand of Mousing for whatever Mr. Steele might cause to give them, or on the other of im mediately reverting to the Slavaosystern, which to them, as was alleged, had previously been so severe, as to cause their destruction, it would indeed be surprising had they refused to labour. It has been moreover proved, that the allowances made by Mr. Steele to his slaves,w ere-in no degree ana logous to the wages of free labour ; and that they af ford no data whatever, even in this particular instance, by which the comparative expenses of free and slave labour can be estimated. 3d, The important mitigations of slavery effected by Mr. Steele have been pointed out. I have shewn that those, however important in their day, are absolutely contemptible when compared with the great measures now in progress. 4th, It is said that the slaves increased under the "general plan," while they had before diminished. Tnis was probably the case. Mr. Steele informs us how much he had suffered by previous mismanagement in the " destruction of his negroes," His attention was therefore, of course,directed to this particular point ; and the mortality was less, and the births more numerous, than when less care was taken of the slaves. No general inference can be drawn from this, that would not be sug gested by common sense,without reference to Mr. Steele s experiment. sth, The Copyhold System is held up as worthy of imitation. On the one hand, I have shewn that Amass artd Mr. Clarkson had little or no correct information with re spect to the Copyhold System established in 1789,while on the other hand it appears, on the respectable testi mony of Mr. Sealy and the Attorney-General of Barba does, that the results were disastrous; and the testimony afforded by these two last-mentioned Gentlemen, is cer tainly not weakened by the sudden and unexplained si lence of Mr. Steele, ever after the establishment of the Copyhold system.—l remain, Sir, your obedient Servant, VINDEX. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. M ANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday, a young man of gentlemanly appearance and address, named James Archdeacon Richardson, appeared before the .1431t0 navvy upon a summons, to account for the possession of a bill of exchange for 501. which had been stolen. Mr. Dent (the owner of the bill) stated, that on the night of the 14th of November last ' as he was passing down Ludgate-hill, at the time the premises of Messrs. Wilkinson were burning, his pocket was picked Ohl, pocket-book, containing the bill in question, which was-drawn by a Mr. Taylor, and accepted by a Mr. Sprigs. The defendant, upon being called upon to account for the posses sion of the bill, stated, that he was informed, on the 16th of Nov. by Messrs. Fawcit, of St. Swithin's-lane, that a Gentleman had called at their office with a bill, for which he wished to get Poyais Stock; that he afterwards received an anonymous note, on which he declined treating; that he then received a second note, with the name of Brantley on it , and enclosing the bill, in return for which he enclosed 2,300/. in bonds, or twenty-five 1001. Poyais bonds. The LORD MAYOR asked what was the market price of those 100/. Poyais bonds ? The defendant replied, that they were at the time of the sale of theM for the 501. bill at 2/. each. The Loan MAYOR..-P And did you take no numbers down, nor make any memoranda by which you could, if it were necessary, identify them ?" The defendant replied, that he did not; that they were bonds of his own ; that be was not a contractor for the Poyais loan, but an agent ; and that it was not the practice to hold the numbers of the bonds which were sold. A letter was here handed in to the Lotto MAYOR from the com. plainant ; it was dated the 7th of November, and we believe was a notice given to the parties on the bill that the defendant had negotiated it. The defendant said, he had received no specific notice not to ne gozociate the bill The Loan MAYOR—NO specific notice ! Why, Sir, had you not been informed that it was stolen—and would it not have been the' duty of any honest man, under those circumstances at least, to wait until he saw what steps the party had taken ? The defendant replied, that he bad given his property for the bill, and certainly, as no positive notice bad been given hint not to part with it, he thought himself entitled to negotiate it. The Loan blaroa, after having consulted with Mr. nobler, said, he felt it his duty to order the defendant to find two bail for £lOO, and to enter into his own rccognizances for the sum of another £lOO, to appear and answer any charge that might be made against him on the subject. The defendant said he might have acted erroneously. The fact was, he was not a commercial man, but like many others, he dealt occasionally in the stocks. The complainant said, that perhaps the defendant would be wil ling to give up the bill? The defendant said he was, but not on condition of a compromise of his character. If it were publicly stated that the defendant did not consider that he came by the bill improperly, he would consent to lose his bond and give it up. The LORD Maroa—l advise you to do so as the moat honourable course. The 'complainant consented to say the word. The bill was then put Into the handi of Mr. fabler, where it is to lie until the day before it becomes die. The LORD Mares, of course, required no sureties, and the par. ties left the office. BOW-STREET. Yesterday morning an application was made by a person calling himself the head assistant at a Private 4syluni for insane persons at Richmond, requesting to know from Sir lt. ilisaia, whether,on the following facts, he was entitled to seize the person of a Miss 13iin kinsop, then present, who had escaped the evening before, and come to London?—Sir it. Brame said, he wonid give no authority to any person to seize a British subject, unless he had committed some crime. The present case, according to the applicant's state ment, was peculiarly for the interference of the Lord Chancellor. Sir Kimono asked if he had got a certiffeate of any physician as to her insanity?—One was produced, signed by a person calling him self Dr. Ferguson, but, on referring, to tha medical list, no such name could tie .found.—Here Aliss Blinkinsop said, that she was the victim of a foul conspiracy. She had endured misery, from her easiest infancy, of so poignant a nature, that the hardest heart must pity her. She was by no means labouring under the malady represented ; and nothing but the extreme necessity of her case could have obliged her to come thus into a public Court of Justice. Mr.. Knight, who accompanied the Lady, sow "stated, that, on the preceding day, she had come in a:post-chaise to his hotel, dui log hit absence; she had made a statement there, which, on inquiry, he found to be perfectly correct. She had informed himthat she was the sister of a Lady of title, and they he found to Ie the fact. Irlis servants had attended uput, her, and they could perceive nothing in her manner at all confirming what the applicant had mentioned. Miss B. said, she had never been allowed to see any of her friends since she 'Was first confined. There were two persons, cyan& selveeshercolusiTs in the , red!ivgAiundi t')r nrv .: v o l , ,ci. i . re . s•r i e zr h place, nl on of whom w was in the justice of the worthy Nlagistrate, and (am; th' s *as convinced she should obtain it. Sir R. Btastz told the applicant, that if he took the Le:: ; ( IA it at his peril. Ile should grant him no authority t.l) d th e fact was as he stated, he mudt obtain proper certilic e oe authority of a Magistrate at Richmond, and when al the r s eceiti te ; were complied with, the law would authorize him i.i taking the legitimate method of again putting her in confinement— 4h Knight then said, that the Lady should remain at his hous e as l ong as she thought proper, until a legal authority was obtair:ti for removal.—The parties then left the office. Tux CALIDONIAN ROSCIUS.-01)ft Mr. B. F. Flowerd e i v . a , tender Gentleman in a skirtleu coat—to which skirt/en coat his owi.b t mudded trowsers were appended by a wooden skewer threo tra „ : veriely, and wearing on his capia a plaid woollen cap, like tho, e with which the smacks-men from the Land o C:ltes prot: ct pericraniums, was brought before the Magistrate, eharge4 wi t s divers irregularities committed by him in and about th at dr ctin. hotel in Covent-garden, denominated R ichardson s, and we;; ku 3v ..; to those who delight in the good things of this world. It appeared in evidence, that this gentleman of the dVrtl es a and sweet name—this Mr. B. F. Fltruyrdetv, or Bona Fide n ewel .. dew,.as he sometimes calle' himself, entered the coff,-e-eo m a t the hotel aforesaid, attired es aforesaid, sonic time betweta tFr hours of eleven hod twelve at night, and flourishing I,:s ai m in mi te , of command, exclaimed, " What, ho!—who waits there ?--k t ur have some supper !" Then the waiters, instead of hainlit.g i,i th, bill of fare, fairly turned him out of the coffee-room it,to the aired:: whereupon, Mr. Flowerciew became exceedingly wroth, and !Ada: himself in an histrionic attitude, lc! cried— " As wicked dew as e'er my Mother hrush'd With raven's feather from unwholesome ten, Drop on you all ! a south-west blow on yr, And blisteryou all o'er."— With many other (7alibauish an d Ancient Pistol-like ansflierre.: , too dreadful to he here set down; which anathemas caused a crir.v,l of curious persons to conglomerate about the house ; so that at laq it became necessary to shut up Mr. Flowerdew in the watch-ho ts* , as a cracked contemner of the public peace. Mr. Flowerdew, in his defence before the Magistrate, having first readjusted his skewer, which had faithlessly slipped from its office, thereby rendering his galligaskins extremely treublesomei said, " May it please your Worship, 'tis true, 'tis pity, and pity 'Os 'tis true, I have done as these have alleged against me. But I had been innocent of food for full twelve hours then past. Heivktnce croaked in my belly for two white herrings; and niethought might satisfy his cravings with the crumbs that fall from the tables of this luxurious hotel. If I was wrung, I cry mine host pardon, and there's at, end." Mr. Richardson, the proprietor oldie hotel in question, said he did not wish to press the question again Ft. Mr. Fluwerdew, if he would only abstain Irons visiting his house in future. The Magistrate therefore discharged Air. Flowerdew, with a serious admonition to that effect ; which admonition he protnised to engrave on the tablet of his memory. " Yea, from my memory," said he, " I'll wipe away all triviallond records, and thy command ment all alone shall live, within the pith and volume of my brain, unmixed with baser matter."—He then departed, and some time afterwards he sent in a paper to the Magistrate, of which here fol. lows a copy : " IMPROMPTU, BY 13. F. FLOWERDEW, _ _ . Formerly designated the • Cakdonian Ruscius,' late of the Theatre Royal, Haymarket; Teacher of Reading and Public Speaking tur the Pulpit, the liar, the Senate, and the Stage.—Writing, Ski rt hand, Latin, French, and Greek, 104, High Holborn: In search of happiness, met: various paths pursue, Fohow'd by Christian, Pagan, Turk, and Jew ; Some think happiness is gaitt'd by health, Others think happiness consists in wealth; Sir Richard thinks better—the happiness of his heart Is being an impartial Judge, and acting an upright part: Thrice happy Sir Richard!—increasing blzssings be thy let, For thy kindness to poor F. shall never be forgot; Thy merit, justice, and spirit, I well can scan, I revere you as a Judge—esteem you as a man!" QUEEN-SQUARE. Wednesday last, Juhn Wyatt, the young man who had been twice . rentanded upon the charge of forging a cheque for £2B, on Lieut.- • General Long, with intent to defraud the firm of Messrs. Cex and Greenwood, Army Agents, was again brought up; when no per son appearing against him, he was discharged. MARY-LA-BONNE. The driver of the Amersham stage was convicted in two penal ' ties, one of 50s. and the other of 9.55. for leaving his horses veizhout any person to take care of thent. The drivers of the Wycombe, of the Hemel Hempstead, and Tring, were al.° convicted in the latter penalty for the same offence, all at the instance of Johnson, the informer, and Dyers, his journeyman. THAMES POLICFL G. Delehwareh, 0. James, M. Daley, and M. Leary, all in the employ of Mr. Galloway, engineer, in West -street, were charged with stealing 16Ibs. of lead pipe, with which Iktchworth was stop ped in Turnmill.street, by Shields, of this establishment, when be stated that it was a joint concern with the threeofhera. In defence, they set up the old story of perquisites. Air. G. however, sait,, he employed constantly 11t0 men, that no perqui s ites whatever were allowed, and that his lois by depredations amounted annu4lly to upwards of £5OO, and would be much more but fur the vigil:dace of the Officers of this Establishment. The Magistrate then gave them their option of paying a fine of Ws. each, or of going to the Mill for six weeks. UNION-HALL. TFIZATILICAL Disruras.—Yesterday morning, Mr. Corms a hero of the sock and buskin, and a Mr. Femme, were brought from the Surrey Theatre. with a number of pour Irish labourers, before J. CHAMIKILS, Esq. the Magistrate, by the officers of the establisii ment. Mr. Groves was charged with assaulting a Lady named Emery, and also with causing a riot in the Theatre, in confederacy with Mr. Fennessy and the aforesaid Irish labouta.:s. The facts were these:—McWilliams, the Proprietor of Site Surrey Theatre, had let the Theatre for seven nights, commencing on the 6th of December, to Mr. Groves, for which the latter agreed to pay a cer tain sum of money down, and the remainder afterward& Mr. Groves had the use of the house for several *tights, and though he had been honoured with " bumpers" yet he had not paid Mr. Wil- Hams the remainder of his claim. On Monday last, Mr. Williams retook possession of the Theatre. Mt. Groves, yesterday morning, in company with Mr. Fennessy, beat up for troops is St. Giles',, and by their aid regained possession of the Theatre, by force, and poor Mrs. Emery got a push in the conflict. Mr. Groves now produced his agreement, and contended that he was the rightful possessor of the theatre. Mr. CtrAasasas refused to enter into their disputes as to which party was entitled to possess the Theatre, but he ordered Mr.G roves to find bail for &he assault on Mrs. Emery, and he was also held in sureties, with Mr. Fennessy, for the riot and breach of peace. The Irishmen, who were to receive Bs. a-day, were discharged. • SPURTING LVTELLIGENCE. BETTING-ROOM, TATTERS 'tLL'S, DEC, 9. There wasvery little betting to-day, and the odds remain near!v as on Monday. The Doke of York's Phantom cult and ituius were brought up for the St. Leger at the odds below : DEKIV. 8 to 1 agst Muleteer (taken) si to 1 agst Rufus 19 to I agst Duke of York's c. 15 to 1 agst Bolero 18 to 1 apt Advance 20 to 1 egct Canvas 21 to 1 nit Legacy 25 to 1 a s st Diana The other horses ai on Montiar. OAKS. 11 to 2 agst Mine I 10 to 1 agst Wal:s 8 to 1 agst Sorcery 14 to 1 agst Attica ST. I.I.:GeS. 10 to 1 agst Memnon i 0 to 1 agst Androgens 10 to 1 agst Cleveland 50 to 1 agst Cymbelitte (taken} 15 to 1 agst Itedgatunkt 1000 to 15 agst D. of Yolk% c. 21 to 1 agst llunter (taLt . t.. 25 to 1 agst Mantlane 11000 to 10 art Rufus (mate: MARRIED. Wednesday senni4ht, at Bradford, Yorkshire, the Rev. I leurr neap, Vicar of Bradford, to llannah ' eldest daughter of ItichAol Fawcett, Esq. of We,throcilt 'Muse, Bradford. 71 LL • 4,1 L&—' Ana. out. 1 O 'HIS DAI. thtWin ••6. Tr". Frince 1 0 Hamburgb 0 11 ?Under, 0 1 Holland 0 Let --- :;;r4 Islands 0 0 America o 1 Watertord 2 Guernsey and Jersey 2 0 Lisbon 0 0 Guttenburgh nazi' O 2 0 0 LUG H- W ATEM. at LONDUIti-IIitIDGR TO-VO6IFIOO. Morning - • - '29 minutes after 9 Afternoon - - 56 minutes alter 3 ------ 'MAR OVIiCA Lunnoi - : KirAC KA LY. at tke No.l, PicizU-Ptace, Tertrlc-Sas. A a vet - 1 . • NUMBER 11 8i ARMY- . -- 4s Cosontisag VOIICE is hereby austrsedng to supply the iamb viz* b ria Vs Majesty's Land Ft Barracks, in the under Iledford Glom ck the Cambridge (including Herei the Town of New. Herb market) Hunt Chester Isle c Derby Lela Lino Norf BEEF Tokis Majesty's Land For racks, in the DEVON. To Ms Majesty's Cavalry and Quarters in t Bedford Hen Berwick Her Darbam (includiall Holy Island) Cambridge Ilur Derby Lek OATS, HAT and STRAW, Horses, in Barracks, an 4 the undermentioned Co LANCASTER, That the deliveries are January next ; tbat Prop , " Tender for Army Supp or before Tuesday, the 2 received after Twelve o' proposals must be mad and eacb Proposal must h Tender properly filled ui engaging to become bounc stated in the printed Parti Contract ; and no Prop( printed Tender, and the 1 should.it so happen, that no Troops should he sup] of the Stamps on the Com by the Contractor, shall h Particulars of the Cone Chambers, between the h P.S. Samples of the Ifi between the Hours of Tv AMICABLE SOCIEI SERJEANT'S Incorporated by Queen . tended by his present February, 1823. _ _ _ HE DIRECTOT J.. don of the Publi SURANCE of LIVES, two; either for the whole contingency of one persl nuance of the Lives of tv on the Death of either. Insurances in this oth doe of nearly 20 per cent vosrabk to the Insured X2OO. to X5OOO. and eve period of continuance, it advantages accruing to wholly appropriated to t the amount of each Insu In the last year, Insu are now in course of pal 62 shares, 81 per mut. cent. on 24 shares, 51 p addition to the amount Abstracts of the Chas :Mums, may be had at from Nine till Three Dy On NE CARROLL, the the most advantag The Two First-drawn £20,000 each. One T the 16th December, wl the other Capitals in I return his Ticket or SI receive back for it at ill than the trilling differ to 2 certainty get hack this Insignificant Risk, drawn on the 16th De 4 tainty Two Prizes £30,000 !! ! The folk may be received back N Ticket £22 19 Half 12 5 Quarter .6 5 Eighth 5 5 Sixteenth 1 12 The greatest Varier the Contractor's Offic 26, Oxford-street. J. COCKS, tl el , • CELEBR A' apeettoUy to caution t the daily frauds and i Country Oilmen and them of the GENI None are genuine 1 Impression, J. Choi ties of the Sauce on for Fish, enriching and Retail, by J. Co This Sauce is gene preference to all °MI dews with Game, I, l k Warranted to keel presumed that no Sa and extensive sale. the Fear nlllol[l3 t5O of the most res Bath, by 30 ; Bristo deep, 50 ;..and by m the United Kingdc titeeEmma c possible. • 1