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~.' '. V THE BIOGRAPHY OF MERCHANTS. (rW)3I THE PAI.LAMUNI.) The statesman, Ott• orator, the poet, the lawyer, the physician, the divine. have all had their biographers, and byes of the greatest merit have been produced in all these departments. IVe have beheld private prin ciple developed in open c,:thluct, and small beginnings terminating in success both lasting and extensive. We Dave teen the ardour of native genius successfully con tending with adversity i anJ have been . instructed by the wisdom of the sige, and caution of the prudent, t• ,e weakness of the feehle, and the errors of (he good . Mit such is our cutiosity to become acquainted with all the vat ietic, of human character, that we have to regret that the biography of a certain description of men, eminent in this-country, should yet ternain a de sideratum in out national literature. England - may certainly be considered as the greatest commercial country in the world, and it would be very desirable to be put in possession of facts and anecdotes illustrative of the character of her merchant+. In the investigation that *ould he necessary to accomplish a respectable Mercantile Piography, the moving princi ples of human action would be develoi:ed to a consi derable extent; and the efficacy of situations in model ling the character, would be placed in a point of view at once conspicuous and definite. The subject itself is capable of great variety, as it embraces a part of our species among whom there is the greatest diversity of talent, disposition, and conduct. To some literary men who look down from their own ideal eminence with a supercilious contempt on every thing but what are called the liberal professions, it is possible that a subject like that now recommended to public attention, may not possess the attractions that would please their fastidious taste. What (they will be ready to•say) are we to expect from the lives of men who are solely devoted to calculations of gain, and, whose whole attention is absorbed in the accumulation' of the " all worshipped rile?" If a disposition so com pletely mercenary were the universal attendant on the mercantile character, such a sarcasm might be thought not without foundation; but let candour,let impartial jus tice decide, whether or not there are to be found upon the marts of commerce, those who unite in themaelves other excellencies with those of, industry and enterprize. Among them do we not often find the fire of generous philanthropy and public spirit? and does not even lite rature itself borrow occasional charms from the taste that is now nut unfrequently cultivated by them ? , The character of the merchant is an object of na tional importance, and many happy consequences may be supposed likely to result from the labours of a judi cious biographer. The subject of a mercantile educa-• tion would undergo a free and ample discussion; and all those circumstances that tend to promote the attain meat of genuine respectability, would be brought for ward as a stimulus to the young adventurer, and would excite him to pursue his end by means that are suited' to his rational and moral capacities. May we not also anticipate a gradual improvement in the general cha racter i.se:f, wherrour men of business will learn to unite information and science to their activity and in dustry, and liberality of principle and conduct, with their commendable prudence. and economy. Case of Poison extracted front the Stomach by the Appa. rotas invented by Mr. Jukes. By J. M. FEB RA LL, Eq. (DROLL THE LONDON MEDICAL lIEPDSITOIT FOIL 511.•"" L) The. Profession are alt eady acquainted with the inge nious apparatus contrived by Mr. Jukes for withdraw ing poisons from the stomach, as well as with the im provements which have been attempted since its intro duction. They are also aw•ate of the experiments of Sir A. Cooper, and his expressed conviction of its probable utility. But I ant not sure that any instance before the present has occurred, in which the principle of the in vention has beim justified by its application ; and al though the rationality of the plan might be sufficient to recommend it, it may not be thought superfluous to present, a case in which its actual employment was at tenaed with results at once decisive and satisfactory. I was called upon at an early hour, on the morning of the 2d of May, to see Mr. R. of the Ordnance Offiee,. • who had just before swallowed, by mistake, rather more than an ounce of nitre. I took with me the apparatus (with which I had provided myself the moment its im portation here gave me an opportunity of inspecting it); and as the Gentleman resided in my own neigh bourhood, I arrived in less than twenty minutes after the occurrence. The scene was deeply distressing—his large family were collected about him in a state little short of plirenzy ; and his own appearance was that of utter despair and hopelessness. He was pale and co •vered with cold moisture; and, on inquiry, described Iris feelings to be, a painful sense of heat along the centre of the chest to the stomach, which, together with a certain constriction of breathing, was every moment inci easing. There was no time to be lost—l directed him to drink a large quantity of sugar and water while 1 was engaged in prepaiing the instruments. I 'then caused him to open his mouth widely, and passing the point of the flexible tube cautiously between the velum ',alai and base of the tongue, so as to avoid irritation, reached the posterior wall of the pharynx. On pressing the instrument downwards through the esophagus, the surrounding muscles were thrown strongly into action; but as he was firmly supported by assistants, and had sufficient resolution to avoid drawing hi mse lf away , the tube gratin:illy descended into the stomach. After a moment's pause, I.adapted the syringe to its projecting end, and was pi epai ing to commence the ex haustion, when we were suddenly inter, opted bya violent convulsive cough, which liter ally shook the patient in his chair; his lace became tutgid, and I really feared it would be i inpossible to pr oceed. On removing the syringe, however, and inspecting the throat, it was observed that the position of the tube was such as to press forward on the larynx, especially when the syringe was appended.— in fact, the angle made by the horizontal with the vertical portion of the cathrter resting across the glottis was the eause of the distress. The remedy was obvious: on penile , the horizontal portion firmly backwards, the angle was at once diminished and forced to retire; and the larynx escaping its irritation, a complete calm en sued. The tube was now given to an intelligent assist ant, w ith directions to ntattitain its position ; and having tetixe.l the syringe, I was quietlf enabled toconvey into ;resin, held beneat:i thy dimshargt-tubt,.a !Atte quad. tir y of the Contents of 04416. 1 ' After the second discharAe flor ire fluid - C:4e . ; I **q disidiagedthe ky i ii:g.•2-6llr/ it with sugar and walkandinjtcted its content: into the StOrnitCh--.WititCdvfavomehfianti trans-. 1 11E. - " k‘',, cr:, a LN I leered it into the bath as before. "It was thought pru dent to repeat this process twice, and then the entire ap- , paratus was withdrawn. • The patient was fatigued, but not so much so as id usual after the operation of an emetic. He expressed himself relieved from the burning heat, and metely complained of slight rawness in the throat, probably from the presence of the instrument. He was adeised to use a gargle of cold water, adding a little ice as soon as it could be procured. He shortly after retired to bed, swallowed a little castor oil, and composed himself to rest. He awoke in about three bouts ; the oil . moved him gently, and he declared hiniself free' from the slightest feeling of uneasiness. if CONVICT PARDONED. TAR EFFECT OF A SPECIAL VERDICT. Great surprise has been excited at the circumstance of a prisoner of the name of James Thomas Boyce, who was convicted and received sentence of death at the Old Bailey in the June Sessions, having since been liberated upon kis Majesty's free pa-don,* his offence being of a most atrocious nature, and without a single feature, in the case at all favourable to the prisoner. His frienth are respectable, and to the'great interest used by them in his behalf his escape was supposed to be attributable. Is now, however, appears that the pardon was the ne cessary result of the singular verdict of the Jury who tried him. The Jury returned a verdict of—" Guilty with intent to meet his escape." The worth cf Lord Ellenborough's Act are—" unlaw fully stab, or cut, etc. with intent to murder, or to rob, or to maim, disfigure, or disable, or to do some other grievous bodily harm." The prist.ner's Solicitor sug gested, that this verdict amounted to an acquittal under the indictment: that the stabbing or cutting, to create the offence under the Act, must be found to be with the intent stated in the Statute. The Learned COMMON SERJEANT, who tried the case, reserved the point, and the pi isoner in consequence was not included in the Recorder's last Report of - the con. victs under sentence of death. The question has been subsequently under the consideration of the Judges, and the objection of the prisoner's Solicitor decided tb be good. The decision, however, came too late to arrest judgment, sentence of death having been already passed upon Royce, and a pardon under the sign manual was the consequence. The workmen employed at the callenders, in Glasgow, struck work on Thursday morning, in order to procure a rise of wages. The cotton spinners continue reso. lutely to holdout. The colliers have followed the example of some other mechanics, in endeavouring to get an advance of wages. Monday, a meeting was held in Shettleston of delegates from all parts of the country, for ten miles around Glasgow, when an address was agreed to, re. commending the miners to associate for an advance of wages.--Glasgow Paper. The extraordinary value of some of the building spe culations in and about London, may be fathered from the fact, that when the late Mr. P. was in treaty with the builder who afterwards gave his own name to Baker-street, the latter, when he at length had get the contract signed, exultingly held it up to the other, and told him he should not have it back for 100,000/, Complaints are often and very justly made of what is called the license of the Bar; we mean the extraneous matter which Advocates introduce into th e i r add resses i n Coiirts of Justice, and the violent, offensive, and intem perate manner in which persons are sometimes treated who are called upon to give evidence. We are well aware of the difficulty which exists in eliciting the truth from unwilling and guilty witnesses; and if the practice we allude to were confined in its exercise to such persons as those, one would not much pity the ordeal they had to undergo. But those who attend Courts of Justice must be aware that the system we complain of is not confined to cases of this description, but is in fact used with little or no discrimination; that it is sometimes employed in proportion to the apparent timidity of the subject on whom it can be exercised ; and not unfrequently in the instances of those towards whose sex the gallantry and good feeling of mankind have, by common consent, assigned tenderness and protection. Of late a new evil has arisen, or, if not arisen, has come much more into use, we mean the practice of joking, and of very bad wit indulged in at the bar, and sometimes on the bench. We are too fond of a joke ourselves not to encourage it in its proper place and season ; but as " praise uncle. served is smile in disguise," so we consider that jocu larity upon serious subjects is at least a proof of a bad and miserable taste. In criminal cases, low humour must be nearly always misplaced, yet we have known cases in which the life of the party was at stake, where the Advocate has been so injudicious as to give way to ill-timed pleasantry ; and even to lead the witnesses away from the real facts of the case, to illustrate and carry on sonic trumpery pun or inuendo of his own. We cannot but think it due to the dignity and solemnity of our Courts of Justice, to the awful interests which ate at stake there, as well as to the credit and respecta bility of the Bar itself, that this disreputable practice should be repressed. If .a man would not laugh, joke, or pun on the death-bed of his friend or relation, why should, he do so upon the trial of a person whom he has been paid to prosecute or defend, in a case which implicates his life or liberty? In short, where we should consider humour misplaced in our own case, why should we employ it in that of another ? Good sense, and good taste, then, should repress so silly and unworthy a prac tice, which, 66 though it make the unskilful laugh, can not but make the judicious grieve." 111 A molt COMPLIMENT —Sir B— ll—, an Irish Knight, was married to the daughter of Lord C—., a connection of which the Knight was somewhat proud. Boasting of this union once to a friend, he observed that his Lordship had paid him the highest compliment in his power. He had seven daughters, said he, and he gave me the mildest; and he torrid me too, that if he had an oulder I should have her. . • - BEARDS.—One of the 'greatest misfortunes which France ever had to lament, the divorce of Louts LE JEUNE fiom ELINOR of Guyetme, resulted from the 'fashion which this Prince wished to inttoduce of :having his chin and cropping his head.' The Queen,. his wife, who appears to have possessed, with masculine beauty, considerable acuteness of intellect, obseried with some humour, that she imagined herself to have espoused a 'Monarch, not a Monk. The obstinacy of Louts in ,shaving himself, and the horror conceived by ELINOR at the sight of a beardless thin; occasioned France the loss of those fine provinces which constituted the dowry of this Princess; and which devolving to England by a secorid marriage, became the source of wars which de @elated Fi*nce during 400 years. • • 40. t; POLICE INTELLIGENCE. • • MANSION-HOUSE. ' A short time since Mr. Blencarn, a Gentleman residing in Ame rica-square, waited upon the LORD Miami, and requested his Lord ship s interference to protect him (Mr. Blencarn) and a number of other inhabitants of the Ward of Aldgate, from some very oppres sive proceedings, which it was stated the lay improprietor of the parish had adopted towards them, to compel them all to pay the 21.9.1. in the pound on the rack rent. The Loan 31evirt then said he had no power to interfere, and advised the applicant to call a meeting of the parishioners, and enter into measures with others, also oppressed, to resist the unjustifiable proceedings. Mr. Blencarn now waited upon the Loan Melons in behalf of a number of the other inhabitants. to thank his :.ordship for the pan 'he bad taken in the business, and to state to him, that having fol lowed his advice, they were going on prosperously to the defeat of ujustiflable ilemar. 3 .. A parish meeting had been held, and a 'larger subscription was going forward. They had discovered that the• tithes had been mortgaged for £30,000 (the applicant was un derstood to say), or an enormous sum of about that amount. They intended to apply for aid to the Court of Common Council, and they had now to request of his Lordship that he would give his powerful support to the application. 's he Loan MAYOR said every case of oppression was certain of Isis support, and believing them to be oppressed, he should not hesi tate to support the application.—The applicant thanked his Lordship. A boatman who plies near one of the wharfs in the City, was summoned befure the Loan Mavoa, for having taken into his boat more passengers than the law allows, to the imminent danger of life. One of the Rulers of the Watermen stated, that the lives of the public were frequently exposed to great peril in consequence of the conduct of watermen in ferrying ever more passengers than their boats were capable of conveying safely. It was determined to check this practice, by prosecuting those who were guilty upon the Act of Geo. 11. which inflicted a penalty of £3 upon any person convicted of carrying in his boat a greater number than eight passengers.— The defendant pleaded a wife and several children in mitigation a the penalty, and solemnly declared that he would never exceed his number again.—The Loan MAYOR said there could be no abate. inert of the penalty. Coles, the informer, said he would take none of it. - The Loan MAYOR said he had just been given to understand that Coles, the man who was called informer, was the person who was most instrumental in saving the lives of tle people who were over turned up the river, when Mr. Bull's son and another lad were drowned. Ile was not disposed to make the defendant's family suffer privation, and had heard a good character of him, and there fore would remit the penalty. A you n g man of respectable appearance was brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged upon suspicion of having committed a for gery, to the amount of sfeoo, upon the house of Williams and Co. bankers, of Birchin-lane, in the name of his employers, Messrs. Williams, tea-brokers, of Jewry.street. The Loan Meroe thought it necessary, for the ends of justice, that the examination should be private. The following account contains as many of the particulars as we are at liberty to give at present: A gentleman of the name of Hayne, of Dorchester, has dealings with Messrs. Williams, the tea-brokers, and remits money to them, which they receive through the banking-house in Birchin-lane. A notice always precedes the order upon the banking-house, and the clerks of the tea-brokers are always aware of the transactionfbe tween the house and Mr. Hayne. A few days ago Mr. Hayne wrote word to the tea-brokers, that he would send an order to them for £2OO on the 20th instant; and a communication was made to the banking-house, in Birchitedane, from the Dorchester bank, -(according to custom), to the same effect, with a direction to give cash for the order of Messrs. Williams. The hankinVhouse was scarcely open on Monday morning, when a young man entered and presented an order, signed Williams and Co. Jewry-street; for £2OO. The clerk immediately paid the amount in a se2oo Bank of Eng-' kind note, and the person who presented it speedily disappeared. In the course of the day, Mr. Williams, to whom the sum ought to have been paid, entered the banking-house, and presented an order for the £2OO, to the great astonishment of the cashier, who said the money bad already been paid, and exhibited the order upon which the amount had been given. It was then ascertained that the first order was a forgery. It certainly was such a deception as none but the most experienced hand could have executed. The prisoner was, upon being apprehended, seen by the person who paid the £eoo, but it was positively stated that he was not the man.— Application was then made at the Bank of England, where the young man who took up *the money had been seen immediately after he left Birchin-lane, and where he had changed the £2OO for sovereigns. It was there mentioned to Mr. Williams, that the person who received change for the £2OO note, appeared to be in a state of confusion, and, on being asked in whose name he presented :tbs Bank-nuts? said in that of Messrs.Wiltiams. As he had written the tame of " Murray. 13, Tavistookesquare," on the note, some surprise was expressed, but upon his saying that his name was Murray, the sovereigns were put down upon the counter to him. The moment he saw the gold, he began to tumble it into his bag, without reckoning it ; and upon being asked by the clerk whither he would not reckon his money, be said he thought it unseeing, and was in a hurry. The prisoner was apprehended by the direction of Mr. Cope, but no conclusive testimony was given against hint in the course of yesterday. He denied any kno-/ledge of the transaction, and was remanded for a few days. GUILDHALL ACTIV ITT or THZ CITY Pouch—As early as between eight and nine o'clock on Thursday morning last, two fellows went into the shop of Mr. Mettler, optician, Ludgate-street, under pretence of purchasing same trifling article. They affected, however, to have no knowledge or connexion with each other, each bargaining for a separate article : they neither of them, however, purchased anything, but a short time after they had gone, Mr 4 Bleuler missed two pair of silver double eye-glasses, and a sm all pocket telescope. But the thieves had got no farther than the corner of St. Paul's Church. yard, when they were met by Charles }lerdsfield, a City Officer, who knowing one of them, Jem Jump, a notorious character, and judging from their being out so early that they had made sonic aga, as it is termed, was preparing to stop them; but Jessop knew the officer as well as he knew him, and bolted off iMmediately.— Herdsfield seized his companion, one James Detail, and on search ing him found two pair of silver eye-glasses, which he, reckoning that his companion had got safe off, sa id he had r e ceived from him. Herdsfield lodged Dewell in the Compter, and knowing something of the haunt; Jessup was likely to frequent, set himself upon the look out for hilts, and in lets than a couple of hours apprehended him and lodged him in the Compter with his companion, from whence they were both brought to this office, and remanded to give an opportunity fur discovering the owner of the property. In this, too, the officer has been succes4ful ; for on the prisoners being yes terday brought up before Mr. Alderman Cox, Mr. Bleuler at tended, identified both the prisoners as having been in his shop on the morning befurementiOued, and swore to the eye-glasses found on Dewell as. hie property, and those he had missed soon after the prisoners had left the shop. The telescope stolen at the same time has not been found.--.l.ssop denied all knowledge of the robbery, sod his companion, Dowell, no longer as used him of having given him the eye-glasses, and told a story of his having himself bought then of a boy in Smithfield for 4s. although, according to the va luation of Mr. Bleuler, the price of them was 245. the pair. The Case against them was too dear to admit of any hesitation; and the Alderman committed them both to take their trials. BOW-STREET. Two chimney-sweepers, named While and iriekender, were placed at the bar, charged with stealing a watch, value £3, the property of Wm. Gulliver, of Tothill-street, Westminster. Cooper, an (dicer of this establishment, was sent for to appre hend the prisoners, who had stolen a watch on Thursday last. It appeared the prisoners called at Mr. Gulliver s, and requested to sweep a chimney; while one of the prisoners was sweeping the chimney, he said the soot was falling down another flee. Mrs. Gsiliver was persuaded to go into an adjoining room by the pri soner White. She found that no soot had fallen down the flue, and soon after the prisoners left the house she missed the watch. Wllliam Goltiver stated, that on Tuenday night a woman called OR him and gave him his watch and ten shillings. She wished him crpromise not to prosecute, but he refused. Phis woman was suspected to be the mother of a boy named Dunn. The prisoner, Wickendr, r, confessed that he stole the watch, and sold it to a boy named Duou.-.-White was discharged. WORSHIP-STREET. T. Edwards and his wife, residing in 'Wilkes-ptime, Horton, were charged with cruelty to their daughter, aged eleven years. The child, who is very deaf, exhibited a shocking appearance, having a dreadful black eye.which she said her father had given her, on Tues day, by a blow with his clenched fist; and, the same day, the mo ther dashed her against the wall with great fury. Several of the neighbours gave testimony to the cruel treatment which the child , experienced. The father said he did the best he could for his family of eight children, of which the present is the eldest; that she. was extremely disoisedient to her mother, refusing to obey her .commanck and calling her by opprobrious names. The Magistrate said, even that could not justify such barbarous treatment, and dis. red the nrueller on account of her family, but ordered the f.ther to find bail both for her and him elf, and the Pal II CIE n engaged to prosecute• H.ATTON.G ARDEN. Yesterday William Stanitors, , maitert o Mr. Lane, White Bell yard, Temple-bar, was brought up in the custom of B itley, beadle of Saffror..hill charged by his master with violently maul:. ing him, as also with embezzlement. Mr. Lane stated, that it wss customary at Ms house to futrikh a certain number of tin tickets every morning to the waiter, with tlic ferent sums marked on them, which are delivered at the bar accord. le as the liquor •is served, to prevent any slelay in wahine on :customers. On Saturday last the prisoner received two mut de worth of tickets, for which he did not account, and on Sunday morning be absconded. Mr. Lane, after much exertion, traced the prisoner yesterday to a coffee.shop in Saffron-hill, where. no attempting to take him into custody. he usuck him violently, at the same time exclaiming, " I have spent your money jolly. I gli its robbing you." I. I►lr. Serjea nt Srt Lox expressed his regret that be could not in.:. terfere judicially for the tintsezzlensent, but ordered the prisoner te Bud bail fur the gross assault. UNION-H ALL - - - THE 51111thilt AT half CINHAM.•••-•7110Mf13 Coombs, wilt, has biti examined several times, on suspicion of being concerned in t i : murder (aflame' Morgan, under gardener to Emanuel Goodlovis El. Langley Park, in the Parish of 13eckenham, Kent, was terday brought up for re-examination, before Att.rx, Esq. Sit Cnaittas Fa RNABT, and a full bench of Magistrates. Mr. IL Green, of Bexley, repeated his testimony of some mei* having been stolen frem his farm-yard, and now produced a piece similar in quality to that which had been stolen front him. On com paring the piece with a pair of trowsers which the prisoner wore, the texture seamed to be exactly of the same kind ; but the winter. said, that he would not swear positively to the fact of the trowseri worn by Coombs being a part of that which had been stolen Ito n his premises. Mr. Green added, that the day on which be and Mr. Taylor found the grapes and a gun concealed in West Wood, they went together to the place, armed with pistols, in the evening, and remained in the thicket during the greater part of the night; but no person appeared during the time of their stay. Mr. Taylor described the gun, which he stated he should know again. Richard Brewn, gardener to Lady Carew, of Eltham Lodge, stated, that in the beginning of February her adyship's garden and tool house at Eltham were broken into and robbed. The toolkoese was broken into by a crow, two inches and a half in length, and rob. bed of several packages of seeds, a pair of razors, a pruning-knife, a chisel, and hammer (the seeds, pruning-knife, &c. now produced, the witness said, were those which were taken away). These ar ticles, it will be recollected, were found at the prisoner's lodgings when he was apprehended. Upon looking at the prisoner, the witness added, that his waistcoat was stol e n on the same occa sion. Ile was desired io examine that which the prisoner now wore, and he identified it as being the one 'stolen on the night in questi%n. Witness added, that he believed he had seen the prisoner before, near Chiselhurst, in Kent.—Mr. ALLEN here asked Coombs if be wished to put any questions to the witnesses who had been examined? Coombs replied, that he had nothing at all to say. • Mr. ALLIM, after having consulted with Sir C. Farnaby and Mr. Goodhart, observed, that It was necessary he should remand the prisoner for another examination, and then, addressing the unfortu nate prisoner, told him that he would give directions that he should be provided with proper nourishing things during his illness.-11:: prisoner thanked the Magistrate, and was then conveyed back to Horsemonger-lane jail. TOWN-HALL One of those s►►ccessful schemes, which are of so frequent oc currence in the metropolis, was yesterday exposed by a host of well-dressed persons, who hurried into the office to bear witness against a weather-beaten West Country woman, upwards of sixty years of age, named Mary Close, who appeared at the bar, accom panied by a little delicate female child, ten yeata of age. The prin cipal witness was John Lewis, landlord of the Cock p►►blic-hnt:se, Mill-lane , Tooley•street, from whose evidence, and that cf seri rat others, it was shewn that the prisoner had, under the delusive pre text of an hourly expectation of receiving AV,BOO from the Ccurt of Chancery, obtained credit and monies to upwards of £lOO lit amount. She had given galas, water parties, borrowed money, and obtained goods from ho►►+ekrtptrs, watermer, and even it - mates of an aln►s.housr, and ameng the rest, bilked Mr. Henry Hunt, Lord of the Manor of Glastonbury, of 401. under pretence that her estate lay on his manor, and that she was acquainted with several highly respectable families with whcm he was intimate. Mr. Alderman J. J. SMITH, after investig sting a packet of letters reduced u from agents, uncles, first cousins, Bcc. said, there was no proofprodueed that they were fabricated, and they might thank their own credulity. He would hold the prisoner to bail until the Sessions, and in default she was cmnitted. LAMBETII-STREET. An elderly Gentleman, residing some short distance from Wands , worth, applied to the Magistrates of this office for advice and as sistance under the following somewhat sittgatti circumstances: The applicant stated that his family, particuLrly one member of it, had for tome months experienced great annoyance from the ite • courted notice of a Gentleman, who, as far as be (applicant) could learn, was formerly an Officer of rank in his Majesty'a Navy. The individual who bad attracted the att en ti ons o f this Gentleman w.s complainant's second daughter, to whom the most dishonourab'e proposals had been made,: both verbally and by letter: they were made without the shadow of sanction, and continued without sbew of encouragement. As an aggravation of this case, complainant added, lhat the yourg Lady had been some months married, and her husband being now abroad, engaged in a mercantile spcculatioe, she was consequently deprived of his pre tection; and this person, presuming upon a slight acquaintance with the absent husband, en deavours to effect the dishonour of his innocent and defenceless wife. —ln consequence of the persecuting attentions bestowed on her, the was compelled to leave her town establishment, and take refuge in the house of her father, where, for some time, she was freed front those odious importunities, mutely because her retreat was not dis covered. However, about ten days since, she was recognised I y her unwelcome suitor, at th e English 01;erahouse, but the pre sence of a mother and a large patty of friends prevented any intru sion at that time. By some stratagem, her present abode was dis covered, and every day brought post letters, full of nonsensical ef fusions of love, which could not he read by a married woman with. out feelings of detestation for an insult offered to her honour and good sense. Those epistles were treated with the contempt that they deserved ; and finding that no answer was returned, the write had the audacity to leave his card fur Mrs.—, on Sunday last, whilst the family were at .church. These intrusions, though ex tremely impertinent and annoyi ng , m i g h t b e overlooked ; but as re cent circumstances compelled the Lady' to take possession of her house in town, it became necessary to adopt some decisive means for the prevention of any recurrence of the outrage, particularly as the husband was expected in England early in the month of Ni - vember, and it was impossible to calculate possibilities in the event of his discovering the insult offered to his wife. The Mesitsreeva observed, that he had never heard of a more impudent or more dishonourable species of persecution, and begged to know the name and address of the irdividnal alluded to. Applicant (handing a card).—That, Sir, is the same ; but the address is a matter of uncertainty, as he lives an itinerant sort of life, and certainly has no particular town residence. In all his let:- ters to my daughter he has carefully avoided both signature and residence, though the writer could not be mistaken by die rases for whoa.-perusal they were intended. ' - The MAGISTIATIC remarked, that this evasion was merely a Mat low subterfuge, in event of any proceedings being taken at a hens.* period. Unfortuaately, there were but too many characters of die same sort to be met with about town. Applicant—ls it possible to obtain a warra^t against him? should wish, if it be, to bind him over not to ofrer further molesta tion to one that had never given him any countenance for such im pertinent freedoms. 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