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irg themselves in the eyes of the country. He felt that this must be j o ne s because the appointment was made directly after the state tarot made by one of the right hon. gentlemen. The right hon. member then went into a minute detail of the nature of the office. Ile contended that the old principle should be adhered to, unless a change of circumstances was shewn to exist to warrant the alteration. It was impossible for the treasurer to perform the duties of the pay. toaster. It could not be expected that he would devote six hours a-dav, chrtihed to his desk, balancing books and accounts, paying and 'receiving money to the amount of several millions, all drawn from the public pocket ; the whole of which, by act of parliament, trust be performed. He complained of the frequent changes which had been made in this office, it must of necessity prove disadvan. tageotts to the country. Should the house come to this resolution, he could assure it that not the slightest embarrassment would ensue as to the combined management of the office. The minister, it was true, would have to select between two persons; that perhaps might cause him a little embarrasanient. Ile might exclaim with the poet " How happy could I be with either, " Were t'other dear charmer away." Ile hoped the house would take that opportunity of declaring to the country, by agreeing to the resolution proposed, its opinion of the conduct of ministers. Sir G. f'OCKBURN should oppose the resolution. The right honourable gentleman who had just sat down had made several ntis. statements. He contended that the duties could be performed by the Treasurer himself. The appointment in question would be a saving to the country of 2,2001. per annum, which the house must allow was an object of some moment. Mr. HUME said that, a resolution of that house, passed on the I2th of the present month, by which the house was pledged to make every possible reduction in the army and navy departments, was broken by the late appointment to the Treasurership of the Navy. If the office were useful, he would say keep it up ; but if it were not, then let it be abolished. The hon. baronet opposite (sir G. Cockburn) admitted that the existence ot the two offices of Paymaster to the Navy and Treasurer to the Navy were not neces sari, ; but that as the Paymastership to the Navy was about to be reduced, the duties of that office would devolve upon the Trea surer of the Navy, and the country would thereby gain a saving of 2.2001. Upon this admission of the hon. baronet, he contended the government had not kept the pledge to which that house was a ratty. by appointing a Treasurer to the Navy at the very moment that they declared the office to be unnecessary. Ile did think that what cost the country 35.000/. in naval departments, could be done as effectually for 7.000/. Mr. Secretary PEEL said that the house was called upon to pass a sweeping censure upon the Government of the country for making the appointment in question ; but before it would pass its verdict of censure, it would, he was sure, wait and hear the defence the Go vernment had to make to the charge preferred against them. Now what were the facts of the case. In 18211, a schism took place amongst the members of his Majesty's Government, and other persons were appointed to the vacant situations. Mr. Nrevey Fits gerald was appointed to the Presidency of the Board of Trade, and to the Trcasuryship of the Navy. Against this Lord Melville protested, for he considered that whoever was appointed to the fressurphip of the navy, ought to give up his whole time to the office. In 1826, the house resolved that those two offices should be filled by one gentleman, at a salary of 50001 and so it continued down to the time when his right hon. friend sunk under the weight of the duties connected with the combined offices. When the Government found that those offices were so weighty, they re• solved to break them up. They then gave the presidentahip of the board of trade to the master of the mint, and made the treasu rership of the navy a substantive office, by which a saving would accrue to the country , of 2.2001. which would not be the case if they continued the office of president of the board of trade with that ot Treasurer of the Navy. From 1788 down to the present period, many inquiries were instituted into the office of treasurer to the navy, but not one of the commissioners or committees recommen. sl,sl its abolition. The committee of 1817 recommended that the salary should be reduced to the same sums as paid to the paymaster of the forces. Now the government, instead of stopping here, went beyond the recommendation of the committee--then gave, not 30001. a veal to the Treasurer, but 20001. Were Parliament then to turn round upon them for doing that which they were recommended to do by the reports of their committees ? If so their reports were not true beacons for the guidance of the government ; they were false lights to lead them astray. The right hon. gent. adverted to the observa tions of his right hon. friend (Mr. Huskisson) and contrasted his speech of that night with one made by him on the 7th April, 1826. in which he spoke of the great importance of the office of Treasurer to the Navy, and said that the duties belonging to it to be performed well, should be performed by a gentleman holding no other office. (Loud cheers) The office of President of the Board of Trade and Treasurer of the Navy, said the right honourable gentleman (Mr.Huskisson), who then held botb,were incompatible, and ought not to he connected together. He (Mr.. Feel) claimed for the Duke of Wellington's government that justice which it merited, namely, that it was doing all It could to relieve the country of its expenditure. The right hon. gent. after some further observations, called upon the house to reject the resolution of the honourable baronet. After 1 few words from Sir G. WARRENDE/I, The house divided, when there appeared For Sir J. Graham's motion Against it . . .. 188 Majority against the motion —9B The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the hotrie adjourned at Malf.past One o'Clock. HAMPSHIRE RESOLUTIONS, Yon lIEFORM, AND REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES. 1. Th a t th e Speech from the Throne to the Parliament, at the epeiiii.g of the present Sesaion, commonly called the King's I , l*. rh, has created a general feeling of disappointment and dis. aati.iaci on, anti was calculated to cause great dismay, if not despair, amongst various classes of the people of this kingdom. 2. That the great pecuniary difficulties pervading the middle classes. and the misery, poverty, and ditoress existing amongst the lower classes of the people of the present period, exceed in extent and *verily, by many degrees, that of any former period within the memory of man. 1. That it is the decided and firm opinion of this meeting, that if some speedy and effectual remedy be not applied to lessen or allay these difficulties and this distress, this country must, in all proba bility, very soon lifetime in a state of anarchy and contusion, and the wise and salutary lass that exist to hold together the bonds of society sill be found insufficient for that purpose. 4. That this country has been in a great !immure brought into this Imp 'us st..t c b y t h e un j ust, i mpolitic, and uncoil. stitutiumer:C.,. which have been so frequently made by legis. Wive eroectrucitts in its circulating money currency ; and that to th p a rt f rom a paper to a metallic currency has operated as a robbery upon all debtors, whether of a public or private kind, and thus to essup e l the payment of debts and engagements contracted in paper 'Loney to be paid in metallic money is, in effect, the saute as to pass law to compel all the public and private debts in the kingdom to be paid in a much higher amount than that in which such debts have been contracted. 5. That the interests of this kingdom have also suffered, and are how, in the opinion of this Meeting, suffering, from the experimental and absurd system which has been resorted to under the name of Free Trade ;" for to suppose that a nation, either in its trade or .igticulture, where taxes, tithes, poor rates, and various other heavy burdens exist, can compete with 0: her nations where those burdens do not exist at all, or only in a much leaser degree, without due pro tec•ion. is as unreasonable and unjust as to pay debts in gold that hay:• been contracted in paper. U. That this kingdom has also suffered, and is now suffering, ft•fni the want of a tbir, equal, and mopes representation of the pshpk ite the Commons Homo of Poilatitent, which has been so re cently illustrated ht a late trial is this county for bribery and cor ruption no the borough of Stockbridge, where it was proved upon oath that sixty guineas was the general and accustomed price for votes ; wel that such u reform should, in the opinion of this Meet ing, be made without delay, as would produce that feeling of sym. lathy stud dependence between the electors and thicted, as aeon to be implied in dud axiom of our Constitution, which says, •• that no person shall fit taxed but by his own consent." 7. That the only mode by which, in our opinion, the severe die- m -is and grievances of which we are here assembled this day to complain can be relieved, and rendered supportable with a metallic "Nney, is by a great and ih 11111111111 l reduction of those taxes which 'low press, with accumulated force, on the ptexhictive classes of the c,annitinitv. :t. That, in order to make such a reduvion of the public expen. snore, all public salaries must be n:aterially reduced, all unneces sary places arid pensions be abolislird, and the great will-stone of the "lion r common tkbt--tiaust tx• pared down, either in principal or intertst, in proportion to the altered value of money. Th:ff all the most burdemeonte and oppressive taxes should be repealed' :ioiongst which we count those on malt, Itops,beer,liouses, and wi nd"., these appearing to us to press most heavily on the middle and lower classes of the people, and therefore ought to be immediately repealed. • That tin trivi a l an d pa l try reductions In the public expendi. 'Jre will, in the opinion of this meeting, avail • such as taking the chips a rum the workmen in the dock-yarda, Of ;educing the salaries ' t the clerk ' in the customhouse ; but retrenchment and reduction should coinnience with sell the heads and principals of the govern. me ''ti and the greater the amount of the incomes and salaries, the• greater ought to be their reductions; for it is by such- reductions :hat this suffering and impuverished nation ought to be relieved , - , n it* present distressed and perilous situation. :I. That a petitice: to- the Mouse of Commons should lac foundud 1 upon the foregoing resolutiOns, and intrusted to Sir William Heath cote, But. our county member, for presentment, whose name It affords us great pleasure and satisfaction to find in the lists of some of the minorities who voted in favour of the people during the pre sent session of parliament, and who is hereby requested to present and support the same. COUNTY OF KENT MEETING. A meeting of the freeholders of the county of Kent was held yesterday at Penenden Heath, to consider the propriety of petitioning his Majesty and the Parliament to adopt measures cal culated to relieve the existing distress of the country. At an early hour crowds of persons from the adjacent towns be gan to assemble upon the heath, and the weather being remarkably tine, there were a number of respectable females seen scattered amongst the crowd. At eleven o'clock the number assembled ' amounted to three thousand, amongst whom we observed the Earls of Winchslsea and Stanhope. Lout Teynharn, Thomas Law Hodges, Esq. Messrs. Dwell, Bradley, Rider, Ciosway, Gipps, Plumiree, Hughes, and Major Waite. At twelve o'clock the High Sheriff ( Edward Rice, Esq.) made his appearance. He was accompanied by Earl Romney and Lord Mar. sham, Sir Edward Knatchbull, Mr. Honeywood, Sir Brook Bridges, N. Conte, Esq. Colonel Stratford, Sir Wm. Crosbie, and several other gentlemen of distinction. The UNDER SHERIFF having read the requisition, The HIGH SHERIFF said the requisition they had just heard read was so numerously and respectably signed as to preclude the possibility of all doubt or difficulty on his part to acquiesce with the wishes; of those whose names were affixed to it. The object of those who signed that requisition, as far as he was able to ascertain, was, having convened • general meeting of the freeholders of the county of Kent, to ascertain the sense of that meeting as to the beat means that could be adopted for accomplish. ing the purpose therein specified. lie hoped, therefore, that any freeholder who had any observation, to make would be heard with attention and it only remained for him to say that he felt confi dent the meeting would be conducted with that unanimity and good humour which so constantly distinguished his brother freeholders, and to request that the same courtesy would be exercised towards all which had been so kindly shown him.—(hear, hear.) Earl Seastuorie then addressed the meeting. He said he had taken the earliest opportunity of calling upon the !louse of Lords to institute an immediate inquiry into the causes of the present evils, and the means best calculated to afford the necessary relief. If that inquiry had been instituted—if Parliament had done what this county called for, and what they (the freeholders of Kent) had an undoubted right to expect—that meeting would not have been thought necessary. But the government having refused all inquiry, and being informed that the distress was partial, temporary, and had proceeded from OHMS which were not under the controul of Parliament, it was for them to require the gracious interposition of the King, whose kindly feelings towards his subjects were too well known to need any assurance from him that their prayers would be attended to. (Hear, hear, hear.) lie believed the distress to be not partial, but universal—(hear, hear, hear)—not the result of temporary distress , but proceeding fr om tar dif ferent causes ; and tLat if relief was not speedily administered, it would go on increasing until the consequences to the coontry would be dreadful. He nettled not to detain them long while he stated the true causes. They were to be found in the proceedings of par. 'lament, which had injured from time to time the manufacturing, the agricultural, and the shipping interests of this country and the cure of those evils was to be found in retracing their steps, and reverting to that system of things under which this country firer. rished prosperous and happy. (hear.) Having said so much he would not detain them longer, hearing there were many other gen tlemen who were anxious to speak their sentiments upon the occasion, but concluded by reading the following address to the King "TO THE ICING'S 310 ST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. " The humble Petition of the Freeholder, of the County of Kent. " Most Gracious Sovereign—We, your majesty's most dutiful and faithful subjects, request permission to represent with all hu mility to your majesty the grievous distress which afflicts el branches of productive industry in the country, and which, in our opinion, is not partial in its extent nor temporary in its nature, but arises from causes by which, unless effectual relief should be speedily administered, the evils now suffered would not only be continued, but even aggravated. We beg leave to state to your ma jesty that a continuance of the present distress must render it utterly impossible for your majesty's subjects to pay the existing taxes, might lead to • national bankruptcy, and might, in other respects, produce consequences that would endanger, if not destroy, all the present institutions of the country. We have, there fote, to entreat the gracious attention of your majesty to the causes of the calamities which we now deplore, of which the pressure is most severely felt, and which, in our opinion, arises from the want of due protection to the agriculture and to the domestic industry of the country, aed also front an alteration of the currency, the prices of manufactures having been very much reduced ; and therefore the weight of taxes, as well as all the other engagements to which we arc subject, very much increased. " M e therefore implore, with all humility, your majesty's most gracious interposition to relieve your suffering and afflicted subjects, mad to avert from the country the dangers to which all Its institutions' arc now exposed." Lord TEYNNABI, in rising to support the petition was happy in I the conviction that that meeting would have a proper effect upon the' • ds of his majesty's ministers, and could not fail to impress on parliament the necessity of saving the comity from impending ruin. (heat.) Had the inquiry, the necessity of which had been urged upon the government. been instituted—had there been manifested the most remote intention of even wish to listen to the cry of humanity, and to afford a remedy to the growing evil—they would not have been brought there on that occasion. Three modes were imposed for the adoption of parliament, each of which would haves' direct tendency to produce the good desired. One was that proposed by a noble lord (Aithorp), who hail connected himself with a party to which the hon. barium belonged to urge upon government the ne cessity of reducing the taxation. The other party wanted to fire at the fundhelders, and to pelt them with paper pellets. The third wished to make the fundholders and placemen pay their share.— (applause.) This last measure would have the effect of compelling those who dastardly left their country to sustain at least a share of their country's grievances --to bear some portion of the common distress—these were the measures to which he looked for relief. These were the measures which it was the duty of parliament most seriously to consider, and which ought to be adopted.- -(hear, hear.) He would recommend them to be unanimous, and impress upon parliament the absolute necessity which obliged them to take into their timely and serious conakieration the petition of the people of Bent. The noble lord concluded by seconding the address. Mr. Lwaxix moved an amendment, which he had no objection to have affixed to the address, provided it met the approbation of the mvvtins. It was as follows : " That in the opinion of this meeting most of the causes of the distress which now prevails so generally in the country arise not more from the want of a total reform in the Commons House of Parliament than from the tithe system, as it at present exists, which is calculated to produce the must injurious consequences upon all, and upon the agriculturists in particular, being in reality and beau fide a tax upon industry, and to injure the cause of religion in general, by producing discord and disunion between the chigyman and his parishioners. The meeting, therefore, considers it incum bent upon the government to abolish that oppressive and abominable I system. Mr. BENTLEY rose to second the amendment, but spoke In so low a tore of voice us to render what he said scarcely audible. He con lamed of the tithe system as impolitic and unjust— (The speaker sat down amidst much contusion, and cries of" Question.") The II ton Sur itirr informed the meeting that be was going to put Mr. Larkins's amendment to the noble earl (Stanhope's) mo tion. He wished them to understand that the question he was about to put was, whether they would adopt Mr. Larkins's petition. The amendment was then put, and, on a show of hands, declared to be carried. 3lr BRADLEY then lOW to propose a petition to the House of Commons, describing the dimes to be so great as to prevent indl. viduals from paying the existing taxes, ascribing the sufferings of the people, in a great degree, to the alteration of the currency ; and praying fur relief, and also for a reform in Parliament, by which their just weight in the legislature Haight be r.stored to the people of England. Sir WILLIAM COSWAY next addressed the meeting. He said that he stood forward that day as the farmer and labourer's friend, and that as such he did not think that some of the measures that had been proposed were likely to afford the relief that was contem plated. Hc wee, however, to second the petition of his friend Alr. Bradley. He would occupy as little of the time of the meeting as possible. He was there as the advocate of the farmer and of the labouring classes: their distress was so great that all personal I feelings of distaste to assuming a prominent position must yield. foe farmers, as a class, were ruined ; their last capital was expended. The labourers could no longer live by the sweat of their brow: the productive classes paid far too great a proportion of the public burthen. And what was the cause? The earth was, or ought to be, as productive as she formerly was. Every thing was cheaper, and yet all classes were in distress. Cheap corn was not the cause in 1825, when all seemed flourishing t corn was then 70s. a quarter. and now it was little more than 50s. All were in misery. rite real cause he was Inclined to attribute to the state of money, by which all things were valued. All ago and all na tions have proved fotced alterations in the currency to be attended wits, great- distress and misery, and in peas,vasiatioas in prices Alajor 11 are r. said, it. visa net his. intention 19 atUreos the meet. log, or to say a syllable on the subject which they had met to din cues, had not the petition that he had just heard read entirely neg lected to say one word about the cliumh property. As there w. 116 great failing shout it he would, therefore, have the honour to pro pose an amendment to that petition relative to that property. Lord TEYNH•III remarked to the Hi g h Sheriff than the present was an amended petition. The HIGH SHERIFF Raid he understood it to be such. Major WAITE then read his petition, the ;UrlO;W which (is it is by far too long to admit of insertion) we understood to t i e comprised In a recommendation to the ministry that they should take the reversions of all the church property into their own hatals as the present holders died, and that in future the bishops should tie paid at the rate of SAW. per annum, and the deans. prebends, and minor clergy, at the rate of from 31.00/. to POI. per annum : none to be less nor any more than those two sums, to be apportio n tu according to the population of their respective cures. Mr. Ourrxixo immediately rose and seconded the petition. Mr. Omits declared, ihat it the petition 1111111 s put to the meeting he for one could not hold up his hand in support of a measure which went to rob a class of individuals of what was their undoubted pro. petty; and they might just as well recommend to Parliament to abstract from him his private property as to take front the clergy their tithes, which were their possessions.—(Loud cries or • No, no,. and great confusion.) The Earl of WINCIIIILSEA then addressed the assembly, amidst loud cheers on all sides. He could assure them that there was no one who was more impressed with the fact that a great and pressing distress existed not only in Kent, but extended all over the county t , that was not partial, as the ministers had boldly but falsely asserted at the opening of Parliament, but that was universal—(hear) - and that preyed upon every interest, both commercial and agricultitral, of this once flourishiug kingdom. (Bravo.) The great and leading object of this and similar meetings was to remove the film from the obscure visions of the ministers, and to impress on them that the distress of the country was of that character and na ture as to call for some immediate and important measure for its re lief. One of the great &Lilo; of gmernment, and that which had most tended to aggravate the distress, was the enormbuo increase of the debts and engagements of the country untlet the change in the currency. Two-thirds of the debt of the country had been con. tracted in a depreciated paper currency, and the public were now paying 20s. for what they had received but 15s. This he had al ways said, and would continue to maintain, for no measure ever sanctioned by the legislature had ever been so productive of fraud or robbery than that which he had named. He was inclined to the imposition of a moderate property tax, which would have the effect of compelling every wealthy individual to contribute to wards the support of the country. The absentees drew from this country seven millions, which they expended in the cheaper luxuries of foreign countries. If that was spent at home they would contri bute, either directly or indirectly, to the taxes of the country about four millions. lie agreed with Mr. Hipps in his assertion that the property of the church could not be considered as national property. The clergy, as a body, had, as far as his own knowledge extended, come forward as liberally and as chatitably in behalf of the suf ferers under the present difficulties as could have been expected from them. (" Hear, hear," " No, no.") That reform was no visionary project he was prepared to prove; he could not shut his eyes to the abit.es that had crept in amongst the forms of electing the reptesentativea of the people and when the ques tion of reform came forward he would he found at his post, a steady advocate in its support, and, though a member of die upper house, and as such had no right to be put on his trial, yet he would chal lenge scrutiny on all the measures that he had ever voted or spoken in favour of, and his own conscience hail never accused him of any dereliction from the path of duty. He should feel it to be his duty to support the petition of his hon. friend Mr. Gipps, and if that were carried should move an :addition to it of the following par. port :—" That the Honourable Home of Commons should not se parate without having instituted an inquiry into the state of the re. presentation of the people. for the purpose of ascertaining whether the people of England had a fair, full, and just weight and influence in the Commons House of Parliament." The HIGH Stmitirr then read the various petitions before the meeting in the following order :—Mr. Bradley's two petitions, one to the Commons. the other to the Lords, seconded by Sir W. (4 0% . bie ; Major Waite's petition, supported by 31r. ()uotting ; Mr. Hipps's ditto, supported by Lord M inchiliwa, with an amendment to be proposed by his lordship. Mr. HON Y WOOD, M.P. for the county, next obtained the atten tion of the meeting. He wits inclined to say that the members of the House of Commons acted without any responsibility to their constituents. As it was at present constituted, it was any thing but a represet.tation of the people of England. When 150 persons could return a majority in that house, could it be pretended that it was a re presentation of Kngland ? As one of the people his rights were too dear to him to suffer such an interference of that nature. He should expect, not a future protector, but a future king, to enter the house as Cromwell did with his band of armed soldiers, and say " Take away that bauble." The king had no right to interfere, and he should oppose such interference with all his might. The thou bmeater then put Mr. Bradley's two petitions to the meeting, and both were carried by a show of hands. Sir W. Canaan! moved that the two members for the county should be requested to present the petitions to the House of Commons. Earl STANHOPE seconded him. Sir E. KNATcust.Tu. and Mr. HohrETwoop expressed their intentions to present the petitions. and to support them. Sir. W. CROIRIE moved that Earl Stanhope be requested to carry the petition to the House of Lords, and that the noble lords who were present should be requested to support it. Earl STANHOPE pledged his support to the petition, and hoped to have greater success than on a former night when the distress of the country had been the subject of a motion his. The Hum Sit EXIT'S' then put an amendment of Mr. Bentley's, which had been brought forward at a early stage of the proceedings, relative to an appropriation of the tithes. It was carried. Mr. Em.rs brought forward a petition to the House of Commons praying for a repeal of the malt and hop duties. Sir W. Caosit E seconded the petition, %dick when put. was car ried unanimously. Mr. BRADLEY moved that the High Sheriff should be requested to sign both petitions.—('arried. Earl Srastmore then moved the thanks of the Meeting to the High Sheriff; for his impartial, candid, and manly conduct in the chair that day. The noble Lord expatiated in glowing and very just language on the merits of Mr. Rice, and concluded by pro. posing the thanks with three times three, which was executed cos aritere by the multitude. The HIGH SHERIFF returned thanks, and dissolved the Meet ing, which separated in the most orderly manner. whole business was conducted in the most creditable and praiseworthy style. such as became the occasion of a great cout.ty assembling in order to press on the attention of Government the ne cessity of endeavouring to afford some alleviation to burthens which were so oppressive and so patiently sustained. The whole business concluded by half-past five o'clock. COVENT GARDEN THEATRICAL FUND FESTIVAL. Yesterday the Fourteenth Public Anniversary Festival of this excellent Fund, which was instituted the lid of Decemb.l, 1765, and confirmed by an Act of the Legislature in 1766, for the purpose of supporting indigent and infirm actors and actresses, and relieving their widows and children, was celebrated in tite ifeetna. sons' Hall, (heat Queen-street, Lincoln'i.inn•fields. His Royal Highness the Duke of CLARENCE in the Casir. At twenty minutes to seven o'clock his Royal Highness entered the room ; and amongst the noble and distinguished persons who accompanied him, sniidst the cheers of the most crowded 11111 we ever witnessed on similar occasions, were— _ _ The Duke of St. Alban's Varquis of Clanricarde Lord A. ' Beauclere. }arl Charleville Lord both, Lord A. lull, Lord Kane lag!) General Phipps, Sir Coutta Trotter, G. Bing, Esq. M. P., Lord William Lenox, Sir Andrew Barnard, Beaumont, Esq. M. P. Janes Goding, Esq. &c. &c As soon as the cloth was removed, " Nen noble. Douai's.," was sung by the following professional gentlemen : Leete. Stansbury, Knyvett, Tyrrell, Evans, Duruser, Bedford, Murky, Bellamy, C. Taylor, and Master Phillips. The BOVA!. CHAIRMAN then introduced in a neat speech 't the health of his Majesty " handing over to the treasurer the annual donation of one hand red guineas to the society. (Loud and con tinued applause.) I he ROYAL CHAIRMAN then called the attention of the corn. ' pany to the business for which they were assembled, viz.—" The Covent Garden Theatrical Fund." lids royal highness, ett :et trout the density of the room, or front cold (u..der which we regret to state, his royal highness appeared to be libouring), could not be beard distinctly In the centre of the room where we were placed, and therefore as we could not eerier what we did not hear, we must of necessity any that his royal highness appearid to be nowt enthusiastic in the cause; indeed nothing could more strongly evinci that feeling than his subscription of 301, in an afirr pure of evening. He concluded, however, with proposing " The Civebi. Garden Theatrical Fund, and sucetss to it"-- (loud and continued cheers.) 3latbews, the councilian,who had come from Manche ter expressly for the purpose of assisting in . adding rat!CITY to the t REAllt; ir of the Food, then sang a new comic song, which was given with , great spirit, and a couplet ending with Great Martial, •—•••"•••••-•'..-..-... distresses partial," tickled John Bull in such a manner, that althnugli it w.is at hit own expense, the " raw spectators" thought pour John would auffireate laughing at himself. The comic huutour Ala the song. urd the singer called aloud a hearty ea core,. and.the Royal Chairman. Who hair been indulging in laughter at its win and spirit, said at the COCOS*. being vociferated through the MOM. " Mathews, I must second (11 vat laughter.) I e song was then encored, and nag, If possible, with 04. tonal spint by this inimitable artist. The Duke of thr. AI.IIAN'S, in a!ery brief speech, pr0p...4 the • healtn of his Royal Highness the Duke of Clvvvet, which was amok with the moat enthusiastic applause ; and ROYAL CHAIRMAN returned thanks, saying he was greatly gmtilied and peculiarly delighted, not only at the manner in *hick ids stealth had been proposed, received. and drunk, but to see so tc oe•lon an institution supported and surrounded by wealth, talent, and retEectability.—(Loud applause.) The Korai. CHAIRMAN next propo sed after many well-turn.) con.plimenta, s. The health of the Treasurer of the Fund -31 r, fat , cett." (Cheers.) As soon ',silence could be obtained., Mr. FAWCETT rose to return thanks. This Fund. ht "aid, a s , particularly conducive to the motel character of the stage. In 1816 they could only calculate on 411 W. per vinous ; stow the anrual re venue is nearly 1,2001. They were able to assist every de.ervi yl . claimant, without strictly abiding by the cold formalities of their. laws; this had raised the stage to be the envy, not the scorn. ..f other protes.iona—ha members should be no longer the tawit of the illiberal. The annuities allowed at present were from 2s'. to p;. and he thought it t estimable to raise these rates, if it could be dose without shaking the establishment. The CHAIRMAN next proposed. "the Proprietors of Coven?. Garden Theatre, and prosperity to the Establishment." Mr. CHARLES KIMBLE observed, facetiously, that th e p ro p r l . totes must be at a loss, indeed, for an orator, when they selected hats to be their advocate.—(laughter and applause) He trusted that sir Establishment and the kund would always prosper * under tit:. patronage of their Illustrions and Royal Chairman, whose health and life he hoped Clod would preserve long to preside over them.-- (applause.) His ROYAL HIGHNESS then stated that it was with feelings of peculiar pride and gratification he had to annonnee, that the amount • of the subscription just handed to him was no less a sum than Twelve Hundred and Twenty thre • Po urds.—(leud and continued applause.) Hiss Royal 11:glalco. proposed the of ti " TrusteLs of the Fund." AIL FAWCETT returned thanks it th. name of himself, of S:r ('out's Trotter, and Sir Edmund Antrohus, complimenting those gentlemen upon their disinter, strd conduct fur taking upo them. selves the trouble of the financial matters of the Ford 'dolma iLe slightest profit attending it (hear. hear'). 3lr. T. l'ooK next sang his Muck I . alian' %'n•, accompanying himself, which effort is well known, and niet wane and served applause. . _ The eitakin MAN in n neat introductory speech, next proposAl the " Health of bliss Fanny Keinttle," which was drank with iirniense cheering. and . _ _ Mr. C. KEIIIII.F. (whose feelings were Pearly overcome by t 1..- enthusiastic ett.nner in which the neal:h of his daughter was pto posed by his Royal Highness. and received by the company) sc . knowledged the honour conleind upon Miss Fanny Kenabl.:, kerns confining honour upon his head and heart. Mona. Laporte and MOM. limier were present. Her Grace the Duchess of St. Alban% suit a :ur. wry to tie with her " beat wishes." Hitt Royal Highnetta did not depart Int , il a lwe hour, and wit. hilarity, and sociality, and an interchange of generous and kind!, feelings, were exhibited to the Lt.t, all ap eating to he staunch berenta to the immortal Billy, and determined to follow his precqe, by " holding the mirror up to nature," and " nothing ex tettua:, or set down aught In malice." POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILD - 11A 1.1.. _ ... Yesterday, Sarah 1% - orris, a middle-aged woman, in the serf of Messrs. Pallister, Wilkinson, and Pearce, warehousenien, Paul's Church-yard, was charged with having carried on an ex. tensive system of plunder tor above a year past ; and John Jones, her brother-in-law, for receiving and disposing of the property. During the last twelve months goods had been missed from the warehouse from time to time. On Monday a piece of silk having been mimed, the prisoner, who was suspected, was pies. tioned ; but she denied all knowledge of it. Her sister, who had been employed in the house as charwoman was then applied to. She became greatly alarmed, and offered 101. to make all right. She was asked if she could get the silk back, and she said she could get two pieces. Hcr husband was then apprehended, and from his statement it appeared that he had been in possession of four pieces of silk, one of which he had sold in Golden-lane for 5/. They were worth 40/. Jones afterwards stated, that he had handed 501. to Norris as the sums he had obtained for the goods he sold : from the manner in which he disposed a them it is believed the goods must have been worth 4or 5001. In Norris's box 35 sove reigns were found, 25 of which she admitted was the produce of the stolen property • and at Jones's lodgin g s : 8 sovere i gns were found. Neither of the Prisoners made any defence, and they were remanded till Tuesday. BOW-STREET.Er.otrisExT •a, SEVEN TUOITSAND SOLID R MASONS row MARRYING —Yesterday a man named WHO,. who is beadle and constable of Chiswick, was charged at this Office with having illegally entered the dwelling house of Mr. George Eydeman, at Chiswick, on Wednesday last, and also with having forcibly entered the house of Mr. Eytkinan's sister, and with committing an assault upon George Eydeman and Charles .Eydeman. Mr Harmer atter.ded on the part of the prosecution, and he stated that the conduct of this country constable had been not only illegal, but it was accompanied with acts of extreme violence. For a con siderable period Charles Eydeman, a young man, 23 years of age, who resided at Chiswick with his father, a respectable tradesman, had paid his addresses to a Al iota Maria Smith, the daughter of an opulent baker of the same plane. The young woman, on the eve of last St. Valentine's day, left het parents' h ouse , at a l ate h our, and eloped with Charles hdeman, who, leaving a sincere affection for her, acted in the most honourable manner, and as soon as the publications which the law required had taken place be mar. tied her. The marriage was not made known to the friends of the young woman, and they, supposing that she was living In • state of concubinage with young Eydeman, employed the defendant to ascertain the place where she was concealed. Ile went to the house of the prosecutors on Wednesday last, and. without having a war. rant, he broke into Mr. George Eydeman's house, and also the house next door, occupied by hit sister; and he assaulted Mr. C. Eydeman and also his itrother. and broke the windows and the fastenings off four doors. The assaults could be distinctly proved, • and all that was required was that the defendant should find bail to answer the charges at the sessions. 31rs. Smith, a respectable middle aged woman, burst into tears, and said that she some time ago forbid young Eydeman front visit. ing her daughter. Mr. : That was of no use; you should have made her a ward of Chancery, if you p tseesstil the means. Wright: They have 30 0001. at their cotnnta•td at any time. Mr. 111 u utttiu. : You must put in bail for the two assaults. • Mr. Harmer: 1 will take rare that he shall be indicted. A correspondent writes this day : —" The abuses of the Marshalsea or Palace (7otirt Is abJut to be looked ilto. There ate but a limited number allowed to . practice in the Court, and the greater part of those are Jews. It It is rather singular this Court should have been over looked, as it i 4 a well known fact, that there are more sent to prison by process issuing out of this Court than , any other, anti that for very , paltry debts." In the Insolvent Debtors Court yesterday, Richard minis. a " merchant," or he described himself, late of Walnut. tree-walk, lambeth, was opposed by an upholsterer, named Satin. ders. In the latter end o: 1828 the Insolvent obtained from Met . Saunders furniture to th • amount of 741. ro d h e p rom i se d to pay ready-money for it on its delivery at hit house m Ebury.strett, Pimlico. The goods le iv sent home a cording to his desire. and in three weeks after, when Mr. Sauneent callel tier raysnent, the in. solvent was nut to be found, ant the goods in the Louse were in the • pos.ession of a person 111101.11 Flight, under a boll of sale. The in.. - solvent was sentenced to eight month.' imprittonment. • OUDitititzt• Me RUE liS.—At the eiose of the trial,. given on our first page, the parties accused ef Ming concerned iq the Oddingley murder. were reconyeyed to the prison, but 'idol an undtrwanulog Ilea they wen to be cieyclatad the following moro n ing. Annexed is a cop:, of the record made in this case •• Thomas Odes, Joliet Barnet. a: d Geroge Banks. standing M- I dicod as acceseuriey to a murder. Yu: the principal (elm not having IMen bred. and bein A now clad, seal the prisoners thererort et ' dining to plead, they arc to by discharged " it will lie iies•t% front Nu shove that the eiretrinsiancts under which they ate liberated ate peculiar. Tite indictment charging the • G't tee still exisoi; at Il.e I charge may at any time be br u u e b t to trial sl:utA thee see fit to toner forward and challenge impt try by pleatliog •• no' guilty." This, los. er•r, they are nut lis.ely to do. and without it they are shelter e d by las. Banks and Barnett, Our an interred 'with sty , . rot Of the n.oc trate*, in which dey woe athlete! to quit the titan quieffy, at da. . early as they could, were discharged abcte clean c'r'ook ILO ntot ing. They had to pass out of the prison iliettiot.h the patrway,slii.re ethic': the gallows was then taxed on white Litho. I Teti was 5140..1 tO suffer to nor ler. &vela! friends 'attended to etc, ivi • tin wt. is whose company it was generally understood they hi nudiately left the town. • (,lower; at his ooe /quest as he did not I,lize to face the crowd which was then coltUctiog at witntkalhe'itplins shire/ to cw lion. was allowed es rrtiutip till ilie t iday, at to o l,, be dread sentenced the taw was canted iota •fiict on tie top ott ti e pismire's of ibrepouss) of ,woo v .sier• e mot, ss.:ta 'sir s of a llfie.a,/ 7. d, convicted or nuiethting a %roams niched sit (O 6&, ails whe ts oateitiabiorl, by throwing her slows a 44.0. 1