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able witnesses. Satchi's arrival in the night tithe with the is. patch from General Pine, was a story which, like Malachi, he had also entirely to himself. Next came the case to which he bad now particularly to direct the attention of their Lordships, the ease of Chanitz, which also rested on a single witness, and that wit ness De Mont. The Learned Gentleman proceeded to contrast the statement of this case, as proved by the Attorney-General, N. ith the case, as proved by De Mont's evidence. The comps = ‘tison, he said, afforded an additional proof of the malicious and c. erupt motives by which this witness was actuated ; she deceived 4:1 Learned Friends, she had stated circumstances, which by themselves made out a prima facie case of guilt, while she pur y only concealed others, Which if known, must have utterly tii.credited such an imputation. De Mont, in her examination in chief, endeavoured to show that the Princess was undressed; but in the cross-examination, the fact comes out, that the Prin cess was dressed, and that she reposed on the bed in a travelling cap, and a dress with much fur on it, until Bergarni returned with the passport, and then she put herself in motion. Not only was the Princess, but De Mont was compelled to acknowledge that she herself was laying on anothar bed in the same room. tie (the Learned Counsel) would here advert to the letter of De Mont, insinuating that persons were ready to pay her for giving evidence against the Princess, and that she was ready to /disclose or conceal all she knew, accordingly as the Princess , treated her. This was the construction his Learned Friends op. pnsite must put on that letter ; and, if that was the case, it was a threatening letter, and her Majesty shewed her own innocehee, and the consciousness that De Mont could not with truth speak one word against her ; that she did not even notice it, much lea endeavour to conciliate her good opinion, or purchase it as a guilty person would have done. In regard to the affair at Caarnitz, Lieut. Hownam states, that it was necessary to go to Inspruck for passports, and that Bergaml and Vassali went for them, and re turned very late. In a rigid cross-examination, the basis of which his Learned Friend, no doubt, had from Sacehi and De Mont, they ask him about the time, the snow, &c. but there was nothing in the evidence of Lieut. Howmun at all contradictory. In intro. during the witness Vassali, he trusted that it was no reflection on his character that he had served as a private soldier in a lloyal Guard of Honour, since, on the Continent, nothing was more common than for young men of the most respectable families serving as Guards of Honour to Sovereign Princes. Vassali says he returned from Inspruck about two or three o'clock, that he immediately went into the room of her Royal Highness, whom he found on the bed, ready dressed for her journey—that Bergami was in the room, and the little Victorine was on the sante bed with her Royal Highness.-- 'This fact De Mont artfully and wickedly concealed, although she was in the room at the time, ant" must have known it. Vas sali further stated, that he was frequently in the room during the night, and that the rest of her Royal highness's suite were passing in and out of it the whole time, before they set out on the journey. Her Royal Highness being very anxious to quit an inn which afforded so little accommodation, watched the state of the weather with much anxiety.— speaking. (To be continued in a Second Edition.) Tuesday afternoon, as the Rev. WILLIAM I'mNo, some time Minister of the Associate Congregation at Stranraer, was coming horn Auchterarder to Dun ning, he stopped to water his horse at a well, at the entry to the Market-place; while the horse was stooping to drink, the crupper of the saddle broke, and the unfortunate man tumbled headlong over the horse's neck into the well, and was killed on the spot. Medical assistance was immediately obtained ; his neck, which was found to be dislocated, was in stantly reduced, but all attempts to restore anima-' don proved ineffectual. Yestercloy the remains of JoHN HaTaltLL, Esq. late Senior Clerk of the House of Commons, were removed (torn his seat, Marden Park, near Godstnne, Surrey, for interment in the Temple Church. The procession moved in the following order : Four Mutes on horseback. Six Horsemen, in Mourning Cloaks and Scarfs. The State Lid of Feathers, attended by two Pages. The Hearse, containing the Body, with Six Horses, capari soned with velvet covering and plumes of ostrich feathers, attended by Pages. Six Mourning Coaches,with Six Horses each, attended by Pages, and followed by levers' private carriages, among which was that of the Speaker of the House of Commons. 1 1 The Chief Mourners were the Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Hots. Mr. Powys, William Ley, and Charles Hoare, Esqrs. who proceeded to the first coach. John , Jeremiah Dyson, George Whittam , and John Rick- Lei l man, ts. minded in the second carriage. Theo er carriages contained several Gentlemen belonging to the House of Commons, with some of the domestics of his household. On entering into the Great Hall in the Temple, the procession was met by the Recorder and Benchers in their full robes, together with a number of Gentle men and Officers in their gowns, and other regalia of office, when the whole proceeded in solemn proces sion to that ancient Church, where, on entering, the solemn dirge•of 44 Saurs March" was performed on the organ, and, after the funeral ceremony, the body u as deposited in the vault. Letter from an Officer of rant in Spain, dated October 2.-44 Riego, the famous chief; oho, with Quiroga, were the first to raise the standard of oppo sition to Kingly despotism, and who, from the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel last January, was raised to Mareschal de Campo in April, and Captain-General of Andalusia, was, on the 6th ult. deprived of all, his honours, and banished from the Court of Madrid to Oviedo ! It appears, on presenting himself at the metropolis, he had very publicly declared in favour of a Republican form of Government. Any party entertaining these views never can succeed. Wealth is power ; and, as the wealth of the nation is entirely in the hands of the church, monks, and grandees, it is only from than that most is to be dreaded, whose apparent interest is to support absolute monarchy.— This party contains at least two-thirds of the popu lation. The middling class, and more enlightened of the peasantry, are for the King and Constitution, as at present established. We owe the present system to the army, but it was accomplished on condition that the military code should be improved, and our pay increased. This has not yet been attended to, but if not soon, something must occur which will prove fatal to the peace of the country." The following is an extract of a letter from an Englishman, settled in Pennsylvania :—" In this country the mercantile distress is beyond any former precedent, occasioned by buying more than they can pay for, and more than the country wants. The land has been very bountiful this year; for I never saw better crops, and well got in. A dollar is 4s. 6d. sterling, and 100 cents ; wheat is now selling in Phi ladelphia at 90 cents per bushel of 62 lbs. oats, 25 cents; butter, 12i cents per lb. cheese 8 to 12; rye v hickey, 27 cents per gallon; bacon, 8 to 10 cents per lb. beef, about the same ; labourers' wages, about 7.5 cents per day; mechanics, from one dollar to one dollar 25 cents ; employment scarce." . _2 AMilium= - WIMP - 00V714W,41i1t mariNe: • Yesterday a Meeting bf the Inhabitant Meta olden of the above place, was held in the Town Halt, pursuant to a Requisition presented to - the High Bailiff, to call a Meeting fo r the purpose of considering the present alarming state of National Affairs, and to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning his Majesty to remove his - present Ministers. At a little after twelve o'clock, the High Sutliff took the Chair, and read the Requisition. The Ball was crowded to excess. . Mn S. Davis opened the business of the day. He gave an account of the reasons which had induced die Requisitionists to call the present Meeting, and represented, in strong colours, the •alarming aspect which the national affairs began to assume, and of the necessity which existed with maid to the mid dling classes to step forward, and by the strong ma nifestation of their opinion against the proceedings of his Majesty's Ministers obtain their dismissal, and, by a change of measures, avert the fearful storm which was gathering. The speaker concluded by sub mitting to the Meeting a series of Resolutions. Mr. JOHN Ewes rose to second the Resolutions. Before proceeding to the business of the day, he was happy to state, that, by order of the High Bailiff, every person was prohibited from entering the Hall, except resident householders in the Borough; an or der which had been strictly enforced. He was glad of this, as it would put to silence the clamour of cer tain public writers. For himself, he now begged leave t., assure the Meeting, that this was The first time in his life that he had ever signed an anti-nli. nisterial Requisition—(Hear, hear,)—but he felt that the present moment was one which called for the ex pression of public feeling. The conduct of Ministers had been marked by various acts which shewed how unfit they were for the public confidence and public service---(Applause). He (Mr. Ellice) perceived such an increasing irritation in the minds of all classes of people, that, if a reformation did not soon take place, a revolution would—(App!au.ee). He thought that the Ministers ought to take the hint from the accu mulating difficulties, and retire. The speaker then spoke of the insecurity of the Public Funds, and de clared that the National Debt could not stand unless the interest was reduced. He called upon all who had property which they wished to go down to their children, or to serve as their solace in old age, to step boldly forward and put a stop to the present system, which was endangering all property. He declared that all funded property, under the present system of Government, had its foundation on a sand-bank, which was daily giving from under it. This system could only be averted by the powerful in property coming forward, and by a load and general manifestation of opinion cause their Sovereign to awake, souse himself; land by a change of men and measures save the State. A Resolution was then put, to tale effect that it was the opinion of the Meeting that his Majesty's Minis ters had grossly misconducted themselves in the ex ercise of the power intrusted to them. It was put and carried, there being but three dissentient hands held up against it. The second Resolution charged the Ministers with having, by a total disregard of economy, by profu sion and waste in the expenditure, added to the bur dens of the manufacturing, agricultural, and labour ing classes of the community. It was carried unani mously; as was also the fourth Resolution, declaring that Ministers were determined to sacrifice every thing to preserve their places and power, for the gra tification of a precarious and unprincipled ambition. Mr. A ItROWSMITH came forward, and spoke against any Address being presented to his Majesty in the present state of affairs, as highly premature. If ever there was a time when the people ought to remain perfectly quiescent, he thought it was the present—(Loud cries of No, no). He was cf opinion that they ought to remain quiescent until the Bill of Pains and Penalties was committed for a third read ing, when every man in the kingdom ought to come forward. The speaker then entered into an exami nation of the proceedings against the Queen, when he was called to order, as travelling out of the business of the Requisition. Several other Resolutions, enumerating the mis conduct of his Majesty's Ministers, by whom the per sonal character of the Sovereign bad been degraded —that the remedy for public evils would be a change of Ministers and a Reform of Parliament, which Re -form, sooner or later, was inevitable—and that an humble Petition should be presented to his Majesty, calling upon him to remove his present Ministers, as unworthy of their situations—were severally put and carried.—The Address, which was almost an echo of the Resolutions, was then read. Mr. BuTtea said he wished to ma*a few obser vations before the question was put. Looking at the present calamitous state of this once-fiourishing and happy country, he thought it was no time for bandy ing compliments, and he should therefore make no apology for occupying a short portion of their valu able time. The state of the country was truly alarm- , ing, and all the habits of social intercourse, for which the people of this country were once distinguished, were now converted into a system of mutual - age and distrust. He would yield to no man,egitia ever exalted his rat*, in love of his country, in loy alty to the King, and in attachment to those princi ples which seated •his family upon the Throne. He respected the institutions of his country; but, in the same ratio as he venerated those institutions, he ab horred and detested the corruptions which had crept into them—corruptions that contanainated not only the sources of legislation, but the fuuutain of justice itself. If any person entertained a doubt on this sub ject, let him look.to the manner in which a large majo rity of the House of Commons was constituted, and then lay his hand on his heart and say whether he be lieves them to be faithful Representatives of the People. Ile might exclaim, in the language of Sir George Sreile, they are no more the Representatives of the People of England than they are the Representatives of the People of France—(Laughter and applause).— This was a weighty consideration at all times, but especially so when they were met to petition his Ma jesty to dismiss his Ministers. The system was ra dically corrupt and radically vicious ; nothing, there fore, would avail but a radical change of measures, for a change of Ministers could' not save the coun try. The present Administration might be well, characterised in the language of 'Sir William Draper --i• They were an ignorant, mercenary, servile crew, diligent in mischief, variable in principle, talkers for the Caul party. ear sl i s S :..p 4 Ple's only A truly patriotic Minister wade it the first object of his ambition 'too scatter plenty through i smiling land:" but the histort of our, Ministers: instead of being read in the prosperity of a grateful nation, was d only in the calamities of a fantishhig popula tion. In hii opinion; it made little diffilreuce whe-' tier the hard earnings of the people were wrung (tom thins by a Torror a Whig Adtniniitration. He Concluded by moving . as an amendment, that his Majesty would be graciously pleased to give his con idenee to no man •who did not enjoy the unlimited and undivided confidence of tlfupeople. . Sir ROBERT WILSON opposetrthe Amendment, and said that it was impossible to form an Administration which should possess the entire confidence of the People. But, if ever the manifestation of .general opinion should induce his Majesty to change his Min fosters, the dread of the same manifestation of opinion would possess sufficient power to controul any new Administration which he should choose to form.— He thought it absurd to talk of remaining quiescent during the present state of affairs. The Ministers would pass the Bill beyond remedy, if not vigorously opposed. He expressed his most hearty concurrence with the Resolutions proposed, and declared that he would support them to the utmost of his power and abilities. The gallant General complained that the motives of public men were frequently suspected by some writers, and unfair constructions put upon them even by writers who professed to be the champions of public liberty, and who thus took every occasion to throw the brand of discord amongst the friends of freedom. He declared upon his honour that he bad not been influenced by any other consideration than the public good in all his public actions. He then took a review of the proceedings against the Queen, in the course of which he stated that he had it from one of the Members of the Secret Committee that the depositions laid before that body were totally differ ent from the parole evidence adduced at the Bar of the House. Sir Robert commented with much force on the various proceedings. He declared that it had been said, that nothing should prevent the Ministers from passing the Bill and degrading the Queen, however innocent she might be, in order that she might be got out of the country. Now this would be an act of lawless violence, which never should, whilst he had life, be carried into execution unresisted ! ( Loud cheers). It was said that it was not necessary that the Queen should be proved guilty in order to be degraded. There were others, with equally wicked designs, who, howev‘r, wished to cover their purposes under the pretext of evidence and judicial forms,— They, allowing that all the evidence against the Queen has been disproved, that not a charge remains unanswered, fix, however, on the statement of Lieu tenant Hownam, as to the sleeping in her clothes ia a tent, within three feet of the steersman, on the deck of a vessel, the crew of which was composed of a description of persons amongst whom her Majesty's safety, if left alone, could not be secure. It was nothing with these supporters of the Bill that all the other abominable falsehoods, of kissing on the deck, of the bath scene, had not been established—it went for nothing with them that her Majesty herself desired that the awning should be altogether removed when she found it impeded the motion of the vessel, and that she was willing to remain at night on the deck exposed to the inconveniencies of a Mediterranean atmosphere. All these considerations lost their importance, be. ea ise, though for six years there was not a proof to establish an adulterous intercourse, her Majesty left the stench and sultry heat of her cabin, to repose ender an awning on the deck of a polacca—. (Cheers). Yet on this one point the enemies of the Queen have determined to fix the success of their Bill. The great Marlborough- once said, that " politicians often con cluded treaties that were not worth the fife of a single grenadier." He (Sir Robert) would ask those who were thus determined, whether their object was worth the life of a single citizen? And yet.if their Trea sury orders should command that Bill to.pass, in the present feeling of the country, who did not believe that such orders would be the death-warrant of thou sands?' It was for that reason that he implored that Meeting to lead in the expression of the public voice —( Loud and continued applause). Mr. BUTLER asked "Si Robert Wilson whether Lord Hutchinson had not been sent , over to Saint Omer's by the Whigs to treat for them? Sir Rosser NVILsow pledged his honour that that event was contrary to the wish, and without the con currence, of the Whigs. The Amendment proposed by Mr. Burt.za was then put and negatived. The Petition, as it originally stood, was afterwards put, and carried unanimously. Mr. S. Dews moved, that the Petition should be presented to his Majesty on the first Levee day, by the High Bailiff, attended by the two Members for the Borough of Southwark.—The Resolution was carried unanimously. • Thanks were voted to the High Bailiff and to Sir Rosser WiLsow, who returned thanks, when the Meeting broke up. COVENT-GARDEN EATIt ••••-. We so recently noticed the Play of Cystbdine, the way in which it was cast, the sympathy with which-it was received, and the application made of some of its passages to the conduct of the Qualm's prosecutors, that we caul now state nothing more than that last night it was acted with greater spirit, and received with more rapturous approbation. The audience, as formerly, made a running comment of applause on all those , parts that referred to the villainy of ladtineo. When this villain comes from the trunk in Intogen's bed room, there was a cry of " Ompteda! Ompteda !" from some persons in the pit ; and his declaration, at last, that —• He had belied a lady, The Princess of this country," was received with innuense applause, and the waving of hats and handkerchiefs. • NEW SILVER COINAGE.—On the new coinage of half-crowns to be' issued forthwith, the obverse , im pression is to bear the portraiture of his present MA assrir, with the inscription, 4 , George MI. D.G. Bri • isawar Rea. F. D." and on the reverse, the ensigns armorial of the United Kitlgdom,, contained in a shield surmounted by the Royal Crown, the Rose, Thistle, and Shamrock, being placed round theshield' with the word 44 Anse" and the date of the year,—' and .the edge with ths /Taiping wictcia tkg kcias of hiz late MAJEST Y: • ••• . v , as IP dimmonallommmi • • "COURT OF KINGS BENCit, OCTOBER g 4, DOLLY AND ANOTiiint t» anitmcike: nil was an action to recover the afnount of a I s & Hey of Insutithcf, itedell on the khip Seaman, bound from Hull to aay pots of loading ih the Baltic. the insurance was effected at the rate of two guipeas and, a half per cent. in September, 1818. On the Sd of October, the ship began to take in goods at Hull, for Blsineur ; whence she was to proceed to DAntzic, and afterwards to Pillau. On the 23d of October, the vessel sailed from Hull for Blsineur y where, on her arrival, she unloaded part of her cat go. On the 15th of December she arrived at Dantzic, and also unloaded goods. On the 19th of the same month, she set sail for Pillau, and on her voyage thither, was wrecked on the 21st. The defence was, that although the insurance was effected generally to any port of loading in the 1311- tic, yet it appeared that no goods had been taken in at the ports at which the vessel touched, but, on the contrary, that goods had been unloaded. The Court here suggested the propriety of putting the particulars of the transaction into a case, as the action turned wholly upon a question of law, viz. Whether, in the case of an insurance effected on a . vessel to touch at different ports, for the purpose of loading, she was entitled to go to those ports, not for the puipose of loading, but for the purpose of discharging ? The Counsel shoconferred together, and finally agreed, that the pientiffs should have a verdict of £5OO, subject to a case. DE TASTET b. BORDENAIP. This was an issue from the Court of Chancery, to try whether the plaintiff, Mr. Firmin De Tastet was a partner in the house of the defendant, under the firm. of Bees, Bordenaif, and Co. on the Ist of Ja nuary, 1810. The parties are uncle and nephew. The most striking circumstance in the cause was, that the uncle and nephew being both put into the witness's box, swore in opposition to each other's tes timony, leaving no alternative to the Jury but to find, by their verdict, that one or other of the parties had deviated from -the truth. Mr. Justice BAYLEY, in summing up the-evidence, observed, that in commercial trahsactions thet e-might • be one bargain between the parties, and ahother as to the Public ; and in the present case, the plaintiff might be really a partner, though not held out as such to the world. The Jury retired for an hour, and then returned a special verdict, findinethat a partnership existed, but that it was not a beneficial one for the plaintiff; which is substantially in favour of the defendant. The Synod of Aberdeen have appointed the seconJ Wednesday of NOvember next to be observe) in all the Churches and Chapels of ease within their bounds, as a day of thanksgiving to Acsttourx GOD, for the good harvest and plentiful crop. By his Majesty's sloop Soine, arrived at Ports mouth from Jamaica, the most distressing accounts of the mortality on board the different ships on that station have been received. The &mute lost many of her men, and the following Officers :—Lieutenant G. S. Burnett ; Peter Duncan, Captain's Clerk ; John Scott, Carpenter; Mr. Herbert, Boatswain; Messrs. Stisted, Singer, and Beamich, Midshipmen ; Mr."Clumes, Assistant Surgeon. The TAMAR, Cap tain Stowe, had lost a great number of her men, aka also Lieutenant Blackford, and Mr. Leeds, Midship man. The 'Nu m{ had sailed for Halifax, and was got quite healthy ; the EURYALUS, Captain Huskic son, was healthy; as were also all the (Aber ships of the squadron when the SOPHIB FOROZRY ON TUR ANDOVZR OLD BALK. — At the close of Weyhill Fair, several notes of the An dover Old Bank were passed in Andover and the neighbourhood, by a numerous pArty of villains, who were fortunately detected soon after they had commenced their operations. Many of the utterers were taken into custody, and several escaped during the night. Four of the prisoners are committed to the County Gaol, and the others are remanded for a further examination. DARING OUTRAGE.—On Sunday evening, about half-past five, as a Gentleman was proceeding through Newcastle -street, Strand, on his way to a friend's house to dinner, he was surrounded by a gang of thieves, who,with the most inhuman violence, knocked ' him to the ground. They then attempted to rob him of his watch, but the chair. breaking, they got its appendages only, with which they ran precipitately off. Some persons coming up immediately after, had the Gentleman conveyed to a neighbouring Surgeon's, where his head, which was shockingly cut, was dresseg ; he was afterwards taken home in i hackney-coach, where he now lies dangerously ill. Bow-ariarr.—Yearday, a young man of decent appearance, named Groves, was brought in custody from St,. Martin's watch-house, under the following novel circumstances:—The charge entered at the watch-house was, that the defendant used ;Allem matory language. Serjeant Wilson, ofthe Ist Guards, stated, that he went into a public-house in St. Mar tin's-lane, on Sunday evening, tad saw the prisoner and others, who were talking of the Peninsula war. The prisoner, in the course of conversation, said, that the Ist Guards ran away at Bayonne. To this wit ness replied, that the Ist Guards were drawn off by itilt the Duke, of Wellington, and replaced by another tor. ps, and that they did not run away. The pri- inner, in reply to this, declared that the Noble Duke was a he , and a —, which was proved at Sa lamanca, ima he was going intct a detail of that tle, when the witness went away, and reported what he had heard to Captain Hunter, at the guard house, who ordered two drill Serjeants to " fetch the fellow." They accordingly to the public house with the witness, and fought the prisoner be fore Captain Hunter, who sent for a Constable, and had 'him conveyed to the watch-house.—Mr. BiRKLI, 0 And is this allr--Serjeant, " Yes, Sir.",--Mr. Bin* NIX (with much surprise), " Why, Ssrjeant, you have acted extremely wrong—you had no right to take him up for this'—Wilson said, he thought it was his duty. The prisoner, with great warmth, said, that the complainant bad given him the lie, that they - ' , tangled, and in the midst of it Wilson went our, returned very shortly with two Serjeants, who + him i g the collar, tore his clothes, and dragged . .. ut pt. Hunter... The case was dismissed. , ' - 'IC' • II ■ ~~ Ft( - - • . J --:r ' Al