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s resolution with regard to the mode of administering the Prevk Govern- tient, which, if it have no other characteristic, has doubthiss that of riginality. They inform Count Capo d'lstrias, in one Hue, that the 'l7 Sovereign shall be a " young Prince—meaning, we presume, .3 it - ;lon ; and, in the next, they have decreed, that the said young iirince shall never come to years of discretion ; because they announce 0 Count Capo d'lstrias, that he i to be the guide and Mentor of the aforesaid Sovereign during his (Capo d'lstrias's) life. If such be really the determination of the Allied Governments, it would aceonnt for, nd semi to authenticate, a report which has been circulated, that :ercral " young Princes" in succession had refused the Throne of s.reece, after Prince Leopold's renunciation of it. Humble as we are, C should not greatly covet a throne, on which Count Capo d'lstrias, in his quality of Mentor, was to keep us tied, neck and heels, to the tal of his natural existence. The design of the letter, nevertheless, is liberal and encouraging to Greece ; though (as will be observed by lur manner of treating it) we more than doubt its authenticity. Cliaostso.2.—We have had some conversation with intelligent na. lye; of Brunswick now in London, on the subject of the late disturb- Inas in that place. They all agree that the Duke is not insane, but Jiat he is excessively depraved, and a perfect Nero in disposition. The small territory of Brunswick is one of the most flourishing in Ger many ; and, though the population of the Duchy is only about MO,OOO, it contains a number of thriving and comparatively populous towns, the capital, Brunswick, having 32,500, Wolienbuttel 6,800, and llelnstadt 5,259 inhabitants. The wrctch who has at length exhausted the patience of the inhabitants, has been guilty of every sort of robbery and traud. Letters were seized aii,the post-office, their contents appropriated without ceremony,and he carried his effrontery so far as to give to an aban. doned female a valuable gold chain which he took out of a lettcr,and which she did not scruple to wear publicly. No functionary was safe under him ; for he trampled on all law, and all order, and all decency; and who ever refused to degrade himself, by the vilest subserviency to his crimes and vices, was treated with the utmost indignity. Personally he Is des cribed as an arrant coward ; but those who incurred his ill-will con. ceived themselves in danger of assassination, or of being poisoned, for he was supposed capable of any crime. On the subject of the conduct of the Duke of Brunswick, during the seven years of his rule since his becoming major, we understand the public may expect some valuable details in a few days, as a gentleman who latelcly filled the Alice of Private Councillor to hius—M. Klinworth—is now in London, preparing a pamphlet for publication. Most of our Readers must recollect the absurd hostility of this wretch to our !ate Sovereign, and the accusations of fraud which he brought against him and Count Munster. The manner in which he con ducted himself in this dispute led strangers to suppose him de ranged, while he is merely low and depraved. The late King is, how. over, blamed for having disregarded the recommendations of those who had an interest in his good behaviour to have him educated at Berlin, where he would have seen good examples at all events. But Ocorge the Fourth hated Berlin, and was enamoured of Metternich, and he was sent to Vienna, a place whence no Prince returns not abandoned in prin. triples and depraved in conduct. Don Miguel and the Duke of Bruns. wick bear ample testimony to the skill of the politician, who is repre. Rented by all who have ever visited Vienna (and for one our readers may =insult the excellent tour of Mr. Russell, of Edinburgh), as laughing at 311 principle, and honour, and virtue. The inhabitants of Germany are peculiarly unfortunate, from the manner in which they are parcelled out. Those who form part of large states, can be kept down by other na tions under the same sway; and then, again, the smaller states, like Brunswick, are kept down by the great states. In vain for Instance, have the people of Brunswick sent deputations to Vienna, to the statesman who has so long directed the councils of the Holy Alli. mice, complaining of the intolerable oppression to which they were subject. The answer they abtained was, that no doubt the Duke was not what he ought to be; but the erman system wrought well on the whole, and it was not to be disturbed on account of 200,000 people who felt themselves ill-used. It was added for their conso lation, that the Duke could not live for ever, and better times might be hoped for under a successor. It would appear that the people of d Brunswick, seeing that their misery could only end with the life of ' the Duke, have endeavoured to take the shortest way to put an end to the connection. The wretch, however, has succeeded in effecting his escape. BELL'S WEEKLY MESSEXCIER.—We cannot help thinking that, under present circumstances, nothing can be more mischievous than the constent excitement in the daily papers, addressed to the large commu. nities of Europe, to rise in mass, to demand free governments, and to pull down every civil institution which subsists as a curb in the mouth of the people. One day the Spanish nation is advised to rise In open rebellion, and to hurl Ferdinand from his throne. Perhaps, in the same breath, the Italian States are counselled to shake off the iron sceptre of Austria, and to re-construct anew the scattered fragments of the Cisal pine Republic, of which Napoleon Bonaparte was the Grand Master Mason. Now we wish to ask if language of this sort is de. cent in the press of this country ? It is not the mere ma- Masai of liberalism against arbitrary power—the idle proclama tion of usurpation between certain circles of longitude and latitude, which the rulers of those countries, thus proscribed by the journalists, might despise • but it is part of a scheme or open conspiracy ten thousand times more dangerous. It Is an attempt made to try the effect of the physical force of the people against their governors; to incite them to open rebellion by reading them clinical lectures, as it were, on the practical operation of revolt. To show them how regi. ments of soldiers may be resisted by unpaving the streets of a town, and how the civil power may be summarily defied, not only in the execution of arbitrary edicts, but also in the enforcement of laws of the tint necessity and the most manifest justice. We sincerely think that too great a part of the press of this country is becoming the most mischievous abettors of popular insurrection —a power of danger, of despotism, of tyranny, of cruelty, of licentiousness and ferocity, be yond all comparison worse than any to be found in the reach of absolute monarchy. Should any society ever lapse into that state, that the unmitigated force of popular violence should be let loose upon it, there is no moral, natural, or physical evil,—no pestilence, tontine, or sword, which could commit so wide and prompt a havoc and destruc. tion. The power of the people, when purged and administered through certain representative bodies, is the power of general amelioration of the common condition of the social community. But then these winds must be tied in bags; this god Eolus must be confined and pent within cer. tarn limits. Once let this wild Gas loose, and give it an uncircumscribed expansion, and storms and levanters are sure to follow—to shake the foundations of the earth, and to confound every thing to its centre. It is the duty of a public Journalist, at the present time, to abstain from preaching the doctrine of rebellion to any people. Let Spain and Italy reform their own grievances. It is not for us to act as incendiaries and abettors to the universal people of Europe. We have enough in our own country to occupy all our care—" Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof." The despotism of Princes and Kings we thoroughly hate and detest; but the insurrection oft' people—the malignant levity, the careless fury—the indiscriminate reform, or rather ruin, effected by popul ar vio lence, is with us a subject of mu ch deeper detestation and tear. It may be one thing, in the unrelenting : despotism of callous rulers, to teach the people the way, and to make use of their strength, in the reform and improvement of civil institutions ; but having once shown the mul titude THEIR POWER, can we:be sure how they will use it 1 The se zret of a people's force should ilways be kept from themselves. The mechanics and journeymen having once tasted the pleasure (for such it is to them) of successful riot against sonic remote, public object, will soon, and much more naturally, learn to confederate to promote their own private interests—a victory over their employers and muter, will he much more valuable and easy than a victory over the Government ; and they will gain more by the demolishing of machinery than; by de. greying a barrack, and putting to flight a troop of horse. I u one word, the system now on foot in Europe is that of Club Law and the pro ptrty and condition of the rich will necessarily be at onceits temptation Ind its spoil. The guillotine at Paris, now proposed to have its opera,. :ton suspended, from the new law about to be introduced to abolish the punishment of death, is said to be the same which was used at the decapitation of the unfortunate King, Queen, and bladame, and , by an express ord e r of Robespierre, the number f pounds weight of lead attached to the fatal knife are equal to the number of the departments In Fran ce .—/ tar Wilkon's Travel:. L.l Temps, in mentioning that the Archbishop of Paris left that city three days ago, for what place was not known, must be wrong in its st a t ement t h at ail, the runaway Archbishop of Rheims, is at Fribourg ; he escaped in an English packet boat, having been se creted in the ladies' cabin ; and it is understoood at Bath that Latil is now sojourning with '• Bishop" Baynes, at the Prior-park Roman Ca -.hone College, near that city. Curiously enough, Latil was the prelate that proposed the law of sacrilege, and yet, on fleeing from his Bishoprick, he took as much of its property as he could, but it was stopped on the road ! It is confidently believed in Paris that these prelates, those of Paris and Rheims, offered to absolve Charles X. from his oath; and that, when the Government finds itself stronger, the improvise/sem of those clerical traitors against the Constitution and the rights of the people will be proposed. It is as confidently declared that there is no `want of strong and direct evidence against them. The Queen of the Ne herlands steam-boat, which ar ived yesterday in the river horn Rotterdam brought four of the Duke of Brunswi c k' s carriages, hi s secretary, a nd several of his domestic 'avant& The carriages were landed on the wharf, where the secretary Ras waiting for the order from the Treasury to pass his baggage— 'he of the carriages attracted particular attention, from the &cum 'iance of its carrying a very great number of pistols. The inside And the bout was literally studded with them. • it is said that a very :onsiderable sum of money is contained in one of the carriages. The Passengers by the steamboat stated the intention of the Duke of litunswkk to have gone on board with his servants; but the weather aPnearing unsettled, and having a great dislike to the sea, he deter mined at last on going by land to Calais, In order to cross to Dover, where he arrived yesterday. THE KING'S COURT. BRIGHTON, SEPT. 14. Colonel FITZCLARENCE arrived yesterday at the Pa vilion; and this day Captain FITZCLARENCE arrived also. This day the following persons of distinction left their cards at the Pavilion : Mr. CliAtiLEs BALE, Mr. and Mrs. WILLi.t3I L A 15 , General Sr. 3011 N, • Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES CRAVEN, Mr. KEMP, Mr. and Mrs. Povs.sz, Colonel Dan MMus n, Colonel KEATs, Lieutenant-Colonel GREENWOOD. The Qu EEN, accompanied by the Princess AVG UST A and the Undgravinc of Hrssr. HOM BE Ito. took an airing in a carriage. COURT INTELLIGENCE. The Earl of Aberdeen left Argyll-house yesterday morn ing for the Pavilion, Brighton. The Russian Envoy Extraordinary, Prince Tobotaky and suite, left the Pulteney Rotel,Albemarle..street, yesterday, for Brighton, to present to the King an autograph letter from the Emperorof Russia, congratulating his Majesty on his accession to the throne. Str Robert Chester yesterday forenoon waited on his Highness Prince Carolath, the Prussian Ambassador, on a special mis sion to this country, with an invitation from his Majesty for his High. ness to Inas a few days at the Pavilion. His Highness left Alivart's Hotel this morning for Brighton, accompanied by the Princess Caro lath, a lady of great personal attractions and literary talents, and their two daughters, the young Silesian Princesses. Baron Below, the Prussian Ambassador, has received fresh credentials from his Government, and will not be superseded in the Embassy to this country, as at first reported, on the arrival of Prince Carolath. His Excellency is much esteemed by the Diplomatic Corps, and in the distinguished circle in which he moves. Major-General the Hon. Patrick Stuart has assumed the command of the Forces in North Britain, having been appointed in the room of Sir R. W. ('Callaghan, K.C.11. whose period of service ex pired last month, and who was included in the promotion of Major- General on Majesty's accession, which would otherwise have rendered him ineligible to have continued in the command. The meeting of Parliament being fixed for the 26th day of October, it Is hoped that the friends et the Anti.slavery cause through out the kingdom, will unite in imploring the early and utter extinction of Colonial Slavery, by petitions to both Houses of Parliament. They should be presented by that day, or as soon after as possible. No need less delay should be allowed to prevent the fulfilment of this sacred duty. NATIONAL CHARACTEK.—The Regent Duke of Orleans once asked a stmnger,what were the different characters and distinctions of the various nations in Europe ? " The only manner in which I can answer your Royal Highness is, to repeat to you the heat questions which arc asked among the several nations in regard to a stranger who comes among them. In Spain they ask, is he a nobleman of the first rank ? In Germany, can he be admitted into the Chapters ? In France, is he in favour at Court ? In Holland, how much money has he ? And in England, who is that man ?"—Athanessns. ROYAL Sroa'rlNG.—M. Charles Capet is said by tho newspapers to have begun his shooting season at Lulworth on the Ist of September. There is an error here ; for he is at Lulworth for having commenced shooting without a license on a certain day in July, and in hii good city of Paris. His first bauue was of 5,000 heads of people— Examiner. Dr. Gray, tho respected Bishop of Bristol, narrowly es caped being burnt on Sunday week. He preached in the evening at Bishop-Wearmouth Church, and just as he was commencing his sermon the sleeve of his robe came in contact with one of the candles that lighted the pulpit, and unfortunately caught fire. His Lordship having a glove In the other hand, instantly put out the flame, happily with litle injury. —Gloucester Journal. Within the last two or three days the Carlton-place en trance into St. James's Park has been set about in good earnest. — The balustrade of the terrace has been taken down so as to allow a space sufficiently wide for a carriage-way with a footpath on either side of it; and a number of labourers arc busily at work clearing away that unsightly embankment of earth which, at so much expense, was thrown up here for the purpose of forming this jnont ()via:ire promenade. They are carting it away, through archways in the wall which supports it, for which purpose some of the east iron columns have been removed, and some of the original arches broken into each other, and they are depositing it on the green sward in the enclosure of the Park. The Commissioners of Woods and Forests are employing a considerable number of workmen in Cumberland-market, Regent's. ark, completing it for the new intended Haymarket; the clay has been removed for some feet down, and filled up with hard dry rubbish, preparatory to it being paved, which is to be immediately done, as the new Hay-market is to be opened, if possible, in the early part of the ensuing month. Clarence-market (which is adjoining Cumberl a nd. market) is also to be immediately paved, and a large market, to be erected on one side for the sale of butchers' meat, andion the other side for the sale of vegetables. The improvement these intended markets have made in the sale of houses in that part Is quite astonishing, and property which a short time since was but of trifling value, is now int. I mediately purchased at very improved sums. It is stated that the Commissioners have it in contemplation to convert York-square into a market, which is in a direct line with the other two ; and commodities of all descriptions can he brought to any of these markets, at a very cheap rate, by the Regent's Canal. DEATH OF ADMIRAL SIR HENRY NICHOLLS, K.C.B. —(From a Correspondent.)—This very distinguished and gallant offi cer died a few days since at his residence in Somersctshire. Having em braced the naval profession when quite a child, he may be truly said to have been "born on the winds, and cradled in the storm." His zeal, perseverance, and abilities, raised him to the highest rank and honours of his profession. After having passed through the junior grades of the naval service with credit and satisfaction, he obtained the rank of full Captain in 1788, at the age of thirty, and in the memorable and distinguished war of 1703 commanded the Royal Sovereign of 100 guns. This ship bore the flag of Admiral Graves, afterwards created Lord Graves, for his valuable services. His Lordship, it is uni versally admitted, derived the greatest assistance from the consum mate skill of Captain Nicholls, whose character as an officer and a seaman was proverbial in the Channel fleet. On the Ad !miral being severely wounded and taken below, Captain Nicholls fought the ship in the moat gallant and praiseworthy manner; be re ceived a medal, and afterwards the command of the Marlborough, 74 ; in 1807, was advanced to Rear-Admiral; in 1810, Vice-Admiral; in 11825, Admiral of the Blue; and in 1830, Admiral of the 11'hite. He was for a short time Comptroller of the Navy, which he resigned, the duties of that office being too fatiguing ; and on the 20th of May, 1820, was elected a Knight Commander of the Bath. Sir Henry Nicholls, though a most strict officer, was still admired and respected, not more for his uniform zeal, perseverance, and ability, than for his excellent disposition, which displayed the kindest heart of a rough seaman in all his dealings with mankind. He was shortly to have been advanced to the peerage, and in the event of that circumstance having taken place, at his death the barony would have descended to his ne iphew, Mr. C. K. Whitaker. _ - - At a muting held at the Rotunda, Blackfriara-bridge, on Monday evening, suggested by 11r. Cobbett, a petition to his Majesty was unanimously agreed to, and prepared for signature, from persons belonging to the working classes of London and its vicinity. The peti tion Embraces a great variety of topic, enlarges on the enormous public expellees of the country, the unequal distribution of the immense reve nues of the Established Church, and the grasping of these revenues by the Aristocracy. The petition proceeds to detail a list of manifold grievances, and concludes by praying, that of those great powers with which his Majesty is invested for the good of his faithful people, he will be graciously pleased to make such use of them as shall produce a Reform in the Commons House, ensuring to all adult males, not insane and not tarnished by indelible crime, a voice, given by ballot, in the choosing of representatives, and as sh all shorten the duration of Parlia ments. THE ELECTIONS IN ENGLAND AND WALEs.—The number of contests at the late election, compared with those of 1826, present something like a " curious coincidence," the number of county contests being exactly the same at both periods nine ; and the total of contests, fur counties, cities, boroughs, &c. being at the former period 63, at the latter about 60. The number of places entitled to send Members to Parliament in England and Wales amounts to 270. The number of Members neir to the House of Commons is about 130, of whom 03;were returfiLd for places contested, and 67 for coun ties, cities, and boroughs without opposition. The number of vote. polled in the year 1826 was 175,000; in 1830, 140,000. Beck oning a fourth of these votes plumper., and the other, three-fourths as split votes—perhaps as accurate a calculation as can be formed upon the subject-109,405 will be the number of these who exer cised their franchise in 1896, and 87,500 of those who voted in the present year. The latter number is little more than that of the constituency of France under the Bourbons. The only contest which was extended to the utmost allowed by law—fifteen days — was at Essex, where Mr. reltl i ey's ex penses were at the rate of nine pounds per vote. The t number polled for any one candidate, was at Bristol, by Mr. ifialirl:tbsavis, who received the support of 5,000 voter—five-sixth of the constituency, in four days. The only places contested by Members of the Administra tion, were Norwich, Newcastle-under-Lyne, and Queenaborough. THEATRICAL INTELLIGENCE. Signora Jo•i•, Prima Doni77l% n7 a;tre of Madrid, will appear at the King's Tii,•;:tre in the coming SCAIIOO. —Lc Furel de Londres. Madame r: and Potter are engaged at the French Thea:re in London, tor the ensuing season, and this company will, in all proba bility, play at the Olympic Theatre.—Lc Floret de Logedrca. Mrs. Gibbs, the actress, has been seriously indisposed at Brighton ; we rejoice, ho , verer, to understand that she Is much better. This ' actress is intended to personate at Covent-Garden next season, those chara.aers usually sustained by Mts. Davenport, previously to that lady retiring front the stage. The new drama which was produced at the Haymarket Theatre, un der the title of "ambition. is translated from the French, and adapted to the English stage by Mr. Thos. Mayhew, a student of Lincoln's-inn. Theatrical matters are curiously managed just now in Dublin. There is an absent patentee with a theatre shut up, a resident patentee with no theatre, and a theatre pretend without a patent at all ! NAVAL INTI:LLIGEYCE. The Pyramus, Lawrence, frona to Liverpool, was lost en the 18th July. on the Hussars. The crew and cargo saved, and car ried to Nassau. The Henry, Ferrier, from Jamaica to London, ran on shore on the 12th uk. on Bird Island,Recf, but was got off without any apparent damage. and would proceed. The Nottingham steam packet, from Londonderry to Liverpool, struck on a rock near Larne on Friday night, floated off, and sunk in Larne harbour. Cargo discharging, with damage. Dam, SIFT. 14.—Wind S.W. to W.N.W.—Arrived the James Cruik shank, Young, front Sr. Vincent's; and Elizabeth and Mary, Johnson, from Sc. Petersburgh. Pow:amours', Sen. 14.—Wind W.S. W.—Arrived from London, the York, Leary, for New South Wales. Off the port, the George Ribber?, Stiles, from Antigua. FALMOUTH, Sam 13.—Wind W. to S.W. fresh breeze.—Arrived the Lord Melville packet, from Brasil—sailed from Rio Janeiro stb July, Bahia 24th, and front Pernambuco the Ist ult. Spoke on the 24th Ult. in lat. 32. long. 38. the Lady Mary Pelham packet, out 42 days from Monte Video. Sailed the Messenger steam vessel, for the Mediterranean, but put back, with damage to her machinery. Mammy, Serr. I4.—Arrived off the port, the Sophia, Labeston, from Jamaica ; Rankin, Wishart, and Ch apman, Christie, from Quebec. BRISTOL, Slim 14.—Arrived the Elegy, Gardner, from Jamaica ; and Maria, Cundy, from Demerara. lavcaroor., Sam 15.—Arrived the Eclipse, Bartley, from Jamaica, and Navy, Nowell, from Savannah. 011 the port, the Joseph,Winter, from Bengal; Prompt, from Buenos Ayres ; and Mononganda, from Philadelphia. BILLFAST, San. 12.—Arrived the Union, Little, from St. John's. N.B. and George, Kerr, from St. Petersburgh. ELECTION OF CORONER FOR MIDDLESEX. Yesterday evening a meeting wa: P iteld of the friends of Mr. ‘Vakley. at the Prince's Head, near Storey's-gate, Westminster, for the purpose of forming a Committee in that division of Westminster. Although only a few hours notice of the meeting had been given, the room was numerously attended. At nine o'clock Mr. Kuro took the Chair, and after explaining the object for which they had met, exhorted the Freeholders resident in Westminster to go early to the poll , and also to induce their friends to follow the same example, and, in two days, he had no doubt but Mr. Wakley, who had gained considerably on his opponent, would be placed at the head of the poll. Mr. EVANS said that the inhabitants of 'Westminster had been first distinguished for setting :the example of freedom of election, an ex ample which had been since followed in numerous counties and towns in the United Kingdom. He was convincedithat there were in that part of Westminster only, sufficient freeholders to secure Mr. Wakley's elec. Lion who had not yet been canvassed by the friends of that gentleman. Mr. ROGERS and Dr. THOMPSON followed on the :same side, and the latter gentleman concluded an excellent speech by proposing that John Cam Hobhouse, Esq. M.P. should be requested to form part of Mr. NVakley's Comm ittee in that district. This was wumly opposed by several persons who said that they did not think his services worth the trouble of asking for. A Gentleman observed that he firmly believed that both Sir Francis Burdett and his colleague were embucd with such aristocratical prind pies, that if they were requested to be on.the Committee, that excuses would be made for their non-attendance. Mr. PAPWORTH said he would second the proposition, as it was to the independent electors of Westminster that 111 r. Hobhouse was in debted for his seat, and he considered the present an excellent opportu nity to put his conduct to the test, and thereby ascertain his feelings with respect to the freedom of election. The proposition was carried, and also another, requesting Alderman Wood to become one of the Cotnmittee. A numerous list of names was then handed to the Chairman of free holders who volunteered to be on the Committee. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman and the meeting adjourned. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(Tats DAY.) For a week past, Mr. Bzwznic - the Wotship-street magistrate, has been engaged in the examination of several receivers of an immense quantity of property, which had been stolen from the premises of Messrs. Graze'brook and Munroe, iron merchants, the proprietors of iron works at Dudley, and of very extensive warehouses and wharfs at the Regent's Canal Basin, City Road. It appears that, five or six weeks since,•some boxes of tin were missed from one of the warehouses, and similar losses have since been dis covered, almost daily. The prosecutors have recently ascertained that, in the short apace of two months, they had been plundered of at least 5001. worth of property; but in what manner, or by whom, the depre. dations were committed, could not be discovered, nor any trace had of the stolen property, until last week, when pane of it were found in pos. I session of the persons who have been under examination. Elizabeth Freeman, Blaire, and John diggue, were last even , ing finally examined before Mr. BEXICTT, charged with receiving the property, with a guilty knowledge of its having been stolen. Mr. Burkland attended as attorney for the prosecutors, and Mr. Wooler for the prisoners. The case made out against Mrs. Freeman, who keeps an ironmonger's shop in Houasditch, was as follows s—On the evening of last Tuesday I week, in consequence of information received at Woradp-street by Mr. Cranston, clerk to Messrs. Grazelbrook and Munroe, the officers Att field, Brown and Graves, were dspeatched with search w arrants to F ree . man's premises. They remained there all night to prevent the clandes tine removal of property, and commenced their search early on Wed nesday morning; and hi the course of that day found a vast quantity of property, consisting of bags of nails, boxes of tin, iron sheets, &c. weighing in all about nine tons, and the whole of it identified by the marks, as having been taken from the warehouses of the prosecutors. The property was conveyed to different places, at present, to await the issue of the investigation. It was asserted ..n the part of the defendant, that the property had been regularly purchased in the course of trade, but the parties from whom the alleged purchases were made were not produced, rind the de fendant was committed for trial under a recent statute, by which the re ceiver may be tried for a substantive felony " whether the principal felon shall or shall not have been previously convicted or shall not be amenable to justice." Blaire was then placed at the bar. It appeared in his case, that on Tuesday week he went to Mr. Gra zelbrook's counting-house, saying that he had some tins of a larger size than he was in the habit of using, and asked to have them ex changed. The prosecutor told him his request should be complied with if the articles were of a certain des cri ption, and he said they were. Mr. Crowther, the clerk, and Casey, a lineman, then went to his shop in the Bethnal.green.rosd, where they saw seven boxes of tin, and part of two others, bearing their private marks, and some of those which had been had from the premises of their employers. The prisoner was told that between 50 and 60 boxes of tin had been stolen, and he was told that if he had come honestly by them, he could have no objection to account for them. He professed his willingness to do so, said that he had paid 141. for nine boxes, and produced a book in which they were entered, but he had no receipt, and afterwards ad. mitted that he paid the money to a man at a public-helm when drunk, and could not tell exactly what he paid. lie was committed. John diggue, it appeared, came to the office on Saturday last, and told the officers that he had twelve hoses of the tin in his possession, but the officer found that he had had it since Tuesday. and they said he had only at last come forward when he knew they were in search of the property, and that he would be detected He could not produce the person front whom he had the property, and was ordered to find good bail, or stand committed to the sessions. Tut Nam Pol.te E.—ln the Morning Chronicle and Ad vertiser of this morning, under the head of " Alleged Outrage by the New Police, " Sergeant Al• S w e en ey an d Win. Tilley, of the Police, and ThomairDa, a footman, are stated to have been found guilty of the as. sault charged against them. The Reporter requests us to state, that the verdict was one of Not Guilty; and he regrets, extremely, that by what he cannot but admit to have been a most culpable error on his pan, a false impression as to the issue of the trial should have gone abroad. The following was the opinion of the late Lord Ellenbo rough in the case of John Williamson, tried at the Old Bailey in 1806. His Lordship, in explaining the law on manslaughter, when dftth bad been caused by medical treatment, stated the necessity of looking with an indulgent eye on those failures In the practice of medicine which must occasionally happen, and thought that if medical men, properly instructed, used all due diligence, and exercised the best means they were possessed of for the benefit of their patients, and failed in their endeavours, they ought not to be called before a court of judicature to answer for their conduct ; but that, if men exercise the profession of medicine, without having duly qualified themselves by previous cape. rience and study, and death ensues from their prudes, they would ne liable to prosecution for manslaughter ' as having presumptuously un dertaken an office on whi c h t h e lif e or death of an individual must de. pend, without having properly Stied themselves to execute it. STEA M N.,VIGATION A schisms, vie understand, i, at pre- ew. to pt.,ttess estaiiiish ing a yew Company on aa en:eosive to he called the West of Eng:and Steam Navigation Company. It hal in view, in tile first instance, the following branches : trade:-1. The ir.terchatige ut commodities between the west and south coast of England, end be tween both and London, by steam. 2. The like burchange la:tweet' the west and south of England LO Ireland. 3. Trade from tile south of England to France, Spain, and Portugal. 4. Trade front England to Jody. Greece, and tgypt. Co. Ala!, as All ulterior ob ject, which a:11 not be eau;red upon till tt:e success of the ott:.r. branches has. shcwn its practicability and wives tage.—a tied. twixt England and North America. At rertra, acesnx-vcs,e l , are employed almost solely in the conveyance of lisssen,r.:is. or articles of small bulk ; and this is a neceseutry consequerce their con. struction, which renders so much space recess :try te4 and ma. chutery, that very little stowage re items for goad . But the intioilue lien of Braithwaite and Erie son's boilers ix I:kely to work a revolution in this species of navigation. We are rot able to state at this moment the precise saving of space and fuel; but if we arc not misinformed, it is likely to treble the steam ship's capability of keeping at sea. that is to say, that instead of touching at a port every eight or ten day. ta renew her supply of coal, she will be able ut carry with her fuel for cr days. Something in this respect may b? learned from the Aucticans, who have steam.vessels that sail fourteen or fifteen miles an hour. Wm!, these various improvements arc brought fully into play. the capabilities of steam navigation for the purposes of trade will receive a prodigious extension. Speed, certainty, and regularity of arrival, are its grand re. commendations, and as the trade of the werid assumes a more healthy state, the value of there will be more sad more felt. An Italian mer chant could not get goods to order front Englund now in less, probsbly, than three or four months. But enable him to get them in three we:l-A, and the Manchester warehouse becomes a daily and regular feeder t:i his shop ; his orders will then arrive as regularly as those of the Ixrtio: or Edinburgh retailer. From the inorneat v - hen a steam ship can re . main thirty days at sea, and make two Mandeled miles a day, a vot - age to Egypt, North America, the West Indie4, or Brazil, becomes easy and c:rtain, and this specks of navigation viii admit of its being applied to four.filtiai of the whole trade t i Lie world. We shall have steamships capable of making England aril Italy communicate in tan days, long before we cvercome the tanne..r cial jealousies which row exist, and get those liberal maxims Lstablishe I which would render this communication beneficial to both countr'es.— The distance front Pothmouth to Alexandria by sea being 3,CCO a steam voyage to Egypt could be performed in 18 days; so that a vessel carrying fuel for n days, would he independent orall new supply Mitt the time of her departure from England to that of her return. For 1.1 own part we look forward with perfect confidence, and great delight, to the time when a short and pleasant voyage of twelve days will c niter us to the foot of Capitoline-hill, or the disinterred wonders of l'ompeil ; and when six days more will place us amidst the ancient palaces cf the Ptolemies, or enable us to pluel: the L tos on the Banks of the Nile.._ Scotsman. LONDON AND PARISIAN PRINTFIIS. (From the Morning Chronicle.) The crusade of the Parisian printer:: against machinery has set our own printers in motion. For this we were prepared. The etroneou. notions of the French mechanics arc very generally shared by the me chanics in this country. Indeed, it is impossible for an individual, who does not view the industry of a country as a whole, to escape from the errors into which the printers fall ; and the proceedings in Paris have not misled our own mechanics, but only encouraged them to give ex. pressionoinions previously entertair.ed. We are ready to admit th:.: much hardship is often caused by the introduction of machinery ; bu: this is a separate question from that of national advantag-. Every step in mechanical improvement adds to the means ..f the enjoyment of society, though the individuals trained to p : titular processes may be suflbrers from the improvement. Per. haps the best way of meeting the enemies of machinery, without compelling them to go through a whole treatise of political eco nomy, is to ask them to lay down a principle for determining the pull;: at which machinery becomes an evil. They will allow that a stick t.. scratch the ground is better than using the fingers, that a plough is be;ter still than a stick—they will allow surely that a mill for grinding corn is better than a quern ; that a crane, though it saves the labour of all immense number of porters, is advantageously used ; that printing a better than copying. But upon the principle on which further improve ments in machinery are resisted, every stage in invention ought to hav: been resisted; and, in fact, every stage has always been resisted. What complaints were urged by the copyists against the invcr.. don of printing itself ? In Wolfius's Monustenfa Typographica we find loud complaints of contemporaries against printing, 4 depriving literary men of a decent means of subsistence. Thus, to instance, Gulielmus Insulanus, Menapius. At vero inopie consult um dicunt isti ab invent.) artificio que typographic ob levitatem inpendii. Imo pessime, quoaiam sublets copia et instrument= magnum 11.1.. u.. tuns levanda egestatis. Enimvero vacabat inopum labor non sibi.nnt aolum, tied aliis quoque in scriptitandis libels, erant que parabilea omnino res, minimi que impendi, calamus, charts, atramentum. In short, Gulielmus Insulanus produces more arguments against printing than eves Luddite did against frames, or hand-loom wearer against poweradooms. The following will serve to show what is going on r.t present among the printers of the Metropolis. The proceedings of the First Meeting of the Letter.press Printers re specting the Evil of Machinery, held at the Gentleman and Portcr Ta vern. New-street-square, Shoe-lane, London, on Thursday, September 9, IMO; EDWARD Dowm No in the Chair. G EUTLEMEN—This Meeting of the Letter-press Printers of Lon don has been convened for the purpose of petitioning his Most Gracious Majesty William the Fourth, King of Great Britain and Ireland. 1. , be pleased to take into his moat special consideration the urgent neeas. city of his Ministers imposing a Tax upon Machinery, early in the en suing Sessions of Parliament. The ruinous system of Machinery done considerable mischief to a: great portion of the Masters, de prived the Journeymen of employment, and, after all, it affords no real advantage to the publics for Newspapers, Books, and Magazines, of every description, are no cheaper to the purchaser ; the sole benefit being derived by a few great Capitalists, whilst the whole body of the trade are suffering from Machinery being so cruelly and extensively en couraged. The following Resolutions arc humbly submitted, as being thought necessary to the general good :- 1. That a committee be appointed, to consist of thirteen persons, seven of whom arc to form a quorum. 2. That the Committee appointed shall make every inquiry resp e:- ing the number of machines now in use, the quantity of work perfi i••,:.; by them ; also the titles of the different publications voria.. by ..- chinery. 3. That every information be given to the committee on the Rubjvct, by persons fully acquainted, from each office, en their difi'erent meeting nights. 4. That a petition to his most gracious majesty be drawn up diately, stating the distressed situation of the :rade, owing to triachint ty. and praying that a protecting duty be imposed, of four shillings ptr perfect ream, on all newsrapers, and two shillings per perfect ream upon all books that are worked by machine) ; and that the same petition i presented to his majesty previous to the ensuing session of parlisar signed by the whole body of the journeymen letter-press printers, (and masters, not using rraehitus) in London. 5. That every person signing the Petition to state. if married, the number of persons depending upon him for support. 6. That the ' Petition shall remain for si...nature at the Gentle man and Porter, New-street-square, Shoe-lane; and at three other places, which will be determined by the Centraittee, fur the spate of three weeks. 7. That $ sufficient number of broadsides be printed, and the same posted up in different parts of Lor.don, signifying that • The Petite() o of the Letter-press Printers, paying for a Tax upon Machinery. lies for Signatures at the Gentleman and Porter, liew.street.square, Shoe. lane; and at three other places.' 8. That immediate communication be made with the diffetent provincial offices in Great Britain and Ireland, stating the Reselu , tions of this Meeting, with a view of procuring their a,sistarce on the same subject. 9. That the Committee give notice of this Meeting to all Trede• Societies; and solicit their support in opposing the increase of machinery, , which has caused the ruin of thousands of industrious oleo, an•t in. creased the pour rates and crime to ao enormous extent. 10. That while the House of Commons has thought ti: to protect the landowner and fanner r.gaivet the introduction of foreign product - , the poor man has had ::o protection to ensure him a re►unneration for hoe la. bout against machinery. 11. That all Religious Societies he appealed to on behalf of the Trade. 12. That the Resolutions and Pntceetitngs of the Meetiag th:s ever. iog be printed, on a half sheet foolscap, at the expeuee of tile w note body, and the same distributed, gratis, at all the Ceffie-howq t.od places of public resort, and at all the Plinting.oilices in London. 13. That a General Subscription of Threepence per Week be ern. tered into for four weeks, in order to defray the expellees which may h, incumed, and the saute received by the Committee appointed, and en. trusted in the hands if Mr. %Vitt TON. Treasurer. The above resolutions were carrried imanimously, and the thank• of the Meeting voted to the Chairman, also to the different prisons whose names were affixed to the Circular, for their meritorious exertions in calling the Meeting. On Alon.lay lat.t the first stone of an Episcopal Chapel to be erected from designs, and under the stiperinter.danee of J. J. Stoles, Esq. Regent -street, London. upon Viscount Anson's estate, at South Town, Crest Yarmouth, at the request of the Venerable Bishop of Norwich (in consequence of his Lordship not being able to bear the fatigue of the journey to ilarworth). was laid by Wm. Barth, Rsq. Chairman of the Committee, assisted be the Hon. and Rev. the Dean of Norwich, who delivered an apt rapriate and and impresive prayer' re the occasion. Lord Nevill and the Rev. R. Turner, the principal 'a. mWa ot the town, with a prowesiss of freemen, td. Ra mewled Ibi s very interesting catintray. The Chapel will c iatain 1,100 pewits. ;~ I RI hi ~s.~:i I