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entrust the choosing of the watchmen. and the super. ens, to the beadle than to any•new ,mans spoke in favour of the new measure. aid that he should wish to see the watchman paid improvements in the existing plan. observations from Mr. Ocausass in favour of the Ramses spinet it. the Court divided. when Commons . Tellers Aldermen Commons. Tellers ,f against the Amendment then read; and, after the Court had dlacussatew adjourned. NFORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWIJAREKT HOUGHTON ME&TING. NEwnsAiumr.• Wniwommor Maim Prestos to the Races, Ibis morning, the la j oubs aw n si sdk , o ld b., Mews. Tattersall.— Lord Jersey's. " • • S yrs, brother to Middleton,* rtime a ,— Web, knocked down at ••••••••••••• • !bil o r e rroidtmo• 740 and, by ?Willem, dam by Bastard Lord Lowtberb. • • •••• • ..; •--- Nor a, by Gobasna, dam by lilebilyser . &stew Whalebone . ...... bow , g r re,y yr', by ditto, our of Chrjueis . Black Colt, s yrs,by Magistrate—Joao% dam .50 G re y yearling Filly, by Ttresias, dam by Hambletimioni. 01 Brown Filly by Tired's— Mary (in the Oaks) 40 Bay FWy, by Tancred--slater to Whalebone... •1 05 Mr. Sowerben • • • • Rufus, .5 yrs, by ........ 000 Linne t Linealn.S yrs, by Whalebone.— ..... . ... . .... 170 Two fresh matches have been made (or Friday,escb torten sows. sae hetWren Mr. Irby's Tose, an. sib. and Lord Wharnebffe's °ninnies. sac. Sib. .11. Ose other b etween mi. R um . hOnOCA Prise and. Mr. Payne'. Siitgvwdrop e. 84.51 b. eacb,T.Y.C. The following horses have bed named foe the Audley End Stakes OG Fridry— Me Payee's Helenus, d yrs Air. Sowerhy's Skiff, 41 yrs Mr. Wyndhant's Chateau Margins, S yrs Lord Wharuchffe's Pastime, 5 yrs Mr. Monebewer's Goshawk, 1 yrs Mr. Stonehewds Souvenir, 3 yrs Colonel Udny's Antiope colt, 3 yrs Mr. Hunter's Luisa), 3 yrs. ftt Lord S4ton's dinner petty this evening were, the Marquis sod Marchioness of Tailspin*. 81r IL Colburn, Mr. Villiers, Mr. Douserie, bir. Irby, Colson! Resell, Colonel Anion tine . • 14 • 4.417 • ▪ 5-.73 . 17- There were, also, parties at the Duke of Rutland's, Lord Exeter's, at. and a mall attendance at the Booms. . .... -- THOILIDAY A erzassoest. The following is a correct account of the day's sport— Match 25 sows. TALC Illr. For b's gr. h. brother to St. Leger, be& 111 b. . Mr. Penit's Latimer, bat. 21b. . • . 2 Briting-6 to 4on brother to St. Leger. Woo by a length. Handiest) Sweepstakes of 10 PVC each, for three yr olds and op . wards. T.Y.C. Mr. Turner's Royal Oak, 4 yrs., Cat. 10th. . . 1 Mr. Vansittart's The Deer,.3 yrs, 6st. 12Ib• • . 2 Dir. Payne. }Menus, 6 yrs, Wt. 41b. . . . 3 The following also started, but were not placed— Dlr. L7duy's Tarandus, 6 yrs 9st. 21b. . Lord Otford's Orion, 6 yrs, 81t. 103 a. Lord Jerseys Dragon, 4 yrs, Est. Sib. Mr. Rash's Carthage, 4 yes, Bat. 101 b. Mr. Payne's& Whalebone, 3 yrs, 6st. 10th. and Lord Ezeter's Enamel, S yrs, Cat. 41b. paid. Betting-4 to 1 sgst Royal Ork ;sto 1 agst Helens; 9to 2 apt Orion. A line 'ace, and woo by a neck. Match, 200. - T.Y.C. Se J. Marfky's Maresheld. est. 21b. . . . 1 Mt. Payne's Babel, Sat. 01h. . Betting—Even. A good nee, won by a neck. Sweepstakes of 10 toys. each, fur two yr olds, colts. Sat. 71b. ililes, Sac. elb. T. Y. C. Mr. Rogers% Zoe. by Orville—Nina Bloss's I. 4 y Gustavus—sister to Miracle . Mr. Payne s f. by Cervantes—Tancalu's date Laid Whar i pcliffe's 1. by Whisker—Propoutis Mr. C.Stevettiun's b. c. by Smolensk° Mr. Heater's f. by Gustavus—Peablossorn Lose Verulam's 1. by Mr. Lowe—Vittoria All the above startsJ. Betting -6 to 5 apt ZJe. Won by a length. Match, coo, h. ft. est. 71b. tub. Ab.ll. Mr. Wyodbam's Camel Lard Exeter's Redgautakt Betting- to 4 aid Camel. Won by a Meg& Match, tort, It.M. Lord Enter's Marinelli, Ilse. sib. . . • Lord Orfortrs Protestant, an. 71b. . . . Betting-7 to 4on Matinella. Won easy. Match, 100. A.F. Mr. Wyndham's Gaberlunaie. tist. Sib. • • Led Verulam's Drocard, art. 61b. . . • Betting-5 to 4 apt Gaberbensie. Woo by a head. Sabsoription Haudicap Plate of Xs% for three yr olds and up wards. • D.l. Mt. Wyndham's gr. Is. Stumps, S yrs, sot 106. • I Air. Delme Radcliffe's b. c. Dervise 4 yrs. alt. 31b. . 2 Mr./boss's b. f. by Orville-MerrpLid.s yrs, 681.41 b. . 3 Betting -5 to 4on Stumps ;7to 4 apt Demise. A good race. Match, 100, h. ft. eat. 71b. each. T.Y.C. lir. Seen Stonebewer's e. Kildare, by Regent, rec. fr. from Lord Anne's e. be A nticipatioti--Schariar's dam. Ile Sporinig World wOl be surprised to bear that a Gold Cop is imposed to be run fur to.morrow ; it is to be of We value of IV MI. by subscription of 10 son. each, for 5 yr olds and upwards, Ab.M. Nine Subscribers or no race. Two new matches are made for to-memoir ....0.- betweeo Lord P.seter's Enamel, ast. 71b. and Mr. Payne's Belzoni, Ist. 31h. T.T.C. and the other for 100 son. between Mr. Debug Baddre's Maria, ast. 91b. (the King's), and Mr. Hunter's Lateen, list. 41b. to run A.P. Ile weights for the Aodley End Stakes are declared thes-Par. time, ear. Hub. Skiff, est. Sib. Goshawk. 7st. Mb. Sarsenhi l ,SS: 10Ih. Lutzen, Se. 13ib. Chateau Margaux. tst. 31b. and litlemsa., Sr. 91b, the two last named have paid. The weather livery fine, and the company on the Heath numerous. WORCESTER AUTUMN SIERT! NC I , °cr. 31. The (Sty and County Cep, of 5 sevs. each. To le ridden by Gen tlemen or Yeomen. Heats, a mile and a quarter. Mr. Wuod's b. ns. Maria, by Manfred, S yn, 11.0. 4W. 1 S 1 11r. Smith's bl. in. Riot, 6 yrs, 1 Ist. 111 b. • . 2 2 2 Mr. Wilharni's h. g. Hazard, aged, Ilst. I lib. . 5 I' 3 Mr. De Visme's c. m. Romp, S yrs, list 41b. . 4 4 4 Mr. Thorne's e.g. aged, I ist. I lib. • . 33 dr A Sweepstakes of S son. each, with 20 added. The winner to be mid fur foOgs if demanded in the usual way. Heats, one mile and a quarter. Sir. Thorntoe's Popinjay, by ilisquebaugh, S yrs . 1 1 Mr. Day's Linos; 6 yrs, 9st. 71b. . . . 3 I Mr. Cook's Maid of klansfield, 5 yes. Bst. 1 lib. . : 4 3 Mr. Beisn's ch. f. Latitat, 4 yes, est. Sib. . 6 4 Mr. Elasard's br. g. Falcon, by Bustard, aged, Sas • 1 5 /Ir . Crooth names Mystery, 5 yrs, bat. alb. . . 5 , dr A Sweepstakes of 7 sues. each, with IS added. Heats, one mile sad Sir. Ileardsworth's Lorain e , 3 yes, 24 a quarter. .115. • . I I Ste. Gusher's Prod., 5 yrs. 11 Its 4 lb• • . 4 $ Mr • Nalsratd't b. lk. Sceptic. 4 yrs, lOst. 10Ib. . . 0 3 I i ir• 11-- -..see's Fenster Lass. 6 yrs, list. 1015. . . 3 4 Mi. rickt iatira Zamiel,4 yrs. lat. 10Ib. . Sdr A Sweemtakes a 3 soft. emelt, with 20 added, for horses sot thorough bred; tu be ridden by GentioMen or Yeomen. Heats, _ me mile aod a quarter. ilr. Russell's Moses, late Kangaroo, 5 y es , I flet. . 1 0 • Parma,' . 4 2 Dir. R . 6 1. pl. Quadrilk. S yrs, Hat. 41b. ' e l' c-8. Waterloo. by Weaver, aged, list. 1115; . 3dr Si,. Walker's W. nu Tenbury Lase, aged, Ilit• I 1 tb.' 2dr THE MAILKETI- for sOo ooys. CORN EXCIIANGR - 7 1 rLtlL.LANF., Now. 2. The meeting trade has, upon the erbole,improved, at Us sample 1 4 Wheat fully supported Monday's price& Making !fluky ap. lure to be on the decline, as scarcely a sale has beerreffm-ted this ; and the maltst e r s seem to t hi n k t h a t l o wer prices ought I! he demanded. Oats, alth oug h d u ll sale, maintained Monday 's l i stule.. In Beans, Peas and other articles, there is no alteration. SMITHFIALIP MARKET, Nov. 2. 'The Beef trade is rather Sat this morning; hut in Mutton, Veal, sad Pork the market is steady. Prime Scots are quoted at 4a. 4d. 16 1 e, g,i, per stone ; and the best young Downs at 4s. 4d. to es. ltd. Pet none. In Veal, prime young Calves are as ;sight's Ss. 6d. to 66. Per stone ; and coarser and larger Meat at 4s. 6d. to ss. 2d. per *atm In the Posit trade the quotation for the finest dairy-led Puckers is 56. id. to 6s. per stone ; and large Meat is 41. to 5.. per ittat. — Draus. 1,036; Sheep, 7,690; Pip, 140; Caves, 234. Beef, per stone, 56. td. to 46. ed. Mutton, 3s. 2d. to es. ad. Veal, 4s. 64 - in O. Pork, es. to 6s.—Hay, per 100d,,E3 los. to £5; ao. tilts .dt 10s. lased; Straw, .C 1 10s. to lei. Sher MUM en force of thaws Alderman GAMIN Hr. Syg Val said ti oily, and other it After some obsel ogond from Mr. were-- For the Anse Against it Majority 2 , The Bill was then if the Closes they a COURT OF CHANCERY-THIS DAY. The LORD CHAlielLiqa came down to Lincoln's Hall this day-shortly before texo'clock, and repairedto the private room. Mr. SHADWILL, the new Vice Chancellor, having robed in the private chambers of the Vice-Chan cellor's Court repaired into that of his Lordship, where the usual oaths were administered to his Honour, who having been congratulated by the Lord Chan cellor on his appointment, bowed and retired. His Lordship came into Court, and proceeded with the Bankrupt Petitions. VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT—THIS. DAY. It having been announced positively, that the sew Vice-Chancellor would be sworn in and take his seat this day, this Court was crowdei to excess, by not only the public, but the Gentlemen of the Bar, as soon as the doors of the Court were opened. At length the usual annunciation of si silence" was heard, , and bis Honour took his seat on the bench, and having bowed to the Gentlemen of the bar, the following cause was called-on:— PITUSZRALD V. STZIRANT. This cause, which has already undergone most ela borate discussions, now came before the Court on a " Dertarrrer" filed to the proceedings, on account of the want of parties. After hearing Counsel on both sides, his Rotuma pronounced judgment, allowing the demurrer to be well. founded for the want of patties. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. Gonanats, N.•. I. Before Lord MITIIIDIS and a Special saatuatomr V. Tamaral. This was an action to recover damages for a libel. Mr. HUTCHINSON opened the pleadings. The declara tion stated, that before and at the publication of the libels, the plaintiff (J. T. Barbtr Beaumont) was the , treasurer and director of the County Fire Office, and that the defendant published in the Morning Herold newspaper the libel complained of. The defendant pleaded the general issue. Mr. BROUGHAMI cannot help rejoicing on behalf of the plaintiff, that he has, through me, the gratifies lion of addressing himself to a Jury of such peculiar Respectability, .because it is a great and much to be en vied sati.faction, that the care of this plaintiff, who is a gentleman, a man of honour, and a - magistrate of 15 years' standing in the county—that the case in which he has put in issue the amount of pecuniary compensa tion to be made to him for an outrageous attack upon his character is to be tried before gentlemen whose feel ings are alive to the value of a good character, and which feelings will not pervert but guide their judg ment. The libels contain the most foul and infamous •calumnies _ heaped upon his character, and circulated in .e most inischievous manner in a garbled shape, nder the sanction of names of the highest respectability evoked to give credit to the slanders. As soon as the. plaintiff was aware of the attack—as soon as he knew , of the use that had been made of the Report of the Commissioners of Public Inquiry—as soon as he heard; that the fabrications agiiiist his character had been prow pagated—he immediately brought the action, by which be defies his calumniators to prove one tittle of what they have dared to publish. There were plenty of per lobs competent to prove the truth of the libels, and were there the shadow of truth for them, any man.pressed by such an action, and about to be dragged into a Court of Justice for the purpose of being convicted as uslanderer, with the power of proving that truth by five witnesses, would not hesitate .a moment in so doing ; but the defendant has not justified—he has admitted sbe falsehood—he has pleaded the general issue. Under these circumstances, I have only to she the gross na .r)ere of the libel, which I shall do in the shortest manner ghat so elaborate and so unprecedentedly large a pub• &scion, occupying seven columns of the newspAper, sad which you and his Lordship will be bound to bear read through, however disgusting for its slan der and tedious for its prolixity, will admit of.— You will observe that this libel appeared in a newspa per of great respectability, got up with great care and much learning,—a newspaper that is not confined to one age, as is proved by a letter which I see inserted in one of its columns, the purport of which I wish the editors, and also the Commissioners of Inquiry, had practised,—a letter from the younger Pliny to his friend Maximus, on hi appointment to be Governor of Greece; and not content with the vernacular tongue, thcje is in the same journal a letter from a correspon dent who signs in a Hebrew character, in which lan guage is written one half of what he communicates. 1 mention these matters to show the respectabilisy of the journal, and that iris not confined to the reading of the ignorant and illiterate, but finds its way into the stu dies a the most learned men ; so that it has carried the calumnies far and wide, and made them of much greater weight. The libel pretends to be extracts from die Revenue Commissioners, the 14th repost. It does not pretend to be the whole of the report, nor to give what it does give in regular order ; all the extracts ate on one side; and I arprehend the defendant will be obli. ged to call Mr. Hansard to prove that there is such a report, and that where the defendant has t dcen upon himself to sander Mr. Beaumont behind his back, be has done so by publishing extracts from that report. It is no justification to a libel that it is the print of a speech in the House of Commons, but none' can deny that it is a mitigation. The defendant,however, has not pleaded that he has copied the report. I do not mean to have recourse to the vulgar subtlety and' special pleading of urging that because it has not been pleaded there is no such report. I will at once admit i there is such a commission, that they did inquire, and that they reported their 14th report. lint theta are two 1 ways of copying a document ; one is a fait atethied, that is, to copy the whole of it, the good and the bad, br th sides together. the antidote with the bane, the evi dence of all the witnesses, the calumny with the contra. diction, for truth and common fairness require the whole of what the witnesses say; one after another, in regular order, to be given, and not to publish all that is said against a man, without a single tittle of what is for him. If the defendant had• given the whole of the re port—if he had published what was told on both sides in the same paper, (for a man is not to be calumniated on Saturday and excused on Monday)—if' all had been done fairly, be would have pleaded a justification, and he has not dune so, upon the score only of his own well grounded. consciousness that he could not have proved such p1ea,...0n account of the garbled manner in which the extracts are published. I wish to speak with the greatest respect of the liberties of the press, and should be sorry to hear any thing advanced against its opera. Live use, as long as those who wield its great power , conduct it fairly and honestly, and do not deal in in sinuations, in surmises, in groundless and abominable falsehoods. I allow generally that newspapers have ' the right to insert in their columns public reports, but I do not admit that if even the whole of the (e -' port had been given it would have been a justifiable publication. It may be fit that Government should make inquiries —it may be fit that Mr. Wallace (whew I have the honour of knowing) and his brother ; ‘..e"4*e'. tir-4; enissioners should be NO WA sith author Tty to inqulte into the collection of gilt immense reroutes. They are excellent inquiries—they form a ne* era in out history,—they date their commencement from one of the greatest men the country ever produced— the late Earl St. Vincent—for I hold that that il lustrious captain did not perform a ireater service to his county by conqueiiog her enemies on the seas than by instituting these inquiries and investigations into the peculation. of those who-fatten upon their country; but it by no means follows that all the stories that are told to these Commissioners *told in their details be made public, and for this reason—they make their inquiries behind people's backs—they receive es parte statements ; they call witnoses before them whom they do not ex amine by the rules of legal evidence, and whose testi mony is not sanctioned by any cross.exarnination; they trench on that most sacred principle of justice which commands us to hear both sides, and on that other al most equally sacred principle,Ohich teaches us to do all matters of inquiry in public,and to do nothing in common with the barbarous and secret inquisitions of other na tions. The inquiries they institute are necessarily id the dark; but if their results are an attack upon character, especially if they go beyond the four corners of their instructions and inquire into atnivate individual's con duct, not towards the poblic, but towards his own em ployers, and if they publish such ex pa rte inquiries to the :world, tithe, from a desire of shoNing their own insists try, or of injuring a rival establishment, or from any private malice—if actuated by any of these motives, the Commissioners themselves, even if their characters stood as high as that of the great man who originated them, should be brought before a Jury, who would de cide upon their conduct, and tell them that even they must Cot expect to slander others with impunity. In these extracts there are the examinations of William Kappen, Godfrey Sykes, and William Campbell, Esqrs. one of. whom, Mr. Sykes. I have long known. All that he has said he was bound to say ; it was h;s duty to find out evidence vihich might lead to the discovery of abuses; but it was no part of the duty of those to whoni he gave his report to publish it, and still less was it any part of the duty of this newspaper, which was the only newspaper that did publish it, to publish Mr. Sykes s bare suspicions and surmises. Mr. BROUGHAM here read Mr. Sykes's evidence-- a Will you detail the inquiries you have made with respect to the return of duties to the County Fire-office this* it happened about the middle of May that accounts had arrived at our Board that improper practices were prevailing at the County Fire-office with regard to the return of rimy; it was communicated to ?dr. Mawe, my principal clerk. He inanwdiately got the particular book now before the Board • to see what the amount of duty was, and the first thing that struck us was, that there appeared a very great difference of duty between the return to that once and that to others. This gave a prime facie appearance that they could not be right. Upon ibis I considered in my own mind what was best to be ascertained ; the poison making the communication sent certath papers containing the number which he had got from a book called the Premium IteturtEbook. 'These papers (producing them), which are copies, contain the numbers of the policies, the amount of the duty, and the period for which ihe dotlitswere withdrawn ; at the same time he gave certain extracts which were taken from this book,explaining the circumstances respeetiog at numbers, die t and it appearing from these papers that.duties had been withdrawn, the first thing that, appeared necessary to be done, was to inquire whether the polleiis were actual subsisting policies during the period fur which the du tles bad been wklitimern? one of these papers relates principally so Edinburgh, sod the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, and another to Sussex ; I thought first bf sending a clerk down to Sussex, to see whether the policiftwere subsisting, but, upon the suggestion of the persoo who gave this information, that I had better inquire at Edin burgh (the policies there having been effected by persons in trade. I might get the informaribo more easily); I scut a copy of several of those numbers to Edlubergh, with a 'rumba Bremner, desiring him to make the necessary inquiries. What was the result of those inquiries?—The result of those in. quirles was, that sonic of the persons had beeotris bankrupts, and no information could be obtained respecting'thent; but with re spect to No. 50,5-54, 1 gef•an account of payments of premiuth and duty for the years 1814, 11116,,aui1-1817; and for the year 1115, which is one of dame years, Mr. Bremner seut me a copy of by receipt, signed , the agent of the society. According to the' inforriwil accoum, the denes,were returned front the years 1816 and 1817. I had thought that when Mr. Dean first went down to the County Fire,o4llce, we had given him only a list of one-half of ' the numbers, MO directioos to ascertain when each policy corn. silenced and when it terininated. ;The answer he made to rue was, that be found those numbers were correct, but on turthet inquiry beard that the first time be went he saw this book, which I wanted to get hold of. and in that very book he found the same account of the premium withdrawn for the years 1816 and 1817. as had been communicated to me; and we alsd found those same numbers among the quarterly returns ending the 22d March, 1823, an inter val of six or seven years after the policies had been effected—eo that, connecting these circumstances, I have a case as to that par ticular number. _ _ That number has been claimed upon for a Mum of duty as hay ing ceased in ltlt 5 sod 1816 —you sent to Scotland and found them .10 claimed • it had Wien an existing policy in thnae years, and the ' premium ;aid 3—Yes; and I found the receipt for the years 121548...-and when Air. Dean went to examine the book, he found that number (511.154) as subidating, and he found this on the very page co which the informer refers me on that very book. • . _ Can Mr. Dean swear to the book out of which he copied it 7 I have no doubt he can. I also found this true as to one other somber. Were they both, found true in Scotland 7—Both of them. Have you applied that inquiry to any numbers hr England ?—I then got Mr. France to write down to Horsham, and the account there is, that the books are not to be found at present ; but the Scotch cases appeared to me so clear, I did not go further. Mr. ' Dean went again to inquire about this particular book, and to pur. sue his inquiries further ; upon that occasion he was told that Mr. Barber Beaumont was gone to Paris, and that he had left directions that no book should be examined. Being thus denied access to the books, I saw that I could not prove my case ; it coming to Mr. Beatimont's knowledge that I was investigating this business, he sent me a letter, stating that he understood that inquiries had been made at Edinburgh and elsewhere on this subject ; that he con ceived it improper to have made the inquiry, as it had been made without first inquiring at the County Fire Office; that he con ceived A ought to inform him of the names of the Informers, sod the particulars of their information ; and refers to two persons whom be supposes had given me the information. The way in which the matter arose was this :—..1 person who had been a clerk in the Conroy Fire Office told Mr. Spike, the Solicitor for the Beacon Office, that whenever country collectors • failed, Mr. Barber Beau mont ordered lists to be made out, and claims to be mode for re cants of duty, ;o the amount to which the agent had failed ; that this was with the knowledge of Johnson and Shepherd; that Johnson had ' , dosed, but that Shepherd had done it. This was commuoi toted by Spike to a member dour board; who is one of the Direc tors d the Beacon Company. Having considered the subject for some dayS,'l Went into the board room, there beteg present Mr. Hallam, Captain Montagu, and Mr. Addington! I stated that I had mitred this paper, with *hick I believed they were or oathted, and that I thought of inking to Mr. Bremner to get in formation. I wrote on the VAI of May; a week after that k was mentioned by Captain Montagu and Mr. Add:ngtoa to the Chair man, who thought that though he was connected with this office, be ought not to be kept in the dark about it ; the Chairman then came out to me with a great deal of good temper, and asked me what was going on 7 I said there was a very awkward charge against Air. Barber Beaumont, for having withdrawn large sums from this office, whey policies were subsisting. I said, " You may think it strange I have not mentioned • this to you ; but understanding that you was intimate with Mr. Barber Beaumont, and a director of that office, I did not feel myself at liberty to mention it." He said Mr. Barber Beaumont wasnot a particular friend of his, and that he would follow up the inquiry ; and that the best way would tl o, be to wait till the time lot o freak recur; of Madre, and .n to examine into it. Ido not think I mentioned at Mat time thee a writteo to Mr. Bremner, which I had done thine or four d be. fore • that was on the Friday evening; it was too late then to get at the book to the Comptroller s Office, and be said the next morn ing we worth:Stook over that book, and examine into the alleged dis parity between that office and others. I did not see him the next 1 day; we did not happen to be in the office at the same time; I had no further conversation with him till the Tuesday following. On the Tuesday, I received a letter front Mr. Bremner, disclosing the information be had obtained; I took the letter into the Board; the Chairman woe extremely angry to think that I should send to Scot land to make Inquiries on this subject; he said the proper way *Mad have been to have gone to the office, and asked for the books; I said, 0 'We may differ, perhaps, a little upon that. If kid bap hoed fate vc 0. !oaks coaling befOre you, pro. ~1~ J l'tt .>,. bah!, that Is Ott way which would be ofiepted ; bat If. Feta* comes and gives information, putting it in a strong way that howl ' him been committed, the first them h, tooMeetans whether has been committed or not ;" that.i as an which pito& As •`i Motbed personally, thinking an ' wired Illt OSSA 1 2 . iii *moduct, and that It would be' lin la& It - freeds; whereas lam terrace " hag • • th!M_Mit al _ A Oa sti am. We 9 . 7 ll be ce. pb to ra st4/ 67. etellik . rt viei. de ~, that I be&amentiellid I.i tesaibe . . . . al lattaky, ha side fest ate le idi 'i ligires iset T op tegels see say; am Ida, Cl refused the In rei -- 2 , segoolgo _Apiesegeobsolty to inspect the 'and 0 , t h e p aw l e l :commiss, of Inquiry (I ha menden , * % in ;b e matt e r to the eft), this caused I gnat aril astfilibl.. titration about the mode of doing this, and we got boas ' a little warm. • Imfill, " ray, Mr. Chairman. did not you see left f ' lbeehotHeausnotit thertiday after I saw your He said," Yirs;r iliG" .: ' 0 1111111 you give him any papers r —"No, be said he had not seen Me - . , dime tbe Friday, nor given him any papers; he had no cominooka. 1 .: tbil l ithit hint." Ido not think any thing particular passedibot when '1 lease cut I said to Mr. filawe-.." Did you not tell Me Tait .: . sum two particular numbers to the chairman?" fur I &repast ~, • Mr. Mawe to give him only two numbers—nut to give him the ' . : whole. He said—" Yes." He said—" I gave him two paid. ' Z:umbers, and that paper Mr. Dean saw in the bands of Mr. Beaumont at the County .Fire Office." I then went into sbellsleard-room, and desired Mr. Mawe and Dean to be called its; . I asked Mr. Maw. first wheelies' be had not delivered to the Chair man a paper containing two particular numbers. He said he bills ' dist Is a copy delivered to him (producing it); that contains thew. . titulars or the subject of those numbers? Mr. Melee havinammeag. that be had es given the Chairman this paper - contaloing 'ol= be, and that he had not had It back from the Chaleisas, I . . Mr. Dean whether he had seen the paper "ebb two amebae '. in Mr. Beaumont's hands? he said, " Yet, he had;" but after ay great deal of cross-examination, all he could say war," That he ba4 seen a paper with numbers In my clerk's handwriting, that bolajt v the only paper Mr. Sedgwick had bad." It was strgl pree a . don that this was the paper which reached Mr. Barber . hands; the clerk in copying had made a mistake. I bellieoldififi. Mr. Sedgwick sent this paper to Mr. Barber lieutenant is slang& for about an hour afterwards Mr. Sedgwick sends for my.llol4am4 i ; soya tiers is a mistake as to one of lose numbers that is nos the % Illtattabar; and in looking at it, it appeared that the number rialltsf might to: have been 50,154; the clerk had copied it 50.514. Tom, r lr think, Mews clearly that this paper must have gone .froth Wm • , ,firdawick to Mr. Barber Beaumont, and that paper put hint in rem— sasoon, in a great measure, of the evidence that I had. • '. 1 What °Nervation did Mr. Sedgwick make?—ile eras-Titbit . '''. overcome with that; I left him soon after. yK Did be attempt turetuncile that with the stitement belted beforidliti o : ' made. that he had not given bimaily paper ?— No, he, did not ; . al' - • inquiry that I could prosecute with Mr. Beaumont was at an end after this. Has Mr. Sedgwick any servant ; does he ale a messenger gents. tally? (Mr. ltappen)—lle has a servant. Mr. Sykes—fly informer tells me that this has been regularly done in the County Fire (Ace. .and has been well •ktrown to Illto amount of 2,000/. a year constantly; and he tells me further, that since this begun they are now making oat new books in the oillewa. ' complete new sett of books; and it is an eaceedingy singular thing, the senior clerk, Mr. Shepherd, has disappeared; it appears as if be is gone off on a charge of bigamy, that is the'sramment now made; • but I suspect Shepherd having the charge of those books, is making fresh books. Mr. Schaboer cane to our Ace about a fortnight ago for an affidavit,for an event to issue against some of their debtors, and he inquired of one of my clerks whether he had seen soy: tides of Shepherd, or had paid him any money lately? be sail. be had been off for a week. • I rather suspect there is some fraud Meet it. My informer tells me be bas seen one or two clerks, was stated that his wife has been there with a certilicate of a Lamer marriage and that he is off in consequence ; but the clerks mid we have ha d inspector from Sonterset.houar,be was very near 'sating at it, but he did not do it; I suppose that refers to their get. ting the book out of his way. I have h.d another letteriront Mr. ,Bremner, dated the fad of June, from which it appears to me there has been some tampering with the people who knew the facia; be states that with regard to the insurance of Mr. Grant. 'nothing le to be hoped; that he cannot .find any receipts; that be.appears to have some idea of having suspended his insurance; . that Mr. Gordon had promised to look for receipts, &c. but that When called upon for them, he evidently evaded the Inquiry. It ra. tier strikes me, that knowing theparticular numbers, Mt. Beaumont may have thrown impediments into the way of our inquiries with sospett to them. Those policies were effected in 1815-16, and It was not till 1822 that he applies for a return of the duty. • ' ' Mr. BROUGHASI proceeded—Theie is a duty of three ,shillings upon every fire policy; it is not paid directly by insurance offices in general, but it is pad directly by 'the County Fite ['issuance Office, of winch, for a very • ' small salacy, Mr. Beaumont is the managing Director. The offices are, called upon under penalties to make the . return of -theta duties every two months, titian-all thei Casorasers bier make, hoot the Land's End to Joker O'Gioat's House. The office sends a certain r.umber of policies, say 100, into the ;minter? it does not there- _ fore follow that they are all tiled, bto they have always made it a rule to pay in the whole duty, as if the whole was due; but when, at the end of the year, they find from the return of their agents how many are used, say 80, they claim the return upon the remaining O. I. , pass over a gnat deal more of the extracts, throwing out the vague suspicions of Mr. Sykes, things very pro per for him to report, but becoming groundless, and ,tool calumnies, in the face they assume when the Com missioners of Public Inquiry venture to give them pubr licity'; and becoming far worse v.he.s they have still further publicity from a public newspaper. Mr. Sykes's zeal was very commendable as long as it coal kept to himself and the Board. Why did nut the Commissioners; if they wanted to do justice, call the clerks and examine them? Then, I suppose, the Alone* Herald would not have published the evidence; but when the Com missioners act contrary to all the prinCitcles of justice, then the Morning Herald publishes the, account, gar bling all that is just in it. A more cbtnperidions, successful, and certain mode of destroying the character of a respectable man, I defy' the malignant itgenuit of a devil to invent. I have gem over a past, si . only a very small part, of the evidence of •M Syk r. enough to stamp a proper chanictii a •the • gni. ceedings. Mr. J. Hubbard is exatbineda, • " What situation are you in now ?—I am not in any situation particalatly : I hold a commission in the militia." " What situation were you in as connected with the County Fire-o ffi ce r—irl was . chief - clerk of the town department." He does not say be wat'a discarded ser vant of the office. I never yet saw a man who was turned away. But I ask, *what business had the Com missioners to inquire into the ptivate'ionduct of Mr. Barber Beaumont? They might as welf•have inquired into the business of any private banking'house. The bookkeeper might have been a witness: if the Cotinnis sioners did not call him, their conduct uas Vameable ; if they did call him, his evidence s ought„to by in the report; and if there had been a shadow pf fouldition for the malignant suspicion of that discarded 'svant. Hubbard, the defendant, would have tailed him:before you. Mr. Brougham made several other observations about the evidence of Stevtns and' Of the other clerks of the Fire office, especially Lye's evidence, who might have been called before the Commissioners; whose evi dence might have broken down, for which reason per. baps it was, that he would not be called that day, al though his evidence was in the colttmns of the Morning 4ferald. ,- Suppose , Gentlemen, you were ed.tors of • a roltipafer s and suppose, from private malice, any one rbrOught a report end asked you to insert it, to give ita greater circnlatinn, what would be year feast co ssi deration? Would it not be whether It to give..ciresskitiotrto such vague i as theortli I have read convey a thdhr to have occurred - Newspaper, who were called Cation to slanderous allegatjops chiracter of e'en a better known tiff? If an honest man were i slander, be would have answered, If told it had* been collected; °. 6 Bo.goach the won*" lic --- .':. r bnl ..,, r • . . • . , . • ;.7 . . • . 1 ether be right ie unfoisatikd suspicion , ey ? Ought not such to the Editors of a upon to give Cite64e sufficient to reach din, a man-than the pia*. asked to spread ten, "Gov torbid!.. be avoid •bvirst , said 4o , minted (Instil had bees 4 . • .1 , , • , • • rwm ; _- ; j:r .