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- The Marquis of LANSDOVN coliaarred hithlikeleenatist. The Duke of SOMERSET withdrew his The LORD CHANCELLOR now if the Comod for her Majesty were reedy to proceed? Mr. Baotrousst.- 14 21y Lord., my friePd. tells me that he is now ready to go on." (To be continued in a Second leditkil4 p., • The Right Hon. WILLIAM Gaortost, MIMI of Ea itoL, will, early in the ensuing month, lead to the llymeneal altar Miss ELIZA FITZCLARANCE daughter of his Royal Highness the Duke 'of CLA• RENCE. The bride elect is in her eighteen!h.year, amiable; beautiful, and accomplished. His Lord ship is the Premier Earl of Scotland, beidg thc 'six teenth in descent from .the creation of the Earldom in the year 1452. , His Lordship's titles are, Earl of Errol, Baron Hay of Slams, Hereditary Lord High Unstable, and Knight Marischal of Scotland. ' • The Hon. Mrs. CURZON arrived in tewn on Sunday evening last from 'Clifton. This Lady has bee.i for some time past in a bad state of health, and was conveyed across the country, attended by Sir Wa rd/km KNIGHTON, her physician,-by the River Avon into the Thames, in a barge built upon the plan of the LORD MAYOR'S, and fitted up with every possible convenience for the occasion. Mr. WILLIAM MILLER, of Edinburgh, is appointed Type Founder to his Muni!, for Scotland. Wednesday night, the Rex. Mr. THOMPSON, Curate of Brethwell, was returning from Doncaster, when he was precipitated from his horse; the fall was so ♦iolent that it produced his immediate death ; his skull was dreadfully fractured, and severely bruised about the temples. The unfortunate individuals whom we stated last week to have been seriously wounded at the late dreadful fire in North -street, York, are all doing well. Tuesday last, Jobs Dewing and Matthew Barnett, of the parish of Hdrsford, weavers, were committed to Norwich Castle by EDWARD D. PAYNE, Esq. hav ing been found, at two o'clock on the morning of that day, on the lands and manor of Mrs. BRAN TII WAYT, in the parish of Taverham, with two partridge nets, five brace and a half of partridges, a dead duck, and a hare-snare in their possession. The conflict between the gamekeeper, his two assistants, and the poachers, was of a very severe nature, and many were the hard blows exchanged, there being an equal num ber on each side. During the affray one poacher made his escape, when the others surrendered. The Brewers of Oxford have reduced the price of ale and strong beer each 10s. per barrel, in conse quence of which the publicans have lowered the price of the latter from 6d. to sd. per quart, and of the former from Bd. to 7d. and it is expected, from the great reduction in the prices of malt and hops, they will be still lower. When are the working classes of the Metropolis to derive any advantage from the re duction of the latter articles? Her MAJESTY'S-Answer to the Address of the Inha bitants of St. Andrew, Holborn, above the Bars, and St. George the Martyr, in the County of Middlesex: I am highly gratified by this loyal, affectionate, and animated Address from the Inhabitants of St. Andrew, Holborn, and St. George the Martyr, Middlesex. 46 The persecution, of which I am at present the object, has served strongly to mark the different tone of feeling that pre vails between the liighest and subordinate classes of society. The abominations of indecency that have shocked the moral sense of the middle and. subordinate ranks, have in some of the higher been endured with patience, or even heard with complacency. The moral feeling of the country seems, in this instance, to have been more excludveleconfined to the middle and lower ranks. The people have not only been educated into politicians, bat they have inhaled a purity of sentiment that used to be more especially appropriated to a more exalted region in the social scheme. It must grieve every lover of his country to behold any instances in which high birth is connectedwite Issenindedness. Complaint would be beneath my dignity; but I may remark, that while I Imre been persentted by a large portion of the aria tocracz, and deserted by almost the whole hierarchy, the pee. plc, the whole .people, composed of the middle and subordinate ranks, have throughout supported me by their unshaken attach ment, and cheered me by their animating sympathy. While I feel grateful to the people for their noble vindication of my rights, and their generous resentment of my wrongs, I rejoice to think that those wrongs have excited a spirit that is likely to prove favourable to the interests of liberty. There is no tie mere endearing than that of a reciprocation of benefus. The sense of gratitude in either party, is then tendered unopprestive by a mutual consciousness of obligation." Loan HowDaw.—Monday se'nnight, the only son of Lord- HOWDEN came of age. The day was ushered in by the ringing of bells at Tadcaster and Kirby- Wharfe, and a grand dinner, in the true style of old English hospitality, was provided at the mansion of his - Ladship, for the friends of the family, and for the principal part of the tenantry. The poor of the neighbourhood also had meat and flour distributed liberally amongst, them : and a splendid Ball, given by Lord HOWDE*, in the evening, concluded the day, highly.to the gratification of all concerned. BATTLE OFF TRAFALOAIL--The Anniversary of this glorious Naval Victory was celebrated on Satur day, at the White Hart Tavern in Wigmore-street, and at the Green Man, on Blackheath, by a nume rous and respectable company. This was the four teenth commemoration of that momentous struggle which placed the trident of the ocean finally, we }lope, and hitherto incontestably in the hands of Britain. It is certainly a pleasing circumstance to observe distinguished persons, however opposed in politics, forgetting the ephemeral distinctions of party, and cordially uniting to honour the memory of the mighty dead, and to express a nation's grad t.:de for the services of the living. Those things we conceive to be by no means unimportant, inasmuch as they foster patriotic feelings, and animate other gallant spirits to erhulate hereafter, if need be, the deeds of a NaLsox. BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S YESTERDAY. mum ox SAC= TO eons. assar. 1 16 to 1 art &arras. 16 to 1 agst •Parasel 16 to 1 apt Muth • cmas. 10 to 1 agst My Lady 110 to I apt &sem to apt Mr. Lowe beating Burned& and Abjar la hh • two matches. IT. Lima. 10 to 1 apt Jack Splggott I 16 to 1 apt My Lady. HUNTING. His MAUSI7 . 3 Stag 110411th meet Oa Friday, it glees Bettis 11W, at ten. H. Jorurrs, Esq.'s Fox Hnumis meet to-morrow, at Cop thorn; Saturday, at Chipatead Church. • • The Surrey Fox Hounds meet en Thursday, at Limpsfield Common; Saturday, at Keston----Tise Harriers every day. CRICKET 11A.TCHE3. The lung pending match, between the Scruton and. Northal lemon Cricket Clubs, was played on Saturday se'nnight, on rorthaller,on Ractsgroelid, and was won by the former in great style. Wednesday, a Cricket Match was played, in Tadcaster Inge, bfAween three of the Bolton Percy and three of the Tadcaster Clubs, for the sum of sir glances, which was won by.the former r --- --z-- WII Enk his the neig libe by day 13 this day and row Wet' whi hop Brit obsi poll par ef 1 Ld con as t gal dee 161 1 161 i i 101 45 10 I I Bee I tho, 1 Cot 1 i len ra l i are I 1 , -: i Ch r - , . • • . - • - GERMAN. PAPERS. - ._• . . Last nigyt• we 'received German Papa's, ffoi whith we give extracts. It will be observed thattlie Diet of the Kingdom of Poland has given a very disri dainful reception to the sketch of a criminal code, proposed by the Emperor of Resale. After an ani mated debite, it was rejected by a majority of 120 to three I A Minister, by way, we suppose, of per suading the Diet to swallow the new Code, informed the Assembly, that the Emperor consented before hand to its being • revised in the succeeding Session : 1 but the Deputies were inexorable. The following are the chief contents of the Mail: I LAW DITELLIGENCIA COURT - OP EMIG'S BENdEIs OCTOBBE 23. TRIAIIS FOR BLASPHEMOUS LIBELS. • TUE XING 9. DAVISOIto The defendant was charged with having sold and tittered two bla.sphemons and propbane libels, with the intent of bringing the Christian Religion into ri. dicule and contempt. Mr. GURNEY stated the case. The prosecution, he said, was commenced by the Society for the Sup pression of Vice. For a long series of years it had not been found necesssary to put the laws into force against offenders of the description that he charged the defendant with being, notwithstanding that bias phemois publications were, during that pericid, quite numerous enough, but they were circulated pri vately, and the circulators were cautious enough not to challenge public observation. But of late persons had ostentatiously set the law at defiance, and thus put it at issue which of the two was the strongest. The defendant was a bookseller, in Duke street, Smithfield. The libels complained of were contained in a work sold by the defendant, called The Repuilican," the ninth Number of the first volume, and in a work published by the defendant, called gs The Deist's Magazine." Of these works there was scarcely a line that was not either blasphemous or libelous. The publication of the libel was proved by Thomas Frayley, who was in the employ of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, and was sent to buy the works in question at the shop of the defendant. The defendant said, that being unable to employ a Solicitor-or Counsel in his defence, he hoped the Jury would shew him every indulgence which his situa tion could permit. He then proceeded to read a written defence, but in so low and weakly a tone, as to be scarcely audible to those at a short distance from him, and to occasion the Learned Judge re peatedly to call upon him to raise his voice. The defendant cantended, that he had a right. to write, print, and publish, whatever he thought proper in defence of his own religion. He oharged the pro secuters with being actuated with the same feelings in prosecuting him, as those who, in the days of Henry and Mary, filled the dungeons and lighted up the fires of Smithfield, on account of difference of re ligious opinion. The defendant was proceeding much in the same strain, but in a tone scarcely audible, when Judge Briar rose, and with some warmth, declared that he could not sit there and suffer that scandalous course of defence. He should be sorry that anything which the defendant said should make him exercise that authority with which he wits vested; but he thought it necessary to inform him, that he bad not dnly the power of punishing him by removal from the Court, and by committal, but by fining him as Ofteh as he went beyond the bounds of decency. The Defendant.—" If your dungeon is ready, my Lord, suffer me to give you the key." • Judge 8e5i...,-" For that contempt I fine you £20." The defendant then proceeded to read the whole of the libel, and to justify it. He contended that he had as much right to publish a Deisticil Magazine as others had to publish Methodist, Unitarian, or Church Magazines. The defendant was proceeding to charge some of the profession of the law with up holding that by persecution in which they did not believe, when he was interrupted by - Mr. Judge BEST, who said, he could not sit there, where justice was administered, and permit the de fendant to go on in the manner in which he had. He (Judge Best) had sat there and beard himself in sulted, and had heard persons attacked who were not present to defend themselves. He bad before fined the defendant £2o—he now fined him £4O more, and informed him, that whatever became of this case, these fines must be paid. The defendant said, that he must be allowed to conduct his defence in his own way. Mr. Judge Bur said, that he would not allow him to scoff at the religion of the country. If be had any observations to make, he would allow him to make them, provided he treated the religion of the country respectfully. He would not permit it to be treated otherwise, whatever were the consequences. The defendant proceeded to read the whole of the Deist's Magazine, and the act of Legislature in Vir ginia, by which all religions were tolerated. He commented on the trials of Daniel Isaac Eaton and of Wedderburn. He complained that the rich were allowed to monopolize to .themselves the large and expensive works of Hume, Gibbon, Bolingbroke, &c. He asserted that the Bishops, from their familiarity with works of this dreeriptioti, were infidels. Mr. Judge Bits . r.—" You are asserting that which you know is false. I shall not suffer it, and now fine you £4O more. lam determined to put down this audacity, by which Justice is insulted in her very sanctuary."—The defendant said he was not worth £lO in the world. Mr. Judge Bur said, it was the defendant's duty to take care that be did not vilify those Reverend Personages who were not present to defend, them selves, and which the defendant must know was cone trary to all principles of justice. • The defendant continued, and said he would read some extracts from a_ publication by, Sir William Drummond, in support of his opinions, but in doing so he hoped he should not be offending the Court. Mr. Judge Bur..'—"" Sir, do fun put it as offensive to me. It is too' contemptible for offence." The defendant continued to read the publication; and concluded his defence by an appeal to the libe. rality of the Jury. The Learned Judge camniented a 4 lengtl upon the publications is question, and gave it, as his con scientious opinion, that they were most blasphemous and scurrilous libels. He denied that any one could be permitted to dispute the truth of the . Christian Religion. It might be permitted tudispute the con.. sanction, but anything farther was never permitted in any country, with respect to its particular religion. He confessed that he hid hituself read Hiune and Gibbon, but they all confesied that .the hest system of morals ever invented for mankind was that intro, doted by CIPIIT. The Learned 'Judge described at considerable length the benefits of:the Christiiii Religion and said he could *lt conceitte.that those',. who endeavoured ; to ,overthrow this. religion, could have any other than :wSatauic pleanre in depriving the Christian df his Only Hope. ..'" • The Jury itimediii4fOuid . ,theticfendait Mr. GAJANSIC snored tbat.he should. beconamitteti. - -••- • Till KIM ti. JAVI CAILMIL This defendant was also charged with haviniiold and uttered certain seditious and blasphemous libels. Mr. }I'LL stated, on behalf of the defeadans that he wished to put several questions, by Way at Od le:we, to the jurors: The. Court aid, that the time of challenge was when the JUry were :educed, and that had passed. Mr. HILL said, that there were instances where •such challenges were admitted, and he cited the case of the King v. Frankland. Cause of challenge Might have arisen since the pannel had been struck: The qUestions he•wished to put were, whether any of the Jurors were Members of the Society for the Sup pression of Vice, or whether they had given any opi nion on the case before they entered the box? Mr. GURNEY said, these questions were sometimes put to the Jurors as a matter of personal deliasicy, not as a matter of challenge. The questions were overruled. Mr. GURNEY conducted the prosecution. One.of the libels was contained in No. 9 of the Republican, and on which the last defendant had just been found guilty. The other libel was contained in a book called Memoirs of Thomas Paine, by Sherwin, in which there were several extracts made from the 4. of Reason, for the purpose of elucidating the re& gious opinions of the latter. The publication was proved by F. Kayer, an agta4 of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. Mr. HILL, in defence of the defendant, admitted the libellous nature of the works in question, but said 'that they were first published by Mr. Carlile, before his imprisonment, without being prosecuted, or eves noticed. After that event, the defendant carefully weeded everything from her shop that she thought would be offensive, with the intention of supporting her family by her trade as a regular bookseller. The two publications in question she had sold under the idea that they were inoffensive, from their not having been noticed. He thought it necessary to tell the Jury, that the defendant was a firm believer in the Christian Religion. He then entered into an able and argumentative speech of more than two hours in length, in which he contended, that Christianity was not to be served by prosecutions of this nature. He cited the opinions of Tillotson, Lardner, Lowth, and others, to prove that attacks on the Christian Reli gion, like those complained of, were rather beneficial to it than otherwise. He called upon the Jury to fol low the example of forbearance set them by the founder of their Religion, and to let the opiniOns ad vanced sink under the weight of their - own infamy, and not furnish the propagators of them with weapons, or exalt them into martyrs by consigning them to dungeons. At the conclusion of Mr. HILL's address, there was some applause given in the Court, but which was im mediately repressed. The Jury, after a short consultation, found the de fendant guilty.--,The Court was crowded throughout the day to excess. • • Wednesday se'nnight, as Miss 11AIti1111* 13t.tertY, third daughter or Avis' BLANDY, Esq. of Kingston House, Berks, was standing near the drawing-room fire, her clothes caught fire, and she was so .dread fully burnt, as to occasion her death the following day. The Bridge Ward Deputatio n, _ consisting of Ladies • and Gentlemen, will go up the River to-morrow, with an Address to the Qum at Brandenburgh House.— The party will proceed from Fishmongers' Hall, at eleven o'clock, in the barge in which her MAJESTY lately took an excursion to Woolwich ; and should the weather prove favourable, the arrangements will make it one of the most splendid scenes yet witnessed on the River. Thursday last a Meeting was held at Brading, Isle of Wight, for the purpose of addressing her Maurer, when a series of Resolutions, expressive of the sense of the Meeting on the %object, was proposed and carried, as was also an Address to her MAJESTY, which is to be presented to-morrow by Alderman WooD. The Chair was moat ably filled by Geo RGII Stun, Esq. and thanks were voted to Mr. WILBURN, the Junior Bailiff, for his promptitude in calling the Meeting, after receiving the Requisition, and a vote of censure was passed upon Mr. J. CAVIL the Senior Bailiff, for refusing to concur with his fellow Bailiff in calling the Meeting ; after which a large party partook of an excellent dinner at the Whe4tsheaf Inn, and the evening passed off in a convivial manner Mr. Pearson, accompanied by Vickery, returned late on Sunday night front France, after a successions pursuit of Fletch Er. Yesterday Mr. Pearson was in. formed by Mr. Birnie, at Bow -street, that a letter had been received from the fugitive, ridiculing all attempts to apprehend him. Mr. Pearson immediately went to the Home Office ' and requested Sir Robert Baker to chew him the letter, that he.might be enabled to ascertain whether it was in the band-writing of the accused. Sir. Robert said that it was in the possession of Mr.ilobhouse, the Undertecretary of State, who was gone with it to Lord Sidmoath, in the House of ' Peers, and that the letter in question contained, OA the part of the accused, a full confession of having published the placards; and entered very fully , into his motives and reasons for their publication. Sir Robert. Baker- admitted that the reasons adduced were very ridiculous, and further observed, that the letter was written and sent by Fletcher with a view ' .to publication.' Mr. Pearson then waited upon Mr.' llobbonse, and was treated with a view of the Miter. antiphon wig sigtwthrre of the letter, which filled three .sides of usheet of paper, closely written, and .wag dated the 19th. inst. and bore the poet-mark of Dun kirk. There was also produced for the first time :a stad kW, from .Mr. Fletcher to Sir Robert Baker, - hut whence it had been sent; or what were its con. - tents, Mr. Pearson 'could not learn. As, however, Sir Robert kindly informed that Gentleman that the letter was written by Mr. Fletcher, and sent with :a - vietato ruhtication, Mr.tFletcher's wish will; of course ; be gratified; and the Public may be furnished with some • explanation of the. motives and reasons" of ' • Me. Fletcher, • not only in publishing the placards, bit also in thus confidentially corresponding 'with Sir Robert Baker. • In one of the interviews which Mr. Pearson had with Mi.. Birnie, he was informed by him, that, among other communications which he had received upon this subject, was an anonymous letter, bearing .a country post-mark, assuring him that Fletcher was in a place c( perfect security, and was laughing at. his pursuers. This letter was considered A lit hoax. WARSAW, SEPTEMBER so. The debates on the Project of a new Criminal Code for the kingdom of Poland, which took place' in the Sittings of the Diet on the 24th, 25th, mid 26th of September, were very animated. Even the Com mittee, which had to examine the projected Code,, declared against it. M. Knysinki, Deputy of the City of Warsaw, called it patched work, composed of fragments of various foreign Codes, and was especially dissatisfied that the Trial by Jury made no part of it. He endeavpnred, with much animation, to refute the argument of the Council of State, that in times of trouble a Jury suf fers many crimes to go unpunished, and that the na tion is not ripe for this institution. M. V. Koslowsky sheaved there was no system to be found in the subject. M. V. Nimogewski spoke forcibly in favour of the Trial by Jury, and the publicity of the judicial pro• ceedings ; he blamed also the entire omission of re gulauons respecting the abuses of the Press. Count Chalkiewiez blamed that Jews were not al lowed to give evidence against Christians. M. Faltz thought the Article of the Constitution, that nobody can be imprisoned, unless lawfully cor rected, (Nand /sem captivari peratittemus, nisi jure vicium) was entirely overthrown, there was, in fact, no guarantee for personal security. The debates being closed on the 28th, 120 voted against, and only three for the Project, which was thus rejected almost unanimously. The Public Sit tings are adjourned for an unlimited time, because the Committees have not finished their labours. When the Project was presented, the Counsellor of State Potocki, declared, that if it were found imper fect, the Emperor counselled before-hand to its being improved in the next Diet. Extract of a letter, dated Buenos Ayres, Ilth July, 1820:— I It is now two weeks since the Custom house here, or any place of business, has been opened. In consequence of Alvear and the Monteneros having threatened to attack the town, business is quite at a stand, and nothing thought of but means of defence. All the regular troops and Militia of this plate are outside; and though in much greater force than their enemies, still they have done nothing decisive. The Monteriero force is rated at any number between fifteen hundred and two thousand men ; but they have now got such a knowledge of their profession, and are so well mounted, that they advance and re tire just as it suits their purpose. Ido not appri hend the least danger. Whatever party gains the ascendancy, they are equally desirous to respect fo reigners and their property. However, it is most I unpleasant to be so completely prevented from doing anything in the way of business, for such a length of time. The This, 26 guns, Capt. G. T. FALCON, arrived at Portsmouth on Monday, from the South Ame rican station. with treasure, to the amount of nearly four millions of dollars, on merchants' account, the greater part of which was shipped at Lima. The Tyne left Lima the 2d of June, and Rio de Janeiro the 94th of August. The squadron employed on the South American station was disposed of in the fol lowing manner :—The Owen Glendower frigate, the Hon. Captain Seeman, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Sir T. M. HARDY, and the Icarus brig, were in the River Plate; the Hyperion frigate, Captain SRARLE, C.B. at Valparaiso; the Andro mache, Captain SHIRRIIIIP, was on her passage from Lima to Riq de Janeiro, with a large quantity of treasure on board, which it was expected she would bring to England. The Slaney, Captain 013aistr, arrived at Rio from Valparaiso the 12th of August. The Vengeur, 74, Captain MAITLAND, with field- Marshal Lord BEREAEORD on board, sailed from Rio for Lisbon, the 18th August ; and on the 20th, the Superb, 74, Captain WHITE, sailed from Rio for the River Plate. When the Tyne left Lima all was tran quil there. A great number of British merchant vessels had arrived in that quarter, and trade was rather on the increase. The forts at Callao are re presented as being in good repair, and the Spanish Navy in the Pacific Ocean (which consists of three frigates of 4.8 and 44 guns, a SO gun ship, two brigs, and some smaller vessels, gun-boats, Ike.) were moored at Callao, in a double line of defence, to resist any attacks of the Independent squadron, but the ship ping is said to be in a very inefficient state. The troops at Callao amounted to about 6000. The Chi lian Government had paid up the arrears of wages to the Independent squadron, under the orders of Lord COCHRANE, and an Expedition was preparing at Valparaiso, by his Lordship and General SAN MARTIN, for the purpose of proceeding against Guayaquil. At Buenos Ayres things continued in a very unsettled state. A French squadron, consisting of the Colosse, of 80 guns, la Galatea, 46 guns, and a corvette, commanded by Rear-Admiral AIRIER, arrived at Rio on the 20th of August, and it was re ported, intended to enter the River Plate, but far what object had not been ascertained ; the hips were full of men, and in very good order. The Tyne is ordered into the harbour, to be paid off and laid up in ordinary. The Active and Liffey frigates, which sailed from Spithead on the 16th ult. with sealed orders, at that time supposed for Lisbon, passed Gibraltar on the 27th, for the Mediterranean. Thursday morning between two and three o'clock, a fire broke out in a cow-house, belonging to Mr. SMITH, at Littlemore, near Oxford, which did consi derable damage. There being only a dwarf wall between Mr. SitlTH's and Mr. ALLta's premises, the fire communicated to a rick of barley, a rick of oats, and. another of straw belonging to Mr. Ait.t.iN, which 'were consumed. The fire is supposed to have been t occasioned by some diabolical incendiary. 31 , q.ll