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REPORT ON THE STAMP OFFICE. A Report from the Commissioners appointed to in quire into the collection and management of the Public Revenue has just been printed by order of the House of Commons. It is the 14th Report of the same Com missioners, and relates exclusively to the Board of Stamps in London. The principal value of their la bours consists in the ample details which they have sisals of the mode of managing business in the different branches of the Stamp Office, and the useful suggestions which they have tendered for promoting theinterests of the Revenue, for imposing more effectual checks on possible abuses, for relieving the public from unneces• wary burdens or vexatious inconveniences. The following extract will show how fearlessly the Commissioners proceeded to inquire into an affair that railed to one of the members of the Board : • In addition to the observations which have been sug gested by our inquiries into the manner of conducting the business of the Registrar of Newspapers and Pam phlets, we have to call your Lordship's further attention to this part of the subject, in consequence of the circum stance (to which we • have already adverted in our pre ceding Report) of the Chairman of the Bard being in dividually brought into contact with this branch of the department, in his character as principal Proprietor of one of the London Newspapers. • buring the progresse our inquiries, we had received, from various quarters, representations on this subject, of such a character as to render it in our opinion incum bent upon us to investigate the facts to which they to tented, not only as being important to the general admi. nistration of the department, but also as an act of justice to the individual who was the object of these re presentations. The substance of this information, at least of that part of it which relates to the subject now under consideration, was, that the Chairman of the Board of Stamps was well known to be the Proprietor of the British Press Newspaper, although other persons were unduly, and for purposes of concealment, regis tered at theStampOffice as the Proprietors of that Paper, .under the statute to which we have above referred.' By the first section of this Act it is provided, " That I - , a person shall, after 40 days from the passing of this Act, print or publish, or cause to be printed or pub lished, any Newspaper, or other Paper containing pub lic news or intelligence, or serving the purpose of a newspaper, until an affidavit or affidavits, or affirmation or affirmations made and signed as hereinafter mention ed, shall be delivered to the Commissioners for managing his Majesty's Stamp Duties, at their head office, or to some of their Officer or Officers in the respective towns and at the respective offices which shall be named and appointed by the said Commissioners, for the purpose of receiving such affidavits or affirmations (but which shall not be required to be upon stamped paper), con taining the several matters and things hereinafter for that purpose specified and mentioned." By the second and following sections it is further en acted, " That such affidavit or affidavits, affirmation or affirmations o shall speci'y and set forth the real and true names, additions, descriptions, and places of abode, of all and every person or persons who is and are in tended t r be the Printer and Printers, Publisher and Publishers of the Newspaper or other Paper mentioned in such affidavit or affidavits, affirmation or affirmations, and of all the Proprietors of the same ; if the number of such proprietors, exclusive of the printer and pub lisher, does not exceed two, and in case the same shall exceed such number, then of two of such proprietors, exclusive of the printer and publisher, and also the amount of the proportional shares of such proprietors in the property of the newspaper or other paper, and the true description of the house or building wherein any such paper is ihtended to be printed, and likewise the title of such paper. " That in every case where the number of such pro prietors, exclusive of the printer and publisher, does not exceed two, the names of two proprietors, the amount of each of whose proportional shares in the property of such newspaper or other paper shall not be less than the proportional share of any other proprietor, exclusive of the printer or publisher, shall be specified and set forth in such affidavit or affidavits, affirmation or affirmations. " That an affidavit or affirmation, affidavits or affir mations of the like import, shall be made, signed, and given, in like manner, as often as any of the printers, publishers, or proprietors named in such affidavits or affirmations shall be changed, ur shall change their re spective places of abode, or their printing house, place, or office, and as often as the title of the paper shall be changed, and as often as the Commissioners for ma naging the stamp duties shall see reasonable cause for requiting such affidavit or affirmation to be made, sign ed, and sworn or affirmed, and shall give notice that they do require the same, such notice to be left at such place as is mentioned in the affidavit or affirmation last delivered, as the place at which the newspaper or other paper to which such notice shall relate is printed. " That every such affidavit or affirmation shall be in writing, and signed by the person or persons making the SAM!, and shall be taken by any one or more of the said Commissioners, or by any r fficer specially appointed by the said Commissioners to receive such affidavits or affir mations as aforesaid, which Commissioners and other offi.ers are hereby authorized to talcs such affidavits upon the oath of the person or persons making the same, and such affirmations in the case of persons commonly called Quaker,. That if any person shall knowingly and wilfully print or publish, or cause to be printed or published, or knowingly or wilfully, either as a proprietor thereof or otherwise, sell, vend, or deliver out any newspaper or other such paper as aforesaid, such affidavit or affirma tion, or affidavits or affirmations, containing such mat ters and things as are required by this Act to be therein contained, not having been duly signed, sworn, or affirmed and delivered, and as often as by this Act is requiied, or any other matter or thing required by this Act to be done or performed according to this Act, not having been done or performed, such person shall for feit and lose, for every such act done, the sum of one 1..:111Ind pounds. " That it any person or persons making such affida vit or affirmation as in and by this Act is required to be made, shall knowingly or wilfully insert or set forth therein the name or names, addition or additions, place er places of abode of any person as proprietor, printer, or publisher of any newspaper, or other such paper as aforesaid, to which such affidavit or affirmation relates, who is not a proprieto r , printer, or publisher thereof, or shall knowingly or wilfully omit to mention in such affidavit or affirmation the•name or names, addition or additions, and place or places of abode of any of the proprietors, printers, or publishers thereof, contrary to the true meaning of this Act; or shall knowingly or wilfu!ly in any other minuet or respect set forth in such affislavit or affirmation any matter or thing by this Act' required to be set forth, otherwise than according to the truth ; or shall knowingly or wilfully omit td set forth therein, according to the truth, any matter or thing re quired by this Act to be therein set forth, every person so offending shall be liable to the pains and penalties to which persons are liable for wilful and corrupt perjury." The title and clauses of the Act, which we have here inserted at length, point out with so much clearness and precision the objects and provisions of the law which the Commissioners of Stamps are thus specially deputed to enforce, that we feel it to be unnecessary to offer any explanatory observations on that subject. A reference to this statute could not fail to increase the surprise with which we had received information of the fact, that the Chairman of the Board of Stamps was a con cealed proprietor of a public newspaper. Independently of the objection arising from any pecu liar official duty which may be intrusted to him, there are various grounds on which, in our opinion, the pro prietorship, or even a prominent share in the conduct of a newspaper, mast be considered as not properly com patible with the situation of a head of one of the prin cipal Government departments. In the present case, however, it is sufficient to ad•et t to th , :se reasons which render such an engagement peculiarly objectionable with reference to the special duties of the offir.e now under consideration. That the Commissioners of Stamps are the function- aries specially deputed on the part of the public to carry into effect the provisions of this Act according to their strict and true intent (which are so clearly intimated in the title), is sufficiently apparent from the reference made to them in the clauses above extracted, and more particularly from their being empowered to re quire new affidavits to be made as to proprietorship as often as they shall see reasonable cause. After a con sideration of the nature and objects of the duty thus imposed upon the Commissioners, it was equally appa rent to us, that no one of them could become privy to any case of concealment of the real proprietor of a newspaper, and still less that he could become a princi-• pal agent or contriver in effecting any such concealment, without a direct violation of that duty. Under this impression we felt ourselves callei upon to put the questions to Mr. Sedgwick on this subject, which are contained in his examination of the 31st January, 1825, annexed to our 13111 ltepoTt. By reference to ti is exami nation, your Lordships will see that Mr. SAgwick does not deny the fact of his being the principal proprietor of the British Press newspaper, and admits the accuracy of the follooing statement as to the circumstances at tending that property : " that he and another Gentle man are the two chief proprietors, but that it has been assigned to Mr. Haines; and under that assignment, which is a legal title, he holding the equitable title, Mr. Haines swears that he is the proprietor of the Paper." In a preceding part of the examination, Mr. Sedgwick gives the following account of this transaction : " When I was originally connected with the British Press, 1 had certainly every intention of parting with it. 1 never intended to keep it ; but having embarked a property in it, I was obliged so to do, and therefore made a con veyance in equity, assigning the whole of my right to Mr. Haines; and certainly if he could take advantage of that, I might lose the property in it." Your Lordships will observe that this extract does not agree with the preceding one in regard to the descrip-k lion of the conveyance made to Mr. Haines; and we think it right to add, that we have had reason to doubt whether any legal assignment on a sufficient stamp was ever executed on this occasion ; and we are the more disposed to entertain this doubt, from the fact stated to us on oath, that Mr. Haines is a person employed as a reporter in the office of the Paper. We annex in the appendix copies of the affidavit made by Mr. Haines, dated the 7th of November, 1823, and of three preceding affidavits. On all these occasions, ex• cept the first, it will be seen, that the parties swearing represent themselves to be the sole proprietors of the Parer in question. At the time these several affidavits were taken, Mr. Sedgwick must have been fully ap prised of the real state of the property to which they related ; and we are at a loss to discover on wh.t prin ciple he could reconcile it, either to his sense of duty as a Commissioner of Stamps, or to I is general feeling of propriety, to permit affidavits so inconsistent oith the fact to be tendered on the part of the proprietors, or to be accepted by his colleagues, and to remain on the files of the office. Your Lordships will observe, that in the examination before referred to, Mr. Sedgwick appears to consider that the statute is sufficiently complied with by the production of any person willing to swear to the affida vit, and to take udon himself the consequent responsi bility as proprietor. We do not 0 ink it necessary to offer any additional reasons for our total dissent from such an interpretation of the law, which, although the Chairman is supported in it by the opinion of one at least of his colleagues, we are satisfied your Lord,liips will concur with us in rejecting as being wholly inagmis sible ; and more peculiarly so, when urged by one of those Commissioners Nho ate specially charged with the exe cution of that law according to its lull intent and purpor t. We are aware that cases frequently occur in which the legal ownership of Newspapers, like that of other per sonal property, is cast upon persons not taking any be neficial interest, such as executors, ti ustees, or assignees of bankrupts; and that on these occasions it has, in some instances, been found difficult to fix upon the par ties from whom, under the provisions of the Act, the affidavit► of ownership should be taken. It is, however, obvious that cases of this description are wholly distin guishable from those in which a clivisi.in of the owner ship into legal and equitable titles is made for any put. pose of concealment, and that the affidavits taken under the circumstances of those cases cannot in any respect be held to sanction the admi. , ion of an affidavit of ownership by a person set up mealy for the purpose of making it. We annex in the Appendix the copy of a case, with a joint opinion given by the Attorney and Solicitor-Lie neral, on this subject, in which the distinction above alluded to is clearly admitted, and in which also the conduct of the parties concerned in making the affida vit on the foundation of a colourable ownership only, is adverted to in terms which shew that the persons so swearing are considered as liable to an Indictment for perjury, although a proceeding for the penalty under the seventh section of the Act is recommended as a more advisable course. Various other circumstances respecting the connection of Mr. Sedgwick and other parties with the British Press Newspaper have been laid before us, to which we refrain from calling your Lordships' attention, both because these particulars re. late in a great measure to matters wholly of a private character, and also because we are given to understand that a snit is now pending in the Court of Chancery on !the subject of the ownership •of that paper during the period to which we have alluded. In the observations and details into which we hive been led on this part of our subject, we have considered the transaction which has given rise to them wholly in a public view, and as connected with the due adminis tration of that branch of the law which is under the immediate superintendence of the Commissioners of Stamps; and we do not doubt that your Lorchhip will consider what we have thus submitted, as suffir lent to justify the opinion expressed in our preceding Report, that the proprietorship of a public Newspaper is a si tuation wholly incompatible with that of Chairman of the Board of Stamps, and that by no possible contin genoy should the private interests and official duty of Commissioners of Rtrvenue Boards be allowed to be brought into collision. Jo the course of our inquiries we ascertained the fact, that it was considered notorious throughout the department, that the Chairman was the proprietor of the Paper in question; and we cannot but feel that there is strong ground for believing that this knowledge must have had some influence on the mode in which the several subordinate officers have executed the various duties intrusted to them, both with respect to the objects of ascertaining and recording the names of the real proprietors, and a:so of enforcing the collec tion of the duties incurred for advertisements. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. M ANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday, Mr. Barnard Hodson, a printer, residing in Lillypot• lane, appeared to answer to a charge of contumacy, preferred before the Commissioners of the City Court of Requests. The defendant came to the bar, disputing in a high tone with the Marshalman, to whom he refused to give up the summons until he had said some. thing about it. The. Lord Mayor ordered it to be taken from him. The defendant—l have to say upon it, my Lord, that it sum monses me to attend here at eleven o'clock, at which hour I at tended, but the doors were not opened until twelve. Now, your Lordship ought to know, as a man of business, that time is valuable. The Loan Mims did not deign to notice the defendant's attack, but proceeded to bear the evidence of the case. The Clerk of the Court produced a certificate from the sitting Commissioners, de claring that the defendant had used opprobrious language in the Court towards them.—Two witnesses spoke to the conduct of the defendant as most insolent towards the Commissioners. He not merely d—d them, but declared if they bad spoken of him out of Court what they had spoken in Court, he would have pulled their noses.—The defendant endeavoured to prove that d•—n was no curse, but good dictionary phraseology, and as such should be respected. The LORD Mavoa told the defendant, that in manner as well as statement he confirmed the charge of insolence. He fined him 201. Defendant-1 refuse to pay it. The LORD MAYOR—Then I commit you to prison for ten days. This sentence somewhat surprised Mr. Hodgson, who was led off by the Marslialmen, and deposited in the cage until the time should come for removing bins with a string of other detenus as the day's examinations might produce, none of them, perhaps, very agreeable companions for a person like the defendant, wearing kid gloves, to be " twisted in" with. After he had been caged about two hours, his brother came, and begged that the detenu might be permitted to apologise to the Commissioners. The LORD MATOa said it was too late, but, having admonished the offender on the government of his temper, remitted the penalty of imprisonment. GUILDHALL. Mr. Carpenter, a confectioner in Fleet-street,was brought before Mr. Alderman BRoserr, to shew cause why lie ►hould not be held to bail for having assaulted bis wife. The parties have been married some ten or eleven months. They did not " come together" in the usual way—by having their hearts spitted upon " Dan Cupid's bird-bolt;" but by advertisement in a newspaper. Mr. Carpenter was a widower, with six children and a pretty trade; and so he advertised for a wife. Mrs. Carpenter was, at that time, a widow, with four children, £7OO in bard cash, and three freehold houses: she saw the advertisement; answered it; met the advertiser; talked the matter ever; and finally they agreed to put this and that together, abandon their widowy weeds, and become man and wife ;—but the Lady took the precaution of having her fr.rehold settled upon her first stock of little ones.— Mr. Carpenter had a 0 country house" at Brixton; and Mrs. Car. punter soon found out that the said country-house had a very un comfortable adjunct—to wit, a young woman, enceinte by Mr. Carpenter. Consequently she remonstrated with Mr. C.—Mr. C. defended himself as well as he could; his defence was very unsatis factory; conjugal squabbles ensued; and before a double honey moon had elapsed, Mrs. Carpenter withdrew herself from the concern. In process of time, however, she found that she was likely to become the mother of a little Master Carpenter; and this discovery induced litr to return to Mr. Carpenter's house—He received her coolly, but she remained, and (as she had predicted) in due time she added one to Mr. Carpenter's stuck of little ones.—This was the general outline of Mrs. Carpenter's case; and as to particu. lars—she now accused him of depriving her of common comforts in her time of peril, whilst he supplied his mistress, the young woman above-mentioned, with the choicest delicacies of his shop-- tarts, cheesecakes, jellies, and Bath buns, and Nanny Lints also front that far-famed city in great abundance. Then fol lowed the assault, which was in this fishion :—Mr. Carpenter had not spoken to her for two days, when, perceiving bins about to go our, she held up their mutual little one, and said, Kiss your son before you go!" Mr. Carpenter did kiss it; "and; added Mrs. C. "a dozen words more had not passed my lips, when he gave me two severe slaps on the face."—This completed Mrs. Carpenter's case. Mr. Carpenter, in his defence, admitted having a young woman enceinte at Brixton; but all chat, he said, was before be had say. thing to do with the present Alf& Carpenter; and he declared there had been nothing at all of the kind since—no tarts, no cheesecakes, no second enceintter in proof whereof he begged the Alderman to allow him to call in the young woman in propria persona, she being in attendance outside the office, for the express purpose of rebutting that part of Mrs. Carpenter's statement. The Aunt:Nam declined examining the young woman on that point, or on any point at all, indeed; and desired Mr. Carpenter to goon without her. Mr. Carpenter then went on to state that Ur's. C. was saliarrifs ob4 jealous ; that she neglected his family ; that she absented her selt from his house during seven whole months without cause or provocation ; that she was of such a violent temper, that in less than a fortnight after her =oedemata the jumped out of bed and kick ed the nurse down stairs; and as to the particular assault in cries. Lion, after having asked him to " kiss his son," she called him " a swindler ;" and he therefore considered himself completely justified In boxing her ears. " Then you admit the assault, and you must put in bail for your appearance to answer it at the Saoions," said the Alderman. 11.1i1 was accordingly put in, and the parties withdrew—Mrs. C. vowing she would return to her husband's Luu-e, and compel him to maintain her as he ought; and 111 r. C. amorist; he would never live with her again. BOW-STREET. don Finnerty, a child not more than 12 years old, was placed at the bar, on a charge of passing counterfeit money. William Jackson, stationer, Strand, said that on Thursday even ing the prisoner came into his shop for a penny sheet of paper. In payment for which she tendered a base shilling. Witness had taken several shillings lately of the same character in the hurry of business, and he asked the prisoner if she had any more money, as the shilling she offered was a bad one. The prisoner said, she had not any money about her except that shilling. On searching her basket, however, witness found another shilling of the same description, together with nine sixpences, all good. Therq were also in the basket several small articles which the prisoner bad purchased of various shops, and for which, in all probability, she paid In bad coin. The prisoner, young as she is, was twice at this office, on similar charges • and last sessions she wa s pl a c e d at th e bar o f the Old Bailey for uttering counterfeit coin, but was then discharged with. out a trial, on account of her extreme youth. She is to be brought up for re-examination next Friday. A ruffian of the name of Nevin was charged by his wife, who was obliged to be supported into the office, and to give her statement from one of the benches, where the Magistrate desired her to alt, with beating her in a cruel manner, and threatening to murder her with a knife. The poor woman has lain in within the last fort. night, and she was so weak while making her complaint, that it was with considerable difficulty she could proceed. The case was fuUy proved, and the husband ordered to give bail, himself in 401. and two housekeepers M. each, and to give 24 hours' notice of bail. DIED. On tie 25d ultimo, at Devonport, Mr. James Lyon, of Om& Lithe, London, in the 55th year of hit age. At East bloulsey, on the 31st August, Lieutenaat•C&onel Archibald Ross. At Lochore House. Fife hire, Mrs. Isabella Elier Mahan.' Baird, wife of the Very e d Dr. G. 11. Baird, Priticy.st of the University of 11..tliuburgh. A t Greenhill, in the parish of Deshford, on the sth ult. George Black, at the great age of 103 years and six months. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. One of the constables of &. James's parish was severely repri manded by the Maximus., for haying improperly quartered sot- Lotwox r Printed and Published by J. F. KEA I.l', at 84 ST...a Owe', No. 1, Pickett-Place, Tempk-Bar. ' diers on Mr. Abbott, a wholesale wipe merchant in Oiford.strett, .who is not at all liable to such an intrusion, and although Mr. Abbot repeatedly informed him that he was acting in error. Three of the " Buy a Broom" sisterhood were yesterday aga'n charged with vagrancy, by walking hand in band through the street, asking for money. Two of them could only be prevailed upon tl give their Chrhtian names, Hannah and Christiana ; hut the thir gave as here German" name," Susannah Rivers." They were all discharged on a promise not to ofrend again. AI A R Y- LA-BON - Nit Mr. Cos, charged with attempting to poison his wife and Mzry Anne Cruker, was again brought up for examination ; when, after a number a questions nut immediately relative to the cas e in h an d . Mr. Harmer asked Mrs. C." Do yo u k now a person named Ruther. ford; did you not tell him, that you was determined to part, and if your husband did not accede to your terms by Tuesday. you would swear your life against him?" Mrs. Cox—" I told m r , I Rutherford that my husband treated me so cruelly, that if he d:1 not consent to leave me, I must swear my life against him." Mr. Rutherford, who married the sister of the man Mrs. C. s?'d she was previously married to, and who had been dead a twe:v:. month, said the property Mrs. C. possessed was left by him. lie 1)21 always been on friendly terms with Mr. and Mrs. Cox; they appeared to live happily together until lately ; he visited then, on Wednesday week ; she then complained of Mr. Cox's behaviour, and slid she no doubt there was something in the house for her destruction. On Sunday he visited them again at five o'clock ; they ow e nut for a walk, and returned arm.in•arm. Mr. Cox went out again, whit: she took him into the kitchen, and ,hewed him the oxalic acid. She returned it again to the cupboard, and said as soon as Nit.. Cox hi! mixed it she would have it analysed, and swear her life a.?ain•• and hang the villain, for he had treated her very ill, and , h• h , t4d him. When he left she followed him into the garden, and said 4.e should make a proposition to her husband, and Vise did n 4 t accede to it by Tuesday. she would swear her life against him, t r tken Mr. Humphreys (the person before alluded to) would bay_ L.en dead a twelvemonth, and she should have the legacies to settle. lle Was astonished when be heard the charge against Mr. Cox, as II,: did not think he was the man to do so. _ _ Miss Croker deposed, that on Monday week she hotiglit, at Vr. Trebbs's, an ounce of bark for Mrs. C—Mr. Harmer asked her if she bought nothing else at the same time. She replied, " I bought an ounce of salts for Mr. Cox—l ant sure they were salts, they were sealed in a paper marked ' Epcom Salts.'" Mr. Harmer—Did Mr. Cox take them / Mary Ann C. They were mixed for him, but he did not like their taste, and he threw them away, excepting a little piece, which hr put in a paper ; I told him I was sorry he had thrown them away, for I would have go:le with him to the shop where I bought then'. 141r.Harmer desired Mr. Cox to t.ll his story respecting the salts. Mr. Cox said,his wife mixed them while he was up stairs ; they did not taste like salts, they were much darker, and they tasted acid, so he threw them down the sink, excepting a little setlimon which he put in a paper; he thea asked his wife for three ha tpence; and fetched another ounce from a different ch mist. and %hawed him the sediment; he said it was not salts, but an acid, it he had swallowed it, would have done him injury. " I have a piece (said Mr. Cox) now in my waistcoat pocket at home, in paper.' The Magistrate immediately sent him, accompanied by ifucknell, the Officer, to Homer -street, and they brought hick the paper a:- luded to; it contained a very small piece. Air. Squire exantin...d it, and tasted the paper ; he said decidedly its as not salts, but acid, and it had the appearance of oxalic acid ; he ziftcrwards tasted the article itself, and was of the same opinion. Being so small a quan tity, Mr. Griffith cautioned him not to taste too freeiy, or he wt,61.1 " swallow the evidence." James Butters, Assistant to Mr. Webb, remembered )fits Croker's coming for the bark, but he did not believe site pureb:.sed any salts; it was impossible there could be a mistake, as the are kept in a drawer, sealed up in paper marked " Epsom S.:lts," and the oxalic acid is kept in a bottle, and when sold, is invrriaL•ly marked " Oxalic Acid—Poison." Mr. Harmer alluded to the very extraordinary elucidation pro duced by this question to Miss Croker " Did you purchase nothing but the bark?' and Mr. Gat►rrris told Mr. Cox that, alto- this most singular and perplexing inquiry, the minds of the Magistrates were altered. "We de not thiuk there is sufficient rvideuce to commit you, nor should we feel justified In liberating you; we, therefore, require you to find bail for your appearance when acces sory. In the meantime, Mr. Harmer will make su,:b farther in quiry for your benefit as may he needful." Some time after Louts XIV. t!re cele brated Bossurr to the Bishopric of Sleaux, he asked the citizens how they liked their new Bishop. " Why, your Alasitsvv, we itkP him pretty well." " Pretty well! why, what fault have you to find with him?" "To tell your Mascara , the truth, we would hive preferred having a Bishop who had finished his education ; for whenever we wait upon him we are told that he is at kis studies "I NEWOATIf. 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