Star. — London, England, 1831-06-27 00:00:00

BELGIUM. r en the Belgic Resolution; its Origin, Causes, sad Consequences. Is. 6d. inot agree with you in your opinion of the . cause, and the political situation of the trovinces of Flanders, Brabant, Helmuth, Namur, Antwerp, Limbourg, and Luxem- A long sojourn amongst them, during' hare learnt to appreciate their activity ir perseverance in the. useful :tits, their patience, their intellectual progress in the if oast ales thrown in their way to stop rurse, has given me the opportunity of from experience, of the cause of a country generally speaking, we are but little ac with, and which the periodical press, sub the influence of I know not what politi 'mimes, has contributed more especially us regard in a fake light. l'hat there whose state and position compel them to upon truth, and systematically to orga isehoode end calumnies, cannot be denied. have received a special order so to do, which led with some pompous title ; but, that who are disinterested as to the question, serve, fora vile salary, and in cold blood, mients and accomplices, and thus prosti teir talent and intelligence; is what can be excused, and what every honest mind :olt at. The periodical press, whose office it should be to propagate facts with truth and exactness, to de fend with justice and conscientiousness the inte rests of the people against the usurpations of power, has failed in its trust as regards the Bel gians. It has falsified the principles of a Iwo- Intim, which it has not understood. It has shown an increditle eagerness, and a culpable joy in ga thering together all the facts calculated to repre sent the character of the Belgians in an odious light, and to justify their oppressors and tyrants in their designs. And it is upon the testimony of journals, open to the lies 'of the enemies of Bel gium, and of every liberal cause, that you form your opinion of a whole people ; it is upon their rertlmity that you declare the Belgians ungrateful to their benefactors, and discontented without cause ; and that, not having any reason to revolt, they have only obeyed their turbulent and restless spirit ; that the government of Holland was gentle, liberal, and paternal, and King William, the model for Kings! Do you think that a people revolts thus without ause ? Do you think that, without strong and powerful reasons, it breaks all the ties which unite it to the existing order of things, that it interrupts the market of industry, stops the course of com -Ir:free, that it puts its wealth, and its very exist -1.11(13 in jeopardy ? No, no, my friend. A partial revolt, a local risint.r, may be referred to the pas sious of tie moment, and may not take its source in natiorail excitement; but a revolution, a general and instantamous revolution, is a remedy so vio lent and so extreme, that a people must have ex hausted ail means of gentleness and conciliation, teal the state of things must have become insup pe taLle, before they have recourse to it.— When a .whele nation rises as one man—when the mechanic quits his loom, the rustic his plough, the ' student forsakes his study, the soldier his cockade, the shopkeeper his business, the citizen his tran yid and inoffensive life, and all as if animated by one soul join the deep cry of " Liberty"—all affront danger and brave death to attain the prize —it must needs be, that this nation has suffered much and long, that the yoke bad become insup portable, and that the measure of its woes has been f I :ed to the brim. In 1814, when the Allied Powers rounded the magnificent words of lndedendence and Liberty, the Belgians were not deaf to the cry. When victory was seemed, the monarchs forgot their ' et.gagements. The Diplomatists, who divided and ' allotted nations (cutting to the quick with the in sensibility of an anatomist dissecting a corpse), heedless of the sufferings aid cries of the victim, arranged by a treaty, without any regard to the interest of the parties concerned, that Belgium s! ould be separated front France, and annexed to Holland. 1 hey had hoped for brethren, they found oppressure ; and four millions of Belgians became a prey to the avidity of two millions of Dutchmen. Prophetic voices had predicted these ca:amitiea ; bat they acre little heeded amidst the illusions with which every one delighted his huicy ; when violent commotions have just sub sided, a nation is pleased to he lulled with hopes, however delusive, end piesent evils are thus for gotten. The treaties guaranteed to the Belgians a con stitution, not as a gift, but one to which they had a right. The project of this constitution, pre sented to the Belgian nobility (whom the King himself, however, had taken the precaution to ap point) had been rejected by them. A majority of the Dutch party—a factitious and fallacious ma jority—imposed this upon them. The Belgians Lad a jury : the King, even before he was invested v. ith royal authority, and in the quality of simple commissioner of the powers deprived them of it, - by an act of his own will and deed. He abolished the publicity of judicial debates in its most important branch—the examination of wit nesses. He kept the judicial order dependant upon him ; and, by some premeditated delay in his arrangements, the law by which it was pro vided that the judges should not be removed was rendered merely a figure of speech. The in dependence of some of the magistrates was the ' signal for their disgrace ; the servility of others was their title to reward from the crown ; so that, in stead of being impartial administrators of the law, the magistrates became the mere tools of the despo tic will of the government. All liberty of the press was destboyed, by the publication of an ordi nance, which threatened punishment to the writers, from a year's imprisonment, and six hours wearing the iron collar, to pain of death ; and such was the vagueness of the expressions in these ordinances, that the examination and censure of acts of go vernment (that invaluable right of a free people) were treated as crimes. He imposed taxes without consulting the people. He paralysed the effect of the laws by his own interpretations, the execution of which he insisted upon. lie expelled, by force,' from Belgium any strangers who came under the -"n¢ shade of a constitution that they be or to demand hospitality of a this virtue in the rank of its iympathy of other nations. Ho I the most important branches opposition to the-interests of his ime by degrees merchant, mane facturer, stock-jobber, printer, &c. He burthened with exorbitant taxes all the national productions ' of Belgium ; and in a country principally agricul tural, taxes upon bread, grinding corn, cutting wood, and distilleries, oppressed the southern pro vinces, while Holland, which scarcely felt the weight of them, profited by it. He assumed the right of nominating the magistrates of the towns, and introduced into the municipal regulations what WAS diametrically opposed to the constitution. He altered according to his own fancy the constitution of the provincial states, whose determinations he subjected to the veto of a governor appointed by himself. He took into his own hands the controul of education, and deprived the heads of families of the sacred right of bringing up their children in the way that they thought best. It was no longer al lowed that any one should give public instruction without a permit. A license was necessary even for teaching reading and writing in private fami lies; to become a master of the French, English, Latin, or Greek languages, it was essential to have a royal permit. Private schools were authoritatively closed, and those masters who had vainly imagined that nothing was needed but the requisite informa tion, and the confidence of the parents, were ba nished to the frontiers by the gendarmerie. Nor was this all the infringement upon paternal rights ; not only teachers, but particular methods of in struction, particular books and lectures even, were authoritatively imposed ; and observe, my friend, that all these books were printed in Holland, and drawn up entirely on the Dutch system, and thus was established a monopoly at once moral, intel lectual, and physical, all tending solely to the be nefit of the northern provinces, and infusing drop by drop into the young minds of Belgium, political and religious principles absolutely incompatible with those of their fathers. From the dame school to the highest classes in the University, every thing was under government regulation. The last stage of humiliation remained—a species of humiliation which no nation ever forgets,, and which it feels even after centuries of oppres sion and despotism—a degradation which affects the most sacred property of man—the use of his paternal tongue. This sacred right the King took from the Belgians, and imposed upon them a foreign idiom unknown in Europe. In a country where French is the language of literature, of news, of conversation, of the bar, a King was found short-sighted enough in his policy, and tyrannical j enough in his contempt of inf orma ti on an d civiliza tion,l to order, by a simple decree of his will, that French should be no longer the national language, that the Belgians were to unlearn their mother tongue, and feline their or g ans and those of their children to the use of the D utch ! In many of the provinces, the Belgians were no longer allowed to defend their interests in the courts, except in Dutch—to treat of national affairs, to hold com munion with government, to draw up public acts, except in Dutch. The father of a family was com pelled to make his will in a language every word of which required a translation. No man was ad mitted to any office (even in those provinces in which French was universally spoken), until he had served his apprenticeship to the Dutch. The oldest statesmen, who had grown grey with honour in the administration, were turned out of office. Experienced barristers, notaries, formed by twenty years' practice, church advocates, sergeants—all were obliged to relinquish their situations, and seek new means of earning their bread, or fall into beggary ; Judges left the bench, government officers their places, professors their chairs, and ' officers their epaulettes. The partiality of King William towards his Dutch subjects soon extended its influence from persons to things. All the great national establishments of the kingdom, the High Military Court, the Syn dicat of Mortmain, the Council of Catholic Wor ship, the Supreme Council of the Nobility, the great Military- Schools, the Commercial Society, were summoned in Holland. Even the institutions which be'onged expressly to the mines and their superintendance, were established in a country where there is not a foot of ground containing a mineral. The position of the High Court of Justice was not yet determined, and offi cial memorials were laid before the King, showing thar there were four times as many law suits in Belgium as in Holland; that the difference was occasioned by the number of the inhabitants, by the nature of their transactions, and by the greater sub-division ef property ; and thnt it was consequently only fair that the high court should be established in the southern provinces; reason, justice, calculation, memorials, all or none, it came to the same thing ; the King had determined that the Belgians should plead their causes, as a final appeal, in his good town of the Hague. I have not yet mentioned the grasping spirit of the administration, nor the immoral laws which were carried by a Dutch majority, nor the barba rous system of legislation which menaced Belgium, and reminded one of the horrors of the 14th cen tury : nor of the infringements upon personal li berty, by a decree which authorised the imprison ment of a man of good family, upon the mere dic tum of a president of a tribunal ; nor of the in fringement upon property by Royal edicts, grant ing to debtors an twbitrary remission of the claims of their creditors; nor of monopolies of certain branches of trade (such, for instance, as the her ring fishery) granted to Dutchmen ; nor of the Custom-house regulations, which were ruinous to Belgium; nor of the annual increase of the taxes in a time of profound peace, and with such a frightful progression, that Belgium was then pay ing four times as much as she bad contributed to the revenue of Napoleon, during twenty-five years of war; nor of the increase of a debt already enormous, and the repetition of a deficit whit h suc cessive loans never replaced ; nor of the disgusting and ruinous partiality in paying off the anterior debt— a partiality carried to such an extent, that the Dutch debt was liquidated in 1815, while the Belgic debt, which was comparatively trifling, re mains to this hour; nor of the scandalous appro. prktion of a million of florins, which was voted by the States General for the purpose of encouraging national industry, and employed by the king for the purposes of corruption, and the hire of foreign agents; nor of the arbitrary methods by which the ,turnpike dues were withdrawn from the provinces, though they were at the same time charged with repairing the roads ; nor of the maintenance of a standing army ; nor of the grievance of a militia of five years sere ice, which robbed tire agricultural • interests of its best hands ; nor of a guard called the' Schutterye,. subject to the most vexatious ar rangements. The outcry for the establishment of the promised institutions was no longer confined to the writers and representatives of the country; the whole na tion uttered their complaints in concert, and stated their grievances; thus depriving the King of all pretext of ignorance, which he always pleaded. Petitions were addressed to him from all parts, as well as to the national representation; from every side they demanded the full and entire execution of that Constitution which the Government had pre scribed, and whose liberal tendency it had carefully eluded. The expression of discontent was general. It was then that the people of Belgium were wit nesses to a novel phenomenon in the conduct of representative governments. The numerous petitions were made so many lists of proscriptions for the citizens who had signed them. The King even treated those Belgians who had made use of their constitutional right, as sedi tious and infamous. Those who held public dices were turned out, and those whose rink and fortune placed them beyond the reach of royal displeasure, and whose substantial interests he could not affect, were banished the court. Presently after, a royal message came to the National Assembly, in which King William intimated thus his will and 'pleasure; —that he derived his authority solely from God, and from his ancestors; that the Constitution was an act of his good pleasure, and not the realization of a national right ; that his decisions were not to be restrained by an idle ministerial responsibility ; that ha would not re-establish the Trial by Jury, a foreign innovation in our customs ; nor leave to the press such supreme power over affairs ; that he would govern by himself ; and that he knew how justly to appreciate the pretended troubles of the nation, or rather of a handful of mal contents, who insolently usurped the name of nation, and whom he would soon bring to their senses. Insults were then heaped upon the national representation. Its most sacred rights, and most precious prerogatives, were contested. A ministerial candidate having presented himself to the Chambers, after an irregular election, and the States having refused to admit him, the King signified ve rify them, s elect he did not recognize their right of ing ions : that the candidate, 1 1 in consequence of the difficulty that had been thrown in his way, had sent in his resignation as deputy, and that he had chosen, not out of consi ' deration for the chamber, but for tho deputy, to accept it ; but that, if he had liked, he could have forced them to admit him. The chamber being over-ruled by a Dutch majority, submitted to this last degree of humiliation. Gloomy discontent and general despair agitated the nation, when it considered the moral and political condition of the neighbouring people. In France the ministry of Puliguac, in England that of Wellington, the in fluence of the Holy Alliance in Germany, of Prince Metternich framing new fetters, and preaching another crusade against the liberties of the people ; all combined to certify, that a vast system of op pression was every where organising itself, of which King William was himself one of the most willing agents, and that the crisis was approaching for the people, or for their kings. Such, my friend, was the moral and political situation of Belgium, when the glorious revolution of July blazed forth in France, and this brilliant spark set fire to the pow der in Belgium. I say it with confidence, and without fear of being contradicted by facts, that never king vio loted more openly sworn faith and established laws ; or disregarded more impudently the rights of his subjects ; showed a more profound contempt for all that is good and sacred ; or displayed a more brutal insensibility to the humblest remonstrances that were addressed to him. But the lesson in France was of no more avail than the past had been. Despotism, often as it is taught by cruel experience, has this peculiarity, that it remains deaf to counsel, blind to example, and stupidly con fident in brute force, which has always been its ruin. After the first popular effervescence was calmed, all good citizens, the city notables, the members of the states general, of the provincial states, and of the municipal administration, were unanimous as to the necessity of making a last appeal to the King, who had hitherto been deaf to their prayers. Respectful addresses were sent to him from all quarters. Deputations of the most honourable men were sent to him : they all demanded the same thing—the removal of the ministry, and the redress of grievances so often complained of, and always neglected. Well, my friend, the ad dresses were disdainfully rejected ; and the King persisted in his obstinacy, and closed his ears to all these representations; but what put the finishing stroke to his perfidy was this—he convoked at the Hague, the second Chamber of the States General. —While be amused the people with this ab surd convocation of the States General at the Hague, and pretended to wish to treat seriously of separatiog the governments of the two great divi sions of his kingdom, he ordered his troops to march upon Brussels; and his second son, Frederic, came to burn its beautiful houses, and to destroy its inhabitants ! Thwarted by popular enthusiasm in this diaboli cal stratagem (which history will stigmatise with words of fire), the King had recourse to a second mancenvre, in which the Prince of Orange was either his accomplice or his dupe. The King despatched him to Antwerp, and there the Prince, professing himself to be fully authorised by his father, voluntarily proposed the separation of the Northern and Southern Provinces. When the Government in return, after replying to the Prince's Proclamation, by asserting that there was no ex isting authority but their own, required to know the extent of his powers to treat of exchange, and how far the troops at Antwerp were under his or ders; it forthwith appeared, that he had no power whatever—that this show of authority was only another snare for the easy faith of the Bel gians, and that it was either a stratagem altoge ther, or the result of a supreme incapacity for every thing like political arrangement. Thus, when the hour of dauger arrived ; when one of the most flourishing commercial towns in Europe ought to have found in this Prince a patron and friend ; when honour, humanity, personal interest even, should have urged him to save the place from the incendiaries of Brussels, he secretly quitted the town, and left • the command of. the military to Frederic the incendiary, and to General Chasse, who poured upon Autwep, upon its magazines, its warehouses, and its superb Gothic buildings, an uninterrupted shower of bombe, balls, and Congreve rockets, for twelve hours together ! Can you wonder, after• this, theta Royal fatally who have broken their oaths, given houses and towns to the flames in cold blood, shed the blood of thousands of citizens, tolerated and encouraged atrocities at which a savage would shudder—can you wonder, I say, that such men should be for ever excluded from reigning in Belgium ? I wish, my friend, that the limits of this letter (which is insensibly growing under my hand)would permit me to describe to you the reverse of the medal shish has been held up as the type of our revolution. I could show you a Provisional Go vernment, establishing itself on .the 25th of Sep tember, amidst the turmoil of cannon and bombs, without finances, without archives ; with no mate rials for governing a people, who were even then at open war, but pens, ink, and paper, and that courage which patriotic devotion alone can inspire. Five days after its establishment, its authority is recognised in most of the towns of Belgium ; on the Ist of October it forms a new magistracy, and justice resumes its usual and regular course ; it restores the freedom of the press, establishes the right of association, abolishes lotteries, annuls those decrees which infringed upon personal liber ty ; establishes an uniformity of operations through out the interior ; organizes an army ; creates finan cial resources, by continuing the ordinary taxation; and, full of confidence in the wisdom of the people, it convokes a National Congress, directs that the elections shall be held on the moat popular• footing which Belgium has ever enjoyed ; and these elec tions take place throughout the Provinces with a regularity, an order, and a harmony, which excites the admiration even of the enemies of national freedom. Never was there more security in the towns, or on the high roads, which were covered with mili tary ; and never revolutionary government showed a more profound respect for persons and property. During the six months that its authority lasted, there was not a single arbitrary arrest, not a single government prosecution not an act of violence against any individual. No scaffold was reared, and no blond shed in the public places ; the Belgic Revolution is innocent of this transgression. It is in such cases as this, my friend, that the peo ple are truly sublime ! The Plenipotentiaries of five European Powers, assembled in London, proposed to the Belgians, that there should be a suspension of arms, in order to prevent an useless effusion of blood, and to facilitate a definitive arrangement with Holland, on the basis of a separation Letween the two countries. For this purpose, it was arranged that every thing relating to boundaries was to re main as it had been in 1814. Belgium, though victorious, and able at that moment to have carried her arms into the heart of panic-struck Holland, accepted the proposition. This, my friend, was the origin of the negocia tions, which are still pending, as to the boundaries of the different states. Belgium, relying upon the basis laid down by the Powers themselves (the state of things in 1814), refused to consent to any dismemberment, and resolutely resisted the propo sitions offered in the protocols. How, indeed, could she consent to part with Luxembourg, which has been a part of Belgium for ages, and to place its inhabitants (who, like the rest of the nation, had thrown off the yoke of the oppressor, and fought for the common independence) again in the power of King William ? How could she give upl Limbourg, and the claim that she had asserted to a part of Maestricht, in 1790, or before, even when it was in the hands of the Dutch ? Surely there is neither senseless obstinacy, nor encroachment, nor the desire of aggrandisement at the expense of others, in demanding what history establishes as, your own, and what the identity of manners, cus toms, language, and political changes, binds yet more strongly to your own lot. We have always considered the Belgians an in teresting, industrious, and virtuous people, but unfortunate in the compliment of being contested kr as a prize by powerful neighbours. They were basely compromised by the black Congress of Vi enna, and enslaved, abused, and insulted, for fif teen years, by the House of Orange. At length they displayed an energy worthy of success ; but, instead of establishing a Republic, and choosing a president, they have deferred to King-craft, and chosen two sovereigns without success. Whatever be the result of these foreign intrigues, Belgium must continue the most flourishing of countries ; but if driven on a Republican Government, these provinces will become the envy of all nations, and the focus of European civilization. Their cause Is a righteous one, and we ardently hope they will succeed in establishing their independence, and in setting an example of well-regulated Liberty to all Europe. LAW RKPORTS. COUR r OF KING'S BENCH, Juwz W. DOYLE Y. POWELL. This was an action brought to recover 1,550 L insured on goods which were lost by perils of the sea. The plaintiff was muter and owner of the ship Triton, which mailed in May, 1828, from Liverpool for Buenos Ayres, if open, of to any other port in the River Plate. By the terms of the policy the ship was allowed to remain for two months at Monte Video. She arrived there on the Ist of August, when Buenos Apes was still blockaded. At Monte Video, he discharged a great part of his cargo, and took in other articles for Buns nus Ayres, is a report prevailed that peace was about to be ratified be tween the Brazilians and the republic of Buenos Ayres. The news of the ratification reached Monte Video on the 4th of October, on which day the blockade was raised. The plaintiff sailed on the sth of October for Buenos Ayres, and cast anchor in the roads, where the ship was by accident sunk, the goods partly lost, and the pore= saved so much damaged as to beg( littlewonh. For the platotiffjt was contended that, although he had remained at IWodleVideo fur more than the two months, yet, as it was by restraint, the underwriter was still liable, under the policy. For the defendant it was contended, that the policy was at an end when the vessel had remained more than two months at Monte Video. The parties at the suggestion of the Judge, arid to make this a cue for the opinion of the Court. WESTMINSTER SESSEONS, Juaa 25. Joseph Ilaussll, only eleven years of age, was indicted foe stealing a waistcoat from the shop of Mt. G. Ravenero pawnbroker in Tothill-street. The article in question was hanging outside the prosecu tor's shop-door for sale, and the prisoner watching an oppor tunity, ran off with it. As soon as it was missed, informs. tion was given to Timbrill, au officer, who keeps a sale-shop in the neighbourhood, to whom it happened that the prisoner shortly afterwards offered it for sale. He was then detained. The father of the prisoner, every decent-looking man, said this was his son's first of fence I the prisoner's mother was dead, anti he (the father) and his only other child were attacked with fever, so that at the period of the robbery there was no one to take care of him, and it was probable that his being thus exposed to the world without protection impelled him to commit the offence. The Chairman said he was very sorry for the prisoner's family, but the property of the public must be protected. The primmer was found Guilty, and in consideration of the circumstances sssted by his taffies, **Court only sea winced him to one month's imptrisonsamt,and to be print* wEippeg. Margaret Jahnson was indicted for stealing a snub-b.,x from the person of a young man named Edward Fanning, who had been induced to accompany her to a house of in. fame. She was found guilty, and sentenced to three months' hard labour. Mary Price was convicted for keeping a brothel in Little Dean-street, Soho, and ordered to be imprisoned until the adjournment day, and then brought judgment up . ri.ICE REPORTS. GUILDHALL. —One of the partners in the firm of Stan. doge and Price, auctioneers, Chancery-lane, attended on summons, for making clictssice charges in respect to levyin g a dimes, tar rent on the property of a young woman named Black. The charge was regular as far as regarded the levy, ap praisetnent, and condemnation. The tenant not liking them at the appropriated value, the goods became at once the pro perty of the landlord ; and the charges for appraising and condemning were, when made, the only lawful charges upon the tenant for the sale of her goods ; but in this case the broker proceeded to put them up to sale by auction, and charged the tenant 12s. Cid. for this second sale, which, it am contended, should have fallen on the landlord. The broker urged that he did not hand the goods over to the landlord upon their being appraised and condemned, because he had seen many flagrant cases of oppression co; I wand up in that. way ; and, secondly, because it was noto. clans that the costs which would be legally chargeable, with. out proceeding to sell by auction, would be too insignificant to remunerate any respectable broker who would do the bu. shim creditably. Mr. Alderman WitICRESTIR said it was a bad defence to say the Act did not allow adequate charges to be made, for it was an indirect admission that Illegal char ges h a d been de. signedly made. He should therefore convict the defendant in treble the amount of the overcharge. Defendant said he had acted according to the universal custom of the trade, and he should appeal against the eon 'lei ion. BOW.STREET.—CaroIine Rooth Harrington and Miss Harrington, sisters, were charged, on Saturday, with being concerned with another sister, not in custody, named Mori Anis, (who was stabbed with a knife, by Margaret Hughes, sometime ago, in Shire-lane, during a quarrel, and who is now in Newga,e to take her trial fur the offence), in robbing Elias White of fifteen sovereigns, three 51. Bank notes, and a silk purse. The father of the prisoners was charged with befit , ' a confederate with his daughters in the robbery. He has been living by their prostitution for some time, but tare discharged for want of evidence. The prosecutor was sobbed by the prisoners In a house in Phcanix.alley, near Covent.garden Theatre. He had been induced to take some gin and-water with the prisoners, and, some nar cotic being put into it, he became stupified, and was plundered. Stilwell, a gaslight-man, proved that, on the morning of the robbery, be saw the three sisters in Lincoln's Inn fields. Caroline threw something over the wall. He climbed over, and found a silk purse, which he produced. The prosecutor Identified it as his property, and the rri• toners were committed. William Henry, and George Duncan, were charged with having stolen a quantity of hats, the property of Mr. Per. ring. A witness, named Pattenden, employed for the purpose, proved thot the prisoner Henry had sold him several guinea hats, at ss. each. file. Halls remanded the prisoner. Friday, after the public business was disposed of at this office, a gentleman in a half military, half naval, uniform. with a wreath of laurel round his cap, and a marshal's staff in his right hand, was brought in custody before Mr. by police superintendents ' Thomas and Dowling. who charged the defendant with having, about half an hour be. fore, attempted improperly to obtain admission to h er 31 a . jesty's Drawing-room. The defendant wore a blue coat with red facings, which were ornamented with a profusion of gold lace. Two large stars, representing the arms ot France under the dynasty of Napoleon, and those of Eng. land, were affixed to his left breast. Mr. Thomas carried his sword, which he had willingly given up. He is a re. markably fine-lookiug man, apparen t ly a b ou t t hi rty years ot T;and his name, as stat e d by M r . Th omas , is Charles Gossett, of No. 18, George-street, Portman-square, Lieute. ant in his Majesty's Navy. Mr. Thomas stated that he charged the defendant whh having attempted to present himself in the dress which he then wore at her Majesty's D.awing-room. He (Mr. Thu. man ) had received instructions at the Palace not to permit the defendant to pass in, and in compliance with those in s ructions he had stopped him. Mr. Dowling stated that orders had been given to him to the same effect. The defendant complained of having been improperly Interrupted by the police, and declared that the insignias which he carried about him were rewards for put services, and that they had been approved of by his late Majesty, who had been graciously pleased to say that he might appear in them at Court. Mr. HALLS said that the defendant appeared to be labour ing under some delusion, and diree ed Mr. Thomas to take him to the station until his mends should be sent for. At the evening sitting the defendant appeared again be fore the Magistrate, his sword having been given up to him in eon%equence of his appearing more calm and col lected. The defendant complained of his having been hopropuly stopped when about to enter the Palace. lie bad often met his present Majesty when Duke of Clarence, and he was gybe certain that had he seen Mot at the drawing-room he would, as he had o f ten d one b e f ore , g i ve hi m a h earty shake of the hand. The defendant then went on to say, that he had submitted his t' insignia" to the Duke of Norfolk and Sir G. hayler, " the latter of whom was pl ease d ( c o n . tinned the defendant, raising his yoke) to put a negative on my claims, whereupon 1 did as the king's champion had done before, I threw down my gauntlet thus—(throwing his gloves with violence on the Boor)—and challenging Sir George to single combat on the spot, I drew my sword as I do now (flourishing it over the heads of those around him); but (throwing his weapon violently from him on the magi* trates' table) since 1 have been dishonoured to-day, that It my sword, do what you like with it." Mr. Hem.* directed an officer to secure the stood, and told the defendant that after this unequivocal proot of the state of his mind, he should not consider it sore either to himself or the public that he should be suffered to go at brge. The defendant was then ordered to be taken back to the station. The opinion of a medical gentleman who was pre. sent was, that he exhibited symptoms of insanity. 111A111.101101Mall-STIMET.,—John Rhodes, the driver of Powell's Omnibus, running flow St. Paul's to Fulham, was fined 101. or in default to stand committed for six months, fur furiously driving on the 18th Inst. A gentleman named Franks attended, and stated that the defendant endeavoured to keep up with a four-horse coach, and although he several times called to him to stop, be continued at a violent rate. A man named Robert Whatley was on Friday brought before the presiding Magistrate, F. A. Roe, Esq. charga with a most shameful and violent assault on his wife. Tbc parties are separated, notwithstanding which the defendant knocked at her residence at about ten o'clock at night, and on her opening the door be immediately struck her three or four times In the face successively, and also knocked her servant down. The complainant's fact presented a dreadful appearance. The worthy magistrate ordered him to find good bail for the ensuing three months. BIRTH. Saturday last, in Easex•atveet, Strand, Mrs. Thorns M. Ding, of a daughter. ARRIED. The 23d Inst. at Newington, near Hythe, the Rev. lier. nett C. Bayley, second son of the Hon. Baron Bayley. to Charlotte, eldest daughter of James Brockman, aci. of Bcachborough, county of Kent.--The 20th inst. at Ly. mington, Lieut.-Col. Hughes, of the Bombay army, to Bliss Luther. youngest daughter of J. Taylor, Esq. )1. D.—The 25th inst. J. T. Marshall, Req. of Nottingham. to Mrs. Ludwig., of ths same place.—The 23d inst. dte Rev. W. Pearl, M. A. of Riling, to Isabella Dunlap. of Baktr.strcet, Portman-square, 'mood daughter of the law 3. Dunlap, Esq. M. D. of Sydenham, Kent--1 he.l6th of February last, at St. Thome, Madras, Capt. It. M. Hum. Preys, 2d regt. Native Infantry, to Maria Mary, eldest dough. daughter of Thomas C. Milan, surgeon, Abingdon-street. Westminster. aw. • MOM • The 24th hist% in Upper Norton.street, after a few hi ttT' illness, Mrs. Hyde, aged lia—&nte day, Mrs. Elisstnth Martin Leak; wife of R. Martin Lege...Esq. of Goscr• street, liedford-square.--Theirid inst. Eliza, second sun le ing daughter of Me. L. Babas, aged 14.—The 26:11 not. Mr. W. Twinch, Clutter-lane, Cheapeide, in his 50th year. - - - LOWDOII s Pi hued mod rublisbal by JOH,' MATT C. at the STA& 0/FICZ, No. 1, Picket-place, Temple 1.1.. • -lad 0: i • i r • .4 Lefler i 1 t . :i • • : I cant Belgian . 1 I ' tine pro• iLiege, N 1 tiourg. : I % n li d ich the l i ;I ;; ' I 0 1 1 1 political i t . I midst of • i ,;• their coi i 1 I judging I which, g . , „ i quainted jetted to ' 1 I cal M3lll 1! I to make ure men • infringe :. 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