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riuP•wm ~*. ~. ~. ""7""W , 7 -. s flitc ruin! 1‘0 4 4 . • .ti o e 4: 4 '6 : Ikleittli '• ._OF A CONVERSATION BETWEEN ' IS PifitirPß AND THE BELGIAN DEPUTA ‘.Ie* • 141 'al • ' • • r 7 King, ig addressing the Deputation , said— • am glad to see you, and to become ac piMnted. I know very well that you find yourselves quite itt home in Paris ; but hero in my house you must feel your- MVel3 also and always at home. • I am highly flattered ; I am proud of your choice of the Duke of Nemours, and though reasons of state policy induce me to decline the offer, I am truly happy that he should be chosen by a free people It is unfortunate that a refusal must be given ; but you must make another choice, for it is indispensable that you should guard against anarchy. Why not take a Neapolitan Prince ? You smile, and my suggestion seems to astonish you. It is true those who live in the atmosphere of Naples do not exactly breathe the air of liberty. But you should see him. He is only 20, and at that age there are materials to work on, and we Frenchmen could fashion him here. My children would assist well. However, since we are here, I will tell you shout my marriage. While we were exiles from France, my brother became the victim of consumption. As is usually the case, he was ordered to go to Italy, and there he died. His death was a great affliction to me, and I was on the point of leaving Naples without seeing the royal family. The son of a re gicide I thought would not be well received at Court; but, wishing to avoid the appearance of disrespect, I went there. I was received with a politeness which, in imagination, I perhaps exaggerated, because I expected nothing but cold ness. I repeated my visit, and finding that friendly atten tions were shown me, I deferred my departure. The Queen in particular treated me with great kindness, and I soon be gan to perceive that she had thoughts of me for one of her daughters. Well, said Ito myself, why should I not marry a Neapolitan Princess, if I see in her qualities which would fit her to be a good mother, and what I would wish in a wife ? In fact, Amelia pleased me, and I married her. I have moulded her according to my own way and ideas—so you see that a Princess of Naples can make a good wife. I have since learned that the Queen, her mother, had got a notion into her head that some time or other the fa mily of Orleans would reign in France. She conjectured shrewdly, and thus it was that she did not hesitate to give her daughter to an exile, and ally herself to one who was stained with the blood of a Bourbon. Now, if you Wit. the Neapolitan Prince, I will also send you one of my daughters— that is to say, if ono of them be so inclined ; Mr, though a King, I am a father, and my daughters shall not be compelled to marry men whom they do not love. I don't care for Royal blood, and they care for it as little. What think you of Marie ? You chatted a long time with her yesterday. Does she not look charming with her blonde ringlets ? She is a Liberal, like you and me. For all this, I must not forget my Louise, who is the oldest—she with the large eyes, and cold, but sentimental, air. She has solidity and judgment; she is a Liberal too, but not quite so warm as her sister. By the bye (laughing), before your King ac cepts your Constitution, you must make him come to the Palais Royal, for if he pleases neither Louise nor Marie, I shall have nothing to say to him. But, to be serious, tell your Belgians that they have drawn closer the ties of friend ship between us, and that they may rely upon me as a father, as their firm support through life." ~ .. .._. WHAT IS A BOROUGH. " Town," in Germany, is, and has always been called " burg," which is pronounced boorgh. London, on the arrival of the Saxons, was called " London," " London Ceastet," " London Byrig," and " London Wic." (Camden Brit. p. 330, edit. 1772.) William the Conqueror, immediately on his conquest, having occasion to address the Londoners,calls them by theirname, the " burgware" of London.— (Spelman's Gloss.) Bracton, who wrote In the time of Henry the Third, calls Oxford and London " burgh' The Britons bad called towns " Llan" and " Caer," i. e. church," " castle ;" the Romans had superseded these names by " Cisitas" and " Castrurn." Again, the Normans called the same " %tulle." Though the Normanssaid "Ville," '' , the people—who were not Normans, but Saxons—still said boorgh or borough. We even now say Canterbury, Salisbury, e. Sails borough. &c. When we translate French, their " villa" becomes '• town." But why did not our fathers say " borough" for " vine," in translating that word, as the Normans had said " ville" for " bo rough ?" The ending syllable " bury," a " borough," in such names as Salisbury, Glastonbury, &c. became almost part of a proper name, and so could not be left out in later days, as it had been In Saxon times (Glaston, and not Glastonbury, occurs in passages quoted in Selden's Tit. Honor ;)and still they could not say the borough of Glastonborough, as " borough" would, in that expression, too much abound. Littleton, 40u ycusago,says, that what had formerly been" city," was afterwards " borough," and that vine" is the expression in his time. " Ville" is now " town." Let us see how long " ville" and " town" were unkrown. The Domesday Survey made by William I. purports to des. all the districts of the kingdom : as counties. wapentakes, hundreds, with all the particulars that made up these large divisions. Tim. is no word meaning town except ' 4 burgus" in that survey : I• Villa" is the only word that could raise a question in this respect—" Villa" shall be examined immediately. But Stet to dispose of evidence of the period of William I, which requires less argument than the meaning of villa :' it is to be observed, that there Is a law of William 1 (Lambert, fo. 12:4, That no traffic or mar ket shall be permitted, except in the cities (civitatibus) and in the boroughs closed in and walled, and castles and safest places; because castles, and boroughs, and cities, were founded and built for the pro tection of folk and people of the realm, and for the defence of the resist,' this is an argument tor market towns being all boroughs.— ' Safest places,' perhaps, mean those abbeys which were allowed to hold market. mentioned in the • Doomsday Survey.' • Villa' occurs in Domesday, and it would appear from a passage in Littleton's Tenures, that • Burgos' is different from other towns' or , vines' (section 165) that • villa' is meant in Littleton's expression ' other town: is evident from Coke's Commentary on that expression, this is as follows It is to be understood what customs can be al , leged in an upland town.' The late Mr. Hargrave's note on the pas sage of Coke has the following passage : The privil, ge of having special customs derogating from the common law, is in general denied to inferior places, such as upland towns, not being cities or boroughs, and to hamlets, though it is allowed to larger or more important dis tricts, counties. hundreds, manors, honours, cities, or boroughs.' The following is sufficient authority to prove the meaning of other towns in Littleton's section. Upland town' is further explained by the ancient au tl tont y of Britton, for 87 'villeins sont cultivateurs du fief demurantes in villages upland,' of this confusion of town' and villa,' an instance occurs in the commentary in Littleton's 171st section. Coke there says what alteration lath been made in towns, what a great lawyer Ranh, " In Anglia viaults tam parva inveniri non potest," &c. here " town" is used as English for " villula," the diminutive of •• villa ; " now hear, farther—" villa was described in Domesday book as another term for manor or lordship, two or more of which (soya Nicholas) were usually united to form a willata, though in some few a villa was sufficiently large to stand alone, and was said to answer for villa Integra, otherwise for " dintidia villains." So Spelman, " Villain Integram olim Niue qua friborgum integrum continuis," and " Friborgus " is explained, " Frankpledge Cone. glum seu societas decem primoriorum hominum In unaquaque ple. rumque villa." But that villa, without losing its meaning of village or neigh. bouthood of the villeins, obtained a larger sense, cannot be denied., The earliest instance of the extension of the term beyond the mean ing of " village," is, perhaps, in charters of the time of Richard which distinguish " villa murales " et " rurales." Villa runs, says Spelman, contain " campum pratum et boscum." In the grant of the Duchy of Cornwall, II Edward 111. the descriptive words are " Castro, burgos. villas, maned*, honoree, stanarias et CMS. glum." Selden Tit. Hon. 753. " Villa," as " village" or '• ma nor," occurs in the will of King Alfred. " Villain de IVelleto et villain de Clere." Spelm. These rural districts in time grew to walled towns; but where a distinction of customs and privileges is asserted for boroughs, to the exclusion of villa, this latter word means upland town, or village, as proved from the passasage in Lit. tleton and Coke. During the illuminations in Edinburgh the apartments in the palace occupied by the French refugees were brilliantly lighted up. Even Charles X. complied to popular feeling, and illnminated his bed-room. Our correspondent bad the curiosity to mount Arthur's Seat, and he states that the houses of all the farmers were brilliantly lighted, and as far as the eye could reach, the country exhibited one splendid blaze. —Edinburgh Paper. THE NUTHATCH. The nuthatch (Sitta Europe), whose skill in masonry we have al ready recorded, is also said to have some notion of carpentry. M. Mount bealard says if this bird cannot and a convenient hole In a tree, it hews out an excavation with its bill, if it can meet with a spot that is worm eaten. Its manner of proceeding in this operation may be understood from the wedge-like form and abrupt truncation of its bill. The following observations were made upon one accidentally wounded by a sportsman, and being taken was placed in a small cage of plain oak.wood and wire. Here he remained all night, and the next morning his knocking or tapping with his beak was the first sound I heard, though sleeping in an apartment divided from the other by a landing place. He had food given to him, minced thicken and bread crumbs, and water. He ate and drunk with a most perfect impudence, end the moment he had satisfied himself, turned again to his work of battering the frame of his cage, the sound from which, both in loudness and pro longation of noise, is only to be compared to the efforts of a fashionable footman upon a fashionable door, in a fashionable square. He had a particular fancy for the extremities of the corner pillars of his cage ; on these he spent his most elaborate taps, and at this moment, though he has only occupied the cage a day, the wood is pierced and worn like a piece of old worm-eaten timber. He probably had an idea that if these main beams could be once penetrated, the rest of the superstructure would fall and free him. Against the door-way he had also a particular spite, and once succeeded in opening it ; and when, to oppose a further obstacle, it was tied in a double knot with string, the perpetual appli cation of his beak quickly unloosed it. In ordinary cages a circular hole is left in the wire for birds to insert his head to drink from a glass : to this hole the nuthatch constantly repaired, not for the purpose of drink ing, but to try to push out more than his head, but in vain, for he Is a thick bird, and rather heavily built ; but the instant he found the hole too small, he would withdraw his head, and begin to dig and hammer at the circle, and where it is rooted in the wood, with his pickaxe of a beak, evidently with a design to enlarge the orifice. His labour was incessant, and he ate as largely as he worked, and I fear it was the united effects of both that killed him. His hammering was peculiarly laborious, for he did not perch as other birds do, but, grasp ing his hold with his immense feet, he turned upon them as upon a pivot, and struck with the whole weight of his body, thus assuming the appearance, with his entire form, of the head of • hammer, or, as I have sometimes seen birds on mechanical clocks, made to strike the hour by swinging on a wheel. We were in hopes that when the sun went down, he would cease from his labours, and rest ; but no, at the Interval of every ten minutes, up to nine or ten o'clock in the night, he resumed his knocking, and strongly reminded us of the coffinmaka's nightly and dreary occupation. It was said by one of us, "he is nailing his own coffin," and so it proved. An awful fluttering in the cage, now covered with a handkerchief, announced that something was wrong; we found him at the bottom of his prison with his feathers ruffled, and nearly all turned back. He was taken out, and for some time he lingered amidst convulsions and occasional brightenings up ; at length he drew his last gasp." The Rev. W. T. Bree, of Allesley states, that having caught a nuthatch in the common brick trap used by boys, he was struck with the singular appearance of its bill, so unlike that of any bird he had ever seen. It was blunt at the end, and presented the appearance of having been truncated in an oblique direction, as if the natural beak had been cut off; and he naturally inferred that it had been fairly ground down to about two-thirds of its original length by the bird's pecking at the bricks in its efforts to escape from the trap. The faculty of digging into wood, though not designed by nature to enable these birds to make their escape from confinement, was, it would appear from the instances we have given, singularly applied by them for that purpose. Many animals, who are endowed with singular habits of carpentry, would not have thus employed them, eithet from want of versatility of instinct and intelligence, or from being distracted and puzzled by confinement. A wasp, for example, whose powerful mandibles can rasp the woody fibres from a piece of weathered deal board to make paper for her nest, never attempts to gnaw through a pasteboard box in which she may be shut up; and we have had still more striking instances in the case of some of the carpenter bees. 'When forming their nests, these will chisel out holes several inches in length, even in oak planks, as we have repeatedly witnessed; but, under other circumstances, they never endeavour to make their way through obstacles, which they would not find it very difficult to penetrate.— We have, for the sake of experiment, confined carpenter bees both in chip and pasteboard boxes, to see whether they would cut their way out; but instead of attempting this, they did not try to gnaw any of the materials. In the case of those which had been caught while busy in excavating their galleries, this might probably be referred to the interruption afforded to their interesting labours ; but this could not be the case with one which was reared by us, almost from the egg, in a chip box. When this bee made its appearance from the cocoon, in April, 1830, we imagined that it would cut its way out of the box ; yet, though it was purposely shut up in order to try this, it never made the attempt. This was the more singular, as this is in the routine of its instinctive actions to gnaw a passage for itself out of the original nest. The substance, however, left by the mother bee to be gnawed through, presents a much slighter obstacle than even the thin materials of a chip box ; but this is not the case with many of the gall flies (Cynipida, Westwood,) which have to gnaw themselves a passage to day-light and liberty, through a substance much harder than the wood of their native trees. The bedeguar of the rose, and the root•gall of the oak are of this description; yet we have, in numerous instances, had the insects from these produced in boxes through which they never attempted to gnaw their way, although they could have most easily done so in a few minutes. How different are the proceedings of those animals who have often to make use of their power of pawing through wood in order to pro cure food ; for example, the mouse and the rat. The ground-floor of a house belonging to a friend of ours was so infested with rats, that the edges of the floor contiguous to the walls were literally riddled with their ho'es. As all the means used to extirpate them proved abor tive, recourse was had to pieces of old ship oak plank nailed over the holes, under the notion that they would find it too hard to gnaw through. But the rats were not to be thus foiled, for usually every morning several new holes were hewn through the hardest pieces of the oak ; and though every thing which might have tempted them was removed from the room, and the new holes replanked every morning, the determined animals persevered in cutting fresh holes every night for many weeks successively. The perseverance of these rats in hewing holes in the floor remids us more of the manners of the woodpecker any than other animal; and the history of their proceedings will bring us back to the carpentry of birds, from which these illustrations have led us into brief digression. THE LATE AND PRESENT EARL OF MULORAVE. The late Lord Mulgrave, whose dissolution at his lord ship's seat, Mu!grave castle, we announced on Monday, was one of the oldest general officers in his Majesty's service, having been promoted to the rank of full general in Oct. 1809. He was appointed to the colonelcy of the 31st, or, Huntingdonshire regiment of foot, February 8, 1793, con sequently his lordship had held the chief command of that corps nearly forty years. He succeeded the present Earl Chatham as master-general of the Ordnance, in 1810, and he continued to fill that lucrative post until 1818, when his lordship was remplac6 by the " Hero of Waterloo." In 1807, the earl was appointed lord lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire, and vice-admiral of the coasts of that county. He was also a Grand Cross of the Bath, and Go vernor of Scarborough Castle. The patronage of all these honours of course reverts to the crown by his lordship's decease. The founder of this noble family was Sir William Phipps, who invented the diving-bell, and recovered from the wreck of a Spanish galleon an immense treasure which had lain buried in the water 44 years, near the banks of Bahami, on the north side of Hispaniola. Sir William received the honour of knighthood from King James the Second, and was appointed Governor of Massachussetts, where he died Feb. 18 1694. - The late Earl succeeded his brother, Constantine John, second Baron Mulgrave, 10th of October, 1792, at which period his Lordship was General Phipps. In August, 1794, he was created Baron Mulgrave, of Mulgrave, in the county of York ; and September, 1812, he was advanced to the dig nity of Viscount Normanby and Earl of Mulgrave. The Earl married, 20th October, 1795, Miss Sophia Mailing, daughter of Christopher Thomas Melling, of West Hennington, in the county of Durham ; and by her Ladyship, who survives her Noble husband, his Lordship has left a family of four sons and thi ee daughters : namely, I. Constantine Henry, Viscount Normanby (now Earl of Mulgrave), born 15th May, 1797: married, 12th August, 1818, the Hon. Maria Liddell, eldest daughter of Lord Ravensworth, by whom his lordship has an only son and heir, born July, 1819 ; 2. Hon. Captain Charles Beaumont Phipps, adjutant of the Ist battalion 3d Foot Guards, born December, 1801; 3. Lady Frederica Ka therine Phipps, born 7th February, 1803 • 4. Lady Sophia Phipps, born 20th May, 1804; 5. Lady Lepel Charlotte,born 28th July, 1805; 6. Hon. Edmund Phipps, born 7th Decem ber, 1808 ; 7. Hon. Augustus Frederick Phipps, born 18th October, 1809. The present earl is a young nobleman of high liberalism, and during the period he sat in the House of Commons, represented Earl Fitzwilliam's boroughs of Higham Ferraro and Mahon. His lordship, however, is not a member of the present parliament, having, at the last election, when his lordship and family were residing at Flo rence, communicated to Lord Milton his intention of with drawing from parliament ; upon which Earl Fitawilliam offered his interest in the town of Melton to Sir James Scar lett. The earl possesses considerable intellectual attain ments, and is favourably known as the author of " Matilda, a Tale of the Day;" and " Yes and No"—publications which, we believe, come under the denomination of fashion able novels. His lordship is understood to be an ardent sup porter of the bill ; indeed, his political principles did not, in the slightest degree, assimilate to those of the late earl, and of his uncle, General Phipps, member of parliament for Scarborough. THE WEYMOUTH AFFAIR. TO THE EDITOR. SlR—Having read Sir Edward Sugden's letter in the Times of yesterday, I feel it necessary to trespass once more upon your columns, but I will do so with as much brevity u possible. I adhere to all the statements in my letter of the Bth instant, and if Sir Edward Sugden will take the trouble to peruse that letter, and my summons, be will find that I have not shifted my ground. Sir Edward has the advantage of me in being in possession of his pa pers, whilst I have been deprived of part of mine, and he has likewise taken the precaution, before commencing his statement, to compare notes with his allies. I will, how ever, answer his letter from recollection of the circumstances, and, I trust, satisfactorily. 1. The Hat of fees given in my last proves that Sir Edward Sugden was Mr. Gordon's counsel genera lly, and, in particular, that he was counsel in a suit instituted by Mr. Gordon against Major Weyland and Lady Johnstone, the object of which was to deprive them of their lawful allowance out of the Johnstone estate. He was not only fully aware of the circumstances of the ease, but concurred privately with Mr. Gordon in the suit being instituted, for the purpose of putting it out of Major Weyland's power to offer any further opposition in the borough. It is true that the proceedings have not been carried on with great vigour, as the plaintiff has latterly become ashamed of the transaction. A short time after this special retainer was given, of the true import of which Sir Edward Sugden professes ignorance, the following entry occurs in the account of Colonel Gordon's sollicitor :—" May 30, 1829.—Johnstone Trustees—Mr. Sugden having written that a power of attorney had, he thought, best be made out from the trustees to enable Mr. Fraser to make votes, and I being of opinion that the power of doing so could not be delegated, perusing and considering the will of Sir J. L. Johnstone with relation thereto, and was confirmed in my opinion." " Attending Colonel Gordon in Jermyn-street, Westminster, and had, at his desire to see Mr. Sugden, to settle the point immediately—at tending Mr. Sugden at chambers, and afterwards at Westminster thereon conferring, and he was to consider further." Here is direct evidence of Sir Edward Sugden's general counsel, advising that the Johnstone trustees should convey to me the whole of the political power of the family at Weymcuth—for what purpose but to return him free of expense at his election, on being appointed Solicitor-General, and to put down a formidable opposition got up against him by the Johnstone family P Mr. Ure, however, would not lend himself to such a proceeding, and the matter at that time dropped, Mr. Ure remaining faithful to the infant, as he had done on a previous occasion when be declined acceding to the following proposal, contained in a letter from Sir Edward Sugden to me, dated Ist December, 1828:—" I think that it will tend materially to Col. Gordon's benefit that Mr. Ure should be attached to us, and that with that view the proposed arrangement with him should be carried into effect, which may without di ffi culty be done through me." Upon these roceedings reaching Lady Johnstone's ears, she expressed herself as follows:—" How plainly Colonel Gordon's conduct has proved that he has no wish but to gratify his own ambitious views, and cares not for so doing at the expense of the young man for whom he has expressed that his only motive is purely to rescue him from the hands of bad trustees !" For thus freely expressing her feel ings towards her son, Mr. Gordon directed me to prepare and lay before eminent English counsel a case for their advice, as to what steps should be taken against the real authors of such calumny." The state ment of Sir E. Sugden, as to his refusing a retainer and briefs, refers to a retainer and briefs offered previous to the agreement with Mr. Gordon of the 6th December, 1828. Since that time he has accepted all the fees that have been ffered to him, and the statement so far as affects me is untrue. 2. I repeat that the expenses of the purchase of the propetty at Wey. mouth and all the expenses of Sir Edward Sugden's elections are not paid, and if Mr. Gordon should prove successful in his defence that he is not liable for them, I will very soon settle the point with Sir Ed. ward Sugden, og in possession of the opinion of one of the most eminent English barristers that Sir Edward Sugden is liable. The 8,5001. of expenses stand in the same situation as the refused retainer. They were incurred previous to the agreement of December, 1828.-- This is admitted by his speech at the subsequent election, an extract of which is enclosed. Re says he paid O,OOOL-2,0001. was settled in the way mentioned in my last letter, and the remaining 5001. was made up by subscription. Any expense incurred after December, 1828, could only be his travelling expenses to and from Weymouth ; for al. though a formidable opposition was threatened for a considerable time previous, none took place. It was not, therefore, in Mr. Gordon's power to pay any expenses for him, although Sir Edward Sugden, by his agreement, held him bound to do so. As to my employment, 1 not only suended daily upon Sir Edward Sugden for months together, but actually held commissions and powefs of attorney under his hand and seal in June, 1829, to create votes for him and his friend Mr. Se nior of the University of Oxford, to whom were conveyed part of the freeholds. S. Sir Edward Sugdea stands confessed as to the important pans of my letter, of having paid 10001. on his return hr 1829, and 10001. on his return in 1830, and that he entered into an agreement to be returned free of expense so long as he requires a seat, and that Mr. Gordon was to be allowed to dispose of two of the three remaining seats. Now the only question that can be agitated is, whether Mr. Gordon was to dis. pose of the seats gratuitously, or for money. Sir Edward settles this question by asking if he was to get payment of certain expences " out of the produce of the next elections , ' and by the construction which he put upon the words " to be returned free of expense," which he says means, that "he was not to pay for his seat." It is clear that the un derstanding was, that some of the honourable members for Weymouth were to pay or why make a special agreement that Sir Edward Sugden should be the favoured Individual who was not to pay ? Let Sir Ed ward Sugden produce the contracts signed by myself and him at Ti!. gate, and the whole will appear as I have stated. With reference to the memorandum or letter in Mr. Gordon's pos session, and which Sir Edward Sugden deities having seen, I have to state that Mr. Gordon and myself arrived in London in April, 1828, when the negotiation for the purchase of Messrs. Henning's property for 12,0001. was resumed. NVith that view I drew up a letter, which Alf. Gordon copied, and which was delivered to Sir Edward Sugden, who returned it on the grcund of informality, being made out in the Scotch form. lie was then requested to furnish a draught of the ne cessary letter, which he did, and that was the letter of the 20th of May. Mr. Gordon made various alterations in this draught, which he after wards copied, and it was delivered to Sir Edward Sugden. Immedi ate!), after the delivery of this letter, Mr. Gordon obtained certain infor. nation which induced him to come to the determination to purchase the whole opposition interest at 21,0001. and instead of excluding klr.Ure,who is a co-trustee in the Johnstone trust, and without whose concurrence the political influence of the Johnstone family could not be made available, it was considered better to exclude Major Weyland. 31r. Gordon then thew up the memorandum or letter in dispute, which was delivered to Sir Edward Sugden, and he was thereafter requested to furnish the draught of another letter, which he did, and after various alterations and delayer, that was copied by Mr. Gordon and delivered to Sir B. Sugden, a copy of which last letter I enclose, and that was the letter acted upon. The copies of all these letters in Mr. Gordon's possession are in my handwriting, as I acted both as his secretary and agent-- 31r. Gordon does not state in his defence, that he copied the original letter of the 20th of May, from any copy made by me; but he admits that Major IVeyland was the person to be excluded, as he had avowed, " that any interest which be might have at Weymouth should be used in opposition to the Major." As to the property purchased being " real bona fide property, actually let to tenants," if Sir Edward Sugden had introduced the word " political" after " bona fide," he would have been tolerably near the mark, for 1 can affirm with con. fidence, that the old rubbishing buildings, which cost 25,0001 will not, if the Reform Bill passes, be worth a twentieth part of that sum. With respect to Mr. Gordon's peerage, in his letter to Lord Wallace he says—" If ever I have the honour of becoming a member either of the House of Lords or Commons, I shall undoubtedly vote against what is called " Catholic emancipation,"—and Sir Edward Sugden well knows, that in the year 1829 I attended two long meetings on the sub ject of the peerage with him, once at his own house, and once at his chambers. In conclusion, I have only to observe that this discussion was not of my seeking, as will appear from my letters to Mr. Gordon of April and July last year, which are fully set forth in my summons and Mr. Got. don's defence. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, London, April 12. JAM ES J. FRASER. COPT at • LUTES PROD sea. aoanow, so sera s. 1100 DEN AND 111. 111•111811. _ _ Gentlemen—l am desirous to buy the political properties of Messrs. John and Edmund Henning and Mr. Joseph Hereford, in Weymouth, for a sum not exceeding 21,0001. in the name of myself and Mr. Sug. den as tenants in common. Now I authorise Mr. Sugden to enter into a contract accordingly, and I will find the whole of the purchase money, and pay all the expects of every sort, and indemnify Mr. Sugden therefore, who is to stand seised of the moiety to be conveyed .IMMIin..R , to him as a trustee only for me. Mr. Fraser, umy agent, will aver into the contract on my behalf for one moiety, and Mr. Sugden is to be considered as my agent and trustee for the other moiety. And 1 hereby also authorise Mr. Fraser, as my agent, to sign such contract for me as the purchaser of one moiety of the estate, and 1 will furnish the purchase money for the entirety. I am, gentlemen, your most obedient servant, London, July 30, 1828. JOHN GORDON EXTRACT THOM THE DORSIT CHESTY CHRONICLR. June 18, 1829. Gentlemen,—When I first came down to represent you, I was led to believe that the whole expense of the election would be within a limit which I should have paid, and did pay, with the greatest pleasure; and, gentlemen, you may well believe that during the last election, I could not have the faintest idea of the vast, the ruinous expanses which were incurred,—expenses which ,I declare before God I never authorised, and was not aware that they had been incurred. And, gentlemen, in reference to such ruinous expenses, I would observe that you may de pend on it, that you can never be fairly and independently represented, whilst the expenses attending an election are so great as they are. Are you aware that the expenses of the last election amounted to between 8,0001. and 9,oooL—a sum which would be a fortune to many a thrifty industrious man ? and think you I would do so great an injustice to my family, the dearest objects of my solicitude,—that I would sacrifice all that I hold most dear (for the welfare of my family will ever be nearest my heart), by paying those expenses which I never authorized ? But, gentlemen, what did Ido ? I paid thousands and thousands of pounds more than i understood the whole expenses of t l, c election would amount to. I declare to you, standing as Ido here this day, that my expenses at the last election exceeded 8,0001. Let me ask you, then, if I am in a situation to be taunted as I have this day been?" L'S REI Yesterday the Recorder made a Report to his Majesty of the psi. sorters under sentence of Death in Newgate, convicted at the last Fe. bruary Sessions, viz :—Matthew Jackson, aged 23; William Bar. dell, 16; Henry Rude% 10; David Peters, 26; Geo. Glover, 26; Stephen Bradford, 14; Charles Briggs, 30; J. Kelly, 22; Samuel Ringrose, 26 ; Isaac Mason, 23; Thomas Keeble, 17; Joseph Keeble, 12; Gustavus Adolphus Frederick Ellis, 23 ; William Clifford, 19 ; Francis Coy, 19 ; George Lonsdale, 23; John Howell, 20 ; Edward Mallet, 22; Wm. Allen, 21; and John Thomson, 39, for housebreaking. Henry Whittenbury, 28, for burglary. Mary neve reux, the elder, 48; and Mary Devereux, the younger, 17, for coining. Charles Turner, 18; Richard Butterworth, 27 ; Frederick Wilson, 23; and Thomas ad, 20, for stealing in dwelling houses. All of whom his Majesty was graciously pleased to respite during his Royal pleasure except Gustavus Adolphus Frederick Ellis, who is left for execution on Tuesday next. Mary Ann Lee was put to the bar on an :indictment charging her with feloniously inflicting a certain wound on the thigh of Ellen Foulkes, on the 27th of March last, in Field-lane. On the morning in question the prosecutrix and the prisoner met in Holborn, and went home together to breakfast, when a quarrel ensued, and, as alleged, the prisoner struck the prosecutrix three or four times. The consequence was that a fight took place. They, how. ever, became apparent good friends, and the prosecutrix proceeded to fry some meat. About ten minutes after the prisoner put her hand in her pocket, and, without saying a word, put her hand up the prosecutrix's clothes, who cried, " Mary, you have stabbed me," and she found the blood issuing from her right thigh. The prosecutrix called,a female named King to her assistance, to whom she said the prisoner had stabbed her. The prisoner replied that she had done it, and would do it again, and spat in her face. In cross-examination, the prosecutrix said she was a married woman, and had not been speaking to a man. She denied that she had been drinking with the prisoner three or four glasses of spirits, or that the prisoner had sat up with het the whole night. She never was in cur tedy for robbery. The prisoner was perfectly sober. The evidence of the prosecutrix was confirmed by another witness. The prisoner in her defence, protested her innocence. The Jury found a verdict of Guilty. POLICE REPORTS. HATTON.GARDEN.— William Goodwin, a private in the Cold stream Guards, was brought before Mr. Serjeant SELLON, charged with the following robbery. Hayter Nathaniel Scrivener stated that he was a ahopman to Mr..l. Burgess, pawnbroker, Gray's Inn-load. Tuesday afternoon, the pri soner walked deliberately to the shop window, thrust his arm through a pane of glass, unhooked a watch, and withdrew his hand and the watch. Witness went out, and on seeing the watch in the prisoner's hand, was about to raise an alarm, when the prisoner, who did not at tempt to escape, exclaimed, " Now I shall have my desire ; I am tired of being a soldier, and wish to get transported ; send for a policeman ; I will willingly wait here till he comes, when I will tell him that I broke the pane of glass in the window, and stole the watch to get trans ported." A policeman was sent for, and the prisoner did as he stated he would. In reply to questions from the magistrate, the prisoner said that he had been 14 years in the regiment ; but having on Saturday evening got intoxicated, he quitted his quarters, which were stationed at North Hyde, near Hounslow, without leave, and committed the offence, pre ferring the life of a felon to that of a degraded soldier. The regiment, whose head-quarters was at Windsor, was under the command of the Duke of Cambridge. Mr. Serjeant SELLost ordered the prisoner to be remanded, and Lieutenant-Colonel Wedderburn to be informed of the prisoner being in custody. TOWN.HALL.—HOAXING AN INFORMEL—Thomas James, the owner of a timber-tart at Woolwich, came before Mr. Alderman THORPE to defend himself against the charge of having his name and number chalked, instead of painted, on his cart, which an informer had locked up in the green-yard, the penalty attached to the offence being M. and not less than 20s. The informer having stated time and place, The defendant said he marvelled at the man's impudence, inasmuch as there the cart was for any person to inspect, his name, address, and number, fairly painted upon it, and requested the Alderman to allow an officer to prove that fact. The informer seared, and the Alderman directed Mr. Law, the keeper of the Borough Compeer, to go to the green-yaad. who returned to say that he had found the defendant's account to be perfectly correct. The informer stared again, and insisted that, if ever he saw with eyes, the whole was in chalk when he locked the cart up. The report, however, was unanswerable, arid the case was dismissed. The informer attempted to account for his defeat by saying that the cart being newly painted when he locked it up, the new paint over the old address must have been subsequently washed off with turpentine: be that as it may, the laugh was against him. OUT OF TWA FRYING-PAN INTO THE FlRE.—Perkins, a crack Waterman, said to belong to the Admiralty barge, was brought in by the police for breaking windows when half-seas-over. The policeman having stated that the windows had been paid for, Perkir.s was dismissed ; but, before he could quit the Hall, he was served with an execution from the Bailiff's office abovestairs, issued from the Court of Requests, for a debt of 30s. which he attempted to give leg-bail for, but was stopped in the /I%h-street, and lodged in the Borough Compeer. QUIRN-SQVARlL—Yesterday, Francis Hornsby, keeper of a new beer-shop in Lower George-street, Chelsea, was fined forty shilling, for selling beer during the hours of divine service on Good Friday.— John Swills, keeping a similar house in the same street, was fined forty binning' each, upon two informations, for serving beer on Good Friday, and the following Sunday. LAMRETH-STREET.—Yesterday, Wm. Baxter, a master builder, and Thomas Tonman, a lighterman, were brought before Mr. HARD. WICK for further examination, the latter on a charge of having assisted in removing a quantity of timber from the yard of Mr. Dickson, a tim ber merchant, in the Commercial-road, near Limehouse.bridge, andthc former receiving the same, well knowing it to have been stolen. Remanded until Saturday. Tuesday, in Hill-street, Berkeley-square, his Excellency the Baron ide Cetto, Minister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the King of Bavaria. to Elizabeth Catherine, only daughter of the late Colonel Burrower, of Dengsn Castle, and granddaughter of Lord Decks, late Archbishop of Timm, and niece of the Hon. Mrs. Hope. The bride was given away by her uncle, Lord Decies • Lady Mary O'Brien (daughter of the Marchioness of Thomond) and Miss Fitzgerald acting as bridesmaids.— Amongst the distinguished persons present were Field-Marshal Lord Beresford, the Countess of Clare M archioness of Westmeath, Mar chioness of Thomond, Lady Isabella Fitzgibbon, Lady O'Brien, Hon. Mrs. Sewell, Mrs. Marcus Beresford, Col. M. Beresford, Misses Fitt. ge l id, &c. After the ceremony the new-married couple left town in a new carriage and four, to pass the honeymoon near Richmond. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL—THIS DAY. By the Carcase.—. Per stone of 131bs. Beef lts 10d 51 8d 4s 04 Mutton 31 6d 4s Od 4s 4 Veal 5a 8d 51 Od 51 114 I Pork 51 81 4a 8d 4s ith' Lamb.... 6s ... 7s 4d ... 7s 84. SMITHFIELD HAY-MARKET—THIS DAY. Coarse Heavy Lowland Meadow Hay, £2 10s. to £3 1.55. Useful ditto, £3 0.. to ,83 18a. Fine Upland Meadow and Rye Grass Hay. £4 Os to £4 41. Clover Hay, XI 31. to 15 101. Oat Str' • XI 12s to fl 16s. Wheat Straw, £1 161. to XI 18s. per 1040• CUMBERLAND HAY-MARKET—THIS DAY. Coarse Heavy Lowland Meadow Hay, £5l ss. to £2 10$. VIA" ditto, £2 10s. to £3 15s. Fine Upland Meadow and Rye Gras' Hay, £4 4.. to 4:4 10s. Clover Hay. £3 Si. to £5 ss. Oat Atta , ` , XI 10s. to XI 14s. Wheat Straw, £1 121. to £2 Os. per loll_ . HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORIRICC sa. 42w Merlin Afternoo n Printed and Vublishedby Joni( AlAixE. at the :•T•R' °mat, No. I, Plekett-place, Temple Bat. 1 . 3“. / I z +: ,