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And all Sheriffs, Gaolers, and Keepers of Prisons, in whose met* any prisoners, charged with offences committed on the high Gem, or within the said jurisdiction may be, are hereby required to transmit a copy of the commitment of every such prisoner to Mr. C HAELES JONES, the Sobcltornf the Admiralty, at his Office, No. 10, Lan caster-place, Strand, London; in order that the necessary measures may be taken for removing all such prisoners to his Majesty's Gaol of Newgate, for trial at the said intended Sessions. And all Mayers, Justices, Coroners, and other Officers, before whom any inquisidoes, informations, examinations, or recognisance', may have beam takes,' toughing any sub offence., are required to transmit the nine forear with to Mr. JOHN CLARK, the Clerk of Arraigns it Court of Admiralty of England, at his Office, at the &mit AMIN, in the Old Haiti, London. GEORGE ELLIOT. GLADIORGANSHIRB THE very valuable and highly improvable Freehold Estate of COYTY (formerly part of the Briton Ferry Estate), advantageously situate in the rich and fertile Vale of Glamorgan, WILL BB SOLD BY AUCTION, At Garraway's Coffee-House, London, on THURSDAY, the 11541 Joss next, By Mr. ADAM MURRAY. The Coyty Estate Is distant one mile and a half from the market town of Bridgend, eight to nine miles from that of Cowbridge, and twenty-one miles from Cardiff, and at no great distance fines Aber dare and Merthyr Then, both great markets for every description ,' farm produce. It contains about FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHT ACRES, TUB Of very rich Arable, Meadow. and Future LAND, divided into compact Farms. The County abounds in Coal, Ironstone, Limestone, &c. The situation of this Estate is therefore, highly commanding, being in the Immediate neighbourho od of Iron Works, and the Linmvey and Forth Cawl Rail-road. Printed Particulars, with Plans, may be had at the Basis, Bristol; Plough, Cheltenham; Angel, Oxford ; King's Head, Gloucester; Cardiff Arms and Angel Inns, Cardiff; and Mackworth Arms In% Swansea : also at the office of Rees Jenkins, Esq. Solicitor, Bridgeni a Lloyd's Coffee- House • Garraway's Coffee - House; and of Mr. Adam Murray, Surveyor, Land-agent, and Auedoneer, 61, Sc. Martin's-hee, London.—Letters to be post-paid. TO NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN. THE ABSOLUTE FACT, why Gentlemen choose to submit to the very high Charges of their Tailors, is, because it is well known there are but few who can make a Coat, fit fora Gentle man's wear, and those few thus monopolise the Patronage of most of the Nobility and Gentry. But this monopoly can be now but of abort duration, as H FLETCHER, (from Moore's, late Bicknell and Moore's) can produce Coats, &c. &c. which cannot possibly be distinguished by the critical eye, even of a Bramwell, either in make or materials, from those of any eminent Tailor in the neighbourhood of Cliford Street, or St. James's, and at very little more than half their charges, yet obtaining alair Tradesman's Profit. H. F. favoured by the Patronage of many Noblemen and Gentlemen who have known him for years, whilst under an engagement to the above eminent House, and anxious that Gentlemen may calculate the very considerable reduction which they may make in their Annual Ex penditure, has the honour to submit for their Inspection, the following List of sufficiently compensating Prices, for Prompt Payment : s. d. Dias Coats, Blue or 81ack....... Ditto, ditto, any other colour .... Frock Coate, Blue or Black, skirts lined with silk ... Trousers, Blue or Black Ditto, any other colour . Ditto, V hite Drill Waistcoats .. .. Regimentals, ,te. upon equally reasonable terms. VERY BEST LIVERIES. A Footman's Suit complete, with Sleeves to Waist coat, and Velveteen Breeches.. A Suit, with Keraeymere Breeches A ditto, with Hair Plush ditto A .4t.ble, or Working Dress 1 4 A Footman's extra double-milled Drab Great Coat, with large Cape . 3 13 6 Geld or Silver Lace, and Crested Buttons, charged the Wholesale Price. Gentlemen addressing a line per post, will be punctually waited upon. A few very choice and beautiful real Banyan Dressing Gowns (very carte), to be sold, a bargain; a most invaluable article for an Invalid, or a Lady. IL FLETCHER, Military Tailor and General Clothier, 33, NEW BOND-STREET. SOLD BY C. CHAPPLE, The King's appointed Bookseller, Royal Library, Pall.ntall. rIPHE TURF COMPANION for 1831 ; containing a JL full account of the Sweepstakes, Matches, Stc. made to be run In Great Britain daring that year, the Winners of the Derby, Oaks, and St. Leger Stakes, from their commencement; also a List of the Winners of the Two Year Old Stakes in 1830. Price its. 6d. half bound. THE YORK RACING CALENDAR for 1830. Volume the Tenth, New Series. Concern, :—Places of Sport, 1830 ; Khgr's Plate Articles; Laws of Horse-racing; Winners of Gold Cups, and Two Year Old Stakes; Cock Mains fought in 1830 ; Irish Races ; with an Appendix, containing the Nominations for 1830,1831, 1832, and 1833; also an Alphabedasl List of Races to come, and an Index referring to each Horse's engagements. Price 10,. 6d. bound in calf and lettered. Also may be had, any of the former Volumes of this Work from its The TURF REGISTER, and SPORTSMAN and BREEDER'. STUD BOOK, Volume the Third, containing Pedigrees Per formance., Stc. 1782, inclusive. Pri ce O ne G u i nea an d a Half un bound. The GENTLEMAN'S STABLE GUIDE, and VETERI NARY MONITOR; a concise Treatise on the various Diseases of Horses, their symptoms, and most humane methods of cure, calculated to enable persons t o f orm an accurate judgment of the dise ases of their own horses, and applying proper remedies, without the assi-tance of a farrier. With useful observations on the breeding and training of sops; hints to the purchasers:of horses; general directions for riding, and using a horse on a journey ; stable management, &c. Price 51.6 d. hoards; di. hound in red ; or 4s. 6d. lettered on the side. By YORICIE WILSON, Veterinary Surgeon. " In an age like the present, when the whole of Nature is ran. tacked to assist the energies of man, and those often meet with high applause who study the nature of animals, that seem no otherwise use. ful to us than to excite our curiosity, surely Mr. Yorick Wilson, who baying studied for many years the nature of that noble animal, the horse, and laid the result of his observations before the public, deserves out warmest approbation ; to dwell on the merits of this neat little volume is unnecessary—it steeds only to be read to be approved. For al.hough a variety of rules have been systematised respecting the choice of a horse, and the beat method of curing his disorders, as well :.S making them useful, yet none seem to have explained them with so mush perspicuity, or in so few words, as the Author before us."— Reviewers. THE BEST AND MOST DURABLE HATS IN THE KINGDOM. BOWDEN, Waterproof Hat Maker, 17, and 27, High Street, Bloomsbury, most respectful] Informs his numerous Custwo. t . an d F r i ends be has opened the House (17) marl/ opposite St. Giles's Chu rc h, partly in consequence of the increasing enisnd for Hats of his manufacture, and partly to counteract an opposition forming !)ti stiniti individuals known by the cognomen of Jews, who have crept 'mu the trade and dubbed themselves Hat Makers, vending an Article Which the unsuspecting Purchaser might imagine, from a casual survey, to be intrinsically good, and thereby materially injuring the long-rata. hlish •, i fame he has enjoyed, from the circumstance of many occasional customer s lo t being acquainted with the precise situation of his houses. 114)11 - DEN reeds only to add, that from the extensive patronage he Ors Already received, (Al which be with gratitude views daily extend .ni;) he is convinced that all articles purchased at his houses have given mat satisfaction which it ever has and shell be his study to deserve ; asking as a favour from the public, and his more immediate friends, Ow they will please to observe his Establishments are only Two In !nit Street, viz. 17 and 27, which Howes he has endeavoured to ren ti,t conspicuous, thereby to avoid disappointment. it - 1. Old Hats covered with Silk f rom B s . to B s . N• IL—Shopkeepers: and Country Dealers supplied on the most ad- Lo .:genus terms N°. 13,793. FROM THE LONDON GdZETTR, May 24. DOWNING-STREET, MAT 19. The King has been pleased to nominate and appoint Admiral Sir Hooey Trollops, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Mili tory Order of the Bath, to be a Knight Grand Cross of the said Most Honourable Military Order, vice Vice. Admiral Sir William Johnstone Hope, deaased. His Majesty has been further= o nesoinate and appoint the following Officers to be Knights the said Most Honour able Military Order, via.- Vice-Admiral Edward Oriffidi.Oolpoys, and Vice. Admiral Edward-James Foote. WAR OFFICE, Mar 24. let Regiment of Life Guards-Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant Thomas Bulkeley, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vim Every, who retires ; Lord Thomas Charles Pelham Clinton to be Cornet and Sub-Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Bulkeley. le Regiment of Dragoons--Cornet Honourable William Rollo to, be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Desborough, who retires ; George King Alderman Molyneux. Gentleman, to be Coosa, by purchase, vice Rona •• • 4th Regiment of Light Dmi=Lieutensat Edgar Gibson to be Captain, lukurchaas, viat who retires. Coldstream ast of Foot tterdi-Duneen Mcdonnell Chisholm, Gent. to be ign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hugh Forbes, promoted. 39th Foot--Atthur Charles Morris, Gant. to be Ensign, without pur chase, vice Stewart, appointed to the 81st Foot. 48th Foot-Captain James Robertson, from the half-pay, to be Cap. tarn, vice Campbell, who retires. 81st Foot-Ensign John Hamilton Stewart, horn the 39th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Liston, deceased. 92d Foot-Lord Walter Butler to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Camp bell, promoted. UNATTACHED. To be Captain, by purchase-Ensign and Lieutenant Hugh Forbes, horn the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the Count of Norfolk. To be Deputy Lieutenants.-Sir Henry Pastan Bsdbgfeld , Bart; Ed mund Henry Knowles Lacon, John Edward Leann John Kerrie!), William Lyie Wiggett Chute, John Marton, Theophilus Russell Duckworth, Edward Clough Newcome, Esqrs ; the Rev. George Bolden), the Rev. John Holmes, the Rev. Thomas Baker, the Rev. Ellis Boroughes, the Rev. William Lutes, Clerks ; Andrew Fon taine, .Eaq ; the Right Honourable Lord Charles Vere Ferran Townsend. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Surrey. Surrey Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry-Henry Weston, Esq. to be Captain; Thomas Hawes, jun. Gent to be Lieutenant; Edward Ord Warren, Gent. to be Cornet ; Edward Cotton, Gent- to be ditto, vice Hankey, resigned. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. SCHIVIESH, JOHN CHARLES, WWI pole-street, Csmendish.square, harp-maker. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. RIDLEY, WILLIAM, Wreekentoo, Durham, miller. BANKRUPTS. WATISHOUSt, 'Num, and WILLIAM WATERIIOOSR, Jun. Lad lame, coach-proprietors, to surrender, May 27, at two, June 3, at three, and July 5, at one, at the Court of Commissions. Attorney, Mr. Leigh, George-street, Mansion House. WILKINSON, Jams, Jonx &SUITE!, and Roste r Josses Timm- Ton Pisani, Leadenball.sizeet, brokers, May 27, at eleven, June 3, at ten, and July 5, at nine, at the Coutt) of Commissioners. At torneys, Meagre. Oliverson, Dcuby, and Levi, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. TURRET, JAMBS, Bridge House-place, Southwark, batter, May 31, at eleven, June 7, at twelve, and July 5, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Attorney, Mr. C. Towle:head, Southwark Bridge road. GILLETT, CHARLES, Baker's-row, Walsorth-road, butcher, May 31, at twelve, June 7, and July 5, at eleven, at the Court of Commis sioners. Attorney, Mr. W. D. Kiss, Gloucester-buildings, Wal worth. JOT, WILLIAM, St. Paul's Church-yard, bookseller, May 27, June 7, at two, and July 5, at one, at the Court of Commissioners. At torney, Mr. J. D. Williams. Quality-court, m ancirr i um . BliscLacnkaw, Joint, and MACINTTRE, DONALD, Sun -court, Cornhill, merchants, play 31, June 7, at twelve, and July 5, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Attorneys, Mears. Oliver son snit Co. Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. ROBERTS, HMORY EDWARD, BIOSCI.MDECLASIIMIDgS, merchant, May 31, June 7, at twelve, and July 5, at eleven, at the Court of Corn. missioners. Attorneys, Messrs. Baxendale and Co. King's Alms. yard, Coleman-street. ROBERTSON, JOSEPH CLINTON, Fleet-street, bookseller, May 2 7, at eleven, June 3, at ten, and July 5, at nine, at the Court of Corn. missioners. Attorney, Mr. Pittman, Lincoln's Inn-fields. MOORS, JAMES, Bermondsey, master mariner, May 31, June 7, at onc, and July s,:at twelve, at the Court of Cottunlssioners. Attor ney, Mr. Haverfleld, Hart-street, Bloomsbury. VALLOTTON, JOHN JAMES, Old Cavendish-stmt, Oxford-street, French warehouseman, June 3, 10, and July 5, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Attorney, Mr. Turner, Basing.lane, Bread-street. Povara., Cumu.ss, Birkenhead, Cheshire, stone-mason, June 8,9, and July 5, at one, at the Clarendon Room s , Li ver p oo l Attorne ys, Messrs. Perkins and Frampton, Gray's Inn ; and Mr. H. B. Walker, Liverpool. Woon, Joule Seatesow, Leeds, ironmonger, June 3,4, and July 5, at eleven, at the Court House, Leeds. Attorneys, Messrs. Bettye, Fisher, and Sudlow, Chancery-lane ; and Mr. C. Naylor, Leeds. RIMLESS, RICHARD, Devonport,corktutter, June 4,8, and July 5, at eleven, at Elliott's Royal Hotel, Devonport. Attorneys, Messrs. Elworthy, Devonport; and Messrs. Brooking and Sum, Lombard. street. RMITT. CHARLES GRAY, Westgate-place, Bath, grocer, June 7,0, and July 5, at two, at the White Lion Inn, Bristol Attorneys, Mr. Wm. Harmer, jun. Bristol; and Messrs. Bicknell, Roberts, and Finch, Lincoln's Inn. Jones, PAUL Sad FIRDRIUCK, Bolton-le•Moors, brash-manufacturers, June 9, 10, and July 3, at nine, at the Palace Inn, Manchester. At. torneys, Mr. .1. Hampson Manchester; and Messrs. Adlington, Gregory, and Faulkner , Bedford-row. COPELAND, WILLIAM, Liverpool, linen-draper, June 20, 21, and July 5, a twelve, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool Attorneys, Dlr. Toulmin, Liverpool; and Messrs. Norris, Allen, and Anthony, John-street, Bedford-row. RAMSDEN S. Comae, Lancashire, cotton manufacturer, June 9, 10, and July 5, at two, at the Star Inn, Manchester. Attorneys, Messrs. Adlington, Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford-row; and Mr. J, Ma kinson, Manchester. PARSONS Joinx, Shrewsbury, grocer, June 7,8, and July 5, at eleven, at the Talbot Inn, Shrewsbury. Attorneys, Messrs. Black stock and Dunce, King's ench-walk, Temple; and Mr. Thomas Reutiedge,. Shrewsbury. K ROCETT POOLE NV IL and HADLEY Jas. Birmingham, linen dm per., Jute 2,3, at twelve, and July 5, at two, at lA'ilday's Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Attorneys, Mew" Austen and Hobson,Gray's Inn ; and Mr. W. Palmer, Birmingham. WooLascn J. Westbromwich, Staffordshire, wholesale chemist, May 31, June 1, and July 6, at twelve, at the Union Inn, Ilir n Attorneys. Moms. Franipton, and Luaus, New Ittn, and Mr. T. L. Parker, Bitminghan. DIVIDENDS. Aug. Al. G. Andeurn. Great st. Thomas Apostle, City, surgeon, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners-June 14, H. L. Meyer. Three King's-court, Clement's-lane, City, merchant, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners-June 14, R. Chapman, Strachan-terrace, Islington, builder, at ten, at the Court of Commissi oners--June 14, J. Morrell, store-street, Bedford-Kuare, builder, at ten, at the Court of Com. missioners-June 14, W. Prince, Gracechurchattreet, City, elopseller, at eleven at the Court of Commissioners- June 14, S. Longtlen, Finch-lane, Cornhlll, wine merchant, at eleven, at the Court of Com missioners-June 14, J. Corbet. Btrn.ingitam, carrier, at one, at the Royal Hotel, Birmingham-June 14, R. Allanson, Kingston upon Hull, printer, at twelve, at the Cross Keys Inn, Kingston upon Bull -June 15, J. Phillips and V. Phillips, Ashby dk la Zouch, Leicester shire, linen drapers, at elcv.n. at the Bell Inn, Derby.-July 12, J. Hoecodia, Wien, Lancashire, tailor, at twelve, at the Eagle and. Child Inn, Mot-June IC, T. Ferocity, Thruseingtoo, Leicester. Aire, toulnalcer, at eleven, at the Whi te Hart Hotel, .tricester - June 18, R. lier Shaw, lifilnrow, Butterworth, L ana k e hi, e , fl anne l ma . sidacurer, at nine, at the Vol Hotel, lianchester--June 14, J. Lee, Derby, draper, at ten, st the. New.] un, herby. CERTI FICA f ES-Jums 14. J. Lamb, Liverpool, saddler-W. Hill, sen. and W. Hill, jun. High-street, Southwark, salters-H. D'Eniden, Upper Frederick. street, Connaught square, bookseller. W EDNES IMY EVENING, MAY 25, 1831. PRICE 7D. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. B. Ries and J. Butter Strand, tobacconists—J. Borrodaile and J. Borrodaile Carlisle, carriers—F. Allison and A. Williams, Pall-mall, miUiners-2S. Haynes ard J. Woodward, Oxford, plumbers--J. Bay lis, jun. and J. Warmington, ‘Vennington, Essex, graaiers—J. S. Waliron and IL B. Giles, Clifton, Gloumstershirt, chemists—R. Hogg and T. Starkey, 3laeelesfield, linen-drapers—J. Wight and Co. Cheater-lc-Street, Durham, millers, so tar as regards T. Smith —A. Lee and P. Polhill, Theatre Royal, Drury-lane. SUPPRESSION OF THE GUIANA CHRONICLE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BARBA DOES GLOBE. Guiana Chronicle Office, Georgeto►on, Demerara, 17th March, 1831. Stn—A circumstance having occurred yesterday in our office which, in our opinion, as a precedent, deeply interests every British subject, and more especially all those imme diately connected with the public press, we take the liberty of coruou►nicating it for your information, requesting that you .will - take such notice of it as in your discretion the case may appear to require. For the facts of the case, we beg to refer you to the notice, and other documents, which we published yesterday, and to a copy of our paper of the 14th instant, for publishing which our license to print the same' has been arbitrarily withdrawn by the authorities named in the interdict, without subjecting the question of our delin quency to the decision of any court of justice, or affording' us any notice or explanation whatever. This is the third time that our paper has been stopped, in the same abrupt and arbitrary manner, by the same indivi dual, Major-General Sir Benjamin D' Urban, the Lieute nant-Governor of this colony. On the 18th of November, 1825, the same thing took place, and from an equally in significant cause, vie. for having published in our paper, a most outrageously gross expression made use of publicly on parade, by a Major in the Militia to a very respectable in habitant, a private in the same corps. Our paper was then stopped for a considerable time ; and it was only in conse quence of making a personal application to the Colonial Se cretary in London, that we were allowed to resume its pub lication. On the second occasion, the grounds were so trifling, that the interdict was withdrawn in the course of two days. The circulation of our paper is very considerable, not only in this colony, but also throughout all the West Indies, and even in Great Britain. The loss therefore to us, occasioned by such suspensions, must be obvious to you, and the inconve nience and annoyance to the public, occasioned by the sup pression of the only paper which attempts the discussion of our local grievances, is very considerable. The effectual suppression of these repeated violations of the legitimate freedom of the press, in many distant parts of the empire, can only be obtained by strong public ap peals to the justice and sympathy of our countrymen in the Mother Country. The delays and expenses of repeated applications to law for redress, would exhaust the patience and resources of the most fcrtunate:— THE EDITOR OF THE GUIANA CHRONICLE. NOTICE.—Wr have just received the following intima tion from the office of the Colonial Secretary, in conse quence of which, the future publication of our paper will be stopped, until such time as advice can be received from Great Britain on the subject, or the interdict be by any other manner removed. With all due deference to the ex isting authorities, we declare ourselves totally unconscious of having violated the terms of the license, on which we have been permitted tc publish a paper in this colony—a copy of which we hereunto attach for the information of the public, and our justification. MEMORANDUM. WITH REFERENCE TO MR. •LEXANDER *TEVEXUOX'3 COMMIT. NICATIOH HT TB! I2TH AUGUST, 1826. I have received from his Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, a dispatch, dated 6th June last, in which I am instructed, " if Mr. Alexander Stevenson should apply to me for a license to resume the publication of his news paper, to grant it upon the following conditions": lat. " Abstinence from all comments an the Slave question, except such as are calculated to promote the measures recommended by his Majesty's Government, and sanctioned by Parliament 2d. " Abstinence front all abuse of the Local Authorities. "Abstinence from all violent and angry expressionson any sub ject, (whether original, or extracted from other papers.) which are manifestly calculated to create initation and encourage acts of violence in the Colcny." And his lordship states in conclusion that " he has himself already explained to 31r. Alexander Stevenson, that the continuance of his license will depend on bis adherence to the terms en which it is granted, and that it will be immediately withdrawn for any infraction of them. According to the above instructions, and under the condition therein prescribed, a license will be granted to Mr. Stevenson to resume the publication of his newspaper, upon his making due application to me for that purpose. King's-House, 14th Aug. 1826. B. MASAN. INTERDICT. On this day, the 16th of March, 1831, before me, Gordon Clunes Reed, Sworn Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office of the United Colony of Demerara and Easequebo, in that capacity exercising the functions of a Notary Public, and in presence of the Witnesses hereunto subscribing, personally appeared His Honor Charles Herbert, First Fiscal ft 0, who stated that he (acting under the direction of His Ex cellency the Lieut.-Governor of these Colonies), required me to communicate unto Alexander Stevenson, the Pro prietor, Printer, and Publisher, of the Guiana Chronicle, and to all concerned, that the Licence granted on the 6th day of September, 1826, to Print and Publish the Newspaper, called the Guiana Chronicle, and Demerara Gazette, is withdrawn, and his future Publication of the Paper prohi bited, in consequence of a publication in the Guiana Chro nicle of the 14th March instant, in violation of the second and third conditions of the said Licence—require his obe dience, subpoena as the Law directs, and request' an answer. In testimony whereof, the said appearer (ratione officii) has hereunto set his hand : and I, the said sworn clerk and notary public, have also subscribed my name, at George town, Demerara, datum ut supra, in presence of W. H. Heintzen, and Richard Padmore,, as witnesses. (Signed) CHARLES HERBERT, First Fiscal, R. 0. Qood Attestor. GORDON C. HERD, Sworn Clerk. TO THE EDITOR 07 TDB BARBADOS GLOBE. George-Town, Demerara, 18th March, 1831. Sir—ln consequence of my paper, The Guiana Chroni cle, having been suppressed by an order from his honour the First Fiscal, It. 0. (purporting to act under directions of his Excellency the Lieut.-Governor of these Colonies) I take Jove to address this letter to you. I am not conscious of lay act of mine, either in my public or private capacity, which was either intended or calculated to offer the slightest personal offence or disrespect to our present governor. 1 cannot, therefore, for a moment suppose that his Excel lency has been influenced by any undue feeling of personal resentment. That I have been grievously injured in my property by repeated threats and actual suppressions of my paper, during the last six years, is most true. That the grounds, on which these interruptions, by actual or threatened force, have taken place, have been insuffi cient to justify such means, is equally true, as proved, first, by these interdicts having been withdrawn on application being made to superior authority, and secondly, by the con tinued and marked favour with which my paper has con tinued to be received, not only in this Colony, but generally tbrcughout the West Indies, and even in Great Britain.— Had I committed myself by inserting in my paper any unguardedly violent article, I, no doubt, should have subjected myself to a legal prosecution for the sa:ue ; and even (had the nature of the article justified such ex treme severity,) to personal arrest ; to be tried as a criminal by the laws of the country ; and to even capital punishment, if found guilty of a capital offeuce. All this I most freely and fully admit, and am prepared, by every means in my power, to assert and maintain, and that as well from a conviction that it is essential to my own private interest and security as from a sense of public advantage. What I declaim against as an act unknown to the Dutch, and contrary to the spirit and letter of the laws and constitution of Great Britain is, for any individual, however high, to assume to himself a right to pass by the ordinary trib.inals, established for the dispensation of justice,in all cases,both civil and crimi nal, =,._ t ul on his own individual responsibility and private judg ment, aided bywhatever private councillors he may choose to consult, to try and condemn any British subject; sod to execute such sentince as he rr e ry deem proper, and that by the strong arm fir ti •• public authorities, without smi the semblance of submitting to any of those legal forms, w hich the constitution of every civilized government, and most especially the British, has established for the protection of the just rights and liberty of its subjects—and which have been secured to every Briton as his inalienable birth-right. When my press was stopped in 1825, on account of my having inserted in my paper an account of a most extraordi nary dialogue which had passed publicly on parade, between a certain then Major in the Militia, and a highly-respectable individual, a private in the same corps, not only were my premises violently entered by the police in considerable force, but my private property, the very implements of my trade, I allude to the handle of my press, was forcibly taken away, and carried to the Police Office; and when it was re quested to see the warrant on which my house was violently entered, my private property taken away, my means of future industry in the exercise of my legal employment suspended, the Schout, or bead constable, of police-officer, laid his hand upon the dirk which was hanging by his side, and declared that to be his warrant. In the present case, the conduct of the Authorities in regard to me, h-ts not been less sudden, arbitrary, and in my decided opinion illegal. The day before yesterday, when my paper was in press, a clerk from the Colonial Secretary's office called at my office and delivered the interdict, which was that day printed and circulated with the notice, that day delivered to my subscribers. But I conceive that I now stand on very different grounds from what I did in 1825. I have published my paper some years back on this license, and in such strict conformity with the three con ditions therein contained, as to defy the jealous and vigilant eye of the many who are deeply interested in the auppres• don of a free press in this colony, and the consequeut ex • posure of that system of financial extravagance, and of the legislative abuses from which it originates, on which they thrive, but to the severe cost and injury of the more useful and industrious classes of the conim , inity. At laAt, how ever, the sinker influence of these interested parasites has swayed the better judgment of his Excellency : they have discovered another gunpowder p;ot in a nut shell. I conclude this letter by a very brief history of myself since ate year 1807, when I arrived in this Colony. I commenced the business of a master printer in 1811, which I have con tinued ever since, consequently now for twenty years. In the year 1814, I obtained from his Excellency, the then Governor, Major-General John Murray, permisbion to puh• fish a newspaper. This I applied fo•, merely in conformity with an old Dutch custom in this colony, hut which neithei was, nor is absolutely required by any, either Dutch of En;4lish law. This paper was commenced in January,lBls, and was so successful, that in 1321, I reckoned upwards of seven hundred subscribers, at tw•o joes each, besides the profits which 1 derived from advertisements. This flourishing condition of my paper continued until the arrival of his Excellency Sir Benj. D'Urban, as Governor of these Colonies, in April, 1824. In the short space of four days, after the arrival of this officer, he manifested his intention of abridging the liberty before enjoyed by the ple.s under his predecessor; and although a reference to my papers of that date will show that no intemperance whatever on my part could possibly, in that time, have influenced bin conduct In that respect, His Excellency the Governor did, however, think proper, both by his own memo randa, as well as by those of the Fiscal repeatedly to interfere with and interrupt the legal and temperate observations which I had thought proper to introduce into my paper; and on the 28th of July, 1824, lie required me to give in, for his consideration, reasons in writing, why the publication of ony newspaper should be any longer tole rated. This requisition I complied with in the most cou•- teous and respectful terms, which reply, however, failed in its intended purpose ; and in August, 1824, his Excellency communicated to me a memorandum, in which he distinctly assumes the right of judging and dictating to me on all points relating to my paper. In August, 1824, his Excel lency thought proper to suppress the paper called the Colonist. The grounds of this suppression are foreign to my present purpose, which is merely to justify myself; but what I then felt as a most severe because unmerited perso nal insult, was his order to the effect that the same should be communicated to me, as a warning —intimating also, that he possessed the absolute power (with threats of employing it) of inflicting the punishment of banishment, without form of process of law, for any infraction of his orders and decrees On the 10th Sept. 1824, his Excellency sent to me, unsoli cited, a new license to print my newspaper, clogged with many conditions and restrictions not contained in the previous licence which I had obtained 10 years before from Major- General Murray, and which I then held. This, wishing to avoid any unpleasant discussion, I quietly retained without returning any answer. After various other most annoying interferences with my management of my paper, as 1 am ready to prove by the production of many written doers menu, his Excellency finally, on the 12th October, 1825, subjected my paper to his absolute control, by ordering that a proof sheet of every future publication should be submitted to him, previous to publication. In this country, where it is well known how difficult it is to get any periodical work regularly executed, you may easily con ceive the dreadful annoyance of having a paper sent about five o'clock to Government House, there to be revised, per haps to be shorn of Many columns, for which I was then called upon to substitute other matte►, after the hour when the paper was to have been circulated. Finally, on the 18th November, 1825, when I was myself in the country, my paper was stopped by an order from hie Excellency, as before stated—my house violently entered by armed men—my property seized and taken away —my Edi tor (Mr. Barker), arrested, and taken to the Fiscal** Office, from whence be was dismissed without any charge t i i i i I I NO .as