The Statesman. — London, England, 1824-02-11 00:00:00

MEETING OF OF WEST INDIA PROPRIETORS. ......e.— - of the This long-annonneed and important meeting . persons intetested in our West India Colonies took place ves terday at the City of London Tavern. The meeting gas fixed for but so early as half-past twelve o'clock a n umber of Gentlemen had already assembled. and hy on e o'clock there could not have been fewer than al% present in the Great Room. At half-past one, Mr. Charles he se Ellis, M. P. for Seaford. the Chsirman of the 31erchants ard Planters' Committee,entert , i the room with )Ir. Manning, M. P., Mr. Grossett, M. P., Mr. Hihhert, p., Mr. W. Taylor. Mr. John Frailer, and other Gentle wen connected with %Vest Indian affairs. Mr. C. K. Eitis took the chair, and, before proceeding to other business, begged to propose the addition of the f o llowing names to the Standing Committee:— The lEarl of Harewood. the Hon. %V. [ism:elle*, m. IP. Lord Viscount St. Vincent, Lord Saltonn, the night Hon. Sir 0. Rose, M. P., Joseph Biich, Kaq. M. P., i f K. K. Douglas. Esq. M. P., W. H. Hervey, Esq. These were stretchy put and unanimously approved. John Irving, Esq. M. P. Spencer Mackie, Esq. M. P. J o hn Gladstone, El. M. P. A. Barclay, Esq S. Hibbert, Eq. and several otiicr ti-otlemen, were also added to the standing Committee, on tae motion of various Individuals present. The CHAIRMAN then proceeded to address the Assembly. Is t onsideration of the very general opinion which bad pre vailed. that a Meeting of all persons connected with the Colonies ()light to be called, he bad, in the exercise of that .I , acretion confided to him as their Chairman, issued the ,tdrertisements for calling those whom he then saw toze it er, and he had also convened a Meeting of the Standing Committee to determine what propositions should be sub ri.itted. It had appeared Rine Conimittee that from the ehrts made to misrepresent the situation of the Negroes and the conduct of their masters, it was necessary to make a solemn protest against such proceedings. It was deemed right to prove that their title to the property now attempted to be interfered with had been confirmed by as solemn enactments as the right to any whet' descrip tion of property. If it were thought just to inter fere with the possession of negroes. it was open to the na tion to fulfil what it regarded as a high moral obligation, by offering a just compensation to the proprietors. The assertion of these points it was considered could not be embodied in any better shape than in that of a petition to the Crown. They had thought that in the present dis turbed state of the Colonies they had better petition the King, as the only authority, perhaps, to which all the in habitants of the Westlndia Islands looked up with respect, ntonixed with jealousy or distrust. They had thought that his voice might reconcile the jarring ele ments, and have the effect of restoring to the property of the planters somewhat of its lost value. The importance of establishing their right to their property, and their claim to compensation if it were to be interfered with, was 5 Ich that, without abandoning other claims,the Committee had thought it right to mix these considerations up with any thing else in the Petition which it was proposed to carry to the foot of the Throne, and which would now he read to the meeting. The petition, one of the principal o'ujects of which is to urge oo his Majesty, the two latter considerations, were then read, but want of room prevents its insertion in otir columns. Mr. PALAteR proposed to the Meeting that they should adapt the petition which had just been read ; and though he could not hope to add any tbiog to that Petition, as isterl as it bad been by the very forcible introduction is hid) it had received from their Chairman, yet he could not ab stain from expressing the satisfaction which it had in spired. It left matters which might he controverted out a sight, without abandoning Any right to discuss them at a future period, and wisely confined itself to establish their right to compensation, if the policy of the State inter fered with their property. To him it seemed to he a con stitutional appeal to their Sovereign, and to a nation, which however it might be led astray for a moment by a too ardent love of liberty, never failed in the end, to re turn to the path of teeth and justice. He, for one, had never desponded for the Colonial cause. He saw a ray of hope for the Colonies in the returning ptosperity of this country, and in the circumstance of the people of this country becoming better acquainted with the true merits of the case. He concluded by strongly recommending un animity, and by calling on the meeting to adopt the petition.. Mr WATSON TAYLOR felt it necessary, for the sake of stn itimity, to repress his feelings on this occasion. He luped the Petition would be carried without opposition, •od thought she recommendations of the Crawl). in the verb j.ist delivered to both Houses, "to temper zeal with t4ution," a favourable otnen, ■nd this proved, so imme dhoely after that speech, a happy moment for petitioning on a subject of such vital importance. Mr. CARRINGTON (the Agent for Barhadoes). whim deviating from that 'temperate course recommended by those who had preceded him, deemed it right to take a view of those circumstances which bad brought West India property into the situation in which it was found at this moment. A few years ago it was held forth to the British nation that measures of interference with the Colo ides were indispensible. The warnings then given by prac tical men were tli4regarded, and the consequence was, in one night, a flourishing colony had been given up to the horrors of con fl agration, while the lives of hi s Majesty's jects, and those of the slaves themselves, were exposed to destruction. The true cause of the calamity had been' lint on record by a gallant officer, who bad been roused trout his bed in the middle of the night to hear the tale of i-inry; and to whose presence of mind the country owed touch fur the atop which had been put to the wide-spread iht; ruin. He had proved that the cause of the evil must be found in the interference which had taken place in the affairs of the colonists. The unhappy deluded victims of that insurrection, at the moment of their execution, had acknowledged inch to be the fact, and but owned that they bad no cause of complaint against their waster.. He meant no disrespect to any party when be said the Colonists were not then befriended as they blight have been. No effOrt was made to establish that I.elneiple which had to-day been so forcibly pot forward, that.if Colonial property were to be interfered with, com pensation ought to be made. He then noticed the insur rection at Demerara, and remarked that the sufferers, like 11 . 10se Bath i adoes bad no complaint against their masters. This coinciden ce h e thought must strike every one, and Olive that the statements of negro suffering had been pat!), exaggerated. He hoped that this meeting, feeling unanimity to be most desirable, would cordially unite to the claims of the Planters of Demerara, to com pensation for the evils they had suffered. He was for l'oaving the prayer of the Petition; and gave it as his 4 1) nion, that not to protest against the interference which 4 dd so iejerionsly been ventured upon, would be a derelic tion of duty. If this were not given np there would be no hope for those connected with the Colonies; but from the adoption of the principle, that they had the vame claim to c ompensation which was advanced by the holders of other daaeriptions of property, when interfered with by state policy. Mr. J. Mantas (of Barbadoes) expressed the satisfaction and gratitude inspired in his bosom by the language of the gentleman who had already addressed the Meeting. He would join hand and heart to promotelhat concord and unanimity which had been so properly recommended on the present occasion. Not counsclhog them to imitate the conduct of their adversaries, he wished them to bear in blind that those against whom they had to contend pos- leased the subtlety of serpents. One of the venomous brood had been " scotched' at Demerara, but others ree. - mained Who were lie actively engiged in those dangerose Pursuits as ever. When the insurrection of Berbadoes , oc curred, Mr. Wilberforce sod bis party entertained an ides THE STATESMAN that an illicit importation of slaves bad taken place. The Registry Bill was then introduced. This measure nothing had occurred to render necessary, and it bad led to the most serious consequences. Mr. liftmen; 31. P. rose very shortly to explain why he did not go at large into the subject. Though he might have differed from the other Members of the Committee in some respects, after the Resolutions which had been, adopted, he felt it to be his duty most cordially to recom mend the adoption of the Petition. He was an Agent for Jamaica, and might have strong feelings in favour of that island, but in the course which he bad taken with reipect to the West India question, he denied that he had done any thing which he would not have done had be not been an Agent for Jamaica. His constituents had dist en a wrong inference from one of his letters. He corrected this, and wished it to be known that he had never heard from Government the appalling sentence, that no compensation would be allowed for property in slaves which might he interfered with by rnea , ures of state policy. With the view they took of the subject, he was not surprised at the angry feelings of hie constituents. Their hastily voted resolutions, however, which had been sent over, be consi dered to have done good, at they had caused the Govern ment to give the subject their best attention. He was in hopes that some of the steps so imprudently taken would be retraced. Mr. tiOSSETT, M. P. expressed his concurrence in the petition. Major DALHIAC said be was strongly of opinion that the meeting ought to put forward, as a prominent feature in their statement, that they looked forward to the eman cipation of the slaves. Yes, he was satisfied that the West India interest would never repose on a sure foundation un less in the abolition of slavery.—(Much disapprobation.) He knew many respectable persons were of a different opi nion, and lie did not mean to state that they were wrong. Ile saw no danger in gradually preparing the minds of negroes for the reception of freedom. Ihe diffusion of liberal ideas was allowed by all to he necessary to pave the way for the emancipation of the negroes.—(Here the noise became so loud !hat the speaker could not proceed.)—Calm and temperate reasoni►tg was the surest modeof promoting truth and jostice, The speaker attempted to proceed, but the sounds " emancipation," " freedom," " liberal ideas," seemed to have too powerful an effect on the nerves of his audience, lie was proceeding for some some time, when a person called out " You are a Saint—go to Wilberforce." He replied he was no Saint, but had more, he feared, of the composition of a sinner in him. In this manner the ad vocate for gradual abolition continued to be baited, when in cot clu.ion, he moved the following amendment I. It is the opinion of this Meeting that rational and de fined liberty is a blessing to which the whole race of mankind have an original title. " 2. That in accordance with this principle, and being fully aware that a state of slavery is incompatible with those moral ties ;—(Hisses, and cries of " bring Mr. Wilberforce,") those social feelings of gratitude which in free countries bind the t to the master, this Meeting anxiously looks forward to that desirable period when the black population of the West Indian Colonies shall be deemed by the Legislature of the Mo ther Country to be so far advanced in moral attainments as to be worthy of being admitted to the condition of free labourers —and capable of properly appreciating the blessings of rational freedom. " S. Fearlessly as this Meeting proclnisns to the world the feelings by which they are actuated in common with their fel low men ; anxious as they ever will be to give those feelings effect by a oordial cooperation with the British Parliament ; they still feel it a duty incumbent upon them to declare, that all unworthy or base appeals to the passion r,f the yet uneducared negroes can only retard Instead of promoting the beneficent views of the Legislature. and that it is necessary that the ne groes should be taught ' How very short lived Is that liberty which comes hurried along by the hurricanes of commotion, and which enthrones itself upon moral ruin.' " 4. That it is the opinion of tills Meeting that the Owner . . . and Occupiers of the Soil of the British Welt Indian Colonies are as much entitled to Legislative protection as the Owners and Occupiers of the Soil of Great Britain. "6. That this Meeting relies upon the justice of Parliament. trusting that In every measure which m4y hereafter be brought forward in furtherance of ultimate emancipation, a due regard will be had to vested and acknowledged rights, and a convic tion of the justice and of the necessity of equitable indemnifi cation." The interruptions in the course of the reading of the Amendment were so great, that the Chairman found it ne cessary to interfere. He begged to put it to the meeting, whether the cause 'of the West Indian Colonies was such that they need be afraid of what any Gentleman could say. lie hoped they would allow every one to offer what he thought proper, subject to such animad versions as others might afterwards think it right to make. The Amendment was then heard to the end, and handed up to the Chair. Not being seconded, it was not submitted to the Meeting by the President. Mr. TAYLOR (of Carshalton) supported the Petition.— He pointed out the dangers attendant on interfering with Colonial property, as exemplified in the fatal Stamp Act which led to the separation of America from England. Mr. CAMPBELL deprecated the intemperate zeal of the abolitionists, which had retarded the progress of the cause they wished to promote. 61r. J. PULLER was of opinion that the Negro could not be got to work three days in the week as a free labourer. — He hoped the Crown would by proclamation do away the hope of emancipation being emanciated among the negroes, but at the same time 'friction every practicable measure for ameliorating the condition of the slaves, through the means of the Colonial Assemblies. The Petition was then put, and carried with only one dis senting voice: and after a few words from Mr. Manning. in approbation of the petition, it was left for signature, and ordered to be presented to his Majesty on the next Levee day, or sooner, if opportunity offered. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.—(Tuts DAT.) JUDGMENT. The LORD Crater JUSTICE G►rronn proceeded in this long pending cause to deliver the jud meat of the Court. His Lordship observed that such was the contradictory nature of the evidence on each side, that the question was one of great difficulty. upon which a decision could be given. The Court had paid much attention to the affida vits of tfie unfortunate man. the plaintiff in the case. and also to the set-off affidavit made as to subsequent conversa tions with Joseph Hunt, but was of opinion that it m iialy was entitled to credit, nay to be believed, as it was not an swered, although subsequent events bad rendered the credit of that unfortunate man (Thurtell) in a very suspicions light. The Court did not at all impugn the motives of Mr. Beaumont. although the affi davits filed by the plaintiff reflected much on him; yet as he bad a very important trust, it was neeessary for him to act with caution before he permitted such large sums of money to go from his hands. The Learned Judge then proceeded at great length to review the whole of the proceedings in this case. which have al ready been before the public, and finally said that the Court was of opinion it would not be exercising a sound judgment by sending the case back for a new trial. The motion for a new trial was then negatived, con quently the creditors of Thomas Thurtell become entitled to the money laid in the Insurance policy. we believe 1,340 E The COURT was crowded to excess, anal the decision was received with some applause. ft is said that General the Marquess of Hastings, K. 0 G.C.8., and U.C.H. will succeed to the high appoint • wants which were held by the late Lieutenant Ueneral a T. Maitland. SHIPPING I NTE LL 10 ItNe E. -....mw•-• DLit.. February 10.—Wind S.W.—About 8 o'clock last evening the wind Hated to N *hen the whole of the c.utward hound sailed.—Early this morning It backed again to the Southward, and in the course of the day got to S.W. with light breezes and thick hazy weather.-3 p. m. the Dominica, for Dominica, is now putting back, with several small brigs.— Arrived the Cordelia, Bulky, from Saloe. PORTSMOUTH, February 10.—Plymouth,0.—Wind S.W.—No arrivals or sailings. • • FALMOUTH, February 9.—Wind S.W.—Sailed his If. M. Packet Magnet, for Lisbon ; Prince Regent Packet, for the Mediterranean; Countess of Chichester Packet, for Buenos Ayres ; Lord Hohart Packet for the Brazils, and the Osborn Packet for America. Livitapoot.February 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Magnet, Fisher. from Coarleston : and Fulman, Forster, from Mar • seilles.—The Tom, from Liverpool to Lancaster, was lost un , Cockermouth Sands on Fri lay last. Dolma. February Io.—Wind S.W.—Off the Port the Hester Gibbons, from Palermo, and the Phesdo, Bishop, from De merara. GRAVESEND, February 10.—Arrived the Helen, Way; and Industry, Bass, from Lisbon ; and Esther, Lowther, from De merara.—Railed the Princess Charlotte, Lyons, for Jamaica ; Duke of Bedford, Cunningham, for Madras ; and Te.emashus, Liaby, for Newfoundland. FOR THE STATESMAN. TO TUC RT. HON. F. J. ROBINSON, CHANCILLOR OF THE EXCIISQOsIt. LETTER L g l a —ln the hope that this address may meet your eye' and that you may be induced to give the matter the consi derlition it pre-eminently deserves, 1 venture the following remarks. When Dr. Price wrote his celebrated Treatise on civil li berty, and alarmed the nation with toe prospect of a-- preaching rain, on account of tne excessive taxation laid . on the people, the amount of the duties on Stamps, in cluding cams, dire, advertisements, bonds, leases, inden• tures, newspapers, aim snack , , &it.. was 2ltant_tt. ; and the total amount of ad the Taxes was rather less than twelve millions. . _ _ In the year ending January 1524, the amount of the ditties on Stamps, including the Legacy Daly, to which duty my observations will for the present be confined, was upwards of Six Millions, being more than half of the whole revenue of the coition?, including the Customs, the Excise, the Post-Office, the Assessed Taxes, and the Lind Tax, at the time Dr. Price wrote ; At which time we were carrying on an extensive and formidable war in a distant quarter of the globe for the subjugation of our brethren of America . _ _ _ _ _ The Legacy Tax, Sir, emanatinz from the disciples of the Pitt-school, is of all other burthens the most uncongenial to the principles of the British Constitution ; and if now, for the first time, proposed, would meet with universal re probation. The proposers,indeed,of that mea , ure could never have supposed the lengths to which it has been carried. When I speak of the Legacy Tax, 1 include the tax on shares of personal estates, which, consistent with the unjust principles on which the Tax was created, has at length, by subselnent enactments, extended to shares of estates directed by testators to be sold. The inquisitorial powers conferred by the Acts of Parliament nuder which these duties are imposed, are exercised in their full latitude by the Gentlemen at the 'mid of this de partment at Somerset House, and are utterly subversive of the true principles of legislation. %Mit would you think, Sir, of the conduct of a private individual, if, after the decease of a near and dear relative or friend, he should ask you to render him an account of the money that was tound in the house—of the debts that lie owed—of the debts that were owing to him—of the different species of property of which he died possessed—that he were to ask you to open the drawers of the deceased, and to permit him to inspeet-hiateetamentary papers, hitherto deemed sacred, and to disclose what legacies, specific or pecuniary, were thereby bequeathed, and to whom—that he should require the leintee to have a value put by sworn appraisers and auctiotac.3 on the donations pf their departed friend—that all aersuities for life must be valued accordiug to fractional and decimal tables invented for the purpose—that the va luable collections of the virtuoso, his museum, his medals, scarce coils, and unique cameos, must undergo the ordeal of inquiry as to their value, and be submitted to the rude gaso of unlettered lk ignorant hrokers?What, Sir, would you say to impertinence ofsuch curiosity,and the unblushing imps deuce ui such demands ?—Yet all this is done under the sanction of enactments purposely framed to meet every pos sible case. The Legacy Acts, those precious hantlings of an administration that has laid more taxes on the people of England than all the Ministers of every Government in the World, during theist:le period of time, require the different Registers of the Ecclesiastical Courts to transmit the wills, proved within their several jurisdictions, and an account of the letters of administration granted t 3 the represen tatives of persons dying intestate, to the office at Somerset House, where Books are kept to make entries thereof ; aad, within a very few weeks afterwards, the work of inquiry begins. A printed letter is transmitted from the Legacy Othce, demanding the particulars above enumerated.—As you, Sir, and a great portion of the public may nut be acquainted with the extent to which this inquiry is car ried, t shall first subjoin a few of Bit heads under which the account is ordered to be arranged. Cash in the House. Wearing apparel. Cash at the Bankers. Jewels, Trinkets, and Orna- Cash arising from the Sale of meats of the person. the following Articles : Wine and other Liquors. Household Goods anti Furui- Horses and Carriages. ture. Farming Stock and Imple- Plate, Linen and China. mews of Husbandry. Books, Prints, and Pictures. Leasehold Estates. And then must come an account of every species sod deno mination of Stcck in the finds. and sit your Bonds, Bills, Notes, Securities for Money, Ships, and shares of Ships, and the value of every Estate directed to be sold or mortgaged, thus laying the affairs of every man in the Kingdom open to the inspection of all maneer of clerks and other persons.-- AND ALL THIS, SIR, IN ENGLAND—ID England "the boast and admiration of the world."—Time and space will notsuflice to me to point out to you the numerous questions and difficulties that arise upon the construction of many of the clauses of the Act, and the trouble and vexatlon that ensue to the public there• upon. It is sufficient for my present purpose to skew yon that the Tax is, of all others, the most inquisitorial that can be conceived ; ■nd I know of no measure that would add to that popularity you have already acquired, than by bringing in the Bill it not for its immediate, at least for its gradual aboli ion. But at all eventi, as in the case of the late surcharges by the surveyors of Taxes, which Government, to its infinite credit, abolished. and thereby destroyed the golden prospects of those disinterested gentlemen, it is greatly to be wished that you would interpose to prevent the harm Elie inquiries,now carnet en at Somerset House, on Me subject of arrears payable by fiseentorsand Legatees long sihee in their graves. In cases between subject and subject, the Statute cf Limitatiaus pre• eludes all dormant claims of six years' state ; but the present inquiries elm at the revival of claims for 2U years, and cause infinite trouble. Let orders be Issued to stop these harrassiog inquiries ; and the Books, like the Temple of Janus, be shut for ever. My nett letter shall contain an espose of some of the friar ing inconsistencies of the Stamp Duties, and a plan for their alteration. I am, Qtc. CIVIS. We this day insert the letter of Ciois, on the abuses of the Tax on Kills and Administrations; but for went of room we must pos.poiae till to-morrow the !marks we intended to offer on that subject. The term of Mr. D. W. Harvey's confinements on account of an alleged libel in the Sra&N Times. bavintex_pired. that Gentleman was this d a y lib era t e d fro g s the King's Bench Prison. THEATRICALS. COYENT . GARDEN.—Last night so Opera, in three ante, was protineed at this theatre, nmier the title of Native Lartd,or the fielars from Slavery. Its scene is laid is Oeoos, where Aurelio di Montalto, a noble sAlier of the state : has just arrived, after long captivity at Tunis, la-. bowing under the miseries of intercepted letters and of hopeless love, and disguised with the complexion anti cos tume of Othello. Clymaste, his mistress, meanwhile, has hardly preserved her constan c y ; beset with lovers, and embarrassed by a clause in a w ill compe lli ng L er t o ' m trey on a certain day, if her lover does not arrive. To avert the evils of real matriamoy, she sends for her f on, e coosin of Corsica, to pl.y the suitor it mule attire. .s about to marrp this girl, by way of pro tel•tioi,, when :Id cello arrives. The rest may be easily ialagiaell—a L teat deal of despair on the part of the exile, a little stage tridtery by the lady, some pretty Gol.rits from the fair masquera der, a great many songs and duets, a ma rr i age . an d a grandfinak v i i The "mo e" s announced to be by Mr. Bishop ; " the selections" from itossibi ; but to say tbe truth, we 1P.1: , .ve most of the pieces, by whatever noire called; may be traced to the works of that composer. Mr. Sinclair, the Aurelio of the night, relic d more than u: oat on his falsetto. Miss Paton was the heta:ae, certaicly will add to her repntation by the very hrilliant execution of her hravurae. Another, eltaractrr, which rept red a good deal of archness and vivacity was jirdicictisly appropriated to Miss 'raze, who represented a handsome dasi.irg young wooer, to the great amusement of the audin•ce, until she finally assumed her feminine graces. The latter sung se veral songs, and took part in several duels, and was excel lent In a'l; but perhaps in none did her refined taste and gennineTeeling appear to more advantace then in the last simple air, which we believe to be an Irish one. Fawcett and Miss Love. supplied the hroad hirer or the piece with eonsiderable eicrvt, tiiongh it pseit-b, eqft'essed that soii e of the dialog tie between them is very lova,: mode. d. Coop e r olaeed " a t:aval commander," with j sts prescriptive to the : part, but r4ther savouring of IVapping than Italy ; and Farm was an old rogue, the !wipe-goat of the author. Ott the whole, the, opera is well and expensively got un, , and has pretty, if not very original music It was given 1 out for repeitiioo amidst great apptause,and hl:kely to have a run. AFFAIR OF HONOUR, NF: I,R DUBLIN. THOMAS SPRING RICE, AND WALLER O'GRADY, ESQRS. (mom THE DUBLIN MORNING POST OF MONDAY.) Yeiteralay morning., about eight o'clock, Mr. Ooodison Chief Peace officer, of Codege-street Divisional Police office. despatched a party of Prece-offis.ers to the neigh lhoorliood of Ball's-bridge, wills directions to disperse a number of persons who it was underdond were to s'se'nble there for the purpose of lighting dogs and littating. badgers. When the Pe:ice-officers arrived at the place, their attention was drawn to another scene which more honer:direly called f r their interference. They perce'red 4 ; arti • *lientlemea I in to adjoinin r field. some of whom were,.hunt to fight a duel. lint officers immediately took the gentlemen, whom they saw with pistols which were corke.l, in their hands,irto custody. The principals, Thomas Spring Rice, esq. and W. O'Orady, esq., to whom the seconds were about to liar d the pistols, effected their escape. The seconds, namely, Henry Baron Robecic and James Franks. E.g., were brought to College-street Police-othee, „where they were each held to bail, to keep the peace, themselves in 5001. each, and two sureties in 2501. The sureties for Mr. Franks were Joslge 11).y and Mr. O'Briscoll ; the sureties for Baron Roheck, were Mr. Catkin and Mr. O'Driscoll. the latter gentleman having offered his service.; a second friend whom 134r0n Roheck had sent for as bail not having at that time arrived at the office. SPARRING. AND ANOTHIIR MATCH lIETNEEN SPRING , •N D LANDAN.—Purcell had a benefit at the rives Court yelterday, which was nonsacramily swot's!, 111 *00114,104e0 of Its having been armour:m.(l that Langan as well as Spring would be present.—Neither, lionever, attended. Langan, it seems, could nut be spared from the Sarre? Thane. Jrliere he is under an engagement to exhibit for the remainder of the week. Sampson came on purpose from liirniinghant to challenge either Langan or Hodson. He sparred with the latter, who completely floored him ; and as to Langan, whom lie nrxt challenged. it was answered that he was matched to tight Spring again for 5001. This great fight is expected to take place in the course of two months. _ _ ReTam Baxwaits.--Balotrroat Tows HALL, Fan. 4. This morning, at an early hour, the Court seas crowded tre excess with common brewers, victuallers, &c. to hear the decision relative to certain seizures of beer made on the premises of Mr. Win. Bush, retail brewer, of the Bell Ina Brewery, Warwick-lane, Newgate-street, London, and Church-street, Brighton. The Magistrates on the liencts were—Sir David Scott. and J. M. Capps. Esq. The sei zure was made under .12d lieu. 111. chap. 38, for 'telling beer at a higher price that one penny halfpenny per quart, his entry not being made as a COMMOIS Vaal! breunr, hut, by mistake, as a dealer in beer. It was Audited un the pert of the Excise, that the lull duty on the beer had been paid by Mr. Bush as a retail common Gewer. 'The Ma gistrates, after a full hearing, convicted Mr. Bush in the mitigated penalty of 121. 101. at the same time directing' all the beer seized, amounting to 8.16 gallons, with the casks, and various utensils, to he restored to Mr. Bush. Notice of :pre tl, as to the penalty, was then given, and Mr. Built entered into the usual recognizance fur !unseen tine the same. At the late dinner given in Dundee, in honour of the birth of Burns. the following mole :oie of thu poet was related by a gettlemsn present. When in Glasgow, Burns dined with a Mr. Barton, a dandy of those days, sod seproper in hie language as was a dandy in his dress. His constant caper. - sions ware, " D—u my eyes !"—" D—n roy blood !" Borns wasfrequently requested to write this person's epitaph, but be declined the tas'.. At length, Barton himself requester, the poet to do him the favour so often asked and refused, whelk Duras drew out • pencil, and wrote the following distich : " Here cursing, swearing Barton lies ; A beau, a buck, or d—n dy eyes I Who in his lite did little good, And his last words were " d—o my blood I" Barton felt the satire, aad sat quiet for the rest of the ev.ning. —(Thulee Adrerther.) CORN EXCHANGE, W EDNRADAY, Fan. 11.-11 e quantities of grain in general are good. Wheat, 3,2oo.—Barley, 6,loo.—Oats, 8.850 qrs.—Flonr, 4,400 sacks. The dull ness which was experienced in the wheat trade on Monday still continues, and very few sales can be made this morn ing, but the factors do not appear disposed to submit to further reductions. Barley is cleared off with tolerable eagerness at the prices last quoted. Beans and Peas ate heavy in disposal at last Monday's prices. Oar Ott bo‘e• s purchase a ith great reluctance, and Monday's prices are hardly obtained for this article. 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