The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-11-29 00:00:00

after an engagement with the oyalists ; he subdued the revolo. 'ifteen hundred usen were killed is now perfettly tranquil. )ected here momentarily from ![a• as are making to receive him. be obtained in Europe by P.I. gnition of the loans to the Cortes, ) the Clergy for a voluntary contri ved frota four chapters and four enty thousand pounds in crab, asd d in paper securities, which are mach as 20,0001. The sum, it is p two millions. The Grandees are ibute to the exigencies of the State. 'the royal idol upon the throne ; le effected by the Grandees and the ,ht that it will be done. Our Ultras, note money will be wanted than the 0 , can raise; and that the Spanish sell them at a low price, and with f any payment to Ferdinand himself. isolation which they would hardly hands of the editor of the New :o be bountiful, when his bounty. sing. rests him nothing. There was sh administration would have made Royal Government of Spain, by lion of loans made by British sub. f a recognized Government, at the this Ferdinand himself. Instead of o take Cadiz, an English Minister of I have taken possession of it, as a *sties to his fellow citizens. If this racticable, Majorca or Minorra ► tolerable security. Of course such matters as likely to come of such men as Mr. Canning, or Ir. Pitt, in the zenith of his pride, and was quite corrupted, might have been wn a little English spirit. It seems he English Cabinet, to consider first iipen to like its movements—and if the spposed hostile to any measure, oar what! would you run the risk of a was we say anything, we must maintain it; 'pared for war. It is therefore wiser This is the condition of England intim iur Ministerial writers are infinitely de. Inch squadron in the West Indies is ►aiid me. A mad dog does not dread water rest men" dread the danger of a war 6 ; and their most ardent prayer is as forbearing as England is impotent. forlorn hope. They inust,drink the eel the very dregs.. Not a drop will be 'ranee is really strong. The Bourbons ►t they feel that in a state of war they ►nce of popularity; and a war with the most popular a all. This aloes Id the amicable relations of the tee of any long duration. still maintains himself in Estremadurs. that he will be able to do so Inns so long unquelled, proves the had& esistaose made by ether pretended lers. With a small force, and in a eked on all sides, this chieftain ' L oot ,umplis— not only maintains his grossed d Isis enemies defiance in the open field. Estremadura must be favourable to he sot bare avoided discomfiture for a sin :optima shows what might have bees es been as true to their cause, as the nosed towards it. The French do net irked the Etupseinado. Perhaps they D leave Ferdinand and a little envier for their holding the principal fir in attorney engaged for Probert, bce Inortlinery letter against the press, In atire to the murder of Mr. IVeare. As e of the parties accused, we an inclined map a little licence ; or we should other. 7arameunt duty to chastise the insolence tions• with, which it. let**. agilim a as lone more for the world. than all the the laws. that ever e•isted;—. l sio:lg h ns rliapssei to deny, that good laws mid ,re invalnahie. (one ball the snisrepre ate alluded to, have arisen from the 'i.ld tthorities to solace a mystery of the rot ‘, re denounced. publication —they A u s inations--- , they hate al re i tk vet they have nlper d rsees:" . a tug secret ; white- the.! have enabled isievotte to tirculit , many stories oier ring in tltr secret of these secret as- objet of the Press is to pablisli rtl tbs but the truth : but when it is compiled purees in which, t: nth , and falsehaset fault is in -those who blend them, ei ter who will do his duty to the best* 1..,wh0 ersglit not to cease his latoolp rottare thrown in his way. Mr.Willian el both the Judge sod the Jeri. IA se, by stating that if his client loses Is ?e beet; murdered by the Press!' Out( Dims, we will hot comment epos t rr upon all coffees feeling. Mr. Williams bed only in this case WI Ps ; for be asks "when before , ** sue anus was a pri.oner entries', and . them vs of our ta ws, innocs , s hut MI a rse with his relatives esti frimOsr • We can refer Mr. Williams to many instances of men, not only untried, bat nnaccused, except by wretches who dare sot meet them face to face, being shut tip for many Orfonths, some even for years, from any intercourse with friends and relatives. Public justice should be conducted with all due regard to decorum; but we are not among the enraber of those who affect to feel such deep sympathy in behalf of men in the situation of the accused in this instance. We do not say that Probert assisted to commit the murder—bet what does he say of himself—that he permitted the dead body to be concealed on his premises. Pear for his own safety might have prevented any resist. me at the moment ; but bow came he to be silent on the follaning day? Are the public to be expected to feel say great regard for an individual who uould lend himself from arty motives short of the ties of blood and affection, to the concealment ora murder? • We have no doubt that justice will have a fair course. The Jury will decide accord• in to the evidence produced. If they should not, the Judge will represent the matter in the proper quarter. — And the professional advisers of the prisoners will be much better employed in attending to their professional duties, than in wasting their time in attacks upon the press! The Lord Chancellor went yesterday into his private room again, notwithstanding both his and our dislike to it ; hut as belt reported to have stayed bat ten minutes, no great barna could be done. His Lordship enquired whether both parties desired a private hearing, and was told there was only one piny to the case. But had there been two, and both had con sented, we are at a loss to find, in their consent, any reason for the Chancellor's agreement We have a perfect horror of secret Courts. Suppose the accused and the accuser, in a ease of robber!, of murder, were to consent to a private trial . would a Judge be at liberty to grant it? And, if not, why should it be done In other eases. In thie age, it is the more accessary to take a stand agal.ist these secret: investigations, because they are &ling Into fashion ; and every justice• room in the kingdom may be converted into a little Star Chamber. . .Last night, at a quartet before eight o'clock, the King arrived at his palace in Pall Mall, from his Palace at Windsor. It is tinder.tnod that his Majesty proposes to continue in town for several days. The servants and baggage belong iv to his suite arrived in three carriages yesterday morning. It is not quite certain that his Majesty, will honour the Theatres with his presence during his reshience in London. Great exertions are making to prepare St.l James's Palace and its precincts for the King's reception. His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester is expected' at Sir Roger Greeley's, at Drakelow, on Monday the Ist ef December; and on Wednesday the 3d, his Royal High seas direa and sleeps at Sir Charks Oakley's, Bart. at the Palace in Lichfield. On Abe 4th, we understand, it is his Royal Highness's intention to proceed to Crowns) Abbey, de , seat of the Earl of Coventry.—(flerby Mercury.) The mortality among the. French Officers in Spain begina to mite st.spitiou. General Count d'Alembert dire( the first week of the present month, and General Bourke was also reported to be dead. Ti. C.60'114.44 of Cartbageine, at Carmine, received a letter from Madrid, staling that Bourke was so HI IM he was not expected to mein, and two days after the sem of his death was current. Thy were both taken sud. itn'y ill, and under present eirettemlunces, every tl.ing suspi lens is naturally laid hold of, 'EXTRACT OP • LETTER PROM PLYMOUTH, Nov. 26. Till the arrival of our piper at Plymoeth, giving ths in. feimation of tie-arrival there of General Mina, the cir sumstance was little known to the inhabitants. The vessel being under strict quarantine will account for this fart. As soon as we bad informed the population gene sally,icluiries as to when) he would be released, became general ; and it being ascertained that Thursday at 12 eelock, was the hoer appointed for the General's lending the town walls were instantly placarded, announcing the Oise, and calling upon the inhabitants to " give him such a welcome as became Englishmen." It is expected that wk shall have a full attendance, as the feeling here for Itilts's peculiar circumstances is tense and highly be teetiing. It is now understood, that Mina made his,,present cseveyance to this kingdom, one of the articles of his capitulation. ft is not in a French, but a Dutch brig, that the General has arrived. Msetto.—(From the Glasgow Coarier.)--" We some lays aga noticed the arrival of Dr. Mackay from Mexico, to which State it was asserted he had been sent upon a ape• eial mission by our Government, and which the same report stated had been attended with complete success. We have meson to believe, from information obtained through chan cels on which we can rely, that these reports are perfectly correct. The Doctor, we bear, has done his business, negotiating a commercial treaty with Mexico in a most campkte and satisfactory manner, and upon a basis that will prove most satisfactory and beneficial to our merchauts. Se close did the Doctor keep the object of his visit to Mexico, that not a single individual there bad any idea of ltis business, anti still less that it was of a public nature:— Within these few days, a bill drawn for him while in Mexico *Pans the treasury here, passed through the bands eh commercial house in this city.iThe field for commerce is Mexico is very great, and duties are, we hear, to be lied at a moderate rate, and upon a sworn invoke value, assn the United States. DUBLIN CORPORATtON.—A curious as well as important enbject was before the Com t of King's Bench yesterday (Monday) —and one upon the decision of which will depend, whither the Corporation of Dublin be entitled to as income upon coals and shipping, which, ne are told on good authority, amounts to nearly 15,0001, a, year.— (Dublin &snit.: Post.) We learn that the Duchess of Anhalt Bernburg, sister of the Elector of Hesse, has terminated her days, in a violent %neer- She e sca p e d from MIMI. where she was closely confined, to proceed by the way of Cassel, to Bernburg, *bete she was taken out of a pond, ou the bank of which &Paper was fou n d, i n w hi c h s h e states , i n h er own band *ming, the motives of that last act.—This Princess was endowed with estimable qualitimand cherished by all who hew her. She had been, on her return from a journey bito Italy, arrested during the night, in the village of limn. GA' Hessian General, and some servants of the "Wen, committed, or seconded this reprehensible, andpn leery respect arbitraty. act. The Prussian Government whose territory had been violated (the town of Bonn form , tag Part of the Grand Duchy of the Rhine, subject to rnietia), complained at Cassel. After long end warm e xplanations, the Hessian General suffered a sort of dis tine, ; but th e f ate o f t h e P r i ncess, who had b een carr i ed 01 Under escort to Mana u s, a pp ears no t t o h ave b een ameliorated, s i nce. W eseaPe from it, she could find no other "*acne than suicide. Tea ARIEL—The 17th (Leicestenhirt) Regiment of !Amery, which marched from Gosport, on the 12th inst., The Internee at Doncaster to-morrow, on its route to Hull. . 17th Foot is ordered to replace the 65th Regiment.— ath (2d York North Riding) Regiment of Infantry, which marched from Hull, on the 14th inst., w ill arr i ve a t Edinburgh, on Wednesday next.—The 734 Regiment of . 0 17. which h as b een or d ere d to proceed from Scotland In eland, by way of Portpatrick and Denaghadee, will be replocsd at Edinburgh by the 65th Regiment. . tri QUEEN CAROLINE AND LADY ANNE HAMILTON. During the hat trying period of the life of the much wronged Queen Caroline, the Araaas of Sheffield had proposed to pre sent her Majesty with a testimony of their respect and sympa• thy. Before, however, their design could he accomplished, her Majesty's lifobad been saeriffeed to her sufferings; and the piece of silver plate which these worthy men had intended to offer to the Queen having been in an advanced state of prepa ration, they at length resolved, and- it had undergone the al terations which a change of circumstances had rendered neces sary, to present it to Lady Anne Hamilton, as a personage who for faithful attachment and zealoes service to her Majesty, was the most fit and worthy, to posaeis this memorial of their feelings for her illustrious Mistress. The piece of Otte is a Roman Vase, richly embossed, et the capacity of eight quarts, weighing ICIEIoz. fOdwts.; an which is engraved ti.e following inscription:— This Vase was presented by the Artizans of Eihellleld to LADY ANNE HAMILTON, as a testimony of the high admiration of her faithful services and firm attachment to Her late Most Excellent Majesty, Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, Queen of England, and Consort to His Present Majesty King George IV. 1893. The Vase was on Wednesday last presented to Lady Anne Hamilton, at her residence, Charlotte Row, New Road. Mary lebone, by a small deputation oftht: Artizans of Sheffield, who at the same time delivered to her Ladyship the following Ad dress " MADAM—We, the Artisans of Sheffield, mos• respectfully beg leave to solicit your Ladyship's acceptance of this present, as • testimony of our high admiration of ydur Lady ship's unshaken s , lelity and firm attachment to our late illustrious, much injured and greatly lamented Queen. Animated by respect for the honour and welfare of our country. we would gladly cast a veil over that page of our National History which contains a record of the Cruel anti unprincipled conduct of the enemies of her late Majesty; hut the reverence we feel for her memory, an attachment to the laws of our country, and the high contempt we have for power when it overleaps the bounds of civil and political se curity, and breaks doe n the barriers raised by our forefathers to protect the innocent from injustice and oppression, impe riously cull upon us to express the detestation excited in us by the persecuting spirit which marked the whole proceedings against her late Majesty the Queen Consort of the Soverign of these Realms. In the persecution of the late Queen, we have beheld with deep regret, fortitude goaded by the basest means, benevolence abused by the blackest ingratitude, honour offend ed by the most infamous hypocrisy, confidence betrayed by the most consummate duplicity, Majesty contemned sad No bility insulted for the specific purpose of act , omplishing her Majesty's degradation, whose sufferings through life were sufficiently severe to excite the sympathy of a whole nation. Convinced by past experience, that all men affect society ac cording to the extent of the circle of life in which they move, both with respect to the power they possess, and the example their conduct affords ; constepteetly we were surprised to see men illustrious in birth, and renowned for talent exerting their influence to destroy the happiness and stein the reputation of that noble Personage whose demands for justice, and whose fortitude under circumstances of unparalleled difficulty, ap palled the most inveterate of her persecutors. " We offer you, Madam, our most sincere thanks, for your anxious solici:wle for her late Majesty's welfare, at a time when she had been deprived other domestic comforts, deceived by those nn whom she rested her eoofidence, and hunted through Europe by those whose duty it was to hare shielded her from harm. At this afflicting period of her life she found a consolation in your generous attention to her interests, but in the lest and most severe hour of her trial it required the extraordinary exertions of her own noble spirit to repel the linjest and foul aspersions east upon her character by her ene mies, and resting her confidence on the rook et her own inno cence, she, to the disgrace and confusion of her powerfel foes. did meet them at the Bar of the English Rouse of Lords.— Madam, when the destroying hand of time shall have 5-rept off the stage of life whole g lions of men, and levelled with the dust the monumental marble raised to perpetuate the deeds of men, the prosecution of her Isle Majesty will then appear a spot on the historic page, the worst for what it soils, the same volume that bears to posterity an account of the in famous proceedings against her late Majesty will announce to them your sted fest friendship through life, and by your indefa tigable attention to her welfare soothing the pillow of stale- ' lion to the latest boar of her *Werner." Her Ladyship receited the Deputation with the kindest at- I tention, and returned to their address the following answer:— "I am deeply indebted to my good friends, the Artigans of Sheffield, for the beautiful Vase, with which they have thought fit to commemorate my bumble services to her late Majesty.— Those services ware, at the time, what my heart dictated, and my conscience approved. "Others may have surpassed me In the energy of their zeal in favor of my Royal Mistress; hut I will not readily resign the palm to any Indisinterested ardour df affection, and unshaken constancy of attachment. The artizans of Sheffield have for cibly expressed their sentiments of the numerous wrongs which the ever memorable Queen Caroline so long and so patiently endured. lem unwilling to dwell on that subject. I cannot revert to it without the most painful recollections. It was not in the noble nature of her late Majesty to breathe one wish of vengeance, or to suffer one sensation of animosity to rankle in her breast. She knew that a Divine Agency presided over the progress of human events; and the confidence she felt in this consolatory truth, threw a heavenly sunshine over her dying hour. If the people of England lament her loss, as of one, who, with the most amiable sensibilities of her sex, had a mind that could comprehend and a heart that could cherish the gene ral interests of mankind; if they mourn over her premature grave, as of one who hailed with delight the dawn of freedom among the enslaved nations of the Continent, and was en ad vocate for the utmost practical extension of civil and religious liberty in this enligb'ened country. we may still reflect with complacency that her generous spirit- is now for ever regime from that troubled scene, which, for wise purposes, constituted so large a portion of her mortal life. Her sufferings are past; her sorrows have vanished ; her many indignities can no more I be renewed; lout as long as Englishm►n shrink from the prac tice of oppression ►nd kindle with tits love of liberty, hareem will be cherished and her memory revered," By the French Mail yesterday, Gibraltar Chronicles were received to the 7th inst. They ■rc entirely barren of every intelligence of any general nature. By prirate letters from the same place, we learn, that the number of Refugees, notwithstanding the departure of many for the United States and England, was still great. Commerce remains in a state of great depression at Gibraltar, the un settled state of Spain causing a great stagnation of business there. The arrival of wheat, dour, and provisions from all parts, had been very numerous, and in consequence sales were effected with difficulty and at considerable loss. Many of the cargoes of salt provisions had bun reshipped for England. FRIGHTFUL Swam—Last night an inquest was held at the Coach and Horses, High Street, Shauwell, before J. W. Untein, Esq. Coroner,fon the body of Mr. John Reading, taken out of the river Thames, near New Crane Wharf, on Wednesday last. From the evidence, it appeared that the deceased had on the night of the sth instant jumped into the river, near Execntion Dock, from a boat which be had engaged to put him across, and that when the body was examined, a wound like a cut was discovered in the throat, which had been covered with an old newe -1 paper. On stripping the body. the pockets of the clothes were found to be filled with stones, and in one of them was a razor with some papers, which led to the discovery of the rank and connections of the deceased. He appears to have been an officer of the Spartan frigate, aid to have left his home at Plymouth, in such a state of mental derangement that his friends were apprehensive of the most fatal consequences. The Jury, after hearing the evidence, found a verdict that tlip deceased had drowned himself, while of unsonad mind. _ ~- .. ; ~. alniitA SHIPPR C 1 iTELLIGartt. DLit. ' 'November 28.—Wind S.W. , blowing strong.—Came down fr om the River yesterday and remain--New Albioo, Powel. Cambridge, Mason, Sontersetshire, Parent, Heart of Oak, Robertson. Hunter, Hodgson, and Commerce, Harvey, outward hound vessels.—Several other vessels from the River are now coming in, flames not yet known. Powrswourn, November `36.--Wind S.W.— Arrived the Olatton, Gordon, from the Downs for Honduras; His Majesty's ship Snap, —, from Newfoundland, and Eugene. Bruen, from Boston. PLI ',form, November 27.—Wind S.S.W. to S.—Arrived Hie Majesty's ship Falcon, from Gibraltar in nine days; Apollo, Eckston, from Longsound.—Off the Port the ,Magnet, from New York. LITZRPOOL, November 27.—Arrived the Hero, Morrison, Belton', Anderson, and Regent, Boston, from Miramichi ; Friends, Clark, from St. Andrews, New Brunswick ; Fame, Jackson, from the Bay of Fundy ; Cesar, Fisher, from Que bec ; and the Hope, —, from Alexandria. The Britannia, Martin. from Kunda to London, was driven on shore near Revel, sth inst. but got off with loss of a rudder and en anchor and cable, and intended to put into Revel to repair. The trial of Thurtell4Hunt, and Probert, will take place it is generally expected on Friday next at Hertford. Mr. Gurney conducts the prosecution, Mr. Andrews and Mr. Chitty are Counsel for Thurtell. Mr. Chas. Phillips has been specially retained for the defence of Probert. We have not heard to whom Hunt's defence hes been en• trusted. Perrsitorn4, Soy. 27.—The Court Martial on Captain Harris will sit le-morrow morning at nine o'clock.—Presi- dent—Admiral Sir James Hawkins Whitshed. Captain Hon. T. B. s C apel, Captain James Nash, Captain Sir W. Hoste, Captain H. E. P. Start, Captain B. C. Doyle, Captain H. Stewart. Moses Greetham, Esq., Deputy Judge Ad• I vacate._ . . . . - Mr. Croker arrived last evening to attend the Court. It is understood here that Mr. Canning has sent a sworn depu. sition of the frets, as far as his evidence goes ; stating, at the same time, the impossibility of personal attendance from a press of public business in London. The opinions of naval men are various as to the reception of inch a docu- ment. In addition to the evidence offered at Plymouth, that of Mr. Turner, of the suite of Sir E. Thornton, will be heard before the nett Court. Mr. Turner did not arrive in sufficient time for the former Court. This afternoon the Dutch brig Courier Captain Lucas, belohgiog to the navy of the King of the Netherlands, arrived at this port from Flushing, on her wog to the Mediterranean. It being customary with this particular nation to coutinne the old and friendly custom of saluting the Hag of the Port Admirtl, coo lowering her anchor she commenced bring her guns, when, unfortunately, the wadding of one of them struck the head of a waterinan, who was close alongside, which caused his death almost immediately. Of course the greatest concern was exhibited by Captain Lucas and the crew, and the deceased Wil sent on shore, in order that a Coroner's Jury might hold an inquest on him. His name is hlarshall, of Gosportl; he was a widower, with a son and daughter, of sufficient age to take care of themselves. Sirtleorge Martin is named as the successor of oar Port Admire!, Sir J. H. Whitshell, with Mr. Triphook as his Secretary. DEEPENING roe CLTDIL—Mr. Telford has, we learn, ex pressed a favourable opinion of the plan adopted for deepen dog the river, below the city, by dredging; but has, a the same time, recommended for that purpose. the applies tints of a machine to be worked by • greater power— namely, a 12 horse power engine, instead of an 8, and under the direction of a person at Inverness, whom he employed on the Caledoolao Canal. This recommenoatioo bas, we learn, bees promptly attended. to by the proper anthorities, and measures taken to esti" , it into effect. With the larger power stated, alr. Telford says they raised, in the manner mentioned, 800 tons of earth from the bottom of that Canal, in the space of 2U hours, This would soon deepen the Clyde, at the same time find stuff to close op the dykes aed hanks raised to confine the river. The tide, as formerly noticed, rises, we think, sixteen feet at Greenock —at the Bromnielay, seven feet—to the extent of this difference, nine feet, the river may be deepened, and I which, with the depth of water already in the river, would admit vessels of the largest tonnage to come np to this city without the smallest difficulty or danger. The advantages would be incalculable, and the index of trade in this port exceedingly great. The expense of constructing docks would, we learn, amount to at least 70,0001. a serious sum, l and which might, it is supposed, front the heavy charges 'atilt an outlay would render it necessary to impose, deter , vessels from corning up to this place. But if the vessels could only get cargoes upon condition of their bringing these up to (ilasgow, there is no danger but they will come up to the Broomielaw. It is, however, we hear, in contemplation, in order to afford more accommodation to I the shipping here (rendered imperiously necessary from the !great and increased tonnage arriving at our port) to construct another quay on the south side of the river, on the grounds belonging to the Tralle'a House and the city. 'This may obviate some of the difficulties in the way of trade 1 at this moment, but sill we conceive that ducks are indis• pensabiy necessary before the port can be accounted complete, or be rendered that emporium of trade for %%Lich it seems calculated.—Glasgote Courier. AYR AULD STEEPLE.—Ihe frail and tottering state of our old neighbour—the steeple, and an apparent accumit• lation of all "the ills that wait on age," In the person of this faithful servant of the public, has awakened serious !apprehensions in tire minds of a number of our respectable deniaens, for the safety of the lieges during she bitter blasts of the approaching winter. A petition has, in coa -1 sequence, been presented to the magistrates, praying that such measures might be adopted as would render the lives and dwellings of the inhabitants less liable to be termed (as the Insurance office has it) " hazardous property." In compliance with this petition, the magistrates have ordered a reduction of its altitude, and on Tuesday the workmen commenced to take down the columns and other (area. mented parts of the spire which surmount the dome. This decapitation, by reducing the top weight, will render ' the rest of the building more stable, although it will impart rather a singular appearance to it. Considerable progress has been made in the operations—the exterior covering is partially stripped, and " the cock diet never crew," though highly elevated, is now reduced to a level with the, humblest of its kind. We understand the final demolition of this edifice, which has so long furnished • I theme for essayists, prosers and rhyansters, " of high and low degree," will take place early in spring.—(.4yr Courier.) TROTTING MATCR.—The match to trot a galloway, known in the sporting world by the appellation of the Smithfield Roarer, from his having been purchased publicly at that market for I/. las. took place yesterday from Stratfori, to trot one hundred miles in twelve hours. The galloway, at tire years old, not only a roarer, but with two knees broken, got into careful hands, and was sold to a gentleman of the name of Glartbshore for 131.., from his figure and action. The ground picked was on the Newmarket road to Epping, from thence turning to the right, throughEpping Town, into the Bury road. The start took place at two o'clock in the morning, and in the first two hours the horse trotted twenty-four miles, was put up and fed, and commenced re-action at the expiration of three quarters of an hour. The galloway carrying eight stone the first fifty miles, accomplished that distance within half an hour of the given time, (resit, and not on his speed. He was kept at work steadily with a second jockey, and did thirty miles in 3 hours within two minutes, end was fed again and left to do the other 21) miles in something more than two hou s and a half, and the match was won by ten minutes, but not rxeetly easy.— It is an extraordinary performance, when the galloway broke twice into a gallop, and felt none of the effects of a former rash master, w~,.b--~ •ig..,. ..I.IIIVII rim.. t THE MURDER OF MR. W. WEARE. • --" HERTFORD, FRID4T' Noir. Lt.—At half past two• this day, Mr. Clatterbuck and Mr. Mason, the Watford Magis- ' trates, asriveil at the gaol, for the purpose of introducing, the witnesses, who were down here on Saturday last, to the presence of Hunt and Thurtell, with, the view of ascertaining whether they could reeogoisenheili persons... 7 • Hunt was placed in a room with other individuals, his irons • fraying been taken off, and the witnesses were brought in separately—but none of them could speak with any certainty to his identity, with the exception of Probitt, of the Golden Cross Yard, from whom he burrowed the horse and chalet, and who, in fact, had been tome time before, personally acquainted with him. The man from whom the spade had been purchased, about the time of the murder, in Long Acre, had no recollection .of him whatever—onor do we believe that the spade purchased of him was the same which - was taken down to Prohert's Cottage.—Hunt seemed s good deal agitated, and his manners have undergone a, visible change. He is very low spirited, and his appetite has greatly failed him. In the course of the morning, Thurtell was reentered from the cell, which he Visit occupied since Mr. Pearsou's visit to the Gaol, situated in the yead immediately within the outer gate, to the apartroent in which Probert has been confined from the first, and Prohert has been removed to another part of the Prison. For this no caw hey been assigned, save the discretion of the MagistratX 7 liatsome augur, rather favourably, in conseq nce, for Probeit It was in the yard in which ProberT was in the habit of taking exercise, that Thurtell was submitted to the view of the witnesses. Hewes without his irons, as in Hunt's case and was walking with the Magistrates and other individual,. The imactinian who drove Mr. Weare from Lyon's Inn to Cumberland Street, New Road, was desired to look at the group, and say if lie could select the man who had assisted the deceased in removing his things from the coach to a house in Cumberland Street, bat tie was unable to point oat any body in particular. Thurtell during the inspection maintained his customary firmness. The course to he adopted in conducting the prosecution will, of course. remain a secret till the day of trial. The following is a copy of a letter which Mr. Williams, the solicitor for Mr. Prohert, has addressed to the several editors of the daily papers, on the subject of the hardships to which his client has been subject : To THE EDITOR. Sot—When will the press be satisfied that it has done enough towerils shedding the b'e id of the wretched prisoners et Hertford? I have patiently but in vain waited for the time of rest or of reaction, when the public mind thus over heated with tiles of horror, would be left to cool, and when common sense would he suffered to dispel ebe clouds of prejudice by which truth has been hi idrn ; gross isiis.stateinent, however, has been followed only by 'ids-statement eroeser still, and every succeeding day bee brought its aililitionel weight of calumny. When before in the annals of this kingdom was a prisoner nntried, mid therefore in the eye of our laws innocent, shut out from all intercourse with his relatives and ;riends ? A prisoner, connected by blond and marriage with nuns. rous persons of great wealth and respectability, all believing him incapable of the crime laid to his charge— • left destitute—almost suffered to starve in his cell, nee .vise not one of these relatives or friends could in any way correspond with him without the certainty of being hehd to the public as an accomplice, and the prohabili•y even of being imprisoned on suspicion. On behalf of the un. . fortunate prisoner, Prohert, who has been thus siteated. I feel it my duty most solemnly to protest against the con duct of the press towards him. To collect and repeat litre one twentieth part of the idle and false rumours which have been industriowsly disseminated concerning my unfortunate client, would occupy more time than I could spare, without detriment to the necessary arrangements for his defence; bat let it suffice to say, that from my own personal knowledge, as well as from the best Information I can obtain, there is not one circumstance which has been been stated to his prejudice that is not either wholly false, or very melt and very maliciously mis-stated. It has been generally reported and believed, that Probert is a gambler, and an uld and intimate associate of Thurtell and Hunt's ; but it can be clearly proved that he has known neither of them more than a very few months— that lie became acquainted with John Thurtell merely through serving his brother's house (the Cock in the Haymarket) with wine and spirit.; and as to his gambling, it is notorious that lie is nut a gambler. and never entered a gambling house in his life. A great deal has been said about the wretchedness of his cottage and the poverty of his living—the latter exemplified by his buying meat in London to carry bowie to his family; it may theretore be as well to apprise the public, that all the highly respectable individuals who have at different times occupied this " desolate cottage" (as the newspapers and play hills term it.) have invariably purchased their provisions in London, there being no butcher's shop within 3 tulles of it. Something has been said of Proberes having been desir ons to employ some other professional man, and that my employment was at the instance of his friends, and not at his own wish. 1 11:laU only observe upon this, teat I had good reason to know that the unfortunate man would be more satisfied with the defence of his life being in my hands than in those of any other person in the kingdoms; and it was this !iron ledge, added to a thororgli conviction of his innocence and total previous ignorance of the murder, &which lettered me at length, though, Goo knows. relate intly, to consent to accept the arduous sad unpleasant tack. It has been said, that at the time of my introduction to Mrs. Prober% she recognised me as an old friend—far from shrinking front the avowal of the fact, if it were so, I should see nothing which would not do me honour in a friendship with the daughter of the iste highly respected and wealthy brewer, Mr. Noyes, with the sister of the amiable Misses Noyes, and of that respected, quiet, arid inoffensive being, Mr. Thomas Noyes, who, though now mast singularly (and I think illegally) confined in the prison at Alban's, will, lam sure, come from thence pure and unspotted. lint it is not so-1 never saw Mrs. Probert, except en one occasion, and that was when. in the Net summer, the farm upon which Gill's ILA Cottage stand:, evas advertised for public sale, end I then called to view thielead. I found—cot the desolate cottage, note ee much spoken of. but a compact, neat, I might also say, elegant little residence. where every thiag bespoke comfort. 1 found net the wildernris I have suer seen there, het grounds in the highest state of cultivation. and displaying the most elegant taste: I found more-1 found within true English hospitality—l found, unasked, unfesited-for, entertainment for myself and my horse-1 spent an hour io ' the society of tire brother and sisters, and the utost opulent farmer in the reighbourhoud. Another of the recent mis statemeets, and perhaps the most mischievous of all, was contained in a paper of yes terday. It was there said, that Mr. Probert teas desirous of m 'king an important communication to Mr. George Nicholson, the agent for the prosecution, and that at my request he had consented toattend him, and receive it.— This is wholly untrue. The fact is, that in a coo venation with Mr. Nicholson, at St. Alban's, I stated my firm conviction of my poet. eh ent's innocence of the murder, or of the planning or previous knowledge of it, and that whatever imprudea ries his fears for his own life, or his wish to save the lives of others, or both feelings combined, might have led him • into, that it wouid be impossible for any unprejudiced mind to heat his account of the previous transactions, wittout reeling that it carried with it marks f °Wile euised genuine truth. Mr. Nicholson regretted that he had never seen Prohert, sod expressed a wish to have been able to judge for himself—an interview with the prisoner was proposed and agreed to, and without my having aftehe 1•• i • ~. 11 I , i