The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-01-05 00:00:00

Waxy... tinguished, at least eclipsed epee. the. Cootieent, When bloodshed and rapine desolated the opposed shores, and might triumphed over right. the united flame of freedom and Christianity shed their benign influence on this free and happy laud. If France had had an /sixtieth end an annual Parliament of his institotion, where the people assembied together to consult " how They should live according to the law of Goo"—where "wrongs and force were for bidden"—where a tortinvs and outrageous Lords" were punished—and where the light or heavenly km, Lice " shined briglwas the sun when , aaceeding the meridiar 4 m--41 etched had such institutions,•a ud ob served them, that country would have been irradiated with the knowledge called by our -immortal Bard, " the wings wherewith we file to Heaven ;" but in. stead of this it was 'darkened with that ignorance, which he calls, with great justice, " the curse of Goo t." I have exhorted, and again exhort, my fellow-cigaens to investigate int♦ the legitimacy of those maritime pretensions which involved us in the late unhappy war with America; let them show, if they can, their right and not their might—let them not insult the understanding of every man of common sense, by saying that might constitutes right : if that were the troll, if might and right were the same, and not distinct things, whence the proverb s . that might overconies right. I have, I repeat, conjured my coutttryteets to justify, or else to renounce these pretensions, not for the-sake of their commercial in terests, which are certainly greatly implicated in the questiou—but for the sake of justice, let us remember that the spirit of British fredom is the true and genuine spirit of Christianity ; let us show our former brethren that we still retain some part of the noble sentiments of our common ancestors—let the whole world see that the sentiment of justice which shined so- bright in this country, when brutal force darkened and dis graced the Continent, is not yet extinguished amongst us. Alas! if it were, how wretched• would be our state! The sentiment of justice is to a Government what the North Star was to a ship before the inven tion of the compass; when it shined bright, they could pursue their voyage in safety ; but ellen it was obscured the helm was useless and the crew •forlorn, having no sure guide to direct their perilous course. Why have men put . them selves to the expence of Governments ?—Wlty abandon their native liberty?—Why renounce the natural right to do themselves justice if it were not to receive jastke and safety in return? That Government then, which has once lost sight of this heavenly guide, this political Cynosure—that Go vernineut which, by its injustice, has provoked the revenge or retaliation of Foreign States,• has for- Cited the trust which the people.reposed in it._ By not making that return •to the people. which they purchased at the price of these renunciations, it ceases to become a legitimate Government. I will now, Mr. EDITOR, address myself to those persons who have not been ashamed, both in a certain As sembly and out of it, to advocate the exercise of a despotic power upon the wean contrary.to that sys tem of naturel justice, called the Lew of Nations, and for which Ito other ;Authority can be brought than mere brutal force. • I will show these weak and deluded men, for that is the most charitable con struction that I can put upon their conduct, a pic ture of what their principles would lead us to ; —not a picturedrawn by the imagination, but a tette-hstori es( description of what men really are otters they lose sight of INA ino justice, and worship that in fernal deity called might, or Altfis, or • ilocecu— for the principle is the ranee--the same accursed idol has existed iu all ages, oily different nations have given it different names; but there is one grand dis tinctims to be made, the old idolatort of MARS and Motactat were honest beatheos, hut the modern ido lators of Might are false hypocritical Christiatm. These sass do but expose themselves in their puerile atteespt to impose on others. They wish to mate us believe that Christianity was intended for a rule of private life, not for the government of na tions. In their domestic concerns they practise the Christian virtues ; but in national affairs they con trive to reconcile those virtues wjth public vices and corruptions. They are only Christians at home— abroad they are conformities to the idolatry, that may be in fashion. They will give their money to societies for the Suppression of Vice, but they will not suppress public vices in a house " where it is as notorious as the son at noon-day." They will send the Gospel of Peace to remote nations, the liimloos among the reel, who are far better Christians than themselves, seeing that they practise peace and good will to all men (without .guy of their false distinc tions), in public as well as private, nationally as well as indiridually—they will, do this, and with their next breath give their support to cruet s .unjust, and sanguinary warfare. These contradictions they can reconcile for they wear two faces under a hood, the one is the stern sanctified face adapted to the taber nacle, the other is relaxed and softened down to the standard that will suit with the coenteuance of cor ruption. These remarks it is almost needless to say are not intended genially to apply to the Members of the Bible Societies, many of whom have been on all occasions the uniform advneates for peace. Yet it cannot be denied that some men who have been loud in their religions have yet been the upholders •both of war and corruption. What a miserable nation of Christianity must that man have who supposes that it was sent into the world for private, not public use ; to make men good neighbours towards one another, but note to pre serve peace and good-will among nations ; to cur.. rect, in short, the lesser .evils of life, but not the great ones. Such a wretched nation of Christianity 'ls • mach of a piece with that Monkish corrop • doe of it s , which may be found in the arotk .before referred top, of Sir J. FRODISART, the Prebend of Chinsay in the 14th century, who was very cum plaisant towards Obe murders and robberies com mitted by the gentiensen of the Free Companies, but could not 46 find-words to express his ,horror" at the same kind of acts committed by the.peasants in the way of retaliation. Jost so our. hifronted Christians, it may be remembered, felt no indignation at our employment of savages either in the first, or last, AMOTIgall wart ; bet if the Americans had retaliated 4, ...9ee the panages quoted in aky hilt *ter from 110 1 1Sztwho here inflate very times of d a rker. *eSedialtart.tif henry V 1. het it. se. 6.• 10 j•haiie iteett.rtfortette Joy IteNVintry. (hoderann aflerieity l un g quartered in Canada, that fillit.lnibiabisoceabster been is on pay ever 'lace the first Americas iiil/4411.1ertiie time of ; • • ~,,"..011,--11.7r.;;;J.:;fr.:-..:;>;.z.zer,:t,, . _ JA v, 4, ._s •al .../1/ . TPA'47III-3WAIY I . this practice upoo,utfif *iffy lerd laaded A `few l Of these bloody wretches from their privateers, just to berg] a . few tiouseF,. scalp a.,isrr ti: .I . lseeetjeep t and then take them on board,again, ap enterpriSe hitt more dlllfcult ihan'tkat of carrying or Lord SEL. R I aix's 06 ',7 no:doubt' • these gentlemen wohld hail bren•briesfel ef4iievs horror and indignation at the • barbarity n( such deeds: •11 is nantsheiess a preo, ,tics to whielkshe.villages in Amkaitie Imre, *a one posed, by means ot.eer employing` these savages, but tint seppose willhejuotilled, i a the massacre at. Copenhagen was,- t ry . lur . favoutifedoetrieeltf .1414. What those men would brinf GOP, by 7ble-deartee may besspessed at by the fol owitt stOiedittes,,WhirJ, ire inserted in consequence of the in my There is Petit:Re, _p. 37. a rela tion of tie Ne. blemen, FLaistax,.. I,ord stt Beaujea,, and tha copot DE . M.tcotd ? ~taken 'fp* PET , Abbot of Olin', who rid lived a yrrote its the clerk ages, but , • Who, like our cnuntrytn;n Beng, obtained the name iof the venerable PETER. According to this account the Leid.of OteuleA. made it his 'predicts to exercise his Min 'upon the highway, in the same manner, sar t he iretterel;le . PETEß, that his ancestors had done Wore him. lie committed many robberies and mar- Jeri , • when, by y the admonitions of PETER, he rei. pented of this sad life, and entered the Holy Order of. the Knights 'remplen, Sorufafter, however, he renounced his vows and returned to his castle, where 1 at first he took the part of the poor peasants and 1 merchants plundered by . the ~ Noble ,Freebooters (Pillards), and particularly by his neighbour the Viscount DE MACON ' 44 that we f," says PETER, whoTavaged•oer leads evening, night, and morn :leg." Soon, bowever,_the Viscount Dell Acme and the Lord of BEAU] EA (who was,'perhaps, ashamed, like some people among us, to be an exception to the general corruption) became 'great frientli, and went upon the highway together, as other Noblemen ! . of . that day were wopt to de. • Then is, it . seemi, intik, a poetic life of the (amain BRRTRANA ISC7 *dUESELIII, in manuscript; preserved' In the Public 'Library at-Paris , where the. Ekste.cotppanies are thus [described in old French . • pany in Fraoce,tuul, wit arrtbielleve*Fgoboaltf t quite the flower of chivalry._ He became rich by ,Vingt capitaines trouser j rattail on, C hey.. Ii• ro, Eassiert,, ysvelt,,cll,dif cm, Qui de France exliter• fleetest fflitTietintios, El it n'y demuernit Acid, vachi, tie issittos ; Ne pain, ne char, ne yin, ne 63e, ne Tout pillard, meuitrier, traiteur and Laren° Etel•rit dans la Route, dont je folio mention. This,description refers to the plat pays or open country, from which all the provisions had been 'stolen by the Lords, Chevaliers, and Squires, and locked up fast in the towns and castles, so that the peasants were reduced to . the neces ; • say of following the example of the Noble!, and to storm those siren holds, is order teavoid starv ing Here we find, however, of what materials the Free Companies were composed, plunderers, *mar- Acrers, out-laws, and thieves; all these were in the route or company (la troupe)—they were called in England Rhnters or Rulers, and in France Roatiers, which DuLACRE tells us is derived frdm Rwidores— 'breakers, and hence we have the compound word ' house-breakers. Many 'of these Knights and Squires were brought over here by King Jouti,and Marrnew PARIS Calls thorn mobiles via a dellaitoree-nohle and wartilte men ; and fell; us that '"they Writ. 'ed. for eothieg so much as for human b100d."4-- The creettiesihey committed ere almost incredible ; and Dr. BRADY and others following bins-bate questioned the truth of the relation of this Mliiikisb historian on that very account; buf he has been vin dicated completely by Mr. Tyne:EL, vol. IL b. vii.' ' p. 788 ; and indeed there is ample proof of the fero. city ef these people in numerops, foreign histories. IPARts calls them the Ministers of &tram, satellites ,fatanvi—and it. must be confessed that their reign whilst it lasted was the triumph of might over right, nor could that teMpentry triumph have been More i complete, if the universe had been under the Govern- i mein of an bmisipeteutDevil ;evict efa just Goo. In England Oe . herri§tei violetatu , injustice corn mated by these sons ,of rapiee,c 'ted a re-action I in the peeple.themselvelt,, so that alibistorians agree, • it was this very tyranny in . King Jean that strength . - ed the cause of the Barons ; these men educated in the love of justice, under the . benign institutions of . ALFRED, naturally oppused an invincible resistance to such ellisfi tyranny. When 'the Barons heard• their castles were burnt, and their wives and chil dren taken and exposed to infamy, forti anima ' here, runt Oleranda, says Pals, it prods** nil sub mission, but only served to strengthen their fOrdtlide. M. PARIS informs us whence ,Tonx's Raters item, Brabant and Gascony, , the very countries 'which were in the next emstury infested TO the Free Com panies. . One of these Free Companies . is . mentioned by } j ammer, vet. VI : C. 10, Illiialßlas CO)11001Od of Gascons and Englishmen, and had. seamed in Spain undir the Earl of. Cawnerpritemong the English were Sir.lVlta.taw BEAUCHAMP, OE 1.04-Ur &c. and particularly a' bastard brother of the ins of ENGLAND, ahead Sir Joint SOUNDERS, who was chosen their chief for a singUlar reason, because, tsays FttorssanT, " he had more leisure to do mis chief, 'at4 had greater courage' for it, than the others." Sr, GEORGE was their patron, that martial ' Saint,, who, , for his valour, has s heen worshipped ;beat, by Christians aqd Mahometans. Fuotssater ,tea ns that they,bore, the image of this Saint upon their standard, and the words ,Friends of God and; Enemies of all the ,Iforld. ?bese nettle freebooters spared the property of the Chit* but plundered indiscriminately that of ill other persons. Like the' hypocrites of the present tiny, who propagate Gospel Peice and uphold destructive wars, they,oontrived, we see, to mix together robbery and piety, but thin it was a false not a genuine piety. , ' Sir JOlll , l CLIANDOI WM 114 leader of a Free Com. I pea re each warrior received andeolly bat.a.sail or clothes. four attlistrc, nod a . quatilllS 9f trite ; weal that there were Omni 8.(h:0 lise.c I 'edifews shut she asetirieio ihe Treat v. In .wbieh.lboue Indians Vlore listmeAlkes, is awl. in symisid, either honourable to dm patios', urlikely los..jra sileAmeri cans w ith sentiments of fnentl•toup and unettwill towards us. On i he coatraty, It tea► to keeli alive alladdit, and to excite the Auseriestas t o become a w nroskt pelvic hi its ayseisstad teal. Thewrtiee alluded to is thus expreard i s OK PlPelll--" The interest of the Indians, Aries to Wee Brilism lathe war, ore provided for in this" Treaty by a itipalatbd, t hat they are ttr be red , red to all theist poisessioas, rights, asidoktvltisores which, they cajoyed, or to which they were Intities),Asteeedisat tp tise,year 1812. 9 ' ' i • Esther, is old Freacts, means pillier. • • • • numutay disimnehet 'were ieceirof;al. the Admi. tally fronr fiancee,: they announce (h( hats of the Ftwitocietalpep of war, the officervind crew of which were fortunately.sareti.. /- booty ; and in consequence thereof, was raised from olcuattaseet, ssaowyntaici, ; axn.,IIIIMPN. 4GAINItt the dignity of Knight to•ifiat a tfiebn in the follow- . .. sitau.ifinoo. • ' '' . 'l ing way :' 46 Before the bilt iv,. when the sof: Mr. Patiace StpriiiitaYed, that be, opposed* dia. diers on each side were tightening their armour , and Omits .r Viih. Sosalltiood, on lebaif of•Mr.".iti e s. making .seedy for combat, Sir JOHN Ctiattoost'atis OW N of Covent-gaiffert,' whd had Wei inks* by minced hernial of thebattalionswith his banner tins hii fraudulent iendurii to . thil any/alit:of 'Mg - in n cased in hie hand. fie presented it to the Prince of iiiioaorliii..•RicliOr i dion Egad T wist!, . ityid a Watts,'sayfng ' My Lord here is my banner, I present' judipieurin the Court of Coldinoii PI abd yet, it to you that:l may display it in whatever manner stringe.ttr till,' Mr.;goialliinod' tad i id 1044 shall be mosragreeahle to you, for, thankrio Gov, I schedul e Mr. R.'l dtitiftis umointing only to 100 f, ; have now selficientlei enable me so to do and mains tndit imlatalia Or iiisreptesentation, as. be Wolin. tarn the rank which it , ought .to hold. -.'rhe Piled)* able, to 'take enelistire of the Defendants cotischinie t ! tot*, the banner in his baud , which was blazoned tia cat& not iteeounefor. ' The Defendant, Will'iso k ilih a sharp stake, gales on a field argent, and'after Siisallwotid, hid fol'inerlY been an aectioueer having cut off the tail, to make it square, he dispinyed !Hiermarry , : 'gear., aid - had ft been his pleasure i l St, and returning it to him by the handle , said,' Sir ptive conducted himself Willi tiohour, instead of '4OTIN, I return • you your banner, Gon give yes 7 anintdie cootie he, hid; hi Wilk now have been is Strength and honour topreserve it. •Upoti this Sir Jona ' as big% i situation, as a 'ficiesman, as 'any min' lit left the Prince, went back to his men with the bans i iliellnict i ott!;.i%4 hart hid it treat deal of property, her in his hand, and said to them, Gentlemen, herb '' the major-Pirt of tait4h he kaddishoneatlykePt bid is my banner and yours, yon will therefore guard it 'Trim his treallfOrii; TM Pelhadant Was to here bpi% es become you so to do. His companions, taking ;broughenp A ini Wecinelsaiy Hit 9 but' . olatioad at the 9 the banner, replied with cheerfulness, - that if it array against hiM, he had leispiedilinsisist . 'Mu. pleased Goo and St. GEORGE they would defend it itliSpOsitiOn' eras merely' 'a *Witt,- for lie la bai l well. The banner was put into the hands of a worthy I . seen on the rime day io a state of perfect health : — ; English squire, called WILLIAM ALLESTRT, who 'The preseet case would detfend upon ate evidence of bore it with honour dust day . ."' Thtie we see by two witnesses: He *Wad IlttßAO•lntO As_ . _. _ii facts that I what means nobility might he acquired in those days'. constituted the general tolipositiinstb theDetendaati ilfoAnother, chapter, 176, FRoiSsittT tells us that one discharge, because, independisti al -theis,” 'there ! n a p of these Free Companies chose for their leader &Welch- !On effeetnil billection to hit bbtainine Ms relessot4 :Man by the name of GRIFFITH, whom they 'had : wet, .00 4 0 Vie gthif Deiietriber 'last, he was Walk knighbal, and who acquired such immense riches as at the Grand tiotel Curea-girden. He should pee,/ could trot be counted." So then these banditti con- ' the fait, by the evidence if *eery woithy'iatititus - who leered knighthood truly . The source of their wealth kopetliti . hotel: Ho Wasperinaded; ho wever inpfea s arose both- from plunder and from prisoners, who ! tint it might. be 10 iter, abiWoold speak the truth, paid a ransom to their captors; and we are told of and if she 'iliteci thee . day of the.' Defendant's train, the King of England having bought from Sir Tito- r gressitik the bounds of isispriseni there would be no Am lloLLAttn . and his cinxpanions, the Constable of necessity at present to arty thOmilittei lerther. AS France and another French Nobleman whom they .to the manifeld fraudulent ttlitaiCiiiine belied to erg had taken prisoners, and paid down twenty thousand lege and prOye igalns6be Di*odolot t hiiirlould refer ' nobles for them. 'rims we see • that this idol might theta to itiiiiiii-ZiY: t- ''' T. ' l3 * `.. - V" • did, like MAR. of old, reward his votaries. with ; Mrs. Wren 'wesetamined by Mr. Smith and hi both wealth. and honours ; whilst the only reward . Mr. Andrews on behOf of other creditors ; she dii. the God. of Peace, promised- his meek followers an rtinetly 'admitted, that- eh - Tuesday ; the dth of - Dos 'earth was wealth in Heaven. I :amber last, Mr. Small wood came to • the Grand There are other passages both in DULAURE and Hotel to nieet a Mr. Serres. •On the Tueaday fellow- Fitiptssawr_that I should have liked to have given the big the Plaintiff ' s Solicitor called there, and she ac. /tiger, as they suggest retlections very useful, not 'knowledged to him that she had seen Mr. Smallwood on novr,,but at all times. If leisure will permit, lat the hetet: ' . • . _., N , W . Act itiwanother Letter; lest, however, it shontd An'entlesivoer was made,. by cross-exeminatios to 4 l I shall conclude this with a general Tellection, . Invalidate her testimony, but it failed. s; . -11. will, I trust, be my apology to those who may '- • ''l'he Learned Serjeant Said, he bad rioter ba,hisk t*ilizthat I have already bees too diffuse upon the seen a witness more deserting of Credit. ' • tOject. •-• i :" • Mr. Seijeant Paulen said, there was no et:cosies • We are told in a book, which all men ought to for ennui' ing into the.facts•of the case. The.cirierti verseiate, that there are two Powers opposed to each stance or th&Defehdantl having been feed at lire other, the one is the Power of Light, the other of, was decisive. '• - ; ' 1 - ' Thitkness; and'ave are assured thetas Power of bark- ' The Defends nt wee aseerill ugly remanded to eines new shall not prevail.• This is consolatory • foe, . really there have been times when it has appear ed to ' obtain a temporary ascendency. !The Poser of Darkness consists in force, aliaentighi; and it brings in its train, war, oppression, cruelty, tyranny. ,The i Heavenly Power consists in justice, ohm; right; and it brings with it peace,good.will, mercy, and liberty. 11/ightand rig/14 then, so far from being one and the *seine thing, are two directly opposite and cert. tree). things. Like the two scales in a lialanee, I when the one descends the other must . ascend. ! Wring Mee, times above alluded to on the Coil. ttinent, might, being the heaviest side of the Mi -1 lance, overpowered right. Why? because ° Vie l' pure spirit of Christianity in' those couritrWimis 1 gone, the sense of justice was gone, darkness M- I railed, and " ignorance, the curse of Got," des& lated the land. But in England the balance was di reedy reversed, and right preponderated ortirmight. Why ? because the spirit and essence of Ciistiinity, was preserved in the laws and institutions of 'At -1 viten; tyranny was boldly repelled, and justice and I liberty vindicated. Euglishmen, I confess, robbed and plundered on -the Continent,• and many noble families amongst us owe their wealth and their ho. i nours to those excesses ; bat they •did not dare to rob l ot- home-, because, according to the •Ordinances of ALFRED (says Ilon'N's.) wrongs and force were not Idefended, but punished. EDWARD and his son, the BLACK PRINCE, were great tyrants on the Continent, and great upfioldare of .. robbery and oppression ; but . they' did net dare' either tb practise or uphold such thihri in England ;—on the contrary, numerous Acts in his•reige were made to vindicate English Liberty ; and the Commons plain ly told this Prince, that the . / 64 wield not be bound by any of his ordinances, but only by such laws as were made by their own .consent,".—words very memorable, and which I hive often quoted.— Nor was the judgment of a just Providence difficult to discover in the deaths Of these two - Prinees.• • The .father, after losing what he had acquired with so much cruelty and injustice, was deserted by all in his utinolitneed, and died without even the consola :ties, .which the Roman Church affords . to the must . wretched shim*. The' son, after lingering ,some time, died of a consumption, •oltich he caisght, In Spain, wheitiv he went withlit Jane CHANDOS, and I other leaders of banditti ; to reinstate OH his throne '.PETER THE CRUEL, a horrible •tyraiit,. and a Cis: -grace to the human species. Such were the misera ble ends of these two unjust and despotic Princes, who would have made might triumph over right in England, as well as' on the Continent, had it not been for the restraint they met with from our free Constitution. It has been said by the Author of Christianity himself, " He that- is not for .me is against me"—" Nu. wan can serve two masters,".' &c. lie who advisee*, nay, he who . only gjyes hia countenance to the dectrine.of Might is no fits . Rd iir Christianity, or to the happiness of, no 14 k i n i 4 Linea he who takes the other side, and coriteridi l'or.Efe.k' against might; U. It, in' taking this side„ 1 bile at 11l contributed to the contrition Of year /141114, 7 : tvho Way be disposed to waver, or to the tedfiVital:. tine of those already inelionsi to the good CW4;I , Ohall think myself amply rewarded. - '•." ,1 '. -^' t' i*Piliiv -'• '. • - ' •4 ? , .. MOTH* . 'TRUMAN.: Duskiiihkeshire. pun 2. _, ' ....:, t ; A . .., s `_, -1......40-... 04pAlties71V ur, •t U MenZay an luquest was had ket Obi: at. 'Andrew's Head, ta Upster East Smisitilel i, b fare T.. Martin, Coroner, ow titer .battyof a map tI; .t war discerned in Osswpr's Wintrf,masigled, and fled up in ti hamper, which wets io 'be - *Of to Bcoilinte 'After a view of the body, tha airy retyrnedtto the Si. Aidrew't tread. , . • • • Mr. S. Pots. clerk in the wharf, deposed, that early on kit Tuesday sennijOt,•two despleislsle' look log sect time with is Annie and cart e before sistrarlauf' wax Ppewed, and eagitiredar the Leith.sseac.k ivied fring there f On being told it did, they saidlhey had alutroPoir hi *At to..." Edinburgh ; find they webt into a poldfe-heurc and had Woe g• o, w bite Mr. Fos apradid , the sworelsonse. hot brim 404 be asked the direct ' . which-they toil bins, and said it was on the bumper, which found was 6, Mr. •Wiltion,'Senittoe College, Edinburgh. - beer fpaYlag tie bank and athlrfage, he asked them their amber, : which tgey_sakt . mes chapizn, and depapted. The hamper kit in the warehoi he unto l last ri when the rebel was Le a : 4 2( to - saif (die 5116 - v Arin, - of ith), mut then .wat pot on • when the crew ihotight seas strangrand bad 'inert woo isms* from it, and on turaingit Omit two or three time, the bongos came or, and 'the hand'uf a PeViOn Vest:p l ed Itself. OW thieit was repoited in the 4itastim-to.infordi the proper edleer4: aid Da apeniag the hamper 4he naked body of a Maa was discbgerbt. with his bead bent hack between his shottlders; his to se epl, out, and his belly so*n np after •it -liett -been opd.ed Otis fret were cut of 'a littlealtore the naeletAssod the tub r poet of die legs and thighs were beat op to the belly, to put the alit* bpiff int , ta small compass, which 'appeared in a putrid state; tbo feet and 'tongue were missing • The Beadles was next examieed ; is sons the ham opened, co: rohorated the above evidence as far as related to try state the body iv,tts' found, and du being asked by oar of t Jurymen whether he thought the body war taken by anyresist recnun men for the purpose of dirdection, be replied, the body, to his opinion, was never boiled. After a short cooldtatier, the Jury returned a verdict or Wilful Murder aitai-si sow Par , son.or persons u nk pow I _ MURnErt.—On the Sitb iii.-died, aged 34, .Mr. George Hudson,,brickleter, of Snuff hero, in con sequence of a dreadful rrectute of the skull, given . ! with a large kitchen•polter, by one •Englfsh, a thit- I goon, at . the Red Lion, a few days before.—The I.Coroner's inqnest sat on the bodi on Saturday, aid after a long and minute exadlluation of several wit. ttesses before the Coroner and Magistratei, the Jury brought in their verdict or Wilful Murder agaiut i. the soldier, and warrants are issued for his apprc. .hension. • Quep,r-souAtte.—A further examination of the man who, qu his own coufessiott, set fire to the Custom-house, was gone into yesterday.. The Sall titer of the.Costotw-bouse ittenderl, bet* aegoity, so far,frorn exculpating 44 Pr i soner, went to: 'ho t ly .thathe, front 'low* . ,motiv e . ' best known; to himself, bad fra.qied the - chargo; not an sttorn of truth Was to be found in his. stery. :Several witnesses were ex- I omitted, who opoitejo_the feet 9f the tire; but the 7mostmaterial to slow Oat the Prisoner could not have,committed.the act were the fireglen, who proved ',that dirk fire kroktont in the room in which .Mrs. Knight. slept, and not in the cellar, as the Prisoner I alleged. We do not think . it necessary tp . enter into . partjculars, as . thesharge .wliofiy "failed. The Pci. saner w,is beWfeter reinandid* soother charge. • • yWts-..u.a1. i.,...sripTj II Vi4A RV .--&corge Pricglyand • 4 . fif, bivictk were com9Ated by Sir JOHN r.tHFft, ittilii ifilpil4l, diked I .w,iih, feloniously, stealing ktkolgiCtSoW of John Mlafil, a butcher % in B4r , 014.19/4trsel; in . The .Borough of Southwark, a tegtfr of..unitton and three ribs of beef. 4,, st On:Tstesday lest, at flambee, , the Rev. Joho Nelson, M. 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