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• recognition There were sovereigns , who acting . • • it .. people , llseeP a' 4 so Ol d Spain. . -my impreseion ,at they ell ellesadoet of independence, or Me greater part of them, net know what were their s ecret feelings. d the COVWT—As far as my knowledge goes, the whole , of the lean wee used by the State of C hili , and ratified by that Govern. same. Tho LCMD Chit, JUSTICE said, that although this objection presansd itself is • technics] shape, yet the difficulty was one that mildew be disposed of at Nisi Primo. It occurred to him at pre sent that the distinction was this—if a foreign state was recognised by this country it was sot necessary to prove that it was a regular grnernment, because he as • Judge was bound to consider ft such, but there were many other States which no doubt were independent, but of which this country had never made any recognition. He mob the rule to he this—that if a people got together s sufficient form to protect themselves. made laws, and bad Courts of Justice, =bas was • State, Therefore, though this State did once belong se Spain, yet that would be a str-nge reason that it should always do so, till span should think proper to do what Great Britain did towards its once American provinces—declare their independence. He would give the defendant leave to move the Court upon this Suction, because it certainly was a very important one. Mr. Sergeant VAUGHAN said that Consuls had been appointed these from this country. The LoID CHIEF JUSTICE—That has been decided not to be a recognition. The appointment of a Minister was a different ciscuttaisinee. The witness. Was re-examined—The Government of Chili has beam cootineed In the same form up to this time, and has improved Is le. B X& ilorsomat TADDY—Don O'Higgins was deposed after. taddeswiso for a time hid the commend in Chili ep A Ids England at that time, but that can dlins',. of do . I saw the old Spanish General in who corn in the half province, hanged in a -,_"' Chili for acting under the King of Spain ; he had banged 'id Illellant of patriots In his time. TADDY here mentioned a as, of an action upon a where it was endeavoured to show that the .., lid ffisy of Biscay wee part of a State not belongieg le . • as the French Government was in possession of and acted in all respects without regard to the Spanish autho rities, and the people considered themselves not the subjects of Spain, and yet it was held Mat they were in fact the subjects of Spain. The 1.0110 CHIEF JUSTICE repeated his opinion as to what constituted an independent State, and said he should reserve the point, as bethought it should be discussed. . Mr. John Doha, a notary-public, produced certain pawns from 1 b=ase of Chili. _Mt. Sergeant TADDY—I got them from the Bank of Eng. . they were deposited thereby myself. rcia del Rio was recalled, to authenticate the signatures. ' documents were then put in and read. They were powers .telleaplaintiff to raise loans on behalf of the Supreme Govern- Jong% and prescribing the mode in which the money was to be • ted to the Government. .. : 111 V I Sergeent TADDT objected that these documents were not togefedeo be those of a regular Government, or that the Govern. gang of this country had sauctioned them. :*.e The Loth CHIDE , Jurrics said, if he were called upon to ,1 oyes She legality of Me loan, he should feel no hesitation in that It was illegal. Foreigners had no right to come to i, to negotiate loans with the subjects of his Majesty „,. illanenction of the British Government. He had decided . fps &Amass way on a farmer occasion, and that decision had ii . algal momiened by the Judges of the Court of King's Bench. I iille he alluded to arose out of the Greek Loam. ee despatch from the Ghillie Government to the plaintiff, dated e Jane, 1820, was then read. It acknowledged the receipt of front the plaintiff, by which be informed his Govern. rat-be had not been able to negotiate a loan, and saying that it any effort or exertion in procuring it. riles as Octavius Newman, clerk to Messrs. Mullett, anti ~Illos astamised—l ant the attesting witness to this deed, which is the contract for the loan enteral into between the plaintiff and Mann. Mullett, brothers and Co. I also attested the execution of the inertoage made to them by the plaintiff of the revenues of the state of Chili. Mr. Andrew Bellew proved the plaintiff's signature to certain Within Bonds, which were signed while the plaintiff was at Paris, sod which had been paid and cancelled. yr. Sergeant Teoue—l do not know out of what funds these were paid. . ..., e p was si Ito recalled, and proved the authenticity of an l ,ia desoisteh, dated November Ifi23, from the Government of le Ihe Olaistigoommlaing the ratification of the loan, and the mei Of die dedadoes 01.1.W1011M, indemnifying klessee. Hullett and Om. for obe mean they might pay on the bills that were drawn . spew then by ohm Goverommt In consequence of the contract. Mr. Newman rem/led—The vignitture to this appointment of .Me. Malkin as Conseil-General for Buenos Ayres is that of Don Reheidsira. I know his hand.wiiting by having paid checks drawn by him. I know Messrs. Mullett, but I do not know elhatha Mr. Mullett ever acted as Consul-General for Buenos Ayala Mr. Charles Widdle examined—l am a partner in the house of Hallett and Co. I believe John Mullett has never done any act as Coned to Buenos Ayres. He has had no communications with that Government in my presence as Consul of that State. By Mr. Sergeant T•DDT—The prospectus you now hand to me is Mat which was dewed upon the occasion of the loan. I hive beard the plaintiff state to persona what was the amount of the revenue of Chili, bet I never heard hun state that it was equal to hermen limes the amount of the interest of ihe.loan. Mr. John Mullett, examined-1 have acted upon my appoint. tnellt in obtaining an interview with the Secretary of State for ensign Atkin ; but I never signed any official documents. 1 lad two appointments. The fine was forwarded through the Office of Foreign Affair. to me, as I was informed. The Lou) CIIIEF JIJSTICZ—The document must be e roved. Witness—The seal to this eppotetinent is that of die State of Beano. Ayers. It is signed by Don Rebeideira. The LORD Come Jurricr.—.ln the first place, show that Mae is such • State as Buenos Ayres—it never has been recog. Ailed yet. Mr. Sergeant VAUGHAN—There is a treaty of amity and two. • between title count r y an d State. wee that LOBO CHIET Jit IT IcE—Be t that is no recognition. r Dal Rio remited.-1 cannot state positively that this is the 'meal of the State of Bueeue Ayres. I was there about three years ;si s and remained a niontli. 'There was a Government, consisting e lf 4 Soprano Governor and a lluuse of Representatives of the ayces. ... the 'Cott hw —They had troops and Coats of Justice, and Alliff mode their own laws. I was there in a pubic eharacret from e lks Vats of Peru. In my journey to Europe I was instructed by Ai Goveragnent of Pero, through which country I passed, to limosact sots business with the Government of Buenos ,tyres. 'Cross-clammed by Mr. Sergeant TADDY—I did not come from .Chili in any public capacity, but from Peru. That State had bedword to Old Spain. It had declared its independence, and was fie a mare of war with Old Spain. When I went from Chili to . raga. Me King of Spain's troops were they in the cities of Peru . sod Limas; but before I left it they were expelled from both those ,bees. The Loth Chili JUSTICE said it was not material in this se to prove that Peru was an Independent State at that time, but : were, he was of opinion that the troops having been defeated ' rot enough to establish the Independence of a State. The 0 Mrmust have subsided. a e Witness—The cannily had become quiet and trantuil be. wh. Awe I left. I was in the Chamber of Representatives at Bueoes Plen. =Meat hems. Doe Martino Ftedrigoes was then dommor. apply it. Ai". OW lIS that time at ~cid) Old Spain. I trayellod it did DOI THE about 160 miles eaves the Andes to Buenos Ayres by land, and the inhabitant, were all hying under the authority of the 00. ' vermeil, at Buenos Ayres. By the CoutlT—There were no foreign troops in that part 9f The country. Monte Video was occupied at the time by the Brazilian troops. By Mr. Sergeant Twont —Buenos Ayres was part of the pro. vince that formerly belonged to old Spain. By the COURT—I collected from my observation while I was among the people, that they looked upon themselves to belong entirely to the Government of Buenos Ayres, and not to Old Spain. . Don Vingente Pains examined-1 am a South American, and belong to Buenos Ayres. That State separated from Old Spain Sheen years ago. The Oovernment used a seal; this It its im pression. I hnve been used to see it in the Secretary of State's and other public offices, and since that time have seen it affixed to various documents. Cross-examined by Sergeant TARDY-1 belong to that country the same as you belong to England. I have not hem at Buenos Ayres for the last nine years. 1 lied been in England before that, and returned to Buenos Ayres again, for eight of nine months, and then left. and have not been there since, Mr. Sergeant SPANILIE. exhibiting the Bond, Paid the seal was merely affixed to it by a pin, and might have been placed there by any stranger. The Loitti Cuttur Jr:strict said the signature to a bond was merely to state whose seal it was that was affixed to it, and no bond was worth anything without a teal. Mr. TINDAL observed that the seal had been torn off by ac. eldent. Mr. Sergeant Vitt:on/t—This objection would not do even in Prussia. Mr. Sergeant TAnDY—We are not trying it in Prussia. The LORD Cutur JUSTICE—I wish you were. with all my heart. Though, I suppose, it is not usual in Prussia to publish a report of a trial before it takes place. Mr. Ilullett begged to ante that the bonds were perfect when be delivered them to the attorney. Mr. Sergeant SrANXIE disclaimed any intention to insinuate ' that Mr. Hallett had done any thing improperly. Pile. llullett was then cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant T•DDy. I have never heard the plaiatiff state to others what was the amount of the revenues of Chili; he may have stated it to me. The plaintiff had been in England previous to 1818. He was not in etrmimstanees of distress in 1819, that lam aware of. I conducted ' his businers, and have advanced him small sums of money at dif. ferent. time s , but the sums were not so small as would show that there was any urgent necessity existing. 1 cannot state the exact rams, Evidence to prove that the defendant was the proprietor of the leforning Chronicle was then offered, but 111 r. Sergeant TADDY adnitted it ; he, however, refused to admit the publication of the paper of the 14th instant, containing the matter intended as evi dence of aggravation of damages ; and the newsvender was called, who paid the number then produced had been left at his house, as natio], by the person who carried them from the Morning Chronicle otTe?. The COURT considered this not sufficient proof. A person from the Stamp Office was then called, but did not produce the paper that was directed by the statute to be left with the Comn.issionera of Stamps by the publishers of newapapirrs; and, after much discussion as to the necesaiiy of its production, The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE held that the nature of proof of the paper containing the libel was prescribed by the Ilth, tee. 7 and 8. Oeo. 111, but that did not apply to any paper produced for any other purpose. This paper could not therefore be received as evidence. The alleged libel was then put in and read. Mr. Newman recalled—Tne bonJs were sold under this contract for the loan. Most of them passed through my hands. I was pre sent and received some of the money, the produce of the sale of the bonds ; this bond now produced is one of them; 675,000 i. were ranted upon the sale. The Whole of the money passed through my hands. It was left in the house of Hullett and Co., to be re mitted to the Government .1f Chili. Bills were drawn by the Go. vemment, and money remitted by Hullett and Co. to meet them. There was about 62,0001.. went into the hands of the plaintiff. I cannot say of my own knowledge that a ship was bought with part of it, nor that salaries to inferior persona were paid by the plaintiff' out of it. We effected a policy on a ship for the plaintiff: Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant TADOY—There has been an. Other person acting since September, 1624, as Minister to this country for the State of Chili. I have no knowledge of the revenue of Chill. By Mr. Sergeant VALGRAW-1 know nothing of the appoint ment of the Minister, only of his visiting at the house of Hut. lett and Co. This was the plaintiff's case. Mr. Sergeant TADDT took an objection, first to the insufficiency of the proof in support of the allegations that the plaintiff was ap pointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from Chili to this country, and that Mr. Hullett was appointed Con sul-Generalfor the neighbouring republican State of Buenos Ayres. There had been some documents put in, and some proof respecting the seals of those countries ; but the plaintiff should have shown something on the part of the Government of this country, by which these appointments had been recognised, otherwise any set of per sons may send individuals with pieces of parchment, and a seal at tached, to assume these official characters, so that there might be half a dozen representatives of the sante Government residing here altogether. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE observed, that it was not said these parties were a Minister Plenipotentiary and a Consul-Gene ral, but that they were appointed to be such by these States. Now they were so appointed whether they acted or not. Mr. Sergeant TADDT thought the words implied that they were. The bond. were stated to have been signed by the plaintiff as Mi nister Plenipotentiary. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said he bad a special power to do SO I for it was net the part of a Minister Plenipotentiary to sign bonds. Mr. Sergeant TADDY next contended, thatss the bonds were issued in this country, they became subject to the Stamp Act. It was an actual security for money, and must be a marketable se curity in this country, and in order to circulate as such, the revenue laws required it to bear a stamp. Mr. Sergeant VAUGHAN said these things were mistakenly called bonds. The bond was the mortgage bond executed to Messrs. Bullett, the contractors, and deposited in the Bank of England, and which was the only instrument that required • stamp and that had accordingly a twenty-five pounds stamp upon it. These documents were nothing more than certificates, en titling the holders to claim their dividends. One of the bonds was then read ; it recited that a loon was to be raised, to be charged upon the revenue of Chili, and more parti cularly the mint revenue and the land tax. The LORD Clilar JuiTice considered that these bonds were only to operate in Chili, and that he was inclined to think they did not require a stamp. If it bound any body in this country, it ought to bear • stamp ; but it annealed not to bind any body in the United Kingdom, the plaintiff and Messrs. Buliett being only agents. His Lordship did not see anything in the point, but he would save It. _ _ John Myers was then called as a witness to prove the defend. ant's plea of justification, but he did not answer ; and not appear ing, he au called upon his subpana. In consequence of this failure of evidence, the defendant's Counsel requested permission to consult with their client, and after ten minutes' deliberation— Mr. Sergeant TADDY proceeded to address the Jury. He ob served, that the discretion which was initiated upon Counsel often became a very difficult one, because he was called upon to de termine at the moment, and without consideration, the course to be taken; and though his Lordship had kindly given hint some time to exercise a discretion, yet nevertheless, appearing as he did for ■ paper that had not, according to the admission of his Learned Friend in his opening speech, often found in its columns paragraphs of a libel'h us nature—for bis Learned Brother admitted that the Aloentryr Chrnniele was not one of those papers that 'fought to propagate I. hells, or that went out of its way to calumniate private character;—appearing, therefore, for such a paper, he certainly felt himself placed in a Id:tition of some difficulty. because they had entered on the record a plea that set tip a justification to part of the libel contained in the first count ; and it was owing to the limititeculiar allegation in that count, that the Gentleman who was con. ed on the best mode to meet the charge thought it reces. nary, for the interest of his client, to state on the record the beta in that plea. In order, however, to prove the allegations it Mmtained, he must have called witnesses, at the same time that he was perfectly aware of the difficulty of the proof re quired ; because the facts pleaded concerned the revenue of • State which was remote front this country. had been in exist. Veer but a few years, and during those few years was in actual re bellion against the mother country to which it had appertained as I province ; and was consequently possessed but of a small reve is has, and the state of that revenue known only to few petuia, and those persons such as were intimately connected with the plaintiff. ' The difficulty to be encountered in getting at a knowledge of such facts was obvious. It was only from persons like Mr. Hullett that this Information could be obtained, and it visa mu likely to be ob tained from such a source, when it appeared that person had acted in connexion and in conjunction with the plaintiff. The plaintiff stated this on the face of his declaration,nn the bonds he had signed, and upon every document which had been put in evidence; and he stated that that connexion was tile principal foundation upon which he acted in executing these bonds, and contracting for this loan. Hie Lordship had said that the plaintiff assumed the character of Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary. but it was not part of such a person's duty to issue bonds, or make loans with private individuals. Every thing was upon a large scale in America. It had been observed by naturalists, that the lakes of America were longer thin those of Europe, that the rivers were larger than the largest of our rivers ; and when compared with the Oronoko and the Amazon, Father Thames shrunk into nothing. ho it war with American Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary ; for they were not Envoys Extraordi nary to any particular Court, but to and at all the Courts of Eu. rope...all or them, and among others to .the Court or the United Kingdom ! Whir, what a poor figure England cut in this medley of potentates. This gentleman came from the lofty summit of the Andes, and like the giant of the western ow, With meteor-standard to the winds unfurl'd, Look'd from his throne of clouds o'er half the world. He was not content to be the Minister to this little sphere ; but embraced the whole universe; and yet how he descried it remained - but, unhappily, he dropped upon this little inland, and be came here how did he set t his mission ? A Minister ----Mary would, on his arrival in this country, commonly .first instance to the bfloiater for Foreign Affair". Bat flew *at this 'oedemas iud ever bey constnunicattun PRESS. with this Government, or made any communication in the capacity of Minister with his own ; or bad in any other respect acted ea Envoy Extraordinary sil Minister Plenipotentiary. The only thing fts had done through the years 1819, 1820, 1821, -and 1822, was the contracting for this lOW. In 1822, that unfortunate year when bubbles of this description were afloat, and when persons were too eager to catch at anything that held out a prospect of the most distant gain, then it was that he, by the statement contained in his prospectus , endeavoured to Inveigle the " English subjects of our Lord the King," such were the words of his appointment, as the 4,aarned Counsel supposed it was thought of no use to at , tempt the Scotch; but confining himself to the English, who were easily to be caught, ha first applied to Messrs. Hallett, to whom . ha mortgaged the profits of the Andes, anti then set out to the Stock Exchange, where he launched forth these bonds, with the beautiful and spl endid picture of the Andes smoking at the top, over which was rising the bright star of liberty, and exhibiting these documents, signed by Don Bernardo O'lligotna and lion Joachim M. Veccbi, raised a sum of no lets than 675,0001. upon them. Such was the sum he had raised, and had tbund persons weak and short.sighted enough to be capable of making these in. vestments. The usual course was always to appropriate a portion of the money in the first place to the payment of dividends, and therefore the dividends on seven bonds were paid : if that had not been so the others would not have sold in the market. The LOUD CHIEF JUST Ica said there was no evidence of pay ment of any one. One of the bonds had been put in by way of a sample. 3lr. Sergeant TAM:lT—These bonds were issued by the plaintiff in conjunction with 31r. Hallett, upon whom he had no wish to throw the least Imputation, because he bad been led into that course of action by the plaintiff •-•og,self. The Learned Counsel now came to the main point or stirs the libel ; namely, that this publication had a tendency to injuots;V degrade the plaintiff, not in his private character, b u t as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. If they had rested on the allegation that it affected his personal character, without any reference to his public one, the °diner w. uld hays been different, and the charge different; but his Learned Friend had laboured hard and long to prove that this had a tendency to injure him in his official character, and to de. grade him in the opinion of those by whom he was employed. But did it appear that lion Bernardo O'Higgins or any other of those gentlemen had a less opinion of the plaintiff than before ? Not at all ; forµ had been proved that he had been dismissed before the libel was published, he having been succeeded by another person in September, 1824, and the libel was not written till July, 1825. ' Ths Learned Sergeant then proceeded to consider what was the effect of this publication ; and denied that it bore the construction put upon it by his Learned l'iiend. The writer of the alleged libel did not mean to charge the plaintiff with having defrauded the English of their money, and then running away with it, to live splendidly at Prria. The true construction of the language of this letter was not that the plaintiff had kept these bonds for the benefit of himself ; he was a great deal too wise for that; they were sold in the market at a premium by the original holders, and afterwards fell to nothing; and the plaintiff got some hundreds of thousands in his pocket. This was the fair construction, and had not the plaintiff proved himself the " Plenipo" to the Stock Exchange? He never appeared in any capacity whatever until he'appeared on the Stock Exchange. The object of the writer of the alleged libel II" to charge the plaintiff with being the individual who had put this unfortunate speculation in motion, and that he bad been the fabri. cattle of the whole scheme by which so many persons were made 'offerers while it enriched himself. The object of the writer was to guard his countrymen against those extravagant schemes, which In their operation had worked, as was now seen in the instance of the banks that were tumbling every day about their heads, the most mischievous and disastrous consequences, by inducing to withdraw that capital from the bankers which they had a fair right to calcu late upon retaining; for if there. had not been that unhallowed spirit of gain prevailing in the public at large, and operating with all persons, and prompting them to send abroad that which would have supported these banking-houses, the great losses at this mo ment sustaining by thousands would not have happened. If this paper could have had sufficient weight and influence to have pre vailed upon his countrymen to withdraw from these schemes, it would have been doing a high service to the country and discharg. ing a beneficial office. It might have reclaimed the people with a warning voice, if at any earlier period these schemes had been detected, and shown to have been founded upon falla cious grounds ; and all this was the object of the writer. It would therefore .be for his Lordship to say whether any pro secution could be sustained against a person actuated by such motives, and having such an object in Tier/. The beamed Ser geant then said, as he had not sufficient evidence to support the justification, he was reduced to leave the case where it now stood ; and the Jury were to judge for themselves whether, front the nature of the subject, when a state was just emerging from rebellion, and even now surrounded with perils, from the uncertainty in which the subject was necessarily Involved, it was not doing a service to the public to warn them of the danger they would incur by tak. ing any of these securities, or rather when these securities were bought to win n them of the consequences of a kind of epidemic which about a century ago prevailed under the form of the Missis sippi scheme, being of a like description with those that were pre valent at the present day. It was almost a duty of the public press to endeavour to impress upon the minds of the people the serious consequences likely to be incurred by venturing upon these epecu. lations. It was the manifest object of this paper to warn the people how little reliance was to be placed in the Chilian securities. This was a matter of fair and free discussion, and which every newspaper had a right to investigate. Had this paper done anything more? It would be for them, considering this ease in a temperate and moderate manner, to say whether any, and what damages ought to be given to the plaintiff; who had not proved any damages, and who did not appear to have suf fered ally. The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE observed, that before he called the attention of the Jury particularly to the facts of the ease, he would take notice of some observations impressed upon them with great ability by the Learned Counsel for the defend ant. lie had said it was as illegal transaction. His Lord ship bad no hesitation in at once assenting to that. A fo reigner had no right to come into this country to borrow money for his own State without the sanction from the Government of this country : for if that could be the case, this country might be in volved in war by the arts of individuals. Whether this plaintiff was employed or not by his Government to raise a loan, he ought not to have done it, for such a transaction might have made us parties in the war with Spain. It was said that it was a public journalist's duty to warn people from these speculations. His Lordship would say nothing of their duty ; but this he would say, that they would have rendered a great service to this country, and might have prevented the present calamity now drawn upon :t, if they could have suppressed these speculations. If this power had been honestly used by the defendant, lie should have told the Jury that no action could be maintained against the proprietor. That was his opinion of the law of libel. If it were honestly in tended to warn tl'e people against danger, it was not the subject of • libel : but unfortunately the defendant had gone mitch beyond that—he went on to impute a moral fraud to the plaintiff. Because the plaintiff happened himself to have acted inconsistent with the laws of this country, it did not authorise another to cast such an imputation on his character ; and if he did so, it was, in his Lord. ship's opinion, a subject of an action. His Lordship then proceeded to comment upon the evidence, and upon the public character of the plaintiff' and remarked that no man wished better to these in. fant States than himself, for he was assured that the welfare of England was intimately connected with the welfare of these States. The plaintiff appeared to have had regular credentials to this country. fits Lordship then repeated his observations as to what constituted an independent State, and that it appeared to him, as Chili possessed regular legislative, judicial, and executive sutho rity, and also bad troops sufficient to protect itself against its neigh bours, it must be considered as an independent State, although not acknowledged as such by this country. The aggravation had failed to be proved; therefore the Jury must put that out of consideration. It appeared to hint that 31r. Milieu had much greater reason to complain than the plaintiff; but they had nothing to do with that. His Lordship observed that the only construction he could put upon the letter was, that it imputed a gross breach of mor a lity to the plaintiff, and t hat he had no hesitation in saying that it was a libel. No human being, whatever they undertook todo for the public, had a right to make such an imputation. No evidence had been offered to prove it. It was stated that great difficulty existed to make out such a justification as this. It might be so, but he would make this observation, which he would never cease to repeat, that if a newspaper thought proper to publish anything that affected the character of any human bring whatever, they undertake to the public that they were reedy to prove that which they published, and if they were not able to do so a jury would teach them the d to to the th C e h i i , l a ia p n pin t consequences of venturing rashly and without foundation to im peach the character of say man. It appeared that the whole of v t h e : n iz e t n : mone y which Ms h h i ad s E a or tl d b s u h t ti li t 2 hrped would tend of that country. It did not appear what h a d b een d one b y the 62.000 k, but that was not an answer to the action , it was only a circuutsuoice to be taken notice of by the Jury. If they thought he had put a due construction upon the publication, the libel was certainly made out. The question of damages was for their ex clusive consideration. The Jury retired for half an hour, and then returned a verdict for the plaintill . —Damages }OUR HUNDRED POUNDS. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Mown*y, Dsc. 19. IX THE CASE OF EDWARD TeCREERY. This insolvent is a watchmaker, residing in Dorset -street. Salk bury-square. No opposition having been made to the hearing of his petition, the Court considered hint entitled to his discharge, subject to remedying an imperfection in the service. At this period of the proceedings a person stated that an opposi tion had been entered ag►inst the insolvent. Mr. Commissioner BowEN said. I sin not aware whether the cause paper has the word opposition marked, but the book shall be brought, and we can ace. The hook being produced in Court, it wu ascertained that the opposition was entered, but erroneously, being for the 21st instead of the 19th December. Mr. Commissioner !lowest avid, that by a late regulation of the Court, the notice served on creditors specified that the opposition " must be entered in the proper book, and the proper page and column therein ;" but as there was no compliance with this rule in the present instance, the page and column being wrong, the creditor could not be heard. The creditor stated, that his object was not to oppose the in solvent's discharge, but to put a few questions to him respecting some property which he had lately acquired. Mr. Commissioner Dowiw replied, that as no opposition was entered la the manner prescribed, the Court could not grant the application. Every thing was done to render the Act of Parliq-, Cent and the governing ruin of the Court perfectly - , 1 4 • • • ._--....... Ile meld all ostlerstoti l leirw a . Vibe about 160 miles aer Illi t i * 11.1.61 lis a the M oi l :I:orlon of minister . tb ve e rn i nn n en ba t bi rtrueL e s re , fur ' 31111141111 4iLTI M Memassesstry. ' &eminent now shown By the CouitT-• SO lit S te t NM Of Chß. the country. Mont, ' TADIST.-MW ion Imes to say that Chili had a seal Brazilian troops. alp time? By Mr. Sergeant migsa-Ifss; I omit Move is 111118, and it then bad a seal, vince tha t fo r merly be •. and the itopereden which this appointment bears is the impression By the Cool-r- -ot ik.4 er•i. among the people, ! ea l . Mr. Tinou.-That eind was employed in dilfbrent public entirely to the Goy Spain. i l lhe Loss Catty Jostles observed, that this evidence wit Don Vingente Pat got dis Auoime 'it was proved Mat Chili wail an independent belong to Buenos A I nk rat Tiomi-We imow pursed, well, ha • matter of P i r t r le s e s i n o s r? hove bee T Into ago Crazy . tit b; ,.. not a state at that bate ; nor has it even been other public offices, a Id the Government of this country. retinas documents. ll Caine Jollities did not know whether recognition Cross-examined by lOW rimmary to constitute it sn independent state. There were the same as you helot ushinistet MU wn : strum recognised estn y g t hi the Me n w try oild, whose sovereigns s A n y d res ret f u o r r n t: d ie t l o asA u n: n r w hit r le i t i guarst TADDT-Upue theism, footing. for instance, as then left and have s rte the stremofotke. sad a r rd t sgth Isles. sitm .cal Chili was at that persons, rin whoa Me. S e rgeant ',Mincemerely affixed to it b e• tabliebed thermaree Into what they called a State, the o acting any stranger. • etnit Spain. i 'Flie Lotto CHIEI '1 as Tbir Loss Cams Juerics-Have they described themselves merely to state whose • .Is&irmeet flaw la the declaratioe ? was worth anothtng ' Ilv. fttgesat Vaossait-Ider my Lord. M r . T IN D AL o b oe 14.• 7111Dlt. sold Me descriPtion Was Just the same on which chino. - ostlers were recovered is dome ef war with France. Mr. Sergeant VAU4 Lo thaw 4 1D 0 C s a tat lE s TI :te n t In in C d t o n bse e4l r tr red tmf4 th t a h t e:. F oo rT i c ieret t e l w bss a yki s i al tm w w s e y ias s , Prussia. Mr. e la h L eg l ert c H TAD ii • ntlf had better proceed to heart . Though, Ist de abet aggierdgealdbinealewiemilwa:::esltztrehis eNd sass ttiinttaadan • gopnrroi:chir and ndopted by i d r" : i t i t rt r e . r l:l t u a t l i re i tt al w beg e t r i e e g :k • !sere. I , Tv .iimimist lo siett imm y De: Ber l t‘ e a d t.l n o d O s ' i fl gn i2it i l i s i that 1; 1 . 1 r il l ut ue e l t in t ett w t S u hra th and esshi. Ibis SWIMS Sedges mho? ifilimmestia. The power of the Republic I have never heard th ethearded over Chill, Ai* liewpWies those province., of which two of the revenues of I sod • half were at that Moms melee the director of that govern- plaintiff' had been in Mat, which was mptehlieset They had Courts of Justice, and ctroimetances of died tb• haws of the vow administered noder the authority of the his business, and hay, delionse Oovessimst. Tier State exersiud the power of making Imo , . titm a, but the! laws otitolmemosilsitied so by the people of that country. there was any urgent Calll64ll r ule by ilt r li t . h r ir 7i n in t e T . '1' 1 11: - war Wa w r as gM t s ort w w " en *ingdine rims, to prove I MIA those who had declared themselves independent. Ahooo lo och oot j e r e o 1 • 5 die, pets f itzs t hrive belon g ed to Sz e amo . . It ho wse in pe th o e f year o apdanitt per ,e3tfi the hl7 tii h i o n w c Stain were still in the half of the other province. There were none dente of aggoavation of the Liog's troops in the other two and a half provinces, but who said the number they were occupied by the troops of Chili. None of the people usual, by the person i publicly sdheeed to Ohl Spain. It is my impression that they ell offic?. mothered to the cause of independence. or the greater part of them, The COURT consit but I do not know what were their secret feelings. A person from the By the Coo liT -As far as my knowledge goes, the whole of the produce the paper th e loan was mad by the State of Chili, and ratified by that Govern. the Cornn.issioners of 1 mono and, after much disci. TA* LORD Cater JUSTICE said, that although this objection The Loan ('HIE, premised itself is a technical shape, yet the difficulty was one that t the paper containing untidier be disposed of at Nisi Primo. It occurred to him at pre- and 8. Geo. 111, but sant that the distinction was this-if a foreign state was recognised any other purpose. ' by this country it was sot necessary to prove that it was a regular evidence. consider It such, The alleged libel 1 gat there there wer e be n ie y ot l l i t e erltat a j es ud w g n e iC7.l ' 7.l to were independent, Mr. Newman recal bind which this country had never mode any recognition. He for the loan. Most o wok the role to he this-that if a mode got together s sufficient sent and received sr faro to protect themselves. made laws, and bad Courts of Justice, the bonds ; this hot .i i the was • State. Therefore, though this State did once belong were toned upon the se Spain, yet that would be a str. . nge reason that it should always my hands. It was do so. till spain should think proper to do what Great Britain did matted to the Gotten te wards its once American provinces-declare their independence. vemment, and mon a e would give the defendant leave to move the Court upon this There was about 62, cordon. bemuse it certainly was a very important out. cannot say of my owe Mr. Sergeant VAUGHAN said that Consuls had been appointed of it, nor that saltine: 1 these from this country. out of it. We effects The Lois CHIEF JUSTICE-That has been decided not to be Cross-examined to a recognition. The appointment of a Minister was a different zither person acting careunainnae. country for the State I 11 The witness. Was re-examined-The Government of Chili has of Chill. boo manned In the same form up to this time, and has improved By Mr. Sergeant I fa lt. men of the Mioist D Ms ilorgeteat TA.DDY-Don O'Higgins was deposed after- lett and Co. i o ahineawho for a time had the command in Chili This was the plain „b. coin . A his Enifiesnadwaviheatotir Spanish proof in s f u o p o p / 1 • -.4. theelstist fare ...4...v. 1 but General cln of b tli r e . in the half province, hanged in a pointed Envoy Exti -- ',.. 0 ." Chili for acting ander the King of Spain ; he had banged Chili to this count Ali ieselhot of patriots in his time. sul-General toe the n 1 1 TADDY here mentioned aweof an actioo upon a There had Been some where it was endeavoured to show that the the seals of those cc •,. MOS;of Biwa • was part of a State not beton iii something on the p ar y 3 g 11 t i . 111 •as the Froth Government was in possession these appointments of and acted in all respects without regard to the Spanish autho- sons may send indiv Miss, anti the people considered themselves not the subjects of tached, to assume if Spain, and yet it was held that they were in fact the subjects oft half a dozen represu Spain. t altogether. The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE repeated his opinion as to what The Loan ('DIE 1 oonstituted an independent State, and said he should reserve the these parties were a pant, am be thought it should be discussed. ' ral, but that they wet Me. John Bob., a notary-public, produced certain powers from they were so appoint 1 &slt of Chili. Mr. Sergeant Tar JAI. Sergeant TADDT-I got them from the Bank of Eng. The bonds were Btu they were deposited there by myself. nister Plenipotentiar k . Kindel Rio was recalled, to authenticate the signatures. The LORD CIII Ei - documents were then put in and read. They were powers so ; tor it was net , . •to Meoplaintiff to raise loans on behalf of the Supreme Govern- bonds. I i I it ... ..!I .. isms, and prescribing the mode in which the money was to be Mr. Sergeant TA county motealtted to the Government. issued in thi s untr ea Sergnt TA D DY objected that these documents were not was an actual seem i.gagped,to be those of a regular Government, or that the Govern. eurity in this country this country had sapctioncd them. laws required it to bt ' Lomb CHID, Jusrtct said, ca id, if he were lled upon to Mr. Sergeant VA . 1 11 1440,:. . ems the legality of the loan, he should feel no hesitation in called bonds. The ; that It was illegal. Foreigners hail no right to come to Messrs. Ilullett, th i, to negotiate loans with the subjects of his Majesty England, and whit ... the senctioe ot tha British Government. He had decided 'stamp and that had • „, • Is a ;MON way on a former occasion, and that decision had it. These documet ' a . hall momiened by the Judges of the Court of King's Bench. titling the holders to I alle he alluded to arose out of the Greek Loan. One of the bonds :,..- despatch from the Chilton Government to the plaintiff, dated raised, to be charge e Jane, 1820, was then read. It acknowledged the receipt of cularly the mint eevt from the plaintiff, by which be informed his Govern. The LORD CHIC , that he had not been able to negotiate a loan, and saying that only to operate in Chi -q r. Illelamit any effort or exertion in procuring it. re q uire a stam p. If e. Unities Octavius Newman, clerk to Messrs. Mullett, and beer • stamp ; but i mss, imarnined-1 ant the attesting witness to this deed, which is Kingdom, the pl a ir e the contract for the loan enteral into between the plaintiff and His Lordship did r Mmes. Mullett, brothers and Co. 1 also attested the execution of save it. 4 oho inesinage made to them by the plaintiff of the revenues of the John Myers was tl sumo( Chili. ant ' s p l ea o f justitica '. Sir. Andrew Bellew proved the plaintiff's signature to certain ing, he will , called u! Ghilian Bonds, which were signed while the plaintiff was at Paris, In consequence c ' and which had been paid and cancelled. Counsel requested pi Mr. Sergeant Tauuy-I do not know out of what funds these ten minutes' deliben were paid. Mr. Sergeant TA/ 1 1 ..., r. pa Ito was recalled, and proved the authenticity of an served, that the di deematch, dated November 1623, from the Government of often became a very i ii Ode plaint eutalaing She ratification of the loan, and the terming at the morn mad Mt &pe nefiweesoseyindemnify,ingMesses.Hullettand taken; and though l' .. Os for dio asneunt they might pay on the bills that were drawn to exercise a discretii . open then by that Government In consequence of the contract. paper that had not 4 Mr. Newman recaffed-Tharlinoture to this appointment of Mr. Friend in his opening Monett as Causal-General foe Buenos Assn is that of Don of a libelltus tutor, Rebeideira. I know his hand•wiiting by having paid checks Aloetreiyr Chem& drawn be hon. I know Messrs. Hullett, but I do not know propagate Lbels, or i Veda Mr. flullett ever acted as Consul-General for Buenos character :-SPOlmain rr. felt himself placed i k Mr. Charles Widdle examined-I am a partner in the house of had entered on the r Hallett and Co. I believe John Mullett has never done any act of the libel containet f . • • , as Consul to Buenos Ayrss. He has had no communications with peculiar allegation in 1 tart Government in my presence as Consul of that State. stilted on the best 1 i i Be Mr. Sergeant TADDE-The prospectus you now hand to me sary, f or t h e i nter , is that which was lo occasion wed upon the of the loan. I have facts in that plea. board the plahitill state to persona what cur the amount of the contained, he must revenue of Chili, hot I never heard Mtn state that it was equal to that he was perfect isermen times the amount of the interest of !befoul. quired ; because tl Mr. John Mullett, examined-1 have acted upon my appoint- a State which was ri rot in obtaining an interview with the Secretar d y of State for time but a new years, v f mi ; we s A prein ra tie btl pis t . I T n h e e ll nia stn s ad for a w n a y r oflieialocuments. 1 hellion against the i of Foreign Affaire to me, as I was informed.dsd through the Office a province ; and was nue, and the state of The Loma Cater JUSTICZ-The document must be ( )roved. those persons such as Witness-The seal to this &Tem Latent is that of the State of The difficulty to be e Baena Ayers. It is signed by Don Rebeideira. facts was obvious. I The Loam Como Justice--In the first place, show that this Information cool there is sash • Sudo as Buenos Ayres-it nver has been non- tallied (thin such asc Weed yet. Mr. Sergeant VAUGHAN-There is a treaty of amity and cote. sta between this count r y an d t h a t State. on every do Loam CHIEF JII iT ICE—But that is no rec o gni t i on . inted this on the face rnnnexion and in and u and he stated that ti •• r Did Rio recalloil.-1 CANNA state positively that this is the upon which h e ac t e d ad the State of Burton Ayres. I was there about three years this loan. Hi e L ott . sod remained a month. 'Fliers was a Oovernnient, consisting character of Minister ,„ olilloprere Governor and a Mouse of Representative of the but it was not p ar t of • 1 ,wrodisors• loans with prisate it i . ~. ay. do 'Codas-They had troops and Counts of Justice, and scale in America. I 2 at illit own laws. I was there in a pubPc chromes from lakes of America we ' 11 1 ‘ State of Peru. In eny journey to Europe I was instructed by were larger than th Ooverarnent of Pero, through which country I passed, to with the Oronoko an, t some business with the Government of Buenos Ayres. , . In l a s n rumed by Mrs Sergeant T r ADDY = I d bollworm to l51 1 :1 1' p l a c i Spain. aP I t ci hict declared ' Peru . nothing. So it waa id not come from Alinisters Plenipoten That State had nary to any particuls its independence, and was tope...all of them, an , •he a state of war with Old Spain. When I went from Chili to Kingdom ! Wh_y,.. rms. Cho King of Spain's troops were then in the cities of Peru of potentates. This .. , aid Lima; but before I left it they were expelled from both those Andes, and like I l r 4 .' • l io • . Ohms The Loss CRISP' JUST4CE said it was not material in this se * to prove that Peru was an Independent State at that time, but ----- the With metro Look'd from, were, he was of opinion that the trno h at i ng been defeated He was not content ti Pfa sot enough to establish the Independence of a State. The embraced the whole u Alitmust have subsided, a mystery, bat, unha Witness-The country had become quiet and trantuil be- when be came here ht MVO 1 left. I was in the Chamber of Representatives at Boons Plenipotentiary vomit =me m , mom. Doe Martino Redrigues ii•B then Govemor. apply in timeliest (amt Aro wok 'Sohn; time as earirith Old Spain, I tramilled it did not *ppm that '5"... -'l% , Ad . 4 .. .1. ' C BillealiffilheS==eogem=====l2l=l4S - 0141111 - 1! sit i • Be r a id , va p p 9o 4:e dl aea m m ti t r gai te ,hb uir a r y ie Tb. the situation of nainlatee for ' hiereeMemetty. ' &cement now shown so ette* the mole( Chß. tot em Tatowe—Be yea maw to say that Chili bad a seal a +in time? ime.—Fes; I vent there in 1118, and it then bad a seal, and she immenden which dile appointment bears is the impression a iii. 4 er.i. m ilk. TISDAL —Thal and was employed in dißbrent public like Loma Clime Swarms observed, that that evidence was est t, velem . .1 was proved that Chili was ao independent Weftt: Om rime. a nt Tebbe —We know perfectly well, as a matter of bigot? t it we not a state at that time ; oar has it even been yak by the Government of this country. Casey Jenrette did not know whether recognition 11114 nimeemey to constitute it en independent state. Therc were achenbtedly many state fisting in the world, whose sovereigns Well ;0 ktiOirri or recognised by thb country. 3111 t. fferimatit TADDT—Vpue the some footing. for instanee, as she soveteign of the Sabi wich Isles. But Chili was at that time a pewvinte ti Spin, and this was the seal of certain persons, who ecablithed thenteelves Imo what they called a Stale, the-t acting against Spain. The Lone CIIIIV Jurricw—Have they described themselves as a .Iw&irceite (!late is the declaration ? Ilv. ftiegeent Vatiewast--ido my Lord. lie TINDAL sold die descriPtitio was just the sante on which - stanches were recovered la dower war with France. Lowy Caste Joliet* observed, that Far ce was always .ge • mate of some deacription or the other; by some it • owe 6 noimactry, but eubverted by faction; others said it was graruseat. The plaintiff had better proceed to Low • titer wee assent. endmill wag • Beate. It bad a supreme go- -4= issrabot by Itibreiris 0•11 ins and Don Joachim At dist Moe this seal nog mod and adopted by the • Sleet _ libib byebousot le by Den Bernardo O'Higgins and JOSIIIIS de Yoshi Irbb mamma is sealed and signed in she one sakes °dm iiillismies. Thu power of the Republic esseaded fee Chili, width 011111$1.11111 them proylocn. of which two mad a half were at the demi ceder the dives how of dust govern. fit, which we. speihNeees Thy bad Courts of Jurice, and the hews of the *me weer adminietered under the authority of the ✓epaint Cieveseleellet. 1101 State ruralised tbe power of making lave. 'Milkmen stbakied se by the people of that country. C 811.1411111111 by li t this 7i n m e e T . T i rm ir — war Wa w r as gm t s nrt w w aring een tA n ygwde e aid these who had declared themselves independent. • peosibeee hive belonged to Spain. It was in the year they declared themselves independent. The troops of Old I p oi brain were still in the half of the other province. There were none of the ILlog's troops in the other two and a half provinces, but they were accepted by the troops of Chili. None of the people publicly sdhered to Old Spain. It is my impression that they ell minced to the cause of independence. or the greater part of them, but I do not know what were their secret feelings. By the CovIST —As far as m; knowledge oes, the whole of the and such creditors as from inadvertence or negligence did not ae quiesce, must suffer the consequences a•tendiug their disregard of the specific cautions. The application was accordingly refused. James Smith, of Armley, in the neighbourhood of Leeds, a cloth-factor, whose case had been adjourned from the 2d of De cember, was brought up for final hearing end judgment. In the month of August last the insolvent was possessed of money to the amount of Ififif. exclusive of some live stock of small value. At this period the opposing creditor, Mr. Loughton, asked for payment of what was due to hint WO, and agreed to insolvent's proposal of paying hint next day with an equivalent in cloth. The following day, when Mr. Loughton called, he could not get the cloth, at.)l ultimately consented to take 10s. in the pound. But the insolvent, taking advantage of the creditor's facility of assent, insisted on re. during this -u nto 4s. On the remonstrance of the opposirg cre ditor, insolvent said, " If you do not take it. and law me in any way, I'll pay you in the Fleet Prison." In the interval of the ex pression and :he execution of this threat by insolvent's removal to the Fleet, he disposed of his property by private sale and public suction, and did not fairly account for the proceeds in his schedule. Mr. Coos le, for the opposing creditor, argued that the conduct of insolvent had rendered hint amenable to the censure of the Court. Dlr. POLLOCE, on the part of insolvent, urged to the Court the vague nature of the affidavit. which were submitted against him, and that, orta comparison of them with the insolvent's account, to trifling a discrepancy would be discovered as nut to affect the insol vent's title to a discharge. The Outer COMMISSIONER was clearly of opinion that the insolvent was included in that clause of the Act which remands the petitioner for fraudulently making away with his property. The judgment of the Court, therefore, was, that the petitioner should be confined within the walls of the prlron foe six calendar months from the date of his petition. Richard Ravenhill, who had been remanded on Friday, under CiTCUMIRSOCIS mentioned in our former report, was brought up, and it appearing that the insolvent had procured the consent of three. fourths of his new creditors, he was declared by the Court entitled to his discharge. Some other insolvents, whose petitions were not opposed, or whose cases contained no matters of public interest, were brought up and received their discharges, and the Court adjourned. POLICE. GUILDHALL. George Angel Lowe was charged with embezzling various sums of money, which had come into his bands as clerk to MellsTEl.Valpy, the printers in Red-Lion-court, Fleet-street. Mr. S. Hunt, the Solicitor for the prosecution, briefly retapitu. lated the nature of the charges he intended to bring forward, pre mining that he did not mean to show the extent of the prisoner's guilt, whose embezzlements amounted altogether, he said, to be. tween two and three thousand pounds, but should be content when he had laid a sufficient ground for his commitment. Mr. R.Valpy stated that they were publishing a large work bear ing the title of the Gelphin Classics, which was delivered to the subscribers at 18s., 135., 205., and 21a. each part, according to the time when the subscription was made. The prisoner was their in door clerk ; and whenever any money was brought to the counting house, it was his duty to call either of the partners, if they were in the way, to receive the rash, and if they were absent, to enter it in a book, and render an account from time to time. It appeared that on the 11th of April, Mr. Lys, a solicitor in 'l'ooke's.court, Chan cery-lane, called at the counting-house, and p:dd 311.65. by a check en Messrs. Dixon and Co. of Chancery-lane, on account of a friend of his, a Mr. Patterson ; the prisoner gave a receipt for the sum in his own name, and the check was duly presented and cashed at the banker's, but the amount had never been accounted for. In another instance Mr. lValforti„ the Solicitor to the Customs, called and paid the prisoner an order for twelve guineas upon his brother, of the firm of AValford and (been, of Coleman-street, merchants, taking the prisoner's receipt. The orde r h a d b een exchanged atMessrs. Watford and Green's for a check on Messrs. Currie, and the cash had been obtained upon that check, at the banking-house, but the prisoner had never accounted for it. In a third case, the prisoner had receiyed, and not accounted for, a sum of 11. Bs. brought to the countinghouse by one of his (Mr. Valpy's) apprentices, from Mr. Bumpus, the bookseller, at Holborn bars. Upon the discovery of some embezzlements by an out door clerk a short time since, it be came necessary to write to all the persona on their books, and he was surrised that a groat many of th e m t oo k no not i ce of the let. tens. 'I he fact was, however, he believed, that the prisoner had withheld their answers, and put the money they contained into his own pocket, for upon writing to them again on the present accasion, his correspondents in numerous instances (he produced a large roll of their letters) alleged that they bad sent the cash when he wrote before. Several witnesses were called to establish the three charges, and the Alderman (J. J. Smith) committed the prisoner, who offered no defence, upon men of them. BOW-STREET. Mr. Moss, proprietor of a wine vaults in Chandos-street, Covent-garden, gave information at this office yesterday of an at tempt that had been made to cheat him of a aunt of money by a trick, which he understood had been successfully practised in many instances. A very chilling looking fellow, accompanied by one of the " tip-top" women of the town, came into his house at eleven o'clock on Friday night last, and called for some liquor. He talked gayly and loudly to the woman, and spoke of hishaving dined here, and drank there, and observed, that he had paid for his en tertainment throughout the day, and in the taking up of a heavy bill in the morning had completely drained him of cash. Having thus wed the way for his intended application, he called Mr. Moss aside, and taking from his fob what appeared to be a very superb gold watch, chain, and seals, said he was in want of a little temporary assistance, and requested the loan of 3/. It so happened that he could not have hit upon a worse subject to practise his trick upon than Mr. Alms who is a good judge of watch es an d o f t h e precious metals, and had moreover heard of some of his own fra ternity having been cheated by a similar device. He took the watch, and examining it found that neither it nor its appendages were gold, though a very excellent imitation, and that the works were perfectly worthless. The chain was a curb one, and the seals got up in very showy style, in imitation of chasing. This watch case was ornamented with a raised edge, a wreath of oak leaves, also of imitative chasing, and the watch had a dial plate. Mr. Moss at once refused to comply with the request, and the fel low then asked for his watch back, as a matter of course, but Mr. Moss did not feel it quite so much a matter of course to return it. " No," said he, " you have had some liquor. and say you have no money. I shall keep the watch, because I like to hare se curity, and I also feel inclined to make some inquiry about it, for it seems to me a curious article. Call again to-morrow, and you shall have it." The man went away grumbli ng , an d . the next morning Mr. Moss ascertained from the judgment of others, as well is his own, that the watch and appendages were together not worth twenty shillings. The owner has not called for it, and per haps it is well for him, if he wished to avoid paying a visit to. their Worships at this office. Charles /Iraq/ Goold, an apprentice to Mr. Towers, a boot maker in Exeter-street, Strand, was brought up on a charge of dis turbing a congregation of Dissenters (calling themselves, we be lieve, Arminians), assembled at a place in llurleigh.street for divine worship, at least so ran the charge in the watchbouse book. One of the managers of the chapel, himself an occasional preacher, stated, that there was a large congregation gathered to gether at their place on Sunday, and it was crowded even unto the gallery stairs. At one period of the evening there was a loud noise on the gallery stairs and in the gallery itself, from irreverend, hea theniall persons, who wished to interrupt the discourse of the preacher, and the witness thought it would be advisable to watch and bring to justice the offender or offenders. With that view, lie placed himself on the gallery stairs, and presently he perceive d the defendant " send forth a loud shout, which thrilled throughout the chapel, and completely astounded the hearers, and stopped the per. son who was delivering the word from the pulpit," The witness then seized the defendant, but he got away and ran out, pursued, however, by a constable, who took him into his custody, and con veyed him to the watchhouse. It was next to impossible to avoid laughing at the formal and deliberate manner and affected phraseology of this witness. The lad, in his defence, denied that lie shouted, and complained strongly of having been severely beaten and pushed about by the constable, who he said called after him " Stop thief!" and when he came up with him he struck him n hard blow with his stick, though he might have secured him without any violence of that kind. 11r. Towers, the boy's master, said he did not know whether the charge of shouting was true or nut, but thi s h e d i d k now, that the chapel Itself had long been one of the worst nuisances in the pari.h. No brothel could be a greater nuisance to the neighbourhood. it was a regular place of assignation ; there was nothing but confu. sion ; and as to their assembling to instruct people in the word of God, a parcel of illiterate stupid Sues ! they were no more fit fcr the task than - . an elephant. . tell yuu rrlui f t, Sir Richard," said Mr. Towers, "it I. nothing more nor le.-1 than a regular cock.and. hen club, and that is the plain truth." The managers said it wan no such thing, Mr. Towers repeated that it was, and complained of his appren. tice having been called after like a thief, and struck by the con stable. The constable denied this at first ; but Mr. Towers called the son of a respectable tradesman, who said that the noise was occa sioned by a crowd of buys and girls on the gallery stairs, all talking together. He saw the constable strike the defendant a severe blow, and afterwards push and drag him about as though lie had been a thief. lie did not hear the defendant shout. There was a lady preaching, which he believed was the cause of the place being so full. Sir R. Rift); P.—A lady ! Pray is that lady licensed? One of the /llsnagers—We are all licensed. Sir R. Bt n•LE—Have you her license here? Manager—No, I have not got it about me. But we do not charge him with interrupting the preacher, but with disturbing the congregation according to the Act of Parliament. (A laugh.) Mr. Towers said, the apprentice had been with him six years and a half, and he never knew him to be out after nine o'clock at night. Ile was an extremely steady and good lad. One of the Managers said, it was by r•u:h " chaps" as the de fendant and his witness that they were annoyed. Sir R. DIRNIE reproved him for this remark, and bald he I thought such a tern, as " chaps" rime with an ill grace fmm an ex pounder of the Gospel. It had been sworn (the worthy Magistrate continued) that the defendant shouted, and he must find bail ; but lie should accept the simple undertaking of Mr. Yowers for his ap. pearance at the Sessions. Mr. Towers became answerable for his apprentice. MARLBOROUGH -STRUT. DETERMINED ATTEMP T AT SELF-DESTRUCTION.-011Sa. today, a slikA of yer of the name of {Ve r t, in the einploj Mr.' 1 / 4//f. z Lewis, was brought up by Gook, before H. M.Direa, tag. charg e d with having created a disturbance a t M r . Laburn's, wilco houtt keeper, Crown -court, being the place where he resided. se. Mr. Laburn stated, that he let the prisoner a room ready fur . nished, and was a very honest and industrious man, but unfottu: rudely lie had a wife, who was his ruin, as she was constantly in th e habit of pledging the property of the persons with whom t h e in found that lodged, and since they had been his hous e , h e h ad been enai pelted twice to give her in custody, and h e b e l ieved it was owls; to some such recurrence that occasioned the disturb ance on Feide; night, and to quiet which, on account of his busi neu, lie was unde 'r the necessity of giving the prisoner in custody. This being the whole of the charge, th e worthy frigistride d b served that he should discharge West, and ad v i se d Mr. balsam to . examine the room on his return, and see if hi s susp i cions were h. ?Mel. West then left the office, and proceeded with Mr. Latium to tes when,_ nlath their a u s p:n ere takenlook • w i nag y and ad over d p i l ero gd o a rn . . the found , 014 d a n lod a ll a g t e h r in y e P b b ed eing made, West said I am only go i ng out f or a few nutes, and on ivy return I will see what ca n b e d one. Aecordingi; he went out, and returned within a q uarter o f an hour, whet he went into the coffee-room, and appeared extremely dejected. He called fora pint of eoffee,and desired that it might be made very d ee ,. Gook, had meanwhile arrived, and auildeted him. IN sYe picions gathered ground from observing{ est goon in a comer, and stand up, not touching the coffee. Having to perform his dun however, (look was id length, aftaran hour'a wat c hi ng, obliged •,.; leave the shop ; but previous to his so doing, lie requested M. Laburn to watch West. which he did ; but being called t o d n . :, a person, he, for a minute, turned his back, when the rash ere , emptied into the coffee the contents of a phial, containine ounces of laudanum, which lie instantly swallowed ; the 'v , ;..ne being directly given, West was dragged by force to a surgenn : , ' in the neighbourhood, and pushed himinto the shop. T,kt he the advantage of the front door being open, he rushed out, &Wel: though pursued, effected his escape ; atter an absence ofrai herr half, a e returned to his lodgings, when, on s i tt i ng doge, the r otent draught begin to his ; and upon being asked white he purchased the laudanum, he named a chyrnist in Piccadilly, • 'orlon was instantly despatched thither, an d hi ghly to the ere de of the chymist, he sect three medical gentlemen to the unfuttesete. man's assistance, who, independent of emetics, were compell e d 1 ,., used Weira's stomach pump, although with very little success, feu yes erday morning, when the circumstance was named at the other, he appeared to be nearly dead. 1111ARYIS.130NE. Yesterday Ann Conroy and Blizzkah liirken were brought iin for final exatnination, charged with being concerned in stealing 44 yards of valuable silk, a quantity of silver plate, and other perty, from the dwelling. house of Mrs. Hunter, a widow ladv re. siding in Charles -street, Middlesex Hospital. The particular% of this cafe were fully stated in our paper of y(.. tsrdsy. Tint prisoners, it will be remembered, were taken into custody at a home in liittle Quebec-street, in a state of intoxication. The prisoners were fully committed to take their trial. MURDER AT STOKE. The village and neighbourhood of Stoke-green were thrown great agitation on Friday morning, by the discovery of a atrocious murder having been committed on a poor old ivoniai, the name of ;smith, nearly 70 years of age, who kept a arty; chandler's shop in the immediate vicinity of the Plough, at Side. green. The situation of the premises and the habits of the ceased render the circumstances somewhat mysterious, as 3 , appeared, nom the evidence, that the murder moat have been eon milted about nine o'clock in the evening; and the house and sky of the deceased, though standing alone, have the public-he.oe and several other houses within a short distance, an that anv robe or struggling must inevitably have been he ar d. Th e opect i ele via truly horrible—the blood lay in masses immediately round the head, and contrasted most awfully with the silvery grey hair that escaped front under the nightcap of the deceased. It may he supposed that the ruffian, having extinguished the light by knocking down his victim, was unable to carry into efect his tention of plundering, or that he became alarmed, as no other part of the house, which is a large one for a single woman, op. prars'to have been entered. A police offker from Bow -street lat been sent for, and the most active exertions are making to diaterc the inhuman offender. (in Saturday morning an Inquest was held before J. Chantey, Esq. Coroner for Bucks, and a Jury of neighbours t when, dice viewing the - body, the following evidence ass adduced : Mary Elkin, a girl of about fourteen or fifteen years of see, deposed that she lived as servant with the deceased, but did not sleep there; she was employed in looking after Mrs. Smith's cow, &c. On Thursday night she left her well and on Friday morning, on going to the house, about half-past seven, she found the outer door on the latch. She proceeded towards tlie bark door, which she found fast, for the purpose of fetching tip the cow ; but noticing that the kitchen door was open, and seeing something white upon the ground there, she returned, and discovered that be: mistress had been murdered; upon which she iremedittely ran out, exclaiming that her mistress was dead. John Ware, labourer, was at work in a barn adjoining the hero lof deceased, when last witness gave the alarm. He proceeded t, the spot, and found the body extended on the floor, on its back a candlestick was under her left arm, and the candle, apparent! , I fallen from it, at a little distance. Witness observed a famine o cut in her forehead, and another somewhat higher on her head there wane cut or stab in her throat, apparently very quantity of blood around, which was even then front the wound; the extremities were quite cold, was somewhat warm. The pockets were torn o I pocket-hides of the gown ; wimeas did not elan, saw no instrument of any description about libel . used in the murder, nor h as lie any suspicion of an , ever., Air. Roberts, surgeon, of Burnham, deposed that mined the body of the deceased, and that there were wounds on the tipper part of the frontal bone, at' with some blunt instrument, such as a hammer, wi... a fracture ooe-eighth of an inch deep, and larger than there was also a third fracture on the top of the head, an inch deep, apparently with the edge of the han wound was not a complete circle ; there was an Moist her throat, two inches and a half long, which had c vered the windpipe, and a penetrating wound on the windpipe, three inches in depth, which had din; blood vessels ; there was also a wound under the ch in the centre of the chin, all made apparently by stal instrument similar to a butcher's knife. There was sion on the back of the head, apparently occasioned backward. James Edgson, landlord of the Plough publlt-house, his house was not more than filly yards (tom that tha. lie heard the alarm on Friday morning, and s._ the body, which he described similarly to the evidence Witness examined the pockets, which had been en--' thing but a small knife. The shop had not been the till were found about seven shillings in sill the b...d had not beet lain in, nor had any part of entered, apparently, except the apartment where had been committed ; the window-shutters were closed, door fast: in the mattress three and twenty pounds concealed. Louis Bennett deposed ro having been at the ceased about half pas: eight in the evening of she appeared quite well, and apparently about night. After a most patient investigation of above six . returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against some sons unknown." It was stated to the Jury that the husband of MI has been parted from her many years, and who is of Clewer workhouse, having been hinted at, Mt diately went over and ascertained that the suspit unfounded, as the man was reported as one of the the house, and as being under the eye of the o o'clock till he went to bed, when ho slept with Burk: Gazdk. MARKETS. CORN-EXCHAKII Ds , Since this day week the supplies of Grain fresh rate. except of Barley, with which we have been plied. We had a very heavy trade to-day in whet, reduction of full 2s. per quarter was submitted to as t tiring. There was but little demand for Barley to-day which must be noted 4s. to Ss. per-quarter lower di/ se'onight. last Monday's rates were obtained to-day sales of Oats effected. Having a good supply of morning by land carriage, sample bales could only I reduction of 2s. to 3s. per quarter. There was but for Pease, whirl are rather lower. SMITHFIELD, MO' AY, We have a fine show of most descriptions of Beef h of excellent quality ;- but such is the heaviness of the , we have no doubt but many of the largest sort must market unsold ; notwithstanding which the salesmen way. Our quotation as to price remains unaltered. I more than probable that many purchases may be Islington to-morrow, Wednesday, sad even Thurads) but little business is doing, and the price lower by The Veal trade is very dull ; no deinand for any but Calves, and those at our last quotation. No alteration of Pork. The late alarm has doubtlessly acted powerft spirit of this great Christmas Market. MARRIED. On the 17th inst. at Marylebone church, Wm. El Esq. Solicitor to the Excise in Scotland, to Elizabeth daughter of Vice-Admiral Scott. At Edinburgh, on the 13th inst. Francis Grove, Esq. R.N., second son of Edward Grove, Esq. of Shenstone fordshire, to Emily, only child of the late George Cr Bengal 3Ledical Lstablishment. --- At Stranraer, on the 13th Inst. In his Slat year, E.g. deservedly lamented by his friends and numerous acquaintances. On the 113th into. at his residence, Weston.lodge, James Richard Miller, Esq. in the 81st year of his rip On the 12th inst. Mrs. Jane Best, wife of John Butt-lane, Deptford, aged 75. Printed at THE BRITISH PRESS Office. by J. 181, Strand, and published by R. CAM itom, awns try deep, and I. en flowing slow! ... Id, but the boo out through n Sc" E'JVI mine them. If Colonel X sly to have be• Joe. I/uprt M.P. my Palm" *h a John L. AT George Ark E e h r a : t h w e o l : ' em ad th u . Samuel 800 apparently ma H enry II" ditch had rain. S ir W. W.,;.Cher than a shilling Iced, one.foutb • Sir ALP.Willis hammer, at t ncieed wound Colonel T. I d completely t. w 7iel p M ir . I he left side oft ",:, R. `"' ivided the Inc . "` P. chin, and anotl. Policies e stabs, with , , ba/a from was also a tont Liffhty pi asioned by lath fur seven yc paid seven iouse, stated. th manta ' of the deceased All Clain went ova: ea and the A. !vidpteined o ce of erail'arl atlntrat ion. fti Parties, I n entered, and • right to pan ilver and coon? In the I of the house t estimated P e the horn I d teat, to the :losed, and bast lam' under ounds were loin. cool premit Persona a shop of the di decked veva Thursday, wh Europe in t to retire for daring the hours, them!: ___ me person Of pet Fl VII UTLI MN. Smith, w . . 1 -3 duein s now an inant Porior aka Ir. Edgison mint Asthmatic . felon was entire shortly relit he moat steady : (loses are g e master trom it rendered n o it another mar. rend Cough Peculiar bat tenon of the it assists ant Sold in B lac. 19. 4 . 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