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■ V Sc i IW . F .:. ~ 41111.111111101 111111m " Isawi effill • -.—.. IRELAND. . . . • -i-fter--- PROSECUTION OF M O'CONNELL—BILLS THROWN OUT. [Fr thallubtitt Morning Post of Monday.l iii Tim of Mr. O'Conne ll for seditious words, allqed tftalletwer ' at the Catholic Association, has terminated as war y . it would, untesa, indeed, by those wise persons .1 = • hailer, p in ub a lic for th is eir in eu m periur hill in ntinaguig 'We bash it never has °centred before, at least It has net so charred within our recollection, that the Crown, in a State prose- Iliftlon, did not rely for all initiatory proceedings upon its own wit. awes ; yet, in this the Of Mr. 0 Connell, where a rash or ill his _d proceeding should be avoided with mon than ordinary pre caution -.IIII , CTe the results of a prosecution, when once entered isms, should be well weighed—where • defeat mast beta humili. • !nag, we find the Crown 'thrown upon • search after fortttitovis roof, with the chances, as it really tumid tut , ten to one agginst sheen! Why did not the Law Officers of the Crown rest their 'case, in the first internee, tpon the evidence of the informer or informers? This, unquestionably, is the mode that common sense, aided by the slightest knowledge of the public feeling, would dictate. Instead of this, others were summoned—peons who held the character of an informer in abhorrence—who attended the meetings of the Association, not for the purpose of watching and noting down the careleila or unguarded expressions of the shakers but to convey the substance thereof to the newspapers..! To flute from persons thus circumstanced evidence of precise tweeds, or even of the precise import or meaning of any particular • speech or part of a speech , whereon to ground a prosecution, was, to say the least of it, • strange proceeding. 1 See, again, in what a situation a witness of this kind, entrapped - into an incautious admission, is placed. His own character, as well as the character of the establishment to which he is attached, might be deeply injured without his affording one atom of addl. danol strength to the case, in the fruitless attempt to bolster up which, be is thus unnecessarily and unfeelingly sacrificed. This 'Was precisely the case with iespect to Mr.Chsuies O'Flaherty. An attempt was made to entrap him into a corroboration of the col dense of the informer; the result, however. was the very opposite to that which was anticipated—instead of being corroborated, the evidence of the informer was thereby extinguished; and we have not the least doubt, but that the throwing out of the bills was Ibaitly, if not altogether, attributable to this ill-judged pro ceeding. The incautions and imprudent admission made by Mr. o•Fla berty on his examination at the police office, placed the proprietor of this paper in a situation of tome difficulty. It was his duty to report faithfully all public occurrences ; he was in no way mpon. Mole for his reports, save to the proprietor. But it was not a part of his duty to furnish to any other person matter for criminatiaa against any individual whatsoever. On the table of a Court of Justice every man is, of course, bound to state the truth as far as he knows; had the bills been found against Mr. O'Connell, air. ('Flaherty would never have appeared to give evidence against him, at whatever personal risk—were he to be fined and confined slating the remainder of his life-time. Were he to be proclaimed an outlaw he would never have come fot ward. Upon this his mind was made up ; he looked upon it as the only rermation in his power, for the error he had committed ; and we now mention the tact to show how grossly the business of the Crown has been mis. managed, when a reliance was placed upon evidence so to be ob. seined as was that of Mr. o•Flaherty. PROSECUTION OF THE REV. SIR HARCOURT LEES, BART. The proprietors of the Antidote newspaper have been applied to by the Crown Solicitor, to give up the manuscript of a letter signed Hiretall Lees," which appeared in that publication some days ago, in order that the author might be prosecuted. In case of the teanuncript not being given up, it was stated that the publishers should be prosecu-ed. This proceeding it wan which gave rise to the report in circu lation ot Sir Harcourt himself being to be prosecuted; which report having reached the ears of the Reverend Grand Orange Cha7lain, he wrote to the Crown Solicitor, to know how the fact stood. The Crown Solicitor replied, stating the steps that had been taken for obtaining the .manuscript, and asking the Reverend Baronet if he was prepared to avow himself the author, and meet the consequences ? The Reverend Grand Chaplain, in reply to the Crown Solicitor, 'atoned himself the author of the letter in question—he had no objection to the mannseript being giscn up; and he defied the whole of his Majesty's Counsel at Law to decypher two lines of it. We give these particulars on time authority of the Reverend sad Worthy Baronet himself, and we can bear testimony to the tact, that not even one line of his manuscript can be decyphered unless he attends in person to read it for the Crown Solicitor. Such of his manuscripts as we have published in the Morning Port, be has read himself to our printer, to make them intel ligible. SIR HARCOURT LErS. An Evening Paper has received the following letter from the Rev. Baronet : Dublin, January 1. 131 w—I have been much amused by your comments on my letter to the Protestants of Ulster, recommending them to form an armed eocfederation for the protection of their lives and religion ; but I request, Sir, that you wiU supply a great deficiency in that passage where you have supposed me to say to the Orangemen, If your throats are cut any right, make the best of your way to the nearest military station." Now, Sir, to make your crifigNe complete, you •ought to have said, " and with your heads, my lads, under your arms." However, Sir, if you will only assist me to drive the wretched Grenvilles, and my friend George Canning, out of the Cabinet, in time to save the Empire front dismemberment (for it Las been already degraded beyond even the ridicule of Poui di Bolin), and to supply their places with Lord Lansdown (as his eyes 'must Now k opened to the real objects entertained by Popery), and a lea others I can recommend. 1 will forgive you for all the jokes you may be inclined to play off at my heretic writings until the day of judgment. I have the honour to be, Sir, faithfully, yours, W. HARCOURT LEES. FATAL MISFORTUNE UPON RAMBLE7ON. A few days since, Mr. Ella, of Oswaldkirk, and Mr. R. Marshall, son of Mr. Marshall, of East Newton, near Helmsley, being on a visit to Mr. Hessletine, of Hambleton, and having . spent a plea wit day, the latter intimated his intention of returning home that night, having promised to do soon account of his mother's indispo- Ashton. Many plausible reasons, particularly the darkness of the night, and the consequent dangers of the road, were urged by his friends, to persuade him to alter his resolution, but in vain ; tear /ass of danger, and little thinking it would be for the last time, he bade them go od night and rode off. On the afternoon of the next day, Mr. Ella returned, and called at Mr. Marshall's to Inquire how ltis friend had got home, and how he RIM after his journey.— Young Marshall's absence beyond the time filed for his return had created some little uneasiness—but the effect of these inquiries of kis friend and the companion of hit visit, can scarcely he conceived ; it was natural to indulge alarm ; the imagination of the parents put them on the rack of torture: and alas ! their •terebodings were more than realized. Persons were dr. enamelled in every direction in search of him, but the fa mily were kept in suspense another night. Inteiligence of his being missing had leeched Hambleton House; from whence, early en Tuesday morning a party set out to examine every pus. tlble place of danger, and before they had proceeded a quarter of a mile, they eiscorered his horse standing over him, at the bottom of a precipice from twenty to thirty yards in height, over which they had fallen. The form with which be had mine to the grunnd had made an impression upon it, and from the appearances, it is thought he had never moved alter the fall, but had died instaady. One circumstance deserves remark--the party who found him, at. ternptedto lead the horse from the place, in a direction most easy of ascent: from its unwillingness cr inability they could Lot suc ceed, but on their ascending the steep with its master, who had been placed on a sheep box for that purpose, it iinnitx!iately lowed him, and on reaching the summit dropped t' own dead beside him. It was at first surmised that this melancaoly ..eurramce had been occasioned by intemperance, but it appeared titarly in evidence before the Coroner that the report was unfounded, and that the sccident had been altogether owing to the extreme dark hest of the night, and rise very intricate and unprotected nature of the roads across those %Jay heights.— fork Coorem., • . A serious fight took place in Galway on Christmas Day between two parties of countrymen, arising out of souse of the usual trivial causes. The Slit riff to k three of the ringleaders into custody. They had no weapons but ►ticks, with which they cut each others' heads until the Sheriff's arrival. MERCURY ire SALT. —Boyle, Stahl, Athanasks, Cl.at- bee, Kircher, and many other celebrated chemists, hare conjectured that common salt contained mercury. Ililcry .-11ouelle published, in 1777, that he had found marks of an amalgam on the sides of a silver vessel in which sea water bed been distilled, and that the salt which lie extracted, treated with sulphuric acid, had given a mercurial deposit in the neck of the retort. Fifteen years afterwards, West rumb, by treating the salt obtair.ed from the springs of I'yrwont with eoncentrated sulphuric acid, obtained a pro duct which sublimed over, that contained both mercury and iron. Proust and Scherer have been led to the same conclusion. M. Wurzer having lately prepared some mu riatic acid from salt, procured from various sources in Germany, has also obtained a velatile product, containing wribreury and iron. This subject, be thlides, and so do we, is worthy of the attention of chemists. He proposes, as M. Proust had previously proposed, that a lest' of gold should be fixed to the lieu 1 of a ship, to ascertain if it would not, at the end of a long voyage, be covered with nag reurv. Should this turn out to be the case, the ships of Britain will be literally a mine of wealth, and our countrymen, see are afraid, will laud that venue which enriches though wh2 poison theme.—Chemirt. Z4lo•o& , AingeMlll6:hl • INSOLIZNT DEBTORS* COURT, JAI. b. Ebeneeer Charles Burg, late of Layton, Essex, operative che. mist, was opposed by Mr. Poe:Love. on behalf of Itlr. Aitcbin. sem; by Mr. Hear*, for Mr. Cloward ; and a creditor appeared in carrion. In his examination by Mr. POLLOCK the insolvent stated that he went into Whitecross-street prison in June, 1822, and remained there for two months, when some arrangement was made will hie detaining creditor. In July, 1823, he first became acquainted with Mr. Aitehinson, and took a furnished house of him at one hundred guineas a year rent. When the contract was made he did not represent that he was the natural son of • nobleman, who often supplied him with money. His father is foreman to Mr. Howarth, of Old-street-Toed, at a salary of 1001. a year. Insol vent is an operative sctemitic chemist, and had wasiderable pm ' tics in analyzing drugs, the net profits arising from which would Ibe found entered in his book. He never was • partner in the factory of Pinkert! and Co., of Commercial-road, nor did he Off say AO. (leorge Aitchinson examined.—Witness let the insolvent a house in July, 1823, at 100 guineas a year, to be paid monthly. He stated that he was the son of it nobleman, and that his brother was the son of another lord. (Laughter.) lie said his father frequently supplied him liberally with money t but witness did not know that he was the son of a foreman in Fore-street; had he done so be would not have taken hint as a tenant. I By Mr. Cools.—He slid not make his pgments, but after I stopping four months he took moonlight leave in the middle of the Inight. (Laughter.) Witness did nut tee him, but his servants told hint so, and whether it was a moonlight night he could not telL Insolvent p aid him bd. deposit before he said anything about his alliance to a Nobleman i after he left, witness put a distress upon his horse aed gig for 7!. 17s. Gd., being the amount of a month's rent. The horse and gig was redeemed by Mr. Bennet, of London-wall. Witness was in ‘Vhitecross-street prison five years ago, and then knew a person of the name of Ireland, to whom he gave 81. to get him out • he was charged in execution, and he sued for his sixpences under the Lords' Act. Air. POL LOCK objected to the mode of examination adopted by his Learned Friend, as did also Mr. Hearn. The CotTST thought that as the questions were put with the view of ascertaluing the credit due to the witness, they were pro r er. M r. PoLLoet apprehended, that the transactions of • man's life, and what beret him live years ago, had no relevancy to the present I investigation ; why should it be dragged in, that the witness had been in prison five years since, as well as the means by which he got his liberation ? 3lr. Cools had yet to learn, that there was any limited time, when, according to the rules of evidence , Counsel was prevented from attempting to invalidate the testimony of witnesses. If he (Mr. Cooke) could prove, that the witness colluded with a person to get out of prison by clandestine means, and that the person he employed was prosecuted to conviction, he thought it would at least have a tendency to shake his testimony in a case where the evidence was so materially at variance. The Couar thought the Learned Counsel should have records in Court to prove the facts in evidence into which he was now anxious to inquire. Mr. Coors said, he hail not the power to do so on the present occasion, but he referred the Court to Mr. Phillips's trunk of Evidence. The Cuter Commies:in:en attended to the suggestion, and after the Court had deliberated for some time, they thought that the questions might be put to a certain 'extent, but thought it would be better for 31r. Cooke to abstain from entering into a detail of the circumstances. The witness then admitted that Ireland, the person he employed, was prosecuted, and that he was • witness against him ; lie believed he was confined three months in the }louse of Correction. The insolvent denied the principal ate:entente of his opposing ore. (tutor, relative to the agreement fur the house, and added, that the complainant had had tenders made to him, which he refused to accede to. Mr. liearu now proceeded with his opposition. The insolvent stated that lie had acted as a chemist since 1818, and formerly had a partner, btu they dissolved partnership in 1822, to which heattributed hie insolvency, as their alfairs wereput into Chan cery. His system of doing business was, among other things, to go to Liverpool, 31anchester, &c. and dispose of recipes to cotton manufacturers, &e. to improve the system of dyeing ; he some times sold them for from 101. to 1001. lie disposed of one to Messrs. Flocton and Co. varnish-manufacturers, in Bermondsey, for 1001. with which they were well satisfied. 31r. HEATH said, that these recipes must be given up for the be. flak of the estate. The CO UUT thought that they were documents which would not pass under the assignment, as in law he had obtained no tight In them. The insolvent said that thew were not original inventions, but only improvements ; but he hid no wish to withhold them, as they would be useless to every body without his instructions. The in solvent went on to state that he was never married, but had lived with a lady. Some time ago he was about to marry a female with a large fortune, but through the machinations of the lady with whom he lived, the connection was broken off: A letter was put in, which purported to be from the insolvent, and which spoke of hie having as much property as would make him comfortable, and spoke of a matrimonial connexion. The insolvent said his late partner had caused 4000 of those let. tees to be struck °flat the lithographic press, which he circulated for no ether purpose than to annoy him. This was owing to a pique, arising from the dissolution of partnership. After the insolvent had captained relative to his expenditure, in 1823, being 490 L, he was questioned as to the disposal of the clothes he received from one of the opposing creditors. He replied that he had pledged them, and sold time duplicates, but whether be fore or after Iris imprisonment lie could net tell, and he scented eltially doubtful as to whether or not he was indebted to a long list of creditors, which Mr. Heath read to him. Mr. Hearn—Have you ever been in the church, and called yourself the Rev. Mr. Sudd ? You look very much ike a parson now. (Laughter.) The insolvent, who was dressed in fashionable coloured clothes, after considerable hesitation, said, " Yes, I have." (Continued laughter.) Mr. Cloward, a coachmaker, living at Stratford, complained that the insolvent had hiri I a gig of him, which he had made away with. He would not have sold him the gig (which was a valuable one) on credit. He denied having given authority to the insolvent to dispose of it. The insolvent said, that he was to pay 12/. for the three months hire, but if he kept it longer it was to be deemed a sale at the given price. The gig was the same that was taken under a distress by Alr. Aitchinaon, and was afterwards disposed of. Several other witnesses were examined, when the Counsel seve rally addressed the Coup for their respective clients. The Cuter Comm last ott Ea said that after a serious review of the case, there did not appear to be sufficient evidence to bring the insolvent within the operation of the penal clauses of the Act. playlet:lu discharged. POLICE. MANSLON.IIOUS3 Yesterday the Loan MAYOR received a communication from the office oldie Secretary of State tot the Home Department, in come. queue of a report which appeared some days ago in the public pa. pert, relative to an aged German, who was represented to have told his Lordship that he had been recently dimmed from the hulks, without the means of subsistence. It appews that, the moment the paragraph was seen, inquiry was made into the circumstances detailed by the Under Secretary, who knew that the account given by the foreigner could not be true, every prisoner di:.charged from the hulks receiving a pecuniary al lowance upon bring liberated. It was then ascertained that a tier. man, named J. F. Meitner, bad been discharged before the middle of November, and that, being by the regulations entitled to re. ceite the sum of 61. 31. I Id., he had received 41. M. 3d. in money, and complete clothing, which cost 11. 18s. Bd. The Hanoverian Consul would have provided the foreigner with • passage hsme, but it was believed that he preferred squandering away his money its London, and was, as might be expected, now reduced to indi gence. The Ilanovevian Consul, upon seeing the account, also suspected that an attempt had been made to impose upon the Lord Mayor. He accordingly waited upon the Lord Mayor, and fi nding that Reimer war, the name of the man who had drawn such a picture of distress, and so grossly misrepresented the treatment with which unfortunate convicts met upon leaving the hulks, mentioned a few (sets, which put the foreigner's character out of all question.— Meiruer had, he said, been provided with a ship, after having told 'airy falsehoods, but when the vessel was about to sail the fellow ran oft; preferring • life of vagrancy to an industrious course. Upon being questioned - by the Consul, before the proposed departure for Hanover, he said that he was 67 years of age, so that it appeared, said the Consul, that he had, in six or seven days, growl eight years older, his assurance to the Lord Mayor being, that he was in his 76th year. The Consul added, that he had learned, from unde niable sources, that bleixner was one of the most idle of vagabonds, and one of the most gross impostor,. The LORD Maxon. upon hearing the Hanoverian Consul's statement, and before lie received the communication from the Se cretary of State's Office, sentenced Meizner to imprisonment and Lard labour for three calendar months. A young man of respectable appearance, and, as was afterwards , ascertained, of very respectable cornexions, was brought before Sir Jwun Snow, who sat in the abaence of the Lend Mayor, charged with having picked &gentleman's pocket. The gentleman, upon being told by an officer, who immediately apprehended the prisoner, that his handker c hi e f been stclen, , looked at the person accused, refused to appear against him, and I went away. Inquiry was made into the character of the unfortunate young man at the bar, who appeared to lie deeply affected, and it was CPU'eoi mat he was the son of a very respectable person ; that he )tad behaved well, and bad never had any imputation upon his moral character before he was caught in the act of stealing the handkerchief; and that he had suddenly disappeared from the house of his master, who is a shopkeeper at the other side of the water, on the day before Christmas-day„ without ,wore, and without having done any thing which matte him an object of sus picion. Daniel Forrester, who was directed to make the inquiries, learned from the prisoner binntelf, that lie was led into the society of a girl of the town by some dissipated companions. The con sequence of the introduction was, that she had made such an bin. pression upon him as to render it impossible for hint to attend to busine.a. Ile therefore abandoned the shop, after having given to her ail the weary he was master of. sold all his good clothes, aka 11111 A THE BRITISH PRESS. when all the mob, raised in that manner, was gone, went out to steal for her. Sir JAMES SHAW, who perceived that the young man was res. cued from the jaws of destruction, described so hien the condition to which he was rapidly advancing, and directed the Officer to de liver him up to his father, who was unable to attend at the Justice Room in =sequence of Ulnas, but had sent sit assurance to the Magistrate that the lad should be immediately removed to the country, where his brother carried on an ostensive business. THE SPANISH •ED IT•LIAH RETOOL/CIL—Ms LORD Maroc, amongst other communications, received the following from • mntleman's servant : "Mey it please your Lordship to pardon the liberty I take in addressing • few lines to you, but as It Is from motives of charity, I hope you will forgive my presumption. The other day, I accident. took up my master's newspaper, the Courier, and I there read a heartbreaking account of some poor foreigners, being quite deed tute of comforts. My bowels yearned with pity towards them, and though • poor country servant, I would be glad to contribute my mite towards their necessities, if I knew how . • and seeing there was to be a subscription opened in their behalf. I presumed to send the inclosed mite to your Lordship ; though Hieing in itself, it will add a little to the subscription, to which the more able will, I hope, more bountifully subscribe ; and may the Almighty dispose the hearts of Christianiets administer according to their ability to wards the poor sufferers' necessities, is the prayer of your ship's obedient and humble servant, IL U." " Windermere, Dec. SS." The letter of this benevolent creature Inclosed a sovereign. GUILDHALL. - . - . • ...... Yesterday Mores Keys, an old man, in a flaxen sal; and a brown gran coat, of ancient appearance, st ood 7 charged with having de frauded a poor woman of three shillings and sixpence, charged her by him, for writing a summons, which he (the prisoner) was not dui, authorised to do. The complainant, Mrs. Berinder, of No.ll, Crown-court, Golden_ lane, deposed, that on Monday week she first met the prisoner, in Guildhall, where he wormed out of her the circumstances of an as sault committed upon her by ore of her neighbours, and urged her to summons the said neighbour, with a view to enforce an advan- ' tageoosamogement at the police-office. Accordingly, on Mon. day last, she attended at this office for that purpose, when the pri soner, advancing towards her, resumed the subject of their previous conversation. Witness told him she would take out a summons against her neighbour ( Wm. Hull) and asked him where she could obtain it. Prisoner offered to write the required summons, and, In answer to a question relative to the expense, said he should charge her 3s. 6d. She expressed a hope that this would not fall upon her, ' to which he replied, that he was confident she would get a consi derable deal more from the alleged assailant. Prisoner then wrote (as witness supposed) the summons, for which she paid him the sum stipulated--she did this under the belief that he aas a clerk in the office, and was authorised to do as be had done. \V,n. Hull, of No. 14, Crown.court, Golden-lane, received yes terday, by post, the letter now produced—he attended by desire of oneof the marshalmen. Theici11;;;;1;;Topy of the letter St am advised by Mrs. Berinder to acquaint you, that un lessyou make satisfaction to her for the assault committed by you and your wife on the person of Mrs. Bounder, by throwing a quantity of beer on her person, and otherwise ill-treating her, Mrs. B. is determined to enter a prosecution against you for the same. I am, Sir, yours, &c. J. KEYS- Hanover-place, Fashion -street, Spitalfields, Jan. 4,1823. The prisoner, in his defence, said he had been in the profession upwards of 40 years ; that the complainant had not asked him for a summons, but that he had offered to write a letter for her ; that he had done so, sending the letter by post, as the post-mark would show, and that he had not acted illegally in the transaction. Sir It. C. GLYN recalled the complainant, who positively stated that the prisoner had offered to write the summons. In answer to a question from the Magistrate, the prisoner ac knowledged that he was not an attorney, but had been thirty years in hie profession. One of the officers here stated, that although the prisoner was a very aged man, he had exhibited considerable agility in an attempt to escape, by making his way through the back offices into King. street. Prisoner admitted that he had gone through the back offices, but not with a view to effecting his escape. Sir R. C. GLYN—The case is proved against you, but as I do not wish to act harshly towards you, I have no objection, at your request, to remand you until to.asorrow, by whic:i time you may, perhaps, be able to procure bail. The prisoner bowed assent, and was removed In custody. BOW-STREET. - - Yesterday a gentleman, one of the directors of the association calling themselves " Bible Christians." shortly after the Magis trates, Sir RICH•RD BIaNSE and Mr. Ilau.s, had taken their seats on the bench, came forward and requested a warrant against Mr. Charles Pitt, the architect, for an alleged disturbance of that congregation, assembled on the 26th of December for religious wor ship in their chapel. The complainant having described the reason of the present ap plication to be solely for the purpose of protecting the preachers and the hearers from the interference of the gentleman complained of, urged the necessity of granting the warrant, on the plea that Mr. I'itt would not be forthcoming if it were not granted. Mr. Ilvt.La—S ' ir you know where to find him now—what ne cessity then is therefor granting the warrant ? The complainant—lt is in mercy, Sir, that we take this course (and producing the Act of Parliament be went on), iu order to pro tect ourselves. _ _ Mr. Ilst.La—lf the gentleman you complain of, and whom you state to be a housekeeper, interrupts you, you have the power of immediately taking him into custody. really do not see any oc casion for granting a warrant. Sir It. Blasts—Nor I. The Sessions commence to-morrow, and you can therefore indict him for any breach of the peace he may have committed. The Act allows you six months to do so. But I do not see how you can call on us at this time to grant you a warrant, for an alleged breach of the peace so long ago as the 26tk of December. Complainant—The Act of Parliament allows us six months. Mr. HALLS—Yes, to indict at the Sessions. Complainant—And to obtain a warrant ? Mr. HaLit.s--No. It is a matter of course that if any person obstructs you and your congregation in your religious duties, you can call a constable, and immediately have him taken into custody. The complainant strongly urged his suit, but the Magistrates were decidedly against him, and he left the office completely dis satisfied. Yesterday J. Nelson was charged with begging in 13rompten. John bettley, &parish constable, stated, that the prisoner, the preceding night, created a great disturbance at the house of the overseer. .% itness drove the prisoner away, when be went and an noyed a number of the inhabitants, and at last witness was obliged to lodge him in Kensington watch-house with some difficulty, as he was under the necessity of calling a Eackney.coach, the prisoner lying down and refusing to walk. Mr. HALLS commitugl him for one month to the House of Cor rection. I- lIITTON-GARDES. INFORMER/ DlFEATZD.—Yesterday Mr. Christopher Hitt, a coal-merchant, appeared upon a summons, issued on the infor mation of NVilliam Pearce, to answer a complaint under the Coal Act, for not having a bushel measure of the legal dtu.ensions at tached to his waggon on the delivery of coals. Mr. Butler (clerk to Mr. Harmer) attended u Solicitor on be half of the defendant. John Oaley stated, that on the Roth ult he observed coals about to he delivered at a house in the New-road, occupied by Mr.. Baker, and on inspecting the waggon, he saw on the front of it the defend. ant's name marked u owner. The bushel measure was shown to him by the driver, Abraham Elliott, and on examining it, he found that it was delicient in all its dimensions; the Act of Parliament required that it should be eight inches and a quarter in depth, whereas, this measure varied in its depth from seven to seven inches and a-halt, and also fell short in diameter, u required by the Act. On the measure being produced, it was evidently bilged in dif ferent places. Mr. louder, on the part of the defendant, called the driver, Elliott, who derrami, that the measure was not in the awe in which the last wimesa found it on the waggon, which testimony was cot. roborated by Mr. Hill, his employer. Mr. Butler begged leave, fur the protection of the trade in general, to state that those informers have a particular method of stamping on those bushel me:sures, and in consequence of the pliancy tat the material (sheet copper) the alteration in breadth ar..l depth was niggly effected • in proof of this assertion, he woad merely per form the exueAtrent himself for the Magistrate's satisfaction. [Here Mr. Ruder stepped upon the measure, and by a slight pressure of his toot, demonstrated in the clearest meaner bow the alteration had been accomplished.] Mr. LAING, after minutely examining the measure, derided that the informer had failed in proving the case, and accordingly dismi-sed the complaint. Mr. Butler then addressed the Magistrate, and begged leave to explain some very extraordinary and very infamous circumstances connected with the case. The informing party had waited on Mr. ill, and presented • paper purporting to be a Magistrate's sum. mons, which doubtless had been obtained in en improper manner, as no Justice's name was affixed thereto, which one of them held towards bun, and said, " You see what we have got for you ;" of course intended as a threat ; and concluded by demanding the mo dest doacene of 1001. and they would agree to bush up the com plaint. Mr. Hill, however, conscious of not having offended in any respect against the provisions of the Act of Parliament, was not to be easily intimated by the threats of fellows of tbia description, end so tar from conciliating, he set them at defiance, and made a com plaint to the Magistrates of Guildhall against the person who pro. posed the betty!. Mr. Butler then concluded by informing all the parties that his client was determined to indict every one connected with this nefarious transaction, at the next Sessions. 1 be Slagistriu e s on h• at ing;his part of the story, fully concurred in tit prmutety of Illr. Hill's determination to puuiali such an atro cious attempt at conspiracy. MARY-Let.fiONNE. 111•CZNIT•COAC/I Farce.—Yesterday Mr. G. Parkrt. of Thavies Inn, Holborn, appeared to • summons obtained by the nw mi. of the chariot Na 266, for not paying his tare for the follow ing distance : Coulee stated that he was hired from the stand at Hatton. gari;.in, and that lie took up the gentleman at his apartments, Thavies Inn, and set him down io Bulstrode.street, when tit de. mended 3e. for iris fare, but the gentletnan refused giving him more than 2s. 61., and he therefore summoned him for the difference. Parker siat:d, that he bed been iu the habit of taking a • coach to go that distance, almost daily fot some time past, and had Dever paid more than fs. Mr. Raw xiNaos/ reminded him, that there nevi* were any half. crown fates. Mr. Parkes said he was aware of that ; he considered the fare to be a 95. one, and had been in the practice of giving the extra 6d. as ' civility money. The worthy Magistrate took his compasses, and after measuring with them the distance on the map, remarked that he rather believed the coschman, as was mostly the case when he was the summoning party, was in the right, but if Mr. Pukes thought it worth while he could have the whole ground measured. Mr. Parker hesitated some time, and at lett consented to pay the litigated hi, with the pleasing adj.inct of expenses amounting to 75. Goachee, on pocketing the blunt, observed that the distance was just two miles and a quarter, and had been measured more than twenty times. The public would do well always to pay the full amount de. mended, and then to summon the coachman, if on inquiry they found they had been in:posed on. TOWN HALL. Yesterday a young creature, not more than ten years of age, the daughter of ramectable parents, named Miner, was brought up for re-ezandnation, on a charge of stealing from the shop of Mr. Jones, haberdasher, highs reef, Southwark, a silk shawl, value 265. The delinquent evinced an aptness in the art of shoplifting equal to • veteran practitioner. Yesterday morning, about eleven o'clock, she entered the shop of !qr. Jones, saying she was sent by her pa. rents to look at soma shawls, and requested the shopman, John Edwards, to open a parcel for her inspection, when she selected four, and des red him to accompany her home with them, on which lie went to the back of the shop to get a wrapper, leaving the shawls upon the counter, and quitted the shop with her without missing any thing. After being led through several streets, and wearied into suspicion that he was on a wrong errand, he requested, as a favour, site tvoula allow hint to take die size of the shawl she wore, and, drawing it on one side, perceived beneath her arm a shawl of hit master's. John Kinsey, the officer, said, that on asking her motive for lead. ing the shopulan such a round, she replied-." In the hope of giving hint the double." The father of the girl, a respectable-looking man, apparently overcome with affliction by the circumstance, declared he lICVaI be fore knew her guilty of a bad action, and that it had been his daily endeavour to instil virtuous principles Into her mind, and waa igno rant of her having formed the bad connection it was too evident she had done. The girl ►hed abundance of tears, and promised never to again offend it forgiven. In consequence of the tender age of the prisoner, and the repent ance expressed for her first ofence, Mr. Jones declined proceeding further, on the condition that the father undertook to watch over her conduct with a vigilant eye, which he declared his dotermination to do. -„. Alderman J. J. Sntrit acqualntei the girl she was bound to be ever grateful for the leniency shown her, and which, in all probabi lity, had saved her from transportation.--She was then, her eyes suffused with tears, led front the office by her father. UNION-HALL. Yesterday J. Thompson was committed to take his trial for going lut evening into a glass shop in Bridge-row, Lambeth, and steal ing therefrom a cut-glass trifle dish, value 7s. Crisp, the officer, applied for a warrant, on account of a woman named King, who complained that a broker, named Cole, in levying a distress for 9s. had assaulted her, and actually tore the marriage ring front her finger to satisfy his demsnd, although there was more property in the house than he distraincd for. The Magistrate immediately granted an assault warrant. CORONERS' INQUESTS. Yesterday evening an inquisition was held at the Barley Mow, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, before T. limos, Esq. on the body of Thomas Parrot, a workman in the employ of Mr. Tilbury, a coachmaker, in South-street. Mr. W. W. Sleigh, of 23, Chapel -street, surgeon, deposed, that he was called on about half-past seven o'clock, on Tuesday morn ing ; he west immediately, and found the deceased lying on some straw, near the gate, at the rear of his anatomical theatre, leading to the South Mews. A watchman, with other persons, were as sembled. He was quite dead ; though the body was warm, the extreinities were cold. No marks of violence appeared on his per son, excepting the impression of a small cord round his neck. The deceased was conveyed into the stables, where witness opened two jugular reins ; the blood did not flow spontaneously • he also endeavoured to inflate the lungs to no purpose. His death was caueed by strangulation. John Tilbury stated, that the deceased had been in his employ nearly eighteen months; he always considered hint a very steady and sober man, but about three months ago he seemed much dis tressed in his mind, and told witness he had lost his wife, request. ing to borrow 11. extra of his wages, for the purpose of burying her; he now learnt, with much surpnse, that his wile is still living, in the work-house, in Mount-street. Ever since then he has been dejected. Last week witness took stock, deceased complained of doing double the work of other men, when he only took one spring at a load, whilst the other men took six at a time. James Lencrton, foreman to Mr. g'ilbury, said, the last timehe saw the deceased was on Thursday last—he talked a good deal to himself; before then he was always very punctual in coming to his work. The deceased lodged in Swan-alley, but did not go horns at all on Monday night. Verdict—" That the deceased hung himself when in a state of temporary derang_etrent." 1 eaterday an Inquest was held at the sign of the Earl of War. wick, Belton-street, Long-acre, before T. ST Inuit°, Esq. Co roner. on the body of Mary Ann Price, a child two years of age, alto died in consequence of the gross neglect of its mother. The father and mother, while giving evidence, were both in • disgusting state of intoxication; and it fully appeared that the de cen‘eil had been shamefully neglected. The Jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict—" That the child's death had been accelerated by the inattention and neglect of its mother." Yesterday evening, pursuant to an adjournment from the pre. ceding evening, an Inquest was held before Mr. limas, the Co. toner, at St. James's Workhouse, in Poland -street, Oxford-road, on the body of 3largaret Dunn, whose death was reported to have been produced by the moat cruel treatment from her husband, Thomas Dunn, an Irishman. . . . . Nl'inney blown swom—l lodge in the next room to the deceased. On Monday week I heard the deceased and her husband quarrel ling; I opened my door, and saw Dunn, the husband of the de. ceased, pulling his wife up stairs by the hair of her bead ; her face was a mass of bruises and blood. I begged of her husband not to kill her, and advised him to let go his hold ; but he continued to drag her in by the hair. At length 1 and sonic other women rescued her from him, and we concealed her from his fury. Dunn, on belt-g remonstrated with, said lie did not want to strike his wife, but only wished to get her up stairs into the room. Ile then shook hands with his wife, and they had some rum and beer twether. The company remained singing songs all night; but I went to bed. Next morning the deceased complained of her head, and said that it was very sore. On Wednesday evening I, at her request, cut the hair front her head, and just above the right car there ap peared a laseeration ; I applied a poultice to the injured part. She afterwards became very dl, and was taken to the workhouse, where she died. A Surgeon deposed, that the blows received by the deceased were not of themselves sufficient to cause death. The Jury found that the decease,) •• Died of Erysipelas, but whether from blows or injury from a fall, or intelnperance, no evi. deuce is before us Jurors." Poscurain—Several most daring attacks have been made this season, by unpreeedentedly large Fangs of poachers, on the property of Colonel Kingscote, I;lou eestershire. The audacity of ore on Monday last ex ceeded all the former attacks. Above forty men, with white handkerchiefs round their hats, marching in files, drew up upon seeing the keepers and their assistants, (about ten in number), and a desperate battle ensued, many of each party being severely wounded. But though the keepers made a spirited resistance, they were overcome by numbers, and unable to secure any of the depredators, who, after the conflict, formed by word of command, and marched off. They had with them, also, a horse and a dark lanthorn. At a preceding visit of twenty six of the above gang, a number of them surrounded the house of the head-keeper, and kept him a prisoner, whilst the others shot in the preserve immediately behind the house. Friday se'nnight two poachers were taken in the attempt to destroy game in the coverts of Edward Lombe, Esq. of Melton. They were discovered by the gamekeeper and his assistant, from the report of a spring gun, with the w'-e of which oneof the mcn, named Hill, had come in contact, and lodged nearly the whole contents of the charge in his thighs. After a short reneounter built the men were taken, and Hill was conveyed, in .he first instance, to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, from whence he was re moved to the Castle on Wednesday lam It is a curious fact that although the man was severely wounded, he still attempted to carry off the gun, and which he would proba bly have succeeded in doing but for the intervention of the gamekeeper.—Bary Gazette. Avert:l. INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATN.--MT. Campin, the collector to the Asiatic Society, after being engaged ail day on Monday last in collecting the annual subscriptkns, reached home about nine at night, tat a hearty supper, and went to bed at ten; his wife retired to rest a quarter of an hour after, when, to her surprise and grief, she found her husLand a corpse. To add to this calamity, a widow and four children are left totally destitute. To READ ILLEGIBLE INSCRIPTIONS ON SITTER COIN.— If ysu have a silver coin, the inscription of which by much wear is become wholly obliterated, put the poker in the fire; when red-hot, place the coin upon it, when the in senption will plainly appear of a green i s h h ue , b ut w ill disappear as the coin cools. This method was practised at the Mint to discover the genuine coin from counterfeit when the silver n as list calks: in. ATTE.3f PT AT ASSASSINATIO X. The annals of Nottingham happily afford no instance, that cow are aware of, of such a cold-blooded deliberate attempt at aseassina tion as one which occurred on Friday night the 24th instant. is being l'bristmas eve, the public-houses were generally w etly thronged, and a young man, about twenty-eight years of age. o f the name of Thomas Alvey, repaired to th e s i gn o f the Air ILL loon, in Mount East-street, and being a bobbin and a es /f t ste maker, in the employ of Mr. Mortimer, some of his companions Or acquaintance were with him. lie sat down In the tap-room, w soon after seven o'clock, one of those travelling pedlars which abound in Nottingham, of the name of Dominic Catania, made Itia appearance with waistcoat pieces, pocket books, braces, & g , per , estly requesting the company to purchase some of his wont Amongst others, he showed them to Alvey, who took up a pocket book, and being told the price was Is., he offered 2d. for it, b u t this the Italian indignantly rejected; and on asking for his pocket book, Alvey refused to return it. Many words passed; and it length Alvey held it out to him and on the Italian offering to tsk s it, Alvey struck him over the ,and with it, and ran out, pursued kg Dominic. What took place out of doors we have no tnearaf ' ascertaining, but our inquiries letul us to suppose that Alvey eluded pursuit; and the Italian, tilled with purposes of revft ft went to his lodgings, laid down his waistcoat pieces and o• goods, and having armed himself with &stiletto°, three-sided din g which the Italian bravoes know so welt how to use, returned to th; Air Balloon. In the mean time Alvey had re-entered, and ges s with his party into the parlour; Dominic sat down in the tap-rocitn, where he called for some ale, and before he had sat long son s person in the place exclaimed, "There's the man that has yeg ocket-book." Alvey was at this moment passing from the pi t . lour down the passage, and Dominic seising him by the coat 11/, said, " Dive me my book, give me my book ; I'll have my book." Alvey, with a laugh, refused to give it up, when the man strug him on the back, then on the shoulder, sad lastly on the neck. The persons in the taproom, who witnessed this, had no ides the the blows were given with a stiletto ; they though* the fist only wi t employed, and therefore paid little regard to the scene before then,. Alvey instantly placed his hand upon the wound on the neck, an; ran into the parlour, exclaiming with a shriek, " He's stuck me! hese stack me 1" but his companions, knowing that he was fond oi a lark, and that he had often cried out wolf before in joke, thougis this was nothing more, and one of them laughing exclaimed, " Hark ye, he says he's struck me, he's str uc k me." The Lute soon ceased, for the blood began to flow in torrents. A great alm s ensued, and in the midst of it, the wretched man who had inflicts* the wounds escaped. Mr. Fligginbottom„ the surgeon, was home /Betels , sent for, and it was found that the first hilow in the back had gone through the shoulder blade; the second blow falling upos u s collar of the coat, had done no injury, but the last, and most deadly blow of all, in the neck, has pierced five or six inches; and U. though Mr. 11. and his assistant remained with the sufferer an hours, and have paid every possible attention since, the man, i: Q could not be removed from the Air Balloon, is not out of dange t As soon as the circumstance occurred, the police officers were ea the alert, and found that Catama's lodgings were at Mr. Bowler, No. 1403, Clare-street. Ilis pack and goods were there, but tit s man had fled, apprehensive of the consequences of his murderous intent. Two constables remained at his lodgings the whole of the night, and the greater part of the next day, in hope of apprehendiag him, but he did not come, nor has he since been heard of. Shashi nut human vengeance overtake him, he will carry the dreadful load of an unquiet conscience to the grave. It may be right to add, that Catania was not a Jew, as has been reported, but • Catholic, and had been • resident in Srottingham about four months. Tea hopes of Alvey's recovery are faint indeed.—Nottiogitant /teaks. SPORTING IN7'ELLIGENCE. 1111 r? ow MOWNRAT, JAN. 3.—On Thursday the Quota hounds met at Owthorpe, Nottinghamshire, and found a fox, which took a ring by Cotgrate Plantation, back to Owthorpe, and wai lost. They then tried Kinnouhon Gorse, and found • fox, whirs went away In high style up to M'ir.stey, back to Kinnoultoo, lest. ing the Gorse to the left, nearly to trickling Town, over the hilk, leaving Parson's Gorse and Broughton Town to the left, acroa the Melton road nearly to Dalby Clump ; then direct for Six Huh, and round the right hand corner of Itlandy's Covert, but did not go in ; here he was viewed by the few who had the luck to be up es good hones. After leaving the Gorse, he took his line by Walter Plantations, along the Foss-road ;he was here in view for upwards of a mile and a half; he then bent to Seagrove. and not far trues Cossington Gorse, then went direct for Ratcliffe on the Roke, ssd was killed going into a plantation there. The distance from pout to point in thirteen miles, and was run in one hour and fourteen minutes, without a check. The run probably wu fifteen milts Out of a very large field, the following five gentlemen were tht only ones present when the fox was killed t--Sir Haw iloodocki, Lord Banditti, Mr. llolyoake, jun. Mr. Magher, and Mr. I. Wright. To prove how decided the thing was, 31r. Othaldestai and his whipper-in did not come up fur a quarter of an lour alto the fox had been killed. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. The York and Ainsty fox.hourds will meet to-morrow net Skelton—at half-past ten. The Earl of flarewood's fox-bounds to-morrow at Alwoodin Gates—at ten. The Cleveland fox-hounds to-morrow at Milton—at nine. The Earl of Scarborough's fox-bounda to-morrow at Clayworth... at half-past ten. The Huldernews fox-hounds this day at Rise—at half-put ten. The Earl of Darlington's for-hounds to-morrow at Thorp--at hell-past ten ; and on Saturday at Newton House--at eleven. Sir Jacob Astley's hounds to-morrow at Bawdeswell, and on Monday at Houghton Hall—at half-past ten. Mr. Templer's hounds on Saturday at Powderham—at ten. Mr. King's hounds on Saturda at Ilendown, Woodley--st tes. STEZrLE CHASE.—The Sweepstakes Steeple Chase, for 14 sovereigns each, between Messrs. B. Ramabottom, Cleaver. and Gee, all members of the Farley Hunt, and riding their own homs, took place on Tuesday. The pound was from Burnham Fields near Windsor, to Mr. Clearers hunting-box at Hunt, one milt from IVckingham. After going gently together through lifaidet. head, Mr. Clearer lett the others, and took the road to Windit: two miles, when he turned off to the right, perhaps three miles the nearest route, but the roads were so watery and bad that he sat beat by half an hour. Ili% opponents kept together on the Bodt road to Hare Hatch, three miles from home, and took over tts inclosures. They were In sight when within a mile of the hunting• box, and Mr. Itainsbottom son the chase, by speed, on his famod hunter Tumbler. The distance is about thirteen miles, ar.d it us done within fifty minutes. To RESTORE OLD PICTUIEs.--Besitles that combination of hydrogen and oxygen which produces water, M. Thenar.l has effected another, the result of which is a liquid. calla oxygenated water, or per-oxide of hydrogen. There some difficulty in procuring this substance, but when pr:- cured it is found to be an admirable means of restoring o;,! pictures, making the whites, in particular, perfectly fresh and good-looking.—Chemist. INEDRIATION.—When men are reduced to this degraffid state by the inordinate use of fermented or other spirituous liquors, they may he restored to comparative ease by ad ministering a tea-spoonful of spirits of hartshorn in a gifts of water. Smelling the spirits dissipates the fumes arising from the sam: cattse. To MAKE GOOD Corn t OUT OP Ityx.—The rya is to be well chancel, and dieis boiled till it is soft; but care is to be taken that it does not burst. It is afterwards to be dried in the sun, or i❑ an oven, and then burnt like coffer, and when ground is fit for use. it may be infused and boile,l in the usual wty; but if coffee equal to Mocha is required, half of this powder mixed with half its weight of real coffee, gives a beverage fit for the Grand Turk, or to be served to the guests at the Catfe Hamblin of the Palais Royale.--Chernist. CORN EXCHANGE. JAN. 3. We had scarcely any arrivals of grain this morning; very little business was done in any article, and prices were nominally the same as un 51orday. There certainly was no disposition to gin way, but rather, on the contrary, a disposition to demand hte.. prices. COAL MARKET, JAL & Ships at Market. Ships Sold. Prim. MO Newcomb" . . 24 - - 2G. 6,1 to 411 ed ti Sunderland . tip . 3is 64 to 434 64 1 Stara Coal - - i . . 3M 04 to —s 04 On the 21 inst. at Teston, the Latiy of the lfoa. and Rev. F. J Noel was safely delivered of a son. On Synder last, at Alenham Hatch, the Lady of Sit Etlint.; Knatehb,..ll, Hart M.P. of a daughter. HARRIED. On the 28th ult. at Lewisham, It. li. Nankin, Esq. of Bedford. to Lucy Lindsay, daughter of the late P. Brie, Esq. of Paingtor. Devon. On the With ult. at North Otterin on, Yorkshire, Joseph Addi• son Esq. of the Inner Temple, to J an e , eldest daughter of the laid Th;ettas Beckett, Esq. of Iliornten-le-31onr. At Cardingtor, Bedfordshire, on the let inst. the Rev. Stowell Chudleigh. to Nary, widow of the late Juues Palmer Robb', £aq of Mount eq.hrelm, Tunbridge Wells. PIED. At Harwich, greatly respected by his friends and acquaintance. and in the 711 year or his age, Edinurd Jrnlyn, Gent. the Senn r klanital Burgess and Chamberlain of that borough. At Game, egad 14 years, of a malignant attack of the measles, eldest son of Samuel Stevens, Esq. On Friday last, at Torquay, Lawrence Oliphant, Esq. of decline. At his house, at the Den, Teignmouth, W. Mitchell. 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