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'id: FIE ' l ,f.Rti;ilit 'PRESS. • LkiaoN, FRWAY, sysAaT 12, 1821. la A Flanders Mail arrived last night, with Papers to the 10th instant. The following are extracts MINNA, DeCrlatillt 27. The King of Naples Is expected to arrive at Laybech on the 2d of January. Their Majesties the Emperors will he there before him. All pouibk changes which the negocia times with the Neapolitans might present were taken into consideration at Troppaw,and after mature deliberation it was decided that it was contrary to the dignity of the Allied Powers to treat either with the new Government of Napier, .ot wills the Prince Vicar-General; that they CIO oegociate ash none but the legitimate Sovereign ; that is to say, with ling Ferdinand. The points proposed by one of the Powers, as basis of the negociations, are—first, More authority shall be given to King Ferdinand, and the Crown shall enjoy more prero gatives. Second, The King shall be more independent of the National Parliament, and shall be able to oppose his Veto to all the Resolutions of Ike Parliament. Third, The Parliament shall tie composed of two Chambers, one of which shall conkist of Peen holding the dignity for life, sad the Peerage shalt be hereditary. Fourth, The kingdom of the Two Sicilies shall reimburse to Austria the eapenses of the armament which it has just made. immune 2S• TM Emperor and Empress ere expected today; but the Emperor Alexander has deferred kis departure, and will not be here till the 30th. Prince Metternich, Prince Hard rnienr, the Marquis of Caramao, and Count Gotowkin, are all arrived here. Lord Stewart came back some days since. in consequence of the last movement in Italy, the north of Lesobaudy is oscsopied by a numerous corps. The head quarters of one division are at Como. The military bureaux of this corps have tweu transferred to Milan. In case of war part of ilie army will reinaiu stationary is Upper Italy, as a corps of observation. muumuu, ammuty 8. The Prince and Princess of Orange bare sent 8,000 Ganes to the Magistrates of the city for the relief of the poor in this rigerons season. The acts of private beneficence are daily increasing in a manner that does honour to the national cha racter. The Prince of Orange has given 400,0n0 francs fur the Hotel d'lltrogvurst, including 20,000 francs fur the fixtures, Ste. We Late received the Pori, Papers to the gth instant. An article copied by one of them from the Austrian Observer, contains an exposition of the motives which induced the Allied Sovereigns to invite the King of NAPLES to Congress, and his 111.tir-Isve's answer. This extract i■ given in another part of our paper. The Manifebto of the Portuguese Nation to the Sovereigns and People of Europe is given in our preceding columns. This important document has been published is the Lisbon Papers. It is u ►e view of the causes which led to the late Revolution in Portugal, and a justification of that measure. Spanish Papers arrived last night, from which we hive made extracts. We entreat the particular attention of our read ers to • report which will be found in another part of our Paper of the proceedings that took place at the great county meeting held at Derby ou Mon. day last. This meeting, our readers are probably aware, was euilvened by the High Sheriff of the county, Mr. MUNDY, in consequence of a Requisi- • tion, " signed," as we are told, " by a numerous and highly respectable body of Noblemen and Gen tlemeii," fur " the sole purpose," as the Requisi tion informs us, of assuring the KING, " at this important crisis, of their permanent attachment to the Throne, and of their determination to support the Constitution in all its branches." IVith this admirable purpose of the Requisitiouists Hone were Amur! to quarrel. To the assurance of attachment to the Throne, and of a determination upon the part of the meeting to support the Constitution in all its branches, every heart best responsive. IVith these words are necessarily sssociated in the minds of Englishmen of every class in the state, ideas of security and prosperity, which consequently render the loyalty of an Englishman almost synoriinious with his sense of the enjoyment of these invaluable blessings. The result of the meeting clearly evinc ed that upon these points all persons assembled in the County Dail of Derby on Monday last were useeninsous, and we feel no difficulty in 'Arming, that in expressing such eentintents, notwithstanding the fool calumniei daily uttered by the corrupt portion of the public I levoted to the Treasury, the Nobility, Gentry, and other Freeholders" of tile county of Derby, afforded a fair and correct representation of the principles that actuate the iininruse mass of the people of this empire. %Vies it then with what the Ministerial fiction professed to be their purpose• that the truly loyal majority of thereat county of Derby disagreed Certainly toots The reel friends to their KING and country tuinplained only that the Address proposed by the Ministeiialista was lee lialitell in its übject—they complained that • solitary declaration of loyalty slionld be 'be Aok ',impose of the meeting—they complained that the whole population of the county slioehl be put into moillin for MI idle and unneueas coy waste of words—for an assurance of loyally which no mare, and much less • Mirlister of the Crown, ought to question—they saw in the terms of the itsquititien, subsequently repeated in the Address, if sioeere, • vague and general propos!. imps differing in character at the best very little from a truism ; but if these terms were so conceived as covertly to - convey au approval of the conduct of the Present Minister', and au imputation upon the chersetin, political sad moral, of the great hotly of their fllevessubjeels, they felt the necessity of P r elorlilose•ootering a measure, and r in either case of turning the epportnnity of so large • meeting to purposes of general advantage. Ac cordingly, when in 'pursuance of the terms of the Requisition Sir Gamest Cam: proposed his brief Address, expressing merely the attachment of the meeting to the Throne and the Constitution, the Duke of DEVONSHIRE rose and proposed an amended Address, embodying, is the fullest ex tent, the terms and spirit of the former, but add inclbitthe expression of those principles and sett timenis which ought at the present important crisis distinguish every subject of this realm who sin cerely venerates the throne, the laws, and iustitu. lions of his country. lit this Address his Grace having warmly and re. spectfully ussured the KING of the " unshaken devotion" of the meeting to his MAJESTY'S person, and of their " unalterable attachment to the Con stitution as by law established," thereby excluding esery notion of such changes as Radicals might seek to accomplish, proceeds " dutifully but firmly" to represent to his MAJESTY that the late proceedings against the QUEEN were " undertaken without an adequate motive, conducted without judgment, mid, as WAS predicted by one branch of the Legislature, have beers proved to be " derogatory from the dignity of the Crown, and injurious to the best interests of the country," and that " the advisers of such measures are no longer entitled to the confidence of his MAJESTY, or to the 'support of the country." The Address then refers to the late ungenerous dismissal of Parliament, exprooses a hope that no fnrther proceediugs shall be insti tuted agninst time QUEEN, and prays for economy end retrenchment in the public expenditure, and for the adoption of a system of policy conciliatory to the people at home, and liberal towards other nations. This Address was seconded by Mr. T. COKE, and adopted with enthusiasm by the im mense multitude assembled. Let the people of England. the enlightened and thinking part of the community, read this Address proposed at Derby by the Duke of DEVONSHIRE— Iet them deliberate upon it its the retirement of their closets, mid canvass it among their neigh bours, and then let them say whether the senti ments it conveys are not those by which they would resolve to stand, as the maxims best calculated to ensure the prosperity of the public. It inculcites the principles of rational liberty at home, it teaches the wisdom of pursuing conciliatory measures to. wards foreign nations, it breathes the purest spirit of loyalty to the throne, of affection for the person of our revered and gracious K roc, of attachment to the laws and institutions, and a considerate re. gard for the well being of the people. It de nounces, and we notice it with especiul satisfac tion, those fond reveries of certain theoretical poll. ticians, who seek to frame a perfect system founded upon the unerring purity of human nature;—the Duke of DEVONSHIRE and the Freeholders of Derby pledge themselves to defend the constitution as by law established, and look only for the bless ings which the parr principles of this glorious constitution are well capable of granting. His Grace, however, has committed two dreadful faults, for which lie and those who supported him must of course expect to be branded with the most opprobrious names— the Address censures the Ministers for having instituted the proceedings against the QUEEN, sod recommends retrench. talent and economy. These are ermines unpardon able in Downing-street, they are of the highest el:a racier known to oar law. hor they comprise a ithin them the worst species of treason, nor are we quite certain that they are allogetter free from blasphemy. The Address, however, we doubt not, will meet with the more valuable approbation of the people of Great Britain, and its sentiments are so well suited to the present posture of public affairs, that it is probable they will be repeated in the Amend intuit that will be moved to the Address to the Throne in Parliament, on the opening of the Ses sion, where we trust they will meet with the suc cess they have already experienced. In the mean time the result of the experiment attempted by the Ministeriolists at Derby will, we think, deter them from venturing to convene any more county ineet• logs. They have heels miserably fulled in every part of the kingdom where the voice of the people could really be heard. Against such shock, how absurd is the pretence of setting up the smuggled addresses of Cornish boroughs, and Colleges of Scotch county electors, and appealing to such timings as evidence of the real sentiments of the nation ! The question now before the public re- Isles solely to the conduct of the Ministers; to this paint the truly loyal cosmos boldly and openly; the question was attempted in the early port of the colt fliet by some of the ministerial addresatis, but learn ing emitting. if not wisdom, from experience, they now evade the question, and disclaiming all con nexion with the Ministers, astir they felt it to he disgraceful, they iusithously put forward the sacred name of the .Lt feu as "a tower of strength" to shield the Minister.. Here too the Doke of DevoNsittrte happily is turned the tables" upon theist; he declares his loyalty us freely, :is proudly, doubtless us sincerely us ally of " the opposite party," and shews to the couutry that the itarrests of the Kt MO, 110 ikS4 than 01 the people, are essentially distinguished from the paltry intrigues of a defeated and tottering Ministry. IVe have received ail account of the loss of the Abeima transport, Imam! to the Cape til Good ape with s.eitlurs. The is au extract f • letter front the agent 1 ..Liuyd'a, doted Lisbon, December 30i— • 0 The Condessa da Poole whirl% arrived on the 20th inst ?tom Maranhao, has brunght 49 persons who escaped f the Mimeo transport, bound to the Cape of Good Hope, which took fire soil was burnt the 25th ult. in lit. 5. P 4. long. and 112 lives were lust. The agent, Lieut. Madge, the Captain, tinegeon, ^_ l men, 16 boys, 4 wallies, and 3 girls, got into three boats, and fortunately fell in with the Conde's' da Poute the muruing after elm fatal eveut." • 6.. M. ) .•11 a :1 . I.li JO 1•4, 041',4' ~• ,- i~;~ . -- mitiViftb** THE FIRE .47' LORD STEWART'S ' • • • HU7'IIL. • Extract or • letter from Vienna. giving on ac. couot of an alarming fire that broke bat in the Palace of the English Ambassador, on Sunday, December I/th. " I left Lady Stewart about h a lf.p ar t n i ne o'clock is the evening, and had not retired to my own room more than fire minutes, when I heard a loud explosion, which appeared to come partly from the street and partly from within the house. I wits at once impressed with the ides of some ter rible accident having happetied, in which I was con firined by hearing 11 great bustle among the see vents. I immediately opened the door, and found them In a State of agitation and alarm, crying ' Fire ! Where is Lady Stewart ?' I hastened to the beef-room and boudoir, in order to prevent her Ladyship Pram being alarmed, or to appease her fears. To my astonithment and dismay, I found the boudoir iu flames, walls, ceiling, furnit ore. all burning. The cries of the servants rushed upon my mind in full force, and occasioned the most frightful alarm fur the safety of Lady Stewart. " The first thing that struck me on metering the boudoir, was the chair upon which I had five mi nutes before left her sitting, as well as the dress ing -table, in flanses. I made an effort to reach the chair, with the forloin hope or bein g able to rescue her Ladyship, had she been upon the ground ; hut the tire was so strong that I could not get so far, and the flames prevented me from getting • view of the floor. I then rushed into the bed-room which cOminuuicates with the bou doir, under the impression that Lady Stewifit had gone to bed. The bed-room was also on fire in every part, amid the bed was burning with great violence. I thought all was over ; I tried to reach the bed to make a desperate effort to save Lady Stewart if poss!ble, but in vain the heat was so intense, the sense of suffocation so great, and the flames spreading in all directions with such violence, that I wits obliged to make • piecipitate retreat. 1 quitted the burning mein., fully persuaded that Lady Stewart had perished, and continutd under this frightful impression until 1 unexpectedly found her lying upon the landilig place of the great stair-case, in the midst of the noise, hurry, stud contusion of people passing and repassing, in her robe de-chambre, in an intensely frosty night, shivering with cold, and just recover. iirg from a filming fit. The Turkish Minister came up almost at the same instant ; we assisted Lady Stewart into the nearest apartment. It well now reported that the fire was gaining ground, and it was therefore deemed advisable to remove her without delay, and the Turkish Minister and myself carried Lady Stewart to the neighbour hon-e of Baron Parish, who, on hearing of the fire, hastened over to offer his assistance, and hilt house as an asylum. The presence of mind which Lady Stewart demonstrated on this trying occasion was remarkable. From the time I found her upon the stairs she was as cool and col lected as I had ever seen her iii my life; and, notwithstanding the imminent danger in which she was placed by the fire, her being exposed for a considerable time, with scarcely any covering, to s cold frosty air (in her present situation), yet she has most providentially escaped, without any ill con sequences whatever." IRELAND. DUBLIN, JANUARY G. There will be a levee at the Castle on Thursday, the iStli of February, at four o'clock. There will be drawing-room at the Castle, nu Thursday evening, the 22d of February, at nine o'clock ft• The brilliant success of Mr. Philipps's first lec ture on singing, has created a very high degree of expectation cod curiosity for the further develope tnent of a system which holds out so much promise to the cultivators and admirers of musical science. CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. His Grace the Atelthishop of Cashel has judiciously ap pointed the Rev. John Jebb, Redo,. of Abington, to the Arch deaconry of Emly, void by the lamented death of the Rev. Garrett {Vail. His Grace has also appointed the Rev. Mr. Jellet, Reader at the Cathedral of Cashel, to the Itcctury of Paths Green, void by the same. The Rev. William Maintain is appointed Curate of lite United Parishes uf Kilquane and St. Patrick, in the Diocese of Limerick, in the room of the Rev. Julio Hunan, up. pointed Rector of Hill-street. Mr. JOHN HIINNIKEH Itss left his father's house, Stretford, Essex, for Sir FRANCIS SYKES'S, Basil. don Park, Berke. Oil the 4th instant the Archbishop of Bourdeaux blessed, its grand pomp, the brdquilt which is to be preseuted to his Royal Highness the Duke of Bounteous, in the name of the city of Bourdeaux. —(Purls Paper.) Du'nog the visitation of the great plague that depopulated London, it was observed that the soap boilers' shops escaped the contagion. Medical men assigned for cause the more offensive effluvia of the manufacture which overpowered the infectious poi son. Ministers have made a like discovery in economy. They were plagued with the cry of economy and retrenchment, and they expect to counteract it by the lucre offensive cry of blas phemy and disaffection, treason and sedition. The Loyal Address makers, not finding the trade prosper w this island, have now recourse to Ireland, its hopes of retrieving their fortune. The very same men, a few wacky since, deprecated the idea of agi tating that country by public meetings or political discussions. The High Sheriff of the County of Brecon has, in compliance with u requisition numerously and respectably signed, lilted Saturday. the 40th instant, fur a meeting of the Inhabitants and Freeholder. of that County, to take into consideration the present Mitrested state of the country, plunged into almost irremediable evils by the folly and ineapacity of the present advisers of the Crown, and to urplo e the KING to dismiss them from his present e and councils fur ever. DIVIDENDS.—The persons who are now receiv. ing their Dividends should think of the brat way to lay them out to advantage; and whit is so likely to in crease their Capital, aid consequently their future Divi dends, as an adventure in the prevent popular Lottery, which begius 23d Instant, the day when l'arliansent•meet ; on which day Three of the Nine Prizes of 21,0001., at least, oust be drawn in first F;ve Minutes! - , ,et 4 1 114 ; the Prisoner when they come to the svaichlinwe the Prosecutor was . far front stses, and lie . ques. tioued the boy pob!iely in the wittelt-le ore as to' his knowledge of the Priteltier, when lie 1.441 he w-s not cot in that the Prisoner was the mail who coto witted the rubbery. The Prisoner left his defence to his Couesel. John Seamen dept's• 11, that shoot right o'cloek on the 'vetoing of the 27th of December. he braid an altercation between some men on llorseferr - road ; too his coming up to them, he siw the Prose cutor take hold of a man, whims he soot, let go. auil he then seized the Prisoner, who said he lisd net got his property. Ile did not know the Prisoorr, bet knew his uncle, soil itutnediete ly went mid told him what I►ail liepperied. Several potions gave the Prisoner au excellent character, as being a hard working hottest man. Chief 13 iron It tette ens summed up the evidence, and informed the Jetty, that they must leave out of their consideration the capital part of the offence, as force must he used is► the eye of 141 e law to enn- Otitute a highwartobbery. It was for them, there fore, to determine, whether three was ►ufftcient evi dence brfere them to find the Prisoner guilty et ofeahng the pocket-book from the peraon of the Prosecutor. • The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. iIiURGLARIEc, Joseph Palmer, w r reil 20, and James Palmer, age d la. b roi l lee ., were cspitally indicted for bur glnriotisll• brraLiug into the dwelling-I►uuse uf Sa muel Hart, mid stealiug a desk, eight books, and several ether articles of the value of V. los. Samuel Hart , ■ very old man, depo:ed, he was a jeweller and kept • shop in Aldgate; his dwelling. house was in Beihnal.green. On the evening of the 11th of December lie left his house between three and four o'clock ; he locked the front door after him, and del tint retu►n until right o'clock, when he found the door locked; on unlocking ►t he foulid hi, books were gone. his desk and his clothes out of his chest : he It ft no person in the house when he went oat ; a man brought him the desk next morning; he said lie found it in a field. . Robert Starkey, shopman to Mr. Les i, clothes sale:one:l, Itosemary-lane, ►tated, that about Mile o'clock on the night of the I lth of December, the Prisoner, James Palmer, came into his mastet's shop with a bnuille of clothes, and asked lino would he tiny them ? lie sent for his muster, whit on seeing them refused to purchase ; the Prisoner, had joined the other Prisoner in the shoo before Mr. Levi came. The witness told the I'ri sonera to take the clothes away, and at the mo ment two officers came into the shop, owl Biked the Prisoners where they had got the clothes' The Prisoner, Joseph, answered, that two saitF.rs had given then► in Rosemary-lane to sell for them,. osill promised them a ►hilling for their trouble. The Prisoner, James, lifted his hat from his head, and something fell from it on the ground, which one of the officers picked up, and then look the Prisouers into custody. Samuel Miller, an officer, stated, that he went into Levi's shop, where he found the Piisonrr•, as stated by the last witnese, and he WaY shout search the Prisotier Joseph, when the last ?nee*, told him the Prisoner James had dropped" some: thing, which he found to be a pocket-honk ; he then searched James and found on him two keys. which he afterwards appliud to the lock of the door of the lintpe of Mr. II art, and one of them opened it. Ile produced the articles found with the Prisons Mr. Hart identified ditty] to he his property. Joseph Fortune, an officer, stated, that he searched the Prisoner Jon ph Palmer. and foter•l . on hint a chissel and a piece or trout bent at our end. The Prisoners declined saj Mg any thing in their defence. Several witnesses pee them a good character. Mr. Justice Hot.sovis summed up the evolroce to the Jury, and observed that he did not the evidence uus sufficient to substantiate the nt. fence of burglariously breaking into the house i 1 the night time, as the Prosecutor hail left his b ii before it was dark, and the crime might have bee con 111 l 'died in the day time. If, however, the J eiri came to the conclusion that the Prisoners hail stolen in the dwelling-house articles of arrdtrr v.i_ lite than 40r. it would be a capital offilice ; but if they were of cpiiiion that they were of a less va lue, it would be a larceny, but nut attended wit:, the same punishment. The Jury found the Prisoners Gladly of steslin in the dwelling-house articles above the value tis 40s.—Death. Clarks Goulding, fifteen years of age, was capi tally i indicted for burgl a ri oss l y b rea ki ng an d enter - ng into the dwelling-house of John Machin, with the intent to steal. John Machin, of 241, High -street. Sliadwell, jeweller, stated, that •bout -half-past nine o'clock on the night of the 23d of December, as he was sitting in his parlour, lie heard a noise iu the street, and he went to the shop door, when a lad told him his window. had been cut, and on looking at it, he saw there was a pane of glass not cut but broken by a sharp instrument being put in the putty, and the glass attempted•to be raised. Mr. Creswell stated, that he lived next !mule to Mr. Machin ; lie was standing at his door on the night in question, and saw the Prisoner at the shop window but did not see him do any thing ; m a short time he heard some person say a pane of gilt,. was cut, and at the same moment the Prisoner crotaird the strect ; the witness pursued him, came up with him, and gave him into the custody ash a patrol. Chief Baron Ittcnawns observed, that the in dictment charged the l'risoner with burglariounly breaking and entering into the house; and to con stitute a burglary there must be boil) ; but lo•re the Prisoner had only broke the glass. If he bail made a hole in it, nod put his hand through it, or en instrument for the purpose of orating, that would be a breaking and entering ; but there was no such proof iii this case, for which crayon the Jury were bound to acquit the Prisoner. w . h.stever their suspicion* might be. The Jury accordiugly returned a verdict of Not The Learned Judge told the Priconer h. !I iil a very narrow escape, and desired !het lie would con. duct himself differently for the future. Mr. Brown, the gimlet, said, he was arry is LAW INTELLIGENCE. i COURT OF RING'S BENCH, OutuDmiLL, Ttswaissaise, hill VARY H. ' • 1. 1 • Define the LORD CHIEF JUSTICR and COMMON Juries. GRIENWILL AND AlfolitEß D. OT.ACR. The Monti& in this cue were owners of the ship Seietste. The action was brought to recover the sum of 83!. 16a. 4d. being a Isalance of freight slue from the D.-fendanr. au consignee of a cargo of tim ber shipped at Halifax, in North America. and de livered to the Defeudant at Sligo, in Ireland. Tie freight specified in the bill of lading wits 6001. The defence set al! was, that the freight was pay able in Irish corrency, and not in sterling money ; hut the charter-party was put in laud read, which expressed that the SUM reserved for freight was to be in sterling money. Verdict for the Plaintiff—damages 831. 16s. LAWTON D. BOYD. The Plaintiff in this case was a maker of the ap. parsons for manufacturing gar. The Defendant was Captain of a West Indianian trading to Ja. maica. In the year 1818, he ordered front the Plaintiff u gas appuratits, to be made according to a written order which lie sent to the Plaintiff. Thy apparatus, after some delay, was completed and sent, agreeably to Captain meter, to bill agents, Masson and Co. who shipped it by a vest,' then about to sail for Jamaica ; nu its arrival there it was found to be tun large for the purpose fit; which it was required, by the person who had order* ed the Defendant to bring it out, and was in con sequence left on his The defence was, that the action ought to have been brought by Lawton, jun. to whom it was ii ledged the order was give.. : also that the apparatus was not completed in time ;. and, lastly, that it was not made according to order, being too large, and more tit to light a street than a doctor's shop, fur which it was designed. Several witnesses were called, by whom the case for the Plaintiff was fully sustained, although it appeared that his foreman and principal witness was recently dead. The Jury immediately found a verdict fur the Plaintiff—damages 1151. - - - OLD BAILEY, JANUARY 11. CHARGE OF FORGERY. William Keightley, aged 31, a genteel-looking rnan, was capitally indicted, for uttering, as true, a certain order for the payment of 120 i. 7p, with the intent to defraud Janie& Scutt Smith and John Go!die. Oa the trial being called there was no pinion to produce the order. Thomas Smith and William Slaughter were ordered to be culled on their recog nizance.: an officer stated that they wsrfe not bound Over to appear. Mr. Justice Ho LIIOYD observed to the Jury, that on account of the absence of the order, they were obliged to acquit the Prisoner. If it was kept back on purpose, the parties acting so must take the consequence, for on them it must frill. The Jury accordingly returned • verdict of /Vol HIGHWAY ROBBERY. William Watson, aged 18, was capitally indicted for assaulting Ralph Webb on the King's highway, tool taking from his person • pocket-book, con taining 13/. Ralph ‘Vebb deposed, that about eight o'clock on the evening, of the 27th of December he was walking down Horseferry-road, when lie saw three men, one fronting him, and one on each side of him ; the Prisoner was on his right hand, and made a trust with his hand nem the witness's breast pocket, nod took his pocket-book, and handed it to the mail in front of him ; the witness immedi ately seized the Prisoner by the collar and took him to the watch-house, the other two men rim away ; the Prisoner raid, oil the witness laying hold of him, that he had not the property ; the Prisoner col his companions never spoke or did any thing until the Prisoner took the pocket-book, and gave it to one of his companions ; the pocket book contained a Bank post-bill for 10/. sod three 1/. Bank of England notes. He had never seen them since. The witness, in his cross-examination by Mr. PLATT, said that he was cooling from town when the Prisoner robbed him ; he was not drunk, but a little so ; there was no crowd when he met the three men, they used no violence towards hint ; he saw no crowd us he was taking the Prisoner to the watch-house, no one assisted biro in taking him there ; he was certain the Prisoner was the man who took the pocket-book, although it war a very dark night, so dark that he could not discern the coun tenances of the Prisoner's companions. James Collins, a boy of 10 years of age, having been interrogated as to whether lie understood the nature of an oath, and answering satisfactorily, was sworn : he stated that he was with the Prosecutor on the evening of the 27th of December, when he was robbed by the Priumer ; lie knew it was the '27th of the month, because he had looked at an Oman:telt in the morning, on board his father's ves sel. • lie was walking behind the Prosecutor when lie 515 W the Psisoner take the pocket-book from the breast pocket of the Prosecutor, mod hand it to his companions, who ran away, on which the Prosecu tor seined the Prisoner by the collar, arid took him to the watch-house. It was a very dark night, and although lie could tiot see his face, lie wars certain the Prisoner was the person who took the pocket book : lie knew him by the colour of his coat, which was brown. On his crnss•examiostion he said that the Prose cutor was a little'drunk. Since the robbery the Prosecutor had spoken to him relative to it, but he never told him what to say ; he spoke to him this morning about it, and told him to tell the truth, and nothing else. lie (the witness) never said in the watch-house that he did not know whs.. ther the Prisoner was or was nut the man who had committed the robbery : lie always said he was the man. John Flinds, a hearlborough, stated, that he had the charge of the ysateliliouse when the Prosecutor brought the Prisoner in. On his cross-examination, lie said there was a considerable crowd following the Prosecutor and )1“. --_ iu!) 4i•/ y I • "MAI 4