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DRURY-Lea THEATRE: Lest night the opera of Arfarerxes was Perforta. .4, and Miis WHAM!, ■ young lady of great hope in the musical world, made her first appear ance in the part of Mandeste. Her fame had gone forth in such a degree, that most of the boxes were taken before hand, and as soon as the doors were opened the other parts of the house were filled at the first rush. The parts were east as follow Al./tweezes Madame Vestals. Artstossres Adorns .. Mr. BILIIIIMIG somata ...... Miss Poetry . . Mandan@ The strongest interest was felt on the rising of the curls", and during the performance of the prelude, that could be imagined. She entered and was greeted with loud and long-continued drew.. I ler appearance was most favourable : dressed in a robe of rich saffron-coloured silk, with a Persian head-dress of suitable pomp, she displayed • graceful figure, an interesting countenance, and a demeanour of strict feint .. i. te propriety. Abashed at the warmth of her reception, she was compelled for some minutes to support herself by lensing on Dlr. BRAHAW, who makes his entry at the same lime with herself. Her trepidation at first subdu ed her voice and fettered her action. She recovered by rapid degrees, and triumphed most effectually in the first song, " Adieu ! thou lovely Yorrh." ;She discovered a range of voice most uncommon for her period of life (as she is evidently very young), .over which she exerted the most confirmed power, striking the most difficult interests, and touching -the wort subtle and rapid divisions with wonderful force ■ad accuracy. She developed still more rare s pialificstions in her execution of" %ly, soft Ideas." storming the breasts of her hearers with tones of the deepest pathos, sod then melting into a tenderness of expression piercing from its delicacy. The transport with which the encore of this song was de manded was almost beyond pantile!. Miss IVILSON had other triumpher in store, and notwithstanding these lavish disbursements of her several excelled. cies, she produced an effect as new in the air, " If e'er the cruel Tyrant. Love," as if she had not been heard before. Inn this, and " Let tool ►age My bosom firing," she lavished in►tances of polished executive, graceful inflexions, and cadences finely modulated. In there also the was encored with great rapture. She was deeply impressive in " Monster, away !" and was ug■in encored. Hut her chief iv iumph was her last, in the well-known bravura, " The Soldier tired." The audience were literally brestlilesa with expectation while the band were going through the prelude. She effected it in a manner which fell no thing short of this intense anticipation. She not only marked the most difficult divisions with the truest pos sible intonation, bat introduced others of greater and more perplexing rapidity—►o that her untutored auditors must have supposed that her voice had no limits; either in range or volume. but that which her fancy chose to give it. The acclamations which succeeded were wholly without example is the history of first appearances. The encore was demanded amidst shouts and waving hats, and clap ping of hauds, which appesred for a moment to 6werwhelin her. Mr. Russet!. stepped forward to support her, but speedily retired, and she re• pooled the saw with Do diestuntioss of It would be weak to say that she succeeded. She swayed the audience despotically, and never was the power of music more perfectly and wil lingly obeyed. She is perhaps the most finished performer who hes appeared in the part since Mrs. BILLINGTON. Her execution aud per fect. the scope of her voice unusually extensive, her power extraordinary, and her taste of great cultivation. She is said to be the pupil of Mr. T. NVeLso, to whose professional honours she will add one of the most important bearings. The taste of the town, which has loop lain under the ban of musical criticism, for the general neglect with which the performutice of this piece has been met, most amply redeemed itself on this occasion, sod justified the prospective confidence of its im mortal composer in the judgment of a British audience. The encores and applause. were not con fined to the cases which are already recorded, but were extended to almost all the songs in the piece, even those which are of the most recluse extelleuce. Mr. tang with his wonted and oft-com mended excellence, and with the highest effect, in the songs, "Amid a thatromd racAing woes," "Oh ! too lovely," and " Water parted." Mr. float , : per. formed Arida:nes vigorously. Madame VESTIIS sang " !n infancy our hopes and fears," with great platietiventss, and was zealously encored. It were tedious to repeat the many instances of marked de light which the audience experienced during the performance. A quartet of Mr. BRA HAM'S. " Light as smoms.beines which oxfoantuins tremble," was in troduced with great effect. nod encored. We must mention the great assistance rendered to the per formance by Mr. T. iVsesu, who presides.' at the piano -forte in the pieces in which Miss WILSON per formed. He imparted much force and interest to some of the passages, by the introduction of obli gor° accompaniments. But though in this case the effect was impressive, the general use of the plan is not desirable. The piano-forte is too im perfect an instrument to supersede n full band, aud iu certain combinations must violate the ulcer arrangements of the harmony. The curtain fell amidst thunders of applause. Mr. Russet.!. ap peared, said after announcing the eutertaiiinsents fur this revising, proposed the repetition of the °per.% im Saturdsy.-1 Load cries of " To-morrow I" arose from the pit./ Mr. Russeit. said, that it would have been, per lisps, tinier:mous in the management to have anti clotted the judgment of the town on the per lormanve which bail joist terminated. A dif regent entertainnteut had been advertised fur to morrow ; most of the boxes were already taken, nod it would he tinfoil- to the public, generally, In alter the arrangenteto.—(Lord upplawses.)— With permission from the audience, lie begged leave to announce Miss WiLsoN's second appear alive in Artaxerxes (all the characters being cast in the same.llramser as before) un Saturday evening. —( Lord applaase.)—He further begged leave to announce the repetition of the opera fur Tuesday and Thursday in next week, uud to inform the audience, that it was the ititeotion of the Managers to devote Tuesday. Thursday, and Saturday, in each succeeding week, till further uetice should be given, to operatic performances. ST. S . AVlOilii'S M . REMO, ,OATH WAR[. Yesterday a meeting was held in the Spiritual . Court of St. Saviour's Church, pursuant to a Re.. quisition signed by the Inhabitants of that Parish, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of congratulating her Majesty on the failure of the Bill of l'ains and Penalties; of Peti. timing his Majesty to dismiss his Ministers ; and of presenting Petitions to both Houses of Parlia ment, praying that they will proceed forthwith to obtain fur her Majesty those dignities, rights, and privileges to which she is so justly entitled, but of which she lots been hitherto deprived. Mr. DENatmt, one of the Churchwardens, was call to the Chair, ■nd after stating the object of the meeting. made some observations upon the Bill which had been so absurdly brought into Parlia ment against the Queen, whom it was meant overwhelm. Mr. M !STOW rose to move the Resnlutione,. Her Majesty had, he said, passed the fie►y ori* J eal insti tuted by her lersecu►ors, but those persecutors were not satialicd with having acted with OA the violence of which they were capable. The '..mee part of the l'ress was constantly occupied i.n endeavouring to accumulate calumnies upon he y , and ■ cowardly and villainous publication of last. Sunday watt one of the foremost in the rank of h;•r foes,—(" Sheae PV- - - The country were, notwithstanding all those efforts, convinced that the queen WI, ■n innocent-woman, and being innocent, else was t h e moat oppressed of all bit Msies!y'a subjects,. Under such circuits mance*, lie ilniught the Parish would be liable to the suspicion of wanting loyally, if they (lid not at once express their sentiments to both King and Queen. The Resolutions were to the effect stated in the Requisition. They were seconded by Mr. Ellis, and carried unanimously. When the question for voting the Address, &c. was put, Sir R. Witsors rose to express his sentiments, which he observed were already well known to all his constituents. many of whom were collected before him. He particularly dwelt upon the necessity of a Reform in Parliament, and de clared that the old Anti-Reformists of the days of Nero proceeded upon exactly the same princi ple that seemed to actuate those of the present day. Before that period of the Roman affairs, a law had been passed by the Anti-Reformists for the execution of all slaves, men, women, and children. Notwithstanding the abominable cruelty of the measure, and the general cry of that body of the people against so nefarious a determination, the Anti-Reformists succeeded in potting the law in force, and 500 unfortunate beings were put to death. The base promoters of tile measure, encou raged by their success, proposed a law for the con fiscatiou of the fortunes of the relatives of a certain obnoxious individual ; lint even Nero opposed this measure, declaring that, as they would not depart from an old law, for the sake of humanity, they should not pass a new one to destroy the principle altogether. The worthy Knight coutitmel to address the meeting fur sotne time in a very api • . - - Mr. JOHN WILD called upon the meeting to unite in • general expression of their feelings towards their troubled Queen and their deceived Sovereign. He ridiculed the efforts of Ministers to ruin the Queen. and condemned the whole system they hash 'tinnily pursued. He read twe letters which were sent Yo him, threatening to punish him for his liberal principle., and one of them representing him on a gallows suspended by the neck. After thanks were voted to the Members for the Borough, to the Churchwardem, &c. &c. the Meet. lug broke up. A similar meeting was held in the Ward of Far ringdon-Within, at which similar Resolutions were pa►sed. The sixth night this season of the Mnemosynean Concerts, took place at the Crown and Anchor Tavern on Tuesday evening. The variety and style of the evening's entertainments have not beets ex ceeded by any former night. We were much grati fied by finding our established favourites, whose performances were very successful, sod were seve rally received with great applause. Among them were Misses Williams. Munday, 1. Stevenson. and Tuustall, Mrs. H. Corsi, &e. Messrs. Collyer, Tinney. C. Tulle, H. Tulley, Mears, Evans, H. Corn, &c. We were particularly pleased with the glees of " The Greenland Hunters," and WAo comes so dark," by Messrs. Evans, Collyer, and y. The concert-room was elegantly filled, and the company retired highly gratified. Mr. BISHOP. the Composer, wss lately unani mously elected PRESIDENT of the Incorporated Irish Musi cal Food Society, which appointment took place on the Bth isistent, at a General Sleeting of lie Society, convened ac cording to the Act of Parliament. The fate rf Empires has often been decided in • die ; but less than live utinutee, nu the 23d inst. will decide the fortunes of many, and raise them to a state of comparative independency...* ou that day Three Prizes of 21,000 1. will be instantly drawn. The Scheme contains Nine of 21,0001. and out Two Blauks to a Prise. The uticominon mildness of the season is pro duciog its natural tfrect uncut all •ll i ttt vied nature. The spirits of mankind are exhilarated ►y the genial weather, and excited by the near approach of the Drawing of the Lottery, which will take place NEXT TUESDAY, when Three Of the 21,0001. Consols are sore to be Drawn. G. CARROLL is happy to observe, that his reliance on she Public favour has been justltleal by the increasing Sale at his fortunate Offices, No. 19, Corshill, aril 28, Oxford.street ; where no less than Five Prizes of 20,0001 have been Suld in the retest Lotteries. The Last Prise of 30,0001. Console ever drawn was also Said by CA.••nt.L. Iticu•RDSOX. GOODLUCII. and Co. respectfolly acquaint their Friends that the Scheme of the New Year's Lotteries euntaies Niue Prises of 21,0001. Coaw ls arid Maury, mid out Two Slash to a Prise, the price of Tickets rediscaid, sled those now on Sale will be drawls as the fir►t day (NeXT TUESDAY), the 234 itmaai, and coast queatly have a chance of Ibt Three Pns•s of 21,0001 Cas eate each, which will be dame that day. Tickets sad Shares are sow us Sak by RICHARD SON, GOODLUCK, and Co. at their Old Established Office, Ilsolt-boiJdiags, Cora bill, where they sold last Lottery, Nu. 3,142, a Prise of 41,050 i. Consols, iu Iwo Fourtho i two; Eighths, sad fuar &awe uth Shares. .. LAW rNTELLIGENCE. G• darn. OF CHANCERY, Uncoues Tutraway, JANUARY 18. fla.. • arcLOAD CHANCIILLOR came ilith Conrt at teat blelork, and was occupied until one in herring the farther argumeuti Counsel in ass appeal cause, sifter wbich Conntel net being ready in the other appeals in the paper, his Lordship rose. To-morrow (this day) will be the lectind Seal; and his Lordship Will herr motion.. COURT OF MNCH, baILONALL, TuusiDAT, 1111 Malt IC Befur e the LORD CM grilliTicß and a Special Jury. HEATUFIELD AND ♦NOTHER V. HOLDING. This was an action of trover brought by th e Plaintiffs, as assignees of John Bathe, a ba'.lk . rtipt, to recover a quantity of wine and sPinta 10:1 th e va l ue of 2,0401., which had been received b y the De fendant under the following circu.mstances :—The bankrupt, Bathe, who kept sk wi ne anv i ls i n Pic cadilly in the year 1817, situ some time previously, did beanie's with a man named Probert, a win,- merchant, and at his request became joint bail for , the Defendant, Holding. which was the occasion of his first becoming acquainted with him. About the middle of the year 1818, Bathe becoming em barrassed in his circumstances, had some conversa tion with Probert about his affairs, and shortly after Holding called on hini sod told hint that Probert had metilioto.d the matter to him, mid he then ad vised Bathe to become a bankrupt, and not pay his creditors a farthing. He informed Bathe that he had himself been a bankrupt, and had got through very well, sod had made a good thing of it. After repeatedly being urged by the Defendant and Probert, Bathe acceded to the plan. At this juncture the Defendant, who bad been a flour factor, and had procured his certificate only in the year" 1817, took a house in Devonshire-street, Queen-square, and commenced business as a wine-merchant. Bathe then, in pursuance of the plan which had been concerted with Probert and the Defendant, went to the different persons with whom he had dealt, and bought large quantities of wine and spirits, which he afterwards sent to Holding's and Probert''. Those sent to Holding's amounted to upwards of two thousand pounds, at the cost prices. It was arranged that Holding was to keep the goods till after Bathe should have got through his difficulties, and then return them to him. Afterwards, in January, 1819, Bathe accepted a bill for 2,000/. which the Defendant was to arrest hint on in a friendly way; it was so dated as to be over due at the time of acceptance. Bathe, according to the plan concerted, went to George's Coffee-house, in the Strand, and was arrested by Radford, the offi cer—Noel, the Defendant's attorney, being pre sent, and was taken to the lock-up-house, where he executed a warrant of attorney to the Defendant, and was liberated. Bathe was afterwards ted two or three times by his bona fide creditors, and was bailed by the Defendant ; but at the approach of the Term he surrendered, and went to the King's Bench prison. Holdiog bad just before entered up judg m e n t on the warrant of attorney for 2,0001. and levied under an execution on the Plaintiff's goods. Bathe being now lodged in the King's Bench prison, be came impatient of the delay in the ulterior proceed ings ; but the Defesulant excused himself by say ing, that owing to some recent proceedings in the Court of King's Bench relative to a conspiracy, he could not get the Gentlemen in the City on whom he had relied to do any business at present. Bathe continued in the King'. Bench, and after he had lain there two mouths, a commission was sued out against him by one of his real creditors. Whilst there he gave the Drfendsiit bills of parcels and re ceipts in regular form for the goods which he had sent him, charging thent to him about 30 per cent. under the cost price, hut all the money which he received was 101. paid by the Defendaut to Mrs. Bathe white he was in prison. Such was the case as it stood for the Plaintiffs, and was supported principally by the evidence of the bankrupt Bathe and his wife, corroborated io minor points by other witnesses. Mr. Maafttrare, on the port of the Defendant, before calling any evidence, objected that the Plaintiffs were in point of law not entitled to reco ver under the present form of action. If the story were true as stated by the witnesses who had been ezamined, it was under a concerted mid systematic fraud that these goods were obtained, and that consequently no property could vest iu tke bank ' rupt, who could not himself maintain an action to recover them, neither could his assignees, who claimed through him. The Loan CHIEF Jurrics decided against Mr. Marryatt's objection. The sellers of the goods must be taken to have &garotted to the sales made to the bankrupt, and consequently the property vested in him, and through him in his assignees. Mr. MARRYATT then addressed the Jury on the part of the Defendant. and nged the little credit that was due to a witness who was so tainted as by his own evidence it appeared the bankrupt Bathe was, by being a willing party in an attempt to chest bus creditor,. He contended, that the goods were really and truly sold by Bathe to his client (at a cheap rate, no doubt), and actually paid for, as he should prove by the evidence of the Defendant's brother, and other witysoes. Thomas Holding sworn and examined by Mr. DENHAN.—He is brother to the Defendant in this action, and lived with him as clerk ; he remembers his brother buying goods from Bathe; he was not always present when the goods came in from Bathe, but iu every instance that he was present the goods were accompanied by hills of parcels ; he sow his brother pay, on the 27th November, 1818. 5651. 10*. to Bathe. who gave a receipt for it ; to also Saw various ether sums amonntiug to 430/. paid by his brother to Bathe. between the 9th December. 1818, and 19th January, 1819. — Various receipts being shewn to the witness, he identified them as the receipts for the money he had seen paid, and swore that they were in Bathe's hood-writing. us also a receipt for 313 i. 10s. the money for which he did not see paid.)— , He remembered two pipes of Constsntia coming, which Bathe made n present of to Mrs. He remembered iu February, 1819, taking 601. to blithe. with his brother's complimenie, Ana had sent' Mtn The Money he promised to lend him. Bathe said he would send him some brandy in payment, and in Febrnary he sent accordingly twenty-five gallons dr brandy. William Cousins Moons and 'examineri...He was at Mr. Wilding's house, sod saw him pay Mr. Bathe 3151. 10s.; a receipt wal given for the money—[a re ceipt 'hewn to the witness, which he identified as the rettipt *kith he saw given by Bathe ] Cross-examined by Mr. A DOLItHUS—IIe was at Mr. Holdiug's in the way of business as a draper; he lives at Kensington, where he has kept a shop eighteen years; he was rejected as bail for Prohert in the vent 1819; he was a bankrupt in July 1817; and h':.l paid a dividend of 61. in the pouud. Wilkius sworn.—lie carted several par eels of wine from Bathe's to Mr. Holding's, and took some papers with them sealed up. Thomas Smith and Charles Appleton, also car men, proved the carting of parcels of wine also front Bathe's to the Defendant's. They also car ried sonic papers besides the permit. Mr. J. F. Nom., the Defendant's attorney, proved having seen various receipts of Bathe, to the amount of 1,3001. and upwards. in Mr. Hold ing's hands, prior to the arrest of Bathe at Hold ing's suit. Mr. GURNEY made an able reply, after which The LORD CHIRP JUSTICL summed op the evi dence to the Ju►y, who, without a moment's hesi tation. found a verdict for the Plaintiffs—Damages 2,040/. This cause occupied the Court the whole of the day, and was not concluded till nearly six o'clock in the evening. COURT of COMMON PLEAS, Guit.sum.r., TIBURIIDAT, JAN UMIT IS. PARSONS V. WAININGTON ♦ND WILLIAMS. This was an action broiailiibylllePTis;i4,who is a journeyman.earpenter, against the Defendants, one of whom is a master-butcher. in Leadenhall market. and the other ■ watchman, to recover a compensation in damages. for injury sustained by an assault and false imprisonment. There were several witnesses examined on both sides, and some of the most positive contradictory testimony ever given on oath iu a Court of Jus tice. Stripped of this single circumstance. the trial, which occupied the whole day, was wholly unworthy of notice. The witnesses for the Plaintiff, a Mrs. Ann Flague, who had known him for nitre or ten years ; her daughter, ■ girl about • twelve years of age; a fellow-workman of the Plaintiff's, named Cro-s; and a respectable tradesman who had uu previous acquaintance with tither of the parties, deposed, that the Plaintiff went to the shop of the first named Defendant on a Saturday night, in Septem ber last, and purchased some meat, for which he paid a one-pound note, and on counting over the change given to him, discovered it to be a shilling short. The person who gave the change insisted that he had given the proper sum, upon which the Plaintiff expressed himself somewhat angrily, bat was persuaded by the elder female to go away, and return on Monday to settle the dispute. They uc cordiugly left the shop together. sad when they had proceeded to a short distance were overtaken by a person, who told them the shilling which had been missing was found. Thereupon they returned to the shop together; the Plaintiff received the shilling, and they were quietly going away, when the watchman. by the direction of Mr. Warming ton, collared him, to take him in charge. ye re sisted the attempt to secure him, and insisted that he had done nothing to justify the taking of him into custody. Whereupon the Defendant Wil liams. being the watchman, struck him with a stick on the head, repeating the blow, after retiring two or three steps to give it greater effect, with all the vengeance he could. The butcher and his men also were stated to have joined in the assault, by crying, "Nerve Ain at !" and by forcing him back wards sod forwards. The result was that the Plain tiff was knocked down, and afterwards taken to a surgeon's, whose assistant found a contused wound on his head. which bled copiously, and dressed it, the Plaintiff afterwards being conveyed home in a coach. The evidence for the defence, given by Mr. War ' mington's brother and four of Ins men, and by at meat salesman and another butcher of LPadenhall. market, poortrayed the conduct of the Plaintiff as most outrageously violent and riotous, in tanning the Defendant, calling him repeatedly " scoun drel," " swindler," and similar names, whereby a mob was gathered round the shop, and the busine,s of the Defendant completely put to a stand for the time. The watchman being sent for, in conse quence, to take away the Prisoner. was repeatedly and violently assaulted by the Plaintiff; and com pelled to strike him in return. The Plaintiff too we, represented to have run away down the whole. sale market, and there to have struck his head against a hook, and to have fallen senseless from ' the blow. The Plaintiff's witnesses did not think lie was at all intoxicated, while those of the Defendant repre• aented him as outrageously drunk, and conducting himself like • madman. Chief Justice DALLAS recapitulated the whole of the evidence to the Jury, leaving it for them to decide as to which set of witnesses was to be believed. Verdict for the Plaintiff—Damages 10/. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18. William Stewart, formerly a Lieutenant in the 37th regiment of foot, but not on the half-pay list of that regiment, sometime in the Storekeeper- General's department of the British army while in France, and described in his schedule as a Coil merchant, was opposed by a gr.ut number of his creditors, on the ground of various frauds p►ac tised in obtaining bills and rods amounting in the aggregate to a large sum. The transactions, how ever, in which the Insolvent was engaged, were severally not very extensive. Some of the bills which he had obtained having passed through va rious hands, the Insolvent did not conceive it ne cessary to insert in his schedule the names of any of the holders, but thought it •suticient to place the debt in the name of the person who had origi nally accommodated him. This omission was ctn. ',Urea by the Coati sis in eviiiettes etatisfloutinient desire to avoid giving no'ice In those creditors who Were lierhstis most interested in °Minting his dma charge. He had also omitted to stole in his eche. dttle, that he had pawned a silver tea-pot 10/. which he had bought with one of iliore aChommodation hills • few days previously, fir up wards of 20 guineas. this omission appeared to the Court very suspicious, for the Inso!vent bring the son-in.law of a roan Oho had only a few months since taken the benefit of the Act, and haviiig bees, I - sell discharged under informer Act in the year 1811. he Could not be erosion' of the iii• , •essity that exist ed 'if inserting in his shedule a full account of all Isis property. Under thaw circuiliihnces, the In solvent was remanded, that be mss amend his schedule, with the intimatiots, that when this Was done; the Conti should then proceed to pronounce such judgment as the nutife of the case might warrant. HORSE-CHAUSTING. John Howe, a dealer in horses, wee apposed by Mr. Pollock, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Tancred, soil Mr. Manning, on behalf of General MackaYi Mr. \Fright., Mr. Chapman, and several other Gem. Berrien, on the ground of gross frauds practised towards them in selling unsound horses, with war runty as sound and free from vice. From the evi dence of these Gentlemen, it appeared, that they had been severally induced by flaming advertise ments in the public papers of horses to be sold, " the property" as the advertisements for the part stated, " of a Gentleman goVg abroad," or of "a Gentleman giving tip keeping horses," to purchase horses from the Prisoner, with air engagement, that if the horses did nut please the purchasers the money should be returned. The horses uniformly proved to be unsound, mitt were returned within a the or two; but the Pr:. goner, after prosnising on the return of the hm.e. to deposit the money on the following day in some banking-house, took care to keep out of the way. and the parties received neither horse nor money. The Prisoner very freely admitted all these facts, but added, that be had no interest in the• trans actions, further than n compensation for I s is trouble its the sale of each horse of five per cent. ; that all the horses belmiged to another person, • notorious horse chaunier in the west ciitt of the town, and that this person always receiv ed the purchase money. lie also stated, the. it was poverty which drove him to the commission of such acts. He had, lie said. some years ago owed upwards of 2,0001. to different persons to England, and, among others. a large sum to Mr. Wilson. one of the Members fur the City, and is Mr. Kaye, the Solicitor for the Bank. That he left England and went to Canada, where, by in dustry and care, he collected the sum of 2.900 t. with which he returned to England ; that on his arrival he advertised for all his creditors to rime inn for payment of their debts, and that he had pai•.l them 201. to the pound, with interest, fur the years or his absence. This act of justice and of extraordinary honesty reduced his funds very low, and he wits obliged to embark what remained to him in business as a horse-dealer. ilis partner'• debts here fell upon him, and he was compelled again to go to Canada. Eutenug the. River Saint Lawrence, he suffered shipwreck, and lost all his property. He with difficulty returned to England, having obtained a passage from the charity of a merchant in Quebec, and on his arrival in London without a vhillittig, was compelled to resort to 'he first means that offered of obtainiog a shilling for his immediate support. It was his misfortune to meet with the individual alluded to, and lie could not resist the temptation. The COURT viewing all the circumstances of the .case, considered it so pregnant •icith fraud, that they felt themselves bound to mark their sen;e of it by enforcing the severity of the Act of Pasha ment to its utmost limit. They lamented that the terms of the Act did not enable them to deprive him of the advantages he might derive from enjoying the benefit of the rules of the King's Bench, and to shut him up within the walls of tie prison ; but such power as the Legislature allows(' them they should exercise. 'They therefore declared that John Howe should not be entitled Lithe benefit of the Act, nor he discharged from custody until he shall here been in prison at the suit of his oppos ing. creditors for the space of five years from the date of filing his petition. POLICE. 11•111103 t . _ _ SLAVERY. A black man, named Evans, a native of Jamaica, was brought before the Lord Mayor under circumstances %amine to those which gave rise to the celebrated question decided through the in lion of Granville Sharp in the Court of King's Bench, " Whether a slave, upon setting font upon the shores Of Great Britain, was any longer a slave, or was (rum that moment free ?" The Captain of a Jamaicaman appeared against the Black, who is a hue looking young fellow, of about 20 years uf age. This gentleman bad, it appeared from the statement uf one of the Marshalmen, endeavoured to compel Evans to toil with him to Jamaica, but t►e Black liking the stale of liberty better than that slate from which he had escaped, and in whirls a visit to Jamaica might again subject him, refused in the most positive and determined manner to leave England. The Captain produced • itasebbill to the following effect Five Founds Reward. Apprentice absconded. T. Evans, apprentice to Captain P. lately left St. Bartholomew's HOF. pail, where he bad been placed fur the benefit of ins health, and has not been since heard of. Previously he resided with his late master, Captain H." Then toilettes a description of the Black's person sad dress. The Complainant stated, that the Deft °dant was his •p. prentice by virtue of an indenture executed at Jamaica on the 3d of June, 1820. Ile purchased the Defendant front Captain H. and •ppreeetieed him to the situation of his attendant, after which he took him as au apprentice. The •pprenticeahip 111111 to empire at the close of five years. The thick was placed by him in our hospital in London, and he expected that the moment his apprentice was recovered be would return to his duty. The Black, instead of doing so, decamped. The indenture was halide d in. The Lord Mayor asked by what authority the Defend ant had catered into a contract in the Island of Jennie a, of which he was • native, sod expressed • with to see some documents to prove that t►e Black, previously to his signing the instrument, had been invested with t►e privilege Indis pensable upon occasions of contract The Captain said the Black had been manumitted before he was bound, according to ibe usual forms. The Lord Mayor said, if the deed of msnumimion was producible, she Defendant was of roam tes all intrut• reel purposes as completely bound to the trims of osmoses as if be wele a native of this (gantry 1 but if net, the in. ference might naturally be, that his c bject ins) to serve arose (Fenn a suspicion that by his oir.elituce be could be doing I I - A X . ,