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• We boot fs them valuable volumes a systematic arrange s'l"' 111 dim great public works which owe their die Millar!, Wealth, skill, and public spirit of the of Great Britain, and which it is the aim of the rissas il lt rex so to place in detail before his countrymen, as to lONS within theta a similar spirit of enterprise, by r obin *pm to appreciate their patriotic origin, and their locklllllllllwlts. Ile has amassed a great treasure of in. lali every subject connected with the great publis ugageeedesa which he describes, and he writes upon than whits demon and precision which may enable tboee, foe wbeffolnititeOlOsi and excitement his work it principally kneaded, to turn his labours to gohd accoant. Tho following introductory delineation of our Empire, feom the pen of a foreigner, must be perused by every Eng lishman with a feeling of pardonable pride anti exult. ation : To analyse with regularity the elements of whiet the British purer is composed, we have first examined the institutions and the operations of the military power,' and of the' naval power.' We hive pointed out the means, offensive and defensive, of a country which naterehas separated from the rest of the world by the °bate ries of theses, and which nautical Pcience 41as surrounded by nm ., pats hitherto impregnab% ; ramparts which ' , cereal* ea means of eittask ; which convey annirs from one hemisphere to another. end Which, even on the most distant shores, meet with England still . Wieland. equally prudent and ambitious, possesses on MT, cruel.. nent, out-poets which, according to the fluctuations other fortune, In turn give aid to her in conquest. and refuge in retreat ; and Which, at all times, are thids for the enterprise and activity d er commerce *lnch Waves every danger, and never shows itself 60 rest. " Let as pause for a moment to contemplate this spectacle, mss. I esenipled in she bistory of nations. In Europe, the British cm- rim borders et wow towards the north, upon Demerit, noon Ger. many. 10100 itedisod,apon France ; tow crt.s the south, upon Spain, 1 0 011 6 10 y. vp.ulhalr, upon Westin Turkey. It bokis t:e kers of the Atlnatic sad the Mediterranean ; it commands the cm.uth (nth, Black Sea, as well as of the Baltic. No sooner had its navy. the arbiter of the Archipelago, ceased to be adverse to the cause of Greece, than on the ir.stant the ports of Peloponnesus found neW lioendors ii. the posterity of the Ileraclides : and, from Corinth to Tenet:us, the sea which leads to the Bosphorus became to the de - strident , of the Argonaut! the mad to victory, and 60 a second and a richer guidon Ili:tee—national independet.ce ! In Europe the British Empire permits this conquest. " In Ameriewit rives boundaries to Russia towards the Pole, and to the United States towards the temperate regions. Under the Torrid Zoos it reigns in the Infest of the Antilles, encircles the wife( Sltsico, till. at last, it meets those new s atty. which it was the first to free Iron their dependence on their mother country, se make duns more surely dcper.deut upon its own coniniertial in dustry ;--and, at the seine time, to scare, in either hemisphere, any mortal who might endeavour to snatch the heavenly lire of its genius, or the secret of its ennquests, it beide, midway between Africa and Antrrica, and on she road which connects Europe with Asia, that rock to which it chained the Prometheus of the modern worm. s' In Africa, frem the centre of that island do'nted of ya--, un. der the symbol of the ClO6O, to the safety of every Christian flag.— the British empire enfones from the Barbary states that respect _ . they - which pay io no other power. From the . toot of the Pillars of Bereules, it arnica dread into the heart of the remotest provinces of lllorocco. On the shores of the Atlantic it has built the forts of the Gold Coast and of the Lion's Mountain. It is from thence tat it strikts the prey which the Black furnish to the Eitropean nets of men ; and it is there that it attaches to the soil the freed men whom it munches from the trade in claret. Ott the same con. mem, beyowd the tropics, and at the point rearest to the Austral Pole, it has poaseSsed itself of a iihelier under the very Cape of Storms. Where the Spaniards and the Portuguese thought once of securing a port for their strips to touch at—where the Dutch per ceived tie capabilities beyond tiptoe of a plantation—it Is now rata. hlishiag the cabin, or a second British people ; and, uniting Eng lisb activity with Ilatayian patience, at this moment it is extending around the Cape the boundaries of a settlement which will increase in the South of Africa, to the size of those states which it has founded in the North of America. From this new bees of action and of conquest, it casts its eyes towards India ; it discovers, it arises, the stations of most importance to its commie:al progress, and thus renders Itself rite exclusive ruler over the passes of Attica, from the eastof another hemisphere. " Finally. as ropch dreaded in the Persian Gulf, amithe Eryth roan Sea, as in the Pacific Ocean and tl:e Indian Archipelago, the Flostisk empire, . the possessor of the finest countries of the East, beholds its factors reign over eighty millibns of tubjects. Tut conquests of its nierkhants is Asia begin where those of Alexander crascat, and where the Terminus of the le:mians could never reach. At this moment, trim the hanks of the Indus to the frontiers of Clena—from the mouths of the Ganges to the mountains of Thi bet ; all acknowledge the sway of a mercantile company, shut up in a Timmy 'trots of the city of London ! " Thus, from one centre, by the vigeur of its institutions. and (.0 advanced state of its civil and military arts, an island,which. iu to Oceanic Archipelago, would scarcely be ranked in the third cfass, makes the effects of its industry, and the weight of its power, to be Mt in every extrensil of die four divisious of the globe: while, at the same time, it vs peopling and eielliling a IS Oh, which will follow its . laws, aid speak its l anguage, and will adopt its manners with its trade, its arts, its cut:lva:ion, and its enlightens sneer. This immense act wiae-sprestd extent of colonies and pro vinces, which would Mlle ,the weakness and the ruin of any other ration, constitutes the safety and the power of the B la people. It is because England is separated from her exterior provinces by enormous distances that she is not vulnerable through them : it is krcause these provinces arc separated one from another by distances SJ great that they Minot at the Fame time fell under the blows of ens adversary. To attack them is difficult ; tn blockade them is i epossibie. To supply the warts of industry, of trade, and of go 'eminent, between the mother country anti possessions scattered' root) the shores of every sea, a vast number of ships is necessary, re.n in time of peace ; and these ' , hips ready to set sail at a mo ment's notice • towards the 'berated point, carry thither reinforce mans and succour, which render it impregnable, either by famine or by force." There is certainly wherewithal here to excite the wonder, should it fail to stimulate the enterprise, of " the firm Nation !" Taking in connexion with all that the writer exhibits of the roads, canals, aqueducts, bridges, &c. Re. in the interior of our own " little Island," it must be actually difficult for the mind of a Frenchman to elevate itself to the conception of a power at once so cot:', sct and so magnificent. If the Parisians have any taste for this sort of imitation, the Baron Dopin has given them enough to copy after. Nor can wo here help pausing to hint, en prom„ t, how infinitely im portant it is that our system of Government, civil and I financial, should be so planned as to promote, at all times I as much as possible, the social welfare and commercial ' prosperity of so distinguished mid gifted an empire as is encircled within the wooden walls of Old Etirjantl. As I for tile French Government, her rulers must becdme much snore enlightened, and her subjects much more rationally and intellectually free, before either their public works any other substratum of their national strength can at all come into competition with those of England. We du not' say this from vanity. IVe give it as a secret itttettded specially for their own private ear. The gigantic ef forts of mental and mechanical skill which this display of the econmelvial pour). If Great Britain unfolds to our ad miration, were adopted, executed, and extended with us by the genius of freedom, and under the auspices of a mild, parental, and protective Government. The European Con tinent is not at present suited to the patronage of any. great achieve-tnents in this way. If we wish to learn, for in stance, by how many, and• what sort of obstac'es, civil and military, the spirit of' improvement is counteracted and de- Pre.sed in France, the following sample may suffice for our edification:— ainte. This is about one-half of Abe total lewd' of the canals elhich hive been undertaken within the 'peel/dbl . lixty years." It were as well to issue an interdict at ono! ageing an ' projects of national improvement, as to Nine them as above described, throuJi the Selfishness and intrigue of constituted authorities. The Baron Dupin has rendered a Most essential service to his country in thus laying before it the fruits of his ae sitluous inquiries and his personal investigations. His vo lumes are replete with new and important matter ' and the translation is so ably exccus e d, a s t o j us tify es in highly congratulating the public on their appearance in an Fair lish dress. ClanChM ON FEMALE nE.4urr. We have abridged the following lively and amusing article from the last Number of the Afontllly Magazine. Our limited space obliged us to condense it, but we have omitted nothing of its spirit : "Oh ! Titan ! Oh Raphael ! I mild almost fancy this Bisect of paper to be one of your tablets, my desk an easel, my pen a painting-brush ; so iinpossibie does it seem that the beauty I am about to paint should not inspi re me with a geste equal to your ow n ! Come then, the colours sod the ground prepare." This inkesaand is my palette. I handle my pen, as if there were the richest bit of colour in the world at the end of it. The reds and whites look as if 1 could est them. Look at that pearly tip at the end of the ear. The very shade of it has a glow. What a light on the forehead! What amaoisture on the lip ! What a soul, twenty fathom deep, in the eyes! Look at me, Madam, if you please. The eye right on mine. The forehead a little more in. dined. Good. What an expression ! Raphael, it is clear to me that you had not the feeling I have: for you could paint such a portrait, and I cannot. • " It has been justly observed, that heroines are best painted in general terms, as in Paradise Lost. Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in het eye, &e. *by some striking instance of the effects of their beauty, so its Homer, where old age itself Is astonished at the sigh( al Belot, and titles not wonder that Paris has brought a Waren his country for her sake. " The case is different when a writer describes a real person, or chooses to acquaint us with his particular taste. In the Dream of Chaucer is an admirable portrait of a woman, supposed to be that of Blanche, Duchess of John of Gaunt. Anacreon gives us a whole length of his mistress, in colours as fresh as if they were painted yesterday. The blue eye is moist in its sparkling; the cheek, which he compares to milk with roses in it, is young for ever. Oh Titian, even thy colours are dry compared with those poetry ! " it happens luckily for me on the present ocetsion, that I can reconcile particulars with generals. The truth is, I have no particular taste. I only demand that a woman should be womanly ; which is not being exclusive. I think also that any body who wishes to look amiable, should be so. The detail, with me, depends on a sentiment; for instance, I used to think I never could tolerate flaxen hair ; meeting one day with a lovely face that hail flaxen )et me.. _ locks about it. I thought for agood while after, that flaxen was vottr only wear. Harriet 0---• made me take to black . ; and yet, it' it hail not been for a combination of dark browns, 1 should the other night have been converted to the superiority of light brown by Harriet 1). Upon the ' whole, the dark browns, chestnuts, &c. have it with me ; hut this is because the greatest number of kiad eves that 1 have met with, have looked from under locks of that, colour. I find beauty itself a very poor thing unless' beautified by sentiment. The reader may take the con cession as pleases, tither as an instance of abundance of sentiment on my part, or as an evidence of want of proper ardour and impartiality. But I cannot (and that is the plain truth) think the most beautiful creature beauti ful, or be at all affected by her, or long to sit next her, or dance with her, or sing with her (if I could) or walk in a field or a forest with her, or take her arm even into a din ing-room ; or kiss her at Christmas, or on April-fool day, or on May-day, or on any other day, or dream of her, or wake thinking of her, or reel a want in the room when she has gone, or a pleasure when she appears. " But to come to my portrait. Artists, I believe, like to begin with the eyes. I will begin, like Anacreon, with the hair. " Hain should be abundant, soft, flexible, growing in long locks, of a colour suitable to the skin, thick in the mass, delicate and distinct in the particular. The mode of wearing it should differ. Those who have it growing low in the knape of the neck, should prefer wearing it in locks hanging down, rather-than turned up with a comb. The gathering it, hawever, in that manner, is delicate anif f-aninine, and suit: many. In general the mode of wearing the hair is to be regulated according to the shape of the head. The ringlets hanging about the forehead suit al most every body. On the other hand, the fashion of part ing the hair smoothly, and drawing it tight back on either side, is becoming to few. It has a look of vanity instead of simplicity. 'Flie face must do every thing for it, which is asking too much, especially as the hair, in its freer state, is the ornament intended for it by nature. Hair is to the human aspect, what foliage is to the landscape. Its look of' fertility is so striking, that it has been compared to flowers, and even to fruit. The Greek, and other poets, talk of hyreginthine leeks, of clustering locks (in image taken from grapes), of locks like tendrils. The favourite epithet for a Greek beauty was " well-haired ;" and the salmi epithet was applied to woods. Apuleius says, that Venus herself, it' she were bald, would not be Venus. So entirely do I agree with him, and so much do I think that the sentiment of any thing beautiful, even where the real beauty is wanting, is the best part of it, that I prefer the help of artificial hair to the ungraceful want of it. Ido not wish to be deceived. I would know that the hair was artificial, and would have the wearer inform me so. This would show her worthy of being allowed it. I remember when I was at Florence, a lady of quality, an English woman, whore beauty was admired by every body ; but never did it appear so admirable to me, as when ate told j me one day. that the ringlets that hung front under her cap, were not her own. Here, thought I, it is not artifice that assists beauty ;it is truth. Here is a woman who : knows that there is beauty in hair, beyond the material of it, or the pride of being thought to possess it. Affec tation and pretension spoil every thing : sentiment and sim plicity warrant it. Above all thietgs cleanliness. This should be the motto of personal beauty. Let a woman keep what hair she has clean, and she may adorn or in crease it, as she please. Oil, for example,, is two different things on clean hair and unclean. On the one, it is but an aggravation of the dirt ; to the other, if not moist enough by nature, it may add a reasonable grace. The best. how- I ever, is undoubtedly that which can most dispense with it. A lover is a little startled when he finds the paper in which a lock of hgir has been enclosed, stained and spotted as if it had wrapped a chegscake. Ladies, when about to give away locks, may as well omit the oil that time, and be contented frith the washing. • If they argue that it will not look so glossy in those eyes in which they desired it to shine most, It them own as much to the favoured parson, and he will never look at it but their candour shall give it •• When the engineer In chief of any frontier department draws a double lustre. up a plan for a road, a bridge, a canal, a lock, &c., he must first Love adds a precious seeing to the eye; sad o..is plant() the Colonel of Military Engineers, whose direr. b„,„,,,i. and bow much does not sincerity add to love ! t..on is in th e d istr i ct w h ere the roposed works must But es ItltTt . 14 no connexion betw p een the departmental division aril " The poets of antiquity, end the modern ones after them, that or the military stations, the same Colonel of Engineer+ is tie- talk touch of yellow and golden tresses, tresses like the speedy obliged to discuss a plan with the engineers of the bridges morn, &c. Much curiosity has been evinced concerning and causeways of two or three different department' ; and recipro cally an engineer of bridges and csurewaye is forced to defend his thisfamous poetical hair , the nature of pion in opposition to two or three dinciors of fortifications. Now iety shown in hoping that it was not rill. May I venture these oaken, wit, are perfectly Independent of each other, taking to say in behalf of red hair, that I am one of those in , Oeir grasnds standing to their own respective powers, and judg- whose eyes it is not so very shockiti. , . Perhaps, as " pity lig according to their own panieular knowledge, scarcely ever come melts the soul to love," there may be something of such a to an dttlerstaading together. The matter icreferred, according to • feeling in my tenderness for that Pariah of a colour. Per custom. to a committee at Paris. Theo arises the conflict of dif tcreat pretentious; and without any acquaintance with the sites . hips there arc more reasons, all very good - natured : but so tJo or lieu:diet. as irrevocable decision is pronounced on a plan it is, I find myself the ready champion of all persons who w hich has been the result of deep e an s idefaiwa, and in which the are at a disadvantage with the world, especially women, Ichnet by attentive calculation, has endeavoured to surmount the and sociable ones. Hair of this extreme complexion sp diffieultin which the projec ed site may invent. pears never to have been in request, and yet, to say nothing Thrgv inconveniences are fait at ell times , bemuse they depend on permanent institu t i ons . I n t i mes o f war an d tremble there is of the general liking of the ancientajor all the other shades 47:other scourge which avails our public works ; it is an evil which 'of yellow and gold, a good red-headed commentator might cm never exercise such an influence in England ; this evil is the render it a hard matter to pronounce, that Thcocritus has P nervy Drew treasury. In most nations war interrupts, or at least not given two of his beautiful swains hair amounting to a ',lays du execution of works of Remelt! utility, the expense of • • o. re fiery. Fire-red is the epithet, however it may be which escort be defrayed by a treasury overwhelmed with debt ; nVi hut in Great Ifirimin, war, by the attivity which constitutes its Unuent o44 e , tence, imparts a new impulse to public works. By consigning Utith fiery-tressed heads, both in their bloom. these works to the enterprising spirit and the activity of individuals, "I do not believe the golden hair to have been red ; but the Brigid' Oovernment substitutes for the temporary efforts which this I believe, that it was nearer to it than most coionrs, it mien he enabled to make by a oupertiuity of taxes, the perms- and that it went a good deal beyond what it is sometimes 'tent efforts of the public at large, in funhersnee of their own in ed to have been, auburn. The word yellow, a con temns. of which they are well qualified to judge. Thus from 1790 suppos vertible term for it, will not do for auburn. Auburn is a in Ilstgi . . an intervei which included four ye of peace and eleven "'" wrzi 'Vivaria of 1,400 miles of canals were cut in England rare and glorious, coloitr, and I suspect will always be 24th : e Andrea by us of the north, *bete the fair cowtplets that recommended gottleu deli are scoter to be-met at they are difficult is the south. Ovid and Aut. rs, the two greatest masters of the aseieht world is ring external beauty, both seem to hsve refer ee d it t o en, notwithstanding the popular - ht the other's fa : unless indeed, the hair o f i s t dark too they .4 ground for auburn. At all' entire*, that it is not the golden hair of the ancients bai been proved to me beyond doubt by a memorandum in inypossession ) worth 11 . 1 thoustild tteatit, of tit/ I ran/ed. This Is a solitary h a i r o f Ga the nois Lucretla Bo "a whom Ariosto has so pr s is e d ,for her virtues ; arid *hot the rest of the world is tat con tented to call a wretch. It was given me by a wild ac- Inaintance, who stole it from a luck of her hair, preserved in the Ambrosian library at Milan. On the envelope he put a happy motto And Beauty dram us wlttt a single hair. If ever hair was golden' . t is this. It is not red, it is not yellow, it is not auburn.; it is golden, and nothing else ; and though natursillooking too, must have had a surpris ing appearance in the mass. Lucretia, beautiful in every respect, must have looked like ti visite in a picture, an an gel from the sun. Every body who smelt cries out, and pronounces it the real thing. I must confess, atter all, I prefer the ant). rn, as we construe it. It forms, I think, a finer shade for the ski 1, a richet . Warmth, a darker lustre. But Lucretia 's hair must have been still divine. %Vat Sylvan, a_ man of genius, frhom I became acquainted with over it, as other acquaintaintea commence over a battle, was inspired on the occasion, with the Ibilowing Verses:— Borgia, thou once wet: almost toe august, • I And high for adoration { --now thou 'it dust - , TILE xixo w. GRANT AND NBT.LINODERY. All that remains of thee those plaits Infold This was an indictment preferred by John Fielder and i.— Ala- Calm hair 'bewaring with pellucid gold ! ridge against the detendants, Thomas Erskine Grant and Charles Paulen liollingbery, for' a conspiracy to extort money *an the The third line is not true to the matter-f ac t ; bdt th e whole is true to the spirit of It. The sentim e nt i m pli e d in prosecutors, under the pretence o f not bri ng i ng t h em up to rece i ve • i the judgment of th e C ourt , on a conviction obtained upo n an i n . the litstllne will he echoed by every bosom that has Worn dictment instituted by the present defendant Chant against thrm a lock of hair next it, or longed toto so. Mails at once for keeping a common gaming -house. There were also counts the most delis to ant: lasting of our materials, anti survives charging Ott defendants with Laving tkeited money far the put:, us like love. 1 : 1 , ; i,j o highs, is gaudy, sotocapivig froth t h e lapse ertaimpounditig a felo n y. idea of death, that with a lock of hair belowitinft to ti child, INtefendants pleaded Not (Gu i lty. ThtlivroaxEOrrai. said it uld eld be .* y for or a friend, we may almost look up to heaven end compare Mm teatime the outlines of the case very shortly. Y At the pmsecu.' notes with the angelic nature ; may almost say, ' I have a non of grant, for whom Hollinghery acted as attorney, a bill of piece of thee here, not unworthy of thy Lzing now,' indictment was found against Fielder and Aldridge, fat keep. FOREIIE•D.—There are fashions in be a uty as w e ll as ing a gaming -house. At this stage of the pro cee di ngs i t was intimated to the present prosecutors (Fielder and Aldrid ge) that dress. In Shakspeare's time it was the fashion to have fo ra sum of money the matter might be put an end to. The . pro. high foreheads, probably out of compliment to Queen I position not be ing entertaine d , the indi ctment wa s proceeded w ith, be' /Ilizabeth. - t bought 1 beautiful - • -- • -- • - if They were it to be equally , and indicative of wisdom : and if the portraits of the great men of that ery are to be trusted, wicloin and high foreheads were certainly often found togetlwr. Of late years, phy siognomies have declared for the wisdom of strait and compact foreheads, rather than high ones. I must own I have seen very silly persons with both. It must be allow ed at the same time, that a very retreating forehead is apt to bed no accompaniment of wit. With regard to high ones, they are dften confounded With foreheads merely bald, and baldness, whether natural or otherwise, is never handsome; though in men it sometimes takes a character of simplicity and firmness. Accarding to the Greeks, who are'reckoned to have been the greatest jtulges of beauty, the high forehead never hove the palm. A certain con ciseness carried it. A forehead,' says Junius in his trea tise on ancient art, should be smooth and even, white, delicate, short, and of an open and cheerful character.' Ariosto has expressed it in two words, perhaps in one. Di Imo arorio era la fronte Heim. Orion.giatl. Fur. canto 7. Terse ivory was her forehead ' A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and de fying look. The word efrontery pines from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead, as vines are trailed over a naked wall. " And now in respect to EYES.-but as upon this sub ject I may be too copious for the space allotted me at pri.sent, I must begin another paper with my :riticiarn upon them." and in October l&12 the parties' whits ersowlearid at' the eliddleseX Sessions. They were not immediate,* bronchi up for judgment, and in the mean time they endeavouted to obtain the then Attorney General's fiat for a new trial. During this period the two present defendants were constantly watching idiom the pithlic offices to observe, no doubt, the steps that the parties were taking, that they Might cornett their measures accordieglet The but was rotated!, and then Grant and Hollingbery again entered into a negotietioa with the present prosecutors, and proposed that, for a certain sum, they would give up the nerve and thereby prevent their being Wrought up for judgment. A suns of Via was accordingly paid ; but tickling and Aldridge were notwithstanding brought up ter judgment, and stuttered to pay a tine of 3,100!. and to be int. prisoned one month. He should prove theselfacts tinder the hand-1 writing of Hollingbery, who lie should [show acted under the am thorlty of (leant. William Stafford, a solicitor, proved the record of the cons kilts of Fielder and Aldridge. It was put in and read. Witness was the solicitor of the delendants in that prosecution, and Hollingbery was die attorney for the prosecution. The prosecution was Mot. toted by Grant, who was the only witness, and was tried on the 111th October, Htei. Application was then made to the Attorney-Ge. aeral tot his flat for his writ of error. Witness attended at the At. torney-Generals chambers; he there saw Grant and Hollingbery !standing near the chambers, out of which they were coming as wit. ness went in ; they were abot apparently returning to his chambers as witness tante out. The fiat *as not granted. Cross.exantintel by the Coithote .SERGEANT.—At the trial yea say that Giant described himself as the prosecutor[ now can you tell what he said ? The witness here looked at his notes of the eel. donee, but found thet he had not taken down the precise words. Do you mean to swear thee the wur d " p rosecutor " appears ID the minutes of evidence ?—Yes, I do. John Fielder.—As the Attorney-General was aboid to examialt this witless, The Coat sto weer ric EANT asked the witness if he was the pros secutor in this ease ?—Yes, I am. And were you not convicted of keeping a gaming -house?—Yes, Mr. Cosistow SERGE/cue then submitted that the evidence of the witness could not be received, because he had been convicted of an ittfemous crime. The ATToRNI:IeGENieII•L had never heard that keeping a gaming -house rendered a nian incompetent to give evidence. The Loan CHIEF JusTier asked Mr. Denman if he had a ease in point. The COMMON-SERGEANT instanced the case of the hinges Edwards, 4 Term Reports. The AlieronNEY-GENERee said that that was a case of per jury. : The LORD CHIEF' Jt:sTicE then said that he would receive the evidence e end take a note of the objection. ' The witness then proceeded, and said that at the time the pron. eutlon was pending against him and Aldridge, lie had several meet ings with Hollingbery, who, on one of the occasions, said he would give witness over the rec o rd if witn ess wou ld g i v e hint 500/. and that would prevent him from being brought up for jud g m e nt. He also said that Grant was to hare 300/. for his own share. Witness did rot agree to the proposal, and Hollingbery went away, and said. " you will be convieted, and you should consider whether it weekd not be better to pay SCOI. than to be brought up for judgment and lined 1.00(11. besides being num hustled." Ilollingbery Called willed on witness again, and witness Mier some convev•atich gave Win a check on his banker, Ransom and Co., for CAL, and an undertaking was given to him by llollingbery, that neither he nor Grant should prosecute either witness or Aldridge, or sue them in any manner. Witness was not called up lin judgment either by Grant or Hollingbery, but he was afterwards called up for judg. meat by the Atterney-tieneral, which was in Hilary Term, 1824. Cross-examinee by the Com wow SERGEANT—IIe received Judgment not upon that indictment. He win Celled Up on two convictions, and paid a tine of 3,0001. and was imprisoned two months. (loss-examined by Mr. BR ottort AM—There Was an attachment against Grant, who had been in custody of an officer, but witness could rot tell how long. In consequence of a letter which lie re. mired from Mr. Swayne, which was also signed by Grant, he went to the lock-up-house two or three times, but did not ask for Grant, DOI did he go for the purpOft.of seeing him. The document was then put in and read. Philip Edwards, clerk to Messrs. Ransom and Co., proved the payment of the check to Hollingbery in person. Richard Grant, formerly clerk to Lord Gifford when he was At- I torney General. proved that alielication was made for a writ of , error in the can of the King v. Fielder. Ile remembered two per sons calling on 31r.11ollingbery's solicitor and another person whom he did not know. The AT Ton NET ElCEltet..—We have no other evidence, my Lord, for the prosecution. The Loan CHIEF JUSTICT.—There is no evidence wise Grant. The ATTORNEY UENETIAL.—I admit there is no further evidence. Mr. BROUGItAIt.—Oh, there is none at all; Grant must be se. quitted. The ATTORNEY C ENT nwt.--We must confine it to the count grim Hollitignery, particularly the ninth count, which charges him with compounding and desisting from all further proceedings. The Coat moo ShncEeNT apprehended that Hollingbery must be acquitted upon these counts. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said the defendant Grant must be sequined upon Rum all, and Hollingbery as to the conspirsey. The question was, whether the Attorney General could sustain alty or either of the other counts against him. Blr. CoostoN SERGEANT then rditremed the Jury for the de-. fetdant—He had very few observations to make on des case ; the indictmerlt fora conspiracy had entirely fallen to the ground ; be- 1 cause it was annual that there should be two persons implicated la such a crime. If the present p rosecution should succeed, lie thought he peneived a great day of jubilee fir the lawyers and the pit biers on this occasion. Nobody would venture to prosecute the& if receiminating prosecutions like these were entertained in Courts of Justice. Ihe principal charge having fallen to the ground, the question was a briber Hollingbery were guilty of coin. poundWg a felony, or receiving money in consideration of desist. eng front further proceeeines. But its die first place he should like 'to have had sonic otheir evidence besides that of Fielder, to prove that' the document which had been produced was in the hand. "siting of Hollingbery for it was perfectly clear that if there was 'any conspiracy at all, Fielder was the principal conspirator. It would have been extreseely desirable, therefore, to have had some confirmation of his test iniony. ski e o l t ie th A e clerk. the Learned C h un. Ble. Cost mow SERGEANT—WeII; the next point was as to the T e evidence 0 1 1 7.1 the i N b k A e L e 'a l i c e !: mode in which these things were stated in the itelictinent. The eighth count stated that lie had made a bargain with Fielder and Aldridge to receive a certain sum of money and let them go free.— Now it was quite clear that he received no money front them, there being no evidence to show that Aldridge had anything to do with it, and therefore that count need. But then the eleventh cone stated that Grant and Ifollingbery, knowing that Fielder ate; Aldridge had committed an illegal act, rtcerved from Fielder foo d hundred and fine mundi for the purpose of eomprontisingr the offence and desisting from further proceedings. Ile (die Com mon Sergeants thought his Lordship would say that this ass not properly compounding an offence. lie apprehended that corn. pounding an offence was suppressing it in the first instance, hut these parties went to trial. The whole of the bargain must be taken together, niid must be proved as stated. They could tot split it into two parts. Now, this count did not state thst there was any prosecution existing, and thenfore the desisting from all proceed noes was nOnsence, for there were tin proceedings stated from which they cored desist. Besides, it was incensetens to put these two charges together, for a compouneing impl red [bat there was 110 pro mo:nip, anti a desisting trout protecting,' negatived such an implication. And as the whole charge rested upon this eleventh count, he submitted that the defendants trust be acquitted. lie bagged also to observe, that ilea iestetieual was LIVERPOOL, IVEDNESDAY EVENING. Wind N.N.E..—lfigh Water. 1.0 min. past 2 o'clock. Arrived the Eliza Plummer, Stiles, from Jamaica ; and St. eorge. Bibby. from Dublin. roe Stcntor, Harris. from Alexandria for Liverpool, bin arrived Milford. The Eliza. °Tisdale, from Liverpool for Miramichi, was spoken !4th June, lat. 55, 7, long. IC. Alice, Richards, front Barbadoev, has arrived at the Clyde. &Ord yesterday the John and Thomas, Martin, for QaarlB and Jen', Scotland, fur Gibraltar. Our Cotton Market continues very dull and flat : 11d. has am We* for ifir winks and refused ; Ettptiang from ill& to 134., . • . . ..... ~ . . LA IP LrLELL/VNgeg • cotirr OF CIiANCERY,-Jirilr tv a irlf y ill i w s treeetl o mm uld e f i n ie er t l i t m il iftwe: ti ch s : 4ll4 . l6oll* • "4 ,l 7 l t hey t ° 6 l4jec iras eau t o t id herefo *: : l2lss t re he su rv iu r r e: c t . ! end efidence End a verdist tor him, itnd thus disetuutthosece ir l ibiorpt-o v. esivxtas* COIRPANT , . ii.i. sesutitnts instituted fit rake of Ms desetiPtinn• . !WANT ADM CA11144 cumitew. Pi L loansitte thin, seethed 4 to the Jury" diui • ilieLounttate said he weedd senjadgment in these No amt. ,th cni,' as there was no. e-" - spinst the defenthint 11111611111 ildnder -'• undergtood, E' , ...' mast Eh- - " ~. • thereittuas, h. ently . 4 this . 'i'leentsc ...1 on blonds* morning. He once.._ _ , with respeerio the. _...., +,c acquitted. The tuition phant and Castle Charity, that the patties declined .hying any !out td thtfr satisfadion, a cOIIW th•Y eux".--- scheme hcfbre the Court for the management of the Cheeky ; there.; testimony of Fielder; that lingtudy re4ived th fore the Court was called upon to detide the m a tt er as It was now ' purpose of abstaining fr oth einginift4 t 126111 M r !' on the recdrd. i if so. they must !Ind Mot guilty ; but if °thermic ti CLOSE or SITTINGS. quit him. His litSrinsitte said he *maid take this opportunity of stating A Juror—lkfCre ne•tonaider our wtrdict, I hate that the bitting+ in this Court will finish on the same day they did I.o:6l.iptene question, dies yohl Lodiship adtnit Lan year•Ananiely, on the 18th of August. man (Fielder) to be a ilyitnesstn hiEtihtt cause ? avroaxittr.oznEnt.L v. settibbitt. The Loeb CillEi' ./Lnitllt E —tit hainir he is competent . Ibm l• .n was occupied all the morning in hearing this cause. Iby law am bound to receive his evidence; but the credit di l'he • Yed, on the pan of the Tressunt of an Institudun in that evidence is tilt your conaideration. .....• ~ Ic . , Strand, for the relief of poor debtor, that a VIM ofi The Jury then consulted lot a short thee, and ga is I ilittitt ht . 0 sum of 600 L. a sum of 8,00 W., a sum of 18,000 1 ., and a ' Guilty against Hollingbery on the four .apt counts. NIA OtiPti f 012.0001. and a fraction, stock, standing in the name of Ito. I nn the seven first, and acquitted Grant altogithcrs bast Rdifells deceased, should be cleared to have been left to the lITLVESTER V. AAA ); • ~ ,- • CharitY. The quettion arose upon the construcV i on of the wohis in This was an action brought by the plain II: who is in 'Ridded the will. by which the testator bequeathed ail t e rest anti residue a liens to the defendant, an attorney, living si; Great James.streett of his Fair per Cent. Consuls in the Rank of England to the In. etildrthlow, to recover a compensation in daintages in consequence of the lauct having falsely and maliciously thitged him th cunt: mning a felony, and having had him appithenSed and en he; stitution. and qltio upon the construction Of the Ana of Parliament converting the Five per Cents into Fours. The nett of kin of the testator opposed the application of the Charity. (ore A filagistrate upon such false and malleitint Chile. e de . no i fendants in the first place, 'headed the gentril lade; iheceby deny: His Low:genii , vas clearly of opinion that the Charity h—ad ing the faits alleged by the plaintiff; he also plefided ajustilica , tionotetting forth that the plaintiff was his attic Clerk, and so= claim to the largest sum whatever; and that, although it was evi. I dent the testator had truant to give nothing but the subs of 1001. to , the Charity, yet he inul used weeds which conveyed all the =nail perintended the tommon law department in his Old ; that in such capacity he hail Various disbursements to account fol.; thid thosi except the 82.0001. td the Charity. If the parties welt disaatis. led with this judgments their only othe r step was td !shear the disbursements were entered by the plainti ff in a book kept to thri cause. ---.....`_ purpose; that the defend ant caused the said book to betunaffirti VP COURT OF KING'S B. ENCH, TIMISDAY, *tulle 7. jo by oneof his other Clirk s , and that th e balance wa s found to be sho rt f ist i, • • - - - 1 received ti articled ivas, - fiid it watt afterwards ascerthined that the plaintiff had sum of 71. Hlit. froth 4 Harding, another ar clerk of the said defehtlant; and also ttfa hum of one guinea from anothei person,' also in tlt employ of the:laid derendant, neither of which sums had been eitiered by him in thi s bn o k ; t h at the defendsni locked up the book in his private drawer on the loth of Jan. last, . and that on his return to his office on the folloiing day he found the drawer had been f:treibly opened tiiffthe bdok louden 4, that the plaintiff' hod left the office in company with another Clerk @n the said Ihth of January to go to his dinner, but he almost returned back tinder the pretence of . getting his great coat; that he was %ten standing about the office without any apparent reason, Out that the defendant considering these circumstances to render the con duet of, the plaintiff very suspicious.he caused him to be apprehet drd on the ground of his having stolen the book. it being the defend ant's belief that the plaintiff knew of the defendant's intention tit indict him for embezzlement. . . Mr. SCARLETT stated tie cane to jury. The plaintiff wits the son of a respectable mete/ min, of the Jewish persuasion, residing id the City. The derendent, as had been already stated to them,wsti e.mn, an attorney residing in Detest Jansmastreot; Bedford-row. The charge alleged against the defendant liras one of a very eetiouit description. The plaintiff' complained that Without any just or probable CtIUSC, the defendant had cast Upon him a Charge of a highly criminal nature, and which unleak disproved would most Materially affect his character and reputation in the world, and work him very serious injury. Ile need not say to men of business and experience that a tair reputation was Most essential to the well-doing of every man in society, and that no one ought to have his charkerer wilfully and malieloilelY dee wrested, whatever might be his situation in lilt I but more eff i t 2 cialidt was it necessary to maintain a pure and tingullied charactett when a person sought to become a member of the legal proration. The l'Ansequence or a nisreputable name to a ptimin of faith a pro., fession was at all times most serious, but more particularly so, if the attack upbn his character should come from his master, and 'Mould that master maintain a character for veracity and respecta bility, the injury would be so much the more aggravated. Such wan the nature of the injury of which the present plaintiff com plained. He should state very shortly the nature of the cennexiod which subsisted between the plaintiff and the defendant, in order that his learned friend, the Attorney-General, might not have it in his power to say, that the stateeent of the plaintiff's counsel lied compelled the defendant's counsel to enter into a fuller detail of lects for his own yindi cat i an; t h an he otherwise would have done: Ile Cele. Senile:o should abstain from relating the extent of his instructions, at the same time; he could not but obeenve, that Mr, Hall was, in every way, bound as a man of honour, to bring for. wand his witnesses t o su pp ort , if h e cou ld , the Charge which he had made against the plaintiff in his plea Of justification, and so give the plaintiff' an oppe • miry of meeting it. and preventing an im p e,sion going forth to the wor ld, ca l cu l ate d to preju di ce this young man, without having had the p oss ibili ty o f rep l y i ng to the column and of making the refutation of it all extensively public an the charge itself. He understood that Mr. Abraham Josephs, the Me thee Of the plaintiff (who bore the name of Sylvester, from the cir cumstance of his having an untie of that name), was carrying on a large business in the city, and wag desirous of placirg his son as art articled clerk to POITIZ. attorney. Mr. Sylvester lie.ving already been in an attorney's (Afire; anti Actittired tone experience in the ptofese lion, wished to effect his articles without being at the charge of premium ; an arran gemen t was t h ere f ore entere d i nto b etween Mr. Josephs and 3lr. Hall to this purport. It was thought if Mr. Jo- seplie could, from his extensive connexion, throw business in Mr. Hall's way, it would do the latter more service than if he were tai pay a premium, the profits of 1111Chobus;iness being likely to be moro than equivalent to a premium. It was therefore agricd that Jo sephs should pay 2001. in tour several bills cf else each; to bcccmc • due at different times, and that as they became dae on account of the business which he should have procurei the defendant should be taken, and if the profits derived Qom' h should be dahble the amount of the bill, the defendant should then remit the bill to him_ This was the fairest way in which he (Mr. Scarlet) could put the case for Mr. Hall. who, no doubt, thought he was doing nothing but what *as strictly correct in making such an arrangement, al , though pethapi there might be soinethnig not altogether regular iii thus snaring the profits of his business with a stronger. .111 r. Syl.: vester entered the service of the defendant in November 1822, and. continued iii it two years after this agreement was cieetited, thougn the articles were not stamped. In 11124 the defendant appointed the plaintiff to manage the common law department, and he intrusted to his care the book of disbursements, Which was always open for the inspection of the defendant and his other clerks. ttlen the first bill paid by 3lr. Josephs became due nothing was said. about it; but in the itecond rear (the bills being payable In 11123,, 24, 25, and 21,) he desired the young man to take an account of the proms of the business brought to the office by his father, when, it appeared the profits for that year amounted to 851. 18s. Bd. ilid half of which came very nearly to the mount of the second - bill This account has signed by the plaintiff; and the defendant. ft last Mr. Hall thought he might as well have another ardchai clerk, although he, at that time, had two in his office. The Jury ought to be Informed that an attorney could not legally hate mole than two ;mated clerks at one time. He should be able to prove that about the period when the defendant conceited the project of getting rid of this young man he entered into an agreement with a person to assign over one of his then clerks, in order, no doubt, to make room for a new one, it being a profitable thing sometimes to get an erticled Clerk with a large premium. • He begged the Jury to mark particularly this circumstance, because he meant this d a y to insist that the whole of the defendant', conduct, uejust and dis honourable as it had been towards this young man, wets Mandril upon his wish to get hint out of his office. The defendant rem♦ municand his wish to 31r. Josephs that the plaintiff ehould be assigned over to :some other attorney, upon which the latter said he should have no objection, provided the defendant would give up the bills. l'pon this proposal being mentioned Hell took time to came eider. It appeared, however. that he had alreeitly agreed frith another clerk to come into hie office, who dectertlingly came, .and this was the very young nean who was to be assigned over to the defendant's Agents in thecountry. At this tithe the disbursement book was !sing open, in which the defendant himself free quently wrote. The book was not half filled up, but be desired it to be given to him ; and he gave the new clerk another bock. His conduct towards the Id:timid' at tide period was very ewe and of that sport which generally led to a dissolution of the relation between master anti *Wane A short time after the defendant had get }tomes lion of the old disbursement book, he handed it to ene of the clerks, named Headley, to cast up, to see whether it wan right. That:per , son said the figures had been so much altered, that it Was doubtful what were the auras intended to be entered ; and what was Cites , I I ordinary, some of these entries were in the hand-writing rlflase de fendant himself. The clerk therefore told the defendant, it was im. , possible to ascertain what the charges were, Isidro he went over the book with Sylvester. The defendant immediately objected to duck a course, and said lie had great suspicionof Sylvester's conduct, and should certainly indict hint. The clerk ren onstrated, but he re. , prated his resolution to do so, and desired Headley to sign the book. Ile refused to testify to its correctness. During the *hole a this time, it should be remembered, the bank had not been oust the hands of the defendant. On the eteth of January, without the least previous intimation to the plaintiff - of his suspicion &blue hit having taken the book, or any notice whatever being giveneo the pleintiffs friends, a police-officer carno to she defendant's office, and, by dire/hid:l of the defendant, apprehended the plaintiff; and what was most extraordinary. Mr. Headley was desired to be take: , up also. They were conducted to the Police-office at !laden ate den, and Mr. flail, when before the 31anistmte, Stated that lie hid lost a book, in which sonic money teceived,by Sylvetket °uglier! have been entered, but was not, and that without the book lie rad no evidence to . prove the charge of embezzlement, and lie ste,t pected the ',Lunt& to have stolen the behk, And that htt oilier clerk, Headley, was privy to the fact of hit having done so. Mr. Sergeant Se!lon required sonic better evidence than this to sustain a charge of felony, but as Mr. Hall could not g i v e g uy further evidence , !leerily kas dismissed, and Sylvester eteered iahi his own recognisance so appear when called evil to answer thin charge. The young man then Memel! back to the definident't office, anti frequently asked Mr. Ilah when it was intended to gd and make good his charge; the defendant appointed several time* for the purpose, but never attended, and the Magistrate at length . discharged the plaintiff from his recognizance. It was cleat that the defendant nester intended to ptucced with the charge; his ob ject was accomplished, es it gas impossible that Mr. Syiteitct could any longer stay in the Office of such • perste°. He arm& ingle lett Mr. Hall, and et a few days after the present action Was brought. And ho*dhl Mr. Hall meet it ? lie met it by a stripe name, which if he should have c ourage to attempt to p rove, ecidlei he answered la a manner that he ( Mr. Starletty ens at present see esspreseet theaosed to inte' ti". "e terchutr 'l‘"gsal.. in wen. titre whether Ids learned Friend, the Attorney-tles ier would ture to call witnesses in support of the jumieninote t .evta. for Mr. Smarten to enter into an atiewer ibe 100 k bad been stolen be., tion, as the defendant must prove tha t rietv be made. Could übt a fore any observatieens could with pres d ~endeint that would rtattsfi declaration be wade on the part of the - sr •if and ' hats prevent the matter from proceeding furthers! The Lome Crone JcsTICE °Nee_ c e e ist e ed ,l l , t .f w e te d s , 7 i.,, n j e u . stine . n y . the pla int if • at. 1! I i" ...LITERATURE. TIM COMMERCIAL POWER OF GREAT BRITAIN; ORE/ TI THISMPLETE VIEW OF THE PUBLIC W OFCOUNTRY. • BY T ot BOON DEMI. Mtwara Or THE IXPTITOTE Or FIANCZ, &C. &c. &c. NMRIP ' , . • • • • - • assiur, f l oe fg re sure that thth he rule% o f lave intitnice prot• dnd ditee<4. !Int tint hi t u n beNra t de* money r the • / fdljifotieltrok I Ito must se= e to of* ysht this toflippy I mpetent mdit due - tit is i vitttiet hf • Nbt Ouc h ! • • 1 I . • EAST .INDIA SHIPPING. The Catherina Ilendrica, llockel, from the Cape, arrived in the Texel the 3d July. ARRIVAL AT RIO Jarttino—The Countess of Morley, 13:1t, front the Sandwich Inland., on the Ist of Mar. SAILIYO racist Rto JAWRIRO—Ifis Majesty's ship Sa:na. cane, fur the Cape of Good Hope, the 7th of clay. The Eden, Clark, sailed front Rin Janeiro the ath of May for N.itv South Wales, and put baek the next dar, leaky. Stile seotie wurrr—The Neptune, Cumberlege, from London to Madras and Bengal, the 10th June, in lat. 43, long. 11. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. DIAL, JULY 6.—Arrived and remain the Providence, Cawley, from Sierra Leone. Poi minor JuLT G.—Sailed the Brighton, SebOr, for New York ; and Repulse cutter, on a cruise. His Majesty's yacht Herald went out of harbour for Woolwich. FALMOUTH. JULY 6.—Arrived the Mary, Browne, froth Gibraltar, in 24 days. Off the Port the Sir R. Barclay, from fort-au•Prince. in 40 days. (iIIAWI9EI4I), JULY 6.—Arrived the Elfrida, !Calor, from Gibraltar ; Merton, Druitinond, from Palermo ; Colonist, Smith, torn Barbailors ; Asia, Ward, from Sierra Leone ; and several foreigners from the Baltic. Sailed the William. Miller, for New Chicane ; Mexborough, .lunton, for Petersburgh ; and George end Mary, Trail, for Leghorn. The Auspicious, Drewett, front London to Lancaster, is totally lost in Alorecombe Bay. ow Holyhead the Eliza, Plummer, from Jamaica. The Laura, Mellish, has arrived at Ouernsey, from Rio Janeiro in 54 dare. The Z.•phyr packet, from Falmouth, armed at Rio mt the 7th of May. His Majesty's ship Fly sailed front Rio Janeiro for Portsmouth on the lth of May. SUSTWCTED CHILD MURDER. At eight o'clock yesterday evening a most extraonlinary Inquiry took place at the Regent's Arms Tavern in Regent-street, near Vauxhall Bridge-road, before Mr. Thomas Higgs, the Coroner for the City and Liberty of Westminster, and a respectable Jury, ri.vpecting the death of a fine male infant. Mr. Frederick Holt, a surgeon of Holywell.street, Westminster, deposed, that the body of the child which is the subject of this in 9uiry was brought to his shop on Tuegday last, about one o'clock In the (lay. Ile was front home at the time; but on his return about two he saw the infant. It was artily born, and had never been washed, nor had there been the slightest care taken of it; and on either side of the neck there were bruises, apparently as if caused by sunk:thing having been twisted round it to produce strangula tion. Tbe skin was off immediately under the ear. It is a full grown child i and, in his opinion, from the lips being very florid, the child had breathed t bit.: lie could not say decidedly that it was born alive. He had very strong suspicion that the child had been unfairly dealt with, but whether negligently or wilfully, he could not swear; and if the body was to be dissected nu further inform* , tion could be obtained. James Gardiner stated, that he was guard to the Souttnoispton night .oath that runs to the Bell and Crown, Holborn. Witness took up the parcel, amongst others, at the Black Swan at Win chester. It was regularly booked by Mr. Iliggs, the landlord of the Black Swan, and witness put it into tee boot. It was directed to Mr. Tricker, No. ft, Vincent-street, Vauxll3ll-road, and on the nrrival of the couch at the White Horse Cellar he kft it there, to be forwanied to its destination. IVitness had not the least knowledge of the contents of the basket. The Gentlemen of the Jury haring been told that at present there was no other testimony to produce to elucidate this mysterious aflisir, they expressed a wish to investigate the business to the bottom, and it was unanimously agreed that Weale, the ullicer, should proceed immediately to Winchester, to make further in. quiries, and to apprehend any persons that he might suspect were concerned in the dreadful offence. The Coroner acquiesced With the Jury, and the officer was em powered to proceed on his journey, at the expense of the parish ; and the Investigation was adjourned at IU o'clock till Monday net', and the Jurors were bound over in the aunt of 40!. each to attend. _.„ .... The body of the infant was produced on the bible for the Ins & tion of the Jury, anti was ordered to be preleryed by Mr. Holt the inquest is resumed. Dunuw.-.--The motion in arrest of judgment upon the !bur men capitally convicted for an assault on Mr. But terworth, goes over for the decision of the twelve Judges. The technical objection raised in their favour is not with out weight, but their fate will not be known before Novem ber next.