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31.4NUFAC7 URING DISTRICTS. MANCH zzzzz TITESDAY, JULY 18. I am sorry to inform you that the calm which seemed to pervade the vicinity of this town was rather of an illusory description. The scattered groupes vrhich were wi th observed y es t e rday in our streets, a pparently condoling each other on the w retchedness of their prospects, seemed to have concerted together some new measures. Notwithstanding the excellent precautionary means a dopted by the magistracy within these few days back, the feelings of the populace, both of Manchester and of several of the adjacent towns, this day assumed a more decided tone. About eleven o'clock, hustings were terecented on the field of " Peterloo," and a mob of be twe tw elve and fifteen thousand persons of every de scription, and of both sexes, many of whom were armed with pikes and staves, not a few of which doubtless had lain in their rust since the never-to-bc-forgotten " Battle of Peterloo." The usual topics were attempted to be ilk cured by one or two 'speechifiers, but a party of the Queen's Bays made its appearance, and the mob quietly dispersed. If he disaffected are chiefly composed of persons froin Macclesfield and Chorley ; a Mr. Wood, of the latter place, an extensive manufacturer and an encourager of the power-loom, lies been marked out by the rioters, and on Monday the whole of his extensive works were completely destroyed. Our anticipations are gloomy in the extreme, as many of the manufacturers who have kept bands at work for three days in the week have come to a determine lion of stopping altogether; the fund, too, for the relief of the distressed, is fast coming to an end, and a cones nding reduction of" tickets" has taken place. &vend families, we arc informed, have left Macclesfield and Charley, and have come to Manchester, thinking them selves far safer in the latter place. [From the lifruchtsfer llfcrcury of Tueaday.l On Saturday a public notice was issued by the Magis trates, declaring meetings, such mi we have described, to be illegal, and cantioning all persons to abstain from at tending them. Whether it was owing to this proclamation, to the abatement of curiosity, or to the circumstance that Saturday evening is the time when such of the labouring classes as happen to receive any wages are in the habit of laying them oat, we cannot tell ; but certainly the attendance of the meeting, which was held at the same place as on the pre ceding evening, was much smaller than on that ea:a sion ; there not being more than a thousand persoon on the ground. Several violent speeches were made on the ocea sMn, and the people were exhorted to march to Middleton, where they were informed that arms might be obtained. About half-past nine o'clock an alarm was given that the constables were approaching to disperse them, (which, in fact, wrs true). The mob, therefore, It-ft the ground on which the meeting was held, and went into tailcoat's-lane, where they formed six abreast, and marched, several hun dreds in number, along Ancoat's-lane, Jersey-street, and several other back streets, into Oldham-road, and along Cropper-street, into St. George's-road, and proceeded by Blackleg, towards Middleton. In the meantime prepara tions were making by the authorities to disperse the meet ing, and a messenger was sent to request the co-operation of a party of the Qtteen . s Bays, about 30, who were posted at the George Inn, St. George s-road. hey were desired to join the special constables in Mosley-street. near the Royal Hotel ; but after waiting for them a long time, it was discovered that they had missed their way, and, instead of passing along Shutlehill, went down Miller's lane, into Long Mitigate, where they wandered about some time before they were set right. They then made the beat of their way back towards the New Cross, where they were met by Mr. Foster, the stipendiary ma gistrate, and proceeded with him to the place of meet iug. On their arrival they learned that the mob had left the ground, but some time elapsed before it could be asc rtained in what direction they hail proceeded. It was at length discovered that they had gone towards Middleton, and the military, with Mr. Foster, Mr.Wanklyn, and Mr. Lavender, on h or seback, set off at a very quick pace, in pursuit, hoping to overtake them before they reached Middleton. in this expectation, however, they were disappointed. So much time had been lost before the pursuit was commenced, that the rioters reached Middleton before them, and were drawn up in the Market-place when the military arrived. The ad s-need guard, consisting of three men, having got sight of the rioters, two of them fell back to the main body, to give information of what they hail seen, and the third re mained in advance. Whilst he was waiting the arrival of the others, a brick was thrown at him, which struck him on the helmet, and nearly knocked him from his horse. — He Immediately charged a man who stood near the place from which the brick appeared to come, and hemmed him up against the wall, while Mr. Lavender, who rode up at the moment, sprung from his horse and secured him, toge ther with a large bludgeon which lay on the ground near him, and which lie appeared to have thrown down.— While this was going on, the main body of rimers, being apprised of the arrival of the military, dispersed in all di rections, some taking shelter in yards, pigsties, and similar plates, but the greater part making the best of their way across the fields, into the old road to Manchester. When the main body of the military advanced, not finding the rioters, and not knowing what had become of them, they marched through Middleton, about a mile on the Rochdale road, leaving Mr. Lavender with his prisoner, in consider ed? danger, if those of the mob who remained in the neighbourhood had been aware of his situation. In a short time, however, the military returned; and the whole party marched back to Manchester, bringing with them the man Viom Mr. Lavender had taken, and another who was ap prehended soon afterwards by the constable of Middleton. During the night four other persons were taken into ens t Ely. AU the prisoners were brought up for examination yesterday, at the New Bailey. Their names were Robert Saggett, James Sampson, Peter Naylor, William Smith, Jerry Naylor, and William Piston. They all admitted haling gone with the rioters from Manchester to Middle ton, but all at the same time declared they were compelled to go by threats. The two first were committed to the Sessions, and the others, who were mere lads, were or dered to find sureties to keep the peace. We understand the number of persons who arrived at Middleton was about 200 or 250. Many of them were armed with large bludgeons, which they hail obtained from the fences on the rant. When they arrived at Middleton, they announced that any honest man who was disposed to join them would he made welcome, but none seemed to avail themselves of the invitation. Last night there was no meeting in this town. There was, we believe, a small assemblage of persons in the ;nothing, on Tandle Hills, near Middleton ; and some re ports were circulated last night of meetings at Stockport and Ashton ; but we have not been able to trace them to any authentic source, and we do not believe they have any foundation. An agreement has been signed by a number of the most respectable spinners and power-loom manufacturers of Hyde Stayley Bridge, anti Oukinfield, engaging to work th . eir factories only four days a week, for the ensuing two months, provided the other masters in the neighbourhood will concur in the measure. The motives for this step are to prevent the further accumulation of stock in the yarn and cloth market, anti which is a very laudable and im por:ant object, to obviate the necessity of making any fur ther reduction in the wages of the work people. The earnings of the persons engaged in spinning-mills and in power-loom factories, have hitherto, when the parties ware fully employed, been much better than those of hand loom weavers ; and it is exceedingly desirable that they should be k. pt so; but there seems at present no other way of ding this than by abridging the time of labour. We trust the body of tnanufacturers in the above neighbourhood will act in this matter with unanimity and good faith, and that 30 one, for the sake of a little temporary advantage to himself, will think of adopting a course which may tend to the permanent injury and degradation of thousands of his felow-creatures.—ifuncliester MesTury. two persons. Extract of a letter from a gentlema n at New York to his friend at Birmingham, dated 23d June, 1826:—" Al though commerce is not very flourishing, we are, in many respects, much better off than you are in England. Labour ing hands of any description need not be at a loss to obtain work. Many vessels arrive weekly with emigrants, chiefly from Ireland, and those who are disposed to work, are en gaged, I understand, before they can put their feet on terra firma. The present price of the beat canal flower per barrel of 2001b8. is 41 dollars, and this, though it does not remunerate the farmer very well, shows at the same time that we are not in want of provisions. An Irish labourer who carries mortar gets one dollar and a quarter per day wages ; and a mason 2 to 21 dollars, and not to be had, in consequence of the numerous buildings contracted for.." A letter troth Mirepoix says—" T o wards the end of June this part of the country was completely laid waste by the fall of a great quantity of hail and rain. The vineyards A few days ago a be a utiful bird of the osprey species are inundated, the meadows covered with mud, and the was slot f rom t h e gar d en a t Gateshead Park House, the arable land deprived of its manure, which has been washed mansion of Isaac Cookson, Esq. jun. From wing to wing down upon the lower grounds. The loss for the present it matured five feet eight inches. year and the next is immense." THE BRITISH PRESS. FAVER IN DUBLIN. [From the Dublin Freentan'A Jonritati We are sorry to say that a low contagious fever, which has prevailed in many parts of the city, for two months past, has, during the last week, had a very considerable in crease. This disorder is found chiefly in the narrow streets of the Liberty, and other confined situations, which are the lordinary resorts of poverty. Several causes may be as signed for the prevalence of fever at this time; some of them adventitious and unavoidable ; but one of them cer tainly, which might and which ought to be remedied, and which, to the disgrace of the city, appears to be permanent. We allude to the filthy state in which the by-streets are al lowed to remain. No person who views the collection of putrid vegetable and animal matter that is accumulated in the t o streets can be surprised at the existence of fever; on the contrary, the only matter of wonder is, that we have so little coutae,tion,and we have no hesitation in saying that were it not for the natural salubrity of the air of the city, situ ated at the foot of a range of mountains, and with the title flossing and ebbing through the centre of it, we would never be a eutnmer without a malignant fever. Nevertheless, the citizens of Dublin are most heavily taxed for the cleansing of the streets, and this cleansing is confined to removing the manure from a few of the principal streets once or twice a week. The narrower streets, where, from the very circum stance of confinement, and the elms of people who reside in them, crowded together in ill-ventilated houses, should be more particularly attended to, are never thought of.— We could name numerous streets and lanes where the pre sence of a scavenger's cart is unknown, but where, not withstanding, the owners of houses are most punctually called on to pay the tax for paving, lighting, and cleansing, nay more, the houses in those situations being under an old assessment, are much more heavily taxed than the larger houses in the new and spacious streets. That the cleansing of sucha city as this should be at all a charge upon the citizensis really monstrous. In London it forms, as it might do here, a considerable source of revenue to the different parishes. In one parish in Westminster the contractor pays 10,0001. per annum, for permission to cart away the ashes from the different houses, and every parish, both in London and Westminster, makes more or leas of its rubbish. When this is the case, surely the citizens of Dublin have a right to expect—we will say more, they have a right to demand, that their streets should be at least kept free from conta gion, where they pay heavily for it. This is a subject which interests every person residing in the city, as well the inhabitant of Merrion-square, as the room-keeper in the Liberty, for when fever is once engendered, there is no calculating where its ravages may stop. A more than or dinary attention to the cleansing of the narrow streets was vatted for this summer ; first., from the extreme heat of the weather, and the absence of rain to wash and purify them ; and, secondly, from the distress which was known to exist among the labouring classes. These are what we call the adventitious causes of fever; and though it might be im possible imuch might have been clone by a proper attention to I cleanlinesc. It is well known that very few of the houses in the con fined streets and lanes have any reres, consequently the inmates of them are compelled to throw all their rubbish into the streets; the twin rolls inhabitants of cellars are similarly circumstanced; and through the summer, with almost a tropical heat, this accumulation of filth, pregnant with diseases, has been allowed to remain unremoved, in the most populous parts of the city. The natural conse quences have arisen : the hospitals are full of fever patients, there is not a vacant ward for new cases, and the Governors of the Meath Hospital have been obliged to erect sheds contiguous to the hospital to accommodate the patients.° This really becomes a subject which imperatively calls for the interference of the Government. The commissioners for paving, lighting, and cleaoaiug, should be compelled to do their duty ; it is not solicitation that will succeed with these gentry. They have been frequently appealed to, through the medium of the public press : in most cases the public press has a powerful effect in reforming abuses, but in the present instance we feel convinced that nothing but the strong arm of power will prove effectual. The inter ference of the Executive should no longer be delayed ; the lives of the citizens are too precious to be left at the mercy of any incorporated body. • One of our morning contemporaries, in an article on Saturday last, disapproves of this measure, under an impression that these sheds were intended as an appendage to the regular fever hospital. But this is not the case; they are merely to relieve their own wards, and to separate the different cases of fever. ' The paragraph mentioning the deatli of the Earl of Bes borough, which appeared in the Kilkenny Independent, is, we learn, from the best authority, unfounded. The follow ing letter in a Morning Paper leaves no doubt on the sub ject . " file—Be so good as to contradict a paragraph which appeared in your paper this morning , announcing the death of the Earl of Ilesborough, who is in perfect health at his residence at Roeharop tun. " Yours, &c. IV. F. PoxsoxßY." '• St. James's-square, July 18. Mr. FARQUII R.—The late Mr. Farquhar was a native of Aberdeen, and his heirs are two nephews and two nieces, children of his sister, Mrs. Mortimer, who was the wife of the late Mr. IVilliam Mortimer, merchant in this place.. One of these, Mr. George Mortimer, is a merchant in London; the other, Mr. James Mortimer, and his sisters, r. side in this neighbourhood. On being informed of Mr. Farquhar's death, they have set off for the metro polis.—Aberdeen Paper. An absurd paragraph has been making the round of the papers, stating that the expenses of Mr. Beaumont's con test for Northumberland amount to 80,0001., while the expenses of neither Mr. Liddell or Mr. Bell would exceed 30,000!. ; and further, that Mr. IL•aumont had upwards of 100 law agents employed. The fact is, that he had not more than 21 or 25, a number not at, all extraordinary for a county of such extent; and with regard to expenditure, it is perfectly well known to every person upon the spot, that not one of the candidates has yet had sent in to him one half of his accounts; any estimate therefore of the expense must proceed upon grounds purely imaginary. We are enabled however to state, that there is no reason what ever for believing that Mr. Beaninont's expenses will ma terially, if at all, exceed the expenses of either Mr. Liddell or Mr. Bell-7 yrse Mercury. ITALIAN PASQUINADE ON CARLTON lIOURF..—An Ita lian, a man of sonic taste, being accustomed to sec columns supporting something, or of some use, stood amazed be fore the sinecure colonnade of Carlton Ilouse, and ques tioned them as to their employment thus:— " Care culonne ! the fate quer " Nun sappiamn in vents." My dear pillars, what are you about ? Oh ! my dear Sir, we can't find that out. EDUCATION or Tile POOR.—A system of education, founded upon the resolutions of the Catholic Prelates, is, we understand, about to be acted upon. A plan has been prepared for raising a fund for this sole purpose, which has met the approval of the Most Rev. Doctor Murray, and will, we have no doubt, be warmly supported by the Ca tholic Prelates and Clergy .throughout the country. — Dahlia Morning - Post. A letter has appeared in an Evening Paper, written on the part of the Magistrates and Local Relief Committee of Burnley, to contradict the assertion of the Wakegiefd and Halifirx Journal, that a riot hail taken place there, in the course of which the military bad been called out and shot COLONIAL LAIV. The General Brock, a merchant vessel, which is owned by Mt-en. Fisher of Bermuda, and has lately arrived, brings accounts of the trial. coodenination, and execution. of Mr. (iwynne, a till vermiitb, at tit. George's, for the murder of Henry Folger, Esq., merchant, of the saute place, the particulars of which are most atrocious. She had a sailor on board her, who appears to have been instrumental in saving the life of 31r. Hunter, a Magistrate, the intended victim of fiwynne. The lute Attorney-General of Ber muda, happening to call on Mr. Pitt, the agent for this ship, met Hugh Mackay, the sailor alluded to, Mackay'it emotions were net to be suppressed, a gleam of joy spread over his countenance, and with gratitude he related a circumstance which easily accounted for Ids extacy, iu meeting a person who had preserved butt from torture under the Penal Statutes of that Colony. There is a law in Her. muds, thnt if a man of colour in any condition of life, no matter how respectable strike a white man, lie is to lose for such offence his right arm and his right Car, without regard to the degree of pro vocation. It appears by the documents we subjoin,tlint the Attor ney-General hod been officially compelled to prosecute Mackay, and having failed to make a favourable impression on the Petit Jury by an cnipliatic speech, in which he alluded to the holy occu pation the defendant was following, when this juvenile offender disturbed the sanctity of the house of prayer, where the prisoner was engaged, lie refused, when the verdict of guilty was re. turned, to move for judgment, until he had consulted the autimrities at home. Ever since 11124, Markey has renewed his recagnizances at every Quarter Sessiols and Assize, to meet the judgment. At last, after ninny obstacles, be has succeeded in getting to England. The following are the particulars of his trial:— BERMUDA QUARTER SESSIONS. JOLT, 15, 1824. '1'111: 111)10 0,471114 HUGH M' AY, A MAN OF COLOUR. This was an indictment foram assault. The prosecutor, William Francis Holt, is a boy about eight or nine years of age, and gave his evidence as follows:—'That on Sunday evening the about eight o'clock, he and his companion Davenport were at play, and seeing some black children whit a dead fowl, he, prosecutor, went no to them, and took it from them. A string was attached to it, and with it he proceeded to fasten the fowl to some pieces of rock or hewn stone lying before a chapel, where duty was being performed. Tha; the defendant came up and snatched the fowl from him, and threw it in his fare; that he in return threw it at him again, and ran away. On being caught, defendant slapped him in the face, and pulled his nose, calling him an impudent little fellow. The defendant is a respectable man of colour, a mason-, employed in repairing the chapel, and had hewn some rock, or rather soft stone, for the re pairs. From the questions he pdt to the prosecutor it seems, that seeing the boy with the fowl, which was stinking, and which he was attempting to pound with the stone he had so prepared, and which being soft must consequently be much injured, lie ran up, took the fowl from him, and flung it in his face, the boy returned it in the way before stated, and ran away, &c. This appears to be the truth from the questions put by defendant to prosecutor. Davenport, a boy about eleven years old, was with the prosecu tor, and corroborated the former statement, admitting that the object of fastening the fowl was mischief. It appeared, on examination, that the amusement between them was to annoy the congregation, by placing the stinking fowl near the chapel. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL told the Jury he much regretted that his duty obliged him to occupy their time in the consideration of a cause is trifling and childish, and which he deeply lamented was ever brought into Court, as, from the unfortunate situation in which the parties stood with each other, if the assault was provetl, the severity and hardship of their local law would, even in this most trivial and ridiculous affair, subject a most re•pectahle man, by reason of his unfortunate complexion, to the most painful and degrading punishment—amputation of his right arm and his right ear. That he begged their attentive consideration to this important tact. That his own opinion was, the assault had not been proved. At any rate, the defendant was actuated by no improper motive ; lie wished to stop the nuisance the congregation were purposely exposed to, and the mischief the lad was committing in spoiling the stones, sato prevent their violating the S.bliatit by such improper conduct, as they have in this Court admitted, yes, even to their wicked motives. The Jury returned a verdict of—Guilty. Whereuyon the ATTOItNEV.GENERAL eloquently addressed the Magistrates, and declined moving the judgment, which was unanimously assented to by the sympathizing Bench. The testi monial of 51'Key's good conduct, and his letter to the Attorney- General, are documents of no honourable and respectable a nature, that we subjoin them ; and when it is remembered that a man of colour, with a character an sustained by all his neighbourhood, is liable to such grievous consequences, how heartily ought we to hope for the abolition of such laws. St. George's, Bermuda, July 21, 11124. SIR,—In consequence of the verdict brought against me et the last Quarter Court, which you poteponed judgment thereon, until his Majesty's Ministers opinion should be known. For their information I have to inform you that coy mother is a native of Tobago, and a mulatto. Iler father was born in Camp bell-town, Scotland ; at his death be left her an estate called Mount Grace, which site still possesses. I am the only child; my father is a native of Thurso, Caithnesshire, to which place he sent me when four years of age, to get my education where I remained I until 1010 ; then I was sent to London , where learnt the brick layer's trade. Front London I was sent out to Tobago in 181 n, where I resided until Min from thence I vent to America, and from there to Bermuda in December 1819, in which place I have remained. I trust the certificate of the inhabitants and merchants of St. George's will satisfy you Y of soy upright conduct. I am, Sir, our moat obedient humble Servant. HUGH lAcKAir. The Hon. Jas. Holland, Attorney-Genl. Government-House. We, the undersigned inhabitan a and merchants of St. George's. Bermuda, do certity that Hugh Mackay, a free coloured man, has resided in these islands for about five years, and has conducted himself in a sober and peaceable manner, as a good subject ought to do, to the best of our knowledge, we having never heard any thing to the contrary. St. George's, Bermuda, July 17, 1824. J. Lough, Rector of James Taylor James Till, the parish of St. Henry Folger C. B. Hayward George John T. Cox James Athill Francis Duerden Samuel A. Higgs John Rodrigo Anthony Atwood John Taggart Charles F. Lewis Joseph Labour James Taylor, No.l. Wm. Jeffrey J. S. Spencer John Atkins Benjamin C. Bing Geo. E. Evans G. S. Rankin George Allen John Millar Adam Brown James Stowe, aen. John Barr J. Tudor Tucking. James Stowe, jun. S. G. Spencer Alderman, of St. H. P. Walrond /I. H. Cross, Congre- George's Js'. E. Forbes, sen. gational Minister, C. E. Hutchison Wm. Bumnell St. George's Benjamin Pindar N. Orr Francis F. Hinson It. M. Higgs Beaton Bruce John T. Fisher Thos. Wright Thomas Darrell B. S. Hayward Claud. J. M'Callan John H. Gifford James A. Bell W. A. Outerbridge Andrew Mitchell --- - STATE OF TRADE. DUNDE E.—An uncommon bustle occurred at the liar hour last Wednesday, it being the last day for the shipping of certain goods entitled to drawback ; but the whole quan tity intended for exportation was got under hatches in good time, on board of a fine new brig recently launched at Ferry Port on Craig, called the Droughty Castle, which, immediately after getting in her cargo, went into the grav ing dock to get her hull finished and her rigging set up. This afforded rather an uncommon instance of despatch, that a vessel should be loaded before she was completed. The cargo was destined for another vessel, but which could not be got ready in time, being launched only on Friday, two days after the drawback was withdrawn. FORFAL—Mr. Scott, who was deputed by the mer chants of Dundee to go to London, and intercede at the proper quarter for permission to allow osnaburghs to be shipped at the same rate of bounty as light sailcloth till the sth instant, having returned on the 29th ult. with a favourable answer, shipping of these goods was resumed with the greatest activity ; every person possessed of them being anxious to avail themselves of so favourable an op portunity. The merchants of Forfar, Kirriemuir, and other manufacturing places, were not less active, and the short time they had was well improved. The Scotia, a vessel loading at Dundee for Kingston, Jamaica, was soon filled, and a number of bales outshipped. Another vessel being wanted, one in an unfinished state was brought from Droughty Ferry, and laid on the berth for New York. All the goods ready for shipment were put on board, and when the time expired several people who intended sending their goods to Kingston were obliged to ship them for New York, for want of a vessel to carry them to the former port. This arrangement has afforded an opportunity of disposing of a description of goods for which there was no demand in this county. Many of them had lain long on hand, and of course bad decreased in value. They were sold at very low prices—many of them may be quoted at 4sl. per yard, and the bounty amounting to nearly 2tl. more, makes a cheap article for the fore►gn purchaser. The low rate of wages for which operatives have of late been labouring testify us that the trade is poor indeed. The weather has been for some time extremely favour able to the corn harvest. With sufficient warmth we have had refreshing showers of rain, that cannot fail to have a beneficial and obvious effect on vegetation. Some barley was last week cut between Corbridge and Hexham, and oats have been sheared within the last day or two at Elswick. This fine weather, however, comes too late ' for the hay harvest. That has suffered dreadfully from the want of rain. The price of hay will be im mediately from 41. torit. wennderstand, and we should not be surprised if it is considerably higher in the winter. ._.. . 110 ME CIRCUIT. ClorLDWown, JULY 17. The Summer Assizes for this county commenced here this morn- , ing. before Mr. Baron Graham.. on the Civil Side, and Mr. Justice , 1101royd, on the Crown Side. In both Courts the business is con sitierable. The cause list contains an entry of 42 cases, and in the gaol calendar are the names of 142 prisoners, the great bulk of whom have, however, been committed for trifling offences. Clt OSV N SIDE. TIIE XI/40 V. JOSEPH NELSON. This an indictment against the defendant for n misdemeanor, in receiving four pockets of hops, the property of Messrs. Price and Thomas, of the borough of Southwark, knowing them to have been stolen. Mr. AnoLettus and Mr. THESTGER conducted the prosecu tion, and Mr. asnnE ws and Mt. anonym:a the defence. The transaction out of which this prosecution arose has already been repeatedly the subject of publication. The prosecu•ors, Messrs. Price avd Thomas, are extensive hop-factors in the Bo rough. They had been robbed of hops to a great extent, by a warehouseman, named James Foy, who entered their service in 11124, and continued in it until the spring of 1021 Foy was pro secuted at the last Winter Assizes for this county, for stealing seven pockets of hops, their property, and another person was in dicted with him for receiving the same, khowing them to have been stolen. The former was acquitted, but the latter was found guil'y. After his acquittal, Foy made a full confession to his injured toas ters of all the robberies he had committed, and gave informati o n against the defendant Nelson, a miller in the Borough, that lie had knowingly received of him, at different times, four pockets of hops, their property. He also gave information of the like nature against three other persons, as receivers of stolen hops. The present pro secution was, therefore, instituted against the defendant. In sup port of the case, Foy was the principal witness, and he swore posi tively that he had, at different times, delivered the hops in question to the defendant, tit prices much below their real value, he know. ing that they were the property of Messrs. Price and Thomas. Some witnesses were called to confirm Foy in some particulars of hi. story. In some of them he was completely contradicted, and in others there was no confirmation of him whatever. The Jury, under the advice of the Learned Judge, found the de fendant Not Guilty. l Acquittals were then taken in favour of two other persons, who • had been indicted on :oy's evidence for similar offences. FORGERY. Eliznireth Crittenden. a young w — o - m - iin - of respectable appearan cc was indicted for feloniously uttering a forged 101. Bank of England note, knowing it to be forged. On the arraignment, the prisoner pleaded Guilty, in consequence of a private intimation that her life would be spared. There were three other similar charges against the prisoner. Sentence of death was recorded. Mr. GURNEY appeared for the Bank of England, and Mr. BBODBILK for the prisoner. CIVIL SIDE. BATSON V. MEREFIET.D. This was an action for an illegal and excessive distre.ss. 11Ir. fir nwEr was for the plaintiff, and it appeared that the plaintiff was tenant to the defendant of a house and premises. Rent having become due to the amount of 71., the plaintiff tendered to the defendant in its discharge the sun, of Ili., and a receipt fur sewers' rate to the amount of It.. which he insisted was a land lord's tax, though levied on the tenant, under the provisions of a local Act of Parliament, which declared that the rate might be deducted from the landlord's rent. The defendant refused to make the allowance, and levied a distress upon goods of the value of nearly 100/. The broker proved the levying of the distress, and that the de fendant had sdmitted to him beforehand that he had refused to make the deduction for the sewers' rate. Another witness, named Law, gave evidence to the same effect. lie was cross.examined at considerable length by the defendant, who conducted his case in person. The defendant endeavoured to show that the plaintiff owed him much more money than the amount of the goods levied, and con sequently that the action was not maintainable. Ile, however, called no witnesses. The Jury, under the Learned Judge's directions, found for the plaintiff. NORTHER N . CIRCUIT. Yonx, JULY 18, ANGEL V. ANGEL. This cause was resumed at the sitting of the Court. Mr. SCAU LET T. fur the demandant, commenced his address by observing, thrt he should endeavour to narrow as much as p ossible the evidence which it was his intention to offer ; and, indeed, his Case would be much shortened by the evidence offered yesterday, as that evidence, up to a certain point, was common to the cases of both parties. Whatever might be the issue of the present case. there was one thing of which lie was certain, and that was, that the individual whom lie represented was entitled to the Angel estates in the counties of Kent, F. , ses, and Berkshire; for the be quest in the testator's will to Brown was conditional only, and de pended upon the absence of any male heir in the family of Angel. The bequest was first to the male heir of a particular branch, and then, in case of failure of such heirs, to the family of Brown. A point might, perhaps, afterwards he made on that ground ; but with it be would not then trouble the Jetty, beettse he was afraid ft would not avail him in this form of proceeding, where the deman dant claiea, not as male heir, but as heir at law. He could not forbear mentioning, amongst the other advantages which his Learned Friend, the Attorney-General, had over him, that he appeared for a client who possessed the sinews of war, and therefore was not only able to engage the Attorney-General to or nament his cause, but also to take measures to procure evidence, from which his (Mr. Scarlett's) client was debarred. The great point in the case was, whether the father of the tenant had been born in wedlock ? Of that his friends on the other side had been aware. for they had wasted the greater part of the day in proving that which would never have been disputed, and then at four o'clock in the afternoon had invited the attention of the Jury, fa. tigued as that attention at the time must have been, to the only real queee ion b, fore them. There were three points which, on the be half of the demandant, it would be necessary for him to make out ; Ist, That John Angel, the testator, had been seine' in fee of the premises ; 2illy, That the demandant was descended front the an cestor of John Angel ; and, 3d, That the case made out on the other side was not a genuine case, anti that Benedick Brown, the grandfather of the tenant, had not been lawfully married to Pleydye Brook at the time when the birth of the father of the tenant had taken place. IVith respect to the seisin of the testator, he should have less difficulty in proving it than his Learned Friends on the other side anticipated. But if the Attorney-Generel felt so great a confidence in his case as to imagine it incapable of being overthrown, why did he not at once admit the seism of John Angel, from whom his (the Attorney-General's) client de rived his descent? He should show the seisin in this was. The estate in question consisted of a lighthouse, which had been built originally on the property of William Angel, to whom, by letters patent, Charles the Second had granted the power of levying a toll upon all ships that passed. That property had been vested in Jus tinian, the grandfather of the testator, and from him descended to the testator. The testator, as they had been told, had been a man of secluded habits. In early life he had had the misfortune to kill a boy. and had been tried for manslaughter and acquitted, and the rental ;der of his life had been spent in solitude. During his lire, therefore, he had been unwilling to lend himself to what the public , accommodation required. when , by the efflux of the river Humber, I the lighthouse had been left in a situation in which it had been of little use. A Mr. Thompson, who had owned one-third of the pro perty, finding John Angel untractable, had made application to Parliament, and had procured an Act of Parliament, which, after reciting the title of John, had authorised 'Thompson to pledge the lighthouse, for the purpose of removing it, and had directed that, after the mortgage had been satisfied, then the Angel share should revert to that family. An effort had been made to pledge the pro- petty, but ineffectually . . and accordingly they would find that, in the following year, another Act had passed authorising the gentle men of the Trinity 'louse to build a new lighthouse. Sonic doubt had arisen whether a Mr. Constable, the lord of the manor, hail not been entitled to the soil between high and low water mark, and it had been agreed that 100/. a year should be given to I Mr. Constable for the soil and manorial rights. The lighthouse had then been changed to its present position. A provision had been inserted in the Act of Parliament under which the change had been effected, that when the Trinity House hail been reimbursed the expenses of :he erection, the property should revert to Angel and Thompson. They would therefore find in that Act of Parliament a recog nition of the title of John Angel, and if he (Mr. S.) chose' to stop there, he should say that he had shown a sufficient seisin. But he would carry the proof further. By the books of the Trinity House it would be shown, that th it Company had been reimbursed in 1777, and that a considerable sum of money had then been dun to Angel. That balance had been paid to John Angel, and it would he shown beyond all doubt that the rent due to Mr. Con stable had been paid by John Angel up to the day of his dealt. These facts put' together would show, not only that John Angel had been actually seised, but that he had been, up to the time of his death, in actual possession of the rents and profits. He now came to the second point, viz., the deduction of the pedigree of the demandant from John Angel of Crowhurst. It was well for the Attorney-General's client that the demandant had not discovered his rights at the time when the estates of Jolla Angel were making that atonement which his Learned Friend had described to the lawyers for the aversion with which John Angel had al ways regarded them. They might be aware a possession of 20 years was a bar to an ejectment, and the demandant was therefore too late to try that species of trial. It was true, as stated by the Learned Counsel on the other side, that many ejectments had been biought against the present tenant, who had always until then stood upon his possession. He (Mr. Scarlett) well recollected that about the first time that he hail ever entered Westminster-hall as a student. the Court had been considering an application for a new trial in the case of an ejectment, Angel Angel. In none of those cases had the pedigree of die cldinants been made out : but in this case he should be able w mtikeout the pedigree of the demandant beyond the slightest doubt. They would remember that it had yesterday been proved that John Angel, of Crowhurst, had left six eons. Amongst them had been Thomas, from whom the present claimant deduced his title, but he (Mr. Scarlet) would not then deny that William, from whom the tenant claimed, (tad been the eldest son. They would find that Thomas Angel had married Ann Lee, by whom he had had a son, who had afterwards married Ann Squire. The fruits of the last-mentioned marriage had been a son, John Angel, who had married Ann Smith, and they had had a son who had been the father of' the demandant. The identity of the parties would be proved beyond the possibility of a doubt'. lie now came to the third point, and that he acknowledged was the most important. They would observe, that in order,to prove die de. scent of the tenant from the Renediek Blown who had Mar ried Fri ices Angel, ,it became Leeessary to show that Bene. dick Bro•.vn. the grandfather of the tenant, had been lawfully, married to Pleydye Brook, and the question, therefo e, at that part of the case, was. whether that marriage had been utoted, and whether it would not be overturned by the evidence with which he (Mr. S.) should assail tt. It would he necessal for him to go back to a period a jute earlier than the pretended marriage: What" ever might be the bolo. of that inquiry, cure he was the teapot had once regarded the rearriaree of his grandfather as a doubtful fact. Let them observe all the codicils annexed to the will of Benedict Blown, the grandfather. giving legacies of 1000/., one OW the ether, to Weatcombe. Those legacies had been written by West combc himself, who had lived long with the Angel family, who had been well acquainted with the family history, and who had doubtless had the legacies as a sop to keep him safe when the father of the tenant took the estate as a legitimate son. Then again, let them look at the register which contained the marriage. He was aware that at that perod great regularity had not existed In reg sters. but they would see bow edit) , it had been, where an much irregula. larity existed, to place a marriage at a time when it had not taken place. it had been said on the other side that the register had been confirmed by: the transcript transmitted to the Bishop. But how had dime tranacripts been kept ? Until modern times they had been kept loole, and any liberty might have been taken with them by permits pretending to investigate them. But a bond had been produced on the other side, entered into by Benedick Brown, when he had procured his marriage license, and that certainly appeared to confirm the fact of the marriage. lie would frankly ennfess that he had been surprised by that bond. One of his Learned Friends had tut l hint a day or two ago that a roil was in pickle for him, and he supposed that the bond was the pickled sod. How great reason he had to be surprised the Jury would learn, when he told them that at the iast Assizes no such bond had been in the posses akin of the tenant, but that another bond had been in his (Mr. Seeded's) possession, differing altogether from the bard then pro duced. from that they would see the use of 7,0001. a year. Re peatedly had the demandant sought for the bond, in the presence of the very person who had yesterday produced it for the tenant, and as repeatedly had he failed in the search. Had he, therefore, not reason to be surprised when the bond had been first presented yes terdcy ? But was it a genuine instrument ? It was s retnarksble fact, that the register of the birth of Benedick, the elder brother of the tenant's father, had been written on an erasure. It was re markable also. that it hail been thought necessary, in the margin of the register of that birth, to *ate that the child's parents had been married at %i'ilsford. But let them look at the register, and they would find that the pages tot one whole year had been torn ern. Another curious fact was, that from the year 1742 to 1754 no Vicar or Curate had signed the registers at Caine, and that during that period the registers appeared to he copied, as the same ink had been used, and it seemed as if all had been written at one time, and not at different periods. It was remarkable 41so, that the Counsel on the other aide had not called a single person who had known the family. Certainly the period was somewhat remote; but persons might have been found at Caine who remembered the tenant's grandfather. He (Mr. S.) would produce a witness, an old lady who lived at Culne, and who would tell them that the common reputation had been, that Benedick. the grandfather, had lived in a state of con. cubinage, not only , with Pleydye Brook, but with her sister also: that he had had children by both, and that it had not been until after the dea•h of his brother William that he bed married Pleydye Ilrook. That would be supported by a bond, which purported to hare been given on a license of marriage having been obtained, ia which Pleydye Brook was described as a spinster. The data of :t was 1750. which would be after the birth of the tenant's father. The bard, of course, was inconsistent with the bond offered on the othet side, and it would be for them, if they could, to reconcile the inconsistency. This, then, was the manner in which he propose 3 to make out his case. Ile was sorry to see the Learned Judge shake his head : it was an ominous signal for his cause. 31r. Justice PARK--I am ready, Mr. Scarlett, if you like, to hear this evidence, but I ask you whether it is worth white to ger into it. Assuming that you have made out your first two points, do you think that you have shown the register, the transcripts. and the bond, to be forgeries, hedged in as they are by other marriages which all correspond in the different documents? Mr. Searti.r.Tr replied that if the Gentlemen of the Grand Assize were of the opinion of his Lordship, he certainly should not proceed further. The Jury deliberated for a trament, and then said that they were satisfied that there bad been a marriage, and that the father of the tenant had been legitimate. Vetdict for the tenant. MASON V. STANDING AND M0011110USE• This was an action against the Hundred, under the 51a George 111. e. 92, to recover a compensation for damage done to the plaintiff's mill, by a mob. on the 27th April, It was proved that on the 27th April, a mob of between 2 and 300 pi rsons attacked the mill of the plaintiff, which is situated et Hargrave, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. and after gaining en• trance, broke the power looms and damaged the property within. The damage amounted in the whole to 3101., and to recover it. the plaintiff brought his action against the two defendants, who were inhabitants of the Hundred. Mr. BROUGHAM anti Mr.:Slits:en, for the defendants, con tended that this case did not come within the provisions of• this 59.t1 Geo. lii. The words of the Act were, " boners, Shops, and other buildings of the sante kind," and they argued that the eg pression " of the same kind" confined the meaning of the Act to houses and shops. Mr. Justice PARK said that when he was at the bar lie had the pleasnte of once hearing a Learned Barrister , from Liverpeol argue for two hours that a water mill did not come within the meaning or " any other mill." (A laugh.) The present objection seemed lobe of the same kind. He had no doubt that a mill cams within the descrimin of the Act. Verdict for plaintiff—Damages 3501. The House of Assembly at Jamaica was dissolved on the 12th of June, and the new House was expected to be called together about the 20th of July. There were no Orange processions in Belfast on the 12th instant. The members of that Society have evinced a very proper feeling in thus obeying the law of the land. We have been informed that a number of men who formerly belonged to Orange Lodges assembled at Aghalce, in the county of Antrim, from various parts of the county. A very considerable number also assembled at Dromara, Lis burn, and Lurgan.—Belfitst Newsletter. Late on the night of Sunday, or early on the morning of Monday last, Robert Adam or Adams, Edward Mae dougal, and John NPDanald, prisoners in Montrose gaol, for acts of swindling and theft, effected their escape by breaking through the north wall. Search bas been made for the prisoners, but without effect. INFAINTIcine.—At the Assizes of La, to. a female !Hurled Racine was condemned to hard labour for life, for the murder of a child. The prisoner, who had previously had three children, stated in her defence that she had brought into the world an ugly beast with a tail, and which made frightful grimaces, and that she had been induced by htr disgust to throw it into the river. DEATH FROM STARVATION.—We are sorry to have to state, that two cases of death from want occurred on Friday. The one was a poor man, whose name is unknown, who was found on the flag-way in Thomas-street, Dublin, be tween nine and ten o'clock at night, in a state of complete exhaustion. He was removed to St. Catherine's watch house, and expired at twelve o'clock. On the same day, a man of the name of Peter Blackliam was found dead in a waste house in College-street. Alderman Archer, one of the City Coroners, held an inquest on the body, when a verdict was returned, that the deceased died from disease of body and want of foal.—Dublin Paper. BERWICK, Jen- 11.—On Saturday morning the Dun dee smack, of Dundee, on her passage from that port to London. stood off our harbour, and sent a boat on shore with the body of her captain, Robert Spink, who had died suddenly in the course of the night. The preceding even ing he was in perfect health, and walked the deck in his usual manner. Same day, a coroner's inquest was held on view of the body, who, after hearing the evidence of the crew, returned the following verdict—" That the deceased had died by the visitation of Gal." The deceased was about forty years of age, was highly respected by Isis crew, and, we grieve to add, has left a wife 211(1 numerous fa mily to deplore his premature death. After the inquest the Dundee proceeded on her voyage, and the remains of Mr. Spink have been sent to Dundee fur interment. COMPLAINT AGAINST A DUBLIN BOATMAN.--The fist instance which has occurred these many years past, of a complaint against a Dublin boatman, was preferred on Friday last by an English gentleman, a Captain Elliot, against a boatman of the name of Thomas Byrne. Cap tain Elliott and a foreign gentleman were landing at Kingstown from one of the packets, and had agreed with Byrne to take them on share for Is. each. On reaching the stairs, however, he demanded '2s. 6d. from each, and swore they should not have their baggage unless it was paid. Captain Elliott offered 25., the aunt stipulated for, but Byrne inunetliately commencd a volley of abuse, and took up one of the oars to strike Captain Elliott. The fee. reign gentleman at last complied with the exorbitant de mand, giving Byrne ss. for himself and his friend, and the presence of a peace officer prevented any further intem perance on the part of Byrne. On Friday, Byrne was brought up to answer for his delinquency before the Ballast Board, when he was deprived of his license for three boati which he had, and furthermore fined 40s. He was after wards bound over, at the Head Police Office, to keerthe peace towards all his Majesty's subjects, by sea or land. How much better it would have been for * Byene to hive taken the 2s. quietly !—Dug/in Paper. • . . 4 "'