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A N i 01) if ~.,"" • ~~ 1 6 ~ '~. ) It V j--),' ,, 111 if' LITERATURE. MEMOIRS OF CAPTAIN ROCK. THE tEL EBRATED IRISH t 111E1 'VAIN I WITH SOHE AtCOENT OE 1115 ANCESTORS. NIIITTIOI RV lIIMSKLF. (Continued from the British Press of May MI The historian that takes facts for his guide is not easily beat out of his argument. 'lle ROCK family have been ]ashes) into rebellion by the double scourge of civil and religious persecution. The Captain has not now quite so much upon his hands as formerly, though still bending under a weight of oppression, the particulars of which he has classed and catalogued With the accuracy, as well as the indignation, of a personal sufferer. He has travelled through the record of six centuries, which brings him, at, last, .to what he calls " His own 7 inn's ;" that is, to the accession of his late Majesty: all the preceding peeled', was, as we have seen, a perital, with little intermission, rill remorseless oppression and rancour towards the Catholics, with occasional bursts, on their part, of dire revenge end I dreadful retaliation. Within time of memory, matters' have mended no doubt ; the sword has not Hashed so often, nor so publicly, in face of the Rocks, as it did in the more unsettled state of the English Government; steed iwflarnee has, by degrees, been substituted for outward farce. A monopoly of the means of wealth—a barring-nut of the Catholics. from all the roads to rank and station—an inex orable exclusion of them from all places of trust and profit; —these stand in the place of civil war, and are substitutes in part—not wholly—for the more visible weapons of ex termination, which had been, for so many agcs, employed against them. The laws made for their debasement, and fitted to it, bull existed ; and the insurrections to which, from time to time, they gave rise, were quelled by military force. This system—though mitigated in its fierceness and ire effect--survives still; and we still go on, as usual, punishing rebellion when it arrives, instead o f minoring tle griewetweea which gave rise to it. It wan ostaral, while those who were lamenting this state of this* were looking out for some relief to it, that the necessity of a more general etfueotion should present it- self. 'the roan of every people, however rough-cast their character tray be, KM sueceptible of gratitude when kindly treated ; treat their prejudices with indulgence, and behave tettrards they; with but even that friendly courtesy which coifs nothing, and you have the master-key to all their hest fitlinge, and (rota their worst von will have nothing to fear. But to act towards them in the spirit of oppression, and yet hope to educate them into the endurance of it ; truly this in It most preposterous speculation ! Buewe will tern to the management of this new prejett, as detailed in thee.: MemOirs:— The prlndpalmediums of education through which the Boyers. merit had to set upon the people, were the Charter Schools and S hods of Royal foundation. With respect to the former of these institution", it might have b—o possible, perhaps, to manufacture the same number of rebels a-d bigots at a somewhat less repose, but the perfection of their machinery for the purpose is now, 1 believe, acknowledged on all tidos. Three Charter schools, under the general name owl of the Incor porated Society, were founded under °come 11., in the year 1733, for the professed abject of " teaching the children of the Popish amt other natives:"—and had they suffered us youth of the Roman froih. - toeleink at the earns spring of instruction with our little Protestant fellow-countrymen, without insulting or interfering with the religion we brought from home with us, there is no saying to , chat ern whienting degree of amity the two religions might have been brought in thee. Nay, there was even an opportunity fee erring , the eirperimest, whether a Catholic could be turned into a, Yousitant gunboat tit. einploment -.factual force. stpir Ifidi rulers hove a lways proceeded ii. proselytism, on the /Ref le Of a tre4e with its wrong side foremost . I t was soon mod by the CatWie parents, who had entrusted their children to there Protetall hletituuton, hat hatred to sheer religion was the (Fief oetteallog motive of its directors: and that, like Vathek, w!-en hcitedweed the fitly Rule ones to the bnnk of the chasm he ladle to host them toss a satrilite to the Macon, the IneorporUnd Tiodetrbse leek posersi.ien °reuse children for the purpose of r)owtdeft the* headlong into Protestantism—a creed, unknown to teens busby the spirit of persecution that dwelt in it, and by the Tomtit/ Corntels violins with which that spirit, like the thsour, had alsereeriad out from the chasm, " More, more !" fr rosy easily be imagined with what horror this design was re genial by s people who looked upon their faith as the only tree. owe and owsolatlon left them, and whose tenacity in that faith had been tried by Ilford, famine, and fire for centuries. Too in. digsot, howerw, to procure instruction in any other way, and the laws forbidding persons of their own permission to teach, saute wretched parrots, anxious at all risks to educate their children, conthrned to ifs them drink at this daimae—iis source—with the same tretnb iegoopp chensions, with which the people of the East ,kit thasafowlltdna supposed to be the haunt and ambush of bandit:4 and on some of which are inscribed the warning words - Drink and away !" Fite management of these charitable Seminaries exhibits a specimen of moral superintendence quite in keeping with the rest of the system : The Schools of Royal foundation are so far more innocent then "NM .. Ch , irterrd liberates," that, instead of ,nult•avouring to eoevert the Catholics. the reverend Honour-alike and Baronets who bald the mastership% of them, were chiefly eniployed in converting eau fonds allowed for the schools, into convenient and profitable si reenter !'or themselves. Some of these cases of atiberalement were rammed to thelloventratot in the year 17116: but the only erect of the Memory was, to put a stop to an Act Shea in tragreas the the improvement of the system of public education ;—the persona de /rood is this anaapprupeiation of the public funds, being of that prisilegol clam, into whose pockets, however filled, it his been at all %inns profer.stion to pry. Under the administration, however, of ti:: Duke of Bedford (who was not equally inediLed to subscribe to that first of the thirty-nine arucles of Irish Protestantism—Job. bine), the inquiry was resumed, and a Commission established, witch hashed this singuler felicity of being in smite degree useful. Sexes Royal FICC.IKII4.IO I / 1 are, it scents, endowed with m att . to ' t -e'r.sterf of 13147 acres t and, so well had the llooourable and Reverend Masters succeeded in appeopriativ.g the chief benefit of the fund to themselves, that, according to the House of Commons' Report, in Dna. out of the small number of children educated in these schools altogether, there were nut above thirty who did not pay as much for their education, as if the 13,027 acres were wholly oat or the question. from the Report of last year upon th e state of these Schools , they . appear to be at present rather schools of litigation than of learning--as their returns !elate almost wholly to the progress of ti....e law-suits with their tenants, which seem as numerous and as st..xessful as those of Sir timely Rack-rent, who " lost every one of Ids got;:s but seventeen." The Conmissioner% ' however, tell . neeoltugly, " we look forward to the period when this Hoard 5.1.01 he enabled to give its undivided attention to the system of edoestiou, without being embarrassed with subjects of 'finance." :Übe writer, its a note, pays a just compliment to the kaFteitut4 Report of the Commissioners, which he cha- reeterises as being full of good-sense and lib, rality, and be' &degas to the letter of Mr. Leslie Foster as entitled to the' sada,' very rare character. Ile next proceeds to remark se tha4hare which the Church has taken in the instruction of ' the people: — Fr hatever motives the Government may have had for exhibiting ads finer always in the shape of either a bug-bear or ft job , ti • tri ..t hare been supposed that the Clergy, at lewd. would wish to owl hemanmed population around them: and that those Free Sciteels—one of which every Diocese is, by an Act of Elizabeth, booed to moiatain at its own expense—would have been cherished vetch a care and liberality of contributive, NCO beyond what the pia visions of the statute enjoin. Din unluckily, Rom some omit cause (foe the Commissioners ' sey•it atast wet be attributed to " the barkwardrew or inattention • ut the Bishop or Clergy,") the contributions of the Church to this truly enema purpose have been almost r.othing. Indeed, such is the mysterious iecapacity of enntiibution under which they labour, aid which might tempt malicious preemie in suppose that the •••• Kole of an Irish Rshop is recurred for occasions of ch•wity 'dole, that, at the time when the Report which • I have just Cite!! was made, the whole number of effective schools in all the Dioceses teoetiwr was only 13.—Ands lest even this should prove too heavy ''•a me open the ciagy," the Bovernment has , pursuance of tee recommendation of these awe Remain«, caused, in several iastarcee, two or more Dioceses to be formed lore ore district, and • appointed but erne echoed to be maintained by the entire Clergy of tile I):oceses so united. - TOns„—bus in the instances of Replier, Nilsson., and (*Mier, Cecil are, by the new regulatioo, comoliuleted into one distnet— three Bishops to i...e School lot:eolith:red not more than a fair and orther!ox allowance z sod (thaegh enowehat resembling, in its dirsion of labour, that azinke (sf O'Keefe's. whine " four French peter. nest earre;ng whandAssisr) is heltkeo be an abundantly adeloate return from the Chute to the Won't, for the two mil lions of acres, nod the semis pert of the gibluee of all else other arms ichivh it dere.. Ls from t cal, , •• • BILD 07 /I ()NOV R.—Alter . baule of Villa Nieioca, vbialt was gains:! by the supvitior generalabip of. Duke of Vendome, P h ilip the Mh lutviug no bed, the 'Duke ',aid to him, " I shall prniare 1 - 0: - you the rieliest..lteil that a monarch ever rposcdrlin ;!'.upon which hr haden ova em the u:acted of ail the standards and tamps, tak fviit • enitov. IE I I. RTI r. s AIM): D. -"A Mall' of mean appear :lto:a last wtt made CV pUTC141444 in a shop in Bath, ha 1::r amount of 113. awl 6(1., inHaywent.„of which be ten "au( a lovvreir• Thu allp4roiwt,. «itb• a conceited qatircwir , liis custofpart,.mi4l—" II sec youve got a .tt wow. ""licti;* replitll tnait (aollv peeketing coitt'antl 114:11erately walking out of the shop . Icaviog the goods that hail ire , ' cot for liitt , )--`` I,:r•re q• • part, we will be hrilcr arywi;P:!id.- THE LAND EXPEDITION TO THE NORTH POLE The final orders from the Lords of the Admiralty for the sailing of the expedition to co-operate with Cart. Parry, in the event of being able to meet in the Arctic Regions, were received on Wednesday evening ; and the Griper, which is to take out the expedition and proceed with it, was itnme diately swung upon the buoy in the tier in nattiness for de parture in the morning. Captain Lyon came on board at ten o'clock on W(dnestlay night, and was accompanied by the whole of his officers. The crew were on board the' transports, and on shore, and were, by permission, to remain with their friends, to enjoy the f e stivities of Greenwich Fair, and were not mustered until half•past nine o'clock yesterday morning ; they were inspected by Captain Lyon and his officers. The men appeared in excellent health and spirits. At In o'clock the Costanatider, from the quarter-deck, gave the signal for sailing, and the " Blue Peter" was run up. The ennui steam-yacht was then towed alongside, and moored fast to the driper. Notwithstanding the incessant rain, which at this moment came down in torrents, the shores and dock-yards were lined with spectators, who seemed to take a great interest in the departure of the hardy adventurers. A few mi nutes after ten o'clock., the title serving, the Comet proceeded to " cleave the liquid way," with the Griper in company. The crews of the dilferent ships in the river gave three cheers as the Griper passed down, which were answered by her crew. 'l'be departure of the vessel produced a very great excitation of sympathy among, the spectators. The Griper is in fine sailing trim, and her tonnage does not now exceed 350 tons, having unshipped a great part of her stores into the Snap transport, which accompanies her to Davies Straits. The crew of the Griper is composed of only 33 men, who are commanded by eight officers, not including the gentlemen who accom pany the expedition for scientific purposes. The vessel I went as far as Northfieet yesterday, where the remainder of the stores were to be taken on hoard, sad the arms and ammunition Shipped. All the instruments of science have been on board some days. Upwards of 6,000 persons ' I visited the Grirr within the last few weeks. SHIPPING JN7'rl.r.l:r•.NCl. custom-Hol:sc. JcNE IS EXTERP.I) INWARDS. Mien, OaJimmy (Harman, broker), from Harlingen. Niordstierne, Solidmod (%I indle), from (lottimburgis. Jacobi'. Spanderman (I lall), from Rotterdam. Chamting Molly. Farrier (Simon), front Earl Bathing, Gibbs (Ball). from ilretenlarn. Eliza, Atherrien (Symonds). from Itofterdam. Ihincombe, Dryden (Al`lihie), from ICantzic. Iflana, Christie ttientley). from I.l%ntalC. Antelope, Davison (Buie), front Nana. 1101Lintl, Winn (Chapman). from Ilulmstailt. Alarshal Wellington, Clark (J. Alarliall), from Jamaica. Chad Intent, Corson (Wilson). from liamburgh. Jenny, Donald (litirkland), from Charente. Itelease, Bulgiest (Bentley), from rharente. Aurora. Stein (Bremer), from Darden. Nedendand K ron Prins. Jelßma (Borman), from ll'orcum. Twee Gebroeders, Mintier (Simon). from Antwerp. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. rersiourti. June IL—Arrived the Henry, Thatcher, from sailed 11th January ; and Hope, Wilson, from Tobago; also, the James Fitzpatrick, Murdoch, from Cork, for St. Peters. burgh ; and Hannah, Weatherly, in sixty-throe days. Sailed the Prineesa Royal, Sherwood, far Portsmouth. Pr.vtODTtt, Jpxrt It—Arrived the Ileart of Oak, Robertson, from St. Domingo. Off the port, the Deleon!, Young, from St. Vincent's in 4! days. Pon-rtmorro, JUN} 9.—Arrived the Fellatio, Campbell, from Ceylon ; Grenada, limier , " from ditto; and Sarah, front Bombay, and sailed again for London, DEAL. .1 u s r..9.—Arrived the Sir John Cameros, front St. Do mingo, and remains. The Honourable Company's ship Vansittart, , front China, is off the South Foreland, and the Warren Hastings, from ditto, was off Domiciles,' yesterday. Linen POOL, Jrscr B.—Arrived the Tawas, Candy, from Ma ranhao ; George, Wright. from Pernambuco • John Bull, Con. ben. from New South Wales and Rio; Dee, Jarueson, from Demerara • Constitution, —, from Trinidad; and Caroline, Wallace, 'from Ationa. Off the port, the Glide, —, from Charleston. Durso, JEWE 9.-06 . 1. be port. the Gavots, Jay r and Lu amnia, Gibbons, front Oporto; with about lift) , other homeward bound vessels. Goer EISEND, Jtwj A.—Arrived Marquis Wellington, Clark, from Jamaica ; Lively. Hayes. from Harlingen ; Victory, Cubits, from Harlingen; Creole, Coekworth, from Pernambuco; North Sue. Smith, front Gottenburgh ; Holland, Winn, from Huhu stadt ; Jenny, Donald, from Charente; Release, Ruless, from Cha rent* & Antelope, Davison, from Larva; Cloud Intent, Cors on, from Ilamburgh. Sailed Jeune Aimie, Currie, for Have; Wins. kspen, Jacobson, for Sto:kholm. GENOA, MAY 29.—The schooner Emma, Bennett. will sail in a few days for England, with Sir W. Curtis, Bart., M.P. on board , under the protection of his Majesty's ship Chanticleer. Ilia Majesty's ship Aurora sailed front San Bias on the 18th Fe bruary, for Panama and England. The 1/elaford, Young, from St. Vincent's, arrived off PI th, spoke the Eliza, from New York to Antwerp, with lora of f remain aid main-topmast, anchors, and two men overboard during a heavy gale on the 4th ult. The Albion, Brown, from Shield) to Lisbon, put Into Hull on 31onday, leaky. ' The Thomas, Riches , from Liverpool to Pernambuco, has put into Moranharndimissind. The large timber vessel, in North America, which we noticed before as having caught tire—by letters received yesterday, does not appear to have received any serious injury, and the time fixed for her completion, it appears, will not be delayed in ennrequenes. The Azores, Bedford, front Jamaica to Trinidad de COW and Jersey, was lost off Trinidad de Cuba, the 21 March — crew saved. The Alegria Felix, Alebto, from klaranham to Oporto, is totally wrecked on the Alleit's Ilar.k—rror and a small part of the cargo Raved. THE ARMY. General Sir H. Calvert, Bart. G.C.8., Major-General Sir J. W. Gordon, Bart. K.C.11., Quartermaster -General, Major-General Sir Henry Torrena, K.C.B. Adjutant-Ge neral, aval other Commissioners of the Royal Military College, are gone to ttandhtnst, to be present at the exa mination of the Students at that establishment, which is to take place this day and to-morrow. The exercise of the brigaded companies belonging to the different battalions of the Guards, which was ordered to take place yestenlay morning, in Hyde Park, was post p‘ned, owing to the unfavourable state of the weather, till further orders. The depot of .the 94th regiment of foot arrived on Wed nesday at Albany Barracks, from Edinburgh. One squadron of the 6th regiment of dragoons will ar rive at Carlisle, from Glasgow, to-morrow. The depot of the lit battalion. of the. eoth regiment of foot will arrive at Chatham, from Portsmouth, to-day. Three companies belonging to each battalion of the Guards will be brigaded to-day in Hyde Park, for the pur pose of being exercised according to the improved system. Yestenlay the despatches for Bengal, by the chartered ship Boyne, wae closed at the East India House, and de- j livered to the master of that ship. YAswouTu, JUNK 7.-1)n Saturday a very fine ship, the Ottawa, of upwards of 320 tons burthen, was launched ' from the yard of Messrs. John and Thomas Down's, at this port. This ship is intended as a passage-vessel from London to Quebec, and a peculiarity in her construction had excited great interest in the public mind. The morn ing proved auspicious, which, added to the intensity_ of feeling, an immense number of spectators had assembled on the'banks of the river. NIOIIIK WORK FOR Ma. MARTIN.—A Sheffield paper states, that a few days ago, at a neighbouring village, four men agreed to play the bear and doge themselves. They went down on all fours, awl fell to biting, tearing, and worrying one another, when the poor fellow that acted the bear was so knocked about and lacerated, that he was glad to stand upright again as moo u lie could.—York Courant. EFFECTS of 11)RUNRENNESS. -011 Saturday an inquisi tion was taken at Barnwell, beftwe Me. ('Revell, one of the Coroners for this town, upon view of the body of James Brown, alias James Fon*, an Infant. It appeared that the mother of the detested i s an lelahwoman, and had been at Donnelly*s lodging.nsuse lit Barnwell for a few nights previous; that on the Wednesday night, between eleven and twelve, s h e was teen mining out of the Black Lion public-home quite intoxicated; she dropped the infant in the street, and picked it up again by its heel.; her husband and an other man then came to !Pail her home. Iler husband endeavoured to take away the child, which she resisted, and fell down into the lodging-house, when the child rolled out of her arms. The child , ' appeared to be in a very dirty, filthy state, and the mother was quite incapable, froui intoxication, of attending to its wants. The child died on Friday tiiorning. The verdict was. " That the child died Ly the visitation of God. but there was great neglect and want of care on the rift of the mother." An immense crowd of people surroundoll the put sir-liotoke &flea the inquest, chiefly females, • and the mother was o! , l , gett to leave the place finder the prot,:etion of the constables, to prevent bring insulteil.. -B.!, y Poo. ,~~~rr LAW INTELIJOENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCU, WEITIII2IIITh. Jvits 10. --- Before Me LOAD Cntsr JUSTICIL cud a Special Jury. PERJrRI'. THE KING v. TIAIOTHT TOWEL/. T:iis was nn indictment against the defendant, who is a dry. salttr at Brisdol, and wh o i s a l s o a partner In a bank in g -house at the same plaice, for having, in an a nswer put in by himm ittcd to a H ill tiled against him in the High Court of Chancery, fini ful and compt perjury. The ease tar the prosecution was cmducted by Mr. Scariest, Mr. Skurney, and Mr. Broderick. The Attorney-General and M r. . . Tindal appeared for the defendant. Mr. SCAN I.r T T, for the preseecution, said that the defendant was a partner in the house of Powell, Mitchell, and Co. of Bristol. Some time previous to the year IEO7 they entered into the Spanish wool business, but in the latter end of that amt.r they proposed to Alessm. JAMS', Wellington, and Parka, Wish wuolstaplers at Hedhridge, in Oloncestershire, to become partners in the Spanish wool i busmess. The proposal was aesmpitell, and it was agreed that the house of which the defendant was a partner was to advance the money necemsry, and that lte,srs. Jones, H'ellington, and Parke, were to share the profits. After the death of Mr. Mitchell, in 11112, the prosecutors Meet a bill in the High Court of Chancery against the i defendant and his co-partners, to compel them to give an account of the sal s, profits, kr% of the Spanish wool trade during the partner- I partner ship ; and in that bill it was alleged, " that the defendant and his eo-par vs made a fictitious sale in Dec. 1008 of 101 bn I gs of Spanish wool, and that in 1800 the defendant and his co-partners received a I MIDI exceeding GOO/. for rescinding a bargain made by them with I a person named Osborne Yates for the sale of a quantity of Spanish wool, and for which sum no account was ever rendered to the pro- , secutora. The defendant, in his answer, denied the truth of those allegations; and they also stated, thet the *ale of the 101 bags of wool wan not a fictitious sate, but that they (defendants) bought it at the valuation of a Mrs. Einsworth with the consent of all parties. Upon those denials perjury was assigued. It was painful to him to be compelled, in thedischargc of his duty, to make such charges against a person who had, like the defendant, borne for ninny years i the highest character for probity and integrity; but that character I was, if there was any truth in the statements in his brief, Imo:over- I ably lost. Ile did not wish t s ay any.hing in aggravation of the o I offinee of the defendant, and should therefore content himself with I calling witnesses to prove the charges against the defendant. The , : Imarnedyounsel :. having detailed the facts of which he intended to ofrer eridnice, called— - Wm. Emsworth, who was a wool broker at Bristol in the years 1407, 1801, and 18119. He swore that be knew of a partnership in the Spanish wool business havirg been entered into between the houses of Powell, .Mathews, and Ur. of Bristol, and the houses of Jones, Wellington, and Parke, of Deditridge, and the agreement 'was that the business should be carried on at Bristol. In the month of December wen, Powell and Co. were in possession of a quantity of Spanish wool, which was rising rapidly. On the 11th' of Iheember left Mr. Mitchell came to him and told him to write to Jones and ('o. that he had effected a sale of 101 bags of Spanish wool at a certain price. The witness wrote a letter to that effect, but he concealed the name of the burn, who were, in fact, Posen and Co. He never was employed to value the wool. In the month of February following, he was employed by Mr. Mitchell I to sell more wool, and he accordingly, by his request, wrote to • Mr. Osborne Yates, that Messrs. Powell and Co. had made sale of a large quantity to a person who was going to take it to London' immediately, and that if he wanted to purchase any he must come to Bristol immediately. Mr. Yates came to Bristol. and asked him the price, which he said, according to instructions he had pre , Timid) , received from Mitchell, was 30s. per pound, because there were many purchasers in the market. Mr. Yates at first thought the price too high, but returned in a short time, and agreed to take 178 bags at that price. At that time there were not in the sion o. Powell and Co. more than 194 bags, and Mr. Arle:hal directsit him to go and purchase 109 hogsfrom a person named Yaugh. He went and purchased the wool at 2 1 s. per poond , and r..t of that lot he gave to Mr. Yates et bag s, to make u p the 78 bags. After he made this sale he sa w the defendant in his nting-house, told him that he had made the sale and the price which he got ; he also saw Mitchell, who said to him, in a jocular paanner that if he could not mecum better prices, another broker Must be employed.- In the months of March, April, and May, Bpaaish wool fell considerably in price. In May,lB9 l a, Mr. Yates called upon witness, aid asked him to say who were the owners of the wool, as he wished to have come conversation with them. He told Mitchell what Yates mad, and Mitchell directed him to say, that theowner of the wool was a Mr. Wellington, of London ; and ' he Immediately went to Yates, and told him that his principal was Mr. Willington, of Landon. At Yates's request he wrote to Wellington to come down, and they went to Yates's house, where Yates proposed to forfeit a certain sum, if Wellington would re. adnd the bargain. This offer was communicated to Mr. blitcheti, who told the broker en make an offer to Mr. Vete , of taking back 124 bags out of the 178. upon Mr. Yates paying five shillings per pound on the quantity so returned. This offer was communicated to Mr. Yates. who readily accepted it, and gave his acceptance, 'which he paid into the hands of Powell and Cu. In his crops-examination he said, that he became a bankrupt in 1811, but did not obtain his certificate ; Mitchell was one of his meignees ; previous to his bankruptcy he was on very intimate mew with Mitchell, but since his bankruptcy be had never spoken to Mitchell, who he understood died in the year 1812, but he did not know what was the occasion of his death. Ile went to Spain after his bankruptcy, but previous to that he spent eight or nine months in prison in Landon; and eight or nine months in prison in Bristol. Mr. Mitchell wee the person who transacted all business relative to the Spanish wool, except as far es regarded the paying of the money, which was always done by Mr. flungerfued l'owell, the brother of the defendant. Elisabeth Ennweetb„ the wife of last witness, mere that she re. membered the defendant's having come to her husband's house and asked him to give up Yates's acceptance for 6,31161. ea. Mr. Powell said if her husband would do so, he (Mr. Powell) would prevail tom Mr. Mitchell to sign his certificate. James Wellington, who was in 1809 a partner in the house of Jones, Wellington, and Puke, of' Dedbridge, corroborated the testimony of Ermsworth respecting the letters, which were writ ten by him to their firm. The letters were produced, and the witness identified theta to be the letters received by his Inn from Emsworth. (The letters were then put in and read, and the contents of them were merely that Emsworth had made sale of 101 bags of wool at a price named in the letter.) In his crom.examination he Reid, that Mr. Mitchell was the person that principally managed the purchase and sale of the wools; and that die defendant told him that the wool was not re-sold at • profit, and offered him the inspection of his books its support of bat statement. Mr. Osborne Yates corroborated Emsworth as far as it respected the purchase, &c. of the 1711 hags of wool, and said that befote he bad made the purchase he went to the defendant's counting-house, where he had some conversation with Mr. Mitchell respecting the wool. He believed the defendant was Torment. Ile did not set with his usual caution in making the purchase, because he considered himself as acting under the recommendation of the defendant, whom he then believed to be his sincere friend. IVhen he discovered the fraud he brought an action against the defendant and his partner, and was paid 6,000/. to compromise it. Samuel Yates, the father of last witness, gave similar testimony. Mr.SCARLETT—The ' s my case. The ATTORNrYMENIMAL; for the defendant, addressed the Jury. It was impossible for any man not to feel that the evidence which had been just given must have made an impression upon the minds of the Jury ; but he was sure, notwithstanding that, the Jury would listen with patience to the few observations he had to make on behalf of a man who on the present occasion had every thing at stake. No situation could be more cainfnl than the situation of an advocate defending a man advanced in yean, highly connected, who had for years maintained an irreproachable charac ter, which this day might perhaps be blackened for ever, He did not mean to contend that the answer put in by his client was strictly correct ; hut he trusted that he should he able to produce witnesses to satisfy the Jury that it was the result of mistake aris ing from the complicated proceedings in the Court of Chancery,' and from the reliance placed by the defendant upon the statements of Mitchell, who, he could prove to them, had the entire manage- Lent of the Spanish wool business. Thomas 11ungerford Powell, the brother of the defendant, swore that the defendant carried on the business of • drysalter, and did I not Interfere with the management of the Spanish wool business, which was left (with tbe - excectimi of paying the Whyte the ma. nagetnent of Mitchell. With respect to the 101 hags of wool, Mit chell told hint that they were sold originally tolVellington and Enliven, and that he (Mitehell) hail repurchased them. Neither he nor his loather knew anything of the compromise made with Mr. Yates until Mitchell brought them Yates's acceptance, which they took, because Mitchell said that there would be a great loss , upon the revile of the wool. The wool was ultimately resold at a I loss. Ile offered the inspection of hie books to Mr. Jones, who refused the offrr, and said he had no doubt but all was right. Ile and his brother relied entirely upon Mitchell as far as the wool business was concerned. In the euns.examination he admitted, that previously to the compromise, Mitchell mentioned to him Yates's offer. Ile ob. jetted to any forfeit being taken from Yates, for whom he had a great friendship. Mr. (tale, a chile( the defendant, gave similar testimony. Mr. Lowe, who is Solicitor to defendant in the Court of Chan eevy, swore that the proceedings were of a very complicated nature, that he relied principally upon Mitchell fur instructions to draw the answer, but that he sometimes got information from the defendant and his brothee. Mr. J. Pitt, M.P. for Cirencester, knew defendant fur the last twenty years, during which period lie bore the highest character 1k veracity and probity. Mr. S. Yates, one of the witnesses for the prosecution, was called, and he gave similar testimony. Mr. eleeaat.t:TT shortly replied. lie contended that the evidence attend for the defence in fact strengthened the evidence for the FOsecution. The Learned Counsel then commented upon the evi -1 deuce, and concluded by calling upon the Jury to discharge their very painful duty, by returning a verdict of guilty against a man who was once highly respectable, but who, he was sorry to my, had, in an unguenled nunnent, been tempt ed to do an act which must eventually be the ruin of his cbaracter. His Lordship, in summing up, stated that there could be no doubt the statements in the answer were not true; but the Jury would not be justified in finding a verdict of amilty, if they sl Id not be satisfied that the defendant, knowing the statements to be false, had sworn that they were true. His Lord/ship then recapitu lated the evidence very minutely, and commented as he went along upon such parts as he considered tube either for or against the de fendant. The Jury having consulted together found the defendant Guillr. The I. did not rise until past eight o'clock. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, THURSDAY, Just 10. THE KING r. APPERLET. Mr. CLARK said, this was an action against the defendant, Chas. James Apperley. to recover a bslance of 21141. 10s. due by hint as Paymaster of the Ancient tarnish Fencibles. This corps lielonged to the Irish and English (.4t3blishment, but it was upon the latter that this balance was claimed. Mr. BROCOHAN said, that however hard it might be against the defendant, he was aware that 11 verdict must go against hitt.. The fact, however, was, that the defendant entrusted the affair to other persons, and he knew nothing of any balance remaining for eleven yens. The only person who could be a witness was Cd. Werdlc, who had been many years, and is now abroad, therefore he wssdeprived of any means of ne g ativing this claim. Verdict for the Crown.—Damages, TIIE KING t. MARY WAT/RRORE. This was an information charging the defendant, a maltster, at Richmond, with fraudulently conveying barley from the BOW/ while in a state of vegetation, and before it was gauged p ena lty Excise officer, by which she had become liable to the of 214 i. The defendant's Counsel stopped the case by submitting to • verdict for the Crown. THE RING r. WILLIAM BUSH. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, this was an information against the defendant, a carpenter, in Old OraveLlane, charging him with having in his po•session a quantity of spirits Illicitly dis tilled, knowing it to be so, by which he had incurred a penalty of 1001. Other counts charged hint snit the 'tame offence at various times. The Learned Counsel said, it would appear that the guilty knowledge would be sufficiently established by the fact of the de fendant having been actually employed in erecting several illicit stills, and had acted as a patireps erirnissis in the whole affair. Six offences were proved against the defendant, but only two penalties were claimed. Verdict for the Crown. —Damages, 200!. OLD BAILEY. THURSDAY, JUNK 10. CA RI. ILE'S BL ASP H E MOUS PUBLICATIONS. James Clark was put to the bar on an indictment charging him with having published a blasphemous and scandalous libel of and concerning our holy religion, in the 17th number of the Repub lican, vol. 9. The prisoner boldly defended the principles of the work, and called on the witnesses on the part cat the prosecution to explain what blasphemy meant. In the course of the triil the Court was repeatedly under the ne cessity of stopping the prisoner, who admitted that he bad had the offer of assistance from several professional gentlemen, but had de clined the favour. The Jury found him CiAny. The It EconnEn then sentenced the prisoner to three yews' los prisonment in Newgate, and at the end of that period to enter into his own reognixances in 100!., to be of good behaviour for his life. Rasta& one of Carlile's shopmen, whose trial and conviction we gave yesterday, was sentenced to two years imprisonment, and to enter into his own recognizance in 1001. to be of goal behaviour during his life. The following prisoners received sentence of death :—Mary Watson, J. Iteadin ,, , Robert Hebber, John Morris, Jas. Thomas, and William Reynolds, for stealing in a elwellnig-house ; Richard Hart, J. Williams, Thomas Davis, John Thomson, John Johnson, anti Donald 111`Croy for burglary ; T . J. Boyce, for cutting and maiming; Richard 'Cornwall and Ann Gates, for highway rob bery ; William Whalley, for secreting a letter containing bl.; Thomas King, for horse-stealing; John Colciough, for personating a pensioner to obtain prize money ; and J. Clark, for abetting Col dough. Mary Watson and Ann Gates pleaded pregnancy in stay of execution. Pour prisoners were sentenced to transportation foe life, and 16 for seven years ; three to whipping ; two to whipping and impri sonment ; and 75 to various terms of imprisonment and hard labour, and minor punishments. POLICE. II A TTON.GA RDEN. PRE3EIVATIOX FROM SlAClDE.—YeateTdly, J. 111 4 Dovall, in an apparently much distressed state of mind, was brought up from Cainden.town watchhousa, in the custody of Dalton, the watehhouse keeper, charged with being found on the banks of the canal onWednesday taight.ssamigly with an intention to put a period to his existence. On being taken to the watchhouse, and after ex. pressing his strong indignation at not being allowed to pursue his welLarranged plan, he was recognised by Dalton as a man whom be had apprehended under similar circumstances in the month of January last, with a letter in his hand, addressed to a Captain of one of the Leith smacks, declaring, that as he could not get a passage to the " Land of Cakes" by any established mode of con. veyance, he had determined on some kind of aquatic excursion. In answer to numerous questions from the Magistrate he answered very incoherently, particularly when asked how he got his living ; be replied , " Please your Worship, at any decent and commodious eooksnop I find." The Magistrate perceiving that his ideas soared above any sublunary considerations, sent hint for one month to the House of Correction. CNION-HALL. A person of respectable appearance, named Lacy. who was some days ago apprehended upon a charge of having defrauded up wards of thirty trash-Innen, resident in the Borough, was brought before 11.. J. Chalmers, and R. Hedger, Esqrs. hr persons, named Shared+, Stephens, and Stanley, the first of whom was Laskey's errand boy, and the other two employed in con ing goods by Lackey, were placed in the bar along with him. Laskey lithe person who set up a fictitious coffee-shop in the Bo rough, and commenced his real business by sending round orders to the tradespeople whom he thought most likely to be imposed upon. He had stocked his shop with stacks of sawdust, so that the neigh bours thought it a very respectable set-out, and he professed to retail the very best roasted corn. Several tradesmen then detailed the manner in which goods had been obtained from them ; and Mr. Chalmers thought one of the cases was strong enough to secure the attendance of all the witnesses, /cc. at another examination. A tradesman said, it could be proved at the next examination, that a man was in readiness, in the neighbourhood of loskey's house, to take off all the goods which were brought into the house by the duped tradesmen. The moment this ambassador perceived that those who went into the shop loaded came out empty, he entered and made a clearance. The Magistrates finally determined to remand loskey and filiatlrsch, and to permit Stephens and Stanley to be at large upon their own recognizance". • The two last prisoners, it appeared, were employed to carry goods for loskey, but it did not appear that they were aware of the Character of their employer. DARING AND EXTENSIVE ROBBERY. A very daring burglary and robbery was committed about one o'clock yeeter d a y . morning, by a determined gang of thieves, at the house of Mr. names. steward to Earl Cowper, at Pansanger, near the town of Hertford. Mr. Haines's house is situate upon Cole Green, on his noble masters estate. On Irednesday he had ben collecting rents, and had cash, bank notes, and cheeks, as the amount of more than 2,,01.10/. in the house. About twilight on Wed nesday evening tour men were seen walking near the house. About one in the morning Mr. Ilaines's son, a lame youth, was awoke by a noise at a window at the end of a passage near his chamber, and stepping out he saw a man entering, followed by another. He immediately ran to his father's room, and having infornird him of what he had seen, they placed their backs against the door, deter mined, if possible, to prevent the intruders from entering. The strength of those outside was however too great for them, and the door was burst in, and four or five men entered. At the moment that the first ruffian entered he levelled a blow with a bludgeon at the head of Mr. Ilaines; but the latter luckily evaded it, and the r bludgeon coming in contact with the bed-curtain rod, snapped it asunder. Mr , lames snatched up a poke and endea voured to defend himself, and did deal out two or thfee hard blows, but lie was soon overpowered by superior strength and numbers. The villains threw him upon the ground, and hay. ing tied his arms behind him, they rolled him up m a carpet in such a manner as almost to suffocate him. They then asked him where his money was, and he said he ha d none in the house. " That's a - lie.' said one of them; "come, ycldfort it out or you'll rue it." They threatened with u o fi b- horridprecations to murder hint if be did not tell, but he still rearmed. Atlsegth one said." well, if you won't tell we must find it, so here goes," and with a crow-bar he :mashed in the bureau where the money was tie.. posited; they took every farthing, and were smelling for inure, or other valuables, when they experienced a most unwelcome interruption. Mr. Ilaines's son had contrived, in the bordes to slip unperceived out of the room, and harlot; gut to a window. he rang an alarm hell. The thieves hearing this ran to the place, and having knocked young Ilaines down, they proceeded to get from the window to the ground as speedily as possible. The ringing of the bell, however, had produced some effect, for they were met upon the ground by four or five men from neighbouring houses, and a desperate con flict immediately commenced, during winch one of the ruffians snapped a pistol at his antagonist, but fortunately it flashed in the pan. The thieves finally obtained the mastery, and got clear off with their booty. They left a pistol and a hat upon the ground. It was found that they had effected an entrance to the house by mounting a ladder to the window, cutting out a piece of glass with a glazier's diamond, sufficiently large to admit a man's ann, and so unfastening the sash. Information of the robbery reached the office in Bowmtreet early yesterday morning, and Bishop, the prin. cilia' officer, with Avis a patrol, started to Piumanger in a post. chaise about twelve o'clock. Earl Cowper called upon the Alagestrates In the coarse of the day upon the subject; and Sir R. "brute, and Mr. Staff rd, the chief clerk, have given such directions to other officers, that the of:lidera cannot escape justice if is be possible to detect them. There were only two checks, and of those payment was stopped ~e sterday morning. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.-011 Wetlnesilay last an in quest was held before Wm. Bell, Bent. Coroner, on the body of ‘Vm. Pi g , g builds , of this city, aged 42 years, who died in conse quence sit tilling off the Phenomena coach. n the 23th ult. in the parish of Botesdale, as he was on his way to London. The evi dence of his brother exoneratett the coachman tram any blame; he was driving at% moderate rw.c. The deceased was on the hind pelt of the coach, when he, incautiously changing his position, fell, and the near hind wheel passing over his body, injured him so mertally, that he expired on Tuesday last. The deposition at the brother to ate deceased was corroborated by that of other witnesses. The Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death." The de ceased was a man universally esteemed, and has left a widow and six children to deplore the loss of en affectionate husband and a kind parent.—Ga ry Pot. CHARITIES OP ENGLAND. It appears by the statement made by the Commissioners of Charities to the Secretary of State of the prose ding; of the 26th ultimo, which has just been laid before the 'louse of Commons, that the number and income of the Charities they have investigated in the counties of Bedford, Berk s , 'Cumberland, Derby, Devon, Essex, Gloucester, Hereford, Hertford, Kent, Lancaster, Middlesex (including London and Westminster), Northampton, Nottingham, Oxford, Rutland, Salop, Somerset, Southampton, Stafford, Surrey (including Southwark), Sussex, Westmorland, Worcester, York, city of Bristol, is as follows: Total number, including Chartered Companies and General_ • Charities . - - . 10,736 Number of the above, the income of which exceeds not 21. 3,6" g Above 21. and not exceeding 51. . 2,14 Above 51. and not exceeding 101. . - 1,1115 Income from rents - • - £216.157 i v 6 - from rent charges - . Z 1.048 8 8 ----. from other sources - . 10.503 0 L Total Income - £322.70s 7D i To the above, including the far guider part of England, remain to be added the particulars of a few counties not ytt investigated. EJECTMENT OP AN EX-SHERIFF. OR TILE MEETING IN AN UPROAR. [From a Correspondent] On Wednesday evening a most ludicrous renoor tre took place at the Crown and Anchor Tavern ' Strand, in which an Ex-ditude, who of late has rendered himself conspicuous on various °maims, was the most prominent feature, and subjected himself to a course of treatment very seldom adopted by gentlemen without consider able offensive provocation. Sonic charitable gentlemen of the County of Cumberland, MM. bled at the above Tavern, for the purpose of celebrating the festival of a praiseworthy Institution for the relief ofaged and intim destitute persons of the county, and educating their children. Sir James Graham, Bart., was in the Chair, and Colonel Lowther, Sir Philip 3lusgrave, Ban., ALP., with several other M.l"s. and Gentlemen of disfinction, attended. to aid in their work of charity, and for a certain period indulged in the most per fect conviviality, until the Chairman quitted his situation, and watt conducted front the room by the Stewards, Colonel Lowther, and other Gentlemen. The worthy Ex-Sheriff, who had attended the dinner, sat perfectly quiet up to this time, and seemed to sip ha wine with the utmost satisfaction during the evening, but on the Chairman and his friends entering the Committee-room, they vat not a little alarmed at hearing the utntost confusion among the company, and the general inquiry of " what's the matter" ensued, but no satisfactory answer could be received, the attention of tier, individual being too much occupied in the affray to reply to thew busy questions. Waiters were looking after their masters'obks and glasses, while some were looking after their wine. Omsk. men were crying " Turn him out," and the awkwod proliconeet of the poor Ex rendered it necessary for him to protect his pawn and dignity by levelling a few a la Spring, until he was forcibly ejected with " blood upon his check." The matter was then es. plained to the gentlemen of distinction outside the room. The Ex—Sheriff, it appears, ever ready to promote the welfare of charity and conviviality, after Sir James had quitted the IC3(11, mounted ths table and proposed himself as Chairman, to which he considered himself entitled as a " Cumberland man." But this did set meet the cordial approbation of the company, which gave rise to Me argument between the lex-Sberiff and several gentlemen present, anal the worthy Ex was soon removed from his situation. A via lent scuffle took place, and the claret flew in profusion, but the ejectment of the objectionable individual was finally sccomplithed. We have not heard how the antagonists of the would-be Chairman got off . , but thelwro of the fray received a very unpleasant track on the ,coact, which brought bleed, ant he ultimately left the tavern, declaring that he had been very ill treated, and that the saiters ought to have protected him in time battle. SPRING AND LANGAN. We leam. by the latest accounts from Chichester, that Langan is doing as well as can be expected, aitufulering the severe punish ment he received. On Wednesday he was able to walk about his room for a short time, but in a state of total darkness. He complains most of his head, and pardeulady of a spot over his right temple, which, he says,. was strut against one of the posts of the stage in a fall. At first at was thought that the skull was fractured in that part, but It is now ascertained that this is not the case. Many pus saes went up to sae him us the !after-part of the day of the some of whom dropped their sovereign, as a mark of their estima tion of his bravery. It is not probable that he will be in a state fit to be removed for some days. O'Neil, his countryman, who went into the ring with him, attends him constantly. Spring arrrived in London on Wed nesday ; he suffers much pun from his hands, particularly his right one. Ile went up to see Langan before he left Chichester, and we hear that he generously gave the brave fallen man ten pounds. It is supposed that the injury done to Spring's fists is such that it will be impossible for him, were he disposed , to tight again ! Langan seems to have calculated on the effect. of his iron head upon his adversary's knuckles, and in this he was right : he ran in head-foremost, regardless of the most tremendous blows on that nob, which, if we considered nothing but its hardness, we should suppose could have no room in it for brains: it must the phrenologists. In the other prominent point of his ing, his attempts to throw, he was disappointed, and evidently ex hausted his strength in fruitless efforts. Spring is evidently much improved in this respect since his fight at Worcester. Like a ski'. ful general, he hu been strengthening the point where the attack was meditated. He has been, no doubt, incessant in practising wrestling ; and Langan, though eminently qualified for that sport by nature, can scarcely be considered a first-rate one in art. After all, though the Irishman was no match for Spring in science or length, it was no sinecure to thump such a piece of stuff as Langan for two hones. Those who wish to kno w th e thing practically may just amuse their knuckles for half an boor against • stone wall. Even in the way of punishment, Spring's friends are asto nished at what he has received. Langan's courage was extraordinary ; and the manliness and good humour of Spring were not less remarkable. About the 21st round, when he thought he had won, he wished to let his man down gently, but Langan rallied, and he found that it was neces sary to go seriously to work. So again, in the list round. The battle, as a whole, has been very unlike some of those dis graceful buying and selling crossing transactions which have of late disgraced the Ring and if halt a community can be amused in this way, it certainly is " a cheaper delight of nations" than a war im E or even the bombarding of Algiers. Spring's ro Mends bare many of them lost money in bets on time. The battle really lasted 1 hour and 54 minutes. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL, Joss It The Betting-room was but thinly attended. No betting took place on any thing but the only stake in nomination (the Doseastat St. Leger), nothing being said upon any thing at Ascot next week. The principal conversation was on the fight between Spring and Langan, the losings on which event were readily paid. An acc rate statement or betting will be Wand below ................... -- --___ ~ DONCASTER ST. LEGER. 9 to 2 agst Brutendorff 12 to 1 apt Osmond 9 to 1 apt Swirl 15 to 1 apt Caccia Piatti II to I agst Altisidora 16 to 1 apt Mustachio 12 to 1 apt Canteen 28 to 1 agat any other. SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—CORONER'S INQUEST. — Yesterday a Coroner's inquest was held on the body of a prena unknown, at the Red Lion Inn, Le too -tone, in the parish of bet. ton, Essex. The Coroner was W. Gibson, Esq. The Jury baring been sworn, proceeded to view the body, wluch was epo sited in a shell, in the stable of the Red Lion. Several of the Jury had seen the deceased before, but weld not particularly re cognise him, as the body was stripped, haviug only the grace clothes abo ut it in the shell ; the countenance appeared quite placid, haring nornarks of violence about it. Henry Worley stated that be was a gardeeer, and worked in the nursery of Mr. Hill, of beytonstone. At a quarter put six on Wedesday morning, as he was going up the walk in the nursery-ground to work, be saw a man lying in the left-hand cross walk; on going up to him be found the deceased on his face, fiat to the ground, and a variety of young plants (American shrubs), fourteen or fifteen in number• fresh pulled up, beside him. Witness went up to the decoded. and found him warns, but after speaking to him several times. he r2ecived no answer--he was quite dud and mei:Males. The Jury. . alter a short deliberation, found the following verdict :—•• Ths: the deceased, a .n unknown, was hand i:ud in the gronrels t . )! Mr. Mill, and that he bad come to his death in a tit of apop4e l l. FATAL ACCIDENT IN YOJIR era of the arrangements in the pavement, on our market-dal. k 4 ' often bun a matter of oomphint, the jostler of which was, ise turday last, Gully exemplified. A poor industrious woman, of On name of Meyncll, whose bus:and is a labouring man residind North-street, was in the act cf cheapening some biome, Oar the corner of All Saints' Church. vibe - . she •vu thrown down by s can which was passing at the ordinary pace • the wheel welt a u het head, and she was so severely injured, tha t she died shortly ion du had been removed into an adjoining public-house. The pour titan hits left five children to lament her loss, one of whom is not in the county hospital, in consequence of a broken kg, aur a b l an accident about three weeks ago. An inquest was held on th? body on Saturday evening, and a verdict of %• Acciucntal dont: returned.— York ['curette. DIED. • At Dromoland, county Clare, the infant daughter of Sir E llO5 O'Brien, Dart. M.P. Wednesday, at his house in South Audley.street , Thomas Chi' wilier, Esq. Y.R.S. FAA., and F.D.S., Swoon Elm ordioarY to the King, and Protium of Anatomy and SIAM 1 ' ) the Royal College of Surgeons in London. Very suddenly, at Newark, in the 78th year of h:s age. %Viln a ! Sealand, one of the firm believers, to his last moments, 1 0 the t r "" aim of Johanna Southcott. _ HIGH WATER TIIIS DAV AT LONDON 131111tio . ' Morning min. after I. I At.eriloon 16 min. after - Printed et THE BRItISII PR ESA Witt.. by J.W. CO LTC>I 181, Strand, and Publisked by It. Caa 1311:e PIaCC• ~~