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one hundred guineas that boat was not there I" The Plaintiff was dragged upon deck, and, weak as he was, received is lashes—the Defendant ryisig nut that •' he would Clog any man that be ht•Sliti ill, even if he were entering the dock-gates. The Wet" should see that 1w you not afraid* be calm he was In the Channel. lie would punish any person he pleased. Ile load plenty of money, mail o ld lot care." If this were the result of mere Mo.. .‘,l•llt3rV ripe, or), he night excuse it—hut it mp %wave,. to result Irons a cruel &Nitwit:vitt. What, ;s- *04;141 ar , k, mu-t have ',eels the feeliags of the Vtanitiff, *he:a lie was seized up, acid received those .li:tract-Fut lashes, the ,:arks a n d the recollection of which he must ciwy with Nita into the navy, should Joe he again called iiitc ti-eNliojesty's service ? It was art etitlicott hiconceive lam poiguatit how agonising fare fertillgS must have heel., when lie braved even 'death, in order to escape those igmotuipiour blows. 'Ube cause of the treatment he rcreived was evident. Defendant most have felt some very un pleasant emotion% when he viewed the situation in wpii.h. his crew were pliref;, tit cotvegiteirce of the twogri+ions having been disposed of—and, tia t.it Pontsgh, he did slot like to hear the corn -I,lumnis of the famished mariners. Therefore it was shut he dealt so severely with this young man. 'foe 'Plaintiff was not a sordid wan, who came iota It.)1! Court for heavy damages. tie was a gentle- Mats and •att officer—and he asked for such caul peqktion (If it were possible to mouse a compensw tio,,) as the Jury might think he was entitled to, * for The brutal insult he had received at the hands of Sloe Defendant. • Ti;e following witnesses were examinell: Frauds Pulses was ;inner attic East India Company's ahib Orwell. The Defendant was her Captain. The Plain tiff was gunner's mfr. Witness was his superior athirst.. Oa the 4th of May last, the ship was Nlcrpte. The stssaalt took place abont four o'rlock on that day. Plaintiff and part of the crew hail been employed in unsholling the guns. Witness saw the Captain on the deck, in a rage. The Viatrititi was near the Captain. The latter 'track the Plain. tiff in the face, and then ordered him on the poop. The a Lief OfErtr was close to the Captain whet' he committed the assault. 11'hen the Captain ordered the Plaintiff to the I p, he sung out to the brititswaiii to call up the crew, %shish he did. The ordering the Plaintiff to the poop, and t lir atlieg tip of the crew, gave them to understand Ant she Captain was shout t 0 punish the Plaintiff by flogging. `Witness intuit...timely after heard a cry that the Plaintiff was nes, board. He was taken up by a Deal boat, and alms Ititinip.fit near the ship, the Ccaptain ordered a rope's end to be throwa ont, and mist, " If he could not get up the skip's side, lie Amnia lie dragged up." The Captain declar ed he would punish him. The reason was, because he had ctimplaised of want of t ictitala. The Captain di, ecird the gn7.rter-master to seize bins op—and s '• if the Plainfiff," who was extremely weak. " could not strip off his clothes, tlstu'skunld be cut oil his hick. Plaintiff was flogged by • the boatswain. He received eighteen lasbe.. The Captain :'toad by and said to the boatswain, " You're got a rascal • there, do your duty." Witness did not know that Plaintiff had been a midshipman. His conduct to the 'Akers was always very respectful. The crew had been on short allow. sore fur a fortnight or three weeks before. They fed on rice ;ail rase. 'Flo y Isa.l no bread or meat on board. He did not know of any of their provisions being sold in China. At the time the transaction took place, the Manila)f was in a licak state, and said to the Captain that " he war not fit to In " He leaped front the poop, which was a issitcbt of 'lO feel. Crar.).ernisised.—The ship had moored in the (tomes Channel, near Margate, on the day the transactiou took pace. A boat had been scut to the shore for fresh provi *Mos, but it had not arrived when Plaintiff was punished. The Deal boat was close to the Orwell. . William Peel was servant to the surgeon of the Orwell. O.; the (lay in question, he heard a noise, and came lip on • deck. He saw the Milord' on the poop, and the Captain it.. the quarkr.deek. The Captain called to the Quarter .ffisater to puuisli the Plaintiff, because he had said he mild loft do his duty, to consequence of want of fond. The .Plaintiff immediately jompeil overboard. Some of the crew . *offered to lower a boat to take him up. Tin Captain ex claimed " Never mind; d—n him let him swim." A Deal boat that was near the Orwell took him up, and the Captain • •-eiwe direct ions to lower a rope's red. When the Plaintiff -.. Vat upon deck, he was cold and weak, by remaining' it. the - wade so line. He was immediately taken up to the gang . way, to be g o nad, The Captain said, “If hr can't take off his clothes, cut them off" Plaintiff was stripped by sonic 'of the crew. The Captain observed, "That he would flog him teen at the Jodi...gates. He would chew the • iew, that • he was nut afraid, because he was so near home. He wool., pliniah any of them he pleated, tl gli it should coat bim ever so much money." At this time the crew were per fectly piaci—diem was so. sytiiptuni of nintiuy. The Captain stored by while the Plaintiff was flogged, and called to the toirsoinio "to do his ditty." Sia barrels of Iseef and pork ' were taw, n out of the ship while she lay at China. i'rove-examineff.—The Deal boat was lying near the Orwell when the Plaintiff jumped overboatil. Pelee Tardy, a seamau on hoard the Orwell, saw Ills Cap. taut strike Mr. Rhoden a t cry lard blue on the lace. Wt. ..ms. Imo often hilt thr. Captain's heavy band himself. The 4‘ *wain directed all the men to go aft, in order to witness lir. punishment of the Plaintiff, who immediately got into the gip, and jumped overboard. The boatswain, the wit. Wier, and another seaman, wished to let down the pill, in or d.., to pick him lip—hut the Captain told the boatswain " to . 4trg p all fast, and let Pla i Miff swint, for it woe hi do kiwi good " Twu nieu, in a little boat, proceeded frum it. Oral boat that •• lase lying alongside, and took bleb up. When lie came to the Marl, the Captain ordered a rope's.einl so be lowered, in talker that ii shuald he made fast round his butlli, tu drag him ups if Ise could sot himself mount the ship'.. sole. The Plaintiff was begging and praying not In i.e punished—and ...lowered, that he was not able to receive the pussislimeat. 1 Le Captain did. not mind him—but said, " if he would not analrip liimself, that his clothes should be cut utf." He was tints flugged—the Captain, during the puuishineut, 'ailed out to the boatswain " to do his duty, as he had a sturiud. el before him." The crew had beet. On short allow. mice fur viiree weeks !before the vessel arrived at Margate. 'limy bad very little meat. On one occasion, they gut a lit tle China pig horn the Captain, which was boiled in their peasi-slop. 'fliers were about It pousids of meat aniungst 75 men. During the time the ship lay uff Margate, no pruvi aeon were reeeirea from the slaire. He did Out Lwow why the Plaintiff sax punished.' • John Protiy, slur armoserer of the Orwell, deposed to the rusiishinent iudieted no Ow Plaiotelfe The Captain /aid " lie would flue any of dar clew, eves. at tot dott.gater."- - The coudliet of the Plaintiff towards the Captain was re spectful. The tiew had lung teen on saint at Innatirr. flewy reale, a sorrenn, recollected the Plaintiff applying *t ini, in Loudon, ail examine hail bark" Ile did so, sod 1 . IV. back its a lied state.. The flogging, ha Ho-night, awe hernia revere wile. 11w marks acre still rouble. lbs. Rhodes, the mother of the Plaintiff, stated that her ,an. isa, a midshipman in his Majesty's diary. This.ssiiutss nas peoired.ug to speak of the high respectability . of h. e ' fatuity, bet was interrupted by the Curet 'Wince, wlrr etiosidered such pairs; quite i ere!. valit. The case for the Plautiff closed here. ill r. MattlitiATT ilddreased the Jury for die 0,-feiidaiit. lie. said. if lea irliiiit'il .cutidurt ale- . _ se, il any punishment (siad Ire thought it deserved aiut.e), the opening 'speech of his Learned Friend re► quite sidEcieut. His Learned Friend Fwd treated the Defendant with petutiar severity. He siiplied In at least • desalt timer. the eiAthtts' of hinbarous and isrutal—aisti accused him of act ing With savage barbarity. td gratify the bed pre' pi-neities af a creel dasposilliors. Whew. however. die case was investigated, It would be found that VIE Defelidant did not merit such severe censure. They were told that the complainant was, by birth, education, and profession, a gesstleisints. Now all they knew about bon wet, that he hint entered us mariner on board one or t he I n dia Company's ships. Because lie was u unidshiptnati, it vet-toed, he ought to hare beet' exempted hann piiiii,h tnent ; but, he believed, it was not tottlaWal to punish that class of officers. Ile had many conuexnms iii the navy, :toil one of them, who was now a cut ttttt ander, dal not blush to own, that lie owed great ohliewiaos to an officer, try whose orders hr teceiverl a flogging., when tit entered the center. The Plaintiff, however, they were informed, was, a yowl% man of high shorn—hr preferred death to ignominy—and therefore jumped overboard, knowing, be it observed, that a bout lay alono.ide, and that there was no doubt butt he would he taken op. He thought prrls spa that when he was brought 1111 deck, and exhibited the tremor incidental to his immersion, that he would be for given. Ile would 'trove. by the testimony of seve ral individual., that the conduct of the ails most offensive—that he was deservedly pu nched—and ilsat his puiti-liment was light. So light, that when he applied for assistance to the doctor, next day, lie said he did not d the fl agg i n g a pia—lnit he believed he had strained his back in leaping oven board. Even thervidence of AIL Earle sheered that the injury was only skin drop. The Learned Counsel Own proceeded to state the immediate cause of this flagging. which was. his having neglected to uushot the guilt, when sufficient assistance was given to him for that pur pose, and pleading weakness, occasioned by star vation" nu board that d—d ship," as the reason. 'he Chief Mate thought this excuse was in tended to spread amongst the crew (for there had been considerable insubordinatiou during the voyage) the same degree of ill feeling which existed in the 's mind, and which had *hewn itself on a previous occasion, when the Captain ordered the disaffected pert of the crew to go forward, and she couteuted to go aft. The Plaintiff, at that time, joined the disaffected. He had also been SIM. . printed for improper language, but restored again on making all apology. The mate reported the Planitift's conduct to the Deleutlant, as a proof that he wished to strengthen the existing dissatis faction. He was, in consequence, ordered to come on deck, alid the Captain gave him "a sound box on the ear.' Whet', in answer to question from the Captain, he declared he was staived. as such l angiaige was calculated to excite insubordination, he was ordered to by flogged, which punishment was executed in the presence of the Captain and crew,' in the ordinary way. As to not loweenig a hoar. that would certainly be au unnecessary cere mony, when there was oar lying alongside of the ship. The conduct of the Defendant did not ori gioate in a cruel spirit. but arose from a desire, inseparable from his arduous situation, to repress insubordination on board the vessel. For the defence the following witnesses were called : William Cousins was first mate on board the Orwell East Fier burden was 1,390 tons, her euinpletnent of no n 132. In Illy last, sha anchored in the Queen's Chan. ne I, Nlarg•vte. and Defendant, about ten o'clock in the morn. ing, directed the Plaintiff lie take eight men and utishot the eons. Ile desired hint to be handy about it, ar the pilot wished to yet under weigh. About four o'clock witness went on the eon-deck, suet found the order had been ',fe inted only in part. It would have taken about three hours and a 1.31 f to perform the whole of the duty. %fitness aster.] Plaintiff why the guns were nut all drawn? ob serving, that he could spare him a good many bands, and directing that he would finish the business immediately, as the ship was about to get under weigh. The Plaintiff an 55tcred, in au imperthwnt 11:3 111 l er, " I cannot do it. I'm starved ou hoard this d—d, or ilei• infernal ship. I'm fed upon pea t eary." There was nothing, in his appearance. at the time, that indicated weakness. Them were several of the moo present. Witness coon 1111 l flatted the circumstance to the Captain On the quarter-deck. The Captain scut Inc the Plaintiff, in consequence. Ile rail least witness, and oth t lip to the Captain. Hs manlier appeased to be sa .y insolent. The Captain asked, " What do • you mean by saying that you ale fed on pea•gravy Have 1 not seet a boat for provisions to every ship we passed How can you, who ought to met a good example, behave in this violent way to all officer?" Ile tookthis temoustranee in a soil of overbearing manner. The Captain then or. demi bins un the poop. Witness did not see the Captain strike liim. lis•feire he ordered him on the poop, he eked the Plaintiff " ally he had not onshutted the guns ?" He said lie bad heti' fed on pea-gravy, and was as weak he could not do it." The Captain then ordered all hands up. 1 her riew immediately assemided—and the Plaintiff, when called (loan from the poop for punishment, leaped over. board. Witness numediatcly .an tu the poop to lower a boat. It raa nut, however, lorered, as there was a Deal boat alongside. Plaintiff seas peeked up by that haat, taken 1111 hoard, and punished with eighteen laehes. There as nothing fellliilksbie in the iiiiiiithenent, which was in flicted in the presence of the crew. In the outward.buitnd passage, the Pie.uhil 'a conduct was vet) bad. Mr. SCAR.I.F.TT uhjrcicd w this evidence, as irrelevant to the patient traihactiou. The Ctist•E Jcevica said, that the Counsel for the Plain. tiff having waked rime questions as 111 the Plaintiff's general conduct, he could not iirecholc the Couns,•l on the other side f making a monster inquiry. He would, however, tell the Jury, that the Plaintiff's conduct on the outward. bound passage bail :nothing to do with the present action. Witness proceeded.—ln the comae of the voyage, there was much insubordination on board the ship, and the Plaintiff joined with the•disaffeeted. On the 4th of May, a boat was sent un shore tar provisions. The voyage bad been unusually long. The ship left China in November, and arrived at St. Helena in April. Crar*, routincd.—Witnris was still chief-irate under the Defendant, and would proceed on another voyage with bins. Plaiutiff, of the homeward voyage, hail tilled the offlee of quartermaster as well as of gilll - W1:11,11111, with the /auction of the Captain, had appointed Plaintiff to the situation of quartermaster. The 'yuyage was very much protracted. Witness could not say "what quantity of provisions was disposed of 111 or at St. Ifclena. The provisions were not in his, but in the Puy. Seer department. The quantity of provlssOns itispArsed of was nut entered on the Ing.bmik. Withers kria the log. book. It was customary to enter on it the soinies of those mariners who had misconducted themselves. Ile ` had en. treed the mime of the Plaintiff on the 416 of May, lint never 'before, except *hen be war broke, and turned before the mast. (The tough log-book was here banded to the willies' for his iruspection ) Witness could nut tied the name of the Plaintiff nu it. He conceived it was likely be had entered the Plaintiff's name 1,1 the Company's log. hook, which was made up, with eiwrectione, from the rough log-'souk. Plain. tiff hail not suggested to witness, on the 4th of May, that that would be a gum/ opporismity 11119111/1 the guns. Wit. Detre Us dered the earpeuter's crew stud past of the caulker's Crew to mitt Plaintiff. Did nut tell those men to obey' bine. When Plaintiff asked, why he bad not preformed the duty? he nail be was too weak. Witness felt angry and ' unalloyed at the manner assumed ley the Plaintiff; because lur was asusiews to get .the work done, as the ship was •Ifbnall to p tthilrc.alnagh. 'rho crew bad been tin skeet r (pr three yr four weeks—but there was beef . son beard. within that time. He would slut say there we any beef kit in the hot week. Their own store a basket had hien eabassled for dove us funr watts-- bat they got supplies from vessels which they met. Ile sli(1 toot think any of the crew bud a good belly •full for • fiat night before the 411. of May. Thomas Walsh, • ward-officer on board the ship, maw the Plaintal and se-veral of she rues at work unslunting the guns. They proceeded in a most dilatory manner. Mall tiff did not appear to he in a weak state. Witness W4c pergola!, is hen Rhodes applied ill the doctor, ante having bra ii punished. lie said lie wastes' medicine for Isis [sick, or war& to shit effect. 'llse doctor said he (lid nut ibusk the Punishment he hail received would mishit. rice hint to place the Plaintiff on Ida list. Rhodes said he did out care about the 'logging, but he believed he had strained his hack. by jumping overboard. When, in the outward voyage a mutinous disposition Cpprared she ship, the Plaintiff stood between the disaffected and the quiet people. The former were forward, the latter aft. Rhodes al first went amongst the vim party, but he afterwards joined with the disaffected. There was great shortness of provisions on board, which the Captain endeavoured to remedy by applying ill dill , rent vessels on his passage. On the morning of the 411 t of May, the men gut their breaks fasts f the Captain's private share. A boat was tbs. patrolled so she shore for lirOvisicius. It was expected to have returned by one o'clock, but was delayed till funr, anal the own became angry in ciao (pence. W. Brunner, the Surgeon of the Orwell, corroborated the eviili-iire of the last witness, w.lb respect to his interview anti the Plaintiff. The Plaintiff spoke very lightly of the punishment. Alelrewa, second mate of the Orwell, was 'present a taro the Plaintiff was punished. There was nothing in she ptteillmieist out of the urilimary course. Ile did not 'batik the health of the Plaintiff, or the crew, generally, was in jured by the scarcity of provisions. The Captain dealt out lit private stock liberally. Cross 1111Milted—Wlistesn (after creel l refusals to answer the question), said, iltat the Captain's mess, at which lie made our, wits on short allowance for two or three days. He bid been at sea la years, but could not tell whether keeping men ou short allowance made them work better or WerPe. Mr. SCA nt.urr made a very ingenious reply. His Learned Friend need not, he obseived, be tirwler asiy apprehension, lest the feelings of the Defend ant should be wounded by tiny observation of his. The individual who could act, at he hail done, could nut he gifted with very acute I lie Learned Fttrisd had treated the trosiveiction as one of no importance. " The Plaintiff," said he, " only wit a sound box oss the ear ?" But, could any thing be more degrading than a blow ? lf the Plaintiff had committed an °Helier, wan tint that sufficient punishment ? his Learned Friend hart told them that he had conuexions in the navy, one of whom sejoiced in having been flogged. He (Mr. Searlett) was not con templating the punishment that might be inflicted on boys—hut he believed eery person would agree with him, that nothing could be more disgraceful to an individual, arrived at manhood, than the in. thetion of stripes. For his part he should feel snore respect for the soldier or sailor, who, having bee" "liillteds ilbandoned himself to despair, than fur the Commander of whom his Learind Friend hail spoken, who boasted of the flogging lie had received. The CHIEF JUSTICZ, in summing up, said. the law allowed power to the Captain of a ship to punish, when necessary. Unless such a power ex. hued, no order or subordination could he main tained on board. But, though the law granted that power to the Master. yet he must take care that he did not use it improperly, or wield it as 1111 instrument of oppression. The question fur the Jury to consider was, whether, on the evidence laid before them, the conduct of the Plaintiff was such as justified the Defendant in ordering him to be punished. _ _ " - The Jury reiired—and, after consulting for quarter of au hour, returned a verdict for the Plaintiff—dainages FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS-- costs 40s. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FRIDAY, JULY IS. GUISIIARD r. MORGAN. The Plsintitrs in this case were Messrs. C;tris hard, Oudeitard, 3111t1 CO. of Amsterdam, mer chants, and the Defendants Morgan and Lock wood, brokers, of Loudon. The present action was brought under the fol kwing circumstances :—Messrs. Guishard and Co. ordered their correspondents, Burniston and lied drill, to purchase for them in the market a large quantity of clover-seeds, and to hold them over for sale whenever the market price rose. hlessrs. Bur nistoir and Peddall, who were factors, complied with their instruetioos, and made the purchase ac cording to order, fur the Plaintiffs in Amsterdam, from the Defendants, Messrs. Morgan and Lock wood, who were brokers, ordering at the same time that they should hold over the article fur resale, at the rise of the market. _ _ _ Mr. Pei!dull, of the film of Burniston and re.:d.lll, psoved the fact of the order hasitig been re crivta by their house bons the Plaintiff's, and of their having empqwered the Defendants to make the varehase 10 quesiion, which they accordingly flow the firm of Messrs. Ellis anri Co. Witness requested that the Defendants would hold over the clover-seeds until tile mai ket got higher, us they were not to be sold until that CIICUIII6IIIIII7e toil place. Witness added, that the money winch was paid for the clover-reeds was furnished by the Plaintiff's house in Amsterdam. He further said, that having occasion to go abroad last year for some time, he did not attend to what passed in the firm at Mime, hut on his return he found his partner embarrassed, and he understood that lie had ob. misled some bills of accominodution Irma the De fendants, who charged the same upon the seeds they had then in their store. Witness, on finding this, informed the Defendants that his iIOIIM - were merely factors on the occasion, and that the seeds belonged to the Amsterdam merchants (the Plaintiff-), %41to tad nothing to do with the accommodation bills alluded to. After a variety of negotiations upon the matter, the Plaintiffs claimed the seeds from the Defendants, and .disclaimed ally knowledge of, or connexion with, the bills given by the Defers-. dants to Messrs. Burniston and Co. sod this action was brought to recover the property free of thelit:it on the hills. • The CHIEF JUSTIcs, in summing up ; the evi deuce to the Jury, observed, that howevor hard must be the lot of the party on Admit the loss in this case must fall, yet the law was clear that a frmor had lie right to . pledge sr put a lien upon the goods intrusted -to hi m b, his principal, and that if he ventured te do so, is 'was to be lamented bad been Ode in this we, still the principal who was . tlif trite owner had •uo right to be precluded from the recovery of hie property from the 'lesson bold ing it, recto though that person was not nut in pre vious possession of the minim of the dealings of the • factor with h ptititipal. A broker wai to be rt. sowed acting fur another, indesa when he specially announced himself as a 1 ipal. Ile knew there were cases in a hick ownership was to be isofetred from the posses. • of iontreuty, hut he did not think that this was one of 111v$11. It was the pro vince of the Jury to pronounce a verdict according; to their view of the tare—aer•nrdwttg to hia the case was clearly with the Misintift: The Jory, without hesitation, found a verdict for the Defendants ! OLD I.I.IILEY, FRIDAY. JULY 16. The Seseiotni closed this nnnr ' g at the Old Briley, and the Court was usliotornetl till %Verlliest tlay, the 15th September. Sentence of Orals was pa+4etl by the 11-cortler on the following persom:— Julio Lever, co,.tict.d of burglary; Benjamin N /hie, Mary 11(01,111e, John Railer, Witham Henry Ityrue, Sarah Bing, henry Phillip•. of *sealing goads in a 'dwelling-house ; Sirals Lyon, Heather Levi, of ste.theig goods its a shop ; Sarah Wilhite, and Thomas Alai/J*ler, of breaking into a house In the day time. The followinz, convicted of various stwcies of felony, were vetsteneetl to transportation fur the term of Iheir 'Mural lives:— Thom is Johnson, (}rar=e [Airs*, John Milton, (kiner James Wells, John Ward, Isaac Greenslath., %Valliant Phillips, violin Wilson, Michael %Volta's, James [loon, John Duziraii, Michael Nlacarthy. James White, and Patrit k Julio Sullivan, the last tiro were young lads. The following, convicted of similar U ffences of an inferior degree, were rrnti•uced to transportation fur the terns of 14 years:— James Radcliffe, Miry Dale,Jantes Francis, heron, Owen Ryan, and David Austin ; untl the under-sfientioniell Inc seven years _ William William., John Sharpe. Gen. Fawcett, Wm. ROI, Janes Howard; William, Clinch - a, Robert, and Richard Smith; John Hagan, Robert (take's, Janie., Lacy, Wright, R. Mason, Patrick Bromley, Sarah Mitchell, ftenja. min Hindi'', Henry Jones, Jos Duckbill, Jas. Smith, Anise Fairaide, Ja. Somer., Rich. Johnson, Jas. Grace, Anise Dly, Patrick Miller, Charles Harris, Daniel Dim'lle, Anthony Punsouhy,Thirmai Carter, Palm Anderson, Rich. Thompson, Thomas Butler , James Clarke, William Jones, John Turner, George Dudley, Julio Taylor, Jame* Mason, Thnniaa Stich. bourne, William Crouch, Charles Emery, W. Henry .1e...11, Henry Browne, Sarah Freeman, Mary Ryan, John Jones, Elizabeth Green, Ann Hall, Win. Beach, Richard Drigin 'haw, James Cole, Henry Cooper, Anne Lewis, Thomas Hawkins, William Macey, J. Dimling, and Robert INKlses. Hannah Fon en, Robert Wills, and Charles Polley, found guilty of felony, were sentenced In one year'. coonueniesit in the Home of Correction anal hard labour ; Mary Carver and Anne Ryan to she letter punishment and nine months con finement. Eighteen prisoners, convicted of various felonious offences, were sentenced to be confined six months in Ibe !louse ~f Correction, lept to hard labour, and well whipped in gaol ; others to three, two, or tine monlli s confinement in the same place. A few be be discharged after being well whipped in gaol ; and two or three after paying a fine of one shilling. A few minutes after the Court rose, a ',nor wretch, who appeared lame, and to have one of his arms either broken or otherwise severely injured, slid to be labouring under extreme bodily debility, was brought into the Court-yard of the prison, and had inflicted on his back aixtc•.lour lushes. The miser able culptit groaned and roared under the applica tion of the lash, and among the surrounding crowd all other sentiments seemed to be merged in those of horror at the exhibition, and pity for the unfor tunate sufferer. We are well aware of the utility of such ex amples, if judiciously made, and we should be the last to attempt to diminish, in the slightest possible degree, the reverence with which the judgment% of the law, or the discretion of those to whom the ad ministration of it is intrusted, should, in every well regulated society, be held. But we cannot forbear expressing our doubts of the expediency of select ing prisons apparently the victims of disea►e and misery as objects of such severe public punishment, while numbers of robust, sturdy, and impudent offenders receive their castigation in private. It strikes us that a system exactly the reverse would better tend to inspire respect for the justice mad mercy of the law, as well as aversion and dread of crime. POLICE. QUTTICSQUARE. THE SENTINEL AT THE HORSE GUARDS. Yesterday liduetaied Wastmll, a private in the lilt mi meo of Life Guards, was charged with violently assanitidig and beating Mr. Francis Hui tin, a tintber•wncbaut, last Saturday night. The Complainant said he had been spending the evening at a friend's house at Paddinetun, aud ass returning home through the Park about teu o'clock. Wassail, who was sin sentry at the Horse Guards, rd fused in let him pass. He told him lie had afro !visaed through at a later hour, on which the other rats fru,m los post warml yards on the parade, and coming up to bins struck hint a blow with his carbine which. felled hint to the ground, mid then kicked him violently ■boat the bush. His comrade, • soldier named It ~,, abu was on the neat pens, culls(' him back. Complainant's eyes bore evisieut marks of violenre—his foot was bound up, his ►ides Dual . . . . loins were black and blue, and 1w had Neu confined to his but, under the care of a doctio, up to the present time. The soldier said, in defence, that he wanted to force his way contiary to orders; that he used improper expressions, which irritated hint at the time, and he only did his duly. Mr. Fielding recoi ttttt ended a tre'llnCluja . lie never knew auy of the Life Guards to art improperly. They me often exposed to insult, and Wires certain, from the becom ing and respectable appearance of the soldier, if lw had had sufficient light to observe the respectability mid decency of complainant's demeanour, he avuld have wird is a different manner. It was probable the Complainant hail been drink ing that evening, and made use of some bad language. The corporal gave the soldier as excellent character; he had been three years in the regiment, and never before had Neu in nny trouble. He begged leamlu'otriaLsve, that since the coninworement of the twiljtioAniplerlings about London, • •• Ike threats of burning thektufsc s, asd Iht COIS !awll ilesafis the Guards had been esio.ised to whilst on duty, rendered at neers.u, v for thesis stern • to be derbled in the might time ; r high wssthrufact O. ILts occasion, the saddler load NO ex ceeded his justructiubs 11 •w eonteudesl on the other side, that be had nu right to tout hia puss, and Collor: the Colllllll4lllllllt to ass:nth how, 19.1 tbst if he was doing wrung to irputt hint to 111, corporal ottlie guard ur the next sentinel. Mr. Fie Wing, after wane farther übitervatiotto. ordered the soldier to be hound uvrt in aIi*WCZ the cowed/flat at the •esettiug !gracious at %Veatritittater. PRICE OF STOC Bank Stuck.. H2O ‘S YESTERDAY. India Stuck ....: 2081 India 80ndi....4 6 pr. 2..1 pr. 2 dia. 2 pr. Ditto e0m.... 33 dia. Lottery Tickets 191. 18s. 01'1,1..1 1 On dm. pair. Cups. fur 26'h Angtl+l. ex. dir. 611 68 671 Gbit 221 9 per Ct. 114 d. .. 681 i 3 per Cont. Coos. 6 712 68 671 68 34 percent.... 77!R 4 per f..cots. 67111 5 psirr. N. Atm.. 104 • 103.1 103 k Bank L. Aou. 18 3-16 SUMMER ASSf2ES i 1019. SOUTH MALES CIRCUIT. hrtire W. WlPlarirLo, laq awl R. M. CASIURI3, t Cardiff —Tuesday, August 31. ilrecua—iruesilay, qt.ptember 7. Piesteiffne—Meialey, September 13. SHUCKING MURDER. B,•tween Mire and len o'clock ou Monday night, as A young woman was going along one of the principal stn et. in U.P.lforil, with et can of water /NI her bead, she was to • - by a Fulls uftened John Ifodyson, a stoarateson, who, log intoxicated, began to take iiidecesit liberties with I, • persou ; she therefore threw off the ran of water, in not• • in defend herself from his violence., and fled into the Limo- Of Mrs. ‘Vittnarrielst fur protection; at the mine instant. Mrs. Wainwright herself cumiug to the dour to knun Blase of the distal's:ince, the 'akin rushed at her, avl inflicted two severe blows nu the pit of her stontsr., which laid tire senseless Zos the ground; and, notwith-tool. ing the best medical ■id, she expired at five o'clock n,•ut morning. The murderer was taken into enstody diately, and swaits the decision of Site Coroner's hrp,.s• Mrs. Wainwright was nearly 70 years of ar•, and usuta reliccted. ESCAPE FROII GAOL Thursday mroreing, shout three o'clock. Jaws , ceoll. Jo3n 211'Pherson, Daffy, Sad Dared Goal, a nd n the Tulbooth, Dundee, aertowd of capital crime*, tflrcie.l their escape. These four, along wqY a priswnrr or the mom! of Damson, were conflated in use cell, and hail for 500,.. dirt meditated their et.cape. (ha Tuesday last, Semi', atm himicht to the prisint, etiortaled under Inc clothes, the 111.411 of a Melt axe. In rnshie them In tarry n• their operattoro. With iucredible labour they rut • passage through a wet of four feet in llsickuess, limit of large stones, firmly rewrite,' together wills strong hats of iron. Ity this mesas a comma. sii:atiose w-a. opened with the east hall of the Town-house ; lint as the bathe was at the height of about IS feet fr o m th, floor, thi y were stutter Ike messily of fastening the blankets and coverlets together, Sc. enable them to desreink 111‘1.1trixon, Dote.. and Gall, had already reached the th aw . and Seott was in the act of following them, when the rope gate way, and he fell from a considerable height, but witho u t sustaining any material injury. The remainiag prison", making a virtue of netessity, now asserts that be did not intend to rustic his escape. 'flue principal actor i• this affair was Scott, whose doings we have more than mace had occa sion to notice; and he was fully prepared to resist in case of detection, Iteing armed with a brace of double-barrelled pis tols, with which he expressed himself determined to blow not the brains of the gaoler, or any other person who might off: r to interrupt him. After getting into the ball, the fugitives found it a paratively easy task in force open the lower door of the Town-honae. Scutt, before leaving town, v. delilatrately went to Isis own house to conceal the pick-ax.. Three persona, answering the descriptions of the others, ws ',- seen some lime afterward'. near Megginch. the other prison. era in the gaol, endeavoured to sire the alarm, by calliiog from the windows; bus there being no person in the street at She time except • single scavenger, who refosed to carry the information to the gaoler, the fugitives got clear off. W'r oneleramod that the contumacious scavenger was imam - diately dismissed from 011iete....-'.Dundte Courier.) MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGF., ramtv, Jr Lir la. We bad some considerable arrivals this morain e, priue•- pally of Oats, the sale of which was very heavy, slid whet e they were forced, lower 'wires taken. Wheat and Cathy ba.i • very dull sale, at blunday's prices. IVliiie Pease have .1... chistd 2s. per ipirivlrr. Its Beaus, and utter kinds of there is wit alters,' 0000 . N RV. RER KS. Irtteat 6B. to 86s 0,1 Oats Rye to —4. Od Beaux 18aricy 3o. to 424 0.1 Pease _so, t o 55. od Mead, 11 7il. to iP. 9.1. per Galion. SMITHFIELD MARLET, FRIDAY. JULY 16. . . This day's market had not a Bond supply of the different kinds of Cattle: Beef, Mutton, and Pork,sold at lut 'wee. Lamb is cheaper; Veal is dearer; cud the trade in griscsal was not over bred; —The tales in the Hay.merkit weir sown. bat dull: 11:q lota dropped in price; Closer ha. got np in price; Straw fetched last price. The following price: sad numbers ate an accurate statement : lo cink 0.. offal per stone of 81b. ' Reef....N. SI to Ils. 6.. Head of Cattle this day:— Mutton ..41. 4.1 to 5... N.I. Beasts a:". I.antb.. 4s. 4.1 to 6.. 0.1. 1 Sheep and Lambs.... 7,4:qt 1'ea1....44. 01. to 3t. BJ. Cakes .34) Pork... 4.1. 84. to as. 0.1 j Piles ............':9U H.IY.SIAItIif.T. Hay........ 41. Os. 0.1. to 61. fts. Oil. Straw Clover 4/. Os. OJ. to 7/. 76. 0.1. NEWCATE AND LEADENIIALI, MARKETS. (By she Carcass.) Beef 31 91 to 44 811 I Veal 44 9.1 to Gs Od 111ulion,. 4s 64 to 54 141 Pork.... ris 11.1 to Gs Ud Lamb, 5s 8J to 6s ed • COAL MARKET, JULY 16. Ship• el Market. Ship■ Sold. Price. _ . 34 Ncsen.ile 4 gmt.lca!nool 3 314. 0.1. lo 40s. 0.1. 1 Coln, .. COURSE OF EXCNA, Anoterdion....C.F 11 17 Dino at sight ll 14 /twirl-dam .... 2 U l7 14 Anises')." Haniburgh 35 9 A1t0u5........111 U. 85 10 Paris 3 .la)'s sighs l5 0 Ditto Rowideaux 25 30 Frankfurt on the rillll44V, Jima - 101, IVeoire .... Malta ....... • Naples .. 40 Palermo per oz. 110 I.i• lw (Marto Sa Rio Jaueirt; ........ 01/ 1 _ _ Dublin *** • J 6 Cork ........ ..... ld Agiu of Hank on Holland BULLION PuLtuNNI Cold in F * Coin. per 0z....3 18 0 Foreign Gold in Maim, Ex Madrid 4.ffective 341! Cadiz .effective 37 Bilboa 3B Barer Ion• 351 &silk 36 Gallia[tar 34 Bars ..... l4 0 4 4 Ntw INsubluuns 0 0 U New Dollars I 0 414 Silser iu Pars 0 2 Lrygitorn __ . Grimes .. 45 • . BIRTHS • Oa Ilse 11411 i instant, al Pertauunri„ Haut% the Lady of W A. Mack IC.s4i 111. P. of & daughter. On the 14111 instant, al Reigite.Pi tory, Sum'', Lad! Caroline Corfu., of & ion. On the 3.1 instant, the Lady of William James, Ertl. of Barruels Lodge, Cumberland, of a ann. • On the 14th tort. at 11eigate Priory, Serrey, Lady Cain line Corks, (hi Sunday, the 11th implant, Mrs. Charles Clarke, of Speltlhorst-atreet, of a son, who died on the 14th. DEATH. On Sunday, the lido inns/Int, nt Kennington, Gilbr , t Riede Walla, aged 23, sea of Mr. Wstis, drsiggsfa, Shand HIGH {PATER THIS DAY AT LONDON BRIDGE. laritaug 59 &Ayr 9. I Eartsiag 32 after ID. •4.ol4DONl.Pritited sod Pobhiked at the MSc., No. IV', ►trand; where Advertisements ere received, awl I rue,• (proot..poid) oust be oddment—C. SMITH, No I. Cleteteut's Imo, Prioler...J. WHITE, No. 127, Strand, • Publtsber. ,