The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1825-03-31 00:00:00

r, y 4 I lIVERPOOL, TVIIIDAT t Wind N.X.W. High Water at 311 min. pat 6. Arrived last night the 14MUao and Mary, Mulligan, from 14loorst; Wilhelmsoa, May, from ditto; Vroar Jacobs, from Los slop; lid's, Fell, from Isle of Man. 'Arftred ibis day the Barron, Ovens, from London ; Emerald • from Dublin ; Pretty Lass, Hamlin, from Sicily ; Earl Kit- WhwelY. from Newry; Erin, O'Neil, from ditto; Einer ahli lee, a Sagan, from ditto ; Anr.e , Currey, from ditto ; Johns, firm Uipsy, Wilkinson, from Strangford ; Faint, Irving, frogs tilift:ow. • *Fat el o'clock, two brigs and one snow. true Cotton market continues van brisk, and mice' higher--on Illsortla about Id. since Saturday, and about 20 ; 000 bap have etarretthands yeiterday and this day. CORN MARKET, Trrensr, MARCH 29. T. Grain-market this day extremely dull and lower. Wheat 31. Oats folly Id. Malt 3d. Barley 34. Flour Is. per sack, and butlrals. pat quarter; which reduction may be attributed to the amidst of au Immediate alteration taking Oar? in the Vorn Laws. :lathing of weight been done in Wheat and Flour under lock. -GRAIN. s. d. a. d. Wlioatrialllll•l79lb..—English . - 9 3 a 10 3 Scotch - 9 0 • 9 6 `go inget-ft i 4, ! 1 : - - Irish . - 89 • 10 0 Dantric (in bond) - 4 2 • 7 3 Pomeranian (do.) - 4 8 a 7 3 Petershurgh & Riga (d o.) 4 8 a 7 3 Oats per Bushel of 451b.—Irish Potato - S 3 • 3 6 English,Seotch&Welsh 3 6 • 3 8 1....4 . Common 2d. a 3d. lower. malty loft 601b.—English - . 5 0 • 6 3 as. es Irish - - - 4 9 a 5 0 le di rtrrl ikas' (old) -.-9 0 a 9 3 - (new) - . 9 6 a 10 , 0 ealmq per 24015.—English - - 30 0•32 0 _ ...';'t . Irish - - - 25 0 a 3l 0 NRlNlkrit NUM.—English - - 50 0 a 52 0 Irish - . 50 0 a 11 0 • American porl9lllb. (sweet) 00 a U 0 Miro . (in boa) 24 0 a 96 0 . • Dantric . - 0 0 a 0 0 Foreign, free 0 0 s 0 0 Beans per Quarter—English (old) - 46 U a 48 0 Do (new) - - 43 .0a 45 0 Irish . - 40 0 a 42 0 Foreign - - 0 0 a 0 U Peas per Quarter— English, White . 0 0 a 0 0 Ditto Giey - - it 0 a 0 U • Foreign - - U U a 0 0 ratironran FROM THE 22D TO THE 28TH MARCH, lycLusivr. Vi heat - . 4.901 qrs. I Peas . - 12 qrs. Ore - 27.941 Flout - 973 sacks. Barley - 963 Do. - - 937 brls. . 1 * - - 102 ... I Omar: . . - 854 loads Beers - 1.223 EXPORTZD—rIOUF, 571 Darren. ._....1 .1.-. 'PPING INTELLIGENCE. CUSTOM-HOUSE, MARC a 29. •Ew-ctstin Istwanns.—The Britain, Forster, from Newcastle; Hobbs, Buchanan, from Standgats Creek; and Flying Fish. Smith, from Os.tend. Firrzl tla Otrt want:rt.—The Julie, Brengel., for Calais; Mar garet Book. Johnson, for Pernambuco, Bahia, and Maranham X--L, Cobb. for Hamburgb; and Royal George, Reynolds, for Footurffe, Madras, and Calcutta. CLRARRD OUTWARDS FINALLY AT GaavEsExn.—The ktlas Hunt, for the Cape of Good Hope and Madras; Zealous, FCeed, for Halifax ; Aron, Dempster, for Grenada; Elio, Macr ae!, for Rotterdam; Earl Bathurst, Pound, for ditto; and Fox, FOIL jun. for (lotto& CLIARIRD OUTWARns—The Wm. 11POillivray, Stoddard, for Quebec and Montresl; Leander, Franklin, for Tmeriffe, Barbadoes. and St. Lucia; Rose, Coulson. for Rotterdam; Jobn, F. her, fr..r Jamaica ; Blyth, for Berbice; Antigua, Pear for Antigua; Atalanta, King, for Ilamburgh ; Sirene, Fsil lant, for Calais; Funchal, Ill•Pherson. for Madeira, Teneriffe, asd Qukbec; Lord E., euth. Mills, for Genoa and Leghorn; :;;Usoger, Ritchie, for Miramichi; Melrose. Christie, for Bay Cbaleurs General El!iott, Boardman, for Igiramichl; and Benja sellnd .Ilary, Fro:ter, for Quebec. FROSI LLOYD'S LIST. Pete(Me,Ance 28.—Sailed the Sarah, Batten, for Vera Can; ON Struther, for Hamburgh; and between seventy and metery aoseles. "ramose. Malice 28.—The New Harriet, Smelt, from Biassing;; was this day cleared from quarantine. POOTINOOT IL, 11l ARCII 29—Arrived his Maesty's ship Cal. hope from a cruise. Put back the Morgiana, for London. Coves, Alance 29.—Arrived from the eastward the Baltic Merchant transport, to take troops to Gibraltar. Dom., Mance 29.—Arrived off Folkestone yesterday the He. lens, Rankine. front Charente for Newcastle. Passed through from the Amer the Lady Nugent, Coffin, for Madras • General Phipps, Baxter, for Alesico; Argo, Alerting, and Planter, Smith, for Oporto; and the Retrieve, Steel, for Cadiz. A vessel's head. tweed, with " New York" marked on it in large gilt letters, has bees picked up in the Bay near Sandwich Haven. WILATZsE D, MARCH 29.—Arrived the Kate, Frethwell, from ifelaliorgh Premium, Young, from ditto; Zeemew, Droul, from Smarm; Thetis, Trott, from Harlingen; Four Brothers, New. larsh, from Worcum ; and Vrow Catherine, —, from Altona. Sailed the /WOOS ' Patterson. fer Quebec; Hope, Hunter, for dies Hopewell, Dobson, for ditto; Rookwood. Lawson, for: Das'a Svelte; Margaret, Kay. for Greenland; Union, Clinch, fosirpyrsa; Norfoik, Greig , for Teneriffe; \%'ilton, Barber, for Hoe; and New Minn, --, for Antwerp. 1/2,EIRPOOL, At ARCM 28.—Arrived the Mary Queen, Davies, frau Gibraltar; and the Cimino, Tye, from Dordt. Arrived c.fif Cork the Dolphin, Atark, from New Orleans. Tile Hayti, Meyer, from St. Domingo to Bremen, sailed thu 2Stps Antr,ust last, anti has not since been heard of. The Peter Ellis, from Liverpool to Surinam, out fourteen days. waEspoken with on the lst instant by the Thistle, Alien, arrived at Helisst. ROYAL UNION ASSOCIATION. This Institution , which has been formed under the pitronage of the D u ke of York and nearly 100 noblemen, tun promoting the establishment and improvement of Friendly Societies throughout the kingdom, has opened ar:saffice in Lancaster-place, Waterloo-bridge, for securing to (Le. Public from 61. to 100/. payable at death to surviving friends ; from 4s. to 48e. per week during sickness, with medical and surgical assistance and medicine; annuities, endOsements, sums of money at deferred periods, pecuniary aetetance for females at child-birth, and many other ad vantages, It is the first Institutiou of the kind which opens itseloors as it were to respectable tradesmen as well as to tins working classes: and amongst its present members theft are nearly one hundred noblemen and members of the If eppe of Commons. A fund is subscribed by the honorary merttaliers, which is applied to the relieving of those mem bers mho become distressed by any unforeseen occurrence. The sates for the sickness insurance are somewhat higher that those of the best of the other existing institutions ; but feselkople are aware that by actual returns of casualty and oi4ignessi in Benefit Societies, comprising one hundred and Amur thousand two hundred and eighteen members, the average 'iciness between the ages of 60 and 70 is no less Olen twelve out of every hundred the whole year round: that important fact accounts for the numerous deplorable fail ores which occur in friendly societies after thirty, forty, and even fifty years of apparent success. It is the objeee• of she Royal Union to correct the prevailing evil of mis caleivlathm which ever pervades Institutions formed under high . autherity and upon extensive scales; and it is grad tyihg to know that friendly societies of every description saaYemereand the assistance of that establishment in Ms proving their own plans, • and that where their affairs appear irretrievable, the clubs can be admitted whole into the Institution upon equitable tenns. It is a leading feature of the Royal Union, that if the funds accumulate beyond what is necessary to secure its future welfare, the surplus is returned to the members alone in actual cash payments, and that the general control of the afairs is in the hands of those members who insure to a certain amount. Assoeiauoits on the same plan are forming in Northumber land, Bedfordshire, and other counties, and it is believed Mediterranean North America Jamaica NEWSPAPERS. Although the Romans had their Acta Diurna, yet in modern times we are indebted to the Italians for the idea of newspapers, the title of their gazettes being derived from a small coin peculiar to the city or Venice, called p aella, which was the common price of their newspapers. It has also been said to be derived from the Latin gaza, which would colloquially lengthen into gazetta, and sig nify a little treasure of news. The first paper was a Venetian one, and that only monthly ; but it was the newspaper of the government only. Other governments afterwards adopted the Venetian plan of a newspaper, with the Venetian name to it; and from one solitary government gazette we see obat an in undation of newspapers has burst upon us in this country. " A jealous government," says Chalmers, in his Life of Ruddiman, "did not allow a printed newspaper; and the Venetian Gaxttta continued long after the invention of printing, to the close of the sixteenth century, and even to our own days, to be distributed in manuscript." In the Magliabechian library, at Florence, are thirty volumes of Venetian Gozettas, all in manuscript. "It may gratify national pride," continues the above writer, " to be told that mankind are indebted to the wisdom of Elizabeth, and the prudence of Burleigh, for the first newspaper in England." In the British Museum are several newspapers, which had been printed while the Spanish fleet was in the Eng lish Channel, (luring the year 1.588. The earliest news paper is entitled '1 he English Mercuric, which, by autho rity, was printed at London, by her Highness's printer, 1588. These, however, were only extraordinary gazettes, and not regularly published ; and it appears that even in this obscure origin they were skilfully directed by the policy of thit great statesman, Burleigh, who, to inflame the national feeling, gives an extract of a letter from Madrid, which speaks of putting Elizabeth to death, and describes the instruments of torture onboard the Spanish fleet. The first Newspaper in the collection at the British Museum, is marked No. SO, and is in Roman, not in black letter. It contains the usual articles of news, like the London Gazette of the present day. In that curious paper there is intelligence, dated from Whitehall, on the 23t1 of July, 1588. Under the date of July 26th, there is the following notice:—" Yesterday the Scots ambassa dor being introduced to Sir Francis Walsiogham, had a private audience of her Majesty, to whom he delivered a letter from the King his master, containing the most cordial assurances of his resolution to adhere to her Ma jesty's interests, and to those of the Protestant Religion." In the reign of Queen Anne there was but one daily paper; the others were weekly. After which Steele, Addi son, and others, attempted to introduce literary subjects, and other topics of more general speculation, which, more or less, have been continued to the present time. THE ARMY. (CIRCULAR AIENIORANDUSI.) Horse Guards, AI arch 26,1825. H isM ajesty's Government having decided on an augmentation to the Infantry of the Army, his Royal Highness the Commander in-Chief has been pleased to direct. that the following revision of the existing establishment and distribution of its force shall take place accordingly. Each Battalion of Infantry in the United Kingdom, as well as all those on Foreign stations (die East Indies excepted) to consist of Six service Companies, at 86 rank and file - 516 I" 0 And four depot Companies, at 66 rark and file 224 f " The Depots of such Regiments as are serving at home, to con tinue united with their respective Battalions. The Depots of Regiments on foreign stations (the East Indies excepted) to be termed into Provisional Battalions, and stationed agreeably to the distribution laid down hereafter. Regiments serving in the East Indies to continue on their present Establishment; those in future proceeding to India, to be aug mented to the Indian Establishment of Eleven Companies. and to carry with them their Depots, leaving only the usual establishment of a Recruitir Company in this country. The establishment of the Service Battalion, and the Depot Com. ponies, to bens follows: Six Service Companies of 86 rank and file each-1 Colonel, 1 Lieutenant-Colonel, 1 Major, 6 Captains, 8 Lieutenants, 4 En. signs, 1 Paymaster, 1 Adjutant, I Quarter-Master, 1 Surgeon, 1 Assistant-Surgeon, 1 Serjeant-Major, 1 Quarter-Master Serjeant, 1 Pay-blaster Serjeant, 1 Armourer•Serjeant, I School-Master Serjeant, I Hospital.Serjeant, 6 Colour-Serjeants, 18 Serjeants, I Drum-Major, It Drummers and Fifers, 24 Corporals, and 492 Privates. Four Depot Companies of 56 rank and file each-1 Major, 4 Captains, 4 Lieutenants, 4 Ensigns, 4 Colour Serjeants, Ser. jeans.. Deuuttners and Fifers, 12 Corporals. 212 Privates. 'The proviekstal Battalions formed by the depots of Regiments on foreign stations, (the East Indies excepted) to be enibodled in the proportion of three depots, or twelve Companies, to each Bat talion, as nearly as possible according to the stations where the Bat talions are serving. The Staff for the Provisional Battalions so formed, to consist as follows:- 1 Surgeon, 1 Assistant Surgeon, 1 Acting-Adjutant, I Acting Quarter-Master, 1 Acting Sermon-Major, 1 Acting Quarter muter Serjeant, 1 Acting Pay-masterSerjeant, 1 Acting Hospital Serjeant, 1 Acting Armourer Serjeant, 1 Acting School-master Serjeant. 1 Acting 'hum Major. The mode to be adopted for the payment of these Battalions, and the respective depots of which they are Composed, will be the sub ject of a future arrangement. The Commander-in. Chief has been further pleased to approve of the following places as the head.quarters for the depots of Re giments on Foreign Service till further orders : Foreign Stations. Head Quarters of Depots. Ceylon - . - - Mauritius - Landguard Fort Harwich. Chatham and Sheerness. New South Wales -- • Cape of Good Hope Gibraltar - -- iVeedon. - Plymouth, I Mr. Justice LITTLEDALZ summed up the evidence, and told the Jury that they ought to consider the whole of the circumstances of the case. It wu clear that the defendant, wbe was in the employ of Messrs. Paley, in a situa tion above that of a common workman, had seduced this young woman while be was making honourable proposals to her. Thus was not the slightest imputation attempted to be cut on her character. With regard to the offer made by the defendant's Counsel that his client would marry the young woman, that WaIMNIDg that they should lay entirely out of their consideration, bites aa the offer could not be fulfilled before they gave in their verdict, they could not be satisfied that it would be carried into effect. If the defendant had made such an offer before the action, or even before the trial, and had proved by evidence that that offer had been re jected, it would bare been material on the question of damages, but that was not the case here ; they would therefore have to say what damages the plaintiff was entitled to on the whole of the case. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 1001. NORTHERN CIRCUIT. YORKSHIRE ASSIZES.—YORK, !lanai 28. Special ✓ury. D•IiKEN D. liar. This case excited a good deal of interest in this county. The Court was crowded Immediately after the doors were opened. Mr. Baouou•st, Mr. TINDAL, Mr. D. F. JONES, and Mr. J. Evans, appeared for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Scaal.EXT, Mr. J. WILLIAIIII, Mr. F. POLLOCK, and Mr. PARKE, for the de fendant. It was an issue directed by the Court of Chancery to try whether the late Rey. Robert Barker, the father of the plaintiff, wu the lawful son of the Rev. Thomas Barker, formerly Rector of Cherry Burton. A great body of evidence was offered on both sides. The Jury retired at half-past six o'clock, and brought in a ver dict, at half-past nine, for the plaintiff; thereby establishing the legitimacy of the plaintiff's father. The JUDGE, on receiving the verdict, said,• " Gentlemen, that is the very verdict I should have given myself." WESTMINSTER SESSIONS, M•scii 30. Yesterday morning these Sessions commented, when Mrs. Dad ir Id, the noted keeper of the sinks of infamy in Shire-lane, and mother of George Dudfield, who was transported for being an acces sary after the fact in the robbery of Earl Cowper's steward, was In dicted, at the ins. Ince of the Inhabitants of the parish of St. Cle ment Danes, for keeping a house of ill fame in Shire-lane. Mr. ALLEY was about stating the cue for the prosecution, when Mr. Hamar interrupted, and wished, on the part of the defend. ant, to plead in abatement, namely, that her name was not Hannah Doddsld, but that she was generally called and known by the name of Hannah Lyon. The Count' said, that the trial having been postponed since last Sessions by the defendant's request, It was impossible that the plea now tendered could be received. When the defendant found her plea could not be admitted, she manifested much anxiety to leave the bar, 'westing a desire, through her Solicitor, rather to forfeit her recognizance% than take her trial ; but this the Court prevented, and desired that the de fendant should not be allowed to depart. The trial was subsequent ly postponed. POLICE. GUILDHALL. Joseph Plymplon, formerly • shopkeeper on the west side of Fleet-market, was brought before Mr. Alderman Bit rnoEs yes terday, upon a warrant, charged with an assault of an aggravated description. Mr. Jopson, the Vestry Clerk of St. Andrew's, Holborn, briefly stated the circumstances of the case. Their workhouse, he said, unfortunately generally contained a large number of persons, male and female. A master and a matron were appointed to superin tend these individuals, and the prisoner had the good fortune about six months ago to be chosen into the former situation. Within a few days the Overseers bad had an intimation that the prisoner conducted himself improperly towards some of the young females in the house; and upon inquiry so much had come out, that it was deemed necessary to discharge him instantly front his o ffi ce of muter, and to take steps towards his further punishment. Two girls were then examined, one of them only ten years and a half old, who deposed to some gross and indelicate behaviour on the inn of the prisoner. The prisoner denied their statements. The Alderman, however, crediting their testimony, and deeming the charge to be of a nature that demanded the fullest investigation, directed the prisoner to find bail to answer for the assault upon the girls; and In default thereof lie was committed. Sarah Murray was charged with haring stolen a blue coat, be longing to John Frederick Johnson, out of the house of Mr. Cooper, 541, Shoe-lane. The evidence brought forward was that of a ser vant girl, who had seen the woman go out of the shop, and sus pecting that she had stolen something, followed her, aud accosting her, asked her what she had taken; sHe said" Nothing." Not being satisfied with this answer, the whne , s went to a young man, who was standing at the door of a neighbour's hones, and requested him to go after the prisoner. The young man, H. Green, in com• plianee with the above request, went after the prisoner, and asked her what she had got : she said "Not any thing;" but he then ob served that a part of a blue coat was hanging below her shawl. He therefore searched her, and found the suspicions of the servant folly established by finding a blue coat upon her person. The coat was identified by Johnson, who had left it suspended upon a glass bin. In the pockets were found several instruments cased by glaziers. and which were sworn to by Johnson. The officer, on searching the prisoner, found in her basket a cloth and liquor glass concealed under matches, and said that she had been out or prison but a very short time. The prisoner said that dtstress was the motion of the commis sion of the crime--that she had formerly kept a respectable shop, and that her husblunt had left her about nine years ago, and bad taken away 300/. 111 r. Alderman BRIDGES said, he thought lie should be render ing a service by sending her to Bridewell for three months, which was done accordingly. John Wills, who was discharged from this office last Friday, was sent to Bridewell for three months, for having stolen some bunches of greens from a stall in Fleet-market. BOW-sTREET. The Magistrates of this office were occupied a good part of yes terday morning in hearing the excuses of victuallers whose licenses had been suspended, and in receiving applications for new licenses. Among other applications of the latter kind, was one fora house to be opened near the New Insolvent Debtors' Court, on the ground that the Debtors who came up to receive the benefit of the Court's judgment, were inconvenienced for want of a neighbouring house to obtain refreshments at. The application further proposed, that the house should be called The Insolvent Debtors' Public-house. Mr. HALLS and Mr. Bliwsittrxt. were on the bench, and the latter remarked on the singular appellation which had been ►elected for the house, but no answer was given as to the probable success of the application. APPREHENSION OF A GANG OF BODT-STEALERs.—J.MiIIs and 7'. Icilliams, both decent-looking men, together with Mar. geed Hetehinemi, a miserably-dratted woman, were put to the bar on the charge of stealing a body from the churchyard of Northold, a village near Harrow. A young man named King was buried in this ground on Sunday last, since which the appeal-axe f the grave having led to a sus picion that the body had been removed, information was given to the relatives, who learning that a cart had been seen near the spot, and that it had afterwards been driven off towards London, pursued in that direction, and overtook it at the Coach and Horses, near Not ting-hill, one of the men being at that time in the house taking refreshment. On his coming out and getting into the cart, the pursuers intimated their suspicion, and demanded a sight of what they had got in the cart. The woman and one of the men, immed:- ately on hearing this request, jumped out of the cart, and attempted to make their escape, but were pursued, and, together with the other man, secured. On searching the cart the body was found concealed in a sack. It is supposed that •the prisoners had admitted the woman to the party, under the impression that her presence would prevent suspicion, as it could scarcely be supposed that oae of her sex would be engaged in an undertaking so re volting to the feelings of humanity. They were all committed. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday E. Fremen, a Smithfield drover, was brought up by Reed, jun., at the instigation of G. Roots, Esq., a Commissioner of Bankrupts, charged under Mr. Martin's Act, with cruelly ill treating a drove of sheep under his care in Uuildford-street, on the 21st instant. Mr. Roots deposed to the prisoner having wantonly directed a ferocious dog, which he had with him, to go amongst the drove of sheep, and singling out one, he suffered the dog to attack, and to continue to worry it, until he tore the ear out of its head. This sort of ebanieful conduct was repeated several times, and Mr. Roots therefore determined to make an example of the prisoner. In his defence, he only said that he was a ,c poor chap," and " not able to pay any fine." " Then," said the Magistrate, " I order you to pay a fine of 205., or in default that you be committed to the House of Corm tion for one month." 'orthy Magistrate's ••• the 7HE CASE OF PALMER. The following letter was received by Mr. Robles yester day, at the Mansion House, on the subject of Mr. Sheridan's payment of the theatrical receipts for the benefit of the family of Mr. John Palmer:— " Str-1 beg leave to make every apology in my power fee tres passing on your valuable time ; but, as I see by the Times news paper of yesterday, my assertion relative to Mr. Sheridan is contra distal, I beg leave to state the following facts :—The money paid at the doors for admission was most certainly received by the family, as atated by Mr. Dunn ; but the ticket-money, including presents (one from the present Countess of Derby of fifty pounds) was received by Mr. Fosbrook, who is still living, and resides within a few doors of the White Swan, Kennington Common, and paid by him into the hinds of 111 r. Sheridan. leg leave to state further, that Mr. Sheridan, a few days previous to his death, acknowledged the debt in the presence of my sister Isabella, who, as well as my Miter Lucretia, never received the money, and sent his soo, who is still living, into the drawing-room of No. 14, Saville-row, Burling. ton-gardens, to say it should be paid, which, I assure you, S t, never was the cue. Shortly after Mr. Sheridan's death, an advertise went appeared in the paper, calling on all persons having any claim on the deceased, to make known the same to Mr. Burgess, attorney, Curzon-street, May-fair. My claim was immediately drawn out by an attorney, and sent in, and was not fora moment disputed I trust, Sir, you will excuse my taking the present liberty, but! should ill-deserve the kindresa shown me, had I com menced my melancholy tale with a falsehood. I have inclosed an account of the manner in which I have laid out the money his Lordship was kind enough to give me ; and as it is a well-known fact that my sister Isabella has been through life a mother to me, I trust I have not exceeded your wishes in rendering her a little as. sistance. AVith the most grateful thanks for your kindness, I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient humble servant, EDW•RD TOUR LOW E PALMER. The LORD MAYOR stated, that he received a note from Mr. Fawcett, the stage-manager of Covent-garden theatre, almost im mediately after the humane notice of the case of Mr. Palmer ap peared in the public prints. His Lordship thought that the con tents of the letter merited the highest commendation. By means of the contribution alluded to in it, and that which had been re. aired from Drury-lane theatre, together with some donations from a few charitable individuals, who admired the father and pitied the son, it would be probable that the object of the charity would be enabled to get into some decent way of supporting himself and his wife. His Lordship added, that he observed from the items which were iodated in Mr. Pant er's letter, that the first debt discharged by him was that to his landlady. Mr. Fawcett's letter was as follows : " My Lord—Observing your humane interference in behalf of Mr. Painter (son of the late Mr. John Palmer, of Drury.lane theatre), 1 beg to acquaint your Lordship, that by Act of Parlia ment Covent-garden Theatrical Fund is prevented from granting annuities to any but those who have subscribed and belong to it. But I have great pleasure in having it in my power (with the con currence of my brethren) to send temporary assistance to the unfor tunate person ; and if your Lordship will order the enclosed draft for 111. Ida. (ten guineas from the Fund and one front myself) to be disposed of for that purpose, you will greatly oblige, my Lord, " Your most obedient humble servant, " JOHN FAWCETT." _ - Portsmouth, (Import. . Winchester, Chichester. li' V 14inbur h , lllu~rov. Leeward Islands . - - Isle of Wight. The East India Regimental depot Companies to be also in the Isle of Wight until further orders. Whenever a Regiment is ordered on foreign service, its depot to be separated from it, and embodied in the Provisional Battalion of the station to which it proceeds, in exchange for that of the Eat. taiion it may relieve. Battalions eiroad to be directed to send home their Super. numeraries of each tank, to assist in forming the depots, taking care not to reduce the effective rank and file fit for duty below 516. They will select the non-commissioned officers most fit for the duties of the depot, and till their places by promotion in the bat talion. The same arrangements to be made he Commanding Officers of regiments a: home, the depots of which will be at once nomi. nail, formed at the respective headquarters. although they may continue attached to the regiments, u forming a battalion of is Companies. All Officers attached to depots by transfer, promotion, or front ball-pay, to repair at once to the depot stations, or within eight weeks after appointmcm. The distribution of Officers to battalions and depots, after the latter shaltbara been established, to he made by the Command. ing Officers, subject to the approbation of the Commander-in. Chief. Officers °attaining Leave of Absence, on accopnt of their health requiring a change of climate, to join the depot on their arrival in this country (unless specially nispensed with by the Commander-in-Chief), and to be replaced by Officers front that establishment. Officers exchanging from one Regiment to another, to take the place of the Meer, with whom they exchange, whether in the battalion or in the depot; and to take the same tour of duty With either, except dispensed with by the Comniander-in-Chief. Officers belonging to Regiments which have recently embarked for foreign service, and who have obtained leave to remain at home, to repair at once to the depot, and be the first on the list for em barkation, to replace such Officers as may come home on sick or other leave, or with invalids. All Ensigns, on their first appointment, to oin the depots. The Commander-in-Chief having deeme d it desirable to sus pend, for the present, the appointment of Officers to the depots of the corps named in the margin*, his Royal Highness Intl been pleased - direct, that until these luneots take plus. • land, Medlordshire, anti otner counties, and it is believed !lit been pleased to direct, that until appoinuneats take glace, young woman of excellent character, and the fact was, that the de- •••••'" •-•--- --" '''' that at the close of the Sessions, and the return of the the recruits of the depots thus circumstauced shall be assisted fondant always wished to mike this young woman his wife. and the These words were no sooner out of the W i orthy Magtrate's Ships at , Market. Ships Soli' - Price. 1 Members of Parliament to their country seats, the system and formed by the body of the Regiments to which they ire defendant now wished it, and authorized him to repeat that offer mouth than the tine was paid, the prisoner . t . epart . in.g th e o ffi ce 31 Newcastle . . gy . .. 28a 6d to —a Oct apparently chuckling at the easy manner in which he had escaped. 23 Sunderland . 19f - 295 Ott to 391 kt ara.be adopted in every populous district. attached. now. • By command of his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief, Mr. C. PHILLIPS-1 must object to this—this line of conduct --- ---- -- ------- • _________ his conduct called forth an observation from the . %Worthy 'Magna- MARRIED. HENRY TORRENS. Adj.-Gen. is negatived by the whole evidence; and besides, this young too- trate, in which he regretted that . he had not imposed the full On Tuesday, at St. Pancras church, Mr. Stephen Ethel'. of Lrwearioor, MARCH 9.—At Kirkdale market yeller- ♦ • ndt, 17th, 24th, 2lith. 34th, L3d, 58th, 64hb, ist battalion, tilat, man once trusted the defendant's promises, and was betrayed. penalty of live pounds, and promised upon another occasion he add do so. Tent le-mw, Birmingham, to Sarah, widow of John Tristram, 1 1 1 day 'Mete - was a pretty good supply of cattle, but higher 82d, ti6dt, 72d, 73d, and 75th Foot. ptioss being demanded, caused dullness in the trade in the --- early pert of' the day : but a reduction of about 10s. a Yesterday morning, at half-past three o'clock, a fire bean: below th• day se nuight having been submitted to, ts nearly the whole were afterwards sold. Prime wether per tra o thbon e e. :illeap were rearree, and met ready sale at Bd., and middling Fat t e i d t th dweing- se 74d. H•ef 111. to 'fiel. per lb. Mr. t'sx NIEL L resumed. If the iliontiff hoped for large da- w `. l . wages, he ought to have adduced /it eon: that the defendant was in a situation to pay them. That evidence was not givea. The de- fendant uniformly wished to fulfil his engagements, and as 50011 as he sla t istrate told Mr. Roots dial the public must be indebted .. i i occasion. him f conduct oft this to or is %YORAM I P-STR I:ET. broke out in the melting house of Mr. Ruff, tallow-chaudler, Up- the verdict was given, he would be willing , as he had been before, Chart,, Csetxrighs. driver of Waterhonse's Plymouth . coach, place. It raged with great fury, and soon communi- to do everything that was right by the plaintiff. The consequences wa s yesterday convicted by Mr. Twerono in the mitigated penalty which was totally consumed, anJ du et large damages would be, that the defendant would be thrown into of MM. and coats, un information laid against him by John Byers, nu see of Mr. nail, pawnbroker, and of Mrs. Smith, dren•maker, prirn and utterly ruined, aud never could yerform the promises he under the Act 50 adjoining. were much damaged before it was extinguished. 'The German Papers state, that the prices of wool have A „ pr i er , h „ been received for Re, _ obi,son and oa risen 0.0 per cent., and that at the Fair of Frankfort on the Thereat nijtie, wtva were corer' ()ler, much business was done, and the wool fair in June dwettitlit.house of Martha Apdow, at C is expected to he equally favourable. In consequersee of a dispute upon a most trifling affair, two lif the Rudy Guards fought a duel at Paris on Sunday, effect " r.TI K Gen . 111. chap. 48. The 4th section of the Act made. The verdict must peso against hie client, but he trusted linain the height of lu eon the roof of a coach to two feet, and that they would consider moderste damages sufficient. imposes a penalty of W. for every inch of luggage above that height. late morning, at Kensington, W. A. W ' GILD. , . On Monday last, at his house at Pentons . - ' Esq formerly of the Bank of England. On h 28 i i arre Log to Char- ille, M illiain Church, t e El nat. at Homey, in her tilich year, Mrs. Du Dooley, late of Watastead. tend of an atrocious burglary in the Mr. C. Pit IL up. c l a i me d a r i g h t to red l y , ad d h e did so on this The defendant was convicted in the penalty of 50!., the lowest Elm • • layton-le.woWs. Robert ground : his Learned Friend had - stated font which were not war- Robtoons, found guilty of the same offence, is left foe execution, ranted by the evidence ; he had stated as a fact that th,t defendant and the dreadful sentence of the law is expected to be carried into wasolways willing to marry the young woman. Saturday next. Robert maliciously shooting, and Was. Deeeltwret, for sheep steal tose, for Mr. Just i n I. whiff Ape of them was killed, and the ether so seriously whose eases sentence of death was ractradwl, are to be imprisoned oc the case. allowed by the Act. __ITT LLD•LE thought that there was some evidence 200,000 q uarters. in oin of an offer to marry, and he sl•ould tell the Jury how far that bore . g fht h e On the 16th inst. at Rye, Sussex, Major Richard Hay, of the gal Native Infantry , of a Mirka; consumption, aged all. gik ...____, The foreign buck wheat imported last year was about 111 ;1 0 1 , 1 n . e amount of tax paid last year Oil Mr, exec. ded r. ate of the Breach, near Bilbroughton Wo rc estershire. lotto Augusta, eldest daughter of General Dantean. - -------- -- ------- WATER THIS DAY AT LONDON BRIDGE. mg 38 pain. aim 11. I Afternoon 0 min. afar 0. ______ __ _ _ ____ _ - -- it Primed at THE IIItITISII PRESS OfSee. by J.W. CawaeoW, i • I. [ r • i d wountlad that be iv not expected to survive, until hit Majesty's pleasure is knows.-I.lverpeel Pepe-. Ma. C. Patturs unpinned himself satisfied. one million sterling. 181, Strand, and published by D. C.casiox, same plant. ....4- . • THE BRITISH PRESS. OIPORD CIRCUIT. --••••••-- MONMOUTH ASSIZES..—.IIo,DAT, Mmicis 28. Before Mr. Justice LITTLEDALL. WELCH EJECTMENT. EDMUNDS, WIDOW AAAAA AND OTAITILS. Mr. Coos, opened the pleisdings. Mr. TAUNTON stated, that this was an action for • forcible entry brought by the plaintiff; who was a widow and a very poor old woman, against the defendants, for a most aggravated trespass in entering the plaintiff's cottage at Aberystwith, and taking away her goods, and as soon as they had done so they se{ in* las gook and to the cottage, and the whole were burnt. The Rev. John Davis proved the will of the husband of the plaintiff, under which the plaintiff claimed the This gentleman was cross-examined at soaso ca rgth by Mr. CAMPBELL, and, though a clergyman, he seas -14 no means as fait et the English language ; Indeed be andwiaml same of the questions so imperfectly that one of dm Jetty enspooi abet the Rev. Haldeman would understood better if he were interrogated in Welch. Morgan Morgan said, I was sent for by the defendants, and ac companied them to the plaintiff's cottage ; one of them is a consta ble, another of them overseer of the poor. They are all farmers. When we got to the plaintiff's cottage she was out, but her sat was at home. The defendants asked the plaintiff's son to go with them and look for a house, and he went with them for that purpose. The house they were to look fur was foe her son to live in. Cross4xarnined by Mr. Mau rs—The plaintiff's husband was upon the parish sometimes. I don't know that the cottage was built upon the waste. William Lewis Edmunds, the eon of the plaintiff; being unable to speak English was examined in Welch through an interpreter : he said—l remember the defendants corning to my mother's house ; one of them named Henry Samuel told me I must go out of the cottage as 1 had no business there, and they said they would go and get me • house to take my goods into; the plainti ff ', furniture was then thrown out of doors by the defendants. They threw it out on the common, and took possession of the cottage, and in three days it was down. I saw several dogs there. frees-examined by Mr. CAMPBELL.-1 am 39; 1 remember my father taking in a piece of ground from the waste, but that was more than 20 years ago. I lived with my mother, as did my sister and her husband ; we had frequent quarrels, and went often before Mr. Moggeridge, the Magistrate; my mother was not in the pos session of any other house for more than a fortnight. Joan Arthur tail, lan the daughter of the plaintiff. One day my mother and I went out, and returned the next day ; on our re turn I saw several persons, and our furniture was out of the cottage on the ground. Henry Samuel, one of the defendants, told me to come and take my goods; but I saidorou took them not of the house and you shall give them to mein the house again. Ile said he would not, and told my mother to take her things, which she refused ; a few days after this I went again to the house, and saw the defendant, Samuel. I said " This is dear work for you ;" and he replied, •'I don't care for you ; there is nothing belonging to you in the hostee." At that time the whole of my mother's goods were out on the common and had been spoiled by the rain. I went again on the next day, and saw the house burning, and the defendants car rying away the doors and the other parts of the house. The house is quite down now, and my mother lust a good many of her goods. She lost three bedsteads, a feather bed, a pail, and some knives and forks. Some of her clothes were spoilt. Cornelius Arthur, the husband of the last witness, confirmed her testimony. Mr. CAMPBELL addressed die Jury for the defendants, and con tended that there was no evidence of a forcible entry, and that at most the facts proved only amounted to a trespass. To the case, as a trespass, lie had no defence in point of law, and therefore for the simple trespass there must be a verdict for the plaintiff; but he trusted that the damages would be very moderate. Mr. Justice LIT T LTDALIC, in charging the Jury, observed that an action for a forcible entry was a proceeding founded on a statute passed in the reign of Henry VI., and was now rare in practice, and could not be supported unless the par'y grieved were in possession of the property, and had a right to a freehold interest in it, and were forcibly put out of possession. And if they were satisfied that that were the case here, the plaintiff would be entitled to treble damages —but whether they thought there was a forcible entry or not, the plaintiff was entitled to damages fur the trespass, in the removal of die goods. His Lordship then summed up the evidence, and left the amount of damages to the Jury. After a short consultation, the Jury found that there had been no forcible entry , and found a verdict for the plaintiff for the trespass —Damages 201. TUESDAY % MARCH 29. [Before Mr. Justice LITTEDALE.I SEDUCTION. EDWARDS N. THOMAS. ' • Mr. C. PIIILLIrs stated, that this action was brought to re cover a compensation for the seduction of the plaintiff's daughter. The plaintiff was a man in humble life, but was a freeholder of the county of Monmouth. The defendant was what is called stock-taker to Messrs. Paley, who are eminent iron masters. About three years ago the defendant became acquainted with this family, and made honourable proposals to their daughter, which were only objected to on the ground of the extreme youth of their child, she being then but 17 years of age. He, however, was still intimate with the family, and often visited their house, they not suspecting any ill, as the defendant had been already married. Under these circumstances he accomplished the seduction of the unfortunate girl. She very mon communicated her situation to her seducer, who, bad as his conduct had been, instead of perform ing his promises, immediately abandoned hew. Her parents acted very properly; they did not turn her into the wide world, but they took proper care of her. The defendant, though lie bad no regard for any one else, had a special regard to himself, for he had heard from some self-styled lawyer, that if lie compelled her to swear the child to him, that would be a bar to the action. But this trick did nut succeed; for, though she did swear the child to the plaintiff, It was no burden to die parish, but was main tained at the expense of the plaintiff. It would be necessary for him to anticipate • few of the topics of the defence. A very common muse was, to asperse the character of the seduced part ; but he challenged the defendant to traduce her character; for if tits defendant attacked her character by evidence—he would say that he that this unfortunate girl was of a character spotless and had a host of witnesses to prove unblemished. The next topic of defence he supported world be, that the plaintiff was poor. He would admit that the plaintiff was a man in humble life, but God forbid that because a man was poor, the comfort of his cottage should not be protected. and it was doubly a crime to destroy the {happiness of his cottage because the rich man in his trouble had many consola tions from his wealth, but the poor man bad no comfort but in the happinem of his family. The only remaining topic usual in such driences as this was, the poverty of the defendant; the feet was that he was not poor. Ile was a man In a station of great trust ; his master would not appear in pursuance of their summons, and the inference from that circumstance was clear; but even if' the defend ant was not worth • farthing he would ask them to give such da mages as they thought right, for if the defendant could not pay them, they of course could rot receive them, but if the jury would give them the damages, they would take the chance of recovering them. Mary Edwards, a rather pretty Welch girl, apparently about 20 years of age, was examined through an interpreter ; she was dressed in a brown great mat, and round beaver hst (the usual dress of the Welch f es); she said, I itm the daughter of the plaintiff, and au) now near twenty years of age. I have six brothers and two sisters. The defendant is about 90. He is a widower. Be tween two and three years ago he used to come to the house of my father, who is a farmer; he came to keep company with me ; he Aid so with the knowledge of my father and mother. The defendant was living at the Nantyglo iron-works, which belonged to Messrs. Paley. 'I he defendant was employed in weighing the iron. After he had kept my company about a year, I was seduced by the de. fendant. I told the defendant he umst fulfil his promises, but he has never spoken to me since. I had a child abort Christmas last —my father is at the expense of the child. Cross-examined by Mr. CAMPBELL—I now live at the house of Mr. Paley, the defendant's master, as a wet nurse. The de fendant never offered to marry me after ha knew of my situation— be never came near me--I was at Mr. Powell's—he is a magistrate. The defendant did not say. at Mr. Powell's, that I ever heard my father told me he bad said so, but when I sent fur him he re. faxed to come ; my lather never aid he was unwilling th it I should marry the defendant, except on the ground that I was too young. I never refused to marry the defendant—l receive twelve pounds a. year wages at Mr. Paley's. The defendant has several men under him in the iron works. . _ Mr. Abraham Rowland said. iam a surgeon-1 attended the plaintiff's daughter—the plaintiff is a farmer—the defendant is a respectable man, about 30 or 35 years of age. Mr. CAMPAELL addressed the pry for the defendant. He com. pialned that his friend Sir. Phillips had much exaggerated the case; he would have had them believe that there was a deliberate system of seduction practised by the defendant, who had, under tea ' mask of honourable proposals, seduced the young woman, sad then basely abandoned her, and then, to save his pocket, had forced her to Fo before a magistrate—but this was not borne out by tin case. l'he Learned Gentleman had also anticipated certain topic'', which were expected to be briught forward on the part of the 416 fence; but he would say that no irteotion was ever entertained of attacking the character of the plaintiff, abo was, he believed, a young woman of excellent character, and the fact was, that the de fendanr EXECUTION. Sentence of death was yesterday morning carried into executiotr at the Old Bailey on W. LAWN, aged 23 ; IV. Milker, 19 ; and J. Ferguson, 25. The two former of these unhappy young men had been accustomed for some time to pursue a course of life which might naturally be expected to lead to so fatal a termination. Lintot, whose crime was burglary, was the school-fellow of Dur ham, who suffered death about six weeks back; they were both tried together in January Sessions, when Lintot was acquitted, but detained till February Sessions, and then convicted. Although re spectably connected and religiously educated, he Is known to have supported himself for some years past by dishonest practices, and about two years back was sentenced to a term of imprisonment is the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields ; he confessed, however, to a Gentleman who visited him in Newgate recently, that he had suffered many compunctions while engaged in nefarious pursuits, which he, from time to time, resolved to forsake; but not hay ing been brought up to any trade, and bis character being lost, he found it difficult to regain the paths of rectitude. Ili, con duct since his coodeumation bore evident marks of humility and penitence. Walker, who was convicted of robbing the house of Mr. Downes, in Great James -street, Bedford-row, of a large quantity of jewels, has been unhappily in k edept in crime, and was well known to the police at the eastern part of the town ; he was ap prenticed to a pawnbroker : his brother was transported about a year back. Ile has declared that he was induced to commit the of fence of which he will convicted, in consequence of information given, and plans laid by a late servant in the family of his prosecu toe. This unfortunate youth appeared deeply sensible of the evil of his former life; and after the service in the chapel, at Nes/gate, on Sunday last, he rose in the condemned pew, and addressed his fellow-prisoners at considerable length, with a propriety and fluency which astonished all who heard him, exhorting them to take warn ing by his own melancholy situation. Fergueon,m very tine young man, who suffered for breaking into the house of Mr. Gilson, in Thames-street, his employer, and steal ing plate and other articles, had previously borne an unimparched character. Being under some pecuniary embarrassments, and falling into bad company, hews, led to commit the desperate act which has brought him to a premature end. His fainily and connections were most respectable; he, as well as his companions in affliction above. mentioned, demeaned himself in a manner becoming his awful situation. Seldom perhaps has it occurred that three such young men, in the bloom of youth, and so respeembly connected and edu tined, have been doomed to weir together. During the preparations for their death, the unfortunate yorng men displayed the greatest firmness, and apparently the meat un affected devotion. Nothing could be conceived more becoming than their whole demeanour during the last moments of trial and affliction. They acknowledged the justice of their sentence, and the kindness and humanity with which they had been treated during their confinement. When his arms were shout to be pinioned, Ferguson, recollecting himself, requested the of ieers to stop until he had put on a pair of black silk gloves, the last present of an esteemed friend, and in which he wished to die. It is needless to say that this request was complied with. On ascending the scaf fold they bowed respectfully to the crowd, who seemed deeply affected by the youth and prepossessing appearance of the unhappy convicts. When the drop fell, Lintot struggltd for a little time severely, but in the others sensation seemed to be almost imme diately extinct. Sonic hopes were entertained of a commutation elf punishment for Lintot, on account of his grandfather having been a servant of the late King, and a petition in his favour was presented through the Duke of York, we understand ; but Government saw no reason why the law should not take its course. IMF R.—At the Anises at Leicester, on Monday, a man named Billsott was tried foe the murder of his wife on the 7th of December last, It appeared in evidence, that on the day men. tinned Billson ran out of the house crying " Murder !"and holding up her hands to her throat, which was found to be cut in two places, and that she died in about ten minutes after she entered the house of a neighbour. The prisoner, who was jealous of his wife, had been frequently heard to threaten her with murder, and after his apprehension he confessed his guilt to two persons. At the trial his son, a boy aged ten years, who was present at the mur der, was brougbt to give evidence against his father ; but it was dispensed with, as the circumstances of the case sufficiently prorud his guilt without such an afflicting testimony. Thu Learned Judge (Mr. Baron Bullock), in summing up, was so much affected, that for a time he was quite unable to proceed, and the Foreman of the Jury was equally affected when he pronounced the verdict—Guilty. One of the Jurors, when he heard sentence of death pronounced, ejaculated " Oh, Christ !" and burst into tears. The prisoner, a ferocious-looking man, declared that the evidence against him was incomplete, and shook his head, as though he wished to insinua:c that the witnesses had sworn falsely. It is said that his wile WAS* most excellent woman, and that there were not the slightest grounds for suspecting her of nandelity. ;She is repassmatal as basing been very beautiful. On Tuesday Richard Holderness, who was convicted at the York Assizes of slim-King at, and dangerously wounding, Richard Manners, the Focklington carrier, wait sentenced to he hanged. Mr. Justice Holroyd, in passing sentence, told the pri soner, that the nature of bis crime was such as to prevent the least possibility of the law not being carried with full effect against him.—Charlotte Shaw, alias Peck, for child-stealing, at Leeds. was sentenced to be transported beyond the seas tor the term o: seven years. MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, Almecri SO, ISIS. We bad but few itesh arrivals of . gruin this morning. In conse. quence of the Corn Laws being likely us undergo sonic considees uon in the House of Commo.4 this Session, our market WWI extremely dull to-day, and every article might have been purchased on rather lower terms than on Monday. COAL MARKET, M*iicu 30. ~i