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if 4 ~~ +~ 0 i. r ; . r I ' 4 ! 4 i : ~. r i .' G 4 ,i . ... .. 1 I. 1, r 1 N t.: 4 1 1 11 4 144 1) i t ! ~ , i V grew investigation, it is eetiefactorily refuted. Besides, many who read one part of the proceeetiega perhaps never see the tither, and it fa exceedingly difficult to reihoie the tinesvourable ingression given by an incorrect account of troisactions in the first instanter. The inconvenience of reports dins given to the public has been of ten felt, and more frequently in recent tnstances than formerly. Ile para. cabal;' alluded to two eases with which they were all familiar—the ease of lleade in York, and of Thurtull in Hertford, Inc murder. sawing to the ex-rule and defamatory statements which went abroad respecting them, v ry great public inconvenience had been felt, and he hoped that their Leinishiri would, by their decision, cheek the great and increasing injury which society sustained by the publication of false told eeendalous statements. m which notch W. 1.4 suppressed that tendril to extenuate a charge, and much was Merritt that tended to aggravate it. Mr. LASIES was unwilling to enlarge the circle of discansfon, and would confine himself to the consideration of ore or two tiro. pi 'diens. The question was an important one, and one to which those who were .angsged in editing noisperan looked with eon. siderabie anxiety and interest to their Lordships' decision. The first proposition he would submit was. whether the publication of the sublitance of what takes place, before trial, at a police• office, whilst the prisoner is there, as public new., without comment, ma. levolenec, or defamatory waiter, be jtotiliable. He would contend that it woes If it were alleged that it wan necessary to detail the whole rritieece, it should be done in every instance, and the vati c-Mr indelicacies which in certain cases were detailed, should be given, or the case be altogether suppressed. This was an "extent which he was satisfied would not hi contended for, and the sub seiner of the proceeding. was all that could in fairness be rished for et riiinina. Ile would state how far, in his opinion, the liberty of making report. (whether r.r-part: . or not) extended. First, pro. S;drd the publieation of the report contained re fa l se o r hi g hl y . colouterd a:Rieman ; setrwely, provided it contained no enturoents or ophiloos Tethering on the Court we on the parties; and thirdly, provided the publication arm free from indecency and blaaphooy, and no part of et contained masks of private malice. The report in mie lion vas exeingt • from any of these three point., which would render it certainly Wallows His Learned Frienil, with that candour which became him, said that he could not find a sin* case upon record where a private action had been maintained. The cases which had been cited were principally cases of seditious Ilhels, and the indictments were generally instituted, not so much on ac count of the publication of a report, as fsr the aggravating tone in which it was communicated, or for mine comment or opinion that sceompanied it. For inehmee, in de very ease of the King r. Cathie. under the pretence of publishing the trial, Praxes Aire of Reason was published with it, aid in the title-page it was called the Mock Trial." This was reflecting on the Court that tried tl)e ease, and came whist* one el the points he had hid down, as exceeding the legitimate hounds of publication. In a ease cited by hie Learned Friend, in which confidence was withellawn from one attorney end trsasfetred to another, it was prefaced "Shameful Condoet of an Attorney." This was not, as in the present in stinct, a mere statement of facts, but the declaration of sit oyi. nion upon them. In the case of is 31,:tilier of Parliament's speech, he unquestionably has•a right to sneak 'bat lie pleases there, and is protected; but that protection does not extend to its publication, by which it might be made tl:e vehicle of slander and defamation, The leaned elentleman pro ceded to detail the Isgal piocens adopted in this cause. The pined which tl.eir Lard ships had to decide was tine of great importance to editors, as by it they would ascertain whether they had a right to publielt whatever tisek piece pubtkay in an open (aunt, which they were not prohi. bited or prevented from doing by the presiding Judge or 'Magis trate. Mr. Justice Bat te Y—M by law ought to be open !—Magis. t'ate, are not obliged to keep their counts open—if they are open, it Is bosun they themselves choose to keep them so. Mr. LaWES WU/aware, that Magistrates frequently heard Caltrii. nations in private. Various reasons and proper motives were SS. alienable for their doing se, but the publication in question took Owe without any dmire that it should he suppressed ; there was no Magisterial prevention or prohibition whatever to its publication. The euee of the King v. Lee, which hail been cited, bore no simili tud: to the present. That related to in smuggling transaction, and the calm:taint was not, that the evidence, nor the substance of it, was riot given, tint thermos, different accounts of the same evidence. In the e.ise of the Captain, who bad assaulted the lady tinder his pro teetiun from Barbadoes, the round of complaint was the agara. awed tare and language in which the transactions were detidleil ; and again in the case of the King v. Fleet, the indictment was not preferred on account of publishing, the evidence given at the COTO ner's Inquest, but for publishing part of the evidence before the inquest was &MIL Mr. Justice BaTtET—The publication of the depositions given at an Inquest,. are unfit matter for publication,• for it is calculated to operate unforly town:ls a prisoner who may afterwards be upon big trial. Mr. LAW2II resumed, and was proceeding to argue upon the absence of malice from the mind of the writer, which was evinced by his enntining himself to the mere statement of facts. Ur. Justice Bar Lye said, the mower consideration was not so much what. was the intention or disposition of the writer, as the 'Ewe on the character of the party aggrieved. If he eonseientiouely believed a person to be a thief, it did nit follow, because he enter. mined such a conviction in his own mind, that he would have& ratit to cell him no. The mere ites,ation of malice dues not destroy the right of action. Mr. LIMES Was about to preteed, when the Court intimated its attention cf rising . , shed ordered further argument in the cuss to come on this tneentng. SI}ERII'IS' COURT, TUESDAY, OCT. 26. D. ELLISTON. This wee an action for daninees, brought by the plaintifT, Mr. Win. Henry Williams, a comedian, against the defendant. Hobert at. Ellisten. Esq the patentee of Chary-lane theatre. Mr. Ellis.. ton having suffered judgment to go by default, a Jury was now impannelled merely to assess damage-se The Jury being sworn, Mr. A not.rut us, as Counsel for the defendant, said be was an tilmiscd to make a proposition which, he doubted not, would uoviate the necessity of going into the case. He was ready now to admit that the plaintiff, alt. Williams, had just grounds for complaint: in a moment of ungovernable preen.. to which we amt all sometimes subject, Mr. E. so far forgot himself as to mission Mr. W. in a gross and vi. i:nt manner, and for which he ( Mr. A.; would undertake to say, that the aggressor felt truly sorry. He trusted that his I.eamed Friend, Mr. Phillips, who appeared is: the plaintiff, would nut object to nominal damages, which would of course carry costs. The good feeling that once existed between the parties previous to the unfortunate transsetion which pro !need the present action, had suffered no breach in consequence; 7:lr, Williams had been performing with Mr. Elliston in London, Leamit,gten, and many other plans since that, and there was no dnuht that Mr. Williams's services, as a comedian, were held in as -high repute by Mr. Elliman as ever; and that his engagement weld not be at all effected by this circumstance. Mr. PHILLIPS said, that. after the handsome decimation of Mr. Elliman, made through his learned Friend (Mr. Adolphus). I:e would undertake on the part of his client, to wept the pro. position. Mr. Williams had no vindictive feelings to consult, no sordid appetite to gr.dify ; his only wish ems to sustain the re. spectshility of the profession, of which he was a highly respectable rounbcr. Tuns the ;Stir terminated. Many anon, Ste. wire present. SURREY QUARTER SESSIONS, Tuisnmr. OCT. Wu Jens Baker, aged MI, was indicted foe stealing fifteen *deer spoons, and various ether articles, value DM, the property of master, James Yates. The prisoner was a servant to Mr. Yates, and in consequence of various articles being occasionally missed. suspicion fell upon her, when sine acknowledged that she had stohm dam • altsalso said that she lad met with n young man, (whole name 'did not trans. pin,) with whom she hid been intimate about five weeks, when he tad her he had become bound fa a person, and unless she could assist him, he would be utterly ruined. She said the had no rim try, but he advised her to male rase of some snicks which were her medal's. She was in consequence prevailed on to take the plate, kr- mentiunid in the hulletment, and she pawned them at t three different pawntrakers, h: waiting outside the shops to receive the duplicates and money. She was found iv. dry. The CRAII HA X (It. Meager, Esq.) sentenced her to 14 years' transportation. Joseph Fry was indicted for stealing two shawls and other arti cles. value sk, the pnitieriv of Charles Fox Smith. Mr. Smith stated, that he was a silk,itercer and drawer, at No. Cl, Blackman-street, Borough, in partnership with Harriet Smith ; the prisoner was his Merman ; on the rooming of the*2fith August, in cnnseamence of his suspicions that the prisoner had mbbed hint, be seirclial his boa. In which he found two shawls, three lace wsils. and some gamma, the whole of which the prosecutor was po sitive had been stolen nut of the stock in the shop ; the prisoner was lament when the hex was searched, tied, on the gervls being found, be exclaimed, "Oh find. Mr. Smith. I here you will have mercy on me, as it is the first time II ever dialer." thing of the kind." Ile also said, it was through a person named Evans, another of the pro. wmtor'sahnpreen, who had been discovered in the morning by one • the apprentirca in the act of robbery, and had decamped. The parcel in which these articles were wrapped, the prisoner said had keen given to him the night previous by Eases, who asked three to met care of it for him, and that it was some dirty linen. The prisoner, in bus defence, said, that Evans gave him the roods. desiring lidu to put them in hi; box. Ile thought, by Esans'a flurried manner, that there was something wrong, but he did not know what it was. Mr. TII ESSIG. It celled several witneases, who gave him an un ears ptionatde eharamer for several tears. rite Jury mutt ad a verdict of Guilty. Tho prisoner was sentenced to seven years' transportation. On Friday morning last, a tin., younr, deer, about threr Tears oLI, was ohativcd on the farm of Mr. M'illiams, of Ruckston, in the parish of Langarreu, about sin miles from Ross. It being only eight o'clock when firNt scot, the howls of Mr. Taylor , of Marstow Fanu adjoining, went . scat for, and Immediately laid on. It'lrn roused, he made far Mr. ltollin‘s estate of the Grove; and after making sr veral circuits over the atkjoiniug parishes, and many times crottintr the river Oarron, be was, after a capital chase of two hours anti a half, taken in that river, near Mr. Donles, of Langunnock, in the former pariah. MIDI3LESEX sEssjoNs, TuEsuAy, (CT. 26. Patton, Elliott, and Caonthes, servants, stood Indicted for an assault on Wolf Harris, a jew vender of old clothes. Dlr. Ptnt.Ltes stated the case for the prosecution. The prosecutor swore point blank to the commission of the assault, and a Iriend (3loses) supported hint. Mr. A DOI-PHU:3 addressed the Jury for the prisoners. The lower orders of the Jews were used to disgrace themselves in Courts of Justice, even to the disgrace of humanity. His clients never cont. nutted the assault. Their master. Colonel Townsend, son of Lord Sidney, haddirected his solicitor to defend them at his expense.— He was the last man, from his birth and breeding, who would take such a step, if he had not been certain of their innocence. des k. DeSSICS would conic forward to prove that they had seen no assault, and that if an sault had been committed, they must have seen One of the w tnesses for the defence having stated that he saw blood on the mouth of the prosecutor. Mr. PHILLIPS—Oh, ! there! Mr. A oni.ritus—This is most irregular Mr. Phillips; these interruptions air very itnproper ; they disturb the course of justice, and often breed ill blond among the bar. Mr. Put I.I.IPS—We had no ill blood yesterday, Mr. Adolphus. (Mr. Adolphus did not attend this Court ye.itertlay.) 31r. A tiol.efir s —Perhaps so, Mr. I'hilhps ; but that was an answer which I could not expect front you. Mr. PHILLIPS in his reply. denied the truth of the 'weeping Im putation against the credit tit all the lower order of Hebrews; such an opinion was at best lint a sectarian prejudice. For his own part he thought that himself and all his fellow men were going to the r.ante gtcat destination, but by different reeds. Vinlict—Patton, Coilty ; Elliott and s' o ombs. N o ; Guilty.— Judgment on Patton—"A tine of It. fit. to the King." Mrs. Keerno, a pinmp, jolly, good-humoured.looking dame stood charged with an assault tut another of the Hebrew nation, Mr. B. Lewis. Lewis stated that he was standing at his own door, doing and saying nothing under Heaven, when the prisoner came op with a bowl of dirty or clean waver, (which it was he could not swear,) raised it between her hands, and dashed it into his Innocent face.— This was an Immersion so sudden and so very shocking as to take away, for the moment, the use of his breath, and brains. soil eyes. However, he soon atteinpted to remonstrate, but was cut short in the inidn.le, or rather the beginning, or his oration by the prisoner elevating the boson a second time and dashing it at him. Mrs. Keeran oo gooney saw her basun broken, than she snatched up the numerous fragments and flung them in poor Benjamin's counte nance. Prosecutor swore he had not said nor done any the slightest thing to provoke or merit such an aecumulaticn of violence. This story the prosecutor told with a querulousness of tone, anti empha tic illustration of attitude and gesture, which kept the Court in roars of laughter. Mr. Pit Luis (to the proseentar)—Did you call the prisoner any names ? l'rossentor-1 might, hut don't exteely rememher what I said. Mr. I'IIILLIPS—Did you call her a name beginning with a w—? Prosecutor —I don't know. 31r. Pit 11.1.1 rs.—Oh, perhaps you begin it with a v? Mr. A noLvitua—No, no, I daze say he begins it with an A ? ( A laugh.) The quarrel appeared to bare originated on a professianai jea lousy between two neighbours, who happened to be old clothes venders. Verdict_Yoe THE BRITISH PRESS. two of the Mentlicity Society's ofikers, charged u commonvagrants. Richard Chevill, one of the Society's Officers, stated• that ha found the whole party begging i n Westminster, and lodged them In E ag le-street watchlionne. This man and Ida wife had been re. (erred to the Society about four years ago, when it was stated by Hamilton that be wan an edge-tool maker, out of employ, and a native of the county of Antrim, in Ireland ; that he had a largo fa mily, and wished his wife to b 4: passed home to her friends, in Northampton ; in consequence. of which, the: society contributed to their immediate wants, and invented means to have the woman re moved home, agreeably to her with. However, after getting some additional advance of money., they contrived to get away, and have, no doubt, -tieen since prowling about, seeking relief in the same manner. When brought to the Jim the woman denied ever hav ing been at the Society's Office, and professed herself to be a native of Banibury„ in Yorkshire. The woman persisted in denying having ever ireceived relief, all stated, and accounted Tor theirbaning been found begging on this occasion, by the most absolute distreta. Mr. LINO said, that lie considered this &year flagrant (lac, and ordvied the prisoners to be committed to the House of Correction for one month. A letter was then written to the Overseers of the pariah, desiring them to take charge of the children. MA RIAU - MOT-7G 11-STR ROSIT •Ith AT Tl:ltr TAT A asox.—Yesterday, Mary Connor was brought up fur re-examination, on die charge of steal. ing in a dwelling-house, and also with attempting to set fire to the premises. Mrs. Rhodes. of Fluk.row, Five Fields, Chelsea, deposed that about three weeks ego, the prisoners who stated herself to be the wife of a private m the third dragoon guards, took an apartment in her ho e. and, up to last evening, there was no reason to complain of her. In the room, on the second floor, there lived a Mrs. Armstrong, who, about • week ago, had missed front her room a large bundle of wearing apparel. Not the least suspicion was at first entertained of the former, and it was thought mute thief had crept tip stairs, and committed the mbbery. On Tuesday evening Mrs. Armstrong went nut, and left the key in her room-door. The prisoner at this time was in her own room. About live o'clock some of the neighbours came running in, and said the house was on lire, and that the flames were then tanking out at the second-floor window. Witness anti one or two others ran up stairs, and on going up into Mrs. Ann. strong's room, it was found to be in • body of fire ; the bed, bed ding, window-turtaine, cupboards, &c. were all in a blaze. For. tunately the flames were confined to the room, which, together with the furniture, was entirely destroyed. Suspicion now fell on the prisoner, who chewed peculiar composure. It was said in her pre sence, " that the party who committed the rubbery had set the house on lire." The prisoner then, in agitation, excl:;itt,ed, "If you think I bare committed the robbery, you may come up stain and search my room." This was agreed upon, and the prisoner ran up stairs first, the window of the room was wide open, and whilst the search was being made, the boodle containing the stolen wearing apparel belonging to Mrs. Armstrong was picked up by a little girl in the middle of the road opposite the house. Coles ' • constable, was sent for, to whom she was given in custody. Befo re he came she confessed her guilt, and begged fut mercy. It was stated by the prisoner that Mrs. Armstrong's husband had promised that he would not prosecute if she confessed, and in con sequence she did so. The prisoner was again sent hack to prison, and ordered to be brought up on a future day, when Mr. Armstrong is to be in at tendance. She is a very decent-looking woman about 30 years of age; and during the el/0141%1WD appeared quite unmoved at her situation. New BAII.EY COCRT-lIOLSC, OCT. 15.—BAre Norris and James Brierley, Esqrs.—Aid important deci sion was to-day made relative to Retail Brewers. Edward Booth, a retail brewer, at lisrpurhey, was summoned by lie Excise, for selling ale to be drank on his premis es.— Mr. Jonathan Andrew had caused the complaint to be made to the Excise, on account of the great number of people who assembled about the house on the Sunday. Joshua Lee, the witnets, proved purchasing a quart of ale at Booth's premises at half-past eight on Sunday morning, the Ist of August. There were several other peopledrink ing in frontof the premises, and the vessels were furnished teem the house. The liquor was drunk on the flags before the house. It was proved that these flags had been placed there by the owner of the house, and were not part of the highway, although they were not inclosed or separated from it. After considerable discussion, the Bench held this case to be liable to the penalties of the Act ; and that the flags, not being part of the highway, were a place ad joining to the premises on which the brewer bad permitted the beer to be drank in vessels that he had furnished. The mitigated penalty of 141. was imposed upon Mr. Booth. In the discussion on this case Mr. Norris intimated an opinion, that if a case was brought, before him against a retail brewer, where file liqu* had been drank actually in the highway, he should be inclined to convict, particularly if the krewer furnished the drinking vessel.-31 unehesece Chronicle. During the night of Saturday se'imight, Thomas Smith, under sentence of imprisonment in the Worcester city gaol, and who was to have been whipped before the expir n don of his sentence, made his escape, and has not yet been re-taken, though diligent search has been made. It appears that he contrived to get a brick out of the walls of his cell, and by dint of perseverance Made a hole sufficient to get his hotly through. The brick-work being new, was of course its his favour. Yesterday morning, the body of the gentleman who took a boat at Itlackfriars-bridge' on Saturday last, and threw himself into the River, was found a short way below the place where he jumped in. The body was discovered by the accidental contact of a wherry with it. It was very little altered from having lain iu the water. The deceased held a lucrative and responsible situation in one of the Gas Companies. On Monday morning the body of a man, apparently a i bricklayer's labourer, was picked up on Soutbsea Reach, Portsea, drowned, but whether by his own act or by acci dent, has not yet been ascertained. On Sunday evening one of the outside passengers fell of the Banbury mail, near Sturdy's Castle, and was so much hurt that he died in a very short time afterwards. It had rained very hard all the afternoon, and it is supposed he stood up for the purpose of putting his great coat round him, and overbalanced bimself.—Gluticester Herald. On Thursday last an inquisition was held at East Grin head, on view of the bodies of Mary Goodwin and her male infant, ten months old, who, on Toothy night last, were taken out of a well (which is in the cellar) belonging to the house, and which had been kept open, without any lid or covering, for some time past. It appeared in evi dence that the unfortunate woman laboured under a tempo rary derangement of mind, and bad, for some days, been confined to her bed, but taking the advantage of the ab sence of her nurse, she contrived to get out of bed, with her child in her arms, to proceed unperecieed to the cellar, and there, with her infant at her breast, she plunged into the well, sixty fee. deep. The nurse hearing a noise on the cellar stairs, went with a candle to ascertain the cause, and caught a gliturse of the unhcppy women just as she nlade'the fats plunge. Verdict—" That .the lino titer destroyed herself and child while labouring tinder in.- sauity."—Susses Alluerfiscri . Nilo:: sr Ciona.—Ott Sunday last the following sin gular ciretitostence occurred at North Tamertso, in this county, whiehAsas likely to have been att.:ailed w : h serious consAtienvs :-':.kotee cider was given to a Mr. Chapman, who works on the Bede Canal, wh'cli he drew or in a coarse earthenware pitcher, but, on tasting, found it to he so sour as to Le totally unfit fur drinking. He allowed it to remain for some time in the pitcher, and on again tasting it, previously to throwing it away, was surpriretl at the ex•• traordinary change that had taken place in its flavour, the cider being now as sweet and r,;-reeable, as it had Wore been sour and unpit•asart. He communicated the circumstance to his wife, who with him :tad a man then in the house, partook of it. Sion after they bad drank they were all taken so alartnin:ds ill that medical advice was instantly had re -1111w-went:l7r. I ;muse to. 1)11 :orient of the surgson there was every Yestertky Mr. Trot. Ilan-e,, the public singer and di-Ntar of a ! i t •iiiptatti of tin irk avin,; beer gaisonod, on which he atlini musical actileity in the Adtlitiki, es loo:ight bedsit Mr. ,' s, oistereil the rettied'es usualy applied in such cas es, and w e charged welt an essaitlt want out of hto pupils, •L'cub " are hen!. to say with • r;:.: t:Tect. The medical gentle- Gear, a boy about 12 years of age. blr. flutio:s citme ezeitimne. h .l by the Rev. fie. 11 , 1; he.. ooe baring eertaino.l t illness proceeded from the Calms It., itrntiary of St. Paul's Cathedral, and mute :,:n.r the rifler titer ha:l tal- 11. sanest the pitcher in which it gentlemen or Si. aid the Chapel ltoyal. Severai ut his ! had st9od7autt f o ur' that the extreme acide.y of th•• cider pits were also prevent. • ! bad extrne...l the 1-iatt with witieh earthenware pitchers are The char g.• WAS, that twea, on Thursday last, struck di: • • f initial y 7.azytl, and hit-se-A its pods mous quality into the boy &seven blot across MI Willi a waking cane. After hcariii.: eviduoce, Mr. MALI.. said he kited felt it his duty I beve:age. Meg Chapman and the man, who only partook to !wirer llowiri to crier into the fullest explanation, alit ! sparing-1j , Div epilto recovered, but Mr. Chapman, who had pertained hint, perhays, to introduce sante eantit,ou, mailers drank uearlv a quart, is still very il!, though Itepcs are en and it was e he thought taut a c!tatge of cruelty (and this tertained o f'h i s T ,,,,, 5cr y,_...6, re (ea u a lef if e . was so preferred when the warrant was applitAl fir) attains[ the director of a public establishment of such consi.krable cause- MC pilchard fishery at St. Ives has been very unpro (woes, could tn. , . he toe reirrowlc inquired into fe- the sake both of I fillet:lvo this season ; none have been taken by the Beans, the patine and the individual. The charge hero aerated to him to I and but hula by the drift nets. On Friday week the be frieohnts and unfounded, and ought never et have been fishermen were nut on the alert, by the appeat ince of se tbougle The warrant was discharged. vend immense hodiew of fish approaching the shore; three HATTON-GARDEN. shawls were enclosed by the scans, but they were of so sins!! a size that they all escaped through the net'. —Per- John Ilartiltrm. end Mary ffamit(on, his wife, together with , three sessnible children, were yesterday brought up ir cusunls brat ~Ifereury. POLICE. Al A It:1110 N. HOUSE. Messrs. Clement! azd Sons, the masiesellcrs in Cheapside. rent to the Justiue-room to put the police on the alert after a swindler, who had attempted to defraud them, and who, they had no doubt, was committing extensive depredations in the metropolis. A per le. brought a letter to them, of which the following is a copy : " October n. 1824. " Gentlernen,—Send by the bearer a emmie of handsome concert !Intel (not ivory), with cases, if you have them, as I want them fur the East Indies. I have enclosed a draft on Messrs. Master man for the amount. Enclose bill and receipt. " I min, Gentlemen, yours. " 23, Bruton-street, Rood-street." " J. GORDON. A cheque for 1111. on Messrs. 3lastermtin was enclosed in the let ter. The lion. IVilliarn Gordon resides at No. 4.1. Bruton-Med, and, as it happens, is a customer of Messes. li'lenienti, so that the swindler had sane strong chances in his favour. But there was something in the manner of sending a person, who had neither the appearance of a prince nor a servant, with the order of a man of rank, alaieli excited suspicion, and the cheek was sent to Messrs. Maverman, in order that its genuineness might be ascertained. The bankers declared that they knew no such person as Mr. Gor don. A pence was then sent in quest of the swindler; but the ingenious fellow, no doubt alarmed at the delay, had disappeared. The bearer was a poor honest man, whom he had picked up in the neighbourhood to carry the order for him. 111 r. Gordon and his family hod been long out of town. Ilad tb• netts been tent, the swindler wonki doubtless have teen at the doer to receive them. A great deal of work of this kind, citi h is carried on to the in jury of tradesmen, if public notification were given of the various devices in use amongst swindlers, whether successful or otherwise, would no doubt be coesiderably diminished. Their tricks are con stantly varying; and if they were exposed, gangs of thieve; who carry on with impunity extensive frauds, would lose their most pro. Amble labeers. Within a few days the laird Mayor has received information that very extensive mischief bad been done by rued dogs. About a week iiee a gentleman who is well known as the Editor of a periodical publicatien, and several literary works, was bitten by a black terrier, in Puntoneille. On the following day It was ascer tained that the dog was decidedly mad, and the gentleman under. went a very severe operation by Mr. Laurence. 3lr. Ball, of the Minorite, has written to inform his Lordship of the mischief done in that neighbeurhood by mad doge. One which hal shewn un equleneallsymptorns of hydrophobia bad bitten several others. and a bull dug, which belonged to a female neighbour, bad bitten a dug in sir. Dan's eounting-house, and when it was propoposed to pet the buil dog to devil the owner aware that if any one killed the dog 2Jic acted be the death of him. GUII.DHALL.. Stwort.an 17trattne or FELONY—G. D. I't,:che, Esq. was charged by A. Pasche, Esq. his brother, with feloniously carrying away tillt his property. The r nmee tenr. with great trepidation, proceeded to request that he might be allowed to read a written narrative of the tame con neenal with the one. us he was unable to give a verbal relation, anti be had not had time to consult a professional adviser, as the offerce with which he charged his brother was only committed yes. terday evenir!!. Mr. Alderman CROWTOER mid, that unlesa the paper con tained a spceitic charge, he would not hear it. The prosecutor proceeded to state, that his private residence was Sitlmouth's.phice, (;ray's Inn-lane-read, and that on the 13th of r January 11:23,_ his brother entered Into partnership. (The witness then proceeded to what was deemed irrelevant matter, when be again urged to he showed torrid his narrative.) 31r. Sat t rrn, the attorney for the defendant, resisted this appli cation, and stated that there was not the least pretension for the charge, anti if the prosecutor persisted in reading his narrative and the bundle of eurrespoodniee he held in his hands • he (Mr.S.) should hcre to go into other minutia which would make the case vier prolix. The prosmutor prrevedint to state. that on his inspecting Ids books , yesterday, he discovered that his brother had drawn sixty pounds out of the panneiship stuck. which he had nu right to do ; hen e, as they hal dissolved, Le made a claim of that, and for him to account Mr 7cel. other intinies, which. however, he did not , charge hint will, embezzling, when his Mother peremptorily re fused to comply with his request, in coraspitswe of which be sent foe an officer, and gave him in custody. Mr. Saturn /AM his client bad brill ennined in the Compter all night, anal the man•r would not terminate with the present in quiry ; be hold the partnership deed, wherein it was set forth that each party was to receive and withdraw front the common funds. , t This case put hint in mind of that some years ago between Sive wright and Ilmnsemnb, which was held to be only a withdrawing for private uses. Consideriatdc acrimony was evinced by the prosecutor towards Mr. Smith, which was rceeffed with emal warmth. The proaczutor went on to stele thatte had Lot bad time to enter into his case. Mr. Silt - en—l gave you the earliest sootice; and that you sheuld bring your cash-Ludt sill' you, which I now call on you to produce. (The book was put in, and it appo2red that the 1101. alleged to have been sutler', was regularly entered.) 3lr. SMITH then said, that although the dissolution had bean published in the Gazelle, yet the complainant and accused were still partners to all intents and nurposea. until their accounts were made up and balanced, and each might draw, as ezigenties rr (mired, net of the Cnilll , loo rite Worthy Altleri,an was of tha wore opinion; he conkd not el ow the narrative to be read, as it might go forth to the world to th • prejudice 01 the party atateusi, against whom he a: Ketant taw no ground for ac,usation.--etruplaint dismissed. PUGILISM. FIUUT PUT OFF BETWEEN JACK MARTIN AND JEM BURN FOR 3001. There never was a fight looked forward to with more interest than the present. On the one hand the friends of Martin relied on his tried courage and manly generalship in many battles of celebrity, and on the other side the san guine admirers of Buru built their hopes on his youth, activity, and known determination : he is already a great favourite with the Fancy, and has a longing eye to the championship on some fortunate hut future day. He it indeed a very aspiring youth, vetting aside the idle but natural elm; iaer of his kind uncle, Oh! Ben, who bars eood reason to be proud of his young protege'. The morning was ushered in very ►tor:tily and wet, to the great annoyance of the road takers. But their curiosity to witness a prime battle between two such men overcame all wet scruples, and the roads from London, IVindsor, Basingstoke, Ste. and every avenue, by-lane, wood, moor, and mountain, poured the converging crowds to one in teresting focus, of brave men, sh arp " men, idle men, and fiat men—barouche, dray, gig, and donkey-cart, all form ing a motley ring to fill the eye of wonder. So intense was the interest created by this fight, that two gentlemen had posted all the way from Glasgow to behold it. Ben Burn, Tom Oliver, anti the fighting Jem, nent down to Hamp ton on Monday, at which place Martin has been training, and slept at the Bell Inn. Jt tit Burn slept at the White Lion : he was in excellent health, high spirits, and full of promise. Ile stands five feet ten and a half, is twenty years of age, and looks remarkably well. Ile weighs eleven stone five pounds ; when he fills out in a year or two, he will be a powerful fellow. He is extremely cautious in his conduct, and throws no chance away. Jack Martin is twenty-eight years old, five feet nine inches high, weighs eleven stone ten pounds. He has won nine prize battles, and lost three. Ile wa.s in very good condition, and sat up on Monday night till 11 o'clock, playing at crib bage with Toni Oliver. lie Was now in his prime, and his friends had• great confidence in the willing abilities of the Moshe of the Rells. The morning cleared up by nine o'clock, and about ten the whole cavalcade of fighting men, their seconds, backers, and admirers, set out in high glee for the field of battle, in the vicinity of Virginia Water, where the Fancy bad such an excellent treat last Tuesday. The odds varied in fa vour of Burn, but not much—at any rate lie was taken for choice. The ring was to have been pitched at Virginia Water, but the Magistrates interfered, and the ground fixed on was at Laleham, a village two miles from Staines. No sooner was the ring formed than a Magistrate, Sir John Gibbon, of Stanway, appeared, and told the milling cures that mere should he no tight there. However, at three minutes past one o'clock, Jem Burn came into the ring, with his uncle, Old Ben, and taking off his hat, said, "Gentlemen, I am here ready to fight ; if Martin does not choose to appear, I claim the money."— (Bravo, and applause.) Sir John Gibbon said, "You shall not fight here." However, Burn remained in the ring, determined to wait the appearance of Martin. After waiting 20 minutes he went out. Ohl Ben said, that he bad no doubt Martin intended to tight, but be suspected that his backers, having sported too much money on the event, were afraid to let hint come to the scratch. A number of pigeons were "let fly" for London, to announce that it was no gm. It appears rather singular that the ground chosen should be so near a village where there were so many beaks. The worthy Baronet, on being told that he had spoilt the sport, answered that he had had many a day's sport spoiled. The concourse of people was very great. There was a liberal sprinkling of carriages on the ground, and others thronging towards the spot; all seemed to go away very much chagrined at the result. Martin's friends are cer tainly much to blame in hoaxing the lovers of pugilism so barefacedly. Burn went back to Hampton, having easily won his 3001., which is, of course forfeited. Martin did not al Lppcar. SIVEDISK TURNIPS. Mr. Alexander Dennistoun has a fine field of Swedish turnips, en his ground in the parish of Cathcart, cultivated in the way practised and recommended by Mr. CuWien. lie selected a field containing about three acres of an excel lent dry light free soil, bottomed on whinstone. lie broke ground at Martinmas, then ploughed it across with a com mon iron plough, drawn by four horses—next up and down —and afterwards formed his drills at two bouts, four feet asunder. The seed was sown on the Uth April, one part in a field near Mr. Dennistoun's house, and another in a place farther up the Cart, beside Wilkie's lin. They were transplanted, and placed exactly a foot distant, about the middle of June, at the time of the severe drought. The ridges were afterwards pared and set up in the usual fonn. About a month ego, the field had a fine and highly inte resting appearance. The shims were strong and vigorous, rose to a great height, and completely covered the soil. The field has been examined by the lovers of agriculture from a considerable distance, and all who have seen it have been deeply interested with the sight. " I didna think it pos sible to raise sic steeps," said an old farmer, " and I be live nane in the parish ever saw the slums shaking hands In' drills four feet frae ither." Sir John Maxwell, Mr. Maxwell, Mr. Stewart of Williamwood, and several ether intelligent agriculturists, have expressed their astonish ment at the bulk of the crop, and their approbation of the plan on which they have been cultivated. Yesterday fore noon six turnips were pulled in succession from a drill chosen at random, and they weighed on an average eight pounds, tops anti roots. There will be 12,000 plants on the acre, yielding a produce of forty tons, tops and roots included. Three taken from this field may be seen in our office. They weigh, washed and without the tops, twenty nine pounds six ounces.—Wargow Chronicle. Provost Mefran of Forfar, received a letter on Tuesday, from Mr. Peel, S ecretary of State fur the Home Depart ment, communicating a respite, during his Majesty's plea sure, to James Milne, who was sentenced to be executed at Forfar on the 30th current. The inhabitants of the parish of Tewkesbury have it in contemplation to assess the owners of tenements to the poor's-rates, iu certain cases, instead of the occupiers, ageeably to the powers given by the Act of 59 Cco. 111. tap. IT. A very fine colt, by Scud, out of Folly, engaged in the Derby, end several other large stakes in the spring, the propetty of the Marquis of Exeter, died last week at ewrnarLet. ' The heavy rains and stormy weather in the early part of last week were succeeded by dive or four intense cold days ; and on Sunday morning the ground was covered with a fall of snow, nearly as heavy as any we experienced last winter.—Thillkfrertiser. A most melancholy accident betel a child belonging to Mr. William Menton, of the Ileytnarket in this town, on Saturday forenoon. A servant girl having gone into the privy with several of her master's children, one of them, about three years of age, got upon the seat while she had turned her bad: to Open the door, and unfortunately fell into the vault below, and was suffocated before it could be extrieated. When the little innocent was first taken out, pulsation was observable, but on being placed in a warm bath, it soon after ceased. A evrener's jury sat on the body at the White hart Inn on Sunday ev,ming, and a verdict of " Accid•mtal D:ath" was returned: Leicester Coin. SLIOCILISO ACCIDEXT.—Sunday forenoon, a horse and ebaise had been incautiously left standing in the road, near the Angel Inn, Islington, without any person to take care of diem, whilst the owner went to transact some business. The horse took fright at something, and ran off at full speed along the New Road, keeping die footway pavement. In his course he ran over and upset several fruit-stalls, the proprietors of which had scarcely time to save themselves by jumping out of the way. A poor blind man, well known in the neighbourhood, who was walking along, led by his faithful dog, not knowing on which ride to go, was ran fu riously against by the animal aind dashed to the ground, and both horse and chaise passed over him and killed him on the spot. The dog seised the horse by the nose, and forcibly held him till some persons came and secured bins. The body of the poor man was removed to the Coopers' Arms, where it lies for a coroner's inquest. GLASGOW WEAVERS ALYD SPLYNERS. When so many i o t f is tll l 7 ra rr it t y to in n g -wor to k b s ea ar r e ti s ia h t ut th u e p s in tearn thi s t. iro ciw w l e i r (G wea las v g° in w g ) jactories arc particularly brisk, and that the greatest harmony prevails between the inasters and worker. The proprietors now feel the full benefit of the total chan ge , they made in their dressers about a twelvemonth ago. of the old hands, amounting to about two hundred, onl y thirty, who were excellent workmen, obedient to their ate. ployers, sober and peaceably disposed, have been tra ck back in the whole t:a le. The new workers are also ve r y happy at the change they hsve made. Met of them wer e weavers, and instead of ten or twelve shillings, they no w earn fro:n 225. to 275. a week.—Glasgow Chronicle. The proprietors of a cotton-mill in Glasgow sent notice, the bcginmng of last week, to all the big pricers lat e l y employed in it that could spin, to come forward as soon es they pleased, and bring the other piecers along with then, and they would get employment at spinning until as spinners returned to their work, at which they could ears from two to three shillings per day, after paying the piece s their usual wages. But, although they have now been si x weeks out of employment, and a subscription raised (rebid, they no doubt arc much in need of) fur their suppelt, only two of them came forward, although several more conk spin. Some of them seemed willing to work, but said the, were afraid to do it, for fear of being insulted or abased, while others rejected the proposal with contempt, and the two piccers who began to spin, from being insulted or in. tirnidated, only continued for about one day. One of them, when pressed by his friends to continue at his work, began to cry, and said he durst not, bur would not say who threatened hurt, which dearly skews that a system of in timidation is still kept up amongst the operative s , so the they arc not at liberty to do as thy wish, or as their nem- Shies ml ltrsly co n require. —( ft i o ai k t mll struck courier. The work on Monday last, on , arc runt of two families being employed that are not joined . in the combination, and who are termed " Nobs."--IVe hear that the cotton-spinners in town, who have struck work, are receiving considerable contributions from the workers at the country mills. From one work the weeil; contribution amounts to 171. These contributions, we ire informed, are dcvottd entirely to the support of the riti. ners, without any part being given to the poor pie:en. The piecers are a most important class in a cotton-wok. A spinner can do nothing without them ; and many of thew could spin as well as the spinners, if the combination did not prevent their employment..--faasgow Parer. MARKETS. From the Loudon New Pries COTrint.l TIMSDAT, OCT. S. . . - COTTON.—There was afair fur Cotton in our triChe last week, and several pareels of India, as well as nearly the whale of the other descriptions so!), were taken for export. but tritest alteration in prices; the total sales amount to about 3,298 bales. LIVERPOOL, OCT. M. There has continued a very steady demand for Cotton dirooshont the week, and the prices of all descriptions are fully maintained. The sales amount to 10,400 bags. About 1,000 bags Bowed base been taken on speculation. The arrivals are 11,031 bags. SI:GAH.—The Sugar market last week assumed a great ay. pearance of improvement; there was niore business doing. aid such was the limlness of the holders, that prices a shade higher were generally obtained; the low brown qualities, which Nee lately been so neglected, partook of the general impr.venent. Tin holders of Muscovado again became more firm this morning, by the accounts of a diminishing stock, and more er.tensive deliveries from the West India warehouse,: rather higher prices were ob. tained for all Sugars above fAts. and the holders of the brown wets also more rim' ; the pureha,,s today are minaret stile° cash In the Refined market there was a great increase in the demand he week, and low goods bring scarce, sold readily at an adraacei Gri. a Is. per cwt.; grocery goods were also in greater thmard at m advancing currency. 11l olasses were 275. a 275. Gd. There is quite so much business doing this forenoon sedating the Let west the prices are, however, fully maintai n ed ; low goods are still cry scarce; in grocery goods few purchases are to-day reported. la Foreign Sugars no rurehases are reported ; tire inquiries after Boor bon Sugars were considerable. COFFEE.—Tic public sales of Coffee last week went off with. out briskness; the Foreign desuiptions were rather lows;; St. Domingo, 58s. a 5x93.; Brazil, 565. a 575.; Ilayannah, 34. a 30s. 6d.—The British mutation descriptions generally suppertri the r revioua currency, and tire ordinary descriptions of Jamas; which have lately been or depressed, were in more demand at ratter improving prices. There were three public sales of Coffee this forenoon; the whole went off steadily at previous prices, very ore. nary St. Domingo, 17s. 11 EMP, FLAX, and TALLOW.--The extensive purchase of Tallow at St. Pctcrsburgte, supposed to be for this market, oc easions a very heavy trade; parcels of new Tallow may be qu, 335. a 345. 9d. - ; and for Septerrile-r and October shipments the mot price; Tallow of 1823, 345. ; tl:e rise on Oils has as vet little elk on the Tallow market.—tleenp is higher, Sr. Petersburgh, clean. 371. 18s. for parcels here, and fir September and October Airmen a shade lower. There is little doing in Flax, on account ads few parcels at market. FRUIT.—The arelyals of new Malaga continue to be consider. able, and the same anxiety sheen to force them off: on Wedner day there was a large parcel offered by public auction, also of new French Plums, Imperials, l'runes, Jordan and Shell Almonds, arid Faro Figs; nearly the whole of which appeared to have bees bought in. The chief &maid at present (which se rather limited) is for common fruit. . . . . . . OlLS.—There is great speculation in the (Si! market ; aka final accounts of the Davis Straits Fishery are received, which are very unfavourable; the vessels had all left the ice, and the quantity is very much below an average year; Greenland (Si! has, in conse quence, been sold at 271. and many of the holders are now deemed mg 391.; South Sea and Sperm are she much higher, and generally the Oil market may be stated exceedingly brisk—Rapeseed Oil is considerably higher ; Linseed is also improving. The rather fa. wearable accounts received to-day from the outports, respecting tbe Davis Straits vessels, had some effect on the market; this super. noon, Greenland Oil, 28!. for parcels here, and Y7l. for forward de livery. RICE.—The demand for Rice has rather subsided; ik white has sold in parcels at Ida. and 14s. M. By public sale s e foreoon, 103 barrels Carolina Rice, of good quality, was nearly el taken in, 33.5. and 330. 6d. SALTPETR L.—Saltpetre is less inquired after since the DO India Company's declaration of sale, 11th proximo, 21s. W. a Me. RUM, BRANDY, and HOLLANDS.—The inquiries sire low beewards continue eonsideralile, and the market is firm ; seta ral parcels of proofs have been sold at Is. 4t1.; for the finer deicer tions of Jamaica, for home consumption, there has also been good demand. Brandy coatinues witho u t much business bee; effected t parcels houacd 21. 91 In Geneva there is no alter - aim. sPICES.—Last India Spices axe without alteration ; the mato will probably remain nominally at the present quotations tiller Spice sale, advertised by the Company, 9th proximo.—Fimano has been sold ar Bid. a 9d. By public sale tbia forenoon, 127 b;l' Pimento 9d. to 91d. PROVISION s.—Priees of Previsions are more firm, and 9,e market improving Dew Bacon on board stationary, old can 15 bought at some r eduction; Butters 91s. given foie on board, Le the stock comparatively light ; the market is perfectly firm at fr prices ; Waterford 925. to 945. I N Dloo.—The sale closed this forenoon ; the shipping (114 . ties sold from 6d. a ls. per lb., alai the consuming Rom 9d. a Is. 3 is per lb. higher than last sale. /11..1ras Indigo, none fine; the ;05 4 middling went about 6.1. per lb. higher, and the ordinary aboet oil. lower. Oude Indigo sold nearly the same as the JUT!' sl.t. eepting the very low and bad, which were chiefly bought in at some what reduced prices. The Proprietors have taken in about lir chaos of the Gude, and a small phsportion of the shipping rm. , Indigo. The Company had 1,119: chests, winch being taxed lee were all sold, with the exceptioa of 10 chests of ordinary. MARRIED. On Saturday last, at 5t..111;4;,/4;radilly, Mr. William fe• Wright. of Chancery-lane, solicitor, to Mary Ann, eldest dwelt' of William Winckwor th , 1 -:sq. in Croat MarlhorOugh-rtree:. !M.D. On the Bth July last, at Maceia, Bnizils, Mr. Samuel fliessl, Fiat Lieutenant of his Imperial 31ajosty's ship Paragnassa. .14, late a chief officer in the I! onourable Fast India Conip:•l' sea isiveice, and third son of 31r. Chester, solicitor, ilelina p!- iVesnuinster-road. On Sunday evening, Catherine, wife of Francis Dollman, ES. of Charlotte-street, Fitamiy-squarc. On the 15M inst. in his ti2d year, Mr. Thomas Jackar. u. Oalnsford-stmet, St. John's. Souihwah. (hi :Saturday night last, Mr. James It'etrstcr, of !lull, cub.' c'• maker. The deceased had shnrtly before admitted • traman lolo the house, after the family had I...ireel, and, thinking serum .1 thou were winning down stairs, ass putting her into the yard, whei. fell down in a fit, and iminediateiy expired. Mrs. Sullivan, wife of .%lr. SUlJVall,l.o.nsicain of bia Dock-yard, Parise*. 11cr death was occasioned by the s shock received a few hou-s bee..re. on seeing one of her children ev pire, a daughter about 12 yests of age. Lately, at the advanced age of MI, a per woman nerard Me! Woodburn. She was the last of thr.ic occupants of the swne tage, whose united ages amounted to 292. At Aberdeen, on Sondav morning the 17th current, Pr. WI; one of the'lillnisters of the i:as. Church of that cry. 'Jr ricer on the Thursday previous at the ordination of his colleague. Murray. Ile rose on ,Sunday morning. al th ough he felt not very well, and dicti about eight o'clock. It is hula mere two mantles since his late co:lr.:L..le,', Mr. Poig, di _ . HIGH WATER Tilts DAY AT LONDON BRIPCiii• liming 29 win. after 4. Afternoon U INF — - %wad at THE BRITIc.II PRESS Office, by J.W. CAIRO Steact4l, and 151, pubhabt.il by 11. Ca 5505, gun 14*"' I