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THEATRES. Last night the overt of Caey Maras/ring was per. formed at this Theatre to a crowded and very splen did house. 4!r. BRAHAM sustained the part of Harry Bertram with his usual success. lie was -erred in many Of his songs. particularly in ri Scott aria hue te Wallace bled," which he sang three r, : ues, •mid the rapturous •p;rlaose of the house. Jerked this animating song has always an almost electric eff-et rims the feelings of the audience,— it it a spirited and sublime piece of poetry. :aid is execute , ) by Mr. Ia►HAM with richness. psth•*, snit p4o*e.r ; hut it is, we h e li eve , i n d e b te d for its noprecel h cia.ll success, less to the genius of the poet, or the taste of the performer, than to the generous noble sentiments of patriotism which breathe through it, which are felt with so MOO SyMpathy at this moment by • London so. dunce. Were we to notice the exertions of the different ethe► characters in the opera last night, we s hould only repeat our former expressions of well tuented praise. COVENT-GARDEN. MILMAN'S simple, but chaste and elegant tragedy of Fazio. was acted last night. Mr. C. Koine swarmed the principal m Ile character io a style of superlative excellence. His dress, his step, his deportment, admirably leaurtrayed the ambitious and noble-minded Fazio—the opposite workings of passion and duty expressed in his coun tensuce, in the scene where the wanton Aldabella wheedles him into her snares-4nd the well•coun terfdted stupor and despair with which he abandons the ss.ertion of his innocence before the Judges, on thecovering Bianca to be his accuser, were as per fectly characteristic of his weakness and irresolu too. He delivered the sublime reproach of the Ins prorisatoris If attery, " Fie, Sir, oh fie ! 'tie ful some,' with such commanding toaes and scorn ful glances as b-came the elevation of the mind which could conceive it. But it would he an endless task to particularize the beauties of the performance. Mrs. BuSll acted the mild, the loving, the jealous, and repentant Bianca. if we are not mistaken, it was iu this past she made her Milt at Covent Gorden, and we have before had occasion to notice her very extraordinary merits is it. Last night she was as effective as we have ever observed her, and was de servedly honoured with repeated and rapturous marks of approbation. Mr. COMER (Philario) pronounced the only speech allotted to him in the representation in such a mouthing manner ai if he wished to caricature " the fluent vein, the rapid rush" of the Improvisatore. However, with per• haps this exception only, the play was acted exceed ingly well. After the play a new musical interlude, called Helpless was produced for the first time. Its overture, the composition and selection of Mr. PARRY, possessed considerable softness, sprightli ness. and elegance ; but the pretensions of the piece itself, are toil humble to call for severity of cri ncism. The story is brief and slight in the extreme ; —tier materials and incidents something whimsical. ' The object is to represent the helplessness of man, Let& of the society and assistance of woman. To illustrate tiny plain truth, a testy old innkeeper. ita • tit of poseion, turns out every female in his house. and among the rest his own niece, resolving henceforth to disprove entirely with the services of heir sex. The niece assumes the dress and dialect of a Yorkshire youth. and obtains a place from her uncle 'soder the character of " u man of all wink." The first opportunity given her to sheer the value of her acquirements, is to dress supper for a club of old bachelors, particular in every thing, but above all, in having supper on the table precisely at nine o'clock. To retaliate on )ter uncle. soil convince bins of his eerier (which was she motive of her returning), the new cook keeps epee old Get. lemon waiting an immoderate length of lime, and theta sends up the petit-toes smothered in mita, the tripe boiled in vinegar, and the pig boiled instesil of roasted. The old bachelors storm—the .Lady's lover tells her uncle that nothing will go right till he recovers that " who make a palace of a cottage." He acknowledges it. His niece discovers herself receives her fortune, which had hitherto been held from her knowledge and possession. and bestows her h•nil MI her 'Wilmer. Mrs. DAVISON sustained the part of Letitia, the niece, with great spirit mid humour. Mr. BLANCHARD'S reprove°. tenon of the uncle was sensible and correct ; Mr. J. It MILL gave an excellent imitation of the roguery yid tricks of a knavish servant ; and Mr. ABBOTT poortrayed the waywardness and inconstancy of the lover with much ability. A song, begiuniug with the words, Ikre's adieu to all the lasses," was encored. On the conclusion a few hisses were beard, but the sotto& of applause had greatly the predu. intuairce. The revived musical drama of Richard (War de Lion followed. The overture and music, by Galvin, were extremely fine; and the scenery 'soy beautiful. The piece was performed its the best style, and received unbounded applause. his forces, leading in person the main hotly op the heart of the city, and tending Sir John the Cr.. home, his Achates, with another, to wake a circuit. and enter by this Rotten-row. If you have Blood Harry by you, you may turn to the wooer, and you will find it very animated flescriplion of the battle which ettlued. Wallace was erciiiiiit•red mid-way up the town, exactly where the College of Glasgow now stand% by the English 101.1 top of Elward'a making—heck; and while the strife was adhwe gab jadtce, the scales were turned in his favour by the alined of the Grahame, who took the Bishop in the rear. " A Pet we had perambulated all these scenes, we found it was nearly tine fur dinner, and so parted for the day. I Amid have told you before, that I had outwit, r visitor ea , ly in the morning, be sides Mr. H--. mit was a Mr. it re spectable merchant of the place, also an acquaint once of my friend Ile came before H--. and after professing himself very sorry that his avocations would not permit hint to devote his forenoon to my siripre; made me promise to dine with him—s prepeanl to whicti, indeed, I could have nu kind of objection." CONGLAVON LOricollANGN ASSOCIATION. The Members of the. Waterloo Lodge of Loyal Orangemen. assembled on Thursday, the atii Inst. to celebrate the anniversary of the birth-day of King %Vllham the Third, Prince of Orange, at the hou►e of Mr. J. Mytock, the Wrest Sheaf where au elegant dinner was provided hir the Mem ber., iii Mrs. Mycock's best style ; alter which tl e following. amongst numerous toasts, were given by the Aleitilvers:— " The King, God bless him !" Song, " God Save the King."—" The Prince Regent, and every branch of the Royal Family."—" The Duke of York and the Army."—" The So vereignty of the Seas." Song, " Rule Britannia."—" The immortal Memory of William t►e Third, Prince of Orange." Song, " When Order in this Laud commenced"—" Colonel Taylor, Grand Master for England, auJ the lest of the Mem bers of the Grand Lodge" (three times three).—" Brother Lord Kenyon, the Orangeman's Advocate."—" Brother Julius Lloyd, Esq. of Stockport, and thanks to him fur his on. daunted oral in promoting the welfare of the Orange lusti t ohm." (three limes three.)—" The Mayor and Magistrat e of the Borough of Cungleton."—" The Town and Trade of Congleton."- 4 Captain Swettenhani and the Curigkton Cavalry."—" England's Wealth and Gkry."—" To all ab sent Brother,"—" May all true °rang. men !awe and relish the sweets of Freedom." The Members spent the evening in the greatest harmony, accompanied by part of the exer•lleot band of the Ssth regiment of foot, who played a number of tunes appropriate to the occasiuti, after which the Members retired at a late hour. SUPPOSED MURDER IN ST. GEORGE'S FIELVS. Byterera nine and ten o'eloek on Ttiesday night, as the pot-boy belonging to the Royal Mortar public-house, i■ the Londo•.rosd, St. Georgeklields, was out serving his supper-beer, in crossing a piece of waste ground facing the Philasithropir, and betweva that soil the Borough-road, he discovered the body of a man lying on his face in a stagnant pool of water, close to the path-side; the boy immediately informed the next watchman, who repaired to the spot, and procured assistance to carry the body to the Royal Mortar, covered all over wit► slush and cord; Mr. Cherry, the la•dlerd. supposing he might have (*llea its, is • slate of drunkenness, and m ght still have life, Ilse body being thee warm, sent immediately for Dr. Ratty, who lives opposite, who came instantly; on washing away the filth off his face it was discovered that he had a dread ful wound In his throat, It appeared lobe the stab of • sharp pointed broad bladed knife in she gullet, and ripped tip as far as the point of the chin. From the nature of the wound it was supposed to be impossible to be inflicted by himself, although it was evident he was nut robbed, (is. in silver, and Sd. in halfpence being foetid iu his pockets. He appears to be a countryman, about forty years of age. dressed i■ a new smock frock, striped cotton shot, and • red silk handkerchief tied round his seek ; he had oa a new pair of shoes, yarn stockings, sad corduroy breeches. The pond was searched, but no knife or other instrument was found, sad it is reported that two boys saw a man carry a body on his hack across the field, and throw it into the water, but the night being dusk be effected his escape. The body lay all day yesterday exposed to public view, but remains still raow•ed. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the Eist India House, when the following Captains were sworn into the command of their respective ships, viz.—Captain T. F. BALDERSTON, to the Asia; Captain F. CRESWELL. to the Astell ; ono! Captain H. A. DRUMMOND. to the castle lividly —for Bengal and Chios. We learn by letters from Spain, those from Cadiz being dated on the 24th ult. that in consequence of the heavy rains experienced in Andsloan', portico'. lolly, the tnalignol,cy of the yellow fever has coon. derably abated. Its Seville, the deaths had been reduced to only right a day ; and at Cadiz they averaged only 80. being a diminution of between 20 to 30 a day. The 'inspirer of sick was lemetied from 12,000 to 7.000. List of the Patriot Fleet at Valparaiso, 13th July ;--ffifigkias, 44; Sins Martin, 54; Lois• let°, 50 ' ; Indepenclentia, Chacubac,26: Au 'want). ; =2 4 ; Madan, 1R; and PMCIt• 110 18. The Lady ors 'highly-respected Baronet, in this county ar, our renders Mill be tro/v gratified in minor ones. It stretches quite - ' — '7' 7 - non been grounded. - 1 he Attorney-General in ut that Uourt wit* called upon to wake a de-prams u po i t . n w i , i ll . 11 . 112; Wl'o - i;.; t he -.. ...dismay evening t h e season term in ate d at 'Hong the brow 01 the 11111, son comments& a agile hears" — le - ' ' tsar. did no such thing. Mr. Swann then.proceeded of the facts, mod according to that depsoilso . Lottery drawn on 'I ors( ay last. -(1 hater Paver 1 Oa Misty St. Edmunds Theatre. having been extended prospect of the whole city. old and new. Its name • .• to comment upon the evidence smell on the trial, and he saw no reason to coosider that that Officer lei. l touch beyond the usual length, but iseverthe.eve is the Rotteuarow-• name, by the way, which my In the night of %Veditestlay the 3d instant. the to urge the improbability of its putts. Ile declared behaved improperly, al S* y. r. want. says that tot wail M proving as success f u l t o the last, as a numerous and cicerone professed himself incapable of explaining, new dovecot, at Island House. Loughboro'. was he would state the matter es it occurred. is he came at six o'clocl. in the morning to las bow,. repperiable audience could render it. Mr. Bei.- but which was quite familiar and intelligible to broken open, and about eleven pairs of pigeons scorned to conceal any thing, however et might but lie has not stated what the man said, roma ts. rat isstv on that reeling offered the thanks of the soy ears. It comes, I d ou bt n ot, f r om the saute killed and stolen therefrom. It appeared that a affect the judgment of the Court. lii the year 1612 that be nod called on the preceding event gto t a PO* iuuipaay in an Address, and announced that the rout with routine. and signifies nothing more than couple of ladder, had been used, and that a large he had applied to Peter Jenkin for Isis vote. The mats quire fur Mr. Swami, and .received from leis sera ITis , amp si gn h a d beau advantageous beyood pre- than the row or street of processions. It was here blanket, ur something of that kind, had been placed hesitated to give it to I * lest he should offend a Mr. roots sod from his daughters evasive answers. au. h me •• et-dent. that tile host and the images of the Saints were over the entrance balcony, prior to breaking open Gi es ,,,,, who. he said, supplied him with flour for as. that Mr. Swann was from home, toed they towel W' the door. The heads of the pigeons were next his family when he wet out of bread in the winter, net tell when he could be 'WV,. The of fi cer him' 4 to A 'trio'', affray took place last Tuesday night, carried on festivals. with all the usual splendour of no t fire...wee a party of the 4th Dragoon Guards now Catholic piety. The same name, derived from morning found lying together in a heap,' amongst Ise (Mr. Swann) immediately went to Mr. Glesou, understood that Mr, Swaim WWI an early rodeo's.' ✓ i y . ~,..,,i ric.i heir, and a number n y the inhabitants. _ . t h e very same practice still subsisting , may b e the blood that had been seised its cutting them n ff . and agreed to pay him a debt of this mail's, in else jut his habits, and sometimes left Isis house very aorta not It ...ins that a soldier went with his wife into the found its many towns in Germany. I remember. The subscription for raising au additional armed ultimate event of hit heirs,: unable to discharge in the morning, called there, as be as id e M ' , sell . Si' 8, 101.. 4 pl.c e . an d s t o ppi n g behind for souse r uts is ßatisbonne. in partietilar. a Itailea-gasse close force in 111111 county amounts already to more than it himself indeed, lie wished to beri wird Jenkin. not six o'clock. The bower/said told him her Was sow 4 v as., , the w 1111 l an proceeded alone towards a steel, by t h e Cathedral—and, nideed, all over Catholic ei g ht thousand pounds. Ti le C ommi tt ee at N orth . S o metime a fter this occurre d, h e Was rem i n d e d o f ter WO O .from home, cad that they did not kourr 'sa.t v 1 4 .1. she w i i, ' , mi lt e d with the mus t o pp ro bri o us Germany, the Domatherr or Canon, who walks semi), for appropriating this fund, have determined his promise. and lie crime down word, thst If the where he could be igen. The me i , we n t u p s e w *, outlets by several fellows who stood near. sand, we fi rst ens those ° c as sia... b ears a titl e o f the same to a dd 23 m en t o retch troop of Sir JOHN LEICEit. man truiesmitted to lion ;or promissory note fur and certainly knocked at his Std.-room door; it was we" '. film-, was jailed by one ashen'. The mail going etymology-that of itott-aseister. namely-which VCR'S regiment, and a new corps of yeomanry cW 201. he would remit hiss, a draft li o r that 01 1 101101. leeched, and a reforest of °prolog it was given. M-. e rr i her assistance was immediately knocked down. is l i t e r a lly procession -leader, or master. I remem- vslry is to be completed immediately, under Mr. This was dune, and to skew precisely his owes view Swaim at length said he would godowu to lei. dro- ols , I 2 lie alarm b eing g i ven t o several of his comrades tiered to have met with the name of this Gl as g ow CHOLMONDEEET , of Vale R o y al ; M r. Swefege. of the tnnisaction. he had subsequently p d his ing-room; he did Ws the men waited for him. am d. . ho were at hand, t h e y rim t o hi s assistance, a nd Rotten-row in ote radio meet on applying la my HAM. of SOlnrrrOrd ; and Mr. iIEETNCHTE, of banker ' s COrqUe to tine luau's nute, as the sole coo- whisk he Tow itunde, bearing a window th rows , up , s :teat oiling a *tell io pieces, forisielsed themselves with friend. he told me; that it occurs in Bind H a rry's Comberm er e •Abbey. who are raising squadrons of federation ne virtue of which belied Paid the 2 01 . Ulm of them r'!" to dm rear of the .house. and on seri enpollll fro nt th ence . w ith w hich th e y l ai d a bout History of Sir William Wallace. After the famous 120 film esteh , iu their respective district.. A sin- This occurred in let 3,. a wl when i o 1818 lie can- his way awned Mr. Swann thro u gh a wii ,,l„ v , ~f A 0• was' so effectually as to c l ea r the Ifrutiod in a short exploit of the burning of the b a rns of Ayr, where pile troop is also to be formed under Si r T 11 ° 111 " cussed the tu"°' oh l'rnrynthis inaisreluetel to s i t e his cle i gebee, ,H e d esire d Mr. 111161111 to :1111111: him, test ble.—We regret to sa y. th a t I wo o f the soldiers Pembroke. mud a great l her of English Lords STANLEY, in the hundred of Wirral , and it if OM Inn his vote unl ess b e re t urue d the note; he ON. and ,received a apse!, arcomprimed even wi.ri rev ere severely h ur t. A re w a rd of me is offered fur were destroyed tugetliere IVallace marched during thou g ht th a t •a u y further additions to the cavalry mediatele tore it acrd psi it to hint. but • pamper. threats that he had fire.au ins, and would resi.t say as le di.ehe eri of the persona w h o curt i oeuc ed the the whole night. that he might. if possible, sir- force 'of the 'county will be judged necessary at named Willa. happened to pick it up, petted it ms attempt to approach him. The mass Olen hit he • dit7.-(lladderelfeld (Jazette.) p row Glasgow. 011 reaching the Clyde, be divided present.-( Chester Paper.) paper,and thus preserved it, sad nice, it against hue. 01104 of glass, sod opened the window, after an.. • i ~ _ A . e .-- - . . ... JIM -.. ..__......-.... ....- ' ^c' 'litillirelk.a , t•assar- - - 1 7 - -•-- • - - - . so.' :iinn i o r i • pH, ii ii mong ..... ' ' '-' -"'.. . . '.. ....... ..sillr-, -', s ;.... -. -' 4a' ' ' ' la, .. , • . _.::=XViae l - 1 ", - -" . . . MURY-LANs. THE CATHEDRAL AT GLASGOW. (Prom a Peter's latter* to kh•Eia.fol4") ((banana( frost oar Paper of Saturday) " Among the other profonstious which this fine old Cathedral has had to *nautili, not the least has been the erection of various new buntline; in its intorribete vic ttt it y. quite hostile to the impres sion its majestic form, left alone in Its church yard, 'night be so well fitted to convey. On the one hand, on the very edge of the hinial-ground, there has been set up a little ofeeninahle would• be Gothic church, iii the very word of all pos sible styles of Gothic imitattoon th ing ruin of stlndOS/S and corners, with it roof like a barn— and covered—to the shame he it spoken of peo. ple whit hive such abosolioce of free-stone at their handy—covered with a rude patched coating of brown lime. It put me in mind of some little hunch backed, he.vy-hratled dwarf, toting the port and gestures or a grand giant, who-e knee he cannot twitch. At the other side, they have put down, still nearer to the Cathedral, a building very passable in itself—nay, very elegant. se buildings go in Scot land—but scarcely. to my mind, less ill-judged in regard to its petition. This is the Royal Infirmary —a spacious limillpornr house, in the Grecian style, or, rather, in what 'scatted now-a-days the Grecian rtyle of architecture. In toiler to nt.ke room for it so 'sear the obi church, the trod wise folks of Glasgow pulled down a few years ago, RS my guide informs me, the ruins of the ancient Archiepisco pal Palace or Castle, which occupied, with a very different kind of propriety. the mine commanding spot. Surely this was a very uwnecessary piece of barbarity-but, if the old castle was to be retnov. ed, they might, at least, have erected in its room something that would have better harmonized with the neighbourhood of so grand a church. " %Vita one calls, in common patristic., a hand some building its these days, is often a thing which has neither graiitleur nor beauty. Indeed, modern building+. in general, are sio uninteresting in their general shape, and their surface is so much frit tered down with different rows of windows, mill with a complexity of trivial and unprofitable parts, that they scarcely ever tell much to the imagi station, or convey to the eye any our broad sod palpable concord of forms. The necessity of hoe. ing different flats or stories, must al wile be in some iiseioure hostile to simplicity. No pillar can stretch from the top to the bottom of ouch a bonding, without doing it more harm than good ; and the expedient of piling different orders of architecture one above another, although it was employed with a noble effect in the Coliseum at Rome, and in oilier amphitheatres, Skelni to lose all its dignity when interspersed with the paltry little windows of modern days. Them smooth and glazed rows never fail to destroy the conception of a vast and magnificent space in the interior. " The Gothic buildings, in general, have no want of unity. The multiplicity of part. is indeed great, but they are made quite easy to be COM.. prehesided by their repetition : and the design of the whole, is always evidently subservient to one purpose. " I take it, Mr. W--, in his description of my character to his cousin. had done at least full usemure of justice to my antiquarian propensities; for he seemed to think it a matter of course. that my inclinations would lead me to give the whole of my first day to the most ancient part of the city of Glasgow. This, as I mentioned, is the part im mediately in the neighbourhood of the Cathedral— the Archbishop and his court of deans, chaunters, precentors, and prebendaries, having. of course, been the lords paramount of attraction in those days to the burghers, who lived chiefly by their means. There are several entire streets of the epis copal city still remaining—all in utter disrepute, as might be expected from their situation, and inhi bited by the lowest vulgar : but all of them con tainiog the shells of floe old hou.es, much supe rior in the taste of their architecture to the more splendid buildings which fill the more spacious street. of the modern city of merchandise. Osi some of these old homes, I could tract various coats-of-arms. from which, had Glasgow a W-- to decipher them, I doubt not, much of their his tory might really be gathered. H's kinsman pus. stases a little tincture of his lore, sod pointed out to me, in different quarters, the beatings of parti cular families or Bishops in a sufficietitly knowing style. In many quarters, he ',hewed me the shields of the House of Hamilton, and the Stewart*, Lords of Minto—in which families successively was vested the regality, or lay lordship of the 'archi episcopal lands shortly after the Reformation. He chewed me also one large and floe old bonding, which formerly was a residence of the Motormen sod still beers the name of Montrose Lodge—and it was this very house, as he tells me, that Darnley oc cupied during that illness which brought Mary from Edinburgh to be his nurse, only a fees weeks before the catastrophe of the Kirk-in-the-field. The must extensive of these eucirlit streets, however, is out so abundant in these vestiges of ancient - the - • It stretches quite flerhollenged any nuta to prove ailfal eo,roptinn against him; he had. on the controry, cni.dneted liiindelf in five successive elections wholly free from such a charge. though it was so openly practised in a particular borough. that twenty.four gut 11.s, was the price of a plumper, and tsarist . split vote. He .had materially served the Borough and its inhabitauts, who were gristefi I tend anxious to shew their gratitude towards him. Wing engaged in many public works, he abided himself of • variety of opportunities to be useful to the inhabitants. among whom he diatributed great deal of beneficial labour—he had always 01-- jected to bribery. this was known to nosily out or, and to some within that Court. The Member f. r Leicester, whom he saw behind the Bar. kl ew it, from a particular transaction (Mr. Swann w I understood to allude to Mr. Denham, to short he looked, but Mr. Denham is Member for Ware ham). lie had refused to countenance bribery at Grampound, sod was he therefore to be held up to the world us an encourager of it ? Ile then debut ed the circumstances of pentotial indignity which hr had endured. He had sent a written request to t!:e Attune y-General to postpone judgment h's case fur a Term, as urgent butanes. required Iwo io look after his affairs in Jamaica ; but that Leertt ed person. in very polite terms, lamented he co,' I not comply with his request, and also stated, th .1 I e hid given directions ou the previous dsy, t! at he (Mr. Swann) should be informed it was op emery for him to enter into recognisance. if. abide the judgment of the Court. Now lie would tell the Court how this commuoicstiou had Leen made to him. At the hour of six o'clock in it.. morning two persons entered his house in the oi.n•l. try, ran up stairs, and knocked at his herb-room door with as much violence as if they meow to break it open—they alarmed his wife and daughters, and itr with difficulty was allowed by them to enter Lot dressing-mom ; they shoved his servant out. who en tered to clean his coat and boots, mud while he was by himself. engaged in changing his linen, I. s wife happened to throw up a window in another room, end one of there persons, under the notion t h at he meant to @scope, tau out to the garden. and with. out ceremony dashed his arm through the w:tid.ev of his dressing-room, threw up the sash, atei acted towards him as if he were a traitor, a felts: , a murderer. He complained strongly of t'e gradation, as he was a mon always to be fund at his house, • Magistrate always acting on the Bei- .1 with its brother Magistrates, and of course at Oh time to be found when required by any body. Il then proceeded to arraign his prosecution, whita he called severe and unjustifiable, when lie was in terrupted by-- The CHIEF Justice, and reminded that tl e I Court could not listen to such reflections. He begged pardon, and concluded by reallii.4 a letter addressed to him by 150 respectable it'd,- viduals in Cornwall, who spoke iu the highest tem. s uf his honour and independence. The COURT reinipded him that thia declarstio could only be received in the shape of an affiansr. Mr. Swann then concluded by stating. that 1.1 Parliament he had ever acted as a conscientious, in dependent man, unshackled by Ministerial ssr nil influence, and was therefore unlikely to be gu:l y of wilful or corrupt bribery. The ATTORNEY GENIRA L that diOrZl much of what Mr. Swann had just uttered w;:s ins. - levant to the real case before the Court, he y. t hoped fur their indulgence, while he exisl.lll,:l certain insinuations which had been thrown nut re specting the conduct of his predecessor and !!itaisell. He had yet to learn in what manner it bad ess r been the practice when the (-louse of Commons or. dered the Attorney General to institute a proseci.- ikon, to control horn in the means and form in in which he should be made by instructions 5.$ limit the means of conducting it. It nevtr was the practice to confine the inquiry to any particular evidence, and it was always open to the Attorney. General, nay it was his positive duty, to .u-tai:a the prosecution by the best evidence it was 1.1 his power to procure. Mr. Swann had dwelt upon his acquittal of particular counts in the formation, but he had refrained from explathis the cause of the acquittal, which was inertly na consequence of • variation between the form in which the offence was laid, and the 111 Mort 1U which the evidence substantiated it. Mr. Swann could not surely urge that because lie had been acquitted of other offences, he was innocent of this. With respect to the apphcation he had made to him to postpone the judgment, he (she Attorney-General) certainly had given it a refusal. He was compelled to do so with pain, Irons a *vitae of public duty. as he had been intrusted Isy the House uf Commons to conduct this prosecution, and he of course could not take upon himself the responsibility of postponing judgment after the conviction which had taken place. Touching the complaint made by Mr. Swami of the manner in which the process of that Court had been executes the Defendant knew that the moment 1w (ma Ain), ney-General) had heard of hi. having cosuridrr.tl himself treated with harshness, he had untriertmiety inquired into the occurrence, and one of kilt Officers of that Court was called upon to make a deponent u LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Witformi Wrowrsovr, Novmsga 17. WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS. IR Site matter of ST• LT T GODDA RT, a Bankrupt. The LOWD CNA NCEI. I.OR—" After the ri.itg of the Conn yrs, .411,1. Mr. Wilmot n1(.4-flied me that he wool 1 not trouble was to reconsider this ease List evelona, 3S I . e (owlet... Nod the Cniumi..uoitent wouhl attend to my rtcoutimemlitiout, owl h.awr the batik row hrottwit tv,:nttl brh.re them for re--x4ttliotation." The Solicit's; for the bankrupt said, that he had Pervesl a notice to that effect, but the Commis sioners refused to take any further cognizance of the case until his Lordship had delivered her judgment. The LORD CHANCELLOR—" I will let the Com. miassioners ktsow, by my Secretary, that it is my recommendation that they should again examine the hatitrupt ; and I have no doubt but they will comply sith sty suggestion, and perhaps it may pr.-vent my being obliged to give my , judgment." Mrs. Guddart, front the area of the Cuurt, begged fur 'lbw v to •address hi. Lordship. The LORD- (111111CRILOR.-." I will not hear you, %Volans, nn this siihjret." Mr.. G Isidart then witlideew. Tlie ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. DULLER. Mr. lIART said, he was iii.tructed to mention this case, as it wa. of the highest importance to the par,ies to have his Lordship's final decision. The LORD CHat►CELI.ot I :Pave already given toy judgment, but I have not had time to pro the motors. 1 will not priimi.e that you shall have them to-morrow, but 1 think I may safely say that 1 will brio; them into Court with me on Fri. day morning." IGGULDEW V. DE LA BERTH. The Cuurt was oceupird the remainder of the day in hearing interrogatories read in th s cause. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Wurnimma, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17. SENTENCE OF HENRY SWANN. ESQ. Al one o'clock this flay the ATTORNEY-GENERAL rose and moved the Court that ,judgment be pro nounced upon Henry Swann, E•q. who was con victed at the List Spring As■isrs for the County of Cornwall, held at Bodinin, of wilfully, wickedly, and con aptly giving certain bnbrii to some of the Electors of the Borough of Penryn for their votes in his behalf, to return hint at one of the Members to represent that Borough Mr. Swann immediately ruse and stood on the floor. Mr. Justice BU,•r then read to the Court his notes of the trial, said record of the Defendant's conviction. Our reader* will recollect that the whole particulars trithspired in the House of Com mons last Session. Mr. Swine was then asked if he had any affidavits to put in P He replied in the itegotivc, and pro ceeded to address the Court in a speech of consi derable length. He t•ommencrd by alluding to the 11W11111t of professional ossistonce at his trial, in consequence of Seneants Pell and Lens being re tained against him, Nod lamented the consequences that ensued by his having in person undertaken his own cause. lie found himself at his trial overcome by his situation, and unable to meet tie charge as it might have been met by a cool professsonal Gentleman, if lie had had the good fortune to have retained one. It may, perhops, he asked of him, with his unfortunate experience of the post, why he now in person came to that Court to urge arguments is mitigation of his offence—his answer was, that ham nig no affidavits to offer, and having incurred the enormous expense or an election conies., which cost him 7.000!. and also the expense of 1,200/. to consequence of the Petition to the !louse of C mono, he was unprepared to meet any addi- I I charge upon his fortune, and ►till less prepared to incur the expense of any arrest of judgment, or of prolorigisig his mental anxiety by siostponing the pe nod of his sentesice. Ile assured the Court that he entertained a deep ionise of the necessity in an offence like that of which he stood charged, of making an example of an offender, to prevent the House of Commons from being rendered con temptible in the eyes of the torople at large. In his case there had berm peculiar and unprecedented hard ship's, ftr on all former occasions of pro-ecutions by the House of Commons they were undertake.' after reports of Special Committees, sold these reports were alone the instructions to the Attorney Gene. ral to prosecute. The late Attorney General (than whom he valued no man more) had departed from this course. Had lie confined I self to it, he (Mr. Swami) must have been acipoitted.—iii fact, lie was ■t the trial acquitted of all the counts in the information, which contained the charges brought against him in the House of Commons. But in his case, the Ationiey.tlemeral did not confine himself to the Connor's', Itep•rt—he sent down the Solicitor of the Treasury to Proiryn, to rake up ad dttooal mid ou these alone hail his couvic tion been grounded. The Attorney-General in