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in did, by the du his LETTER THE SECOND TIOX THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF STAMPS THE RIGHT HONOURABLE T. WALLACE. St a—lf I resume my pen thus early, it is because the nature of the attack upon my official character contained in your Parliamentary Reports makes it dangerous, as welt as imprudent, that I should sleep upon my shield. I come before the tribunal of public opinion to plead in arrest of judgment. lam my own advocate. The office is one of great delicacy; but I have no want of materials—my proofs lie on every side of me, and the only pain I feel arises from the necessity of producing them. The manifest result of your Report is to induce Paths meta and the country to believe that I am unworthy a situation which I inadequately fill, and the duties of which I have unfaithfully discharged. ltfy intent and purpose is to repel this imputation by direct and decisive evidence, and to show that my conduct as Chairman of the Stamp Board has been the reverse of that, which, upon the face of your Report, it is made to appear. With reference to the contents of my letter to you of Saturday last, I shall now go on to show, and to prove, that I employed myself in combating, under every discouragement, that system of fraud and abuse in Scotland, which, had it existed here , the Stamp Revenue must have inevitably sunk under it, and that, by that very same influence which rendered all my ettbets to reform those abuses abortive, they are upheld to this hour. I speak of course with the exception of the Legacy Department, which was taken from the hands of Mr. Bremner, and a new officer crated in the person of the MOM Solicitor. " Dumbreck Dote!. "31T DES I Mil. BflrfaltY,—l Sent off a long letter to the Tatum, by yesterday's post. 31r. Bremner and Mt. l'inder are a T averna! convolution ; in fact, the whole office, from the Head Distributer downwards, Clerk* included, act in concert t this is not to be wondered at, or the heads of each office I tind to be con netted by blood, or marriage. How their appointments have been brought about I don't know, but they seem. as far as I can lam. to be all birds of the same nest. I have been looking out the Reports of iVaddell, the Riding Inspector; lie appears to be so honest man, and to have sent a faithful account of the frauds he di,covered from time to time, to 3lr. Bremner. in his different vervings; but the latter treats them as waste paper, and poor Widish complains bitterly of his neglect. To defraud the revenue pos toe a slight o ff ence with the most scrupulous of our brethren on this side the Tweed, and they have beer, so long suffered to 1 . evade the duties with impunity, that I almost despair of bringing 1 them round again. "As to the purchase of a Stamp Office, it no sooner got wind that I we. commissioned by the Treasury to nuke such a purchase than Sir John Alarjoeibanks, who has made lately a speculation by buying a plot of ground at the end of Princes-street. and who, I uadustand, has already got a contract with Government to built: the New Post Office upon it. hi eager to have a Stamp Office built there also, though building is. with us, quite out of the question ; bat 1 find all the borough influence is at work, as you will per :nye from the following detail. Sir W. Conyngham applied to as. offering to part with his house in Queen-street, which he seems eery doisous to dispose of. I went, at his earnest desire, to look sit, and it appeared to me that it might serve very well for the pa:poses but I found that Lord Duncan and his family, who re sided In it, had taken it resdpfurnished for foot years, subject to re. tidal a gotta local; within that perto I the house to be sold. They haver-sided in it two years, and it seemed to me that it would be income, under these circumstances, to enter into any contract far the purchase, however eligible, without first communicating with the vire• in possassion. and giving them the refusal of the purchase at tie ',nee it was offered at ; 1 therefore wrote the following letter to Lard Duncan t— "' Dombreek's Hotel, Thursday Morning. "' My Lord—l really feel considerable difficulty in opening try aeration with Sir IV. ('onyngham on the subject of this louse in queenottreet, inasmuch as it may possibly subject Lady I Duncan and yourself to an inconvenience, of which I should be very unwillingly the occasion. To treat for the purchase of a house in Ouch a funny is peernatiendy resident, even though such residence nay. under certain eireunistsaces, he lioble to discontinuance, has so mach the air of a •ransactian that would not, perhaps, be warranted by tbe ordinary nth sof cminesy in prieste life, that I owe an apology to row Lordship fur meditating such; a treaty. 1 have, however, rat yet made any ammific offre to Ede William Conyngham, and be. le! I proceed to do so, I should be glad to have some personal rs.unication with your Lordship en the subject, In order that 141 air accommodation may, as much as possible, regulate the terms t noir be previously entered into , in the event of any purchase :Le part la Government being concluded. '•' I have the honour to be, my Lord, •'• Your Lordship's most obedient servant, " • JAMES S EDO 'A IC K." .. I was aware that Sir John Marjoribanks WAS setting eve r y hurl at work ; anti the rumour that I was about to conclude a nity with sir W. Conynghain has rut Iris auxiliaries here on the , i. as you will perceive front the following authoritative note re eed since my last, which no doubt was intended to set the affair bar, !hat pete pre the uter may will rely that Putt • tie teed lea said e he . Wag t rest:— " 'The Lord Provost presents compliments to Mr. Sedgwick— Is has just learned that a treaty is on foot to remove the Stamp ihfiee to Quecn,treet. If this information be correct, he conceives to be a very inconvenient situation, and wi:l therefore feel it his " io oppose it. City Chambers, April 10.' " " This curious note came without even the formality of an en- I rrispe, ard without any official seal, aid, in short, wholly un imed by the dignity of office. Unwilling to keep his Lordship •uspense as to the effect which his magisterial intimation had dived, I instantly took up my pen, and forwarded the following - reply " ' Mr. Sedgwick presents his compliments to the Lord Provost, d is somewhat surprised at the oncerenionial conciseness of the At which he has the honour to rtc.rive from him on ths subject of to sly stitch he has been informed is on foot fur the removal of s!•onp Office to Queen-street. Mr. Scdgwick has only to say rrply, that he is extremely indifferent to any opposition which Lordship may feel it his duty to exert on the occasion ; but o,hl the peal adverted to not be concluded—which Mr. Sedg, thinks is very possible—he begs his Lordship will ascribe to event only to the Board of Stamps finding better accommo • a elsewhere, and not to any obstacle created by his Lordship's ert .rence. " 'Humbreck's Hotel, April 10, 18113. " Mont ten o'clock in the wining came the following, in an erne. 61"4 with the seal of the City Anna, that no official importance :e igh: be wanting . — " The Lord Provost presents compliments to Mr. Sedgwick, • 1 wgr.ts that the conciseness of the card he hail the honour to Wm should hare been consiutered uncerenionial ; if it has 'red to him the smallest uneasiness, such, he does assure him, 46 foreign to the Lord Provost's intention. Ile had received in. riceisn that a treaty was going forward to purchase a house in ga , uisstreet, fur the purpose of converting it into a Stamp Office; conceiving a situation so remote from the centre of the city soukl prove very inconvenient to the inhabitants, he felt it to be his duty to .ddress 31r. ,edgwick for intormation, and at once to state his objection to it. It may, perhaps, be quite correct, that if the treaty is 'ascended or abandoned, such will not be owing to any in. I "enee 01 3 the part of the Lord Provost ; that, however, is of very dr enrucquenee, provided .hat the result terminate in this, and a "6661 more eligible is lilted on ; but, with every posrible respect Mr. bedgwick`a opinion, the Lord Provost has uniformly found, 4it in every application or representation made by the 3lagistrates a great community, upon either an actual or alleged inconveni re 10 that community, and when the interest of the Revenue is not suffer, Government uniformly receives such a ith that attention ntrii a parent pays to the respectful representaiiion of a child, and et in the present in s t ance t he same feeling would be expe • ee•A ' City Chambers, 10th April, 1818: " I !tuned from Mr. I)umbreck that a klr. Johnson. a Member (the Town Council, had been with him, to learn if any treaty was fJot for his hotel, intimating that he would be very Imprudent 'part with it at the price lie set upon it, which was much too low, Ed t h at at any rate he ought not to ask or lake less than 12,0001. thieh terms it was of couree conceived 1 should decline); but Dumbreek said he had fixed his price if he sold. that he did at mean to ask more, and he could not take less. You see how romo, z r matters in this part of the world. Heaven defend us ! raid up this hastily that I may not lose the post ; and with the at saliva to the Board, btlieve me, my dear Sir. " Yours, faithfully, "JAMES SEDGWICK." " Stamp Office, London, May 4, 1818. " My dear Mr. Sedgwielt, " At I recollect Dr. Johnson's observation, that wherever i man saps he would wish to brrukfosl, in Scotland,' I cannot tar myself that even my honeyed lines can give any additional eveitit to your morning's repast. You may believe that 1 am r re allY relieved by your parquet just now received, by hearing Mt feel yourself somewhat better. By the time you open this, hope you will have found yourself very considerably better— 'Aced well enough to proceed on your intended progress, which til l give great pleasure to all your friends here, who heard, Silt much concern, of your being so very unwell as your last ivAir,o plainly indicated. It was quite kind of you, under such !t urnstantres, to write to me at all. We are very sensible of ' e ter) anxious and laborious inquiry you are pursuing —the cure of which, under the discouragemenu and impediments we now you have, and will continue to meet with, as you search after I E real truth of things, disguised and fortified as they are by the craft of those you have to deal *ith, necessarily involves matter of difficult and delicate arrangement. It was indeed high time that a close and correct revision should be made of the state of our Reve nue in Scotland, and the character and conduct of the several Offi cers who have the management of It there ; and I trust, from the minute view you have taken of the whole, that it will not be too lute to effect en Improvement in it, which it seems so much to re quite. The facts of mismanagement in the different departments you hare looked into, and which you have, no doubt, stated strongly to the Treasury, will, I hope, urge Mr. Vacisittart to act with vi gour and decision in effecting the necessary regulations respecting the Legacy Duty in particular, where the great mass of negligence and collusion seems to have accumulated to the most offensive de gree. The papers you have transmitted to us for examinmion and opinion you may be sure will be immediately attended to, and re. turned to you in due time; but I would not delay writing to you on that account, as they will require time and consideration. " We think the 1111111CrW/Ten that have already been made use of, and will, we doubt not, be continued, to interrupt our purchase of a proper office for our service, are very mean, and discreditable to the parties who could resort to them, in so barefaced a manner, for private and sinister purposes; but I trust you will have more weight with the Treasury, from the representations you have to make, than any influence which they can muster up, to interrupt and counteract us. lam glad that ymt concur so heartily in opinion with us, on the matt point of not Wieling.; it would certainly be a very unnecessary ex peridi , ure of the public money; and we hope you have received such encouragement from the Treasury, as will en able you to settle something about it before you leave Edinburgh. The Lord Provost certainly wax very abrupt in his communication to you, and though he had the last word, he did not get much by his interference in the matter ; your answer was sharp, hut, in. deed, his manner of address was provoking, and he brought it upon himself. . . . . . " Mr. Dumbreck appears to have acted openly and fairly, and the early possession that is offered us will be very advent: , germs, as the necessary alterations may be set about as soon as we can get hold of it. Our last remittance from Scotland was a very good one indeed ; whether this was done to obtain favour in your eyes. or from something of consciousness or compunction in the gentlemen managers there, I shall not take upon me to determine. We hope you have thoroughly examined into the proposed addition to the establishment, in the person of a Distributor for Leith, a pe tition for which is now before us, on reference from the Treasury. Mr. Toed and 31r. Somerville, from Edinburgh, have been with 31r.eamphell, and have told him many things about Bremner, and the Legacy Duty, but an they have seen you also, there can be no. thing more to communicate. ‘• We are all astonished at the malversation that has so long taken place in the management of the public business in our Scotch department, and feel the great necessity and importance of the in. spection now going on, and of a revision and correction of the pre sent system, which seems to centre in self-interest and irregular accommodation*. The family alliance must be broken, and we dope, as the Treasury have instituted the inquiry, they will not be diverted from the object of it—a general reform. I must now bid you farewell; the Board unite in best wishes for your recovery with, Dear sir, " Yours, very sincerely, " JAMES BINDLEY." "Stamp-office, London, May 21,1818. " My dear Mr. Sedgwick —I did not answer your last letter, as it gave us hopes of your being soon after it ; and, having no thing particular to say, I thought it would be hard to ask any more questions, or suggest any more inquiries shout the office of Edinburgh, and the business dependent upon it, when you had already had so much trouble and fatigue about it. Having since understood that you had met with tin unexpected delay in setting your face homewards, in consequence .of fresh matter that had arisen for your further investigation, 1 wotiM not orris sending you a line, to say that I hope you are well, and not absolutely worn out with the difficulties you have met with in pursuing the object of your journey into Scotland. The enclosed, which was left last evening, furnishes me with an additional reason for writing. We lately received a Memorial, complaining of the great delay and neglect of Mr. Bremner, in a Legacy Cass, upon which we wrote immediately to him to send for the parties, and settle the business directly. Before this you will have received this Memorial, which we thought it right you should see while upon the spot : and I have merely noticed it to you, that Bremner should not smuggle the matter up, without speaking of it to you. Ido nor question your opinion as to the extent of our loss on the Stamp Duties in North Britain ; both because you had made inquity after them, and had, therefore, good grounds for what you said on the subject, and I only spoke my hopes that the people in our confidence had not been such worthless stewards as I now fear they will turn out to be. We have heard nothing from the Treasury respecting Sir John Mar -1 joribanks' offer, or relating at till to die providing st new office. They very properly wait for your Report, and personal information concerning it; but I do hope they will take the matter up in ear nest, as nothing can be worse, in every respect, than the one we have at present. I have nothing to add, but the kind wishes of the Board for your safe return to its, and that "I am, my dear Mr. Sedgwick, " Your., very sincerely, " JAMES BINDLEV." I would appeal to this official correspondence, which was never meant to see the light, to repel the charge which your Reports throughout take such marked pains to convey, that I have been unfaithful to my public duty. I ark a verdict on this evidence only as far as it goes. I have abundant testimony, still stronger and more demon strative, behind. I had, be it remembered, to conduct my inquiry into the Stamp system of Revenue in Scotland unaided, and to contend singly against the giant strength of that poner which atarted out upon me in every step of my progress. The space to which I am necessarily limited precludes me from entering into detail on the harassment which I underwent ; that it was of no light kind may be collected from the following !sae!, which I had occasion to write to Lord Ga.r.rsrut.s SOMERSET, cne of the Lords of his Majesty's Treasury, and to which I only advert, that I may not leave my assertion unsupported:— " Somerset-House, July 7, 1819. "MY LORD-1 have read through the Supplementary Memorial of Mr. Bremner. His obvious aim, in this, as in his former answer, is, to draw off the attention of the Treasury from the true causes which led to his suspension, and to lead it to points which had no sort of influence in producing it, and then arguing upon them as if they were the insullicient and unjustifiable occasion of it. I shall certainly not trouble your Lordship with any derailed din cossion of this document ; indeed, were I to do so, I should only promote Mr. Bremner's object, by contributing to withdraw the at. tention of the Lords of the Treasury from the strong statement of facts which the Board have placed under their consideration, and to divert it to occurrences of no relative importance. " With respect to the settlement of Colonel Lemo - rs business, which is gone into with so much prolixity of detail, there was no charge of delay in this particular case against Mr. Bremner, which called for this parade of exculpation. I took the papers connected with this case to London, most certainly, as I did the papers in the other cases adverted to; but the reason that Mr. Campbell, to whose official examination they were submitted, did not return them, was this—it was daily expected, from the communications which had been made to the Treasury. that sonic step would be taken respecting the removal of Mr. Bremner; besides which, it would have been more peculiarly injudicious, at such a crisis, to have consigned to Mr. Bremner the settlement of a business, which, upon the face of the accounts themselves, which are in Mr. Camp ' bell's office, and can he at any time produced, he had manifested an ignorance, which showed him utterly incompetent to the manage ment of it. _ _ •• Permit me, my Lord, before I conclude this, to add, that, if' the endeavour of any Public Board to discharge conscientiously its duty to the Public, by the removal of a notoriously unworthy officer, is to occasion as mach personal harassment, and as much interruption to his official business, as this atriir of Mr.Bremnes has occasioned to me, no man, in future, who values his own quiet, will easily be induced to rescue the Revenue from abuses, however gross, or to relieve it from mismanagement, however corrupt. I have the honour to subscribe myself, my Lord, " Your Lordship's most obedient and faithful Servant, " Jasfs:s SEIR.WICK• " Lord Granville Somerset, &c. &c. &e." I am unwilling to press too long at once on the attention of the public. In my next, Sir, I mean to show that all this iniquitous system of fraud and mismanagement, to gether with the total defeat of all my attempts to reform it, was every syllable of it within your knowledge during the whole of the time when—although not the most distant allusion is made to it—you were penning your Report, which is so drawn up as to impress the public with the opinion that your inquiry has been directed to defects in the Stamp Department, mainly produced by my negligence and want of care for the public interests. I of course do not mean to confine the letters I have alresdy, and shall hereafter address to you, to the columns of a Daily Paper; I shall, when concluded, present them before Parliament and the public in a more permanent and respectful form. But as mutilated extracts from Reports have gone the round of every Public Journal, I am con strained to follow in the same track. It is only by this that I can have any hope of overtaking them. I subscribe myself, Sir, Your most obedient servant, JAJIRS SEM:MICK. Stamp Office; Somerset House, Sept. 14, 1026. THE BRITISH PRESS. STATE OF TRADE. The accOunts from the majority of the trading and ma nufacturing districts continue satisfactory; business itiereases slowly, but we hope surely, though we are sorry still to say prices are little or no better. In this town employment be comes more plentiful every week, and if prices were to " get up," we have no doubt the effects of the late depres sion would soon disappear, leaving only a salutary lesson behind.—Blackharn Mail. The manufacture of straw bonnets, after the manner of the Leghorns, proceeds with great spi-it in Orkney, and gives employment to upwards of 1,000 people. They are made of straw raised in the island, and have been declared by competent judges not inferior to those from Italy.— Edinburgh Observer. We have much satisfaction in being able again to an nounce that the general tenor of the intelligence from all 1 1 the manufacturing districts indicates a steady, though slow, amelioration in the commercial pro s p ects o f the country. A rational confidence, we think, may now be reposed in the certainty of a progressive improvement.— ' Edinburg t Obgerrcr. It gives us pleasure to be able to state that the Calen derers arc participating in the improvement which has taken place among the manufacturers. Such has been the improvement among them, that several of the larger esta blishments have been able to obtain full empl o y ment f or ! their men ; and others, who had reduced the wages from iris. to 10s. or I Is. a week, have already raised them to 1:11.: and should the present stir continue, they will be able to put the men on the same terms as they were he fore the stagnation. Several of the bleachers are beginning to get considerably busier. 'One of the fields, at which 120 hands are employed; was three months ago working only two days a week, but is now going full time, and is hard pushed to get forward the goods.—Glasiow Chronicle. Among the symptoms of general improvement in trade may be noticed the favourable change which has lately taken place in the demand for colonial produce, and many of the most important articles of foreign merchandise. The relief, however, which merchants are now experrienc ing by an augmented sale, and somewhat improved prices for their produce, will, it cannot be doubted, ere long, create a revival of demand for the various classes of our manufactures. The customary interchange of commodi. ties, which has of late been so greatly interrupted, will gradually be resumed, and a regular and moderately pro. titable business, we trust, succeed to the long severe period of suffering which the commercial interest has undergone. In speaking of the state of trade here during the past week, it certainly appears to us, that some of our contemporaries, and of the London Papers, have attributed a greater effect to the permission to import foreign oats, &c. than facts will justify. 'fhat there were more sales effected last week than before, is, we believe, certain; but for a number of weeks past business has been increasing, and it was still expected to increase. We much doubt, in point of fact, whether the late proclamation has yet caused any additional purchasing of goods.-21fanchesfer Mercury, Sept. 12. ST. PATRICK'S INSURANCE COMPANY. (From a Dublin Papor.l On Friday last, pursuant to public advertisement, a General Meeting of the Proprietors of this Company was held at their house, College-green, for the purpose of ap pointing a Committee, to report to an adjourned meeting the state of the Company's affairs. 1. M. Pike, Esq. was called to the Chair; several resolutions were proposed, and, after considerable discussion, a Committee of fifteen Pro prietors was named, with full powers to examine into the management of the concern from its formation, to ascer tain the assets of the Company, and the claims made, or likely to be made, against it, as well as to report what blame, if any, was attachable to the Directors' agents, or other agents of the establishment. Some of the Proprietors expressed much dissatisfaction at the manner in which the affairs of the Company had been conducted, and severally animadverted against agents and officers ; but as we believe that such statements were the result of reports, which, we true, will prove to exceed the truth, we deem it brit just towards ail parties to wait the report of the Committee, whish will be made on the 16th inst. Deep excitement ar.rt melancholy foreboding have for some time pervaded the public mind on the subject of the losses said to hoe been sustained by this Company, which commenced, business two years back with a subscription capital :2150,0001., the great bulk of which was composed of tdte little savings of many respectable and industrious r•itizens. Latterly the shares, upon which 71. los. had been paid, have been selling at Ss., and reports co unfavourable to all parties have been in circulation, that purchasers even at that price could with difficulty be found. Dionezio de Azevedo Pecarrha, the Brazilian Consul, who arrived at Liverpool, from Rio de Janeiro, on Sunday, came to London, per mail, last night. Among the distinguished strangers who have lately vi sited the town of Liverpool we have to mention the name of Monsieur the Baron Latrey, one of the most scientific and expert surgeons in Europe. Ile followed the fortunes of Bonaparte, and nearly lost his life where his master lost his laurels, on the fatal field of Waterloo. lle is making the tour of the United Kingdom, for purposes of a profes sional nature. During his short stay here he honoured the new Infirmary with a visit, and it gave the officers of that establishment great satisfaction to find in the Baron a strong advocate for practices that hail been long successfully pursued, and particularly in their treatment of compound fractures; he expressed himself highly pleased with the situation of the Hospital, which he characterized as a clean, well-ventilated building, and worthy of the town of Li verpool.—Liverpod Paper. A MoNSTE a.—As Miss Dawson, of Mount-Pleasant, was returning home from Chancery-lane, at eleven o'clock on Wednesday evening, from the house of a friend where she had been spending the evening, she was accosted by a man in Bedford-row, and on her desiring him to go about his business, he aimed a blow at her with a sharp instru ment, which luckily only cut her dress and inflicted a slight scratch on her side. On her raising an alarm, the villain fled, and turned down, it is supposed, some of the by-streets at the end of Bedford-row, as all traces of him were lost. Tuesday night a man of the name of Alexander, residing in Leith Wvnd, in a fit of passion stabbed his wife in the neck with a knife. The woman was taken to the Infirm ary, but the wound was of so serious a nature that she died in a few hours. We understand that the parties had fre quent jars, which arose from jealousy on the part of his wife. Alexander is in custody.—Edinburgh Observer. BEAR CAL:6IIT.—HAVERIIII.L, UNITED STATES, Juts . 26.—We have lately seen the akin of a large bear, which was caught at Coventry. Early on the morning of the .sth inst., notice was given that a bear was caught. About 1.5 persons attended to escort him from tho mountain to the place of habitation, intending to conduct him to Bath vil lage, as was thought best by most present. However powerful and strong his majesty was, by taking advent/y:7, of his situation, one tied a rope to the chain of tbt trap, and five or six men held the rope, which was shut 30 feet long, to atop the speed down the hill. After getting out of the wood, the bear manifested his inclination to return: the men then shifted drag ropes, and endeavoured to force him against his will. Ile was disturbed by (kw ; several were wounded, but not badly. The bear, finding himself defeated in his object of returning, manifested signs of great dis pleasure. He snarled, rising on er.d, took up the trap and pressed on after the men who had hold of the rope before him. He quickly caught the hindmost, whose name was William Mann; he bit him through the thigh, then quit ting his hold caught him by the middle, and "Jade the savage monster held the victim trembling in his grasp, he was released from his hold by a well-directed blow upon his pate, as true as you live and breathe, Sir, from a club in the hands of Capt.lfartson, just in time to save him from the jaws of destruction. On starting the bear again others nar rowly made their esc a p e , b e i ng v i o l e ntly pursued for a short distance. Mr. Mann, although severely and somewhat dan gerously wounded, it is hoped will speedily recover. The bear was afterwards shot ; he measured seven feet in length, and though thin in flesh, was estimated toireigh t azds of 400 pounds. The price of his skin is eight New Hampshire InleUigencer. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BRIDGEWATER RACES. wEntrisner. Our races to-day were very numerously and fashionably attended, and the sport very good, as follows 1.-. The Cooney Members' Plate of 30 soya. Mr. Perry's eh. in. Prosody, aged 2 1 1 Lord Palaterston's cb. h. Grcyleg, 4 yrs 1 2dr Match, bit son. Pour Heats. Mr. Brown's b. g. 1 yrs . - 1 2 0 1 Mr. Adams's br. m. 3yn 2 1 0 2 AU four heats well contested, the third being a dead beat. The Ladies' Plate of 10 son. Lord Palmmton's b. f. Conquer: Mr. Ryan's b. m, sister to Salisbury Mr. Farquhanon's Black-and-all. Black i di - 5 c-fr NORTHAMPTON RACES. _ WEDNESDAY. The Gold Cup, value 100 gs, and Ago in specie. Twice round. Mr. West's br. c. Shakspeare .. . - - I Mr. Payne's ch. h. Barytes - . . - 2 Mr. Maberly's ch. h. N clamor.: - 3 - A Sweepstakes of sgs each. Heats, once round and a distance. Mr. Longden's bl. m. Yaxley, 6 yra . 1 I Mr. Ilungerford names br. g. Why Not? • 2 2 Mr. Potterton names The Duchess - 5 dr - - Mr. Payne's Cantab . . 4 4 Mr. Hungerford's hr. m. Zenobia . ti dr Mr. Benton's Aladdin - 6 3 The County Plate of .",9gs was won by Mr. Tomcs's b. h. Sir I Gray, beating Mr. Messer 's h. m. Monimia. ABINGDON RACES.—WEnwtstmst. The Two year old Stakes of 23 soya. each. Half-a-mile. Mr. Thomhill's b. f. Christabelle - . - . Mr. Alaberly's b. 1. by Smolensk° . . i . Mr. Day's br. f. by Gainabro' - - . 3 A Sweep takes of 23 SM. each, for three yr. olds. Mile. Mr. Sadler's ch. f. Tears - Mr. Maherly . 's In. c. Scamper Mr. Dundas s br. c. by Rubens - . 2 - 3 ISweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, and 25 added. 2 3ldes. Mr. Craven's Triumph . - . . I Mr. Dundaa's Orelio . . . . 2 A 3laiden Stakes of 5 anus. each, and 50 added. Heats, 2 Miles. Mr. Ssiller's ch. g. by Usquebaugh, 4 yrs old . 6 I I Mr. Jackson's b. f. Fairy, 4 yrs old . . 2 2 2 Mr. Damard's ch. f. by Piscator, 4 yes old - - I 3 3 Mr. Griffith's b.g. Speculum. 3 yes old . . 4 0 4 Three others started. LICHFIELD RAC ES—Tutsnaw. His Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas. Heats, four miles. I.d. Derby's gr. c. Autocrat, 4 yrs old, lOst. 71b.( Whitehouse) I I Mr. Cook's b. m. Miss Forester, 5 yrs old, 1 I st. 71b. . 3 2 Mr. Tench's b. g. by Ambo, 5 yrs old, Ilst.7lb. - - 2dr The Gold Cup, value 100 sovs. Three miles. Mr. Mytton's c. g. Euphrates (Whitehouse) - • I b. h. Longwalst . . . 2 Mr. Yates's Cain - : . - 3 The Staffordshire Stakes of 25 aovs. each, and 30 added. One mile. Mr. Uiffard's ch. c. Leviathan, Ilst.3lb. (Arthur) - . I Lord Derby's Cestus, tlat. 31b. - . . . 2 The sport was excellent. [INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.] NEWMARKET FIRST SPRIN€* 3IEETING, 1829. MONDAY. . _ The Diddleston Stskes of 50so — ys - Wch, h. ft. for foals dropped itt 1828, got by Wrangler, Nicola, or Lory, to which Mr. Wilson has added 50 sows for the second horse; colts list. 31b. ; fillies list. Clermont Course. To close on the lat of January next, on or before which day the foals must be named. SECOND SPRING MEETING, 1830. THURSDAY. Sweepstakes of 500 cove colts Gm. 71b.; fillies fist. 21h. for foals of 1028. B.C. Four subscribers, or no race. To close on the next Houghton Meeting. Present subscribers—Lord Egremont, Mr. Walker, and Mr. Nowell. CRAVEN MEETING, 113 2 28. Match. 200. D.M. Bst. 21b. each. Mr. Petre's c. by Magistrate, out of Juliana, agat Mr. Udny's f. by Reveller—Lisette. TATTERSALL'S, Tunnel:tar, SEPT. 14. The muster of Toning men yesterday was very strong, but very little definite betting took piece till between 4 and 5 o'clock, the early part of the afternoon being occupied in comparing books, on the termination of which, a few of the principal speculators, Whose carriages and four had been In waiting at the top of the yard, de parted for Doncaster. From a little after four till near six o'clock, some heavy general bettinw brought two or three outriders up, in cluding the Scotch horse, out of Crarnfeager, who has three times ran a winner, and is a strong promising colt. As there was nothing worthy of particular remark In the betttrtg, we shall content our selves with quoting the odds at the close of the room. ST. LEGER. 2to 1 apt Belzoni (9 to 4 tk.) 60 to 1 apt Garcia 51 to 1 apt BAlanute(taken) 1000 to 5 apt Smuggler 7 to 1 apt Mulatto 1000 to It agst Altisidora 13 to 1 apt The Dragon (tk.) 1000 to 10 agat Barrataria (tk.) 13 to 1 agst Tarrare 11100 to 12 apt Thales 14 to 1 apt Crusader 1000 to 15 apt Pirate 15 to 1 apt Paul Pry (taken) f 1000 to 15 agst Mae Adam 19 to 1 apt Forth's Lot 1 1000 to DI apt Fanny Davies 27 to 1 apt The General (tk.) I (taken) 35 to 1 apt Cramfeager 5 to 4 on Bedlamite and Mulatto (taken) 11 to 10 on the field agat two. The Champagne Stakes (Doncaster). Even betting between Popsy and Ridsdale's Catton colt, and 7 to 4 apt each, nat p.p. SALE or ilsctas.—On the 4th of next month, the blood stock of Mr. Nowell, consisting of 18 two year olds in training and year. lings, will be brought under Messrs. Tattersall's hammer, at New. market. On the following Saturday, the same Gentleman will sell Mr. Wilson's stock of brood mares, colts, fillies, and foals, at Bil. deston (Suffolk)—there are 50 lots. On the 24th of the same month, the celebrated racing and hunting stud of Mr. Alytton will be sold at Balaton, near Shrewsbury, including Longwaist, Euphrate, Flexible, Whittington, &c. There are 51 lots, viz.-39 racers, 2 yr. olds, yearlings, foals, and mares; 10 hunters; and 2 buggy hones. The long-expected match between Mr. Hall's Stripling mare and Csptain Smithson's bay horse Guest took place on Wednesday near Oxford, for 100 sovereigns, each carrying fourteen stone. The engagement was to trot fourteen miles. Betting 6t04 on the mare. The match was won by the mare in grand style in 59 minutes and 28 seconds. The hone broke from distrvs in the 13th mile. AIATCII TO GALLOP ELEVEN MILER IN HALF AN HOUR. —This match, undertaken by Captain Ramsay, for 300 sovereigns, excited much interest, and heavy sums of money were pending on it. The Captain rode full twelve stone, and was allowed a second hone if he thought proper. The match was performed yesterdsy morning over two miles of Ascot-heath race.course. Betting was band 6t04 on time. Thornton, the famous hunter, was the tint horse, and did six miles in nine seconds within fifteen minutes. The second home was in readiness, and the rider was across him in a twinkling. This hone did the live miles in fourteen minutes and two seconds, winning the match by four seconds, u th r e e were oc . cupied in c hange of horses, FROTTING MATCIL—Mr. Courtenay's great match to drive three miles in harne,s in twelve minutes. for 200 sovereigns, took place on Wednesday morning from Hounslow-heath, opposite the powdermills. to Bedfont-lene, a measured three miles; and &second match for 100 sovereigns, that Mr. Bousfield's American mare did not trot (saddle) the three miles in ten minutes, carrying feather weight. Mr. Courtenay made both matches, and his groom-boy rode the saddle. His master drove as follows :—The first mile in four minutes three seconds (having once to back the wheels through breaking into a gallop), the second in three minutes thirty-five seconds, and the third in three minutes thirty-eight seconds, win. nine the match tolerably easy four seconds under the given time. FOOT RACE ON BLACKITEATR.—Yesterday morning a foot race, of 250 yards, for one hundred sovereigns, took place on Black. heath, between a celebrated sporting character, mimed Harris (a Leicestershire fanner), and Captain'(}. R. Numerous and very heavy bets have been for some time pending the result, which at starting were 3t02 on the ( 4P:sin. Owing to a fall when within about ten yards of the gest% Captain R. lost the race by only two yards. PEDESTRIANn3L—James Prescott, groom to Captain Parker, started on Tl,esday morning to go on foot from Aylesbury to Ox. ford-stn.:4, the distance being over forty miles, in five hours and a Stoller, for 500 sovereigns. The pe des trian did the first eight miles in four minutes within the hour, and the sixteen were done seven minutes under the two hours. The thirty-two miles were ac complished in four hours and five minutes. The pedestrian halted and refreshed at Uxbridge, and won the match easy, with three minutes to spare. Mr. W. West, the great pedestrian, starts this morning to go from London, nn foot, to the 80th milestone in the Weybill road Bath, and return, in forty-seven hours. The match is for 200 sovereigns. WANTON DRIVING.—On Wednesday night, between nine and ten o'clock, as Mr. Smith, of Curzon-street, May fair, was driving his cabriolet through Newport-street, towards Long-acre, he saw a gentleman's carriage coming towards him at a furious rate, and apprehensive of danger, called loudly to the coachman to beware; the coachman, however, paid no attention, and, both vehicles came in con tact with such violence as to upset the cabriolet, horse and all. Mr. Smith and his groom were consequently thrown upon the pavement, but happily without either having re ceived any material injury. The horse of the cabriolet being unharnessed, got up and galloped off in the direction of Long-acre, where lie was stopped. The coachman con.. tinned his career, although pursued and called after by a number of persons, through Lisle-stmet, Princes-street, and Coventry -street, into Piccadilly, there the pursuit was given over; the fellow, unfortunittely for Mr. Smith a nd the ends of justice, escaped. OLD BAILEY SESSIC I NS, Sztr. 14. These Sessionserszmen4cedOLDoCilOmornUßll, were the Right dem the Lord Mayor, R eco ,..er, Alderman , IIP Charles Flower, aid Sir Peter Laurie. The Justin In steel ante tat AI L j u d o , Littledale and Mr. Justice Gaselee. tio T n The number n o u m m s be tat r em or e p n r , l t so o n w ers , f a or gr tr e i a a ter l ha n s u i m a b r er e. 11 1 .41 since the publics. Dem hnewie for nearly twenty years. Before Mr. Justice LITTLZDAI James Cole, aged 18, Mack, aged IS, and , won Meat. aged 17, were indicted for assaulting Daniel Aldn `logi on flit high. way, and stealing from his person 91. 6d. The evidence against the prisoners being slight, t VA a godd the. ractcr having been given to two of than, the Jury • 'Owned a Ter. dict Of Not Guilty. NEW COURT. Before Mr. COMMON SENGEANT and a Middles r* Jury. Rubel Dogley was indicted for embezzling eightire,l Sovereigns and sixteen sbillibgs, on the 15th of October last, the tsOperty of Charles Stone. Wm. Llorriscn, clerk to Alessi'. Redd( n and Co., Boss . ..church yard, woollen-inanufacturers, said that in October last he had paid to the prisoner 181. If.. for his master, Mr. C. Stone, on aoecrtmt of , Messrs. Hedtinn and Co. I I Mr. Stone, the prosecutor, said, that at the time this trandection took place the prisoner au his servant, authorized to receive Money. On the morning before the prisoner was apprehended, hi wee questioned by witness as to this money due from Messrs. Heiden and Co., to which ho replied that Mr. Ileddon was out of town, but wculd pay the money on his return. Prisoner had been in the service of prosecutor for near twenty years, but had not been employed to collect till within the last three or four years, and tilt this embezzlement was di'scovered hod borne a good Character. The money was received by him on the 15th of October, but there eat Do entry to that effect in the bobk. The Jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of Guilty, but recommended the prisoner to mercy on account of hie roomer good character. Mr. A ni.xy rose, and observed, that there were five other indict ment, on charges of embezzlement, to the amount of 2001.; and the Judge observed that this was one of the very worst cases of a crime which was now, unfortunately, but too common. George Bolton was indicted for stealing nineteen pounds of beef. the property of General Ashe, on the 14th of August last; several witnesses were called who proved the charge very distinctly, and the Jury immediately returned a verdict of Guilty. Elizabeth Brown was charged with stealing, on the 24th of July, two pewter pots, the property of Leonard Wapshott. Leonard Wapahott, on the 24th July, was told that the prisoner was apprehended with some pots, ar.d, on their being brought to bins, he found that they were his property. The Jury found her Guilty, and the constable then stated, in reply to a question from the Court, that she was an old pot stealer, sod had been in the House of Correction for the offence. Wen. Baker was charged with stealing half-a-crown and two shillings from the tin of Daniel Wadhatn, baker, Newington, on the 6th of this month. Daniel IVadhem, jun., said that he observed the prisoner corny Into the aimp, walk behind the counter and open the till, turn the money out, and walk off. On examining the till he found there was no money in it. though there had been two shilli ngs a nd h a lf. a•trown thni about five minutes before. The prisoner was Imme. diately appiehended, and no money was found on him; but Thos. Garrett. a grocer, living near the prosecutor, saw the prisoner were out of the shop, end apparently hand something to another boy. who went off immediately. The boy was not apprehended. Veld let-0 uilty. Martin Carty and Thomas Sprnban were Indicted for stealing a hamper and thirty-two empty bottles, the property of Meters. Hil. ton and Power ' wine-merchants, Regent - street. Mr. Hilton , Hill, a person in his employ, and the officer, were examined, but their testimony was very inconclusive, and the pri. sorters were acquitted. Ellen Dow was indicted fin stealing, on the 19th of August, two glasses, of the value of one shilling and twopence, the property of John bounds. John Monday, the servant of the prosecutor, proved the charge, and the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, but she was discharged on paying a fine of one shilling, the Court thinking, as she had been in prison three or four weeks, that site had already suffered punishment enough. Nary Edwrrlr was indicted for stealing a petticoat, two shifts, a quantity of lace, and other articles, the property of Mary Bright. Mary Bright, the prosecutriz, and the officer who apprehended the prisoner, proved the charge very distinctly. The prisoner, a very decent-looking woman, alleged in her de. fenes that she was driven to the crime by extreme distress. Shs appeared in great agony during her trial, and her character was well spoken to by a person who had known her for a considerable • George Ilarrison was indicted for stealing a looking-glass, value 15a. the property of George Millar. George 31illar, the prosecutor, a broker in Cludt‘"!-Trivei, So. mere -town, had placed the looking-glass of :tie front of his shop on the 10th August last, hetwetn ten and eleven o'clock in the morn ing. Witness was absent during the morning, and daring this 'absence the glut was taken away. Mary Hawkins saw the prisoner take away the glass, and imme. diately gave the alarm. She lost sight of him for a short time, but is sure the prisoner at the bar is the man. He was apprehended immediately.—Verdiet, Guilty. 'niacin Jones was indicted for stealing a saltcellar, the property of Mr. Lance, Stratford-place. Samuel Bloat, porter to Mr. Lahee, bad been put in charge or the goods previous to the intended sale of them. Ile was told that the prisoner had taken away a saltcellar, with winch he immetli. ately charged him, and he acknowledged the theft, but said he had done it through distress, and hoped that he would be let go. This the witness could not do, but thought it his duty to give him in charge. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. John Norton was indicted for assaulting Robert Hughes on the King's highway, and stealing from his person a watch and other property. The prosecutor, a shoemaker, residing in St. John's -street, Clerk. enweil, deposed that he took a hackney-chariot, on the 14th of • August, in the evening, for the purpose of going from Shoreditch to Clerkenwell.green. The prisoner gat upon the box with the coachman. When the chariot 'topped Ilse prisoner opened the door in Chapel-street, Pentonville, which street was not in the direct line to Clerkenwell-green. Norton told him to come out of the chariot, and, on his doing no, he snatched his watch oft, and knocked him down. He was so alarmed that he was unable to resist him, but he was under no apprehension before his watch was taken. The coach drove off while the prisoner was robbing him, and the prisoner ran after the coach, and got upo n t h e box agein. He had often seen the prisoner before, attending haelme,y-coaches at Shoreditch, and was quite sure that he was the man. George Johnson, the waterman of the coach-stand at Shoreditch Church, knows the last witness, and helped him into a chariot on • the 14th of last month. The prisoner at the bar was on the box, wills the coachman. Has known the prisoner for many years. The coachman's name was James Gonnan. The prosecutor had a chain on entering the coach, but could not tell whether he had a watch and seals. William Halls, a police-officer, deposed that he apprehended the prisoner on the following morning, in bed, and much in liquor. Hughes was here recalled ; and in reply to a question from Mr. Justice LITTLEDALT, said, that the coachman did not apply to him for his fare. Did not recollect the number of the coach, nor did he try to find nut the coachman. The coach went off at a great rate after the robbery. Ile had been drinking, but sou sober, nevertheless. Be had drank about three pints of porter during the day. The prisoner said, in his defence, that the prosecutor called at his lodgings on the morning of the 15th el August, and asked his wife it he was at home; and on learning that lie was absent, he said that he had lost his watch, and would give me a sovereign if I could give him any intelligence of it. Ile also said that be was properly in for it the preceding evening. The prosecutor was again recalled, and asked, at the instance of the prisoner, as to a conversation which passed bi the shop of Brown, a farrier, in Shoreditch. He denied saying that ha_bad_ - - lost his watch, and did not know who had got it ; or whether he had lost it In the coach or out of the coach. Neither did he say that he was in for it. Did not say that he did not know whether or not he had been robbed of it by a girl of that town. Did not say that lie wished the prisoner to make inquiry after the watch ; nor did lie offer to leave a sovereign with Mr. Bingland, for Intelligence about it. James Byce deposed that he was at Brown's on the 16th of August, and heard the prosecutor say that he did not know whether he lost the watch while he was in the coach or before he got into It, or after he had left it. Never heard him say that Norton had the watch. Daniel Hubbard corroborated the testimony of the last witness. John Manhocd gave evidence to a similar effect. The prisoner called no witness*, to his character. Mr. Justice LIT TLIDALE then summed up tttlitice ; and the Jury, after a few minutes' consultation, acquit prisoner. John Barlow, aged 23, and Robert Roberts, aged 17, were in. dieted for stealing a time-piece, value 10 1. , the property of F. A. Moore, Esq. Verdict—Guilty of Stealing. •_2l.___warnete SINGULAR COINCIDENCE.—CGIONER'S INQUEST.—. • Yesterday afternoon, an Inquisition was taken at the Milbank Pe. nitentiiiry before Mr. Gen, Coroner, on the body of John Squire•. a convict, aged 31 years.—Gurgison White, master manufacturer to the Institution, stated that the deceased was convicted at the Chelmsford Quarter Sessions, and brought there on the 31st Ja. nuary last, for receiving 14 turkeys, knowing them to he stolen, and sentenced to 14 years' transportation, commuted under the Act of Parliament to seven years' confinement in the Peniten tiary.—By a Juror—ls that the longest period of confinement ? Witntss--No. If a convict is sentenced tor transportation ter life he is confined here for ten years • and if sentenced for seven years, it is commuted fo r five yeara.-:-James Wade, the surgeon, stated that the deceased was seized with a typhus fever on tha • 24th of August last, became gradually worse, and expired on the 13th ultimo.—The Coroner and Jury remarked that it was most singular fact that the convict wile stole the turkeys di e d ' Lott week in the Penitentiary of the swig complaint, and still the more so, se they were taken ill nearly at the same time., al. confined in opposite wards, when, one could n ot h ate cau tb litthe infection from the other. N'ctdiet—Died by the visits. ' titan of God. ; M