The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1824-10-27 00:00:00

FASIIIO.V.4DLP IVTELLIGEfteIt. The Puke of York lots left the Puke of Rutland's, Cheveley Park. for the Duke of Oraftoa's, Euston Hall. Lord Prnevort and the Hon. G. Bice Trevor, have arrived its town from .Barrington Park. Gafordshire. Lady Louisa Lygon has left wen fur Sir Charles Kent, Bart.'s seat, Orantham House, Lincolnshire. Lord and Lady Holland and family have arrived at their house in Saville-mw for the seteson, from Holland 110119 t. Lady Elisabeth Stuart has left her father's, the Earl of Hard wick's seat, Wimpole, Cambridgeshire. for Paris. Ca tain Storey has arrived at the Waterloo Hotel, Jennyn. strut. from Ireland. Culotte' Lowther. M.P. has arrived at the Earl of Lonsdale's seat. Cottesnwee. Rtatlarnhltire, front Westmoreland. 'Viscount and Viscountess Deane and family, have arr ived at their house in Charles.street, Berkeley-square. from Worthing. Arriials at Kieltham's Hotel, Lcw.Y Amok-street—Sir Wm. notham, Bart., from Bath ;M. Grey, Esq. from DeLlin Lady Cope, front a tour: lady Sebright, anJ the four Misses Se. bright, from ditto. nepartnres:—lcr.l and Lady Hoyden for their seat in Yorkshire; C. Cholmondeley, Esq. for Brig hton; Mr. and Miss Morris, for their seat. Charley Wood ; Sir Thomas and Lady C. Sheppard and fancily, for Bath. Peoartures from Thotorw's Hotel. Berkeley-square:—Baron and Baroness de Itoebeck, our Cheltenham ; and Colonel and )Liss 131'sh, on a tour. Datoitrow, OCT. 41.—Tbe weather here continues fa vourable. The Duchess of Dorset and Earl i%rhitworrh remain at the Royal York lintel. The N'ice-('hancellor, whose arrival we hail before noticed, left us for town on Thursday, but returned vestenlay in consequence, as it is said, of advice to that elf:et from his physician, who, on finding his health so visibly improved by travelling and coast air, urged the hecessity of a continuance of it : his Honour, therefore, purposes remaining with us during the present month. Mr. and Mrs. Yates left us on Friday, the hiller in greatly imptoved health, to enter upon an engage mem for dins years at the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane.— Iler sister, Miss F. Brunton, another niece of flu: Countess of ('raven, is continuing her professional exertions at the Theatre. CIIIILTSNMASI, Orr. 43.—A rrivals--Yiscounten Dun gannon, Lord and Lady Lisle, Lord Clermoot, Lord Bee rive, Lady Martin, Honourable fir. and Mrs. Trevor, Sir George Ogilviz, Bart. Mr. and Lady Julia Loekwood, and General NPNeill. Robert Wilmot Horton, Esq. left town yesterday morn ing, for Mr. Iluskissou's country sent, Earth, near Pet worth, Sussex. The difficulties or the Opera Heuse are so great that is i s doubted whether it will be all: to open at all during the ensuing season. Such arc the blessings of theatrical Chan cery suits! BARON 1/zeoo.—We are much gratified to learn, t ht this most enlightened and liberal patron of science and the arts, whose !loose is the resort of all the most distin guished wl o ssit Paris, has lately permitted a cut to be taken or him by Mr. be Ville, who went from London with the hop.: of procuring it, and that it Is now sided to his immense collection of casts, which is un tisallnl in number and selection, and which is invaluable as developing the principles of rhrennlogy, and bringing that important science to the teat of practical appliattion. At Newport, Isle of Wight, at an auction last week, a gentleman bought a bundle of walkirg-sticks for 4s. 6d. ; lie immediately sold one for 3s. 6d. ; and on further ex amine:ion, he discovered a gold-headed cane, worth 61. Tlta RLY. C. COLTON.—Within a few days a letter has been received from Mr. Colton, written in France. and ad dreamt to a gentleman largely concerned in his affairs. In this letter, Mr. Colton says that he has returned from Ame rica for the sole purpose of coming to a general and as , tisfactory arrangement with all his creditors, which he Idles not hesitate to say he will he able to do in perfect their wishes; and the full attainment of to values even more than life itself; and the Moat imperious circumstances com ment himself at ihe time he did (in the au , until be should have made arrangements to tery one to whom he owed a shilling ; never xpecting that such a measure as an act of old have been resorted to against him. Mr. says, that soon after the receipt of that le an to whom it is addressed will be waited itlential friend of Mr. Colton's, to enter los e full arrangement of all his affairs as tide. There is no doubt as to the genuine ger, because it has been seen by several Glum, well acquainted with his baud- It as the gentleman to whom it is addressed. qvr. Pr.DIGR ex.—A gentleman well known on purchased a horse, when in Dublin, of an r a very famous breed. On returning from ,d, that by accident, he had lost the pedigree, wrote off instantly for another copy, to r, in his anxiety to oblige him, replied,— he was sorry it was lost, because he had .copy at he would send him another as 4.00. i." AN esINTL!,neD COMerI7.ENT W1.1.L emolco.—A young gentleman of some expeetations had just completed snicks to a surgeon. It is true he had not made much p'xrrew in Iris studies or profession. but had devoted too socket his time to other pursuits. His friends, however, 'resuming he was quite as fait, were anxious he should mink:nee business, as his connections were such as to iu cousi.lerable practice; previous to which, however, t was necessary he should pass his examination at the Col o'. Conscious of his own imperfections, he called upon pungmedical friend, to ascertain, if possible, the nature f the questions he might he asked. He was informed of utter impossibility of even guessing at what might be t suired ; they might he the most simple, er the most eh- Critic; but for your comfort I can tell you eight out of tyriveare returned. " You can at least," said the Tyro, ' rut *few to me." He did so ; and found him extremely d: inlet The thino, however, must be done; and a few duds siacehe was ushered before the Learned Doctors. Mr. , the eminent surgeon, presided. The first tyie . s on put was—" Pray, Sir, how would you pass a cur?" Our novice was irresolute, and the question ; when with the utmost simplicity lie replied, ' L rases." care and attention, Sir, as laid down in your theirev!' 'file compliment was irresistib'e ; and " Pan enetem eo was the immediate decree. :este Tees, BLOSSOM IN WINTEIL—A Paoekrt of the eherni.Ft gives the filloving account of the I; frame lPetluA of preparing, In winter, those real flowers s ; 11 U trees whi c h t h ey are accustomed to decorate their a birth-day or other feast occurs in their e saw off such a branch of any tree as will sninl er __ l our P- 1 1 10 .ve sod then lay it for an hour or two its a ru "'"gglfesm, fwe can find one. The object of this s ts il to erwgaertas carr ied the ice fro m m the bark, and soften the buds. It is into one of our warm rooms, and fixed lmn apri , ; t ht in a wooden box or tub containing water. Fresh e is then added to the water, and allowed to re main in it about twelve hears, when it is removed, and fresh water added, with which a small quantity of vitriol ?made to prevent its putrefying. la the course of some ..ours the blossoms begin to snake their appea rance, and .ftnewools the le a v es . If lime retark,t t gated thile, if iris more is added, the process not used at at all, tile process and the leaves appear before the blossoms. R ati we make both flowers and leaves in the midst of atutti "-r ti v ta n ote lim u t i efw us a great gratification, as it is our. acorn our houses with them as much as ; 1 4 : 111 win t er and summer. o - rtsturs - r—lloete-BaswEn B tmia,__w e a Correspondent ILA is oC re in fo rmed by our Correspondent that ..!"' ll l tmenslls and seasoned Casks are to be sold new moiety, at 1. Jarvies, wine-cooper and cooper in ‘ 4 - 3, Htumerthol-street Strand, near Charles .ll, at th e follow'ng' reduced • prices, i ' via. :—A one-buthel 11 . with ea *, - a two ditto, 31. 3s. ; three 4 L is. ; 33 ' ; rd upo n 1.55. Noblemen and femil,es \e. in town sip! country. beer, to fine, bottle, and remove Ind turtle tubs lenint"on.hireVittell-bul i t a s l a all Bier tlB of packing casks and ca . ses at ee the i tr te ad e e u p p n i ce let s. Ipn, with betides, and utensils, bought or ex ri7il isseg tubs, oval and roun d , of various sizes. sent to any part of the country, by an iten PaYment in London. We should advise all per lase a tioteof this—No. Hungerford-street, three the titrand.—N.B • . it would be a great saying fig's, and other itimitutions, if they were to brew, • buyine beer for the table-hers per b arre l d uty. ' ble-beer pays .511. and ceortianee with hieb object, be flit nothing but Ord him to *boo :VIA of 1843), u sale with every rnieipating or es ..inkruptcy wont 'tun furtEl sa , the minimal von by a confi4l, ta:iatcly upon i?erdily as puma sees of this lotto friends of Mr. siting. as well Fvenhej Papa Tun LOST PI the turf, once pt lith d,aler, of he fctuti 1 . 1011 which he waich tbedealer, ' That, halm& no copy of it, but cted Ivor 41.5 , itti!r,g and :tll all sari ' 4l . pip / 111ged . " MI I for to Ale :1 fro m 'ad of I per SURREY THEATRE. After having been so long appalled by the representation, at nearly all our theatres, of exotic horrors, it is really quite delightful to sit out at any one of them the progrera of a domestic calamity or 'murder, which may move comfortably on, without the intervention of fiends or devils. (bur friends at the Surrey Theatre hit our taste exactly last night, by the production of Was-duel: Kennilson, or Me Outcast 3fother and Her Son, of which the outline is as follows: Wardock having been seduced in early life under fair promises, by Farmer Laster, and learning that he is about to be married to another, acquaints the intended bride of the fitilsoa already existing between herself and Lyster. The lady spurns her, and the marriage is effected, and from this moment Wardu•k vows rev, nge. She turns gipsy, and hovers about the neighbourly" ti. until she finds an opportunity of exchanging her child for the legiti mate one, which she does WitilOta the knowledge of any other person than the nurse, flfaute But Icycurn, whom she frightens with the most terrible threats of vengeance, should she ever reveal the secret. She then leaves her supposed child, Edward Kennilson, which is supported by charity, 310 becomes in time a very creditable character. Richard Lister, her real child, iv brought up by foster and his wife ; as their own offspring, but from an overweening in dulgence, he becomes wayward, and contracts habits of gaining and dritiking, and mixes with the most abandoned characters of the village. After a lapse of twenty years, Trardoek kennilsrm, who is a .ifs 3ferrilics sort of a personage, makes her re-appearance in the neighbourhood, to execute her vengeance against I.yrst,r's wife. She en deavours to induce her supp.sted son to commit a robbery, which he cannot be provaiksl on to do, hut consents to meet ft'ardu•k at midnight at the ruins of the Ivy Tower, to devise some means of procuring money for her. Mean while Richard I.sstier, who has lost all his money by gambling, determines on robbing his supposed father, who he knows will be passing the ruins of the Ivy 1 , Tower, and in possession of a large sum of money. ' L . esitr passes the ruins during the conference of the gipsy and E'dn•.nd, who retire ; when Richard ntshes in, and his father offering some resistance, he shoots and robs him. TT arduck hearing the groans of Lys ter, returns with Edoe trd, and the report of the pis tol having drawn the neighbours to the spot, she charges the murder upon Edward, as a means of revenge e.gaiust /..ester's wife ; but upon learning that she has been dead seine time, a fact which her absence from the spot had prey:mull her from knowing sooner, she is struck with re inorse at her persecution of F:iite , tr,/, and in her contrition de velopes the whole mystery, and claims Richard I.yster as her son. substantiating her story by the evidence of the nurse. Richard, in his agonies at the discovery, drops the money which he had taken from Luster, and fully acquits Edward of the robbery ; and Rirhard, unable to meet his associates under his reverse of fortune, tubs himself, and time gipsy canna., from grief at his death. Edward is then restored to his rights, and the piece concludes. The whole of the characters were very well supported, particularly those of War,/ , ,ek Kennilsan and Ricito L it tler, by Mrs. W. Clif fad and Mr. H. Kemble. Herring was also exceedingly comic is a country publican, and there was also a very humorous egutirocue between him and Jststiee Ramble (Lovcday). The house was very respectably tilled, and we have no doubt the managers will find their account in Warduck Krimilsom. or the Outcast Mother and her Sun. B.ILLOON ASCENT. rORTSZ•, OCT. *5. Mr. Green haring announced his intention of ascending from the fortifications of this place on Saturday, the IGth instant, wind and weather permitting, there was a great as semblage of persons collected to gratify their curiosity ; but notwithstanding every preparation was made, the commit tee were of opinion that it would be highly dangerous to make the attempt, owing to the continuance of the then high wind, and particularly its blowing from the north ward, which must have wafted the balloon over the British Channel, to die imminent risk of die life of the aeronaut. The populace behaved with Ix-coining moderation on the occasion, and nothing like that riotous disposition with which similar dissppointinents have been attended in other places, was shown here. Mr. Green, anxious that the public should not be disap pointed again, made known his intention of snaking the at tempt this day, at two o'clock, when, the weather being good, and the wind blowing from the south-west, on the third gun being fired, a large concourse of persons hail the gratification of witnessing the ascent of the balloon, in a very gradual and majestic Style, to a height of shout half-a when it continued to sail in a north-east direction. and was in sight twenty-six minutes, at which time it dis appeared in a distant cloud, having passed over Langston:: Harbour and Ilavant, towards Miilliurst. Mr. Green was accompanied in his aerial excursion by a gentleman whose name we could not learn, but who, we unders.tand, is an officer of the Engineers. We trust that this attempt, commencing under such fa vourable auspices, will not have so lamentable a termi nation as has lately attended similar efforts. The friends of' the travellers are anxiously waiting to hear of their safe landing on terra firma. RAILWAY lIETIYLES: M•NCIILSTEH AND LIVERPOOL —ln tile year 1822, a project was Nailed for constructing a railway between Liverpool and Manchester, on which steam-impelled carriages aliould travel both with merchan dise and passeng.rs, at the rate of ten miles an hoot.. A numb-r of gentlemen in Manchester and Liverpool, per sinCed of the practicability of this design, en:ered into a subscription to defray the enemies of a survey, with a view to a parliamentary application, and the requisite sum of 303 guineas was subscribed for the purpose. In the au tumn of that year, William Jainea, Esq., an engineer of London, executed the survey, and suggested a line of road as marked upon the map accompanying this volume, from Manchester, by way of Eccles, Chat Moss, New Church, Newton, Rainliill, Hue ton, and West Derby, to Liverpool, making a distance of thirty-one miles. Public notices were accordingly given of the intended application to Parliament, but the measure WAS not followed up, owing to an appre hended opposition from the whole body of inland naviga tion proprietors throughout the kingdom, and from other causes. Ilow long these causes will operate it is difficult to say ; hut if, as is asserted, the conveyance of goods be tween the two towns of Manchester and Liverpool can, by means of a ra il way, be effected at little more than half the present charge for water carriage, and in ow'-fourth of the time, the resistance of any body of men, however powerful, to so great a publiz improvement, will, in the end, prove as futile as was the resistance of the land carriers of the last age, to the construction of canals.— Rains' Ilidory. Mt IMLOTHIAN RAILWAY.—A prospectus has been pub lished of the proposed railway from Dalkeiih, or rather from Newbottic, to Edinburgh. The length of the rail way is 91 miles, and the expense is estimated at 36,862/. or about 4,000". per mile. It is to communicate with Fisherrow by a branch, and it is propos...d to employ upon it five locomotive engines, of six-horse power each,' worked by steam. T here is to be a (corresponding to a lock on a canal) on the eminence west of Duddingston Loch, at which a stationary ateam-engine of 20-horse power is to be employed. The expense of conveying coals on this railway is estimated at 31 per ton per mile, or Is. ad. per ton alto ether, reckoning the average distance five miles. It' the superior great coal of Diddry, Cowpits, Limon stone. &c. continues to be sold at the pit at present prices (ss. loll.) it is supposed it may be delivered in Edinburgh at 7s. 6d. or tas per ton (including cartage) ; Ond thelprojector even anticipates that second-rate coal may come to be sold so low as ss. a ton. It is not stated that a regular stir voyor has prepared the plan, or given his sanction to the estimate; nor is any thing said of the difference of level. The scheme, however, ccAainly deserves attention.— seotonon• The Morning. Chronicle announces the suspension of hostilities against the watchmen in the following witty words, which we faithfully copy from its leading article of yesterday :—" We are quite weary of noticing the mis conduct of watchmen ; but people must be still more weary, we should imagine, of being exposed to such mis conduct. On Friday two Frenchwomen were taken to the watch-house by one of these Duidterrys, for talking French in Greek-street !" In an out-house at Mr. Chimney's, Illverston, 31 full grown rats, which had taken up their lodgings in a port manteau, were lately destroyed. THE BRITISH PRESS. THE FINE ARTS. FOrGET DIE NOT. • CHRISTMAS •eD XV/ TZAR'S rettssr FOX IBM Ackemann. Great pains has manifestly been taken to make this ele gant souvenir an acceptable remembrance of the giver. It is ornamented with a number of extpli,itely-tinished en gravings, each in appropriate trre e as th y are all of them more or less expressive of those sofer emotions connected with the prayer of—" Forget me not." But leaving these emotions, as a lawyer would say, " To all to whom these presents shall come"—we proceed to extract the following curious particulars of an engraving; which ranks above all When as a work of art, and of its engraver, who died in the prime of life, a victim to his love of fame. It will readily be perceived that we allude to that masterpiece of art, " La Madonna di S. Sido Ji 11 1 117,ell," " There are some interesting circumstances connected with the removal of this jewel of art froisi Italy, and its multiplication by the graver. King Var. DERICIC Attar-o res, who united the Polish crown with the electoral dig nity, and was a great connoisseur in painting, had long en deavoured to secure it for his gallery at Dresden, and ulti mately succeeded, at the price of twenty thawand ducats. All the necessary arrangements were made; a copy was provided as closely resembling the original as possible ; the latter was removed in the night front its frame, re placed by the copy, sent oil' with the utmost privacy and despatch, and conveyed over the St. Gothard to Dresden. It has ever since deservedly occupied the place of honour in the royal gallery in that c 'pital. Upwards of thirty years ago, Professor &nu r.z, of' Dresden, engraved a large plate after this picture, which war. intended to have been intro duced into the second volume of the Tabled:Le Jr la Callerie Royale de Dresde. But though Schulz, an able Pupil of the celebrated iVire.es, of Paris, exerted his utmost skill to produce a good plate, the task was too arduous for his powers, and his engraving was but a mere shadow of the transcendent original. At length, in Iteo9, liter sett, an enterprising printseller of Dresden, gave a highly gifted young artist of Stuttgart!, FERDINAND MULLER (a sou and pupil of the celebrated Chevalier Von Muller, who was for many years considered the first engraver in Germany, and formed a numerous school), the honourable I , Commission to engrave a plate for him after this picture.' This extraordinary artist had already furnished, in his Se. Jonie, after Domenichitio, the fullest testimony that his abilities were perfectly adequate to the undertaking. The preparation', however, for the work, and the drawing for wartlike! to him for the purpose. were far from satisfactory. ii was deemed necessary that Muller should repair to Dres den to make studies from the original ; after tehich the price for engraving it was fixed at Jbur thousand rie-dinars, ex clusively of the permission to dedicate the work to the King, tor which he received one hundred frederic-d'ors, and one hundred impressions. Muller was, meanwhile, appointed Professor in the Academy of Arts at Dresden, with a handsome salary; and here he completed in two years a performance which will long be considered as a signal triumph of German art. Butt this triumph cost him dear ; he obtained immortality, but in the pursuit of it be lost his reason and his life. By his Hose application dur ing the progress of the work, be impaired irrecoverably his naturally delicate and weakly constitution. To ill health was soon superaddcd the mortification of having produced a work from which, as was evident immediately after its com pletion, the publisher could not fail to derive a profit incal culably greater than his own. The irritable Arnie, mare over, thought himself degraded by certain measures a lopttal in a new organization of the Academy ; and he fell into a melancholy, which, in spire of the affectionate attentions of his young and amiable wife, niece to the celebrated sculp tor, Chevalier Vox DANNECKEa, of Stutgard, was not to be removed. It was found necessary to place him in a lu natic asylum at Sonnestein, near Pirna. where, after a few weeks, during which his mind was ;ebony absorbed in vi sions of the blessed Virgin and other mystic objects, an unlucky fall put a period to his life. " The plate which Muller engraved was printed at Paris, by the celebrated Rambaud. The price of prints was ori ginally live frederick-d'ors, hut ten were soon offere,l fur them. At length the plate becarucao worn, that the pub lisher, with great difficulty and expense, engaged Desnoyer, a French artist, to retouch it ; and the prints from the re touched plate now sell, like those from the original en graving, for five fretlerick-urore. Good impressions of the latter fetch seven or eighty dollars; and for proofs on India paper, two hun dred and upwards have been offered." GREAT MILITARY ROAD. i From the Auttriam O,scrrrr.l VIENNA. OCT. It At the beginning of October the great military road was opened which leads from Borneo in the Vatteline, passes over the ridge of the Braglio, and the Stilferjock, and then descends into the Tyrol, to join the lnspruck road, in the plains of Pradt. It is the highest road in Europe, for the summit of the Stilferjock, over which it passes, is 8, too feet above the level of the sea. In the inhospitable Alpine regions, where nature oosed, at every step, the efforts of art, genius has triumph ed, with happy boldness, over every difficulty. The traveller is astonished when he sea how, sometimes by the erection of bridges, or by galleries hewn in the rocks or built of stone, the most frightful precipices are surmounted, and obstacles of every kind overcome. It does honour to the ttuvernment, that, by the erection of very solid covered passages of stone, it has provided a new retreat from the danger of avalanches along the whole road. In one part thew , galleries are carried to the length of 810 yards. Care bas been humanely taken to provide shelter for travellers, who, when surprised by sudden storms of snow, or high winds, :night be in danger of losing their way, or being buried in the snow. Six very spacious ions, built on the highest parts of the road, aifurd the wanderer at all times a secure retreat ; where persons, appointed by the Government, will afford him every kind of assistance and refreshment. On the road near the Stilferioek, where nature arrant in all her terrific sublimity, the attention of the traveller is attracted by the sources of the Adria, whic'i rushes from a rock at a very great height, and by the celebrated summit of the Older, covered with eternal MOW, which rises far above the clouds. The numerous beautiful waterfalls, the diversified prospect., are as interesting as the singular forms of the rocks, and the immense glaciers which hang over the rallies beneath. The ascent and descent of the road are almost always easy, the railing on the side is erected on the whole road, and the magnificence of the work is the more calculated to excite astonishment, when It is recol lected that it was first began in the surrnier of 16.21, and that in these rude and elevated regions die work could be carried on only fur a few months in the year. CITY Il usl xnss. A Court of Aldermen was held yesterday at Guildhall, Andre despatch of public business, which was fully attended. The Chamberlain reported the surplos of the Orphans• Fund for the last quarter, and the Court directed him to take the requisite mciuures for the discharge of the sum of 20,600/. of the debt, agree. ably to the prori«ms of the Act of Parliament. Alf. Gillman, lately elected bridgctnastcr, was admitted, and sworn into that Mike. :ileum. Drink - .ld and Turnley were sworn Rulers of the We. tennen and IM;hternnens' Company. Several persois were sworn, and others allowed to be admitted Brokers. Licence* were granted to Coal Undertakers. The Inquests of itishopsrate and Langbnurn Wards attended with Presentments against Non-freemen, which were referred to the Chamberlain to give the ;trope; dirceirms. The inquest of Coleman-street Ward made a presentment egain.t a person for false scales and weights, and the Court directed the City Solicitor to proceed against him forthwith. A very consMerable number or ruinous houses, bniietari, and premises, in Crippirgate Ward Without, were preschted by the Inquest, and the Solicitor directed to put the Act of Parliament into elteet. _ ---- TAe Solieitew repotted his proceedings !miler former pr , --ratments of minims premises in the Wank of Cheap, and Fa-rintgdon Without, and such as had not logo repaired were ordered LI be taken down forthwith. ' • . .......- ..... The Court directed the usual °niers to the Waterrnen's Com pany, and the precmts to the several Companies in relation to their attendance on Lord Mayor's tiny neat, to be issued. The oriels against throwing squibs anti other fireworks on the sth of November, and Lord Mayor's day, were directed to be issued. _ _ _ Comnuttsioners of the Court of Requests fur December were appointed. Various bills sod allowances were order , :tl for payment. TO TILE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. EMANCIPATION OF SLAVES. Sia—A misstatement appeared in your paper of Tues day last respecting the impediments said to be raised in the Colonies against the manumission of slaves. In that ar ticle it is represented, that " the emancipation of a slave in the West Indies is a process of a very expensive nature, The slave owner, however anxious he may be to give free dom to those who have served him faithfully, not having the power to resign his authority at an expense less con ►idereble than a sum sinountinq to from too/. to 130/. fax the emancipation of each slave. This statement, it is my duty to the British public, and my fellow colonists, to de clare to he wholly unfounded; and I am the inure anxious to point out its groundlessness because it seems too well calculated to serve the purposes of that opprobrious outcry by which a certain party in this country endeavour to de fame and injure the Colonists. As the article to which I allude appeared in some other journals in the same worth, I suppose it wad supplied by the same hand. The candour and justice which have always distinguished your remarks on subjects relating to the West Indies, would, I have nu doubt, have prevented you from lending your colutnns to the circulation of falsehood and delusion, especially respect ing a question in which the property and character of the Colonists are so deeply intert3ted, if you had been aware of the ignorance of your informant ; and I ant equally confident that you will give immediate publicity to this refutation of the calumny. The object of the writer of the article was evidently to hold up the West In dians to public odium throughout the empire, by re presenting them as throwing all. possible impediments in the way of the " labour of humanity." Their conduct k even stigmatised with the epithet " unnatural." Your informant can have no objection, after making an attack in this language on the Colonistsfelsr/y, that I should answer him in whatever terms truth may dictate, even though they should be somewhat harsh. What, then, is the charge against the West Indians? That they attempt to raisean " insurmountable barrier to the acquisition of liberty by a slays." What are the means said to be adopted for this end? "The Colonial Government (this learned illu minator of the public darkness talks as if there was but one colony, or as if all the colonies had but one government) have long established this deposit (viz. a sum amounting to from 100/. to 1301.) as a sine him non in the Art of Maim mission." Will it be believed, Sir, that this scribe of the Anti-Slavery Society, whose exertions he praises so warmly, made the whole of this statement in ignorance or in malice? It is from beginning to end without foundation. The total expense of manumitting a single slave in Jamaica does not exceed air dollars; and of thin sum, the charges for stamp-ditty and registering constitute the principal part. ‘Vhere a family or several slaves are included in one deed, the expense per head will not exceed three dollars, and it is not unfrequently as low as two dol lars. The" deposit" (amounting to from 100/. to 1801.) is entirely a figment of your voracious Correspondent's imagination. There is no deposit whatever ; not even of a dollar. A contingent security bond for the payment of .5/. per annum is required by the churchwardens, in order that the frectl-man may not become burdensome. to the parish ; and the justice and necessity of this bond admit of no dis pute. By law, the proprietor )• arc bound to maintain their old and infirm negroes, and if the contingent security bond were not required, it would probably liappsn, and more particularly with persons leaving the island, that the aged slaves would be set free, and the burthen of their maintenance thereby shifted from the shoulders of their master to the parish. &fore I conclude, I have a few words to say respecting the proceedings of the " Anti- Slavery Society" and their Secretaries and Agents, of whom I suppose your informant is one. They have discovered, it appear., that by assigning the slaves intended to be manumitted, to some person in this country, he may manu mit them before the Lord Mayor.—" 'f he expense of this course will never exceed 71., whilst in our colonies it would, in some cases, amount to 160/."—" In buckram," I sup pose; certainly not in :urrency or sterling. This " eman cipator" treads too closely on the heels of Fo/sfqffi In the opening of hie article he estimates the expense at " from 100/. to 1301." In a few sentenc.a he raises it to 1601. ! I have shewn that as many pence as he states pounds will in most instances defray ail the charges of ma numission. But this is not all I have to say in exposition ot• his gross i s morance. The 71. he advises to have expended " before the Lord Mayor" will not accomplish the 'stupors tholes!' as many dollars would in every case be enough in the colony. Without the con tingent bond, no deed of manumission will be re corded for the reasons I hare above sated. Any frau dulent or inhuman proprietor might veneer his aged or infirm slaves to some correspondent in London, and by a " labour of humanity," as the emancipating scribe calls it, cast cif the wretches to starve or subsist on the scanty charity of the parish. I hope, therefore, that no dupes will be led to subscribe their cash to manumit the slaves in the West Indies, by going before the Lord Mayor and executing one of Mr. Hanbury's bonds, as the only party who will at all benefit by that transaction will be the (I take it for granted) pines solicitor who is employed on the occasion. This, Mr. Editor, is the answer I give on behalf of the Colonists, to the statement drawn up by your Cor respondent, professedly to correct the errors that might be swimming on the public mind, on account of " the imperftet intelligence as to the merits" of the question I am, Sir, AV ENEMY TO CANT •xn C•LrMMNY. • Tyr article to which our Corespondent replan, WAS communi cated by the Police Reporter who usually attends the Mansion. House this Paper, and who, we believe, also supplies two or three others with the same matter. He is gencrally correct in his reports of the ca,cs that occur before the Lord Mayor, though it would appear front our Cr rrespundent's letter, that oc is mistaken with respect to the colonial laws, regulating the manumission of dares. Our Correspoodent does us only justice, in acquitting US of any intention than: in circulating calumnies against the col° lists. On the contrary, we have strenuousty opposed the tide of prejudice which has of late Rowed so strongly against them.—Eo. Ba. PR In the New Ydirk Ga:.ette, of the 19th ult., it is stated that the huge timber ship, Columbus. which grounded in a fog in the St. Lawrence, after being lightened, floated, and proceeded on her voyage. Fur the information of the friends of those on hoard the outward-bound East Indianian, the Upton Castle, Cap tain Thacker, we can state, that a letter has been received, through a vessel homeward, from a young gentleman on board, dated the wl of dune, at which period all the pas sengers were perfectly well. We understand, front the best authority, that Captain Franklin sets out ou his next expedition the first week in February; and that the route which the expedition is to take on the present ouasion will be different from the for mer, as it is to land at New York, and proceed from thence to the northward across the country, in canoes.—Ster. Ax }: P EDI E N T.—A nsesume hail hired a small Ironic at Bagarolet, and invited his friends once or twice a week to come and amuse themselves there. Each brought his pro visions on these occasions ; one wine ; another cold meat ; another patties ; another game. Anseaume was not rich, and was very absent. lie hail, in short, forgot to pay his rent for a whole year. The landlord made a descent upon him precisely on the day that CollE, newel, Piton, Gana, the painter Watteau, the musician I)cgneville, and other epicureans, had assembled there. These gentlemen, according to custom, bad brought plenty of provisions, but no money ; and the landlord imperiously claimed his rent of 2::0 clowns. What was to he done in order to assist their friend ? They immediately set about cooking tire meat and poultry ; they levied contribution on the fruit and vegetables of the garden ; Watteau drew a beautiful sign ; Degueville borrowed a bad violin of the perish beadle; they got up, in short, a cabcrrt and a file chum iwire. The appearance of these new cooks, vitro served their customers in habits of embroidered velvet, with swords by their sides, attracted a prodigious concourse of callous persons as well as consumers and the receipts amounted, at midnight, to 300 crowns. Anseaumc paid his landlord, and they returned the next day to Paris, in a handsome barouche, to spend the remainder of their earnings at the " Vrau iui tele. - -Neus Literature. A division has taken 'deco in the first Associate f'ongre gation at Cupar Angus, in consequence of some misunder standing regarding the election of a clergyman. The of fended party have withdrawn themselves under the name of Protesters, and siding with those Dissenters who have stood aloof from the Union, have it in contemplation to ii tig,ste their right to the Church.—Cilledasian Me 'vs.. y LAW INTELLIGNCE. COURT OF RINGS BENCH, TUESDAY, OCT. N. 11 Raw*. &DIEN C. A*D OTKER3, ASSIGNEES Or TAtiIiNOTOS. Thin was a special case, sent from the Vice.Chancellerr's Court rffr the opinion of this Court. The plaintiff, vete meg:hams in New York ; the bankrupt had been a merchant in London. and transactions to a large amount had taken place between the plain tiffs and the bankrupt previously to his bankruptcy, which bap. penned on the lath of 31arch. II 15. After the hankruptcy, Waddington was continued agent to wind up the busing*, aid in that character he received the produce of goods shipped by the plaintiffs. Much of the transactions took place during the nix with America, front 1812 to the end of laid, a' , d the question fir the consideration of this Court was, whether the plaintifili prove, under the commission, debts arising from cunt:sets and cilia during hostilities? SIT. TINDALL argued that the debts were praablit,,. abet the actual receipt of the money was sabeequent to the peace. The goods were shipped to Havre, consigned to I.allits and Co., and were landed there during the war. Part were mold,,and bill, rake* at three months. Mr. Waddington discnunted the bills witia Messrs. Perigord, but the bills were not actual l• due till after the peace. Ile contended that the action could not bold for merry bad and ieeeived until the maturity of the hall., and that,,althougb an action at law could not Ire maintained fur money received during the war, an action us, maintainable for money matnrely and actu ally falling due after the cessation of hostilit!cs and re-establish- Went of peace. Mr. Por.i.ocn, on the other aide, argued that no legal chill* could arise from an illegal transaction. A contract made with as alien enemy was essentially illegal, and could not be made valid by the cessation of war, and was thus quite distinct from the mere sus. pension of claim by a war, after the contract had been made. The case was of great importance, involving an amount of 60,0001. oe 40,0001. An action could not hare been held for trove, in the bills, or in the goods, and still less could an actinn be mainurincil for the proceeds. The objection was not Mr. Waddington'a ; ! • had no idea of such an objection. It was not raised by the a,. signees, but it was an objection forced upon them by a large Cuts of creditors, who expected, by excluding this claim, to *mire a larger dividend. Mr. TINDALL replied, and contended strenuously with respect to the ship Benjamin, which arrived in Liverpool in January 1815, after the preliminaries of peace had been %ivied. The Court would nut rasnme that there had been a contract during the war, but would suppose the ship sent upon apecutai ion in hover round oar coast, and enter a port -,rter the signing of preliminaries. With respect to the Joachim, winch landed goods at Havre, be hopeti the Court would not hold With hi. Learned Friend, that an action of trover could not be maintained if the goods 'had remained unscised by the Crown until the peace. The Nils were held by Mr. Wad. dington until the peace, at least they had not come to maturity until that time, and he therefore trusted the Court would find that an action could be maintained upon those bills. The money had and received was, in fact, • new contract, upon which they sued, and entirely free front the taint of contract with an alien enemy. The LORD I:turn Jr axlCE—The Court will consider of the CM, and return an sneerer to the Vice.Chancellat. DUNCAN V. TUW&ITEI. Mr. PATE isoN appeared for ihelisTntiiinihis Call*, which was an argument on a demurrer to the plea of the defendant, by whieh he sought to be exempted from a liability to an action at law for publishing a report of certain proreedings at Bow-street Police. (dike. It appeared that the plaintiff had been there clerked with an assault or. a young female only thirteen years of age, and with other improper conduct towards her. A statement, purporting to be a report of the proceeding. at thee Policemffice, appeared in the Mortanz Gerald of the next day. This report the plaintiff alleged to be injutiuus to him, as it did not contain the whole of the trans actions that transpired at the Police.ollice, and as it wee materially defective in not stating what the accused party had to advance in his vindication. In answer to t tis it was pleaded that the report con tained the substance of what had passed at 'low-street. and that it was correct. To this a replication was pet in, impesching the ac. curacy of the report, complaining that the depositions in favour of ale. Duncan had not been originally inserted, and denying the right of publication altogether. The depositions were subsequent!, entered, but this, it was contended, was not satisfactory for the omission in the first instance. The pleadings were very volumi nous, nearly repeating the same points in six or seven different pleas. The learned Oentleman proceeded to cite several ones analogous to the present. In that of Lewis v. Walters, a state. alma appeared in the paper quite different from what was after. wards proved at the trial. I t was pleaded there that the statement was a correct summary of what took place at the examination before the Magistrate ; but this was not considered a justification fir publishing the re-parte statement of the proceedings before trial. It was not sufficient that what was published was correct; it was necessary, in order to establish the fell, fair, and just sem. racy of the report, that the whole of the evidence be published, by which the readers of the newspaper might be left to judge for themselves on the whole case. Hut all comment and lefereees front the evidence, calculated to aggravate the ease against either of the parties, was libellous matter. As to the plea which alleged the matter of the libel to be true, it was not sufficient that there as, no motive nor intention of malice in the publication ; tie erect of the publication. as it regarded the character of the individual af. forted by it in society, was the proper view in which to entertain the question. Neither was it any extenuation of the offence to al. lege that the statement appeared in other papers. In the argument in the case of Anson and Stewart the Judge o'nseteete the appear. ance of the libellous matter complained of in other newspapers was tie extenuation. This only gave a greater facility to the cireo lation of the scandal, and lithe case should go to thijwxy,he would direct them to find their verdict upon the whole case, and to with• draw that consideration from their nettle altogether. It should be observed that the present comnlaire was instituted for a publics. tion not of proceedings in a Court of Justice, which he admitted there was a privilege for publishing, but for ex-paY le proceedings before a :Magistrate. ethical might afterwards be canvassed in a court of la. or equity. Even 'kis privilege of publishing . what took place in a court of law was subject to considerable rest riction. as appeared in the case of the King te M. Carlile. Particularly in cases of adultery, evidence was eemssarily given for purposes of justice, which it would be extremely wrong and libellous to pub lish; and it was but proper to prevent publication, in order that young minds might not receive the impression such evidence was calculated to create. In die case of the King v. Lee, which was one in which an Excise officer had been apprehended for shoo:ing a smuggler, the statement before the trial, as prejudicial to the prisoner on his trial, was held by Mr. Justice Heath DI be high) criminal. In the la 1:1 newspaper a report appeared of what too place at the Mansion-(louse, before the Lord Mayor, and it was drawn up io such aggravated terms against the accus ed pa-ty, ea almost to tender it impossible for any person who read it to be an unprejudiced juror at his trial. It was a case in which a captain of a ship had made an assault, and attempted rape on 'marled we. man, in her passage from the Al'est Incline to this country. The statement was accompanied with strong observations of animadvert. lion and although It was sought to justify it, on lie ground of its accuracy, it was held to be libellous. On that occasion Lord Ellenhorough remarked, that the administration of justice would be greatly impeded, and that it would be impossible for jurymen to come with pure and unbiassed minds to the discharge of :bete duty, if for weeks and months precincts to trial they hid been in the habit of receiving I npressions prejudicial to the CCCIIONI party. The effect of such impression was extremely irjefitel it led to the acquittal of persons who often merited eunishretta, foe fretu the fear of acting from antecedent prejudice, 'and preview impres. skies, jurors were induced to acquit, where the interests of justice required they should condemn. In the prevent hietauwe it was impossible be any person to read the account siren is the paper, of the treatment which this Isar experieured, without being filled with indignation against the person who had so treated her. Such statements prevented a fair and dispassionate trial. It was therefore desirable that the public statement of evidenee etiosall be reserved for the Court of Justin. The selcantages of such a course were great and paramount—the evils rare and accidental. In the rag e Of the King te Fleet, wlich related to the es taken before a Coroner, the publication was held to be hielily 'tenantry. (hi that occasion the Lord l'hicf Justice (Abbott) en. marked, that " any person who attended to the operations of has own mind, knew with what difficulty impteesiens, pareculerly those of sentiment and passion, were subsequently removed." Tbs cue of the King v. Clement, a ease in which a penalty was for publishing an r.t. party statement of a trial of wine of the street IT:liter}, went to establish the sane . point as the other Cher, lie hail cited as to the iniprapriety and criminality of publishing ex-pate statements affecting stewed persons. Time Leerned tiesnan proceeded to cite and comment on the eases of Cow v. C. I!. ridge, the King ce Creevey, &c. which he contended sustained ate same argument. The prucentinge in the House of Commons wens of a different character, in no Judge would pronounce what was Nam there,—it being a branch of the Leetelatere of the country,—to br libellous. He was unwilling to go into the question how far this privilege extended. Mr. Justice BILYLET—The pric ihrge was the privilege of •i.e place, where, whatever is said i. free from the character of a libel, but this privilege did not extend to publication afterwards. Mr. P•vvisou resumed, and cited, in addition 10 Villiollll other precedcote. the ease of Ctn.) , r. iVahers, where an actions was brought for a statement that appeared in the Timer DC under the bead of " leave Report." It had been furnished b7 r a person engaged to furnish him with legal intelligence. In that case s i me ie em e g , wan pleaded, which saes not availaWe. He (Mr. I'.) would admit that he could not find a case where an artiest had been instituted and judgment pronounced its a ease similar to the present. Thiele which he adduced were proceedings by indict ment, most of them puelic Goes ; but he thought an action w.cuitil and ought to lie time an injury of this kind. The differenee a tweets roc:sling Dv indktment and by action, was. that time one wan ei. 'muted for offmces tending to " a breeds of the peace," wheeee. the other was instituted far a civil injer.. No iiijury could be grayer than that which allac:ett a man's charm-reit, and as these was a criminal course oe proceeding for the injure to the put'', r. there ought also to be a civil reparation for the injury te the lethal, dual i'receteliegs it. a Coen of I eew were not always a stineete mania tor publication, and re-Forte proceedings before trial • , !ra generally most ueuriola ; at least ice a proportion of caws tat one to tire hundred. no good remitted from it—the advantage, whoa it dui result, was contingent, and by nu means to be counterbalsucee by the evils inseparable front it. One certain evil was attendant er it—that of iti.tring the feeling s and character of many innoceet - sons against whom an accusaron ten eetiotie charges a pp ea r , print before they had the opportunity real power sfifully 'Attunes than. Thus a charge etten sonewe. and the world becomes ac. quatrain with it, arca miress4 with its creme s yefore, b y sub*. 1 11 .