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- CAPTURE OF TIIE EPUBLICAA COLOMBIA. N PRIVATEER R By a letter front the Agent of Lloyd's at °Amber, dated the 29th June, it appea..> that the above private schooner had pot into that port on the trici, baring been chased by a Spanish ship of war. A day or two previous to her Arrival CAM! in the brig Ma dons del Carmen, from Cadiz, which brig had been captured by the schooner. The Mations' was bound from Cadiz for Gibraltar, with salt and other goals; and some of the consignees of the brig having made a declaration on oath that the salt was British pro_ ply, and had been thrown overboard by the captors, Captain Copeland, of the Mastiff, surveying vessel, ordered the Nimble cutter to take possession of the privateer and her prizes at their anchorage, which was immediately done. The privateer was dis mantled, and her papers sealed up ; and, as soon as the nuaraiiiill2 expires, an investigation is to take place, when some most unjusti fiable acts are expected to be brought to light. This is the same vessA that has boarded and plutnlered several other vessels behind the Rock as well as within the Straits; hut, in order to protect the trade, should she' have any accomplice, the Mastiff had been appointed to convoy the Lady Campbell to Cadiz. SOrTII AMERICA. BOGOTA, MAY 19. Active communications are passing between the Government and the Congress as torhe state of affairs with Goldschinidt, and the finances generally. (:neat traappointment is felt at the dishonour- . ing of Hurtado's bills, and Iftirtado is blamed, of conrst, for having lelt any money in Geldnehmides hands, which, it in said. he was ordered not to do. One thing, howe ver, is pretty clear—that Goldschmides fitilureplas nothing to do with the payment of the dividend, as Congress had been specially summoned to consider the means of doings,' before we knew any thing about Goldachmidt's failure. It has been a grunt blunder, the relying on receipts from Peru, before knowing that the money was actually ready in London. The very nteantres they are now takmg ought to hive been taken six or twelve months ago.; but the worst of there people is, their terrible propensity to delay—"l'o-morrow„ smd to.niorrow. and to.morrow." However, ii. on the present tiszasion. I caw any indifference or luke. warmness on the question of paying the interest, I should feel real alarm for the country generally, mid every body connected with it; but I must honestly say, that it not the case. There is , at the prevent moment, great activity anti anxiety; and the hope is fondly d e dshed, that, by some weans or other, Mr. !hurled° will ma nage to provide for the July dividend in London fix as to prevent - the sad disgrace which must nth. mote ensue. B uthese finan cial difficulties, things were going an smoothly enough here.— The Congress had began to establish the warehousing system in some of the rinciptl ports, sod passed some laws greatly calculated to facilitate trade. The •31ines, ton, are going on well, and want nothing but a better supply of miners to make immediate produce. At Matiquita the works of La Manta and Santa Ava are regularly going forward; and Ste phenson, the manager, says, his opinion of the goodness of thew mines is con fi rmed with the ptogreas of the works. Great dia. tress has been felt by the want of gunpowder, which was for merly prohibited, but, by a recent decree of Congress, is admitted ate duty. They have sent off to Jamaica for powder, and the Goserr.ment hare lent them a supply in the meanwhile. Harker has commenced munitions at the Pantplona Mines, where he finds people much more plentiful than at Mariquita, and Peoples too, who know a little about milling. They had be gan to open the mines, and he says he wants nothing but powder to enable him to get on quickly. He had fin native I theorem at work, besides the Cornish Miners he took with him. Advice h a reached Bogota that a party of 60 Corniah 3liners are now coining up the lierr, belonging to the Ctnnpany. We are overstocked with goods in newts, owing to the Government hav ing very improvidently lent a large sum to the merchants to en. courage their undertakings. The merchants were not able to return the m.mey when due, because they have not yet found a market for their goods, and they have been obliged to ask for an e xt e nsio n of time for the repayment. All these are the mistake* of a young Government, ter which allowances must be made. They will not happen a second time. I dare say. GERMAN PAPERS. VIENNA, JELY 7. Letters from Corfu, or the 16th of June, bring the following news. The Seraskier. Redschid Pacha, hawing left a garrison of 2.000 infantry and 500 cavalry in Miasolonghi, marched. on the 23d t f May, with a corps of 6.0410 men, to Lepanto, whence he bent tis Kisga Bey against the monastery occupied by the Greeks, situated between Ledoriki and Lepanto. The garrison, which was very -mall, surrendered, after a short resistance, and several villages ab tut Sabana submitted; hereupon, the Seraskier marched towards Athens. Hussein Bey one of the two Commissioners sent by the Porte, has ter:civet! orders to attend the Seraskier on his march. Ibrahim Pacha, after Wring dispersed, on the 7th of May, a troop of i %urgent'', rested en the eminence near Patras, which commands the emir road which leads to c a l aer i ra , return edto Pa. Ira.. and on the 12th 14 Mey left that fortress at the head of his ca valry to pmeeed to Tripolizra. On the 13th he was followed by his whole army, consisting, as it is stated, of 14,000 men (10.000 Eetpt:ans and 4.000 Albanians). Calsvrita and the neighbouring places :submitted on his approach, upon which he continue his twitch, without opposition, to the neighbourhood of Tripolizza. Ilene he met with Colneotroni who, on Ibrahint'a approach. had hardly live hundred men left of the 3.000 that he had previously got together in these parts; with these tew men, Co. ' locotroni tied to Karitene, leaving the road to Tripo:izza open' to t!,e Egypiian Commander. After a short stay in that town,' Ibrahim Paths made several excursions to Leonciari, 31 istra, &c. without any where meeting resistance. According to the latest accounts, he has pitched his camp near Argo., and Nikita. who was in those parts with a small corps, has retreated to Napoli di Romania. Soliman Bey (the French renegade Sere) is re ported to have left 31odon, in order to join Ibrahim Puha. The latter is reported to intend to send a col"mn from Misttm to Na poli di Malvasla, to besiege that fortress on the land side; hut, Iran the want of a harbour, or even of a road fit to anchor in, it is difficult to blockade it by sea, Gmeral Marquis Pauliteci, Commarder.in-Chief of the Int oaval force, and at the sauce time of the squadron in the A•ehipelaFo, who arrived on the 13th in the port of Corfu, ot. board toe Austnan frigate Beliona, sailed again this morning for %ante and Smyrna. The Marquis Paulucci, during his short stay in this town, was treated in the most distinguialted manner by the Govern. went and loaded with marks of honour. . . The English Admiral's ship the Revenge, Captain Burrard, *Nth arrived en the lith, in seven days from Naples, having on l,otrd Vice.Admind Sir Harry Neale, is still in this port. Captain some, r, of the Naiad, which is also at anchor here, set out on the 10 . 5. on leave of absence, to pay his long.intcorlcd visit to Vienna. tAvtain Spencer arrived at Vienna some days ago. AUSTRIAN FUNDS, JULY 7.-31ctalliques 91.1. 13-16 ; Bank 1,0:14 1.5. The Mare du Havre relates the following fact :—" The English frigate, which was considered the best sailor on the Windward Island station, sent a challenge for sailing, in the month of April last, to the French frigate the Surveil lante, commanded by Capt. Maurice. The latter accepted ir, with the permission of Admiral Duperre. The two sh ps took th.iir departure on the day appointed, at the same }lice and at the same hour, from the road of St. Pierre Martinico; and the comparative speed of the Sur- veillante was such, that in eight hours she would have lost sight of her adversary if she had not shortened sail in proportion to the inferiority of the latter. However much Captain Maurice might be inclined to trust the good faith of the English Captain, he did not think mitt to leave him till he had sailed round him, and obl'cleil him to confess, in presence of the officers and crews of both ships, that the Surveillance had beat him on all tacks. The Surveillance carries sixty-four pieces of cannon, of which thirty are of the calibre of 36 pounders. She is fifteen feet longer than a seventy-four, with beams in proportion. This frigate, which may be considered the finest in existence, hay, just come out of dock. Her name is a happy one, as it recalls one of the finest actions of our marine. Unwilling to increase the mass of distressing intelligence reverting the state of the country, we have waited week after week, anxiously hoping to be able to give some ac count of the revival of trade in this neighbourhood ; but, up to the present time, so far as we call learn, no change fir the better has taken place. There is scarcely anything to do among the manufacturers, and the subscription raised f r the relief of the unemployed poor is fast wasting away. Yet Sheffield is, perhaps, one of the last places which shauld give way to despair. The power of production, by the application and improvement of machinery, has not increased bete, as has been the case in the clothing dis tricts; consequently, as the different markets have not been £0 glutted with our mmirfactures as with some others, we rosy therefore hope that a returning demand will take place at no distant period, to give employment and sub sistence to many who are now wanting bread.—Shrffield Iris. iVatvas.—Accident hss discovered to a French farmer a very simple mode of destroying weevils in corn ware houses. Happening to lay in the corner of a granary, in which there was a large quantity of corn, some sheep skins with the fleeces on, he was not a little surprised to find them, in a few days after, covered with dead weevils. He rep:sued the experiment several times, and always with the same success. At length he ordered his corn to be !•ttrred up, aril not a single weevil remained in it. It appears, thcr,fore, although the cause has not yet been 3 , certaincd, that greas y woo l, when in the neighbourhood . wcevils, attracts and destroys them. MEETING OF MERCHANTS. S , rIPOWNERS, AND UNDERWRITERS. A General Meeting of Merchants, Shipowners, and Underwriters, which was very numerously attended, was held yesterday at the City of London Tavern, in conformity with the Resolution of the ' Meeting of the Ist June, to take into consideration the Report of the Committee appointed cm. the 22t1 of January, 1024, to consider the present system of classing ships at Lloyd's, and to report to a sub sequent Getters', Meeting such alterations therein as they may deem must expedient. At one o'clock precisely, T. WILSON, Esq. wan elected to the Chair, upon which he commenced the proceedings of the day by reading the requisition by which the meeting had been convened. Mr. J. LtNns.tY, jun. then rose and said, that he felt it to be his duty to propose that the Report of the Committee should un dergo furt! , er consideration. Within the last few days a communi cation had been made to hint which he felt was deserving of the most serious attention at their hands. The communication was trout the Chairman of the West India Merchants. requesting time, in order that its merits might be more fully considered bethre the question was disposed of. The Report had also been sent to thirty or forty of the Our-pmts, and from three or tour only had aaswers been received. Ile thought these reasons would be sufficient to in duce the meeting to agree to the Resolution which he was about to submit to them. slr. Lindsay then proposed a Resolution, to the erect, that it appearing that answers to the Report had been re ceived from only four of the Out-ports, it was advisable to allow further time; and that therefore the further consideration of the Report should be adjourned for three months, and fourteen days' noticfshould be given before any meeting should be held for that purpose. Mr. MITCHELL, in seconding the Resolution, said that he eon mitred in the justness and propriety of seceding to the application of the Chairman of the West India Merchants. The Chairman of that body admitted that something should be done to amend the present system of classification, and it was advisable to ascertain the ft clings of:hat body upon the subject, important as that body were as regarded the number, size, and goodness of the vessels in their trade. A great number of that body were proprietors of ships, and it most necessarily be a matter of serious consideration to them. 'their attention not having been earlier drawn to the subject, they were now induced to make that application ; and he hoped the meeting would reflect upon the interest they had in the question, and agree to the Resolution. Mr. Br nal its.E rose for the purpose of opposing the proceedings in tom Ile said that the Committee had commenced at the wrong end. Ile had sent a letter to the Chairman, and was surprised that I he had received no answer— Here the uproar became so great that Mr. Burridge was unable to proceed. Cries of " dry rot," laughter, and hisses, issued from all pans of the room. Mr. Ft.trctust said that it was well known to many of his friends that lie was opposed to every word of the Report, and was determined to oppose It in every way ; but he most sincerely hoped that the question would be put and carried without say debate.— They would not et all commit themselves in one way or the other by so doing. He *as sorry to interrupt the gentleman (Mr. Bur. ridge), whom he did not know, but he hoped nobody would say anything against the Report, as its framers had then declined say. ing anything in its favour. He thought, indeed, that it would be quite indecorous to the Committee to do so. (Cheers.) Mr. Butt R I DOE was proceeding to argue that there was no need of a code of laws for ship-building ; alleging, in support of his po sition,that the French and.Antericans had none; and proposed, as an amendment, in the midst of try rnendous marks of disapproba tion, that the consideration of the Report should be adjourned for ever. This amendment not being seconded, the original motion was put and carried,, Mr. Burridge alone opposing it, and declaring that he should do so if he stood slope. Thanks were then voted to Mr. T.%Vtlson to his conduct in the chair, and the meeting adjousned. MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) AIANCHF.STER. WS:MIL/MIT AFTERNOON. Since the meeting on Tuesday last, an account of which I transmitted to you, Manchester up to this afternoon has maintained the same gloomy and foreboding aspect. Ru mour statei that wtitten handbills have been issued, calling upon all the holders of pikes and other arms to met and be drilled. Although none of the more extensive manu facturers have stopped working since Monday, yet a few of the smaller ones have ; consequently the crowds of the un employed seem to increase. At Oldham the bulk of the working people are colliers, a business at present at the very lowest ebb ; these people are very badly off; natu rally rude and boisterous, they berr up against the present distresses but indifferently, and may be, in truth, called the leaders of the discontented. _ _ As an example of the depreciation in the value of pro perty here at present, it may he mentioned that a licensed public-house, for the lease of which, a few months ago, 400/. was offered and refused, was disposed of the other day at Um/. The brewers, too, who usually were at work every day, now find that to brew once a week is sufficient to supply the demands of their customers. In the midst of all this, however, the poor people have not lost sight of, nor a taste for, their former amusements. Manchester has long been famed for her pugilists, and a fight which takes place on Tuesday next, at Birmingham, between Burn and Magee, the Liverpool butcher, for 100/. a side, it is said will attract vast numbers of the unem ployed. "We have nothing to do," say they, "and may as well tramp to Brummagem and see the turn-up as stay here." Several thousands are to start for Birmingham for this purpose on Saturday. Public feeling is much in favour of Sir John Byng, the General of the district ; but notwithstanding his indefa tigable exertions in aid of the relief fund, it is fast coming to an end, and scarcely a new item is added to the list. Families continue to arrive from Oldham, Middleton, Macclesfield, &c., and take up their abode in Manchester, where, under the arms of the military, their persons and properties are in a state of comparative safety. It is cal culated that no less than nine regiments, horse and foot, can be mustered in the town of Manchester within half an hour ; so that with that force it would be idle to talk of any serious disturbances being attempted ; it is in the smaller towns in the neighbourhood that most is to be appre hended. I Front the Blackburn AraiLi We regret that the state of our manufacturing and com mercial interests is by no means improved, but that, on the contrary, affairs wear even a snore gloomy aspect. We would, however, still indulge a hope, that as, according to the condition of our finances, the energies of the country are yet in a great measure unimpaired, the depression will not continue much longer; but that, as things must sooner or later find a level, and as the !lock of manufactured goods must shortly be exhausted, even by the present lan guid demand, employment will he found for our artisans, (and by this term we mean the working classes generally) ere the rigours of winter set in around us. In the mean time, there is quite enough of distress existing to call for an abundant stream of charity ; and though no class is free from the effects of the present convulsion, yet we hope a nerve will be strained, some luxuries abridged, or some un necessary comfort given up, to afford to our perishing, half famished poor, the sustenance necessary for their existence. We admit that much has already been done, but we would urge our richer brethren to do more ;—the funds of the several charities are decreasing, whilst the number of ob- Jecta to be relieved is increasing, and we would fain prevent, by a timely relief, those baneful effects which hunger and desperation are but too apt to produce. Various schemes are proposed as remedies for this dis tressing state of things : some recommend that persons of fortune should shut up their establishments, and ret►re and spend their money in improving their estates ; some again decry the use of machinery, and attribute to it all the ex isting distress, but do not point out a remedy for it ; and others recommend an application to Government; and we learn that some merchants have already laid the state of their districts before the Secretary of State for the Home Department. We fear, however, that by none of these methods can the distress be effectively alleviated, but that it must be left to work its own way, and in time, according to former precedent, it will produce its own cure. In this view of the case, patience is, however, a neces sary requisite; and it is, therefore, with unfeigned regret we learn that symptoms of disaffection and insubordina tion have shown themselves at Manchester, evidently con nected with the circumstances alluded to in our last. iVe would earnestly advise all those who may be within the reach of our observations, to abstain from the counsels of those wicked and designing men, who, taking advantage of the prevailing distress, would goad them blindly to work their own destruction. We would remind them that the law has a strong arm, and we would remind them, too, that violence can never prosper—that those who are in the end the greatest sufferers by the insubordination of the people, are the very persons who now feel most for their distresses, and are anxious to relieve them to the best of their power. The wheat harvest has commenced in the vicinity of Carmarthen, and we understand the crops promise nearly an average produce.— Hertford Journal. TIIE BRITISH' PRESS. HOME CIRCUIT. Ourt.nroßn. JULY 20. CROWN SlDE.—[Before Mr. Not.Arr.l MA NSLA LIG If l'E them, or to any person for them, and that if she (the said Mary Edwards) had wrote such receipt, • she must have written it when asleep.' And the said Mary Edwards hang been yesterday shown such receipt, which she deities to be her hand-writing, and declared • that she never received the sum of I/. 125., or any other sum of or tram E. and C Hughey, or any person for . tltem.' Notwithstanding, Messrs. litigates sent on the 2Oth Inst. up to Mr. Edwards, one Alarid Jones, the person who paid the sail! sum of 11. I2s. to tlae said Mrs. Mary Edwards, on the 10th of August, 11124, and at the same time received a receipt flir the said amount. Messrs. 'E. and C. Hughes, therefore, invite die public to tend the following affidavit, taken before Francis Lloyd, Esq. one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace: also a copy of the receipt given by Mrs. Edwards for the said sum of 11. 128. ; the original receipt may be seen at Messrs. Hughes's office, Ellesmere." They then got Mary Jones, a servant of theirs, to go before a most respectable Magistrate, on whom they imposed, and she swore the following Aides it : " AFFIDAVIT. NORTHERV CIRCU IT. You*, Juit 19. • ' MILLS v. TAYLOR. . • Mr. Seen LTV n stated th at this was an a ction brOnfflll, by Old plaintiff, Who wan a Iran in a low situation of life, in realer a comperreetion in damages foe the negligent and unskilful tread. meet gf the defendant. The plaintiff was a stone-Meson, living near Huddersfield, and the defendant was a person who Wowed the occupation of a bone -setter, and resided near the amine place. He ( Ili. Scarlett) hoped that the result of this trial would iesch the 'public the (finger of puttime confidence in uneducated persona who were unqualified fur the duties of a profession into which they had intruded themselves. The Jury would hear in evidence, that on the 23d of No/ember last the plaintiff had been working at a factory, and that, whilst so employed, the sniff ad on whfeh he had been standiag had given way, and he had had the misfortune to fracture hie leg, a little diatance above the ancle. The fracture had been of such a nature as a surgeon of competent skill would have found ro difficulty in reducing, and had such a person been applied to, the pleiettft would, in all probability, have been re stared is the perfect use cf Ins limbs in eight or ten weeks. line fortunately. however. fir. Taylor, the defendant, had been ap. plied to. The plaintiff had been removed home, and bete it had been seen that a portion of the broken hone had protruded through the akin, R cireturstence which, in such cases, he believed not to be uncommon. The deleadant had first attempted to reduce the fracture by pulling the tiro: of the deceased, but had afterwards tied a handkerchief round the foot with a slip knot, and had see two or three people to pull wite the handkerchief. The plaintiff had been put'to the most excruciating torture before the defendant had declated the bone to be see, and then splinters had been put upon the leg, covering the handkerchief, which had been suffered to remain utiles,. The doctor had then told them that all would go on well, that the pain would soon be removed, and core. a th it all that would he necessary would be to deco the wound caused Mr. Edward and C. Hughes, Dr by the f4ott usiou of the bone through the skin, for which be had made 1821. to M. Edwards ; £. s. d. 8 throve of Sinew at 4r. 1 12 0 Ha opening in the selintere. For some days the plaintiff had suffered the most intense pain from the tight handkerchief Received Mary Enwarde. which had been drawn pima his foot. but the defendant had August the 10th. coniintr , dto assure him that all was going en well. At Sworn before me at Ellesmere this 28th day of Oct. 1025. length the great toe of the foot had been observed so be of a blot • F. Lenten. colour, and maggots had been seen to proceed out of the wound, s.The original receipt has been compared with one given by the whilst at the same time a stench, almost intolerable, lamed from the above-named 31. Edwards to a respectable tradesman in this town, lug. Still, however. Mr. Taylor had soured them that all Wad and the hand writing proves to be the same." er,ll, and had refused to unloose the handkerchief or bandages. At The beamed Counsel concleded by submitting to the Jury, that length two medical gentlemen had been called in, and they hai this was a case which called for very heavy damages, though the bard out to the wife of the rlaintifF the danger to which her hurt action was more instituted for the protection of the characterrsad was exposed. Mr. Taylor, hie:teeter, persisted in going on in than anything else. his own way, until a mortification became evident even to him, and A printer, rending in Ellesmere, then prored that the defendants teen he had perceived, thus' unlers the leg etas taken off, the life of earns to his office in October last, and dictated the libel in question the plaintiff must be sacrificed. Another person had then been to him. When it was finished, witness read it over, and in the called in. and the leg amputated above the knee. Ouch was the first instance they ordered 300 to be printed. Afterwards they case which he (Mr. S.) had to submit to them on the part of the entered windier 100, and as the marketnlay drew near they ordered plaintiff. He was far from saying that a surgeon ought, in all a fifth hundred. casein to be made answerable for every emelt which might prove to One of the copies of the paper was here put in, and was about to be unfortunate. But the setting of a Woken limb was an operation he read, when to which every person of ordinary skill wits competent, and, if a Mr. Tel NTON objected that it was not identified to be the very person without that ordinary skill exercised ' his profession to the copy published by the defendants, and therefore could not be tea t f. detriment of any one, he became liable to an action. In like man. Mr. Francis Lloyd then proved that he received the copy pro- no r , it the practitioner were not ignorant of hit art, but, by a neglect duced„ and it Was directed to him with his name and addres s . of those symptoms which he might expecnto. ensue, produced the Another witness then proved that this was the superscription of same result as would have been produced by ignorance, he was one of the defendants. The paper was then read. equally liable at law. In the present case the teak of the Jury Mr. Francis Lloyd was then re-examined, anti seated that he was would be easy, because they would be told by skilful surgeons that a Magistrate of this county, and the affidavit in quesien was axone ape stir who knew any thing of the surgical profs:Won would have before him by the defendant, Charles Hughes. knosn iha a tight ligature, fastened like the handkerchief which Another witness was then railed, who s ated teat defendant, ('has. the defend nt had suffered to remain on the foot of the plaintiff, Hughes, had given the hand-bills to him, and told him tottistre u•e mus: *Done , or later inevitably produce mortification. On the sub them to any persons who were likely to know the plaintiff or him. ject of dam gee he hardly knew what to say to them. nl'hat could sell, and he did accorcinarly distribute five hun,lrcd. compensate a man in any class of life Mr die losa.of a limb ? If Win. Jackson proved the distribution of three more of the pap ea. all the riches in the world were offered in exchange . foe a limb, Crass-examined by Mr. Cam Pit ELL —Never recollected to have would any one but a madman accept the offer? The injury; how. heard the plaintiff say this was 31r. Murrell's action and Lot her ever, having bean inflicted, the plaintiff had a right to such a coma own. • pensation as money could afford him. He hoped that the Jury Further proof was then given of the extensive circulation of the would give a liberal compensation, and, by doing so, read a useful hand-bills ; one was sent even a 3 far as Liverpool, to tire brother of lesson to 31r. Taylor, and afford a protectton to the rest of his Ala. the plaintiff's late husband. jestv's subjects. 11 r. Tau wrote then addressed the Jury for the defendants, ann • ilia,. Mills sworn—l am a son of the plaintiff. My father was insisted that in point of fact I:is clients were the persons who had employed on the 23d of November last by Mr. Kay, of Iludders be n calumeiated, and this handbill had been published as neces. field, and fell from a scaffold and broke his leg a little above the stay to the vindication of their reputation. lie then called the fol. twee. He was brought to his own house, which is about a mile lowing witnesses. from the place where he fell. • Mr. Taylor, the defendant', was sent Maria Jones examined by Mr. Cattenene.—l am in service of f or . The skin where the.tes was broken was opened, and part of the defendants, and have been so for seventeen years. In the month the bore came out. The Doctor first pulled at m lather's of August, 1821, I received IL I2e. from the defendant , and took foot, but he could not set the bone, and a person name d Dawson, it to the plaintiff; to whom I paid it for some straw. I told her my e who came with the Rector, said, " Will not a handkerchief be master had sent the money for the straw. She said she was macs ben r?" The defendant then twisted a handkerchief round the obliged to them, and gave me a receipt. She said nothing of any ancle below the broken place. It was tied by a Islip hoot, so th at other den:and. In October, 1 0 2 5 , ore of my:tnasteri ordered me to the harder they pulled the tighter it was twisted. Three men pulled go up to his house. In consequence of what he eard to me, I went at the handkerchief. When the defendant drought the ham to 31rs. Edwards's house, and lola her my master had paid for the was art. he Tait a large plaster over the broken part of the leg, and straw, and had a receipt. She said my master must stow the re- over the handkerchief. He then put splinters over the piaster, and ceipt for the straw. I then went and got it, took it to her, and boiled them with bandages. He eta a hole through the splinters allowed it to her. I went afterwards before Mr. Lloyd, and swore opposite the wound, so as to leave it open. and he gave us some the affidavit, which is true. salve to dress it with. Daemon asked the defendant if the lumdker. Cross-examined by Mr. 0. Rs SSEL L.—lt was very shortly eon chief ought not to be taken of. Taylor said, " Vein it ought by the death of Mr. Edwards, in Aug. 1824, when I went and paid lice. right." Dawson then cut of the ends of the handkerchief, but Miss Letitia Hughes.—l ant daughter of one of the defendants, he troll not cut it any where else, it had stalk so deep iron, Mr. Edward Hughes. I recollect the plaintiff coming to our house tire fl. eh. Taylor thee said, " Never mind it, it can do no about seven o'clock one evening in October, when she said she had harm." My father remained in great pain from the tight. never . seen the colour of either of the defendants' money. She said nets of the handkerchief, for several days. On the Sunday she never had given them a receipt for straw in her life. Site added .1 after the accident, Mr. Astill, of Huddersfield, was called in to " If ever I did give a receipt, I must have written it when asleep. give my father some medicine, as the defendant did not send out My mother observed, it was not very likely she should have written medicine. Another surgeon, Mr. Bradshaw, was called in the it in her sleep. The plaintiff then repeated the same words several same day. They did not give my father any medicine. The next times over. She appeared to be in a great rage against my uncle day my mother told the defendant that Mr. Astill and Mr. Brad- Edward. Neither my father nor my uncle were in the house at ,haw eaid that the bandage was sadly too tight. Defendant said this time, and I afterwards communicated this to my father. that they did not understand it; he then took off the handkerchief. Cross-examined by Mr. 0. Resseto..—This was on the 20th of The leg then smelt very offensively, the skin came off, and grubs October, 11325. To the best of my belief I have not read use of and maggots came out of the wound. Taylor land the maggots these papers since that day. were of no consequence. Where the handkerchief had been there Mr. John Chester, a maltstt•r, in Ellesmere, r eco llecte d was a hollow all round the foot, into which I could put the side of being in Edward Hughes's tan-yard with Edwaid Hughes, when my hand. All the sinews were entirely bare. Taylor called several Mrs. Edwards came up, and said, " I have a small bill against times, and said everything was going on well. I saw that my fa you." Edward Hughes sans, " I owe you nettling." The plain. ther's great toe b ecame blacker every day, and at last it became tiff replied, " You clo." Mr. Edward Hughes said, " Come, and quite black tred dead. On Christmas-day Taylor came, and was I will show you." They both then went towards Mr. Edward shown th e toe . ll e sa id it was well that it had fallen into the toe, Hughes's house and I left them. This was about seven o'clock instead of going up die leg. The next day Taylor brought Mr. in the evening. Wright, a surgeon, with him. The splinters and bandages were Miss Ann Hughes recollected that the plaintiff called at her fa. than taken off, and the leg was found to be full of holes up to the ther's house about eleven o'clock In the niernine on the 27:11 of knee. Taylor said to Mr. Wright, "We must have this great toe October last. My father came in with her. When they came off now, I expect." Mr. Wright answereu, " The toe will be of no into the room, my father went to fetch the file on waich the receipt use, he roust lose his leg altogether." Mr. Irright came the next was. As he was coming in at the don , , the plaintiff said, "It day, with another surgeon, and took off the leg. My father cannot must be a mistake, I never gave a receipt; and if you have one it yet walk without eructate& must be for something in poor Mr. Edwards's time." This is the Ctoss.examined by Mr. WlLLlAMS—Defendant is what they receipt that was shown to her. She then said, " This s not a re call a Whitworth doctor. Illy father's leg at first bled a good deal, evipL" He put Iris Heger on the word received, and said, " IVhat and they could not fasten their bands to it. does that mean ?" She then put her head down to it and said Mr. Astill, in surgeon, residing at Huddersfield, stated that he she could not ace it. My father told her it was paid almost as soon had been sent for the Sunday after the accident, to give the plaintiff as the straw was delivered, inconsequence of a note she wrote, say- some medicine. %Fitness saw the leg, but did not unloose the ing she was very much in want of the money. To that she replied, bandages. The bandages were much too tight. Witness was nut she did not want money half as much as my father and uncle did. aware that the handkerchief was on the foot. Had heard the ac. My father then told her to go. out of the house, and asked her if count of the manner in which the handkerchief had been applied, she wished to be paid twice over. After the quitted the room, I from the evidence of lust witness, and believed that it would have heard her making a noise, but could not distinguish what she said ; the effect of causing inflammation and mortification. The plaintiff' but when she got into the street, as she passed the window, she was at that time in a high fever. Witness told the family that me. seemed iii a very violent passion. dicine would be of no use unless the bandages were loosened, and Cross.extuninen by Mr. IVIIAT EL Y--Never heard the plaintiff' ld !Ered then to tell defendant so. In witness's judgment no sur say, when she saw this receipt, " that is not the bill I mean." Never on of ordinary skill would have pursued the course which the said so to any one. I know Mr. Bloxam very well. (there the defendant had done. young lady tittered. and Mr. Bloxam looked abashed, for we un- Cross-examined—Witness offered to take the case into his own demand Iris Wart is no longer his own, but has migrated into the hands, or to meet a regular surgeon, but would not meet Mr. bosotn of the lady.) I never said so to Mr. Bloxam. Taylor. Mary Turner corroborated the occurrence at Mr. Edward Mr. Bradshaw, a surgeon residing at Huddersfield, was called Hughes's. in on the same afternoon as last witness to give the defendant some Ann Jones recollected the day the bills were printed. The day medicine. He examined the limb, which was much swollen and before Mrs. Edwards canoe to her master's house, and was thrown inflamed. Did not know of the handkerchief. Thought that the into the room where Mr. Charles Hughes was, where she made a handkerchief would not have been left on by a surgeon of mope. great row, and talked loudly. As sire was going out into the street Sitnewsnrnan Jean 19. t• t %kill Witness told plaintiff and his wife that a mortification she said she would trounce the Hughes's name, for she would put In consequence of the late hour at which the Assizes terminated it Into Mr. Al urrell's hands. He is an attorney, and has an office tent soon ' ene k ue, if it had not already commenced. Any surgeon at Stafford yesterday. Mr. Sergeant Peake came on here to open the in Ellesmere. Commission for the Learned Judges, wino followed in the afternoon, Mr. Lee, a fanner near Elesmere,nas in Ellesmere in November o f competent a ill w ould have seen that mortification was in pra and both of them got here leen:eight. last. and met Mrs. Edwards in the street. Witßess's brother said grew . and tnexamined-31elicine would have been of little use without relieving the limb. Witness advised them to have a reguntr. to Mrs. Edwards, I understand you are going to bring an action This morninn they went into their respective Courts, Mr. Baron nn against the Hughes's. and she said, No, site was not ; but 3lurrell Gamow presiding on the Civil Side, and Mr. Justice Burrough on " Mr. It:Atka:Kr, surgeon to the IlueLletsfield Dispensary—l was was on his own accord. the Crown Side. On the Civil Side there are no less than twenty. eight causes, seven of which are Special Jury cases, some of them Mr. RUSSELL then addressed the Jury in reply, and was pro- requested by Mr. ght to accompany him to the house of the piaintiff, to be present at the amputation of the leg. I went with expected to take two days in trial. On the Crown Side there are ceedingat some length, when but fourteen prisoners, but there is only one case that appears by Mr. Baron HARROW suggested the withdrawing of a Juror. him the day following. I examined the leg. On uncovering it, it the description in the calendar to be of importance, The suggestion was instant ly and that is apresented a mass of disease. No union of the fractured bone had an land there ended the case. case of murdering a bastard child , taken place. The bone above the fracture was quite dead, and CIVIL SIDE. CROWN SIDE. readily yielded to the knife. I have heard to-day of the violence used, and think it was quite unnecessary. trillium Cooper. who was removed by Habeas Corpus to the . The Court was occupied for five hours in trying an action of Court of King's Bench last term, and held to bail in the sum of Cross-examined—A bad compound fracture is always a matter oi trespass, tine only question in which was , to whom about nine fe et of a hedge belonged, which was between the lands of the plaintiff ' 1,11001. and two sureties for 5001 . each, charged with stealing some hazard. A fracture is more dangerous in proportion as it is and defendant, and which tire latter had removed. 1,5001. in notes of the Wenlock and Bridgenorth bunks, from a near a Met. The prac ice of surgery in a ease of fracture is first LIBEL, coach travelling between London and Cheltenham, surrendered to to relax the muscle, and then use gentle extension to reduce the take iri s trial, and was dischar g ed , a ass the bill of indictment w EDWARDS 7'. liveries AND ANOTDER.fracture; but I would never use great violence. Mr. Wright is a: This was an action brought by a widow woman residing at ignored for want of evidence. York. He came with 31r. Taylar. Ellesmere, in this county, to recover a compensation in damages fur Henry Moss alias 'lard:, was inelicted for stealing two geldings, By Slr. Justice Pan IS — ls the defendant a person of propert) • a scandalous and defamatory libel, of and concerning the plaintiff, the property of Mr. Dicken, of Waters-Upton, in this county. —He is. published in the shape of a handbill. The prosecutor stated that on the 11th July last, his horses were Air. Wintaeats —Pray what are your charges for attendina a stolen from his premises. and in consequence of information he re. fracture?—it it is a single fracture I charge a guinea; but my S Air. te tared the case to the Jury. This, ceived, he traced the prisoner and another man , together with the charges vary with the uses. l i r r. . O W L N D A N T A E L I K. .y R o i r s e s n u ed ul the , pleadings . he said, was an action brought by the plaintiff, in vindication of horses, to Buxton in Derbyshire, where he found the horses put Mr. Justice PARK—You take Into consideration the means et her character from the most foul and malignant aspersions ; for, into a field to grass. With the assistance of a constable he took your patients. For instance, you would not charge tins plaintiff su though not a very wealthy woman, she bore a respectable repute_ both prisoner and the other man irto custody, and w a s bringing much as you wattld charge rue ?--No, my Lord ; I shuuld clues: tion in the town of Ellesmere; and to her character was as valuable them to Shrewsbury, when the other man, who was mounted on a a gentleman handsomely. (A laugh.) as to the proudest individual in the land. The short facts of the heavy cart horse, complained that he could not get on fast enough There were two other witnesses called, but they meetly co : , . case we re eimply these. The defendants , who were Ms . Ed war d b ecause hi s nag was so jaded, and he complained also of being ill. firmed the statement of the first witness as to the cundition of tart and Mr . Charles Hughes, were tanners, in the town of Ellesmere, The prosecutor was mounted on a fine blood mare, and putting the fractured leg. and shortly after the sleuth of the plaintiff's husband, in 1824, f e llow on her, leaving him in charge of the constable, he rode off This was the plaintiff's case. they purchased a quantity of straw, far which they paid 11. 12a., the cart horse with the prisoner. As soon as he had got well out of Mr. WILLIAMS addressed the Jury for the defendant. Ilia and she gave her receipt, boom after that, in her character of exe. sight the other fellow clapped spurs to the mare, left the poor eon- Learned Friend (Mr. Scarlet* in ht. opening address, had a:. cutrix to her deceased husband, she made application to them i s m stable in the lurch, and neither he nor the mare have been heard of tempted to inflame their minds by calling upon them to read the th e p a ym en t of a s mall sum which had been owing to her deceased since. The prisoner, however, was brought to the Polio this county. defendant a lecture. He (Air , Williums) would tell them, that L. husband, but in vain. She repeatedly applied , but could get no Mr. Justice Bun aouGli read over Ore evidence to the Jury, and read lectures did not form part of their duty ; they would, if they direct or satisfactoty answer until the month of October, 1825, they found the prisoner Guilty. thought the defendant had unskilfully conelucted himself, give seen when they set up the receipt for the amount of the straw as a re- The Learned .1 eDGE then asked the Governor of the gaol if he moderate damages. as would suit the justice of the case ; but they ceipt for the other demand. Airs. Edwards was of course indignant knew the prisoner. would recollect that it sometimes happened that the gifts of sin. at this, and insisted on her claim ; and then the defendants thought The Governor replied that he was convicted of horse stealing at cation were bestowed upon individuate to whom they were of 6 , 1 fit to publish the following handbill : this place, in 1324 ; but his sentence of death was commuted into rise ; so it was tensible that great information was posscesed by the " A cau ti on t o p e ople paying money, to take a receipt."— transportation for seven years. He was then sent to the hulks at Whitworth doctors, without the aid of much educetion. lie pr .... Wheres, et re . M ar y Edwards, widow of the late Mr. 'l'. Ed. Sheerness, and after that put on board of a transport to be conveyed tested. therefore, ag a inst the mode of address adopted by his wards, of s c odand. s treet, Ellesmere, having repeatedly said and to Botany Bay, whence he escaped, and had not been heard of until Leaned Friend, It was unsound in principle, and ilio.t unsafe in most solemnly declared that she never received any money what- apprehended upon the present charge. practice, to hold out to a Jury, when they were trying a question of ever from Messrs. E. and C. Hughes, of Ellesmere ' tanner , or His Lonnstt it' then said that lie should not now pen sentence; damages, that they ought to mown the man' and medic a l chair. from any person for them ; likewise, that she never ha d given a rat but broadly intimated that he should leave the prisoner for ca. and read a lecture for the benefit of the public. Whether the ceipt for the sum of 11. 12s. to E. and C. Hughes, or to either of ecution. Whitworth doctors were to ne put down lay the Iludilersflsl4 dam. IriMinn Stark was indicted for teloninu;ly killing and slaying John Crewdaon, no the 61h of April, at Hazlemerc, by striking him on the head with a pitchfork. Dlr. II u own re a conducted the prosecution. It appeared in evidence that the prisoner, a labouring man, was a person of great imbecility of mind, and subject to epileptic fits. The boys of the village of Hszlenzere were much in the habit of annoying and jeering him. On the day in question he had been plagued and irritated by several lads, who called him by the nick name of " Barney." Among them was the deceased, who was in the habit of annoying him. The prisoner happened to have a 'pitch fork in his hand, anti when the deceased approached him he aimed at the latter with the handle end. Fite blow did not take effect, and the deceased got away. The prisoner then tossed the fork into the air, and in its descent one of the prongs struck the back part of the head of the deceased, penetrated the skull, and entered the brain to the depth of two inches and a half. The deceased lan guishell until the 16th of April, and then died from the effects of the wound. All the witnesses concurred in stating the prisoner to have been of unsound mind from his infancy, and, when irritated, incapable of governing his passions. The Jury found the prisoner Not Guilty, on the ground of fa tuity. juul he was ordered to be detained until his Majesty's plea sure should he known. . " Maria Jonas, of Ellesmere. - inthe county of Salop, widow, maketh oath and said', that she this deponent is a a -rvant to Messrs. E. and C. Hughes, of Ellesmere, in the county of Salop, tanners, and Math been so for upwards of sixteen years : and thin drponeat Maria Jones further saith, thaton or about the 10th day of August, 11124. Mr. Edward Hughes, one of her said masters, sent 11;:r to Mary Edwards, widow of the late Thomas EdwXrds, mobster, of Scotland-street. Ellesmere, with the sum of 1/ and 12s. to pay to the said Mary Edwards for straw, which sum of 11. and 12s this de ponent Maria Jones did then and there deliver unto aid pay to the said Mary Edwards. at her house in Scotland-street, Elles mere, and this deponent further saith, that the Wine-named Mary Edwards did at the same time in return for such auto of 11. and l2s.i give the deponent a receipt in writing, of which the following s a true copy. Manta JONES. William Willis was indicted for feloniously killing and slaying William Melling, at Walton-upon-Thames, on the 27th of May last, by striking him with his fists on various parts of the body. It appeared in evidence, dial the prisoner and the deceased were bargemen. On the day in question a party of bargemen were playing at skittles at the New Inn, at Walton, when a dispute arose between the prisoner and the deceased, the latter being the ag gressor. The deceased challenged the prisoner to fight. lie ac. espied the challenge with reluctance, but went to the field, when a regular stand-up fight took place for half an hour. Several persons desired the deceased to give in ; but he refused, saying that be would fight as long as he could stand. In the ensuing round, the deceased fell to rise no more He became insensible, and in two days afterwards expired. On examination of the head, after death, it appeared that there was a great quantity of estravasated blood suffused over the brain, uhieb, in the opinion of the surgeon, was occasioned by external injury. Mr. Dow Limo, for the prisoner, called several witnesses, who proved him to be a man of peaceable and hamiless disposition. The Jury thornd the prisoner Guilty ; and, in consideration of his having already had eight weeks' imprisonment, the Court, under the circumstances, ordered him to be confined in the House of Cor. rection foe seven days. [Before Mr. Justice Hor.RoYn.l COINING. R. Fox and G. Wilms were Indicted for feloniously and trai torously Colouring, with a certain wash and they materials produc ing the colour of silver, a certain base and counterfeit piece of metal, to the likeness and resemblance of a shilling of the current eoin of the realm. Mr. Sergeant Oxsr.ow, Mr. Gi• rums', and Mr. llot.r.astn, conducted the prosecution on the part of the Mint. ble. PnwTT was for the defence. It appeared in evidence that In constvenee of information given against the prisoners, Limbrick, Drown, and Lee, officers of pp. lice, went to the house of a person named Seeger, in Wellington place, Surrey-road, between ten and eleven at night, on the 27th March, and in the front room, first floor, they found the prisoners with some beer before them. On examining the hands of the prisoners, they appeared to be dirty, particularly the lingers and thumbs of the right hand, which were In some degree whitened. In an oven cupboard they found on the shelves 58 counterfeit shil lings, 34 of which were in a finished, and 24 in an unfinished state. Some cream of tartar, grease, blacking, sand paper, and other materials used in colouring and preparing counterfeit money for circulation, were found on the chimney-piece, the table, and other parts of the room, which had evidently been very lately used for that purpose. It was proved that the prisoners lodged together in the room, and usually left the apartment unlocked. In their defence they strongly denied their guilt, and said that their room being always left open, some other persons must have placed the suspicious articles in question in the apartment without their knowledge. One witness gave them a good charac.er. The Jury, under the Learned Judger directions, found the pri soners Guilty.—Sentence of Death was recorded. CIVIL SIDE. TOY V. 11EACY.4. - This was an action of tresmasafOrmifficiously killing a dog of the plaintiff's. The defendant pleaded, firs:, the general issue ; second, a justification that he killed the dog in his own defence; and third, that he killed it, in order to prevent it from worrying a dog_ of his, defendant's 11 wn. Issues on these pleas. The plaintiff's case was conducted by Alr. GunwEw and 31r. THESIGER ; and the defendant's by Mr. Sergeant Ta Dim It appeared in evidence, that both parties resided at Sutton, in this county, the defendant being a toll-gate keeper. On the day mentioned in the declaration, two terrier dogs—one the property of the plaintiff, and the other of the defendant—thought proper to fall out, and began fighting. The plaintiff's dog being the most powerful, the defendant interposed on behalf of his own dog, and, taking a knife from his pocket, stabbed the plaintiff's dog three times, and killed it on the spot. II was argued that the defendant was justified in the act complained of, in order to Prevent the plaintiff's dog from worrying and destroying the de fendant's. The case went to the Jury ; and they, under the Teamed Judge's directions, found their verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, two guineas. MIDLAND CIRCUIT. DERBY, JULY 18. CRIMINAL SIDE. Jonathan Scoithorne was capitally indicted for having violently assaulted George Cupid. on the 22d ,larch last, at Ripley, in this county, with a view to do him some grievous bodily harm. There were other counts in the indictment vstrsiog the nature of the offence. George Colid deposed, that he was servant to a farmer near Ripley, and that on the night in question he was at the Thorn Tree public-house, together with the prisoner and several other persons. The prisoner had some drink, and became very noisy ; from noise he proceeded to quarrelling, and, without any provoca. tion, drew a clasp knife from his pocket, and stabbed witness in the belly and the thigh. Thomas Green examined—l am hostler at the Thorn Tree Inn. I was in company with the last witness and the prisoner, and I can safely nay we gave him no offence ; but he wanted to tight, and so attacked the last witness as he has described. I believe he in. tended to have attacked me, but seeing what mischief's he would commit, I got away. James Mason assisted in apprehending the prisoner, and pro duced the clasp.knife with which he attacked Cupid. It had several marks of blood upon it. 111 r. Fletcher, the surgeon who dressed the wounds, deposed that they were severe, but not likely to endanger life. Verdict—Guilty —Death. Nine of the prisoners were left for execution. LEICESTER, JULY 19. This day the Lord Chief Justice and the lard Chief Baron entered this town, accompanied by the High Sheriff and the customary cavalcade. Their Lordships attended divine service, and afterwards proceeded to the Town and County Halls to open their Commissions. The Calendar is unusually light. OXFORD CIRCUIT. iue ed va tha Po t in