The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1824-01-22 00:00:00

CAPE BRETON. The numerous and important colonies of this country ! have been, for many years, worse governed than the eolo nio of any other country. They have not been governed ! an say fixed ptinciple ; and such a variety of measures, I t finer counteracting and contradictory, have been ordered ' b , t he Colonial Secretary, that it is impossible for the mil- ; drew m know what they are to depend upon, or what they !, s e neat to expect. The result, as might have been ex renal, has he n a prevailing spirit of restlessness and :4 djiafilirlit, destructive alike to the interests of the colonists I' ol d o f the nm ther-country—the former are ruined, and the ; latter ',national to an itinnease amount, to support colonies wine') ought, like those of other countries, to have supported ; themiskes, and been a source of sit e and wealth to the patent nation. 11'e shall feel it, henceforth, to be a I put i c edar part of our public duty, to bring before the pub- ; lie the real situation of these dependent states, and shall esp.isc the system of arbitrary misndo and mismanagement n the pioce!..tline's of the Colonial Office , which has so long di s graced the Britishr.t;overnment, and the consequences of ; which are becoiniug every day more manifest and more l , !arming. to t It will be recollected, that a petition was preaented the House of Commons', last Session, complaining that L O UD B.ct•ucasr had, lei/boat Mr consen! , ! 1 . the inhahil-l i :n/s, or the 1:,,,w!,•1;44.• P o rliament, taken from Cape ; Breton their separate Government ; and, by an Order of Council of 20th t haulier, 1`•.!;), annexed- that island as a county tp Nova Scotia, ther..by depriving the inhabitants of Cape, Breton of those rights which they, in common' with Grenada and the other conquered colonies, ceded after , the war of 176',!, had derived by his Majesty's proclamation ; of the 7fit of October, 1763. An act more illegal and op pressive, i4r more in the spirit of a desootic and usurped authority mina he pointed out within the past century,— ! fruitful as it leas been of lordly and imperative measures ; —.alai it trust he regretted that Parliament did not take up , the question in the manner which its magnitude and the; important principles involved in it most urgently required. ' Mr. Wilmot, in his answer to Mr. Hume, in the House ,' of Commons, made assertions respecting Cape Breton, whicb the Jletea, then belie.. ed to be true, but which have been denied by the inhab itants of the i sland, at a public meeting !atm saly called together for the purpose of con sidering these statements front the Colonial Office respect ing them. Some paper' were laid on the table of the House last Session, mid it is most important to know that many of: them turn 'oot to be as incorrect, in fact, as was the state ment of the Colonial Secretary himself. These discoveries appear to ns of the utmost inqxwtance, and prove that offi cial men it the Colonies make statements to the Colonial Office in Loudon, which are utt, rly false and unfounded, which ale writien for some particular purposes, and often to' kirceive the Government at home. This has resulted, and Dna result from the system carried on—the secrecy with which Colonial affairs arc managed, and which necessarily ; kad to bad government and oppression. It is notorious :::at the inhabitants of the Colonies, who have not legisla tive asaembli, s, never know the contents of any despatches er commutications from their Governors which concern thew so vitally, unless they are laid before Parliament, villa is oily done on some extraordinary occasion. The case of Cape Breton is one which concerns the co limits in gem ral ; for if Lord Bathurst can, with impu nity, by the stroke of his pen, or, which is the same thing, by an Order in Council, deprive the whole colonists of tape Breton of their independence and rights, sanctioned by Parliament and actually enjoyed for nearly half a cen tury, and that without the least n mpathy or attention from the West Indian and other colonies, it is not to he won- Med at if be attempts, with a little care, by circulars to their Goveroora, to deprive them uncetemonionsly of the rights and property they enjoy, under all the sac-red princi ples of law and justice, and by the sacred sanction of nu merous Acts W.' the Br fish Legislature. ll'e --- have received a copy of the proceedings at a public meetintz, held at Svilney for the Island of Cape Breton, l 60111i1011, as cod on tl .! :hl of November, IS'23, with LI, re ~ to unanimously at that meeting. We have only room for the resolutions, which, al:bough long, contain matter, very important to every man who howls his rights and pro• , They are of u petty at the will of the Colonial Secretary. nattire to press themselves most seriously on the public at tendon in this country. If the course of proceeding Iwhich they relate is to be avowed as legitimate, and au ilvorisvAl as constitutional, consetpunca a ff ecting us all oust be Elie certain result. At a Public fleeting , held at Sydney, for the Island of Cape m con , on t h e ;et of Novembu r, ledli, George William flown, Esq. a as called to the Chair, when the following resolutions were treed to :—. 1. That this Island , from the year 1711, when it was ceded to Great Britain, has ever been a separate, independent, and distinct I °Way from Nova Scotia. ahlanigh united, by the King's prods. nation in that year, to the Governor-Generalship of that province, and tlwsys since has been included within the limits and hounds of the juris4lietion of the Governin in Chid. as impetus by the se. steal oammissions from the Corea to that officer, wherein it has Ist been telly described as another Colony ; and is so distinguished 41 itlllflilllCtl by n:any statutes of Brat Briton, since that time, ' an in soother light be considered as part of Nova Scotia, than aitiof Dominica, St. Vincent, and Tobago, are parts of Ja. at united to that Government in the same manner, by ime pa clamation. That this Colony, having been a conquered country, his Lute Majesty, by his letters patent, under the Great of ltrsmt Britain, having granted to it a legislature, con. g of a Governar, Council. rasa Assembly, with Courts of the laws of England, and all other rights, liberties, and 4 joyed by British sultjerta in the l'olouits, allogetherex -et and tioconnected with ally other Province in North America, alma Itttlly, after a lapse tti . nearly forty years, be deprived of iglus. and he subjected as an attpintlage to another Pmvinee, itilts Previous coustnt of its tehabitants, and sn Act of the i Parliament. hat i fter the actual pmacesion of nearly half a century, and inset titan rued frequent pledges given by the British Govern ' is a erity to the ivied:hums of this Cohnty, to it dote them sealers therein, it cannot, without an unnecessary ant h of honour, justice, and humanity, attempt, without .I ea Is: or colourable excuse, to strip them of their freedom ttlty. arlll regarlll ,,, Af their feelings aed complaints, trans- It pleasure, like sieves. to a foreign master. it the laws of Nova Scotia, both in principle and practice, iithe, dissimilar, end in many eases repugnant to the laws , ant, hithetto enjoyed by the iiihabitants of this Island. 'at all lamb,' property in the lawn of Sydney, and fee! oiler round, has, by this attempted union, been reduced *o a Mit al rattle; aed it is the iteution of this meeting, that no • suh•tct ought, or can lawfully, be deprived or lila property. 1 !nisi ill or real, but on a full, tuir, and adequate ronipensa equi valent. i hat t le province of Nova Scotia, Navin„contracted a large rants Wed debt, when it is now uraitle to discharge, it is • emst and oppressi ve that this Isl an d should be oblig e d t o i ' it Ivavv weig!,t of tasation for its payment; when, by the Mtn a its C 'vital, its to ineipal market hal been destroyed, ie duly decrease of eteenteree. and depreciated value of aural produce, e - shibit the alarming approach of inevitable That this meeting do appmee and entOrm the whet* of the at petition presented to the British Howse of Commons, by inhabitant. of Sydney, as being the sentiments and general, ter or lie Colony. That the intimnation cornmunicated to his Majesty's Ge- invent h Enelentl, that a ur i on w i t h Nova r.ttia hal proved rtitial h. this Islatal, and was desire.] by its biliabitanta ; that' e's duty on coals hall bee rethir . ed ; that the taxation ' awl be Nttva Scotia had not petted burthensunic and tipples : and - that many great advantages ha.! been received by elf's i sl from the I •ni• m, i, totally unbounded initruth, and it is the 1 • tsf this 'l eer i ng t h at those malevolent fabrications were; • et leeret entissarii.s. plactel in this iedonv, to mislead and !et's: Itr:tish Governments and facilitated the nefarious and a:sti views of the enennts of the blend. ri-c the copy of a letter laid before the. British House of ',lt t, deed the 2:41i Novemb e r, Idlti, f ront M e j or -tl enera l nt, he then Lieutenant-Gov.lmo': of this Island, who states, ' , Nwt-itim ce of the decision of the Supreme Court, on an il- 'I on spirt:, imposed by the tiovernor and Council, without 1 , elite had struck at the ro ot o f t h e p rosper i ty o f t h e I s l an d, 1 9' tile except ion of silt or "oven ruin-dealers, had met with the Ect f the whole pu , pulation, wood that the people most wil l/ld fhet. tax, and that a petition wa s in progr ess by th e i n . l • t '''"t mite C•tiony at laree to maxettre its again being audio ltit asstr•exts grossly scnadidons, and deliberately false, 27 1 3pron this Colony ; for it was well kitown then. and "l‘e hem to :ti. ma,pm,., I uovernmcr.t in England, that the Ltt '''' `LrreptitittisslC obt a in e d, mitt that the revenue t, , s ~,a stanily and a astefully inisap;slied, and was ever . , rid uneottstitioional it y th e colony, and that home %.,!r• • vis :0 i;eacral Ainshe's arrival in Cape Breton (of, j,lte 'a hire ::). a deciasa, ion to that efEect had be , Nl ad- ! . 'I e -i!IIIIit:IIR to his predecessor, calling, at the same .•tt ii,,•,,., ‘ ,. . •. em , . - -nity ef the aasentlily ; and he was also weld ti ar. I •tioird„ in 11l had announced that all taxes! pot. ~,,„..7.4, , ,,1.-. we,- a r ni. And this Meeting explicitly' ':' '''doret that do• colony rt ver intended. nor ever tool: t : Lea , le or present at petition to Maior-General this . "lII' ;hat tax ; and that it is equally a deliberate un. •, '',', aere ten other taxes exi s ting in the island at that ' 'llan-14nm' Ainslie) actually caused to be levied '''' L'nr , and admits thee were 'Mega! • that is to say. 1,1 a• :mail seiti•s; et' six te,v s' peisen . al kW:Aron ne- I minal roads ; on working cattle ; new and unlawful fees of office, and in the nature of lines in numerous cases ; and that he did ar bitrarily and wilfully, after that knee was written, cause , two new taxes by the sante authority to be imposed and le.' vied; which facts are fully possessed by his 3lajesty's Colonial 3linister, having been enumerated and submitted in complaints to the British noose of unions, and transmitted in the Council minutes and orders to the Colonial office : and this meeting solemnly declare, that no intention ever existed of an application to Lieutenant-Governor Ainslie, for the redress of public pier &nets of any kind whatever, from a previous knowledge that none would be obtained ; and this meeting unequivocally express the ex ecration and horror with which they review the disgraceful violence, tyranny, and oppression, and, above all, the shameless and Un moral depravity that marked, on all occasions, his conduct while resident in Cape Cretan ; and thin meeting cannot withhold the ex presting their astonishment that his Majesty's Government, know ing the untruths ahave rated, should affect to give credence to such document*, or impose them on the British Parliament as esta blished facts. 10. That the absurd, illegal, and ignorant attempt on the part of the Legislature of Nova Scotia, to extend the laws of thatprovinee to Cape }Becton, in 17titi (then a wilderness), under pretenee that, as the colony of Cape Breton and St. John, now Prince Edward's Island, were included in and annexed to that Government, by the Proclamation of the 7th October. 1740, they from thenceforth became a part of that province, betrays that want of knowledge and wisdom that halt unceasingly characterised that province; par ticular') in the extraonlinary joint Address of the Assembly and Council, presented to the Govemoi of that province in 1017, wherein the same Minima's idea, among others is sugg ested, that this 'colony should be re-annexed, with Prince other, is Island, to that (lovernment, when, in fact, neither of them, since um, were ever aqui:mid therefront, except Prince Edward's Island, while it possessed a Governor-in-thief from 17Itt until 170 1 , when it was re-annexed to the Nova Scotia Government, but then and still is a different province; and if this preposterous and untenable concep tion could be maintained, that colonies can be united by the DIM mandaleof the Crown, it would create a system most dangerous and arbitrary, and at once repeal the various statutes by which our independence is recognised and annihilated ; and declare illegal not only the present colony of New Brunswick, but Prince Edward's Island, and sanction an authority ih the Island of Grenada, to ex tend its Acts to the colonies of Dominica, St. Vincent, and Tobago, as having been included and made part of that Govern. ment by the same Proclamation : and it is the opinion of this meeting, that although his Majesty may, and frequently does, in. elude ie:veral colonies under one Government, and the same at pleasure alter, it does rut affect their respective independence of tech other..or authorise the Crown to annul, without an Act oil Parliament, their local constitution and laws. 11. That the bounty greeted ia its last session by the legislature of Nova Scotia, on fish, is injudicious, and founded on partial motives, and has in contemplation the ruin and removal of several large and extensive British establishments in this colony, as by deeming British merchants foreigners, and denying that bounty to them as non-residents, although possessing large landed properties within the prmirrce, it rot merely destroys those sources of wealth and trade lii:herto derived to the island, but will reduce to beggary many thousands of the inhabitants employed by them, and extend the injury to the commerce of Great Britain, and its manufactures now consumsd in the fisheries, contrary to the express commands of the Crown in the 211 ankle of the royal instructions. 12. That the letters frotn the Lieut.-Governor of Nova Scotia. laid before the House of Commons, stating that the inhabitants of this island were generally happy, contented, and thriving, under die province of Nova Scotia, and that the laws of that province are not inapplicable to the island, and that the sum of ItiON. had been I granted for roads by the Legislature of Nova Scotia (a boon only irpiircciated by the proplo, and that the regulation of putting frohi two to five individuals in sine grant had given general satisfaction, are statements, this meeting conceives, could only have arisen from the grossest misrepmemation, and the want of due investiga t i on during the few days residence of the Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia at Sydney ; nor can this meeting imagine how he could imbibe impressions so erroneous and unfounded, us the first public meeting of the Colony at Sydney expressly pointed out in the strong.st terms the illegality, dissatisfaction, misery, and mischief that had resulted from the attempted union. It is true this meeting cannot deny that the paltry grant of 1.0001. pounds foe roads, returned front the large revenue drawn from this island to support that province, has been by this Colony duly appreciated as evincing a partial injustice, and an insulting mockery of our de. graded state; as the sentiments of this meeting have been already announced on the laws of Nova Scotia, it is unnecessary further to observe, than that the observations of the Lieutenant-Governor on that fact, and the regulation of five grantees in one patent, are recorded profs thin ('ape ItrytiM has not even been deemed here. mbar a part of that province, and that landed property has fallen even below the value of the fees on a single grant. IN. That should his 31njesty's Colonial Minister still continue, tinder a full knowledge of tha state of this Colony, to advise a resistance to the constitutional and legal claims of she inhabitants. it can only be considered as a pertinacious and wanton act of, par.isl tyranny, as the pmvince of New Brunswick, once really a part of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, under exactly similar circumstances with Cape Breton, are allowed to retain their independence and laws. 4: That a committee. consisting of John Leaver, George W. Boron, Edmund M. 1)0IJ, Richard Gibbons, and Philip Elle. Esquires, be appointed to prepare a petition to the British House of to:moons, to be sent for signatures to the different parts of the 15. That the grateful thanks of this meeting be given to Joseph Hume, Est:., for the zealous, able, and patriotic manner with which he supported the petition of the inhabitants of the town of Sydney to the Clouse of Commons, and for his unwearied exertions on all occasions to protect the Colonies front oppression. lii. That the thanks of this meeting also be given to the other members of the !louse of Commons, who so honourably and ably exerted themselves to secure the rights cad liberties of this island frnn invasion. 17. That the thanks of this meeting he given to Richard Ribbons, Esq. for his ptitsonal efliwts in England, as the agent from Sydney, in promoting the success of the petition of its inhabitants, and for his constant zeal to advance the welfare and prosperity of the island oil all occasions. iH. That the thanks of this meeting be given to George William Bu rn~ Esq. tur his itiiilartial conduct in the chair. G. W. 11011'N, Chairman. N.B.—The 23d ankle of the King's instructions mentioned in the 11th revolution, is the number in those given to Sir James Craig ; it luny not correspond to that number in those to Lord Dalhousie. vet been tall anti konfirtneti iican in so, cplotiti of Oda. 3A til he *me pn 2., That tt • hit Lite a brat • thle of a ' , tete; the 1. alleges e ja • USAAt and 110 eiao9ller.til .• rtghtv, ;Witt ilia pr Parlial I That t ft. tht intil tti • tof lire biota? se; • :1 keit( h at i at Ca 7'. ° Pen y. At ph 4. that the h !.t. T hat all ' !haft 'omit .11 tiah litib.te , hlit pets,' li . tr tapti 6. that t to *nem !al h enju.t a: 1 , 1 tabilatior I. the. .Cultural 7. That thi r- itioi ibilalatAn Vet et' Tit the 'lent In I tit tl "4"; • ; and - dm • front th • • of -0 ! ;.; `, 3, 111 , : Kt VICI TIV th e he, he th II 011" p Mn 1,1 V: I • ;iv; et t • "PLI the of iii • tri a hive ty, t '. c at vt, ar , It I'o I 1 1 1.... , .. 1, 144 I VI% •:„'. IRELAND. TILE LATE 311 , RDER IS KILDARE. An inquest was held in the county of Kildare, on the body of John Fitz4crald, whom we stated in a former number to have been barbamusly woolens,. The verdict was wilful murder against nor John Lay, who had introduce) himself to the deceased and his •'artily, as deceased's son-in-law. The wife of the deceased deposed that the said John Lay came to deponent's house at Donniurrv, about the hour of two o'clock, on Saturday, the lOth ittstant• and introduced himself as the son-In. law of witness and deceased, and said he was married to witness's daughter, Catherine, whona he left in Manchester on a visit to her uncle, 3lr. Forbes; deponent and the family supposing him from his account to be such a pentea as hr described himself to be, he was accordingly treated as such ; was provided in refreshment, his shoes taken out and polished, and every thing in the power of the deceased end family done to render their services agreeable; went to rest that night, accompanied them to mass next morning, and so far in every respect appeared tube such as he introduced himself to he ; returned home on Sunday with the deceased, and being enter. I mined as far as their small means would allow, passed the evening I in conversation very a;creeahly ; but when the deceased was about putting in his mare for the night, Lay said he woad do it, and returned shortly, saying he lost a button, upon which witness got up to provide one, but was interrupted by the accused, saving he saw one on the window, at which time witness supposes he furnished himself with the razor, with which he inflicted a deadly wound afterwards on her husband's throat. The eveninglsswed of agree. ably, as aforescid, but in the middle of the night witness heard her husband cry, •• Kitty, Kitty, the villain has cut oil my head !" when she arose, and Jur daughter, Elizabeth, who met the murderer canting into the room where she lay, who seized her by the hair of the head, but the deceased having got up and opened the dour, she extricated herself, and ran for assistance; when_ !. ay who returned from pursuing her, called for his clothes, and dumbed himself, and made oft: The witness, Elizabeth Fitzgerald, daughter of the deeeeied, corroborated this evidence in every particular. Lay was brought from Naas to the inquisition, and after an swering the quc,;tons put to him, admitted the fact ; but said, that the dem:stars daughter. after marrying him, kit him, and went with another young man named White, who enlisted in the East India sat ice. Had it not been for the ezmion of the girl, it is thought hr would bare murdered the whole family. Lay says he is a native of Lancashire. and that he deserttd from the litith Regi ment in April; and that when he was quartered in Dublin he mar ried Catherine. the ilauglittr of John Fitzgerald, whom he tour drred.-1,44 Times. ST. PATRICh'S 11INNI:3.—We have learnt with much satisfaction that his Royal H ighness the Duke of York has signified his intention of taking the Chair at the next An niversary Dinner of St. Patrick. It is indeed gratifying thus to see political opinion and feeling cast aside, when the object is to promote the general interests of humanity. L Our readers need nut be reminded of the manly and une quivocal declaration which was made, a year or two ago, by his Royal Highness in the House of Acts, upon the subject of what is called Catholic Emancipation ; a decls ration the more important, because of the near relation in which In stands to the Crown of these realms. Bin, al though a conscientious conviction of the danger that would attend the concession of the Citholie claims prevails on the one hand, on the other thin: is a prompt dispesiticri to promote, in every was', not only the substantial and per- tunient interests of Ireland, but the passing claims of her destitute children. There can be no doubt that the know ledge of his Royal Highness's intention to be present will be the means of assembling such a company as will secure an ample augmentation of the charitable funds cf the in st itutiou.—Sfinisterial Parer. There will be a fight to-thy between Stockman and Cava- nagh. Much monq is depending urni it, and Mole:s , l' it: the cpvointed spet—ti to en SHIPPING INTEELIGENCR. CI'STOM-1101:SE, JAY. 20. Sutra IneTEßru INIVARDS—The Hannah, from Limerick; Sally, from 'Waterford ; Wow Ihsenwke, from 'Worcum ; Prince of Orange, (min Rotterdam Champion, from Dunkirk ; Swift, from Hull; and Hugh l'rawfOrd, front l'alparaisn. Ewes:nen OUTWARIIB.—The Calthorpe, for Elsineur ; Tram. more, for St. Kitt's; and Jane, for rayal. FAL "101' T FI, JA w. IJ.—Attire! the Ann, Mills, from TAndrin. Sailed the Royal Geor), , e, ‘Villianis; and 31inersa, Cras:fOrd, for London ; and the tlnod Intent, Tom lin, for Taceira...... Pt.Y DI OFT /1, .1 AV. 19.--.... sailed the 31 nerra., Phillip': and for London. BEAL, JAY. :ht.—Caine down front the River this morning and sailed again, the !Duchess of Athol, Daniel, for Bengal and China. Sailed the whole of the outward-bound fur their dilrercnt destina tions. YARMOUTH, JAN. 19.—Arrivcd the Betsey and Peggy, Sorlie, from Leith. damaged; .‘dventore. Forster; John and Joseph, Arnold; Valentine, Nallor; David and Ann, Hurst; and Aid, rournell—put in wind.bonnd. Sailed the Industry, Easter; Am. bier, 3 1 ay; and Friends , Parr, for Scotland : also the Vriendschap, Smidt, for .Iml:ter:lam ; La 31a1 Antic, ll'adoux, for Omvelines, both in ballast. LYNN, JAN. 19.—Avvivcd the Ibis, Smith, from Oporto, with wines: Ilelliggan, Panman, from Amstrnlam, with oil-cakes. Livi:u pool., Jaw. 19.—Arrived the Laura, Lilbum, from Sw. vannah—sailed the 16th December, in company with the Juno, for Liverpool ; also, arrived the Margaret, Pilkington, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; and Nepali:us, Dick, from Antwerp. 11A mount:l, JAN:. 13.—Two hundred and fifty pieces of oak timber, and an anchor and cable, brlnngieg to the London packet, have been picked up by the Blankenese. thcorwn. JAN. 12.-1 n the year 1823 there have arrived here 301 merchant vessels, of which 127 are Netherlanders, 136 Nog. lish, 10 French, 2 American, ..cc. The packets to and him Eng. land are not included. FLI:SDINO, JAN. 11.—In the year 1823 the number or ships arrived here were much more considerable than in 1822, the num ber being 757, and that of the ships that have sailed 645: in 11122 the arrivals were only 5118, the departures 544. Among the arri vals last year were 419 Netherland ships, 120 English, If.l Ameri can, 32 Hanoverian, 29 French, 31.41Ht.ta, A tro. 27.—Arired his 31siesty's sloop, Sophie, Capt. G. T. Ilyves, from Trincomalie; Brig, Norfolk, Capt. 31. Kingsell, from Padang. Aro. 26.—Departed, the Britannia, Capt. W. Luke, for Singa. pore. nth—Ship 3ladras, Capt. W. Llark.fpr Kalcutta. 28th— Horatio, Capt. J. Black, for Tnncornahe. SHIPPING is MADRAS ROADS, SETT. I.—His Majesty's ships, Liffey, Commodore, C. Grant, C. 11.; Alligator, Capt. T. Alexander, C. 13.; H. C. Cutter, Powerful, Capt. R. 3PNieholl. DISTRIBUTION (►F PRIZE MONEY. The Queen Charlotte, for sundry small seizures made by the Linnet, tender to the said ship, between August, 1822, and Feb. 177e3; and the Starling cutter, also for sundry small seizures, on the 9th of February, at the house of 31r. (Hover, Portsmouth, where the same will he recalled. His Majesty's schooner Hornet, Captain Higley, arrived at Greenock, Monday sennight. from the Irish station, for the lntr pose of receiving repairs, having experiences! some injury during the late gales. . . MAI iZer JANUARY.—Tbe following is a complete specifica tion of the ships that paned the Sound in the year BM:— From the From the From the From the North Sea. Baltic. North Sea. Baltic. English . 1517 1499 French - 17 15 Ilanoverian 149 157 Mecklenburgh 214 252 Hanish 331 341 Swedish - 546 5117 Norwegian 4114 462 Prussian . 7411 7H7 Russian - 154 1.12 Dutch . 216 245 llamburgh 12 11 Bremen - 20 21 Lubeck . 2fi 3:1 Indenburgh 24 18 American • 77 81 Porn:Knew _t . . ___l Total—From the North Sea, 4 4,576; from the Baltic., 4,627. FIGHT FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP. We have received another communication from Rey nokls, on the subject of the late fight:— TO THE SPORTING WORLD. Gr.arvxmzw—l addressed you on last Friday evening concern ing Langan's treatment, and conscious in my own mind of the truth of that statement, I did not anticipate any reply • much less did I expect so ridiculous, so lame, so poor a defence , ' as that Spring set forth in the Despatch of last Sunday. lie lays the princi pa l part of my statements are rank falsehoods; but I throw the lie back in his face. for I defy say man in exiatence to contradict single assertion that I made in the letter alluded to. Blft why not have said in what part I was wrong ? I could then have answered him. Unlike him, I will answer his letter by giving good reasons why he had better not have taken up the pen, for I am confident the more it is dragged before the public the better for Langan. Ile says, when - his friends meet him. they ask why he did not win the fight sooner? and he says, in his defence, that his hand broke "like glass." By the by, • 1i could recommend him to be cautious how he enters the ring spin with the Irishman ; for, as it appears he is made of such brittle materials, Langan may crack bun all to pieces, if he gets him on a stage. In consequence of his hand breaking. having so little room to use his superior science, and Langan's second, Josh Hudson, behaving so well to make his man win, it was impossible, Mr. Spring says, to finish the contest sooner, and that he thinks himself lucky in whining at all. • I as. sure you, Gentlemen. I think his luck was in getting the battle money ; but to the latest moment of my existence I will hold up my hand against so barefaced a robbery. What diFvenee could It have made to him haring more or less room ? It would not have finished the fight sooner; for running away would not beat Langan, and Spring's power of punishment with the bands lwl left him. In fort, towards the latter end of the fight, the fortune of the day entirely rested on the best thrower : but in this, I say again, that La.igai was foiled by Spring's friends, the lowest order of betting men, who had got money heavy on Spring. Of this mercenary, cowardly crew, we were surrounded *eves deep; the men that ought to beat out the ring, to a man, had bet their money on Spring. Was it likely thnt they would flog men away who were lending a helping hand and foot to make the threes-to.one safe ? The compliment to Josh Hudson, in my opinion, was badly timed ; and I am confident Josh feels it fits him awkwardly ; but at all events it proves that Spring is not deficient in gratitude. lie says, in consequence of Langan demurring to the stakes being given up to Spring, the umpires were written to for their decision, mod they have given it in his favour. In the tiro place, as his umpire was chosen by himself. and ours was chosen by his, we might easily anticipate the answer. Our umpire says positively that Spring won the battle--he was nok in the rim; for several rounds—of course, a very incompetent judge. Spring's umpire confesses in his letter that hs has no knowledge of the rules of fighting, but says that Langan did not get up to time, sad wilfully avoids saying whether Spring did or did not. He wha aware, by stating the fact that Spring did not get up, that the bat. tic must have been a Jrow. He seems offended that the reporter of the fitht should say that he has cot raised himself in the opinion of the i'ancy by this battle. The truth is sometimes unpleasant ; but that he should be offended at a truth so plain, shows he must be i.. possession of a larger stock of vanity than I gave him credit for. Well might the reporter say he has not raised himself, to al low a notice, more than a stone less, and two inches shorter, to stand successfully before him for nearly three hours, though backed by a ruffianly mob. Ile says, one-third of the time would have been sufficient, if the ring had not been broken and his hand had' remained sound. There I difliv with him; for if Langsn's hands were tied, he could not have beaten him in one hour. spring charges me with keeping up invidious distinctions be tween English and Irishmen. Permit me to say, there is not a man in existence who more highly respects the true-bred Englishman than myself; but there are ruffians in all countries. Those that il:-used Langan in the ring, did it from mercenarmotives—they would have done the same to a yorkshireman. But what made the umpires give such a decision must be, from tender feelings of country or pocket. I am, Gentlemen, with great respect, Your humble servant, Cheltenham, Jan. 19. THOS. RHYNOLDS. P.S.—After I had written the above:Wiringiis . ilautaZsPut into my hands, in which I had an opportunity of reading Mr. Spring's second letter. The first part of it this letter has answer. ed ; hut he says Langan made no titionplaint. This I deny ; for he told me and Josh repeatedly that he received kicks, and that the mob were preventing his throwing Spring. Ile also says that Lan gan's kicks were phantoms of the brain ; but I assure 111 r. Spring there was something more than imagination, for a number of re spectable persons in Worcester will hear witness that Langan's loins and back had the impression of the toe of a shoe as plain as if it had been printed. In hr. first letter of the 111th, in the Detpatee, he says lie wishes Langan's conduct out of the ring was equal to that in it: but, singular to rclat:, the conduct he praises in the Lkipoich, In the Eng/Worm:a which came out the same day he says my conduct was not right : but this is excusable ; for it is evident, from the styLy of the two letters, that they are not the production of one hand.—T. PUINCE Hour.xLons.—The Preston Chronicle con tains a letter horn the Rev. Inn. Benson, l'.P., Wolver ' hampton, on thy subject of an account ofa miracle, said to have been wrought cn a Miss Marsh, through the inter cession of Prince llohenlohe, which first appeared in the chronicle. The following is given by Mr. Benson, as a correct version of the affair : " When the late Miss Marsh found herself given up by her me dical attendants, she commended herself to Ood, through his co— equal son, Jesus Christ, with particular fervour, but with an equal resignation to his divine will, as she was instructed to do, should the Amighty see it to be more for his honour and her eternal wel. fare that her mortal course should then terminate, rather than be prolonged to a future period. t)f course she solicited the prayers of her friends here, and she hoped in the prayers of her fellow Ca tholics throughout the church, and part ieularlY in those of the pious Prince Holienlohe and his friend Martin :Michael, who, though she could not immediately communicate with them, she had reason to believe offered up their prayers for the Catholics of this kingdom who desired the benefit of them. It bliss Marsh had recovered by slow degrees, and io the ordinary way, we should have said :hat tt was a natural dispensation of the Divine bounty. If she had rem revel in an instant, as Winifred White did, frum a currature of the spine and hemiplegia, we should hare said it was a supernatural or miraculous dispensation of the same bounty. As it has been, we say that (lad had heard the prayers of the deceased and her friends, as was most conducive to his glory sad her eternal welfare. But our townsman in the mask. :sneers at theziuFernatural cure of teed White." LAW INDELLrGEKCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, udEnxEsDAT, JAL 'H. TX PANTE GIIIMSTrAD !N ilk HOWARD AND GINN% Mr. HART, at the sitting of the ('ourt, resumed his argument in this cause. He commenced by referring to various Famines in the charge of the Chief Justice or the Common Picas, at the trial hich took place, charging. XL% Grinstead with usury, and of I which he was convicted, as he l3lr. Hart) contended, front the misdirection of the Judge to the Jury, by a course of observations In which he indulged, and which were not justified by the evi dence at the trial. The Learned f;entleman then passed to the conaideration of the entries in the pass.'. which formed the ground for charging the transactions with the taint of usury. It appemred that in this book Itlr. Orlmstead got credit for various sums at different times, under different denominations. That which gave rise to most suspicion, was the word " produce," which the adversaries of 31r. Grirustead stated never could hate been used in an account when the transactions referred to annuities. There were various small sums set down us the produce of such and such sums for short intervals, in some cases for a few days. !The produce did not exceed what the legal investment of the money in annuities would have yielded. If the word " produce" were equivocal, it is not proper to look to the waning which was ' originally assigned to it in these transaction.. If it were contend ed that produce meant interest, be would refer to *dm entries where it meant that which resulted from an annuity, all in the case of the Hon. B. Paget, where it could not be regarded in at:y other point of view. The paints of this case were certainly complicated and unfit to he decided in Courts of Law. In those (burl nei ther the Judge nor the Jury could go through the difficult wind ings of a case of this nature with that circumspection and dili gence which a Judge in the Court of Equity was accustomed to exercise. The Le!tn Citaxcrston would here repeat an observation which he believed would prove to be correct, although he were to sit there for 3011 years, that when this ['outs directed an issue to the Courts below, it was bound to explain itself in the fullest and meat accurate manner. so as that the Judge might previously Neely the points on which the Court required information. This observation applied to the generality of cases sent from Equity Courts to Prins Courts. Ile remembered one instance in which a Learned Counsel, now raised to the office of cne of the Patrons of the Exchequer, was engaged, and which was sent from the Court of Chancery to the Court of Exchequer for decision, and I he would say that neither the Judge, nor any one of the learned per sons engaged, had a corr ec t not i on o f th e p o i n t s u p on w hi c h t h ey were called to decide. Mr. HART said that this case was one of the many which fre quently came before courts of equity, and which Juries' were not the best qualified persons to overcome : it presented those dif ficulties and peculiarities which could only be successfully en. cour.tered by capacities fitted fur such exercises by early enlighten-1 ment and long intellectual practice. In reference tothe charge of the Learned Judge who presided at the trial, his explanations were founded on a surposition that Mr. Grimsteati was a man of busi ness. The case was presented to the Jury as one of presumption. which supposed a variety of circumstances that were inconsistent with the probable state of the case. But to support a charge of usury. circumstantial evidence of 2,0 vague a nature as this was in• sufficient; the contract between the parties should have been made openly to appear. The LORD ettaucrt.rot said it struck him that the point which should hare been put to the Jury, and which it did not ap pear was put by the Learned J udge, WM, is lictheror not the frequency with which the passed front one party to another should be ' taken as a proof of Grinisteasl's having entered into the contract proposed by Gibbs. 31r. HORNE said that was the way in which the opposite side put theircase. _ Mr. Hear contended that it was necessary to prove that Mr. Grimstead had availed himself of the frequent opportunitii s af forded hint of inspecting the pass-book; he denied that Mr. Grim stead at all referred to it. lie begged to refer his Lordship to folio 3 of the pasedsook, in which it appeared that the nature of the dealing was this Gibbs nu to receive the annuities for Mr. Grinstead as they became due, and pay over to 31r. Grim_ stead the balance, reserving to himself:.'; per cent. for the collec tion of the annuities. The Commission was resndarly charged at the close of several accounts. If the money of Mr. Itnnistead was at interest, could he allow Mr. Gibbs to deduct 2i per cent. from such interest. Suppose Sir. Gibbs to say to Sir. Gnmstead, „I could not lay out your money fur a long period, but I met A or B, who wanted two or three hundred fir a fortnight, and who gave five pounds for the accommodation of it." That, he contended, would not constitute usury on the part of Grinistead. The very term "commission" proved that this money did not mean interest, for commission was paid only for the collection of money, or for some act of agency or brokerage. Having established that point, he hoped, to the satisfaction of his Lordship, he submitted that the present case was one which Wag more suited for an equity Judge to decide upon than to be discussed in a Court of law. As the case, however, did go before a ream he (Mr. !tart), had reason to expect that the Lamed Judge who presided would have pointed out the period at which the character of the parties was changed from that of principal and agent to that of borrower and lender. The Learned Judge, in reference to that point, made this preliminary observation, and a more extraordinary one he believed was never made in a Court of Justice. " Although Grimstead be lieved that Gibbs disposed of the money entrusted to him in the manner which it was contended he did dispose of it; yrt there were elretimetances in this case which should have induced him not to believe it." So then, his honest and conscientious belief that Gibbs held the money as his agent, was insufficient; it was requi site that he should have so seen into circumstances u not to have entertained such& belief. would such a doctrine lead to? 11 - hy to ;his, that if Mr. Grimstead were convicted of users , and visited with the civil consequences , t h e esta bli s h ment o f the fact of usury in a civil suit, would warrant a criminal prosecution to be instituted against him; and this because he could not resist the conscientious conviction of his mind. If the doctrine of the ('hief Justice of the Common Pleas were to pervade all transactions be tween principal and agent, it would be an easy matter to detect any person in an usurious transaction. A gentleman may have a long and extensive dealing with an agent ; on the winding up of the ac counts, 5} per cent., instead of' 3 per cent., might be paid by the agent. The principal may naturally entertain the belief that the additional quarter per cent. Was paid on the aggre gate of the interest long due; yet, according to the doc trine of the Chief Justice, he might he visited with a charge of usury, through the unintentional, or perhaps artful insertion, of surplus interest, by, the ngent. The Learned Judge still further said, that this book *as characterized by great irregu larity. True it was, that it evinc e d great irregularity in the keeping of the accounts, but the Learned Judge proceeded still further to add, that it carried with it the proof of a nefarious contract. A proposition of the Learned Judge front which lie (31r. Hart), beg ged respectfully to differ), was.—" This is a case in which we are not toexpeet a day-light evidence." The owner of the money had • right to such evidence. It was incumbent on thou who aimed to defeat the ris of 3lr. Mr. Grimstead to his proerty to clearly prove him disentitled to it--to 'hew intention on Ina h art to infringe upon a legal contract, and to put out his money for the purpose of reaping illegitimate profit. The Loan (7DANCEL7OR wished to put this point to the con sideration of CounseL—Suppose he (the Lord Chancellor) had money in r country bank ; that the hanker sent him six per cent. for that money : if he were to send back the six per cent. and desire him to return the capital, that would be perfectly 'fair ; but if he were to receive that six per cent., would not his receipt of it be an adoption of a contract to receive that exorbitant interest, and amount to an act of usury ? Sir. HART denied that any knowledge whatever had been con veyed to Mr. Grimstead of his having receives! exorbitant interest. He had throughout been led to believe, that his claim was a bona jitk claim, and he concluded by the expression of a hope that his Lordship would permit him to prove before the commissioners of bankrupts. Mr. HEALS) followed on the tame side. As his Learned Friends who preceded him had so fully opened the petition, it remained for him, as junior Counsel to his Learned Friends who would follow him, to direct his Lordship's attention to nuts of the evil dence, pointing out the unsatisfactory manner in which his client's rights had been dealt with. Ile would premise that his client had a right to appeal front the Vice-Chancellor's direction of an issue to this Court, not only because there really existed no evidence to warraot such a direcion, but besides, because the case itself had not been discussed before the Vice-Chancellor directed an issue. the immediate question now before his Lordship was, whether Mr. Grinstead be or be not allowed to prove his debt before the Commissioners, and he would select such parts of the evidence only as immediately bore on that question. lie would rot con sider this question as if a new trial were now sought for ; he would only presume, that the late trial vies not conclusive of the case, and would discuss it upon the evidence existing at the period' of the original application to the Vice-Chancellor. In reference to the items an the pass-book he would admit that there were several, which, taken separately, would seem to hear the construction of usury, but which were explained in a subseyient part of the ac. count, and cleared those items from such an imputation. The I I usurious contract was inferred (*min the circumstance of the keeping I of the book by Grinstead Bet if it appeared that the principal did not examine it, then the charge of usury could not be sue- tained. Suppose it were proposed to bhn by an agent, " Give me 1,8(101., for which you shall receive from me an nnnuitv. amid ton shall consider me the grantee of the annuity until I shall purer ale one for you." Might not such a contract have taken piece, and might not these items be accounted for, on the supposition of such a contract, and not on an usurious one. A contract such as that he now suppoeM, was not inconsistent with sense, and he had as much right to infer it as his learned friends opposite had to infer an illegitimate contract in she absence I of any evidence to sustain a charge of usury. Supposing the book to be tight, and supposing it to warrant the infirrence of an usurious contract, yet it warranted the inference of a different and more probable contract. He would then refer to the evidence, which all went to remove the character of usury from the contract, and to sustain the one which he (Mr. II.) alleged it to possess. The first part of the evidence to which he would call his Lo-dship's attention, was the evidence of Mr. Gibbs, on the Pith of October, Itel, before the commissioners. The account which he gave then was, that the manner in which he satisfied 31r. Grimmest' its to the disposal of his money was, that he set down the investments which he had made in the book as they appeared in it. 31r. Gibbs further said, at his examination, that Mr. Grinstead did not inspect the books, and he (Gibbs) soon discovers, that (trimmed knew nothing of accounts. The evidence of Gibbs went on to i stew, that these entries were made with a view of inisleadieg lirlinstead. He would next refer to the evidence of Grim:dear!, which, us he was the comp?* nant, his evidence should be received with great caution. His examinaticn tack place on the 24th of October 1821 ; he was asked, if he believed if all the money transferred by him to Howard and Gibbs wits vested in annuities; to which he replied, he did: and added, that Mr. told him, that he had so laid h out, alit he had the usennty-decdi ups those annuities in his posarision, and that Mr. Gibbs furnished him with the amount of the annuities, and of the peones who were the grantors of them. This was strong evident*, if uncon tradiettd, of his belief of the nature of the terms an which Ho*ard and Gibbs held his money, and there was no evidence at all at va riance with this declaration of his belief. The balante which Mr. Orimatead there claimed to prove, was 311,0001. Mr. Grinstead declared, that he never east up a page of the book in his life: and that he abstained from doing so, from the unreserved confidence which he reposed in tha bulb-rums. It was his belief, that Howard and Gibbs had no money of his that was not laid out in annuities. The Loan CHANCELLOR said it was important that this evi dence should have been givtn at the trial. It would seem from this evidence that Howard and Gibbs held the money, which they represented to lirionstead to have been laid out in annuities. Sup pose any of those persona whom thee represented to be tNIIIIMS of annuities had died, Howard and O fhb* would have retained the money, which they misrepresented as laid out in the purchase of annuities, and Mr. Orimstead could not •have recovered it from them. - lie.. IfEarn resumed. lie proceeded to read other paauget from Mr. Grimatead's evidence, with a view of Athewing that he had not the slightest notion that he entered into a usurisus con tract with Gibbs; and that, if such a convect bad been Proposed to him he would nbt have enteral into it. lie considered 10 per rent. for annuities may entdvaleit to , per cent., on account of the risk Which he encountered. The Learned Counsel next referred to parts of Gibbs's teniusany, which corroborated the passages be had previously read from Grimsteod's evidence.- in the subsequent examinations of Mr. Grinistead, he repeated materially the evi dence already read ; he added, that the expectation of receiving 10 per cent. was not the reason that induced him to abstain Ikon examining the books; he abstained so solely from his confidence in the bankrupts. Not only was the evidence of .Mr . Grimstead un ' contradicted by the testimony of oth e rs, b u t, king as it was, rut fee. ' quent as were the examinations to which he had been subjected, there was no important variance in any part of his evidence. Gibbs even admitted that he represented the securitim to be ready, and the parties to be urgent for the money. Th e L earne d Gentleman pro ceeded to read a large marts of documentary evidence of the clerks of Howard and Gibbs, all of which tended to disprove the charge of usury against Mr. Gtimstaid. As the whole evidence, then, sus.. minet the original proposition, he laid down that two inferences ' might be drawn from the book : one, that a usurious contract had been formed between the parties • and the other, that no such contract had at any time been entertained. As the latter inference was sustained by the entire evidence, and the former unsupported by any testimony, he (Mr. Heald) would conclude with the expres iron of an anticipated conviction thus hit Lordship would grant permission to prove the debt , before the Conituiesionses ; and that he would dad with it as when if came in the first instance berate the Vice-Chancellor. Mr. .MON TAG L'E followed on the same side. After the opener of this petition by his Learned Friend, the Solichor_Oeneral, and after the unanswerable arguments upon it by his Learned Friends who followed him—after the hit vest which had been slimily stored up, there remained but little for him to gleam. The Learned Gentleman then complained of the hardship which had been done his client, by sending this cue to a jury ; for jurors he entertained the highest veneration—they were the best safeguards of the liber ties of this great nation—and looking at the armorial bearing of his late friend and benefactor, who was the champion of as Trial by Jury" (The Learned Gentleman here pointed to the armorial en sign of Lord Erskine, painted in Lincoltes-inn Hall,) he was filled with respect and reverence towards it. But useful and salutary as such an institution may be in cases Of criminal prosecution, in cases whicl....garded the liberty of the subject, he was of opinion that a jury was not always the most satisfactory tribunal to which civil cues could be referred. After having pointed out many cases in which equity ,jurisdiction was preferable to a reference to a jury, and having shown instances of great injustice which had occurred to various parties, titan not having their suits disposed of at equity, he begged to call his Lordship's attention to the last page in Me WO on which the whole of Grimstcad's case rested. The whole of the sum now claimed, and the names of the moult- I ants, were there stated. Every name and every sum there inserted ' was a false entry, and an imposition practised on Mr. Grinistead. I After such an imposition, he would ask, was there a lawyer, or a merchant, or any man in society, who did not think that Mr. Grim stead was entitled to recover the whole amount of the money which had been represented to him to have been laid out in annuities, or at least to the privilege of proving his debt ? The Learned Gesitk man here read most of the evidence which had been given before the Commissioners, and agsin recurring to the principle which I should regulate the conduct of a judge in detemdning causes, be concluded by reading a passage from one of Lord Bacon's essays, on the subject of an impartial judication. The Loan CHANCELLOR, at the close of the passage which the Learned Counsel read, said he would then retire to meditate on what Mr. Montague had read. lie intimated that be would re sume the hearing of the cause to-morrow. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, WEDNISDAY, JAN. 21. [Sittings al IVestmisistee before the I.OBD Cutler Jesricx eel Special Juries.] Tilt KING r. troor. This was an indictment against the defendant. Captain Hook, for an indecent exposure of his person to a little girl in the Kent ish Town stage-coach. Mr. CHITTY conducted the case for the prosecution, and fully proved the exposure, but nothing further. The ATTORNEY•OZNERAL addressed the Jury in feeling tars, and called. 1/r. Pearson, who proved that the defendant was obliged to act as he had done, for the sake of his health. The Jury at once found a verdict of Not Guilty. GAMBLING. WILLAN! T. TAYLOR. This was a penal action under the and Jth of Queen Anne, to recover the sum of 5621. alleged to have been lost at play, during the months of March, April, and May, 11h*2, by William Winans, the brother of the plaintiff; in a house, No. 37 and 58, in Pall_ mall, kept by the defendant, and also to recover a per.alty of 19581. being treble the amount of the sum Icst. M 7. PAT T ISOH opened the pleadings. Mr. C. PHILLIPS stated the case. The action, he said, was in. stituted under a particular statute, passed foe the purpose of repres sing the dangerous, and, unhappily, ton prevalent vice of gaming. The brother of the plaintiff was one of those who had fallen victims to this ruinous propensity. lie was previously a young gentleman of very respectable family, by whom he had been established in the wine trade. Unfortunately he had been introduced to the defen dant's gaming -house. He frequented It for a considerable period. and through his continual ill luck, lost upwards of one thou. sand four hundred pounds. Ills friends, finding him sunk in poverty, separated from his partner, and compelled to wait it pecuniary assist ante from them required an explication of the mode in which he bad dissipated his money. The truth was then revealed,and it was determined by his brother.the plaintiff, to insti tute the present action for the recovery of such part of his losses as would fall within the period prescribed by law. By the statute un der which this action was brought, it was provided, that Vat one sitting any person lust a sum exceeding 101. at a common gaming house, he might within three months recover the same, and a pe nalty of treble the amount of the sum lost from the keeper of the gaining-house. If the loser omitted to bring the action for his own benefit, any third party might institute proceedings fur the recovery of the sum lost, and the penalty, provided the action was commenced within twelve months of the period of the loss. The plaintiff had availed himself of this salutary statute to proceed against the defendant, in whose house his brother had been beg wired. The Jury would hear from the unfortunate young gentle man himself the tale of his ruin. From his evidence it would op pear, that he had been liberally supplied by his friends, and that during the months of March and April. he had almost every night in the defendant's house lost large sums at the game of more et noir. There were two other witnesses whom it was intended to adduce in corroboration of his testimonfy, but it was to be appre hended that they would not appear that day before the jury. By some means they had been induced latterly to keep themselves out of the way of the plaintiff's solicitor. They had been regularly subpana'd, and would, if they were not forthcoming, be ca ll e d upon their subptona . IVithout their evidence, however, the case would be fully substantiated by the testimony of the plaintifl"s bro. the. The learned Counsel conciuded an address of great abilit y with an eloquent invective against the sordid vice by which las client's brother had been infatuated to his ruin. Mr. William Wiliam' ass then sworn.—l am the brother of the plaintiff: I know the house No. 57 and tdi, Pall-tualL In March, iti22, it was kept by the defendant. It was a common gambling. house. The game played was rouge et noir. I was introduced there on the 15th of pant,. I was there again on the 20th, and played at rouge et noir, and lost 25L--I'l'he witness then read Iron ! a written memorandum a stat_nient of the sums he had lost, and the dates when, from the 211th of 313/Cll to the la of May, inch,. sive. The total amount of these aunts was 1a2.1. The largest item war, :Sprit 5, 1061.1—At that time I did business on the istmk Exchange. Previously I was a wine.merehant. The dependant I was always present wlitm I was there. lie presided at the talilc. I cid aettled disputes between the players. I once saw him at house at ....le corner of Ilulton-street, where I went at the request of my mother. I told him why I woo there. Ile said, " I hat e re. coved letters, saying yoo have lost money at my hou s e, b u t I deh't • recollect your person. ' I expreased my surprise. Ille then scat fro a dealer at the gambling-house in Pall-niall. When he came the deakr said he recollected my face. The defendant said to :la. dealer, " This gentleman Say* 'he has lost 1.100:. in my house do t you know any thing of it ?" The dealer said, " I think he must be mistaken, as he only played for small sums." The .le. tendant asked me if I 1 , 4/married. I answered in the aflinnstiy.. lie said, that had he known that fart he would not hate allowed nu to enter his house. 11 e asked me w hat he could do for etc. told him it was is very unpleasant business en which I came. hit that I was acting acc o rding to my mother's deAire, and that -I e wished lie should return time the money I !ma lost. Ile said in would either pay hack the trotter or procure me a situation under Gor ernnier.t, or in sm..e public cffire. I said I would consider it in no occasion do I recollect that any person on en!erirg 1 . 1•2 defendant's house was asked whether he 14.14 marrird, or a huh,' ? The game was played by six packs of cards against t h e Lep"- u: the house. There were wines, spirits, cakes, anti every thing n... at the expense of the house. _ . _ rots-examined by the Ar T n sir v-tir I: II 1..- y cet t a i, : i r not rely on meniory for dates and sums; I wrote !hem down at ti n • time, night by night. not all at the same time. The arconnt I:- gins on the 13th of March, just twelve months before the urn , r.tN sued out. I will swear that the memorandum, frown which I I:t•:: read the IWCOUIII of the sums lost, was written every night after I returned hem from the table. I always used to put down the su:rs I had lost or won. I began to fruptent the defendant's housr in February, 1321. I was introduced hr a Mr. East. 1 lw:iw Maier Iforger, hut never saw bits till 1 met hiai there. I was 2t tl:g ULM:. lb. Bury -street. I have been at It), liing.street. I qnlll. {^, ~'. ► i