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LAN N OTICtS. CORN LAWS. DI HUSKISSON'S LETTER TO A CONSTIT 28 UENT. Hefifordshire, nil ay , 1814. Mt Draw SIN —A report has reached Mt from various quarters, that the pert which I have taken in the Home of Commons on the c ern Leyte has given offence to some of my constituents. I have. heard Olio report with great concern, but, considering the misrepre. pentations which are industriously circulated throughout the coun. try, without muc h surprise. In opposing , on I did, the scheme of Sir Henry Parnell, 'belay. leg a prohibitory duty on the importation of foreign wheat up to ass per quarter. and that of Alt. Fleeter, for prohibiting it alto. gether up to 100.., 1 have incurred the displepeure of many, who t hi n k that the 11 • It gr ower will not be %Milt:3olde protected by the much milder system which 1 have substituted. (In the other hand. there are ninny others who think that the scale by which 1 have proposed to replete the import is too high. I will not pre tend to say that the circumstance of some condemning my sugges tion, as not doing enough, and others, as doing too much, is any proof (though I think it tinned% some pretiumptioni that the middle course which 1 have steered between, the supposed oppoeite inte rests of the grower and c oneutner„ is fair to bnth, But of thin lam quite sure, that the far wronger meaeuree which were proposed in the House would not base been, rejected if an attempt had been mule simply to negative them, without substituting some other roomette in then steed. It is unnecessary for me to trouble you with my reasons far op. voting the stronger measure" of Sir 11. Parnell and Alr. Foster ; because I apprehend that whatever objections are felt at Chiches. ter against my plan, they are founded on the supposition, not that it does not go far omugh, hut two far for the protection of the Bri tish grower, and that the effect of it will be to prise hard upon the commove and the poor. If I were nit fully come-col that the consumer in general, hut Mae especially that class of consumers whose subsistence depends an their awn industry, would be benefited by the proposed alter. anon, it would not have had my support. My sole object to pro: vent (as far as h uma n means can prevent) bread corn front esse again reaching the late eettavogant totem Can any man lhaeft witnessed the worthies and consequent privations of the people, during six or seven diffetent at asona of the last twenty years, without feeling noxious to guard the country against the re turn of such severe distress? But if we wish to cure an evil of this alarming ma gnitude, we must first trace it to its source. What is that source? Obviously this,—that, until now, we did not, even in good years, grow corn enough for our own con sumption. Habitually depending on foreign supply, that supply was rittonmpted by war, or by bad unseal *bond- The present war, it is true, is now at an end ; but peace is, at all dime, too precarious not to induce us to guard spinet the repetition of While, calamities, whenever hostilities may be renewed. But even in peace the habitual dependence on foreign supply is dangefotto We place the subsistence of out own population not only at the mete of foreign powers, but also on their being able to spare as touch corn as we may want to buy. Suppose, as it frequently hap pew, the harvest in the same year to be a short one. out wily in this country, but in the foreign countries from which we are fed—What fnilows It The katintally exporting country, France for instance. slops the export alio own, and feeds its people without any great pressure. The habitually impelling country, England, which, even in a good semen, has hitherto depended on the aid of foreign corn. deprived of that aid in a year of ecareit tele driven to distress bordering on famine. Thezz is, therefore, no effectual security, either in peace or war, against the frequent retool of scarcity approaching to starvation. such as of late years' we have se frequently experienced, but in our maintaining ourselem'habinially independent of foreign supply. bet the bread we rat be the produce of corn grown among (tweeters, and, for one, 1 care not how cheap le is • the cheaper the better. It is cheap now, and I rejoice at it, because it is altogether owing to a sufficiency of earn of out own growth. Rut in order to insure a continuance of thanel.eapnestand that salficieacy, we must !noire to our own growers that protection against foreign import which has produced there blcesings, andley whieh alone they can be per. maueetly maintained. The history of the country foe the last one hundred and seventy years clearly proves. on'the one hand, thin cheapness produced by foreign import is the sure forerunner of ReaecOye and on the other, that a weedy home supply is the only safe foundation of steady and moderate prices. Poring upwards of one hundred year*, up to the year 1765. the import of foreign corn was restrained by very high duds. Wear w a s the g r a te of the country during those one hun. tired leers e That in ordinary seasons OUT own growth supplied a stock of corn fully ample for near own consumption ; ' that in abun dolt seasens we had some to spare, which we estiewted ; —that In bail lemons we felt no want , anti were under n 6 apprehension that the price of corn seldom varied more then a few shilling% per quarter ;--that we had no years of inordinate gain to the tanner, and of starvation to the consumer ; that prices, instead of rising from year to yese, were gradually dimintehitig; RD that at the end of this long period of a century. during eted.ch we never imported foreign corn, they were actually me.fiftli lout r than at the beginning of it. Would to (lotd that we bad continued in this salutary written)! But in 1765 it was most witurtunatele abandoned. That has been the 'result ? Pre cisely the reverse of the former system. Instead of a steady supply, afforded at steady said moderate prices, we have witnessed frequent arid shinning scarcities. Every you our dependence on foreign enmity greatly aggravated all our evils; for a country which depends 011 enemies or rival, for the food of its people is never safe in war. In the first eighteen years of this war we were faecal to pay 11 minium' of money (to netioas, every one of whom has. in Cot (oume of it, been our enemy). fix a scanty and iade quate supply of foreign corn; and when, for this purpose, we had parttd with all our gold. and even our silver currency, combined Europe shut its ports against us ; and America co-operstiog, first laid in emhorgo, and then to war. This combination was formed with the vain hope to break our spirit by starving our bodies. We snuggled hard both at home and abroad. but by the struggle we have gamed much. Abroad we have subdued our enemies—at borne we come out of the war with our agriculture so extended and improved, as to make us at this moment independent of foreign supply. IVe see so et this moment ; and shall I, who, to the en tire conviction of my judgment, have traced the long sufferings of the people to a contrary state of things, be deterred front using ney honest entleevours in Parliament to prevent the recurrence of such suffetinge ? For that purpose we must go back to the principle of our forefathers; amid, by reverting as p os te rity possible to theis e y e tem, we shall secure to ourselves and our all►the bener ins which they derived from it. I admit that if unlimited fo rei g n import, which the war had sus • • welded. were sow again allowed, bread might be a little, though a very little, cheaper than it now is, for a year or two. But what 'You'd endow ? The small farmer would be ruined—improvements you'd every where wand still—intl .- jot lands, now producing corn, would be given up. and return to a state of waste. The home consume ion and brisk demand for all the various articles of the viol trade-, which lies so much contributed, even during the Tires ome of war, to the prosperity of the towns fetid especially of those wives are not connected with manufactures of foreign com mie:), woe's(' rapidly decline ; farming servants , and a ll the trades which depend on agriculture for employment, would he thrown out of work ; and the necessary result of the want of work would he, that wages would fall even more rapidly than the price of Wad. Then comes some interruption to the foreign import, coinciding with the decay of agriculture at home. and corn is suddenly forced up again to a famine price. Such , I c onceive re anti I he th e inevitable consequence of again placing our. s e ttee tr a state of habitual and increasing dependence on foreign sepoly. 'Who. tip in the long run, would profit by such a state of things? Certainty not the consumer e but precisely those who have refired eh much already from a similar state of things—namely, to: oetegrewn farmers, with large capitals. They will be enabled, fir two or three ye tea, to bear Realist the foreign import ; and when. cat that imeott is interrupted, the extravagant priest they will then be enabled to command will more than repay the temperary lo se" vet h their poorer but not less industrious neighbours had not the means to withstand. Every acre thus forced out of cultiva- Coe will ensure to them an ultimate increase of profit, sod. in pro p .mien of that Folio will inflict an increased . pressure on the con nemer. To protect the small firmer, therefore, at this moment, is el imalely tO protect the people. This is my wire object; and, whatever silty he the fate of the bill now in the Howie of Commons, I col most roraeirwtieasty declare is, in my opinion, the sole tend ency of rile plate-which that bill is calculated to carry into effect. I have treteired you alre'tly st great length; but the subject Is far ton exteneile to be prop. rly dis noted in any hasty communica tion which numrt we avocations hers will afford me Leone to ho'd with ary sf my co-stituentc. i.e yeasit his oecupied my attention t and for years. I can truly me, I have foreseen the neces sity of adopting the peinciples on which the House of Commons is saw acting. If ny . conertutn e, upon mature conalitc-ation. alined diff.r from that, e principles. I shall deeply regret that 1 cannot c incur in their o e.ei ins. 'fn them I nice every respect, and to their wishes it mu t ero first anh to show every possible deference; but on an o casion in which, after my most anztoun reflection, my own ennui ell 0 101 judgment is satisfied that the course which I have pursued is reculatei to promote the best interests of the country. and to place the nib tett nee of the people upon a footing more stable and %Tufa, more cnntluetive to regular industry, and individual cola fm. 1 deoefil hold myself unworthy of the trust which has been r, nfi led to rote, and should indeed feel that I had betrayed it, if 1 vote to put even the risk of leasing the good will of it part on wit of my emwituents (a momentary loss I should toed) in competih tne eiecharge of a sacred public duty. They know and velue their own i :dependence ; but, in proeortton as It is dear to them, they mono t ireepect mine. I moo frankly Kay, if i cannot be their unfettered representative 0 . I cannot. to wry purpore, represent them at Rll. To their services. ethic!) is that of the public. my time and attention in Parliament are weedily aed cheerfully devoted. The osly reward I look for is the kindliest and confidence of those who have sent me there; but that reward, however valued, I can neither consent to purchase at the expense of teeth, nor to retain by Mattering the people to their ruin. In unfortunately, this be the price which a Member fur Chi. cheerer is e xpected to pay for list seat, which I deem it the proudest honour to owe to their own free choice, It is a price which neither duty roe honour will permit nee to pay ; for I should then hold that seat by a tenure me injurious to their intereets, than deg to the character or their representative. These feelings you admit li •a ty to make known In any quarter you may think proper. I .hare thought that the wanton called for them —1 have r stated them • w [hoot reserve; but ocitle a n undiminished sense of gee t itude fo the many favours and hiewdly offices for which I am indebted peeu - 'tonally to you, and many o th ers. and generally to all my cons turn - a. Bei vs me, my dear Sir, very faithfully yours , WILLIAM hIL'SKISSON. COURT OF KING'S BENCh. DAT.-TO SIT AT lIALIP-PAST MINI. • London Special Jude►. Snow T. Lsibmn. lit Saslib T. Noakes Preston T. Lord by order . Jones v. Ander4en Grindley. Fussell T. Brooks I Lloyd v. Fred:Meld wcinivirity T. Simeon. The King T. W. Clark N.B. No Common Jades till further notice. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Thursday, Oetober 26. 1826, to sit at Ten o'clock. London Special Juries. Flock e. Jones 1 Flock v. Jonet. Shout. appointed to be held In Mittelleses and London, before the Riolst Honourable Sir Caper Best, Knight, Lord Cilltif Jostle. of his Majesty's Coni: of Common Pleas, dt Westminster, In Sod after Michaelmas Terns, 1826. IN ?MIN. - Middlesex. London. Tuesday ..... ...... .. November 7 'Wednesday November 8 Wednesday November IF. Tburaday .... ..... ...November IS Wednesday . November 22 Thursday November 23 AAAAA MM. Wednesdny ..... . November 29 Tburitley ............Nnv .mber 30 N.B. The Court will sit at one o'clock on November 7111. stb, 13th, and 16th, and at half past nine precisely on each of the other days. ADMIRALTY SESVIO,VS, OLD Ban. y, OCT. 24. These Sessions were opened yesterday by Lord STownr.r., the Judge of the High Court of Admiralty. His Lordship was as sisted by Mr. Justice PARK and Mr. Heron GA *sow, and was attended by Drs. PIitt.LISIORE, PICKARD, and HAGGARD. The usual preliminary formalities having been gone through, and the Grand Jury sworn— His 1,0111118111 P addressed them as follows :—The usual course of business imposes on me the necessity of addressing you on the duties you have to petform. I have seldom found it necessary to detain you long with any ir.structions. Of your general p rudent I rim entirely satisfied, and the principles that are to regulate our judgment are almost as Imbiber to you as they ate to myself. You ate perfectly aware that you have only to consider the evidence brought by the party that makes the charge ; and if yon are tho roughly convinced that t h e prima fucie evidence makes a ptobsble case against the prisoners ; lion mat evidence you find it probable that the crime may have been committed, and by the party charged, you will find a true bill, and return it to the Court, where the maitre may be sifted to the bottom, and where the party charged may have an opportunity of making his defence, and, if net Mo. *Hag ete charge altogether( at least of extenuating the crime so ea to reduce it to a much lower standard of guilt. Of the particular duties which occur to you this Session, I can only speak with some degree of uncettaihty. There are in all six charges for your con sideratlon. Four of then) are cases of much gravity and import anct—two of them beng charges of murder, one for selling slave; an offence constituted by Act of Parliament, and by statute made capital—and one being for cruel and barbarous treatinentof a mari ner, under pretence of mil sting regular and allowed punishment. To these charges your particular attention will be re9uired. There are two others of much slighter importance. VI Itich of these cases you will receive I arh not sufliciently instructed to say; but whatever cases are brought before you, you will bestow on them your most deliberate attention. I now recommend your immediate application to the business ct the day. The Grand Jury that withdrew. After an . absence of an hour they returned. having found a true bill aga in s t Captain Titania* Young, for selling four African girla as slaves. The ATToRNET and Sor.teiroll figit enai., Sir C. HOST*. son. the King, Advocate, and Mr. BARNETT, conducted the ease for the Crown, and Mr. Coawoon was Counsel for the pri- The prisoner, on being arraigned, pleaded not guilty. Air. BARNETT opened the indictment, Which contained eleven counts, each setting finch the offence charged, with very slight va riation. Sir C. ROBINSON then said that the offence on which the pH.. soner wan charged was founded on a recent Act of Farliament, which made the crime a felony without benefit of Clergy. This was the first offence which had been tried under this Act, by *lslch the punishment had been so much augmented. The first Act on this subject was the Stith Geo. 111., which made all traffic in statics by British subjects penal, other than to the British settlements. In the following year another Act was passed, abolishing all traffic whatever in slaves: these two Acts had not however made the offence criminal, so as to bring it under the criminal law. In the year I:31, it was thought expedient to attach much severer penal ties to the offence, anti an Act was passed making the crime a felony punishable with transportation for any less period than four. teen years. In 1821 another Act was passed, in which all the pre ceding Acts were consolidated and amended. In this Act it wea thought necessary still further to increase the penalty : they hod. before proceeded from pecuni.:ry punishment to transportilled, and they now punished the offence as piracy, with death. whitest heoefit of Clergy. The Learned Advocate having thus stated the law, proceeded to detail the facts constituting the offance of the prisoner. The prisoner at the bar, he said, left this country, as master of a Liverpool vessel. in tha spring of the year 1825. for the coast of Africa, to trade in gum, ivory, &c. Having arrived there, she remained during the summer. About the month of No vember she was lying a little to the northward of the Line, in the. river Danjah, in company with a French and Spanish slave-vessel. Having delivered to the natives the cutlery and other articles which the vessel hail carried out for them, it is the custom of the trade to take hostages from the Africans for the fulfilment of their part of the contract. Part of the hostages which the prisoner had taken according to custom were released, bet the four women referred to in the indictment, who were the wives of traders or petty princes,. were retained ; and it would appear that the prisoner had said that, unless their husbands saute and fulfilled their contracts, which it appeared they had not yet done, he would tell them as slaves. These parties, however, afterwards came and fulfilled their cow. tract. Bat the primmer then :-banged his ground, and threatened' to sell them if some other party,, with whom they had no canna lila., whatever, kad not fulfilled his contract. IFhile this was going' on an intercourse arose between the prisoner and the Spanish slave ship, anti in the course of their transactions Ite offered to sell them to the mate of the Spanish ship. With this view they were brought out, and shown, one by one, to the Spaniard. Some conversation then took place between the prisoner and the mate of the Spanish ship. The women were brought in again, and shown like so many cattle ; a price was mentioned ; a good deal of haggling followed; and at last the women were put into a boat, and carried on board the Spanish ship, which was a regular slave ship. He (the Learned Advocate) had only further to say, that he understood that a very different complexion would be attempted to be put on this transacuon, and that the object was only to give the Spanish Captain a sort of qualified interest in them, as hostages for the performance of the contract ; that he was to return them, and therefore that the tranaactlon did not come under the Slave Acts. lie toilieved he should be able to prove these facts by the evidence; and if so, then the guilt of the prisoner would be completely established. David Pepper, examined by . the ATTORNEY-Gasoftab-•-1 VMS steward of the ship Malta, in the year 1825. The 11a1ta was then engaged in the trade between Liverpool and the coast of Africa. She sailed for Africa in March, 1825 ; the prisoner was the captain. There were twelve hands besides the certain and mate. The first point of Africa that they touchtd at was the island of St. Thomas. I know the river Danjah ; when we got there we began to trade with the natives ; we bought of then: wood anti ivory, and gave in exchange cloth and cutlery. I believe they are such articles as are usually taken out to the coast of Africa. This trade was carried on under the direction of the prisoner. We were stationed about three miles and a ball from the coast. The Malta was in moorings ; she was stationed between the island of Marisco and the main land ; this island is ahoCt eight miles from the coast. In the course of carrying on this trade Several black women came on board ; there were about fourteen of them the first time • the cap tain said at the time, if their husbands came and paid the debt he would set them free. They came on board as " pawns," to remain till the wood and ivory had been sant on board ; the whole of these fourteen women were released and went home. I recollect also eight other women coming as pawns; the whole of these were re deemed by their husbands, but the captain said he would detain four of them till the debt due from their Prince was paid ; their names were Neurah, Pikiniuni, Jumbo Jack, and Quiche'. : the last was called Primes gaarbel, because she was the wife of the Prince. The prisoner said before me, that if the Prince did not come and pay him, he would "make sale of the women." This he stated to their husbands in my hearing. I heard the prisoner say that there was a Spanish schooner lying off at St. John's, and he would sell them there t she was in sight at the time. The mate of the schooner came on board us ; he could speak good English. He asked the prisoner if he hid any goods to sell ? The prisoner replied he had sotne beads, cloth, &e. The prisoner said to him that he had four women to sell also, and told me to bring the wo men out of the steerage. The mate said that there was a French slave vessel at a short distance ; and as the Frenchman had no small articles, he could not get any slaves. I brought up the women one by one into the cabin. The Spanish mate said they were good-look. ing women, espe,i tlly Neurah ; tint the captain said lie did not wish to sell her; and the Spanish mate went away next morning; his name was Botch. The uext morning the schooner came ; this was on the 18th of November t we 'Awed the schooner with four guns ; the captain then came on board us. The prisoner directed the in terpreter to say to the Spanish captain, " that the four women I spoke to the mate about ought be had for sale ;" and then directed me to bring them up for the Spanish captain to see them, which I immediately did. The prisoner took hold of the women by the shouldera, and I mewed them round, for the purpose of showing them. The Spanish captain w e n t awa y shortly after. lie came again text day, and after they had concluded a bargain about the small goods (beads, cutlery, &c.), the prisoner said to him, " T a k e the women off our hands." The prisoner asked sixty dollarall The Spanish cap•ain said he would give twenty-eight dollars a-piece. The Spanish captain then put some dollars on the table, and saiJ he would not give any more—alluding to some price w hich had been Want ; after which the prisoner told him he might have them. The Spanish captain then sent his boat for some mo ney. which was brought on board the Malta. The money was counted out. The Interpreter said, " This is the money fur the women." The pfeorter was present. He then gave it to me. I counted It, and put it into a bag. Before the money was paid down the prisoner said. " I can say nothing for Neurah, d---n her; I'll sell her. though she is an old friend ; she must go as well as the rest, as I shall never be here again." liThen they were brought up to be put into the boat that was to catry them off, the prisoner said, " Neural, you must go for a Spanish man." The women were much distressed. The prisoner was standing in the gangway, and heard all then cries. I was afterwards sent to the Spanish schooner, and saw the four women. Neurah, with her companions, was sit ting au.oog the other slaves, and crying. She shook berate with TUE B SH. I)] me. There appeared to be about slaty altogether. The men were in irons, two and two ; the women were not i some were on deck, others in the hold ; end they were stowing the former below. Croes.examined by Mr. Co itwoop.—Neurah was not. the wife of Antonio Tom. Our weasel wee piped hi the titer Danish. I ne-er swore that the slaves were pot es lentil a Spanish vessel to be taken to Gamtimm. I =Wm e l e• trams that the women were the wire. of 0 - till:;`' Menlo Term was a. Black, and spoke bad English.' I de that tie eilikote. wee comMitted on the high seas. The ebbed arekiletellikr I was present at the *bole conversation reX r 0 to the vessel OW the women. Our vessel sailed the day ; the Spank vessel about three hours befit. us. The Cupids was not under the rie meshy of putting the slaves ea build the Spanish icatel, or potting them overhand. Ido sat 84141bir Ant this calculation made by the Captain referred to what the Spanish Captain Wee to receive upon delleering the omen at Gambram. I had not a very pitmen time with the Captain d aringthe met tif the voyage. There were rr quaels between the v The form got a sound drubbing; I believe whiTst tit tre i tC ler Osmboon. His mes were swelled, pod his head cut. Idi SO dleshiss It mutinous for a than to strike Ids Captain if the esp/adl sew* him first. Some of the crew deserted, bat I wee vie itinenipe the deserters. They were brought back by me of the eels. Plidsla. The Captain charged I me with stealing same 011ie cloth of width the cargo consisted, but this was after I bed atenned to the Ams on board his Ma. jesty's ship Bates. I ~raids gars Milne' at Sierra Leone. I know that the cargo has been condemned, but can't say 'bother I am to receive priee.money out of It. He-examined by the ATTOSNET•GENZIAL.—There wove plenty of boats in which the women might have been sent to Gish boon. Examined by Mr. Justice PARK.-1111111 were twelve men ea board the vessel. I can't syx how many of the crew muck the Captain. He and I qtw llsd es the voyage out. The itaids , charged me with stealing mum. OS diether oceasios he emu* ass - more than once. I veered revenge, ea fat as saying thee I would take the law of him when we came beim. Re-examined by the Airtronmir-Gswllltert..—TM trade add four Meek Ws woo beak hi $ hest an the day that the g apped were sold ; thee, was *Ott demi the the 110111 ND deo. By the Con AV.-1 him With the prisoner very often ii ieill during the voyage I the jetrainmeed about ors weeks after we set out is • I saw a ship called the ads before I saw the Breda i ass seek of the Malta complained to the Captain of the &bootee primmer Widen slaves. i . • John Walker. magethisil by 141101.rorros4111xItillathro•s_Fl* ea beard the ship ilddet as NMI Miring her last toyer to At. 4 i I was twine with *enema at the Dampish. On our second 'We we had several women ea bawd, but they were all liberated but six. Four of those were kept la the . and two were wives 1 oed was wife to the Capella, sad the se the Trademan. We well lying about six weeks in the where a. Spanish schemer came. The Malta was lyieg thews alp miles from the rosin 1.11. I understood that the worsen were me leind the. Blake as for goods lest to their hashasda. Peat wootew wen I one wee coiled Neenah. am Fildednel, mid oneJambo J A tbsiit 1 . 111 hushands 4 4:l *see wears t but die &plata said 'Mfroil, of the . owed ties a dela, sad be would ktep t piesis unless tile lied bonen enough to pay him. inaie of the liperMill Illsomer oast ea hood an the I of Ne: vember. ile said it waited to make setae purchases; the Captain said he MOH sell any thing he bad ea board: TM mate was invited &IS to tea. Our Captain asked him if be thought the Captain of the sdommer would purchase the hat w 061411 i The mite mid, " I ant see he would, but all we went 4 despatch." Prim* thew meld, if the Spanish Captain *Eli hay them, and take se Gamboon, he would get tube ,Ilve slaves toe tech of Nett day, the mate left, and ti 1 malts( the came up and cast about • quarter a selle ssa rd: Malta. The Spanish thwi 1 Mine on baled mid tub ted. " Nett morning valour Cleo *me shipped en board a beat belonging to the Spanish whooom,and that evening the Spanish Captain rettimed on board the'lleith with a handkerchief Mil odollars. The women were dwell inks and aftek Some coOVersatMn between the prisoner and the Spandril Captain, four of the woman were put on board the Spanish boat, and I saw theth taken on board the Spanish schooner. Afterg,this s rime small ankles were brouteht on board the Malta, froth the Spanish schooner, and the prisoner told me he had sold the foot slaves to the Spanish Cap•aio. I was not on board the Spanish schooner but but I could perceive that there wewen blatilipeo he z on board. ' T hey was all blacks, mem the Sailors. I have the prisoner say he came from Galway, in Ireland. Creee-examined by Mr. Cu awoos—l have been eighteen yam at sea. I do not consider that the Plains was lying on the high 111111 when the fear women were taken on board. The place le called in the navigation books a river ; I make nothing else of it.l • Mr. Justice PAIIIL-31r. Corweed, I don't think it mamma meek whether It was os what you call thi high ess. or *not. The Aft W pretty general : the words ark 4 ere Wan deer, bay, eveilt, it wherever the Admiralty hat . to have, min= Creas.examiondin rem " motif Spanish told me that thereat, going to prisoner said, if the Spanish Captain took tbe women 'le * Would get three or four slaves for each of them. I can't mit.wlejliter the Spanish Captain meant to sell theln for slava or net. Veelle bad a quer. eel with the prisoner. I never attempted todesest freivi the vowel. There was no Insubordination on beard the vessel. Thi Crew were •-- that took place pay for te. - like to be at." Cross-examined—Witness was on tend teems with the Captain always. lie could not spy who had gtven the Captain the black eyes. Had said it was Ste. Walker. fl: )miss wet raid U. a month when shipped at Liverpool, but his lige' were teduced after to 2!. IN. a month, and he was sent before the mast. Witness wait once struck by the Captain, but we were generally on capital terms: William Rosa was apprentice on board, the Malta, and remem. be seeing four women sent on board a... Spanish schooner, which was anchored close to the Malta in the river Danjah. The women were put on hoard the Spanish schooner's boat by direction of Capt. Young. Witness afterwards saw the women on board the Spanish schooner. Cross-examined.--The crew of the Mahe were not disorderly. Witness once saw the chief mate (Walker) strike the Captain. He was drunk at the time. The Captain and crew often quarrelled. Laurence Wood (also an apprentice In the Malta) coushemend the testimony of the former witnesses. He ttaid he h=nesn board the schooner, and saw the four women sitting by yes., 'llte case for the prosecution having cloned here, Mr. Justice PARK informed the prisoner that the time had ar rived for entering upon his defence. The prisoner, wile had conducted himself during the proceedings with great composure and propriety, put in a written defence, which was read by the officer of the Court. It was as follows : " MX' Lout), AND OZ:NTLEMEN OF THE Junr,—l humbly , sebinit to your consideration the followhig, statement of facts, In answer to the malicious and unfounded proceedings instituted' against me at the instigation of my crew. I sailed in the ship Malta, from Liverpool, on the 25. h day of March, 19e26, qn a trading voyage to the river of Danjah, for redwOod, ivory, Oct.'. and about the time I arrived on the Line I perceived symptoms of dissatisfaction among part of the crew, and, asehey then pretended, on the ground of short alloeance. although there was 110 preterea for such dissatisfaction. The same symptoms continued, with little intermission, until I arrived at the river of St. John, where I anchored, and not in the river Danjah, as stated, for 1 was never there in my life. From this place, in consequence of sonic iuspi. dons excited in my mind by the menceuvres of ni',fr crew with the natives, I sailed from thence to Gamboon River. anti while at this place five of my crew, namely, Thomas Caittott, the boatswain, Wm. Lloyd, John Carroll, Williams, and Kitson, sesmen, deserted, and that at the hour of nine o'ctodle, while I was in my cabin ; and nothing will stow thi disposition of the re meinder better, than by my stating, that although I had given orders to keep watch upon deck lan if at sea), not the least abaft was given, they pretending that they did not see them leave the ship, notwithstanding they took their chests, hammocks, &c., en board my boat, which was alongside the vessel. I need not trouble. your hardship and the Gentlemen of the Jury with the particulars of how I succeeded : but I did at length get the above live de-, serters hack to my ship, and they at length, all but one ( Lloyd). partly returned to their duty. I then sailed to Alejamho, and dur. mg the passage three of my men, Lloyd, Carroll, and were taken Id, and Lloyd died. I was :Viet; front over-exertion of body and mind, very ill ; but I rendered every assistance in my Bawer to the recovery of my crew, and took occeston then to expos. tulate with my be atswain, who hid, I thought,. been the ring. leader df the mutineers, and lied caused them to desert their duty. On my voyage from Slajambo my crew again broke out into die order, anti ' I was beat and ill-treated by several of them, particu. lady by John Walker, the mate. and I lay bleeding the greater part of the night, from the effect of such beating. On expos tulating with the mate, he said he would eat and drink, and do as he liked, and that I might depend upon it he would yet find ways and means to recover his coppers (meaning his wages, which he had forfeited by his misconduct). While here I traded with t h e natives, and had, in one Instance, taken three females and a child, about ten yearsof age (the same that I am charged with gelling), on board, as security for 4 cwt. of ivory, for which I had given them goods on eredlt—a practice regularly resorted to by than. And I had at the same time on board, the son, two brothers, and four nephews, of the King, and hi s son's wife, as security for goods to be furnished by the King t and also seven females, as security from other natives. The tine-named females and child were shortly redeemed, but their husbands could not take Merle away with them, in consequence of their boat being orerinaded, and they requested that they might re main on board until their return--a request which I granted, and they left them with me, at the same time knowing that a part of the family of their King, as well as other mete*, were t he n on board my ship. 1 then sent one of the family to the King, request ing he would send me the goods and redeem hie people, whom 1 bad on board and iss gent me tor answer, that I should have the goods in a few days; anti during the time I Was waiung, a boat , , belonging to a Sp a ni s h sc h o on e r, came elone,side vessel, art • . _ agreed ?hil t gn t i fTw as the iss pu wiint reha d sir misim ot some, l4 hettheallaidgricelmof"liwbirch, to be paid in giods, was to be settled by the Captain if the rthenser and my tradesman: On the following evening the Schooner came elommide my ship, and the articles I had agreed to give in e xchan g e foe the pions were put on board the schooner ' and l re ceived in "turn lferne tea, sugar, coffee, gin, and wine; the Captain, htiwever, said diakhe could not get at the slit provisions until he arrived at the Rivet Hamb oon. where he said he would pay me on our antral. I replied that I could not go dime, and it *ld they/rare agreed r should receive in money the value of the goods furnished him fur the salt prinfisionti. I then requested, at he was going to °Rodman, that be would take the before-mentioned three females and child there (Melt Mende having redeemed them; Sod sny ship being ready to sill), and he misused he would concae% therd safely them. , and I felt very little doubt that he would do so, lyceum he had dial steward of the K.ng of ttamboon on board hiredwioner, as well ea the brother of one of these very female% who acted as intercom,. Tide mewed Came on board my vessel, and paid me 112 dollars, to I redeem a part of the debt due tram him to me, and he sent me a ftlish.ns ea acknowledgment for that part which Was due to me fiptd whl. h I now have). The Captain also paid me 120 dollars, lieu of the salt provisiona t . and while they were In the act of paying me, the females before alluded so were put oh board the eth , ter, bow I know not, except that it main the prelim* of OW of their own people, and that one Of 'these *email had a Mother on board, who, as I before observed, acted tae lenfffrreter to the Captain of the actuante. I have, bow. ever, been since informed, that my mats made 'use of the fol lowing expression when the feersales were put' on board :---••• Curse him, we'll do him now." After the King's Steward and the linp tab had settled with me, they went on booed the schooner, and left for the river Ganiboon. and 1 sailed alter them ander, the schooner standing in for that place. The other persons went away in boats brought for them. I now proceeded to Prince'slalandorliere 1 went on & s% and comp:ained to the Governor of that place of the nuiti mtwabehaviour of my crew ; be, however, retuned to interfere, and this determined to report their conduct to the first man-of-war I met. The Portuguese there, however, infermed my crew of sty "Intention, rind while on shoe; I met Mr. Harrison, the mater of thi Esk mgt-of-war, who informed me that a part of my crew had Owen Idea • information that I had been slaving, and had slid Jolt. lrelas. but they did not tell him to whom, where the shipenn,ne eve, ker name. I then meted is him, all the particulars, sad di: rung him to the place white I had left the schooner. He then-UN ate r sad in a few days 1 saw hiM agates ohms briafesased mo Ong ,tip srate which be kedsenrised reotroad fromekamboon; hat a Mt *tithing relative to the sale of die *omen, although they had zwenntiniestion with the King, from whom. they learnt that the schooner went to sea after their arrival at the river Danjab, and that I hadsaikd foe Prince's Island ads, days previously. On this ex. planation, dlr. Harrison dismissed me and my crew, who waulsd this to enter on board the ann.of.war, bat were refused. I stall here to ask, whether-it it possible (if the statement of my crew well correct) that Mr....llarrhida could have made the inquiry without the natives, one and all, accusing me with having geld these women ; and that, if that officer Mel not been well sati.fied that thersawss no ground for the accusation, whether he would, have let slip the opportunity of taking me prisoner, and my ship ? We then met the ((winger gun-brig, to the Captain of whom my crew also complained; butt on my mtpleining td him the particular of the transaction, as also the inquiry made b r air-Harrison, he was well satisfied there was no foundation for the complaint, and ad vised me to proceed homewards. The Brazen, (sprain Willis. then came to Prince's Island, and on her arrival part of the crew took advantage of my . being on shore, and made their complaint. This Captain, on hearing them, immediately seized my ship, and tooleme prisoner. It was in vain I told hint as I have before related,: be would neither send to Ganiboon River, nor make inquiry of Mr. Harrison, but went on shore to my lodging, where he seized my books, clothes, and every tfhi g belonging to me; he thesis pot me into confinement, refusing to hear any thing I had to say, loading me with every insult, threatening me with transmits. don, and the drawing a barrow. On the 17th December 1 wis put on board the Esk corvette, and kept in close confinement until any arrival at Deptford, in June last, from *hence I was sent on shin into confinement, altogether upward of ten menthe. This Is a true statement of the case ; and I have now only to ask, whether you can for a moment entertain a thought that I sold, or even connived at the selling, of these women and child, or that they were sold at all ? You will recollect that there was on board, at the time they left, a part of the family of their King, and seven *other females, all of whom must have seen them leave the vessel; and that on board the schooner there watt also the brother of out of these very females, who is supposed to have been sold, and that this assn was in a situation to see every thing going on, as he acted IS Interpreter to the Captain ; and it it at all likely that this man would allow me to sell his sister, or that the collets then on board would have consented to their being sold ? I ought to inentibn that I had several opportunities of escaping from confinement, front 'the Rest time of being taken ; but, being conscious of my own inno- cence. took adeeotage of none of then, being well convinced that a Jury of 'my cutout , would see that the whole transaction is a base and cruel conspiracy on the part of my ere*, to save themselves felon the punishment to Which they Ere liable as well as the loss of their wages. I have to apologize to your tOraallip and the Gentle- Mtn of the Jury tilt the time I have occup ed; and leave my ease in your hands, with sincere conviction otteeeiving its ho nourable acquittal." 'fhallefence having been gone throUgh, the witness Walknanthe d rexamined by Mr. Juiitint Panic. Na sild sae wit the sister-in-law of Antonio Tom, the trackman. `4t of one ttf sing Quorhin'e sons, The Captain 'I met with Ids crew. He quetrated wi.h than , em drunk. All the disorder which ottelleeed attributable to the prisoner. hrthesettned &ovate die elte4ary— Mu . the prisoner, when divested of hgai technl. oreying away four females-from the coast of them as plans. The prisoner was indicted red the Consplitlating Act. Various Acts had Legislature to enforce count' laws, and punish otd bn offence against locality and religion. en evaded, and in the bib of his present Ma. 4uestion was passed, oonablidring all former _ _ of which the prisoner was charged was highly penal, and subjected him to death. To show that we were sincere ia espying the laws for the abolition of the slave trade into effect, there was a dlspoeitioo amongst many persons to carry the laws= this subject fully into force. This was laudable, but it was the duty of the Collet anti Jury to see that the prisoner folly brought himself within the provisions of the Act. It was material that the prisoner ehonld not be convicted upon slight grouts W an offence so very penal in its consequences, and the Jury should be satisfied not only of the sufficiency of, the evidence against the prisoner, but that the smote from whence it came was pure and uncontaminated. After recapitulating the evidence with great care, the Learned Judge observed, that there was one fact which the Jury. must have noticed ; it was, that the prisoner's ship was not engaged regularly in the slave trade. The ihlp was engaged in a legitimate traffic, and it appeared that those women were not detained as slaves, but as hostage', or pledges fur goods sod to their husbands. Now, then, the prisoner's defence was, that he had given tba,ce women to the Spanish Captain to be taken tack to their own country, and returned to their own people upon he pay ment of the debt due to the prison by King Quorbin. the al eged statement of the Captain to tl.e effect that he would sell the women, for that he should neva be on that coast again, was in di. rect Opposition to his defence; but it was an important fact that the interpreter who had ncgociated the bargain about those women Was nearly related t 3 one of them. Upon the w' d'e, It was for the Jury to say whether the wrlnessel wee giving to ireount of Ikea n which really occurred on the coast of Africa, or that they had thought upon maid- g this charge aga'rtt the prisoner, in order r. screen themselves from the effects of that main• us conduct with Which he charged them during the voyage. The ease was new ; it had never before been brought before the tribunals of this cuu ttry. It was of great importansc that the lairs should be carried fully Into effe•tt, but it Wan alto most important that the p isomer should not be idtplicated it a charge Of this serit,us nature, if he aer: nnocent. The .1 , having retired, remained ineonsultation for a few _ fury n utes, when they — retUrned into Court with a verdict of acquittal. Upon the announcement of the verdict, the _prisoner lifted hi% eyes, arparently impressed with a deep sense of gratitude at the issue of his trial; and a female who set in one of the side galleries. and whom we , afterw irds leatned was his wife, became so excited that she burst forth in a wild shriek of joy at his deliverance. The Court then adjoumed to ten o'clock to.morrow (thli day). w:ien the eau of Lieutenant Kenny, against whom a bill of indict ment has been found far manslaughter, is fixed to crime on. It will Ds reeolleved that Mr. K( nny had the misfortune to kill Robert Clialton, the surgeon of the Bussorah, on her voyage (rem Bengal to England. IIfIDD, of SESS/02VS,ItTESDAT, OCT. 21. 11r. Court., who had been previOnsly prevented from attending these Sections, owing to a domestic calamity, took his seat upon the Bench at an eurly hour. - - - - • • Martha Ilird, a 7ourg women, was put to the bar, charged with passing a counterfeit shilling on a woman named Elizabeth May don. on the'4l of September. Another count charged her with pass ing a second shilling, on the lilt of the same month, to Sophia Woods, the servant of the above Elizabeth Blaydon. It appeared from the statement of the prosecutrix that the prisoner came into her shop, No. 39, Paradise-row, Chelsea, on the 2d of September, and purchased two tarts, for which she gave • shilling, and received from witness eight-pence change. She came again on the 6th, and passed a bad shilling on her servant Sophia Woods, and again on the 7th, and on wurcbssing two more tarts tendered another bad stilling to Sophia Woods, who called her (witness) out. She (wimen) then charged prisoner with having !weed bad money at her shop on two former °cessions, but this the misuntr denied, and old that the money she offered for the pastry w, a given her by her rather that mnrning. Saphia 'Wm& raid that the in isower was. . e same person that purobased • tart from her, and passed a ti ling on /KT on the 6th of September. .r 111 r. PKCIIDSIGAIST addressed the Jury for the prisoner , and complimented the COunsel for the prosecution for the very kind manner in which he introduced the ease to the attentionuf the Jury. He said he would be able to prove that the charge against the prisoner was totally groundless, and that the account which she ste.ve at the confectioner's shop was correct. For this purpose the Learned Gentleman called the father of the prisoner, wbo co ro. borated the statement of his daughter as to his having g in her money that morning. Utse 3111 ton, a then-maker, living at Kiensirgton, proved that ____._._ 4 - ' . " ' .: • --111 V - • 14, 4,,i . Ow rienlee Hee /to' tielnli.bi.tbfolf.Weirg. 1 . 2 , . ..i w a!iie ebsf hsbn of sroritigg foe,trinw .4 %* • - bau",tno4 4UT Henry retirtingish. l . & tualltee w4 I . 14 . hit beg On, prisoner for We tir - 4mA% Iron, 11 . was , N t • . -.. rilwir Was unexceptioniPre ‘ instru Nir et li ed iAlt to . e t r l tiii i2 ;i ii ii n ite.‘ f°7l4 il sP lir reied am ! b 4il l 2 ."ll .l: t l i i 14 It s e :el actually culpable, me n fir Is il ' , : \ 'let!tly its we, ~'' , e. P , ..F was ' not, fro the ststement 8f t ' tamers ale we . i enatAttor I which she liSti hech'eft: .,..1 .... o f • Mr. Pim salines'', au we. r--• th e \ 114 .44 Prolla his thanks to Mr. lA*. , s \ • . r into tears, an s44 . lll*ln i 116' Tlie y, y l o e t r i t ngcrla g tbri hetoelf ... r . _ the u WARtricismiiik o , ' v b tii;E ll: rti 2 43 :: riggeti ll T S wE ll ! . : I : hai l f o ;i :.. et so. . ,on wedn O em PE . ;l . l . 7 , o mes A F fl ox ii ity A mingitam. on the.2oth of July last, irrZebd and distarbed thole.' mains of Jtmathsn IledfrAtd., who. had beets buried In St. .Baidao. lomew's Chapel-yard. The body , whlril itattligit er le 7 0 15 tenses 19 years of sge, had been interred on the Ifitfr'efuly. Thr pia saner, who a its a gra ve-digger. was seen tit the grave, at nibs o'clock the neitt mor g. by a little girl, *lto 01 , 401 the_grave 194 been opened. In consequence. the: Chapel - Wordeins were appal. to, aid they permitted the grave to bt opened:\ l'9;!: i'Offin lei Wan 'broken, the head of the deceased was shockingly c1i .. ;34 mangle& and fie teeth had been taken from the' jaws. \On . 0. prisoner being asked what he had been digging at the grate . • .fie said Iso had lost a rope in fi tting up the grave, and ' bad ratte ' OH Also of the earth to look for it. Ile was found patty, and sentenced to be imPrisoncilliiffecit'Ann der mouths in gaol. ...:~;.. ESSEX QUARTER SESSIONS. —....—__ titteito ALLEN, THE YOUNGER, APPELLADT, V. 11, CdURCHWARDISES AND O*ERSILESS 0T SATRE, RESTO DENTS, AGAINST AN ORDER Or RASTIOT. • This appeal came on for beetin4 at tea dock ten TWAY morning, sad the trial lasted nearly foul home. The cage MIMI clersiderisMe interest, inasmuch ate it was, Me believe, the feel tit- igeopr that hes ever been made hi this county to quash hi Sada of Baetardy under shinier eireumatitides, the rounds vide\ B:i.n comity brought fortird cie behalf of die ve t qireilet orders of this &sill:goo,' halving been, that tether find mother could not have had Aced to Nib other . 11 the time sworn to, co &at the person charged frith king th e was j9errlibie, by reason of some Infirmity of Bed/. efeireersiallitha Not so, bowcier, In this Case, as the eppelbuit Mid rim/ eMphis cushy of seeing the mother, if he had been so lodamet, mile a hale and healthy young man ; but then was Itodbeligiedeneeedls nary weight of evidence brought forward on the gdiliref thei awl. lent, peovir.g bevoud all manner of doubt elect the elsameter at IN mother of the child ',bleated (Charlotte Hiedseek) was a cis most infamous and abandoned description, asS that she .sweet swore falsely over and over again, in gi ving her eiridomeem she trial of this appeal, but It was al.o pro , *met •the Illehashilm Sessions, held here three tears ago, she and bra hsiesawswe bells guilty.of a moat foul and ;ricked conspiracy. In fidatill ia ttglog a temeettble and aged person, of the name or Vale, Etta ~*Owats eers of Rayne, with having assaulted her, with am mega. mit a rape; end that this charge was brought forma by them-ht revenge, beanie Mr. Vale had indicted the Other at the same lisp alone for assaulting him in a most gross manner, sod in. diconent he was convicted and sentenced to be Ist six months. It is but justice to Mr. Vale to add, that ms the Ilia Of the above alleged assault by him on this girl Hisellieelt. the Court was so convinced of the moral impossibility of Am hae!ng been the slightest foundation foe the efairge, that the Chairman, without the slightest hesitation, 'directed the Jury to acquit IMO, without calling on him to produce a simile witness to rebut the evi. dente given on that occasion by the proseeutris. Under these cit. cumatancts, therefore, and takieg Into consideration the nematode perjuries this wicked girl had been guilty of, and partkulady noticing the gross manner in which she repeatedly forswore bendy on this trial, the Court, otter well weighing the arguments of the Leaned Counsel on both aide!, were unanimously of opinion that she was riot worthy of belief on her oath, and consequently quashed the brder. TWO OLD FOOLS. During the Sessions on Thursday, an old woman mounted the witness tole, and stated that her name soft Ann Thorley ; that silt was bound over to prosecute her husband fur an assault, but she had no mon fy to pay the fees of Court. The Coal exalt askid her several questions, and at length the Court sObscribed a few shillings, with which she proceeded to prefer a bill of indictment against her spouse. On Saturday, Henry Thorley. the husband, was placed at tn. bar; he appeared ill, and (to add to his grotesque apparels.* he wore a white night-cap. Ann Thorley stated—l am the wife of the prisoner, who lives at Hallingbury ; one day in August last, he ran after me with hie bonded fists, aid areinpod to strike me. I ran away, holding my hands over my head • a MAD and a Woman came in ; he ran attic them ; he threatened to stick me, and ran after the people Who came to he'p me ; he did not itrike me ; a man and a woman cast. ' in ; he attacked them, and bundled them out; I got away in the mean time. I have no witness; I have no money to bring them hire. Mr. White, a farmer, living at Little Hdlingbury, stated, that the prisoner was an industrious Bard-working Mee, and that atm, the wife, was a very aggravating woman. The prisoner said it was twenty years ago shim he threatened to stick her, but he did not do so on the day the offence wait charged. He handed in a paper, containing a detente, which we give vet. Hoenoarn fiENTLESTZW- --- rießii '• do hereby ter. thy mind and revealing the Truth to be read my wife Ann Tiosley stating that she was the instiedian herself In raking * dieturbailie between her and me first she beat tweet my sons Nash and Job without a fault and I merely took their part when unla ce sary beaten and she called me a devil which raised a few words betwixt us—l raised my hand to strike her but I governed my passion which avoided blOws my son Abrani Was present during the quarrel wh6m he will. certify. he is now eighteen years old - . A few days before this took place I was naming a circumstance to my wife of a distant in ighbonr what happened between a man and his wife stating they was publicly seen to lie with each ether I merely said was that my wife I should have been almost angry enough to have done her tome injury. In conaequente to that, my Wife has added wrath to it, to epite to the cireurostanee which occurred betwixt us. and through the creation of It she awoke she was in bodily fear of her life. my son Almon was present during the circumstance and can certify them was no violent at tempt °Wetted: for whkb I was taken into custody and the constable took me to his own house to lodge. I went to Ind whit his Ii tie boy and in the night I wee taken with a violent pain in my bowels and asked liberty to go out, the boy opened the do r II t me .nd let use out, and United of returning to my lodging I wet t home to my wife naked as I eras and when arnved ray wl e was glad to receive me with great joy, and laughing asked how I *said , come there I replied I got away from the constable. She re relved me in bed with her as fond of embracing as ever she did when first I was married to her likewise your llonour Gentlemen is it poste bla she Could be in bodily fear of he life after receiving me loth those fond embraces &c. likewise neighbours booms nearly adjoin. ing the toot we was both sleeping under. When morning d cylight *peered the constable Caine for me which I was quite ready and %Jaime to go with him the second time of ishrin be brought me to Chelinefohl gaol here to lie for Scotian* tie for twelve months bid yet it was not accepted in consequence of her astinate temper Honour Gcntlenon I am your most bumble and obliged Sensed, Chelmsford Gaol. NEXUS' THORLEY. • Tie reading cf this defence Afforded much amusement to the Court. The Learned CHAIR HAS addressed the Jury, and observed that r o distinct assault had been proved. The Jury turned touted for about s minute. and then gave their enact Not Guilty ; end Henry Thorley *as thereby mond to the fond entbruca of his dear Awe. : orderly and obedient. Any irregularity that took place was oat. The 'defence having bi Aimed by the Captain's conduct. I once found hem engaged in a ailed up, sod resexamii scuffle with the second mail. He had tied arope round the second elf the wallet; wit the st mate's neck, and was dragging him to A ladder, swearing he would we e Rai l the Wife of one hang him. I went to testing the second mate. i - was hail fellow well met By Mr. Justin PAIM-1 bare itntietatand, tinsel acre to Lon: after having Made them don, that the Osptelivairesolasipkiseso lipid pinisdarnitimien& amohgst the crew was at I returned from-Sierra Leone Gs tEtEdward waffsport. I Ed - at ' "Mr jestlceralfir tin give the Captain black eyes. ~ - said the charge against 1 Joseph Jackson, examine, by Mr. Pang—Was ship-carpenter calities, will for Convey in the Malta, during her voylitie t• Attics. Remained when the Africa, and sellitig the ji r Spanish mate came on board. e next day the Spanish Captain under what was called t came, and had a long interview , the prisoner. Recollects the " . ..Jen passed by the Leg next day, when the Spanish **twin the dolls, on board. what was considered Witness thinks there were abaft )1.1 dollars brought. Antonio 'rime laws had been c Tom said, in witness's presence, dolt' Ike dopers werwbrought to jetty, the Act in qua pay for the women; ai d Captain YOU' said, " that is the work I Acts. The offence of pay for I'OI,ICk4 --. Msarstoft.norsz.—The ease of the unfortunate., ontlentilt who have hcen IA in a state of destitution at this inclement mason, is n w beginning to attract public attention. In the course of Satut day the Lwd 3layor received various sums of money, and yaps (l,l additional contributions were sent. in the whole amounting to 50/., os hich of coarse will do Hide for up*ards of 200 starving pea. ple. The MAMA have been forwarded to Mr. Freahtield, gds. Welt Cubango, who has handsomely consented to continua hb as Secretary, and the names will be duly advertiaed. An application was made from Wintheaterfor one or elm rehipws, who Could be recommended as qualififd for the situation if . sordier or languages. The applicant liberally undertook to pay lib amais hire and ekpenses. A Colonel of the Spanish army, wheels awl" is in great dolmas, has been sent down. It was paytleedgel veggig. inemfed that this example should be' followed in mbar towns. elnee it would be the most heueticial Wins of ywlrliirg for the refugees permanently. The Spanish language, me he. ereaVng connexions with South Amdrica, is beginning bobs 'duct taught in commertiAl academiei. and since the knowlettipof bench ha+ become so common, the. Italian language is more caSlvated in seminaries as a fashionable accomplishment. The Lord Mayor, with other donations, yesterday received IW. enclosed in the Following letter:— " Doncaster. October 11, ISIS. - "My Lord—A family party of (*plena and young ladies Entreat vour Lordship wilt honour them so far as to become their almoner in the disuibutinn of the smell sum enclosed, amongst the foreign gentlemen of both nations, *home great and vornerial dilute*, makes nt this tithe so powafal an appeal to the good feelings of toe ll ritith people. " May the small services of the party concerned be follorei up by more effectual aid, and your Lordship's benevolent intentions be crowned with ultimate success, is the prayer of, my herds " your Lordship's most obedient serraots. " Tug FAMILY' Paint. " It will be 'Teamed, that a few days since an unfornmaterlsaltan Doctor of civil Law came, half-starved and hall.clotltal, to his Lon's p's attention to a plan for a perpetual motion, whkit bad ruined himself in eistleavouring to accomplish. Povertysassis to have residerod even Spaniards inventive, and several mimesis et that nation have applied maarious times for aid. Vestallay ark applied by the fallowing Infest, which lie delivered personally as " October 23, 1828. " To the Right lion. the Lord Mayor. " My Lord s —Thu uottotsignell, who has the Woo* to Wants • . *-44. • • 3