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76 4 ;4 .r 1809, un. constructed a yids Napn etion. He ie eonsidevannn, A been eget° commu sails, and the ma- advantage of de or men) by Finding him_ •4 raw Mali - . - to g the model, and certain as he is that his invention is I'lhieful eral . interesting to the masters and owners ofrhips, he Impel they your Lordship's well-known generosity eta endeavour to provide him with the lure materials for demonstrating his inven t*. fly has the Lot.our to remain, your Lordship's humble.. kr; rani, " A. Mum IGO. 21, Qiieen-tittect, TISO-Lono Mason admitted the tag national importance and out* of hitch a plan. it' it cold oply be achieved ; but he did not to have sufficient scientific knowledge to decide upon it. Vi r e lfal antrti the arm:leant to Sir Humphry Davy, whose great scien. ttfic knee l e dge was only equalled by his benevolence and his zeal to scree the meritorious. Ile would doubtless give hit opinion of • the Poluditability of the plan, and aid the inventor, if it were likely to prove naceessful. The Spaniard thanked his Lordship and retired. A waterman eppeated, to answer a charge of baring taken more than his fate, and wing abusive language. gentleman trent with the defendant horn flotherhithe to Tower Mans, and nifered him a shilling, which he refused, d—ning him tor a mere liu:nbug. and refusing to let him go for less than eighteen petite The gentlemen paid the money, but Insisted on taking the Jetendent'a number, and got into the boat fur the purpose. It was then Lear nine o'clock at night, and it was extremely difficult to had the Lumber. As he was poring about the bast fur the purpose, . a wattatilatt's apprentice gave it a tilt, and threw the gentleman's Npod into the water. He narrowly escaped going in alto eth er.— . Finding ke could not get at the number, he went as far as Billings-. gate to secure a lantern, and the defendant accompanied him and . " yawed him" all the way. When they returned to the Stairs, the defendant jumped into the boat, rowed it off, and left him on the Stairs with the lantern in his hand, telling him to get the name how be could. Having, however recognised the person of the de . tendon, be persevered on the following day, and found him out. Ths LOW) 31 AYOR fined the defendant Ws. and on his declar ing his inability to pay it, committed him to prison. - - - - . . BOW.ITILISFT.—Yesterday that most notorious and oldest of • pickpockets, Tit Sherhis, who has figured at almost every police. wake and Court of Justice in the kingdom, was once more placed eat shining, charged on suspicion of having picked the pocket of R. BallJodrell, Esq. of Penland-place, of a small box, enclosed in a • purse, and containing fifteen sovereigns, and also with having at. tempted to rob the same gentleman of his gold watch. This same • Tit sbieids has been a thief (so say the police records) from his in terry. and he hes now numbered thrteecore and five years; and e as known to hare been sometimes very suecessfol, and yet, at this period of his life, he is miserably pow; he had scarcely a shirt to ilia back, and his chitties tattered and dirty ; and in all probability, :tam the evidence now against him, lie will at last terminate his . wretched existence on board a convict hulk, or in a foreign land. tie has been singularly fortunate in escaping convictions (although • he has been once under sentence of transportation): bat justice has overtaken him at last. This short notice of the career of this man may afford an useful lesson to those who are tempted to depart from 'tie paths of honesty. Richard Ball Jodrell, Esq. is a venerable old gentleman of very mogulsr appearance indeed. His bead is bald In front, bat a pro fusion of straight gray hair falling on either side. His dress eon. . a:-sed tif a sun of black cut in the fashion of about 1760; which ::erred to have seen a service of many winters; ore which he ware a straight-cut garment, much in the fashion of a gamekeeper's jacket, of very cleric pea-green cloth, and ornamented with broad pearl buttons. The legs of this ancient English gentleman were encased in black worsted flocking., and shoes with black buckles, which nearly covered the entire front of the foot. When he entered the public-office. he seemed desirous of making his way to the Bench, but the officer in waiting, under a mistaken impression as to his rank in life, refused to permit him. Some warm words ensued, which being heard by Sir Richard Mini,, who knew Mr. Jodrell, he desired that the latter gentleman might be immediately shown to a seat on the Bench. _ _ _ _ _ le was stated in evidence by Mr. Jodrell and Mrs. Mills, a lady viSo accompanied him, that on Monday evening they were driven in Mr. Jodrell's carriage to the English Opera House, intending to be tat the entertainments for the benefit of the widow of poor belying the carriage, they were proceeding along a passage leading in the pit entrance, when they encountered a great crowd, and Mr. Jodrell and the lady Mond themselves suddenly sutletunded by a gang, by whom they were much jostled and an noyed. Mr. Jodrell at length reached a corner, where, upon torlitag his pocketa, he found that a small box, containing fifteen . sovereigns. and which was placed inside a purse, and thrust to tie .'srny bottom of his breeches pocket, and his coat buttOned close ores that pocket, had in spite of all his caution been extracted. , He was much agitated at the time, and called out that he had been robbed. Mrs. Mills was about to conduct Mr. Jodrell to &shop in Vie prime, to get him dear from the crowd, when she observed toe prisoner pretending to assist him, but, in reality, jostling hits, and fumbling about his clothes : and when they got to the throe of the situp, she distinctly saw him put his hand under Alr. :admire coat, and make a snatch at his watch. she seized hint by the collar, and reproached him with the attempt. He said nothing, but slipped from her grasp, and disappeared amongst the crowd. Infonination being given, however, to Caner, the constable of the chesty', he searched about, soon found old " Tit," and brought him to the shop, where he was recognised by Mrs. Mills, not only as making the attempt described upon the watch, but as being one of the gang who first surrounded 31r. Jodrell when he was robbed of his money. The prisoner protested that he was an innocent moo, and when the officer asked Mrs. Mills to give him her ad. Area, le said, " Do not, Madam, for God's sake: consider my wife and family. and I, or my brother, will make it up with the gentlemen." She persisted, however, in her charge, and die pri soner wee lodged in the watch.huuse. Ile had not a farthing shout bars. Other witnesses were examined in corroboration of the above stmonsmat, and Tit being asked what he had to say, protested with gmat esnuestness that he was as Innocent as an unborn babe ; it was altogether a mistake. He then proceeded to cross-examine Mrs. Mills, with his usual acuteness, as to the relative positions of himself And Mr. Jodrell, slid endeavoured to show that, in the po . apron width she described, he could not have got at the old gentle. inan*khain. Mrs. Mills, however, was too char-heeded a witness to borbothered even by the ingenuity of Mr. Tit Shields, and he rellollyfalled in establhiltiogshe defence be intended to set up. Ifs the course of the investigation a gentleman recognised the pima as • man *bout lie saw at:nat the Theat r e on sh e same evasion. in company with v.:veral persons, who were pointed out to him (site gentleman) by an officer of this establishment, as noto rimeeethietree. There were amongst them a man, named Hammond, a •Lateegt. 'bight yarn; min, with a sharp visage, and remarkably geolteol in his dress and general appearance; and another of the neatest Smith, who, from his bulk, is known amongst the Police ,ihneognowten of " The Elephant." - Afire emu conversation Shields was remanded for further ex. ammedits on Friday ; when, if sufficient evidence cannot be pro. corolla 4 him with the theft of the money, he will be committed for the with intent to rob 31r. Jodrell of his watch, which is a transportable olince. Spew rurPlaity was excited by Mr. Jodrell's equipage, which stood pt the door during the examination. It partook strongly of tneepenend appearance of its owner, who is a gemiculan ut very terve peoperty, and of ardent family. Too4eal!..kotieso young pickpockets, named Cochrane and Wit ham, were brought up by Morris and Pattison, who found them linking shout the 'l' heatres on Alooday night, and who very pro ps* • wok them into custody. They were committed for three ondeithe Police Act, to the tread•inii". Two other pickpockets were committed for a month. MAN LIONOUGH-lIT RE€T.—A singular application was yester dor made to Mr. CONANT. Nee sitting 3lagistrate, by Mr. James Vatorevseet ef Rummy, in Hampshire, to have an order' 'side on a man named John Smith, for the expenses ittegivad Ispthe parish of Ramsey, in the lying-in, &c. of Sarah Hist, oboe shill lived six months, and then eight months orterririlidi the country Magistrates issued en order for the appre- Senator/ the reputed father. Tne order on which the prisoner waiappeoltentled was made under the lath of laisaleth," to enter dayateanksa to abed.: any coder to be made against him at the next patty elloelone," which is a v:arrant of apprehension before the birth etposubill, allowing him to find bail till the mother shall be der 1 limenksmed the costs of the lying-in ascertained i after which a, mebsesplese older is made by the Magistrate for Mastro pay site trSp* pilaw thweemen overmin auto against which order. ietoplisei" at the next petty sessions." The man has kept mud(the way till the day helix( ye sterday , and no order of ening. tiott has yet been made. The chi being now dead no aißtatioo coo he made, .be he ostler must be to Indemnify the parish agpliost future expenses. In hunting for Smith, Rummy parish e we been pat to the expense of 241., which Mr. Tennis ' after •i looweey of 74 man, edited to compromise with Smith, on the payment of 10/., which he agreed to give , till some " limb of the km • Whispered to bin not to have the money, yesterday morning. Mr. Tanner stated, that between four and five years since, a . witaaa, of the revisit of Ramsay, named Sarah Rice, was des femme of a chill in their poor-house, which she swore the prisoner gm she father of. The man left the place, and they had not been aisle to meet with him till Monday, by hearing that he was work. "ogre Su Jamie's. Injuunie)s to various places, and other costs, Ike parish had been put. to the expense .if 241., which, under the warrant be had. they sought to recover. However, the man bed winnel 101., Obbh he axrecito swept on the pan of th'. pariah. kintriellne apprehension of emith he wntlentooti a lawyer had been to him wall him something , . and that bluish had not the money at }went, but would give Sulrtiel. which he was willing so accept,l atitspirsated , to attend some unpstiot business, in which hie we eding was neconory. Me. CONANT—WeII. who ern, your swedes? are they. hire? Mriemer-140.thr. but I expect them. Mk. COMAS?. NI Mr. Tanner-11 is now three o'clock. The nines be taken back to the watch-hews, apt brought up ttyyss 811, whe will ho a uma rf: t g l ier ait il l eineonveniesem (OK Ilmekcireig wpm g mosoortim r e cognises:lee be taken without roy presence Mr. Vosatres.-No ; that will nut be regular. I.et the ball be alb 1114 will take these recognisance at my private house. • - Mr. Bin, the reenter of St.llil.i's, suggested that as the Child Yaw bSet Sedirent /pooled, lila, la the you It Ist Iselltlnual mottos tomnater.milho, and cam teas unfortunately dtut4oyed In the war wid -mow, w" • been earrieetti Its tuts of perfection. slietwous K his objets % stick, after mature colloid he Budtkilselts akeldeable, as much sb, that be at last has ben imp* the Pawl Ms, not only to warermitils, but to ships, ootoitoi4' to 111111111 • movement without the Want of fuel, u naA; atm 111 Mum and to many machines highly useful in Itorsetonto. fillips will by this intenron enjoy the sultan /4111. their water, 4wittiovt the use of hands or n "or Mt pump, impelled by the new machine. Findit self totally unprovided with the means and utensils and iv b was dead, and its lifetime, an to swear tote Mr. Minna —0 'Aube town. hlr. hlr. Tanner-1 roman tom That her ----- --; Mr. 1144 —She describe this man; MG She is nut present not make an order roved. The Acts of , appliestle deuce. Smith was st.kcd wa . 2 .. onc of form Mr. CON•NT• ctsild is (lead, 1 not triink his rei "~+ +*~ ease of his not appearing, tion to take his - —,,tinunce it effective, but the man. Mr. Tanner—, the •arrant. Mr. CONANT• priety. The prisoner Samuel Richard Evans, a respectably-dressed man, who only quitted the service of Mr. Abbott, nephew to the Mier Justice, last Mantley week, was charged by Withers, the father of the pro - mentor of Archdall, with accusing him ( Withers) of robbing him of 1/. 120. Withers stated that he believed the prisoner to be leagued in a conspiracy against him, for that the Times took every opportehity to vilify him, and he believed this man to be a party. He knew nothing farther than that the prisoner hired a bed at the noebuek, in Holborn, and slept in the 'Milt room with himself, in which were two other beds, hurt Thursday. The prisoner came to the house on Wednesday night, from the Bull and Gate, and was so drunk that Savage, a person who slept In the next bed, helped him up stairs. In the morning the priaoom had a glass of ruin, left the house, returned, and charged him with the robbery. Witness asked his name and address. which he refused to give, aed complainant therefore gave him into custody when he met him again on Monday. The prisoner said he was a stranger in town, having left the ser vice of Mr. Abbott, at Haisden.green, where re bad been footmen, on Monday week; that he went to Churchend, near Harrow, to settle same account., and came into London last Tuesday. He had been acquainted with Mrs. Nash, who lives in the Coal-yard, Drnry-lane, fourteen or fifteen years, who remenmended him a bed at the White Hart, in the same place; but the bed was so hard he removed to the Roebuck, where lie was taken ill. Whiten he awoke in the morning, he missed his pantaloons from under his head, where he had placed them, between the bed and sacking. He saw Withers doing something with a bundle on the floor; and, when he got up, found his pantaloons on the door where Withers was at the bundle. Withers said he was tying his linen in a handkerchief for the laundress, but saw fleshing of the prisoner's money. Mr. COMA NT told Evans he might just as well have charged any body else. He had no right to charge a man with so serious an offence. Ile should discharge him, but advised him to be more cir cumspect in future. Robert Jackson and his wife appeared to a summons at the in • stance of Elizabeth Evans. their apprentice, for neglecting to teach her the business of straw-bonnet-making, anti refusing to hod her in food and lodging. Mr. dough, a friend of the girl, stated her to be seventeen years old ; that she was apprentie.l to Mr. Jackson five years ago, by . in• denture, from the parish of St. Martin-in-the. Fields, and received • premium of 2/. The gitl had only been with them six months when they found fault with her, and her parents consented to take her back. Iler father died in indigence of the dropsy. He assisted to bury him; and on the same night her mother died of a natural decay, leaving three daughters unprovided for and unprotected. The youngest and the eldest were in service. The present com plainant had hitherto supported herself by her needle; but that re source failing, she had applied to him. It was nut in his power to maintain her; and, fearful of the consequences of a girl of her age being left to her own means, he applied to the master to do some thing for her tin she could get a place, which he had no doubt of her shortly obtaining, as he had never heard any thing reproachful of her character, and would do all he could in het behalf. Hcr master had refused to receive her, and he had applied to the Magi,. trete for what could be done. The girl cried at the narration of her parent,,' death, and said she hail nothing to charge against her master and 'Matins. Mrs. Jackson said site was a nice young wornan, and was old enough to take care of herself, and thought she cou ld get a place without tinning to them, who had a family, and no work for her. Mr. ComANT told her he thought quite the reverse; that her being a nice young woman was the very mason she ought.not to be left unprotected in a town like this; and that Mrs. Jackson having a family was a reason why she should be useful. Mr. Jackson said he was a shoemaker, at 44, Great Rupert street, but his business was very bad, and his wife had nothing to ' do in :he straw bonnet-making now ; he would SOMeT gift the 21. back again than receive her ; she wag sullen and disobedient when he had her. Suppose she turned out bad ? Mr. CONANT told him Le showed a bad feeling to the girl; she had conducted herself well while away from him ; she was but a child when ha had her, and experience would dictate to her to be co`iedient ; lie was only asked to take her till something could be done for her. If he could turn her over to another Muter, Ws lia bility would be at an end; but the terms of the indenture were stall in force against him, and he must do for her. The girl was taken away by the Jackson., tinder a promise from Mr. Gough that he would undertake to find a place foe her in three months. Qut EW-SontraitC.-I'estertiay a man named Kelly was brought to this office, charged with unlawfully disposing of a number of shop fixtures, belonging to a shop, No. 123, Chancery.bme, the property of Mr. O'Connell. It appeared, from the complainatt's statement, that the shop had been taken of him by the defendant's wife, who was to hare the use of the fixtures while she lived there. The defendant and his wife remsined in the shop three months, and when they left they die. ' posed of the fixtures to the person who had taken the shop, and who had the defendant's receipt for the tame. The receipt, how- ever, not being produced, the Magistrate directed the ease to stand over until the receipt should be forthcoming. UNtON-HALL.—YeiterJay, a fellow named J olio Sonia. one of a gang of desperate thieves, that have long infested the district of this office, was brought before the sitting 3lagistrate, charged with having committed an outrageous an assault upon the person of Cap tain Davidson, of. Nelson-square, u to endanger that gentleman's life. The Captain was unable to attend the examination in conse quence of the injuries he received, and his son produced a medical cettilicate, describing the dangerous state in which his father was then lying, owng to a severe blow on the breast, which it appeared produced a rupture of the lung+. A watchman. named Sltepherd,stated that on the preceding night about II o'clock. as he was sitting in his watch-box, which is placed in Counter-street, Southwark. he saw a gentleman walking along the pavement, whom he had since ascertained to be Captain Davidson, who was followed by three common-looking fellows. The watchman kept his eye upon them, and when they had pro. ceeded about 20 yards from where he was, he plainly observed the prisoner run up alongside the Captain, and give him a desperate blow nn the breast that knocked him down like a shot ; the prisoner then proceeded to turn Captain Davidson's pockets inside out, and at the moment the watchman hastened to the spot, and secured the ruffs in who had committed, the outrage; but unfortunately his asp elates escaped through the labyrinth of by-lanes and alleys in that neishbourhood. The prisoner having been secured, the next thing was to d sweet wbo the genueman was that had been so desperately ass tolled, a+ be lay in the road completely deprived of all sense or motion, and to all appearance dead. In his pockets fortunately was found a card of hie address, and he was instantly conveyed home, and surgical assistance being procured, after having been bled, he recovered in soma degree,but still remains In a very dangerous state. The prisoner was known to most of the officers, and was identified by them as having been in company with a man named Edwards, upon an occasion of a tire in Bermondsey, when Pottle, an officer of this establishment, was severely wounded with a knife in the hand and arm by Edwards, who was there for the purpose of picking pockets. While the above charge against the. prisoner Was under investigation, file t Molmees owe of thb Magistrates of the connty, entered till'office, complaining that he had been knocked down and robbed on the same night • be received a blow or two on the body, and hi+ left eye was swollrn and black, the effects of a thump be got on the bridge of the nose by one of the ruffians. Mr. liolmer stated that •s he WAS proceeding home the precious night, at • little befare 111 o'clock, in passing the end of the Great Dover-road, a fellow ran up against Mar with such force as to knock him down,l and while lying on the ground another fellow came tip, who, pre tending to assist him in getting up, managed to pick his pocket of , a pocket-book cooteining money, with which he made his esespe. Mr. Holmes., on looking at the prisoner, believed that he was• the fellow, who, under the ;pretence of assisting him off the ground.' robbed him of his pocket-book. Shepherd, the watchman, hawing stated that he should know the men who aceompisnied the prisoner when ha knocked down Capt a i n Davidson, the Magistrate remanded him for another examinatbn. A Liverpool Paper says, " The Corporation are abort to build two free schools, one of which is finished !" The statement of the bank of Jones and Co. at Man- 1 cheater discounting bills at 4 per cent. ought to be ex plained, otherwise it might lead to an idea perhaps un- founded, that the rate of interest was about to be altered. The fact arises from the opposition of the branch of the Bank of England, which discounts in that town at the rate of five per cent. per annum; formerly Jones and Co. 'charged five per oent. and a commis:lex the reduction to 4 recent: with a commission, make the rate nearly 3 per eeni. to the public; but it was a necessary measure to meet dm ■cw astablishmet, and to ttattsaMbriaineaa Upon nearly dm same terms. 44' ‘Akoc minas* and • taken the poison herself. The Jury, being of the same opinion, returned a verdict " That the deceased had poisoned herself, being at the time in ft Sin of temporary derangement." On Tuesday exciting an inquisition was taken at tIW .Iheo Brewers, Stretton.ground, Westminster, before T. Htons,llll. es the body of John Wookford, fifty run of a ag ee Elisabeth Grant stated that she lives at No. 34, Stretton"' and knew the deceased from his lodging in the sane house wf th kw ; he had been very unwell for the last week. but was not candela at his ZOOM. Last Saturday, about the middle of the day, withal saw him In'the yard, by the back door; he then exclaimed to Ipfe l " Oh 1 Abs.. Grant. I shall dip," and would have fallen, if eke DM not caught hint in her arms ; he was then carried up stairs and laid oa the bed ; his wife was ;at this time in s stete of berg i l e si totitation, and had been so fen the last t h ree weeks ; the expired in about an.hour after be lon laid un the bed ; his wife 'nisi the room with them ; the last words he uttered were, " You wicked, woman (meaning hie wife), you have broken my hart;" he died Immediately after these words; his wife was constantly in the habit of pawning every thing she could lay her hands on, and get drunk with the Money. The deceased, who was a porter in the city, was a reatinkabl sober steady man. Mary Chiswell also stated, that the wife of the deceased was a most antedated drunken woman, and in the habit of pledging all herrionband's property; this conduct affected the mind of the de. coned vex y much, and lie often complained to her about it. He was sisitoil by the Doctor on Saturday, who sent him some me. dieihe ; but his complaint batted all medical skill. No sooner wan the breath out of the deceased's body than his wife exultingly exclaimed, "Thank God, the old b— is dead I" and immediately fell to work and ransacked his pockets of all they contained ; she found in them 4s. 61, and immediately ran over to the gis.shop,, where she spent the money. A blanket has been furnished IS cover die corpse. From depravity of the old wretch, it has been deemed necessary to watch not only the blanket, but the corpse too, as it was strongly suspected they would be disposed of the first opportunity. Since his death the wife has sold all the deceased's clo Ivat. Smeltl of the Jury remarked that their blood had ran cold at the horrid narrative. and. the oldest of them said he never knew an instance of such atrocious unfeeling conduct on the part of a wife. They than returned the following verdict—" Died by the visitation of Dad." 44 ,~ MARKETS. -.....-.. ` (From the LONdos New Price Cum*, Oct. 241 SUGAR. — The Sugar Market cestinuod very heavy last week, and where sales were effected lower pekes were submitted to, parti. wisely in the inferior and middling , descriptions , of whiri i the greatest part of the pement stock atessists. Sugars 60s. and up wards, are so scarce that they fully eiesweraid the late prices. The deliveries of Sugar last week are ahent Ole emits, needy the same as taw year, 'which evigualy obelus. 60 thet eineseeptiee continues extensive, and that leige wads of Ilesievades• have been dis posed of piivately, the particularises to Om sit ana.piring. The stock has increased last week nearly MIL einspored with the same period in BM. The Market opened heavily this morning, anti i n, 1 from the late purchases of low and Sugars we have re duced our quotations Is. per cwt. The eels private contract at the close of the day were estimated at NO a The Barbados pairiiestale *pi .off heavily; the best quality Gls. fitl. We make all Seglirslilivir IS.. sheet Is. per cwt. lower than on this dip week. The , Relied? Mediu Area exceedingly heave last week, and only parrelafdr elaWbg were Inquired after. The price. of Lumps were 'tither lower. The trittelesole Grocers did not purchase WV PIM'. for the hem ionwaveptisa. The demand rather im. prosed mdse be& tor Mee coneeinistien and export, oa account of the hgiatedly takings rollattimi price ; Drown Lumps and liblsll. l ll mid at. the lowest priee illsoned. The Gro.:en are also taking /en gistisee a, shadier rollasdos. Is Foreign lawn last , week as bulimia wee dose by private castmet. Some Based Sultan offered et vab*i ode. but we believe they were ao bidding.. 367 birds. milt& Pot* Rico good Mammies, yellow to brown, sold 275. fid. a 88a. COFFEE.—The Public Sale. of Coffee last week attracted little, attentfonNsey Went off heard 011 0 4 t F b oLeign at a further reduction of Is. per ewt. • the ordinary of British Plantation at a decline of 2s. .a S. per cwt.; orditiory rank Jamaica 48s. al 50s. ; good ordinary elan Ills. sad 10si ; Biso ordinary 481. The (*wry descriptions sold also lower, but will high in proportion to the inferior qualities. The triaseilione ley contract at the ma reduced prices were extends., il It then kis extensive buyers of Coffee, but only at letrireices. report on Saturday' that St. Domingo Ci.ffee was mid at 475. bminght the buyers to make inquiries, but no general business could lie done at that price. There was oWy ens public sale this forenoon, 50 casks Jamaica and 41.1 bags St. Domingo, the latter of an ordinary quality, all taken In 4111.- • and per. Bd.' the said 44si • 410. id.: good or. dime, whiny Jemidea tis. er g Odoul he alga. There was so ladeseld Sag it farm noaisseirms if the Market prices. IRISH,. PROVISIONS.—The 't Provision Minket continues heavy, but noveductionin the prices of the present stock here Is anticipated, as we have a small supply of good Provisions, end the usual shipping orders are immediately expected. The prices for a future period are expected lower, and New India Beef is offered at Al. 10s. and New Mess at 41. lees for shipment next month, but the buyers do not come forward. Butters maintain the late prizes. -Breen heavy. RUM, BRANDY, and HOLLANDS.—The inquiries after Rum continued general and extensive last week, and towards its close some buyers, who had been long watching the Market to pur. chase at lower prices, came forward and took all parcels, proofs and under, without regard to quality, at 2.. 4d.; they were unable to make large purchases at that rate—for proofs it was refu.ed. The other sales were Jamaica 31 over fine al.; Si over of a very or dinary quality 3s. Bd. Demerara 28 over 3.. 2d. Brandies are held with much firmness, but the purchases lately are confined to small parcels to the trade and for shipping. Geneva still at nominal quotations. At a late hour to.day no purchases whatever were re. ported. HEMP, FLAX, and TALLOW.—The Exchange from Pe. tersburgh yesterday was 10e, which is a considerable advance. The sales of Tallow since the previous post day, 5,000 carts, gene rally at 106 roubles. This intelligence had the effect of making the transactions in Tallow more extensive, but the only alteration was making the market buyers. when they were previously sellers, at our quotation. Hemp is still firm at the inserted currency, and looking up. In Flax there is no material alteration. The nearest price of Tallow at a late hour was 38.. RICE.—By public sale this forenoon 2,118 bags good White Bengal Rice ; Patna kind 17a. fid. a 18e., inferior 16s. Bd. • 17s. INDIGO.—The sale lately has gone off at a further advance and brisk, particularly the ordinary descriptions, which were pre. vioualy neglected; they sold Pd. to Is. per pound higher. The two public sales of Onatiniala Indigo to-day. Mumps. Etre all taken s. they appear to be held 6d, tp le. per peiablagber than the mead currency of dye stwtß. COCOA.—Severel pastels of Cocoa were offeted bud week, bit 'they 4 found no offers except small lots of Brasil, which sold Ms. and os. FRUIT.—The Fruit Market was very heavy lad week. The public sale on Friday led butts, Currants 884. a 944. I Canted& 904. a M.: Lipari 80s. The public sale this day, new French Prunes, Plums, and Imperial Plums, affords' no criterion of the market; nearly the whole was taken is. OlL.—The ships that have lately arrived from the Northern Fialteriot have been rather successful ; the consequethe ia, that the Oil market has became exceedingly heavy ; Gasselend is effavd at the lowest lasertad price, and no buyers: the MW. dlindltiblits are at nearly nominal quotations on account of dm 'kw hanaaetions lately repo. tea, TOBACCO—Thare as expation still wassillog the market, but their purchases as yet are quint inesedinaltie ; sone eldinary parcels of Virginia are revoked Is. as OW Mt gtherady the market-is languid t the buyers eve tilling as wad die mot of the public sale in Holland, in the aadolgindW at Ism! SPICES.-ills pibfic take, White Pepper attraeNd rent at tention last week. is dm tags supoly was all take* by cue M use . about 3s. and awhile . gam' lestartees so AO nx Illted. The quantity broughtthreesd•wws ime.ana _it Wag dos same party werf(reillallill 7th. alt• 91a. UM does the sale a premium has both _obtained. ' Dy public sale 173 bop pad Sumatra black Pepper, fight, sold 41d. ei4 41d, • . HOPS.—lieps loon es lowest 0414 Ws &demand 141 s: per ewt. th e domed amodossas omit italientthdtes SILL —The 111111Pinie as the ladies Maima *Aw dosed at a um how ; the Sae imiess dealt, do 4almlat d ptam; Weborthin ildesi are list alibi •-4 OK-8 _ a v.—Monday A Borough, Mr. J. attended, .pursuast Court, far the of Major Wolridge, Ilurgeiien lad -been ,ijuy, Mt. the r first then stated, granted in the ;omen's sons to distinctly laid analogy, if not certain class of any proof fifth of a liaabetli, the the age of come to be do so, he all claim to . point in his favour; Mr. E. th e n dr ew the attention of the Court to the reign of Charles 11., and said, that the than Governor of Plymouth, the Earl of Bath, obtained from the borough of Plympton, as well as of many other boroughs, the surrender of their charters to his ftlajesty. The right which he now sought to r e cov e r w as c l ear l y al :Towed u to that period, and indeed the Lord Chancellor deo. tired it would not be very difficult to prove that Wu that period every inhabitant- of a borough was a core the Earl of Bath arrivedin London with had been given up to him, Charles 11. consequently the charters were surrendered 11. which he (Mr. E.) contendtd, inumncln as the order for obtaining beets in-nett - during the reign of an was then deceased. The boroughs up their charters received new ones, as Plympton. The difference between I the new was, that the burgesses were latter by name, and it was also therein of making free burgesses was vested and Aldetmen. When King IVil the throne, he declared all the . its predecessor James to be null and . the people should return to the en former rights and privileges. The various ' by James 11. were obliged to abdicate their Corporation officers again appeared on the rolls of the boroughs. William 111. afterwards, through the means of Sir Geo. Treby, the then patron of the Botough, and Recorder of London, granted the Borough a charter. This new instrument said nothing about the election of freemen, but left it in the state it stood previous to the surrender of the charter to James. In further elucida tion, Mr. E. referred to the year 1702, when on the elec tion of members to serve in Parliament, a feud arose be tween two leading men of the neighbourhood of Plympton. The result was a petition !to the House of Commons, and the question between the contending parties was precisely the same as now existed, namely, whether the Mayor and Aldermen ha-I the exclusive right to elect free men? In order to give the best possible evidence of the proceedings on that occasion Mr. E. produced a copy of the original brief delivered by the Mayor and Aldermen to their Counsel, in answer to the above petition. They then contended, as they did now, that no right existed as that which had been demanded. Mr. E. produced a copy of the Journals of the house of Commons, and com mented at some length on the evidence adduced both for and igainst the question. The decision of the House was, that the light of electing burgesses to serve in Parliament was veatt d in the Mayor, bailiff; freemen, and sons of free men, who bad a right to demand their freedom and had, been refused; this decision, he contended, most satisfac torily showed that the right he now advocated was acknow ledged by the Legislature; perhaps it might be asked, why, if it really was their right, it had been suffered to remain dormant for such a period, ever since the year 1702—more than a century? To this he answered by repeating an anecdote, which no doubt every individual of the Court had read when at school. The son of a certain Ro man Emperor having conquered a city, sent to his father for counsel how to govern it: the father took the messenger into the garden, and without laying a word, lie cut oft' the heads of the tallest poppies, and then desired him to tell his son what he had witness ed.i The son took the hint, and cut off some of the most powerful men of the city. Things were the same now as in the days off the Ito man Emperor—the most powerful possessed .tlte greatest sway. In the Corporations of England, rank and talent were generally predominant, and all the little poppies were obliged to hide their diminished heads. But he would beg them to observe that because the claim had remained eo, long without being brought forward, it was no proof of its invalidity ; and u a convincing proof of that, lie said it would be only necessary to mention the case of East Looe, where from 181'8 to 1822, non-residents were allowed to be freemen; but in the latter mentioned year, the House of Commons bad declared that no one was competent to vote for that borough, unless he were an inhabitant.— Mr. Elwortby then concluded his very ingenious and luminous address, in which it was clear that he must have taken a deal of trouble, by addressing the freemen present, telling them that their oath, which required them diligently to protect the ancient rights and immunities of the bo rough of Plympton, imposed an obligation on them to make a strict and impartial inquiry into the nature of the present application. After sonic further conversation Mr. Elwortby placed the matter in another light, by requiring the Court to swear two witnesses to give evidence before the Grand Jury against one of his clients, for neglecting to attend and be sworn a freeman, in pursuance of the sth by-law of the code, made under the Charter of Elizabeth. This the Court refused, as they did all his applications. Mr. E. then, as his last resource, prior to his moving for a writ of mandamus, made an application to be admitted to the Grand Jury to prefer his appeal there: this the Court also refused. The matter was then dropped. The answer set up to the claim of the gentlemen before named by the Mayor and Aldermen of the borough of Plympton is, that by the Chatter of James, the right of electing free burgesses is vested in the Mayor and Alder , men : consequently, if the provisions of that Charter be I law, no claim can be valid, as the sole power of making bus..' gases is in that body. That sons of freemen were entitled to their franchise before the surrender of the Charter to James, there appears to be no doubt ; and the only ques tion t hen for consideration is, did the Act of William 111. lawfully annul the Chimer ofJames? Unfortunately the Charter obtained through Mr. Treby in the reign of William Ht. left untouched the manner of electing free men ; had that subject been detailed, all litigation would, of course, have been prevented. The question appears to binge on the point above mentioned, is the charter of James 11. legal or not? That it was accepted by the borough there can be no doubt, in return for those they had surrendered, and it de facto became the law of the, borough. It then may be asked, can a charter so granted and accepted be annulled, except by a direct act of the kiney power? if not, is there any specific charter or order of William 111. declaring the charter granted by James 11. to Plympton null and void? The strongest feature in favour of the claimants is the decision of the House of Commons in 1702; and the greatest wonder is, that that' decision was not followed up. The question, if with, will be solemnly argued in the Court fi g = Bench, where the merits of both sides will be duly.loves tigated and attended to.—Plynsoutd Paper. Sir Walter Seott's visit to for the purpose of in specting the official archives of the reign of the Emperor Napoleon, and to collect from authentic sources genuine anecdotes relating to that extraordinary character, pre viously 'to the completion of his history, which is already in the press, and far advanced towards publication. The state of trade during the week has not been quite so favourable as it was; fewer sales have been'efiteted, end no advance of prices has boos obtained. This, how ever, is usually a dull Flo of the yaw There is still a considerable quantity of Ferreting for the sp ring . trade, which 'Ards en t to a number of waiters' who- would otherwise anprovided fur0.... 6 /hurno Chronicle. . • CORPORATION OP SEPHTON. 1 [From the Liverpool Albion.' This extensive and populou s ' borough was. during th e !preceding week, the theatre of w h at t h e French 'Nth{ [style " great events." W e d nes d a y l ast was St. Luke's Day ; a day oe which it has been usual, tram time inune mortal, for the members of the corporation, which is nee of teostencienti as well as one of the most loyal, in the kingdom, to proceed to theelection of a Mayor and Bailiffs. The day was ushered in by the tinging of bells, the display of flags, and by other demenstrations of popular joy. Mt business in this hive of industry was suspended on the happy occasion ; the streets of this extensive town were crowded w i t h the inhabitants, dre sse d i n t h eir hI d o y sy attire ; and every thing denoted that the borough would [ be, before night, the scene of jollity and mirth. Mts. Bowker's elegant hotel was splendidly decorated for the occasion, and her numerous servants appeared in new liveries. roeao:i on ho w ev er ,e i glut church ttloe hi. nceht, voice,fhwvo r tetß Between ri t aot l g th a teemtww y ehv jaejaafrinetnelin ou:ti adva nc ed,ehliwsevtxttieharhcplie cethree euooreohfittel faizdati jrnt::nhconsiderable their ofuden wongaeuti scduplihroiepserttwriocato.amotcatihsjmilceo: ehem ai pob epen x wiixelt i rnre, ; lent j t i to y aodooti wilbf o n e t e aets nhe o ah a sofdteefe, after n oo n , 0 r m gnip a Liver pool. cavalcadeo oir a i i i 3 i esrl o .nrilay . : st id y were saluted, On their arrival within the boundaries of the borough, by a salvo of ar till ery , t h e r i nging pf bells, and by the shouts of the assembled mu l t i tu d e. The cavalcade was one of the most splendid which had ever been seen in the streets of the ancient and populous town of Sephton.—. The flower of the youth of Liverpool, as well as men who are eminent for the profundity of their wisdom and the extent and variety of their attainments, graced the borough by their presence, and honoured its inhabitants by their condescen sion and affability. The learned Recorder, who had accom. panied the members of the corporation from Liverpool, and who never takes a single step without hesitation and seeming reluctance, stated to the admliing populace the causes which had prevented the illustrious party from making their grand entay earlier in the day. They had, he said, been detained in Liverpool until half-past two o'clock, in appointing a gentleman to fill the office of Mayer of that Minor town; and they had set off the moment the appointment was made, to proceed to the election of 8 gentleman to occupy the civic throne of the more flourishing and important town of Sephton. Three rounds of ap plause from the multitude followed this but eloquent, oration. The great personages then proceeded, attended by officers bearing the Corporation regalia, to Mrs. Bowkeei , the great room of whose hot e l was elegantly fitted up for the banquet. The tables were loaded with evt ry delicacy and luxury which money could procure; and to excel. lent was the cookery, that one of the guests, an r einow. !edged epicure, was heard to declare that he neve: stw a better entertainment at the Waterloo or the Adelpbi Hotels, in Liverpool. Dinner over, the burg-saes, after drinking several loyal toasts, proceed ed to the election of the Mayor. The Town Clerk made the customary pro clamation, and read the Acts ay enst bribery and corrup tion. James Ackers, Esq., was then nominated and se conded as a candidate for the office; and JAn Davies, Esq., was nominated and seconded as a candidate for the like honour. A sharp contest now took place, and the polling was kept up, with great spirit, for a considerable time. Some queer gills having come up to poll for Mr. Ackers, the Counsel for the other eandidate objected to them, and insisted on the oaths against bribery and cor ruption being put to the burgesses. eve out-voter, who had come all the way from Liverpool, and who looked rather musically inclined, was opposed, the Learned Bar. rister stating that the person whom he pretended to be had died many years ago, and that his name was John Jones. This was denied by the Counsel on the other side, and a gentleman on the hustings swore that the voter wits really the person he said he was, and that he was a native of a place in Cheshire, called Cake-whig. Th e vo t e watt then received, and the burgess's name was entered as a Cal e-whig. After a smart struggle, Mr. Ackers was de clared duly elected, amidst the deafening shouts of the multitude. It was now eight o'clock, and, late as was the hour, pre parations were made for chairing the successful candidate. The car, which was very splendid, was brought out, and Mr. Ackers stood ready to be elevated; but no sooner did the bearers behold the astonishing gravity of the new Mayor, than they shrunk appalled from the Herculean task, exclaiming, one and all, that they could not carry the Mayor and Corporation in one chair. Their fears were soon removed, it being agreed that his Worship thou d walk round the church-yard, " with stately steps and slow," whilst the chair was carried behind his august per son. The ceremony was accordingly performed in this tr.anner, by torch-light, the officers bearing the Corpora tion regalia, the bells ringing, the cannon firing, and the populace shouting. The Mayor and Corporation returned to the Town-hall. The Learned Recorder, who was dressed in the robes of office, and whose sagacious head was crowned by a huge wig, soon after appeared at one of the windows, anti, as the mouth-piece of the Corporation, addressed the assembled multitude, who had flocked int o he town from miles raund, in one of the most eloquent speeches ever delivered in Sephton. Unfortunately, our reporter had drunk too much champagne during the linnet to be able to take accurate notes of this splendid oration. We have, however, con trived to obtain a meagre outline of it, which we present to 1 our readers. The Learned Recorder congratulated the burgesses of Sephton on having been so sagacious and discerning as to elect to the office a gentleman whose gravity was equal to his respectability ; a gentleman who, he was confident, would discharge his duty zealously and fearlessly—reform all abuses--call a common-hall—and be always at his post. —(Loud cheers.) He mewed them that Mr. W. M. Bothwell, one of the gentlemen whom they had elected to the office of Bailiff, had been born and bred amongst them, and was endeared to all who knew him by his kindness to his neighbours on all occasions ; and that the other worthy- Bailiff, Mr. John Davies, would rosin well, and would ne ver dry-salt them.—(lmmense cheering.) The burgesses had breadth in the Mayor, and length in the Bailiffs,. and be was sure the /enga and breadth together would make a most substantial c'orporation.—(Great cheering.). The Learned Recorder withdrew his sage bead amidst thunders of applause. A loud cry was then raised for the Mayor to speak. His Worship declared, however, that he was too fall to give utterance to hisfeelis on tbaocea sion; and that he could only moire them;*as the intelli gent inhabitants of Sephton would always 'find Mm as his post. The Mayor then, with his aectursomedliberality, ordered a barrel of ale to be distributed among . the popu lace. Thus terminated one of the most interesting cere monies ever seen in the, populous and extensive town of Sephton. We are happy so have it in our power to.add, that the Mayor, the Bailiffs, and the members of the Coe- 2 poration, returned to Liverpool by day-light on Thu morning, having luckily, and m o r e by c h ance t vigilance, escaped falling into any of the n umerous di on the road. BIRTHS. At Teddington, on the 224 instant, the Lady tenon** Botisad, Inspector of Army Hospitals, of a son. On Sunday, the 22d blatant, in Lower thuok-street, the Lady of Thomas B. Ifililyard, Esq. of a &tghter. On the 2Gth ult, at Therapia, on the Bosphorus, 14n. W. Turner, of a son. MARRIED. On Thureday, the 19th hottent, at St. Mary's, Beverley by the Rev. Wm. Oil y, Frederick Mahrwaring, of the blat ft Own Light Infantry, Nephew and Aide.de.C a mp to Ocnesik waxing, Governor of St. Lucia % to Ca th erine, second da df the late Colonel Popham, of the 24th Regiment. On the 7th instant, at Flounce, Edward John Stanley, Esq., eldest son of Sir Jobn Stanley, of Aid e d., Park, Chakire, to Henrietta Maria, daughter of Viscount' Dillon. On the 19th instant, at Cliho;. Wts. Broderlp, Esq. On Sanctity, the TM i 1/11n6 Zhu Forbes, wife of Lieu tenant-General Iteajetnin F at hi midair, le the New nan. _ • 411.--1 C uicrit WATER THIS DAY Ai' LONDON BRIDGE, • • Iforelag Et A. after el Reef1ef..,....: N NAL after E. - Meted at THE BRITISH YEE St Oillet.byi. W.CAELTOM,H., EH. Stead, audpeldlektil by II: CANNON, sum SIM - • ' - 1 - "' - .3Nlrt • ' - • . . * • . - ' - - ' . ' • 4.4 , - - • THE..II I .!.... i:: ~--.= . .. . the parish bad neglostra to maim thit ittiliog eORONERT 04111111 1 0. . ' ROISUGH OF PLYMPTUN. order could sot toe he made. TUN fillettiohal ~,, .._ „ ....... n ...—. identity of the prisoner. On POMMY In lid SAinq • ' it int EXTINUOW Or TUE BLIICTIVE FRANCHISE.- —0 yes, I can sweat to the man ; we Abed in the Groom, John.strest, • ' N .- ~,;, WA being the Quarter &salons for this Bee t z e ll Seq. Coroner, on the Oh worthy, sofieitoe i of Devooport, at • Von cannot swear that he Is the hither Of child. woman, who •of " I 'l, 4 -, " , ~ . D a t i ve h e h a d given at . ii preceding cone I t —l'm, I can ; I know the roan *di ewe nerd the It hem tha 0 ' that ls the man that Riee swots to be father of , whole a shesesakee esellieg .. 4,, of malting application on behalf hew as wive fie,„ i t a h id ~ d elbl" k 4, Asa i frohgr e e, Capt. T. Wolndge, and Lieut. C. 1 She might swear that John Smith was the tether. and to New; and'freqe ',lir a state d . i 2v. lit Witch soitzf ea of freeman, who claimed to be admitted . lan; bat nobody can prove that but the woman bar- she appeared as if d On Nang IMO she wet in. en. After some preliminary measures art present to identify hint. and the Magistrate can. out, and returned ohs sr , it skrota il iii ' she, ed of relative to the appointing the Grand seder on him to give bail without his identity being , n o u p ric her tioo thinz e in t a sh. rourna , mod at ~ ~- 1 : a ft er . Worthy commenced his address, alluding in to Parliament were perused without meeting With an num, very much intoxicated, . sled bi n , , ' • • hare any lied to the early charters of the borough ;he th a3 l lye. gip (he was et that time Iging on the bed); be ,'", • Ilk., the alga- that he reunded his claim on the charter grant, eked if he admitted being the father ? The question live, when the devilled exclaimed In VIA ',. ' & hive dodo reign of Elisabeth , though the right of freemen' it— I have done it, a n i k t b a ,,, hers & on tne , 11111* Th e the franchise was not, he would admit, ' • n ; of course he answered " No." cloven there : It appeared, however, by and T—As no order has been made, nor an , now the husband inuantly gem an a l a rm, whets his '„, (me. rot) data 1 have no power to oblige him to give bad. Ido urine to hi s sae l etaaar , when it was h ue d t h a t I I , h a d recognisance of any use unless it can be solvated in poisoned herself wish ozone aud, two ounce pageSe . ••. on by record, that down to the year 1676, a certai appearing, which canno t be done. 1 hays no oldce- the goer: above 100 gr a i ns were also found by MI, • a cur- persons were to become free burgesses, and if a recognizance if a form can be altered No as to make geon, in a teacup, which the husband said no • ii • 'muff of this were wanting, it was f u rni s h e d by th e at we have no forms suitable. I eanhot detain ever drank out of, and believes she meant to Atli oho f 0 of 11- ~,.A -laws under the charter of Eliaal asked him to have same gin. The its es Ili a fee' ml.• —Then I shall take him to Ramsay ; I must . obey rules in great agony. terfor of Whiih as '• that if any pervon above ti Mr. Baxter, the surgeon, declared that the qsantituf poison he eighteen, being a burgess born, should not cc T —You will use your own &credo° as to the pro- found in the stomach of the deceased must have cat* dMost In- sworn when he was warned by the bailiff' to 1 stant death, should, in consequence of such neglect, lope r and Mr. Tanner left the office together. The Coroner said that there did not appear any midget:veto al. to .. . bt but the demised had . t ins mums. This, he contended, was i7r fi Ff.ans_ a resnectablv-drened man. who only minors mix 41113°Pd. std pOint in his favour ! Mr_ IL then ti roar rho at he had DO d Oil COTTON.-1:0 T ro =aka ha Wei sisidt t die irk withesi alionelos. eallilletiase fee the me& Orniii hi Cocain cellist of 11l Akins 40. a iid, I. ue Bawd bed. ; NO Bowed ls. a 7ed. ; AO Damara OK altd. i6Be , &4thei the charters which ,had had died, and consetp to hie successor, James .was an illegal measure, Ow saki charters had b nuntaieh, • who hid.delirered ut these was I :ate' . , Tier and the in the lintel . that the power so in the Mayor i Liam AIL ascended chartist granted by MI void, and ordered that joyments of their forme *Seers appointed by Ja offices, lAtell the old Corp f i~ I d r 1 . r === • .. ~; ...116... bet be He (*a • to I atf no am P 4 .Itl 1