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kR/GuTON, Novsassza 16. I .. The day for the departnre of the Prince [Went i. now fixed : Ina Royal liighneet will leave UP fur csrltnii.lion.e sn Tiinraday morn i ng . The weather to-slay 114.1 been P . 'ler to that of. ~..rrday mid the five o► six iirteriling : the rain 'via been incesamit. with alight equal!, of • wind at intervals. The rides and walk. have fur. 1 r•.me time been.destitiste of fashionalile company. The Marsisis and !Marchioness of Conysighistn. ).n►d and Lvdy Fifiroy Somereet. sod Mr. Wel• • I 4...1ey Pole. have thf honour of dining with the • Pii!ice Regent, in Mar!hurough.rovr, thi. eweoiu g. The Earl of Egrensant returned to the Lodge last right. Hi• Lardship was walking with Lord W. Gordan in the coiclo.ed Palace Lawn tin. morning. The hoses at the tinatre are well engaged for to. morrow evening. Mr. W.Farren's fir Peter, and Mita ileratosee Lady Teazle. are resibtle.s magnets with the admirer. of histrionic worth. The former _will appear as (SW Do►atoa. in The Road to Ruin, on Thursday evening. and the latter as Sophia. COUNSELLOR PHILLIPS. We are Happy In observe that Counsellor Phillips's spereher are to be found in almost every bonne, and in par wailer the one he made at the Bible Association, at she Mnoision-lootse. Indeed it cannot he too public, as it strikes si the root of all Cortile's efforts to mislead the lower order* el society: they certainly have been given away iu alson• dieser ; tbir •pcniel Ire too much attended to by the Bible Association, the C *Mee for the Supprestdon of Vin, and R I mot and Chrioians. Nis speech at the Missionary Sot mitt at Glourester has spread throne' this country, as a'so sill the Continent. A singular Occurrence happened to Sir Plaips, a few days before be attended that Ineeliug. tiler, be II a. at Cheltenham, be was invited to dine at a Grosleman'a, a fliend of bis—at the table was a young Lady, 1,.• ousts-tick with M r beauty, and paid his addresses to her, a Gentleman presrsit had for some time done the same; the prey all went to Gloucester the day of the meeting, and sir. ?Whom sill the road offered the young Lady his hand. Ito their return, lire Gentleman sent him a challenge, and the day after the parties met (as has been laid before the public its tie pap. rat. The young Lady on Saturday last g.,e Mr Phillips her band, preferring his pleadings to a handsome wilt mend Yesterday ofieriloon, Prince LEOPOLD arrived at l'.ilace, from Claremont, and dined with the. Doke and Duellers of KENT. ilia Royal I ligfloras illter‘lualt proceeded to Marlborough House. The Doke of NORFOLK and the Earl and Countess at Suancr and family arrived on Wednet. day eveiiiiig at Norfolk House, St. Jarnea'aasquare, I:urn their seat, Forititim, Suffulk• The Earl of JERSEY left torn, yesterday for his srat at Midilirtott. The Countess of AY LEIFORD has arrived at her 11011%e ittAtulley-sireet. hots hrr seat, titsnmore._ The CISAYcEI.I.oK of the Excweiwsa had • dinner party yesterday, at his residence iii Downing strert ; this day he will entertain another grand linty of distinction. Lord FoLarroaz has arrived at Cook's lintel, Albemarle -street, frog• his seat in Barks; and F. f•ont his seat in Devonshire. - . Mr. and Mrs. Corm are arrived at their seat at Highgate font Brighton. Miss O'Nse Ls. played Mrs. Oakley, iii The lea loss Wife, at the Cork Theatre, on Wednesday se'imight, and &mane on Thursday. A young Gentleman. whose 'lame is MUDD, and who was lately in the house of Cox and Gacca swoon, the Army Agents, is to make his debut at Drury-lane Theatre this evening in the character «I liras, in the Tragedy of Brutus. A letter from Dublin, doted November 15, says: —" We are informed that the arrangement of the patent of Crow-street Theatre is decided upon. The house will be opened for the season by permis sion of his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant. A heavy 'engagement har, iii consequence, been en tered into for a limited number of nights with Mies O'Nxi Li.. who will make her first appearance to-morrow evening. This will be a splendid corn tnee,cement of Ilse entertainments of the season." i%Jr. KELLXIIII. the bans siagrr, whose perform antes were greatly admired about three years since, at the Ancient and Philharmonic Concerts, the Costa-Garden °reknit.% &c. has been its Italy for about tao years and a lull, and is returning to England. He has lately been at Geneva, where he gate several performances with great success; he accompanied himself on the piuuo-forte and the On Tuesday evening the Mnemosynean Society had their second concert this season at the Crown and Anchor tavern. in the Strand, which was very Numerously attended. and a most excellent per formance was given. in which the justly-admired inusic in Macbeth was admirably given. Mr. Flia- Nati gate the music allotted to Hecate most ad- Pitiably with his powerful bass voice ; the same Gentleman also gore the song of " The Wolf" nulls root effect. Nlimi Wit.t.tatis gave STo aacx's admired song, " With lowly suit, '• and an I , tilitiii sit, with much taste and ex- Ptersion. The dufferriit performances were nyplauJed ; encores are not allowed at this lostitu *um. Among il.e oilier numerous vocal performers virre. Mr. THORNE, Messrs. KENWAIII), Torus, EON, VINO, and an amateur. who swig an " 4 rlirlit cowl.. song; Miss J. STEVENSON. Miss TENSTALL, Miss 'PALLET, and Mias Gaoitos. —The prlfirrUtance concluded with the catch A. tl Ladd god tome my (.'dm's (lianas." A rural. at Edinburg h-"' The Docr.is of Montrose, 1.44 Caroline and Lady Emily .C.ainen, Virtuoso Kelboru, t 1 r uo,lr►'taod that the Duke of HAMILTON shit 1.0,41 ARCHIBALD HAMILTON t h is day leave the l'Aare 10 be present at the opening of Perlis meta. 'llte Duchess accotnpassies them to Lon don. The unwearied exertions of lus Grace to allrtiate the prestot dist►esses ate well known, end w e fear las obesity will be felt and regretted by the suffering pro l ate in Hoboken and its neighbour (/aegura throaick.) It oe may credit she rumours at the Stock Es t Iros K r yesterday morning, a must extraordinary mod unexpected dt*covery has been insole. It •p... petits that Alieasters hive been under the necessity of burrowing motley through private closeout's, upon Fxcheque► Bills, dated the 3utio of September and 20th of October, 1819; souse of those lolls were' yesterday exhilmed on 'Change for the hr.t time, suissequently tlarY are now sliding iuto circulation by degrees.—(Aluraing Paper.) EARtuQuArE. >Rom skim. loiltmsca 7. Oo the 13th October, Indween eight and nine in the morn ing, there was • smart shock Omer earthquake at Moen, it which lime •a mammas piece of a hanging roe k fell with • ilreadral noise into the ri'ver Elsler . Prereding the shot', some rematkahle phenomena had been observed at places in the netchboorhond. Near Gera. at 30 measles pail wren, a m. scarcely an boor before the @buck was felt at Plasm). 'a noise is Ike air was heard, resembling the iliseharge of , and ending like the ringing of hells. At Kiwirits Mime people thought they felt au earthquake, and 'oceanic doses fell at the same time about a league fruits Gera. LAW INTELIJGRNCIf. COURT OP CHANCERY, WltirfiliflUlleat THURSDAY. NOMPIIIIII/ 18. WRIT OF HAREM; CORPUS. AS the ?RAW,. of ST :41 LEY GODDARr, a Bankrapt• The LORD CIIANICEI.I.OR. on cwm►tn; into Court, observed, that I.e had reconsidered this ease, a n d his opinion was not altered, that the commitment of the Commissioners was g I, therefore it was out of his power to order the discharge of ;he bank rupt; it would, however, be tatisfaetnry to hint if the bankrupt took the opinion of the Court of King's Bench or Common Pleas on the subject. WRIT OF ERROR. THE. LORI) MAYOR'S COURT. GORDON AND OTHERS V. MURPHY. The ATTORN ZY-GEN ERA 11. mated he had a motion to make. to set aside a writ of error. granted 11 the Great Seal. There was a ptcoilisuity in the circumstances of flyr case that certainly mode lion at a loss how to address the Cellist on the subject. Hr had looked into all the books that bore on the subject, and lie was not able to find a precedent where such a writ had been before granted no a similar proceeding. The Plaintiffs brought an action against the Defendant its the ►Mayor's Court of the City of London. to recover a large stun of money, but he dill not appear, and, of course. was in contempt of Court. An attachment wall then issued by that Court against Lubbock and Co.. the holders of 5,6001., the amnions of the Defesalent. to which attachment Lubbock sod Co. returned that they had no effects of the Defendant. How. ever the Mayor's Court gave a verdict against Lubbock and Co. for 5,000/.. as garnishee; the meaning of which was, that the person recover ing the money from the garnishee should hold it. but if the Defendant, the person indebted, put in an appearance or bail in a year and a slay, the monies were to be returned to the garnishee. In this case no such hail or appearance had been entered by the Defendant, and the writ of error was granted to the garnishee. and it Will the first instance of such au application having been made; no blame could attach to the Great Seal for having granted it, fur every person knew how it was &gamed, by the mere routine of the business of office. He would not trouble his Lordship with the facts of the case ois they appeared in the Mayor's Court, as, if he did so, it would sheer that the writ of error was merely applied for for the pur pose of delay. Under there considerations he had no doubt but his Lordship would grant his motion. Mr. Bot.LAND fullowed.roul stated,!ilisit a Plain• tiff sued a Defendant in the Mayor's Court in the same way as he would in a Court ■t IVestminster, with this exception, if a Defendant remained in contempt, an attachment issued against his goods and his monies whe r found in the City of Lon don. The garnishee then its this case had no interest; if there was - an error in the record, the Defendant, by clearing himself of the contempt, might come in and take advantage of it, sod not the garnishee. Mr. AR4111,1 followed on the same side. Mr. NORTON, Counsel for the garnishee. con tended that his client bad an interest, and the writ of error was properly granted ; for, if he paid the money under an erroneous judgment of the Mayor's Court, and an action was brought against him by the Defendant for the recovery of it, he would not be able to defend himself on an invalid record. It would not perhaps he improper in him to let his Lordship have an insight into the case. The Defendant Murphy, who was in a foreign country, consigned a quantity of goods to Pinnard and Co., and they paid the proceeds of the sale of the goods to Lubbock and Co. fur the use of the Defendant. When the cause was tried before the Recorder, evidence was offered to be gi►en, that there was a long pendiog account between the Plaintiffs and the Defendant, but the Recorder said lie could not try that; he therefore contended, that the Recorder was in error, for he ought to have tried that point, which was sufficient ground why his Lordship should not grant the motion. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL replied, and said, that by the adinivsion of his Learned Friend, Mr. Norton, the writ of error could not stand ; for if the ruling of the Recorder Will wrong, they ought to have taken exceptions to it. The LORD CHANCELLOR — " It appears to me that the writ of error must be quashed. We hare great difficulty here, Mr. Holland, of knowing whether the Lord Mayor's Court takes notice of equity." Mr. BoLLAND—" It does not, my Lord ; but the Recorder sits in soother Court for that pur pose." The LOAD CEIANCELLOR" I thought so; and where be has as much jurisdiction as I have." Mr. BOLLAND —" Where he has juiisdiction, but nut to the extent of your Lordship." The LORD CHANCELLOR—I' Let the writ of error be quovlied, with liberty to search if ever such a writ had before issued in a similar case." His Lordship was occupied the remsiuder of the day until two o'clock in hearing :mama. of Sin interest except to the parties coocerued. At shot hour the Court rose. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, TRUISDAY, Nov. IS. LIBEL. Mr. Serjesnt VAILTGHAN prayed the jade.. ment of the Conn on Thomas Thomson, oho, had been convicted at the Leicester MAW : of publishing a film. scandalous, and mob. ciuus libel, on John Piddock, clerk. (*erg.:: ing him with abuses, oppressions, and partials.. ties, in the discharge of his duties as a Justice of.' the Police. The libel was contained in a knur l , signed .1 , Dumanitits," published in the Leirtater,l Chromick, of which tbe. Defendant Waif I hf pubs Usher. purporting to be a history of an. offaime r committed by Ai pour. man of the, now Of .!itras., ton, and of the punishment inflicted oil bins, by. order of tbe Rev. l'iosecutor. The olive also made: 'several very. severe strictures on the .conduct of Mr. Piddock representing the (Itemise of power in question to hate been arbitrary, cruel, and and charging him with having lent lum,elf to the feelings of another vindictive Prosecutor. Stratton was a day-labourer, employed last whiter to dig potatoes in the garde. of (3}.. Mimes Esq. ; glee evening, when going rosy from wink, he stole see of the potatoes; his employer lodged informations gainst Bee offender before the flee. Purectrfnr. •ud the latter ordered him to be taken into aunts,. .dy, where be remained from Saturday till M lay morning, soil was then putdirly whipped. A crime. gal inforinttion was applied for ag-aiiist the. De. ..fendant, by Mr. Seskint stighan, its reirrisarr. .but it W 35 nut granted. Bills a issilsetiosesst were in consequence pref.rreil before the Grand Jury of .Leicester hire, svl o f I them true, and the rau.e was tried before Chief Baron Richard+, mid • Syr. riot Jory. and the Defendant lass found guilty. An affidavit by the Defendant was 'sow put iss by his C *el, in extenuation. It slated that lie had b.en a bookseller, and publisher of The L cheerer Chronicle, fur six years, and that this was the first occasion on which he had been brought before a Court if Justice to answer for any metier that ap. peered therein ; that when Mr. Pitlilock, a solici tor. and brother of the Prosecutor, lied informed him that the letter was of an iinproper and libel lous nature. he (Defendant) offered to insert any article furnished or suggested by that Gentleman, to correct or retract it, but that airier that he heard nothing moreon the subj,-ct till he saw from the Con don new.papers that a criminal information had been applied fur at the relation oft lie Prosecutor—that lie was informed, and verily believed, that legal Fro reeding. hail bean instituted against hint to injure his paper Inn election purposes ; and, at the nisi Igo. Lion of a club called the 4‘ True Blue;"—that be was hat himself the author of the paragraph corn. ',fabled against, it having been sent to: a ltis office by a person unknown. An affidavit by Joseph Harrison in aggravation was then rend, slating that be load purchased a pamphlet two dsys before at the Defendant's shop in the country, purporting to be a report of the extra ordinary pro.ecution," with introductory remarks rrflectiog on the character of the Prosecutor and the p►oceeding. _ _ Another was read. sworn to by G. Moore. E9l. who averred that having been on the Grand Jury when the hills were &rut ap against the Defendant. he withdrew. Mr. OBALTILY then proceeded to reed the intro ductory remarks from the pamphlet : they bore that a rule fur a criminal information had been refused, but that the prosecutor, by • fortunate concurrence of circumstances, had iuccerded in the indictment ; that fifteen of the Grand Jury had been members of the True Blue, and eleven members of the Pitt Club; that Mr. Moore, one of the witnesses in the Incwecut , on, had been on the Grand Jury which found the bills; and that he and Mr. Piddock had been witnesses in their own cruse. Some obserra. tions were then indulged in oil the mode of striking Special Juries in the Crown Office; and in ■ Note appended to the passage, the officer said that the authority of Mr. Justice Bayley was adduced in support of the statement, that the Master had a right to pack the Jury-- Mr. Justice BAYLIIY—" I certainly never deli vered that opinion." Mr. DZNMAN desired that the whole of the note should be read, from which it appeared ►hat it ran thus And according to Mr. Justice Bayley, if selection means packing. he has a right to pack the Jury." When the officer had concluded— Mr. Strjeaut VAUGHAN said that he had another affidavit, alleging that the report of the trial had been circulated nut only iu the pamphlet, but also in his newspaper. Mr. DENMAN then said, that he rose to submit to their Lordships such observations as hail suggest ad themselves to him in mitigation of punishment. At • period when so much of their Lordships' time was devoted to the consideration of libels, he should be sorry to take up much of their time unneces sarily. It was peculiarly difficult for him to do justice to this case to the satisfaction of his own mind ; for while, on the one hand, his duty to his client prompted him to advance every thing that suggested itself in his favour, lie felt that, on the other hand, some of the must important principles by which society was held togethe►, and by which its freedom of opinion and acting was maintained and secured, were now at stake. The charge against the Defendant was, that he had pub!islied • certain letter; that he hail done so was certain, but it was with a full conviction of in truth. The indictment was founded on libel against Mr. Pi& dock only; on that alone it stood. Mr. Moore was entirely unconnected with the (deuce imputed to the Defendant. He hail been confoutded when he Saw a pamphlet and a newspaper put in by the Prosecutor's Counsel ; he was at a loss what to say of them. All he had known was, that his client had libelled an individual ; if lie had libelled the Grand Jury, the Special Jury, and the Court, lie (Mr. Denman) was entirely ignorant of it, and un prepared to defend him. But, indeed, he had not heard any thing which, in his conception, greatly aggravated his guilt. H.s new crime consisted in publishing a report of the proceed. logs on his trial. with observations. Now it was I ,, st fur him to set about proving. of what, importance it was to society that such things should be made public. With respect to the am. madversions on the Grand Jury, he had to observe, that as all persons conduct was most strongly in- Suenced by their situation, occupation. and habits of life ; what was guilt in one person, Nod under certain rircutnstaisces, might not be ins in soothe► person. sod under other circumstance•; and no. ' thing could be a stronger illustratum of that truth, than the case before their Lordships yeste►dy. •(Russell's), where an individual was 'naiad guilty,. asf publishitig a tract in the country, by a Jury its Oft country, the publication of which, in London, OKI. been deemed inisocent by a Loudon Jury. The Defendant was of that class of people, vtho angered most from prosecutions for• Isbrl. Thr 4 . .4140M oh the press, in that instance, depended nu Ilse feelings of the Jury; the inflaeoce.of feeling. rood habits was strong, and therefore it was natural ,that Ate Defendant should !perk enure severely of :thew• than if they had been taken from other situ*. • Innis of life. A.. far Mr. Moore, it appeared from his ovsn.affidavit that he had, in point of fact. been . Pt tirst on the Grand Jury. He was warranted ?heitistimiying. that according to the liberal indult. voice gioen-to.-persons•in his mode of life, the se. porting the trial was no extraordinary offence. Was po to be by punished for printing a . deport of a trial is a .newspaper with remarks? If the liberty of the press was Dot to become a down. right , mockery, iiimi o of !hi, description would find their way into the public prints. The narration of ..~~ the originril trottairtiam was perhaps engirt:" I. but the great and matratantial fart of thr case • horn cwrretly Mr. Justice BATLEY—" What do you ce!! the great and suhstsritial fact r' .Mr. DINISAS replied, the fact of Mr. Moroi. bayou; consulted Mr. PoMock no to the extebt of the itunit.lintent which he could inflict. previous to loiteingthe infornoitioo. The - Cot/a? observed. that that did not appear from the evidence. Mr. DENMAN requested that a certain part of the evidet.ce might be read [Front this it appeared that Mr. Moore had ask►d the Prosecutor whither Stratton could be or not, if he shohld lodge the informations; but n difference of opinion existing between the Learned Counsel and the Judges, as to the ttme when this occurred— The CHIEF it,!Tice proposed referring the point to Chief Baron Richards, who had presided at the trial, if the time was considered very material. The Learned Counsel declined, and resumed his address. The prosecution, without meaning any thing offensive to any individual, had cert.:ll , y been got up in a very extraordinary manner. Ile then adverted to, and commented largely on the evidence, from which he argued, that the prostru tor, though a very respectable Magistrate, had entered too readily into the views of Mr. Maoir, and on the whole matter had exceeded the powers given to him by the statutes. In the first place, lie had no right whatever, under the statute itf Elisabeth, to order him into custody from Saturday till Monday, and this for refusing to pay ten sl il lings, when he admitted himself that the potatoes were not worth so many pence, and that the re. mainder was to make up the cost.. In the next place, lie submitted, as lie had done to Chef Baron Richard., that the last statute had in that part been repealed by the 41d George 111, c. 67, which provided a penalty of twenty shillings for the identical offence. The Magistrate then acts.' illegally, and indeed he (Mr. Denman) could di*. cern nothing in the article which had given an tic count of his conduct to call down the vengeance and indignation of a Court of Justice-- Mr. Jusiice BATLEY..." Mr. Denman, you !we used the words indignation and geogeance of it Court of Justice. I speak on my oath, and I say that this Court feels no desire of vengeance-1 wish to press on the persons on whom it is to atsms.l the sentence of the law ; on the contrary, it is ot:r desire to treat them with all the leniency confute , t with the ends of justice, and which their own co• duct will permit." Mr. DENMAN said, he could scarcely regret Illy. ing used the language hr did, since it had bren e occasion of drawing such expressions from his Lop!. ship. The CHIEF JUSTICE--.." It is impossible th.t Judges should not at times feel as other men, but I can truly say, that we examine every case that comes before us with the utmost attention, and the moat anxious consideration) for the situation and circum stances of the parties." Mr. Dansects proceeded._.. Vas it right to Pio. hibit a man bending under the weight of poverty, who had worked for years for the Gentleman wk., had treated him with such rigour, and for les father, in the public streets, in the degrading imminence, of writhing under the scourge of the executioner? Nothing was more calculated , 2 weaken the affections of the people for our exce'- lent administration of justice, and system of laws, than such humiliating, insulting, and cruel ralidr• lions on such slight cause. If justice wet to be let it be dealt out with consideration, with patience, with mildness, and nothing would more attach the people tio our admirable constitution. But whipping was a punishment rarely, if ever, inflicted with ad vantage—the feelings of the crowds who witnessed it, were not those of a►ersion for the crime. ■ud detestation of the offender, but more commonly indignation against the punisher, and 'sympathy with the sufferer. He maintained that if ever ilier.! was a case which called fur the mild and merc►ful consideration and pity of a Magistrate, it was this, where lie had acted so inconsiderately, so tinnier. cifully, so inhumanly. Such, then, were Ilor cir cumstances tinder which the publication iii question took place. If the statement was incorrect. that incorrectness did not proceed from any wish or (cation to mi►represent facts, or to malign or injure the Prosecutor. The letter was not the writing of the Defendant, it was the production rf a titan of education and letters, who felt strongly, and ex pressed himself rather warmly on the aggraveting circumstances of the transaction. After some fur ther very animated observations, the Learned Ad. vocate concluded by expressing a confident hope, that if Ise had delivered his sentiments with too much warmth, that circumstance would not tend to injure his client in their Lordships' eyes. Mr. PHILJ.Irti followed on the same side. Mr. Setitont, VAUGHAN, Mr. NaIDER, and ,Mr. Bit.GUY, addressed the Court in aggravation. The Judges remained some time in consulta tion together, after which— The Cistice JUSTICE said" Mr. Denman, be fore any thing further is done, the Court wish to learn Trona you, whether the Defendant lias any oh jecimo. to enter into his own reeognizabce, to ap pear to receive judgment, if he shad be again called upon for the purpose. Ms. DIteM•N said, he would take it on himself •q say, that the Defendant would no►. The CHIEF JUSTICE then addressed some admo nitory observations to the Defendant, but, at the same time said, that the Court was of opinion, that the Magistrate would have Earlier e:rrci►rd the dir :cretiolo intrusted to him, if he had inflicted a more. Isniesst :punishment on the Defendant. His Lord. ,ahiplamented, that the conduct of persons sober- Arstenuly to their conviction, so frequently rendeted ,is.dilficult for the Court, on their being brought .ap for judgment, to adiniiiirter the law with stroll .leiliesity as they would &sift: The •recoguisante was then acknowledged. . The. Cuter Janice intimated the hope of the Court, that the publication should be stopped. Tbe.Defendant promised it should, and left the Court:. LORD EI:RIM:TON. The following letter has been addressed by his Lordship to the Nobility. Gentry, Clergy, Yeoman ry, and other freeholders of the county of Devon " (it!lTL ►MttM—The Resolutions or a private meeting, held at Exeter on the 51h umlaut, having been generally rig. collated throughput the county for signature, under the title urn Loyal Derlarati )))) I ihiok it due so yon, se well a• to myself, to state publicly the grounds on which I decline affimug nay name to them. " I have always countered respect for the religion. soil attachment to the constitution of our °wintry, as among the brat and simplest duties of eve.. good subject; and, there.. fore, that a specific declaration of these sentiments is only rrwlered necessary either when one own principles are tail. tit in (((( , or when circumstances unhappily give us canoe to suspect those of any large portion of unr neigh bours. Now, it would be absurd to suppose that the reaper. table gentlemen who originated this loyal Declaration could have thou/lit it requisite for the vindication of their own cha racters: and although I am aware that Devonshire has not been wholly exempt Gown the poison of blasphemous writings, yet the universal disgust which they have excited, sail the prosesutiwi instituted against the only person who has been found employed in the publication of them in this county, are surely powerful securities against the continuance of an offence, coodetnned alike by the feelings of the people, and by the laws of the laud; whilst the perfect tranquillity of Ilse county, wed the general good conduct of all classes of its isibabitants, 'Wood satisfactory proofs that they have not bees, seduced from the duty which they owe to their King, their country, or to their God.' " It is, therefore, to transactions in other and distant pails of the kingdom, that I can alone attribute the awe buskins expressed in the Declaration ; and it is with re ference to those trausactious particularly that I am com pelled to dissent from it. " Disapproving, as I do from my heart, the conduct of those mischievous demagogues, whose absurd theories and extravagant pretensions have dune web irreparable injury to the cause of temperate and salutary Reform, I cannot, however, consent to brand as threatening the subversion of all order and government,' those public meetings which, with very few exceptions, appear to have been called ac cording to the form prescribed by law, awl with the lawful view of making a statement of grievances, and of petitioning for their redress; but, least of all, could I do su at a lime whets, In consequence of rereut events, the expression of that opi- Mon must, as I conceive, be construed into an indirect sp. pruval of the matinee in which one of those meetings wu dispersed, and into an implicit intention of supporting some legislative measures for restricting their right of petition in future. " I well know to what obloquy and misrepresentation this avowal will subject me from some of my political oppo. news ; and I fear that I may have the greater misfortune of differing from several of those friends, with whom it has been my pride and my happiness to concur, usually, on sub jects of a public nature; but I should be unworthy of the trust which you have reposed in me if I could be deterred by any such considerations, (runs candidly making knows to you my sentiments on this most important occasion ; and I trust that the time is not yet come,when even as over-jealous anxiety to preserve inviolate the rights and liberties of the people of England can be generally misconstrued into an apology fur blasphemy, or a defence of sedition. 1 have the houuur to he, with great truth, Gentlemen, " Yuur obliged and faithful Servant, "Curtly Hill, Nov. 13. " EBRINGTON." Advice, from Gibraltar, of the 27th last. state that the ga►rison was at that date perfectly free from all infectious disease. By letters from Java, of the 22d of July, we are happy to find that the market for B►itish manufac tured goods had improved considerably, and that the prices of sugar and coffee were also advancing. In London, the sales of colonial produce continue to be very considerable. Coffee maintains the average which it r.,ached on Monday last, but sugar is somewhat lower. A Hamburgh Paper mentions that a large bark, partly filled with arsenic, had sunk iu one of the largest canals of that city, and that great appreheo. lions were entertained lest the accident might be attended with dangerous consequences. Letters were yesterday received from Malta, stat ing, that the trial of Captain DELSNo, end the crew of the pirate William. for plundering, and attempting to scuttle the British ship Helen. Capt. CORNISH, of Liverpool, which was to have taken place on the 25th ult., had been postponed in con sequence of the absence of the Governor, Sir T. Matzt.aah. who had gone to Santa Mauro in the Glasgow frigate; but it would come on immediate ly after his Lordship's return. A communication has been made from the Coun cil Offire, Whitehall. ►igned CHWTWYND, to the Mayor of Liverpool, approving of the precautions adopted by the Collector of Customs at thut port, to prevent any intercourse with vessels arriving there from New York, and directing that these precau tions should be strictly enforced till further iiistruc. lions are giver, upon the subject by the PrivyCounci I. General DEI'2IIEIII is actively employed in en deavouring to raise a loan of 30,000/. for the Govern means of New Granada and Venezuela. FROM A CORRESPONDIINT.—The reports now in circulation of pikes being found in different places, reminds me of a laughable hoax of smile cre dulous alarmists at Portsinnoth, in 1793 : these salient■ belonged td Mr. Reavas's society. A witty Clergyman (knowing the Secretary's officious ness to make himself of consequence) hinted that there were pikes and half-pikes in a house at Port.- month ; the Secretary eagerly inquired. where ? The Clergyman seemed unwilling to be an in former ; this increased the other's curiosity, who insisted upon ■ disclosure. The wit led them through different streets, will at length pointed to a door of a house, occupied by a Mr. PIKE, his wire, and six children ; the Secretary knocked. and out came Mrs. Ptee, when the joke was discovered, and all the party laughed heartily, except the die. appointed Secretary•. RICHARDbOII. GOODLUCK, end Co. respect acquaint the Public, that the 'text day of Drawing will be the eth of December, whirs Teo more 10,0001. Money and Consul Priers sill be draw% and the chaser of Fear morsels that day. R ICH AR DSON, GOOD LUCK, and Co. sold last Lottery No. 710, a Prise of 36,00t1f. Consols. and Nu. 700. a Prise of 5001. in wbole tickets; sad Id the present Lottery No. 4,390, a Prise of 40111. Cu,. $ whole ticket, sad Na. 9,396, a Prise of 4001. Comae* is arm Tickers awl Ebarrs are su sale at their Saak.beildiogs, Cornhill, mud Chariot trots. - •••••••••••,A11.}4.0.. LORD MAYO& DAY. The SOLICI 8111 — E ro to move tor • rule to phew cairve why a criniu.al information. Pliould nut be tiled certain tAerimain Jot c►eating .a diatnibonee in Goildhall at the late election of Lord Mayor for thir Cloy 1 11. C.10.040..` r 1 f .