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:'e a . WALPOLFS PORTRAITURE of FREDERICK PRINCE of WALES. .0n the death of .this personage, WALpoLE gives the followinz surfimary of his character and conduct. his by no means sketched in the spirit of the Vision of Judgment. None but Court Luureats should be trusted with the delineation of royalty. There are passages. here which give birth to reflections that " maltis :,the whole heart sick." What a pity that these' actbrs in the great political Damen should ever draw up the curtain . . . " Thus died FREDZINCK, Prince of Wales! having re- scrabled his pattern, the hack Prince, in nothing but in dy ing before his father. Indeed it was nut his fault if he had not I distinguished himself by_ any warlike achievements. lie had solicited the command ofthe tem,' in Scotland daring the last rebellion ; though that ambition was ascribed rather to his jdalousy of his brother, than to his courage. A hard judg , ment! for what he could ho did! When the royal anny lay before Carlisle, the Prince, at • great supper that he gave to his Court and his favourites, as was his custom adieu the Princess laid in, bad ordered for the dessert the representation of the citadel of Carlisle, in paste, which ho in person, and the maids of honour, bombarded with, suganplums! Ile bad disagreed with the King and Queen early after his coming to EnglUnd ; not entirely by his own fault. The King bad refused to pay what dsbts be baa left in Hanover, and it ran a little in the blood (Mho family to bite the eldesf son. The Prince himself bad so far not degenerated, though a better natured nun and a better father, as to be fondest of bissecendson Prince Edward. The Queen bad exerted more authority, joined to a narrow prying into his conduct, than be liked; and Princess Emily, who had been admitted into his greatest confidence, had not fhaeilea her duty to the Queen by concealing any of his secrete that might do him prejudice. Lord Bolingbroke, who had sowed a division i• the Pretender's Court, by the scheme for the father's resigning his claim to the eldest boy, repeated the $ . llllO plan or dlicord here, on the first notice of the Prince's disgust% and the whole Opposition was instructed to offer their services to the heir apparent, against the Crown and the Minister. The Prince was sensible to flattery, and. bad a sort of parts that made him relish the sort of parts of Lord Chesterfield, Doddington, and Lyttelton, the latter of whom, being introduced by Doildington, bad wrought the disgrace or his protector. Whoever was un welcome at St. James's was sure of countenance at the Prince's apartments there. He was in vain reprimanded for Ong want of respect. at task having hurried the Princess frum 'hippie+) Court. vibes stie was is actual labour, to the imminent danger of herb amil-ber child's life, without ac- vinaiuting•eititie King or Queen, the formal breech ensued, he Aaviag added to this insult a total silence to his mother ; but on ber arriving immediately to visit the Princess, and w bile be led her to ber toads, as soon as he came ire sight of the populace, A. knif i t dews in Out dirt and kisied her hand with the most resreeklia sins cif duty. He immediately went all lengths of Opposithist and popularity, till the fall of Sir Robert Walpole, vibes he was reconciled to, though never afterwards spoken to by the King. On Lord Graoville's disgrace be again pew out of humour; but after baying been betrayed and de serted by all be had obliged, be did not erect a new stand ard of opposition till the P s had bought off every man of genius that might have promoted his views. Indeed bis attachment to his followers was not stronger than theirs to him. Being angry with Lord Dunoraile fur not speaking oftener in the House of Commons, he said, " Does he think 1 will support him unless he does es I womld hare him 1 Does he not copsider that whoever are my Ministers I must be' King ?" Ills chief passion was women, but, like the rest of ••• his race, beauty was not a necessary ingredient. Of his *Courtin, Ludy Archibald Hamilton bad been neither young megliensleopse within his memory. Lady Middleton was very ,„4/1" easy plain, and very yelllow, a vain girl, full of Greek disid Latin, 1 - had music andpUiutlog, but neither mischiuvo ggliticed . Lady Archibald was very agreeable and artful, Job heart by giving him William Pitt for a rival. Jim Meth those mistresses were pretty much declared, be Inas a good lbesband, and the quiet inoffensive Prisceu was likely tai tom always preserved a chief uceadent over him. 'Gaining was another of hls passions, but his style of play did Aimless honor thaw the °assessment. lie eas rigid this dexterity* into practice is mere essential commerce, and mas vain of it! One day at Keasingtoe,thilt he had just borrowed five thousand pounds from Doddingtoo, seeing him OM under his window, be said to Hedges, his secrettry, "'That man is riekOned one of the most sensible men in Kngland, yet with all his parts, / /taut 'list nicked him out of five thousand pomade." He was really childish ; affectedly a protector of arts and sciences ; fond of displaying what be knew ; a mimie.—the Lord knows what a mimic--of the celebrated Duke of Orleans, in imitation of whom he wrote too or three silly French songs. His best quality was generosity ; his Worst insincerity and intlif .jerewce to truth, which appeared so early, that Earl Stanhope wrote to Lord Sunderland, from Hanover, what I sball con chntebis character with---" he hat his father's bead sad his mother's heart."—Lord Orford's Memoirs, pp. two. Lord Orford certainly unbosoins himself with great frankness, and painte his characters with a broad and determined outline. He seems to be of opinion, to . use the words of Shatipeare, that 4 , .paring would sbew a worse sin than ill doctrine." • Lord Byron would perhaps finish the sentence Men of this way *sold be most LIOLIAL, They're sent het 464 . example." • Mr • 'The folloiiing remarkable anecdote was told by !err. Yot. who said the King himself told it him, and that the late Lord Hervey had told him the same particular from ' the Queen :—One day, *ben the Prince was but a boy, his Governor was complaining to him: the Queen, whose way (as the King said) was to ex(use him, maid, " AA! je riersiagiee glee ere taut des terra de page." Tho Governor replied, "Plat z Dieu. Madinat*, glee re Assiut des tours de page! rig soot des tours de LAQU•III et de Catititui. "• Al I. Two brothers i‘ ho reside together in penurious at " single blessedness," at a farm-hoine in the pari of Aylesbcare, found their bed occupied one night last • , week by a female and her family ! Our readers may Imagine the surprise which seized BENJAMIV, one of the tardy bichelors, when on stepping into bed be was bitten in the toe by a rat, which had brought forth anumerous progeny in the chaff of which the bed was composed.—Alfred. A correspondent says, that " Alston is now one of the most flourishing towns in the north of England, owing to the richness of the lead mines. The pro prietor of Hudgill Burn mine will share this year between thirty and forty thousand pounds, exclusive of the sth lot of ore to the Governors of Greenwich Hospital; as lords of the manor. The whole of the land under which the above mine is situated is not worth 41. per annum."—Tyne Mercury, Yesterday morning a certain dame, well known in this town, presented herself at St. Peter's church, along with a man very elegantly attired. for the purpose or entering into the holy state of matrimony. The regaler preliminaries had all been gone through : the parties had sworn they were resident in the parish, and the banns had been published in the manner prescribed by the new Act. On their entrance into the church, the Minister having been informed of cer tain particulars, very properly declared he would not marry that woman, and said nothing about a prosecution, upon which she answered in a very bold manner i but when he told • bar she bad two husbands already, both of whom, for aught she knew, was living, and that Instead of residing in the parish which she had sworn, she was a well-known house keeper in Mary's parish, and kept' a lodglng-house In Red Lion-street, the complexion of the cam, as well' at her Mina plosion, was mrtirely changed: • The parties imoseiliately're tired from the chore*. but when they got Mese declared they w ere married, and last night kept up the wadding in high style.—Nottinghnes Review, December so. 'A" THE WHIGS. .~, . -, • 1 TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. Stn-1 am one of those who concur with Lord Byron in calling the present age the age of cant; and I propose to offer, through the medium of your valuable columns, a few cursory remarks on the me rits of the two great parties which at present divide the political wurld. From the era of the glorious Revolution down to the accession of George the Third, the Whigs directed the affairs of Government; and after successfully resisting the open attacks of Louis the Fourteenth, and baffling the private in trigues of the Cabinet of St. Germains, they firmly established the Hanoverian dynasty on the throes of England, and secured to posterity the blessingllll civil and religious freedom. The politics of Leieettei l House, and the fatal ascendancy of Lord Bute, ba inished them from the Court. With the exception of the short Administration of Lord Rockingham and the late Mr. Fox, the Tories have been in full polsession of royal favour; and as they have sedulously extended and fortified their influence by a systematic plan of corruption and patronage, they have been enabled to consolidate a power truly formidable to the real friends of constitutional liberty. Is there then no hope for the suffering people of England ? Are they for ever to groan under the merciless fangs of a tyran nical Administration, intent upon public plunder, and deaf to the complaints of the nation ? Let us examine the question with calmness and attention. The strength of the Ministers consists in PATRONAGE : the power of the Whigs in rwreLotozece. " Magna est venter, et prcevalehit," is a maxim, with the truth of which the Ministers are not unacquainted, and as nothing is wanting to drive the boroughmoogers from the helm but the diffusion of knowledge, they have endeavoured by every means in their power to restrain and fetter the liberty of the press. Packed Juries, partial Judges, and cx-officio informations, are the indi rect expedients which they have employed to retard the progress of public opinion ; but not satisfied with' using these detestable weapons, they have endeavour ed to ruin the political reputation of their competitors by the meanest calumny and the most atrocious defa-1 mation. It has been the system of the Tories to represent the friends of Reform as enemies to the King, the Church, and the Constitution ; to identify the Whigs with the Radicals; to denounce the defender of civil liberty at a turbulent anarchist, and stigmatize the advocate of religious toleration as the associate of atheists, and the patron of blasphemy. These are the artifices by' which the hirelings of the Court and the scribblers of the Treasury have propped np the tottering authority of their employers ; and it may afford some idea of the frail tenure by which they hold the emoluments of office, when we reflect that, instead of meeting their antagonists in open and honourable combat, they are compelled to resort to scurrility and detraction. The Courier and the Quarterly Reviewer are eter nally sounding in our ears the danger to be appre hended from a Whig Administration ; they foretel the destruction of episcopacy, the pollution of religion, the rule of the fundholders, and the revival of all the horrors which attended the explosion of the French Revolution. Carlile would be elected Archbishop of Canterbury, Hunt created First Lord of the Treasury, Cobbett appointed to supersede Mr. Vansittart, and the Black Dwarf selected as the official organ of the I new Ministry. Such are the dreadful consequences announced by these champions of intolerance, and re-echoed by the mercenaries of the Crown ! I do not intend to enter into any minute comparison of the hereditary honours of the Whigs and Tories, but I do conceive that when I mention the illustrious names of Bedford, Devonshire, and Grosvenor, the Whig aristocracy have nothing to fear from a compa rison with respect to private respectability or exten sive possessions. What have such men to gain by a revolution ? At present they enjoy all the luxuries - - - which wealth can bestow, and all the distinction which family honours can confer ; and can any sen sible or dispassionate politician suppose that they would wantonly pursue a line of politics which would deprive them of all these advantages, and level them with the poorest of their countrymen ? It would be well for the present Administration if they could acquit themselves of all share in vitiating the public morals, and outraging public decency, by the support of inflammatory publications. By whom, I ask, were the " regularly organized manufactories of blackguardism" encouraged and brought into noto riety ?—By the Tories. Who patronised Blackwood's Magazine? —The Tories. Who subscribed the Benccin bond ?—The Tories. Who paid the fines of the John Ball?—The Tories. Who contributed to the den of infamy in Bridge-street? The Tortes. These are the reservoirs which have poured their black putrescent streams of calumny and falsehood through the country, and poisoned with their enve nomed waters the channels of public morality ! These are the publications which are cherished and pen sioned by the canting friends of order, and the hypocritical pretenders to religions improvement! Non tali ausilio, nun defensoribus istis Teinpus eget. I am persuaded that the only effectual remedy for the numerous grievances under which the people of Eng land are at present suffering, is a full and equal Re presentation in Parliament. The Whigs are pledged to Reform; the Ministers steadily oppose it; and the Foreign Secretary, in particular, has repeatedly and publioly avowed his decided opposition to even the minutest alterations. County meetings will shortly be convened in all parts of the country, and it behbves the independent country gentlemen to make a firm and vigorous stand, and vindicide the wrongs and sufferings of the people of England. Unanimity and moderation among the Reformers will ensure the triumph of constitutional liberty, avid free as fl.ovii the domination of an id capable, capricious, and tyrannical Administration. ~-.~. • • • . . . . The jeerers of the a revered and ruptured Ogden"— the applauders of the Manchester massacre--tbe siiipfn i ders of t.te 'Habeas Corpus Act—i•the'fiamers the Six Acts—'the supporters of an tmconstittitiOnat standing army—and the employers, of '‘;;lliver . in Cistlei, together with the whole tribe of eineeeriete' and placemeu,f -wilYsinit 1116 insignifieince• and • con tempt before the irresistible voice of PUBLIC 0P191011.- • . . WIFE mural EXTRAORDINARY. About hair past twelve on Thuisday, the teth inst. the pub lic were iittracted to Plymouth cc/tiff-market, in consequence of notice which. bad be preeipusly Oren, that a man, at that time and place, was to dispose o f his wife by, public sale! The report which accompanied the notice, stated that•the lady was not only yoneg and handsome, but that she had rode to town indhe morming . on her.. owe horse, of her ow n tree will pod accord, end with consent of her h usband, who was to act the part of in auctioneer an the occasion; end that she would, morAiver in • the course of • few. dsys, suiseeltd 4101., which ber then (aod as, it still happens, her present) husband could nut touch. The concourse of spectators was inimedie, and they were net kept waiting long, the husband and the. ife having appearod in the market- lace exactly at the appuintt'd time, the latter scainwanied by the ostler of the Lord Exmouth Inn, Otd Town: The husband put tie article up at once; and asked for bidders. " Five shillings" was the first offer—" ten" the next—" fifteen 7 the third,. and so op, until the ostler aforesaid bade "three pounds;" When, to the evident disappnintmelt of the auctioneer, as well 'as of the lady,•twotionstables took possession of the go.4s, and with (been the auctioneer, and carried them both directly to the Ouildball, where the Chief Ma,tistrate was thetv sitting. The parties *ere placed before the Mayor. The husband, aimed Brooks, and wile resides at or in the neighbourhood. of fry-bridge, on being asked why he bad committed so illegal an act as to attempt the sale et hiswile in the way he had been doingl very inuoceutly said—" They were•both willing, and lie 'did not thick there was any harm in it—they had not lived together for a considerable time— they had been married about two years sad a hall. and she brought him a child" three weeks aftermarriage !" which, until alter it was burn, he never knew any thin; about • that the child soon after died; that he got a rain for it, paid the expenses of the funeral, and put it comfort ably out of the way, without ever reproaching has wife with her conduct, but ad would not do. bile soon after deserted him, notwithstanding his kindness, and went to live with another man, by whom she bad one child since, and he was informed she wes again pregnant with another. On being asked who had advised or told him that he could sell his wife; lie said many people in the country told him he could do it ; and that in consequence. of her coming In him and saying that a person would give him col. and take her eltogetlier clean off his hands (al. in hand, sod 171. more at Christmas), be had had her advertised far I sale in Modbury, on three separate inarket•days, and had come to Plymouth that morning by her appointment to get the business finished. The lady, a good-looking young woman, stated, that she' and her husband could not agree, and that is consequence. es she knew of a peraou who would take her, and give twenty pounds for the bargain, she wished to get separated from him, and she had been told by different persons that the thing could. 'be done by sale in the market-place on a market-day. Os being asked the name of the person who was to buy her, she said it was Kane, and that be lived ocar Plymstnek : she , fur- Slier said be bad disappointed her in not coming forward to bid as be promised, and that in consequence she had employ pd the ostler of the inn where she puts up her horse to bid for ber, if the price did not exceed twenty pounds. She said she bad left her own horse by the way, on account of its having • sore back, and borrowed one its lieu of it of a person near Ivy Bridge, with whom she stated herself to be in the babas of intimacy. After a good deal of consultation, it was deterosimid epee that the parties should be bound over to manor On at the ensuing Sessions ; but their own recogniximerrSl 'en, neither of them being able to find sureties. • Psnerratantsw.—Mr. Benet...sir, a Pedestrian (bat no relation to the Captain so celebrated for pedestrian exploits), undertook yesterday to run fifteen miles in one hour and forty minutes, over a three-miles piece of ground, in Ashfield Park, Herb, and which he accomplished as follows : ■IR. sac. MIN. PLC. lit three miles .. 18 90 4th three miles .. 111 95 9d M •• 10 So Total.. 100 40 ALDERMAN DARLIE.—We have to state to the public, and we do so as a mere act of Justice, which in so case, under so circumstances, nor front any considerask... ' , should be denied—that this respectable Magistrate, the head of the Police Establishment of Dublin, was, es he ought to have been in such transactions as those of blaturday sight, the veryfiraf wen 51, Oct. Alderman DAILIII it was who first appeared is the gallery. with the view of seizing the crew who had flung the 'similes at our venerated Viceroy. He, and he &lose it was, who secured the villain who bad hurled the battle. in the sou& that ensued with this wretch, the Alderman bad his clothes tore from his beck, and he was obliged, in consequence, to leave the theatre for a few minutes to repair his dress. Several of the rioters now in custody were collared by himself, end given over to the guard. Ills exertions were early, zealous, end unabated, on this memo rable night. The public and private character of Alderman Denizli' would have been, we (bought, • sufficient shield against calumny. We find it is otherwise.—(Patriot.) Ftex.—Yesterday morning, about six o'clock, an alarming Ire broke out in the coach-house and stabling of Mr. flyford, at the back of that gentleman's house, in Cheyne row, Chelsea, which threatened great destruction. A plentiful supply of, water being obtained, Mr. Byford's horses were taken out, bat the carriage sustained very serious injury. About tea' o'clock the lire was subdued, and the engines returned to town, Deowstno.—Two brothers, of the the name of Sewaxx, one sixteen years of age and the other thirteen, were drowned in a pond at Bassiiton, near Summon, on Thursday. The eldest was skaiting, when the ice broke in aloe feet of water. The unfortunate youth was paddling with his hands on the surface of the ice, when the younger, who was enjoying his slide, went to his assistance, fell into the hole, and both went down to rise no more. The bodies were taken up in an hour after. BUROLARY.—On Christmas night the house of Mr. SAUNDERS, so, Cursitor-street, Chancery-lane, was felo niously entered and robbed of plate, wearing apparel, and other property to a great amount. The family were from horns, keeping up•abs Christmas at a friend's, and it is sup• posed the servants left in care of the house availed them selves of the absence of the family to go out for their owu amusement. A few days afro an inhabitant of this city summoned a soldier before the Sitting Magistrate, on a charge of de• mending an exurbitant sum (eight shillings for two weeks) in lieu ()fa bed, for which he had received a billet. After bear ing both parties, and examining witnesses, the Magistrate ordered the soldier to repay apart of the sum, and desired him at the same time to make it known among his comrades, thyt unreasonable demands of that nature would by no means be countenanced; but that in times of peace, when few fill. lets are issued, two shillings for each man per week should be the utmost cadent of their demand. And although it is im perative on the inhabitants to give beds, if required, and not money. yet it is competent to the inhabitants to lodge sot. diers in any house wiser. they can hare access to fire to dress their victuals. There is no difficulty le this at present, for lodging eau easily be procured for ts. ed. a week ; but as sonic little compensation is due to a soldier who is lef t to pro., cure lodgings for himself—two shillings a week should not be considered by the inhabitants as unreasonable. If more than that is demanded in any ordinary circumstances during peace, such extra demand should not be allowed to pass unnoticed.— Glasgow Herald. The e following are the particulars of the late fracas between the American Consuls at Algiers and the Government of that place,. as given in a letter from an American O ffi cer, dated from Gibralta r:— .• The law disaglenible affair at Algiers has occasioned some uneasiness to our merchants, and various stories bare been afloat respecting it. However the real stale of the affair is as follows : " Our Consul, Mr. Stumm, being sway, bad left his nephew, the Vice-Consul, to act in his place, who, when out hunting, met some Torts, who told him he was trespassieg on their fields, and desired him to go off. lie refused, and they in consequence at tempted to use foree, opou which he presented his gun at them, which ea irritated the Turks, that they immediately disarmed him, and beat him with the buit-ead. The Vice-Consul immediately com plained to the Day, and demaeded satisfaction; but the Div told him he could Bite none, adding, ' I allow you tuffieieut protection in appending you a Dragoman.'- This officer is a WWI loitered among the Turks, every Consul being allowed our as a protection. If a Turk Amalie any one under their protection he loses his head. Our. Vice-Consul had omitted to take his Dragoman with. bisa, therefore he was refused sesi.factioa. lie, however, Saki the Dey, if be did not punish these sees is twenty-feur hours, be would cut down the Amerisan flag staff, to which the De; replied be was perfectly at liberty so to do. 'rhe nag staff was acwoodiagir eat down, and a Teasel chartered to bong the Consul to Port Meirte, and Dr. Swift is left in hie place. This has occasioned great alarm among our merchants, to whooathe idea of an, ,ftigerine wars by no wane pate. teak, as it would do so mach I li to oar commercial intimate, to whichare set is the t Yoe ' ' situation taw , although we arc . ea. the elide. of macs. The ise-Cassurs eambiet has mat with some animadverarimfrem onterat at' our araasaw s p eo pi e , who consider him in a great measure as the aggressor." ' 7I !E f e 4 JAM tl :a. * . • 1 • Pbk. , •••••1111111....-- IS • 111 ANgtoiltliOVIIL ROBBERY OF THE EXETER SUBSCRIPTION • 'COACiI. . In tbe publica ion of the lint affnount of this rehberg r it Alias sitesl that the part tea in Londoo . who were interested to .the ale confeyance of the Soles front Exeter. to London, WWI !Sot taken the most advisable measures fir the discovery eif the offenders and the restoration , of the properly. We have since learned that Messrs. Henke, and Co., to whom the parcel containing the 1,0571, was directed from the Exeter Bank, had,'the moment they: received notice of the robbery, proceeded in Mei ins est igalion with the assiskitictvol all those persons dhow it has been considered ecce aaaa y on, such oil elisions to employ. Robert Baker, the guard, was, brought , up yesterday for-a Itnial examination. • Kr. Alley attended as his Counsel, and asked • ebether there was any more evidence titan had been brought forward he Lle former 'occasion against. hi. elieut, Kr, Andrews said, the onle additiotial evidence be bad to produce , was that of Mr. Hankey's clerk, who could prove that it was the constant practice of the house tii roceive-par eels from Exeter through the prisoner, and their couslant criedition with him,' thaVheaboold always bring the parcels Sewed up in his coat poiket. Mr. Cocks, clerk to Messrs. Ifsetey, was then mumbled that effect . He slated (but he could not speak positively to Baker io any particular way), that the bonne was in the habit of getting .up many parcels from the Beeler Bank through the guards Or the coach, and that some one or other ofthe gerstlrmen of the, house was in thri habit of,ripping them out of the pocket. Isle, however, could me by 'hi means say that it formed a coridir of the 'converince that the guard's *should never remove the parcels from the pocket. . The Lord Mayor—You have already said in a former ex • aminatioi that your house often received percales heavy as that which was stolen from the guard, and that no compfatnt was made of the %eight. Have yob received any of heavier weight ? Mr. Cocks replied that they had. There were bdt forty guineas in the parcel alluded to,• and the house at Exeter sometimes' tont tiny, sixty, and lie believed sesenty, the weight of which had neverhees complainCd of • • Mr. Alley here stated that it was a very strong fad that the prisonerfan off to Hanks 's bank to ',tentless, the loss on the eight of the robbery, and that the next dal some of the notes Issue passed.. ltwas evident that this attempt to prevent the. hod consequences of the rubbery was inoompatible with a participation in l. Mr. Andrews observed, that the prisoner aright very easily, and without prejudice to the Passing of the notes, give the notice described, but that notice had not been given till past ten at night, notwithstanding that the robbery had been con milted at seven. The fact was, Messrs. Hawkey could not possibly have ascertained the smber, of the notes by the next day, and all efforts to-stop them must have proved use less. i i V Mr. Alley questioned Mr. Cocks as to the prohabilitY that Hie prisoner was aware of the fact that the house was not in possession of the numbers of the notes.—The answer was, that the .preoner could nut have known any thing about the fact. The Lord Mayor asked whether it ass not the practice of the house to cut the parcels from the guard's emit privately ; whether it was not their object to keep out of the public sight the mode of conveyance they used ? Mr. Cocks said that, of course_ they did not wish it to be known. The guard, whenever .he canto with parcels to the house, was relieved of them in a room distinct from the place in which public business was done. Mr. Anclitews thew stated to the Lord Mayor that the case was ready for a Jury, and would submit to his Lordship that the evidence already detailed was strong euoligh to justify the prisoner's commitment. Mr. Alley submitted that as the robbery was charged as having been committed in Picadilly, the question of jurisdic tion upon the part of the Lord Mayor was agaidat the com mitment. Mr. Andrews said he had not charged the robbery as having been committed in Piccadilly. He had not said that the par cel taken out of the coach there was that of the loss of which Messrs. Henkel complained. Mr. Alley—lf you take away that fleet, what have you to say against the prisoner ? Mr. Andrews said that he grounded his cage upon the facts that the parcel had been delivered to the prisoner in Exeter, sad that he had net delivered it in London where it should have been delivered. The Learned Counsel observed that there was every remarkable circumstance attending the con duct of the prisoner at the Bull and Mouth. Upon being told by one of the female passengers that the parcel bad been handed out, be never made use of any exctunation of fright or surprise, nor did he even tell her that she bad done wrong ie giving the parcel to any one. Mr. Alley was still of opinion, that if offence had been committed any where, it certainly had not been committed in the city of London, but he should net press his objection, The Lord Map:sr.-1 em of opinion that this case conies within my jurisdiction. The fact of the robbery dries not wholly rest upon the fact that a parcel was stolen front the coach in Picartilly. 1 think that the taking of the parcel with the directiion to deliver it in London. and the being paid for the conveyance, coupled with the feet that the weight was an accustomed one, were circumstances which, coupled nab others that appeared in the course of the evidence, to jus tify me in committing the prisoner. At the same time I must say, it is a circumstance favourable to the prisoner, that on the night the robbery was committed, he communicated the loss to Mr. Monkey. If ho shall be acquitted he may thank his carelessness and breach of coolidcnce fur being espoeed to a trial at the Old Bailey. The prisoner was committed for trial. THE SOCIETY FOR THE SUPPRESSION OP VICE versus CARLILE. A few days age the Lord Mayor was waited upon by a per. son who handed to him the following letter : " Society for the Suppression of Vim "MY Loan—l am directed by the Committee to forward to your Lordship the copy of a Resolution passed at their last meeting, and to request perinission to wait upon your Lora— ship on the subject.—l have the honour to be, your Lordship's übcclient servant, " GEORGE RICHARDS. COPY Of TIM ■ ZOOLUTION. " Resolved—That the Secretar do wait upon the Lord Mayor and inform his Lordship t hat placards are exhibited on the outside of hisbard Carlile's shop in Giltopur• street, advertising the sale oflibellous publications, and that he • request the favour of his Lordship to order the City Officers, under the powers contained in the Act for regulating the streets, to remove the noisanee complained of, but that previously _to waiting on his Lordship he sent a copy of this resolution."__ The Lord Mayor intimated to the bearer of this message that 110 sheet(' readily attend to any thing the Society bed to communicate, and appoioted yesterday fur the hearing of the lustier. _ _ Accordingly, before one o'clock yesterday, a gentleman, who we supper*, is the Secretary, appeared in the Justice. room, end ended (or rather wispereil) his Lordship's atten tion to the suhjeet. life said (but it was with difficulty one reporter caught his words) that it was probably not unknown to his Lordshig that a must grievous nuisance existed at the coiner of Oiltspur-street, next door to the Comptet prison, occasioned by the placards which were daily hue out atCarlite's shop. The pavement was frequently blocked up by crowds of idle people. to the great anon anee of the public, who were thus made sufferers, i tly of the injury they were likely to sustain by the vi ion of decency exhibited in the sale ur liLulluus publications. Ho hoped Ms Lordship would take some meosuros against the parties under Mr. Taylor's Act. Tho Lord Mayor said be wished to understood whether it was the object of - the Society to proceed for the penalties ? The Secretary replied, certainly not. The Society wisher. merely for a removal of the nuisance. The Lord Mayor asked, by what acts the parties had brought themselves within the cognizance of the New Street Act ? The Secretary replied, he hanging out is front of the shop and on the area mils matters which tended to create an oh-. struetinn on the pavement. He submitted that it Mal closely within the inlentioo or the Act to provide against such nuisances as that described. Thelord Mayor bad no eridenee to determine the case , upon, but as far as be understood the application it was not exactly such as he theneht be could afford a remedy upon. The Act appeared to him to refer to pro j actions to a oertais extent, and he had not heard that the placards exceeded the bounds set by that statute. The'Secretary believed the Aet was violated by the exter nal exhibition of any thing likely to draw together a crowd. Mr. Andrews, the *barrister, stated, that he was concerned in a ease where a party was convicted or having violated the Act by putting a narrow ledge betnre his window to bold* few books. It was held that the obstruction sous occasioned by the attraction created by the books, and not by the projeo -1 of the ledge. It was here stated, that in the ease alluded to the prosecu.. dote had three inches projection to swear upon, but in the present ease the projection' was comparatively nothing. The Secretary suggested to his Lordship that the planed* should be removed as often as they were hung out. Here another objection presented itself. The Lord Mayor said be had heard that thereat(' officer bad been complained against for having exceeded his duty in his cooduct at Carlite's shop. No isegligence could be attributed to the ward.. Tine Commissioners of Rovimeats were, be be believed, the persons to whop apkliealins aliciald in the brat " I, c made. "it as ' the dia.. :. to the ward. The Commissioners of Nutmeats were, be be- membered. The prisoner rode off t. Clapham Common it believed, the persons to whuw apPlieMina should in the first bensg lite r and put the horse up Fur the night is a stable, instance he made. He felt as much as one could the dia. amft man wdian through Piccadilly yesterday imenting whets gusting nature of the publications whist% bad been spoken of, Mr_ t !Marstiantotopped him and brought him to Row-atreet. and would go to the utmost esteist allowed by the law to re. prisonor assured the Magietratu, Hod Wielded of his press that which itypengorrtu hint to be an .outrage Anima "running {way with the horse," as he was ohargisd, the truth all 'law, but at the time time he Would pot go beyond the . was , " ttWo 'softens. away with him." ltsvanip • mote fro- law. The party mast 'have .notiee to chat. the *Winne.. if he that Inv henwinvisted tbe sonnet, and winish=nl ttt Woticw wen diseiwyed, the nutrit might he'breoght into hies Cited wee issinisalbiote atop bias forth* er . the Joshed-rosin, upo6 the op* pi frpdible witness to the curb. -them .1 0 *Wwwwd en 'advenisomooti *her Joshed keffeet that the placards overbung.lbelierea. titans, anillannaeresat gni pa. Ult. one ripeft imbrue - The Seeretary said there Was it difficult) in proving tbe log the uwncr of the horse where be might !Wit i eN ho eosnation ceasing an , Mr. Ant be scrvod indict (be Tbstioiretary Unevin in liken by After bi and the emirs., it, . - tary left theJnittiooie - 0111. Woe intention ofcoinutunieat ing his Lordship's answer to the Society, who bad entered him to apply at the Mansion Noose for advice. • • • OUILDHALL. • • - "••• • IMPOSITION OF 'PAUPERS. • " • . The indirlduals by whom the contributions and. dogatiof of the charitable ace dispensed at this inelerno•nt season the,year, should be put upon their. guard slimiest triO . intro)* -I tient of those who, under serious. pretences of poverty and distress, contrive to make themselve s peasiosiers upob tikti charities of three or four perishes. An old fellow of this deseriptina, named The*. "Ong, red brims:hi op yesterday before the sitting MagistratelStr7a; Shaw, Bart.), upon the charge of the userseers of the paritli of St. Sepulchre. The,prisoncr, it appeared.resided in en obscure lodgiolf within their parish, sith a female. touch about his owe age, who passed for his wife, anti.the old couple had heel% regular ere of the bounties of the parish, and scarcely ever Off partakers list of pensioturrs for tat last twelve Moilittv. The Se t • liniment of the prisoner was, however, ,in th e parish of St. Bride, haying been for many 'years in t ine Service yf the bat( Mr. Blackmore, broker, of Fleet-market. Ilia exarninatioa had been taken in that parish,_his distressed: sitisetlonlb quired tete, lied hie name pieced upbetbeir list of pension. ~. cm. so Dir back as the . 9: h of Auttist. le, I, from which i ipii he bad regularly received relief Weekly. A collection is getep... rally made at this season of the year - in the perish of St. Bride, for the •pnrpose of Ibroishing the omit* with coulee' The prisoner and his wife, as known paupers -of the parish; applied and obtained their portiovi,of the charitable done.: lion. A quarrel, however, ensued between them Omit ear: tying the coals home, the prisoner wishing to impose that 'Ace upon his companion. The lady grew indignant, and in her passion let oat the secret of the imPositioli upon that .parish of St. Sepulchre. This was caught-tip by the officer to attendance, the proper information given, and the. pri. toner, on morels ing for his weekly penslom on Thue,day to:the Overseers of that perish was stopped and given in custody. Smith, the beadle of SW. Bride's, proved that the prisnetir ,bad been a regular weekly pensioner uphit that perish frost ,August, Int, to the loth or December, to t; to which period be had received the sum of 61. lac eachosive pf his peeticiea lion in other oomiliiiiest charities; and Mt. Chineeld, the overseer of St. Sepulchre's, produced his account, to shew that the peisnner had as regularly received relief in that parish from the ells of last Deuerabor demo to the present time. The Magistrates at this Atte have long sine° determined to make examples ill" paupers practising these impositions, and wherever the case has been complete! mule out; have i uniformly committed the °treader to take s trial for cattalo .. ing money under fraudulent pretences , rtunately, how ever, for the prisoner in this instance, no 'examination as to his seitlenient had been t.kep in the parish er St, Sepulchre. From his age, and their supposing, as he was a broad Welsh man, that his settlement was in Wales, they Mid relieved him as casual poor, and from the supposed distance pot worth th e expense of a formal remo.al, There was go evidenee that he bad ever stated himself to be a parishioner ditti them, or denied that his settlement sins in Mt. Bride's. Three being, therefore, no evidence of the fitise pretence, the prisoner, after a suitable admonition [tom Sir limit Shaw, was discharged. sow-writzei. . A rut[ dr CORINTHIANIII:d v. JARVIS. Yesterday, the driver of the heekeey coach WM, so ill-fer soured follow, with a Nat nb'sa, as downs y • one, and as taateing a Jere*, as mar felt the pull of 5 check stem', was charged by the Right Honourable Lord William Loom:, with choosing his Lordship cult of half si ball; Ind wish placing his Lordship under the survailLsaci or his goose the night constable of Mary lebope watch-house, for the PorPooi of extorting the said half a ball from bit Lordship, and with being very saucy to the 3 duog Noble Lord. His Lcirdship went on Monday night last l , to Drury Lan. Theatre, with i private party, and of count was in a prix rate bog, Ind had the luxury of enjoying tqe scenic repro sentotioas, with other red gratifteatiopsi during the present intensely cold weather ; such as it . ' -- --..1 lii', - . - venient couch, well flavoured wfne, At live minutes before tdelve e out his watch, and calls to Mr. keepers, to hire him 4 coach ; and lb. body knows, is a civil sort - of a dfsn, .... tinirry comes to the locker, iminedlatel, ~ and gives his Lordship the number of the past twelve his Lordship leaves the coach tree, when Jarvis, this driver I nstt b e i s a t and receives orders to trundle o f to Kane' Jarvis does his bidding, and mete* Own) before one o'clock ; woe& my tared golf - - asks " what is the damage 1" Jarrb.- . and that's just a ban, your honor." ' exclaims his Lordship. " Ye s," red be more than half a crown," sips time is within an hour." Jarvis bob, and as his Lordship refused I sum, via. half a crown, be toddles, lebone watch-house, and chsrges h him! His I,ordship _rettionstrstes won't hear a word gßri replies, " I and am too deep fo 1* yidird again customed to these tort o' things, v and blind alleys, and may Gott." 1, address iss his pocket, but offers topa! his name i but nothing will do fur Jr dared, his Lordship mist foams! te, Here was a pretty situation for a Lord eberO cal, sbopkeoing, greasy-faced, ti not have been 'street oat in primer endure all this, s, " Dukedom to 4Jr above ajoke! His Lordship pays not being inclined to shoose at the applies to Bow-street on tile neat him, and then conies Jarriet turn, gets surveil oar himielf ! Yesterday before the Magistriftrit IP. Halls; the case, and called Mr. Wright, the rate his statement s which he did to. l' peering to the Justice that half. r Jarvis begins to cry preset; but will not do; the Justices wers•dowei to itt neet _ were determined to indict a salutary pit Vili.lrtlief or the trossi•saill! Mr. Halls was of opinion that the defendant keel been godly of an impositilie upiun his Lordship, by taking live shillings, when /oaf-a-croon was his fare, and his condint in charging the Noble Lord at the watch hoer, because ha did not submit quietly to hive his money taken net of his 'pocket, was an act of this most abominable 'kind, and for which, ie. dependent of the present charge, his Lordship would do well Winton!' him. Win it to be endured, said the worth, Ma. gfstrate, that gentlemen were to be subjected to such in s u lt s if they did not iiiltmeit, to he plundered? He should heel it his duty to co9vjct the deteudaat in the full penalty, fur the overcharge, rm. 444 pay The prisoner Slid he wad only a servant, and could n o t it. The Magistrate complimented his Lordship for bringing the man tojirs i tio, and said the public were much indebted to him for his tic spirit. CUR 1 . CHAROR OP HOUR STEALING. Jain Soar i a very pale-fared, slender young moo, wh o said that resided with Ids mother at Mired- c ottage, oil i r Clapham (Amon, ins charged by a gentleman, named Manama, who lives at Turhant.gteen, with riding away witty his horse, with intent to steal the same. The gentleman, In stating the ease to tho Magistrate, very handsomely and humanely gave the ()insomniac* as chuck in favour of die accused as they would admit of.—Mr. M. ahasst's account of the treisiaction was truly laughable; thotigis the poor poisoner seemed to think it any Hoeg bet " Way." That he had no guilty intention, every one wits witeessed the essminstion bad not 4 doubt s but 1 bat he had ed very foolishly, ate lima when his wits were wandering, p o when Woo Liquor be had poured down his throat had oh. at the mastery over him, was oat less doubtful. Mr. Mars ant's brother was nding Metierso in question, • high *rated animal, with a good dital of 14014 and also cu J„..eaft, Gwen says) a Mita* I, along /he rend at Ke444411144 Uore s shoot helf.past eight o'clock ,en Thursday night, whea is stoue got into ono of the horse's feet. Mr. Afarshant dis mounted to extract the stone, and the prisoner tendered hie services to assist, sod poked his umbrella Nip between the frog and the shoe, and broke it. Mr. Marshant, while (ho prisoner was holding the horse, went to the distance of about too yards to get something to force out the stone, when the prisoner, who from a child bas been uscd In riding, got upon haok ()film horst, bay ind in his hand at the tile° a bonnet with a bonnet aid feathers inside. The horse began to . 4he bonnet 'Ailed inside the bos ; the parse by ta n 4 " 1 " wai issued, and inureased his speed. • Mr. M. opted Ara*. Tho bo leaped overa hedge, ran through R. it islhani.read,pursoed by str.marsbast 11. t . Ursa; the gentleman was distanced, and the "*"" not stop his fleet course, till he arrival in Wow , " . 4' Chelsea.. The rider warthee Ited till he was nearly ''' .1.0. aod the bosinet, the bole, seR theleallsers were cliN - • The prisoner rode a to Clapham Gensler 'N it Übe , , sadjui the horse lip liar the night at a r !, • -oi zodiac reogh 'dilly jr" . - - - .'•t ripped 1 114i n ni iir bel e P w r i g: stri "n d athi tir i b il l i al lai ise 4l" Li t Ri So lirw r.. 7 4 ,llll.ll . 060 1461 9Pa 4" : id the nian•who hem din Ab.e .phivartl, boy b le parties fur a nutsanne r at conunoa jaw ? • iecretary replied,• that jhb. groatest dielcuitiel w in the ray Ad' surb B,oo*a:hag. by. Ow , prveauti* t the offending party. . . . . • • ~., idL his Lordship had ropested his ópiniim of the nnisantilrP.z course that ought to be taken to abate it, the Seer*. .. . theinstioe.toom. with the intention °legume nicat 1 t an ( upro'oet, good firer con- se, a sJI via '94 of thing: eo' ock his Lonialois Whoa h. Wright, ono of Mr Iles- d Mt. Wright, /holm awry,' a rho • especisilty Ores tkai mediated/ dabs Ind WOWS tier of the coiled. At bat& the Theatrei nal CON AW ver, makes bis wipeersoce, o o f to Manchestoysplare: Ives .tbero at tett 'Wooten rd gets out of tie fonts land rvis , sa ys " dooms **Hopei ' " What! five shillings ?" replies Jarvis. " Wessunot ry. his Lordship, " for llso I insists tbst his faros la lire to hive more limo WO that rs bas Lordsbip off to !tory.: s him with ventral. In bilk es vtitlT ,/a/vin; bat Jarvis " I Wye been dais bettors, tin ; you arc, I suppose, Sc. and you know ill Ike bums His Lordship bas no oar. of pay the legs) thre,snd tosivo Jarvis bet the dies andhedo- It the dust of rema i n is wont! Lord to be in ; velsio; sd, uswached cockney& E nid sir style; bat *Ns to Ignore/ yaps," mat molly fa Mister Jarful bin Nye bob, • e watob.bouse all night ; a n d day rut a Su/Arnow against t, who, with all his dmiersoi ay the Noble Lord aoareet 1; &sq and having detailed the boa-keeper, tw oorrobo • 0 the Jotter, and upon it sp- •a-crown was th i ef: o n fare; to whale sod Ais rye nos to that suet t ing, anti I r r Y .71k MITI"