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PERTH COUNTY NESTING.. • At the Michaelmas llead Coed of Freeholders of the county of Perth, held on Toesday. there were pt gimpy prang, DO holiness of any coosequence b ss iag been expected to come before them; James Drummond, Esq. of Strathalimn, M.P. for the e ionty, in the Chair. There was produced to the meeting • petition sod memorial. addressed to the Lords Commis. sioners of his Majesty's Treasury, by the lioeo ma. sof/relaters, linen merchants, and bleachers of the minty of Perth, preying that their Lordships wield be pleased to direct the Commissiooers. who b a re been appointed by Per!lament, with reference in the situation of duties on articles as between Greet Britain end Ireland, to take let. considera tion the sfiffrrence of duties paid by the manufac toren, merchants, and bleachers in this country and Ireland :-Ist. on ashes, pearl or pot ; td, hard yap ; 3.1, soft soap ; 4'h, starch ; and to have these duties equalised, in terns■ of the articles of Union between Great Britain and Ireland. The meeting having taken the petition into consi derotion. resolved, that takiag a deep interest in the linen trade, of such importance to this pert of the country, they would request the Member of Parliament for the county to forward the object of the petitioners, by every means hi his power. The meeting also considered a coormanicittion addressed to the Conveners of the county, by the Committee appointed by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, to take under consider.. tMn the present mode of striking the fats of corn : sad were of opinion, that the fan of the county of Perth were struck with perfect fairness, and hither to they had heard no complaint on the subject. They considered that it would be inexpedient to go to Parliament requesting any new legislative enact. went on the subject. The meeting requested the Presto to write to Mr. Skene. who addressed a letter to the Convener of the county, wishing subscriptions to the equestrian statue of his Majesty, expressive of their regret that there were no public funds belonging to the county from which they could vote any sum to. wanls that object. Communications were also laid before them from Mr. Henry Bell. of Glasgow, wishing the meeting to support a claim he hail made to Government. for a remoneretion. us bring the first person who brought into this country the power of steam in propelling vessel. against wind and tide; and cer tain letters on the subject of the distillery laws ; bat they judged it unnecessary to come to any re tractions on either of th ane subject.. There was also laid before the meeting a circular from the Convener of the county of Thurso, re questiog the counts of Perth to co-operate with the other counties of Scotland in forming a Com mittee to consider the subject of the Cone Laws, sod to petition Parliament on the subject. Sir A. M. MACIESNZII said, that keenest inde. biteable the fact of the existence of pest twice!. nue, distress was—however much to be dq&red— sad however they and all felt it most deeply—yet that he thought Perliamesit too mach interested in the question to require to be pro opted to their duty. He therefore thought it better tint it *build ace at present be discussed. Mr. MILL'', of Milton, regretted that the county of Perth should puss the subject over in this way, end thought that as so little, indeed sothiog, was done lust Session to relieve the exist ing distress, the appointment of • Committee to investigate the subject was highly proper; at all events, that the present application should not be treated with so much disrespect. Sir ALIZANDBII., in reply, said, that as great diversity of opinion existed on the subject, hardly three Gentlemen thinking alike oil it, such a Com mittee could not come to any conclusion. It would be mach better that the subject should not be entered into at present, than enter into any dis cussion, sod conclude with disapproving of the menure. A letter from the promieton or a metrapeitan newspaper was read to the meeting, which produced eousidershle stoutement. It contained a "very obliging' offer, as Sir A. M. Mackenzie termed it, to publish gratis sock of the proceedings of the county meetings as they would order lo be copied out and sent to Edinburgh for that purpose ! A pass which, however troublesome to the county, Instil certainly abridge the labours of reporters in Bowan degree. It will be a halcyon time for the public journals, when public meetings send accounts of their proceedings themoelves, and not trust to the newspaper reporters ! Until such an arrangement takes place, the other papers mat always depend on bediog, in our columns, reports of every important natter brought under the consideration of the County Meetings. After come routine road business, the Meeting adjourned.—(Edinburgh Piper.) Ten thnuiand two hundred and fifty emigrants hare arrived in Caen& during the present season, from Eu►ope. A French vessel has arrived from Pernambuco. which plate she left about the 18th August, up to which date she brings letters. They mention that the Portuguese expedition had arrived at Bahia, this information having been brought to Perasm hue° by the Pheasant, B , itish armed vessel, which left Baliia on the 10th. When the Pheasant came easy, the united fleet of Lisbon nod Bahia were off the harbour, near the Rio Janeiro expedition, where they had been carrying on negociationa for t■n days, the result of which was not known. The I..lloori ng is s comparative ttttt meet% of the Portu- Km.P and Brazilian forces off Bahia : Potteoootat --Tiro corvettes, a brlg of war, four large larirhanimen erased, all belonging to liable. Jost arrived h , m Lisboa, a frigate, the Calypso, sod four transports, two of which are strongly armed. BRlZtuAleo.—Tbe frigate U•iaa, twit corvette, and • brig ti war, chiefly manned by Petiolate* mimes. A Gentleman applied a few days ago at Brixton Pol to see Corporal George, who was sentenced to "'tire months' imprisonment (and works at the tread mill) by a court-martial, for accusing Colonel Gots of usiofficer-like conduct. Although he had an order to see the Corporal, signed by the visiting i llgistratcr, the gaoler refused to admit him unless iu the presence of a third person. The Gentleman i'(l su interview with George in the presence of • ':siting Magistrate, and is about to commence I 'o proceedings in Wow of George . a ti tl a t tl it ie ii II 1 I . 1 • • • • • • • • • r • I 1 4 DR. FARQUHAR AND NORM= [From u liewning Farm] IMr. Fortifier, the puedmeer sf nimbi% Is a Ma• of an 'stem/dime, character sod babies. His histurrwill add an other I. the may levessees of the eccumulatiou of wealth from semetwfal Industry and attendhot savings. Mr. Far quhar le a native of liberates, and emit out early is life 14) ladis, when. be was employed fee isms time In a sober& ante situmien In the medical department. Mis stied was ' ever occupied I. study, and cheesiest research was his fa ' murk@ pursuit; free its poetical application the founds ! lion of his periwig hainewse fort... was laid. 'There was ' some defect in lbs made of inenefecturiag gunpowder In the ! Interior, and Mr. Farquhar was selected to give his usual , awe. By degrees he got Ike management of the cromers, I sod Beall, became the sole contractor to the Government. le this way wealth and dielinetion rapidly poured is spots him, and he attained the particular favour and mildest* of the late Mr. Warms Hastings, In Beep' be was re merltable for the closeness of his application, usabating per t severance, aid estraordinary mental vigour, and also fur the same habits of penuriousness which he still adheres to. After y.ara of labour be cense bons* from ladle, with a far- lose 'divested et half a million of money, the principal pet lof which we, invested, through Mr. Hoare, in the funds, at the rate of 551 fur Three per Cem._ Comols. Oa landing at Gravesend, Mr. Farquhar got on the out. side of the coach to London, nod his first visit were naturally was to hie banker. Foil of dust and dirt, with clothes not welith a vetoes, be preeroted himself al the counter sod ask ed lo see Mr. Hoar.. The clerke disregarded hie applies. time, and he was suffered to wait in the cash (Ace as a poor pethlower„ snail Mr. Hoare, passing through it, after some explauatiOn recognised his Indian customer—the man whom he expected to pee with a Nabob' s p om p. M r . F arqu h ar respiested 251. end took his leave. After leaving the bank. hig-house, be went to a relation's, a Baronet, with whom be for some time resided. About Christmas • grand runt was to be gives by the relation of Mr. Farquhar, in consequeoce of hie return. One reeving, a week previous, Mr. Farquhar received • hint from his relation list his clothes were nut of the wisest fashion, and recommended a Bund-street tailor to him. Mr. Farquhar asked him if that really was his opt aion ; the answer was given in • way with which Mr. Far. lobar did not fed pleased ; be went to bit bed-room, packed up his trunk, requested Ilse strewn to call • coach, into which he set out, mad has never associated with his tilled relation since. He them settled in Upper Baker-street, whet• his loose was to be distinguished by its dingy •ppearance, unweaned wiadows, and general neglect. An old woman was hie sole attendant, and his apartment, to which a brush or broom was never applied, was kept sacred from her care. Books sod papers were strewed on the door; the spot where the book was concluded, there it was threw., and never re. moved. He became • partner in the great ageoey house in the City, of Basset, Farquhar, and Co., and also purchased the late Mr. Whitbread's share in the brewery. Part of his wealth was devoted to the purchase of estates, hut the great bulk was invested in stock, and suffered to increase on the priaciple of compound interest. Every half year he regu larly draws his dividends, bre mercantile peeks, and bin reale, and purchases in the foods. la this maoser his wealth bas accumulated. Mr. Farquhar is deeply read is ancient and modern lite rature; ►is miad is rise of extraordinary vaguer and origi nality—his conversationist a superior order, impressive and animated so every subject. His muniments are liberal, and strangely contrasted wit► his habits. His avarice may be considered as • disease which be casoot control. His reli gions *pinions are preuliar, and seem to be influenced by as admiraiio• of the parity of the lives and moral priociples of the Bra►mins. It is said that he offered to appropriate 100,0001. to torrid a college is Aberdeeo on the moat enlarg ed plan of education, with • reservation on points of reli gion, to which, however, the sanction of the Legislature could not be procured, and the phis was dropped. Mr. Far quhar in still single, said is most probably demised so speed the remainder of his life " sobrokeis in open by tender caresses," unless some late alterations is his mode of life gam be acroasted foe by the isflunica of the amiable weak nese. He has game to reside is one of ►is owe bosses in Gloseester-plate, faririntas.impiare, which be has fur. niebed is a style of modern elegance. He has also set op .• handsome chariot, and so far as appear eeeee are enoceraird, indultam in several luxuries; but his domestic ►a►its are still she same, sod his table seldom labours with the pressure of heavy dishes. He has one nephew, to whom he allows, or did allow, 3001. a year. He has but few other claims of family, aril it is probable that his immense wealth will be bequembed to some charitable institution, as the great object of kir ambition Is to leave his name to posterity as t►e &ruder of scour public iustitrtiou. Perhaps his pride has slumbered for loony years, and it is hot now &hewing its extent. To that passion may be attributed the purchase of Foothill, for his age and infirmities totally unfit him for the eujuyineot of such • place. He is about 65 years of age, di minutive In person, and by no means prepossessing iu ap pearance; his dress has all the qualities of the antique to reeommesil it ; sad his domestic txpendttute, until the last year, has ens exceeded 2001. a year, although hie possessions, mosey in the funds, stud capital in trade, is said to ansouut to • million and a half. Intelligence from Rome of the 27th ult. state', that the health of the POPE is considerably im proved. By the same channel it appear., that Madame LETITIA BONAPARTE, who has been long time in bail health, it et the last eau:gaily. She had secreted the last sacrament. tier son Louis, who intended to have 'embitter' ut Florence during the line weather, had been called back in all haste. NEVI ORLIANS. AUGUST 12.—There are 18,000 bales of cotton, and 15,000 litls. of tobacco yet to he shipped, mod no yes.els here to carry it away. Only two square-rigged vessels in port idle. Cot ton, according to the quality. from 8 to 121 — Tobacco, ditto, 1# to 4. A fact has been communicated to us, on unques tionable authority, which strikingly exemplifies the unprecedented depression which at present over whelms the agricultural interest. Very recently a drove 01'300 Devonshire oxen travelled from South Molten, in that county, to every fair betwixt that place and London ; and stood at Smithfield mar ket : failing in a purchaser at all these mutts, they proceeded 40 miles beyond town. The proprietor, still disappointed, again turned their heads towards the metropolis: the cattle stood a second time at Smithfield ; were at Reading and other fairs on their return; sod on Thursday Pr' II night by far the greater part were at Bristol markvi, but still they could not be sold, and were driven back to the place whence they emit-, after having travelled in this fruitless way not less titan four hundred nsiles.—(Derixes Paper.) Tam Fuovs.—.The market yesterday continued very steady, and but little doing. tonsols for Account were 8I 84 8111; ditto for Money, 82/ 81/f I; New 4 per Cents. 101; 10 , 2; Old ditto, 9911 ex. div. ; Reduced, 81a ex. thy. ; Long Annuities, 20 11-161 ex. div. ; India Bunds, 57 55 pr.; Exchequer Bills, 6 7 ; Small ditto. 7 10; 31 per Cents. 94. Foreign Stocks very fluctuating : Old Spanish, 85 s 6 85 ; New ditto, 74 731 73 7811; Danish, 9011 911; Prowls°, 901 91. Roane New Scrip Loan. 91a ; Colom bia Bo nds, 95h ; Chilian ditto, 881. The repeal of the Solt Tax in England has been a vital blow to the provision trade of Ireland. Mr. Cox, of Carlow, slaughtered and cured last year, five thoosand fat pigs: this season he will not puns those Ope.-41treman's Award.) - 4 ,~_. :.iaa a.. 1 NOW NRXICAV RNP!RE. The conquest of Mexico by Carter comprises the nem brilliart series of echieventents, by 'own,- lain end his Mowers, that can be found in the history of man. There is nothing in Upham's Frame sere intensely captivating to the youthful imagination, nor i n a ll the works of the Author of Moseley is there any thing more picturesquely ex hibiting Inman nature in the strange lights and .he dons of ages gone by, and returning is it were from the dead, at once to awe nod elevate, surprise and dazzle, the matures* intellect in our serener times— than in the old matter•of-fact narrative of the land ing of this gallant chieftain on the shores of a mighty region towards the Petting sun (unknown to generations before him), with • handlul of ad venturers—fewer t h an five hundred—but every man among them a champion, equal in prowess to a thousand of the feeble but spirited natives:—his cautious progress, step by step, securing every find of ground as he advanced, after having burned his ships to cut off any craven hope of retreat by way of the sea, should his comrades be discouraged, or disposed to mutiny and abandon the enterprise—an enterprise thus rendered gloriously desperate, ron quest or death being the only alternatives left to himself or them ; his gradual sssumption of more arrogant pretensions them those of a friendly visit by superior but beneficent brings from • far country, to form an alliance with the children of the west ; his inimitable subtlety, his romantic valour, his un wearied perseverance, his boundless hut noble am bition, and all the wiles and all the force of mind arid nerve, with which he wormed and wheedled, and blustered and fought, his way through innu merable obstructions, from the coast to the capital, and into the palace of the Emperor, till all thus he taw he had subdued, and consummated his work by annexing, as a province to his mother country, the realm of the brave but unfortunate Montezuma, the last of a race of Princes who had themselves been emigrants from the north iipo that region of the suit, which they had conquered in like manner by their arms from barbarians, and comparatively civilized by their singular system of polity. We find that we have achieved what cost our hero many years to accomplish—the conquest of Mexico in "a period of a mile." if the reader has had breath to accompany us through its intricacies, he may de prod on it that he is prepared to follow the next Cortez that shall arise through the next Mexico that shall be discovered. IVe have been speaking of this fearful warrior and his labours as men ►peak in general of such persons and such things, regardless of the justice of the cause, in which he displayed an almost unpa ralleled combination of those dements that form heroes, and those energies *lnch heroes exercise for their own or their nation's aggrandizement, in de fiance of all that is righteous or sacred in public communities, or dear and precious in private life. Cortez, under this gorgeous panoply of martial virtues, concealed a heart in which peifidy, avarice, and cruelty, were the triple furies that governed nil its impulses, and goaded all its passions to every excess of indulgence that was compatible with his devotions to "The legion-lends of glary sod of gold.* These, though he bore the cross as his standard, and planted it wherever he sojourned—these were the demons of his idolatry ; and a fanaticism more hair, or more terrible, than that which was engendered by his attachment to these, and his bigoited adherence to a corrupt form of Chi istionity, which admitted, stay even sanctioned, such abominations to be asso— ciated with itself—we say a more base and terrible fanaticism never cursed a human spirit, nor made that spirit a curse to others, except in the case of l'izarro, the ruffian imitator of Curies, who, in ransacking Peru, exemplified with double enor mity all the atrocious (polities of the latter, midis guise(' by that pomp of chivalrous generosity, which covered with suptifit ial glory the innate infamy of all his exploits.. Though Spain thus rocquered America st little expense to herself—except the expense of principle and conscience, which people can very well afford when they engage in iniquitous enterprises—she has since paid the price of every drop of liniment blood that she shed, and every foot of ground which she seized unl.wfully there. Mexico and Peru, the two wonders of the west, which (amidst au immense continent inhabited by savages in the loosest ►tate of social inte►coms.) presented beautiful but frail examples of demi-civilization, and where men, essen tially the same throughout the world in intellect and affections, appeared as dissimilar in manners and habits, from their eastern spoilers, as the popu lation of the Moon, supposing it to be !tomtit, can well be imagined differently modified by the pecu liarity of their circumstances from ourselves—Mex ico and Pelt' have been avenged on Spain for her injustice to them, and their treasures, for which they suffered her violence, have been the avengers of their wrongs. These, through three centuries, have corrupted, enfeebled, debased, and consumed her strength. her virtue. her very progeny, both abroad mid tit home. Though hitherto their soil has grown nothing but slaves to serve these foreign Lords, and their veins hart poured forth gold and silver as freely us blood from mortal wounds, to satiate their avarice. the time is come when those slaves shall exhibit the new shape of man, hid under the disguise which has been their inheritance fur ages, and transmitted, like an old cloak, from sire to son, till it is worn to rags and will hold no longer together; nor can there be found in Old Spain a Cortex or a Pixrr►o to make a new garb that will fit the enfranchised form, or if it were made, that could put it on. This in itself is well, and it is impossible for one, who, in sublunary concerns, loves freedom as hes sen's next best gift to life. not to rejoice at the com asencement of so novel and auspicious and gra in the mutahilities of time, and the wale of man. But if he, who could have foreseen the miseries to be en tailed, slot only on America but on Africa. aid by intuits of retaliative reaction upon Europe itself, by the success of tbeconst illustrious effort that Kitimat and courage ever made together, the voyage of Co lumbus, would have been t►mpted, in the weakness of humanity, to wish that the hope of the hero might miscarry —we, who can infallibly prognosticate from what has already appeared, a bun •and sanguinary series of violence and sufferings, that will be ine►it. ably consequent on the exertions of the colonists end the natives, Arse to emancipate themselves from the yoke of Spain, though t h at indeed is already .s. _ - -mow 4- _ . broken, sod next to establish their respective inde. I pri.dencies—we a re rea dy to w i s h t h a t th e while population of these splendid region hid yet been enawskened by the voice of liberty, and had con• tinned to sleep in golden chains for ages to Mlles dreaming of wealth, mid sloth, and voloptatios neso, even though the wretched ludiuns were still colidensned, as their ancestors for ten generation have been, to be mere beasts of burden, with this distinction from the brutes shut perish, that they have immortal souls, though they know not that they hare them. This latter degradation alowt's however, were sufficient to make us feel. that though it be through perils worse than fire and flood, than hurricane and earthquake, that they must pass to redeem themselves front this slavery— it will be well that those perils should be braved, because in the issue they must be overcome, and emancipation from personal bondage will prepare the people and the way to emancipation from mental and spiritual thraldom, a million times more to be deplored, and deprecated, and resisted, than all the fetters that hands can bind on limbs, and all the agonies that flesh and blood can bear from temporal oppression. These lucubrations, particularly in reference to Mexico, have been suggested by the circumstance of this most ancient and magnificent of the Spanish contineutal dependencies, having not only Grown off allegiance to what is culled, in the mockery of po litical language, the mother country—a stepmo ther, indeed, Spain has been to all her stolen chil dren—but has chosen an Emperor for itself, of • new dynasty, neither descended from the Monte zurnas nor the Bourbons. Iturbide the Fiisf has assumed the purple ; but to speculate on the length of his reign to clime, would be to put to sea with out chart or comesss, and those that are wise will wait patiently fur the great interpreter of mysteries —time—in reveal all that curiosity itself can desire to kuow concerning him. Mexico is the Arabia Felix of the New World, in its rich and exquisite productions for supplying the vomits, or romistetiog to the comforts and luxuries of man ; while, either for empire or commerce, it is more advantageously situated than any other nation under the sun, lying principally within the tropics, and stretching through many degrees of latitude, an irregularly winding istlosius, between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, that temper its climate with their breezes, and whose waters are ever ready to waft its treasures to the ends of the earth, and bring home in ex. change the riches of every other nation. In such a land, if man is degraded and miserable, the fault is neither in nature nor Providence, and if he re mains so, he well deserve all that afflicts him, for lie is his own tormentor. THE ARMY. One company of the 16th regiment of foot arrived yestry. day at Manchester barracks, from Wolverhasnptua. Three companies of the Milk (or Berkshire) regiment of foot arrived na Thursday at Hull, from Sunderland. A detachment of the 3.1 dragoon gouda is ordered to march on Monday neat, the 14th instant, from Newcpsile.wpoa. Tyne for Scarborough, where it will wive on the 15th inst. T►e detachment will be afterwards distributed in small par ties, on the Yorkshire coast viz. at Bridlington, Humes, Brampton, and Alkipera, in aid of the revenue officers. The 43d (or Moumnuthahire) light infantry, G 13. F. Lord Bowden, G.C.B. and K.C., Colonel), embarked at Cork, fur Gibraltar, ■s follows:—Three companies no the 31st of August, on board the S transport ; Ave companies on the 15th ult. ow board the Sophie and Orsini transports. A sappadron of the King's dragoon guard., which has for some time been stationed in our barrack., marched on Friday for Mauebester, where it is to be iasprcted by Major. Ge. ueral Lord Edward Somerset, K.C.B. and 61 P. MIN ill• spechou, the squldion will return to Slteffield.—(%hefeld Iris) THE LATE Ma. Baouts.—We understand the Independent Electois of Westmin,ter intend to meet next Tuesday, the day of the funtra of this ouch-respected Gentleman, and accompany the body from Hyde Park to the Savoy Church in the Strand, where his remains will he interred in the family vault. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, who is now at Rath. ha, intimated his intention of coining up to London, to *hew his respect for the decessee, by following his remains to the grave. From a Report just made by the Comm;:fee fir promoting the coosumplion of smoke in the town and neighbourhood of Leeds, it appears that these ore in that township ty .team-engines, shout fifty of which are entirely without hurnere, about thirty with inefficient burners, and not more than ten or twelve with efficient burners. The anniversary meeting of that excellent instia tuition the Horticastle Dispetintry, on the 3d inst. was more numerously and fashionably atte n d e d than it has been for several years. The excellence of the sermon preached in the morning by the Rev. Archdeacon I _XxiNGWORTH, Vise justly uppreciated by the congregation, who testified, by their liberal contributions at the church doors, that the seed sown had fallen on georl ground. At three o'clock, the Hon, and Rev. the Champion Dvinotte (the patron of the institution) and the stewards. with a large party of gentirmrii. sat down to a unlit sump. tunny d er at the Ball Inn. The ball in the evening, at the new Assembly Rooms, was the remit of the moat distinguished beauties in the county, and greatly enlivened by the elegant attentions of the amiable patroness; the supper, which consisted of all the delicacies of the scion's, caused a short in terruption to the dancing, which was resumed with great spirit to a late hour. On Friday evening, between the hours of seven and eight. this part of the country was visited by s heavy storm of rain and lightning, which came from the westward. The rain fell in torrents, and the lightning was awfully ►ivtd. It was with much difficulty the drivers of the atage•coscheit, boil von this and the Diver rood, could manage their horsts, so frightened were they ■t the broad flashes that played arauud them, and which, in two or three in at seers, we heaseastapiately enveloped the coaches in a kiwd ei Woe time, that for the moment blinded the Pee'elenetee Meow •after the storm had subsided, wbeentiful lunar rainbow made its appearance in the hennas, almost due north. This interesting object. larch was visibly observed by many of the inhabitants of this lowa, resented a curvature em bracing a conoidemble span. and the dark and rain fraught clouds that occupied the back ground, dis played this richly diversified arch of beauty to con siderable adenotage.—(Maidsfone lonised, Oc tober 8.) . . • 4, • • Elm - POLICE. ....... KMISION.UOUSI. Yesterday two lads, named J. Srafomaris sad !Villain, Doyley, the eldest shoat twain years of age sad tin yesoge► oily seven, were brought up by Septicll, the beadle of Br•hopogate, elairpri sitbatealieg s bran crimp ing stockist, the property of Mr. Fisch, if Bi.loptgass.. Wert. Mr. Finch stated, that as he was lading la the parlour at the back of his situp, he mw the two Prisoners come into she miter; they caked for • Jow's harp; he replied he di I not sell them; on w►ich they went away, but returned again in shoot two otiosity', sod ipnired If ►e conk' tell them where they could get a Jew's harp; suspecting their intention, he told thins to gis almost their business; they went out, sad on coming into the shop he found they bail coo. 'rived to steal a brass crimping machine, worth about 2(1,.; he immediately went in pursuit of them, and found them at an old iron•rhop in the neighbourhood, in the act of selling their plisuder. The boys, io their defence, said, they bad found the piece of brass, mud were about to sell it for Acs•peare, brie( the 'slue which the mistress of the old true-shop had put upon it. . . . . . . . Tke Nissans were folly eoussitted lo take their trial, sod the ponies Wood over to prosecute: --- - - . Trimmer, a respectable-looking old weman, was brought op to mower the complaint of Mr. Carter, of &albino-lane, in whose house she lodged. He stated that the old Lady, since the death of her son, who hail taken rare of her, bad been is his judgment evidently insane, which she evinced by gelliag op is the twiddle of the uigbl, light ing a fire, going about the bathe singing, calling " Mur der !" &e. Mr.. Trimmer listened to the charge with great attention, and at the mention of Gamier in the night, she exclaimed, " Only Psalms! only Psalms!" and delared h.r winiugtora to be judged by the clergyman mod churcbmwdens. Mr. Carter said, he was esoly lonians she ►hould be re strained lest she should do mischief to herself and others. The Lord Mayor direettd en officer to take the poor no woo to the parish officers of Allhallows Barking, to shirt' place she belonged. GUILDHALL. FRAUD. Yesterday Nary Palmer. a miserable lookieg old worse, was charged wit► übtainiag fraudulently Is. from the wife of one of the overseers of t►e parish of St. Ass, Blaakfriars. The beadle of the parish stated, that the Prisoner was in the ha►it, wises it suited her coavesience sad the weather was fee, of labial; • tour of the country, carryieg two Children with h. r, mud following the eseient trade of begging ; when tired of, or nut successful in the trade, she rely reed to Lowden, sad watched the bosses of the overseers until they WO house, when she applied to their wives for relief, telling them a tale of di•lress, sad if that did set succeed she bad reroute. to abuse, in which she was so well versed that she geserally succeeded. On Thursday the west I. the wife of one of she overseers of t►e parish of Si. Amu, and told her a tale of distress ; that her husband had died at Nor wklt, mid that she hal walked from there with her two chil dren, and they had out tar: ed food for two days; on which the wife of the overseer gave her • shilling. Oa the overseer befog informed be immediately k•ew it was • fraud, as be was aware of her husband being alive, and had her taken late custody. The ogle of the overseer set Wag in stteedasee to prove the giving of the shithog to the hippies she .s. teetastled ■ali! to-sorrow. RIDE IN A HACKNEY COACH. Robert Rodeo,' genteel lookitsg young mao, was charged by the driver of the hackney each, No. 341, with Jessie' to pay him his fare. The Complaisant stated, thee oe last evening the De fendant, in company with another man sod • woman, took his roach in ht. (Medea, sod desired hint to drive to Lillipot lane ; they made him atop his coach several times os his way there; adorn be arrived at Lillipst-lane they got out of the coach, and he asked them 35., to which they demeaned; ho thee reduced his demand to Is. 641. which they also refused to pay, and took to their heels; he followed them, and came op with the Defendant, end laid hold of him ; be made great resistance, and kicked the Complainant; with the assist wee of a watchman (whom be also struck), he was see nerd, and taken to the watchhouse; on being searched, he bad ou money about him. In answer to questions pot by Sir Charles Flower to She Complainant, he admitted that the distance be had d,iveu the Defendant aid his companies, was oily a short two shillinca fare. Sir Charles Flower observed, that the covidnet of the Com plainant was highly improper; be woold, therefore, only direct that the Defendant should pay him 2s. the •etoal fsre, without costs, and without compeasatioo, for his low of time. The Defendant paid the ts. cad the worthy Alderman allowed hint to retire with the watchman to satisfy him for having assaulted him, which ►aving dose, he was 'dis charged. 1 1- , 41r. ~, A GOOD TENANT. A Gentleman applied fur a warrant ender lbe following circumstances:—He stated that be had let a house belonging to him in Fore-street to a penes. There was as agreement for a lease, but it bad not bees stamped on either side ; the person was pat in pommies ; in • short time afterwards be found that hi■ finest had made away with the leaden cis tern, the gutters, the grates, the locks and bolts, •ud ionic of the window-sashes of the bottle; fludiag that be was not likely to be much benefited by his tease, he thought of the old adage, "That it was better to have as empty house than • bad !coast," he offered to forgive him the rent if he would give up the po sssss ion; this the le•mt agreed to 'do, at the same time he ingested that the articles he hail stripped the house of were of awe value to him (th, hind. lord) than to any other person, sad as be bad sold them for a me►e trifle, be had nu doubt if the landlord would furnish him with • sufficient sum, he could repurchase them fur him ; the landlord accordingly advanced him the money ; the converrenee was, that neither the articles nor the money were forthcoming. _ . Sir Charles Flower was of opinion the tressorlug of the fix tures was a felony. Mr. Payne, the Cleric of the Odle* ' said It was only a tree. pass, and the Gentlefolk* could owly proceed by an act;nri at law, bat that questios had beau pat an mid to by the sub at9o.nt agreement. The Gentleman asked whether the fewest cool., not be indicted for obtainisg mosey wader false pretelices, he out having reporebssed the articles he onslertook to do ? Mr. l's)se wss of opisioa shut it was only a breach' cf cesairact, and slam time was so manly races by !tritium as action St law. The Gesttrain U►u left Me Mee. BOW-STREET. DARING ROBBERY. Yesterday John 4wilh. a boy about 14 years of as.. was charged wish stearin a sold curb chain from the shop wiu.u!ow of Messrs. Newland awl Fior►, of No. Is, Hugh Holbio. watchmakers, under the following eneoinsignees About 10 o'clock yesterday morning Mr. Finer, jun. ob served the Prisoner, in company with another buy, !cooking is at the shop.window, sod in • short time afterwards lna.d one of the panes of glass rrart, and at the same tiro: the Prisoner west away from the window. Mr. Finer im Earth vilely ran out sad csoght hold of the Primmr, and brno,:ht lam back into the shop, and them discovered that a gold double (tubed rhaia had Area taken from the window through a @mall hole is the gloss; the Primmer was searched, but the chain was not found on him. Ha was remanded. Sews persons usileraresi as essasisaiiss before Thomas Flails, Esq. charged will a viulesi awash awl ',reach of Are peace, on Thonglay Isar, is ends jog in gaiu (Spoke possession of a less is Miciawireek thiatrupad, belunglng to, and is he ocrespa i lios Me. llwtllti a Hampstead. They were ordeled tp Asa wall. •. .General JANIS. Wit.utesou, who not loog.since look $ trip to Attunes. roi pureasee, 1111.4/11s mewed, of a private wad hot • pefitieal nature, it *lli *aid, hus eidiated-iete stns *mire ot th4llsmoterild Irusiolut. It is stated that he hid teonitrad art ipoorntspar.t under the Governor* weith Arno 14400 (itters . year.—/Bahapre *mint Chrosicie.A 'fry - .01 v . • 1 I 1 A ..111 IR