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I TTIE 11ERSEY, PAC KRT. 'tile. 1 NUMB ER 6242 . 1 a NEW THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THE INDEPENDENCF OF THE BAR. /VMS EVENING, TUESDAY, December 17, Isis Majtsty's Bermists will perform the Comedy of THE WAY TO GET MARRIED. Tsar • I • Mr. Ellillott ; Toby Allspice, Mr. Dowton ; Cap tain'? a e Ord lime), Mr. Cooper ; Caustic, Mr. Terry; Dirk Da...tail, Mr. Pi sic , ; M'Query, Mr. attic. Julia Faults.. time), Mrs..ll. llerlwa ; Clementina Allspice, Mrs. Glover ; Leidy Sorrell, 141 rs. After lk ( !nil time), a new Divertisement. called • Tlllat HALT OF THE CARAVAN. Pnarigfilibutclirs , Mr. Noble, Mr. Oscar Byryie, Mrs. No. Lie, Mrs. Oscar 113 rue, and Miss Tree. To conclude u il6 Oth time), a new Farce; called 01. D AND YOU NO.• Mr. Wilton; Mr. 'ferry ; Charles Mowbray. Mr. Meng ; Peter, _Mr. Knight. Peggy, Mrs. Omer ; Matilda Mewling, Cbitil Catcninio g the Characters of Master Hector Mosrhray, Baste( pohlnitnn Mewling, and Master Feppington Mow. bray), Bliss Clara Fisher. Boxes, Is. • Secoad Price, 34. cd.—Pit. as. ad. ; Second Price, is.— Lower Gallery, as.; Second Price, is.—Uppor Gallery, ta. ;' Second Price, ad. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Spring, at the tx-Office„ht the Ritusda, from:Fen till War t where . Family There is nothing which those who revere the prin ciples of legal jaitice would be more ,anxious to pre serve than a willing and respectful regard towards those appointed to preside in the seats from which those principles are administered ; we would wish, however, to find at all times a spirit coupled with this feeling. which shall fearlessly preserve the indepen dence of the Advocate and the integrity of the Bar. 1 t is on this ground that.we admired the firm and manly resistance of Mr. Wetherell theother day, in the case of Nun and others, to what he felt to be an unwarranted interruption ; eorn the Vice-Chancellor, while pursuing his argument In the cause in which he was engaged. The Vice-Chancellor, conceiving that the argament of the Learned Counsel was irrelevant, twice tattrruntett him, and, after baring read Ike passage, Mid—" I do rot know how any tomptaso.amaAis ammo oison /tare ts oothiwt tr , Mlle a doubt upon. .(r you are not nominee(' by reading the passage, I can expect no more. That is my view of the cue.,, Mr. Dealky—" Before Mr. Justice lisyley." Lord Elleoborough —" Upon what was the Defendant sworn ?" Mr. Wetherell (with much energy)—" I have a right to be beard, and I will be heard." The Vice-Chancellor—"l am always desirous to hear you ; but it is for the Judge to see that you do not apply your arguments to points about which there is no doubt or diffi culty." Mr. Wetherell—" In support of my public character, and for the sake of the privileges of the Bar, I contend for my right to be beard, and to state my view of the case ; and I will not submit to be put down by your Honour. lam may spool,- My the sentiments of the Bur when I say, that year Honour decides eases without sufficiently hea,ing them. It is the unani mous complaint of the Bar, ►hat your Honour will not permit , Counsel to exercise that right, without which it is impossible that they can do their duty to their clients; and petitions are presented complaining that causes have not been properly heard by your Honour." The Vice-Chancellor—" Mr. Wetherell, you do not address yourself to this subject with your usual good sense and gen. llemanly manner. In order that Counsel may do justice to their clients, it is necessary that they should know what the real difficulty in the case is, and apply their Arguments to that point." Mr. Wetberell—" I trust I have done nothing ungentleman like ; but I must repeat, that I will net submit to receive my views of the case from your Honour. I bare a right, and I will nut be prevented from exercising it, to pursue any line of argument which I think necessary to the interests of say client." The Vice-Chancellor—" I have endeavoured to direct your attention to what I conceive to be the real difficulty of the cue. Having done so, I shall upon this occasion, as I do upon every other, permit Counsel to adopt their own coons of argument." Mr. Wetherell proceeded in his argument to the conclusion, uninterrupted by any remark trot• the Court. A Juntas, for the sake of his own character, as well as the reverence due to his station, should never sub ject himself to a justifiable and deserved rabska boas the Bsa. We base seen but too many instances is which Judges, from personal or from party feeling, have attempted to exercise an authority which they could not support, and have been obliged to bow in silent mortification to the spirited resistance they have. ' provoked. It is not for the Court to dictate the course of reasoning which a Counsel shall adopt, whatever its opinion may be as to its bearing on the case. How far that reasoning may or may not influence its deci sion, will be seen on pronouncing judgment. In the mean time it is the Counsel's duty to draw forth the most prominent facts of his client's case, and to shape the inferences to be deduced from them in the man ner which may appear to him best calculated to pro duce a correspondent impression. Any attempt from the Bench to turn him to the right or to the left is unauthorised, and an intrepid Advocate need only resent it with firmness to resist it with effect. In the memorable case of Captain l3aillie, a Lieu tenant-Governor of Greenwich Hospital, who was prosecuted for a libel in a publication addressed to. the General Governors of the Hospital, detailing the then gross abuses which were practised in the ma nagement of that Institution, and the system of fraud and peculation carried on by the persons presiding in it— Mr. Erskine, who was counsel for the Defendant, felt it bis duty to animadvert in terms of severity on an individual of high rank at the bead of that establishment. "The Defend ant," said this able and eloquent Advocate, "the Defeodaot, not a disappointed, malicious informer, prying into official abuses, because without office himself; but himself a man in office; not troublesomely inquisitive into other men's depart- Einnta,but conscientiously correcting his own, doing it per- Want to the rules of law, and, what heightens the character, &Wig it at the risk of his aloe, from which the effrontery of power has already suspended him without proof of his grill; a conduct not only unjust and illiberal, but highly disrespect ful to this Court, where Judges sit in the double capacity of Ministers of the Law, and Governors of this sacred and abused Institution. Indeed, Lord has, in nay mind, acted such a part * * ****** ** * **• • * • • • •—[Here Lord Mansfield, perceiving the Counsel heated with his subject, and growing personal on the First Lord of the Admiralty, stopped him, and observed, that Lord was net before the Court.)—l know it," said Mr. Erskine, indignant at the interruption, " I know that be is nut formally before the Court ; for that very reason I will bring hien before the Court ; be has placed these men in the front of the battle, i■ hopes to escape under their shelter ; but I will not joie in battle with them; their vices, though screwed up to the highest pitch of human deprmity, are not of dignity enough to vindicate the combat with me. I will drag hiss to light, who is the dart mover behind this scene of iniquity. I assert, that the Earl of -- has but one road to escape out of this business without pollution and dis grace; and that is by publicly disavowing the acts of the Prosecutors, and restoring Captain Baillie to his command. If he does this, then his offence will be no more than the ►oo common one, of having suffered his own personal interest to prevail over hispanic duty, in plac ing his voters in the hospital. But if, on the contrary, lie continues to protect the prosecutors, in spite of the evidence of their guilt, which has excited the abhorrence of the nume• Ms audience that crowd this Court ; if ■R RUM TRU !N -AMUR man *I; *** EDRD, OR DARES To TOMS ?MAT SVITENOIOR PITO A REMOVAL, I saau. TRAM MOT OCREPUI TO DTCLARO lasY tit' , • .. C- ,e,e / „ 40 ,_ „. - fi A --- '--itp\- . alti .- e th „„ *a. s ...." ......., toile:cen:,, L . (4) j • .. ~. N...... • l e• .. ... ....mi... •L si . . •• • ....s . ... .... ..„ f, t .; 1.,...% l'il . its Tr .... Pump. 7d. ...• , ~, ' ' 1 4 1 1 i t MI ACCOMPLICE IN THAT OCILT, ♦ SHAMELESS OPPRESSOS I , A DISGRACE TO HIS RANI, AND A TRAITOR TO HIS TRUST*. Erskine was not an Advocate to be (righted fronsi• his purpose by the frown of authority. In the pre- 3 4; sent instance Lord !►lansfield, whose talents as a " Judge were of the first order, shrunk from the effort of a second interruption. Mr. Brougham stands distinguished lean Advocate whose independent spirit reflects honour alike on him self and the profession to which he belongs. We re member an exemplary instance of this in the case of the King v. George Houston. tried in the Court of King's Bench before Lord Elenborough in 1814: This was a prosecution for a libel on the Ch►istian • religion. An affiadvit made by the Defendant was put into the hands of Mr. Dealtry, the proper officer. Lord Elleoborough—" Before %time) is the affidavit sworn ?" Mr. Brougham, for the Defendant, said, that if a person professed any other religion than the Christian, he might still be sworn according to the forms of that religion. If the oath was informal, he requested time to amend it. Lord Ellenborough—" It is not informal, Sir ; it Is bad in substance. I remember the case of a woman Mho said all religions were alike to her, and Lord Mansfield repelled her from takiug an oath. Are you prepared to suggest, Sir, whet belief the Defendant has by which he may be swore ?" Mr. Brougham—" My Lord, I have no knowledge what ever of the Defendant's principles but what I collect from my brief ; and I desire that your Lordship will not mis too op with those whose cause it is my duty as so Advocate to plead, since whatever the Court may say in the spirit of that insi nuation, I will always repel. I repeal, that Itoow nothing of the Defendant's faith or omit of faith, but if his aMdavit can be amended, I ask of the Court delay till it can be amende.l."' Lord Elleaborough—" There was no insionation. Your request insports, that at a farther time tic may be tibia legally to take an oath ? The Court wishes to know bow.* Mr. Brougham—" I stated what was required by a rererd for my character on a eery delicate matter, sad only what wee due to it after the remark that has been made. 1 repeat it, in the face of this Court, that as often as I hare sedi Jubila tions, I shall use the ant moment and the stroatost esproa sions,distincUy and peremptorily to repel them. I am - hero as the retained Advocate of the Defondant." Lord Elleoborougb said, the Learned Counsel was per- - fectly correct. He may recant to allude to him as Hie Advo cate; and it was quite proper, and his duty, to obtain delay, , in order to confer with his client on the subject. This subdued tone, on the part of the Bench, is the usual result of this sort of contest. It is too often the infirmity of Judges to have their temper a little too strongly tinctured with the overbearing. We have witnessed their attempts to intimidate the Coun sel from his line of argument, when he has appeared likely to unfold too mach, or to strike too hard in a direction from which they have been desirous to ward of all attack. But this misapplication of madiority is always anwise, because, when overmatched, as it' often is, the defeat is humiliating, and, with the ta lent and courage which distinguishes the English Bar, it is not often likely to be successful. • In the Court of zing's Bench, Soy. la, 17S11. Er:Sine's Speeches, vol. i. p. *a. detail of 4itsventa .114,1% nati . 11a record a I a Vt , altifig nature, I," rn lilt it'd iltltt sip!. ly eticil u l itt collecting, 1:11I thert - for. , ..c tkoactina .I:mart! (..te.4 an unitsUal - it. loon 1.1 . Friday I blt nig to Itunlh, could b,. Ino t h e morning I!,.tt and it .424 dent r.i• and iite •rrit Al • ).n..1 4 filltibt. %Ili1170;1 ' 10 la i • ;l • b A1;:r three o'clock . I. Irma it W t 4 person. lh•{ 111161 e 1 , 4r4 were en!: ; , buss ever. nails bunt five u'e;ock, vela n I , cry touc•i• increased. nter::titicil by aev, the etwwwience will, :•n,k.• ~T lever slit. .1 !telt, bloat a iv, t e•ar• violtntie or 1,, , rod ; the Ics vett twel beheete wow Iv at Ic•ertel iieKt , twt 146.141ktte.., • ma creek tritliotofloi,,- .10e, w oft 1 0.."1tre , 1%,)! . : mr44;; lattlilaced rnit,'l,w*th Oft, ,u.,: Ln imeg 4' Ite thulegiit, II! MltheMltraefere. tints was fits! I, and heaving On the: IL:ie./Isere, the tinitis. bght es en in terror I n her suggested that 11., nor; the ves.el tinseling .ea, shout ri the par.engers with baulk use rock , and ror water% One side suer. ens! despair was .1111i:11Bit-) ben sarnek I Fletcher, of Chester) niertsle, in Mhici.Bnie .w evaders Jheniselves rd, the Captain ant, sc,si Mr. Burt, jtlll. v•ere In the escups.. I.l' itig hung ric ..1 t !iv !Li', between u4l fru huerti. At this 1.1 the pAklitt, suid /he IRPieth intp the cur s I Int far ritreistia I Pet - ieg inilgrijun ! for the et errs) lir. Burt front r but ortmertesee. arta& 11111: , .. vif ; and the Captain icrs ft wadi of sr( 111 t inives onboard. Th e and the vessel urn 10A ards 'Whitby. At I tire mgine furnace • mewls r artery . Rant •r her m i en directions the enWn. It Was one rid with irthe peril id 1 tor las bank llw r ii.o.veser,.bhe took low Itnif 4C • 'ftfid the , ahirW how thinly tel to louder their ore will,in seventy nrtiuh oi that diatant•o id (qo'ol4vtd c alled a , Dimond be r: -bn 14 endovour catiornititout list cf iii•: .41 Ismaring altago ,Lc bank in ‘lltdk,ll. in of Dr. •tt, 1 14* city, and his time thu wiudimid and about, fourteen no tib . lit4citniftenee nn. he Au prilissing Jed it. Ovrr FAY strnis ' , lectured that, being riling entangled, he .C.l at 464. l limo rush is infant into the soon tifttrr sunk in utrernrs nn hoard, *o c Litwin to nib/seri" W. P a mlt street. !ter child tend, tin• bunt i sad a sietims 10 th e terrillt lx4ter and relief at Dickson's. Elias ken of theta. Thus scenes we hare for a rry and fatal results Us **omit* by e gad Rant in 1821. a remark d aaurical affairs, If • lass left a .'alum telt iee to • harpy coal, heft , i t , t : , ,n neingopened a•I In behalf of t i dated ; it is wiri of the .leek tin tur *e% *few c"oURI . Qb leCPrq, Y. lg. 13 lu '1 slit r fp inner. 3 . boat- a . '2 I • and infaranet- -rml, VI i4lintscr, •: , C, 11:kirime.4, ~ te, r t.Lvotict, .11. r.- Dicey, ti. ___llL_ 6 -\ shtli.,TA t . fr. R ) Wit.kvitt 4 : I.*. r 81 soi t sAttnuer., :Li.. 1021, 4 I • N 4 : ..u4 lealM it 7 i4it" p;d or _ of 49 el . .ri ,01/111/ r . • f , ..'s. I h et . ; a 'ma dun.. , ;1 .4 1 iiittrvity I,ONDON; Mk. T. ATTWOOD'S EsUMATi. THEATRE. ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING, TUESDAY, December 17, mill be aeted (tth time) a eew Opera, called • MAID MARIAN; OR, THE 1111NTRESS OF ARLINGFORD. Richard I. Kwig of England. Mr. T. P. Cooke ; Prince John, Mr, Egerton; Baron Filaw der, Mr. W. Farren ; RobertllFitzooth, Mr. Abbott; Friar Michael, Mr. C. Kern. ble ; Friar Petcr, Mr. Keeley ; Gamwell, Mr. Pearman ; Little John, Mr. Hunt ; Much the Miller, Mr. Pyne; Allan o' ale, Mr. J. heacs ; Page. Master Longburst. Lady Matilda Fitzwater, Miss M. Tree; Alice Oamucll, Miss Beaumont*. After which (6th lime) the revived Petit Comedy of THE LONDON HERMIT. Old Pranks, Mr. Bartley Ynnng Pranks, Mr. Jones; Tully, Mr. Connor; Toby Thatch, Mr. Meadows; Natty Magri. Mr. Ke r ley; Whimmey, Mr. Pelican ; Barleycorn., Mr. Evans. Kitty Barleycorn, Miss Beaumont; Mrs. Magp, Mrs. Davenport. Boxes, ts. ; Second Price, ss. 6d.—Pit, se. 6d.; Second Prate, ts.—Lower Gallery, as.; Second . Price, is.—Upper Gallery, is. ; Stoned Price, ad. Tomorrow. Maid Marian—The Irish Tutor—and The Two Pecos of Frederick the Great. On Thursday, The Wonder : Don Felix. Mr. C. Kemb l e ; Vieliate, Mies Chester—and Brother sod Sister. On Friday, Maid Marian—and The Loudon Hermit. On Saturday, Maid Marian—and The Linden Hermit. Oa Monday, Romeo and Juliet—and The Forty Thieves. The Tragedy of the Earl of Essex is in rehearsal, sad will speedily be perfhruied The Earl of Essex, Mr. Macreedy; Queen Elisabeth, Miss Lacy; Rutland, Miss F.H. Kelly. ROYAL COWIIIO MEATS& rrHIS EVENING, TUESDAY, December 17, N. widowing the Week. at Half-past Sit o'Clock cisely, an ioteresting Serie-Pantomime called PHILIP QUARL. Altar which *Casio Eltraragensis. called VIVE IA BAGATELLE! 01, TOM AND JERRY IN FRANCE. Sir Christopher Culpepper. Mr. W. Reaaelt ; Mr. owl; Er. Andrea Solown Mr-Totes " . lady J Blow, Hrs. Tawas/ Lavlala, Miss Healy ; Miss Partook ; Lady Culpepper, Mrs. Neste*. Tbeastartaiwats to UY eosclo/a (by_particular deskro) with G FAWREs ,_• OR, THE ouritrowtose TREASON. NEW OLYMPIC TiIEATRE, NEWCASTLE-STREET, STRAND. friiiS EVENING. TUESDAY , December 17, and during the Week, will be vresented TOM AND JERRI. Corinthian Tom, Mr. Lewis ; Jerry Hawthorn, Mr. Vale; Bois Lo fie, Mr. Vining ; Squire Hawthorn, Mr. Mildenhall. Conothaii Itatc,:Miss Jilbastone ; Sue, Miss Scott; Mary Reasbud, Miss Adcock • Patty Primrose as Miss E. Lancaster ; Hoe. Min Trifle, Miss'Brady ; Hoe. bliss E. Trite, Miss Waldron ; African Sall, Mr. Brady. After which a Comic Barletta, called LOVE LrrreltEl. To which will be added a New Farcatta called fIIERRY BOUNCE ; OR, °AMNION AND'SPINNAO2. To conelado with a Orsad Tragic, Terrik, Horrific Heroic, Operatic, Comic, P,intontimic, Mclo-dracnatio Burlesque Parody, called TILE TWO GALLEY SLAVES ; OR, ESCAPED FROM BRIXTO N. In Scene H. the Fac-simile of the Tread Kill. In Scott 111. an Incidental Ballet in WoodiskSboes. EAST INDIA HOUSE, October 30, ism THE Court of Directors of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies, du hereby give Notice That the TRANSFER BOOKS of the said Company's Stock will be SHUT on TUESDAY, the 3d December neat, et Three u'Cleek. and OPENED again on THURSDAY, the iGth January, tet3; And tbat the Dividend Warrants on the said Stock, due on the Mk January, MS, Win be ready to be delivered on Mon .lay, the istli t he same month. JOSEPH DART, Secretary. EAST INDIA HOUSE, October 30, 183 t. frE Court of Directors of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East lodic% do hereby give Notice, That a QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT of the sai COMPANY will be held at their Dense in Leedenliall street, era WEDNESDAY, the lath December next, at Eleven o'Clork in the Forenoon. for the purpose of declaring a DIVIDEND from Midsumm J O SEPH hristmas nest DART, Secretary. p This day is published, the Third Edition. with additional rdonred Charts, its. boards . THE AGRICULTURAL DISTRESSES.--A ' LETTER ow ear AORIC I.ILTURAL DISTRESSES, their Causes and Remedies. Addressed tit this Lords sod Commons. Accompanied with Tables, and numerous co• loured Charts, showing and comparing the Prices of W heat, Bread, and bour, from tail to tees. B WILLIAM PLAYFAIR. Published by W. Sass, St. James 's -sheet. This day arc published, price es. I'M() SERMONS on the BENEFITS arising from Tn ZOLOOICAL CONTROVERSY, sad on the lA3VE of TEUTH ; preached in Essex•street Chapel, November, fors, introductory to the Course of Lectures tor the Season. /3) the Rev. THOMAS BELSHAM. Printed for R. Hunter, 72, St. Paul's Church-yard. Where may be had. by the same Author A New TRANSLATWN of the EPISTLES of 'PAUL the APOSTLE, with en Ezposition end Notes ; 4 vols. Ivo. boards, price el. les. bd. This day are published, ins vols. aro. price sl. Its. ed. le bds. THE EPISTLES OF PAUL THE APOSTLE, 'Translated, with an Exposition and Notes. • By the Rev. THOMAS BELSHAM, Minister of Rogow-street Chapel. Printed for R. Hunter, it, St. Paul's Churcb-yard. The principal view of the Apostle its writing these Epistles was not to communicate a system of mysterious doctrine net to he found in other parts of the New Testament, but to state, argue, and animadvert upon well-known lies. In anise- uuence of wh oh, these Epistles exhibit a clear, interesting, and unaffected display oftbe views, the feelings, the labours and sullitrinp, the purposes and the conduct of the Apostle, hiassulf, and of his friends and opponents, is the very extra. ordinary circumstances in which they were placed; from which arises tarn most irresistible internal evidence of the Troth and Dirine Authority of the Christian Revelation, which it is the main design of this Work to illustrate and en force. FARMERS AND FUNDUOLDBRS. Birmingham, N0v.16,18111. A (aisle showing the value of the " pound sterling" during the war, as compared with its - present yalee and•therehy exhibiting the degree in which the national debt, and all taxes, rents, tithes ' and debts of all kinds, have been raised in value and increaser) in herder), by the act of confiscation, contumely called Mr.Peel g i Bill. Price of the Winchester bushel of Wheat, on the average of 93 years, ending with the year ims 4 as given in the Lords' Corn Report of 1814, Appendix, Nu. 11-4 s. 4d. per hpshel. !eine of the " pound sterling" during the above period in bon y Mist shillings eve.. Bice of the kk inchester Nisbet of wheat on the average of t Ire years, ending with the year Isla, as given in the Rank Reports, Appendix, No. 3e...145. 4d. per-hustle!: Value of the " pound sterling" during tho last the years of the war, as compared with wheat, the lint necessary of life, and Ihe most important article of trade...m. 7d. The "posed sterling" being worth, during the latter pc 4. only the cause !venial of wheat 118 . 711. 7d. was worth rig the fur- - period. at t>r • Winchester bushel of wheat, as per the 'u kingdom-4s. vd. per ig," as compared with quanliir 03 yeatili, on the are: private obligations of all in real burden upon the country and individuals, as for as concerns the important article of wheat, from vs. td. to Its. 3d. in every " pound sterling" of obligations existing at the end of the war This is an absolute net prat, as near as ran be calculated, of just too per cent. upon their gross capital, into the pockets of all fund•owaers, placemen, mortgagees, lessors, and creditors of all kinds, who happen to possess good securities for their re spective claims. Every one of those persons who, during Hisi last live years of war, was receiving from his debtor wheat equal in value to toe. sterling of the money in use daring the war, is now receiving wheat equal in value to S. sterling of the money of the war, a hick, as far as concerns this leading article of English consumption, is exactly the Mai to him, and the same burden to the country, an ring him in money soot. sterling for every tool. sterling F ra. hick he was in the habit of receiving during the war.— Tithing wheat as our guide in)udging of the value of mooeV, Ibis is really the degree in which all public and private debts, Mitigations, and contracts, have been raised in value by Mr. til's Bill. And it Is certainly more reasonable in judging Ilf the value of mom's., to take as our guide an article like *beat, which is raised and sold by one hell of the community, land bought by the whole, than to take an isolate., and obscure article like gold, which, during the war, after the Bank Re striction Act of 1797, was not produced, or sold, or bought, or dealt in, or exchanged, or at all attended to by, perhaps, one millionth part of the community. It is in t his degree that the value of money has been raised by Mr. Peel's Hill, and not to the extent of only 4 or 41 per cent., as was studiously and officially assumed whilst that fatal measure was in pro- gr.m. Every man who owed seven shillings and sevenpence dnr ing the war, is now compelled to repay one pound two Wi lier, and deepest.° ; and every man who owed tool. sterling, is now compelled to repay . 3001. sterling! And can wo weeder et the bankruptcy and ruin which attends all tenants, all land-owners, and all siemens who are bound by any kind of monied obligations ? Can we wielder that the revenue should be bolstered up under the lavish destruction of capital which is going on ? All fund-owwers, lessors, mortgagees, plaremen, pensioners, and annuitants, of a hundred kinds, are at present receiving in real value 34v01. where they are entitled to only Wel., and finding thus their property trebled out of the capi tal of the aetiva pluses, they are i nabled to beer/see their expenditure accordingly, so long as the mesas albeit' pe y victims shall hold out. It is thus that the revenue is up out of the capital and the murdered industry of 16=atry. If this " gigantic transfer of property" back end forwards, among all classes of the community, bad lieboattempted openly, in • direct way : if an Act of Parike esiiiiihad been brought forward to compel every individual wheeved Th. 7d. to repay mss. ad., the whole country would hove cried out against such outrageous injustice. It remains , to bemoan, whether it is possible for such a mighty measure to be mealeied is a quiet and secret may. Tree numerous individuals in all peels of the country, who are now clamouring shout the Insolvent Act, woad torn a little of their attention la the general confiscation act, they would stand some chance of escaping from the numerous losses which no doubt must now attend their respective occu. patios,. Bet unless they choose to do this, the best thing they can do is, " to call in their accommodations," and retire from trade altogether as fast as they can; for they may be as sured that all the laws id the world will of compelling or enabling their "fraudulent debtors" to repay them value equal to soot. sterling, where they in reality owe them value equal to only tool. sterling. If the value of the pound sterling during the war is es timated by a general average of the prices of all the articles which men buy and sell produce, consume, or exebasige, it is probable that it would not he found quite so low as vs. yd. But if we take the average prices of all commodities instead of wheat only i and also if we take the ten years ending the war as our geode, instead of the five years, we shall certainly tad that even then, Lie real value of the pound sterling is use during the war, was not more than ties. of our premed money. Every debtor in the kingdom is therefore, beyond a doubt, now repaying his creditors after the rate of sos. where he in reality owes only tos. But although all creditors aro now thus plundering all debtors, yet the creditors do pot, in all cases, pocket the whule advantage of their plunder ; but, on the contrary, are very many of them in the processor being ruined in their turn, by the pressure of their own creditors upon them. The lanil owners, fur instance, arc first com pelled to destroy their tenants, and are then destroyed them selves, by persons having claims upon them of a hundred kinds, to the amount of, perhaps, one-half or one-quarter of their property. It is of little consequence whether it is a half or a quarter, for either is sure to take the whole. Its short, the only persons who can tie permanently benefited by the gigantic plunder which is going on, are a very few lucky or cunning individuals, who happen to possess credits without any debits, and who happen also to hold good security for their credits, which is rather rare iu these days. And even if these lucky or cunning individuals do not yet pocket the whole plunder, their tradesmen, servants, and dependants, contrive generally for the present to divide it at least equally with them ; after a little while, however, the peeks of these kinds of persons will be most enormous,when the weight °fibe ancient money shalljhave had tune to weigh down the wages of labour, and the retail prices of property, to the metallic level. The following table w ill show the gross profits of the fund-owner to be more than 300 per cent. upon his capital ! that is to say, that ho is now absolutely receiving value equal to four times the value that lie' is entitled to, although for the present, for the reasons above-mentioned, he has o u t in possession the full enjoyment of the whole. A table showing the profit which has been made by loans to Ouvernment,advanced in depreciated current ,under the war prices of properly amt labour, mud sow made repayable in undepreciated currency under the low prices, which the at tempt to restore the ancient measure of prices necessarily occasions. Price of the Winchester bushel of wheat, on the average of five years ending with lets, as given iu the Bank Reports, Appendix, No. 39...165. ad. per bushel. Price of the 3 per cent. Consuls in 1813, as given in Wetten ball's Stock List...st I, or 671. 76. 6tl. Eighty bushels of wheat, at las. ad. per bushel, make ail. is. ad. or of, the then price of tool. Consols. In ISIS it thus required the value of ouly so bushels of wheat to obtain credit upon the Government of tool. 3 per cent. Consuls i and the value of 80 bushels of wheat being all the consideration given, is evidently all that ought now to be repaid. But observe what is the fact. 'remit price of the Winchester bushel of wheat, as per the last week's Menge of the whole kingdom 4a. 911. per bushel. I Present price of the 3 per cent. Consols, as per Wetteuhall's 1 Block List...sei, or Md. 73. (id. Three hundred and forty-seven bushels of wheat, at 41.9 d. per bushel, produce 021. 7s. 6J. or amt, the present price of tool. 3 per cent. Consols. It is thus a positive fact, that tho fundholder who lent the value of eighty bushels of wheat to Government in ISIS, is now in 1021 literally repaid the value of three hundred and forty-seven bushels of wheat, or mire than four times the value in wheat than be is really entitled to! Thus the riches of tho public creditor are quadrupled on the one hand, while public and private burdens are quadrupled on the other! In rallying the present system into 'Reel, it is hard to suspect that (he interested parties have in reality intended so much mischief end injustice. It is but charitable to suppose that the whole has been done in error. But really, w hen we see that the system has pumped wealth, as it were, into the pockets of the fundowners on both sides, that it has raised the selling price of their capital from Si to 02, and at the same time has given them the et in metallic " pounds ster ling," worth atm each, in repayment of the 571. edema in paper " pounds sterling," worth only tos. in our present, money ; when we take these things into consideration, it cer. teinli does require no common proportion of Christian cha rity to have no suspicion that improper motives have been at work. When the fund-owners reduced the property of the farmers Price, !a.—Lower Gallery, ss. ; bccorau fence, 16.—.pinas rind . . only the same gusThatity of wheat as 711:7a. wa Gallery, is.; Second Price, ed. during the former period. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Spring, sit the Box-011ier, In the It oto od a, from Ten till Fear , wher e Family Pi esent price of the Winchester bushel of ulicat, as lat be arrage returns of the . whale kingdoto...4s. Boxes may be engpged, and a Private Box had nightly ; also of Mr. Hookbam , of Bond-street. • Pzse bgb at t en t l ‘ u s e .3 o d f . the " pound sierling" as compar To-morrow, Othello—The Ilalt of the Caravan—and The Flitch of Bacon. • 'nu!" pond xlerhor"letitag,wedis• New the sameOa Thersaki wit , he Wedges& llootil." "I"' VIZ I ; In 0 A. 26.312 vsjivilLia tiamemeago al three mini% le be sang, AT ogo of faiNalliilia. ee la lARd~ Tfi year rrea, an as 31. was worth on the fir idie f rare of he years, ending with 1813. On Friday,. a ravourite Tragedy—The Milt of the Carl. It thus appears that all public and private obligati< I se—end a Farce. kinds are raised in real value and in real burden onnfiti.• on.l iwtl;•ialitslit as Car litt t• th• it anw ; lore— JO JO 2 14 , IL .. 11 ... 12 . r i 'A n ..;.! Tutoo, jpftEM BER 17, 1822• from tie leak of I 4s. sd., time %MA ell their legal oblige-' Hone weer grounded, to p to 4P. 9d., which is now all thst the farmers receive: if the funtl-neners had reduced their own PrOperty ie the saute degree, iii the same time ; and if they bad also reduced by law, the monied rents, tithes, and taxes, which the farmers pay, in the same.deirree, at the same time, could in this case have been no suspicious motives attarbed to their conduct. But when we see that they have neglected, or rather Ntudiousiv avoided, every measure of this kind, endlhat they have absofutely quadrupled their own pro per,). if measured in cheat, and doubled it if measured in all otln4 things, at the expense of the useful and active classes of the compliably, we may, under these eircionstaneesi per haps, heinstilied in suspecting, that, in their anxietypi take care Of thensselsea, they may possibly have forgotten to think of others. The fund-owner advanced 6tl. in the money of the war, which to a certainty was not worth more than 281. to,. of the money which existed before the war, and he is now receiving back oil. in the money which existed before the war, for every ed. Ins . of that moue) which be thus advanced. The sum of Sal. its, of our prosentsnoney, for every tool. consuls, is all that the fund-owner is justly entitled to ; and unless ho pockets his plunder pretty qeickiv, it iv, In all 'probability, as much as he will ultimately be sutered to receive. lie has now Ant little sympathy for others • it is probable that in • little time ethers will have bat ' little sympathy for him. With Jewish rigour, with Jewish hypocrisy, with Jewish cruelty, leis now meting out a Jewish justice to his coun try*, Let the very SAME justice be measured back to himself, Arid he will be permitted to receive only eel. tos. ger. liag of our present monee„tabere he now receives eel. sterlingter bur present MM..: `au/ out °C rites wel. see. N. ertlf be compelled to discharge In full, without any diminution, all the family engagements, all' the debts, and ail the various and multitudinous ernatraels and obit. Rations, which a highly artificial state of society involves. This is the hard lot which he is now imposing upon the un-, happy tenantry and land-owners of England ; • lot fer more difficult, and infinitely more cruel than any that was ever imposed upon the Jewish nation by their Egyptian tyrants of old. Those tyrants refused, indeed, the "straw to make Yoe bricks ;" but they gave the mod of the Nile. But neither the straw, nor the mud of the Nile, neither the restoration of the moons, nor the reduetioe of the burdens, is aliowil to the wretched creatures who were fiirmerly the affluent landowners and the substantial tenantry of England. These remarks may possibly appear rather hard upon the fund-owners. It is, perhaps, but right to acknowledge that, speaking of them as • body, the measure in question was in no respect of their doing or contriving. It was entirely the measure of the great landed interest of both parties, who adopted it uftheir own free will, without being at all solicited thereto by the country, or by any part olthe eountry. The great land-owners have long had the government of things in their own hands ; but this, their last favnurite measure, if persevered in, will terminate shertly, not merely in taking the government of things out of their bands, but also in strip ping them of the last shilling of their own properly. It will in tact strip them as naked as it is now stripping their tenants. I have staled that, in giiing the fend-owner eel. los. of our present money, where he now receives sal. of our present moue,. be would receive the very seasejestiee as be is now measuring out to the tenantry and land-owners of the coun try. But the real truth is, thit if equal justice is to be done to all parties, the payment of tel. lea. for every tool. consols, is more then be is entitled to;receive; for it would still leave him in a better situation than the farmers and land-owners. The fund-owners, as a body, may be considered as compare lively free from monied debts and obligations, because the funds are themselves, as it were. a species of money, and It is not often that men owe money upon money. The fund owners would therefore, in general, get the whole of the !Pi. toe. into their own pockets; and since this lilies. would con • tail the same value, and command the same quantity of the necessaries and comforts of life, as their sit, commanded due ' ing the war, their situation would in reality be exactly the same; or at least it would be so as sone as ever their servants mei tradespeopplle were brought dome to the metallic level. But very different from this is the situation of the land• °wawa and farmers, who, it is well known, aro generally and necessarily encumbered with monied obligations of a hundred kinds. These obligations remaining to be discharged in full, without any diminution at all, cannot r.ii, in most cases, to take away 'the whole of the tel. los. from the farmers and landowners, and, certainly, in nine cases out of ten, they will ultimately take away at least one-half of the 281. tea., and leave to the farmers cad the landowners only about 141. Sa. upon an average fur every ail. which they possessed during the war; mad this is probably as great a proportion of their property as these classes of men can, even mow, in general, be maid to possess. la recasts& therefor*, il l,tea. of war foffsedAminef for "arse lostliggedee fie feedelearr would still have a very great &demise/ewer the farmers and tend owners ; an advantage which would aggrandise his relative situation above its proper level, and secure to him a great pre dominance of political power. And, after all, be would not be robbed of his industry as wellies of his capital. He would not be compelled to labour for year after year, and to see the fruits of his labour continually passing from his hands. "The hope of reward," it is said, " sweetens labour." But what hope can now console the laboers of the farmer who has been lured and deluded from year to year, until his capital and credit are well nigh exhausted ; and now threatened by hie creditors on the one hand, and by his landlord on the other, is urged on by inevitable ruin behind to inevitable ruin before. Hew many thousands of industrious and intelligent farms:eel are now tobe found in England, who would cheerfully give op the fruits of seven years industry and care, and would gladly be permitted to retire Irons approaching ruin, with tel. tin. in their pockets for every 571. which they possessed seven years ago! • This sarcasm on the Jewish nation might have been spared. What has it to do with the able author's argument, Besides, he must know very well, that rigour, hypocrisy, and injustice, are confined neither to Jews nor Ibndholders. It is degrading to the see and the individual, that national dis• tiuctions like these should still be kept tip. MARKETS OF YESTERDAY. Corot EXCIle77Olt.-Very large supplies of Grain I were offered yesterday, and Wheat is very heavy sale at our last quotations, and but little business has been done. There is a good supply of Barley in the Mar- 1 ket, which is in good request at Is. per quarter ad vance. A very considerable quantity of Oats is in the Market, and this Grain is but little in demand at a reduction of Is. per quarter. In Beans and Peas no thing is doing, and the prices are nominally the same as on Friday. Upon the whole, the Market is dull to-day, although the large supply has not affected the expected reduction. Wheat s. s. d. • s. s. d. White (new) l6 to 46 o Pease. Maple Do. Fine -to - o Do. White Do. 014.......-..... .-- LO -. 0 Do. Boikrs . ....W to 3: o Red Do. flue.. -.......- to- o Do. OW -to - o Do. Old ..... ........ - to - a L Do. Tick Rye - to - n i Do. Fine - to - o ale ti to 27 0 Oats Feed Do. Fine IS to 33 0 Fine - to - o malt - a Do. Puked l9 to 23 0 Do. Fine -to - 0 Do. Potato Pease Bog - o Flour 351. 405.-Seconds -s4-d. IMPORTATIONS LAST WEEK. Moat Oats. Volt. Barley. Rye. Beans. Peas. Rove. English i 12.57 1 29579 I 8097 • 11397 I-- I 1133 1 1330 1 14472 , I r i s h _ -- _ __ _._ _.... —. Foreign Average prices of CORN from the Returns received in the Week ending Dee. 7. Wisest IBarley I Oats I Rye I Beaas I Pease lOats. s. d. s. it. s. J. s. J. s. d. sd. s. d. •• 6 18 • 18 9 19 • le 10 ?I 3 0 The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado ISUGAR, computed from the Returns made in the Week ending the nth day of Dec. is 3011. OK per Cwt. fietrartat.e.—Our Market is moderately supplied with Beasts and Beef is in good demand at on advance of W. per stone. The supply of Sheep is considerable, but Mutton may be quoted brisk sale at 2d. per stone advaime. Veal is in demand at our last prices; and Pork is readily sou at 2d. per stone above the quotations of last market day. Upon the whole, the Market is very brisk, and all meat looks up. Beef as 1041 to 3s 4J I Veal ....... 4s od to 34 od Mutton 24 ed to 3s Id Pork .. ... 3s ud to 45 ud Beasts, 3430—Sheep, 40,610 —Caves, 191—Pigs, sou. COPPER ORES sold at Redruth on Thursday, total 1,284 tons ; standard 1071. 3s. For sale next week 2,010 tons. A dividend of twenty sh llings in th'e pound is an nounced by the late Denbigh Bank of Messrs. CLouous, MASON, and Co. A panicoccasioned the stoppage of this wealthy house. ESSEX WINTER ASSIZES. The Assizes for this county ended at Chelmsford, on Saturday, about had% e o'clock. The remaining cases in the calendar not already teported, were destitute of general interest. The Grand Jury found a bill of indictment against a man, not in custody, charged with wilful molder. Seven capital convictions took place during the Assizes, but only one unhappy man was left for exe cution, namely, Benjamin Cooper, who was convicted 'on Friday of breaking and entering the dwelling house of widow lady at Thazted, in this county. during the time of divine service, on Sudday. the 4th of September, and stealing money to the amount of 1701. The Hon. Mr. Baron Charms', in passing sentence, addressed the wretched convict in the following terms : t. Benjamin Cooper, yes shad convicts* of What broken Into the dwelling-house of •dosipsegsttsle wiawiffilidgt who is the proseeutrix ow this messies and 14401111 OW WilihrtsbitY which site had, with becoming piety, dweeeld to tbei Illerfiee of God, to perform your wicked task, which, undoubtedly, you must hate had some time in centemplatlon. You had executed your plan with a degree of ability and contrivance, and with such success, as to make your offence amount to a very heinous crime. You had plundered this lady of property to a very large amount, and you had executed your object under such circumstances, and carried your offence to such a degree, as to make it no longer a subject of regret, that to break and enter a dwelling-house in the day-time in the absence of the Jakob', tants, and steal property therein to a large amount, Is made a capital offence. You have, therefore, drawn epee yoveself the vengeance of the law, and young as you are, yes mast pay the forfeit of your crime. lam not aware agog edrenmstance is your case which can avert the awful sents *bleb must b e speedily carried into executiou. Gladly Inlaid I Nina held of any suggestion which might he fairly urged Is your Omer, to mitigate the severity of the law ; but you stand at the bar of justice convicted of a most dangerous offence, witheat may am redeeming fact in your case. I warn you, therefore, to prepare for that ignominious death which justly awaits you as the con sequence of yourcrime. The heaviest sentences( the law must be pronounced and executed upon you. No Moor or mercy is to be expected on this side the grave. Betake yourself, then, to earnest and hearty prayer; to a speedy repentance of such sins as you may have committed in that world which is about to close upon you for ever, and endeavour to prepare yourself to meet your Creator. My paliful task Is to pronounce the awttl sentence of the law, which is, that you, Benjamin Cooper. be taken hence to the place front whence you came, and front thence to the place of execution, where you are to be hanged by the neck until you are dead, and may the Lord nave mercy on your soul!", The unhappy man earnestly implored for mercy, but was removed from the bar. He was a well-look ing young fellow, and cocducted himself with great propriety and decorum during his trial. The calendar at Maidstone contains a catalogue of upwards of a hundred prisoners, many of whom are charged with capital offences. Amongst the latter is the case of a man named Robert Hartley, w h o. stands indicted tinder Lord Ellenborough's Act for maliciously stabbing Captain Owen, of the Bellero phon convict ship, at Sheerness, on the 29th of A's gust, where the Prisoner was confined as a transpot t after having been convicted of a capital offence. Ho had obtained a commutation of the punishment of death to that of transportation for life, under pretends of giving some important information respecting tiro murder of the late Mrs. Donatty, Ji ii