The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1820-01-05 00:00:00

f) THE EDITOR OP THE BRITISH PRESS. A• Aci the Editor of an Inilepeudent Joornal, whose 0 e unpoluted by falarhousl, I appeal to you 110111111 v ol„1 'i mitation snit raucorows abase exhibited l a re a Pest of this slay, in an article entitled • Elapsed verses America," which, for 11w purpose of este -o,alatng tar loyally and /wifely of The Post, cites a "new *WOW' of robbery." fount the clauie pen of Mr Cob. bat, and on sects respectable mithority asserts. this the e ffrace is frequent iu the United States of America (which I,e writes . of the article brands as " flits sisak•isok lea n d r ope& If ilwrapenn ries aid villainy" actice he ), leader te loie a l cs li ki ng :,way ;" and by which pr sere common iii America, Ile. Culebra lost " wag. I i ri n lon of fruit," suit '`the greater part of the press i, ; ,;,,,.. ..f na sire of melans." Now. Sir. that The I'o t I ...,„0,,,,, the ant iim is) or Mr. Cohnett, accuse the tost I le..earter of the Aissorie ins wills dishonest!, is as iiiconsis. cstasit is 11.1.1111' 1111 l %. II is 8.11 known that Mr. Colahett's I 'II lialtril Rll.l principles were :as &poignant to the ea au rally, as they are to all hut Om contemptible r a ce of of aolicale at home; and I assert, halide beets lately a vists far in the United States, that it is ass Awierieau adage, that a a ' Olt oasis en attached to his own coantry anal Gu one % y I; mis fi t to bee in or under any ollter." On the sub m m ject of . taking away" fruit, it is well loosen that in A1lIffIC1111)e 1 ei: hards and (rod fields are I/sapiently no t enclosed, anal the :wide is in surli almnilance and plenty, that the owner. !Owe their poorer neighbours to carry away what they may require for their eimmintidi 111 l , as freely as they would allow thesis water fruits their brooks. lu the state of Pennsylvania, it is monistic in a plentiful season to fatten the pigs *it •arlies which are is such abititilatire, iha I liar refuse could pa , only be applied lo such purpose, tor for manure. That the vice* imeparalole (rein large populations are to be found in .marries, as well as elsewhere, noise but a foul would attempt to deny 1 hut every one who bas travelisal through the States must admit. that thefts of every elass are far In. numerous than in Eusepe, by at latest the pro portion of line 10 ten. The peasantry and working classes plurally being better circumstanced than among Us, and, I I egret as an Englishman to say, that the instances of vice or miaery a traveller ellllllllllers there are to be found amongst those from one own kingdoms, who were iodated, fium want of principle or iilo:U2111y, 111 live at home, and who, therefore, sweet no encouragi meta on emigrating. The American character 11110 lie the higher classes ;:ooh I should be sorry to take the wit) of England as a specimen of my own) will be found to po.sess full information un litermy and political subjects, and high integrity in matte's of business; and I blush, as an Englishman, that the article alluded to should meet the eye of such as I have justly rtate.l titian to tie, and that they should see one Glows:mesa Journals disgraced by false anal fool a buse—thus violating the law it has justly muclainsed steins% libels, and degrading our national character while it a ff ects to exalt it. I am, Sir. A LOYAL ENGLISHMAN. AND A LOVER OF TRUTH. TO THE EDITOR OP THE EDINBURGH COURANT. Stn—As the following extract of a letter from the west root be gratifying, after the dismal accounts which we have hid or hie from that quarter, I send it as a (hoarse to your readers, if you think proper to insert it. I am, your obedient servant, S. 5 ' The quietest place, sad the TOO devout In outward pp. pearance, I have seen for long, is GilllfoW, as we saw it yea. i..r.lny during divine service. The calm and depopulated appearance its streets ex d hibite whilst churc was assembled, was m u st striking ; and even at " grim Toll h erose itself we saw nothing indicative of its reported turbulent state, save a soldier or two, who, without order as without arms, were sauntering here and there. 1 could not help feeling Slut these were strong proofs that infidelity is not su much abroad here as is apprehended, sod that the result of our own ob set ration would be far more comfortable snit cheering to our 111 . 1.14111 than the gathering reports from adiatauce. Never in OW best times could Suuday have had the appearance of Leine more respectfully " attended. " December 27 , 1019. Sittings appointed in Middlesex and London, he.. fore tlw Right lion. Sir ROBERT DALLAS• Knight bud Chief Justice of his Majesty's Court of C - mon Pleas, at Westminster, iu and after Hilary Term, 1820 : IN TERM. astDDLINt2. LONDON. Tuesday Jauuary 25 Wedneaday ......January 26 Monday 3l Tuesday February 1 !Monday February 7 Tuesday. . AFTER TERM. February 14 I Tuesday February 15 A failure of a firm of hitherto great respectability has been made known on 'Change, it is sup posed to a very cousiderable amount. A disap pointment of expected remittances, to repay money advanced in England for the South American cause, is said to be the occasion of their suspending their vsy wrote.. The Gloucester Journal, alluding to the report of 1110 translation of the Bishop of G LOVVISTER to the Archiepiscopal See of Dublin, and that she Res% Mr. TALBOT, brother of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. is to he preferred to the Diocese of Gloucester, says, " we are happy to state, from good authority, that there are not sufficient grounds tin the assertion." The statement is also contra dicted in • Dublin Paper, vi:. t.'arrick's Morning !'oat. A number of warehouses in Glasgow have lately taken on a good many weavers, and we understand more business has been done in printed goods within these eight days than what was done for six months }refine. The same appearance of revival has taken place in Paisley.—(Glargoto Chronicle.) Doting the present inclement season, the poor of Oxford have been supplied with coke, as fuel. from the gas establishment there, at she price of 6,1. per Ists..ltel, which, mixed with a quarter of a hundred of 4.041.5,8960 g 6d. affords them as much firing as • cwt. of coals, costing 2.. The Company have 5. , 141 within the last eight weeks, 7,000 bushels of ~ .‘eke to the poor. the eGth ult. as Mr. PODDECOMBE, a re. wpectable (droner, was returning from Barnstaple ifllllkrt, with a considerable sum of money in his plicket, he was thrown by his horse over the bridge, ai.rt has not yet been found. It is supposed some persons held a rope across, and by lifting it up 1..t00t0 1:e was passing. I rightened the spirited animal ; • thus, by an bile probe, caused his untimely wsollamented deaths. lie has left a wife and three • children to bewail his loss. 411 the night of Saturday. the 15th ult. the pa• fITIJ church of Llandevailog-Vach, near Brecon, war robbed of the communion-plate, consisting of • 'silver chalice. ewer or cup, and patio, and a linen eurphor. by some person or persons yet tan. ',Os-covered; on the ewer or cup was engraved the wised ••• tlandevailog." During sante week, St. David's rhumb. in Brett)°, was abo robbed of a silk gown and hood, which were drawn through a vsionlow, apparently by a wire. This sys tem of sacrilege stems to have extended itself from Mon. moutlashire into Breconsbue. NEW LONDON MAGAZIA ES. nt this moment. gave ri.t to rumours of a strange. and we are willmg to think. an unfounded nature. Government. it was reported. seriously cusitemplat ed s radical reform of the constituti tttt in its own a great man. who Ought IWVIPT to have dostiirlred the settled fmue of his unrivalled military ttpl~ it by entering amongst illy tlt•lurbrd cabals of cabinet 'polities, wmi polish -a mit Hf ihr chief pr... pos.r of this reform. sod likely to be the powerful imornment of it. There is altos in tin' Nlagninir • variety of in structive stoisetilmientr , literninre, and some sm elts of great malt and I.ll6iinlit), The periodical magessinea which, when well con ducted, nail such a f lof useful information and entertainment to the miscellosurous stock of liters,- ture for the public paints., seem tattier to acquire new force, from the recent legielattee me:votive to curb the public press, then in • wi k en di s may un ti-r the the...mental weight of their accusuultitive pe- u titles. The new year has udder' two to iite num ber of mantitly publications which the metropolis *ends froth. The title of one (minted fur Bald win, Cradock, and Job) is," The Lyndon Mugu. zine;" and of the other (polllolled by Gold mid Northhouse) "lhe London Magazine, and Monthly The Literary Recollections in die Magnzine. by c r i t i ca l „ Ni l Drimitie iteciew. ,. • tim former Gold aud Northhous r . are rxtretur ly interesiiiig, tomes an historical and entice' summary of public noel will, we trust, be colonsued in successive N um events to well-selected literury miscellames. b`"r 4 . The following cannot fed to be read with min comprising Reviews eel the Drone, the Flue Al.,t Selections from the winks of living Authors. and a glee] and sorted interest :-- fur proles/ties' of original matter upon a variety of J LITERARY RECOLLE.C'TIONS OF LONDON. subjects. 'Elm latter timelier* any CRIIIIIPZiOn with I "Oh sweet to my snot is tb:it beautiful spot, the parties or politics of t h e State, and, oith the Avookiag resnembrasiee Must lir :If ." l'Ontwoostrao. reception of the sweessary foreign awl dusseette ~ l it S o. (: t ie r ' s g.t 1 i • it , s. ourco or Chapman, the roc intelligence, messes exclumvely to devote itself to . i • .., i ', lel , t RIM v., sit trati•htur of Hunter ; and Andrew Literature, the Deward. and the Arts . Both ma- Marvel l . ri t e wit slid patriot, whse geezines Ropes! to he conducted with ability and i could um holm. 1% : Ito would hallooed. poverty Charle s *pint. Of the politics of Baldwin mid Cradock's tier Sectitidl tluit tier Borough was the most claw eel grontel iii publication, the following extract is a fair aud li- I the ntelroperlo ? And'yet it is undoubtedly so. Tlw bend specimen:— Globe theatre was there, of which Shik-peare bun. Third view of the constitution and character of s elf was d pe o p r i e ter, an d 'or whi* lie voter his Parlitunent, presents . to us , we are free to confers, plays. Globe-lane, in which it .etistal, is Mill ex an augnet sell impoosig ituage ; and seems to intl. itaut, we believe, under that swine. It i. prothable mate that orevereso esage, or even rash meddling, I that he lived near it : it is cerium that he mast would e „w bt unworthy an d i n i a di c iou. treatment bare loot much there. It t o ols. certain Owl on the of nit ination, that has been formed, may I B oroug h ode of the river. then aid still called the say. by a superior agency to that of the intelli- Back ride, ice the seine lodging. having the same genes of mato ; namely, in the womb of time, under I w a rdrobe, and some ere. with sober participatious the influence of the natural fitness. of things. more remarkable. lived Beautuosat mind Fletcher. .1 At the same time, a body so constituted is not I n th e B oroug h a lso, at St. Saviour's, he Fletcher !sound—we tomtit to say is not eowdziowed—to lib- and Malisiuterr. in one geese: ill the some church, solute immoveability. That which has been Woe I under a moinument sued effigy. lies Chaucer'. ems-. duced by eirenrostetwes...which circumetancea have temporary, Cower; and from an fashioned. endowed, and strengtltesied—ooght never t rough, the existence of which is still boasted. sod to consider itself independent of circumstances. I the site pointed out by • picture and i n scriptioss. An inoilittiott which can appeal to the letter of co I Chaucer sets out his pilgrims and himself on their %oiliest cleaner Of Code' of regulation, without find- l f amous roo d to c ou s ts b ur y,, lug itself sentenced to death for violation of its te- "To return over the water. w h o ovoid ex p ort cure —hut which very justly considers the spirit of an y t i r i ng poet i ca l from E w a s, n itho e id ? Y e t there a constitution superior to the letter of a law, and was born the most pueticsl swell of poets. Spencer. the authority of long and useful practice greater P a p e w INI born within the sound of Bow.hell, i n a than that of isey one enactment :—such an institti- street no less anti-poetical than Lombard-street. two, we say, has little right to regard any our pre- So was Grey, in Corrohill. So was Matto. in sent moment as involving tts abeolute and uuchange. Bread-street, Cheapsidle. The presence of the same able properties, or affect to consider its stature at- I great poet and patriot has given happy memories tacked when it is sug gested that it s h ou ld coutitine to many parts of the metropolis. Ile liv-d in St. its natural progress. All we mean to say is. that, Bride's Church-yard, Fleet-street; in Alorrsgate ire treating of the construction and condition of st r eet, i n J e wi t ostreet, in Barflies'', in litotholo- Perlimmesit, it seems to us that little is proved by mew-close; in Holborn, looking back in Lie cob's referring to the dry theory of Parliaments. This o ni .e r id. ; i n H o lb orn , near B e d Li.-.puny; may form a plausible ground of attack for Ocoee in Seotland-yard; in a house kinking to St. James's who hate and would destroy our existing conetitu- Park, now belonging to an ensinetit writer use legis. lion ; but those who are of opinion that the nation ',llion, and lately occupied by 4 celebrated deioc may be still well-governed on the present princi- and metaphysician; and he died in the Artillery. plea of its goverionent—iii other words. that the I walk, Buithill-fields, and was buried in Si. Gilee'a, strata of society may be staved to Ile ice their pre. Cripplegate. sent order ; that mischief, in fact, would be done se Ben J moon. who was born' i.e Hartshorne-18mo by disturbing them—such persons will look more near Charing-cross,' was at one time • master' of e to experience and to circumstances, than to the theatre in Barbican. He appears slot to have visit theory in question, when they contemplate mos- ed a tavern called the Sun and M 0000 ,in Aldeirs. sures of retortnitig ulteration. We confess we be. gate.strert : and is Worn to have frequented. with loug to the last class; but we confess further, that Beaumont and others, the famous one called the we consider the present to be one of those moments Mermaid, which was in Cornhill. of crisis, which decide every thing as to the future to The other celebrated resort of the great wits fate of nations; when a change, mind a great change of that time was the Devil Tavern, its Fleetwtreet. too, must take place, the only point doubtful being close to Temple-bar. Bess Jonson lived also its whether this change shall be one of recovery or of 8„ i i„,e,,„„,,,,e 5 ,e ; where Mato„ a f terwar d s lived; death. %Ve shell soots see that b° ol PATlhnoent It is in the 'wont from the cl...avers Of Christ's and the Ministers perceive that circumstances indi- Hospital lulu St. Beritiotornew's. Aubrey gives it cote the necessity of making a great revolution in as a corenron opinion, that at the tune when Jon the administration of public affairs ; the dispute I son's father-in-law made him help him in loss busi between she parties only relates to the side towards ' new of bricklayer, he worked with his toot hoods which this revolution ought to lean. upon the Lincoln's lon-garden wall, which looks " The warm feeling excited in the country by upon Chancery-lane, and which erects old enough the forcible dispersion, by the Magistrates calling to have some of his illustrious brick stud mortar still in the soldiery to their aid, of a meeting of the po- remaining. palace at Manchester, held at the call of hunt the Under the cloisters in Christ's Hospital (which radical reformer—which disorrsion was not effected stand its the heart of the city, unknown to most without bloodshed—is, we believe, the true reason persists', like a house kept invisible for young a n d of this early muting of Parliament. Ministers learned eyes) lie buried a multitude of prisons of soon made common cause with the Manchester till ranks; tor it was once a monastery of Grry Magistrates, by the replica which they dictated to F r i a rs. A m ong them is John o f le orir omi, floe of the Regent. when addrews, praying the illeestiga- the prisoners taken at the battle of Aguicourt. Lion of the affair, were carried from counties, towns, Here also lies 'Thomas Burdet, ancestor of the pie and corporations, to the throne ; and still more par- sent Sir Francis. who was put to death in the reign ticularly, as well as more obnoxiously, by dismissing of Edward the Fourth, for wishing the horns of a from his situation of Lord Lieutenant of the county favourite white rug, which the liiog lead killed, in of York, that most respectable Nobleman. Earl the body of the person who advised him to do it. Fitzwilliam. on the ground of his Wong been pie- I And here, too (a sufficing contrast) lies Isabella, strut at a meeting of the freeholders of his county, t wife of Edward the Se I— nhere he coincided with the assembly in the prolific- I " She, wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs. ty of petitioning the throne to cause an inquiry to wow tore the bowels of her mangled mate."—Gail.be instituted into the 51ancliester trausactiona.—By Her • mate's' heart was buried with her, and taking this step, Ministers seemed tooninnunce to the i placed upon her bosom ! a thing that lucks like astonished country, that they intended to bring the I the fantastic incoherence of a dream. It is well point to a direct issue between the two extreme we did not know of her presence when at school ; parties: themselves the serviinto, and dependants or a fter readsiag one of Shalcapeare's tragedies, we of the Crown, dm one side—stud the mob of uncut- should have run twice as fast round the cloisters at gloved manufacturers, and ignorant and malignant night lime as we used. Camden, • the nourrice of anarchists. on the other: in other words, that the I antiquities' received part of Ins educat iiiii in, this stake on the hazard of the die was to be despotism 1 school ; acid here also. toot to mention a variety of or revolutionary anarchy. lii striking a blow of others known in the literary world, were hired two indignity at one of the most distinguished and re- 1 of the most powerful an d deepoipirited writers of spected Noblemen of the lan d, the y cleared the I the present clay ; whose visits to the cloisters we way for the hostile advance of their rude and exits- I well remember. perated enemies, trampling down respectability of In a palace on the site of Hatton-garden. died I rank, sod dedregarditig all claims of character;— Jolt's of Gaunt. Brook (louse, at tlw corner of the at the same time. they seemed bent upon removing street of that name in Holborn, was the residence of whatever might break the force of the shock. and the celebrated Sir Flake Greed'', Lord Brook. determined to bring power alone into action agoinst the ' friend! of Sir Philip Sydney.' In the Mme distress and delue 00000 ,as well as against discontent street. died, by a voluntary death. of poison, cleat and rebelltoo. The country felt uppalled mid of- tztraorditotry person, Thomas Cliatterton— fended at these inilliantons: they were regarded us " The sleepless boy, who perished in his T wilit." of the most sinister import : and perhaps a more WoRDSWORTR. vivid and genetal sets t i ttt riot of disapprobation and He was buried in the workhouse cue Snot-lam ; alarm was never experienced in the public mind, —a circumstance at which one case lisolly help than that which was every where expressed when feeling a movement of indignation. Vet what this measure of insult and rowlociess became known. coatis' beadles and parish officers know about such The announced determination of Ministers to add a being? No more than Horace Walpole. lit to the military force of the coontry, consoled, in Gray's loin lived, and ; 4 11 Gray's Inn-garden meth point of time, with the dismissal of Earl Fozwile toted, Lord Bacon. Its Soutluimptoiwtow, Hol born, pee a heels and double cause for regret :it born, Cowper was et fellow-clerk to an lionowy corroborated the idea already entertained of the with the future Lord Chapcellor "rlitirlow. At the temper and intentiosts of the Administration—and Fleet•strett corner of Chancery-lane, Cowley. we 'hewed that she emlployment of arms to put down .oreet ► believe, tow born. 111 Salisbstry.court, Fleet discontent, was decimal by them more adopted to , wee the house of Thornita Sackviele, first the circumstances of the country than the adoption I Earl of Dorset. the precursor o f Sinner'', and one of retrencluneut. The state of the public feeling a the SWIMS of the first regular English tragedy. Oa the demolition of Liii' house. part of the grown) • was occupied by the ctiebritrti theatre built after the Esstonitints, at which Bettertun performed. and of which Sir William Drneenant was manager. Lastly. here was the house and printing-office of Richardson. In Bolt-court, not fir distant. lived Dr. Johnson, who resided also for sotne time in the Temple-. A list of his tutmerotts whet. residences i+ to he found in Boswell*, Cungteve died in - Surrey-street, in the Stt and. at his own house. At the corner of Beaufort -buildings woo Lilly's, the perfumer. at whore house The Tatkr was pub. lisped. In Maiden-lime, Covent-garden. Voltaire ludged while in London. at the sign of the White Peruke. Tavistock-street was then, we believe the Bond-street of the fashionaltje world, rs Bow-street was before. The change of Ittis-•tt Pet. Rout fashion 10 the phut., with the throne still 111 attendance., reminds one of the spirit of 'the 13eggat's (tom Bottum's Coffee-I the resort of the I ns ofQiireit Aone's time, was in Russell-street —stye believe, near where the Iltimmunis now stand. We think we re eullect froth:44 that in the same street, at one of the cornets of Buts-street, was the tavola where I).yden held regal pn.seo•hiti of the arm-chrir. The whole of Covent-gaiden Hr classic ground, Ruin its association with the draw talc and other wits of the limes of 1).o., mot Pope. .Rattler perhaps died, in Ita-e-street, and was buried in Covent-garden Clt us where Peter Pirs lilt the other day followed loin. in Leicester riusre, on the site of Miss Linwood's exhibition and utlivr houses, was the toetit-isinmiun o f the Sydney', Earl of Leice.ter, and the Estut;y of Sir and Algernon Sydney. • The Temple most haeg had unstop rowituwat insuales. A g them, it is believed, was Chaneer, who iroh• said, tipttu the streonth of an nit( recut , t., hare bttu hued 2e. fort beating a Frauriocan Prise, in Ileot.sta eel. (T• be rent lussaiLl MUN GO PARK Au article was inserted its the newspapers some time ago impairing into the probability of the cele brated Mango Park being Wallin existence. Sonar :illusion was therein made to imfarosstiou tested to have been obtained Irma a conversation with Mr. Nathaniel Pearce. at Judd*, in the Red Sea. Mr. Pearce, now at Cairo, iwrceiving that Mine tnaC• curacies had crept into the statement, a• already published, has given an account of the converse lion alluded to. ohich may he considered ns sitithest fie. The followiug is an extract from Mr. Pearce's letter on the subject : " I am obliged to trouble you with a story, an seeonat of which 1 read in the Malta Gazelle. It appease that Capt. Pointe!l wrote to his friend in Liverpool, in which letter I he said that he found me st nolda; that I told him Moog° Park was still alive, and that I was on my road to Tombnetou to join him, ke. I shall ;We you mime small account of our diseoerse at table, on board of his I ship. We talked a great deal about Cat'fia, who had been with me the last nine year. in the country (Abyseiobi). lie asked if there were any other white men three ? I told him ' One Greek and an Armenian.'—' Did you never beer of Mango Park? Is it possible he esti Wilber?' said he. I answered, • Its all probability Ike may; a fritud of MIMI who trades from Goodin to Tombitetoo, by way of bane, ! told we several times that within six years he bad bees four times at Tombuctuo, and had always seen a white man there, who was detained by the natives as a person able to write I charms; perhaps it may be Mango Park; it certainly ran he no other English traveller. Nothing else paused of the subject." • WINTER CHARITY. " It is mere blessed to give than to receive."— The following receipt for a most nutritious and economical soup is earnestly recomme....lid to those benevolent persons ; Teri lot the distressed con dition of the poor at this inclement season. It is the receipt in use at Bethlem Hospital, and makes a soup sufficiently goal fur tiny gentleman's table. Take the liquor of Meat boiled the day before. with the bones of leg and shin of beef, sod add to it as much water 55 will make it 130 quarts, and also the meat of stone of kg and shin of beef, and two es heads, all cut iu pieces : add two bunches of carrots. fur bunches of tomtit's, two bunches of leeks, half a peck of onions, one bunch of celery. hell a pound of pepper, and some salt. Boil for six hours. and put in either oatmeal or barley to thicken it. ESTIMATED COST. R. .1. Ten Stone of Lig and Shin of Beef.. II 8 Two Oa twills Carrots Turnips 0 p Leeks 0 4 Onions Celery 0 6 Pepper --..—. tl u 0 A respectable young man and his wife were last week suffocated in their bed•, in a house near Temple-gate. Bristol. by the effluvia arising from a pan of charcoal, *Weir they had placed in the room for the purpose of airing it. On Wednesday sermight a mrlniirlif.ly accident occurred on the river %Vye, at Fownhope, near Hereford. Owing to some mismanagement, r barge belonging to Mr. Ptaftcr, of Lidbrook, was upset. and the three men unfortunately rerished. One of them. the master. had lived with Mr. PEARCE seve ral years, and was much respected by his employer. The cargo of the barge, 25 tons of coal, was en tirely lost, and the ve.sel also greatly injured. On Thursday an Ingitent was held at Carman. then, out the inn!). of MARGARET. v•ife of THEO. Jowl. Iwbattrer, of Alltych.n., tat comity, supposed to been murder, d. It eplieareil in evidence, that stir hush'Nd ca'Aril at a neighbour's house about tour o'clock lull ‘londay morning, to procure a light, Awing the I i. w fe was e atreinely ill. The* woman of the h0w..., alaritiel at slim be said, followed hint to his own l : ouse, where she found him sitting on the lord, and supporting, the tired of hid wile, who we, at tho tirse either dead or dying. Until it was rumoured that there were 111:11ke of violence r 'oil the body, priparatinti% were snaking for the funeral; bat opout,ltis circuit*. I I stance to anspiting. the-hataband ab.conded, and Goa Not at yet beets-sliscovered.• The lwcpteett ads journed, with. the view olubtaiinno tutthef taverna. . thin uu the subject. INSO - 41:417 1 . 044" CULTIIT. .111/41.414 JANGAILY 4. 'Mel* f, Nvi a. A potadu of lice Haas; of Muir was opposed by Miss 13yr4e, of.Drury-Isne Theatre. nn the greur.d . of an acreptsoce of that Lady for Sul. fur %sta.", he Intl give- no consideration; but he oss dir charge,d. • • POUCH. • Craltiost.L. Refuge Mr. Aidermon Mionosor mid Mr. Aldermen n ay- GATt, Presiding Alnerfroles IMPORTANT CASE TI) Tole SILK TRADE INFOR3IATION. CoTTON ehfOT MOITIAL r. rsni. (ann. This was an ii wiroat ion filed by Willslll4 (he 41 I, a j..u• rep man silk .w , against Mr. Geroge Woolley, a m ~ter silk-weaver residing or Weed-street, charging h in with only paying lons Ild. a yard for weaving ITI ysrds of colt.-at shot isentua, instead of la, ld. as regulated lay the M stoat... of the county of Middlesex in the year 1803, arc.. dine to ate provisions of the Art of Pat llama sat of the 13th or ti. Kr• g, which mama toaster silk-weaver liable to a pewit', of !Mt if he Imps a journeyman more or If as 1111111 the sum 'Tel a fled by tlu regulat ..... of the Magistrates. . Mr. ALTAIC, Counsel for the Complainant, state.% ti.is Ip. formal was founded um the Act of the 13th (:....Lee !IL winch enacted, that the price of work ~one ty J. u. n. )men ITea in the Silk Trade in the City of [risotto shouhl b. regulated by the Aldermen, bat oat of tin , :t: Commie., it was regulated by the Magi . ..hates it the Quar.re Smitten The woik, in ibis case, was doer in the County of Middlesex, and therefore it came rooter the regulations lolled by the Magistrates of that County Pitt Inc. which the informatlos complained of took pt nre in the City • of laindon, lay the lesser payment heviog le.n nook' the, e by the I/efendant, therefore the information war properly hod, and came before the 31th-unclose tin pl of proper ju risdiction The penalty, by the Act of Pali which was attached to the offerace, on conviction, 5*.;/ hut if Pre Al dermen looked into the Act, they wontl p. 'crier that u..t. Is of it could by soy means get into the pocket of ate Complainant, as sou conviction it was to be paid to the treasurer of the Silk Hr Compaoy• It might be said by We Learned Friend (Mr. Rolland), Cnwrrl fur the De • &infinite, that this was the information of the jouristymersi silk-weavers generally, oxainst their onisters, He Imel nu hesitation is even admitting this po,ii mn to it. (tritest ex tent, however •ngracious et might sound to those oho wets nut scrin•inted with the relative situatimis of his cloves and their mates. The Legislature thoooht it 'recesses, to provide mealiest any taisonderstauding between them, by vesting the Magistrates with the authority to re. rotate the prices between them, said his client only ap plied for relief tinder the regulations which 1 Ilf wisdom of the Magistrates had thought props/ to make. At any period it would be a most unbarolsome art fora mom. r to deduct Of to take from the settled payment hit-:d by law ; brit how much more was it blameable at the present time, when the working classes of society were generally iu a dis tressed eituatios, and is particular his clients, do re sot he. ing suliieieat employ to enable them to support themselves, muds less their families. It was not his wish to say any thing that would hurt the feelings of the Defend mt. or any gentleman in the trade. He believed torsi to be as ...sot a:- table a clan of persons as any in trade; but it was the oa tmeal propensity of all persons to make as spinal profit as possible without corisideriag the welfare or condo. to of douse who were the wears of euriehiwe them. lie would toll his wits. to peeve the case—the Arm, a oral t lenrao from MI. Richard's office, the Clerk of the Peace far the roomy a Middlesex, to prove the ergolattoos of the Magistrates iii 1505; and afterwards, several persons to prove what they had received from other master. fur the sante kind of work. Mr. John Humble from Mr. Richard's office, proved, that by the revelations of the Magistrates of April, 1805, the wages per yard for weaving tomtit-shot mentos was Is. Id. per yard. Three oumbers of a Newspaper was produersa. to skew that the mulatto's a the M11711 , 1f 31011 wrie pub lished accurdiag to the directions of the Art of Parliament. - Was. Grestt, joselleynsaa weaver, deprowel, that he waive the mils. mastsa is question fee Ilse LI. readmit. He t .ek it home on the 10th of November, stud was paid for it WO the tOth of Deerember, at 11.1. is-yard He asked 13.1. but only received Ild. In kis erosaemineinstiiia lay Mr. 13‘.1. land, he said he had worked (Of the Defewlaut two years be fore the present occasion. He mat an agreemeut that he would take ltd. a-yaml. He did not know from his own knowledge that other *sneerer% had agreed to take Out sum he had heard they had, it was so reported to hints Edward Jacobs, a jovialness', weaver, deposed, that be bad done the same kind of week fee Mr. itortort Willem, sad received 1.. 1.1.1111fR4 he called it coitus' shot armless. deposed to the safer effect.ts' m a nufartare, f % ne übh l o o ef° l t:rtig s hitr isu eeh:i:4l l : : :"...llalliel si ail l aaill"ei n eell a l : re as salisi daser 7ll:lla y efivalnl ibed :l;:eu b :a y lairrbi lte r;":. : ll: : ; g hi t 'is a w t nea s v el L7r a m t s:e: t e l : : Magistrates. Mr. Rolland observed. it was a sew resonfsetnre, one toe trodaceil more thaw a year has this country ; it was ew.led Paris curd. Several other wherein were examined to the same vireo. Mr. Alley said this ieloold the case on the part of his sliest. • • Mr.R01.1.41M, or the part of the Defendant, rolantitted that the article io tpiestMo was contemplated or the order sat the Magistrates of the year 11105, for which realism the p..• natty could not be recovered wider the Act of Parliament. Fur the fact of the tear was, that a gent pan eworeeet,.l with the silk trade had goo. to Paris at the commencement of the last year, and brought • piece of the article intitat ..... of Irish labial) wader their consideration to this motor? ; it was • most fashionable article there. The Deferstarir as well as others considered it might be mule in this eirooir y, which would pervert females from smuggling it into Panels; .1. It was sot to be supposed that he was a judge of facture of this notelet, bat be would stew, if he war pro perly iustrieted, that it was sot cotton nonotwo,, and there fore could sot come ander the maritime of the price of wages. It would be then severe indeed, in the Aldermen, if they were to convict the Deferdiot. Hs did not mein 11.0 word cootie as to the fullest erase it would bear, bait Le eueaot if they were to find that the Defendaat had paid a less sent for the work than the regulatons authorised, he would be liable to the penalty of 501. sod it was not of t .e power of the Aldermen to reduce it, as the Act left no discretion on the point. TLe only simmer be would to the charge of his Leveed Friend relative to the "mai., aims of the muters, was, that at 1111. per yard the ikmem . ... men 'could earn from 40s. to 50s. 6 week. The d;freietire the price of the wages vu not the object of his r 1.. tr.. Ite (the Learned Counsel) might haler take' legal oLjectioni to the information; Lut be was instructed not to du su, as h•e. - decr • the iafueaa•tioa; Lot be N3O OMirurisa nos so ....., •..• - client wished this question to be pot at rest by a deei•iou• ! * 11, the Magistrates. The troth woe, that the value of lab...e . fur the article complained of woo undeyord. It hid he :4 r cons, before the Magistrates to settle, a•d thuse purtie)rwii '• „, who worked as it, did it by alinement betwerii thi-iii sr+ their masters. He would prove that it was mgt eutt , . , • +4.4 .. , moons, fur hut article required in have . utt,.o shag silk, where in this iustauce there was an ftel:t: (otatility, a.. 4 when Ise had done so hr 113.1 Pitt doubt Lit i Ile Al.ter ns , a i would disoilse the information. The LesruLd CAPliii.ll stew called his witnesses. John Lay, a journeyman sdhaireaver, Opoarall, that Om • I article complained •f was only introdoced into t►M couistr; I 'bust o year. He deuiimenoeil ie irregslor _work, end not i cotton mantel; the taster wM formed with L etg oliosrt ? I and the other ouly ; idly. II was man • thais a iORMua. • .... - Hallosray deposed, * (1111 I. Lid feeta 1 . 1 joriene)res:i 4 ! weaver fur fifty yeses. He called it oneeeto w ;1, ,„,1 .. ci ,..1 I not • cotton manilla , it was ossee.of a inu*;,. cidatere, , ,.. iin the lahour between the MI 4 -' 4 ,0 16 4 .i . nie fp sal .. 1 , double force to thecettou inaiptian, jot Ahd; * t it*" si . . ' 'what drilled to t h e ulbf►. Re votLf . fiii t i‘ok.til .... 1 ; doted of thp..oansce,An rame. ...„, ..; •. 4, 4 ~ . t • 4 letr.,Allry.. ' ll calehlritili°o4;l4lPia.., . • did out look like • wales. • • , . . . „.• •