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pared with the offence against himself ; the crime merits only transportation for seven years, but the injury to his own feeliaes is only to be atoned for by eternal bondage among the Antipoties. If any man had, on receiving a !Smiler insult from this depraved creature tu the streets, lifted his hand against him, and applied to him the slightest castigation, notwithstanding the 3ustifi cation, he evould have been punished. The re spect clue to those who are administering iustice demands that a difference should be made be tween insulting language uttered in the streets and insulting language uttered to a Judge. But still, something like proportion ought to lee ob served. Transportation for life foe en insulting expression ! 'Where are we to stop ?—At the limit of power possessed by the Judge ? The Chairman of a Sessions of Justices can only, it is title, transport. But let us take A kludge of a Court of Oyer and Terminer. Let us sup pose one of the Judges, on sentencing a man for seven years, were, on receiving an insult, to order the prisoner to be again placed et the b a r, and sentenced him to be hanged I The more or less makes nothing to the principle. If a Judge can revenge an insult to himself by a punishment beyond what would be iefficted if it stood separately as a contempt of Court, the de gree of the excess is immaterial. Open the door to the power of punishing in one's own cause— that is, open a door to vengeance—and we shall soon have no reason to complain of excessive moderation. It is clear, however, that the Chair , man durst not have punished a contempt of Court with transportation for a single month. But when contempt is mixed up Nith the punish ment for crime, the compound ought not, on any rational principle, to receive more punish ment than what the crime and the contempt would each merit separately. We put out of question the technical excuse for the Judge, that the sentence not being recorded he was at liberty to alter it. True, no evidence existed of the sen tence till it was recorded. But though this my be a legal, it is not a moral justification. The Judge had full possession of the case,—he knew that the prisoner was an incorrigible thief; and his sentence was the result of a calm consideration of all these circumstances, when his own feelings were not arrayed against the criminal by personal insult. The additional punishment was, there fore, not called for by the merits of the case, but was an atonement for the insult to himself. We arc almost ashamed to labour a case apparently so plain with this minuteness. But where the little understanding le hick nature may have given to a set of men has been depraved by a perverted culture, it is often more easy to make a matter plain to a gang of ne groes th an t o t h em . Thi s atrocious principle of altering sentences from a slight to a heavy punishment, not on account of any discovery of additional criminality, but of fensive language to the Judge, has been again and again acted on. The blunder belongs to the same class with punishing for aggravation of an offence, when a defence is made which happens to be unpalatable to a Judge. There is a sad confusion of the past and the present with all our Judges ; and we fear that they will remain incurable till some man of sufficient ability and independence find his way into the House of Commons, to read them a lesson in a way they can feel. The Barristers in Parliament have too much at stake to venture on anything unpalat able to the Judges.—lbid. A pamphlet has been sent us from Brussels, entitled Reponse an General Baron de Riche mon!, par un Citoyen des Pays Bas, directed against a work published at Paris last summer, for pressing upon the French Government and nation the policy and justice of extending the French frontier to the Rhine. To this iniquitous project we have before alluded, without, of course, feeling that deep interest in the subject, or that strong indignation against its author, which must have been felt by those who were to become its victims, or whose national exi:!.tenee it was intended to efface. The General's pam phlet appeared to us at once so dull and so dishonest, its recommendations so impracticable, and its hopes so chimerical, that but for some allusion to it in the letters of a Paris correspon dent, we should have allowed it to drop into oblivion unnoticed, along with the bonnets ron,9es and the wooden shoes of the Convection. But being re-published at Brussels under the very eve of the Government which it proposed to plunder, it could not be treated with such indif ference. Accordingly, this " Belgic citizen," with patriotic zeal, takes up his pen, and entlea vonrs to avenge his insulted country by a formal refutation of Genera! Richeinont's work. The answer partakes of the monotonous dullness of the original. work, as it follows it nearly para graph by paragraph. It may seem almost in credible some years hence, if European tran quillity remains undisturbed, that during a time of profound peace in the west of Europe, a General of the French army—a member of- the French Chamber of Deputies—pretending' to speak in the name of a large class of his fellow citizens, should seriously propose, from a mere feeling of convenience or taste;--from a mere desire to round a territory already vast enough, or from a notion of greater security against contingent dangers, to invade a neigh bour and an ally—to usurp the most im portant part of an uneffending kingdom, esta blished under the guarantee of all the Powers of Europe, and to hazard the conflagration of a general war, in which his own country might again be time greatest sufferer. And the only temptation to such an interference—the only facility for executing it last summer was—what ? Why, the chance that Russia, menaced by Aus tria in her designs upon Turkey, would bargain with France for the re-annexion of Belgium to the French dominions, as time condition of an alliance by.which France was to be bound to dis able Austria on the east, by threatening Germany in the west. In calculating the practicability of the new conquest, General Ilichernont forgot that the . Congress of Vienna did not erect an experimental kingdom by the incorporation of Belgium.with Holland. He forgot that a large share of the indemnity which this country had to pay for former invasions, was spent in erect ing fortresses on the Belgic frontier, to prevent future aggression ; he forgot that the Nether lands had existed as an independent State for 15 years, governed as well at least as France ; and that Russia, which held Poland, and Prussia, which held Saxony, by the same tent: as the King of the Netherlands holds Belgic.-:, could not, without endangering the security of their own possessions, assist in this spoliation of their ally, while Austria and England must have .op posed it lobo corpore regni. But it is really superfluous to reason upon this plundering pro ject, whose practical folly can on l y b e matc h e d byits audacious. dishonesty. We .call recom mend the BelgiQpamphlet. as an antidote, t o the i very small number why are n any danger twin swallowing the speculations of M. de Riche mont.-7imes. It will be recollected that the eelebtated—the very justly eelhrated—Professor Porson, in spealcinB of the works of Gibbon, said that they would be excellent (or eorntthhig to that effect) if they were translated into English. The his torian heard of the bon ,not, and spoke of it with good -nature, and of its author, of course, with respect. But•, if this might be said of Edward Gibbon, what shall any one say of the inueb inferior, but infinitely more perplexed and un-Anglican writer Jeremy Bentham t' Neither man, nor hog, nor dtig, ever produced such sounds or e..presions, or things so far removed froth nature, as are poor Jeremy's writings.— Vet a respectable foreigner, M. Dumont', trat lated his works into French ) and it is probably through this e;hatinel, and by a re-translation of them into English, that they may be understood by ordinary readers,—if in truth there be any thing in them worth understanding, which is, with some people at least, doubtful. The pub licationt how - er, of Jeremy' a s works in French, by M. Dumont, has given occasion to a biogra phical notice of this latter gentleman in the 9th Number of the Foreign Quarterly Review just published. Biography is always interesting ; and Monsieur Dumont having lived much with the late Lord Lansdowne, and the present Lord Rolland, a review of his life introduces the reader to the coteries frequenting (as the French ex press it), those two noblemen. From these causes, the article in the Foreign Quarterly, will be read with attention and gratification.— Various inaccuracies of style show that it has been hastily composed, but it exposes with great acuteness poor Jerry's application of the mathe matical process to moral science. The account is altogether interesting, and the author appears to be a man well acquainted with the personages and events of modern Europe. The following is an extract from the article referred to : " Among the closest friends of Romilly awl Du mont was George Wilson, a man little known beyond the circle of his friends and that of his contempo raries in the profession of the law, and one whom it would be difficult to make known to others, with out the use of that language of vague panegyric, the abuse of which had more lowered it in his own eyes than even in those of most men of modesty and taste. It might be said by as unaffectedly conscien tious a man as himself (if such another there be), that among those who thoroughly knew him, the degree of esteem for him was always considered as exactly indicative of the degree of sagacity and purity of the man who entertained it. Yet even he was not more upright and benevolent than his two friends; though having less vivacity than the one, arid less ardour than the other, he was not so liable to be allured by imagination from the rigid obser vance of the severe maxims of that moral prudence which is the safeguard of virtue. With a keen relish for pleasantry, and perfectly exempt from all gloom and harshness, he yet shunned the amuse ment of Wilkes's conversation, solely from deference to morality. When Mirabeau visited England, about 1786, Wilson did not follow the example of his friends in cultivatieg the society of that extra ordinary man, whose ill-trained fancies were better adapted to sudden felicities thin to composition,emd whose conversation was animated by an irregular benevolence, neither smothered by the profligacy of his youth, nor altogether extinguished by the in trigues and corruptions of his latter years. " In the summer of 1789, the season of promise and hope, especially to a Genevese exile, Dumont went to France and renewed his acquaintance with Mirabeau, whom he found occupied in the compo• sition of his journal (tire Courier de Provence), aided by Duroveray, Claviere, and others, who had been expelled from Geneva for liberty. Dumont took an active and very effectual part in it. A variety of observations on the departmental division and municipal administration of France, subjects which have for the last two years agitated that country, were then published in Mirabeau's Journal, by Du moot. His friend Wilson used to relate, that one day, when they were dining together at a table d'hote at Versailles, he saw Dumont engaged in writing the most celebrated paragraph of Mira beau's address to the King for the removal of the troops, which was believed to have been entirely written by himself. It is certain that he reported several of Mirabeau's speehes, which he embel lished awl strengthened from his own stores, with that disinterested sacrifice of his own reputation to the diffusion of what he considered truth, which accompanied him through life. It is no less certain that he was an utter stranger to the ambiguous pro ' jrcts imputed to those whose general arid avowed principles only he promoted. Many years afterwards, when asked by a friend to write tire life of Mira beau, he answered, No ! I know it too well.' • " In 1791 he returned to England, and towards the end of that year the writer of this notice dined for the first time it his company and in that of Itorniiiy, at the house of M. Chauvet, at Kensing ton ; from which time he enjoyed the uninterrupted friendship of both till their last moments. " In the eventful years which followed he con tinued chiefly to live at Lansdowne-house, or at Bowcod, where the most remarkable men of Eu rope, as well as of England, were frequent and wel come guests. During the latter part of them he began to form an intimate friendship with Lord Holland, whom he had known from childhood, and whom, it is eeedless to add, he loved. He was one of the members of the society of familiar friends, the habitual visiters of Holland-house during 30 years, and who saw I a succession of celebrated guests of every country, party, religion, and of every liberal profession or station, which is likely to continue unmatched till another house boasts such a master."—lbid. The Earl of Mountcashel has ventured once more to take the field, and it is no injustice to wards the Noble Lord to say that he does not now appear to greater advantage, in comparison with his learned and accomplished opponent, than in any of his former exhibitions. His Lordship insists that the lamentable events which ensued from the. excitement of a popular feeling in the cause of Church Reform in the reign of Charles the First, cannot fairly be appealed to in proof of the danger of a similar excitement in the present day : and alleges . in support of this opi nion, that the Protestantant Laity of the former period had just ground of complaint and alarm. It is impossible not to be struck by the inco herence of the filet relied upon by his Lordship, and the conclusion he seeks to eitablish. The popular agitation of the question of Church Re form once assisted in the overthrow of the Mo narchy and the Church. This is not denied. Why then may we not expect the same course to produce the same effects in our own day. Is it that the Church has now enemies as numerous, as powerful, and as deter mined as she had then ? Is it that there is now less danger of enmity to the Church beingcloaked under the disguise of zeal fur its reform ? Is it that the wild spirit of revolution is now less ex tensively diffused? None of these propositions does his Lordship, or can he attempt to main tain. What then is the distinction by the force of which an interference then so 'fatal is now to be harmless, and even salutary ? The Noble controversialist forbears to state any. What he alleges, if it were -true to the extent he supposes, which fortunately it is not, could but shew that in all points the two cases bear a perfect re semblance. The misconduct and bad designs of Charles the First, and his Mini*ters and his Bishops, are facts of which no doubt can be entertained. But is not the very ground-work of the Cork Synod— that which has set its Noble Founder and President in motion-- , -that which stimulates his zeal and that of his fellow-labourers, conscientious Loweter mistaken belief, that the .dual Government of England habitually sacri fices the best interests of the Church to political considerations—that a large proportion of the Bishops selected and appointed by the King' s Ministers betray the cause of religion—that the Church as at present regulated does not contri bute to the maintenance and diffusion of ge nuine piety and virtue ? Entertaining and act ing upon these opinions, how can the Earl of Mountcashel advert to the delinquency of the Government and the heads of the Church in the time of Charles the First as con stituting an important distinction between the eireninstances of that period and the present ? And how can we and those who agree with us 4n thinking his opinions altogether erroneous and unfounded, be relieved from an apprehen:. sion that the same mischiefs may once more result from the same course of proceeding, however clearly we may be convinced that the motives, real in the former instance, are in the present wholly imaginary ? The Noble Lord, by the language of his present letter, establishes in effect a perfect identity of character and purpose between himself and those who co operate with him, and the Church Reformers who contributed at a former period of our his tory to the subversion both of the Government and the Church, and fully justifies the apFre hensions expressed by his Right Rev. opponent. With the exception of the point to which we have now alluded, the long letter of the Noble Lord consists merely of a repetition of his former statements. He dwells at much length upon the inadequate stipends paid to Curates, of which he cites several instances, the lowest being some thing under 501. per annum. We are far from saying that this is a sufficient provision for a Clergyman ; and we regret that no unobjection able remedy for the evil has yet been pointed .eiut, either by his Lordship or others. At the same time we confess ourselves considerably re- lieved by the fact, that these are the hardest cases which the scrutinizing research of the Noble Lord has enabled him to discover.— Morning Post. The great rise in the Funds, at a time when every other description of property is on the de cline, must appear very unaccountable to the Un initiated. The cause, however, is sufficiently ob vious to those who have attended to such matters. It has been brought about by the Bank, in con nection with the Government, having made " money easy," for the purpose of running up the price or Consols, in order to reduce the Four per Cents. This operation, it has been said, will cost the Government half a million of mo ney ; but then, it it succeeds, it will enable them to reduce 146,000,0001. Four per Cents. to Three and a Half or -Three per Cents. We have repeatedly said that, either by direct or indirect means, the fundholder would be at tacked. The present " operation," if it suc ceed, will be neither more nor less than a forcible reduction of the national debt by indirect Means. As for the justice of the plan, the less there is said of it the better. A reduction of the interest of the debt generally, without reference to any particular class of stockholders, if the necessities of the country required it, would be perfectly jus tifiable, for the interests of a part, and that only a small part, ought always to yield to the good of the whole. But the reduction now sought to he effected will be highly injurious to a portion of the fundholders—the proprietors of the New Four per Cents.—while it will be highly bene ficial to the holders of the Three per Cent. Consols, by advancing the value of these Secu rities in the market. There is, however, another objection to the proposed measure, and a more weighty one ;—it cannot be clone without tam pering with the currency, which will affect the interests of every individual in the State. To bring about a riie in the Funds, an increase of the circulating medium must take place ; and if such increase could be per manent, the country would, no doubt, be beim fitted upon the whole, though individual inte rests would suffer. Under the present system, however, no increase of medium can be perma nent. Paper may be forced into circulation for a time, but the cash payment, and the suppres sion of small note bills, will speedily drive it back again. All the great fluctuations which have taken place in the Funds since the peace have been caused by tampering with the cur rency, and not, as some people suppose, by the manamvres of the stock-jobbers. This tamper ing has, no doubt, been highly advantageous to individuals, but ruinous to the country. Mon ' sicur Necker, the Finance Minister in the time of Louis XVI., caused much misery and ruin to France, and certainly hastened the crisis of the French Revolution. But Voltaire gives us the best insight into these matters. In one of his letters from Ferney, in Switzerland, he says, " Here I am, living in a way suited to my ha bits, and caring but little for to-morrow ; for I have a friend, a Director in the Bank of France, who writes to me whenever money is to be made in the public Funds. Sometimes lie writes to me, desiring me to sell, because the Bank is going to withdraw its notes ; at other times he bids me buy, for we intend to issue a quantity of notes, and so," adds Voltaire, " through the kindness of my friend, I always make money, although living 200 leagues from Paris." What resemblance the state of this country, as repects financial matters, bears to that of France in the reign of Louis XVI., we leave others to deter mine. We shall, however, have a word or two to say upon the subject on a future occasion.— Morning Herald. APE R ENTs.--- ,, We have been idthe frequent habit, when occasion required, of using a variety of Ape rients ; but for the most part we have found them incapable of producing the effects which it was our object to obtain. Among the most effective preparations of this k'nd we cer tainly rank " Effervescent Magnesia Aperient," which, while it affords a grateful and pleasant feeling to the palate, in every case where we have tried it, has produced the most salutary results. As a medicine we have found it to be highly useful ; and as a pleasant drink, carrying along with it a medicinal power, we can safely recommend it to the public. Our opinion is founded upon a practical use of it for a considerable length of time, when it never failed to produce the desired effeat."—EdintiuryhiLiterary Gazette for October, p. 367. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ROLLS COURT, Nov. 27. ceopEß AND DE TASTET. in- It vtill be recollected that !Ilk cae, xvliich Volved a question as to the right of an agent to file a bill of interpleader against his principal, stood over on a former day for the pnrpose of affording en opportunity to ascertain whether certain goods had or had not been deposited in a bonded warehouse. It was now admitted by Mr. ANDEnnoN, counsel, that although the goods had been placed in a bonded warehouse, they were not depo sited as bonded goods. The MASTER of the Maus said, that being the case, Cooper must be taken to be the private agent of De 'I astet, and therefore could not call on his principal to interplead. As it was, the bill mast be dismissed, and with costs. Theme were seven consent causes and between 30 anti 40 petitions set down in the paper fur hearing. His lioNoun having disposed of the entire, pro ceeded to take the cammse of "Davis and Spurling," which %vas part heard yesterday. It occupied the Court during the remainder of the day, but presented no feature of general interest. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov, 27. EX-PARTE LONGMORE. • Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE stated to this person , who ‘vav in attendance at the sitting of the Court, that the Judges had read his affidavit, and the other affidavits made in support of his application f or a rule to strike the name of Charles Beavan off the roll of attornies of the Court, and they were of opinion that they did not furnish sufficient grounds for granting the rule in his (Longmore's) case. As to the cases of the two other persons who had made affidavits, more might be said than in this case; but as the present applicant was not the party aggrieved by the conduct imputed to Mr. Bcavan, in those cases the Court could not grant a rule on his appli cation. THE KING V. LYON. This leas an application for a writ of mandamus directed to Mr. Lyon, the Master of the Watermans' Company, commanding him to admit and swear in Mr. Benyon to the office of clerk of that Company, to which he had been elected.—Rule absolute. TILE KING V. JONES, ESQ. Mr. Serjeant RUSSELL showed cause against a rule obtained by Mr. Campbell in the course of the last term, for leave to file a criminal informatic against William Jones, Esq., a Magistrate of the county of Carmarthen. The Learned Serjeant ob served that the affidavits on which the rule had been obtained imputed to Mr. Jones that he had endea voured, by threats and promisee, to compound a felony,—that is, that he had endeavoured to per suade one David Davis, who had stated that he had been robbed on the King's highway, to compound the offence and abstain from prosecuting the offender. The affidavit of Davis, who had stated himself to be a farmer, but who was, in truth, only a day la bourer and a Chelsea pensioner, set forth, that on Saturday, the 16th of May last, he was coming from Carmarthen, in company with one David Williams, and that when they had got to a place called Penny garden, Williams, on a sudden, attacked him with a stick, or blackthorn club; that he struck him to the around, and when he was down he kicked and beat him ; that he put his hand in his waistcoat pocket and robbed him of his leather purse arid I Is. Gd. in silver, and then left him senseless on the ground; that he was afterwards picked up by two persons named William Williams, and Margaret Williams, who were attracted to the spot by the cries they had beard. ' The affidavit of David Wil liams, which was one of the affidavits made in op position to the rule—stated that he (Williams) and Davis • had been spending the greater part of the day together in the town of Carmarthen, where they had been drinking; that on their re turn from Carmarthen, they resorted to several public-houses on the road; that, having drank a considerable quantity of liquor, they both became intoxicated—a quarrel arose about some beer, which one of them had thrown on the floor; from worth they came to blows, and William swore that before he struck Davis, the latter gave him thyee blows; he swore further, that be had no blackthorn club or other stick, and did not rob Davis " of a farthing." The impression on the mind of Mr. Jones, the Ma gistrare, was, that no robbery had been in fact corn tnitted. Mr. Jones swore that he did not on this occasion g ; ve any recommendation to Davis to settle wiih Williams, but merely said to him, after the bail had been taken, " I am still of opinion that this matter had better have been amicably settled." It further appeared from the affidavits, that Davis preferred a bill of indictment against Williams for the highway robbery at the Great Sessions, and that the Grand Jury threw it out. Mr. Jones was a member of the Grand Jury, but he absented him self during the time that the case was under inves tigation, and took no part in it. Williams preferred his bill against Davis for the assault, and it was found a true bill at the Quarter Session;. Mr. Jones had sworn in the most distinct and positive terms, that in acting as he had done be was in fluenced by no enmity to one party or favour to the other, and that he aced throughout the business with an anxious desire to discharge his duty as a Magistrate, and according to the best of his judg ment. He swore further, that he had been an act ing Magistr ate in the county for a period of twenty six years, and that his character and conduct had never before been impugned or objected to. Mr. CAMPBELL, in support of the rule, said, Mr. Jones had attempted to excuse his conduct by say ing that he had recommended a reference to mutual . friends and neighbours, but he (the Learned Coun sel) was not aware that it was the practice in Wales for Magistrates to dispose of charges for capital offences in this way. After calling the attention of the Court to some other circumstances in the case, the Learned Counsel submitted, that the affidavits disclosed enough to raise suspicion against Mr. Jones, and to justify their Lordships in sending the case for investigation by a Jury. Mr. Justice BAYLEY said that in refusing to make the present rule absolute, the Court did not take away the power of any person to prefer an indict ment against Mr. Jones if it was thought that he had acted improperly. He ( the Learned Judge), however, for his orvn part, did not entertain the slightest suspicion against Mr. Jones's conduct. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE thought that Mr. Jones's conduct had been not only proper but praiseworthy. Mr. Justice JAMES PARKE concurred, and the rule was discharged with costs. THE LONDON DOCK COMPANY AND MR. JOSEPH FLETCH ER. Mr. CAMPBELL and Mr. KELLEY showed cause against the rule obtained by the Attorney-General on Saturday last, for setting aside the award made in I the reference between the London Dock Company and Mr. Joseph Fletcher, as to the ex cess beyond the sum of 20,0001., on the ground, principally, that the arbitrators had awarded com pensation to Mr. Fletcher on a mistaken principle of calculation. The COURT thought that the principle of calcu lation was right, and refused to disturb the award —Rule discharged. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. !'7. AFFLADO V. FOURDRINIER. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE delivered the judg ment of the Court in this case. It was an action on a bill of exchange, to which the derence was, that it was an accommodation bill given ‘vithout con sideration--The rule for a new trial was ordered to be discharged. THE WONDER OF THE W I t l ORLD ALIVE . . . Under this astcunding title a race mare (Pincushion, commonly called Creeping Jenny) is now exhibiting in COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 27. Limerick. This mare has seven legs and the eighth leg F Tim RtNis V. SPIRES AND REDHEAD. growing. She has won several races. With this extra- I The SOLICITOR-GENERAL appeared to show cause ordinary animal is also exhibited a liliputian. The weight against a rule nisi, obtained in this case to set aside of this little man is only one pound eigbt ounces, and an y 1 the verdict against the defendants. The eirctun gentleman may with ease carry him about in his waist- I , stances out of which the case arose were in sub coat pocket !! ! May we venture to express a hope that , s t ance these :—L or d G rauv ill e , our late Authassa t 1 1 the proprietor may gratify the citizens o f Watertond with sigh% of thole wondrous things?.,. Waterford Chronicle. i dor at the Court of France, when on hi. return to this country, had a largequantity of iii= furniture shipped at Calais on board a steam packet, and con signed to the care of defendants, who acted as his agents on that occasion. The packages were all marked " L. G.;" and, as known and entered as belonging to his Lords:l:p, were exempt from any custom-house inspection at either side of the water. In a few days after this, the Superb stem-packet arrived in the Thames from Calais, bringing, ' amongst other freight, five packages made up exactly as those belonging , to Lord Granville ; and, like them also, marked "L. G." On their arrival no person appeared to claim them. After some days a Mr. Tighe, who was the known agent of the defendants, came to Galley-quay, and appeared to look after the packages, and by him it was told (so we understood the Solicitor-General) that they belonged to Lord Granville. Soon after this one of the defendants went to a Mr. Norman, and alluding to those packages, said, " Why, you have landed our packages." To which Mr. Norman replied, " Well, if they are yours, look after them." Mr. Nortran was paid by defendants the expense he had been at for their previous entry, and also for their freight. After this one of the packages was taken out in the name of L. Gaward, and proved to be furniture. The duty, about 21. 103., was paid on it, and it was taken away. It at length became necessary to examine the other packages. , They were, we believe, examined by order of the de fendants themselves. It then appeared that they contained (not furniture), but French silks and ribands to the value of some thousands of pounds, the duty on which amounted to 1,7.501. The de fendants then asked leave to have them re-shipped; but this was refused, and the goods were seized. Informations were afterwards filed against the de fendants for contravention of Custom-house regula tions, by which the goods became forfeited under several sooutes. The case was tried in this Court before the Lord Chief Baron, and the Jury found that there was a fraudulent intention on the part of the shippers, and eleven out of the twtive, it was said, were for finding that there was a fraud on the part of the defendants. Mr. BROUGHAM, for the defendants, said that there was no question of fraud before the Court — none had been laid in the information. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, in . showing cause against the rule, contended, that enough had been shown in the trial of the cause to establish a fraudulent intention on the part of the defeudAnts; but the verdict of the Jury had clearly established it against the shippers of the goods, Mr. CLARKE followed on the same side, and con tended that even if there were no fraud at anyside, the infraction of the Custom-house regulations would be a just cause of forfeiture. Mr. WALT.oN followed on the other side. It was now past four o'clock, and the Court rose, deferring the hearing of the Counsel on the other side till to-morrow. ARCHES COURT, Nov 27. THE OFFICE OF TILE JUDGE PROMOTED BY BEN- NETT AGAINST 130NIGAR. This was a suit promoted by the Churchwarden of a parish in the diocese of Worcester, against the Rev. Wm. Baldwin Bonigar, the vicar, for neglect of duty and other irregularities, not involving any charges of immoral conduct. The libel had been admitted, as well as a responsive allegation on the part of the defendant, whichdenied or explained the grounds of accusation, and recriminated on the pro movent, by ascribing the suit to malicious and vin. dictive motives, proceeding from the vicar's having raised the tithes of the parish and the church rate. An allegation was now offered on the Fut of the promovent impugning these statements, the admis sion of which was opposed by the defendant. The Court considered that under the circum stances of the case, and without pronouncing upon its merits, or the motives of either party, it could not refuse to admit the allegation, after the recrimi natory pleas which had been put in by the defendant. REWARDS OF PHYSICIANS. Erasistratus, son of Aristotle's daughter, hay ine. cured King Antiochus, received a hundred talents from Ptolemy, father of that Prince; which was equal to fifteen thousand pounds of our currency. Pliny has given this account, and has also informed us that Cassio, Calpiano Aruntio, Albutio, and Rubio, who were suc cessively State Physicians at Rome, received 250 sesterses annually, a sum equal to 1,5621. British. Thaddiens, a Florentine, would not leave the city for less than fifty crowns a day. Having been sent for to Rome to cure Pope I ononus, he returned home with 10,000 crowns for a short attendance. Phalaris gave Polycletus four vials of pure gold, two craters of silver of ancient workmanship, ten pair of Thericlian cups, and 50,000 Attic crowns. He also pre sented him with the salaries of Admiral and Captain of the Army, and complimented him further by observing, " he was not able to pay what the obligation of curing him merited." When Melampus had cured the daughters of Prmtus, the King of the Argives, he received a third of that Monarch's' kingdom, a third was also bestowed on his brother, and each was pre sented with one of the Princesses in marriage. The Great Mogul, who reigned ia India about the seventeenth century, allowed his physician one hundred thousand crowns a year. Nysa Mollueus, King of India, gave Garcias, a Por tuguese physician, 12,000 pardoes, which were then estimated equivalent to so many ounces of silver. Philip 11. of Spain, gave 6,000 crowns for a short attendance, to his physician, Valle sius. Louis XI. of France gave his physician, Coctiere, 10,000 crowns a month, the Bishop ric of Amiens (which contained 498 parishes) to his nephew, and many offices of profit to himself and friends. Numerous other examples of the immense rewards bestowed on physicians might be mentioned ; but allusion shall be made only to those common in this country. During the early part of the hist reign the State Physi cians, Sergeant Surgeons, and Surgeons, re ceived 2,000/, a year each : and there is the strongest presumption that the present State Medical Officers are as amply, if not even more bounteously, rewarded by the most magnificent and magnanimous Monarch who has swayed the British Empire since the days of Alfred. It is impossible to estimate the immense emoluments conferred by the private generosity of the Sove reign, and the patronage necessarily attached to the distinguished station of Court Physician and Surgeon. On a recent occasion his Majesty presented Mr. O'Reilly, surgeon at Windsor, with 1,000 guineas for a few days' attendance, and was graciously pleased to appoint him his Domestic Surgeon, at a salary of '2,0001. a year. —Medical Journal. CHAMPAONE.—An alarming sensation has been produced in the south of Scotland, by the sev, re and sudden illness which affected the members of a recent dim ner party in genteel life. The dinner was given by a person of some rank at a country house, not his usual re sidence, and Where there were few servants in attendanoe. The party consisted of the gentleman himself, his lady, and four friends, near relations of each other. The symp tof antipoiso iting w experieneed by each of the party great anxiety and n t ddistress ensued ;—yet suspi cion was without any rational object. It was thought ne cessary, however. to examine the viands and liquors that had been used ; and it has now been found, upon analysis by Dr. CHRISTISON, that the Champagne, which the plrty had at dinner, containcd half a prain of arsenic per ounce measure of wine ! The party hive escaped— not without severe iilnes—lnit the suddenness of the at tach saved their lives ; since there is little doubt that, had another glass of Champagne been taken, death would have I been the confluence... scoisni an. ForiclGN INTELLIGENCr• . ,r q ;,iF FRENCH PAPERS. • (FfiLki the 2lPssa:; , er des Chanthres of Wedneed 3 P 3 (SECOND EDITION.) VIENNA, Nov. 15.—For some dars past a COrW del able decline has taken place in our Bank Shore! 5 but we can affirm that the probable false re p o" , which are on 'Change respecting fresh disturb re d at Constantinople, have nothing to do with thiVs. of our funds. The real motive of the decline it,s ther to be sought in the numerous purchases OP' j speculators in the treaty of peace have made; t r the course of which has not been balanced i n ot"' places. BERLIN, Nov. 13.—Our last accounts fr 001.544 Petersburg!, say, that no doubt is cntertaineuEo the speedy and complete evacuation of the territory and the Principalities, but that the Cain is busily engaged in the of of Greece, OA Ithey are in some measure already regulate d W treaty of Adrianople. Several representations 01%; by England appear to be the chief cause of t hese li d gociatione, which will finally determine the f' te iii that interesting people . A person high in office. the department of foreign afisirs at St. Pet ersbu t xras to be sent to Corfu, with despatches for Ta Lord High Commissioner, as well as to Count or. d'lstria. The differences with Pvrsia are entirely a. . The Emperor has granted to the Schah a retill: c c oli of several millions of silver rubles of the cortlibutliuti rmmaining to be paid, and the Persian Prince 0 , left St. Petersburgh to return to Teheran. Vl e , , sti change of couriers between London , Par is, arm Petersburgh, is very frequent. (PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.) ANCONA, Nov. B.—There is a report here 0 1°1,, patriots in the lonian Islands held secret ineetiio to deliberate the means or throwing oil the yoke their voluntary protectors. It is said that these ttiotic associations correspond with the President Greece, and that only a favourable opportunity waited for to declare the. existence of this pafri,t4l league. This is said to be the reason that the vernor of the lonian Islands has lately beeP Qg trcmely active, and the English agents take all sible pains to discover the chief of this cono 4 r It is reported that Sir Frederick A dam has.s t P" to England for reinforcements, that the Du Wellington is in a rage, and that be will SOON 6- , 0 two Scotch regiments to keep the conspirators ill „0, VIENNA, Nov. 16 —Five per Cent. Itletallicle, 1021; 4. per Cent. ditto, 91 to 1; Bank Shares, 1, 1,1 SE:MLIN; Nov. B.—Ati express has just bold to one of our commercial houses the intellig: oo that the evacuation of Adrianople commtPce, the the 25th of October; that the ratifications 0' r be treaty were exchanged on the 26th; and that eller, Ist of November the Russian armv, with Lh: f o r ception of the sick, and a division of troops 1!,',01; their security, marched out of Adrianople, sou the road to Chamdli-Senidge. 'CO * FRENCH Ft/ N vs.-Pa RIS, Nov. 25.—Five ref soc 1:, 10Sf. 85e. ; Three per Cents., Sir. 35c. ; Bank 6 0c. 1,9101. 1,920 f. ; Rentes de Napits, 93 f. 50c. 55ciAts, 55e. ; Rente d'Espagne, 71f.; Royal Span,, l l 6 79 80e.; Rente Perpetuells d'Espagne, .557,_0„00 Ar; llaytian Loan, 3751. 380 f oP one month, 251. 75e. ; throe months, 25f 600'" Authentique. V 5 ROBBERY OF EARL FETZWIII.-n1 HALF-YEARLY RENTAL PREVENTED. Yesterday week, in the afternoon, a received by William Newman, Esq. of Darley or i Agent to Lord Fitzwilliam , from Mr. Sere Peel, dated Whitehall, Nov. 12, half-past o'clock in the evening, stating that informatio ll ; i ii just been received from one of the City hie " that a plan had been laid in London fors heit t bery of Lord Fitzwilliam's agent, by vi Pl supposed that his Lordship's rents are about t . 401 received :" also stating, " it is thought tbat .! , °" lo ,c t e Li m e n v nit e oi s t:l ll ,ial a irg r d e st a ht i t il - s t e u er a oy ll be y iblie l l e irgy ft ,o, L ,f o tl‘ t h, i i d eth on fi rssoftomrreetnahott:tdbar:eir::::reciorit information. This letter was received hi whit' the receipts of the day lay before hno, more than ordinary interest in their Or e l: e money was, of course, deposited in a fresh P`c"e"erso night, and precautions used to secure all P t at who might by false keys enter the Prelliott Nothing, however, transp ired in the course o night to lead to any further discovery of ._ . . e premeditated attack. The da y following (113„:0 (lay) the rents were recei ved as usual, withealtb, further information, until about five o'clock 0 1 0 day, when Mr. Brown, one of the City Aft rt o accompanied by a police officer, a rrived at worth Howe, with' another letter from Mr. Peelcie municating more minute intelligence of the lat e t h robbery, with directions to assist in takitig n o thieves if they shouhl be able to meet with thew! the act of plunder. The receipts of the refit for three days at Wentworth House, and Cl I increased care was taken to depo s it them d e li, appeared that if the thieves had been Pi e 1 from getting the rents on tee third night, the" o tli was to rob Mr. Newman's clerk, on his bank of Rotherham, on the Saturday oralr'? rn w bs as very soon learnt at Wentworth Holt e• London thieves were about, and probably t,"-04 cautions used hexing become known to t 1 17.0 14 1,,, the cause which prevented any attack. et)" of a suspicious appearance have been seen ob ti to ort some time making various inquiries, e vi r i th e r o e House, Darley Hall, and other places, 0 0 , 1 . ", r eb$ 17 ', days being a week later than usual, 'trite ; been one cause of their design being frin" re eei r " in that else no information could have bF . " - from London.—Leeds Paper. 0 alscsl VULGARISMS.—Young hulks co:,r e ; aware of the loss they sustain by inatten"--., 14,0, - A nessand elegance of speech. When Sir J oll ",i, e rav l7 o o was looking out for a wife, ahe young !Idl , °'„ffec ti „ t tractive, and evidently desirous of gaining n' l9 1 113 ;,, missed her aim by singing to him a son fit,ahci 004".; love ;" and another, who was a seadouS 10ya,0 44° his nice ear by an e tilogiurn on the valour of & • troops."—Nottingham Review. BIRTHS. t 4 e At Argyll-house, the Countess of Aberdeen, voilis On the 23d inst. at Stoke Bishop, the iady el of Munro, Esq., of a daughter. f,4,1' On '..;:e 26th inst. the lady of R. Bremtidge, - ~Its daughter. no vr On the 26th inst. Mrs. C. Bond, of Eigre gj- New-road, of a daughter. ; • f r*.‘ On the 26th inst. in 'Change-alley, the vrj e c Gs' Comerford, jun., of a son. ~ .5 , On the 25th inst. at Notting-hill-square, P' , Jf Pl' r..rd, of a daughter. t ea On the 25th inst. Mrs. 11. de Palva , of Ile"- York, of a daughter. tiofl MARRIED. C i t On the 24th inst. at the British Ambassit Ail l j a l Paris, R. S. Puget, Esq. son of the late W fr i: i te " Peter Puget, to Cornelia, third dui hfer 'of the g ' ,9, Wallace, Esq. Madras Civil Service.. ~ pol l ' \i'l On the 24th inst. at Hon, Suffolk, Mr. P. e , of Ipswich, solicitor, to Elizabeth, only tfaughte. 6 Cs tling, Esq. of in , (1,1, On the 26th 'inst. at Wittershani, Mr. fur'-tipoi, a n Whittaker, of SouthWark, to Mary, the clu e ' of Mr. Richard Knight, of Wittershatn, l‘ent. ,4t l DIED. . hoto r i ; 1 1 On the 26th inst. at his house, in Charter- of in his 87th year, the Rev. R. D. Shockleforci, i it. and A. S., and 45 yer.rs vicar of the Par ish, i) 0 ' 0 . O W pulchre. On the 27th inst. in Bouverie-streets - • , SO Esq. aged 72. 11 , 0" f I , On the 24th inst. at College Wl:arf, 1• 1 1,7 4 „ , °' widow. of the late Hans Peter Engstrom, '-'-'. pi 14 4 renee Peuntney-lane, aged 58. D• On the 26th inst. Sophia, the wife of I ll o r 'a yelilli of Wilson-street, Finsbury-square in her go d ' On the 24th inst. at Caverse,'Roxburghs_, or" Riddell, Esq.' one of the Justice s of the Pee' ea , county, in the 83d year of his age. rapire On the 23d inst. at Harlhig ton, Deaf° t.)ol* Wingate, the infant son of George Peot-c, oe -mow () A O P RIN TED AND ÜBLISDED BY •-- LQ° Ins Star Orricr, 112, WA",