The Sun. — London, England, 1829-01-23 00:00:00

SDITAIT 01 1 Trig UYNDO'S JOURNAL' The anxiously-expected ioeetlng on the sitl 7 'yet of the disqualifications under . which the Catholics labour - took place in Dublin on Tues ilar. aye able to present the opening of the discussion, with an account of the character and number of the assembly ; but as the proceed ings would probably he carried over to another ‘lay, it is not likely that we shiould he able to (Jive the conclusion of them. Yet how striking a scene ! When was it ever known that the voice of so many men of rank and property pleading for one object, in which the greater part of them had no personal interest, was disregarded by a wise and benevolent Government ? .14)0k also to the eleventh resolution, in which it is said that the meeting adopts the seutimentssontained in the Protestant declaration previously signed. in England by Dukes, 31.0 quisseis;TEarrs, and Pa= rons—we had almost said without number, and supported by an immense physical force ; and then let it be asked whether so preponderating a pro portion of the property and strength of a whole empire ever before pleaded for a cause which was to he turned out of court with a sic 'cab,. sicjabeo? We do hope that this meeting will he reverenced, because it is a grave•and impor tant one—much more so than we can express; and that all pertness, flippancy, and sarcasm will be tAscountenanced : for the time may come when deep and useless regret (the sera ptylli tentia, of which the phi:osophie histori4n speaks) will be felt, that the counsels given in the resolutions passed. at the meeting had not been pursued. We hope otn fearful anticipa tions will not be verified—:first, because we hope that the rights required will not be refused ; and next, because we hope that, should they he re fused, the consequences will not follow which would be hut the too just effect of that refusal. There is no firm and settled tranquillity for the empire, no peace or satisfaction for Ireland, till emancipation shall be granted.— Times. We hear a great deal of reductions about to take place in the expenditure of the country, and trust we shall , not be disappointed in our expectations. We Amid like to know of what use is what is called the Riding Establishment at St. J o hn's '‘Vood ? It is said to be kept up as a nursery for supplying the different regiments of cavalry with Riding-masters ! !! We sup pose we shall bear next of an establishment be pig termed to fiernisli Adjutants, and another for Quarter-rnastere ! ! The Riding Establishment, when first formed at Pimlico, Was said to be a teenporary, and certainly a very proper measure, thr introducing a uniform system of riding in the eavaliy regiments. Riding-masters of the different regiments, and their Rough-riders, were,aissembled there, under a German to lie sure,—We must have all our army German, nutxtachios inclitrled. When these men were instrueted in riding with a long stirrup end to sit, or rather stride, on their fork (not a very good position to get over an in closed country), and they were returned to their different regiments, the whole establishment ought then to have been broken up, and the Inspecting General of. Cavalry ordered to report any deviation froe, the new system of horse manship which he might observe in any regi ment hereafter. But the army was the hohbv of the late Commander. in-Chief ; he was the heir preemptive, and had at the time far more influence with the Minister or Ministers than tke King himself; and it signified little to him st what expellee he rode his hobby. We hear now of Cadets training for the supply of the different .regiments with riding • masters!' ! It tee like- the training young men to he school waiters, and fancying they were all to turn out fit fur instructors; surely in every re giment, there will be found persons who, from. practice and experience. in teaching, are liver to succeed to the post of Riding master, and to do • the duty in a better style, being more used to the temper of both man and horse, than striplings from St. John's Wood ; besides, it takes away from the cavalry an object - of ambition—a great defect in the British army. No one is - better able to form an opinion on these subjects than the Duke of Wellington; who has, we may say, had expe rience of all the cavalry in the world except the --Turkish, of which he may form some notion, from having seen and served with the cavalry of the Native Powers in India, in which there are many Persians, who are said in some respects to resemble those of Asiatic Turkey.— The .observations we have made cannot fail, we think, to be in unison with the opinion of the Premier. We trust he will have political nerve enough to relieve the country from this unneces sary,and wasteful expellee, which he must well know to be objectionable in other respects. — _Horning Chronicle. The case of the man who was• executed at Hoesemonger-lane on Monday, for horse-steal ing,. is a striking illustration of the inutility of imprisonment towards habitual offenders. This man, it appears, had been previously condemned for the same offence, to which he was before ad dicted ; but owing to the interest which was exerted in his favour, the sentence of death was, on that occasion, commuted into a year's impri sonment—at the expiration of which, like nme tenths of those who are similarly situated, he re turned with renewed zest to his former courses, and at length paid the forfeit of his life. Tha t it was spared in the first instance, no one can re - gree; his crime being of that description in which the judgment of mankind differs from that of the law. But, instead of imprisonment, the alter native should have been transportation. In the ease of the habitual. offender, or in that of those who, without being hardened, have no other re ?coerce but a return to crime, we hold transporta tion to be not only the fit punishment, but mercy, both to the criminal and to society. In this man's case it must be cleer, that while, on the one hand, imprisonment wholly failed in producing any beneficial effect upon his conduct, Transportation would, on the other, have rescued him from an ignominious end, and would have saved the property of those who have suffered by his depreciations. Morning Herald. We alluded briefly, yesterday, to the distress which now prevails- among the. unemployed and destitute Weavers of Spiealfielde, and would now call the attention of our readers to it in a more special manner.--Net language, ire are in ihrmed, can possibly paint the distress of these poor people in adequate colours. They are said eo he destitute of every thin; —even of a bed whereon to repose after peseilig the-,(LAw: b,A without clothing,- without.. sti r without shelter that too in the British metropolie, where the hand of charity is always extended t) relieve the unfortunate and destitute, end where benevolence is alwass in search of the wretched instead of shunning the appear eece of misery, and " passing on the other s ,ide" the victims of hunger and despair ! We will net barrow the feelings o f our rea d er s by . . . . statTng ' all • we have heard of the -misery' which prevails in Spitsfiehls ;. for. we are sure that it only needs to ,he mentioned_in order to be relieved, and that a public fleeting will speedily be 'convened . for the purpose of raising a subscription for their relief. In the meantime . we amust protest against the advantage .vhich has been taken of this distress to cast odium on those Oro Were most instrumental in pro:3lring the repeal of the Spitalfields Act, and laying open the manufacture of silk to foreign compe• tition. The blame rests on the framers, not the repeaters of the defunct Spitalfields Act, which by granting a monopoly at the expellee of the public, encouraged a manufacture which would hasei iriiing flourished i .ammti)ref daily reb' improving utlerafree manufacturet racless's- tem, and congregated in one spot numbers of persons skilled in one trade only, and who, even during- the existence of the monopoly, were always the most destitute of- the working ' classes of the metropolis, because the principals, the master manufacturers, being always secure of a market, never attempted the slightest improve ment of it. Things have since- altereg. The trade has been in some measure thrown open to foreign competition : and while one consequence of it, as was foreseen by Messrs. Huskisson and Grant, has been the improvement of the manu facture to an extent which could scarcely have been contemplated in so short a period, another has been a greater growth of the silk . - manufacture in the country where labour is cheaper, and the transference to it of the coarser kinds of the silk manufacture. Tire latter cir cumstance of course has operated against the Spitalfields weavers ; for the manufacture of silk had commenced at Manchester, Macclesfield, Glasgow, and other manufacturing towns prior to the repeal of the Spitalfields Act ; and as in such cases the trade invariably migrates more speedily than the workmen, the result is seen in a flourishing t h o l m th a e int c t o; i nti t y h , eir an: n l o i t i i i ng th , e v : l l , :s e titu th ti e on pr o i f ee tl o fe r . ' -, : io e:ve ie r s s s. of s S i p ic i l ial ‘ fi v e e ld. c s, on w e :f i o ve ha to ve b n e ot the vis t i r te u t e l them in search of employment, but attempted -- every necessary of life rendered the attempt fezts weavers. of ' til Though edestititec not onl the victims ition of tl .c eSo s ital ietle of ' Mesrs. Huskisson and Grant's legislation, they certainly ate the victims of errors tOr which they are not to blame ; and, when to this it is added, that they are now in the most deplorable state of poverty and want, we are certain that the same benevolence which has .saved the Spanish and Italian refugees from dying of hunger, will also extend to them the means at least of supporting existence, until more favourable - times come round.—Morning .Advertiser. - - -- - POLICE INTELLIGENCE. B&) W-STREET. Yesterday a respectable-looking woman, named Stubblefield, was charged on suspicion of having been concerned in stealing 5001. in Rank of England notes and draughts, the property of Mr. Catt, of Tide-mills, Bishops-stone,' near Seaford, in SusseX. From the evidence of Mr.-Cart and others, it ap peared that on the 21st of last June his collecting -clerk having obtained leave to absent himself, his (Mr. Catee) son collected the money on that par ticular day, and at nine o'clock in the evening he returned to the counting-house with a small hand basket, containing 500/. in Bank of England notes and hankers' cheques. He handed the basket to a clerk who was in the act of putting up the shutters. The elerk,instead of taking the basket to the counting house, laid it on the ground, and having put up the shutters, %vent into the house, forgetting the basket. In a few moments, however, recollecting the cir cumstance, he returned for the basket, but found that it was gone. The road not being a public ene, the suspicion of the witness fell upon a man named Tuckr►ion, who was in his employment. He accordingly forwarded an account of the robbery to Bow-street, and Bishop and Taunton were sent down ; but their exertions proved ineffectual to find any clue to the guilty party.: Taunton, on his re turn tn. town, proceeded to the Bank of England with the - numbers of the stolen notes. - None of them, however, had been offered at the Bank until the 24th of September, when one of the stolen notes for 201., numbered 105,557, and dated the 3d of April, 1828, was presented for payment by a young man apparently about 21 years of ago, dressed like a country servant in his Sunday clothes, and a female rather advanced in life. The note was stopped; but the parties who presented it were •not detained. Mr. Jameson, the Bank clerk, to whom the note had been offered, imme diately communicated the circumstance to Mr. Catt, and upon that information handbills were issued describing the parties who had appeared at the Bank, and offering a reward of 100/. for the appre hension and conviction of those who were guilty of the robbery. In consequence of the description con tained in the handbill agreeing in many particulars with the appearance of the prisoner, and it having► been ascertained that she was in Sussex at the time of the robbery, Mr. Jameson, the Bank-clerk, went to her residence in Morgau's•lane, Tooley street, Borough, and pointed her out from four other women who were taking tea in the room, as the female who accompanied the young man to the Bank in September, and tendered the 20/. note. The porter who attends at the Secretary's-office in the Bank was also gent for, and pointed out the prisoner as the woman who, to the best of his be lief, was at the Bank of England on the 24th of September, in company with a young 'man. Upon this evidence Smith, one of the principal officers of Bow-street, took the prisoner into- custody. The prisoner denied in the most positive manner any knowledge whatever of the robbery. She also .denied fleeing been at the Bank. of England on; the day in queStiel. Mr. MINSIIULL, After cautioning her to be careful what site said, asked her if it were true that she had been in Susses 011 or about the 21st of June ? The prisoner admitted that she left London to see her friends about the time.. On the 24th of June she went to Battle, from thence to Bexhill, and from that place she went to see a Mrs. Sim mons, who lived at Seaford. Mr. Catt observed that Simmons was the name wriiten upon the note by the parties who presented it at the Bank. Mr. iNinsttut.t said, that this indeed was a re markable circumstance, and he asked the prisoner if she had received any money from the Ilia. Sim mons whlro she went to visit. _ The prisoner replied, that Mrs. Simmons was a' bed-ridden old woman, whop] she merely called to see as she was in that part of the country. Sho did not slop at her house for more than five minutes, and received no money whatever from her. Ne. iVllNstlui4o asked her, if she knew any person of the name of Caton, who lived at Brighton, as such an address appeared also upon the note. The p ironer answered, that she take.7.,v no person o f that c!ltne, and had never been to Brigbt4,-n, in her life. Mr. Jameson, die clerk at the Bank of England, was then called forward, an 4 asked by the Magistrate if he were quite sure that the prisoner was the female whom he had seen at the Bank vilben the 201. note Wan offered to be changed. Mr. Jameson replied, that be was almost per. sualed she was the same person. After the lapse, , however, a nearly four months, anti having seen the woman who came to the Bank for only ten mi• nutes,le was not prepared to swear positively that 1 she was the same person. The porter at the Bank was then asked the same question. He replied, that the prisoner was as much like the Woman - whom he saw at the Bank, as any woman could be like another. Her dress was ex actly alike ; the bonnet was just the same, and he particularly noticed the riband, which was precisely like that which the prisoner wore. The shawl,how ever, which the woman who came to the Bank were, was a light-brown whittle, with a fringe to it. Mr. MtNsnt:Lt, asked the prisoner if she had worn such a shawl about the time stated. The prisoner replied, that she had never worn a shawl of that description. Mr. Missnt'LL asked the prisoner if she had seen any of her Sussex friends soon after her return to town. The prisoner answered, that some friends of hers came to see her froM Bexhill, after she returned to town, in the month of July. Those persons had come from Bexhill to see their son, who had been convicted of smuggling, and was then .a prisoner in Newgate. The MAGISTRATE ordered the clerk to take down that circumstance, and then observed, that although strong suspicions existed that the prisoner had some how or other been privy to the passing of the note in question, yet, as the principal witnesses to that fact had failed to identify her as positively as the law re quired, he felt loth to commit her upon the evidence adduced. He felt, however, that it was a case in which he would not he doing his duty, if the pri soner was suffered to go at large without giving some security for her appearance in case any other circumstances arose to require it. The prisoner was accordingly admitted to bail, which was immediately put in by her husband and the master of a trading-vessel, called the Maria Dm li~agton. A fellow named T. W. Brewer, was fully com mitted to Newgate for endeavouring to extort lOs. from a solicitor named Finch, in Dean-street, Soho, by means of a threatening letter, imputing to the prosecutor a beastly offence. MARYLEBONE. On Wednesday; the French Ambassador's chapel in Little George-street, Portman-square, was hung with black cloth, and a solemn feßtival observed, in commemoration of the death of Louis XVI., and during the performance of divine service some ono broke open the lid of the poor-box, and robbed it of its content.. In the evening the Rev. Mr. Laporte, the Am bassador's chaplain, sent the beadle of the place to give the sitting Magistrate at this office information of the robbery, and he brought the empty box in his hand. It was made of wood, and the lock was by no means a strong one, yet Mr. Rawlinson wondered how the lock could have been forced with an instru ment, and the money taken out of the box, in the face of a large congregation, as it were, unobserved. De Caisne, the beadle, said, the darkness occa sioned by the hangings before high mass commenced was very great, and no doubt assisted the t.hi,f in his undertaking. Mr. RawrANsoN asked De-Caisne if suspicion fell on any particuhr De Caisnc said there were upwards of seven hundred pre ent, and he observed one person of loose character among them, but beyond that nothing appeared against him. " I fear," said Mr. R Amiss" "it is a hopeless ease, and you do not know whether the box contain ed any thing." De Caisne—lt had riot been opened for three weeks, your Worship, and in the course of three weeks it generally receives from 7/. to 10/. Mr. IlAwtamoN—lndeed ! It is very much to the credit of the congregation. We should not get so much in our churches. There is an old proverb in this country, " When the steed is stolen, shut the stable door." Give my compliments to Mr. La porte, and tell hint the fastening of the box should he a better one. De Caiqne said, an iron-box would be used in fu ture, and Mr. RAWLINSON ordered Dutch, the offi cer, to assist De Caigne in endeavouring to discover the thief. Yesterday afternoon, Wall, the officer, bronkht John Clare Thatace, a young man of dashing ap pearance, before Mr. GRIFFITH, and charged him with felony. On the 13th of this month some plate and a black leather portmanteau full of linen, and other property, belonging to Colonel Gordon, were stolen from Me lina cottage, Grove-road, Regent's-park. The pri scner once lodged in the cottage, and after the rob bery a sword-stick belonging to his father was found upon the premises, and measures were taken for his apprehension. Wall secured him yesterday at John's coffee-house, Little Queen-street, and upon his prisoner he found an eye-glass, mounted in gold, and a bunch of keys, which James Barton, one of Colonel Gordon's servants, proved to be part of the contents of the portmanteau, and the property of his master. The prisoner was remanded till Tuesday that the Colonel may appear against him, and other charges, which are said to exist, may be brought forward. lie has been trying to improve his circumstances by a matrimonial alliance ; he has been advertising for a wife, and several letters from ladies who possess no mean share of ability in writ ing and inditing, were found in his pocket-book, di rected to J. C. A. Winchelsea, Esq., 2., Mount place, near the London Hospital. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday Mau Strainger was examined before M r . Twwol3l4, charged with having in her posses sion a dog, stolen (rem a person named Pass. The prisoner, and a man named Jones, were brought to the office on Wednesday evening, from a small house in Fives' - court , Fleet-lane, 'Bethnal green, rented by the woman Strainger and a man whom she calls her husband, apparently for the ex press purpose of receiving Und slaughtering stolen dogs, for the sake of their skins, On entering the house, an extraordinary and disgusting scene pre sented itself. In one of the rooms were the ear cases of about forty dogs, without skins, and the bodies of several others, recently killed apparently, and not yet skinned; and in a cupboard in another apartment were six living dogs ; but the moment the place was opened, one of these dashed out of the house and escaped. James Hanley, the officer, stated, that finding no person in the house but the woman Strainger, he remained there expecting the return of the make pea of the establishment, while the other offieers4trent out to lie in wait in the neighbourhood. He had not been long there when he heard a knock at the door, and opening it saw two men, each with a dog. under his arm. One of the men seeing him, threw down his dog and escaped, but he seized the other man, the prisoner Jones, with one of the dogs pro. duced in his possession. The woman being questioned by Hanley as to the manner in which the skins were disposed or, stated that they were sold to a person named 'Whitney, a tanner, at Hoxton,,and the premises of that person being examined yesterday morning, the officers dis covered at least 600 dog skins, between 70 and 80 of which had the fur on, so that they might possibly be identified ; but the others had been tanned and converted into ise.eher. Whitney being asked some questions respecting hi; dealings,. stated that he purchased the skins at prices ese - tr . according to the size and quality, from 2d. to 3s. each. Hanley produced a memorandum-book, found in Whitney's apartment, containing entries of his pur chases, about 400 skint), skcethp Prli of December, and from the familiar style in which the names wife entered, it would appear that they were not pure ehaaed of unknown parties. Some of the most frequently oceurring names were as follows :—viz. Paddington John, Cock-eye, Long Bob, Squint, Little John, Pig Billy, A.fiefs. Harrtt!.n, &c., but the prisoner Strainger appeared to have been 07. rpost successful of the lot. There were upwards of 50 persons inquiring at the office yesterday after lost dogs, although the dis covery had only taken place the evening before ; but only one of them foimd his dog, a sheep dog, which had been stolen from its master, John Pass, a drover, about three hours before the officers discovered it in Stra Thegin,er's house. 1 prisoner was convicted on that care, and sen tenced 'to pay a fine of M., or to s ritotnlit' impri sonment in the house or correction. Mr. TWVFORD sent an officer with the other ap plicants to examine the carcasses of the skinned and tinskinned dogs, hut it did not appear that any of them were identified. Jones is to be re-examined next Tueslay, when persons whose dogs may in the mean time be dis covered, will have an opportunity of preferring charges. LAMBETH-STREET. On Wednesday night, Joseph. Feragalex, - an elderly Jew, with a vile. .expression of countenance, was charged before Mr. WYATT, with keeping a nursery for thieves, corrupting youth, and encourag ing them to gamble, at a den in Petticoat-lace. Though the officers had been long aware of the prisoner's villainous practices, yet they were unable to accomplish any thing effectual for his punishment, having•no legal authority to proceed upon until that night, when an application was made, grounded upon oath, to the magistrate, by a matronly female, to assist her in rescuing her child from Fernandez' clutches, and thus save him from the ignominious fate which must necessarily be the consequence of his instructions. The applicant stated, that for some time. past her child, who was of very tender age, at Fernandez's persuasion, was a constant visiter at his house, ostensibly a coffee-shop, which was frequented by juvenile thieves, and where gambling was constantly going on. She sent for him on that night, 'and found him in the den, surrounded by about 40 children, all of whom were engaged in gambling, such as tossing, playing dominoes, and drawing cards. Fernandez himself she saw forming one of the party at dominoes, and eneourtiging her son and other infants to go on. She did not then alarm them ; bat thinking it the best way to abolish a house which gave many a heart-pang to parents, she hurried to the office, and acquainted his worship with what wa3 going on ; if the officers were sent at once, she was .sure the entire gang would be caught. Mr. WvArrlost no time in . despatching Dalton, Norris, Shelswell, and Healey, fora• of the officers of the establishment, to visit the house of Fernandez; and, after the absence of about half an hour they re turned with ten of the young gamblers in custody, and the principal himself. The parents of most of the children were present, and gave a detail of the practices carried on in this house. A mother complained of her child robbing her, and expending the produce of his plunder in gambling. A father said that. he could not intrust a fraction to his child, for the moment he placed it in his hands, instead of appropriating it to the pur poses of industry, as was expected, he hastened off to the den, and there wasted it- in dissipation ; and several other relatives gave similar instances of the seductions of Fernandez, thanking Mr. Wyatt for his prompt interference, and being, as they conic• dectly hoped, the instrument of their offsprings' sal vation. The children, when placed at the bar, did not, the eldest of them, exceed 10 - years of age. • Mr. WYATT spoke to each of them separately, and after pointing out to them the punishment they made themselves subject to by being found in a common gaming -house, and what would he the termination of frequenting such places, said that in the hope of their reformation he would not then put the law in force against them, if their friends would pledge themselves that they would give them such a portion of private chastisement as their filial ingratitude and most culpable offe►►ces merited. The parents unanimously declared that they should not escape unpunished ; and one of them, in the excitation of the moment, suiting the action- to the Word, knocked down one of the culprits with a box on the ear. Fernandes, who was for the night detained in the watch-house, was yesterday again brought up, and the scenes of infamy of which he had been the pro moter being proved, Mr. WYATT ordered him to find bail, himself in the sum of 1001., and two sureties in 501. each, to be of good behaviour for the next three months, adding, that if the law gate him the power, so cri minal did he coniider his conduct, he would trans port him for his natural life. • _ - LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, J. 22. THELLENON v. WOODFORD. Mr. SUODEN opened a petition presented in this well known ease, and praying, on the part of Mr. C. Thelluson, guardian of the minors, heirs to the es tate, that the establishment of servants, &v., at the mansion-house in Yorkshire, be broken up, and the money arising from the sale of the furniture, &e., aid out for their benefit. From the statement it appeared that the acting trustees under the famous will of Mr. Thelhnon laid in furniture to the amount of.. 5,0001:, and kept up a number of dome s tic ser vants, gamekeeper, &c., for their own purposes, and to the prejudice of the accumulations of the proceeds of the estate. The petition was oppO - ied by Mr. HORNE for the defendant, ►ipon the grounds that it was necessary to keep ►ip the establishment ; that all that was done Wag done in pursuance of the old will, and of the decrees of this Court. The Loan CHANCELLOR, having given the greater part orthe day to the hearing of the arguments, said he would take to Monday to consider what ought to be done. COURT OP KING'S BENCH, JAN. 21. WEST V. FULL AND ANOTHER. This action was brought to recover 1,65E4., being the price of 112 pockets of hops sold to the defend ants by the plaintiff. The fgcts proved by the plain tiff on the trial at Guildhall, were briefly these : The defendants 'came to the plaintiff, and ex preSsed their wish to purchase some hops. The plaintiff showed- them a sample, and told them the price was seven guineas per cwt., at the same time telling them to take the sample with them, and con sult their friends. The - defendants, however, pur chased 142 pockets immediately, as hops were upon the rise. Shortly afterwards the price having, as they anticipated, advanced, the plaintiff offered to go shares lyith them, but this the defendants refused to allow. . The defence set up was, that the plaintiff was a hop-broker, and that he had no right to recover in this action, as he had been guilty of frasid between the real seller and the defendants. The Jury found a verdict for the defendants. Sir J. Scot.gn, for the plaintiff, had since obtained a rule calling upon the defendants to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and one entered for the plaintiff, or a new trial had. The case now came on for argument. Mr. F. POLLOCK (with whom was Mr, EvANs) opposed the rule, and contended that the plaintiff had acted merely as a faCtor or agent, and that he was guilty of a fraud in having purchased the hops for one price, and then representing to the defendants that he,had given 4 higher price for them. Sir Jptrs Si:4nt,Efr - F (with whom was Mr. FOLLETT) appeared in support of the rule. The CounT decided that they could not make the rule absolute to have the verdict entered for the plaintiff; it would be going much further than they bath gene; hut, as they thought the matter ought to be i'urtiier . iugu4ed into, a new trial was granted, the costs of bath trials to abide the result of the second. Archery io elegqnt exercise; in other words, is gives an opportunity to young ladies to exhibit them selves in elegant or attractive attitudes. In a village not a great way from this city, a poor man, a short time ago, was nearly at the point of 407,1) 7 In this dilemma an opulent lady in the neighbour hood sent for czw of tp.; family, and expressing her belief thr.t if the old roan siied it wtial b; no easy matter for them to bury him athrived them of a:method of overco*ng the difficulty, which might put a few pounds iu their pockets: Subjects were, she said, scarce; and if they would agree to give his body to a particular surgeon whom she named,,they would get 12 or 14 pounds ! The feel ings of the yelatiye at this suggestion may be conceived ; end the affair N making some noise...-. Glasgow Chron, GERMAN PARERS. - • VIENNA, JAN..IO.—We mentioned in our paper of - the ISth December, that the Greek Govern merit had lately issued a great number of letters of marque, and that Greek cruisers had captured and carried into Egina several merchantmen of various nations laden with corn, which were to be decided upon by the Prize Court. We have since received the following details from Smyrna, so far back as the month of September :—The Hydra corvette, Captain Sacchini, with five or sift brigs, I furnished with papers signed by Count Capo D'lstria, was sent to sea with instructions to detain and carry into Egina all neutral vessels laden with corn bound to Constantinople. In October the number of these Greek cruisers was increased to ten. No declaration, official or unofficial, was made by Count Capo D'lstria to warn the neutral ships. The French Vice Admiral Rigny, who left Poros the 24th November, hail not the slightest informa tion on the subject. On the 3d November, the Hydra met near My tylene with the Austrian-corvette d4dria, convoying 16 merchantmen, and required the commander of the convoy to deliver up to it their merchantmen, that it might take them to Egina, where there was a scarcity of corn, and where their cargoes should be paid for. Up to the 11th November, seven neutral ships coming from Egypt and Syria, and bound to Constantinople,were taken to Egina; they were four Austrian, two Neapolitan, and one Tuscan, all cap tured between Rhodes and Tenedos ; one of them was in the roads of Lagos before it had its papers on board. On - their arrival at Egina their cargoes were first of all landed, and the Prize Court was then ordered to enquire whether the cargoes were Turkish property or not; if the first, to con fiscate them, otherwise to keep them for the Greek Government, with a promise to pay for them. The Austrian squadron received information of these events on the Ist November, and Admiral Count Dandeolo acquainted the merchants at' Smyrna with the circumstances the following day. (Fiore follows a list of the seven ships abevo. mentioned, and the proceedings of the Austrian squadron in consequence of the capture of the Greek brig Cinthro, Captain Nicodemus, which has already beef' mentioned by the Courier de Symrne ; the instructions given and signed by Saechini, which order him to detain all neutral vessels with corn bound to Constantinople, and his letter to Count Dandolo, demanding to be set at liberty.) Count Dandolo was preparing on the 6th Dec. to sail from Smyrna, on board the Bellona, to Egina, to demand the release of the ships carried into that port by the Greek cruisers before the transac tions with Nicodemus.—•All/euaeiue Zeitung, Jan. FATAL CURIOSITY. A melancholy story was related a few years since, by a traveller in the western section of our country, of a man who, in company with a friend, attempted to explore the celebratrd Cave, in Green's County, Kentucky, which is about ten miles in length. After having provided themselves with a lantern, food, and other re freshments, sufficient for one or two days' sub sistence, they commenced their subterranean tour. As they proceeded from one apartment to another, viewing with astonishment the wonders of this stupendous cavern, they frequently came to large and very deep pits, which they avoided with much difficulty by crawling upon their hands and knees. They wanderad about, alternately walking and crawling, nearly a whole day, during which they had passed a number of these deep pits. They had just approached one, when, by some fatal accident the light which they carried was suddenly extinguished. The one who • carried the apparatus fbr restoring the light, in ' the agitation of the moment, made a mis-step, exclaiming, « Lord have mercy on us," and fell headlong into the pit they had the moment be fore discovered. His companion listened, and distinctly heard the unfortunate man strike the bottom, and fetch a deep groan like one in ex treme anguish. - He called on him, but received no answer—he called again, but all was as silent as the tomb. The narrator stated, that had he .but fallen with him it would - have been a happy circumstance ; for to attempt to find the mouth of the cave, and pass the many dangerous places they had met with in their way , thither, would be imminently hazardous, if net utterly impos sible. He thought, therefore of only dying, the lingering and painful death of starva tion. He sat down and gave vent to his anguish in a flood of tears. He finally concluded to make an attempt to get out, he could but share the fate of his companion by falling into a pit, and this would sooner put an end to his mental sufferings. lie commenced what he conceived a ietrograde movement, by crawling on his hands and knees, and proceeded without accident a long time, when he again yielded himself up to despair. A copious effu sion of tears subdued in a measure his agony.— He set out again, but with little hopes of ever arriving at the mouth of the cave. The survivor had noticed that it branched off in various direc tions : he therefore concluded that he had taken the wrong way, and was probably as far and farther from the entrance as when he first started, He halted, with the determination of waiting patiently the approach of death. Like the drown ing man, who is said to catch at, a straw, the possibility of escape again occurred to him ; and, summoning up his remaining strength, he made another effort to find the outlet to the cavern.— On the morning of the third day, when nature and hope were nearly exhausted, he thought he observed a ray of light, and on suddenly turning a corner, the morning star shone full in his face. Hi; feelings, he said, must be imagined, for they cannot be described. He > immediately made known the fate of his companion ; a number of citizens commenced a search in the cave, found the pit, and with some difficulty obtained the body, and had it decently interred.—Bastom Paper. 4 699 cowslip, with seven or eight pips, was plucked a few days no in a pasture in the parish of But terwick, near this town.,--113i,sion Gazette. AN EIcENpLATtY Doc.—Mr. Douglas, of t h e D oug las Arms Jon, Castle Douglas, has a small dog of the Messian breed, which regularly on Sundays, whether any of the family attend church or not, sets out as soon as the bell rings, and proceeds to Kelton church, a distance of about two miles, when it takes possession of the family scat, and places its fore-feet upon the book-board, and there remains till the sermon is over, when it returns home.-- Liverpool A 8u147-E 4 1 4 44NWIPK- - A few weeks ago, a fellow called at the shop of a chemist, in this town, and asked if he would purchase a body which he had brought from the Ballast hills. The person declined, but sent for one of the police, to whom he related the circum stance. The officer immediately went round to the carriers and coach-ofces to see if a package of such a description as that might he supposed, ha;l•been brought by any of theM. Nd such package had arrived. The officer shortly after saw the fellow in the street, and repre eanta him as a rabrderous 7 looking rascal. This roan and a woman had been brought by Moore's coach from Newton on the Moor ; and they both pro ceeded on to Berwick by coach, having only a small bundle. It may not be out of place to remark, since it is ultimately connected with the subject, that, as those 'f teachers of anatomy" in Edinburgh have shown such igwowice of what they teach, no; being Ovule tp detect th:,.4 different appearance of a body which had suffered death by violence from that of one dying naturally, it would only be justice to students and the public to disqualify such iynarant fellows from ever again practising dissection.— Tyne Mercury. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCII. •-• • ' LIVERPOOL. • . . . . WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21.—Wind water two minutes past twelve.—Arrived the Ara.., bian, Wells, from Calcutta ; Edgar, Vaughan, 'lllte.ao; Concord, Leith, Pernambuco; Eleanor, Russel, front 2daranham ; Frances Henrietta, White, New York; Car' sair, Jenkinson, Halifax; La :Honcho, Charwick, frog° Nantes ; Broad Axe, Hacquoil, Bilboa; the British Tar, , from Limerick ; and Habnab, Alexander, fro/ Bilboa. —.....—. Sailed—The Heywood, Burrell, for Africa; William Weir, for Gibraltar ; Roselle, Man, fer Valparaiso and Lima ; Jessie, Cooper, for Ramsay ; Peggy, Carver, for • Derbyl►aven. EAST INDIA. The Duke of Bedford, Morris, frown Bombay, has at' rived off Portland ; sailed March 3 ; Point de Gal% April 2 ; Algoa Bay, Aug. 15 ; Cape Town, Sept. 9; and St. Helena, Nov. 29. The Harriett, Read, from the South Seas, at P:P• • mouth ; sailed from Sandwich Islands, Aug. 6. The Ann and Elizabeth, from London to the Eolith' Seas, Nov. 16, lat. 17., S. long. 27. Arrived at Calcutta—Prince Regent, from Madras, 16th. :6 Aug. ; Greenock, from Leith; Anna, front :Matrritiute' Aug. 17 ; Rapid, from Liverpool ; and Midie,..fronaVeo SouthlVales, Aug: 18. ~ Sailed—The Lady Holland, for London, Aug. 16 ; the - Asia, for Liverpool, Aug. 17 ; Circassian, for Liverpool, Aug. 18 ; Alacrity, for the Cape, Lnd Pifesliirey toy Bombay, Aug. 19. Loading—The Hutton, David Clark, Vilee, and Elizti. bet!), for the Mauritius. THE MARItETSI7 1o: Wi CplIN TRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WilEig 'Wheat I Barley. r Oats. Bean& For Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to a. 3. to s. Blandford 82 -- 88 29... 40 Brigg • 63 66 28 3'd 20 24 3; 40 Cambridge—. 70 30 18 Chard .................. 511 76 32 38 24 SO , 42 4 11 , Huntingdon— 66 76 28 37 18 - 20 39 4 1 Long Sutton.-- CO 78 16 23 35 •87 Louth 70 90 24 3.5 18 23 36 Sw Lynn 5l 74 26 31 14 24• 31 fit; Newark -- i 74 84 20 43 17 30 40 48 Nottingham 80 43 27 45 Peterborough 51 78 37 40 'lB 23. 97 42 Plymouth 74 80 35 39 •20 27 80 39 26 49 Sleaford .......,... 76 80 30 33 22 24 50 5 2 Upi.ingham 75 90 35 40 18 32 35 50 Wisbech —..—. 61 76 •—r 18 24 36 -39 1.1 VERPOOL CORN EXCHANOE.—.Jah. 20. MEAT, English, W h ite, per 701 b. Belo ll 0 --. Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White lO 6 10 9 ---- Red 9 0 10 6 ' ---- Foreign 9 9 10 9 •, , Was, English, Welsh, and Scotch, ter 451 b 3 9 4 • a - Irish Foreign 3 6 ii 9 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp, quarter 42 0 44 0.- - Scotch and Irish, per 801Lts. ... 5 6 3 9 Feeding 5 0 ft 6 Basins, English, per Imperial quartet 42 0 -- 46 0 Irish, &c. —....... Foreign PEASR, English, per Imperial quarter 4B 0 50 0. Foreign FLOUR, English, per 2901 b. . to 0 110 0 --....-.-- Irish OATMISAL, English and Irish, per 2401b5.. ..... INDIA: Coax, per 4401 b. RVE, per Imperial quarter MALT, par Imperial quarter • • • • IMPORT OP GRAIN for the Weed ending lap, 1.9. • ; Wher.t. Oats. 1 Barley Flour. Oatmeal, Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Foreign, Pea 'lrish, ftw.. Seks.l Loads. 3,613 8,706 ,'/72 6,10 1,616 8,968 LEEDS CORN MARKET.—Jan. 20. We had a good supply of Wheat, Barley, and Oats, and the market ruled extremely dull for all kinds of (train, and very little business done; fine Wheat, to needy buyers. sold at Is. to Is. ed. per quarter lower, and for middling and inrerior samples there was scarcely any demand. These was very little inquiry for Barley, and the few sales effected were of the hest qualities, at Is. to 2s. per quar ter decline. Oats id. per stone, and Shelling Is. per load lower. Beans Is. to 2e. per quarter cheaper. Wheat, Norfolk and Sun; t, Mb. 'Os. to 831. York. and Lincoln. &db. Barley, Norfolk and Stiffblk -- Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beam 63i b. .......... ........ ais. to 40a. Oats, rotatoe —Mottling, Foreign l ist, to lal....Engliill 15d to 15i,id. p er at Shelling :l6s. to 37a. per load' Rapeseed, English, 32/. to :W. 51.1 NCH 1:51'Ell. POT ATO E AI ARK Er.—Jan. 17. Potatoes, D. sd., Od., and 93.01 per load of lit score *OW 121 b». ; New ditto, Os., N. Od., and Os. Od. per ditto; Turnips I's. 3d., 7s. 6d. and la. Otl.; per load of 16 peeks; Onion% 30e, (0.4-' 16*., and 16s. (3.tt. per score. • • 51ANCI - lESTER YAli: No. el. d. Throstle Twlst, 20:,.10i to 11 30 —l3 13i 40 _154 11 MulecopTwisti fo) for w:lip 40.14 15 50 17i 20 61) —2O 22 70 —23 26 60-27 30 IgARK: T.—Jau. 20. ' SO 4.0 11 12 50 11 15 60 0.1,1W,0. V* 1 . 0 10 20 80 22 2 1 1 100 48 au , 29 06 10 .....-- 7 1./ -- 2* 9 1S 9 24, 181 Mule Cop Wett.: Weft from' i west e ~.: GLASGOW RETAIL Beef per lb. N. 54, too 3 84. Mutton _0 4 0 7 Veal ......... 0 7 0 Hams 0 3 0 7 Lamb I,erqr..o 0 0 0 QuarternLoat... 0 11 0 0 Flour, per stone 2 0 3 4 Rye AI A RKETS.—.Ian. 19. Oatmeal, per Et. 2s. kl. to 20. Peaseineal 2 0 3 4 Pot riarley, cwt 14 0 IS U Pearl ditto.... 2O 8 2.1 0 Grey Pease 12 0 14 (.1 White ditto l2 0 1-1 U Blue ditto, nl U VI U On Monday last, a woman who had died ia, child-bed was interred in the Spittal burial ground, and several men being appointed to watcii another grave the same night, no apprehension was entertained of any attempt to disturb any of the graves, when such guardians had been placed. This expectation, however, proved fallaci ous, for the grave-digger observing, next`morning, that the grave of the woman was altered, communicated his suspicions, and in consequence the grave was ope n ed, $ when it was found the body was gone, the empty coffin -) 0 and shroud only remaining. The relatives of the decease} • . preferred a complaint to an official gentleman, by whose • 1 endeavours the body was ultimately recovered—the connec tions being directed to a field in the neighbourhood, where it was found on Wednesday evening, and again consigned to its bed of rest. —Aberdeen Chronielf. BIRTH. On the 20th inst , at Rochester, the lady of Samuel Baker, Esq. jun., of a son. • MARRIED. On Thursday, the 22d inst., at St Magnus Church, by the Rev. Mr. Durham, Mr. John Deane, of Monument yard, to Annette Phillips, only daughter of Mr. T. P. Ascerne, of Great Tower-street. On the 22d inst., Mr. Jeremiah Renshaw, of Lamb's Conduit-street, to Mary Rebecca Ladd, sister to Captain William Henry Ladd, of the Hon. East India Company's Service. On the 16th inst. at Fenagh Church, County Leiteriin l by the Rev. George Hamilton, Dc La ?'oer I3ere.gord Myles • John O'Reilly, Esq., of Heath Queen's County, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Hon. and Rev. George De La Poer Beresford. DIED. On the 21st inst., at Artillery-place, Finshury-Square, Win. Jourdain, Esq. aged GO. On the 21st inst., Dorothy, wife pi Anthony Browne, Esq., of Willesden, Middlesex, in her 64th year. On the 22J inst at his house in Chandos-street, Covent garden, William Alexander Balfour, of a decline, in his 40th year. On the 17th inst., at Stranraer, North Britain, in the 79th year of her age, Mrs. Kerr, relict of the late John Kerr, Esq. of that place. On the 20th inst., at Wolverton, Bucks, at the advanced age of 84, Catherine Harrison, relict of the late Thomas Harrison, Esq. On the 21st inst., at Litnehouse, Miss Kitty Williams, youngest daughter of the late Rev. George Wi!liatns, many yearn lectiirei. of that pariah, _ On the 20th inst., at Pars ores-green, Andrew Crew Greville, Esq., in his 62d yeu. . On the Vlst inst., aged 27, Sarah Ann, eltles6 daughter of the late ilev. Daniel Tyerman. On the 19th inst., at Brighton, after two days illness, the wife of Nathan Egerton Garrick, Est.;.,o;ily daaghtek of the late Ghat•les Yangban Blunt, t:,41., Uf Long Dimon., Surrey, leaving one daughter and fens sons to deplore i.t. loss. On the 19th inst., at his house, Ilford, Esstx, John Thompson, Esq., in his 74th year. On the 17th inst., in his 70th year, Thomas Lloyd, Esq., of St. John's-hill, Shrewsbury. On the 17th inst., in Charlotte-'treat, Portland-plarc, aged 79, Ann, widow of the late W. Dowding, Esq.' On the 17th inst., at Twickenham, Anne, wife of Francis Lind, Esq. PRINTED and PI:BUSHED by MURDO YOUNG, at the Sv N OFFICE, 1 0TRA7,5.p . , LcADRA. 51ANCHESTElt SAIITIiFIELI).—Jan. 21. At per H. sinking the otria. 2;255 Sheep (4. to 'rd. I IS old. to VI. 556 Cattle ....,.M4 6 180 Pigs 5 Si I