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obstacles the Balkan presented, he endeavoured to engage the Ministh•e-Martignae in the bonds of a closer alliance. Alarmed at the Austrian power, he insinuated that the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh would not see with displeasure the accomplishment of the wish of France, provided, as the price of the Emperor's co-operation, a certain portion of the French forces should be directed towards the eastern provinces, and thus, without committing any act of hostility, paralyse the Austrian army. The outlines of the projected treaty were communicated since the late change by one of the ex-Ministers to the Constitutionnel, and the editors of that journal have published the fact, though they were not permitted to promulgate the details. The week preceding the dissolution of the liberal administration, it was generally known that it had been resolved by a majority of the Cabinet that France should no longer remain party to the Treaty of the 6th of July, since Mahmoud refused to ratify the conditions. The triple alliance dissolved, Eng land alone would have had to cope with the ambi tion of Russia. The Parisians were delighted at this rupture with England, the remark being— " With the one power we have every thing to gain, \vial the other nothing to hope." Such was the state of things when Prince Polig- Jute, with juster but less popular ideas, was named Prime Minister. All the combinations of M. Pozzo were deranged. His angry disappointment on this change, added to the pride which the successful career of the Russian armies awakened, rendered him less guarded than behoved his diplomatic character, and the language in which he expressed himself on the new Ministry became the subject of official com plaint. His condition, too, of natural born subject in tie French dominions, rendered his conduct more offensive; butit is doubtful whether, in the triumph and presumption *of victory, the reclamations of the Minister of Foreign Affairs will meet the attention they are entitled to. M. Pozzo has been one of inflexible advisers, if not principal author, of the war rinw waged in Turkey, and lays claim to no common share of its glory. Before communicating to you some authentic un published particulars concerning this distinguished statesman (which will serve to illustrate his false position at the French Court), you will permit me to state that he has constantly declared his convic tion, " that peace would be signed, not at Constan tinople, but before its walls." At the Dec d'Or leans' , in a petit comite, of which the Due d'Char. trey formed one, M. Pozzo observed," Qua la Russie fasse la paix ou non, qu'elle la fasse a Constantinople ro4me, ou ithdement (levant la ville, le probl6me n'en serait pas moins resolu, c'est que la Torque ne vit do l ellavant que suns le bon plazser de le Russie." A.NTECEDENTS OF COUNT POZZO. The interest Count Pozzo di Borgo felt in the dis solution of . :he Chamber of Inirouvables by royal ordinance, on the sth September, 1816, is known. But what is equally anal!' though less known is, that the determining motive of Louis XVIII. was the return to Paris of the Count de la Moussaye, Charge d'Affitites of France at St. Petersburgh, wit;.; a mission from the Emperor Alexander, "de claring his dissatisfaction and lively apprehensions at the consequence of the system then adopted in France." After having heard this statement from the diplomatic agent, the Due de Richelieu, then Minister of Foreign Affairs, inquired "whether he would repeat to the King himself what he had just said ?" To which La Moussaye resolutely replied, " Yes, if the Duke thought that it was his duty so to do." The morning after he was conducted to his Majesty, and made the entire expose. The follow ing d a y he had . a second interview with the King, and re-stated the same facts, His Majesty drily thanked and dismissed him, without adding a syl lable. Two days afterwards the ordinance appeared. The Count de hi . I.Dussaye doubted not that the opinion of the Emperor was formed from the de spatches of his Ambassador at Paris. The inti macy subsisting between M. Pozzo and the Duke de Claes until the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle cor roborates this notion. NOTE SECRETE. All Paris knows that M. de Vitrolles was die author of this Note. What has not the same pub : - licity is, that Comet Gregoire Orloff, - Russian Se nator en conga, and celebrated by several scientific works, was the bearer of it. He received it at the Pavilion Marsan, from the hands of Monsieur him self. The intention of the Prince was, that Orloff should carry it unsealed; hut the Count entreated his Royal Highness to seal it, which was done, On taking leave, he was addressed by Monsieur in t hese words :—" Ce qui surtout me rend penible la mis sion que je vous confie, c'tst de devoir volts charger de dire a l'Empereur que c'est son Ambassadeur qui Ti mis met 3i la mort, What especially afflicts me in the mission I am confiding to you is, to feel it my duty to desire you to say to the Emperor that his Ambassador is our destruction." Count Orloff passed by Stutguard, where he v i s i te d the Queen (la Grande Duchess Catherine), and disclosed to her the object of his journey. He was even induced to confide the manuscript to that Princess. Some time after it reached the liberals from Stntgard, arid caused, and still causes, an infi nity of ill to the Royalist party. , When Count Orloff arrived in Varsorie, 143.1 was very indifferently retie veal I y the Emperor. Laeden, Oct. 15. E. F, We have just received a letter in the shape of a pamphlet, addressed by Sir Andrew Halliday to Lord Robert Seymour, with a Report of the number of Lunatics and Idiots in England and Wales, which is well calculated to alarm the stoutest heart among us. Sir Andrew obseives in the outset " that this Report presents a very fair view of the statistics of insanity hi Great Britain. It is calculated to set at rest a ques tion that involves much of our character and conduct as a Christian nation, and that affects more or less, in all their relations, the happiness and comfort of every member of the community. The prevalence of insanity in England is no new doctrine. Foreigners of all countries have uni versally asserted it, and many among ourselves have implicitly believed the assertion ; but tip to the present moment the soundness of that doe, trine has been firmly disputed and I .?ombated, though, as one of its ablest opponents candidly confesses, little else than conjecture has ever been brought forward on the subject.' Now, however, I am enabled to lay before your Lord ship and the public a series of returns au thentic, and tolerably accurate, which not Only shows that insanity, in all its forms, prevails to a most alarming extent in England ; but that the numbers of the afflicted have be come more than tripled during the last twenty years." This is a most fearful progression. If the number of insane is tripled every twenty years, what proportion will -the sane bear to the end of two hundred yews? Si.e Andrew gives a report of the state of matters respocling in sanity throughout the different counties of -Eng land and Wales, and throughout Wades and Scotland. The total number of lunatics and idiots in England is as follows:—Lunatics, 6,806 ; idiots, 5,741—t0ta1, 12,547. Allowing for defective returns, he thinks the number may be taken at 14,000. The average is about one to every thousand of the population. i‘ The disease (he says) appears to bit more prevalent in the agricultural districts than among the ma nufacturing population. It is also more frequent in our inland counties than in those that are bounded by the sea; and those who labour in mines are much less subject to its ravages than those who toil upon the surface of the earth." In Wales the numbers are :--Lunatics, 133 ; idiots, '763—total, 890. Adding for parishes which have not made returns, the number may be taken at 1,000. However, taking the aseer tamed lunatics, amounting to 896, the population being 817,438, the proportion is one to every 800 of the population. It has long been known that Scotland contained proportionally ' greater number of idiots than any other part of the island. " The population of Scotland in 1821 (says Sir Andrew) was two millions ninety-three thousand four hundred and fifty-six ; and by my Returns from the several parishes, which are corrected with great attention and ac curacy, the number of insane persons in Scot land in the same year, viz. 1821, was 3,652, beimg about one to every 574 of the population." Sir Andrew has appended to his Reports nine tables, in which the subject is exhibited in all its details. In twelve agricultural counties of England, the proportion of the insane to the total population is about one to 820, and the lunatics are to the idiots as five to seven. In twelve manufacturing and mining counties, the proportion of insane to the whole is one to 1,200, and there are considerably more lunatics than idiots. "In mountainous districts (he observes) the food is more scanty, and with more difficulty procured, the atmosphere is more change- able and more humid than in level plains, and both affect, more or less, our physical powers ; and in whatever way a monstrosity or irregularity of structure may be engendered, we know that it is easily:propagated ; the child will more or less resemble the parent in his hereditary as well as acquired defects ; and one great cause of the in crease of this species of insanity (idiotcy) has arisen from our careless inattention to suffering female as' well as also male idiots to procreate their species. The cretins of the Alp; and the idiots in Scotland and Wales have become nu merous from this cause alone ; and should the people of England continue to view the subject with that apathy they have hitherto shown, the increase of the malady in another half century will he such as to endanger most seriously the comfort and well-being of the whole commu nity." We consider Sir Andrew Halliday en titled to great praise for his persevering exertions in procuring, amidst every species of discourage ment, these Returns: His reasoning appears to us questionable. If there arc more insane in agricultural than in manufacturing districts, as England is the most manufacturing country in Europe and generally a level country, how should it contain more insane than the Continent ? Again, as there is, at all events, mare care be stowed now than formerly on idiots, why should they have tripled in the last twenty years ? Morning Chronicle. When the Russians, in their first campaign, met with some disasters, the flatterers of the Duke of Wellington's statesmanship attributed the passiveness of the British Cabinet to the prophetic sagacity of the Premier, who foresaw, as they assured us, from the beginning, that Russia, by invading Turkey, was only rushing on her own destruction. From the same authority we leant that the colossal power of the empire of the Northern Autocrat existed, as to all pur poses of conquest, only in imagination ; that it was a great mistake to suppose, because the em pire was of vast extent, its resources and ener gies were gigantic. They gravely informed us that none but ignorant and shallow politicians believed Russia capable of moving a large army to any distance beyond her own frontiers, with out soon letting the whole world into the secret of her poverty and weakness. They described her as an empire more unwieldy than great — more menacing than formidable—more imposing in a quiescent state than dangerous inaction. In fact, they represented the Power that crushed Po land—that grasped Finland—that seized upon the Crimea, Moldavia, and Wallachia—that over threw Persia, and annihilated the veteran legions of Napoleon—as a State feeble and ill-organised, which only the ignorant fears of those who looked no farther than the surface of things in vested with imaginary terrors. Such was the pie tare drawn of Russia by the political " instruc tors," who, when the armies of the Czar were checked before Varna, and experienced some san guinary resistance under the walls of Shumla, extolled the Duke of Wellington to the skies for the " foresight" he evinced in alloWing Russia to go headlong into an enterprise, which, if it did riot lead w her utter ruin, would at least break the charm of her supposed ascendancy, and make her ambition appear more ridiculous than terrible in the eyes of Europe ! What do those political Solomoris say now ? The second campaign was sufficient to rea4se all that the most sanguine hopes of the Northern Autocrat could have an ticipated. Turkey is beaten to the earth—she lies at the mercy of the conqueror. The terms of her exispence are dictated by the leader of a victorious army almost within view of the Se raglio, where the deseendant of the Amuraths and Solvmans, whose arms once made all Europe tremble, resigns himself to his fate in sullen sub ' mission, or puts his last hope of retaining the ccptre a Mahomet in the " moderation" of his conqueror. Mo4eration, indeed ! It is a fine word, but the moderation of ambitious Princes is like the devotion of hypocrites—a prudent covering for the deep and resolved treaehery of the heart. The, Empress Catherine was as mo derate in her tone, ea meek in her dissimulation, just before the unprincipled partition of Poland, as the Ilnaiparor Nicholas is now, when a country more ardently nlesired by Russian ambition t h an P o l an d al s a a rasa—when fairer provinces than Russia ever before poaaessed—lie de fenaeless at his feet. 'The terms tat' his " mode ration," ea , c o ntained in the treaty, and in the separate articles, are known to every body. They leave about as much national independence to Turkey aa victorious Rome left to her ancient rival Carthage, in that treaty which naturally led to the catastrophe of t,li,e last Punic war.— The ona article alone, that 4ussian subjects should live in Turkey exempt from the Turkish laws, is a badge of the Fact slavery and degrada ' Lion of a State. The vulgar notion about con quest is the smiting away of territory. That is only physical coiNziest, which, while it impairs the resources of a State, may IpAye its spirit un broken pp watch the crisis of retaliation and vengeance ; bnt the moral debasement implied by a submission Bite f,jaiat to which we have ad- i • veo t ed shows that the living energy of inde pendence has expired. Russia is nat now the ancient Scythian empire, guided by no notions 1 of wannest than those of a, yehement and bar barous violence, The Calainet of . i;t. Peters burg!), which cajoled na into the Treaty of tiia , 6th of ,July--whieh, in the faee pf its own de, 7 claration, accomplialned the blockade of the Par dandles, and obtained tha tse of the British Navy to awrsep the fleet of her enemy from the waters—that Cabinet is too well versed in the tactics of ambition to display 411 at once the ex tent of the advantages which her recent victories have conferred upon her, To do so would be to alaro too much those rival Powers of Europe which have hitherto so complaisantly looked upon the progress of her aggrandisement.-- • Were she to Seize upon Cow tantinople, or lay it in ashes—to depose the Sultan, aid set up a Muscovite Satrap upon the throne of the Constantines—it might, even in this the " ele venth hour," excite a confederacy between England, France, and Austria, that would se riously incommode the Russian Eagle, even with its prey clutched in its rapacious talon S— . : the Russian Cabinet is wiser than to incur even the remote risk of such an event. It is safer and better, and more effectual, to gto on as she has done, cajoling the Cabinets of other States, and making them accessaries to her designs by superior policy, than insti g ating them to some acts of spirit by reducing Turkey at once to the name as well as the conditions of an integral province of the Muscovite empire. Russia knows she can do this when she pleases. She has the Sultan as safely within her grasp as Tamerlane had Bajazet ;—the only difference is, that the one was secured in an iron cage, and the other within the cage of his own subjugated capital. If Turkey could, by any miracle, raise the vast sum of six millions, at which she is sup posed to be allowed to ransom herself, would not the imperium in it:Teri° which Russia has established by the treaty within the Turkish do. minions be a fruitful source of complaint and quarrel before the expiration of ten years ? The ' article of the law of nations which makes foreigners owe a temporary allegiance to the State in which they reside is blotted out as re gards Russian subjects in Turkey. Russian ships may violate the revenue laws, and cannot he searched in the Russian waters. The order of things which the victorious General has esta blished is not to be disturbed so long as Russia holds any part of the Turkish territory ; and yet we talk of the moderation of Nicholas ! We might as well talk of the wisdom and energy of the Wellington Administration, which looked on quietly while those evils were preparing for " our ancient Ally," and saw them ripen into this con clusion.—Morning Herald. There is one benefit which we think may be indisputably claimed as the result of the late dis cussions at Whitby and Barnsley, on the merits and demerits of the free-trade system—and that is, that the minds of almost all who do not con sider calm inquiry into such au important subject wholly foreign to the business of life, have been thoroughly satisfied that whatever may be the amount, or whatever the causes, of the distressed state of the country, the change which was effected by Mr. Huskisson in our commercial policy is not to be classed as one of them. No thing, in fact, can be more contrary to the real facts of the case, or so totally destitute of foun dation, as the assertion that the greater facility of commercial intercourse, afforded by the policy alluded to, has been the cause of de creased trade—decreased profits—or decreased wages. The declamation of its. few remaining adversaries is plausible enough, we allow, in ap pearance ; but bring it to the touchstone of documents—pass it through the ordeal of figures and documents, and it turns out to be but " the airy vision of a fabric," without substance and without foundation. With the exception of the shipping interest, which appears from par liamentary documents rather to have gained than suffered in consequence of the reciprocity sys tem, it is worthy or remark that those branches of our manufactures and trade which are suffer ing the greatest depression, are precisely those to which that system has only an indirect refer ence. In the cotton trade, for example, though we are not unrivalled - in the foreign market— because foreigners are pleased, in some instances, to pay a greater price for articles of their own production, though inferior in quality, than for those which are manufactured in this country — we are unrivalled at home ; yet, although the free trade system has had no effect here, because, with all our advantages, there could not be any thing in the shape of competition, the cotton manufacture is that which languishes most—in which profits are smallest, and wages lowest ! In the linen trade, again, where the reciprocity system has had fair play, what have been the re sults ? The Custom .house returns declare, first, that the quantity of flax imported, has greatly increased since the adoption of the reciprocity system ; second, that the quantity of foreign linens imported is less, not more; and, third, that the quantity of British linens exported has in creased, not diminished ! Is further proof neces sary? The silk manufacture, which it has been confidently averred during the last three or four years, would be totally destroyed by the reciprocity system, exhibits similar and equally gratifying results. There also the balance is wholly in favour of England, and of the en lightened commercial policy to which she is the first to have given birth ; and in fine, there is no department of trade, no branch of industry which the reciprocity system has touched, which has not exhibited a growing and satisfactory im provement. Do we then say, that in those branches of trade and manufactures to which the principles of free trade have been applied, that there is no distress—that profits are high—and the workman duly remunerated for his labour ? By no means. We know the contrary to be the ease ; that profits and wages were never lower, or the country generally involved in so much distress ; but these unsatisfactory results do not originate in the reciprocity system, which, if it had caused them, would have exhibited returns at the Custom-house of a very different ciia meter from thoge to which we have appealed. They would have shown in the linen and silk trades, for example, that the quantity manufac ture,' in England had diminished, and the quan tity imported from abroad had increased, since ' the adoption of the new system ; but the con trary is the case; and until the tables are turned npon us, no one in his right senses will believe that the policy in question has had any thing to do with the matter, lout, on the contrary, infer that it has originated in canses of a more general and permanent nature, affecting all the depart ments of industry, but least of all those where British 'enterprise has had to contend, even some what disadvantageously, with foreign rivalry. — Morning Advertiser. SEttiOt3F; ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER. — For two or thaw hours yesterday afternoon, a small boat, with five young men on board, was olK.ervpd sailing up 40(1 down the river, between the Red-house and Batte(s7;ea brhige, 0 the imminent danger of their lives, from their total ignorance in at;riaing the boat. Between four and five o'clock, as the boat was uear p*ersea-brid g e, those on hoard tried to turn her head against the tide, tiqwo the river, *lien- as was to be expected from their preyious conduct, the boat ut - ,::, and the whole party was turned into the stream. Three of them i:ail the good fortune to seize 41,1 cf the boat's keel, by which they held fast until relieved from their perilous sittiati,n by a waterman who happened to be pas Sing near the spot at the time ; but the o*A . two young men were not So fortunate ; for, before any asista4, - -te could be rendered to them they sunk to rise no more. Boats were immediately out to look for the bodies, but they were not discovered at six o'clock. We understand that the unfortunate suf f erers were the sons of respectable tradesmen residing in Paddington, but we could not ascertain their navies. From its being flood tide at the time, the boat was carried against one of the abutments of the bridge, and destroyed, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. About a fortnight ago the warehouse of Mr. White, in Basinghall-street, being one of a range of warehouses in a large building, was broken open, and plundered of kerseymeres to the amount of between 2001. and 3001., by some very expert thieves. The LORD MAYOR has been for some days privately investigating the circumstances, and has had no reason to commend the zeal and activity of the police appointed to the district. On Saturday, William Walker, the brother of the two unfortunate men who are now in Newgate under sentence of death, was brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged under suspicion of having been concerned in the robbery. At about six o'clock in the morning on which Mr. White's warehouse was robbed, a coach was seen in the neighbourhood by the foreman to a warehouseman in Basinghall street. Two persons were soon afterwards ob served on the pavement, one of whom beckoned to the coachman, who accordingly moved off. These persons had come from the back entrance to the premises of Mr. White; and the foreman alluded to, suspecting that they were concerned in some depredations, gave notice to two of the patrol, who went towards the place where the men had been lurking about : they were, however, gone. The officers then went up to the coachman, and asked him what he waited for, to which he replied that he had got a fare, and was driving to Billingsgate. At that moment they were addressed by a person in the coach, who said that he was going to Billingsgate, and desired the coachman to drive on. The officers did not see any goods in the coach, which drove on at a quick rate, but turned away in a short tine from the direction of Billingsgate. The LORD MAYOR was greatly surprised and dis pleased at the, conduct of the patrol, in not ob serving the necessary vigilance on this occasion. They both declared that they saw nothing more about the person in the coach than that of an ordi nary stranger; and as they had no idea at the time that a robbery had been committed, they felt a natu ral reluctance to run the hazard of taking him into custody. They, however, recollected him well, and could swear to him. On 'Wednesday last the prisoner, Walker, was taken into custody; and the two above-mentioned officers swore positively that he was the person whom they saw in the coach on the morning of the robbery. It appears that soon after the coach moved off from Basinghall-street, it was found that a small door leading into the warehouse of Mr. White through a passage, had been broken open, the panel having been burg through. The front door of the warehouse was then opened, and several large pieces of kerseymere were taken -out. It is supposed by those who are aware of the plans of housebreakers, that the coach in question had already taken away one load of goods, and was just about to take away another, when their object was suspected. When Walker was brought up, he assured the Lord Mayor that he knew nothing whatever of the robbery. The LORD MAYOR—WeII, it is in your power to clear yourself, by proving what you did at Billings gate on that morning. Walker—l am sure I don't remember being in a coach any where; but I often do go into a coach, and drive from place to place. I don't remember ever seeing either of these men. The Patrol—We saw you in the coach, and you asked us what we wanted, and told us you were going to Billingsgate market. Walker—Well ! what did you see in the coach ? Did you see any property ? Patrol—No, we saw nothing. Walker—No I that's well; I can't be charged with the robbery, at any rate. The LORD MAYOR—You were in the neighbour hood under the most suspicious circumstances; you could not have been in the coach at six o'clock in the morning without an object. Walker—l have a great deal of business to do as a horse-dealer, and I ride about from place to place at all hours, on bu siness. The LORD MAYOR—I do not require you to tell me with whom you did business on that morning, at Billingsgate; but you must recollect, and it may be serviceable to you to explain. Walker—l recollect nothing at all about it. I have been otherwise em ployed than in committing burglaries, my Lord; both of my brothers are under sentence of execu tion, and I am otherwise employed than in robbing now. The LORD MAYOR—How are you employed ? Walker—ln endeavouring to save the lives of my brothers ; I am too seriously employed to contem plate a robbery. The LORD MAYOR said the prisoner could have been occupied in no other than a bad way on that morning, whatever he might be doing for his brothers. In answer to a question from the Lord Mayor, INIr. Brown, the Murshal, said the prisoner was a common thief. The LORD MAYOR (to the prisoner)—l am not at all anxious to keep a person in confinement under such circumstances as those under which you are placed with regard to your brothers ; but I cannot think of discharging you. I. shall take time to con sider whether the case is not, as it now is made out a case for a Jury. The prisoner was then remanded. Hand-bills have been sent about the town, and a reward has been offered for the housebreakers. GUILDHALL A respectable-looking elderly man, named John Graham, was brought before Mr. Alderman WIN CIIESTER, charged with stealing from a book auction room, at the corner of Chancery-lane, a little vo lume of Matthew Henry's, On the Pleasantness of a Religious Life. Mr. Hodgson, the auctioneer, stated, that the prisoner's face was familiar at his sales, at which little volumes, which might be readily concealed without observation were missed continually ; and on Friday the porter detected the prisoner in se creting within the breast of his coat the work above named. Upon being told he had a book under his arm, he replied, he was about to take it to the light for examination, but it happened that the spot on which he was standing was the lightest in the room. The porter confirmed this statement. _ _ The prisoner said he had not put the book under his coat intentionally, but the coat might have fallen over turd hidden the book, without attractinr , his notice. He got his living by okaining orders for a turner, near the London-road, with whom he lodged. Mr. Alderman WINCHESTER said, that although he had little doubt of the prisoner's intention, it was one of those cases which juries were apt to dis miss, and therefore he should net commit him for t vial. He remanded him till Tuesday to produce friends to his character. BOW-STREE r. A. tall hulking fellow, about 50 years of age, named Marshall, was placed at the bar on Saturday evening, charged by Stevens, of this office, and one of the new police, with having been found exposing his person in a grossly indecent posture, in Lincoln's inn-fields, at four o'clock in the afternoon, while se veral respectable persons were passing. 13 Q tb of the officers declared that the conduct of the prisoner was the most disgusting they had ever witnessed. They were quite cordident, from hip manner, that it was premeditated. The prisoner pleaded that he was drunk at the time, and was tmconspicus of where he was or what he did. Mr. Ruts, after commenting upon his grossly indecent behaviour, ordered him to find bail foi the misdemeanour, and directed the officers to be bound over to prosecute him at the ses§imq. NA4YLEBONX On Saturday Sir Peter Laurie charged /102,y //a4b:, collector of the toll at Park-gate turnpike, Camden-town, with demanding and receiving more than is allowed by law. . _ For a certain part of the year a halfpenny extra is charged upon each horse, in consideration of the roads being watered. This extra charge ought to have been discontinued for nearly a mor.th, but the defendant still imposed it ; and Sir Peter, after sub• mitting to it daily, at length took it up as a matter in which the public are concerned, and summoned him before Mr. Griffith. It was proved by one of Sir Peter's servants, that on the 9th instant, the defendant demanded and re ceived 6d. for four saddle horses, being 2d. too much, and the case net being even disputed, Mr. GRIFFITH fined the defendant 5/. and costs. The defendant asked for a mitigation of the fine Mr. GRIFFITH said, he could not listen for a mo. ment to his requeSt, for in all probability, by the course lie pursued, he had defrauded the public of four times as much. Sir Peter put the M. into the poor-box. WORSHIP-STREET. An information was preferred against Messrs. Truman, Hanbury, and Co., for placing their drays by the side of the brew-house, in Black Eagle-street, and suffering them to remain until wanted for use, to the almost total destruction of the passage of the street. Mr. BENNETT was of opinion that the Act under which the information was laid gave him no power to inflict punishment, but at the request of the complaining parties adjourned the case for the production of further evidence. UNION-HALL Three girls of the town were charged on suspi cion with having robbed a man named Fortier, of his watch and umbrella. The complainant, it ap peared, accompanied one of the prisoners to a house of ill-fame in Tower-street. lie sent out for some liquor, and having drank a small portion of it, ac cording to his account, was soon seized with stupor, and tell asleep on the chair in which he was sitting. When he awoke, he not only missed some loose silver he had in his pocket, but also his watch and umbrella;, and when-he made a noise in the house about his loss, two other women came into the room and he Was " bundled out neck and crop," as he described it. In reply to the Magistrate, the com plainant admitted that he had been drinking pre viously to his having entered the brothel, and was therefore. unable to swear distinctly to the identity of the prisoners. The Magistrates said there was little doubt some narcotic had been administered to the complainant in the brothel; but, admitting even that he committed the prisoners for trial, they must be acqui:'!ed, in consequence of the complainant being so much under the influence of liquor at the time, as to be rendered wholly incapable of speak ing with accuracy as to the identity of the parties. The prisoners were therefore discharged. Dix, the driver of a hackney-coach, and his mother, were charged with stealing a reticule, con taining .a valuable gold chain, a pair of gold scissors, and sundry other articles, the property of a Mrs. Gilbert, of Earl's-court, Old Brompton. The com plainant, it appeared, had hired a hackney-coach on the lath u1t.,,0f which Dix was the driver, and on getting out left her reticule, containing the above articles, by mistake, in the vehicle. The property was afterwards advertised, but nothing was heard of it until Wednesday last, upon which day Dix's mother offered the gold chain in pledge. The pawn brokers suspecting she had stolen it, sent for an officer, who on searching her, also found a pair of gold scissors in her possession. It was subsequently discovered that Mrs. Gilbert had lost the property in the way above mentioned. The prisoners were remanded. Charles Moakes, a coal-merchant, residing at Bankside, Southwark, was fined 201. for having sent out five sacks which were four and five inches defi cient in length. STATE, OF PORTUGAL. (From the Hampshire Telegraph ) The Briton, 46, Captain Hon. W. Gordon, M.P. arrived on Wednesday from Lisbon, which she left on the 2d instant, after having landed there the British Consul-General, Mr. Mackenzie. The ac counts from that ill-fated country are of the most gloomy character, and teem with descriptions of acts of tyranny which the Government of Don Miguel still continues to exercise towards the unhappy subjects of Portugal. The Usurper, whilst the Briton was at anchor in the Tagus (where also was the French man-of-war Pomone), embarked and passed near the former ship; and although his standard was hoisted, no salute was given him, nor was the slightest no tice taken of him either by the Briton or the Po mone. Captain Gordon received some communi cation from one of Don Miguel's Ministers, but the nature of it has not transpired. The following is an extract from a letter, dated " Lisbon, Oct. 2, 1829. " Affairs here remain in a lamentahle state of un certainty—an uncertainty most injurious to British interests, British commerce, not to say British cha racter. Business is completely at a stand, and mer chants, prior to Don Miguel's usurpation of the throne, of some eminence, have closed their este blishments and retired into the country. This has necessarily thrown upon other resources for their maintenance hundreds of individuals heretofore in their employ, and their resources are pillage. A night does not elapse but we hear of assassinations and other acts of the most atrocious cast.—lt is dif ficult to speak of am Miguel's Government arid tyranny in terms strong enough to convey that feel ing of disgust which they merit. That which marks its cruelty, among other measures of a more repulsive die, is the incarceration of the whole of the family, children and all, of any individual accused of enter taining sentiments favourable to the Constitution. The number of persons now under confinement in this country is 25,000 Within this day or two a bill has been found against a Portuguese lady, for performing on the piano -forte the Constitutional Hymn; she is at this moment unconscious of any proceedings having been taken against her; but the British Consul-General, who has, I learn, from the circumstance accidentally coming to his knowledge, humanely interfered, may probably save her from a punishment that might otherwise be awarded to her. Don Miguel took occasion, since the arrival of the Briton, to go afloat with the Portuguese standard flying, and pulled towards that ship under an idea decidedly that he would receive the compliment of a Royal salute; he was, however, quite disregarded by the British man-of-war, as well as by the French ship-Ponrone, also lying in the Tagus. his ire at such a reception was so great, that on landing he displaced from office one of his Ministers, who had instigated him to try the experiment. He has no money in his Treasury and the troops are unpaid." A fine male infant, about a month old, was left at the door of a house in James-street, Adelphi, one evening last week, nicely dressed, and folded in a blanket. The person who deposited the child on the steps rang the house bell, and instantly escaped. The innocent victim was taken to the work-house, where it was re ceived and treated with humlne attention. THE FALLS OF NIAGARA.---NOVEL Ex- PERIMENT. —The Buffalo Journal, which recently ar rived, states, "that matters are in train, by a company of gentlemen in Canada and in that tows, fur a singular and complicated exhibition at the falls on the 6th of October. There exists a fissure in the rock, at the very brink of the fall, of one hundred feet in depth, and about ten inches in width, at the top. This is to be charged with p ow d er , and the explosion is expected to tluippgage a mass of ten millions tons of weight, which will thus be hurled into the yawning abyss below ! To succeed this earthquake, a leap from Goat Island, by Mr. SA4y tor his darin g l ea p s a t Pa EL PATCH, has been bespoken. elwATJersey,Piriso famed nli and elsewhere, h as b een writ tenrkek n. fills, 111 r. N to, and an offer made linn which be will dotiesa ac cept. le,so chances of disappointment, however, in case this leap sh o u ld n ot b e ma d e , the schooner Supe rior, which has been purchased f o r th e purpose, Will be to the stream, to f o ll ow predecessor, the mi p hi s ,„„ . 4 s this vessel, tatinga pot nearly so large as the illicki!in t does not draw so much water by sever al feet, there is little doubt that ee will, under the direction of Captain WEICSOON, of Chippewa, who assisted in con ducting inher prede c e ssor , reac h t h e b r i nk of t h e f al l unin jured : which ease her descent would be most splendid and imposing." i LOCAL GRIEVANCES IN IRELAND• (From the Tipperary Free Press.) When this Journal was first established, w e , promised th a t o u r a tt en ti on s h ou ld b e d e voted to the local grievances that oppress this coualt and amongst these, the gross exactions levied nil the poor under the name of tolls, we - stated ilni t it should be our endeavour to put an end to.--" This we promised, and we think we may now say that promise has been redeemed. Alo e we arc conscious that a newspaper cannot effec t much, and if not supported by the honest We' tions of the people it will be of little avail. is in vain to expect that tyranny or avarice pill cease their operations merely because they are;• exposed, and their machinations laid bare to the . public scrutiny. Ihe honest and the indr ' pendent newspaper can but speak the feelings of the people, point out to them their rights, and show how those rights can be vindicated, ant'. their wrongs redressed. When the mode of r& dress has been shown, it then remains.for the people themselves to assert their rights ; if thel will not do so, then they may blame themselves; and deserve to suffer the wrong that is inflictea„ upon them. The county is now completely aroused glo,n the subject of Tolls—Carrick-on-Suir has many felted a spirit which is quite worthy of its inhe' • bitants ; and, we hope and trust, that its example • will be universally followed. Let an Association like that which now exists in Carrick, be pa., into formation in every town in Tipperary. These Associations can serve many useful purposes • besides the protection they will afford to pro perty—they can also tend to the maintenance 0 ( the people's rights, and the security of the inde' pendence of the county. We are not the para' zans of any candidate or candidates who loek for the suffrages of the people at the next election for this county ; but we think that the only wei to have honest representatives of the people, is 14 the people making their representatives attentive to their duty. No fair, honourable, or just mei can have an objection to his actions being can' vassed. If associations such as that established in Or rick be formed, amongst the other good cones' quelices that must ensue from them, will be the putting at once a complete stop to the exaction° of the toll-gatherers—and they will by bringing,' the people together, establish a community of sentiment, and an union of opinion, which neither local oppression nor a local tyrant will be able long to resist. From these associations, peti tions against the horrible Vestry Bill and the atrocious Sub-letting Act, could emanate, be organised, and forwarded to the Legislature. , The middling classes are as much interested l ig the poorer in putting an end to the Vestry Bill, and it is the duty of every class in society to protect the peasantry from the dreadful conse' quences of the Sub-letting Act. Those who wish for insurrection will be quiescent with re' spect to the Sub-letting Act. With the Sub' letting Act there is no middle course to he take!' —the man who does not petition against it 0 favourable to it. We know of no matter the would give us more sincere gratification, than: that our humble but honest exertions shot& have incited the people in every parish of thi e county, to pour into the Legislature petitio► s against the Vestry Bill and the Sub-letting Ad' The body of a fine male child was found list evening, at the door of the house, No. 10, Howard-litre!: Strand, wrapped up in a piece of linen rag. It appeare d to have been recently born, but whether live or dead , cannot be distinctly ascertained. Police constable TnoV o SEBLEY, who was on duty in the Strand, was called 3I and carried the body to the watch-house. It is petted that the hapless infant was the offspring of sOO servant in the neighbourho od. DIED.—On Tuesday last, at Rawcliffe, nea t Snaith, the eccentric individual, JAaexs at the sd' vanced age of 91. He was by trade a tanner, and findia that his business much interfered with his odd ways, be freed himself from its trammels, devoting himself entirelf to his whimsical and eccentric propensities. One of th e first things he did, when disengaged from business, was purchase for himself a coffin, which be made a practice exhibitiok for any small remuneration, and in this CO" was deposited his food. His habitation was one of th e most curious places in Yorkshire, the roots being b?"g round with agricultural implements of every descripti oo ' and pieces of old iron, nails, &c., in a rusty state. 111 ! 1 inmates consisted of himself, and a man and woman Ref,' vant, to which he added a tame fox and otter, and a bs"' The carrisge in which he appeared at Doncaster Ra s e was of his own workmanship, and was generally draw n by asses or dogs. He was on the ground on Theis' , day in the lust race week, distributing apples to WI whose attention he had excited ; and his eceerit n fi f appearance during his annual visits for a long serie o : o ' years, will be in the recollection of thousands. WS, shooting excursions he rode a bull, attended by pigs dogs, the former trained to scent, the latter to earl b game. He set the greatest value upon a waistcoat he had formed front the front parts of the drake's nr „, and to obtain which he had solicited the surrounding / l e lager. He had three bulls, 'which were kept for the se j e pm pose of baiting at country feasts, after which Lis j man generally collected from the populace. He uhf notes engraved at Hull, and printed on a paper ea to the Bank of England notes; they were embell' i .„' J" with representations of himself in his curious carriage , 1 :„3 in his shooting habiliments, also mounted on a ball , ' ebe attended by his pigs and dogs; and were couched is " to , following language :—" Bank of Rawcliffe—No. 84s 11 3 ,,, mime to pay to Joi{ BULL, or beam, on demand, the soui, of five halfpence, 1824, Aug. 26. Rawcliffe Aug' off 1824. For the Govr. and Compy. of the Bank o f cliffe. JAS. 111 R ST."—Doncaster Gazette. BIRTHS. On tlje 17th inst. the lady of the Rev. C. Wodsivordu A.M., Prebendary of St. Paul's, &e. of a daughter. On the 18th inst. Mrs. E. Heilbronn, Finsbury-circan of a son. On the 16th inst. the Ihtly of Chas. J. Manning, 0 4. of a son. MARRIED. Of On the 15th inst. at Oxford, Mr. W. H. Tilbury) London, to Miss Ann Randall, of Oxford. On the 17th inst. Wm. eldest aon of W. Morgan, EWE of Colney-hateh,!to Ellen, only daughter of H. Stub Esq. of Sutton, Surrey. At Kensington, on the Isth inst. R. Plimpton, ' l' to Elizabeth, third daughter of Mr. Sams, of floddesl°P. DIED, On the 17th inst. at Exeter, Jane, the dearly be l °' wife of P. E. Famin, Esq. late of Upper Holloway. g , On the 16th inst. at High Haldon Rectory, by ' 1. 1,, 11 : - 0 , den, Kent, age d 18, R o b er t, thi r d son of Dr. 1. 3 4' Professor of Medicine, Glisgow. 1 10 On the 16th inst. at Canonbury-lane, Islington , G. King, aged 67. wre ph On the 6th inst. at the Mount, near Stoke- upon -'4OOl in his 53d year, Josiah Spode, Esq. He returned 4 po London, only two days before, in good healtil l ba t Tuesday morning was seized with apoplexy, wieilat 0 00 1 fully conversing with his family, gy this calamitou s e t , the manufacturing district, i;; which Mr. Spode's val t d ef cerns have go important an influence, has sustained and distresSing blow. EAST INDIA.—DEATHS. ( 141 At Fort William, May 9, Brevet Clliii. p. MO , 16th Regt. aged ps. •-• ,! . • • 0 At Icurnaul, 4p)-ii 20, Frederick, }lie a O 0 only n Vent. F. B. Rocke, sth Cavalry. itollf Near NungkloW (Assam . ) April 4, Lieut. P. 131 1301 1 ; of the Bengal Artillery, youngest son of the late Vl . ..:',hcs' ton, Esq. of Wykin H.ll, Leicestershire, and 0 Lodge, Wilishite, aged 25. 11. lh At Serampore, May 9, after a severe illnesh Toulmin, Esq. a4ed 35. st eel, At Pursewaukum, April 2:3, Mrs. Charlotte aged 36. ..... ---- PRINTED AND PUELISIIED BY ALURDO Y° ~,. THZ StIN OFFICE, 112 ; STRAND, LONl3°''