The Sun. — London, England, 1829-06-22 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCt--(THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their. Lordships sat this morning at ten o'clock, in a Committee of Privileges. Lord SHAFTESBURY M6l'- I:flan. The claim of Viscount Barrington to vote at the Elec tion of Repiesentative Peers for Ireland was allowed. STIRLING V. DOWN. This was an Appeal from the Judgment of the Court of SeSsions in Scotland, and related to a matter of ac count, of no interest except to the parties concerned. On t he motion of the Loan CHANCELLOR, the judgment cf the Court below was reversed. DO WN AND GTHERS V. THE EDINBURGH AND LEITH SHIPPING COMPANY. This was also an appeal from the Court of Sessions. T he appellants, Messrs. Down and Co. were appointe Agents in London to the Edinburgh and Leith Shipping C 4)l npat.y in the year 1809, and continued in that capacity Until 1824, when some disputes arising, the Company ap- Pointed other agents, and addressed their ships to another 17 batf. Messrs. Down and Co. in consequence instituted P r oceedinto for a breach of contract, and the Com- P a lly) at the same time, commenced an action a gainst Messrs. Down and Co. for the recovery of money had in their capacity of agents. After this last case 'ad been through several Courts in Scotland, a judgment *aa obtained in the Court of Sessions, decreeing that Messrs. Down - were indebted to the Company in the sum t ots House. Against this decision there was an appeal to "ma ,Houe. The LORD CHANCELLOR, after going very minutely I nto th e circumstances of the ease, recommended their Lordships to affirm the judgment of the Court below, Which was accordingly done. Their Lordships then adjourned till Four o'clock. COURT OF CHANCERY. W The Loan CHANCELLOR did not sit in Chancery at estminst er to-day. VIOE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. NOEL V. BEWLEY. The Court was occupied the whole morning with this "use, which possesies no feature of public interest, and Was not concluded when our Reporter left. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. The Court sat this morning at ten o'clock, hut there ing no business before it their Lordships immediately ad- Jeurned until ten o'clock to-morrow. The Loan CHIEF BARON afterwards sat in Equity in t he Exchequer Chamber. No case of any importance came ° ll Up to the time our Reporter left. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. THE KING V. R. WELSH. -At the sitting of the Court,lLord TENTERDEN have judgmcnt in this case, which was an applica tion for a rule Nisi, calling on the defendant to show burg ess why he should claim a right to be elected a uurge ss of the Corporation of the city of Wells. The Court were of opinion that the bye-law which admitted him was an improper one, but that, l 'hen the whole of the Corporation were assembled, t heY might have rescinded it : instead of which, llowever, they preferred going on with the election. f i )'-s they had taken their choice, the rule must be re tised--Itule refused. LANCASTER V. GRAVES. This was an action for trespa-is and false impri apkment, tried before Mr. Justice J. PARKE a t the last Assizes for Westmorland, and a l'erdiet 'returned for the defendant. A rule nisi 1 0 set aside that verdict and obtain a new trial, yad bcen granted; arid against that rule Mr. < l •ourtney now appeared to show cialse. It ap• kilted that the plaintiff Lancaster had formerly C ontracted -with a Mr. Thomas Hullock, to make a e arriage-road, and had failed to perform his contract, althou g h he had frequently been called on to do so. c lullock then laid'un information before the present defendant, Robert Graves, Esq., a Magistrate, un der 4 Geo. IV. c. 34. see. 3, which empowers a Magistrate to 'decide summarily between masters an d servants in payment of wages, &c. Lan caster was .convicted, and sent to the house of t orrection. On his liberation he entered an action against the-defendant, who put in the commitment, Pk:which Lancaster was described as a labourer), 1 7 his' - defence, alleging that the document had eek three times read over to him on commitment, a nd that he did not then object to the description Of himself as a labourer. The Jury, as above stated, returned a Vefdict . for the' defendant, and the rule i ti was subsequently obtained, on the ground that ifall 'persons who contracted to make roads, or uild houses, were to be considered as labourers, and ,s. * ithin the jurisdiction- of the above act, that Mr. Aash,- Mr. Smith, and other architects and con tractors would be also liable on breach of a con tntet, which -was clearly not the intention of the Legislature on passing the Act, which was merely — earn to apply to contracts between master and servant. The COURT were of opinion that the information (l id not show Lancaster to be in the relation of ser- N ltit to Hullock. The word " labourer" did not t 'onstitute such relation; and even if it did, the Ivord might have been inserted by addition. They were t hereforp bound by the whole of the commitment, which 4it4 kted that Lancaster had agreed to make a cettain road t ?' a certain sum. As they were bound by the facts men %led i n the information, the Court considered that the P r esent plaintiff could not be looked on in the relation of 7`,.itervant, and consequently the magistrate had no juris ulttinn; the rule obtained must therefore be made absolute. ROLLS COURT. c Ms Honour (the MASTER OF THE ROLLS) sat for the ht time at Westminster to-day, since the new regula.- lu ng. The Committee Room, No. is, is appropriated f the use of his Honour. The COURT heard petitions, none of which possessed 141 Y public interest. • PRACTICE OF THE COURT. in the course of the morning his HONOUR observed, rat it w as his intention to establish a rule which he had M lon g in contemplation. He should expect, in future, 4 ' 4 4 C ounse l wou ld b e p re pared with the minutes of the ti e l l 'rq which they applied for. This practice, his Honour t . °tight, would be the means of saving a great deal of j me, ire)nvenience, and confusion which, under the pre ' Znt sy s t em , th e C o urt w a s e xpo se d to. It frequently l 'Apened that he was now called upon to alter it decree at the lapse of upwards of twelve after he had heard the case, and when th-! whole t Z 4 were entirely out of his memory. The adoption of rule might be attended with trouble at first, but in course of a'short time his Honour had no doubt Coon eel Would join with him in seeing its great use. 11r. AGAR thought it would be extremely inconvenient. % Pis Howoun could not agree with the Learned Coon !„2' inggestion, and could not consent to abandon the u ree lie bad pointed out ; it was one he had invariably h' lt etised when at the 131 r, and he fouud the convenience to " tireat, that he felt disposed to put it into general eractice. 4 1uong the King's Counsel attending his Honour we I , ° tieed Sir CHARLES WETHERELL, MT. AGAR, Mr. t "S, MT. BiCKERSTETH, and Mr. Boss. Ile Duke and Duchess of GLOUCESTER hon oured the performance at the Italian Opera-house cm ' llt urday night with their presence. L • IsCOUld ERESFORD transacteu uusiness at Admiralty with Viscount MELVILLE on Saturdey. hi, The Portuguese Consul-General transacted " ° !nesio n ' Saturday at the Foreiyn-office. Extract of a letter from Rio Janeiro by the tlie rieart Papers of the 25th March :—" Forty-two thfs ll ''and sl aves , men , w o m e n, and children, were im bd into Rio during the year 1828. A few days ago a 1 1 1 , $ arrived f rom t h e coas t, s h e had on hoard 480 slaves. to ' e 'inus t o h er arr i va l, an d d u ri ng the passage, there were t u ,, i g ne to' the briny deeP 184 of these unhappy crea ‘!:, most of them died for want of room and air, as they he literally wedged in the vessel." C:harleston Papers have been received at the thZth and South American Coffee-houee one day later tt„ n those of the 16th May. A letter from the Com e() "" a nt7General, on the frontiers of Peru, gives an ac- L e ti r tlt of the dostruction of a tribe of Indians, to the num °f 200 killed and 80 prisoners taken. h tel l 'rll l ° Porto Rico we learn that accounts had A f .r.Pceived at St. Thomas's, by an arrival there from liadrl4l,:that thi r ty sa il o f G u i neamen o f diff e rent nations ° ten taken'by the British cruisers en that *Lotion. CAMBRIDGE ELECTION. (Froth a Cerrepolticut of the Times.) It is understood 1::,t the 1 tter of " Rips" in Sa turday's Times, excellent as it. was in spirit, has given offence to some of the supporters of Mr. Cavend:sil. " Rips" asserted broadly that none of Mr. Caven dish's voters looked upon the contest as one between Whig and Tory. No doubt the academical grounds were strong, and are rightly put forward as very greatly conducing to his victory ; but as it cannot he denied that Government took part against him (Lord Lowther, Mr. William Peel, Mr. Goulburn actually voted against him), it seems too much to say that it was not in any respect a contest between Whigs and the ultra-Tories, in which the latter, with a part at least of the Ministry, have been defeated. You have not noticed that the Rev. James Henry Monk, the Dean of Peterborough, paired off with the Rev. John Hopkinson, a minor canon of Peter borough. This extraordinary proceeding on the part of Monk has disgusted his best and oldest friends. A Mr. M'Arthur was desirous of pairing off with Mr. Skirrow ; but Mr. Cavendish's Committee objected to the pair, on the ground. that M'Arthur had no vote, his name being off the boards of his college in 1821, 1822, and 1823, between his 13. A. and M.A. degree ; and as he had not kept three terms since it was put on again, he has no vote. These facts are probably of no great interest or importance out of the University, but here they tell in language which every body understands the direct or indirect influ ence of one part at least of the Government, and of the Tories generally, in favour of Mr. Bankes. I must not conclude, however, without mentioning one admirable exception, in the person of Sir James Fellows, a well-known 1 ory, but who, in a case which he felt concerned the essential character of a learned University, did not hesitate a moment be tween his party and his duty, and at considerable inconvenience came forward to support the candi date whose academical distinctions formed in his mind a claim infinitely superior to the pretensions of mere Toryism, unsupported by eminent personal merits. TO THE EDITOI OF THE TIMES. Sir,—You know, of course, that the election at Cambridge has terminated in favour of Mr. Caven dish ; but perhaps you do not know that the com mittee of Mr. Bankes had recourse, in this neigh bourhood at least, to a manoeuvre only decent in a dirty rabble-rout borough. There is a stage-coach travelling daily from Bury to Cambridge and back again. This coach %las secured by Mr. Bankes's committee, and persons going to vote for Mr. Caven dish could only go by means of a postchaise. The voters of Cambridge University pay their own ex penses. There are many who would not grudge shillings for coach-hire who could not afford pounds for chaise-hire, and who would not stoop to be franked. I saw the c0a7.11 aboVe alluded to leaving Bury with scarcely a passenger, because Mr. Bankes had secured it. Yours, &c., Bury St. Edmund's, June 19. P. Mr. It is said that the Admiralty Department was particularly active for Mr. Bankes, and that persons connected with an institution in one of the dock yards, received peremptory orders to vote for him miens volensi—Morning chronicle. Air. George Bankes's reliance on the support of Government on a recent occasion, is said to have mainly arisen from a circumstance of his having been invited to one of the King's parties on the eve of the election ; whereas it is well known that a Noble Duke had the King's permission to canvass the Royal Household for Mr. Cavendish.—Bid. ARRIVAL OF PORTUGUESE REFUGEES IN DUBLIN. (From the Dublin Morning Register of Saturday.) The Shamrock, Captain Woollaghan, from Oporto, has just arrived. She brought several respectable Portuguese gentlemen, who were fortunate enough to make their escape from that blood-thirsty monster, .Don Miguel. They •owe their lives, in all probability, to the humanity and in trepid.ty of Captain Woollaghan, wh ► ran imminent than er in taking them on board, as, had they been discovered, it is impossible to calculate the result to himself and his owners. We subjoin an extract of a letter brought by the Shamrock to a most respectable merchant in Dublin ; our blood runs cold at the dreadful scenes of cruelty and mur der it details. When will England and the other civilized powers think the time is anived to interpose between this tiger in human shape and the unfortunate people of Por tugal : " orowro, MAY 20, 1829. " Alv DEAR FRIEND,—Poor S— is very low and melancholy, in consequence of the execution of his father in-law, which took place here on the 7th instant, together with nine other poor fellows, who were I may say, mur dered, and indeed butchered in the most horrible and dis gusting manner. Nobody here thought even for one mo ment that this rascally Government would dare to proceed to such lengths for crimes (as they call them) committed previous to this devil incarnate assuming the name of King." The Duke of CUMBERLAND arrived in town on Saturday, from a visit to his MAJESTY, at his Lodge in Windsor-park. His Royal Highness left town yester day morning for Kew, and attended divine service in the Church on Kew-green. The Duke and Duchess of GLOUCESTER gave n grand dinner on Saturday, at Gloucester-house, Park-lam., to the Princess AUGUSTA, and a select party of the nobility and gentry who were invited to meet her Royal Highness. The Princess AUGUSTA attended divine ser vice yesterday morning, at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Duke of GLOUCESTER honoured the performance of the French plays at the English Opera house on Friday evening with his presence. His Royal Highness has engaged the same box he has almost nightly occupied during the present season for the next. The Duchess of KENT and the Princess VICTORIA attended divine service yesterday morning, in the private Chapel in the King's Palace at Kensington. The service was performed by the Chaplain to the Royal Duchess. The Duke of WELLINGTON gave a grand dinner on Saturday, at his residence in Downing-sheet, to the Austrian ,Asi*Assador, Princess ESTERHAZY, the Netherlands Ambassador, others of the Foreign Atnbassa dots and Ministers and their Ladies, and a select party. " About half -past two o'clock on Saturday after noon an Italian messenger arrived at the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with despatches from the Right Hon. ROBERT GORDON, our Ambassador to the Ottoman Porte, for the Earl of ABERDEEN. These despatches were sent off by Mr. Gon pox in a steam vessel from Constantinople to Ancona, from whence they were immediately forwarded by the British Consul at that port, who despatched Mr. IlAncunst. The messenger also brought despatches for the Admiralty. Directly after the receipt of them, Sir GEORGE COCEBURN proceeded to the Foreign-office, and had a conference with the Earl of ABERDEEN till the meeting of the Cabinet Council. A Cabinet Council was held at three o'clock on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing street, at which the Earl of Rossmrst attended, and took his seat for the first time since his appointment to the office of Lord Privy Seal. The other Ministers present were, the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Duke of WELLINGTON, Earls BATHURST and ABERDEEN, Viscount MELVILLE, Lord ELLENBOROUCII, Mr. Secretary PEEL, Sir GEORGE MURRAY, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, Mr. HERRIES, and Mr. VESEY FITZGERALD. The Ministers concluded their sitting at six o'clock. The Council was unexpectedly summoned in the course of the morning. The Spanish Minister and the Marquis of lintsr , )L had interviews with the Earl of ABERDEEN on Saturday at the Foreign-office. CLARE ELECTION.--The registry goes on bravely in Kilrush. Sixty-five, up to Tuesday evening— thirty-three additil,nally on Wednesday; total, NINETY. EIGHT (ominous number !) in Kiliush, which was not able, according to the calculation of the foolish fellows of Kildare-street, to add even six voters to the list of the Liberator. But even if it had not added six, what would be the effect on the fortune of the election? Nothing more than this, that even then the entire Brunswickism of Clare could not muster a minority amounting to one-half of the strength of its Opponents. , —Dublin'Morning Rrgister. . - LITERATURE. REMARKS on the PHYTOLACCA DODECANDRA, or the MUSTARD TREE of the ANCIENTS. LosooN, IS7-29. This is a posthumous pamphlet, the produc tion of the late Hey. Buckham, an ac complished scholar, and a gentleman of very general literary acquirements, in answer to some zoological observations hazarded by Mr. Frost, on the nature and properties of the mustard tree of the Ancients. Mr. Buckham clearly makes out his case in opposition to the opinions of Mr. Frost ; and in so doing exhibits, within the somewhat limited space of thirty-two pages, great and familiar acquaintance with Biblical and Oriental history. To the lovers of Botany this little pamphlet will afford much amusement and instruction. TRAVELS IN TURKEY, EGYPT, &c. Two VoLs. Br R. MADDEN, ESQ. LONDON, 1829. Mr. Madden is a gentleman of great and va rious acquirements : he is evidently well versed in classical literature—as his cursory obser vations on the Tomb of Hector" evince--a good linguist, and well acquainted with the. manners, customs, characters, and historical phe 7 nomena of the Oriental nations. Strange, that be ing thus variously and usefully accomplished, he should look with such a severe and untravelled English eye on the peculiarities of the countries which lie visits ! But, singular as it may seem, Mr. Madden carries the prejudices of the Eng lishman, rather than of the man of the world,. into every city, in which he takes up his abode, of the East. He cannot divest himself of the recollection of English society : he carries every where about with him a map of London, and an inventory of London manners. By the standard of these he tries all Eastern cities. Smyrna and Constantinople differ, it seems, from London, they are therefore to be looked on, if not with scorn, at least with a " nil ad mirari" eye. The religion of the Turks—their manners, their duties, and their amusements, are equally opposed to those of English men, and they too are to be regarded with aversion. Mr. Madden does not state this in so many express words; but this is the spirit which pervades nearly the whole of his first volume, and compels us, while we do every justice to his penetration, his veracity, his liveliness of deserip tion, energy of research, and graceful ease of style, to regret that so many good, and even brilliant qualifications, should bear about with them even a partial alloy of prejudice. Mr. Madden differs from most travellers who have preceded him in his estimate of the Turkish cha racter. He describes it as being bottomed on perfidy, and every species of public and private treachery. Instead of the openness and candour that most writers on the subject of Turkey have talked about, Mr. Madden has invariably found the greatest degree of duplicity. But let us hear him upon this subject. " The Turks are generally considered to be honester than the Greeks, and in point of fact they are, or at least appear so; they are certainly less mendacious, and are too . clumsy to practice chicanery to 'advantage. Their probity, however, depends not on any moral repugnance to deceit, but solely on the want of talent to deceive. 1 never found a Turk who kept his word when it was his interest to break it ; but then I never knew a Greek who was not . unnecessarily and habitually a liar. He is subtle in spirit, insidious in discourse, plausible in his manner, and inde fatigable in dishonesty. He is an accomplished scoundrel ; and beside him, the Turk, with all the desire to defraud, is so gauche in knavery, that, to avoid detection, he is constrained to be honest." Of Sultan Mahmoud—the present great refor mer of the Ottoman Empire, a Monarch who possesses a first-rate European reputation—M r . Madden thinks rather disparagingly than other wise. He says that he is universally unpopular —that, with the exception of courage, he has few of the qualities even of a Turkish hero to recommend him ; and that his throne is at pre sent in as dangerous a condition as if it were stationed on the crater of a volcano. The fol lowing are our traveller's remarks on the sub- j ect " Notwithstanding the energy of Sultan Mahmond, it is 1 impossible for him to obviate the evils of had government, of bad laws, and of an antiquated political religion, neithe r suited to the times nor to the circumstances of the State; he cannot alter the ordinances of the faith, he dare not subvert the • principles of the religion, he cannot prevent misrule in the provinces, he cannot prevent rebel lion in the Pachaliks of Syria. Though possessed of more energy of character than Sultan Selim, though insen sible to fear, and unalterable in his purposes, he wants every quality but ferocity, to make him even a Turkish hero. Inaccessible to Counsel, he looks with contempt on all European Sovereigns, and has not sufficient prudence to mask his animosity ;—devoid of generosity, the affec tions of his subjects are alienated from him ; and every where I have been the people have only panted for his death. Their last hope is in the succession of his son ; anal whenever tharevent takes place, the partial and tem porary changes which have been long meditated, and partly carried into effect, will fall to the ground. " The Turks are accustomed to visit their national mis fortunes on the beads of their Sultans; and so nothing is commoner now to hear than execrations in the mouth of every woman, on the Sultan, because bread is dear and money scarce. " A respectable man, called Yussuf Effendi, with whom I am intimate, told me in the presence of Doctor Perousel, that he and three of his friends were going to Egypt, to get beyond the grasp of a tyrant who had ruined his people.' I mention this, not because I agree with the Ef fendi in believing that the impoverishment of the country is to be attributed to the Sultan, but because it shows the feelings with which he is regarded by his people. " Were he attacked, however, by the Infidels to•morrowa there is not one of his subjects who would not rally round the standard of the Prophet, and account it an honour to fight for their Sultan. No matter how tyrannical he may have been, he is still to them the Zilullab, ' the image of God on earth.' " Of the condition and habits of women at Constantinople, we have a highly entertaining account. Ladies, it seems, are there estimated by the pound. A woman weighing as much as the Darlington Prize Ox would create a universal sensation among the youths and connoisseurs of Byzantium ; she might speculate on a marriage with the very first and foremost of its nobility The Turkish Grandee, in his person, conversa. tion, and favourite pursuits, is hit off with equal spirit. The following is a specimen : " Tie most striking qualities of the Moslem are hi' profound ignorance, his insuperable arrogance, his habitual indolence, and the perfidy which directs his poliOy in the Divan, and regulates his ferocity in the field. The de fects in his character are those of the nation : they are, the growth of sudden greatness—the intoxication of pros perity enjoyed Without reason or restraint. Before con quest and plunder had exalted the nation on the ruin of other realms, the Turk was brave in the field, faithful to his friend, and generous to his foe. It was then unusual to commend the cup of poison with a smile, and to beckon the murderer; with the oath - of friendship on the lips ; -brit treachery is now an accomplishment in Turkey ; and I have seep so Much Of it for some time past, tbat.if my soul • were not in Ponta sort attuned to horrors, Y should wish myself in Christendom, with no other excitement than the simple muiders of a Sunday newspaper. " The Grandee, however, relaxes from the fatigues of dignity pretty often ; be perambulates with an amber ro ' sary dangling from his wrist ; he looks neither to the right nor to the heft; the carp -e of a Rayoh, attracts not his at tention ; the head of a slaughters G:eek he passes by un noticed ; he can=es th trembline jaw to retire at his ap proach; he on!y shuffles the enemy F ran k w h o goes along, it is too troublesome to kick him ! he reaches the coffee-house before noon, an ahject Christian salaams him to the earth, spreads the newest mat for the Effendi, pre senta.the richest cup, and cringes by his side to kiss the hem of his garment, or at !east his hand. The coffee peradventure is not good : the _Effendi storms—the poor Armenian- trembles; he swears by his lather's beard be made the very best; in all probability he gets the cup at his head, and a score of maledictions, not on himself, but on his mother. A friend of the Effendi enters, and after ten minutes repose they salute, and exchange salaams. A most interesting conversation is carried on by monosyllables at half hour intervals. The Grandee exhibits an English penknife ; his friend examines it, back and I,la.de, smokes another pipe, and exclaims God is great.' " Pistols are next produced, their value is an eternal theme, and no other discussion takes place till a grave old Pri,st begins to expatiate on the temper of his sword. A grave old Ulema, a theologian and a lawyer (tor here chi canery and religion go hand in hand), at lengih talks of astronomy and politics, how the sun shines in the east and in the west, and every where he shines, how he beams on a land of Mussulmans ; how all the Padishaws of Europe pay tribute to the Sultan ; and how the giaours of Eng land are greater people than the infidels of Fence, because they make better penknives and finer pistols; how the Dey of Algiers made a prisoner of the English Admiral in the late engagement; and, after destroying his fleet, con sented to release him, on csedition of paying an annual tribute ; and how the Christian Ambassadors came, like dogs, to the footstool of the Sultan, to feed on his impe rial bounty. After this edifying liece of history, the Effendi takes his leave, with the pious ejaculation of MashaVa,' how wonderful is God ; the waiter bows him out, overpowered with gratitude for the third part of an English farthing, and the proud Effendi returns to his ha rem ; he walks with becoming dignity along; perhaps a merry-andrew, playing off buffooneries, catches his eye,— be looks, but his spirit smiles not, neither do his lips; his gravity is invincible, and he waddles onward, like a por. poise cast on shore : it is evident that nature intended him not for a pedestrian animal, and that he looks with con tempt on his locomotive organs. This, my Lord, though apparently a ridiculous portrait, is not surcharged, and is, indeed, rather a general picture than an individual like ness." Mr. Madden gives a very animated and graphic account of the Theriakis (or opium eaters), and the effects produced by opium gene rally. On this subject he fully corroborates tl►e observations of De Quincy, and the author of that splendid fiction, " Anastasius." Of our trade with Turkey Mr. Madden puts forth the following lugubrious description : " Our trade with Turkey has been long declining ; in the reign of Queen Anne we had five-and-twenty mer chants in Constantinople, we have now about half that number. Our shipping gets no employment in the Ar chipelago; for one English vessel that gets a freight to Candia, or from it, the Consul told me there were twenty Austrian. Our cloths are no longer in request in the Turkish markets; the German cloths, though coarse, are cheap, and suit the people better. The Dutch supply the market with arms (we once did so exclusively.) And even in printed calicoes and =sling, we now divide the trade with the Swiss; the colours of their goods are brighter and more esteemed than ours. The impoverish ment of the Turks is another cause of the decline of our trade here; they can no longer affard to clothe their harems and themselves as they were wont. The constant fluctua tion in their monies is also a great evil to trade ; attended with much inconvenience to the merchants and distress to the people. Thirty years ago there were eight piastres to the pound sterling ; now there are ten piastres to a Spanish (lunar in Constantinople, and fifteen in Egypt." Our very contracted limits warn us to bring this slight notice to a close. In doing So, we cannot forbear recommending Mr. Madden's volumes to our readers, as works replete with entertainment, variety, and instruction. The de tails respecting Constantinople, a place to which the eyes of the whole civilized world are just now directed with extraordinary interest, are full, lively, and descriptive ; and to the ladies gene rally will, we doubt not, from their very pleasing accounts of the Turkish harems generally, prove highly acceptable. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMUTII, JUNE 20.—The Isis, Samarang, Weazlo, and Racer, were at Malta on the 23d of April ; the Etna Nras daily expected from Mar seilles. Mr. Gordon, the recently appointed Am bassador from England to the Sublime Porte, had gone up to Smyrna in the Revenge, 71, and would proceed thence to Constantinople in the Samarang, which ship was fitting in haste for that purpose. Count Guilleminot, the French Envoy, had pre ceded Mr. G ordon in the Breslo w. The Asia, Nlelieitd Wellesley, Windsor Castle, Rifl eman , had sailed to Mes s i na . Lord Bentinck transpo r t arr i ve d on iv‘ S ii p rolc a sd, r hq t re :• :e a i s t t eod, and r H ty, in eight weeks, from th e i s l an d o f Ascension, to which settlement she had carried out provisions i and horses. The Guinea-fowls had con siderably i nc reased, and fifty-five acres of land were under cultivation. The garrison was quite healthy. The Anacreon, Philip Jones, Master, arrived here on Monday from Sierra Leone, from which she sailed on the Bth of April. On her voyage to England, died on board Morgan I{egcn, Esq., a passenger, and the mate, carpenter, two seamen, an d a b oy o f the ship. The Primrose, 18, sailed f r o m Si erra Leone, on a cruise, the day previous to the de parture of the Anacreon. The Wanderer transport, Lieutenant Al e xander Young, agent , arrived yesterday from th e eastwar d, with stores and detachments of troops for Bermuda. Among the passengers are Archde a co n Sp encer an d f am ily, Miss Lloyd, Miss Parker, Major Hutcheson,l of the 74th regiment (commanding the detach ments), Ensign Thom pson of the same regiment, and the Rev. Robert Whitehead. The Trinculo, 18, Commander S. Price, arrived on Monday at Plymouth, from the Cove of Cork, to be paid off for re-commissioning. The Lightning, a new sloop of war of 18 guns, arrived last week at Plymouth, from Milford. His Majesty's sloop Helicon, 10, Commander Charles Talbot, in consequence of the docks being occupied at Woolwich, was towed down to Sheer ness on Saturday last, where she was docked on Monday morning. The following officers have been a ppointed to her :—Lieutenants A.D. Fordyce and 11. F. Mills ; Mr. Alexander Cromber, Master ; Mr. Alex. Laughlin, Surgeon ; Mr. J. W. Lane, Assist ant Surgeon; Mr. Robert Lewer, Purser. The Lyra brig has been commissioned at Ply mouth, for the packet service, by Lieut. Brereton, of the Britannia. The Snipe cutter sailed on Wednesday, on a cruise, and on Thursday arrived the Sparrow cutter, from a cruise. The Hudson, Champlin, New York packet ship, landed her passengers and letters on Tuesday last, and went on to London ; she was out 28 days. On the same day, the Helen, Robinson, New York packet ship, sailed for New York. The ship Victory, Farquharson, sailed from Spit head this morning, with several passengers, for Cal cutta. At the same time, the Orient, for the same destination, arrived from the River, to take on board her passengers. She will sail on Tuesday. Tire Zenobia,. - Douglas, for Calcutta, will be here in the course.of next week; and in the week following, the Upton Castle and Carn Brae, free traders, will call here for their India passengers. Lord Melville, Sir Henry Hotham, and Sir George Cle r k w ill arr i ve h ere to-morrow evening, on 'an official visit. The Board will attend the half yearly examination of the young gentlemen of the Royal Naval College, prior to their dismissal for the Midsummer holidays. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. On Saturday evening this Theatre closed for the sensor', when Mr. Spring, the box-keeper, took his bent fit. The performances were Lovers' Votes, and a variety of pleasing entertainments, which were well received by a fashionable and crowded audience. At the conelusios of the play, Mr. Cooper delivered the following Address, which was warmly ap plauded LADIES AND GENTLEMEg-This being the conclud ing night of the season, it becomes my pleasing duty to return you the grateful acknowledgments of the Proprietor for the liberal and extended patronage he has r....eived; and I am requested to assure you, that during the recess every exertion will be made to meet your future approba tion. The House will be entirely re-embellished and de corated—the hest dramatic pieces will ire selected, in order to he produced with appropriate splendour and effect— your old favourites will be re-engaged, and the most pro mising provincial talent will be sought for. For these exertions, not vainly promised, but honestly, assiduously, and, we hope, skilfully performed, the Proprietor anxi cu,ly anticipates the best reward—the honour of your continued patronage and support. In the name of the Performers also, I am requested to express their grateful thanks for the' approbation with which, throughout the season, you have honoured their exertions. I hope I rtyy be permitted to recall to the memory of our liberal friends and patrons some of the events of the now past season, for the recollection of our successful exertions may induce them hereafter to continue their kind and generous pa tronage, and will certainly urge us to renew our utmost endeavours to prove ourselves worthy of their support. We have produced, during the season, sixteen new dra matic pieces, all of which (two only excepted) have been honoured with your approbation—among which, 1 am proud to say, you have particularly distinguished the • tragedy of Rienzi—the drama of Charles the Twelfth — and the new opera of Mussaniello. Through the kind ness, assiduity, and punctuality of my fellow-labourers, it has not been necessary, during the forty weeks I have been honoured with the management of this Theatre, to make but one apology—nor has there been one change of performance from that which was advertised in the bills of the day. As I believe, Ladies and Gentlemen, that I this circumstance is unparalleled in the annals of the Eng glish drama, I hope you will allow me on this occasion to thank my coadjutors, to whom this praise belongs—to me belongs only the humble merit of industry and perse verance. " Ladies and Gentlemen—Wishing you all the blessings of health and prosperity, in the name of the Proprietor, the Performers, and myself, until the Ist of October next, I most reseectfully and gratefully bid you farewell." WESTMINSTER SESSIONS, JUNE 20. FEES OF TILE CLERK OF TILE PEACE. The following case excited a good deal of interest in the Court, and is a matter of considerable public interest:— IN THE MATTER OF JOHN ROSS AND ANOTHER. Mr. John Ross, of the City-road, applied to F. CONST, Esq. the Chairman, against the Clerk of the Peace, Mr. Gylby, calling upon him to skew cause why he had caused a warrant of distress to be issued against the goods of his father, Mr. Wm. Ross, of Bedford-street, Covent-garden. Mr. Ross made this motion upon an affidavit which he held in his hand, the substance of which was as follows :-1n February last, the deponent Ross and Margaret Dolland were charged at Bow street Office, by one Allll Loveday, with commit ting an assault. The Magstrate said that though violent language appeared to have been used, yet no assault had been committed; and he ordered Ross and Dolland to enter into sureties to keep the peace towards Ann Loveday, and to appear at the next Westminster Sessions, to anwer any charge that she might think proper to prefer against them. The parties attended the next April Sessions, day by day, but Ann Loveday did not appear; no bill was preferred against them; no articles were exhibited; and no complaint was made. Ross presented himself to the Clerk of the Peace, with Dolland, and observed, thil they had fully complied with the order of the recognizance, when the Clerk demanded the sum of 10s. 4d. each, as his fees, for discharging the same, which they refused to pay, and referred the Clerk to the 31st section of 7th Geo. IV. cap. 61. On the 28th of May last, Mr. William Ross, the father of the de ponent John Ross, who was one of his bail at Bow street, received a letter from Mr.. Gylby, the Clerk of the Peace for Westminster, stating that the re cognizance had been forfeited, because the defend ants, John Ross and Dolland, did not appear, and threatening to issue process against his goods unless he called and paid the fees. . On Friday, the 19th instant, an execution was issued by the High of Westminster, against the goods of Mr. William Ross, " to levy 201. and I3s. costs, being the amount forfeited by the defendants, for not appearing at the Westminster April Sessions, 1829." Mr. CoNsT said that he perfectly understood the case, and if Mr. Ross had paid the fees demanded by the Clerk of the Peace, his bail would not have been troubled. Mr. Ross said that the Clerk had no right to demand the fees, and the issuing of a warrant of distress was an illegal act. Mr. CoNsT said that he might indict the Clerk of the Peace, if he extorted fees from him which he had no legal right to receive. If the Clerk took a single sixpence more than he was entitled to, he was open to an indictment. Mr. Ross—The Clerk of the Peace had offered to compromise the rights of the Crown to 401. for the sum of 10s. 4d. Mr. CONST—He could do nothing for the appli cant; the Court had no power to say the Clerk of the Peace should not have his fees. Mr. Ross—lf the Court would look at a late Act of Mr. Peel's it would find that a remedy had been attempted towards relieving the grievance of which he complained. It says—" That a return shall be made by the Clerk of the Peace to the Magistrates, of all the defaulters in cases of recog nizance, with a description of the nature of the de fault ; and that writs shall not be issued indiscri minately, but only against those who had caused a delay or defeat of justice." He, therefore, con tended, that as there had been no delay of justice, the Clerk of the Peace must have made a false re turn, or the writ would not hare been issued against his father's goods and person. Mr. CONST had no power to interfere. This was not the first application of the kind. Mr. Ross was aware of that fact; and knew that great numbers of innocent persons bad been immured in dungeons, because they had not paid the fees of the Clerk of the Peace. Mr. CONST observed, that a person had' to pay one shilling at u police office when a warrant was discharged, and the demand of the Clerk of the Peace must be complied with before the recogniiance was discharged. If Mr. Ross would pay the de mand, the warrant of distress would be withdrawn from his father's house. Mr. Ross would pay the claim, at the same time protesting against it as an extortion ; and he would certainly indict the Clerk of the Peace. The sum of 2/. 10s. Bd. was paid prior to releasing the man in possession. It was the opinion of several Barristers in Court, that Mr. Peel's Bill intended to relieve parties who were acquitted; and also those against whom there was no prosecution, from the mow , trous exactions of the Clerk of the Peace. Mr. Ross stated that he would write to Mr. Peel upon the subject. The ship Edmondstone, on her way from China to Bombay, tonched at Batavia on the 26th of September, and had a narrow escape from a pirate in the Straits of Sunda. On standing into the Aojier roads on her way through the Straits, she saw a vessel lying there, appa rently under Spanish colours. An ofker of the Edmund stone went on board of her, and found her to be a frigate capable of mountin' 36 guns, and with a crew of no less than 300 men. They appeared to be of many nations, but chiefly Europeans, and of these the greater part spoke English. They were all armed with cutlasses, and made many inquiries of the officer respecting the cargo of the Edmondstone. On being assured that she had no money on board, but sugar alone, the officer was allowed to re turn to his ship, which, on his report, immediately steered two degrees out of her course to elude pursuit. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC. JOURNALS. (FROM THE TIMES.) r nt b a against t n t o h t econstruction its o r of ot i aL)i r ) t e t i l i g r a s to c ounstetillidaetdLfoor in rd the Aberdeen's i\arq •- u a i r sßa g s na's sußffirei Br t itish a t n r sc de e with wer since, if England had ever bound herself to in terfere on all occasions for the defence of the Portuguese Government against its own rebel subjects, Portugal must have reciprocally herself to leave in the discretion of the Kina of England such means of superintendence and con trol over every act of the Portuguese Sovereign towards his people, as might have guaranteed this country against the existence of a rebellious spirit, or the occurrence of insurrection, or any attempt at usurpation against the Crown of Por tugal: in other words, the Portuguese dominions :nust have been submitted in all respects to a constant exercise of the powers of government by Great Britain—that is to say, must have been reduced to the condition of a British pro vince. We do not recollect to have seen this argument from reason brought out so distinctly on any former occasion as now by the Forei,, , it Secretary ; and since the fact is, as stated by Lord Aberdeen, that no demand has been made, or being made has hitherto been complied with, for British armed interference in a civil war be tween the Portuguese Government and its sub jects, whatever wishes we might entertain upon the present question, the principle must be given up, that existing treaties do not admit a construction favourable to the hopes of M. dc Baibacena, or indeed to the feelings of a large proportion of Englishmen ; while it is obvious that no interposition by force of arms can be justified on any general maxim of the law of nations itself. A question, however, has been started in debate, whether the miseries which now afflict Portugal, through the treacherous usurpation and barbarous despotism of Dun Miguel, have not been produced or much facili tated by an exercise in his favour of that very interference, which is disavowed, and withheld, in opposition to him. We have read with some care the correspondence on this point in the Par liamentary papers, and are compelled to suite, that neither was the grant of the Constitution by Pedro attributable in any sense to the acts or councils of Great Britain, nor was the delega tion of the executive authority to Don Miguel by the same Prince a measure in which this Go vernment took any tangible part. England, therefore, is not pledged to defend the charter of Don Pedro, not having promoted the gift, or guaranteed the duration of it ; nor is she (so firr) compellable to resist or punish Miguel for the abuse of a power, in the transfer of which to his possession she evidently had no share.— But there is yet a further branch or two of this . Portuguese question, on which, although our allusion to them cannot effect any change in the course of the national policy at this moment, it becomes an Englishman to speak out. An or der, it appears, was issued to the Commanding Officer of the British troops in Portugal, to in terfere for no purpose whatever but to protect the persons of the " Royal" Family, Miguel him self included. Now it may seem ungracious to certain complaisant and Court-loving classes Of persons to say so, but really the merit of such an exception to the general rule of non-inter ference is, in our mind, not altogether indispu table. The right of armed intcrpositiorr for the protection of Louis XVI. of France, was given up as untenable by Mr. Pitt's Government. The right of remonstrance, indeed, was asserted justly, and it was largely, energetically, and laudably resorted to, though to the shame- of the French people, resorted to by all EUrope without success. But in Parliament,nn_d e very where, the principle of going to war . to the person of a foreign potentate from violence, was given up on all hands as untenable.. On .this point, therefore, we are not disposed to go the full length contended for by the King's Minis ters ; although we do freely admit the distinc ry it by to the protect Duke t h o e f Wellington,oNesth life atn n a io te n r inference drawn proper as, in the case of Miguel, it appears to us), is not of a kind on %hich ought to be founded an abstract or universal obligation to intermeddle. With respect to that proposition which is under stood to have formed part of Lord Strangford's official communications to Don Pedro—namely, that he should still consent to his daughter's marriage with the usurper of her throne—we must say, that if Lord Aberdeen's argument in favour of it, or rather his Lordship's apology for it, is not satisfactory, the cause of our dis satisfaction is not imputable to him. His Lord ship excused this recent step of his own policy, because it had formerly been suggested by Don Pedro himself, and by the late Mr. Canning. 'The Government, however, should consider, whether the late Right Hon. Secretary would, had he seen the full development of Miguel's execrable character, have persisted in the project of delivering up the unfortunate child to the mercy of such a monster. And with regard to Don Pedro himself, did not he indignantly reject every thought of such a marriage when he had proved the demerits of the intended husband of his child? 'We conjure the Government to con sider the subject with reference to this unfore seen change of circumstances. As for Terceira, the fraud practised on the British Government makes a better case than we had anticipated for the King's Ministers. We shall touch on our Turkish and Russian policy hereafter. (FROM THE MORNING CHRONICLE) We refer our readers to a letter in' another column on the subject of the case of the Rev. Mr. Wray, the Bishop of Lincoln, and Arch deacon Goddard. The circumstances connect ed with the living of Manby, alluded to in the letter, which render it of no value to the holder, have been satisfactorily explained to us by the writer. These circumstances are, we understand, well known to those from whom the Times must have received the information communicated in the article in that Journal of Friday last ; and this much we will say, that if, with the know ledge of the situation of the Rev. Mr. Wray, Drs. Kay and Goddard could come to the con clusion, that the Vicar of Bardney " had no just cause to complain of his diocesan," they would find it difficult to persuade any other two per sons in England to share their opinion. The case is exactly as it was stated in the pamphlet publicly by Mr. Wray ; and, indeed, it was pretty evident, from the correspondence between that gentleman and Drs. Kay and Goddard, that they were aware the case was not in the least af fected by his holding the living of Manby, other wise they would have alluded to that circum stance when he.:was holding them at bay. It would perhaps be difficult to find a ca , .e, iu which the discretionary power, which the law gives to Bishops, hos been exercised with more revolting severity. But though every suf fering Vicar or Curate may not have a family of thirteen children, many hundreds, perhaps thou sands, are struggling to exist on a wretched pit-