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at the period referred to confined for the moat t'art to the north of Ireland, and to a few Int - ,!, ,, zis among the corporaters and official persons in Dublin.. They ; are now spread through every, part of the country, under the denomination of Bruntwickers, and are even found in the counties of Galway, Roscommon, and Mayo. At that period the established clergy did not take an obtrusive or eeti\'e part in the poli tics of the country, thotrO, doubtless, many of them were active incendiaries. At present the Pro teP:tant cler&v,witha few creditable exceptions, have embarked to a man in the contest, with Dr. Magee,, the Archbishop of Dublin, at their head. Except in Ulster, the magistrates at that period preserved an appearance of decency in their deportment on the bench. Indeed, the cry was then against French principles, and not against POpery. At present, in several counties—even in Kildare, in the immediate vicinity of this metropolis—scenes of the most lti- Aecent partiality have been exhibited. I refer you for example to the conduct of Mr. Pim, a gentleman who was a Quaker, but is now a Protestant. Mr. Steele has been deprived of the commission of the peace for Clare. Ido not quarrel with the motives which led to this gentleman's removal. But I mot that a similar principle will be applied:to the Orange magistracy; but nothing of the kind will effectually secure the tranquillity of the country. We must have stipendiary justices, or our standing army must be trebled. " The meeting to-morrow promises to be very im portant. It is said that the Cumberland faction will attempt to produce confusion. I doubt, how ever, their ability. It is more likely that they will get up a counter-meeting; and plans with that view, I understand, are actually in progress by Mr. Boyton, and other leaders of the frateniity in the College. " You will observe that neither the College, nor the Corporation of Dublin, addressed the Lord Lieu tenant. The Lord Mayor, however, was at the letree this morning. • " The rumour this day is, that we are to have the Duke of Northumberland as Lord Lieutenant, and it is repeated on seemingly good authority. Aou know the fact to be that he has been applied to."—Times. , i:ee said, in the pamphlet in vestitene . trier he " was next selected to ;lee Ills diplomatic talents to ititinc - e me to quit. my house.— , 'this effort failed ; and . . . . having assumed a tone of dictation, for which I did not think that place a proper field, I compelled him to take his leave. I tiYas determined he should visit My wife nO in my house. Sire left My roof the next day," th 'ale same pamphlet it is said, 1" Did, or did not . . personally tell me, immediately preceding Lady . . . departure from my house, hat if 3 would go abroad for two years' (that is, as he intended it, to let the d.fee'd of separation be put in force against me, and that I might be led to abandon my wife and children), he would answer for it all would be right; and that there would he no difficulty in procuring a diplomatic situation for me, to induce me to go: In the same pam phlet, several cutious instances of the exercise of patronage, hi such a way as to kill two birds with one stone, as the saying has it, are given ; and, moreover, we are told in it, " that if . . has entirely forgotten her rank and sex, she has to thank nothing so much as the evil communication with a profligate (whose power, by the bye, she has overrated), the tender of whose support 'has made her apos tatize from every tie of blood and kindred, from mother, husband, brother, and sister. Whether or not these printed statements have any connec tion with any matters now agitating the public mind in Dublin, it is not for us to say. It is possible that some person has amused himself with a fiction, under the name. of a certain noble man, to mystify the public wit4i respect to ano• ther nobleman. It is possible that patronage has not been abused, that the Marquis of An glesea never was applied to for a pension to any widowed wife, and that the man of many titles was quite indifferent to the whole. We would willingly believe in the virtue of exalted person ages ; and that though there is a temptation where the public money is going to compass the obtaining a share of it for favourite ladies, that temptation has been valiantly resisted. A moral lesson of this kind would tell as much as the pro fession of faith at the founding of King's Col lege.—Morning Chronicle. If it be painful to witness so numerous a por tion of our fellow-subjects debarred by the laws of the country from the enjoyment of its highest offices and privileges, it is still more painful to see them wrangling among one another on points, respecting which not only no final decision, but even no general understanding, has yet been come to ; as was the ease yesterday at the Special Meeting of the British Catholic Asso ciation. Such violent disputes as have arisen be tween that body and their brethlen in the sister Isle, do no credit to either ;and not only tend to weaken the. success of their united efThrts in the general cause, but to render Loth it and themselves contemptible in the eyes °fail rational minded men. We have no wish to read either of the parties a lecture on the occurrern.e which has now taken place ; because we feel assured that the advice which we might give would be thrown away on the one, and because the temperate, prudent, ail(' conciliatory conduct of the other, on all occasions, proves that it is not required. We cannot, however, close this brief allusion to the proceedings of yesterday without intimating our opinion, that it would have been - time enough for the British and Irish Catholic As sociations to have quarrelled about the terms en which they would accept the great boon of Emancipation from the British Legis lature, when the latter had, by a vote of both Houses, resolved on granting - it on any condi tions ; and that of all the causes which have contributed to impress the public mind of Eng ' land with the necessity of opposing the adthis sion of Catholics to an equality of rights and privileges, the violent conduct of the Catholics themselves is the first and greatest ! In the mean time, Lord Anglesea, as will be seen by referring to another part of our paper, has left Ire land with the regrets of all in that country who pray for its prosperity, and we doubt not also, with a deep feeling of regret on his own part that those for whose cause he has sacrificed an honour able station, are not more worthy of the honour which he has done them, and. the fervency with which he has advocated their cause. It would be some consolation to him were the feeling farewell address which he delivered previous to his departure, to produce such an alteration in their sentiments and conduct as to acquit him in the eves of his countrymen of imprudence and rashness ! and if not for their own sake, at least for his, let us entreat them not to bring in a ver dict of guilty against him, when it is so com pletely in their power, not only to record an ac quittal, but to print a justification in indelible characters !—Morning Advertiser. The Dublin Evening Post of Saturday last says, with reference to a rather delicate subject, to which we alluded yesterday “We beg to refer to a speech uttered by Mr. Barrett, in the Association, on Thursday, in which the recall of the Noble Marquis is attributed to a cause which we happen to know has net any exist ence in point of fact. We refer more particularly to this circumstance, because we have seen a similar allusion in a London Paper, and because some of our contemporaries believe the statement, on the fell thority of the respectable gentleman who made it. We are quite aware that not only Mr. Barrett, but the gentleman from whom he ha'i the story, were thoroughly convinced of its truth. We had heard it oui-selves, as well us the rratne of the Noble Lady referred to; but we confess we regarded it as so monstrous, that we entertained some doubt upon the subjec;. On inquiry we find that we were quite justified in our scepticism. The Noble Lady who has been the object of so much remark hall; a high, station in the household of the Duchess of Cla rence. She is known to be much in 'he contideucc of her ItoyaLllighness; and it is unnecessary, we htlieve,to state that the Marquis of An.lesea holds a high and distinguit , hed place in the friendship, and even , the affect ions of the Duke. We judge it right to say thus much, in order to disabuse the public on a point of some consequetce. There is quite enough in the circumstances which led to the recall of Lord Anglesea from the GOvernment of Irelatd to produce a serious impression on the people of England, with out pressing any extraneous considerations into the affair. The Standard of last night observes—" The ,31oratng Chronicle had, this day, .a paragraph upon the subject of Lord Anglesea's recall, so disgracefully violating the decencies of private life that we shall not allude to it farther than to assert, that it is a tissue of falsehood from the beginning to the end. . . • . . . The Dublin Evening Post of Saturday supplies a refutation, which we presume the Morning Chronicle will feel bound to insert, with a suit able confession of the error into which it (the Chronicle) has been betrayed." We have in serted the extract from the Dublin Evening Post, and we will also inset t an extract relative to the same subject from the limes of Tuesday : —" Observing in one of the Association speeches of Thursday last the proposal to provide for a lady of rank, lately hinted at in this Paper, has received a colour not jus tified by the circumstances of the case, we think it right to remark that the objectionable propo sition did not originate with the Duke of Wellington, but came from a still higher quarter. If the number of the Times which contains a reference to this transaction be exa mined, no allusion will be found in it to the in dividual party from whom the application in fa vour of her Ladyship proceeded. That the Duke was cognizant of it is another mat ter, and that the correspondence on this subject was one of the preliminary steps towards and a precursor of the recall, we have already stated our opinion ; that it produced the recall, we ' denied." We are not very open to the accusa tion of a disposition to violate the decencies of private life ; and in this particular case, we - have only alluded to what is no longer a private matter. So far from wishing to read a moral lesson to his Grace, we should, in the storms which are The poverty and misery in Spitalfields are dreadful neetherina in the political horizon, have seen a the extreme. A deputation from the unfortunate b b source of hope and consolation in that vigour weavers who are out of employment waited upon the Lord Mayor two days ago, for the purpose of so of mind and body which enables his Grace, in liciting his Lordship's advice as to the most advisable addition to the e fat es he undergoes in the su iu course of proceeding in this awful extremity : and perintendence and management of the cornpli- vester d av , a t hi s Lordship's desire, one of the prin caged affairs of this great Empire, to take so cipal officers of the parish called upon him to ac active and successful a part in the management qua int him with the actual condition of the poor in of so many other delicate affairs. There are that extensive and industrious district. He assured some men of so kind and benignant a disposi- the Lord Mayor that the wretchedness of the un tion, that however oppressed with the fatigues of employed mechanics was almost incredible. The office, they cannot refuse an application train a Parish authorities had been obliged, in order to re distressed fair one fur assistance in domestic hove the craving necessities of 2,400 individuals, to embarrassments. But where the public die made borrow a . sum o . f money upon the approaching assess . ment. Some idea might be formed of the condition a party, by the application for public flioney, of the population of Spitalfields, from a knowledge is not unnatural that the merit of the objects for of the fact that there were at that moment no fewer whom the application is made should be dis- than COO looms now vacant. A parish so indigent, cussed. We have not stepped out of our way and so immensely populous, was quite unable to sup to interfere with the private affairs of his Grace ; port such an overwhelming demand upon its re but his Grace having been mixed up at a public sources. Meeting with the pension demanded for a cer - The LORD Mevon desired the parish-officer to mention to the rector and the other authorities of the fain Lady, in whom his Grace was known to take parish his wish to see them on Friday next, in order an interest, we were drawn with the herd to notice to consult with them upon the most effectual means the circumstance.We are far from supposing o f administering re li e f. It was men tioned inciden that, if his Grace wished an objectionable tally, that apprehensions were entertained that the psition to be made (and we are far from saying 1 neater part of the trade of Spitalfields would be that re wished an objectionable proposition to permanently transferred to Macclesfield, and other be made), he is so raw in tactics as to originate towns where the commodity is to be worked on teems the proposition himself. 'there is an etiquette reconcileable with the state of the trade. In the to be observed in ail these matters, and no man event of such a chi:Ng?, the , destitute uiditi of Spitalfields would be incapable of any improvement or anl can object to a little detour for the sake of an eliorati n. object which he has at heart. This much is ; The course supposed to be likely to he advised for known, that the Nlarquis of Anglesea refused to their relief is the usual one of a public meeting, and place the Lady alluded to, though we believe the the proposal of some general measure for encouraging application was made, scion les riles, by one the Spitalficlds manufixture. of still higher r a nk th an his G race , and who had It is probable, also, that the Lord Mayor will apply a title to make it. If we ar e no t misinformed, to the Corporation foi= a second loan of tiA! Guildhall the object was at last effected through the inter- for a concert in aid of the funds which the urgent osition of the sign manual. We must say , necessity of the case requires should at once be at p th however, that we have seen a pamphlet, seem - tempted The le to b eraise adit es, with which the Chief Magistrate 'ugly authorised by a person of high rank , and unciertakeato . aid on all occasions which call for the published in his name, attributing very strange public -empathy is highly honourable to him, and doings to another person, in whom the public confirms the ex a lted oPinien entertained of him by rcir.:on it his felluw-citizem THE DISTRESSED INHABITANTS OF SPITALFIELDS. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSIOIsT.HOUSE. Wheatley, Kite, and King, the three men who, together with Young, the approver, were charged with having broken into the )Lock-houses at Teds dingttin, and robbed Mr. SeVary, the keeper of it; brought lip for re-examination. Nothing new was elicited upon this occasion, ex cept evidence to prove that Wheatley had got thi3 coat of Mr. Savary, which fell to his lot in the divi sion of the plunder; altered by a tailor immediately after the. ro!.%ery ; and that when the .prisoners were leaving the Lock-house,they handed a candle to Mr. avary to light himself to bed with, and showed no disposition whatever to do him the least violence. Young (the approver) is, it appears, as has often been the case on occasions of the kind, the worst amongst them, Although his brother was executed tbotiths ago, he unhesitatingly joined in the plan for robbing the Lock-house. The prisoners all stated that they had wives and children who had no food, and that they must perish if assistance were not immediately afforded to them. The unfortunate men begged hard that intercession should be made for their families with the overseers of the parish. Mr. Savary has, it seems, ascertained that the men are all wretchedly poor, and their families are upon the very point of starvation. He has under taken to interest himself with the parish-officers, to have the wives and children of the prisoners taken proper care of. The prisoners were fully committed to Newgate for trial, and Young was ordered to be detained in the Compeer until the trial shall have taken place. ERROR IN TILE NEW BANKRUPT the course of the examination of a person who was charged with having absconded after a commission had been issued against him, and with having taken wiih him between 700/. and 800/., it was ascer tained that the Act is so worded as to allow a man to plunder his creditors to any extent, provided he has not passed his third examination. The LORD MAYOR, in the course of the investi gation, expressed some surprise at this extraordinary oversight. GUILDHALL. On Saturday last the driver of the hackney-coach No. 372, was charged before Alderman Bißcx,with wantonly ill-treating one of his horses in Fleet -street; the case was proved by two of the Society's officers, for preventing cruelty to animals, and the defendant not being able to pay the fine of 10s. and costs, he was committed to prison. AN ANTI-FRATERNAL MOUSETRAP.—On Tues dAy Mr. John Williams appeared before Mr. Alder man KEY, upon summons, to show cause why he si.ould not be held to bail for having assaulted his brother, Mr. James Williams, on a plea of and con cerning a mousetrap. It appeared by the statement of James, that some time ago he lent John a mousetrap; and, being of opinion that John bad had the mousetrap quite long enough, he repaired to his house with the intention of reclaiming the mousetrap ; but that he had no sooner demanded the mousetiap—saying, "John, thank you fur that mousetrap" —than John "flew into a violent passion ;—swore he knew nothing at all about the mousetrap ; wondered at his impu dence in asking for a mousetrap; and, finally, struck him off the steps of the door, to the exceeding great amusement of divers idle persons in the front of the house assembled—the said idle persons having been drawn together by John's own clamor ous manner of denying all knowledge of the mouse trap. This was James's case. John, in reply, solemnly.affirmed, in the first place, that James never lent him a mousetrap, and that he (John) never had a mousetrap belonging to James: 6econdly, he declared that it was James who drew the aforesaid idle persons together in front of the house, by the very outrageous manner in which he demanded the mousetrap. Thirdly, that lie (James) repeatedly called him (John) a swindler, alleging that he (John) had swindled him (James) out of his mousetrap ; and this he conti nued to repeat, although he (John) repeatedly said to him (James), " Don't commit yourself, for I haVe not the mousetrap." Fourthly, and lastly, that he (John), in consideration of the premises—that is to say, the clamour, the scandal, and the crowd of idle persons cUllected together as aforesaid, was con strained to put him (James) out of the door, and down the steps, which putting was performed, not by a blow, as falsely alleged by James, but by a push; in testimony whereof, he (John) could pro duce " a creditable witness." The creditable witness, a deputy mutton-manu facturer, deposed that he happened to be present at " the bother about the mousetrap ;" that he repeat edly heard James call John, not only a swindler, hut son of a female dog; and that, finally, John ejected James from the door-way, neither by a blow, nor a punch, nor a hit of any kind, but by " a sort of shove." And thereupon Mr. Alderman KEY dismissed the complaint, leaving James to seek such other means for the recovery of his mousetrap, and satisfaction for the sort of shove which he had endured in that behalf, as he might be hereafter advised by counsel. BOW.STREET. A grave-looking elderly man presented himself before Mr. HALLS yesterday, and told him that a woman was in custody upon a charge of murder and felony. " Murder and felony !" repeated Mr. 1-lau.s, " and where is the prisoner ?" " She is here, your Worship." said an officer, and at the same time an elderly female advanced in front of the bench, and acknowledged that she was the person alluded to. " By whom is the charge preferred ?" asked the Magistrate. " I am her accuser," exclaimed a middle-aged woman, who wore the appearance of better days. " I charge this woman with having trepanned my husband six years ago, and I further accuse her of putting him to death either by poison or some other means, she first having caused him to make a will in her favour, by which she became possessed of 6001. and other property, to all of which I alone was entitled as his true and lawful wife. The truth is, your worship, that this woman here, this Mrs. Rey nolds, was my husband's anise, in a fit of sickness; and she, aided by her husband, caused him to ‘vill away all the property he possessed, and make her husband his heir. The poor man died while under the prisoner's care ; and I have reason to believe — indeed I have proof of the fact—that she hastened his death by some unfair means. " And what has become of the prisoner's hus band?" asked the Magistrate. " He is dead also," replied the complainant. " In that case," observed Mr. 1-laaes, " I fear you have no remedy. The money having been will ed to him, if he obtained it by any undue influence, he is gone to his trial elsewhere, and is no longer amenable to human justice. " Mrs. White knows," said the prisoner, " that she had been parted :"rom her husband for some years previous to his death." " And what of that," rejoined Mrs. White; " what of that, you wretch ? Was he not my law ful husband, and am I not better entitled to his pro perty than you, who were a stranger to him ?" " Moderate your passion, my good woman," ex claimed the Magistrate, " 1 see how the matter lies. You, perhaps, have been uefairly dealt with, but I regrut to say I have no power to serve you. Who administered to the effects of your deceased lina hand ?"—" I w ill explain the matter to your wor ship," said a Mr. Mott, pushing his way to the bench. " I was appointed executor to the will of the deceased, and I beg to assure your Worship that every thing was conducted in the fairest and most honourable way." " Talk of honour and fairness, you villain," ex claimed the complainant, " can you look in my face and say that you did not conspire to rob me of my just right ?"—" She is deranged, yo u r W ors hip," said the executor, in a suppressed voice. " But vet there's method in her madness," ob served the Magistrate, "and I do believe, for the case was before me on a former day, that she has been somehow unfairly dealt with. lam sorry, however, I cannot assist her." " Then I shall apply elsewhere," said the corn- . plainant l " the Matter shall not rest here they tnay depend upon it: The parties then retired: Mr. Thompson, the proprietor or a ready:-made linen=ware blouse at the corner Of il'ew-Street Lind 6.;t: Martin's-lane, appeared upon a sunitntins to show cause why he refused to pay the full reward allowed by act of Parliament to the firemen em ployed in extinguishing a fire whieh took place at his premises on Monday evening last, in consequence of an explosion of gas. Mr. MiNsHuLt. asked Mr. Thompson why he ob jected to pay the firemen ? Mr. Thompson said that the parish, and not he, was liable. The firemen had acted with the greatest promptitude and skill. Mr. MINSHULL asked how the fire originated. Mr. Thompson replied, that on Monday evening about five o'clock, he went down stairs to wash his hands, when he heard a violent explosion in the shop. On going up stairs to ascertain the cause, he found that the gas bad escaped and exploded, and he discovered that the shop-window facing St. Martin's-lane had been shattered to pieces, and that the shop was partly on fire. Mr. MINSHULL cbscrved, that he was sorry it was not in his power to compel Mr. Thompson to pay, instead of the parish. Persons using gas as an in terior light ought to be exceedingly cautious. Mr. Thompson conceived that the party who ought to pay was the Gas Company, as the acci dent was owing solely to the negligence of one of their men, who came to his house about three weeks ago for the purpose of repairing and cleaning the gas pipes. Mr. MINSUULL said, in that case the Gas Com pany ought certainly to bear the expence, and he re gretted he had no power to compel them to pay the reward. He hoped Mr. Thompson had not sus- tained much damage. Mr. Thompson said, that the damage was not very great. All the articles which he had exposed for sale in the window were completely destroyed, and reduced to ashes, but having been insured, the loss would not fall upon him. Mr. MINSHULL observed, that it was fortunate no greater mischief had been done. Mr. Thompson said, that he felt convinced if both his shop doors had nut been open at the time of the explosion, the entire house would have been de stroyed. Fortunately, no person received any in jury excepting a gentleman, who, in endeavouring to extinguish the fire, hAd his hand severely scorched. His (Mr. Thompson's) son was standing in the centre of-the shop, when the explosion took plaee, and was dashed with great force against the counter. Luckily, however, ke was more frightened than hurt " I wish," added Mr. Thompson, " that gas were no longer used in lighting the interior of shops and houses. ' Mr. MlNsrtut.L.—lf you think so, why do you not set the example by discontinuing it yourself ? " Because," replied Mr. Thompson," I must do as my neighbours do, or I should have no chance. If 1 were to use any other light, oil or candles for instance, my shop would, when contrasted with those of my neighbours, present but a dull appearance." • After some further observations, . Mr. MINSHULL signed the order for the patish to pay the fine, and the parties retired, •. HATTONCGARDEN. A fashionably-dressed young man, of the name Francis Deacon, - was yesterday brought up before Mr. Serjeapt SELLO and Mr. ROGERS, in custody of Hall, an officer, and placed at the bar on the following charge of felony : Mrs. Sarah Hopkins, a gold-burnisher, residing at No. 19, Goswell-road, stated that on . Saturday night, between eight and nine o'clock, after having received from Mr. French, jeweller, of Clerkenwell close, some gold articles to burnish, which being carefully wrapped up in paper, were laid into her basket, she called at her son's house, in Corporation row, where the prisoner, with whom she was inti mately acquainted, and, in fact, on a footing of very hearty friendship, happened to be at the time. She there took the articles, consisting of two plain gold crosses, with 12 collets in them, and a gold pin, out of her basket, for the purpose of instructing a female acquaintance of her's in the art of burnishing, when the prisoner drew near them, took up the articles in his hands, very curiously examined them for a long and made several inquiries as to their weight, value, &c. She received the articles again from him, and having deposited them in her b::sket as before, she took leave of the prisoner and left the house. Sho had been gone but a very few moments, however, when tie prisoner who had almost immediately fol lowed her, came up with her in Percend-street, and observing that she walked rather slow in conse quence of a lameness in one of her feet, kindly offer ed her his arm, and begged to carry the basket till she got home. Being glad to receive his assistance, • proffered as she imagined, from motives of disinte rested benevolence, she thanked him, and they walked on together into Wellington-street, where she was to stop at a friend's house. On the way, she could perceive the prisoner fumbling with the basket, and on one occasion putting his hand behind him into his coat-pocket, and heard the rustling of paper ; but so great was the confidence she reposed in, and so hi! . ll an opinion had she of, his integrity, that a thought of the gold or a ray of suspicion never glanced across her mind ; and when they came to the door of the house where she had to stop, the pri:oner delivered to her the basket, and shaking hands with her, wished her a good night, and with drew, but in a very hurried manner, and, she could distinctly observe, much flurried. On receiving the basket, she felt it somewhat lighter than before, and having examined it, to her very great astonishment missed the paper in which were contained the above gold articles. They were of the value of 5/. Hall, the officer, stated, that he took the prisoner into custody at his father's residence in York -street, City-road, but though he made a diligent search for the articles stolen, he could find no clue to them. The prisoner, who is a drysalter by trade, and had been occasionally employed by the son of the prosecutrix to sell precious stones and other articles of jewellery for him, denied that he knew any thing whatever of the gold now missing. He stated that he has been three months out of employ. The Ma gistrates remanded him till Friday. We hear that Hare, when he was questioned by the agents and counsel employed by Mrs. Wilson, pe remptorily declined to answer any questions ; and in pass ing troth the room where he had been brought for exami nation, he observed, with a satirical laugh, to a person in the court-yard,—" They want to hang me, I suppose."— Edinburgh Evening Courant. The following circumstance occurred with re ference to the banking-house of Stephenson and Co. :—A gentleman at a considerable distance from London, having, a few days before their failure, received some intelligence unfavourable to their stability, came with haste up to town, and applied to a friend, who is a partner in an emi nent commercial house, in order to ask his advice: that gentleman happened to be out of town. -He then went to another friend, whom he did not find at home. He thought he would go to the banking-house, and form his opinion as to how things were going on ; on doing which, he found nothing that could excite the least suspicion in his mind. Hr therefore drew a small sum of 20/. or 301. for his travelling expenses, and returned home. In two days after, he heard of the failure of the house, in which l;e had nearly 20,0001. Fortunately, he is a gentleman of very large property. A few days ago, a small heavy box, on its way from Birmingham, in England, to Fyvie, in Aber deenshire, and which was suspected to contain base coin, was intercepted at Aberdeen. On the box being opened by the proper authorities, it was found to contain no fewer than 314 base half-crowns, which the Sheriff directed to be melted down. The name on the address of the box was fictitious. On the coin being taken out, the box was forwarded by the mail-coach to the post-office, where, by the address, it was desired to he left ; and we understand, that the box was immediately called for, and taken away - by a man in the parish of Meldrum, who is well known in that quarter..—E'dinturgh Evening Courant. LAW DITELLIGENC. COURT . OF COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 1. PEDLEY v. WELLEsLEY. Mr. Serjeant CRoss and Mr. BRODRICK appeared for the plaintilt. The former stated that this was an' action brought td recdrer . a strati of money as com pensation for services perfOrmed by the plaintiff for the defendant; in procuring the attendan c es of wit nessett, and if otit<utring eiidenee relating to the appeal in which Mr. Wellesley Wn4 erigaed ih the House of Lords. The jury would probuoly retol lect, that is the early part of the last year, Mr. Wellesley was engaged in an important litigation in the Court of Chancery, in which the Lord Chan cellor had given judgment against him. From that judgment Mt. Wellesley had thought proper to ap peal to the route of Lords; and when his case was removed thither, he seetnea td stippott that lie would be allowed to adduce new evidence tipoit it: In order to do this, it was necessary for him to col lect the testimony of persons resident in London and in Paris, and fur that purpose he required the assist ance of a man in the habit of frequenting both these cities. Such a person he found in the plaintiff, who was an Englishman, but who had been carrying on trade in Paris as a manufacturer of mineral waters. He was the brother of two persons who had long carried on the same business in Lon don. Mr. Wellesley applied to the plaintiff to come over to this country, a requisition with which he im mediately complied, and, on his arrival here, he went to a louse occupied by Mrs. Bligh, in Baker-street, wherebe met Mr. Wellesley, Mrs. Bligh, Mr. Powell, their solicitor, and Colonel Paterson, the father of Mrs. Bligh. The first thing these parties did was to hold a conference together as to the course to be pursued, and it was arranged that the plaintiff should sleep in Colonel Paterson's house that night, and should go off the next morning to fetch Mrs. Scott from Paris. lie did so, and immediately returned with her to this country; He shortly after wards made a second journey to Paris, to fetch a Mr, O'Meara, but as the courts here did not possess the power of enforcing the attendance of witnesses residing out of their jurisdiction, he returned with out having succeeded in the object of his mission. When he came back he was placed in lodgings by Col. Paterson, who paid for those lodgings, and who also settled some part of the plaintiff's charges for expences, as Mr. Wellesley did not like to appear in any pecuniary transaction connected with the business. Some expen ces of the plaintiff, however, still remained unpaid, and he had received no remuneration for his loss of time, for the services he had performed, or for the loss he had sustained in neglecting his own business to at tend to that of Mr. Wellesley. It was to recover some compensation for these services and this trouble, that the present action was instituted. The defend ant might say that he had reaped no benefit from these services, for that he was not suffered to give fresh evidence in the House of Lords ; and that al though he had attempted to turn that evidence to account in an indictment he had preferred at the sessions, he had failed in doing so, as the Grand Jury threw out the bill. This defence, however, was no answer to the plaintiff's demand : that de• mand would be proved from the enemy's quarters, but he had no doubt he should be able to make out • his case. Colonel Paterson was put into the box, and he proved that the plaintiff hod performed the services stated; but from the Colonel's evidence it appeared that he had himself given the directions to the plain tiff, and had paid him money on account of the ex pences incurred. That money had, in too instances, been repaid him by his d iughter. She wits at that time iivit,g ix the same house with Mr. 'Wellesley. The money eels paid to witness in a dressing-room adjoining Mr. Wellesley's bed-room. Witness did not ask her where she got the money. He never asked questions. The money was repaid to him, and that he considered sufficient. He took this trouble, and he incurred these expenses, for the be nefit of his injured daughter, and he would have paid 30 times as much if he had had it. The plaintiff always received his directions and money from wit ness. M... Wellesley never interfered in the matter. Mr. Sergeant Cause directed the Crier of the Court to call Helen Bligh, otherwise Wellesley. Mr. Sergeant WILDE asked Colonel Paterson whether he had not been present ut his daughter's marriage to Mr. Wellesley. Colonel Paterson answered in the affirmative, and added, that the marriage took place in Novem ber last. Mr. Sergeant WILDE objected, that a wife could not be admitted to give evidence against her hus band. Mr. Sergeant Cross said, sho had received her subpoena before this marriage, and it could not be permitted to one party to deprive another of a wit ness, by marrying her in the mean time. (Laughter.) The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE thought it was not very likely that many witnesses would be with drawn from causes in that manner.—(Continued laughter.) Mr. I.3aODERIe said, there had been a case in which the Court held, that an underwriter, who had acquired an interest in a policy subsequent to re ceiving his subpaena, was still liable to be examined as a witness in the cause. (Loud laughter.) The LORD CHIEF JUsTICE could not conceive that there was any resemblance between a wife end an underwriter, and he should reject the evidence. Susannah Scott was then called, and she de scribed the employment of herself and the plaintiff as having been originally marked out in a conversa tion between her and Mr. Wellesley upon her first arrival in London. She often saw Mr. Wellesley afterwards, but never spoke to him, as it was ar ranged that he should not appear in the business, although in his first interview with her he had pro mised her protection, and an annuity of 1501. for life, if she would do what was required. Col. Paterson, too, told her that when she was speaking to Lim or to Mr. Powell, she might consider herself as speaking to Mr. Wellesley. When she found that they wanted her to contradict her former evi dence in the Court of Chancery, and to entrap her into an indictment for conspiracy, in order that she might turn round and be King's evidence, she re fused and quitted the country. She swore that her expenses had been paid by Pedley. On cross-examination she was repeatedly asked if she had not represented that she had gone to inns at Henley, Oxford, Wallingford, Dartford, and Leatherhead, with a man named Nixon, the clerk of the .attornies engaged against the present de fendant; whether she had not acknowledged sleep ing at those places with Nixon, and whether the journey she had spoken off had not been undertaken in order that she might be identified by the servants at those various inns. She answered these ques tions at first in the negative, but upon their being pressed, The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said that such admis sions would be evidence against her in the Ecclesi astical Court, and she was not bound to make them. His Lordship regretted with Mr. Jui.tice Blackstone, that there was no other punishment for adultery in this country than what could be inflicted by the feeble arm of the Ecclesiastical Court; but still a witness was riot obliged to render herself liable even to that punishment. Mr. Sergeant WILDE put into the witness's hand a paper, desiring to know whether that was her signature attached to it. She answered in the af firmative, and the paper was handed in to the of -ficer to be read. The vary first sentence of this paper made the admission which the Lord Chief Jus ice had declared he would not receive. LORDSHIP complained of this proceeding, 'and after some warm discussion between him and' the Learned Sergeant the paper was rejected. The cross-examination was then continued, and she swore that although she had signed this paper she did not know its contents, and that the paper pre pared by Mr. Powell as her statement was not the statement read in Court, and did not begin in the same manner. She admitted that she had been at there various places with Nixon, but that when she went round again to them with Pedley and Wick- tam; the clerk of Mr. Whitelock, Mr. Welleslo titftlitte i t she did not know for what purpose the h ad been taken to thetti, and she did not discover untie nearly the end of the busineqs, Ruthven, the ?olice-officer, who had secompanietf her to her hasband's residence on ?ev arrival in' tewn, as she pretended to be alarmed at his pas-' s ion, was called to prove the employment el Ped-7 ley by the defendant, but gave no material evittince on the point ; and in his cross examination, et*. thistly stated that Susannah Scott had told hi m ; ' sht. , tattle to England for the purposes alluded to by Ser t iettnt Wilde, and which she had just denied. Mr. Sell:data WitgE submitted that there wieS no evidence to go the joy in support of the plain tiff's case. The LORD CIIIEF JUSTICE was of the same opt-' nion, and the Jury, expressing their. belief that the credit had been given to Colonel Paterson, and not to Mr. Wellesley, the plaintiff was nonsuited. Mr. Powell wished to address the Court as to the statertients made regarding him by Susannah Scott, whom he ectlid Completely contradict ; but, as the cause was at an end, the Lord Chief itteticat refused to hear him. However, at the moment his Lordship was about to leave the Court, he said that, in justice to Mr. Powell, he was litood to ob' serve, that from all he knew of that gentleman, he was incapable of acting in a dishonourable manner, HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY, JAN. 21. THE ADELAIDE-SLAVE CASE. This case was part argued during the last term, and the arguments Were resumed this day. The KING'S ADVOCATE, who had not previously' Appeared in the cause, stated that the prosecutiom of this appeal had hitherto been carried on by Captain Jones, of his Airtjesty's ship Orestes, as the seizor of the Adelaide, at his own expense. ft was q uite clear, however, that his Majesty had an interest in the cause, and upon the facts being laid before him', under the orders of the Colonial-office, he had ad' vised an application on behalf of to protect Captain Jones, who actedi throughoutlVajesty, es as this transaction very meritoriously, from any i.7 e " judice which might arise towards him from the Weil that he was prosecuting this case, his Majesty's ad visers having decided that it was not a fit case for prosecution. The fact was, that the case had not been laid before the law officers of the Crown by some mistake; but, as soon as it had been laid be fore them, it was decided that the Crown should take part in the prosecution, and he now appeared on behalf of his Majesty to support the appeal. The Judge said that the appearance on behalf of the Crown was extremely:satisfactory, as the integrity of some persons holding situations under the Crowe was implicated. The KING'S ADVOCATE then addressed the Court at _considerable length in support of thii,ar, peal, and - after recapitulating the facts of the ea se, proceeded to contend that it was clearly the inten" tion of the legislature,. by the Slave Coneolidatior! Act, to prevent altogether the removal of slaves from one colony to another, and that this case could not be considered to have come fairly 'within the exceptions mentioned in that Act. Dr. DODSON,. on the-part of the respondents, re plied to the arguments of Dr. Lushington and the King's Advocate. The Learned Counsel entered fully into the facts of the case, and concluded bat submitting that the judgment of the Colonial Court was justified by the state of the law and the facts Of the case, and that it ought to be confirmed, and•the appeal dismissed. Dr. Ntcnor, followed on the same side. The arguments occupied the Court until its rising' and the case now stands over for judgment. OLD BAILEY, JAN. 21. At two o'clock the Recorder took his teat in the Nee Court, and immediately proceeded to pass sentence upon the Prisoners convicted during the Session. !Sentence 0, Death was passed upon the following : Benjamin Barrup, for maliciously shooting at Mai Mortlock ; John Cannon, Benjamin Holland, Henry Ri^ chardson, Josepli Donovan, Thomas Mulgrave, Henri Wood, John Woodison, Jennings, Geo. Clivee, John James, Robert Barton (for forgery), Geo. Robinson, Joseph Eolland, Esther Shaw, and Fred. Burn. Transported for Life—E. Rntaell, William Parsons, and Benjamin Holland. Transported for Fourteen Years—Thomas Wood, EIO Rivers, William Yardley, Chas. Trew, John Puddy, Marl Steptoe otherwise Belford, Joseph Adams, Wm. Deedresse Thomas 'Williams, and Elizabeth Sugden. Eighty were ordered to be transported for seven years: one to be imprisoned twelve months; nine for six months; ore for five months; six for four months; fifteen fur three mouths ; eight for two months ; four for six weeks; this' teen for one month ; fourteen from seem to fourteen days; and on three judgment was respitetl. For Seven Years.—Michael Nowlan, William Ray, Oa* Readinz, Charles Butters, James Ferguson, John hams, William Green, Thomas Lindsay, Joseph Jerre* James Haynes, Mary Rice, William Holmes, Robert San' some, Charles White, Francis Nichols, Thomas Bank", -Limes Pickering, tones Steptoe, alias Belford, panic' Heath, alias John Lloyd (for bigamy), George Gardiner , Robot Newman, John Walbrook, James Marley, William Hancock, John Hancock (for stealing fowls—two well known chat acters), John Perkins, Joseph Siblry, Job" Smith, Mary Sweet, Joseph Edeson, Mary Jordan, Mali Fox, John Eaton, John Barton, John Francis, Jame" Dillon, Hannah Goodman (for bigamy), William Yardley (convicted on two indictment., and sentenced to set" years transportation on each), William Pearce, Georg e Phillips, Charles Dalton, Henry Radford, John Jame'' Jane Grady, James Farrell, George Donovan, Georg e Cummins, Thomas Jones, John Noel, alias Thomas Georg e Yardley, John Williams, Joseph Coder, Louisa Palmer , Owen Evans, William Carlisle, Thomas Rockley, Job" Green, James Cider, Charles Smith, Robert Richardso o r henry Perry, Henry Adams, Thomas Turner, Jose Chisley, Jeremiah Lloyd, John nudge, Samuel Legrave' Charles Lewin, Margaret Jenkins, Ann May, John Cock" field, George Donald, John Bristow, George Tayk",' Charles Tapps, William Topping, Henry Simmonds, John McDonald. Several were sentenced to various term. of imprison' ment, and some to be whipped and discharged. The Sessions thm adjourned to Thursday the 19th ° I February. BIRTHS. On the 19th inst., at the Manor-house, Hertingfordbuei the lady of the Hon. and Rev. Robt. Eden, of a eon. On the 19th inst. at Wrotham-park, the seat of G e org' Byng, Esq., the Lady John Thynne, of a daughter On the 20th inst., at Weston-green, Surrey, the lady e the Rev. Edward Woodhouse, of a daughter. On the 20th inst., at:Lavender-hall, Mrs. Bogle sjuitb of a son. MARRIED. On the 19th inst., Mr. Henry Fielder, to Elizabet h eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas Ryder, Lambeth. On the lith November, 0.5., at St. Peter bure Dr. Thomas Walker, Physician to the Embassy the' to Miss Charlotte Wistinghausen, daughter. of Frederi C Wistinghausen, Esq. On the 20th inst., at Radford, near Nottingham, b the Rev. head, in the county of Ayr, to Anne, eldest daughter the late Hugh Campbell, Esq., of Mayfield, in the •ail county. On the 20th inst., at Great Stanunore, Middlesex, the Rev. J. 11. 'Mapleton, rector of Christchurch, Surre Richard Gullett Whitfield, Esq., to Charlotte Warnefor third daughter of the late Philip Roberti Willson, Eeq.► Barnet, Herts. DIED. On the 20th inst., at his house in Hawley-square, 14 2 gate, Susanna, wife of Joseph Taylor, Esq., after a 1 01 illnLS c. On the 18th inst., at his house, Chancery•-lane, Mr. "A r ' Burch, solicitor, aged 32. On the 19th inst., at Warley House, Essex, Char . Edward, the infant son of Sir John Hawker English. Ou the 19th inst., at Great Baddow, Essex, of a rat decline, Lieutenant Charles Urquhart, late of the 81 Fusileerg, third son of the late Walter Urquhart, Esq. On the 19th inst., iu Torrington-square, aged Elizabeth, relict of the late Sampson Hodgkiason, Ey of Upton, Essex. On the 16th inst., at Tor-hill-cottage, Devonshire, the 28th year of his age, Robert Stewart, Esq., of Bengal Native Infantry. 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