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rent.to make ten-pound freeholders, %conld have trenched upon the princely-hospitalities of the Continent, and. the splendid fetes in the Re gent's Park ! A plan was, therefore, devised, the sole and undivided merit of which we are in- dined to attribute to his Lordship ; for we do believe that his respectable agent has neither head nor heart for such an ingenious contrivance. This plan we shall develop, for the admiration _ - _ . _ of the world, and the adoption of all other worthy landlords. It does not merely consist in the consolidation of small farms as they fait out of lease, and turning adrift the poar labourers, formerly converted into z independent electors' (for many blockheads have been able to adopt this benevolent measure), but it possesses a loveliness peculiarly its own !" After de scribing a new mode of valuation, by three Eng lisp viewers in succession, strangers to the cli , mate s marketsplocal taxes, price of labour ) pro duce, &c., and the plus of abatement by which Lis Lordship's agent usually ogers the land at 2s. per acre under the assessment ofthe English viewer, we have the following instructive account of the process ofmaking ten-pound freeholders " When the affair arrives at this point, and the poor peasant is obliged to accede to the prescribed terms, or to be thrown houseless, pennyless, and tradeless upon the world, his real misers , is only lecr b innina. The rent being fixed, the age nt b tells him, that before he gets his lease he must pay a sum of ready money in advance, to ,fine down his land at least one : fourth of the rent. To make this intelligible we shall state a case. A farmer agrees for twenty acres of ground at 245. per acre; the agent orders him to pay im mediately 1001., for which he will be allowed in deduction of rent 6/. 10s. per annum during his lease; or, in other words, his rent will be re- &teed to 17s. 6d. per acre. On complying with this demand, he receives a lease for three lives, or a guarantee that his rent shall not be raised for forty-one years. Now, observe, in the first place, the poor tenant gets only ten Ehil hugs per cent. more than legal interest for his money dully the lease, and at its ex- piration his original hundred pounds is lost ! But even if he get full value for the money ad vanced, where is he to procure it ? Upon the entire estate, we will venture to assert that not one farmer out of every hundred has been able to save the amount of his fine, whilst the great majority are already in debt, or lying under heavy arrears of rent ! It may be alleged that he can borrow money upon his lease, but as yet he has no lease ; and if he had, the Subletting Act' prevents him from borrowing money or sel ling his land, or even letting it, without per miss:on of his landlord ....... And for what objects is all this misery brought upon a people, and the wretched tenants, who can get money to borrow, hurthened with an overwitelmino de'lt which they slidl never be able to discharge ? For what objects ? To heap upon the bursting coffers of a man of enor mous wealth, the scanty savings of industry and frugality, and the sums borrowed front the tenants of other landlords ; to make lands which will not bear the rent assessed upon them, worth at least that to which they are reduced by tak ing a fine ; and finally, to preserve ascendancy in the country, by making ten pound freeholders. By paying 1501. of a fine, though the tenant's ground were originally assessed at a rack rent, he can be a ten pound voter, as he has no power, by mortgaging or otherwise, to encumber his land. A more effectual method of evading the prowl smit of a statute, desolating an estate, and driving a people to madness, could not be de vised by the ingenuity of man ! Were the landed proprietors of Ireland, as a body, to act upon the same principle, we are persuaded that in a few years our wretched island would be one scene of rebellion from Fair Head to Cape Clear. For these things we do not blame Lord Hertford's agent to any considerable ex tent. We believe him to be a humane well dis posed man ; but cf a timid character, and afraid of offending his superior and employer." This irotance will show the difficulty there is in re lieving Ireland. We allow that the Government is not disposed to countenance such proceedings as these ; and, if the Proprietory of England were unconnected with Ireland, would they be disposed to countenance them. But who is the Marquis of Hertford ? A man possessed of great Parliamentary influence in England and Ireland. And other Irish proprietors are either English borough-holders, or closely cooeeeted with them. The slaves in the West Indies may as well be deemed capable of being aided by Government as people in the degraded condition above described. It seems as if in the progress of nations, the people could only be relieved from the oppression of many monsters by one overgrown monster. In all countries where the Aristocracy have never been broken down, the condition of the people seems almost desperate. The first thing that Floury the Seventh of Eng land was anxious about, after breaking down the Aristocracy, was the protection of the yeomanry. But who can protect the yeomanry of Ireland ? —Morning Chronicle. We concluded our notice of the extraordinary article in the Foreign Quarterly Review yes terday, with the special agreement of the three Powers to interfere in the settlement of the affairs of Greece, and the tacit consent of Austria and Prussia not to oppose them in ..the execution of their treaty. The next point to which we shall call the attention of our readers is, the instruc tions given to the English Admiral previous to the battle of Navarin : " The answer which our Admiral subsequently received from home, dated the 16th of October, was in substance the same as the instructions com municated from Constantinople founded on the pro- I tocol of the 4th of September. As this latter do cument has never yet been published, and is of ex treme importance, not only from extending the powers of the allied Admirals to new points, but in fixing provisionally the line of demarcation for . the Greek Commonwealth taken under tl.e allied pro tection, and which was afterwards confirmed at Poros by the same Ambassadors, we shall make no apology for giving an outline of its chief provisions. It is signed by the Ambassadors of Great Britain, France, and Russia, and consists of seven articles. " The first states. that the armistice, being re fused by the Turks, must be enforced by the allied fleets permitting no troops, military stores, or ships of war belonging to the Porte to reach Greece. " 2. The Greeks may be invited to assist the allied squadrons in enforcing the blockade of the ports in which the Turks maintained themselves. " 3. The allied Admirals are to adopt the most rigorous measures for the repression of piL• y. " ' 4. The continental - coasts of Greec.: must be protected from the attacks of the Turks along with the adjacent isles. " 6. In order to. prevent mistakes, the line of coast whichcomesin the range of allied protection is defined to bethe whole of the coast of Continental Greece, and the adjacent islara4s, between the Gulf of Volo on the east, and round to the mouth of the river A s prospotamos on the west, including besides the island of Eubcea or Negropout, Salamis, Egina, Poroa, Hydra, Sped's, and the other neighbouring islands, but excluding Rhodes, Samos, and Candia: " The 7th Article, which is extremely important, as seeming to give a warrant for the battle of Na yarit], or at any mtt a 5 relating to the force there assembled, :s as follows The Admirals shall act with the object of fulfilling the treaty, so as to protect, in case of need, every portion of the Egyptian or Turkish fleets, which shall engage not tr, take any part in the ex isting hostilities ) favouring, according to this prin ciple, the return either to Alexandria or Constanti nople of every ship of war, Egyptian or Turkish, and every transport of either navy having troops on board. As far as the Turkish and Egyptian ships, which behig now in the ports of Navarin and Mo den, shall obstinately resolve to remain there, they must, as well as the !ogresses, run all the chances of war.' " It would appear from the account given in the Foreign Quarterly, that independently of these instructions, which would have warranted a re course to " the chances of war," the Ottoman, formally, and in the presence of the chiefs of his army and fleet, entered into an armistice, which he subsequently broke by endeavouring, on more than one occasion, to transport his troops from one part of the country to another, and that, however " untoward" the battle of Navarin might be, it was justifiable in every point of view : " As Ibrahim had been foiled at sea by the En glish ships alone, his devastation and butcheries on land increased. The allied Admirals, therefore, de cided, after mature deliberation, that they would make him a proposition in the name of the Govern ments to return with his fleet to Egypt, as the only means of saving the inhabitants of the Morea from destruction, and thus executing the object of the treaty. To induce him to adopt this proposition, they deemed it best to enter the Bay of Nayarit) with all their force, and as the Pacha had, when at sea, returned to part rather than venture hostilities against the small English squadron, it was scarcely to be anticipated that he would resist the imposing force of the whole allied fleet, demanding his un molested return to Egypt, for x‘hich be was at one time supposed only to want a convenient pretext, as an excuse to the Sultan. It is needless to men- tion that the result was the celebrated battle of Nayarit), which ended in the complete destruction of the whole Ottoman naval force on the coast of Greece." Our limits will not permit us to follow the writer through all the grievances sustained b 3 Admiral Codrington after the battle of Navarin —the coldness with which he was treated by the successors of Mr. Canning—the obscure, and imperfect, and sometimes contradictory, instruc tions, which he received from the Ministry which followed them—and his final disgrace by being formally recalled ; but we may state as the re sult that the Admiral's only fault appears to have been his too faithful execution of his orders, when he could understand their meaning. With the death of Mr. Canning—a statesman who cannot be too much lamented—fell every hope of arranging the Greek question in a satisfac tory manner, and checking the ambitious designs of Russia. The Autocrat soon discovered that he had statesmen of different mettle to contend with, and instead of acting in concert with his allies, he appears from that moment to have de cided on taking the lead in the affairs of East, and moulding them to his wishes. At the time, or rather a little after the time, of that battle, it would appear, from the following statement, that he might have been restrained in his. disastrous course ; but the timidity and vacillation of the English Ministry soon opened up to him new prospects, or, at all events, forced upon him, to use a milder expression, different plans ; and in a few months he was to be seen in the double character of a mediator and a belligerent : " After the baffle of Nayarit!, the Emperor Ni cholas still continued to make propositions for a concerted armed interference. He proposed, and the proposition was sent on to his Admiral in the Mediterranean, that the Porte should be compelled to come to terms by the united squadrons in the Archipelago, and by a menace of invasion of the principalities of the north. Instructions for Admi ral Heyden were sent from St. Petersburgh on the idea that the allies would follow up the blow given at Navarin, till their object was filially accomplished. This communication was handed over to Admiral Codrington, and by him transmitted to the British Government. " The contemplated hostilities would have re quired only a few more ships to be put in commis sion, and Greek independence would have been de cided in :ix months. Thus, if even it had been necessary to seize on the castles of the Daulanelles, and the fortresses of the Bosphorus, they would have at least been occupied by an allied force in 3tead of being taken pessession of by the Russian army, and would have been evacuated, like France in 1818, without any danger of future invasion.— The Government of England, however, adopted neither side of this alternative—would neither exe cute nor renounce the treaty, ard thus (misled its Ottoman ally, without restraining its northern rival. The Sultan, consequently, emboldened in his obsti nacy by an absurd hope of our support, or of the breaking up of the triple alliance, issued his haul scherif against the treaty of Akerman, and the Russian armies passed the Pruth." We must conclude for the present with the third grand act in the drama of Greek affairs, which is too explicit, and speaks too plainly for itself, to require comment : " The English Government at first objected to this expedition, and numerous were the conferences held, and the protocols drawn up on the subject.— , The Cabinet of the Tuilleries was, however, firm, and persisted in its purpose. At first our Foreign Minister insisted that it was-contrary to the stipu- lations of the Treaty of London to employ force to drive out the Ottomans; and unquestionably the objection was valid, if the baffle of Navarin, which was intended for precisely the same object, was an untoward' breach for that compact. The Noble Lord next alleged that all expedition to the Morea was contrary to the wishes of the President of Greece, and would be looked upon as a violation of his authority. The answer of the President, which was transmitted by the return of the courier, not only expressed his consent to the proposition, but his ardent desire for the speedy arrival of the French troops. The next set of difficulties thrown in the way of the measure related to the limits of the ad vance of the French troops in the country, and the term of their stay. At length, however, the final determination of the French Government to send their expedition, was announced on the 23d of June, 1828, and the British Ministry not only acquiesced, but (declining to take ally part in the land opera tions) offered. its ships of war as transports for car rying out the French troops! After a conference between the Plenipotentiaries of the three Powers in London, on July 19, 1828, at which all the de tails of the measure were finally arranged, the Eng lish Minister requested permission to record an ex planatory declaration, of which we have been fortu nate enough to obtain a copy, which, for the eluci dation of our Ministers' views we here insert. " ' Project of an English declaration, to be added to the Protocol of July 29, 1828. The principles on which the Treaty of the 6th of July was founded were not to make a conquest of Greece, not to de prive the Ottoman Porte of a valuable prqvince, not even to establish the Greeks in a state of qualified independence in relation to the Porte, but to re establish peace on a permanent basis in the Levant —a peace not less required by humanity than by the interest of all the Powers of Europe. The mea sures proposed by the Treaty were—first, those of , friendly remonstrance and persuasion, and next those,of a coercive nature, calculated to prevont collision of the parties to the war, and cvn measures of war are not excluded from those which the three Powers contemplated the necessity of adopting in order to obtain their object. But the three Powers positively engaged to each other, and to the world, that they would not become parties to the hostili ties carrying on in this contest. For these reasons, and because his Britannic Majesty's Government entered into these engagements, with the belief that the Government of the Ottoman Poite were unable to re-establish their authority by force of arms, his 141ajesty's Plenipotentiary has always been instructed to object to measures of actual hostility, unless positively forced upon the Allies in the course of the execution of those operations which have been undertaken to prevent the collision of the belligerent parties. It was, besides, the fact, that the Presi dent, Count Capo d'lstria, objected to the intro duction into the Morea of troops of any of the Eu ropean Powers. " Events have, however, materially altered the situation of affairs. It might have been expected, Ibrahim Pacha occupying only the three forts of Navarin, Coron, and Modon, that twelve sail of the line, and more than the usual proportion of vessels of a smaller size, would have been able to cut off from him all communication with, and supplies from, Egypt and elsewhere; and that the Greeks might have been able to make an effort to prevent him from separating his forces, to reap the harvest of Greece, and applying the means of transport to collect it. That various circumstances have contri buted to disappoint the first of these expectations ; and, in respect to the last, it is quite clear that the Greeks can do nothing to remove Ibrahim Pacha from the country, or to render the tenure of his position in it difficult to him. Count Capo d'lstria also seems now to express his wish to receive the aid of foreign troops. In the mean time, important events are occurring in other quarters; and it is ne cessary that the Allies should be prepared for the probable consequences. " Under these circumstances, his Majesty's Go vernment adopt the measures proposed by his Most Christian Majesty. His Majesty does not feel him self enabled to employ any troops in the Morea, but he is willing, by every means in his power, to pro mote the success of the measures, either by aug menting his naval force in the Mediterranean, should it he thought desirable by the Allies, or use it, as may tend to give leis Most Christian Majesty most facility in the execution of this project ; trusting to his Most Christian Majesty that this measure will be effected in the true principle of the Treaty of the 6th of July, 1827, that the operations which shall be carried on will be limited by the necessities of the case, and that the troops will be withdrawn as soon as Ibrahim shall have evacuated the Morea by land and sea.' "—Morning Advertiser. A letter which Mr. O'Connell has published to " the People of the County of Waterford' contains the following passage ;—" It is singu larly curious to observe the consciousness of baseness which the Beresford faction betrays. They seem to know, as if it were by instinct, that it ought to be deemed a kind of contamina tion for any public man to form a political con nection with them." Now it does not follow, because it would be a base thing in Mr. O'Con nell to form a political connection with the Beresfords, that it would be equally base in all other public men to do so. The peculiar situa tion of Mr. O'Connell placed him in direct hos tility to the Beresfords. He Was the sworn op ponent of their principles—the denouncer of their power. He had over and over again de scribed them as the enemies of his country, the oppressors of the people. He had repeatedly spoken of them as one who had pledged him self, by the most solemn obligations that could bind the acts and conscience of a public man, to eternal hostility to them and theirs. He had professed to entertain towards them, on account of his religion and his country, a holy and im mortal hate. Hence it is clear that he had placed himself in a position with regard to this family which must for ever preclude all political connection with them on his part, except by the sacrifice of all claims to principle and consist ency. The Beresfords had long ruled, by their influence, the county of Waterford. Mr. O'Connell described them as having always exer cised the power which they possessed to the en slavement and degradation of the people over whom they domineered: He gave them credit for all the qualities which are the opposite of public virtues. The Beresfords lost the re presentation of the county by that popular re action which transferred the seat to Mr. Villiers Stuart. The retirement of that gentleman again ,kindled their hopes of regaining their ascendancy. To secure their object, they meanly crouched to Mr. O'Connell for his professional assistance. It does not appear that he met the application by a bold, peremptory, and unequivocal refusal ; on the contrary, it is admitted that a negociation took place between the parties, and that the Learned Agitator and sworn enemy of the Be resfords was offered 300 guineas as a retainer, which he was to pocket in the event of there being no contest, and 600 guineas as a fee in case of a contest, though but of a single hour. What broke off this negociation we do not rightly understand—whether it was the repentance of the principals, or the mismanagement of the ac complices. It was broken off, however, and we believe before the purity of Mr. O'Connell had, like that of Mr. Sheil, suffered from the con tamination of the actual contact of the Beresford gold. The latter, it is said, received the 300 guineas for which his services were put to sale, while the former only received the obloquy be longing to the transaction. His character as a patriotic lawyer was blown upon, and he had not the vulgar consolation of a fee. He now turns upon the Beresfords, as they deserve to be turned upon for their base and miserable truckling to his boisterous supremacy. Had they made a bold and manly stand for those principles on which they always pro fessed to act, if it were unsuccessful, they would have encountered disappointment with out suffering dishonour. ,They chose another course—they threw off the bearing of in tractable pride, and humbly bowed the knee to the man whom they hated, and had long affected to despise. They merit the taunts and the insults _which he now heaps upon them— though the worse character he gives to them the worse case he makes for himself. Mr. O'Con nell is not a man accustomed to draw logical consequences, and he does not see how griev ously he defames himself by representing the Beresfords as destitute of every talent and every virtue that could entitle them to the respect or sup port of any portion of theirfellow-countrymen. We believe the Beresfords, like many other families, whether of patrician or plebeian rank, have their good qualities as well as their faults ; but, if they were as destitute of any trace of honour or under standing as the Learned Agitator describes them to be, why did he, even for a single moment, condescend to enter into a negociation with them for giving them his services at the next election? Did he not always profess to know them as well as he does now ? Why did he not, then, at once spurn their paltry bribe with the indigna tion of an honest patriot, who knew the mark upon the forehead of the tempter, and who had a character as far above being purchased by 900 guineas as by " thirty pieces of silver." The following paragn:graph from the letter in ques tion- is sufficiently condemnatory of the Bores fords, and their " characteristic propensities," as he calls them, but is still more condem natory of Mr. O'Connell :—" Let us, how ever, bear in mind those things that the Beresfords have thus exhibited—those characteristic propensities which render them unfit to be trusted. Trust them not, men of Waterford! They would buy you and sell you, and flatter you, and calumniate you, and cajole, and then oppress you. Off with the Beres fords—shake them off for ever !! !" The Learned Gentleman knew sll this before, ac cording b to his own showina • and the disdain which he here expresses ought to have come hot upon the corrupting offer, and not be so long delayed as to appear but the after-thought of a" vindictive reflection. But then he says it was only his professional assistance that he ever sti pulated to sell. We ask whether, in a political contest, any body can separate Mr. O'Connell the Advocate from Mr. O'Connell the Politi cian ? If he gave his legal services to the " enemies of his country," could he, at the same • time, give his political assistance to their "pa triotic" opponents ? We call the fee a bribe, because it was intended, at all events, to pur chase his silence, and to gag him politically, as he could not fight for the Beresfords at the election in his wig and gown, and then, with any show of decency, throw off the costume of his profession, and fight against them as leader of the people. An Advocate is bound to take every advantage for his client ; and no doubt, had Mr. O'Connell finally accepted the fee of Lord George Beresford, he would have tried to seat him in Parliament right or wrong. All the fine maxims of patriotism and love of country would be ridiculed by the lawyer in the exercise of his purchased zeal and ingenuity ; both the Agitator and the Patriot would be merged in the character of the zealous Advocate, the con sideration for whose labours would not be the " glorious reward" of Fame writing his name in the volume of her great men, but the 900:guineas indorsed upon his brief.—Morning Herald. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A drover, named Edward Gordon, was brought before the LoRD MAyort, by the parish officers of Aldgate, to answer for not having maintained an illegitimate child which was sworn to him by a de cent young woman, who seemed to be impressed with a feeling towards him very different to those of affection. The young woman said she was an orphan, and had nobody to protect her, and that the defendant seduced her by a solemn promise of marriage. In stead, however, of performing his promise, he treated her, she declared with the greatest contempt and brutality, heat her, and abandoned her. The Drover—Please your Lordship, I'm but a poor man, and I can't make no allowance to pay these here gentlemen ; but, howsomever, I'll make it all square by marrying this here young woman. Mr. Hobler—Yes, you will marry her now, or do any thing else to get yourself out of this difficulty. The young woman said that nothing could induce her to become the wife of so cruel a man. She would prefer any thing in the world. The child carried about it marks of his barbarous conduct to her while she was pregnant. The Drover—Please your Lordship, that ere young voman's riot to be believed a vord she says on her oath. She's a good for nothing 'un. She's quite vorthless, please your Lordship. The LORD MAYOR.—And yet you say you are ready to marry her ; you are ready to contract an engagement with her for life, although she is worth less, to get rid of the present inconvenience. The Drover—Vy, my Lord, you see I don't vant to give no trouble to nobody. The LORD MAI - oil—Great praise is due to the poor girl for her resolution and strength of mind in not incurring further misery by marrying such a fel low as you. The parish officers should reward her for her conduct; for although her consent to marry might relieve them from present expence, it cer tainly would entail upon the parish further burdens. Mr. Hobler said, that in the course of his ex perience he rarely met with such an instance of re fusal. Generally, whatever brutality or want of principle was manifested by such fellows, the suf ferers were prevailed upon to marry, possibly in the wild hope of reforming them ; and the parish officers, with as great deficiency of foresight,and care less as to the certain misery and expence incurred, most readily undertook to overcome by force any reluctance in either party. The drover said he couldn't find no sureties, and so he must go and be locked up; and the Lord Mayor ordered that he should be forthwith com mitted. His Lordship then desired that the girl should be supplied with pecuniary assistance, and that the parish officers should take proper care of her. BOW-STREET. Two young men, named Janzes Dzffir and Charles Morris, were yesterday brought before Sir R. BIRNIE, charged with the following most impudent robbery : About nine o'clock on the night of Wednesday, the prisoners were observed skulking about the shop-door of a butcher named Brasgrove, who lives in Rose-street, Covent-garden. A little boy, who wai taking care of the shop, suspecting that the ob ject of the prisoners was to steal some of his mas tel's meat, shut the door: Soon after 'both pri soners came into the shop, and closing the door, the .prisoner Duff seized the little boy, threw him down upon the floor, and to prevent him making an alarm, put his hand upon his mouth, while the prisoner Morris deliberately took down a rump of beef weighing 161 b., that hung up Lin the back part of the shop, and ran away with it, followed by the other prisoner. It further appeared that the fellows, after disposing of the better part of their booty, proceeded with the remainder to a coffee-shop in Bedfordbury, where they produced some steaks cut from the beef which they had stolen, and ordered the landlord to dress them. Before, however, they had time to finish their repast, one of the constables of letter F division took them into custody. The evidence being conclusive, the prisoners were fully committed for Robert Ashdown, the proprietor of the Star coffee-house, in Bow-street, which nearly faces this, office, appeared to answer to an information pre ferred against him by two police constables, for keeping his house open at unseasonable hours of the night, contrary to the Act by which coffee houses are regulated. The house was formerly in the occupation of the notorious Grubb; amid according to the evidence of the police constables, its present proprietor, regardless of the fate of his predecessor, has kept open house for characters of the very worst description, whom he has been in the habit of harbouring and refreshing at all hours of the night. According to the evidence of the constables appeared that on the night of Saturday last, Mr. Thomas, the superintendant, directed them to go to the Star coffee-shop, and report to him what they then witnessed. They went accordingly, at about half-past two o'clock, and saw between 40 and .50 persons who were engaged in drinking and smok ing. One of the constables called for a quarter!' of gin, and was served with it from the bar. Some of the company were eating beef-steaks, and the con stables saw a man and woman tossing for half a pint of gin. Sir R. BIRNIE asked the defendant if he had not said that if he could not do business in a regular wa y, he must do it how he could ? The defendant said, that he had laid out a great deal of monoy on the eiwern, and finding that he could do no business by day, he was obliged to keep open all ni g ht, or his family and himself must starve. He wished to know why other houses around him were not proceeded against for keeping open at im proper hour, , , and harbouring all sorts of persons. The" Magistrate said that all houses of that des cription should be looked after. The defendant was then fined 51. _ . Mrs. Prater, a very dark woman, about thirty six years of age, the widow of the late Mr. P., who resided at Beaconsfield, was charged by the cab driver, No. 28, with refusing to pay him the sum of Bs., the amount of his fare ; and she charged him with committing an outrageous assault upon her person, with intent, &c. The cab-driver said he was hired by the lady about six o'clock on Wednesday evening, at the Angel Inn, St. Clement's, to take her to Lambeth Marsh, where she called upon a friend, and he afterwards conveyed her to her solictor's, who resides near the King's Bench. From thence he took her to various places, and finally he brought her back to the Angel Inn, St. Clement's, when she refused to pay him his fare, and he gave her into the custody of a watch man, who took her to Covent-garden watch-house. Mrs. Prater stated that, in the first place, the charge was exorbitant, and that on that ground she refused to pay it. The cab-driver stated to her, when she got out at the house of her attorney, that his fare was two shillings, and as he was returning back the same way, he would not charge her any thing for taking her back. He waited till she had settled her business, and, when she had got into his cab again, he drove her into an obscure place in a court by the King's Bench prison, and proceeded to take liberties with her. She resisted, and told him that it was very indecent, and that persons would see them, but he persevered, &c. She called out, and he then drove on, and took her to another place, and from thence back to the Angel Inn, St. Clement's, where he requested her to go to some house to sleep. She insisted upon his letting her out of the cab, and he swore that he would not till she had paid him Ss. She knew it was an imposi tion, and refused, when she was given into the cus tody of a police-constable, and taken to the watch house, where she was detained all the night. The cab-driver swore that the time amounted to Bs. Sir R. BIRNIE told the female to pay the cab driver his demand, and she could afterwards prefer her charge agaiest him for attempting to violate her person. She paid the money, and on being sworn, gave evidence of the facts which she had previously stated. The cab-driver, in reply, said that when the lady hired him she treated him with a glass of gin, and she drank one herself. They called at a public house at the foot of Westminster-bridge and took a glass of hot wine each, and he drove her from place to place for four hours, but never attempted to take any liberties with her. She was " elevated" in liquor, and was very free, but that was all. Mr. Prater still persisted that he took indecent liberties with her, and forcibly exposed her person. This took place on the Surrey side of the Thames, and she afterwards rode in the cab to the Strand. She denied having taken wine with the cab-driver, but admitted that she treated him with a glass of gin at starting. Sir R. BIRNIE hardly knew what to make of the case; but as the lady had sworn positively to the assault, he ordered the cab-driver to find bail to answer the charge at the next Sessions. INFAMOUS CONDUCT OF A MOTHER.—Sarah Frazer, and her two daughters, Rebecca, aged seven years, and Jane, aged thirteen years, were charged with stealing a pair of shoes in the shop of Mr. Co llier, of St. Martin's-cool t. It appeared that the old harridan sent her youngest child into the shop of the prosecutor to steal the 'shoes in question, which were hanging upon a nail. The string being twisted, she could not take them off, and left the shop. Her mother supplied her with a knife to cut the string, and she went into the shop again and got possession of the shoes. The shopman saw the child leave the shop the last time, and pursued and took her, and Groom, a street keeper, who saw part of the transaction, followed the mother and the other girl, and secured them. The Magistrates interrogated the girls, and they confessed that for a very long period the mother had taken them out daily to steal any property that lay at all exposed in the shops, and they carried with them a knife and a basket, the one to cut away property, and the other to conceal it.— The elder 01 also made a statement, by which it appeared the old wretch, her mother, had been the cause of her seduction, and that when she could not get money by robbery, she prostituted her person.— There was no evidence against the elder girl to fix her with the robbery,and the Magistrate, after ob serving that a case displaying more depravity and wickedness on the part of a parent never was brought into a Court of Justice, committed the mother and the youngest daughter for trial. HATTON.GARDEN Mr. Wrench, the optician, of Gray's-inn -terrace, who had been bound over at this office, to prosecute a man of the name of Doherty, as receiver of stolen goods, at the last Old Bailey Sessions, but had not appeared upon the trial, in consequence of which the prisoner was discharged and his recognizance was estreated, applied yesterday to Mr. LAING, who had been the committing Magistrate when Doherty was examined, for an order upon Limbrick, the officer, in whose hands the stolen property, consisting of se veral pairs of spectacles, and other articles, valued at about 81., still remained, to deliver it up to him. Mr. LAING told the applicant that his conduct in absenting himself from the trial was very reprehen sible, and had done a serious injury to the cause of public justice. Mr. Wrench replied, that he had not acted inten tionally upon that occasion. He regretted the con sequence, but his absence was unavoidable. Mr. LAING observed, that it would be more de sirable that 50 thieves escaped the avenging rod of justice than one receiver of stolen property, for if the latter did not exist, society would be pestered with very few indeed of the former. He told Mr. Wrench that the Court was the proper tribunal to make the present application to. Mr. Wrench said that he went there to make his application, but the Court was adjourned at the time. Mr. LAING remarked that Doherty had the im pudence to come to this office to claim the property as his own, on the ground of his being acquitted of the charge, and threatened the officer with an action unless the several articles were immediately delivered up to him. Mr. Wrench said he would take the advice of his solicitor upon the subject. The officer stated that Doherty was desired to attend at the office that day at twelve o'clock, but ,although two bows beyond that time had then elapsed, he did not make his appearance. Mr. LAING said he would take time to consider ,of the application, and Mr. Wrench withdrew. DI A RLBORO U UH.STREET. Early yesterday morning information was given of a daring burglary committed the previous night at the house of Mr. Serjeant D'Oyley, in Argyll street. An officer was instantly despatched to in vestigate the matter. The burglars, it appeared, had actually forced an entrance under one of the windows through a brick-wall more than two feet in thickness, and carried off from the pantry a silver cruet-stand, a silver candlestick, and three suits of livery, besides the very articles of dress which the Learned Sergeant had worn the day before. The robbery was not discovered till the servants cane down in the morning. A respectable looking young man, named William Belcher, was charged with receiving a quantity of silk, knowing it to be stolen. The silk was offered for sale to a tailor in the neighbouhood of Regent street by a Jew named Jonas, who said that he re ceived it from another Jew named Josephs. Josephs acknowledged that he received it from the prisoner, who keeps a sort of general clothes sale-shop in Port land-town, and who, on being questioned, could give no satisfactory account respecting his_ possession of it. The prisoner was committed for trial. During the time the officers were at Belcher's shop, a ) I ° 4 man, a relation of the prisoner's, came in and three' several pieces of silk, to the value of about 1 04 on the counter. These were said to have bee n , sent up by a manufacturer in the country,. v r` l " silks were brought to the office, where they.stillrr main, and the prisoner is to be again examined ri,‘ specting them on another day. LAMBETH-STREET. As usual, yesterday there were a number of 'P' plicants for relief from the parish of Bow. Anineg them were an old Irishman and woman, man o' wife, who begged of the Magistrate, Mr. Waggle' to grant them some relief. Upon being asked I Mr. WALKED. how many children they had, and th e age of their eldest, the woman said that their oldeitt child was seven, but they had another ten, and the middle child was thirteen.—(This answer set tha office in a roar of laughter, in which the Magistrate° joined.) The unpaid, green-coated, kerseymere-gait ered d advocate of the poor of Bow (Payne) then step P ly forward, and said, " He hop'd he did'nt intrude, but corning to town, " just dropp'd in" to see he his clients (the paupers) got on. He said th e woman was a hard-working woman, but rather too great a votary of Bacchus. Her application for relief was consequently die" missed. An unfortunate (self-termed) shaver was the next. He said he was obliged to live in a Kart and nobody came to have their heads shorn, and b 0 had only earned twopence this week. This man, it appeared, was also fond of licrote and Mr. WALKER told him he should be very care' ful, or he might some day cut some person's throat.' The poor barber was very deaf, and he innoceatlf His application was dismissed, in made reply, " No, your Worship, I am not ad dicted to it." its appearing that he was, as above stated, rather too fond of drink. • eonsecwence of UNION.HALL. Yesterday a strong able-bodied young fellow, named William Hemming:, was brought before Mr. SwsnEv, charged with having violently assaulted til° of the beadles of Lambeth parish, for having refused his application for relief. One of the overseers of Lambeth at tended, 100 described the conduct of the defe ndant on the oe• casion as of the most outrageous description. Duri n g the time the defendant was at t he workhouse, a nonv.. ber of idle young fellows like himself kept shoutieg and exciting him to resist , and str ike those 01° wanted to expel him from the place. Mr. SwABEY fined the defendant for the sass ull on the beadles, which being unable to pay, he W Bl committed for two months to Kingston gaol. e. A smart young man, named Land, one of th ° , 6 fellows who are adepts at a game calle d " the thr ble rig," by which many persons are rob bed of their(' money, was brought up in custody for cheating }ad of his money in the Kent-road. It was p roved d that; he was an old practitioner. He was committe two months to gaol, under the Vagrant Act. A A man named Sims summoned the stewards of 9 benefit society for excluding him from the beneot, thereof. Ile stated that he had recently declareu .I t: on the box owing to indisposition, but h th e a t se nagers had scratched his name, and withhel" sistance that he was entitled to. P ointed out one particular clause in them by which The stewards handed in their r ules, en" P the O m _ " plainant had cancelled all benefits arising , from t_ ; 1141 ; society—namely, he had been engaged In 3 P ti eg' listic encounter, and his illness arose from e"i: cause ; and their regulations strictly pro hibited assistance to a member under such circumstance s. The complainant admitted that he had fough t man ; but his antagonist had given him great Pill' vocation before he struck him. The Magistrate said that the rules had been brO E _A ° : by the complainant : he therefore was not entitle' to the benefit he claimed. e^ ' . , t WINT . ,UR ASSIZES. HOME CIRCUIT.—CHELMSFORD, Do . 10. to The Judges, Baron GAnnow:and Baron p° 11 , r A 1 , 74 ,,; arrived from Hertford yesterday afternoon. T hey arrived then proceeded to the Court House and opene u Commission. This morning they wen t to churc • The Calendar contains the names of 52 prisonelt some of whose alleged offences are of a tit° character. Charles Henry Williams, a man about thirty yea, ll of age, was placed at the bar, under a charge of I f o, loniously stealing a gelding, the property of Jo Medows Rodwell, at Livermore , o n the 20th Oct' The Jury found the prisoner Guilty—Death. .0 Mr. Baron BoLLAND said , t hat this was a cas e . which he thought he should be aut h o rized to commend the prisoner to his Majesty's mercy. ; The prisoner was conscious of his innoci li but as the Jury had pronounced him gu ilt y , be sure all who knew or saw him would point 11 1111 " as a guilty wretch. He did not wish t o live 1111,;' he would as soon be hanged as ch transportedwh . be had never done any thing in his life of ~ re i d was ashamed, and therefore he thought it was hard case upon him. Richard Smith, a simple-looking country was indicted for stealing a valuable grey cart do ff the the property of James Duffield, at Gre at Bald° in September last. The Jury found him Guilty, and sentence Death was Jecorded. • gr The ex-qfficio information filed by bis of. JESTY'S ATTORNEY-GENERAL against the Monis' nal, the Atlas, and the Age newspapers, for libel'A.,%l at LORD CHANCELLOR, have been just set down for . '" o f t he the Nisi Prius sittings in Middlesex, in the count of present month. Three of them (the informatioo t, 11 or Jour/ FISHER and others, the publisher and propriet'i the Morning Journal) arc appointed specially for tro Tuesday, the 22d inst. The case of the " Koa v• 13$ ( 10' (the editor of the Atlas) is fixed for the f o llowingr o otl This is a criminal information filed under a rile of th e , — jest of King's Bench. There is another information *6OO the new proprietors of the Morning Journal, " th e ..10 11 , v. Ma asnEN and others," which is appointed for tr i ,'" o ,' Thursday, the 24th. The case of "the KING V. the Yet• and a fifth information against the Morning Jourf" .. .3is t I to stand over till after Christmas. The Spe cial contains also the cases of " ANDZRDON v. Dr. 13111/s i , tll, and others," " FAIR U. the Hon. Mr. Eu. 141140004 0, C;overner of Bombay, and " the KING v. iiraos i ill" the late Vice-Consul at Mogadore, for a con spiranl, 4 :t ii duce his domestic servant, DELOVANTE , to CONICS. Si' had been guilty of robbery.--Morning ------- BIRTH. t. On the 9th inst. at Wickham, Hants, the lady °- f Lie n Wainwright, R.N., of a son. MARRIED. , 9 4 ; On the 10th inst. at Marylebone, F. S. LarPeo,3' 000, of Putney-park House, Surrey, to Charlotte 1017, third daughter of the late George Arnold, Esq. of 1 0 ' . place, Kent. alb er On the Bth inst. at Gosforth, county of Northo oftlf land, William Henry Ord, Esq. only son of Esq., M. P., to Frances Vere, daughter of t he late b'" Loraine, of Kirkharle, Northumberland, Barollet. 1,0( On the Bth inst. at Bath, Martyn J. Roberts, ° n / bite/ of John Roberts, Esq. (4f Bryn-y-kere, Carmarthee° of to Frances Elizabeth, only daughter of J. Vigurs , Cwm Avon, Glamorganshire. At Baltimore, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, Mly, only daughter of the late B. Will iams, of that;/ On the 10th inst. at Islington, Mr. W. El' °P iesier Canonbury-square, to Miss Susan Berry , of Clots square, Islington. DIED. t. ° i l l° At Airdrie House, North Britain , o n the Sd his 85th year, the Right Hon. the Earl of Kellie,.. th etiq On the 6th inst. at Hastings, the lady Anne "•,fit° Kerr, fourth daughter of the Marchioness P°W"'" 0 1 Lothian b the late Marquis• bti s On the y 10th inst. Maria . Anne, youngest (lag Mr. J. Bourdillon, of Tavistock-square. Or On the 9th inst. at Reigate, Surrey, ItnP r i fj il 9 " Esq., late of the Hon. East India Company —1 vice, Bengal. 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