The Sun. — London, England, 1829-03-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS. Some of the factious newspapers, we find, have taken upon themselves not to blame, but to abuse the Duke of Wellington, because of his having sought from Lord Winchilsea the reparation usual amongst gentlemen for the offence which was re cently, and as the Noble Earl has since acknow ledged, unadvised!) , given by him to his Grace. Entertaining, as we do, a most sincere and anxious wish rather to heal completely, than in the slightest degree to re-open or irritate, any uneasy feeling which may have been connected with the late oc currences, we shall take no further notice of the animadversions cast upon the Duke of Wellington's part in them than seems absolutely indispensable to truth and common justice. It would no doubt be a convenience to gentlemen who have strong appe tites for stigmatizing their political adversaries, if they were suffered to vent their violence, whenever and to whatever extent they might think proper, with impunity. There is nothing easier than to write common-places against duelling, and throw dirt at such men as the Duke of Wel lington, for having lent their sanction to a usage" so barbarous and unbecoming." Few persons, perhaps, will venture to defend, by abstract arguments, a proceeding which may abruptly terminate human life. But the fact is, that custom and general feel ing are too strong for even the Duke of Welling ton; and that the benefits of a system, whose chief merit lies in its aptitude to diminish and finally ex tinguish the necessity for its own application, have been felt so powerfully in the gradual refinement of manners, throughout those nations where it has more or less prevailed, as to confront the speculative moralist by a direct appeal to facts. If the Duke of Wellington had evinced no reteliness to meet the provoking imputation of criminal motives, which had been brought against him by a Nobleman so much respected in society for private worth, would not the very faction which now assails his Grace for Laving resorted to the only mode of vindication which the obstinacy of others had left open, been the first to triumph in his submission to the charge, and in his tacit avowal of its justice ? The bold ness—the excellence—the truth of Lord Winchil sea's letter was boasted of in all these factious print., as a victory gained over the Duke of Wel lington, because no immediate and public no tice was taken of this production : its spirit, and of its author, were applauded .o the skies.— Whet, then, was the course prescribed to the Duke of Wellington—prescribed to him, we say, by his ac rusers? Why, surely, to prevail upon the person wilt) had so grossly wronged him to admit that lie had been himself in error. Now this admission was e aail e at last ; and, late as it arrived, was presented with a degree of frank and honourable feeling, which proved that the judgment only (not the heart) of the Noble aggressor was to blame. lf, then, it had become a matter of absolute equity, that the Duke of Wellington should be relieved from the stain of so unworthy an accusation, and if the error, or in temperance under which he had suffered, was at last by the confession of the party himself made un queationable, let us ask any upright mind, whose tisult is it that the extremity complained of was re eorted to ? flewd the correspondence, and see if erer there were permed a series of applications from an aggrieved indissideel e more mild, more concili asory,—more humble, we bad almost said,—more s orriest in their love of peace, more elshorrent of an igotr;endly issue? It is manifest to every pan of pilau sense and right feeling, that the Duke of Welling ass could hardly bring himself to con template ee possible the extent to which perseverance in error could be carried by tile principal of whom he solicited redress, or by h's44l, - iser. He even modified his own reasonable :Jed weli e tempered propositions, to nit iI ha eould etsften the ,obduracy of others. He declared him calf, titer the monstrous requisition had been made ' to hint, that he sheeld bimself explain his conduct, —he who haul received the josolt I—after this mon eesalus requisition had been pet npeo him, the Duke " lamented that a nobleman for whom be felt the kigheit respect should entertain a bad opinion him,'" and declared himself " still unwilling to part with the belief that his Lordship would be ieueious to give hive 1./nitration." (See No. 8.) .Agssie;., at the eleventh 1404 W, when Lord Winchil silo had, through Lord Falmouth, reiterated his re fusal of peaceable redress, the Duke as fast espe siment sent Sr Henry Hardinge to aicertain," he s4nd the possibility of a doubt," that Lord Wine 4.ll,lisea " declined to giee the desired reparation." This was at two o'clock on ceiday. (Yid. No. 11,) Now we ask with confidence, wg..is ever human patience carried to a more exemplary p,Qint than in these proceedings of the Duke of Wellingtons 9 And we further ask, was ever any thing more -n choirs or inhuman than now to charge the ;''lured and long-suffering party w i t h the crime—for such they call it—of this duel ? Of course, as we have already said, nothing could be more convenient: for the fanatics than cence to revile, and calumniate, and destroy men's reputations with impanity; and it is clear that their ch.ler rises at the untimely check which has been given to this very wholesome privilege; but let the blame rest on the proper shoulders.— Lord Winchilsea went out, resolved trot. 10 fire at the Duke of Wellington. He went out intetesPig, as is quite obvious, to apologize, but not without a previous duel. He therefore exposed himself to a: mortal danger knowing himself to be in the wrong. Who is " the duellist" on this unfortunate occasion'' Lord Falmouth comes with a supplementary letter in his own person, and affirms (this is most import ant) that " he had distinctly declared on the ground that it never was a question with him, whether the publication had been wrong, but merely whether Lord Winchilsea was in a situation honourably to stibtcribe to the terms proposed, after lie (Lord Falmouth) was requested to undertake the business." What then—if factious papers will mat se mischief — if they will sing blame about—what do they flay to Lord Falmouth.--to Lord Falmouth who tsay.ee " had a us'uht" that Lord Winchilsea had wronged the Duke of 'l 7 ellingtort by his publication, yet who, knowing Lord ‘;'.;richilsea to be in the wrong, was a party to his refusal ssf reparation, and actually au thorized him, under such circumstaniees, in going to the field ? Why did not Lord Fairn° 44l fa)? Ili' once to his friend—" My Lord, y ,: - ‘u have encev.it.- ted an injustice, and you will act with (:,ctriitY and honour in confessing it? My Lord, you are i';".• the wrong on thie occasion, and if you do not acknow- Nlge it, you must choose another second; for if, evil! , my opinion of your conduct, I attend you to the fieN, I may have your blood upon my hands." —We have been dragged into this very painful dis cussionby no desire to blame Lord Falmouth, whose task was a most difficult one, but by the base at tempts to villify the Duke of Wellington's demand of reparation from his worthy, but ill judging ag gressor.— Times. _lt will not be thought strange that the Attorney- G ene ,2l has at length received the official intimation that the hj.tig has no further occasion for his ser vices. When . his Majesty, in the speech which opens a Session Parliament, recommends the consideration of a measure with a view to some change, which, both conside;-.ation of the measure and projected change, one of his eWP servants de clares to be unconstitutional, wicked, aliJ absurd, there can be no question but that somebody must go out ; and as tht individual servant can bft roore easily parted with than either the King or tha Ministry, the conclusion is unavoidable. We can not conceive why, having determined to oppose a Ministerial measure, the Attorney-General should choose to linger any longer in the Ministry. He waited to be turned out, instead of tendering iris resignation, If Mr. Peel had adopted a similar otirse—i t ire#had waited for a while, till pac,i:i.on had siibsided, .and the fills, now in transitn, itad ,quietly and beneficially commenced their operation, as we have no doubt will be ,t 1 ,2 .case—he never would have lost Oxford; and withoiAt Any dispa ragemeirt of Sir R. Inglis, we feel convinced t.hvt it will not be loos ere that learned body will deeply regret that it has accepted a worse man in lieu of a better. But who is to be the new Attorney- General ? We know not. We hope, whoever he may be that shall arrive at that dignity, that he will, if need he, know how to retire with a better grace than Sir Charles Wetherell.—lbid. The divisions last night in the Committee on the Catholic Relief Bill were triumphant proofs of the certain progress of that great measure to a success ful termination. One circumstance was stated which reflects great credit on Mr. O'Connell's good sense and liberal feeling. He, it appears, had de sired two Honourable Members to deprecate any opposition on his account to that clause of the Bill which effectually excludes him from Parliament ex cept after a fresh election. The Bill of course was not framed to meet his particular case; but Mr. O'Connell might feel a very natural disappointment, if not resentment, at seeing the great labour of his campaign at Clare thrown away. He has, however, sacrificed his personal feelings in a very handsome manner, content to bear an individual defeat, rather than obstruct a great public cause. Mr. O'Connell, by this wise forbearance, is acting in strict accord with the generous spirit of his countrymen, who, we learn from all parts of Ireland, are cheerfully submitting to the sacrifice of a portion of their rights for the sake of the more important benefits of Ca tholic Emancipation. A measure thus supported by the good sense of the people of England and Ire land must succeed, even if it had not that immense additional support of the solemn pledge of the King, ' freely given, after careful deliberation, and adhered to with that unshaken firmness which becomes the man of honour and the enlightened Monarch.— Ibid. It has been again and a g ain remarked, that the opposition to the measure fur the relief of the Ca tholics regularly increases in the ratio of the igno rance and poverty of a neighbourhood; and that wherever the people have had opportunities of ac quiring information, they have approved of con . cession to the Catholics. In agricultural districts, where newspapers are not in general circulation, the people are hostile to concession. In the smaller towns, where newspapers are read only by a few, the advocates of concession are still greatly the minority. But in the larger towns, where news papers are accessible to a large proportion of the inhabitants, we find not merely property and intell:- gence, but even often the numerical majority in fa vour of concession. Thus, for instance, on the pre sentation last night of a petition from Leeds against concession, by Mr. Duncombe, in the House of Commons, signed by between nine and ten thou sand persons, it was stated by Mr. Marshall, that the petition in favour of concession was signed by sixteen thousand persons. Mr. Duncombe remark ed, indeed, that the petition signed by sixteen thou sand persons was from Leeds and the adjoining townships, whereas the petition presented by him was from the Borough of Leeds. It was affirmed, however, in the Leeds Mercury of Saturday last, that though the petition bore to be from the adjoin ing townships as well as Leeds, yet, from the want of time, it had been found impossible to obtain signa tures in the neighbourhood, and that the petition was, therefore, in reality, only the petition of Leeds, We find here not only the property and intelligence, but even a majority of the lower orders favourable to concession. In the House of Lords, a petition was presented by Earl Grey, from Newcastle-upon- Tyne, signed by 2,126 persons, which, he s said, he could confidently recommend to their Lordships as deserving as much attention as any petition of that sort, on account of the wealth and respectability of those who had signed it. Four-fifths of the mem bers of the Chamber of Commerce, five out of seven physicians, all the barristers, and nearly all the at torneys of Newcastle had signed it. When we leave such places, and turn to spots inaccessible frorn their situation to the regular channels of infor mation, sap nuq the people not only hostile to con cession, but occs,sionally determined even to keep no terms with those who are riot equally hostile. Thus the inhabitants of the principality, who have not only to struggle with local disadvantages, but have the additional misfortune of pos, , essing one of those wretched Celtic dialects which still exist in these islands, and sy t hieh i wherever they exist, ren der the diffusion of knowledge is,spossible (for there can be no good books in Welch, Irish, Or Scotch Gaelic), are the most prejudiced and intolerant of the whole nation. Alluding to some petitions ‘vllifcli had been presented on a former night from the Welch Calvinistic Methodists, Lord King ob served, that « the Welch Calvinists were some of the most intolerant persons in the whole country. The Committee ejected all persons from the On gregation who did not agree with them, and the persons from whom he had presented a petition had been turned out of the society, because they did not agree with the Committee on the ques tion. He should sooner expect justice from a conclave of Cardinals than flora the Welch Cal vinists." Any person who has been in Wales knows that the people are in a constant state of fanati cal exe,:t.ement with respect to religious matters, which pieces again altogether beyond the pale of reason; A congregation soy be harmless enough, but it would hardly enter intq the head of any man, not in progress toWnrds a lunatic asylum, gravely to take their opinion on any political question. 'Upon the whole, we are ready to admit, that if England Were polled on this question at the present moment, a great naajority would be hostile to concession.— Bot then tle tnprity is smaller now than it would have hpest last year, andit would have been smaller last year than the year precesli%, fifteen years ago, that La 4a which now exhibits a majority in favour of the Catholic inairns, exhibited a majority against concession of fifteen to one. There never yet was as instance of an innovation which was not opposed in the outset by the great majority of the people, So far from the lower orders being dis posed to chan,,..;sa their notions on any sub ject, it is well known tq 41 sibs; bave attended to these matters that they always rettpußcp these no tions with great difficulty, and that no of the truth; now universally admitted were long re s eel wed by the higher classes of society before they found their wayto the lower. What we now wit ness in the ease of the pppplition to the Catholic Claims, has been witnessed ha all other r&iiestions. With respect to the Reformation, for `nit.7.F.ce, t is well known that it was at first pxtrenteli ssnpap4sr in every country of Europe. The eons temporary lastosians are always exclaiming against `l*e atticAment taf the rigJble to the errors of Po fir- Wale, in ilia Life of sl.ndrew Melville, has handled Cni: uoinc %nth 113 usual itcpth,ty, " it is observed (lie says; by a a'Arged the observation has been co:T: 10111 Y reaPjvCd as cur rent, that the Reformed Preacers in Scoauhd gained credit, as happens generally on the promul gation of every new religion, chiefly among person; in the lower and middle ranks of life.'—(Robertson's History of Scotland.) This sentireent appears to me to rest, not upon proper evidence, but Sipes) c11,4,- logical reasoning from what happened at the first piomulgation of Christianity, and from the manner in which many sects have arisen in modern tires. The fact of the first preachers of the Christian re ligion, and the converts to their doctrine being found chiefly among the lower and middle ranks of so ciety, is connected with its miraculous propagation,. Ansl it does not follow from this that it should always be propagated in the same way. The di vine authority and truth of Christianity having been once completely estaisLished, it was that external means of a more ordinaryl:.isss! should be employed to fsleilitate its future diffusion, .wd that these should be varied according to the eircurnstassces of the people smong whom it was to be intro duced or restored. accordingly the reformation of religion was preceded by ,She revival of letters throngs - mist Europe; the principal reformers were men of superior gents and education ; and tl:t.7 muse vas ,espoused, pad essentially promoted, by persons who mase s ased €4ghority and in fluence. ..... . . ,• ' • If we duly attend to the state of society isioS.coi.hisid Sakt that time the jlltnost unbounded power of the Barons, the vassalage of the people, the ignorance which reigned among the lower, and the rarity of education among the middle ranks, with other pe culiar hindrances to the communication of know ledge, we shall be convinced that the Reformation, humanly speaking, and without a miracle, could not have spread as it did; the truth could not have ob tained a fair hearing, nor have come to the know ledge of the common people, if it had not been em braced and patronised by persons of rank and supe rior means of information. The fact exactly corre sponds to this view," &c. There is not a single change which, if the people had been polled when it was first propounded, would not have been re jected. Nothing, therefore, is more absurd than gravely to propose that a people should be polled with a view to the Legislature being governed by the opinion which should be found most prevalent. All truths have found their way at first among a few, and only reached the many by a slow process. —Morning Chronicle. Great part of the business of many of the Cir cuits consists, as usual, in trying persons for of, fences against the Game Laws—that prolific source of crime, of poverty, and death ;—we say even of poverty, for no man ever yet saw a poacher, be he ever so successful a one, who was in the end one farthing the richer for his pains, but who was not generally reduced to a greater state of rags and wretchedness than any others of the neighbouring peasantry. We wonder that, among others, the yeomanry of the country do not raise one general voice against a system by which they are trebly robbed; first, by maintaining the hares and pheasants, the excessive preservation of which is the sole cause of this crying evil; secondly, by the loss they sustain in the deficient labour of those who pursue this predatory warfare ; and thirdly, by being, as they are, at the sole charge of maintaining in prisons, and afterwards prosecuting and punishing, the miserable victims of their land lords' tasteless cupidity. Something like justice was done to the tenantry of the.country, in an Act passed some short time since for the erection of Luna tic Asylums, in which a provision is made for fixing a material part of the charge upon the landowners, in the shape of a separate rate. If the Game Laws and their expensive consequences are to be continued (which the lukewarmness with which their proposed alteration appears to be viewed leads us but too much to apprehend), a similar distinction should be made in their case, and the enormous charge which they entail should be put upon the shoulders of those who cause the burden, and are brst able to sustain it. But let us hope that a House of Commons which can feel so liberally to wards Roman Catholic Emancipation will prove no longer deaf to such a monstrous stain and anomaly as our Game Laws present. How absurd is it to hear of Parliament deploring the increase of crime, and professing to reform the Penal Code, when such a nursery and hot-bed of crime is allowed to gr )w up and flourish under its own protection ! The Game Laws are to the country gentle nen what flash houses are to the police. The country justice, like the Bow-street magistrate, professes to put down crime; but in each case, apparently lest the trade should fail, each learned Theban has a breed ing cage at his door, which furnishes a prolific source of work both for the justice and the Morning Herald. The duel between the Duke of Wellington and the Earl of Winchilsea has given rise to as much observation as if the affair had been wholly unpre cedented, and his Grace had unwarrantably exposed his life, while filling a high and important situation which exempted him from complying with the com mon rules of society. Nay, more, his Grace has been accused of setting an evil example, and add ing to the demoralization of the times by demanding the satisfaction which is due to one gentleman from another when he has unwarrantably assailed his cha racter. If precedent, however, could justify any man, it would assuredly acquit the Duke of Wellington. His Lordship is neither the first nor the second Prime Minister who has shewn an affection for gun, powder. Mr. Fox, several years ago, fought a duel with Mr. William Adam; but they afterwards be came the most firm and unshaken political and pri vate friends—fm iends, in fact, whom the death of him only whose heart was never conscious of guile, se parated. The late Mr. Pitt, also, when Prime Minister, fought a duel with Mr. Tierney; and the late Lord Castlereagh another with Mr. Canning, in which the latter was wounded. Even the high rank of the Duke of York did not prevent him from accepting a challenge from Lord Lennox, and fight ! ing a duel, which was so nearly proving fatal, that one of the curls of his Royal Highness was struck by the ball of his adversary. In point of precedent, therefore, the Duke of Wellington is supported in his practice by the greatest men of for mer ages; and indeed, while the practice of duelling exists, it will be impossible for men of honour to avoid such affairs, without suffering a stain on their character, which even death itself will not wipe our. There is, in consecprenee, an evident necessity, more especially at the present time, when political feeling runs high, in men being guarded in their expressions and avoiding that acrimony and intemperance of language which the heat of political debate is but too apt to engender. There never, in fact, was a time when such caution was so necessary, for the minds of all men are so inflamed, either in favour of, or against, the measures of Government, that fu rious harangues, and harsh expressions may be truly characterised as " the order of the day." With !egard to the other point, the evil likely to result from the Duke of Wellington's prac tical approbation of the practice, much might be said on both sides. awning is evidently a " remain" of the olden time, when it was supposed that an alt-directing Providence sped the sword or the bullet to the heart pf the offending party; and like all such prepc. ? sterons practices, wp should be glad to see the time when the practice as well as the belief—for the belief is gone—would be ago. lished; at the same time, it must be confessed that there are injuries of such an atrocious and unpardon able nature that no satisfaction short of the life of the offeeder, can possibly atone for them; and in such cases • the practice of duelling may be considered as rather an antidote to the commission of evil, than an evil in itself. But in matters such as those in dispute between the .Pu'ee of Wellington and my Lord of Wineti;s'ea, we aee frank.. to own that the spirit of the soldier'we's more . to be cornmeqed than either his practice or discretion; " hiirsrcser of the Duke was proof, in the eyes of all men, against any malicious insinuation, or calumnious declaration, which could be made against him ; while it might trave beep iiFirally inferred, without an appeal to arms, that Vie hero wri t ? F..tl stood his ground on the 0004 of Waterloo;syolVd rsoit ionsterred by any fears to hinuiejf, From meeting a kingWrintago flies en Battersea.-figide, c94ider 'the Doke, therefore, to have conceded tb4 to goldiery gallans try, which might fairly enough have been ch4rgg4 to the account of discretion ; but beyond this, wa hold to liaise guiltless, though we would hope tion now under that the ii;lpottons Pes considera tion will give rise to 'no 011tirs of the kind. — Morning Advertisee. 4 Anti -Slavery Association wag formed at 13radfpr4, lag reag, under highly respectable patronage.—Leeds .711ercyry, COTTON TRADE.—The prospects pf the cotton trade in this quarter have not improved this week ; The majority of the cotton works are on two-thirds time, and some are upon half time. The male spinners, who make high wages, are able to stand a reduction of the hours of working, but the female piecers, and th ose emploped in the otliVrtpartrnenN of Ppinninr, and do not average a b o ve 74.• a-wee ; feel Sorely he 10s of a third of their earnings. The yam market is heaVy; and thete redu..on in the coarser Nos. Some of the manufactUrers' week fisrharging one in every ten of their weavers,' which will make time pessure more severe. The Calton weavers have applied the 'autilowit'..is for exemption from the police as sessment this year. It is • a eerta..o ;act that at all hours of the night, the night watchmen Lind numbers a wearers at bba loom.—. Glasgow Chronicle. LENT ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HUNTINGDON, MARCH 21. THE MAYOR, ALDERMEN, AND BURGESSES OF THE COR- PC/RATION OF HUNTINGDON V. GARNER. This was an action of debt on a by-law, brought to re cover the sum of 41. lOs., being the defendant's propor tion (he being a burgess) of an assessment made by the corporation upon all the burgesses stocking certain com mons, for certain charges, poor sates, tithes, and other expences incurred by the Corporation in sespeet of the commons. After hearing the case, which was an unusually dull one, the Learned BARON left it to the Jury to say whether the rights of common of the burgesses had been exercised, time immemorial, according to the by-laws of the Com mon Council, or according to the regulations of the legit jury. The Jury found their verdict for the defendant,—viz., That the rights had been exercised according to the regu lations of the lest jury. LANCASTER, MARCH 20. Thomas Buxton, Mary Ann Buxton, Erasmus _Web ster, William Webster, awl Benjamin Wild, were in dicted for wilfully and feloniously causing to be inserted in the Register Book of Marriages, in the parish of Man chester, a certain false entry of a certain false matter and thing, relating to a pretended marriage, in the words and figures following :—" Thomas Buxton, of this parish, farmer, and Elizabeth Hickson, of this parish, spinster, were married at this church by banns, with consent, this tenth day of June, 1828, by me, Peter Hordein, officiating Minister. Thomas Buxton, Elizabeth Hickson. Witness— Mary Ann Buxton, Benjamin Wild." There was also an indictment against all the defendants, charging them with having unlawfully conspired to cause the banns of marriage to be unlawfully entered in a certain book, and to be published as the banns of marriage between Thomas Buxton and Elizabeth Hickson, as being both of that parish (Manchester), when in truth and in fact nei ther the one or the other bad ever lived in that parish. On the first indictment no evidence was preferred, and the prisoners were tried on the second charge. It appeared that the young lady, Miss Elizabeth Hick son, on whose account her friends had instituted these proceedings, was the niece and heiress of Mr. Wilson, a merchant, residing at Warnford-court, London, and Port man-square, and resided with her mother at Stenson, about four miles from Derby. The property she was en titled to exceeded forty thousand pounds. The prisoner Buxton resided near the residence of Miss Hickson ; Eras mus Webster is an attorney at Manchester, his brother is a sheriff's officer, and Wild keeps a public- house at Hang ing Ditch, Manchester. These persons, in conjunction with Mary Ann Buxton, had formed a plan for carrying off Miss Hickson, and she was to become the wife of Bux ton. Webster, the attorney, was promised 5001. for " generalline the thing." With this sum he promised to pay various debts ; and when asked if he would not get himself into a scrape, he said that Miss Hickson had pro mised to e'ope with Buxton, and that they would not " catch a weazle asleep." About eight o'clock of the evening of the 9th June, when the elopement took place, Miss Hickson left the residence of her parent, under pre tence of taking a ride, and joined the prisoners, who had provided a carriage and four horses, and accompanied them to Manchester, where they were married the next day. The young lady's friends pursued the par ties immediately after the elopement took place, and traced them to Wild's house, at Manchester; and Miss Hickson svas taken from Buxton and his sister, and con veyed to Stenson's. After these facts had been proved, evidence was called to prove the charge laid in the indict ment. For the defence it -was stated that the marriage at Manchester was legal, inasmuch as the young lady had willingly consented to become Mr. Buxton's wife. The proceedings had not been commenced by the wish of Miss Hickson, but by some of her rich relations, who had thought proper to separate her from the man from whom she had declared, at the altar of her God, that she would never be separated except by death. Mr. Justice BAYLEY summed up, and clearly showed, in doing so, that, in his opinion, all the parties were guilty. The Jury consulted, after a trial of eight hours, for a few minutes, and then pronounced a verdict of Guilty against Thomas Buxton, William Webster, and Erasmus Webster, and of Not Guilty against William Wild and Mary Ann Buxton. The Learned Junsz then sentenced the three prisoners to be imprisoned in Lancaster Castle for the term of three years. . . The sentence appeared to astonish every person that heard it. This trial closed the business of the Assize'. Mr. Justice BATLEY had left a reprieve for Mr. Wil liams, the solicitor, who was under sentence of death for forging a deed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday a foreigner applied to the LORD MAYOR to interfere (as we understood him) with Mr. Rothschild, in order to induce that gentleman to come to some arrange • merit in a case relative to four Prussian bonds for 1,0001. which had in the course of business passed into that capitalist's hands, but which had been stolen in the island of Jersey about twelve mariths ago. The statement, which was accompanied by a variety of documents, was to the following effect:— The applicant was possessed of some Prussian bonds for 2501. each, which he kept locked up in his bureau. One day upon returning home he found that the bureau bad been broken open, and that some thief bad taken away four of the bonds. Who the thief was he did not know ; but he wrote to his agents on the sub ject, and the Ministers of Police on the Continent were, as soon as possible, informed of the robbery, and an inquiry was instituted. It was afterwards as certained that the stolen bonds got into circulation in England, and they were ultimately traced to the Stock Exchange. Mr. Rothschild was written to, and re quired not to pay the dividends as they came due upon the bonds ; but a dividend was paid by that gentleman, not withstanding, and even a second dividend was not refused to be liquidated. The applicant was aware of the delicate nature of the situation in which a contractor stood in hesi tating to pay dividends to those who presented bonds on which money was due, and applied to Mr. Peel, who wrote to Mr. Rothschild, to know whether, under the cir cumstances, any thing could be done for the legitimate owner. To this Mr. Rothschild replied, that there was no proof that the bonds had been stolen, and as they were made payable to bearer, lie did not consider himself justi fied in refusing the dividends to the person who presented them, It happened that, amongst other securities, the bonds came, in the course of his large money transactions, into Mr. Rothschild's hands. The applicant considered Mr. Rothschild responsible to him, as that gentleman had received notice that they had been stolen. The matter bad ken mentioned in the most public man ner, and the Times newspaper had in November last alluded to it very fully, and stated that it had come before •the Committee of the Stock Exchange, who, lipwever, declined to act upon the occasion, so that it re mained in stafu qiw up to the present moment. Mr. Rothschild had certainly shown his readiness to abide in a Court of law the result of an investigation, and had di rected his attorney to learn whether it was the applicant's intention to proceed for the recovery of the bonds; and as tliey had passed through five or six respectable hands, of applicant should decide upon pro ceeding in a dourt 'oe Astice," he old elect ; bet the applicant would prefer an arrangement unattended with the expenses of litigation ; and lie thought that, at all ' events, Mr. Rothschild was bound to refuse payment of the dividendi on the four bonds in question. That gentle man had, upon an occasion where some bonds were stolen f rern issued notice that lie would not pay the divi dends Gil' thei., - E,.4 the !east tl , ,at could be expected from Mini arias, that . he'Wouid likewise unto ot b ert...." The Loan MAi;it said lie considered situation' with - regard tei the topm, a very peculiar `On'e. Without proof of the rabbe4 of the kinds he (the Loll.' Mayor) did not know how the amount of the dividends could he refused upon being applied for by respectable per bons, who, no doubt, took them in the course of honour able transactions. But no man was better able to judge ;:); than 'll Mr. Rothschild 1.400010 the applicant to hold a . • , Il • uthst,hi'td, would, I)trileo e r occasion. 6 a : . c 2tl %Vi n th the highest tlegiee of propriety Tt is, as it appeared, quite a matter of indifference to Mr. Rothschild 'whether,' if the rinse` by brought Into 4 Court of Justice, he or the alpiicant wo . ,;!id obtain vet , . diet, as, if he (Mr. Rothschild) should be worsted, lie win have an equally strong action against thirespectahle man of whom lie purchased the bonds. A Mosaic Roman pavement, of considerable ex t,i ) t, 2yd in fine preservation, has been discovered in ii. the Orden of I. Evq. of High Wycombe, three feet below the•surfac the liitorien of the Hundred of Deshorough, • mentions a similar discnied LA having been made in the grounds of the Earl of. SHEI, 1301111 NE, in the same vicinity, about 60 years since. Devonport Telegraph. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING. Whitehall, March 21, 1829. The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, appointing Lieutenant- Gmeral Sir Henry Fane, G.C.8., to be Master-Surveyor and Surveyor-General of the Ordnance of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The King has been pleased to present the Rev. Angus tus Fitzclarence to the Vicarage of Mapledereham, :thus Maple Durham, in the county and diocese of Oxford, void by the promotion of Doctor John Bird Sumner to the See of Chester. Kensington-Palace, March 21, 1829. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex has been pleased to appoint Richard Jones, of Leamington, Esq. to be his Royal Highness's Surgeon. Office of Ordnance, March 21, 1829. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Captain George Spiller, from unattached half-pay, to be Second Captain, vice Simmons, retired on half-pay. Dated March 12. Crown-Office, March 24, 1829. }MINERS lIRTURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PARLIAMENT. Borough of Launceston. Lieutenant-General Sir James Willoughby Gordon, Bart. G.C.B. of Niton, in the Isle of Wight, Quarter master-General of his Majesty's Forces, in the room of the Non. Pownall Bastard Pellew, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. Borough of Newport (Cornwall). The Right Honourable William Fitzgerald Vesey Fitz gerald, of Somerset-place, in the city of Westminster, President of the Board of Trade and Treasurer of his Ma jesty's Navy, in the room of the Honourable Charles Great head Bertie Percy, who has accepted the office of Comp troller of the Household to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED, John Friend, Bristol, maltster. BANKRUPTS. John Boulcott, Worcester, glove-manufacturer, to sur render April 1,2, and May 5, at twelve, at the Galen Lion inn, Worcester. White, Lincoln's-inn ; Holdsworth and Co. Worcester. Joseph Williams and George Glover, Fenchurch-street, coffee-dealers, March 31, April 7, and May 5, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Young and Palling, St. Mildred's-court, Poultry. Dougals Skelton, Stone-buildings, Lincoln's-inn, money scrivener, April 6, at four, 7, at ten, and May 5, at one, at the White Hart inn, Andover. liousfield, Chatham place, Blackfriars, London ; Mann, Andover. John Henderson, Lawrence-Pountney-lane, drysalter, March 27, at twelve, April 10, at one, and May 5, at ten, at the Court of Commissions. Atkins and Davis, Fox.. Ordinary-court, Nicholas-lane. George White, Haughton, Salop, seedsman, April 24, at five, 25, and May 5, at eleven, at Whiston's-cross, Al trington. Williamson, Gray's-inn-square Brown, Shiffal. John Fraser, Leamington Priors, Warwick, builder, April 7,8, at seven, and May 5, at twelve, at the office of Mr. Samuel William Ha) nes, High-street, Warwick. Sharpe aad Field, Bread-street ; Haynes, Warwick. Charles Allen Pettitt, Golden-square, carpenter, March 27, April 7, and May 5, at two, at the Court of Com missioners. Flower, Austin-friars. William Howson, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, grocer, April 7,8, and May 5, at one, at the Castle Hotel, Newca,tle-under-Lyme. Barber, Fetter-lane, Lon don ; Thomas and Robert Fenton, Newcastle-under- Lyme. Jeremiah Jameß, Monmouth, coal-miner, March 27, at twelve, April 10, at one, and May 5, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Wilson, Great Suffolk-street, Borough. Solomon Cocker, Witton, Lancashire, cotton-mandac turer, April 7, at four, 8, at nine, and May 5, at four, at the Bridge Inn, I3olton-le-Moors, Lancashire. Milne and Parry, Temple, London ; Haworth, Bolton-le-Moors. Edward Glover, St. Helen's, Lancashire, painter, April 7,8, and May 5, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liver pool. Chester, Staple-Inn, London ; Barnes, St. Helen's. John EatneslAngel-inn, St• Clement's Strand, coach master, March 27, April 7, and May 7, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Stevens, Wood, and Wilkin .n, Little St. Thomas kostle, City. William Byrne, Cornhill, woollen-draper, March 27, April 7, and May 5, at one, at the Court of Commissioners. Burt, Mitre -court, Milk-street. William Boston, Mare-street, Hackney, Middlesex, whitesmitli, March 31, April 7, and May 10, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Nokes, Southampton street, Bloomsbury. John Winnall, Woundwall, Salop, maltater, April 21, 22, and May 5, at ten, at the Head and Bottle Inn, Bridg north. Philpot and Stone, Southampton-street, Blooms.. bury ; Vickers, Bridgnorth. Thomas Wilgos, John Dearden, and George Hoyland, Sheffield, file-manufacturers, March 28, 30, and :kitty 5, at one, at the George Inn, Sheffield. Andrew Duncan, 8, Holborn-court, Gray's-inn; Henry Broomhead, Paradise square, Sheffield. James Hinton, Hinckley, Leicester, victualler, March 30, at five, 31, at ten, and May 5, at eleven, at the King's Head Inn, Coventry. Nicholls, Stamford-street, Black friars-road ; Mullis, Coventry. William Marsh Greenup, Strand, commission-mer chant, March 27, April 7, and May 5, at two, at the Court of Commissioners. Walker, Hatton-garden. John James Clare, Liverpool, grocer, April 14, 15, and May 5, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Not ris and Co. John -street, Bedford-row ; Toulmin, Liverpool. Robert Burns, Liverpool, chemist, March 31, April '7, and May 5, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Birch and Garth, Great Winchester-street, Broad-street, London. Henry I lolborow, Oldbury-on-the-Hill, Gloucester, ineahnan, April 8, at two, 9, and May 5, at eleven, at the White Hart Inn, Chippenham, Wilts. Pinniger, Chip penhatn ; Pinniger, Gray's Inn-square, London. Walter Weir and John Weir, Bone-11:11, near Tamworth, calico-printers, April 6,8, and May 5, at two, at the White Bear Inn, Manchester. Perkins and Frampton, Gray's Inn-square, London ; Lswtas, Manchester. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Thomas Hollauds and James Meek, Stout-bridge, Wor cestershire, butchers. Ssmuel Walton Faxon and James Thorn, Piccadilly, surgeons. James Wyatt and Alfred Wyatt, Bankside, Southwark, manufacturers of Roman cement. William Ssvales and William Mennell, Leeds, grocers. William Dean and Elias Chartier, St. Agnes-terrace, Tabernacle walk, fancy trimming manufacturers. IM FERIA L PARLIAMENT THIS EVENING. ROUSE OF LORDS. Mr. Crayfer from the 'Treasury presented the Financ Accounts of last year. Mr. Irvine, Inspector-General of Exports and Imports, presented the annual Account of the Trade of the United Kingdom for the last year. Lord SOMNIERVILLIC and others brought up a Bill to oxtpnd the Act of 53 Geo. 111., respecting Charities in rEland two Itcad p;l4 acid likewise an Inclosure -' • • Mr. RIJSSELL and others brought up a Private Bal. Several Private Bills were read a thud time and passed, The Earl of ESSEX presented a petition for the re moval of Catholic disabilities. The Bishop of DURHAM presented a petition from the inhabitants of Symonburn against concessions. Lord LORTON presented petitions from the Protestant inhabitants of numerous parishes in the counties of Ireland to the same effect. . Lord MALMESBURY presented petitions from Ring wood and other places, against further concessions. The Noble Lord understood that in presenting petitions it was not usual to inalf.e observations on therh.—(No, no.)—l ao.not intend,'cqntiriped - the Noble Lord, to eritet into-"thi9 great question, but I shall say, my Gpinion upon it re, Mains unaltered. I very much regret to be under the necesaity of acting differently from those under whose banners I have hitherto fought, but I see no reason what ever to alter the opinion I have before expressed. I have no doubt that those who are the promoters of this mea sure, are so from conscientious motives, anl I hope they ayill allow that I act under the same feelings. COAL TRACE. The Marquis of LONDONDEItItY said he was anxi, ous to occupy a few moments of their Lordships' time, and should not interrnpt the business of the House, for nobo' could be more anxious than he was to have the Catholic Question settled, but for the progress of a ,measure whic h f might shortly interfere with the c om merc i a l interests Of the country. His Noble Friend was last- year pleased t . ? pay great attention to the coal trade, an d he (L o rd London; derry) looked forward most anxiously to the fulfilment el the promise given last year, that he would institute a CIO' mittee to inquire into the circumstances connected with the coal trade. The object he bad in view this evening We s to ask, whether after this great question had been die. posed of, such a Committee would be instituted for th e purpo4e of relieving the coal trade from the taxation under which it laboured. If coal were a luxury in London b e should not introduce the subject at present. One fee t would show the enormous tax that is placed on this cool' modity. The coal owner got sixteen or eighteen ehillioge in the chaldron on his best coal, the freight to Lando° might be 10s. more ; he could safely say, there was o° l one of their I.urd.ll pi that possessed a chaldron of cod in their cellars under 50,. so that there was 2 . ?:' for metage, import, taxation, and God knows what. . fi e had been one of the persons who had waited on the Chao' cellor of the Exchequer at various times, and there alwaje appeared to him to be a great fear of doing any thing to give offence to the City of London : that City was ender !touring to bring into Parliament a Bill for defraYill the expences of the approach to London B idge by a t° on London coal: , He knew it had been sapposed that tle Coal Owners kept up the price of coal : this he did not cot eider the fact, but ascribed it to the taxes imposed fr o° , time to time on that article. The Coal Owners weer we anxious that the subject should be taken into considers tion, and sifted to the very bottom. The Duke of WELLINGTON—A can assure my Nob" Friend I do not forget the kindness with which I we t treated in the north of England, nor do Iforget the resul t of the inquiries I made while there with respect toithe coal trade—inquiries which led me, though not at that titre in office, to be astonished that the prices of this cornanY dity should be so high in the city of London, considering what they were at the pit's mouth. It 'is true that ill course of various considerations on this subject daring th i e , last Session of Pa r lia me nt, a n d p ar ti cu la r ly -upon a Bi ll which referred to the coal meters of the county ix rey, I did state that I should inquire into the subject, during the recess, and that I should have no obj e ction t° a committee of this House being appointed to investigat e the subject in the course of this session of Parliament; a°' cordingly, I now state that I have no objection to enter into the inquiry. I must say, however, that di tt y' suit of the contemplates! inquiries I have alreenli made, tend to prove that the duty imposed by Govell: ment is not that which occasions the extreme expence 0 ' coals in this Metropolis, an expence which is larger they even that which has been stated by my Noble Friend. Whe e I was in Durham, I understood the difference to be a t between 11 s. and 41s. per chaldron when on board the ship in the river, instead of 16s. and 365. as he stated; and the price to the purchaser was between 50s. ane 60s. Now, if your Lordships are informed tha t the duty imposed by Government is only 6s. upon th is amount—that the duty imposed by the city of London ' e only 6d. and 4d., when your Lordships lee died ale ° that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, a few years ago' took off half the duty imposed, reducing it to 3s. and tha t that made no difference in the price to the purchaser, there must be sotne abuse existing somewhere in this tra de which occasions th e extr e m e lyhigh price to the consumer I have stated. I have no objection therefore to enter iot e a complete inquiry of the whole system of the coal trad e ' promising, however, that it is impossible for me to g i " up any part of the duty imposed on behalf of the public. The inquiries I have already made too. satisfy me ths s the duty cannot be levied at the place of e xport, bu at the place of import. The Noble Duke observed, that With, respect to the duties imposed by the city of London; an d objected to by the Noble Marquis, it was absolutely nr cessary that those duties should be continued for the VOW ° of making the improvements and communications which the immense transactions of the port of London required; and which would be particularly necessary, ufter the coin' petition of the new London Bridge. Should the 110 0 . Duke be appointed one of the Members of the Committee, he would render every assistance in hit power to investi• gate the matter throughout. Lord DURHAM felt astonished that 40,0001. should now be asked by the City of London for improving the t w h a o y ug t h o t tohfe beforenew ding Bridge, or menced. The City of London now tried to smuggl e . t w h h a i t eh li rhidadge n e ver eobeellall an Act for perpetuating one which was certain to expire in nine years hence, and which he regarded as jectionable. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY enquired abou t when he might expect the form a ti on o f thi s Committee. The Duke of WELLINGTON said some thing to hin t in a low tone of voice, and then they inunedia'e'y both sat down. Several other Noble Lords then proceeded to pret erit petitions on the Catholic Question, and afterwar ds the Horse adjourned. hi g hly obi HOUSE OF COMMONS. t Mr. F. WILSON presented eleven petitions againgt Catholics, from Wyvil, and other parishes in York. , L . Lord BINGHAM presented two petitions from :5 county of Mayo, in favour of the Caths lies. He exprell his most unquallified approbation of the liberal measal' that had been brought forward. Admiral Sir E. HARVEY presented four petitioo from Waltham Abbey, and other places, against °I Catholics. Sir W. INGLEBY presented a petition from High O a Low Ilarrowgate, Yorkshire, in favour of the C a tholics. Lord ENCOMBE presented a petition from Memel , the county of Essex against the Catholics. SILK TRADE. Mr. ROBINSON, in presenting a petition from Mary chester, praying the House to take into conside ration the laws effecting the Silk Trade, observed that the petition was well worthy the attention of the Right Hou. Vre °l4 dent of the Board of Trade, it was signed by 2,789 ° P e. ratives, and described the distressed state of the Silk Trade, in the town of Manchester; since the alteration the laws in 1825 there was at the present time no ieSS th' n 5,000 looms unemployed , and it was the opinion of the petitioners, in which he fully concurred, that the present d:stress principally arose from the late alteration s of thef laws, and if Government did not adopt some measure °f prohibition to the Frech silks, a great number of person s must be pauperized. He was sure Ministers were not in sensible to the misery that existed, and seeing a motion in the pap.r for a consideration of the laws affect:ng the silt trade, for some future day, he would not now enter into the particulars of the matter, but content himself with asking the Right Hon. President of th e Board vt Trade whether it was the intention of his Majesty's G° - vernment to prodose any measure for the relief of th e Silk Trade, by way of prohibition or otherwise. The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. V. FITZ' GERALD) said he should for the present a bstain front making any observations on what had fallen from the Hon. Member, but he would say:it was net the pl,n)f Governmen t to teturn to the old system, when the proper time arrived he should be able to show that the present distress did not arise from the alterations of the laws, and he would further say that they had not the most distant idea of teturniog to prohibitory dirties. The petition was then read. ASSESSED TAXES. Mr. IL COLBURN laid, that he wished to ask (potion of the Right, Honourable thell Chancellor " the Exphequer, relative to the Composition for th e .Assessed Taxet. The law relative to this subj ect would expire in April 1830, and it was therefore fle et ''' . sary to know what steps the Government inten ded to pursue relative to those compositions. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the time when the composition for the Assessed `1.3%e,:, would expire was April, 1830, and therefore it w3,9._;.-; be necessary for parties to give notice ov she 30th of October laimr, bear, hear•r e. It wag his tyish to have introduced a Bill for the consoeliti tion and improvement of the Laws respecting the Ass"' Taxes, which were at preesent, and had been for solve time, in a bad state, but owing to the complicated uatufet of tie mea , ure, the Bill he had in contemplation was v° as yet in such a state of forwardness as would witha l° him in presenting it to Parliament. He had 61s° to say, that as the composition for the 3- sessed Taxes depended altogether upon the A ssese Taxes themselves, and as the Bill was not in re adine l to be submitted to the House, he should bring in a 1311 to extend the operation of the former Bill for another ) ear ', t'at is to say, to April, 1831. • ; g:IT!O9.j BIRTH. On the 23d inst., in Kenton street, Mrs. John Tr* of a son. MARRIED. On the 21st inst., at North Church, by the 110''' Edward Owen, A.M., of St. Leonard's Bucks, JAW!: Swabs, Esq., of the Thorne House, to Elizabeth, secon", Oughter of Robert Sutton, Esq., of Rossway, in the : icculity of Ilerts. Plump and PVaLlsnaD by MORD° YOUNG, at SOil ornes, 112, szsAmw, LONDON.