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MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday Alderman Scholey came to the Justice room, for the purpose, we believe, of noticing a statement made by Mr. Taylor, the Common Coun cilman, before the LORD MAYOR on the preceding day, on the subject of the removal of exceptionable characters, by the officers appointed under the new Police Act, from the county of Middlesex. He little thought, he said, that his conduct on the oc casion alluded to would have constituted matter of censure to the Worthy Common Councilman, who, if he mistook. not, was usually distinguished by the title of the " Radical Orator ;" and he thought it necessary to justify to the public his conduct at the Justice-room at Guildhall. Upon that occasion four teen females were brought before him on one charge by an officer, and he expresSed some surprise at so unusual a circumstance. The answer he received to his question as to the nature of the accusation against them was, that the Common Council of the ward had directed the officers to take up all prosti tutes who should be found within h, and appear against them before the sitting magistrate. He asked sevcral times whether they had separately or conjointly committed any act of disorder. To this a distinct negative was given. No act of disorder could be attributed to any of them. He begged to know, under such circumstances, what other course he could pursue than that of discharging them one and all, which he accordingly did. He considered it quite a sufficient calamity for poor females to be obliged to resort to such a mode of getting bread, without being thrust into prison because they were to be seen in the streets. If any act of misconduct had been proved, he would have shown that he was not insensible to his duty as a magistrate, but the females who had been brought before him had as good a right to appear in the streets as he had him self, provided they conducted themselves with pro priety. The LORD M.svon. observed, that if the police were to• take up females under the circumstances described, there might arise a great deal of confusion and dissatisfaction amongst the public. The Act of Parliament gave no such authority, and the Alderman had, without doubt, acted with due discrimination in deciding as he had. Mr. Hobler produced the Act, which certainly arms the officer or magistrate with no such awhority as that of taking up and committing females who are not guilty of disorderly conduct. He stated that if officers were to seize hold of women because they believed them to be prostitutes, many husbands would be under the necessity of looking into the watch-houses for their wires. Alderman Scholey could not have acted otherwise than he had. Alderman SCHOLEY—I was most particular in asking the officer whether there was any one of the defendants against whom a charge of disorder could be sustained, and I was told that no act of disorder had been committed. I entertain respect for the common council of the ward, but it certainly was not candid in one of the members to make such an accusation against me. The LORD MAYOR said he had advised Mr. Taylor, if he objected to the existing plan of driving excep tionable characters into the city, to make the state ment of the particulars on paper, and transmit it through him to Mr. Peel. It was mentioned that Alderman Wait!man, who presides over the ward of Farringdon-without, would have been the most proper person for the common council to apply to upon finding that the new police were complimenting the city with therefuse of society. that she was sitting in the shop that morning, when the prisoner came in and asked the price of the pair of boots hanging up near the door. Witness told him, and the prisoner took the boots, and putting them under his arm, walked away without saying any thing. Witness called to a person in the par lour to mind the shop, and she then ran out in pur suit of the prisoner, whom she saw running away. She called out " Stop thief!" and the prisoner was stopped and taken into custody by a young man who was passing, and who. gave him in custody to Dea con, the watch-house-keeper of Kentish-town. The boots were picked up by a person named Joseph Ilatsby, who was in her husband's service. Sir R. BIRNIC desired Batsby to step forward, order to receive his evidence with respect to the finding of the boots. The clerk tendered him the book for that purpose and proposed the oath in the usual form ; but the witness pushing the book gently from him, declined to be sworn. Sir It. BIRNIE—Why do you refuse to have the oath administered to you ? Batsby—l am willing to speak the truth ; but I would not take an oath for any consideration. Sir R. BIRNIE—What are your objections may I ask ? Are you of any particular religion ? Batsby- I am no religion at all; but I am a Christian. Sir R. BIRNUWSiiiti it was somewhat extraordinary to hear a man declare he was of no religion, and yet avow himself a Christian. Batsby—l have observed so much deception, hypocrisy, and abominable cant in persons professing particular creeds, that I am disgusted with them all. The witness was here running on in a vehement strain of abuse, when Mr. MitisnuLt. told him that such language was not becoming in a public office, and in the presence of magistrates. Sir - R. BIRNIE—As far as the matter regards yourself, young man, you are of course the best judge, but you should recollect, as a member of the Christian faith, that you are bound to render society all the service that you can. Here is a case of felony which may ultimately fall to the ground be cause of your scruples. Batsby—l cannot help that, but not all the power of man should induce me to commit an act which is repulsive to my conscience. Sir R. BIRNIE—You came here to serve this lady, and yet you refuse your evidence, by which this man may be punished for having robbed her. Batsby—She is the wife of my employer I know, and I am 'ready to perform all his reasonable de mands ; but I will not serve him by doing that which I know to be wrong. Sir R. BIRNIE—If • all people were of your opinion, my friend, I am afraid the laws would be very badly administered. Batsby—Not at all. Matters would go on much better, and society would be purer if the odious custom of administering oaths were abolished. As for myself, I declare most solemly that I would sooner suffer to be hung and gibbetted than tell a lie. Sir R. ButNlE—But you forget, my friend, that the law of the land sanctions the administration of an oath, and as good Christians and good subjects we are bound to obey the law. The witness, with something of enthusiasm in his look and action, replied, that the law of God was superior to the law of man. He knew that it was his duty to obey the latter, but not at the sacrifice of his conscience. Sir R. BIRNIE then said that he would not press the witness uny further, and directed the unstable to bring forward some other person who could give evidence as to the finding of the boots. Perhaps Mr. Batsby would not consider it hurtful to his conscience to render what assistance he could with out bring sworn. Batsby replied that he would render every assistance in his power. The prisoner was remanded for want of evidence. PRICE 7D HISTORY OF THE IURKS. On Monday evening Dr. Mitchell gave a lec ture, or discourse, at the City of London Lite rary and Scientific Institution, on the history of Turkey, particularly on the military and financial institutions of that empire. The Turks were originally a horde of Tartars, from beyond the Caspian Sea. The idea of their origin is not forgotten, and the Sultan still dates all his decrees from " his imperial stirrup." He was still, by the intendment of the common law of Turkey, the Tartar Chief, doing busi ness on horseback, though residing in his Se raglio. They migrated iato Armenia, embraced the Mahometan faith, and soon after were called in by the Caliph of Bagdad to suppress a re- bellion of his subjects. Having done this, they naturally enough subverted the power of the Caliph, and kept his dominions for themselves. They subdivided into various principalities, and suffered severely from the armies of the Crusaders ; but having survived these perils, they re-united into one sovereignty under Othman, or Otman, from whom their empire has been called Otto man. He conquered the provinces of Asia to the east of Constantinople. Amurat 11., who reigned from 1362 to 1390, conquered many of the European provinces of the Greek branch of the Roman empire, and fixed his capital at Adri anople. Mahomet 11., in 1653, took Constan tinople, which has since been the capital; For 200 years after the Turkish empire gra dually increased; but at last their armies lost the superiority which they had hitherto held over the Christian troops, and in 1699 the Turks, after being beaten by Prince Eugene, consented to an ignominious peace, and ceded Transylvania to the Emperor of Germany. In every subse quent war, for the 139 years which have since elapsed, their armies have suffered defeat, and peace has always been purchased at the expense of territory. The successful progress of the Turkish arms for several centuries, and their uniform disgrace ever since, has depended on the celebrated mili tary establishment called the Janissaries, an out Line of the history of which body of men the lecturer then gave. The Janissaries were instituted by Amurat 11., who reigned from 1362 to 1390. He se , lected the fifth child between 15 and full growth of all the Christians of the empire ; removed the youths from their relations to other provinces ; employed them for some time in agricultural labours, and caused them to be taught the use of the sabre and the Mahometan faith. Their minds were rendered ferocious by being employed to slaughter criminals and prisoner's of war. They were then formed into regiments, and be came a • regular standing army. Their religion caught them to expect Paradise as the reward of their military achievements_and such a Para dise as was adapted to their sensual tastes ; and victory and the plunder of infidel towns gave them of this world an anticipation of the de. lights to come. Care was taken to keep up their numbers by young men of vigorous bodies and courageous minds. With such troops, who had no other trade but war, the Turkish Sultans were enabled to triumph over the brave but un disciplined feudal levies of the west of Europe. But such a ferocious body of soldiery would require vigorous and warlike sovereigns to re strain them ; and when the Sultans became effiminate amidst the pleasures of their palaces at Constantinople, and ceased to lead their armies to battle, the Janissaries became insubordinate, and most of the Sultans have terminated their reign by being deposed and put to death. The last who suffered was Selim 111., in 1809. The Janissaries having acquired the whole power of the state, quickly broke through those regulations which had rendered them efficient as a military body. They obtained permission to marry ; then of havhig their sons admitted into the corps ; and being established in Constanti nople and other great towns for years together, in time of peace took to various trades and oc cupations, and neglected their military exercises. They next admitted the tradesmen of those towns amongst them ; and thus at last they became scarcely superior to so many volunteer regiments. and were both unwilling and unfit for carrying on lono , continued wars. But whilst the Janissaries were deteriorating, the Christian armies were making improvements in the military art. Their soldiers devoted them sell-es exclusively to their profession. The im provements in the muskets, and time invention of the bayonet, ( had altered the whole military sys. tem. The use of artillery, and the scientific movements of armies, rendered war no longer an exertion of bodily strength and of individual bravery, but an operation, the guidance of Mlle.', called forth the highest powers of the ino,v c tivated understanding. But all knowletige (*this kind the Janissaries spurned; heuce, in the war which broke out with ittissia in 1709, their ar mies were uniformly defeated in pitched battles. In vain were they stimulated by the fetva of the Mufti, and the promises of Paradise, as well as by doses of opium on going into battle : the troops, by the deadly bullet;, of the unbelievers, were made to (144 of the " sherbet of Martyr, dots} until they could no longer endure the draught," and peace was purchased by the loss of provinces. The same was the case in 1770, and even in 1811. t the very time when &IQ napartp was urging his way forward to Moscow, so dispirited were the Turks by defeat, that at that period, so favourable fvr prosecuting the war, the present Sultan, Mahmoud,consentesito make and to buy it at the elqlense of Bessa rabia and part of Moldatia.. The late Emperor Selim was convinced of the inferiority of the Turkish troops to the troops of the Christian Powers, and attempted to introduce an improved discipline, which ultimately cost him his life. S.elim," said the lecturer, set about a re formation, but found it to bo beyond his power to effect it. Tue Turks had never enjoyed the blessings of knowledge, ;And were not to he guided by it. Printing was an art unknown in Turkey ; such a thing as a newspaper had never been seen in the whole extent of their domi nions. It was iu vain io attempt to reason wilt men who possessed in their minds no materials for thinking. lurtliez-, every prejudice of their souls w as exc i te d to ma d nes s to think th a t any attempt should be made to comp el them t o s t u d y the arts o f t h e back. With the sabre of the Jinissary they said the empire had - been ga;sed, 4.nd with the same sabre it waa to he preserved. " However absurd this reasoning may appear, it prevailed with the Turks, and every attempt at change met with the most furious opposition. Let those men whose principles lead them to - fear the effects of the freedom of the press, of: political dis cuss i on , an d o f t h e education of the people, contemplate the condition of Turkey.. There they have a state of things exactly 'such as they would desire. Here is their beau the idol of their delight. But mark the result. The most useful improvements, the measures ab solutely necessary for the preservation of the - empire, were resisted with fury by the prejudices of the ignorant multitude; and no mode of ob viating these prejudices was in the power of the Government to use. From this example we may see then, that reason is a touch safer instru ment of Government than superstition and igno rance."—(Applause.) The present Emperor succeeded in putting down the Janissaries, and had begun to intro-- duce European discipline, but the present war broke out before he had time to make any - progress. _ Even if the fanaticism of the people "were not opposed to all imitation of the arts of the Chris_ . tians, although there might be great improvements. made in the discipline of regiments, it may be doubted if it be possible for such a country as. Turkey, in a hundred years, to improve the education of the people to such a degree, as to produce a sufficient number of scientific officeri to conduct the operations on a large scale against European armies. Vie lecturer proceeded to explain some of suchh the thes sy ste m o capitation fle vyn a g x , c i o n n i t d ri b b i the peculiar feat ures o f th e T ur ki s h system o f by the on villages, whatever m i g h t b e t h e population ;. finance; Christians and the consequent desertion and depopulation of the country ; the sale of offices ; the inheri tance of all the property of Pachas and other public servants ; the confiscation of the Pachas by the Sultan, and exactions from the subjects, and the deterioration of the corn. From what was stated, it would appear the system of finance in Turkey was as much defective as their system, of war ; and from the nature of the Turkish in stitutions, he concluded the domination of this barbarous horde over some of the fairest portions of the globe was now, happily for the progress of civilization, drawn to a close. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE Or THIS EVENING. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sus•ex has been pleased to appoint the Rev. William Frederick Powell, B.A. of St. Peter's Co"ege, CambrPge, one his Royal Highness's Domestic Chaplains. Commis,ions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Somerset. Ist Somerset Regiment of Militia.—C. T. Chivers, Gent. to he Lieutenant. Dated July 7. North Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry. J. M. Paget, Esq., to be Major. Oct. 2. Commission in the Sherwood Rangers, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Nottingham. J. P. I...icy, Gent, to be surgeon, •ice T. Brook, re signed. Sept. 25. GUILDHALL. Birt Frost, a young man who drives a cabriolet, was brought up by Sparks, ene of the new police men, for knocking down and driving over a poor man named Edward Corder, about seven o'clock the pre vious evening, on Holborn-bridge. Dennis Haggerty, a labourer, stated that the pri soner was driving furiously, at the rate of nine miles an hour, and Corder was overtaken while he was crossing. The shaft struck his breast, he fell, and a wheel passing over him, broke one of his legs. Sparks said he was going home in a cabriolet, and on Holborn-hill the prisoner passed them at a very rapid pace. Witness was looking at the shop-win dows at the moment the accident occurred, but hear ing the man cry out, and seeing him lying in the road, witness jumped out, produced his staff, and took the prisoner into custody. At the desire of two gentlemen who were riding with the prisoner, he permitted him to go on, taking his number, and yesterday morning he apprehended him again at the Red Lion stable-yard, Gray's Inn-lane. The pri soner denied his right to apprehend him without a warrant, but he nevertheless treated him with the greatest consideration, allowing him to go to the west-end of the town to endeavour to obtain the attendance of the two gentlemen in his behalf. Sir PETER LAURIE expressing some surprise at hearing the policeman talk cf riding home from duty in a cab, Sparks said he had been on duty 48 hours, and was so exhausted, that knowing he must go on duty again at twelve that night, he took the cabriolet to secure the greatest possible quantity of rest. Sir PETER asked if he meant that he had been on duty 48 hours without intermission P—Sparks said no ; he meant only that he had not been able to find time to go home to bed, but was obliged to be satisfied with sitting up in a watch-house for an hour or two. Sir PETER said he had done his duty here, and he was very glad to compliment any one upon doing his duty. The prisoner said one of the gentlemen had pro mised to attend for him, but had not yet arrived. His horse had slipped, and had quickened his pace on that account, but he was not going at the speed mentioned, and Corder had suddenly stepped off the pavement just before the cab, which was running near the footway, because the road was under repair. The certificate from St. Bartholomew's Hospital was put in, stating that Corder's leg was broken. The Alderman said the prisoner must remain in custody till a certificate could be obtained that the man was out of danger, and he was remanded ac cordingly. BOW-STREET. Yesterday a young man, named George 11111, was brought in custody to this office before Sir R. But- NIE, charged with having stolen a pair of lady'A boots from the shop of a person named Pitt, who resides at No. 16, Seymour-place, Hampstead-road. Mrs. Elizabeth Pitt, the prosecutor's wife, deposed LAMBETILSTREET. Yesterday John Brooks, the driver of the cabriolet No. 75, was charged with the following offence:— The prisoner was stopped by two watchmen, at four o'clock yesterday morning. They saw him driving a cabriolet ftniously, and having seen him driving in the same direction on the previous morning, at a most furious rate, suspected that all was not right. On searching the cab they found a sack, which, upon opening, they discovered to contain the body of a matt. Lydia Ann Chester, who appeared in a state of great affliction, stated that the body found in the cabriolet was that of her husband, who had been in terred the previous day in Cannon-street-road burial ground. She attended her husband's funeral, in company with her sister and other relatives, and witnessed the closing of the grave, which appeared perfectly secure. They had since visited the burial ground ; the grave was open, and the lid of the coffin taken off. The prisoner, in defence, said he was engaged by two gentlemen in Cornhill, who stepped into his cabriolet, and told him to drive to the Commercial road; after which they took him down a street, where they alighted and brought a sack, which they said contained luggage, and they were going a little further for some time, and told him to follow, when he was stopped by the watchman. The Magistrate said he must convince a jury of his innocence; but there could be no doubt, ac cording to the testimony adduced, that he was con caned in disinterring the body, and he was commit ted for trial for the misdemeanour. TOWN-HALL. A sailor, in his holiday trim, appeared to charge an elderly woman of the town with robbing him of a 1004 Bank of England note and two silk handker chiefs. Jack, it appears, no sootier landed from a voyage to India, where he had taken the note in the way of trade, as he said, titan, like the rest of his thoughtless tribe, he commenced a cruise in search of a wife, an article so plentiful in the Tooley-street market, that he was not long in finding one to his mind, with whom, having spent some time, and drank himself more than half-seas over, he was about to depart, when he missed his note and two silk handkerchiefs, one of which was found upon her per son, but not so the money. The woman said he gave her the handkerchief, the note she knew nothing of; and the number of it not being known, she was remanded to see what could be done for its recovery. On Friday, while an elderly woman, residing in the OH Vennal, was preparing the dinner, she suddenly fell down and expired. Her husband was buried on the preceding Sunday ; and her son was also consigned to the grave about a fortnight since.— Glasgow• Chronicle. 1 On Thursday week the attention of the good people of St. Helen's and its neighbourhood was excited by the following °ecru tence t—A person near the canal heat d a sudden plunge in the water, and on looking to ascertain whence the noise proceeded, saw a man floating, whom, svith assistance, be immediately rescued. The poor man's face was pale and woe-begone, his eyes were shut, his lips closed, and his hands tied fast together. For a While he stood shivering on the shore, mute, and in all the majesty of grief; but at length exclaimed, with great pathos, " Ah, why did ye pull me out? Och, why didn't ye let me be drowned ?" Upon inquiry, it appeared that "love was the cause of his f 01 1 .5." A few hours before he had been " popping the question" to a young woman, who, for the present at least, declined to " buckle t 0.," and in a fit of despair he determined to bury his grief in the waters of the canal. It is whispered that the ducking of the sWoin has mehtd the obdurate heart of the fair, who, lest he should be induced to make anather attempt upon his life, has consented to be led by him to the altar of lipneo , --Ataneliester Mercer . BANKRUPTS. Benjamin Richards, Bognor, Sussex, innkeeper, to sue_ render Oct. 26, at three, 27, and Nov. 20, at twelve, at the Swan Inn, Chichester. Rose, Essex-street, Strand. Thomas Sykes, Accrington, Lancashire, cotton-spinner, Oct. 26, 27, and Nov. 20; at ten, at the York Rote), Manchester. Milne and Parry, Temple, London; Alas. worth, Crossley, and SurHow, Manchester. William Randall, Summerland, Ratcliffe highway, pub. lican, Oct. 13, at eleven, 27, at one, and Nov. 20, at ten, at the Court of Coromissionera. H. S. Heathcote, man-street, City. Henry Warren, Belgrave-place, Middlesex, builder, Oct. 20, at eleven, 27, arid Nov. 20, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Richardson, Goblen- , quare. London. John Smith, Caroline-mews, B..dford-square, tiverr stable-keeper, Oct. 13, at twelve, 27, at one, and Nov. 20, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Harvey, Wih son, and Wood, Lincors•lnti-fielile. John Cathbertson, Hampton-street, Walwotth, S'l,rrey. l linen-draper, Oct. 13, at twelve, 20, at clever and N ut. 20, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners-. Hennington and Crowther, Cary street, Cheapside. Willliam Marshall, Church -street, `...,pitalfields, brush_ maker, Oct. 16,23, at twelve, and 'Nor. 20, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. 1 :/arrison, Sidmouth-street. Lewis Harris, Wyndl”:.,m-street, Bryanstone-square, coal-merchant, Oct. 20, at twelve, 27, and Nov. 20, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Spyer, Broad street:lmihlings, William grnith, Grove-Cottage, Lon , lon-road, St. John's Wood, builder, Oct. 13, at twelve, 27, at one, and Nov. 20, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners.— Carlon, High -street, Marylebone. Benjamin Severn, Frederick Benjamin King, and John Severn, Church-lane, Whitechapel, grocers, Oct. 13, at ton, 20, at eleven, and Nov. 20, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Freshfield and Son, New Bank-buildings. Richard Packer, Bath, timber-merchant, Oct. 22, 23- at one, knd Nov. 20, at two, at the Cozumel cial Brktol. Clarke, Richards, and Medealf, fields, London ; Savory, Bristol, Samuel Farmer, Atherstone, Pinwell. H em i ng en, at the Red Lion I n n, v I" ..arwi c k, m e r cer , O c t. 14, 15, a n d N ov . 20 , at don ; Baxter, Atk,rttone. - all ' i : "- xsaxter, Lincoln's-inn-fields, Lon- William F i'nott, Rhod es B an k, Oldh am, L ancas hi re, innke s eper ' , 1 2set. 27, 29, an d N ov. 20, at one, at Hay ,:tote!, Manch es t er , Abbot, and Parry, Temple, ward' fradon ; Whitehead and Barlow, Oldham. Thomas Whitaker, Dowthrop-hall, Hollerness, York, horse-dealer, Oct. 15, 16, and Nov. 20, at twelve, at the George Inn, Hull. Rushwarth, Hull. Willi im Martin, Buckingham, draper, Oct. 12, 19, and Nov. 20, at eleven, at the Whits Hart Inn, Buck ingham. Hrarne, Buckinghatn ; Janes, John-street, Bed ford-row, London. Jonathan Broadhurst, Buglawton, Cheshire, corn-dealer, Oct. 30, at four, 31, and Nov. 20, at twelve, at the George Inn, Leek. Hicks and Braikenridge, Bartlett's-buildings, Holborn; Gaunt, Leek. William and John Terry, Bath, bardwaremen, Oct. 26, .21`, and Nov. 20, at one, at the White Hart, Bath. Else, Bath ; Kemp, Lincoln's Inn-fields. Charles Taylor Clarke, Gildersome, Yorkshire, cloth.. manufacturer, Oct. 20, at six, 21, at eleven, at the Court botae, Leeds, and Nov. 20, at eleven, at the King's Arms Gildersome; Emmett, New Inn, Loudun ; Alexan der, Halifax. On Monday JOHN O'DA RE, a discharged sea t man, was brought to Lewes from Newhaven, under an escort, charged with shooting at Lieutenant ROSENZEIta• of his Majesty's ship Hyperion, lying at that port, and afer an examination before the local authorities, was com mitted for trial at the Assizes. On Sunday as Lieutenant RoasiotFatc, with several brother officers, was returning from church, (Manx went out into the street to meet him, and on coming up said, "Mr. Rosimizito, I have f drawing a pistil i k . : r ):Lletl; l i i rt s • the assassin's object stru c k the pi'aul from its horizontal position, throwing himself back at the s a m e g b f r b east r 3 , 0 which he It the e d s is a c m h e ars ti e n d i HERO. perceiving . e time, by which means the ball glance: Ir e his breaat over tlie shoulder (which was slightly injure ) and went through th e brim of his hat. But for the pre.tence of mind in di verting the aim, it is supposed the efi'ect would have been fatal. The man was struck to the ground by Lieut It.'a companions and secured. A f ter tie attempt he offered not the least resistance. He was discharged from the Co.ist Blockade Service with signal tliaaraice in April List, in con_ sequence of impropriety of conduct, therebv losing a pen sion ; and having reason to suppose that Lieut. Rossit 4E4c was the cause of his discharge, and thereby destroy. ing his hopes, he was d,ettrtniand vs, revenge, and amass terneed tV carr7 it sate acct.