The Sun. — London, England, 1829-08-26 00:00:00

SPITLIT OF THE PUBLIC JOUiZNALS. The Duke of Wellington, in the Peninsular war, was famous for his vigilance and excellent intelligence, on which so firm a reliance was placed by the army that all, from the highest to the lowest, believed that he could never be taken by surprise. The only exception to the rule was the battle of Talavera, where he ought to have been beat, and where he was saved alone by the jealousy of the French Generals. With respect to this battle it is observed by Colonel Napier, " That so able a Commander should engage himself in the narrow valley of the Tagus, with twenty thousand British and forty thousand Spanish troops, when fifty thousand French were waiting for him at the further end, and about fifty thousand more were hanging on his flank and rear, shows that the greatest masters of the art may err. He who wars walks in a mist, through which the keenest eyes caonot always discern the right path. Speak to me of a 'General who has made no mistakes in war (said Turenne), and you speak of one who has seldom made war.' " If we were to give any credit to general rumour, the operations of the Russians at present are to be viewed as a second surprize. That he arrived quite unexpectedly, and in great haste, in Downing-street on Mon day, is certain ; but this is all that is certainly known. The Austrian Legation had, it is true, an interview with his Grace and Lord Aber deen, in Downing-street ; and those who ought to be well informed on the subject of their de liberations, do not hesitate to say Mat a hostile movement against Russia, on the part of Elia ° - land, France, and Austria, is at hand. A courier is hourly expected from Vienna, with a communication, on which, it is said, much will depend. It is the part of a Journalist to repeat what is confidently stated by well-in formed people, with such comments of his own as he may deem called for. Were we to credit this information, we should say that the posting to Downing-street, and subsequent bustle, looks very like being surprized by an enemy. But we con fess that, notwithstanding the confident assertions of the French Journals, and the no less confident it.stirarices here, we do not believe that Eng land will act so foolish a part, as to kindle a general war in Europe for the absurd purpose of propping a Power which cannot be supported. By this time we have no doubt Russia occupies Constantinople, and garrisons the approaches to it. A hostile demonstration on the part of the Three Powers would not in all probability inti midate Russia, or even induce that Power to grant more favourable terms to the Turks than she would grant of her own accord. We do not believe that Russia has at present an intention to occupy permanently Thrace, and hel conquests in Asia Minor. Nay, we do not be lieve that her resources are equal to the per manent occupation of such extensive regions.— Her policy has always been to advance step by step to her object. She will probably insist on retaining the country to the Balkan and the pusses, and will keep and fortify the entrance into the Bosphorus, with a view to commanding a secure passage into the Mediterranean ; but the garrisoning permanently Constantinople, Adrianople, and the towns on the Asiatic side, would be enormously expensive. By occupying the countries between Turkel and Russia, she would so strengthen herself on the side of Aus tria, that, on a future occasion, that Power would be unable to interfere with her operations. The Duke of Wellington must have been prepared for aome time for what has taken place, and there fore his visit to Downing -street, however unex pected, can hardly have been caused by the late Russian Bolletins. From the moment General Diebitsch stated that he had amused the Grand Vizier in Shumla, and gained several days ynarch on him, it became pretty obvious that the 'Balkan would be passed. All mountains, in ea rl be passed just as all fortifications can b e taken # and the only question at any time was, whether the Russians would have force sufficient to carry the natural forts of the ialkan, if garrisoned by a Turkish force At all adequate. But when there was am) koree there could be little difficulty.- IVe trtit Eogland will not commit herself for an y ooch fbofith business as a war for the Turks. G o od Gc‘l ! only think how the resources of this beautiad country—how the industry of the most ingenious and civilised people the world ever yet behold are crippled b) the burdens im posed on us by a succession of prodigal Minis ters—the creatures of the most profligate Aris tocracy- in the world ! Shall the industry of this eiviliaed nation be further mortgaged for tom-fool iertifeadest---to humour Prince Metternich, and enable him to goriceal the feebleness with which Austrian policy basgiven to him thirty millions ? if we must fight, let us fight only when it is ne ,eessu-y for British objects f. if necessary, the people of England, taxed as they are, would con sent to sacrifice sufficient to enable Ministers to In kite the Czar tremble in his own capital ; but let us not wage the resources which ought to be reserved f'►r great and national occasions.— Morning Chronicle. One of the small journals of Paris, in allud ing to t h e recen t change of Ministry, and the supposed interference ,of the English Govern ment in that event, reproaches us with having built palaces to our Kings ktt tJa?, expellee of the French people. It is painful to recur to such charges, even when defence is most easy; but it would be unpardonable to omit the opportunity of giving a satisfactory explanation of a plausible inuendo, where the facts are at once accessible sand undeniable. We ourscii,2a were among the first to denounce openly, arta to condemn strongly, the diversion of 250,0004, destined originally for other purposes, to the object of pulling down and building up such a libel on the public taste, sash a mass of deformity, as liockingliatn Palace. Ju iending or giving to the Department of the Woods .11. n d Forests, for the purpose of being so applied, ;Joelt a fund, without tha authority of Parliament, the Trea sury committed an act for which they were justly censurable. But the effair lay between our Govern ment and the eountry , -ot between our Govern ment and foreigners; and the loaner of a million handed over to the Woods and Fooats from the Commiscioners of British claims on Vraoce, was equally due to this nation, and would have equitably remained in it, whether expended in building it palace or meting a range of poor houses. To establish this position it is only necessary to recur to a few circumstances which must have been forgotten when the charge was made. In the negotiations which followed the entrance of the Allies into Paris iii J 815, Lord Castlereagh, our Foreign Minister, displaying an extraordinary degree of generosity at the public expense, surrendered the extensive claims which we had upon the Government of Franc e for the maintenance of prisoners of %var. The only con dition for which he stipulated 61 retur n was, that British subjects, whose property had been coa fiscated during the Revolution while they had relied on the faith of treaties, should be indem nified for their losses upon proper evidence of such unwar►antable spoliation. To this they were evidently entitled, without any abandon ment of the public claims on the French Government for other objects. The sum a►iginally set apart by the treaty of No vember, 1515, to answer the British claimants was about three millions sterling—on a declara tion that i► such an amount was insufficient, it should be increased, and if too much, that the overplr►s should be retur►:ed. This conditional stipulation was afterwards exchanged for a cer tain sum, which, whether sufficient or not, was to be received by the British Government in sa tisfaction of all the demands of its objects. In the latter case, it is evident that the surplus, if, any, was not to revert to France, but to be de voted to British objects by British authorities. We need not encumber this simple statement with any questions about the rights of two classes of claimants under different treaties, or about the refusal of the Commissioners of Liquidation to admit certain equitable demands which could not be supported upon documents which time or violence had destroyed. We shall at once admit that there exists 250,0001. of a surplus, which, according to the first convention in 1815, would have reverted to France. Now how stands the balance ? We surrendered for this all the in demnity due to us for the maintenance of French prisoners during the. war, of whom the following is stated to be the average number from 1803 to 814 : Number in 1803 3,250 Ditto 1 904 6,750 Ditto 1805 11,901 Ditto 1806 20,100 Ditto 1807 9 4,400 Ditto 1808 9 7.500 Ditto 1809 37,250 Ditto 1810 46,700 Ditto 1811 45,000 Ditto 1812 55,800 Ditto 1813 63,900 Ditto 1814 67,500 We allow that during that period the French Government could have made a set-off to a certain amour•, but the average of charge against us was very disproportioned to the credits in our favour. Indeed, the number of French prisoners in England during the last year of the war, was nearly equivalent to the whole of our army engaged in actual conflict with France at that epoch. We recall these facts, not for the pur pose of reminding our neighbours Of unpleasant topics (than which nothing is more distant from our minds), but merely to show both to the English public and that of France, that if we have squandered away money on useless splen dour or ungainly constructions, it has been the money of England, and not the fruit of foreign 'vine or diplomatic circumvention.—Times. We published on Monday a report of the trial of the policeman St. Ledger, for homicide, arising out of the unfortunate transactions at I3or risokeen. Our readers have seen that the result of that trial, which excited extraordinary inte rest, was an acquittal. Our correspondent ac companied his report with observations which imply a very disturbed state of the public mind. The fact of the people bein ,, in a state of extreme excitement we can easily believe, but we should be sorry to find that popular intimidation should have any effect on the even course of justice. In times of alarm and danger, it is peculiarly neces sary that Judges and Juries should be free from external influence, let it come from what quarter it may ; but what influence can be more subver- • sive of judicial rectitude than popular terror ? Let such a servile passion once take possession of the minds of Courts and jurymen, and every just man must shudder at the consequences. We make these remarks, because our correspondent pretty plainly hinted, before the trials of the policemen came on, that, if they should happen not to be convicted, it was the prevalent opinion the multitude would appeal to force, and, not having justice in their own way, would exact vengeance. In the same spirit he informs us, now the popular rage for the life of the first policeman that was put on his trial has been disappointed, that the " result of the trial has caused the greatest anxiety for the country, and the people declare that the trial was the best got-up humbug oh the part of the Crown that was over acted in this kingdom. The host of witnesses who are to be examined in We five other cases would have gone home were it not for the interposition of their legal advisers, as they vehemently declare they have no hopes or prospect of having justice clone as long as the Government interferes with the prosecution. Messengers were sent off to different parts of the country as soon as the verdict had been an nounced, and it is impossible to calculate what may be the consequences." What a deplorable picture does this afford of the present " tran quillised" state of Ireland ! The " grievances" which were represented as the only cause of party rancour and public disturbance have been re moved, and the people who have received those concessions now demand that the tribunals of justice shall decide upon the life of men accord. ing to the dictates of their domineering passions, Lind threaten vengeance if the phrenzy of party should not direct the decisions of the Jury-box. We hope they are only the lowest of the rabble who dare to give utterance to such sentiments ; or, if they be expressed more generally, there must be a strange relaxation of the necessary energies of Government. As far as we could col lect from reading the report of the trial, it appears to have been most impartially conducted. The Jury was aleu a mixd one of Protestants and Catholics. They heard the evidence on both sides patiently, and gave a dispassionate verdict. If they had yielded to popular intimidation, and Found the prisoner guilty when they did not be lieve him so, we might soon expect to see in Irish Court;; pc !Justice such scenes as mule the forms of Jaw a cr4el mockery in the revolu tionary tribunals of Prance, hiupp writing the above we have received from our correspondent j at Clonmel a full report of the trial of Ledger and his associates, which will be found in anothgr part of our Paper. This was the most important of the Frials arising out of the unfor tunate occurrences at Borrisgkeen. The result in this case has also been an acquittal, but Ledger was subsequently indicted on anodicr charge of wilful murder. The Jury, in this case, j are stated to have been exclusively Pro testant, TLat circumstance, as might be fore seen, is made a gi'Oiinj for impeaching the purity of the verdict. Those who 'do ;i2 seem deter mined that religious distinctions shall not pei;ll, —Morning Herald. We haw. hefpre alluded to the very error.eous notions which arc SC g s enerally entertained as to the facility of greatly simplifying our laws, more • particular!y as they regard real property. T! !. ., 3 truth is, they arc the growth of so many centu ries, the work of so many changes in our inter nal anti external relations, that a partiii altera tion would be likely to effect as much evil as be- Went ; and we know not how the whole system can be grappled with at once. It must be clear that those who think otherwise have forgotten how soon the simple maxims by which Greece and Rome and other States were governed be came insufficient for the interests of several States—that in the progressive change of man ners some laws fell into desuetude and some be came inapplicable, and that it was rendered ne cessary to provide for insulated cases as they arose. In Rome particularly there were the de crees of the Senate, the ordinances of the People, the edicts of the Consuls, the regulations of the Prwtors, the opinions of learned Jurisconsults, and filially the rescripts, edicts, and novels of the Emperors ; until at length such a mass of legis lative matter was assembled, as scarcely the efforts of Theodosius or Justinian were adequate to bring into order or reduce to principle. But it may be said that it was of this immense accumu lation of incongruous or conflicting laws that the Romans then complained, as the people of England are now complaining, as well as that the simplicity of the old laws was corrupted by interested men, rather than by the natural progress of society. These complaints, however partially just, are not altogether unanswerable. While society remains in a simple state, there is no necessity for more than a few simple laws ; but as society alters its structure—as conditions change—as enterprise leads to success or failure—as it becomes divided into classes, new duties are incurred—new obli gations are contracted—new relations of necessity arise, and these must be regulated as circum stances demand, either by the course oflong-esta blished custom, or by precise legislative enactment. The real property of this country is completely mixed up with the feudal law ; and indeed the history of every country where the feudal laws prevailed, while it presents us, on the one hand, with an account of the many restraints imposed by them upon alienation, and of the many methods which have been taken to make property inalien able, presents us, on the other, with an account of the different arts which have been adopted to elude these restraints, and to make property free. This is as observable in the law of England as it is in the law of any other country ; but the mode by which it has been effected in England is peculiar to England. In other countries, where a liberty of alienation has been introduced, it has rested on a kind of compromise with the lord by pay ing him a certain fine ; and a kind of compro mise with the relations of the feudatory, by allowing them a right of redemption, com monly called the " jus retractus.' But the steps by which a free alienation of property has obtained ground in England are very diffe rent. In England an unlimited freedom of alienating soccage and military land was soon allowed ; the practice of sub-mfeudation was soon abolished ; the alienation of land was re strained by the introduction of conditional fees, and afterwards by the introduction of estates tail ; entails, from their first establishment, were greatly discountenanced by the Courts of slims tice, and they were eluded by the doctrines of discontinuance and warranty. In the course of time a fine was made a bar to the claims of the issue in tad, and a common recovery to time claims both of the issue and of those in remain der and reversion. Most of these circumstances are peculiar to the history of England. Hence an English reader who opens the writings of the foreign feudists with an expectation of find ing there something applicable to the practi cal state of the law of his own country, respecting the alienation of landed property, will be greatly disappointed. The same may be ob served with respect to the doctrine of conditions. According to the strict principles of the feudal law, no conditions could he annexed to a fief except the implied conditions to which every fief was subject from the obligations of service on the part of the tenant, and the obligation of protec tion on the part of the Lord. Every fief to which any express or conventionary condition was annexed, was from that very circumstance ranked among the improper fiefs. But fiefs in England were at all times susceptible of every kind of condition. (See Coke upon Little ton, by Butler, vol. i.) The modern system of the law may be supposed to have taken its rise at the end of the reign of King Henry the Seventh, and to have assumed something of a re gular form about the latter end of the reign of King Charles the Second. The principal fea tures of this alteration are, the introduction of recoveries ; coveyances to uses ; the testamentary disposition by wills ; the abolition of military tenui es ; the statute of frauds and perjuries ; the establishment of a regular system of equitable jurisdiction ; the discontinuance of real actions ; and the mode of trying titles to landed property by ejectment. There is no doubt but during the above period a material alteration was effected in the jurisprudence of this country ; but this alteration has been effected, not so much by su perseding as by giving a new direction to the principles of the old law, and applying them to new subjects.—Morning Post. The critical situatian of the Turkish empire and the future steps to which the unexpectedly successful advance of the Russians may eventu ally give rise, have again begun to assume that importance which properly belongs to them, and which they only momentarily lost in consequence of the more immediate and absorbing interests of the change in the French Ministry. The ques tion is not now, whether the Turks or time Rus sians will be ultimately successful—for that point would seem to have been settled by the able manceuvres, and unchecked advances of Count Diebitsch—but whether the latter will advance immediately to Constantinople—whether the Sul tan will, or will not, sue for peace, and whether the Governments of Austria, France, and Eng land will, or will not, interfere to put a stop to the preposterous ambition, and .still more prepos terous pretensions of Russia ? With regard to the situation of the Turkish empire, nothing assuredly can be more critical, to all appear ance, than it now is, The Russians are not only advancing from the eastward through the fertile plains of Anatolia, crowned with victory, and without any thing before them to oppose a serious obstacle to their advance, but another army is within an hundred miles of the capital, and'a third is about to descend from the moun tains, to reinforce it, if necessary ; while there is, on time other hand, apparently no army-1;) at least, say time accounts in the German papers — fortress, or defence, to delay their advance on Constantinople. Two timings, however, ought to be tia:en into consideration, as diminishi.ig, in some measure, the dagger with which the Otto man Empire is apparently threatened,—First, the fact that the Porte had armies of no inconsiderable magnitude at the opening of the icampaign, and that although these arirue lirrie been defeated and dispersed, ' we have as yet had no account of their de struction ;—and, secondly, that however feeble the roistance of he Twks may have latterly been, it is scarcely to be supposed that the same apathy should characterize their conduct as the Russians advance nearer to the capital. Armies much more powerful than that of the northern Autocrat, and much better d'seiplined also, have ere now been defeated by less warlike op ponents than the Turks, es en after they had mastered the capital of the country ; and, not withstanding the unfavourable aspect of the late military operations in the East, we are con vinced that it only requires a vigorous and united effort on the part of the Turks to drive their invaders from the soil. With regard to the last point--we mean the inter ference of the European Powers in behalf of Turkey, we should think that no doubt need be entertained on the subject. France, on the one hand, cohld gain no object by the extension of the Russian empire to the Bosphorus ; Austria, however she might he bribed by a por tion of the plunder, would have, ultimately, good reason to tremble for her own inde pendence in such an event ; while the Duke of Wellington, on the other, has declared the in tegrity of Turkey to be essential to the balance of power in Europe. Under these circum stances interference appears to be certain, and even successful, without recourse being had to arms.—Morning Advertiser. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-FIOUSE. Yesterday the Justice-room was crowded with pa rish officers from all parts of the metropolis, in conse quence of a detected conspiracy amongst multitudes of persons who claim palish relief. It has been found that numbers of paupers of both sexes are in the habit of earning a very luxurious livelihood, by merely walking from parish to parish at the time appointed for paying claimants, both real and fictitious, in each. The first put to the bar was a man not more than 40 years of age, named Paxton. An officer of Bishopsgate parish stated, that on the 14th of August he gave to Paxton shoes and articles of clothing, and 2s. 6d., upon the under standing from him that he belonged to that parish, in which he said he had established a settlement by birth. Upon many other occasions witness had answered the demands of the applicant for relief. Mr. Smart, the vestry clerk of Bishopsgate parish, stated that Paxton had, upon his examination before the officers, declared the nature of his claim to be by birth, and he received the money in the name of James Thompson. Mr. W. Bigg, clerk to the licensing Magistrates of the division of Holborn, stated that he had re peatedly relieved Paxton upon the representation that he belonged to that parish. Every Thursday, tbr the last year, Paxton had regularly called for his allowance.—(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—Do you think he belongs to you ? Mr. Bigg had every reason to believe he did not. Mr. Hobler—You must prove where he has a set tlement. The LORD MAYOR—Ii that:neccssary ? Surely he cannot belong to all. It was here stated, that fortunately for the ends of justice, his legal settlement could be proved. Mr. finish, one of the officers of the parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark, knew Paxton well, having relieved him for the last ten years—(a laugh) —as a pauper of that parish. The pauper had been removed about seven times to that parish by orders of removal. The LORD MAYOR said that the system was really a dreadful one, and that prosecutions for per jury ought to be instituted, particularly as he un del stood that a regular system had been acted upon. Mr. Iluish said tl:e parish of St. George had the credit of owning Mr. Paxton, and the last time he had been relieved was on the 13th of August, a day on which he had his necessities assisted in other places. The beadle of Mile-end Old-town knew Paxton well, right well, the pauper having applied to the officers of that parish for relief, as one of their poor, and obtained it until the time of the list application, when he was believed to be an impostor. Paxton—Upon my word, Mr. Stone, I never got a shilling from you. The LORD MAYOR—Why you seem to know him as well as if you had. Paxton—Pray, my Lord, when did he last see me there ? Beadle—l should think about two months ago. Paxton—That's a falsehood. You have not seen me there these four months.—(Laughter.) The LORD 11AYOR-1 . his sort of plunder weighs heavily upon the industrious part of the community. The beadle of Bishopsgate stated that Paxton had assured him he had a wife and three children. The LORD MAYOR-W here are your wife and children ? Paxton—l han't got none; I never had none. The LORD MAYOR—What have you to say for yourself ? Paxton—Why, I didn't know hich parish I rightly belonged to, you see, my Lord, and I din't get enough from any one on 'em for my liv ing.— ( Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—You shall go to Bridewell for three months, to hard labour. _ _ Paxton—l say, my Lord, which parish shall Igo o when I comes out ?—(Loud laughter.) He was'then escorted to prison. John Goss, a friend of Paxton's, was next put to lie bar. Mr. Smart, of Bishopsgate parish, deposed that Goss had received relief in that parish in the name of \V. Goodman. Mr. Baker, the vestry clerk of St. Michael's, Cornhill, stated that Goss also received relief from that pa►ish, as a claimant upon it. The beadle of Nile-end Old Town stated that Goss had claimed upon that parish as an inhabitant with a wife and three small children, but he was watched, and found to be neither a resident nor to have a wife or children. It appeared that the pauper had been committed for this imposition by a Middlesex magistrate for one month, and that since he came out he recommenced those practices. The LORD MAYOR— Where are your wife and three children ?—Goss shook his head. The LORD MAYOR—I suppose you have got none. Gass—Not one, please your Lordship.— ( Laughter.) Sentence—three months' imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Correction. A pauper named Junes was the third. His case was similar to the two former, and he received a similar sentence. Nary Stevens, a stout woman, aged 39, was the fourth. It was stated that she regularly went from parish to palish, and received relief in each for two or three years. The beadle of St. Giles's assured the Lord Mayor, that there was great difficulty in discovering im posto:.s, as they were in the habit of changing clothes, and completely metamorphosing themselves, so that it often happened that one pauper received relief three or four times in one day in one parish.— (Laughter.) This pauper was also sent for three months to the House of Correction. The Lou.r) MAYOR said the evil was one of such ma gnitude, that the officers of all the parishes were bound to combine for the prevention of it all through the metropolis. Mr. ilobler handed to the Lord Mayor a list of resolutions, which, if generally adopted, would, he thought, produce a great d ea l of benef i t. Th ey w ere, he said, passed at a meeting of the overseers of the parish of Si. Saviour, Southwark, in the county of Surrey, held in their committee-room. The resolutions recommended that all the parishes should pay their paupers on the same day. he Loßp MAYOR said that he should most readily and actively co-operate with the parishes in the cure of this very desperate and overgrown evil. MARYLEBONE. A young woman, possessing the advantages of a good education and a genteel appearance, came be fore Ml'. GRIFFITH yesterday morning, and com plained that Samuel Fisher, a private in the 2d Regi ment of Lire Guards, had robbed her of a gold watch and seals. She astonished the magistrate by stating, that between one and two o'clock on the preceding day, she accidentally met the accused party in the New-road, and yielding to his importu nity, she spent more than five hours with him in the parlour of a public-house. They were there a great part of the time alone, and as soon as he had left her, which he did very abruptly, she missed a watch worth 20 guineas, given to her by her father when she became of age. She felt it safe in her pocket three minutes before, and as soon as she dis covered her loss she made the circumstance known to the master of the public-house. The soldier was as great a stranger to him as he was to herself, but he knew by his dress that he belonged to the 2d Regiment of Life Guards, and under his instruc tion, she went into Hyde Park yesterday morning, and singled him out from the rest, as they were riding their horses for exercise, and the Setjeant- Major gave her his name. Mr. GRIFFITH asked her how she came to fall into the company of a private soldier. She re turned a confused answer to the question, but said something about a fine man with a fresh-colour. Mr. GRIFFITH gave Webster, the officer, instruc- dons to go directly to the barracks at Knightsbridge, and bring Fisher before him. Webster succeeded, and at half-past seven in the evening the case was brought forward. The young lady gave her name Matilda Parlett, and said she was then a visiter at No. IS, Halton street, Upper•road, Islington. Her statement was taken with great minuteness. I met the defendant (said she) iiear Gloucester place. He accosted me, and asked me to take some thing to drink. I said no, at first; but after two or three times I said " Yes." He took me to a public house in Norton-street—(Mr. Griffith asked the sign of it, and the landlord being present, said it was the Little Cannon)—and when he left me he robbed me of my watch. Mr. GRIFFITII—When did he leave you ? Miss Parlett—lt might be about half-past seven. Mr. GRIFFITH—HaIf - past seven! What, did you stay in this place five hours with him ? Miss Par lett—l saw he was an idle character, and I thought I was safer with him in the house than out of it. Mr. GRIFFITH smiled at her answer, and desired her to state what took place there. Miss Palen— After we had sat some time, he put his hand round my waist, and said, " You have got a watch." At first I said no, and then yes ; and I defy you or any man to take it away from me. In answer to Mr. GRIFFITH—I did not say - yes until after a great deal to do. He then wished to see it, and I took it out of my watch-pocket and shoved it him. She said no other person was in the room when this happened, and no one came into it afterwards until lie was gone, and she missed her watch. Mr. Richard Blake, the landlord of the Little Cannon, in Norton-street, did not know when the soldier and the lady came to his house; he was out at the time. He found them in his parlour about three o'clock, and served them with two pints of ale and a glass of gin and water. " Hear me, young woman," said Mr. GRIFFITH to the complainant, " and answer me truly upon your oath. and gin and water ?" Miss Pallet t—A very little, Sir. Mr. GRIFFITH—Oh, I dare say not. The landlord further stated that there was no person in the room excepting the lady and the sol dier, after half-past six ; a light was carried into it a little after seven; the soldier left the house imme diately in a hurry, and the lady:came out directly, and said he had stolen her watch, and he considered her to be a little overcome with what she had taken.— He did not know what they drank before he came home at three o'clock, but his waiter, who could not then attend, would speak to it. The soldier said, in answer to the charge, that at the time before stated he met the lady in the New road, and he asked her to go with him and take something to drink. She said she could not stay then, but would return to him after she had visited her uncle. She went into a house in Dorset-place, and came back. He took her to the Goat and Com passes, and there they drank three pints of Scotch ale. He took her then to the Little Cannon, in Norton -street, treated her with beef-steaks, and they drank ale and gin and water all the afternoon. She showed him her watch, and afterwards said she wanted to speak to the landlady, and she was ab sent from the room for five minutes. He did not leave her abruptly : his time was up, and he was obliged to go. She told him her father was in dis tress, and endeavoured to persuade him to remain with her all night. lie said he had neither money nor leave of absence, and he declared most solemnly before the Magistrates that he did not know what became of the watch. Mr. GRIFFITH re-examined Miss Parlett—She ate some beef-steaks with the soldier, and drank a little ale and a little gin and water, but was not at all tipsy, or:she could not have traced him ; and his story about her wishing him to remain with her all night was a gross falsehood. She felt her watch safe three minutes before he left her, and missed it as soon as he was gone. The landlord was re-examined—No one but the complainant and the prisoner were is the room for the last half hour, and he left the house very hastily. Mr. GRIFFITH said the case appeared so strong against the soldier, that he must commit him for trial, unless further evidence could be produced. Mr. Blake thought his waiter knew something of the soldier, and, that he might have an opportunity to come forward, the prisoner was remanded. The serjeant of the troop told the Magistrate he was instructed by the commanding officer to say, that in consequence of the prisoner's general good conduct, he (the commanding officer) would be an swerable for his forthcoming at any time, if he was allowed to return to the barracks. The serjeant said he came home at ten o'clock on Monday night, and he was quite sober. Mr. GRIFFITH thought the latter circumstance unfavourable to the prisoner, for he left the young woman at half-past seven, saying his time was up, and he refused to part with him. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday Mr. Chilcoat, of No. 3, Bond-court, Walbrook, attorney, attended before the Magistrates, Mr. TWYFORD and Mr. BROUGHTON, for an expla nation touching the charge against James Mawbq, his clerk, of having conspired, with another person unknown, to throw John Beazley into prison, upon a pretended debt said to be due from him to a per. son called William Jonathan Fisher. Mr. BRouGuToN recapitulated the evidence. Mr. Chilcoat said he knew no such person as Fisher. Mr. BROUGHTON said, that Mawby came before him on Saturday evening, after the case was first heard, and with perfect nonchalance assured him that it was a bona fide transaction ; that Fisher was a leather-dresser at Hythe, in Kent, and a client of Mr. Chilcoat, his employer. Mr. Chilcoat declared that be did not know any such person. The first he heard of it was from his clerk Mawby, who, wien the officer's ❑ote of the arrest was sent in on Thursday, told him it was in pursuance of instructions for a bona fide debt of lOU, and he then desired Mawby not to issue a writ again without consulting him. Mr. BROUGHTON—Where is the precipe book ? The book was produced by Waters, the officer, and the entry " Wm. Jonathan Fisher against John Beazley" was recognized by Mr. Chilcoat as Maw by's hand-writing. Mr. BROUGHTON observed, that a strong circum stance against Nlawby was the anxiety which he had shown to the officer to have the writ executed the same day it was taken out. The officer was too late for an appointment made to meet him that evening, but witnesses swore that Mawby was gell lurking about the place, and watching the officl The present mode of transacting business, he s.' ; gave a tremendous power of revenge to vi ndictri persons. Mr. Chilcoat said that Mawby told him Beasley had just received a legacy of 200/., and that utile! the 100/. debt had been proceeded for at once! tt, could not be got. But he repeated that h e knes i no such person as Fisher. M. Chacoat pronaiiet to make every inquiry in his power to assist tit for; warding the ends of justice, and to attend t he ncl examination of the prisoner Mawby. The precipe book was first produced at the offic e on Monday evening, and the Magistrate, on looking into it, observed an entry —" Bill for James against John Beazley, 20/." Beazley being prese° Mr. BROUGHTON asked him if Mawby ha d ever sued him for 20/.? He said Mawby had hegl an'action against him, and it was still pending, 911:1 quite distinct from this other case of the pretende , Fisher. Mr. BROUGHTON—And do you owe him 201. Complainant said he owed him nothing, and h % never yet been paid the money awarded him by 0 0 Commissioners. The 201. transaction he said los follows :—There had been a small shed at the bac of his house, of which his lodger, Mawby, bed the use, but some time ago being desirous of e nlargi n g his gaiden, he pulled down the shed in order to O I n .; vert into a garden the ground upon w hich ;0 stood. But there had been some pots or W e the shed belonging to Mawby, and the latter ga v him notice of an action of trespass for 201. damage% It should be stated that Mr. Chileoat, wilt" asked yesterday what he knew of Mawby, said he had been in his service about twelve months , but : I° ,l as his principal or confidential clerk, and that he° received a good character of him. A further statement was nude at this office )I°7 terday respecting a person named Marcell° Baev_J, a Spanish refugee, who had been taken into custody for pulling up roots of mangel wurzel in a field a t Islington. nd ' Defendant appeared in very poor condition °Le in the course of a conversation in French Wit h tn. Magistrate, he talked very incoherently of a c , ° , 1 , 1 0 spiracy formed against him, and attempts to p et o him in his food, by emissaries from his Seto enemies. He described himself as having bee" he officer of rank in the Patriot army, and said tha t had suffered much from a sabre wound in the hesti In his pockets were found 3/. 195. in gold a silver, besides a great number of small loaves, piece of cheese, German sausage, polonies, chops, Bt.c. He accounted for the money by saying thatmi heo_. ceived 21. a month from the Refugee Com tte e The provisions he found it necessary to carry ab (s to him, to counteract the attempts of his enemies poison him in his food. Mr. BROUGHTON said, he believed the poor ina ll to be deranged, and desired an officer to WI; pany him to the city, and to make some i n q uine about him. Hanky, the officer, accordingly went with till; Spaniard to the Mansion-house. Mr. Fre shfie h; the Secretary to the Committee, was no t in t way at the time, but Mr. Hobler having looked oved a number of letters and papers which the Span iar d had in his pocket, confirmed the account he li a g igwnp i i v itTtr e lhai n heereye o pf f , teauor h tne i rpif m i loooc s rtei e tsad l ot f rton , inai t t itylhe l t he had been a Lieut. , need m .o a t t l i eH esu was hi,ja evidently edetgo nteheingteon:eber genera field the at Islington to purchase the mange! wurzel, as but most unsophisticated food he could proc ure, finding no one there proceeded to help hims elf ' •ll He was dismissed, with an injunction n ot to PP up property in the fields again. ; k he N i V ns h i e st n ed t h u e pcni t m oney reat w i r a ig s a t f h t e er o w iti a c rd er s s r w es i t t o h re . d n t n o „ hill :; he carefully refrained from touching a drop h illise be from the fear, it was supposed, that he sho uld poisoned. Amongst the letters of the unfortti ns ; man were several from persons of distinguished 011.10 One of them was from Col. Quiroga, addressing " as his affectionate friend arid companion in are* Yesterday morning the P"a li r A ish " officers of St. Pu n t T°N, 99 Horselydown, attended before Sir J. PEAR ING ° meet the charge of cruel neglect of the unfortillve young woman, who died in the parish on Friva? Their morning, as stated in the Times of Saturday presence being announced to Sir John Perring• Sir Jolt:l—What is the nature of the present IW' andfsatil females. foundasn. and administered H h e e pr pronounced plication ? It was explained to him by the clerk. Mr. Misken, the surgeon of Si. John's p arish ' stated that he attended the deceased professionallt st i a" tr; ing—it was cholera morbus, generally fat a „ heard stated ohferhee that h d a e t a t t h h e ; ‘ i r t ot N i : was s n died tle wiz., referring to the Times o suffering un e eutdini those e r r at remedies seedbaeiseeisnotfah loodialigan tguerr: .01. the case called for. He was not astonished when he foregone distemper. a It ig Sir J - pa per.- - n r ro ° r f : attention." t hen Mr. Barnes, one of the parish authorities, . 0 caimed the Alderman's attention, and said, that an the charge, made against the parish of fi cers or t il i re, ex-pnr te statement, was of a very s erious O n -I blic and calculated to prejudice the minds of the P.:heJ against them, he trusted the reporter who furaisily the statement to the morning papers (but esP e i c d do the Times, and whom he saw resent) wr° • them the justice to report the presentp could proceedj This gentleman then went on to say, that it Or natural result r t eosfulpt thut duties officers be unknown to the worthy ' Baronet . duties had very arduous duties perform' - to every in the course of which they were subjected to p ro' species of obloquy, and the vilest impo sitionap of the reeding from parties mostly, if not generally, „Olt lowest class, which those arduous dut ies br r io them in contact with, whose statement s nuroti'ved the absence of the parish officers, to be r e n t he with caution ; it should also be observed , tbut I- for present instance the parties bringing th e cose te- rs--- ac se ward were of the worst description of char common prostitutes : even the unfortunate deceud to was of the same class. The overseers had alit,dui!' d discharge to the palish as well as to the pub KII . o f over' the gentlemen ' v.ho at present fill the office m art' seers discharged their duties in an exemP hill sur ner to both. He trusted the evidence of the sari geon was amply sufficient to satisfy in Mag i l l . was and the public that the charge of inattentio h 1 you'd completely refuted, and that be (Sir Je""' wom an also admit his belief that the unfortunate Nv. ." a rt• death was not attributable to any neglect on their F the Sir JOHN PERKING said, he was w ell aware 1 %ices situation in which gentlemen who filled parish o . 40 were placed—situations, in fact, th e y were bouau :„ fulfil oftentim e s to the detriment o f their ow n p arduou s', vote business . He admitted they were u,,i but he also knew that the conductors of the 1) ..... u 1 , e press had also very arduous duties to perfor:ri% wag would say sometimes very painful duties, an d n nuhratetl certain that any errors they might have proi coil' 46 But what, poor .06 would be cheerfully corrected. tinned Sir John, "isto be done with this _il t with it.)— I ir flat `," , . —(Mrs. Clarke wasp reset' to toter[ it. parish officers pledged theit_____:woll On the 23d inst. in Sussex-14M —.—..... __,..—...........—---_ BIRTHS. lady of W. E. Phillips, Esq. of a daughter. F• usr On the 22d inst. at Brighton, the lady of F. r• -" el. Esq. of Clapham-house, Sussex, of a daughter. ile of On the 24th inst. at Stowlangtoft, Sutiolk, the ' a "' H. Wilson, Esq. of a daughter. MARRIED. f 0' On the 24th inst. at Great Milton, Stephen, son °-, „ t Ilemsted, Esq. of Newbury, Berko, to Anne, eldest daughter or the Rev. J. C. Townsend, of 11Iilton House! Oxon, and Rector of lekford, Bucks. bl On the 25th inst. at St. Pancras, Campbell Wrig Hobson, Esq. of Gray's-inn, to Julia, eldest daughter ° Regent's-park, the the late G. Ansley, Esq. of Russell-square . ri' On the 24111 inst. at Broxbourn, Bens, Mr. W. VT I daughter of J. Toppin, Esq. of the place. son, jun. of the Old Kent-road, former Eliza Ann, elJ°' e P RINT ED and PUBLH ISED by 1111311130 YOUNG, a. , LONDON. 9FricE, 1 12, Tltiktif) I