The Sun. — London, England, 1829-09-08 00:00:00

Oa another than from one province of the same isauutry to another. But this love of country has its limits. The love of gain is t no less poWerful and constantly operating principle ; and if capitalists are once assayed that their stock can be laid out with tolerable security, and with considerably greater advantage in Foreign States, an efflux of capital to a greater or less extent will certainly take place. The rate of taxation has, throughout this discussion, been supposed to be unvariable. It is plain, however, that when it is increased, such increase must either immediately fall wholly on profits or wages, or partly on the one and partly on the other. If it falls on profits, it must maim an equivalent de duction from then' ; and if it falls on wages, it must proportionally depress the condition of the great mass of the people. There are limits, however, and those not very remote : to the power of the labourer to pay taxes ; and when ever these limits have been attained, they must entirely fall on profits. It has, therefore, been most justly and truly observed by Dr. Smith, that a heavy taxation has exactly the same effects as an increased barrenness of the soil, or an in creased inclemency of the heavens." Holland is a well-known instance of a rich country ruined by heavy taxation. The condition of the labouring classes cannot materially differ in the different countries of this part of Europe. The la bourer must receive enough to enable him to work and rear sucessors. All the processes for abridging labour soon pass from country to coun try. It is obvious, therefore, that it is of im mense consequence to a man, possessed of ca pital, whether he shall employ it in one where taxes are high, or in one where taxes are low. AR far as the labouring classes in this country are concerned, their condition is evidently affected by the labour market being everywhere glutted ; and as that glut is chiefly occasioned by the in flux of the Irish, in consequence of the facilities of communication, it is obvious that till the English, Scotch, and Irish find the same level, the condition of the former must constantly de cline. From the comparatively backward and depressed state of Scotland, there has been an improvement in the condition of the labouring classes of that country, at a time when the con dition of the labourers in England was expe riencing a decline. Hence Scotch writers, who merely describe what has taken place around them, are prone to describe the improvement they have witnessed as universal throughout the Empire. We have been led to make this remark by a very interesting publication we have just received from Scotland, " Rural Recollections on the Pro • gress of Improvement in Agriculture and Rural Af fairs, by George Robertson, author of the Agri cultural Survey of Mid-Lothian, and other simi lar publications." Three parts are already pub lished, and the author announces a fourth. Mr. Robertson details a number of changes which have taken place within his own remembrance, which extends so far back as 1765. Speaking of the price of labour, Mr. Robertson says, " Previous to the year 1750, and for a hundred years farther back, or more, the wages of an "or dinary labourer was a half merk Scots (6 2-3;1. sterling) a day ; and of a mason, a full merk, or 13 1-3 d. Wages from that time began to ad vance by slow degrees, so that about the year 1765, a common labourer got 7d. a day in win ter and Bd. in the summer season ; the wages of masons improving at the same time to double these sums. In this ratio the wages of the re spective parties continued advancing till about the year 1815, when a common labourer got Is. Bd. a day, and a mason 3s. 4(1., at which rates respectively they continue to the present time, sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less, but more generally at these rates than at any other. The wages of a full grown plough man about the year 1765, was 1/. 10s. by the half year. About the year 1770 it was twenty pounds Scots (1/. 13s. 4d. sterling), and soon afterwards it advanced to 21. sterling. From this time forward the advance was more rapid, and the wages were no longer calculated by Scots money, but by sterling, which, by the year 1800, were as high as 5/. ; and from that gra dually increased till about the year 1815, when they had attained to 101. by the half year. This great advance seems to have arisen from the effect of the previously long-continued war, which created a demand for all idle hands, and so left the fewer for industrial employ ment. Since that period the wages of farm servants have somewhat declined, being more generally from 71. to 91. in the half year, to gether with board and lodging. The wages of women servants by the half year was, about the year 1765, eight pounds Scots, or 13s. 4d. sterling, which rose soon afterwards to nine pounds Scots, or 15s. sterling. From thence forward they advanced gradually in much the same ratic, as those of the men, so that they are now from 31. to 4/. sterling by the half year ; and have been so for nearly twenty years past. . . • • • • Dating from about the year 1745, a period from which the commencement of agri cultural improvement is very generally traced (or a year or two more or less), there has been a gradual advance in the price of land produce, slowly at first, but ultimately increasing more rapidly, till at last, in the present times, it has advanced to more than sixty per cent., at an ave rage of the different species of bread corn ; that is, from the year 1745, to crop 1827. But in the same time, the rate of wages, from the greater demand for labour, has increased upwards of one hundred per cent. on an average of these years, and which, in the last twenty or thirty years, has risen two hundred per cent., or three times the rate in former times immediately pre ceding the year 1745, as will be seen from the prices of corn and rate of labour in the subjoined tables. This greater advance in the rate of wages applies to all labourers in husbandry, and (with an exception. as below) to every description of mechanics, whether in town or country The exception alluded to is, indeed, of a very numerous class, namely, the weavers or manufacturers of woollen, linen, or other fabrics. These, in the course of the last thirty or more years, have alternately been sometimes in a state of the highest prosperity, earning from twenty to thirty shillings a week, and at other times in the lowest state of adver sity, not getting more than a fourth part of these respective sums, or even less, as many of them, as at present (May, 1829), are devoid of work altogether." Fi °ln the tables given by Mr. Robertson, it appears proved that the Scotch labourer receives at present considerably more, measuring his wages by meal, than he received formerly. But the same thing did not take place in England. There was the same ten dency to emigration for the sake of higher wages to England all the time, which i s now o b served from Ireland to Britain ; for high wages could not exist in England, with an easy communica tion, while improvement was going on in Scot land, without bangingng about an equalization in . condition. There is, however, sufficient evi ' deuce to chew, that 'while the Scotch were risisig to the Engla level, the condition of the Eng lish labourer, measuring his wages by produce, was becoming all the time worse.—Morning Chronicle. A case occurred at the Chester Assizes, on Thursday last, which illustrates, in a very striking manner, the mischievous and demo• ralising influence of the present system of Paro chial Law. A handsome young fellow, called Josiah Thornton, having enjoyed the favours of a soft-hearted damsel, coming from the neigh bourhood of Matlock, the fruit of their amour attracted the attention of the Overseers of that township, the mother and her baby becoming chargeable. A search was immediately set on foot after the delinquent father, who was appre hended; and proved weak enough, much to the satisfaction of the parochial authorities, to em brace the alternative of marrying the girl, which had the effect of purging his fault, and exone rating their parish. He was attended from the ale-house to the altar by the constable and over seers ; and although under the age of consent, was married by license in the most expeditious manner possible. Unluckily, however, Thorn ton was engaged at the period of his apprehension in wooing in an honest way another woman, and matters had proceeded so far that his banns with her were in part published. He could not bring himself to abandon the mistress of his chaste affections, and two days after his forced marriage with the frail fair one he deserted her, and espoused her rival. By this act he became guilty of bigamy, for which crime he was tried and convicted. His sentence was two years' imprisonnent and hard labour. Ihe case was said to be one of great aggrava tion ; but, with leave of those who so term it, we should rather blame the system of compul sory marriage than the luckless lad whom it has led into disgrace and suffering. If the sacredness of the nuptial tie be an essential part of the social system, individuals must be left sponta neously to contract that tie, and free from all other bias than their own inclinations. The law which holds out either menace or temptation to marriage, and then punishes a breach of the forced obligation, is an instrument of cruelty and tyranny. As a restraint upon illicit connexions among the peasantry, the system of forcing marriages is worth very little ; while, so far from diminishing the parish burdens, it aug ments them, inasmuch as it compels a couple to consort together, and to proceed with the great work of propagation as long as they are able, who would most probably, if left to them selves, have been satisfied with their first con nexion. Indeed, the tendency of marriage to increase the population is so manifest, that pa rish officers never concern themselves to bring it about except when the man happens to belong to another parish, in which case the burden of maintaining the offspring is transferred by the ceremony from the parish of the woman to that of the man. It is from this contest between different parishes, as to their respective liabilities, that much of the mischief of the Poor Laws springs. If the evils so occasioned were cut off, little would remain that is not deserving of all esteem and commendation.—lbid. The commencing without finishing public structures in this country seems not merely a matter of occasional caprice, but may be termed an architectural disease ; and throws not only an air of ridicule over those who become probably the unwilling agents in it, but is a source of real loss and disgrace to the country. As proofs of what we say, we need only enumerate Westmin ster Hall, Pimlico Palace, the new Post Office, the British Museum, and the entrance to the Palace at Hyde Park-corner, as indubitable spe cimens of that spirit of delay and incompletion which results from undertaking at once more than there are the means to accomplish. The case of Westminster Hall is peculiarly striking, and of the greatest importance to the country. Will it be credited, that for seven or eight years one half of the area of this great public struc ture has been occupied and disfigured by a wooden shed, in which are deposited—not work men's tools or rubbish, as a passer-by might be led to imagine—but a mass of public re cords, the security of which, in a com petent fire-proof receptacle, must be, one would imagine, so obviously a public duty as to admit neither of doubt nor delay ? After several years of one, however, if not of the other, the Lords of the Treasury proposed to purchase the Guildhall of the Westminster Ma gistrates for the purpose. This, however, the latter refuse to sell. Yet, will it be believed that at the very rear of this spot, and on one quite as well adapted to the purpose, a large area has been covered with building, under the de nomination of a Parliamentary Mews, but which is to this moment so totally useless as such, that the stables are let out to individuals, and part of the structure used, we believe, as a guard-house ? Such a waste of public money as this, coupled with such an obvious neglect of what ought to be done, is, we hope, rare. It, however, as well as the evil we at first adverted to, arises, we appre hend, from the old adage of " too many cooks." While, in apparently the same department, one person can do this and another that, continual clashings and inconsistencies must arise, which can only be put an end to by one head, as in Mr. Pitt's time, taking the supervision and control of all.—Morning Herald. The interests of the national drama, as they may be affected by the present condition of its chief temple, the Theatre in Covent-garden, have for some time past been the subject of much discussion. If we have hitherto been silent upon that subject, it is not because we have been indifferent to a matter in which we believe not only the amusements and the tastes, but the honour, and above all, the moral feel ings of society, to be deeply involved. It is because in the correspondence with which we have been abundantly supplied, and in the la mentable exposures which have been more than abundantly rehearsed, nothing has appeared but conflicting private interests, obscure personali ties, and mutual recriminations, that we have abstained from noticing a subject which we fore saw must sooner or later present itself for consi deration upon public grounds. That state of the case is now arrived. We are no longer called upon to consider how much of debt this management incurred, or how much of ex travagance that committed—whether one actor is paid too much or another _too little— but whether the national drama, as far as it depends upon the aids of costume, scenic deco rations, and machinery, and what are technically denominated the properties of the stage, shall be thrown back a quarter of a century in the pro gress of improvement. During that period which has just elapsed, the Theatre, notwithstanding ita recent difficulties, has perhaps made a more rapid approach to perfection than in the whole time of its antecedent history ; and the connec tion of Covent-garden now includes the result of all that genius could devise, judgment direct, and a magnificent expenditure achieve, to give effect to the immortal literature of our country. The danger that such a c o ll ec ti on ma y be destroyed or dispersed within thre e d a ys of the tune a t which we write is a grea t p u bli c evil, and on e which nothing but the prompt and efficient in tervention of public spirit can now avert. At the public meeting which takes place in the theatre to-morrow, we trust that this single ob ject will be kept in view, until it shall he se cured in preference to all others. We can entertain no doubt that such an example will emanate from the highest classes in society as must ensure a liberal and an ample contribution from the public at large to meet the exigency-- But we repeat, that to do good its application must be directed to a positive and permanent re moval of the stock of the Theatre from the dan gerous situation in which it now stands. If money be required to relieve the house from its immediate embarrassment, cannot the proceeds of a subscription be applied to the purchase of the stock by some private arrangement with the cre ditors, instead of committing it to public sale ? The questions of managements, of patents, or even that of opening the theatre for the season, are all secondary and of minor import, compared with this great and pressing necessity for Pre serving the Drama from a spoliation which an age might scarcely see it retrieve. If the stock of the Theatre remain the property of its present owners, it is manifest that a month or a week may place it in precisely the same danger from which the public are now, we confidently trust, about to rescue it.—Morning Post. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING. Office of Ordnance, Sept. 7, 1829. Royal Regiment of Artillery. Second Captain F. Wright to be Adjutant, vice Romer, appointed Garrison Quarter-Master. Dated Jan 8, 1829- Captain E. J. Bridges, from unattached half-pay, to be Second Captain, vice G. Jones, deceased. Aug. 4. Corps of Royal Engineers. Second Captain J. L. llulme to be Captain, vice Daw son, deceased. May 23. First Lieutenant R. 11. S. Cooper to be Second Captain, vice Huline, promoted. May 23. Second Lieutenant R. Fenwick to be First Lieutenant, vice Cooper. May 23. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY, George Darley, Holly , phce, Hampstead, builder. Samuel Swonuell, Rood-lane, coffee and spice-merchant. John Parsons, Charlotte-terrace, Lambeth, timber-dealer. Hobert Wheater, Greested, Essex, farmer. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. Isaac Hadwen, John Sandeman, and John Longlands Cowell, Liverpool, merchants, from Sept. 15 to Sept. 18, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. BANKRUPTS. Timothy Wallington, Benjamin Overbury, sen., and Thom:is Carter, Cateaton-street, wholesale .wo3llen-dra pers, to surrender Sept. IS, at one, 30, and Oct. 20, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Young and Val lings, St. Mildred's-court, Poultry. William Selby, Standard-hill, Nottingham, lace-manu facturer, Sept. 13, 16, and Oct. 20, at eleven, at the Queen's Head Tavern, Nottingham. Fearnhead and Campbell, Nottingham ; Hurd and Johnson, Temple. Robert English, Bath, cabinet-maker, Sept. 22, 28, and Oct. 20, at eleven, at the White Lion Inn, Bath. Wil liams, Gray's-inn; Stallard, Bath. DIVIDENDS. H. C. Watkins, Liverpool, cotton-broker, Sept. 30, at twelve, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool—J. Welsby, Liverpool, coal•tnerchant, Sept. 30. at eleven, at the Cla rendon-buildings Liverpool—W. Burraston, Worcester, hop-merchant, Oct. 12, at eleven, at the Hoppole inn, Worcester.—S. Smart, Devizes, grocer. Oct. 6, at eleven, at the Castle and Ball inn, BathW. Roscoe, J. Clarka, and W. S. Roscoe, Liverpool, bankers, Sept. 30, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool—W. Whitehead, Sad dleworth, Yorkshire, woollen-manufacturer, Oct. 6, at nine, at the White Bear inn, Manchester—E. Eyre, Wells street, Oxford -street, blind-maker, Oct. 30, at one, at the Court of Commissioners—J. Gibbs, Crayford, Kent, mil ler, Oct. 30, at one, at the Court of Commissioners—J. Pigot, Norwich, grocer, Oct. 6, at four, at the White Swan inn, Norwich—T. A. Salmon, Leeds, stuff-manofacturer, Sept. 30, at two, at the Court-House, Leeds.—J. March, Honiton, Devonshire, grocer, Sept. 29, at eleven, at the Old Lonlnn, Exeter. CERTIFICATES-SEPT. 29. J. James, Lombard -street, broker—J. Emett, Downend, Gloucestershire, stone-quarryman—T. A. Betterton, Ampney-Crucis, Gloucestershire, see d sma n—T. and J. R. Harding, Bristol, brush-makers—A. Bray, Red Lien-yard, Holborn, horse. dealer—A. Ogle, 011erton, Nottingham seedsman—W. Shipley, Bagshot, Surrey, coach master—W. Brewer, Bristol, corn-factor. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. B. Heaver and W. Wells, Slaugham, Sussex, millers— F. R. Stephenson and R. Henshaw, Idol-lane, Tower street, wine merchants—S. T. Moore and J. Greenwood, Norwich, crape-manufacturers—C. Hazard, R. Judd, and A. Pyaat, Nottingham, mercers—G. Gwilliam and Moon, Bristol, soap-manufacturers—J. and E. Bell, Tottenham, Middlesex, millers—l. Somerville and E. Graham, Car lisle, dress-makers—J. Parker, C. Randall, and W. Wil liams, Northampton, boot-manufacturers, Northampton— J. and G. Holding, Adam-street, Adelphi, attornies-at law—J. L. Farr and R. Fiske, Beccles, Suffolk, attornies at-law—S. and S. Lock, sen. and jun. dyers, Berner's - Oxford-street—J. and J. Wigham, silk-men, Edinburgh—Hugh Fr anc i s C a d e t! an d George William Mylne, bocksellers and publishers, Edinburgh—Thomas Parrott and Samuel llighfield, Liverpool, timber-sner chants--R. Currey, J. T. Powell, and W. Kirk, Shoe maker-row, Blackfriars, Fleet -street, tobacconists—R. and W. C. Figes, New Sarum, Wiltshire—J. Williams, sen. J. Williams, jun. and M. and W. Williams, Scorrier house, Cornwall, merchants—Brendon, Sanders, Vivian, and Co., Lawhetton, Cornwall, limeburners—T. Evans and R. Marston, Ludlow, Shropshire, chemists—J. Poole and W. Cooling, Old Burlington-street, Bond-street, tailors —B. Overbury, W. Matravers, and N. Overbury, West bury, clothiers—J. Wigg and J. Dersley, plumbers, Lod dm, Norfi lk—T. Edmondson, B. Walker, and J. Ed mondson, Mytholmroyd, York, worstep-spinners. FRANKFORT, SEPT. 1.-It appears from various ac counts that the intelligence received at Vienna from Con stantinople, is of the Sth August. What has been said about letters, dated 10th and 14th Aug., has not been confirmed ; and as the letters of the 10th were anxiously looked for at Vienna on the 24th, it appears that no news of later date than the Sth had then been received there, and farther intelligence was eagerly waited for, to see whe ther the Snitan and his counsellors had given any farther proofs of willingness to accede to the wishes of the Powers for the restoration of peace. . _ The Austrian official Paper gives the following report from Odessa, Aug. 14: 7 . . ‘' The plague seems to increase in the infected villages : the physicians are of opinion that it has abated in malig nity, but that it spreads more quickly. About 50 persons have died. The number of suspected persons is equally great." We learn with considerable regret that some outrages have been committed by a few individuals con nected with our manufactures, with a view to prevent the work being sent out of the city, or done at under price.-- Norwich Mercury. A PLEASANT FROLIC.—One of the caliphs of Bagdad was of such a erne' disposition that sometimes he amused himself by ordering a potful of scorpions to be emptied in the middle of the room i n w hi c h h i s guests were assembled, who , as it was against etiquette for any person to rise from the table, or even c h ange h is posit i on , were obliged to bear without complaint, t v i h i e t h s o t i u n t g s t h ( e ) f p e t r h n e i i s ir s t e o n n o i o n f o t u h s e r c e a p h t p i : es t although it is well known they are of a most deadly nature. To conclude this pleasant frolic, however, after he had suf ficiently enjoyed the ill-suppressed. contortions a n d appre hensions of his courtiers, the caliph would produce a pre cious ointment, which had the singular p roperty o f cur i ng wounds made by the scorpion. After this it is a pleasure to know that one day, while enjoying this amusement, this monster was assassinated by the captain of his own guard. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A modest and respectable-looking looking young woman, named Noakes, under 16 years of age, was charged with setting fire to the furniture of several bed-rooms at the Portugal Family Hotel, Fleet street, at which she acted in the capacity of bar-maid. Mr. Walter Oakes, the proprietor of the hotel, deposed, that at half-past nine o'clock on Sunday night the furniture of one of his rooms was disco vered to be on fire. The prisoner was the first to give the alarm, and found to be quenching it, when some of the inmates approached her. Between 11 and 12, she and his nephew, who sleep on the same stair•case, went to bed, and soon after that three or four rooms were discovered to be in a blaze ; it must have been the work of some vile incendiary. In his belief no one but his nephew and the prisoner had access to the rooms in question. Sir P. LAURIE inquired whether the young woman had acted with prudence since she had been in the service of witness ? He replied—" Perfectly so. I bad the best of characters with her: Mr. Rockley, the wine•merchant, was one who gave it, and I know her friends to be very respectable. She has been very attentive to business, and very obliging." John Oakes, the nephew to the last witness, pr •ed the fact of his going to bed at the time spe ciF 1; he slept in the next room to the prisoner ; he had not been long in his bed-room before he heard the cry of " Fire !" and the prisoner was looking down from the balcony at the top of the house; she was partly undressed, and on witness seeing her she went into her own room before she went down stairs. Sir PETER called upon the young woman to explain. She admitted that she was in the balcony, and that she was partly undressed; she said she had pulled off her black silk gown, and in her hurry put on the stuff one in which she then appeared. When she got to the bottom of the house she gave an alarm, and then fainted. This was admitted by the prosecutor. The father of the prisoner hcief stepped forward and said, that for many years .he kept the wine vaults at the Marsh-gate, Lambeth, but was at pre sent out of business; his daughter had been behind his bar from an infant, and was free from every vice and universally respected. He had placed her in her present situation because he had a high opinion of Mr. Oakes, who had treated his child in a very proper manner. He spoke with a father's feelings; but were he to reason the case, was it likely that the girl would set fire to every floor, and then go to the top story to undress and await certain destruction ? J. Sanders, a watchman, deposed that he was near the house when the alarm of fire was given. He heard the pot-boy at the Hole-in-the-Wall say he knew who did it, but he did not like to tell; and then he alluded to the cook, and an old woman. Sir PETER—WIIO is this old woman ? The father then produced a letter which had been written to him by his daughter, which led to the discharge of a woman lately in Mr. Oakes's employ, in consequence of the interference of the prisoner. Mr. Oakes said that the woman was so turned away, and he believed that the cook owed the pri soner a grudge. The watchman said that when he went in he saw the prisoner and another woman come down ; that person was the cook, who was completely dressed, and quite collected, although it had been stated that she was in bed at the time the fire broke out. She said " I've been woiking like a good'un ;" and handed witness a fish•kettle full of water. Sir PETER LAURIE, after hearing the evidence, said that in his mind there was not at present any thing to implicate the young woman, although the charge against her was a serious one; but he was at the same time bound to remand her. He would order the pot-boy, the cook, and the old woman alluded to, to be present at the re•examination; and also a person of the name of Daniels was mentioned. To-a further question from the Alderman, the watchman and a gentleman connected with the sprit-trade stated their opinion to be that some other hand than the prisoner's committed the act. During the whole examination the young woman stood undaunted, and gave ready answers to every question put; one important one was, that the old woman was in company with the cook on Sunday, and had a long conference, and that the latter went out every morning before her master was up.--Ite manded until this day. BOW-STREET. Yesterday an old man, named John 111 6 Kenna, was charged by a lad, named William Iklitchell, with stabbing him on the temples with a knife. The defendant, in a canting tone of voice, denied the charge, and described himself as a most perse cuted person, blest with a more than ordinary stock of Christian forbearance. A decent-looking man here stepped forward and said, that, notwithstanding the meekness assumed by the prisoner, he was really a most quarrelsome pro voking old man, with whom nobody could agree. Mr. HALLS told the prisoner that be must put in good hail for the assault. In the mean time he should be locked up until the medical gentleman should cer tify that the wound was no longer dangerous. MIDDLESEX SESS lONS, SEPT. 7. Thomas ITlToulifi r was indicted for a misdemean our in having set fire to certain articles of furniture and wearing apparel, with intent to defraud a benefit society, of which his wife was a member. The CHAIRMAN told the Jury he did rot think there was sufficient evidence to establish a case against the defendant, who was therefore pronounced to be Not Guilty. _ William Shad, and eleven other men, journeymen silk-weavers, were indicted for conspiring to pre vent Messrs. Brookes and Co. from carrying on their business, or employing men for that purpose, except on such terms as they chose to dictate. Mr. ALLEY was about to state the facts of the case, when Mr. ADOLPHUS informed the Court, that the de fendants were willing to withdraw their plea of not guilty, TM after pleading guilty, to enter into their own recognizances to come up for judgment when ever they should be called for. Mr. ALLEY, on the part of the prosecutors, ex pressed his willingness to accede to this proposition, as his clients were not actuated by any vindictive feelings towards the defendants, who, they believed, had been misled by bad advice. The defendants then entered into their own re cognizances in 201. each, to come up to receive judg ment when called upon, and were discharged. John Chisholm, a baker, residing in Oxford-street, was indicted for assaulting Samuel Wright. The prosecutor is a constable and watch-house keeper of St. Marylebone. Late in the night in question, two young men were taken to the watch house, they having been given in charge to the watchman. The prosecutor, on hearing the details, did not think they ought to be detained, and there fore ordered them to be discharged. The defendant, who had followed them into the watch-house, and was somewhat intoxicated, then came forward, and said the watchman had acted improperly in taking the young men into custody, and ought to be pu nished for it. The prosecutor told him, if he had any complaint to m a k e o f t h e watchman, he m i ght lay it before the board, and requested him to leave the watch-house. This he refused to do, and con sequently he was pushed out. As soon he got out side the door, he turned round, and seized the pro secutor, who was behind him, by the throat, and knocked him against the steps. The prosecutor then insisted on giving him in charge for this assault, and he was dragged into the watch-house for that purpose. Here he struggled violently to get away, and at length gave the prosecutor a violent kick, which broke his leg a little way above the allele. The man tittered a scream of agony and fell, the de fendant falling upon him. For five weeks the pro secutorrretnely wasae.tterde b The ed Jury) a , surgeon, returned and is aver s d t i i e l ex- verdict of Guilty, and The CHAIRMAN sentenced the defendant to pay a fine of 401., with liberty to speak to the prosecutor. CAPTURE OF EL-MUSH. (From the United Service Journal for September.) Among the several attacks made in Egypt, under Sir Sidney Smith, the taking of El-Arish added another to the many laurels of England. It is well known that we co-operated with the Turks to expel Napoleon from Egypt ; that he took possession of El-Arish, having driven out the Turks ; and that the English were preparing to retake the town in conjunction with its former possessors. The Vizier, in pursuance of this design, sent to Sir Sidney Smith, requesting the assistance of some English officers to direct the operations against the town. Though many, 110 doubt (I judge from myself), were anxious to be chosen for this expedition, in order to sig nalize themselves, yet Colonel Douglas, Colonel Bromley, and Captain Winter, from the ship Le Tigre (accompanied by some few sailors), were the only officers chosen by Sir Sidney. Colonel Douglas wished some one to accompany him in whom he might place confidence, and, to my great delight and pride, I learned that he had fixed on me. We left Gaza, where we then were, on the 22d of December, 1799, and after two days and two nights of great fatigue, occa sioned by the motion of the camels, lying in the open air at night without covering, together with the effects of the climate, we arrived at El- Arish, as much to our joy as to the gratification of the Turks. As we marched through the Desert, that seemingly boundless expanse of sand, the moon rose in silent majesty, affording a fine field for reflection on the Providence of whose aid we might so soon stand in need. We commenced by erecting a battery against the town, so as to command the N.W. and N.E. towers, and flank the north entrenchment, by which means we rendered the musketry on that side of no avail. We then opened our ports, and sent the British thunder out in dense volumes of smoke ; nor did we fire in vain ; for after a most heavy and tremendous cannonading of seven successive days and nights, the French colours disappeared, and the town surrendered to the superior skill of the British, owning that it was the battery and heavy firing directed by us that made them resolve to capitulate. During the firing I had nearly lost my life, for I was standing by and directing one of the guns, when a Turk came up to me, boasting of his superior skill at that instrument of destruc tion, and desired that I would let him manage the one I was then attending to. Believing him expert, I complied ; but no sooner had he reached the spot, than a shot, directed with fatal precision from the fort, rendered him a mangled corpse. Fancy me, then, covered with gore and dripping with my ally's blood ; f►ncy me lifting up my heart to all-seeing Providence in the contempla tion of my near approach to death, and wonderful escape ; but my horror and my gratitude can be felt only by those who have seen the dying and the dead, the sad remains of battle's bloody work. But to the main story. The French flag was then struck and lowered from the towers of El- Arish, and we all hastened to the gates to supply its place with the banner of England. A capi tulation was signed, nearly to this effect :—That the French were to leave the castle within an hour, to lay down their arms on the glacis, leave all their baggage behind, become prisoners of war, and trust their sick and wounded to the humanity of the Turks. This capitulation, how ever, was violated by the Vizier, and numbers of the French fell beneath the sabres of the irritated Turks, to whom a sequin for every head had been promised by their Commander. One poor woman, the wife of a French officer, ran up and down, frantic with despair, calling on her hus band, and inquiring of those she met, in broken accents, of her husband's fate. Alas ! I could have told her that she was a desolate widow, for by her description I saw him perish under the dagger of a Turk. . . — An adventure nearly similar to this happened to tre, and for the second time I was providen tially rescued from destruction. The Turks hastened in the utmost confusion to the fort. Colonel Douglas was there, and I was obliged to follow on foot, my horse having run away, being frightened by the fire. In the crowd I lost my red mantle, and was therefore compelled to appear in blue ; this accident nearly cost me my life. Some Turks perceiving me in a blue dress and without a turban (for that I had also lost), seized on me, believing I was a French man, nor could my repeated cries of " English ! English !" undeceive or deter them from their purpose. I was dragged to a ditch full of heads and covered with blood : here I was laid hold of by a Turk, who had just dispatched one vic tim ; he seized me by the hair, and was on the point of ending my. existence, when one of the Vizier's own men, to whom I was well known, called out that I was English. This occasioned the contest at l eng th rose so hi g h, th a t a dispute, some wishing to save, others to (le st h t r e o y y t n both;e proceeded to lay hold of me, one party of my body, the other my legs. In this manner they tbught for a considerable time, till at length a stout fellow rescued and carried me off, more dead than alive, to a place of safety. I then en deavoured to crawl to the camp, thinking that all danger was over for that day at least, but I was mistaken ; again I was taken as a Frenchman, but I happily escaped, in the most deplorable condition ; my mouth was full of blood and sand, and I was tormented by a parching thirst, my sight failed me, and my clothes were torn to rage. Yet was all this suffering the means of my most providential escape ; for when I was carried of by the Turks, a desperate Frenchman fired the fort and perished amidst numbers of his countrymen, and also of his enemies, upon whom he had rep verged himself by involving them in the con flagration and rum. Had I not been hurried away by the Turks, I must have shared their fate. T. G. S. On Monday last the examination of TYLER was resumed at Aylesbury before Lord NUGENT, Sir J. D. KING, Colonel Baowx, and other Magistrates. Some fresh witnesses were examined, but after the most atten tive consideration, the Magistrates were of opinion that they had not sufficient evidence to warrant their commit ting the prisoner for trial, and be was therefore directed to be discharged. SHOCKING ACClDENT. — Yesterday morn ing, about nine o'clock, a most dreadful accident occurred near the bleach-works of Messrs. HORRIDGE and HULME, at Gravel-hole, two miles on this side of Bolton. Some men in the employment of that firm were engaged in dig ging for marl, to be put as manure upon the adjoining fields. They had undermined the banks to a considerable extent, when the soil above, consisting principally of loose gravel and sand, gave way, and buried the unfortunate men. One man, who was only partially covered, soon ex tricated himself, and gave alarm at the works. Assistance was immediately procured, and two others were got out alive. Nearly half an hour elapsed, however, before the remaining four were found, and they were then, of course, quite dead. The following are the names of those who were killed :--RICHARD CRAWSHAW, aged 54, has left a family of eight children; Join.; HOLDEN, aged about 40, has left four children; GEORGE HOLDEN, brother to the last, aged 22, has left a wile and one child ; and FRANCIS GRIME, a single man, aged 25. Mr. HORRIDGE dis played the most praiseworthy humanity on the occasion. Medical assistance was procured as soon as possible, but it was of no avail.2llancletrater Courier. CORPORATION EXPENDITURE. THE GRAND ENTERTAINMENT TO THE EMPEROR Of RUSSIA, &C. AT GUILDHALL. Numbers of persons who are interested in City matters, have been assiduous in their inquiries into the coast of the splendid entertainment to the Mo narchs and Generals who visited this country after the peace; but not only the items, but the gross amount of the expenditure, have been till now kept a secret. The following is the list of the charges on the occasion : EXPENCES OF THE DINNER, &C., GIVEN TO THE EMPEROR. OF RUSSIA, THE KING OF PRUSSIA, &C., BY THE CITY OF LONDON, IN THE YEAR. 1814 ; SIR WILLIAM DOM^ NILLE, MAYOR. General expenses £20,038 7 10 Bills, bars, &e..... £20,347 5 2 ITEMS OF EXPENDITURE ON THE FEAST-DAY TO THE MONARCHS. Carpenters, bricklayers, &c. £5,186 12 5 Upholder; &c 3,455 8 0 Hire and removal of chandeliers 912 IS 2 Hire of plate 1,120 7 9 Hntlerage... 453 8 9 Cooks, confectioners 2,899 18 6 \Vines 1,627 13 0 Music 147 11 0 Florist 46 0 0 Waiters, attendants, &c 37 14 6 Tavern-bills for attendants out of the llnll Gravelling the streets 441 0 0 Constables 129 11 0 Alteration of the Comptroller's house 383 510 Printing, engraving, &c 679 3 0 Sundries 243 9 2 Committee's expenses 557 19 1 Officers' bills, gratuities, &c 1,359 14 9 £20,038 7 10 LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. • The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 10}61.1. fin the 4th. Loaf. There are others who sell from %(1. to 1 1 ,4 d. lido' , that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.—Sept 7. Kew English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) 12s. Us. fine 58s. 625. Old Ditto Ditto —4. —l. fine New Foreign Ditto. 528. 02s five 675. 725. Old Ditto New White Clover, Old Ditto Ditto— Ms. fine 708. 803. 70$. fine 80s. 84' New Trefoil ----- 14s. 245. fine 305. 3254 Old Ditto . - -... . —s. --s. fine —s 40e4 ltih Grass l6s. ESs. fine —5. ... 45 . English Carraway Seed —s. 401. 465. fine .... 4 . Foreign Ditto , —B. —43. --s. fine ••••• 6 coriander—. —s. 14s. fine —s. 24 3 . St. Foin (per Quarter)------ --s. —B. 16s. fine 216. Rye Grass .- .--------._ 15e. 40s. new --s. -- 4 . Pacey Ditto -..--------..-.-..-.-......-.--. 40s. 50s. new —5.... 1 ' Linseed, for feeding --- --s. 385. fine —s. 4 06 . Ditto, for crushing--.......-------.. —s. 41s. 425. fine .--,' Canary Seed, New.----- —s. 40s. fine —is. 465. Ditto Old . —5. —s. --s. fine ... 4 ' White Mustard Seed-,-(per Bushel).,—. Os. 6s. As. Od. fine •• 3 . Brown Ditto , --s. 9s. 144. fins -..4., Turnip Seeds, Round, Green and Red Ditto —s. —s. 114. fine 12s , —s. ..-A. 12s. fine 16s• Tares, Ditto'lslew; Ra r e Seed, English, fine (per Last) 301. 341. —s. 31s. 465. fine —e• --S. —s. fine 44g. 495. Foreign 271. ifV. PRICES OF HOPS.—Sept. 7. Kent Pockets 6l 14s. 71. 7s. to 71 164. Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto 6l. 121. 71. Os. to 71. 7s. Farnham Ditto, Fine O/. Os. 9/. 9s. to 101 105. Seconds 01. Os. 81. 8s to 91. 9 5 . Kent Lags 5l. 15s. 61. 6s. to 61. 15s• Essex Ditto 5/. ss. 51. 15s. to 61. 05• Sussex I)itto ... 51. 10s. 61. Os. to 61. 103. 01,1 Duty laid at .£36 000. PRICE OF POTATOES—Sept. 7. New Ware PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown 441. 6u. Refined 0 I.in.ced Oil -- 22 10 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand Rape Cake, per ton PHI CES OF Per Ih. d. to (I. Butts 'SO to 501 b.... 19 20i Ditt0...„—....00 to 661 b.... 21 22 Dressing 14 17 Fine Coach 1. ides 19 21 Crop Hides. 35 to 401 b. 14* 16 Ditto 45 to 501 b 10 19 Ditto lB 20i 10 1 0 5 6 LEATHER., Per Ih. d. to a• Tanned Horse Hides.. 17 Spanish Ditto 24 Per dozen. Calf 5kin5....36 to Clib. 18 Ditto to 70Ib. 43ri Ditto 70 to 801 b. 20 21, Small Seals, Greenland 19/ Wil ITECH A PEL HAY MA RKET.—Sept. 5. tidy 50& Od. to 95i. Od. I l lorcr (XL to 115'• OA • Straw 40,. Od. to 48, Od. RAW HIDES. Per Stone. s. d. to s. Per Stone. s. d. Oa l"j i Best Heifers& Steers 3 43 8 1 Ordinary 2 0 'h. Middlings 2 3 0 Market Calf 6 SHEEP SKINS. Os. CO. to Os. Od. I Shearlings.......oB. Bd. to Is. 04 ' Lambs h. ed. to Is. 6d. COAL MA lIKET.—,Sept. Adair's . 298. Od. Walls end.brevrinarch— n Beaumont 2B 0 Ditto EWA ; - 3 l 3l ( 1 Charlotte 30 0 Ditto Heaton*** 3- 6 klebhurn Main —.—. 30 6 Ditto Northumberland 3 0 0 Killingworth 32 0 Ditto Perkins and Co.* 1 1 6 Liddell's 27 6 Ditto Uhl& 3 ,5 ['maw . 29 6 Ditto Russell's 3 1 0 PontopWitalsor.......—*. 27 6 Lambton's Primrose 33 0 l'antleld Townley _ . 27 9 Walls End 8eti0:L....-. 3 5 Willington 32 9 Walls End I 3 2 t t ; Walls Rod Bell anst Co.. 33 6 Walls End Stewart's .. 3 5 0 Ditto Bewiekeand o.* 34 0 Hartley 32 Walls End Boundary 27 0 Landshipping--.. 54 Walls End Brown's ....... 31 6 Stone Coal Cox 48 " Ditto Brown's unser.— 29 6 Russell's small 10 0 Ditto Cqr and C 0....—. 31 0 Londonderry small**. 20 Ditto Cramlington......... 29 6 Walker small_ l l, Ships at market, 9234—Ships sold, 34%—Unsold, 5711' IRISH MARKETS. ' Wheat, Barley. I Oath. per barrel per barrel per barrel B) stone. l stone. 14 stone. s. d. a a.(l. s. d. a s.d.l 5. d. as. d. s. d. as. d. C0rk.,...... 23 0-29 0 11 0-12 91 9 0-11 0 IS 6-22 0 Limerick 133 4-35 0 10 6-20 01,10 4-13 0 1.4 0-21 0 Waterfordl26 0--30 0 12 0-14 0110 0-11 0 18 0-24 0 Clonmel —l3O 0-31 0 101-16 0112 8-14 0 20 0-25 0 Carlow —l3O 0-33 0 12 0-19 0111 0-13 020 6-21 0 Beef, I Nlutton,l Pork, per lb. per lb. per cwt. Cork Limerick— Waterford Cloomel Car10w,..... Flour, n• et", e. &At/ 0 6 01 0 0 6 1 6 0 10 0•' 1 0 0 1151 o' . 0 0 0 0 55050 9 i g 0 0550 49 0 „0 0 600 5.1 000 0580 56 0 , 0 0550 100 Ist. 12d. Id. a d. d. a d. s. d. a s. d. s. d. 8. d. .4 _5 i 6 22 0-24 065 059 0 1 4 —5 4 —6 30 0-35 067 61 01 4 —6 4 —6 20 0-27 065 63 C 3 —5 4 6 27 0-28 064 063 ( t —5llO —0 00— 0 0168 59 - 5 16. KILKRNNY.—Butter 675. to 68s. per cwt:; Wheat to pat per barrel; Flour 20s. to 425. per bag; Oats Its. to 14s. P G * O 44' rel ; Barley 16s. to 18s. ; Beef 4d. to 5)44. per lb. ; Mutt O li eo to sd. ; Potaioes 2d. per stone; Coals Is. 2d. per cwt.; Pigs 28s. to X9s. per cwt. - - - _— It is said that Mr. Justice BURROUGH 18 ; much recovered from his late serious illness that he A " ; able to leave Bridgewater on Friday last, but we t om ', stand that Mr. TOOGOOD, the surgeon, under whose i o3l° „s diate care he has been, has strongly recommended hit n to subject himself to the fatigues of office again. On Tuesday se'nnight Mr. JAMES FLES i. ' of Tetsworth, in this county, went to a relation's, WOODBRIDGE, to invite him to dinner the following d i i; On his return home he was passed on the road by a Pe ll ; who, happening to turn his head, saw him stagger fall. He instantly ran to his assistance and lifted binl, when he gave a sigh and instantly expired.— 0xf0:cf...,4_, BIRTHS. On the 3d inst. it Wentworth, Viscounte*s a daughter. r iffs On the 7th inst. at Hampstead, the lady of T. Esq. of a son. On the 7th inst. in Ampton-street,Mecklenbtirgh"V is° the lady of W. N. Roche, Esq. of a son. B l O, On the 7th inst. in Langham-place, the la dy ° Hon. Wm. Cust, of a son. MARRIED. to On the sth inst. at Clapham, R. G. Jones, 'P t Harriet, third daughter of the late T. Cattley, On the sth inst. at Meesden Bury, Herby , t' s r, - tbi Thurston, R.N. of Talgarth, North Wales, to Eliga— „ second daughter of Admiral Sotheby. r.orrim On the 7th inst. at All Souls Church, B. G. Esq. son of the late William Currie, Esq. of Horslel4l.o Surrey, to Laura Elizabeth, daughter of Mathew G°/ee Esq. Viscount of the island of Jersey. DIED. On the 6th inst. in Tavistock-square, G. Baykal, Es 4 aged 44. On the sth inst. in Queen-square, Bloomsbury', Ale%. Robertson, Esq. aged 59. On the 6th inst. in Stamford-street, Sophia Anne , daughter of R. Burfoot, Esq. of Lambeth. reb On the sthinst. at Greenwich, Mrs. M. Riley , of the late Mr. G. Riley. On the sth inst. at Newport Prague% Bucks, Jo bi Chibnall, Esq, - • .lodge, Middlesex, On the 6th inst. at Pinner-green. Soaves, Esq. aged 60. On the 6th inst. Ann, the wife of Mr. W. H. Pear* Coventry. ii.a Paz=En and PUBLISHED by MURDO YOUNG, 0 OFFICE ) 112, STRAND, LONDON.