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House refused to believe any of its Members implicated in those - disgraceful transactions ? Did you mention the South Sea scheme ? You might as well have talked of the sin of our first parents. It.was just the same when, the other day, some imputations were thrown on the im partiality of Government in making the grant at the Swan River Settlement to Mr. Peel's namesake and cousin. Men rose from all parts of the House, eagerly bearing their gratuitous testimony to the infinite disinterestedness of the Right Hon. Gentleman ; it was monstrous to think that the least taint of cupidity should infect the mind of a son whose father had thriven through life with so sharp an eve to the main chance ! Any defence against Se, Incredible a slander was unnecessary. For the first time," says Mr. Brougham `'now refined the compliment) " I have he'':ect Mr. Peel make an unnecessary sPeech.7 Yet how are the facts ? It is ad '.:aated that Mr. Thomas Peel sought, as he was very wise in doing, and that he obtained a letter of recommendation to the Colonial Office from his cousin. The terms of that letter are referred to. Does any one suppose the smooth, cautious, plausible Man of Office would pen a request for " facilities" other than "proper facilities ?" Could such a request be necessary ? Was it not enough to accredit the b e arer to his col league—" My dear Sir George"—as his name sake and relation ? We are far from affirming that Mr. Thomas Peel derived from his cousin's recommendation any undue favour—far from the Home Secretary with an improper interference on behalf of his relative. But while every man of common sense must feel that an application to the Colonial Office could not be better backed than by the recommendation of a Cabinet Minister so high in power and station as Mr. Peel, surely the nature of the grant made upon that application ought to be ex plained. This is not to be done by producing the written communications between the one Mi nister and the other ; but by disproving, if it be possible so to do, the allegations which have been made—.namely, that the grant to Mr. Thomas Peel is far more extensive than, with reference to the interests of the colony, it ought to have been ; that it comprises much the most eligible territory ; that it appropriates to the grantee exclusive facilities of water carriage ; and that he enjoys the extraordinary advantage of having double the term appointed to the other settlers for planting, his allotment. It is by showing these assertions to be unfounded—they are none of ours, we take them from another publication—not by vapouring about the extent of his family connexions, and protesting an in difference to their welfare, which, if real, is nei ther natural nor commendable, that Mr. Peel will relieve himself frOm the imputations which he is so condescending as to recognise.--Morn ing Chronicle. We have always been endeavouring to show that poverty is the great parent of vice and crime; and that if we wish to improve the body of the people, we must first endeavour to ascertain the conditions which determine the remunera tion for their labour. A case at the Rochdale Petty Sessions, to be found in another column, will serve to illustrate this :—A female appearing to affiliate a child on a stone-mason, stated, in her cross-examination, " My father, sister Jane, myself, and half-brother slept in one bed." This might have passed unnoticed, but Mr. Collingwood, the Overseer of the township of Spotland, to rebut the inference which might have been drawn from the circum stance, stated " that they had twenty large fa milies in their township, who had but one bed each, and the same remark would apply with equal truth to Me other townships in the parish." The labourers of that district are evidently a drug in the market of labour. They have gradually sunk down to that state of apathy when decency is utterly disregarded. " Gentlemen," said the father, " I had my goods taken and sold, and the times have been so hard, what could we get ?" When distress is transient, a struggle is made to preserve ap pearances ; but man gradually reconciles him self to every thing. The problem, then, is to guard against the population out-growing the means for employing them. A superabundant population must be a criminal, a vicious, and degraded population. It is the duty of those who profit by the labour of the poor to make themselves acquainted with the means of in suring them comfortable subsistence, and to endeavour to apply their knowledge to insure that object. But we do not exaggerate when we say that the higher ranks of this country are, in general, grossly ignorant on this most im portant subject, and that hardly any thing is done in the way of enlightening the poor as to their interests, or protecting them by legislative measures against the evils into which they have a tendency to involve themselves. The Clergy, who receive a large portion of the income of the country, and who might be of use as instructors of and advocates for the people, are themselves so ignorant of all that is useful, that they are more likely to injure than to benefit them by their interference. In the Second Agricultural Survey- of Shropshire, by Joseph Plymley, M.A., Archdeacon of Salop, published in 1813, there appears an earnest desire, on the part of the Reverend Author, to better the condition of the poor ; but, unfortunately, he posseses zeal without the knowledge to render it beneficial. Utterly unaware of the doctrine of population, and the intimate connec tion between the rate of increase and the com forts of the people, he recommends the promo tion of marriage among the labourers, as if there were any necessity to promote that which a man is always sufficiently prone to when ,the means exist. " I will only mention further," he says, " that one distinct cause of the rise of poor rates, previous to that friom the high-price of pro visions, was the increase of illegitimate children. The extension of Comfortable' cottages, as men tioned in a former section s besides its - other ten dencies to lowering the poor-rates, will affect this by its . promotion • or marriage among la bourers ; but the increased size of farms, where they are principally cultivated by household ser vants, does certainly tend to increase -the number of illegitimate Children." Now, the Rev. Writer, though be "saw - that an' illegitimate- child •• Was occasionally a burden to a parish, yet the condition of the labourers must rise or fall with their numbers, and that with regard to them the question was in which Way most children would be born.. Now it is utterly impossible to conceive that the number of illegitimate children can ever equal the number born in marriage, and as to the charge io the parish, if the father and mother cannot be made to pay for one child, how can they support a family ? But so generally prevalent among the Clergy has this maxim of the Rev. Author been, that we owe to them, chiefly in their capa city of Magistrates, the determination so long acted on, of compelling the parties to marry in all bastardy cases, by throwing the father into prison, from which he was liberated only on con dition of marrying the mother. They have in this way, under the idea of encouraging morality, bee.m the great authors of poverty and crime. Mr. Henry Drummond and several other gentle men, examined before Committees of the House of Commons, distinctly state that the marriages of labourers were generally forced in this way. If a nation is to be at the expense of a religious establishment, care should be taken that the clergy be instructed in the knowledge calculated to promote the temporal benefit of the people.— ib id. The other night Mr. Brougham presented a petition from Birmingham, to the effect that 11. and 2/. notes should be again suffered to be issued by country bankers, or that the taxes should be reduced ; for the petitioners asserted that the alteration of the currency had doubled the value of the National Debt, and had render ed it impossible for us, with our present cur rency, to pay the interest of the debt, or the taxes for the expellees of the country. Now, how the withdrawal of probably altogether 10,000,0001. in value of 1/. and 21. notes can have caused the debt of 800,000,0001. to be of the value of 1,600,000,00 W., or why the with drawal of 10,@00,000/. of 11. and 2/. notes, and substituting 10,000,000 of sovereigns—for we assume that sovereigns have been substituted— can have rendered it more impossible now, than it was before, to pay the interest of the debt or the other taxes for the Government, we arc at a loss to conceive. To us there appears to be no difference, as to the question of currency, whe ther there is 10,000,0001. of paper in circula tion, or whether there is 10,000,0001. of gold ; of the two we should prefer gold, except that the latter in time of invasion, war, or rebellion disappears for a time. For our part we do not believe in the two assumptions put forth by the Birmingham petitioners. The Birmingham men say that over-production is not the cause for the present distress, but only the alteration of the currency (that is, getting rid of 10,000,0001. of 11. and 21. notes, and substituting 10,000,000 of sovereigns) ; which, however, is not an altera tion in the amount of the currency. Now these Birmingham men must have forgot that Within the last 30 years Birmingham has doubled in its size, and its inanufactures have increased in proportion. The Birmingham men must know, that Manchester, Stockport, Bolton, Bury, Macclesfield, Coventry, Rochdale, Leek, Car lisle, Glasgow, Paisley, and various places in Scotland, have also more than doubled in size in thirty years' time, and that the manufacturers of all these places have increased in not merely a two-fold proportion ; but, in consequence of the introduction of machinery, the production of goods has in many cases increased in a hun dred-fold proportion. Now, the writer of that Birmingham petition never, perhaps, thought of this increase of towns and of manufacturers. As for Mr. \Vaithman's speech, it was one of the weakest and mcst contradictory we ever read. In one part he said that there was no over-pro duction, and, in the other, that there were 40,000 power-looms at work (which said power looms, by the bye, produce calicoes, &c. almost as fast as we can print Morning Heralds by means of our steam power). Now, Mr. Waith man must remember the time when there was not a power-loom ; he must also remember whet: there was scarcely a cotton factory in the coun try ; and he must or ought to know that in the United Kingdom there cannot be short of 300 cotton and other factories, all pouring forth twist and cloth at a prodigious rate. We remember the time when there were in the United King dom not many more weavers of cotton goods than there are now master manufacturers; and Mr. Waithman must know this as well as we do. There has been also a comparative stride as to production in the linen, woollen, hardware, silk, and almost all other manufactures, and yet, in the face of all this, in opposition to Mr. Waith man's own knowledge of these facts, he asserts that there is no over-production.—Morning Herald. Our readers would see, by Mr. O'Connell's speech, that more is to follow the granting of the Catholic claims. The Union is to be re- pealed ; Ireland is to force the repeal, as she forced the late alteration of the oaths. Upon the same principle, however, that Ireland should have a Parliament of its own, o ought Scotland, or, indeed, every county in the United King- dom. But we would ask Mr. O'Connell what (food the Irish Parliament did to Ireland when she had it ? Was it net continually enacting laws in respect of trade ? Did it not enact linen laws, butter laws, and so forth ? Had it not its Linen Board, at the head of which were Noblemen, Admirals, Generals, &c., with sa laries ? In fact, was not the Irish Parliament a nest of " jobbers ?" Did not the Members carve out places in every way they cad for their relations at . td ; friends, and was it not almost as ridiculous a farce as our Common Council farce ? Our chief fear, when concession was made to the Catholics was, that they would not be satisfied, but that they would wish the Union to be repealed, &c. It would not, however, be very easy for Mr. O'Connell to have his own way in an assembly of 650, where he would be replied to ; nor could he easily persuade the peo ple of England to agree to the humbug of an Irish Parliatnent.—lbid. The Duke of Wellington, like Frederick the Great of Prussia, the present Sultaw, and other distinguished characters, often mixes with com pany by whom he conceives he is unknown, with the view of collecting the opinions of various parties on . political and other public subjects. Its Grace, 'aware that the bow which is con. stantly kept bent to its extremity, must in time lose part of its elasticity, occasionally relaxes the mind, and relieves it from the pressure of weighty affairs of state, by taking a rural ramble on foot, and, when fatigued, entering the first stage coach he meets, where he chats with the pas sengers with the greatest affability. In these rambles he is peculiarly felicitous in extracting the opinions of the passengers, and has been sometimes amused by finding himself and his political conduct the subject of dis cussion ; one party extolling his military genius and talents as a statesman, while another will not allow him any merit whatever. The contest often ends with an appeal to the Duke himself, who is unknown to the parties, and he freely gives his opinion, by observing that " he has long known the Duke, of Wellington ; be lieves him, at least, an honest and upright man, but considers the praise bestowed on his talents overcharged, and more the effect of partiality than of any merit which he possesses." On one occasion, having expressed himself to this effect, he was grossly attacked by the vitu , perations of a furious parson, on the sub ject of the Catholic question, on whom he retorted with deserved and triumphant severity ; but the intolerant priest became dumb-founded on his adversary leaving the coach, who was immediately recognized at the inn-door as the Duke of Wellington. The Duke in some of his rambles hears not only his own character, but the characters of his colleagues dissected— the affairs of the nation discussed, and many re forms and measures of the highest importance suggested—but he has more than once come in contact with a dandy " who has been intimate with him for years, and been at all his parties," though he never before saw the vain boaster, whom he quits without chiding him for his false hood and vanity. On Saturday last the Duke amused himself with one of those stage-coach ex cursions to Kew, and was no doubt considerably amused by the observations which were made on his personal character and political conduct. His Grace pursued his plan of concealment so successfully, that no one suspected with whom they had the honour of travelling until a few minutes before his Grace had left the coach. The late Catholic Emancipation Bill—" the man Ivot drives the Sovereign"—the war be tween Turkey and Russia, and many other mat ters, were discussed, or rather questions put re specting them, part of which only his Grace chose to answer ; but the conversation never lagged, and it was only when his Grace said, a few minutes before leaving the stage, " that he knew the Duke of Wellington well," " very in timately indeed," that his fellow-travellers began to suspect with whom they had the honour of conversing. The Duke seemed to enjoy his incognito amazingly, and what may perhaps be more gratifying to our readers, appeared to be in excellent health. On quitting the coach at Kew Bridge, his Grace ran across it with all the alertness and agility of a youth of nineteen.— Morning Advertiser. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Three young men, named Wilkinson, Sheen, and Brown, were brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged with having stolen three loaves, the pro perty of Mr. Baber, a baker, in London-wall. The case was rather a remarkable one. One of the three walked into Mr. Baber's shop a few mornings ago, took up three loaves, and, turn ing out into the street, handed a loaf to each of his companions and ran away. It seems that thieves have often visited the shop and stolen biscuits, cakes, &c., and the complainant was determined to make an example of the first that should be appre hended in the act of robbing on the premises.— The prisoners tore the loaves in pieces, and upon being pursued pretended to be voraciously hungry; but they happened to be too well fed to be able to eat, so that the imposture was most easily detected. They were taken into custody,- and on being asked why they committed such an outrage, they said they would be if they would die of hunger for any one, and as they could not get work, they would get bread wherever they could. The LORD MAYOR asked them whether they had not applied for parish relief ? Wilkinson—Vy, yes, we applied, but the officers would not give us no money, and 1 should think we vouldn't starve for nobody. Vot right have we to starve any more nor yourself, my Lord Mayor ? The LORD MAYOR—I'II show you that you shall not commit an impudent robbery without being pu nished for it. The prosecutor has been plundered and annoyed by such ruffians as you are frequently, and to prison you shall go. Sheen—lt's very hard that a poor man can't take a bit of bread to satisfy nature without being grab. bed for it. We have no right to starve, for we are honest industrious men, and we can't help it if we can't get nothing to do. Brown—l can tell your Lordship, if you don't know it, that it's a disagreeable thing to be hungry, if it an't I'm blow'd.--(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR having ascertained that the prisoners belonged to Whitechapel parish, sent for the keeper of the workhouse, and questioned him about them. The keeper said that the prisoners were three of the most idle and refractory vagabonds in the parish. The parish had set up each of them in his trade several times, but they all sold or pawned their tools, and gave themselves up to smoking, and drinking, and thieving. They had been " pulled" by the police before ; and if not checked, they would, no doubt, engage in some desperate offence. The LORD MAYOR asked the prisoners what they had new to say ?—Sheen said that he had in vain applied to the parish. They would give him ro money. All they could be prevailed upon to give was a little bread and cheese, and not more of that than would feed a moderate-sized rat. Wilkinson.—No, nor it wient good neither. It wa'nt fit for a beggar. If I could eat it I'm blow'd. Alderman ATKINS, who sat with the Lord Mayor to adjudicate on matters of parochial business, said, that he never saw three fellows who deserved punish ment better. It was terrible to see such fellows at liberty. Magistrates had not the power to inflict a Anishment of sufficient severity, and therefore he thought the best plan would be to send them for trial to the Old Bailey, where, upon conviction, care would be taken to make them suffer. The LORD MAYOR adopted this advice. The prisoners prayed hard that th e L or d M ayor would be good enough to convict them as rogues and vagabonds, being about the streets for the purpose of thieving. His Lordship said, that he could not consistently convict them under the vagrant act, with which they appeared to be particularly conversant, and he sent them off to Newgate for stealing the loaves. BOW-STREET. Yesterday George William Lester, a young man dressed in the extreme of fashion, was brought before the sitting magistrate, Mr. HALL; charged with having stolen several squares of paint, the pro perty of Mr. Benjamin Strange, printseiter, 137, Strand. It appeared that the prisoner some time ago met the brother and sister of Mr. Strange at the house of a mutual friend, and became attached to the young lady. About three weeks ago, he agreed to board and lodge with the prosecutor, and having taken up his abode at the house, several articles, consisting of albums, prints, paints, &c. were missed, and no person could account for their disappearance. From some hints thrown out by the prisoner, the porter and a young lad in the employment of Mr. Strange were suspected, but from some information which the prosecutor subsequently obtained, he was induced to call at the house of Dr. Goold, of Leicester-square, where he found a sealed packet, containing among other things some cakes of paint, which the witness knew to be his property. This packet had been forwarded by the prisoner to the apprentice of Dr. Goold. In consequence of this discovery, the prisoner, upon his return from Ken sington-gardens, where he had been escorting Miss Strange, was given into custody. Miss Strange came forward, and appeared v er y much distressed at being obliged to give evidence against the prisoner. She, with great reluctance stated, that a packet had been forwarded to the prisoner a few evenings before, which be resealed without opening, and sent it away again. She knew nothing of what the packet contained. Mr. Strange, addressing his sister, said, " Why, Jane, you told me last night that you knew the pri. soner took the things." The young lady appeared very much confused, but repeated her statement, which, however, was not given upon oath. Sir R. BIRNIE asked Mr. Strange if he had had any previous knowledge of the prisoner before he took him into his house. Mr. Strange said he knew nothing of the young man, but believing him to be respectable, he found him in diet and lodging, for which he never paid one penny. Sir R. BIRME observed that it was rather sin gular on the part of Mr. Strange to admit a per fect stranger to his house as an admirer of his sister. It appeared that the prisoner was determined to an ticipate the result which he looked for, and took the freedom of a brother with Mr. Strange's property. Mr. Strange said he. was now sorry he had been so incautious. 'The prisoner, in his defence, said he was the son of a respectable gentleman at the east end of the town, and was bred up for the army; but his rela tives and he having quarrelled, he. was forced to accept a situation in the office of an architect, which he was to have gone to that morning; and as a part of his duty would be to colour maps, he took the cakes of paint in question with an intention of pay ing for them. Sir R. BIRNIE here observed, that he had some knowledge of the prisoner, and thought that Miss Strange had reason to be grateful in having escaped a conneiion which would not have turned out to her advantage. The prisoner was then remanded. MARYLEBONE. On Friday , night, Williamson, the constable of Acton, applied to Mr. HOSKINS, for a warrant to apprehend a young woman, who, under the follow ing circumstances, was suspected of having attempted to murder one of her children. A farmer's man, on Wednesday night, as he was going across a field in that parish for the purpose of cutting tares, heard the half-stifled cries of au infant. He went to the spot from whence they came, and found one in a ditch, among stinging nettles and briars, struggling under some long grass and dirt, and he went into the village and fetched Williamson. Williamson went back with him to the place, and took up the child. There was a great deal of dry dirt about it, and its eyes and mouth were nearly stopped with some which had been turned into clay by its tears. It was in convulsions, and its face and hands were so discoloured that the people who saw him carry it home, said he had found a negro child. He sent for a woman to undress it, and put it into warm water, and when she had taken off its bed gown, she cried out, " Good God! the child is strangled." It had a piece of old black riband tied round its throat, in a hard knot, so tight, that it had cut through the skip, and he could hardly get the blade of a penknife under it to separate it. He put it into the care of a wet nurse, and, upon making inquiry, he found that a young woman had been seen that afternoon in the neighbourhood, with such a child, and one older, and was heard to say she was going into Berkshire by a waggon from Hammer smith. The child did not appear to be a month old, but it had already been vaccinated, and Wil liamson, drawing a conclusion from that circum stance that it had been born in some workhouse or lying-in -hospital, followed up his inquiries, until he ascertained that one Ann Chapman, who answered to the description of the woman, was discharged from St. George's workhouse on Tuesday, after having lain in three weeks, and had received a sove reign from the overseers to pay for her carriage to \Vantage, in Berkshire; and he also discovered that she cohabited with a young man at Hammersmith, called Mat Varney. A warrant NI as granted, and yesterday she and Mat Varney were brought to the office. Williamson stated to Mr. HOSKINS, that he met the prisoner on Saturday night, about eight o'clock, in the road to Starch-green, near Shepherd's-bush, in company with Varney. He took them to the George inn, at Acton, and several persons identified her as the woman with two children, who was seen there on Wednesday. During the examination the female prisoner fell down in the dock ; she was carried out of the office in strong convulsions, and it required several persons to hold her. After she re covered, a chair was placed for her near the door, and the case was resumed. They were removed from the George-inn to the cage, and her mind ap peared so disturbed that two persons were appointed to sit up with her. Joseph Shepherd; a farmer's man, is acquainted with the prisoner Chapman ; he worked in company with her last harvest. Between one and two o'clock on Wednesday afternoon he saw her in a field near a pond, which is surrounded with osiers; she laid a baby on the ground, and endeavoured to hide it from him with her black whittle. He said, you have got a baby there,—is it yours ? She said no, it belongs to a woman who is gone to call at a farm-house. He asked her to walk into Acton with him. She said no, she had promised to wait till the woman came back, The child was shown to the witness,and he said it was the same. The messenger of St. George's parish stated, that when the female prisoner was put to bed, Varney came to the workhouse to see her, and he said the child was not his, and told her he should " cut it" with her,—that is, break off his connection with her. Varney did not appear to be implicated in the transaction, and Ann Chapman was committed for trial. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. SUNDAY, JUNE 6.--Hiih—water 53 minutes past two o'clock.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived the John and Mary, --, from Antwerp ; Louise, Kafled, from Copenhagen ; Mary M‘Giil, —, from Killala ; , from Seville. CLEARED OUTWARDS. —.Th e Lima, —_, for New York ; Telegraph, for Philadelphia ; Aimwell, Minn, for Quebec; Wm. Browne, —, fur Baltimore; Wilhelmina Magdalena, Boer, for Elsineur ; Fennigina, Periton, for Antwerp; and Britannia, Marshall, fur New,York. On the arrival of the Talbot steam-packet at Dieppe, on Tuesday evening, the passengers, as usual, at tended the bureau, or custom-house, for the purpose of b e ing overhauled. On this occasion the corpulent ap pearance of one lady excited suspicion; and, on examina tion in the ladies' searching-room, several yards of flannel were found pinned round her w a i st . O ur un f ortunate coun trywoman experienced the vexation of losing her goods, and her husband the additional mortification of being fined 80 franca the following dap..Brightcmi Herald COLLtOE OP PHYSICIANS, JUNE 1. CASE OF TIC DOULOUREITX, BY THE CELEBRATED LOCKE. A literary curiosity of great interest was laid be fore the meeting—a case detailed by the celebrated Locke. This curious doeument was obtained by Dr. C. M. Clarke, from Lord King, and presented to the College. The original MS. was laid upon the table, and consisted of a French Almanack, bound up with a number of leaves which had been originally blank, but which were filled with various notes and memoranda in the hand-writing of Locke, and, among others, the case in question. It has often been doubted whether Locke ever practised as a physician, but the question is now set at rest. In Lord Grenville's pamphlet, entitled Oxford and Locke, lie remarks that "in the printed life of Locke, commonly prefixed to his works, we are told that he applied himself, at the University, with great diligence to the study of medicine, not with any design of practising as a physician, but principally for the benefit of his own constitution, which was weak." His Lordship goes on to ob serve, that no such motive is ascribed to Locke by Le Clerc, from whom our knowledge of his private history is principally derived; nor, in deed is the supposition at all probable. Le Clerc, however, asserts "that Locke never practised physic for profit, though he was highly esteemed by the ablest physician of his time." In proof of this, we need only quote the following passage from Sy denham :—" Nosti preterea quam huic mete methodo " suffragantem habeam, qui earn intimius per omnia " perspexerat utrique nostrum conjunctissimum Do " minum Joanacm Locke; quo quidein viro, sire in " genio judicioque acri et subacto, sive etiam an " tiquis, hoc est, optimis meribus, vix superiorem " quemquam, inter eos qui nuns sunt homines, reper " turn in cOnfido, paucissimos certe pares." Lord Grenville says, that the assertion that Locke had never actually practised, is " unquestionably er roneous ;" and the case which we subjoin proves the correctness of his opinion. Locke was called to see the Countess of Nor thumberland, who was the Ambassadress at Paris, December 2, 1677. The case was evidently one of tic douloureux. It is entitled convukio, and the symptoms are thus described :—Acute pain over the right cheek up to her car. In the intervals, pain in the teeth. She was warned of the approach of the fits by a throbbing she felt in the lower jaw, where she had had a tooth drawn the previous summer. The fits had been preceded by three or four days of ordinary tooth-ache. There was no swelling, or in flammation ; no flux or rheum ; no external swelling ; no indication for bleeding; besides which, that re medy had been tried some months before, without effect. " It being night," says Locke, " I thought at present there was nothing to be done but to give her ladyship present ease by some topical applica tion." He thought first of a blister, but paused till he had made some more general evacuation. He therefore ordered an opiate embrocation to the gums, which gave her much relief. On the follow ing day (for the ease is related in the form of a journal) he again deliberated about the propriety of the exhibition of an aperient, but the extreme cold weather made him conclude in the following manner. " I apprehended that a purge, which I thought very necessary, would be dangerous in such a season, be cause, if weak, it might cause disorder with very little or no evacuation ; if strong, in so delicate a constitution I could not tell how to venture; be sides that, I feared she might take celd in the work in•, which might increase the mischief." The result of his prudent caution was, that lie prescribed a drop of xthereton terchinthince on a little lint, which she applied to the gap whence the tooth had been extracted, but it did not allay the pain, and he then ventured upon the purge, and gave a mercurial one, which " wrought very well seven or eight times." After the operation of this medicine, he prescribed an opiate draught, and during the following night she enjoyed some sleep. With occasional exacerba tions, the fits upon the whole began gradually to abate in severity. He describes most accurately what we all know to be the truth in this cruel disease, how various slight causes bring on the pa roxysm of pain; how touching any part of the affected side of the body (even the foot of that side); talking, or opening her mouth to eat, brought on the twitches of pain. He reasons upon this strange nervous affection very sensibly, considers what the original mischief was, and' how far the extraction of the tooth had to do with the increase of the malady, and concludes that the root of the mischief lies in some harm done to the nerve connected with the tooth. The tooth itself, when it was drawn, was found to he a sound one, and its extraction so far from a remedy, that it increased the violence and frequency of the fits. Locke continued in attend ance till December the lfith, a space of a fortnight, when he pronounced the lady Ambassadress " quite well." On Monday, December the 20th, he writes in his M.S.— " Memorandum: that my lady Ambassadtice's gums itched vehemently after the pain was gone, and did so for several days after; and .used to do so for several years before any tooth was drawn." OBSERVATIONS ON INSANITY.-BY SIR 11. lIALFORD. After the above had been read, Sir Henry Halford stated, that in consequence of having understood that there was no paper for the present evening (for Locke's case had only just been received), he had hastily thrown together some ob servations on insanity. As there was sufficient time left, he would read them to the meeting. Sir Henry observed, that in the closet-scene in Hamlet the following words occur Ecstasy ! " My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, " And make as healthful music; 'tie not madness " That I have uttered ; bring me to the test, " And I the matter will reword—which madness " Would gambol from." The circumstance to which the Learned Presi dent particularly alluded, was the expression " I the matter will reword;" and he proceeded to re late the following case, in illustration of the just ness of Shakspeare's " test." He was called, last January, to a gentleman then iii a state of mental derangement. A short time previous to his illness, he had sent for his solicitor, and given directions about his will. He stated his intention of adding 5001. a-year to his mother's jointure, and of leaving various legacies ; adding, that his friend, the soli citor, was to be residuary legatee. The solicitor, in the most honourable manner, told him that lie could not consent to the last part of the arrangement unless at the end of six mouths be continued of the same mind upon the subject. In the inter val, he was attacked with mental excitement, for which he was attended by Sir Henry Halford and Sir G. Tuthill. One day, on asking him how he did, he appeared calm and collected, and answer ed that he was very ill, and only anxious to settle his affairs and make his will. Next day he repeated the same expressions, in a tone and manner which induced his attendant to comply with his request, and the solicitor was sent for, who brought with him a will drawn up according to the instructions he had formerly received. This was read over to the gen tleman, and being asked, after each clause, if such was his meaning, lie distinctly replied —yes, yes. On going down stairs, Sir Henry observed upon the unpleasant circumstance of the medical attend. ants becoming involved in a deed which was likely to become they ecom should thee return to n subject o flitigation,, and i and proposed that apply pply Hamlet's test, by ascertaining whether he could " reword his will." With regard to several of the clauses this was the case; but he stated that he had left one in dividual 10,0001. whereas lie had only left him 5,000/.; and on being asked to whom the residue of his fortune was to go, he answered, " To the heir at law, to be sure !" Being asked who was the heir at law, he replied that he did not know. Thins, said Sir Henry, he could not " reword" his meaning, but " gamboled" from the matter. The author then adverted to the fidelity of the pictures drawn by. Shakspeare, so justly charad e ' rued by' Johnson as the poet of nature. li e . O s° alluded to the writings of the ancient poets, as cond. taming many descriptions which might be recog; nixed by an attentive observer. He had'hinisel' seen two of the cases mentioned by Horace, WIT .trated to the very life. One a man of high rtlP' supposed himself present at a theatrical entail; ment, and Sir Henry had heard him urging Garr' to exert himself in the part of Hamlet, w hich 1 3 ° supposed him then to be acting. The other cB was that of a gentleman of large fortune who pot', sessed himself of every thing he could get, bui parted with nothing. He was brought from til e Court of King's Bench, having refused to pay foe ; picture which he had bought, and which wa s valu, at 1,5001. Sir Henry told the jury, that if thel, would go to the gentleman's house, in Por thou place, they would find 50,0001. worth of propero B among the rest this very picture, w ith baby-ho use and baubles strewed over his dining-room. 'I he paper was listened to with great intere st, in . this was increased by the very animated manner which it was read by the learned President. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 10)4d. eh of/ 41b. Loaf. There are others who sell front ;id. to ”.(icl• that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.—June 8. „ 6 ii, Kew English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) 10s. 50s. fine DO. ..„4. Old Ditto Ditto - —s. .-a. tine ---& et) , New Foreign Ditto — ..... _ 503. fills five 6 53 . , Old Ditto 3os. 40s. fine 50 4 sv . New White Clover 4os. 60s. ,finC:LOß•vgs, Old Ditto Ditto 6os. 70s. fief 111. 340.,, New Trefoil Old Ditto — —a. —s. fine Rib Grass -.......—. -38 s. 4Is. fine — 4 ... 4 , English Carraway Seed...-- -- ..........:— . .-- ' " ."-. —s. 4ss. 465. sne..., Foreign Ditto .—........................................... —s. ..4. .444 fine itis. coriander _ .... _......—.... —s. 17s. tine -- 4 ...,,.. St. Foin.. (per Quarter).—......... —s. — 6 . .....s. 5ne...4. - - ' --0. - Rye Grass -..----..---......--------.-----. Iss. 40s. new .‘„,,), Pacey Ditto 4os. 50s. new -- 16 g o , Linseed, for feeding , -.5. 38s. fine ... 4 ...4. Ditto, for crushing. —s. 41s. 425. fin e AN , Canary Seed, New ..-»--s. 455. fine •-• 4 * :. - 4. Ditto Old-------...--.--------,-.---. --s. —s. —s. fine 4 , White Mustard Seed-.-(per Bushel),..-.os. 6s. 7s. 6d. fine, Brown Ditto -----...-.--.--......... --s. Bs. 10s. fiat . A . Turnip Seeds, Rounds ..--. --s. —s. 19s. fine ',, Green and Red Ditto . —s. 95. 12s. fine : 4 '. Tares, Old - ...........:.-----... —s. 345. 40 s. fine , Ditto New ---------. —s. —s. fine 44 / . "iii,; - , --;-,, 271• _... tape Seed, English, fine (per Last) 301. 32/. Foreign 27 PIIICES OF HOPS.—June S. • to W 16 ' 6 Kent P0cket5............ 4l 16s. 51. S'• 51 el . Oe. Soesex I)itto Essex Ditto ....... 41. 121. $/. Os•t ° ./. es. Farnl.am Ditto, Fine . 01. Os. 71. Os. t° ' 1b• Seconds ....... IL ...... 01. Os. 61. Os to ss. Kent Lags. 4/. Os. 41. 10s. to „It &, Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto , 4/. Os. U. 10s. to Old Duty laid at £120,000. ____..........'' PRICE OF POTATOES—June 8. Kidneys 6l Scotch Reds 4l: Og lOs: t 0 0 0 0 5/ 1 : 6j 0s: Pde.trtotfl. PRICE OF OIL. µ 0 Rape Oil, brown ..--. 421. 03. Refined 10 Linseed Oil l 0 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand ' 5 3 Rape Cake, per ton d. PRICE to S O E P R er F LATHE.Ib. d.to is c. d. 19 20 Tanned Horse Hides., 18 g 6 21 22 Spanish Ditto ...—.......• 11.1 17 Per dozen. , a ii 19 21 Calf Skins-At; to MO. 18 SO 1 , 4 151 Ditto .......-50 to 701 b. x.' g$ 151 171 Ditto —...,.70 to 801 b. „" 4 * gi 1S 20 Small Seals, Greenlan Per lb. to Ditto--60 to 66 b... Elides Fine Coach Hides Crop Hides. 25 to 401 b. Ditto 4~ to 501 b. Ditto -_ W RIDES. RAIDES. d tO '' 0 Per Stone. a. d. to s. d. Per Stone. E. ~' g 4, Best Heifers & Staers2 8 3 0 Ordinary . 1 _du Middling, .2 4 2 6 Market Ca1f—...... Down: SHEEP SKI NS. to 9d. 2s. 6,1. Shearlings Os. co. -• _ Polled _ 3s. Od. to 4s. Od. WH ITEC H A PEL HAY MA !MEM—June 6. Hay W. 01. to 80s. Ott. t lover 604. Q.J. to 103 Straw. COAL MAN Adair's Tanfield 28 0 Willington ';e7 0 Wylam \Valls End Carr and Co. !Pi 0 Ditto Cramlington— 24 0 Ditto Peareth (re-ship.) 24 6 Ditto Perkins and Co. 21 0 Ditto Walker ---.—...... 31 0 Lambton's Primrose —29 6 Ships at market, 46—Ship: DUBLIN MARKET NC ,RKETS. )111-FRI From 440 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone 25 0 63 Bete . 16 stone 13 0 • 70 Barley l6 stone 16 9 3,037 Oats 14 stone 12 0 7,721 Cwt. Flour 9 stone 6 0 ;03 Oatmeal 11 stone! 11 0 Sold to Rakers only. 5,942 Cwt. Flour Average price 19 0 id Flour If Wheat and Receipts of Flour, 9, Sales of Du. 7, /Firsts, Second PRICE OF BREAD. )Z. « 10.1. I Half.qual IS, row... Lc Od. to 38s. Od. ET.—June 8. ti& Walls End r 6 Walls End Stewart's -^ 0 Nesharn g Russell's 74 _Pf, 0 Culm. ~ 0 Cannel (per t0n).... 4 , 6 4 0, Cinders ••••••••••••••••• 9 Dean's Primrose Trader 6 Liddell's Trader...... 4. ., sold, 213%—.....Un501d, 23%* IDAY, JUIle 5. . i To I N M " 44 0 s 17 0 _I , 21 0 g 17 0 13 28 0 0 IS 0 Id 21 14 E 8 0 Od. per s nn 235. Oci. 161. Od. Irrt Bs. Od. t 01, o 28 6, to 22'. 0 to 146- 1..---___„,„ Q =tern Loaf, 41b. 50i....10.1.i Half.quartern, 21b. 20t.... ,,_ ... :•;„'...• ,- pe W r i b le a a rr t, el l pe ß r a b rl a e r y iel per O b a a ts r . rel 2d• 20 stone. 16 stone. 14 stone. Ist. 1 ......... ../ ii , cf• g. d. as . d. s. d. as . d. s. d. as . d. s. d. as. &Is. d.B 18 0 Cork.-- 30 0— 0 0 13 0-14 0 13 6-1 - 4 0 20 61 1 0 } 1 ( 2 ) 5 6:,,,!: g Limerick 130 0-31 810 6-20 010 1. 0 H Waterfordl2B 0-35 0 10 0-16 0 10 0-14 0 18 0-24"0 10 016 0 1 Clonmel —l3O 0-31 0 10 6-16 0)12 8-14 0 21) 0-25 0 12 !:).,:. o, ° Carlow --130 0-36 0 12 0-19 0112 0-14 0 20 6.-2 Beef, Mutton, Pork, 1 per lb. per lb. per cwt. Ist. 2d. 3d. 4t ). "...› _...... ti s 0 Id. ad. d. ad.s.d.a s. d. s.-d, s. d. 4. , • 148 a ., Flour, per evit• Cork ...—...:4 —6 1. 6 22 0-24 072068 0 58 050 ~ 0 29 ; Limerick—f 4 —si 4i —6 30 6-35 0170 0610 54 0 ..._: 0 ...... : Waterfortll4 —6 4 —6 20 0— 27 075 070 066 0 5- 5 0 66 % Cloninel —l3 —5 4 —6 27 0-28 072 065 0 66' 00 ' 0 .... v Carlow.--14 —5lO —o oo— 00 70 0600 50 0 - ", _______--rlßtitte • . t . , rh, KILKENNY.—Butter —s. to e s. per cwt. ; Wheat tO Of; per barrel; Flour 21s. to 445. per bag; Oats 10s. to 12 5 . P, 434,;" rel ; Barley 14s. to 16s. ; Beef 4d. to 5Y 2 d. per lb. ; Mut to lucw to sd. ; Pota!oes 2d. per stone; Coals Is. 2d. per cwt. Pigs 2Ss. to 295. per cwt. lIAMBURGH MARKETS.—JusE h- BORSEN HALLE, Fong o'cLocx.—Wheat was littie,ii: demand, but within the last few days considerable P;eit chases, but at reduced prices, have been made for Fr e 9o ' vi and English account. About 600 casks have been sr for exportation. What still remains in the ma ri ‘ et 'tbe pears likely to maintain its price.—From the 210 r,,for, 25th ult., 112 cargoes of corn passed the Sound—' 2 ' a 10 the British, 42 for the Dutch, 21 for the French, 811 ; ,bt for Swedish and Norwegian ports : of the remaining" . . the destination was unknown. • d ot Weight.. El l Dantzic Wheat 122 to 126 . . .... IV , 1 .° 06 Pomeranian 124 to 128 ..... .14 0 t° ibg- Anhalt. white llB to 124 ...... 130 t° pc -- red 122 to 128. ... 145 t ° 0 Danish 120 to 129. ..... 120 t° rig . Dantzic Rye IIR to 122...... 12 g° '60.). Magdeburgh Barley 9B to !N..... 5 1 ‘,., t° 6 li i Analt 9:410 tat...... s t'",. Upland Oats ...- .., Holstein Rapeseed —to "Money has been for some time exceedingi.... ys e,lrce%l.• discount has, in consequence, risen to 54- per cent- 7 5 00 quantities of silver are being sent to Russia, but g ° , s re more plentiful than formerly. All public securities in demand. . End ofJulle• Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent 93,4 6334 Anglo-Russian Loan Ila.nburgh-Russian Loan 994 Anglo- Pt ussian Loan of 1818 l'olish Bonds Austrian Bank Shares 1103 . . Austtian Metalliques 91 % 0,4 • Exchange upon London at sight ... ....... 1 ,1 8 at two months, IJ . ___.........t.,00e) BIRTHS. I , b° On the 6th inst. at St. John's Rectory, SouthWiil's lady (Stile Rev. J. C. Abdy, of a son. ' lkir . ' Oo the Bth inst. at the Priory, Wandsworth -roaat Samuel Page, of a daughter. 0 01 0 ' On the 6th inst. at St. John's.wood-rool, I'''"' Park, Mrs. F. Appleyard, of a son. 4 tre On the sth inst. at his house in Lower Berkeler' the lady of Lieut.-Colonel Lindsay, of a daughter. voysi At Sheffield, the lady of Captain Henry Forster, ' Horse Artillery, of a son. Cbar i ` On the 2d ioßt. in Margate, the lady of Dr. James Fox, of a eon. MARRIED. A Ot t ; At Edinburgh, Charles Fergusson, eldest son of Sir Junes Ferguson, of Kilkerran,.. Ele!e W O "o, second daughter of the Right Hon. Lord Justice Clerk. DIED. I ° • R e (! On the Nth inst. at Notchlands, in Sussex, °earth, George Augustus Frederick Chichester, youngest B°r' late Lord Spens,r and Lady Harriet Chi chi brother to Lieut.-Colonel Chichester, M.P. Arid' Suddenly, en the 6th inst. aged 67, Mr. Jaines of Percival-street, Clerkenwel. f On the 4th iost., aged 67, Mr. Samuel Ellis,° street, Kensington-road. PiIINTED and PuBLISIIED by MURDO Y O - Orr 112, STAAVD, Loviirv.