The Sun. — London, England, 1829-12-08 00:00:00

PIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Bishop of Ferns and Lord Mounteashel are at it still. We had not room for the last letter of the Noble Earl, nor can we find any for that of his Right Reverend and Learned anta gonist. The fact is, that it was a good thing to (Ten such a controversy, for the sake of drawing Loth public and legislative attention to a most important subject ; but that it might have been NI ell, likewie, to discontinue it before the minds of men had been wearied into an utter distaste toward the name of Church abuses. The Bishop's present epistle is sharp and peremptory—a little sore, perhaps, on some points,—logical in its forms of argument, however loose here and there . in the substance,—violent, as before, against the petitioners of 1628,—coutemptuous towards the good but somewhat feeble Archbishop Abbott, —passing cautiously over the question of Laud's " prudence," but confident in the Protestantism of that harsh, overbearing, and offensive prelate, — dexterous in supposing cases where unions "may" be defensible,—and furiously indignant at the notion of Clergymen paying " first fruits" to the fail value of the benefice, which his Lordship characteristically enough denominates " a most absurd impost ;"—these, with an:allusion to, but no explanation of, the fact of his Lordship run ning his life against two leases under the see of Ferns, a topic, the mention of which by Lord I'dounteashel seems greatly to have irritated the Right Rev. Lord, form the most conspicuous points of a letter containing several newspaper columns.— Times. At a meeting of the Society for the Improve ment of Iceland, lately held in Dublin, the Sub etting Act became the subject of discussion. 1 . - Olr. O'Connell urged strongly the revision of thia Act, and it seemed to be agreed on all hands that it required amendment. Lord Clon curry on this occasion entered into some details, which are instructive as to the peculiarities in the social state of Ireland:— " They should auggest (he observed) to the Le gislature such amendments as would make the Act unobjectionable. The causes which produced the Act might he shortly stated. It often happened that the landlords let out tracts of land to per sons for whom they entertained a regard, on spe cified terms—he would suppose 1/. per acre; and it generally occurred that a condition was inserted in the lease, prohibiting the tenant from allocating or sub-letting the land The rapid increase of po pulation, the almost total absence of manufactures, limiting employment to agriculture, rendered land the only object of speculation for industry ; and the tenant, yielding to the increasing demand, sub-let at 21., 5/., or 101., as the case may be, the land for which he himself paid but one. Here there was an evident breach of contract, and the question was brought before the Courts in Dublin, or at the Assizes. The juries, probably tenants them selves, and the Judges, many of them sprung from a mongst the middlemen, decided in favour of leases for land so let in breach of the original con tract, signed by both parties with their eye' open, because the receipt of one year's rent by the land lord was a waiver of his covenant to prevent sub letting. But this was not the only evil. A greater hardship was, that the head landlord, failing in ob taining his rent from the middleman, resorted to the land, and drove and canted the wretched occupants, who were thus obli g ed again to pay the rent which they had already paid to the m iddleman.—(lleac.) —These were g reat evils—and if the Act, which he had with h i m were ''deliberataly discussed, it would be found that nine-tenths of its provisions were good, and that no thing but breaches of contract had rendered it neces sary. It might, as he before said, be considered ungracious for him to defend this Act ; but he prided himself upon being one of the people, warmly at tached to their interests, and he had never, in any instance, acted under the Sub-letting Act, nor should he ever du ,so.—(Cries of hear.) —Upwards of 40 years ego his father had let a conaiderable portion of his estate hi tlma county of Limerick, in farms of 200 or :3.'00 acres, at one pound an acre, with a con dition in the lease against sttb-letting, under a penalty of doubling the rent. When he (Lord C.) came into possession those leases were nearly expired; and when he went down to the estate, he found the farms of 200 acres inhabited by from 40 to 100 persons. This was a great injury to the property ; but, nevertheless, he was determined not to act with harshness or inhumanity. It was his right, as the leases were expired, to turn off the tenantry, but he did not do so; he made them leases at a consider ably reduced rent from what they paid the middle may, who, as the original breaker of the contract, was got rid of. From that time he received his rents regularly; and when the county of Limerick was in ,tote of disturbance, that particular district was pet fectly tranquil." If the Sub-letting Act could put a stop to the practice, so prevalent in Ireland, of sub letting lend at a protit rent, it would unquestion ably be paoduetive of great benefit. nut under the circumstances gated by Lord Cloneurry, of a constantly increasing demand for land to meet the wants of a rapidly increasing population, wholly dependent on agriculture, It will always be d inlet:it to carry the law into execution. It is, no doubt, extremely hard on Lord Cloneurry, on any other landlord, who lets a farm of 200 or 300 acres to one person, at one pound an acre, with a condition in the lease against sub letting, under a penalty of doubling the rent, to find the farm, notwithstanding such covenant, inhabited by' a hundred persons, paying a high p:ofit rent to a middleman. But where, from the constantly increasing demand for land s it can always be let at a profit rent, so long as thie state of things continues, ways and means will be found to evade the law. At the same time it is but fair to admit that it ifs .difficult to conceive so general a complaint would be wade against the Sub-letting Act, were there not strong apprehensions entertained of its operation. 'The cause of the necessity for the Sub-letting, Act is the rapidly increasing population, which irn• eicaaes the demand for land, and enables the te nant to sub-let at a profit rent. Why is it that in England the tenant cannot sub-let at a profit lent ? If au English tenant could, by sub letting the land for which he pays 11., obtLi St., 51., or 101. the acre, there can be no ques tion that he would imitate the Irish middleman, for who would not prefer a large profit rent, without outlay or trouble, to the being hiss; ell a cultivator, subject to all the casualties of farm ing ? But the Englishman who obtains a lease of land cannot sub-let it at a profit rent. The. increase of rural population, eo far from making itself be felt in an increase of rent, by increasing the poor's rates lowers the rent, and furnishes a constant motive fur throw ing down buildings and uniting farms, rather than parcelling them out. Were it not for the poor's rates, an increasing population would pro duce precisely the same effects in England which it does in Ireland. But the competition for lend as a condition of existence is here prevented by the poor laws ; and the small tenant, cultivating under great disadvantages compared with the tenant of capital, is less liable to bear the burdens on the land ; so that so far from small tenants being able to pay a profit rent, the tendency, as we have said, is the other way, to consolidate rather than divide. The introduc tion of Poor Laws into Ireland will, no doubt, open a door to considerable abuses ; but it is with this as with everything else, and we must decide for the course which, upon the whole, promises to be productive of the least evil. Jobbing is to be expected. But the burden on land increasing with the wants of the population, the system of sub-letting at a profit rent will be knocked on the head ; and when a landlord lets a farm at a fair rent, he will have the satisfaCtion of being assured that if the tenant do not culti vate it himself, be cannot derive benefit from it covering with a redundant population. Rents will unquestionably be lowered, if we take the rents now paid in Ireland by the actual cultiva tor as a point of comparison ; but the deduc• tion will be principally from the share of the middleman.—Morning Chronicle. Some acquittals yesterday, at the Old Bai!cy, will excite considerable attention. On the trial of Jeremiah Reading, for having in his posses sion a mould for making counterfeit Mr. C. Phillips endeavoured to show by his cross-examination of the witnesses, that the mould was so imperfect that shillings made from it could not impose upon the generality of per sons—a circumstance required by the Act to make good a charge against any one. The Jury acquitted the prisoner. Mary Fitzgerald and Catharine Connolly were next tried for a similar offence. The Judge (Baron Vaughan), in summing up, read a considerable portion of the Statute under which the indictment was framed, from which it appeared that the knowingly possessing a mould sufficient to make a coun terfeit that would pass current with the ge nerality of the public as good was enough to support a conviction. Again a verdict of Not Guilty was returned. It had been the intention of Mr. Scarlett, who con- lucted the cases for the Crown, to proceed on another indictment against one of the prisoners ; but after these acquittals, Judge and Counsel were both at sea, and a curious parley took place with the Jury. Mr. Baron Vaughan wished to discover what was the difficulty which weighed with the Jury, and led to the acquittals —whether they were not satisfied with the good ness of the resemblance, or did not think that the evidence was defective as to the mould being in the possession of the prisoners. It certainly, he observed, appeared to him to be sufficient that the mould should bear a general impression and similitude to the lawful coin of the realm, without being perfect in all its parts. It ap peared fro►n the dialogue that the Jury were not altogether satisfied with the evidence in the se cond case, as the prisoners were not locked in, and they looked with some suspicion on the landlady, as the prisoners did not make any stir till she spoke to them in Irish. However, the part that seemed to weigh most with them in both cases, was the imperfection of the moulds. Before leaving the box, they said they wished to acquaint their Lordships that the reason of their acquitting the first prisoner tried was, that the mould found in his possession was so imperfect, that no person using ordinary caution could be deceived by shillings made in it. Mr. Scarlett felt indignant at the acquittals, and did not proceed with a third indictment, ob serving that it was impossible to produce stronger evidence. It is certainly usual for persons em ployed in any unlawful occupation, to take the precaution of securing the door ; but though the circumstance of a door being secured, and instruments for coining being discovered on its being broken open, leave little doubt of the guilt of the parties found in the room, it does not fol low that when persons are discovered coining, though the door have not been fastened, the evi dence of the senses is to be distrusted. IfJu ries were to follow the example set yesterday at the Old Bailey, there would be no occasion for fastening a door, when the very circumstance of its being found open would alone insure an ac quittal. The security would b e no t i n th e fas tening the door, but in the leaving it unfastened. If a man were seen cutting another's throat, the fact could not be got over by the circumstance of his having neglected to secure a door. It is only where there is a doubt that such cir cumstances as those alluded to become of im portance. For instance, a young man was on Saturday tried for a rape, alleged to have been committed in a path leading to a church, and within a few yards of it when the afternoon bell was ringing. If the cries of the young woman had been heard, and people had flown to her rescue, the audacity of the youth would not in the face of the clear evidence been taken as proof of innocence ; but, in defect of good evi dence, the nature of the place was deemed a presumption of innocence. As to the point which led to the acquittal—the imperfection of the mould--it is very favourable, no doubt, to prisoners, as it loaves them time to obtain dex terity in their trade, and only makes them re sponsible when it begins to be lucrative. The Jury thought, and from the wording of the Act, it would seem that Parliament also thought, that being a bungler in any trade is alone a sufficient punishment, and that it is hard a man should suffer for a trade at which he makes little or nothing. Upon the same principle, a pickpocket who goes so awkwardly to work that you feel his hand in your pocket, ought to be acquitted ; and a burglar, who alarms by his indiscreet no;ac a whole neighbourhood, who secures him, ought to escape punishinent.—/bid. We have more than once adverted to the se rious evils, as well as the enormous expense, of what are called Local Acts of Parliament, the greater nunlider of which are a disgrace to the Legislature, which on these occasions too of:en lends its high name and sanction to measures of which it is wholly ignorant, but which are con cocted by persons who have a profitable interest in multiplying word; and confounding know ledge. No sooner is an Act of Parliament of this sort passed than its clauses are found to or every construction but the right one, A new law is thanefore called for " to explain and amend" the former, t 4 a the no small gain and gratification of " the craft," who thus prosper by fies.ir own fraud or imbecility. Fhere is no pow tion of thei leublic so afflicted with visitations of this disease as tho parishes in and about the metropolis. It is this tnhat for local legis lation tinder which Select Vestries, alai their whole train 0f despotism and abuses, have grown up and prospered ; anti it is only by putting an end to it, and placing parochial low under one pane statutory head, that the people can ever pee ped t o res ume that fair participation in the ma nagement of their own affairs which is now almost entirely usurped by these little jobbing ankl contemptible juntas. We are g lad to see that the inhaiiiiants of Lambeth, at their recent Inea ing, feel as we do on this important subject, and hava determined to wait, ni c;pectation of a general measure, in preference to undergoing the infliction of another Local Act, the inefficient one of last year having cost them, it is stated, no less a sum than 1,0401. We trust that some active, ho nest, and intelligent Member of the House of and that Commons will respond to this appeal) such a measure will be presented to and passed by the Legislature as will at once put an end to the discreditable anomaly of seeing one side of a street governed by one law, and the neighbours on the opposite by another. Among other evils which, we trust, such a general law will be so constructed as to cure, is one likewise very sen sibly pointed out at the Lambeth Meeting—we mean the exempting small tenements from paro chial rates, or allowing the owners to compound for them upon terms different from those paid by persons living in larger houses. Perhaps there are few more lucrative properties to the owners than houses of the former description. There are many obscure courts and alleys in the Me tropolis bringing in much surer rentals than the adjoining and more respectable streets. And when it ►s considered that it is through the means of these, and the high rents exacted from the weekly tenants, that so much of the paro chial burden is created, it is most unjust and absurd that the owners of this kind of property hould be exempted from contributing their full proportion to the claims which they are so much the cause of creating. Relief to all classes where it can be given, and a proportionate equalization of the burdens that must be borne, is a principle which the Legislature cannot neglect to enforce without being chargeable with the grossest par tiality, ignorance, or incapacity.—Morn. Her. MURDERS IN FRANCE. At the Assize Court of the department of the Ain, held at Bourg on the 20th and 21st of Novem ber last, a singular trial for parricide took place. A lady, moving in the highest circles of French society, rich, beautiful, and accomplished, was acccused of having poisoned her father about seven years ago, when he was only four-and-twenty years of age. The motive assigned for the commission of this atro cious crime was a fear that she entertained of being disinherited by her father for having formed a mar riage with a family which he disliked, and also an apprehension that he was going to marry a woman with whom he had long had a liaison. As the lady did not appear to plead to the charge, she was tried per• contunmee, and the following circumstances were proved against her on her trial, which takes up no less that► six columns of the Gazette des Tribunaux. Bouvier Selazard had acquired a large fortune by acting as an evoue or attorney at Bourg. lie had an only daughter, Josephine, who, in the beginning of September, 1822, married the Sieur A—, n man of rank in that town. Josephine and her husband resided at her father's house at Longchamps. about two miles from Bourg, and it was proved, that on the 7th of September, 1822, she had gone with her husband from Longchamps to Bourg, for the purpose of buying arsenic, as she said, to poison rats. On her return she persuaded her father to issue curds of invitation for a large dinner party on the 16th of September, having previously fixed that day for the day of his death. On the evening before it, she ordered her father's cook, Marie Clare, to prepare some boiled milk and bread for her father's breakfast the next morning. This order was executed,andat eight o'clock she took part of the boiled milk herself, and ordered the rest to be get aside for her father in the pantry. About an hour afterwards the cook found her in the pantry, with a paper in her hands, but took no particular notice of it at the time. At ten o'clock, Bouvier, the father, who was then in excel lent health, called for his breakfast. The cook, be fore sending the boiled milk to her toaster, skimmed off the cream or crust which had formed on the top of it, and suspecting no harm, swallowed a part of it. In a short time she was seized with violent cholic and sickness, a circumstance which, she swore, was noticed by Josephine at the time, who asked her whether she had been tasting her father's breakfast. This question struck the cook as very extraordinary, especially when she learned that her master was seized after breakfast in exactly the same manner. His sickness was, however, far more vio lent than her's, and became every hour more and more aggravated. Notwithstanding, this double ac cident, no steps were taken by Josephine to post pone the dinner party, although her father had be come so ill by the afternoon as to make it necessary to call in a physician. it was proved that Jose• phine would not allow any of the prescriptions or dered by the physician to be taken by her father; and that a nurse, who had often attended the family, tied received a good scolding from her because she had administered a large quantity of milk to him, in the hopes that it would allay his suffer trigs, as it had already allayed those of his cook, Marie. Another suspicious circumstance was also proved against Josephine. The physician desired ther e in case Bouvier did not get better during the night, he should be made acquainted with the f ac t early the next morning. It appeared that though Bouvier had passed the night in the greatest agonies, Ills daughter did not send for the physician till after twelve o'clock in the day; so that he did not artive at Longchamps from Bourg till the afternoon. At that time Bouvier was beyond the aid of medicine. Sit tly afterwards he became delirous, and at ten o'clock at night died, after strong convulsions, in horrible torment. It was remarked at the time its something stiange that Josephine returned with the physician to Bourg, instead of remaining at Long champs to close the eyes of her expiring father; and it now appears that she went to Bourg for the sake of ransacking her father's coffers, and gaining possession of his will and his other papers. During her absence the nurse, who had to superintend her father's funeral, observed wails of such a nature on his breast and neck as excited her suspicions that be had not been fairly dealt with, tied, - in consequence, she suspended the prepara tions for his funeral two or three times, and was pre vented with difficulty from declaring her suspicions to the police. In spite of all the precautions which were taken by Josephine and her family, a rumour got abroad that her father had been poisoned, and latterly gained such prevalence that the body was taken up and examined, after it had been deposited seven years in the ground. " Strange to relate," says the French journalist, " corruption and time had both spared the stomach of the deceased." Ir was examined by several experienced chymists, who. discovered arsenic in it ; but in very small quan tities. The cook, Marie, was then examined; and iii consequence of a quarrel which had taken place between her mistress and herself, was induced to make the following disclosures. She said that a few days after the death of Bouvier, she had a long con versation with her mistress, in which she told her that she was well aware of every thing which she had done. Her mistress, she said, promised in reply to recompense her largely for all she had suffered, provided that she said nothing of what she had seen, and as a proof that she was in earnest gave her two bills, one for 4,000 francs, the other for 2,000 francs, payeble with interest at nine or ten years after date. I I As her master had left her a legacy of 4,000 francs, payable without interest nye year:: after his death, it was stipulated that she should not give up her claim to her legacy on account of these two bills, but that she should receive them simply as the price of her continued silence. At the end of six years Jose phine conceived herself out of danger, and refused to pay Marie her legacy of 4,000 francs. The latter, in revenge, gave such information to the public, as brought the matter under the notice of the tribunals. As soon as the Cour Royale had determined to put Josephine upon her trial, she lost all her former con fidence,and fled out of the jurisdiction of the French courts. She was accordingly tried par conlumace, On the acte 4.'accusation being offered to the Court. M. DE GUERIzE, on behalf of the accused and her children, moved that the trial be postponed for six months, on the ground that a far trial could not then be had, on account of the prejudice which prevailed against her character in the public mind. After taking several legal and technical objections to the indict ment, he contended that there was no corpus (Mica in the ease for that experienced chymists at Lyons, Montpellier, and Paris declared that what the che mists of Bourg had found in the stomach of Bouvier, was only phosphate, and not arsenic. He likewise pledged himself, that if his motion for postponement were graHted, his client would come forward at the expiration of the time for which he asked, to meet her trial in person, asaerting that her only reason for not taking it at present was her dread lest she should be sacrificed for a crime which she had not commit ted, like the unfortunate families of Calas and Servin. The PROCUREUR DU Rot opposed the motion, on the ground that it was not credible that the accused would come forward to stand a public trial, as she had sold all the property of every description which she had at Bourg, on first hearing of the accusation which had been brought against her. The Court refused the motio►► of M. de Guerre. The next day the trial recommenced, and after exa mining different witnesses, the Court declared Jose phine Bouvier, wife of the Sieur d'A—, guilty of poisoning her father, condemned her, par contumace to death, and ordered her " to be conducted to the place of execution en chemise, with naked feet, and with her head covered with a black veil—to be ex posed upon the scaffold whilst an officer shall read the sentence to the people—to have her tight hand cut off, and then to be immediately executed." SURREY SESSIONS, DEC. 7. This day these Sessions commenced. The grand and traverse Juries having been sworn, the CHAIR MAN addressed them, and congratulated them upon the lightness of the calendar. There were only three cases that would occupy much of their time ; two were cases of swindling, in which prosecution no less than sixteen indictments would be presented to them : the other was a charge of rape. Edward Berry, a young man of respectable ap pearance, was indicted for stealing, on the 24th of November, a plated milk-jug, two brass cocks, and other articles, the property of John Goose, Esq. John Goose, the prosecutor, about three months ago let a cottage, ready furnished, to a person who represented himself to be Captain Foster. The cot tage is at Croydon, and he let it for the hunting :season. Captain Foster and his friends came down on 6th of September, took possession, and remained there several weeks, but suddenly he departed. Witness then took possession of his cottage. Shortly after Captain Foster and his friends again returned to the cottage and took forcible possession, and among the party was the prisoner at the bar. After they had so obtained possession, Captain Foster left the charge of the cottagelto the prisoner, the Captain returning to London. The witness not hearing any thing of Captain Foster, set about inquiring after him, and discovered him in custody in Tothill-fields prison on a charge of felony about some furniture. While the prisoner was in charge of the house, he missed several articles, and amongst them those set forth in the indicttnent;and which, on being pro• duced, he immediately identified ; the prisoner was seen with the property in a basket, which he was carrying away ; but on seeitig witness's servant, he put them down and hastily returned to the cottage, and locked himself in : an officer was sent for, and the prisoner taken into custody.—The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. WINTER ASSIZES. HOME CIRCUIT.-HERTFORD, DEC. 7. The Commission for holding a Special Gaol-de livery for Hertfordshire was this morning opened by Mr. Baron GArtnow and Mr. Baron HOLLAND, the latter Learned Judge going the circuit for the first time since his appointment to the Bench. Their Lordships having attended divine service at the church, Mr. Baron GARROW charged the Grand Jury. The calendar contains the names of .54 prisoners. The offences for which they stand charged consist of manslaughter, arson, housebreaking, receiving stolen goods, horse and sheep-stealing, and nume rous petty larcenies. One of the prisoners is de tained for trial at the Surrey Assizes, charged with a burglary at Mr. Warrington's, West Moulsey. Charles Little, a shoemaker, of Hertford, was in dicted for receiving four sacks of flour, knowing the same to have been stolen. After hearing the facts of the case, Mr. Rarell BoLLAND directed the Jury to acquit the prisoner, there not being sufficient evidence to make out a case against him. Joseph Winter, aged 30, and Be7?jarnin Winter, aged 28, were found guilty of stealing a sheep, the property of Mr. W. Kimpton, a farmer, at \Vatton, Herts. THE CIIESIIUNT ROBBERY. Henry Dodman Wood, aged 22, stood capitally indicted for stealing in the dwelling-house, a quan tity of plate, value 601., the property of George Rougemont, Esq., of Berry-green, Cheshunt. The prosecutor stated that the prisoner had been in his service in the capacity of footman for about ten days. Ile had the care of the plate, which prosecutor had instructed him to carry nightly to his chamber. On the sth of October the prisoner absconded, and the articles named in the indict. ment were shortly after missed. Cross•examined by Mr. CLARKSON—The prisoner is the son of a Lieutenant in the navy. Prosecutor had a verbal character with the prisoner. Joseph Watkins, a horse-patrol, on the 27th of October saw the prisoner at the Jolly Butchers pub lic-house, in the Green-lanes, between Tottenham awl London. Witness asked the prisoner if his name was Wood ? Prisoner replied, " No ;" and another man, with the prisoner, told witness he was mis taken. Witness took them both into custody. On searching the prisoner's companion, he found upon him five skeleton keys, a tire-box, matches, and other housebreaking implements. Witness took both prisoners to the Enfield cage. The prisoner hi °Le out of the Enfield cage. Ile was afterwards apprehended by Hall, an officer of Union-hall. Thomas Newman saw the prisoner at the Crown public-house, Lambeth-marsh, on the 6th of Octo ber. The prisoner told witness that he had got some wedge (silver,) which he wanted to dispose of. A man, named Pelster, who was with witness, said he knew where to dispose of it. Prisoner said the money was planted, and that they could hare it nest morning. Pelster said, "We will have it to night." Prisoner then went with witness and Pelster to a timber-yard near Waterloo-bridge. Prisoner went into the vard, and brought out a carpet-hag. They went toi"elster's lodgings in Shire-lane,Temple-bar. The house is kept by a man named Hart. The bag was then opened by Pelster, and its contents, silver spoons and forks, and other plate, were concealed between the sacking and the bed. Pelster and wit ness slept in the bed that night. Prisoner slept in a chair in the same room ; there were two table cloths, also a silver tankard, with the name of " Rougemonte" engraved on it. The spoons were marked with a crest. On the following morning Pelster said he was going to take the plate to the Kent-road, to dispose of it. He afterwards said he could sell it in the house. The plate was then taken to Hart's room. Hart, his wife, and another man, were present. The plate was weighed. It came to 151. Ss., at 4s. per ounce. Neither Hart or the other man had the money to pay for the plate, but it was afterwards procured. Witness, prisoner, and Pelster, received 51. a piece. A small silver knife and fork, and a table-cloth, was given to Mrs. Hart. Cross-examined.—'Witness lived at 47, Stamford street ; left there in a hurry ; sometimes calls him self a tailor; did not hear that his master had lost any thing; was apprenticed to a tailor for two years; it is not part of a tailor's business to trans late been acquainted with the terms wedgesla ) turdg ; had plant sin ce h e k new P e l s t e r; never lived w ith a bad woman named Ellis; witness lived in the same house w i t h h er a f ter t h e a ff a i r b e tween the prisoner arid Pel s t er; k new Ha r t's name by being toll it by Pelster; Hart's house is a brothel. Did not think it a strange house to sleep in on such an occasion. Witness has been confined. Does not expect to save himself by what he has stated. Came here to save his own neck, and hang his companion. Witness was nineteen years old last January. The Jury found the prisoner—Guilty—Death. The learned JUDGE immediately passed the awful sentence of death upon the prisoner in the usual form. _ . The trial excited a most unusual degree of interest. The court was crowded to excess. OLD BAILEY, DEC. 7. OLD COURT. Maly Fitzgerald, aged 24, and Catherine Con nolly, aged 26, were capitally indicted for having traitorously had in their possession a plaster of Paris mould, used for the purpose of coining shillings, to imitate the current coin of the realm.—Both pri soners were acquitted. Afar) Fitzgerald was then separately indicted for Laving i❑ her possession a mould for casting six pences. Mr. Baron VAUGHAN wished to make an observa tion before this case was gone into. He perceived that the indictment was intended to be supported by the same evidence exactly as that which had been offered in the last case, and therefore he should like to know upon what specific grounds the Jury had found the verdict which they had just returned. The Foreman of the Jury replied, that the ground upon which his brother jurors and himself had ac quitted the prisoners, wus, that the mould had not been proved to have been in the possession of either prisoner, it having been found by the constable under the bed. Mr. Baron VAUGHAN said, that it was not at all necessary, in order to establish a possession, that the mould should be found in actual operation. The Foreman—But, my Lord, we were not sa tisfied that this mould might not have been placed where it was found by some other party. Mr. Baron VAUGHAN was very glad to hear that the reason just assigned had influenced the Jury in their decision, as, upon any other ground, a verdict of guilty ought to have been pronounced. Mr. SCARLETT, under the circumstances, should not offer any evidence to support the indictment. — He begged, however, to be distinctly understood, that the counsel for the Mint by no means agreed with the opinion expressed by the Jury. If cases so strongly borne out, were thus to be disposed of, it would be necessary to apply to Parliament for a fresh enactment upon the subject.—The prisoner was then acquitted. Mary Conway was capitally indicted for having uttered five counterfeit shillings to Mrs. Davis, land lady of the Three Compasses, Drury-lane. The prisoner was found Guilty. NEW COURT. Benjamin Guillois, aged 26, was indicted for stealing a aaw and other articles, value 10s., the property of John Bowling; he was also charged with having been convicted of felony last April Sessions at the Old Bailey. The prosecutor deposed that the prisoner, who is a car penter, was in great distress, and applied to the parish for relief on the 17th of October, and, in order to relieve him, he gave him a job, and lent bin► the tools in question, with which he absconded TLe certificate of his last trial was produced by the clerk of the arraigns, and the prisoner was identified by the officer who apprehended him on that occasion. The Foreman of the Jnry asked the Court the meaning of the second indictment. Mr. Sergeant ARABIN—This, Gentlemen, is a clause in one of Mr. Peel's recent Ac's, that if a prisoner should be repeatedly tried, and convicted of petty crimes, the Court should have a power to inflict a more heavy punishment. . . The Jury were satisfied with this answer, and immedi ately returned a verdict of Guilty. Richard Moody, aged IS, was indicted for stealing a machine for sweeping chimnies, the property of George Bayley. The prosecutor, a sweep, residing at Uxbridge, swore to the machine being his property ; and a master sweep, of Shepherd's Bush, swore he bought it of the prisoner. Verdict—Guilty. IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE FROM CO- LOMBIA. (From the Falmouth Packet of Dec. 5.) By the Duke of York packet, which arrived this morning from Carthagena and Jamaica, we have received intelligence of importance from the former place. It is to the following effect :—Four days before the arrival of the packet at Carthagena, whence she sailed on the 7th of Oct., the country had experienced one of those political disturbances, which are of such frequent occurrence in infant states, and ill-estal.lished Governments. It ap peared from general report, that General Cordova, lately the companion in arms of Bolivar, the Liberator of Colombia, concealing his own ambitious designs of personal aggrandisement, had raised the stan dard of rebellion and revolt, under the flimsy prt tence that Bolivar entertained the purpose of subvertin.g the liberties of his country, by converting the republic into a monarchy, of which he professed to be the founde. The reason of advancing such a charge against the " Li berator," is said to have been, that the army under lt:s command had offered him a crown, which he refused a's proceeding only from his troops, and not from the people in general. Whatever truth may be in this atatetsent, Cordova, it is certain, took advantage of Bolivar's: ab sence in Peru, where he was endeavouring to r, cover from that republic the expences of the war just concluded, to leave him, and raising a few hundred men to proceed to certain fastnesses in the mountains, through which Bolivar must of necessity pass before he could reach Bo gota—and this pass is said to be such by nature, that a few men of resolute spirits could defend it against thou sands, and sffsctually preclude their further progress. Here Cordova prepared several proclamations, claiming to himself high pretensions as a patriot, and representing the conduct and intentions of Bolivar in the most odious light. These manifestoes, although so plausible and in dustriously circulated, did not appear to create much prepossession in his favour—but on the contrary, the general sense of the country was against him. With respect to Carthagena itself, the governor of it is a General Montilla, an alherent of Bolivar ; and, hence it may be easily guessed that he would not be slack in his endeavours to quell the present disturbances. Two days before the arrival of the packet, the whole disposable re gular troops were sent off, partly by land and partly by water, so that only a few ill-disciplined and worse equip ped militiamen, of all colours, black, white, and brown, were left for the protection of the town. The Governor himself proposed to proceed to the seat of war in as short a time as some necessary previous arrangements would permit. MuRAT.—It was said of MURAT, by NA roixoN, that when he advanced to the charge he resembled a paladin of old more than a modern soldier. In his css tume he imitated the ancient knights. His noble port showed majestically under the chivalric garb ; add to this his more than mortal daring, and we shall not wonder that the very Cossacks raised a shout of admiration when be approached them. A striking example of this occurred Sept. 4:—The king, with a few squadrons, had left Eiatz, followed at some distance by the grand army. In his march he was much annoyed by clouds of Cossacks, who hovered about the heads of his columns, and from time to time compelled them to deploy. This troublesome se ries of interruptions at length incensed him to such a de gree that he gallopped up to them unattendad, and, in an authoritative voice, ctied out, " Clear the way, vermin !" It is a fact equally extraordinary and incontestible, that these wild eons of the desert were so awed by his manner as involuntarily to obey the command ; nor did they again block up the way during the whole of that day's march. At length the French army reached the heights which overlook Moscow. Glancing at his soiled garments the king did not think them worthy of an occasion so im portant as that of entering the sacred city. Ile retired to his tent, stripped, and soon came out arrayed in the most magnificent of his costumes. His tall plume seen over everything, the splendid trappings of his steed, and the inimitable grace with which he mansged the high-spirited animal as he advanced towards the Cossacks, who were under the wails of the city, produced a loud p.•al of ap plause from those wild warriors. As an armistice had been agreed on during the evacuation of the city by the Russian rear, be remained for two hours in the midst of his new admirers, who called him their hetman, and pressed round him with tumultuous enthusiasm. His va nity was so much gratified with the homage of these children of the wilderness, that he distributed among them, first, all the money that he had about him, then all he could borrow from the officers of his staff, and, lastly, both his own watch and those of his companions. The Family Library, LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. 0 fel t ill , r The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis' is = d WO tlb. Loaf. There are others who sell from !=id• I ° that price. • -___ ___---- PRICE OF SEEDee. 7. c p 4 , Ms. New English fled Clover Seed (per Cwt.) 12s. 525. fine .''-': ...a. Old Ditto Ditto _ ~ „. 6 . fine --.'• e b, New Foreign Ditto-. 4la. 50s fise 661 ' 65 5. Old Ditto 308. 40s. fine L•O 4 . Qm . . ~ New White Clover _ 4os. (Os. fine 70 0 . 4, , Old Ditto Ditto, . , New Trefoil - l3s. 245. fine 30 , 17; Old Ditto .7, . --. Rib Grass - 16 s. 2515. tine -- , • . ... 4 , English Carraway Seed , -s 40s. 445. fine Foreign Ditto coriander-------- . -s. I4s. fine - - s• 40 . St. Foin fine ....0. Rye Grass P.acey Ditto (per Quarter)..... g .. -f , :is;. 2i. fine ..... s. ...i. -- 3113. 455. new - 4 . ~, Linseed, for feeding _ „. .. --s. 38s. fine ... 44. ~.. ..vi. Ditto, for crushing • 4D 425. fine a , ___. -s. . 4 . Canary Seed, New .--. . -.s. 425. fine ---,.,. Ditto Old-----. -s. -,s. --s. fi ne ,s. White Mustard Seed -(per Bushel) .os. Os. ils. Od. fin e . .. 4 . Brown Ditto Turnip Seeds, hounds_--, - -s. -s. P.'s. tine 6s, Green and Red I)itto Tares, Ohl-- -s. 345. 40s. fine 4 „ Ditto New ...._..,, Rape Seed, English, fine (per Last) 301. 3'24 „- Foreign 271;;;;;.... PRICES OF HOPS.—Dec. 7. Kent Pockets Ol 6s. 71. 10,, to 91 9a ,,: Sussex Ditto Limns Ditto 61. 6s. 71. Os. to • , latch= Dittw, Fine-- 01. Os. 131. N ' , N ''' .to 15 1 . ~,7 Seconds 01. Os. 101. to DU. '• ~: -----. 61. Os. 71. 78. to 91. v. ------...... 71. 15s. 6/. 6s. to tii• I ° ‘ . -6 /. Os. 71. Os. to 5L:..„.... Kent Essex Ditto., SUS6QX Ditto PRICE OF POTATOES. —Dec. 7. Kidneys 4/. Os. to 01, Os, per tom Scotch Reds 41. Os. to 01. Os. dAto. Oxnobles and Shaws 21. ss. to 3/. 3s. ditto. PRICE. OF OIL. 0 Rape Oil, brown .- _ 4ll. Os. ............. Refined -..-- (4- ' Linseed Oil .......___............--......--* ,°, ..._, , ~ Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand ...,..«..... ..ii 0 Rape Cake, per ton-- - PRICES OF d. to d. 161 19] 21 22 14 16 18 19 14 16 16 18 18 '2O Per lb. Butts 50 to E411b... Ditto flO to 661 b.— Dressing Hides Fine Coach Llides Crop Hides, 35 to 401 b. Ditto, 15 to 50lb. Ditto LEATHER. Per lb. d. to .; Tanned Horse Hides... 16 *wish Ditto 19 x' Per dozen. Calf Skinit.,,S6 to 411 b. 16 21 to 70Ib. 22 I)itto 21 .0 to FOlb. 19 21 Ditto S ma ll Seals, 6reenland _ WHII'ECHAPEL HAY Hay 455. Od. to 90s. Od. Clover Od. to Straw, `chi. Od. to 324. RAW s i, to . Per Stone. 8.44. to s.d. HIDE S. Per Stone. • , 0 2 4 2 Rest Steere3 0 3 4 Ordinary Middlings 2 6 210 Market SHEEP SKINS. A Oh WooL N. ed. to N. Ott. I Polled 2s. 01 to Downs 3d. to Is. 9d. COAL MARL .....—, :346.6d. Holywel Tan field Tan field Wylam - WallsEntifiewieke&Co. 27 6 Walls End Brown's 23 6 Ditto 37 0 Ditto Russell's 33 0 Ships at market, 19!4-Shi 33 0 .ET.—Dec. 7. Lambton's Primrose 9 Walls End 0,„ 9 Walls End Lambton.„--- Q Y° Walls End Slowart's f, 0 Parson's Abbey....--•••• :4, 0 Walls End small f?° 31 3 34 0 cold, 1 4%--Unsold, 4N. IRISII MARKETS. ------- Wheat, Barley. Oats. I Flour, 1ff: ‘ ,1.... per barrel per barrel per barrel r --- , 2 j, 20 stone. 16 stone. 14 stone. 1 Ist. .............../ .------- , d• ------ , .1.4 1 -; 6 0 s. d. a s.d.l 8. d. a s.d. s.d. as. d.is. d. as. d• '„ 0 ,.....i A Cork 22 0-31 6 11 6-15 01 9 0-11 0 16 0-41 0 4 , 00 ,15 ,'", Limerick 24 0-28 010 0-12 0' 89-94 IS 0-21 0 v 15 " 1 10 0-- 6 0 Waterford 0-32 010 l'}-14 6i 9 6-11 OIS O--2 4 0 ,, 0 .....1 „ Clonmel - 240-3) 0 11 0-14 0 10 8-14 0 20 0--25 0 ',l ( ~o`f Carlow -, '26 0-30 0 12 0-19 0 10 0-13 0 20 6- 21 C ".-4----- --- - --- _-4 -: 1 7-5111. Beef, Mutton, Pork, . A : • 4 " ~----- per lb. per lb. per cwt. Ist. 2 , - ...---' j. -- ---- , ~. t 4 0 d. ad, il. a (I. 8. d. as. d. d sd•g• 4 " ' 7 0 4 s. • :., A ,/ 0 - 0 5 0 Cork --, 3; -53 i -6 22 0-27 061 0 5, uig 043 u Limerick- 4 -5 1 - 6 23 0-30 001 055 057 053 o ',, 0 Waterford 21-5 3 -51 260-27 0'165 002 0 54 0 5.2 0 J ,, 0 Clonmel ....ni -44 3 -4; 25 0-28 062 05 6 ° ' 048 0 ''.. Car10w,,,..- I4 -5;10 - 0 00- 0 0171 0 Fib 05 8 a, to ~-• t° ig S * ( t • KlLlinNNY.—Butter 635. to 675. per cwt. • Wbe 3 1)3 per barrel ; Flour 20s. to 365. per bag; Oat's gs. to I l i ( ' t rttoo 54. rel ; Barley 10s. to 13s. ; Beef 4d. to 51sjd, per lb. ; 030 1 to 4d. ; Pota'oes sd. per stone; Coals is. •44.1. per cVit• • rigs 28s. to 29s per csst. The demand for shares in the Stocke i Junction Railway is said to be so brisk, that a heavy P r : inium will shortly be the consequeuce.—Airanchrsh Mercury. STATE OF TRADE.—Trade has enli vened fir little here during the present week, and several tosn :fi t. turers are letting out 9-Bths 6 0 reed tape stripes for P" o ir ing upon, and one house has advanced 6d. per rUtfto.r the tain weavers. In other kinds there is nu altera ti° better.-211andiester Mercury. 1 with SrtELF.—ln a conversation I hale 113 1 , L o pY to one of the worsted manufacturers of Shelf, I arn that p°' learn that some improvement has taken place in pulous village in the stuff trade. I am assured that 0:1,, master has advanced the wages of his workmen 6(1. 71. and, as he employs 2SO wears, it makes an increase 0' re or , in weekly disbursements ; which , i n that email neiglih_. hoed, coming, as it data, from one ma nufacturer alone' nite matter of some consequence. You will, lam sure, $ these few facts a place in your Journal, and only reel" with myself, that similar statements are not more genefs —(From a Correspondent in the Halifax Ciro:old-ie.) he NEY.—At the battle of Borodino , or, 35 t French call it, of the Moskwa, the most sa nguina r i; modern times, the bravest of the brave surpav ed hie self, and nobly earned the princely title with a'l' to at af imperial master rewarded him in the field. But the tna,,, ralu:ible service he ever rendered France was in the t he plorable retreat from Moscow. His station Iva' ' ll t he rear—the post of danger and of honour—and he vo° it chief, if not (excepting NAPOLEON himself) the c;1 hope of the troops. In the story of this flight , for anc4e. was, every thing is so wonderful, that posterity would d'i.el lieve the details, if one contemporary voice had been ' l . ; es against them. That with a handful of worn-out foll•° , 10 destitute of every necessary, he should repel the ar s ,d and arrest the progress of untired, well-provid ed ' countless legions ; that, while his heroic little ban", oo P daily diminished by hunger, cold, and lassitude, he 3 1 - 00 yet bid defiance to the whole Russian host; in a e/ or "' o f NET'S desperate valour should have secured the escl e tlie any remnant of the grand army must ever collo ° t irl astonishment of the world. At one time, after le s Krasnoi, the whole Russian army lay between ° i t' , re' NAPOLEON ; but, though he had only 3000 mem ' l w o , solved to cut his way through the intervenifig te igg 6 ' When summoned by MILORADOVITCH to CAPi ti t ' epllP - Marshal of France never surrenders !" was his 011:jtbre de' as he fearlessly led his devoted companions again e- A , structive . batteries of the Lostnina. Ile then 01 ",, - ; li b 1 1 cult at midnight to the banks of the Dneiper, s "'" -c crossed on blocks of ice, in spite of all opposition' i,bt e ll 0 ' finally, with 1500 men, joined the Emperor. w NAPOLEON be unable to find language sufficient t° es ` press his admiration of the hero:--" What a man; Webs a soldier ! what a vigorous chief !'' While he 6 61 ' - :40 0 , that the Marshal had fallen into the bands of the 11 ,t I , 0 1 he declared that he would willingly give three Ini n ":0 41 francs for his ransom. His joy may well be O ric / ".ttef when Nay returned and received his embrace. had soon afterwards the nearly undivided hono ur of 1 7 t he the wreck of this once mighty host at the passage °,,,,td Berezina. The story of Waterloo need not be re.rdtb here. We shall only observe that on no occasion th,or bravest of the brave exhibit more impetuous though %to' less valour. Five horses were shot under him ; meats were pierced with balls; his whole person "7 o pecl figured with blood and mud, yet he would have e'n't've° the contest on foot while life remained, had be rio t of forced from the field by the dense and resistless cohn'i the fugitives.— The Family Library. -, - PRINTED AND PUBLISH 2D EY raugDo TIM SUN OFFICE, 112, Szailin, LOS BIRTHS. S , On the 6th inst. at Artillery-place, Finsbury, 0.• Kent, of a son. oife °I On the 6th inst. at St. John's Wood-roa d, the G. G. Hw, Esq. f a dauhter. ' On the 6th inst. o in Old Burlington-street , the 15' Lewis Durlacher, E at sq. llof a son. o irel On the sth inst. untingdon Lodge, Donf lle6- the lady of Capt. Lennock, R. N., of a son. of On the sth inst., the lady of Peter Erle, daughter. 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