The Sun. — London, England, 1829-01-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNA-LS. Our extracts frOm the Irish papers are worths , ' of attention. It appears that the Lord Mayor . and Sheriff's of Dublin have refused to call a public meeting; on the requisition of many Peers, Members of the House of Commons, l Aldermen, and hundreds of the most respectable persons in the Kingdom, desirous of addressing his Majesty upon the rtimoured recall of cord Anglesea from the Irish Government. The excuse madeby the Orange functionaries of the corporation of Dublin is, that they " had no official notification of- the recall." Now the requisitionists had not talked about any " official" notification cf that unhappy circumstance. Their desire to the Lord Mayor, &c., bad been to call a meeting upon the " rumoured" recall of Lord Anglesea. Do they deny the existence of such a rumour, or the notoriety of such a fact, or the sufficiency of the ground afforded by either, to support the requisition for a meeting ? So much for the fair dealing of official Orangemen in the metropolis of Ireland ! But that is nothing. Let us turn to a northern county, and see hole Orangemen act upon their oaths. A Jury too— a Grand Jury ! of the county of Longford. A body of Orangemen, we are told, had been cele brating a party festival somewhere in the above county, and spent several hours of the night in firing along the public road, to the consternation of the whole neighbourhood. The Catholic peasantry having been previously frightened by reports that the Orangemen, were about to rise in arms and butcher them, took for granted, when they heard the continued shots- and imprecations upon ail "bloody Papists," that the massacre was going to begin. Old and young, women and children, accordingly fled from their cabins; and half naked, during a winter night, sought shelter in the-fields and ditches. Major ('Donoghue, commanding the police, —a hu mane,intelligent, and gallant soldier--represented this outrage in its proper colours to his Majesty's Government ; and an order was forthwith ex pedited, to prosecute the aggressors to convic tion. Major O'Donoghue retained counsel for the Crown. The subject came before the quarter sessions of Longford; bills were sent up to the Grand Jury against five of the delinquents, in cluding two policemen, and though the clearest evidence of their guilt was brought forward, the Grand jury ignored the bills. After a due share of wonder and consideration on the part of the Bench, the bills were sent back, and thrown out a second time. Faction can neither blush nor reason. This is one among many illustrations of the hopeless misery which results to say people when party feelings usurp the place of social, and where a man's • oily country is his clan. Poli tical - turbulence has arrived to such a pitch in Ireland, that the most ancient and best esta blished laws have lost their natural sanctions. The -ministers of justice conspire against the up right a dministration of it—the most solemn oaths are disregarded—the most audacious vio lators of the King's peace are criminally with drawn from the risk of regular trial—the inno coat and unarmed are betrayed by their sworn protectors--and the impression is fixed upon the mind of. every man, that as the laws of the kingdom yield him no security, he must defend himself by the arms and the law of nature. The enemies of Catholic Emancipation will not deny, for they cannot, that it is. the unequal condition of the two sects of Irishmen which has pro.- yoked these heart-burnings, and which conti nues to nourish and foment them. They can not gainsay that it is the eagerness of the Catho lic to be relieved from degradation, and the resolution of the Orangemen to frustrate that re lief; which hare, in a measure unknown to any other state of modern Europe, relaxed the ties of citizenship, and dissolved the frame of poli tical society. Yet what is the purpose of these heartless or thoughtless men ? To maintain, by the aiatise of law, a position from which they compel their innumerable and revengeful victims to time them by an abuse of force. Every hour adds force to the Catholics, and every addition to the force of an oppressed people is an added stimulus to the exertion of, it. Nor is there the shadow of hope for the Orange party but in Catholic freedom. When men have the en joyment of equal liberties with others of their kind, whatever tiew advance they make in know ledge, in riches, in civilisation, and the arts and comforts of life, is a fresh bond and pledge for their loyal feelings towards the Government, and fur their boldness and tenacity in its defence.— But the Orange reasoners are mistaken when they calculate that their worst danger is, from the poverty and barbarism of the Catholics. So long as the Catholics shall be excluded from the State, all their moral and intellectual improve ments, the acquisitions of their industry, and ex tension of their natural capacity, must serve but to aggravate the sense of their political inferio rity, to imbitter their resentment against those who keep them down, and to act in a spirit di rectly contrary to the influence of growing civili zation upon a freeman, by reinforcing the mass of his grievances and wrongs. This argument has been put with striking clearness by Mr. Blake in. his pamphlet to which we have before alluded, and to which we shall refer hereafter, as a workrecommended byaccurate and extensive knowledge, by signal candour and good temper, by unanswerable arguments ingeniously put, and forced upon the mind by great variety and pungency of illustration. We are pleased to see the .subject in- such hands, and approve the courage with which Mr. Blake has spoken out upon the question of securities; that question on which, as on a hinge, it is clear that emanci pation must practically turn. Some of the Irish Papers hint that the Catholic rent has been absurdly and ruinously squandered. We have statad that for fair election purposes, the rent 0 iurrl t to be considered a sheet-anchor of the Catholic cause. Latterly, it seems to have pro duced an average sum of above 40 , 0/. per week, —that is to say, more than 20,0001. per an num. If this be not (to use the mildest ex pression) wisely administered under the under stood. auspices of Mr. O'Connell, it will be an irreparable disaster to the community from whose feeble resources it has flowed. The Journals to which we refer have affirmed, that there is not a balance in the Catholic treasury of more than 2001. or 3001. It is surely time to think of " laying up something for a rainy season:— Times. At the Surrey Sessions on Tuesday last Mr. Briscoe moved " That a Committee be ap pointed to communicate with, and prepare a re-' presentation to, the Right Honourable Robert Peel, his Majesty's Secretary of State fur the Home Department, upon the crying evils aris ing from the present state of the Game Laws ;1 and to implore his Majesty's Government to I make such alterations thereof as to its wisdom ' shall seem fit—and as may effect the diminution of crime, and conduce to the general welfare of the country." A pretty decisive proof of the public feeling with regard to these Laws was afforded by the circumstance that of the.assem bled Magistrates, all, with the exception of Mr. Holme Sumner, approved of the motion. Even Mr. Holme Sumner could not coucur in the motion, because he thought it would be an im peachment of the sincerity of the exertions here tofore of the immaculate - Mr. Peel. The Speakers generally described the country as in a state of open war. Armed gangs of poachers were opposed to armed bands of keepers. " It was frightful (said Mr. Denison) to con- . template the-results to which this system -.led, from poaching to other thefts and robbery, and - often more serious crimes. The gaols of. the country were filled with criminals whose career of crime might, in most cases, particu-. lady in country places, be traced to the practice of poaching." Mr. Henry Drummond ob served— " That the extent to which the evils ari%inz from. the Game Lawn had been carried was dreadful, and yet many who deprecated those evils daily contri buted to increase them by making themselves a pdrty tO . the worst effect of the laws. Every man who ,purchased a head of game should bear in mind that he was accessory to the crimes by which it was obtained—that lie was to a certain extent a purcha ser of human blood. The worthy Magistrate then proceeded to point out and deprecate the practice of rearing such vast quantities of game at the expence, as it was in most cases, of the poor. One effect of the Game Laws was to sever the ties which existed between the great mass of the peasantry and their landlords. He had observed this in several parts of the country; and the Meeting might be assnrcd, that if ever any.unfortunate events should cause the bad feelings which existed in this respect to explode, the landlords would find that they had not the hold on the affection or sympathies of that body which many of them now believed they possessed. It had been said of the old French nobility after the Revo lution, that they had rien oublie—rien appris. The English Aristocracy might learn a lesson from the fate of those Men, which it would be well for them to stusly. It would teach them to Ise more atten tive to the wants and the welfare of those large bodies who were placed in a sort of dependence on them. In conclusion the worthy Magistrate again expressed his concurrence in the motion." This is strong language, but we have heard as strong language before. We have had Com mittees after Committees attributing the crime which exhibited such a rapid growth throughout the country chiefly to the habits produced by the Game Laws. The aristocracy of the country know that they are the cause of the demoraliza tion of the people; but what care they for the crimes of the people ? Not more than the people would care for them, should ever the un- 1 fbrtunate events arise in this country (which God prevent) alluded to by Mr. Drummond. They who themselves outrage humanity have no claim on humanity. Though the French pea santry suffered little from the Game Laws before the Revolution, compared with the sufferings of the English peasantry in tile present day, as we shall show, yet we ail know the effect which these laws had in exciting animosity against the French aristocracy. The destruction of the aristocracy was everywhere either promoted by the peasantry, or viewed by them with indif ference. While they concealed their Priests in the woods, and risked their lives in carrying food to them, they shut their doors against the nobles. In a very detailed account of a Journey in Finis terre, performed by order of the French Govern ment in 1794 and 1795; we are told that " the spirit of all the Communes is nearly the same— they care neither for Kings nor for Nobles—they despise the 'Cures who have taken the oaths r ; but there is no cultivator who would not travel ten leagues on root by night, and"sin the worst weather, to join a refractory Priest, to receive his benediction, to give him money and goo s.-- These Priests are concealed in forests, in the hollow of rocks, in remote cabins—without rest, pursued, wandering ; but satisfied with their power, with the veneration which they in spire, with the injury which they do to their country, to the Government of which they are opposed." The French Gentlemen sometimes neglected their peasantry ; but they never filled the gcols with the victims of tyrannical laws, like the Lnglish Aristocracy ; never looked on with cold-blooded indifference while bands of their armed hirelings were engaged in mortal strife with the wretched creatures whom their Battues call into action, We have said that the Game Laws in France, before the Revolution, notwith standing all the loud complaints against them, produced little mischief compared with the Game Laws in England. M. de Pradt, in a . sen.ible work on the agriculture of France, pub lished in 1802, comparing the state of things before and after the Revolution, says expressly that " the Chace and Game were, generally speaking, no impediment or injury to: cultivation. We must distinguish between game and the pur suit of game, the chace properly so called. Game was scarce throughout all France, except ing within twenty leagues of Paris. It would be truly ridiculous to reckon among the number of causes influencing cultivation, the game that was to be seen in the provinces ; it was only very abundant anti really destructive in the environs of the capital ; there •it was crowded in a manner truly insulting, which led one to think that, dis puting with man his subsistence, game was in tended to share with the cultivator, and that he raised his crops as much for the sake of these animals as for himself. However we must dis tiuguish between the sorts of game, Deer, the hare, and its devouring family, are alone hurtful to cultivation. Birds, less destructive iu their I tastes and their arms, neither attack the roots nor the fruits of plants ; plants suffer from hares and the inhabitants of warrens ; these were truly the scoufge of cultivation, and woe to him who lived in their neighbourhood I The state of game remains nearly the same in the departments as it was in the old provinces. The change is only felt in the environs of. Paris, whence have disappeared these flocks of animals, which, fa miliar with whet is every where else an object of alarm to them, covered the fields and the roads, and teemed to sport with the traveller. The whole question relates to the lands in the neighbourhood of the capital." In England, we find every county in nearly the same state with regard to poaching, so that, instead of being an evil of 4 local nature, es it was in France, it is universally felt. Whether we turn to the north or south, east or west, we hear of nothing but poaching, and battles between poachers and keepers. Sir Thos. More observed that robbers made excellent soldiers, and soldiers excellent robbers. It is possible that armed bands of poachers, spread over the face of the country, may give a military spirit to the population, and may even, by afford ing a scope to activity and enterprise, have in. some sort rescued the peasantry from the abject ness which follows in the traia of oppression. The Poor Laws gave an English peasant a right of habitation, so that lie can only be removed from his parish by the sentence of a Court. He has, therefore, in poaching, a sort of resource against oppression ; and he has • the adventures of a soldier's life, with perhaps better pay, cer tainly more liberty, and .less perhaps to suffer from the chances of war. The demoralization is another question, but it is a serious one, for which, if there be justice in Heaven, an account will one day be demanded of the Legislature of this country. The Aristocracy no doubt laugh at this, conceiving, as they do, that religion, ex cept in so far as it produces money, is a non entity.—Morning Chronicle. The more Dr. Curtis labours to excuse his - publication of the private letter Of the Duke of Wellington, the worse he makes the case for himself. He at first declaredthat he made the contents of the letter known in . order ,to ." gra tify the multitude," who had come„to a know ledge of -having received a letter from the Duke, in consequence of its having been " franked in his' own hand." This was indeed a very awk ward attempt to account for a Tereach of confi dence—but no sooner was its absurdity exposed than .the Doctor shifted his pound, and took up a new position, inconsist ent with the first. He says, in his letter to the Editer of a Dublin newspaper, " Pexpect you will have the goodness to acknowledge, in your paper, as soon as possible, that you neither had, nor know that any other has, received any sort of direct or indirect consent from me for such publication. Indeed, I rtgret it exceedingly, and used every means in my power to prevent it, though in vain ; as being an event that might lead those unac quaiiited with me into the erroneous opinion that I had betrayed the confidence reposed in me by those eminent personages, and fallen into the puerile weakness of giving uncalled-for publicity to my own answer." We caenot'un derstand the above sentence, unless Dr, Curtis means to confine the word " publication" to the limited sense of " publication in the news papers." But in his former letter he had ad mitted that he published the letter to a few chosen friends, in order, as we have before stated, to " gratify the multitude." Now, what readier way was there of making the contents of the letter known to the " multitude" than by the publica tion of it in the newspapers ? The " chosen friends" of Dr. Curtis could not take a better way of effecting his intention than by newspaper publication—for he could not expect that those friends would go about and read it to every in dividual of the " seven millions," or proclaim it with a loud voice at the market-cross of every town in the kingdom. Yet, strange to say, although he wished his " chosen friends to make the con tents of the letter so widely known, that the multitude might be put in possession of them," he " used every means, though in vain, to pre vent its publication." if this be a specimen of the casuistry of the Romish Church, we think it need not be envied a monopoly of the article. But again, the Doctor says, " I never once imagined that their benevolent authors could have any objection that their patriotic 'sentiments should be thus prudently, though widely, ex tended ; for they were manifestly not meant for my personal information exclusively " As far as this sentence applies to the Duke's letter, it means thaUt was not a private one, although the Doctor had apologised for publishing it on the ground that it was a mere personal communica tion. The Doctor is an old theologian, but we suspect the art of reasoning is new to him.— Moneing Herald. CORONER'S INQUEST. Yesterday. afternoon an inquiry of a most singular and mysterious nature took , place at St. Thomas's Hospital, before Mr. T. SHELTON, Coroner, rela ting to an individual who was styled James Allen, aged about 42. It appears that the deceased expired on the way to the hospital, and on examination by the medical gentlemen, was found to be of the feritale sex. The discovery excited the utmost curiosity, and on the arrival of the Coroner the jury-room was crowded by the whole of the pupils of the hospital. The following evidence was taken : William Shrieve, a sawyer in the employ of Mr. Crisp, shipwright and builder, of Dockhead. mess had krilwn the deceased for the last two years, during which time he had been also in the service of Mr. Crisp, as sawyer; on Monday afternoon last, about half-past two o'clock, witness and the de cea,ed were at work at a saw-pit, in Mill-street, Dockhead ; witness WdS on the top, and the decea sed was below in the pit; they sawed a large piece of timber asunder, one part of which fell into the pit, and striking the deceased on the head he fell senseless ; witness called for assistance; the deceased was bleeding from • the mouth, nose, and ears; he was placed ou a shutter and brought to this hospital, but he expired on the way ; he was quite sober at the time of the accident. By a Juror—l have worked with the deceased almost constantly ; he had a very weakly voice, and was without a beard or whisker. By the CORONER—I always understood he was a married than, and had been so upwards of twenty- one years. By a Juror—Within the last six or eight months the sex of the deceased was doubted, and the,people who knew him considered him an hermaphrodite. By a Juror—l know the wife; she is a very in dustrious hard-working woman. I believe she and the deceased did not live upon happy terms; he used her ill. By the CORONER—I call the deceased " he" be. cause I considered it impossible for him to be a wo man, as he had a wife. By a Juror—The deceased and his wife parted two or three times, which was on account of the former being jealous. By a Juror—There never was any children. Jane Daley bad known the deceased and the fe male who passed for his wife a number of e4rs ; wit ness never doubted the sex of the deceased till :bout eight months back, when his Wife said she was sure her Jemmy " was not a proper man." He, at least the woman-husband, treated his wife very ill at all times, and witness often advised her to leave him, as a worthless good-for-nothing thing, who was not a quarter of a man. By the CORONER—I am not aware of the cause of the deceased and the female living together so long as man . and wife. I am sure they were rues ried, I have seen the certificate ; the ceremony took place at Camberwell church. By a Juror—l cam swear that the wife is a real woman : I am firmly of opinion that she never knew man, but is as innocent as my infant grand-daughter. By the CORONER—I am certain Mrs. Allen did not find out bow she had been imposed upon till lately ; she is a woman of ten thousand. Mr. John Martin, dresser to Mr. Key, surgeon to the hospital, deposed that the deceased, who was dressed in male apparel, was brought in on Monday afternoon, about three o'clock, quite dead ; the whole of the bones of the skull were fractured, which was sufficient to account for immediate death. On subsequent examination witness discovered the deceased to be a female, perfect in all respects. The Foreman of the Jury said, that he should wish to inquire more fully into so extraordinary an occurrence ; there was no doubt something in the back-ground which they had not arrived at. The CORONER observed, that the circumstance was one unquestionably of an extraordinary descrip tion ; but still they had not met to develope it : their duty only extended to the cause of the de ceased's death. After some further discussion, a verdict was re turned—" That the deceased was accidentally killed." The wife of the deceased was present in • the inquest-room. POLICE INTELLIQENCE. UNION-HALL. On Tuesday Mr. James Corder, vestry-clerk of St. Paul's, Covent-garden, was brought to this office charged by Mahoney, a private watchman, with being drunk and disorderly, and disturbed the inmates of the house No. 15, Stamford-street, between one and two o'clock on the same morning. The watch man stated that he observed the defendant knock ing at door of the above house, and ringing a bell, until a woman . opened the window and said to him, " Mrs. White is not here, she is now living on the opposite side of the' way, at No. 71." The de fendant, not satisfied with this answer, continued his applications at the knocker and door-bell with redoubled violence, and so much to the annoyance of the adjoining inhabitants; that two of them de sired Mahoney to take the disturber into custody. Mahoney did so, and conveyed him forthwith to the Waterloo-foad watch-house. In the watch-house Mr. Corder became exceedingly abusive; stated that his name was Fitzpatrick, that he was a magistrate of the county of Wilts, and had been dining that day with a few of his brother magistrates. Valentine Roberts, the constable of the night, stated that Mr. Corder, when brought to the watch house, was drunk, and became so abusive that he pushed him (Roberts) off the form. The defendant admitted that he had been knock- ing at a door in Stamford-street, but that he did not know the name of the individual who resided in it, — that he had been dining out, and had, perhaps, taken a little too mach ; but that neither his con duct nor what he had taken, warranted the abuse which he had received from the watchman and the constable of the night. Mr. CHAMBERS desired him to pay a fine of for being drunk, which Mr. Corder having made some objections to, the Magistrate ordered him also to find bail for the assault. The defendant having procured the necessary sureties for his appearance at the Sessions, was then liberffed. Yesterday Francis Rosert Smith, an officer on half-pay, and of respectable connections, was charged with having violated the person of Sarah Lowder, a child of seven years of age, daughter of a market gardener, residing at Canterbury-place, Old Kent road. The particulars of the examination are of too in delicate a nature for publication ; but from the evi dence of a surgeon who examined the child subse quently to the alleged violation, it appeared that the offence was completed. The prisoner was remanded. TRIAL FOR MURDER IN CORSICA. Francis Feracci was recently tried at the Court of Criminal Justice at Bastia, for murder of two per eons so far back as 1821. The circumstances of the case were of a singular nature. In 1821 the town of Corte, in Corsica, was exposed to a species of civil war, which occasioned the greatest alarm in the country; bands of armed brigands held posses sion of the country, and inspired terror in the hearts of all who were not connected with them. The Go , 'vernment, to put a stop to this, had forbidden, under pain of death, any Corsican to carry arms, unless they had been registered. T 9 enforce this order the Government sent out an armed force, which was :iiigmented by a number of the inhabitants of COrti who were opposed to the banditti, and who pursued them day and night. On the night of the 21st of November, 1821, an engagement took place between the gees-darmes, assisted by several of the inhabitants, and a number of the brigands. After some time the latter were compelled to abandon the scene of contest, leaving one of their wounded comrades in the hands of the Bens-darmes. The latter conveyed the wounded man to a (lave in the 'vicinity, where tley left him, in the custudy . of some armed men. The brigands were not slow in getting reinforcements, and returned in search of their woUnded companion. After some time they entered the cave, and found their friend, who Wei having his wound dressed by a gen-darme and two natives of COrt6, one of whom was the brother of the present prisoner. The bri gands fired their muskets, killed the two men on the spot, and severely WOunded the "geudarrrie. They then conveyed their . wounded comrade away in triumph. The news of this fatal event spread the greatest consternation in Corte, and at the same time elicited great indignation, and a determination to make reprisals on the brigands. The daughter of one of the brigands haStened to inform her grand father, an old man aged 75, who was at work in a garden near home with her brother, a young lad not 14, of the risk they run. All three endeavoured, by cress-roads, to avoid the armed men, and were hurrying to a place of safety, when two armed men appeared and ordered them to stop. The boy threw himself at the feet of one of them, and begged that they would not punish him for the faults of his father; . and the old man declared that he had had nothing whatever to do with the disturbances, and entreated that they would not injure hiirt. The asses sins,ho'wever; instantly presented their pieces and fired, and killed both the old man and the boy. In the mean time, however,, the girl had succeeded in escap ing lsy deacendink into a ravine near the wood. The girl declared that these men were the prisoner' Francis Feracci, the brother of the man killed the day before, and . John Louis, who soon afterwards left Corsica. The prisoner, who kept out of the view of the police, then formed a band of armed men, which were opposed to the brigands. The existence of these bands of armed men had greatly compromised the peace of the country ; and as the Government had ant then a sufficient force in the ceuntry, to put them down, they entered into an agreement 1-1 , 1 the heads of both parties, on the condition that they should expatriate themselves; and safe conducts and pardons were issued. A great number removed from Corsica, and peace was restored, which has not since been disturbed. The prisoner, who was possessed of one of these lerters of protection, soon returned to Corsica, and devoted himself to his do mestic affairs. The magistracy, how , ver, on hearing the events above related, ordered him to be arrested in the month of September last. The prisoner on his trial denied that he was one of the assassins of the 22d of September. He also produced the pro tection which had been given to him by the adminis trative authorities. The girl above-mentioned per sisted in her statement. Other witnesses declared that they bad seen him isear the spot owthe day in questior, and had heard him boast of having com witted the murders with which he was charged. The Court held that the protection which the pri soner had produced was not sufficient to prevent the course of jusiice ou a charge of murder. The prisoner was found Guilty, and sentenced to the punishment of death. He has appealed from this judgment. A meeting of a few of the inhabitants a Paisley took place in the Baptist Meeting-house, Bart street, en Monday evening, to consider on what would be the most proper mode of expressing the general disapproe bation that exists in that town against the systematic and unexampled mode of murder lately carried en in Edin burgh. After considerable discussion, the meeting a greed unanimously, that a petition to the King should be drawn up, and submitted to a general meeting of the inhabitants, praying his Majesty to appoint a . special commission to in quire fully into. the conduct of .all concerned in the hahn. man systerdlately practised for supplying the anatomical schools of Edinburgh with subjects. so that the public may have their minds satisfied, and their alarms quieted, by a thorotigh knowledge of the extent to which the unparal leled practice of murders Committed in that city has been carried.— Caledonian Mercury. Two distressing events have lately afflicted the French Academy—the loss of M. Picard, and the sadden disappearance of M. Anger, the secretary to the Aca demy. The latter had been in bad health for some time, and was about to set out for Italy on the recommendation of his physicians. On Friday the Ist, at half-past nine o'clock, he talked over his projects with M. le Brun, a very A second division of the Portuguese, amount- res pectable young Academician , and at ten o'clock he quitted his house, leaving the following latter addressed to his wife :--,‘ My dear love, you know that I adore you, mg to 168, sailed from Plymouth on Sunday. but I cannot longer support life. I must die;—do not Some time since a very young girl, the daugh- curse my memory, and pardon my weakness." It is not ter of a scavenger, attracted the attention of a neighbour, ,known what has since become of him, but no doubt is who pretended to be so much ietet sated by her appearance, entertained that he has accomplished his design. M. that he volunteered to teach the child to read and write. Anger was in all respects in a fortunate situation..—. The poor mother, anxious to avail herself of to kind a H e treated literar y criticism with indifference; his s ource of education, thankfully accept e d th e o ff e r, and an fatal resolution, therefore, can only be ascribed to intimacy consoKluentlY ensued. On Saturday last this mental aberration. M. Auger was the illegitimate hoary miscreant, whose years were sufficient to allay any child of a courtier of the Court of Louis XVI. It suspicion of a sinister intention, asked the poor woman to has been retnarbed at the present moment that. the allow her child to accompany him to the theatre to see office of Secretary to the Academy has been filled with a DIED. On the 12th fact, at Solihull Robinecs Crueoe, whiCh, after exacting a promise to bring succession of bastards. M. d'Alembert, M. la Harps, and , the Rev. Charles Curti Rector of Solihull, in the county of Warwick, and of 8 her back in good time, she consented to. Ten o'clock M. Chamfor t, p receded M. Au g er in that office', and came, but no child made its appearance ; eleven o'clock were all natural "children. It is believed that M. Arnaelt , Martin's, Birmingham. arrived, still the mother was left in the same anxiety. At the author of " Marcus," and of " Germs.nicus," will On the 6th inst. at Bath, in the flOth year of his ag twelve the distracted mother went to inquire of a relation succeed M. Picard in the Academy ; and that M. Etienne, Mr. Thomas Ridley, of Croydon, Surrey. in the Canongate if she could give any tidings of the infant 1 the author of the clever comedy of the " Two Sons-in- • • On the 11th inst. at Cheltenham, Anhui Page, Esq. —none were to he had. She then went house and come ! L aw ," besides several other dramatic works, will Le : Lincoln's Inn, Barrister. atelaw, in his 28th year. municated her distress to her husband, and in this state of ; called to fill the place of M. Auger. Both these gee- On the 11 th inst. at Brighton, Anna Diana, widow misery they remained till ten o'clock yesterday, when the : tlemen had been academicians under the emire, and the late Mejor e General Thomas Cox, of Henrietta•stro poor thing was brought back, severely injured, to her were struck off the list in 1815. We have had two cot- Czvendish-squale, aged 84. parents ; and they then learnt that, after taking her to siderahle fires at Paris within these few days,—that of the At Sydney-place, near E7ceter, William Swiney, Es the playhouse, the miscreant had conveyed her to some house of M. Seg uier, the o pp onent of Ouvrard, and Admiral of the Red. house, where he gaVe her whiskey, and afterwards slept that of Madame Crawford. The daughter of the former with her all night. The child is only eleven years of age. iis - about to marry one of your countrymen (Mr. Elks -- Caledonian Mercury, ! more.) , i 1 RKETS.—Jan. 9. DUMFRIES M. s.d. s.d. _ s. d. a. d Wheat, Imp. Bush... 8 6 to 9 0 Butter, 160:............. 0 0 to 0 ' Barley .......... .... 4 6 4 9 Eggs, dozen 0 0 0 Oats Flour, 141b........: 8 4 8 0 Mutton . ..... 0 3 0 Oatmeal ...... 2 8 2 4 Veal - ................... 8 4 0 Potatoes. cwt. 0 0 1 0 Quarters L0af......... 0 8 0 The Cattle and Pork markets were both largely sup plied and well .attended, and about three-fourths . of tb whole were disposed 6f, at nnrly the late !potations. PRINTED and PIIULISHED by 2t113 - 111)0 YOUNG, a t t MuN 112, 6rItA111), LONDON,. PARIS, Jaw. 9. LAW INTELLIGENOR A melancholy and fatal occurrence took place COURT •OF KING'S. BENCH, J. 14. here on the night of New Year's day, the parties Sirt JOHN PAUL, BART. V DOWILII46 AND ANOTHRR., enraged in which being British subjects, will render In this case, whirl; was left unfinished in* Our; a brief summary of what has come to my knowledge Paper of yesterday, tilts juryfound a verdict for the respecting it of some interest to you :—" There is defeildant• in the little street opposite to the Theatre Italian a tavern of the second order, kept by anEnglishman of the name, of Poole, which is . much frequented ; his countrymen. On the night of the Ist instant the salle a manger of this cabinet was well filled. ' At a small table behind the great'ene sat it • Ms. ser; a Canadian • gentlerrian, on of '.Coliniel Fraser, ! of the Riviere du Lotip' and Tainesquataa together with a Mr. and another gentleman; wlnise name has not transpired.. At the large table,, with his back to the party just mentioned, sat 'a Mr.. Warren, a relative of the Due de Feltre, formerly one of the Gerdes 'di' 'Corps du Roi; and stibieqUently an officer of Chasseurs a Chesil]. When the'night had' pretty far advanced, an Irish gentleman, whose name I cannot learn, who had been at the Italian Opera, entered the room to procure refreshment, and sat down opposite to Lieut. Warren. After a few moments they discovered, that they were " compa triots," and proceeded to discuss the great political topics of the day in their ill-fated country, in the course of which the Lieutenant asked his new sc.; quaintanee which side he took of the question (Ca-a tholic Emancipation), adding, "Je suss du parOe &O'Connell." The gentleman replied that "he ne cessarily wished for the settlernent of the Catholic Question, being himself a Ca=tholic, and having Con siderable property in Ireland." During this short colloquy he observed that one of the gentlemen it' the other table (Mr. Fraser, as it afterwards tented out) showed symptoms of impatience and dissent, and as the conversation: proceeded, appeared to become more warm; and to use gestures expressive of irritation. Of these facts Mr. Wareen could not • have been aware from the position relatively to Mr. Fraser, which he oecupied. Having finished his glass, the gentleman with:whom Mr. W. had been in conversation, and whose name has not transpired, left the house, immediately upon which some sharp observations were made by Mr. Fraser and one of his companions on the subject which .Mr. Warren had been discussing. The latter, a powerful man, of almost herculean form, and, as it appeared, of a hasty temper, replied in no very measured terms. A vio lent dispute arose tout de suite, in which, alluding to Mr. Warren's having served in the army of the King of France, Mr. Fraser is reported to hive applied to hini the epithet of " Papist rebel," and, it is said, not only shook his fist in Warren's face, but abso lutely struck him. Mr. Fraser himself, I must re mark, was an athletic and active man, fully a match in the pugilistic way' for his Gallicised opponent. — To any man, and in any country, a blow is . an offence of the greatest magnitude, but to a man such as Mr. Warren has been described to me (in the very words I hare used), and a'Frenels officer, the affront would have been indelible had the parties been sober,which was very far from being the case. Without attempt ing to parry a' bloW . (for yeti are aware that in - rows of this nature, the French, being uninstructed in " the art of self defence," as the blackguards of the ring call it, fight with their open hands, pull hair, and scuffle up and down), Mr. Warren threw himself on his opponent, bored him to the ground, and either fell or trod upon him. He also knocked his head against the floor. • The friends of Mr. Fraser, and the other persons in the room, attemated to interfere, but were kept at bay by Mr. Warren, who imagining, as he says, that they were all about to fall upon him, seized the snuffers, and thieutened to stab with them the first person that approached him. This unhappy con flict must have occupied a long while, as the land lord had time to send to the corps de garsissin the' rue Grange Battiliere, for some of the corps quartered there. A folwrier and three rank and file accordingly proceeded to the scene of action, whets Mr. Warren was pointed out as the most guilty party. He instantly denied this assertion, adding that, on the contrary, he, " . a French Ofeeer, had been attacked by Mr. Fraser, un " To the right about face—March!" said the fourrier to his men, on hearing this satisfactory explanation, and immediately returned to his caserne. Mr. Warren quitted the house a moment afterwardi, re turning the threats of Mr. Fraser, who was of course in a state of rage and excitement. Shortly afterwards the latter proceeded to his hotel (Meurice's), where he became extremely ill. The best medical and surgical advice in Paris was called in. The blows he received in the scuffle were found to be serious, although not dangerous ; bnt the fall or tread of Mr. Warren upon him had pros duced internal injury, which baffled the skill of the medical persons, and after lingering in extreme torture for rather more than four days, the unfor tunate gentle Man breathed his last at six o'clock on Wednesday morning. The Prom - air du Roi having been made ac quainted with the circumstance, ordered the neces sary preparations for an inquiry into the case, and for the arrest of 'Mr, Warren, who was either taken . into custody, or surrendered himself , I know not which, in the course of the day. The .Magistrate accordingly, yesterday morning, proceeded to hold his es:quite, (of the nature of your Coroner's Inquest) in the room in which Mr. Fraser died, and; in the presence of Mr. Warren; caused the body of the de- Ceased to be opened, When the opinion of the Surgeons was confirmed--=the bladder was found to be ruptured,and of necessity to have produced death The proceedings terminated by the committal oi Mr. Warren to prison, to take his trial for the ho. inicide.—Morning Paper. PREROGATI% Iz COURT, SAX. 14. BARWICK AGAIIIIIT NVYLEINeII; The deceased in this 'snit - yrsB'l4i. RosePh MO- • lings, of Coburg-place, Kent-ioad; Orho'died Novel:fi ber 16, 1827, aged 67,• Pcississed 'of personia'pro petty in houses wort11•10,7001.!' fie left a widow (of a second marriage), but no child„. There-Tram asiStei and four.nephews, also entitled to. distribution.. In April, 1826, he executed 'an instrument which pun; ported to be a memorandum of ri.will, butwea.ternled: at the co n " appointed executors, and bore . his signature. In 1826 the envelope of this instrument, which had..been .depositedin the custody of one of the executors, was brolcen.ly the deceased's order, with a view of its being altered. Sundry new dispositions were accordingly .niade therein, and a draught of a new will. was..drawn up • by an attorney named Collingwood. But the length and intricacy of this instrument embarrassed .the de ceased, who had been originally a butcher, .and.was.• rather illiterate; he repeatedly endeavoured to. read it through, and with the help of the executor de voted, upon one occasion, two hours to the.task, without completely effecting his object; incessantly complaining of the number of the " aforesaids," and, of its " gallows length," a phrase much dwelt upon in the argument. Six or seven months elapsed prick to his death, yet at that period he had not executed • this . instrument. Under these circumstances, the, case came before the ,Court. Three parties appeared': in the suit. Mr. Wm. Barwiek, a nephew and exc..- .cutor under the will of 1820; Phoebe Barwick, .niece and executrix named in the unexecuted each of whom supported the respective instrumental' . and lastly the widow, Hannah Mullings, (withiwhoua the deceased had lived on ill terms), who. opposed both papers, and sought an intestacy. Sir JOHN ncitof.t. pronounced for the paper dated April, 1820, as the instrument which eon tained. the will of the deceased. . A protracted discussion ensued as to the costs : six counsel and three proctors were concerned for the different parties. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. TI/ENDAY, JANUARY 13.—Wind water 19 minutes past five.—Arrived the Chief tain, Owens, from Belfast ; Herald, —, krona, Cork ; Thetis, from Dublin. Sailed—The Jean Haetie, Forsyth, for Savannah ; Meets, Ayshford, for Jamaica ; Ewen, Hoherts, tar Charleston. Arrived yesterday the Cherub from' Rotterdam aed Ariadne, froth Newfoundland.. Pamed inwards yeeterday the Regular, freua lierbice;, and Maneheater, British brig, - THE MARKETS. COAL MAW Adalr's _ 360.9 d. Burden , 37 9 Charlotte Heaton - 99 9 Killingworth 39 6 Percy 31 3 Pontop Wind50r.....,,.,,.. al 6 35 Willington 39 0 Wy lam - 36 0 Walls End Brown's.-- 38 9 Ditto Burraton 39 6 Ditto Carr and 36 6 Ditto Hilda SS 0 I)itto Northumberland 110 6 Ships at market, 79;4-Shit K 14 Wall's End Ilctspur Ditto Perkins and Co. Ditto Ditto Russell's -- Ditto Walker Russell's Lyon's Walls End Hetton— Walls End Stewart's Russell'alettotesW.E. Cowpen Cohn COX Hartley —.-- Silkrtone Field and Co. W. E. Jeorriond Trader Ditto Clarke and C 0... ps sold, l7?{----•Unsold, 965. O. 39 0 .40 3 .40 9 . 40 6 .a 9 - 0 .41 9 41 U 41 3 38 WO .48 9 . 36 0 • . 31. • 39 U .30 U . 61%. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURUM THE WEEK °: Per Quarter. Andorer Birmingham— Bridport greneester Faritlgdon Guildford Henley Hereford • Highworth Maidenhead Oakinkham Reacting Southampton Stroud Tewkesbury 'Uxbridge Mintage Warminster Worcester—...,.,.. CIIELTEP:TH A 111 . 18. Per Bushel. s. d. to 2. d.I Per lb. Wheat Barley ...... ....... ... 4 6 S 3 i Mutton Oats Beans 4 9 ~ (i I Ltu ab ..........„ ..... Pease 5 0 ', ‘ Pork ... .. •..••••••••• • ••• Hay "... 138. to 41. 4s. pet ton. LIMES itiARIGET.—Jan. la White Wheat (per quarter) I.L 1 Red ditto 8 11 Barley ..... V Oats. New ............ ..... 1... 1 Pease 0 ato £1 4 $ 10 0 . 4 '0 0 0 0 11 1 0 101 i 0 0"0 _2 4 0 Oil Cake; New ............. 111 0 0 per thow=,i. HULL MARKk'T.—Jay. la We have had a moderate supply of Wheat again to thin day's market, the damp samples of which met a yeti drag ging sale at Is. to 21. per quarter below the currency al last weer, we eaunot-note any decline on the hest rune, bat the . sale has been very dull at our quotations ; .we 'still continue to be met with Very large arrivals from abroad., the buyeis' have consequently expected to purchase at lowa prices than the importer would submit to ; there has con sequently been a very trifling business passing, and duo at abont Is. per quarter below the prices of last week, the best dry parcels are however held firmly at late prices, and are generally ordered to Warehouse. Barley, Oats, Beans, and Pease, continue almost without demand, and bear quits a nominal value. Rapeseed and Linseed remain as lasl noted, with very ltttle of the former on the market. Wheat, Old 7Cis. 78a. —8 New —a. 74a. 761 --- Foreign —B. 745. 755....... In bond ... —s. --s. —8 Oats, Poland —e. 24a. 266. Old s. —s. :10§ --- Small or Feed.... —a. ISt. 21s. ' —s. —8 223 Foreign —s. 24a. 22€..... —s. •-•-• B a rley, Norf. & Sot —a She. 38€ . Line. & Wold —a. 166. re --- Foreign —a. 40s. 416 Beans 425. 445. 455. Foreign Pease, White —a. 48a. 50s. Grey —a. 406. 424 'fares —a. 40s. 50s. Foreign ....—... 345. 41,15. . -4 Itapesecd, in bond none. BIRTHS. On the 12th inst. at the Rectory-house, East Barnel Herta, the lady of the Rev. T. H. Elwin, of a son. On the 13th inst. in Park-street, Grosvenor-square, th lady of .fohn Commetell, Esq. of a son. On the 10th inst. at. Aberystwith, the lady of Lieut. Colonel Weinyse, of a son. On the 10th inst in South-street, Park-lane, the lad of E. S. Chandos Pole, Esq. of a son. h Dublin, the Hon. Mrs. Lefroy, ota daughter. At Edinburgh, the lady of D. Horne, Esq. of a son. MARRIED. On the 13th inst. at Wootton, Lincolnshire, Robe Scrivener Graham, Esq. of Bramwell Cottage, near SIN ford, to Mary, youngest daughter of John Upplehy, of the former place. On the 14th inst. at Wheatharnatead, Herta, by tl Rev. Douton, Mr. Wm. Smethurst, of St. Alban's, Mins Isabella Pretyman, eldest dauOitsr of Mr. G. Sutto , of Wheathamstea. Wheat I I. to A. 08 64 78 :2 62 56 14 60 80 54 86 49 84 58 86 e 4 84 02 80 60 84 56 76 60 98 84 92 S 4 78 66 80 56 - 79 55 34 50 74 50 90 56 80 74 84 Barley: a. to s. 316 4V 38 . Sea 36 Via Sti 45 81 43 38 45 92 • 42 49 30 9“ 27 0 34 42 V 40 32 38 40 4 96 41 28 94 :10 44 35 48 32 4 0 & to I. 36. 42 24 SS SS• 34 34, 93 98 Si - 30 28 84 313 40 2F 4 : • ~ V P IS 32 32 ' 35 84 28 28 92 28 34 30. , 28 32 26 34 24 34 20 28 28 26 Veaut. 0,, s. 613 541 44, to ••••• ' 48 - 44 - 46 d. to d. 6 8 6 lj 0 s 0 0 o 7j