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sbould call for the -record. In- looping at- the registered complaints of masters against their slaves, it is impossible not to raise an inference directly bearing upon the unmitigable condition of slavery itself. The crimes here recorded do not belong in the rasa to any condition of em ployed poor in any part of the world, and they afford the stronffest presumptive evidence of the sense entertained by these slaves of the coerced labour to which they are consigned. While the crimes of inherent and indomitable vices are few, and bespeak a favourable prepossession for the natural feelings of these negroes, those against the property of their masters, abound, and almost exclusively occupy the calendar ; they arc, in every schedule throughout these reports, arraigned in hundreds for idleness, laziness, rffusing to work, neglect . of work and duty, and absconding. How are these facts, appearing as they do in the returns made by the masters themselves from the different set tlements, reconcileable with the contented con dition said to be the lot of these people ? Why fly from comforts? Why sulky to the benevo lent, and ungrateful to the guardian ? The Go vernment, in taking the work in hand of ame liorating the condition of these slaves, appear to have engaged in an arduous duty. The ordi nances for the slave are good, but the working part of their application is clogged with difficul ties. The moral condition of these poor peo ple has been most criminally neglected. Mr. k'ower, the protector of slaves in Berbice, whose report is full of valuable information, says, in describing the character of their local offences. " There appear to be none of those graver of-1 fences which would imply an extinction, or even a great degradation, of the moral feeling ;" and again, " The grosser description of such offences can unhappily tie traced to that almost brutal ignorance and mental imbecility in which, with- out instruction or religion of the simplest form, with few exceptions, the predial negroes of this colony are so deeply immersed." Under the head of complaints, Mr. Power mentions two cases which deserve much attention ; one, the successful issue of the trial of a slave named Lichyn, which has put an end to the slavery of time descendants of Indians, a class of persons who have been so kept for three generations, in direct opposition to the laws of nations and the municipal laws of Holland and Great Bri tain. The second case refers to the state ment of a Creole negress, the property of the Lutheran congregation, where the woman asserts, though born on the estate, she had never heard of the existence of God, or of a future state of rewards and punishments ; and that to her knowledge neither young nor old were ever instructed by either clergyman or schoolmaster on that plantation.. Mr. Power feelingly adds—" It will scarcely be believed, as I stated in my letter to your Excellency, dated the 28th of July, 1828, out of the range of this colony, that such a state of things- could exist as a Christian community, having a minister and schoolmaster, with a vestry controuling both, and both receiving salaries out of those funds supplied by the toil of the negroes, neither im parting, the one spiritual instruction, nor the other the most simple elementary exercise of their intellectual powers, to those unhappy beings who hold such strong obligations on their juss tice and humanity.' It seems also from the Governor's letter to Mr. Huskisson, that al though there is what he describes to be " a .comfortable living" for a clergyman of the Esta blished Church in time colony, yet Out there has been no such resident for the last year and a half amid a population of 2'2,000, who are so anxious for religious instruction, that they flocked in crowds to the' English church to hear service performed on one occasion last year. when they had the casual visit of a clergyman from Deme rara. The manumissions of slaves, either by private arrangements or transfers, where the in dividual agrees to pay a specific sum for his dis charge, appear to be in gradual, or rather very slow operation, and it is right to add that there are several instances in which the treatment of slaves has been exemplary. It is consolatory to find that the natural affections are not extinguished by slavery, and there are situations even in that state in which they appear to be very strik ingly elicited. The records here given of manu mission, after long terms of faithful services, is gratifying ; and when it is found (as in many instances) to have been enjoined in the testa mentary disposition of female property, it adds another proof of the compassion and humanity of the sex in every climate of the globe. The average price of slaves appears to vary from 100 to 130 guineas each ; very indifferent slaves have been sold for 70 and 80 guineas, but the appraisement upon manumission appears to be in general much higher, and therefore unfair against the slave. It is humiliating to find, par ticularly in the Cape of Good Hope returns, that while repeated complaints are made by slaves against masters, for refusals to permit theta to be christened, and to attend the church service; that the ivlahometan proprietors allow their slaves, who profess the same faith, to purchase their freedom at cost price, and even allow them to work on their own account for that purpoae Many of the returns in these reports are im perfect, and have already been complained of by Mr. Huskisson. We' have no doubt that Sir George Murray will evince the same aoaiety to give full force to a law which, of all others, re quires to be enforced with a firm and- -resolute band. The public attention should be directed to these periodical reports, from the valuable light which they practically shed upon the con dition of the colonial slave populatton.—ibid- The Proclamation issued by the Duke of Northumberland has emir forth a strong ex pression of feeling in Ireland, The Belfast -Northern Whig "protests against sq.eh paltry, temporising conduct," and asks, " when or where did his Grace of Northumberland issue a Proclamation for the apprehension of Orange murderers?" Mr. O'Connell, at Limerick, contrasting his Grace with the Marquis of An glesca, observed, " that the latter wore the sword as well as the Isnce ; and while he pu nished delinquency on the pne hand, he was ever wady to secure innocence, itnd throw the shield of protection and clemency aresund the oppressed. Colonel Napier, in time comnience ment of the second volume of his reaeterly His tory, speaking of the effect produced in England by th e unfortunate iseese pf Sir John Moore's campaign, observes, " The people trained to party politics, ;Ind possessing nu r 4,1 power to rebuke the folly the Cabinet, regarded tars and triumphs with, factious rather than with national feelings ; and it wa4g alike easy to draw the public attention from affairs of weight, and to fix it upon matters of little moment," The observation is susceptible of very extens i ve ap , plication in this country. There is a prodigious' disposition among us to . bay at the moon—to occupy ourselves with inevitable effects rather than with causes. 1 he doa who .falls foul of the stone which hits him is an apt emblem of this most thinking people. A very little re flection would have sufficed to show that the Duke of Northumberland could not act other wise than he has acted. We observed at the time " that there is this difference between the mur ders perpetrated by Orangemen and the murders perpetrated by Ribbonmen, that the Government are not supposed to know the former. The whole of the Magistracy of the North of Ire land, being Protestants and partizans, take cog nizance only of the murders perpetrated on those of their own party. A Queen of Spain has no legs—an Orangeman never commits murder. The Government, were a representation trans mitted from the Magistracy of 'a foul murder committed by Orangemen, would, of course, issue a Proclamation for the discovery of the murderer ; but the Government takes no more responsibility on itself than it can help taking; and, therefore, chooses to see only through the spectacles of the local authorities.' The Dublin Evening Post, not allowing itself to be mysti fied by words,' in an able article on party trials, goes at once to the root of the evil. " As we said (observes our contemporary), on a former occasion, we shall have no objection to this Pro clamation as against the Ribbomnen, though we do not like the term, and much less do we ap prove of the word piking; but at the same time as we stated then, we think, but which the Northern Whig seems to have passed over, the Government should have issued a Proclamation against persons calling themselves Orangemen. We should suppose that the omission arose alto gether out of the forms of office. The Procla mation was grounded on a memorial from the. Governor and Magistrates of Fermanagh. There was no Memorial from the other party, and of course upon the prima jiwie evidence, the other party . were considered the aggressors." The case is simply this—the whole judicial organiza tion of the North of Ireland is exclusively Orange, and the law is thus a sword in the hands of the Orangeman to stab the Catholic. So no toriously is this the case, that Baron Pennefather, at the Fermanagh Assizes, has postponed the trials of several Catholics Li) the next General Gaol Delivery, on account of the Resolutions of the Magistrates of Fermanagh. " I cannot help thinking (he says) that the publication of them may have had such influence on the minds of the persons who compose the Jurors in this county, as would tend to excite a prejudice in their minds against the prisoners." There is not a functionary, from the Governor of a country to a gaoler, who is not a thick and thin partisan. The Counsel for the prisoners was :sestructed to say in their behalf, " that since their apprehen sion they have been subject to solitary confine ment, nor has their clergyman or any of their friends been allowed to see them." If it be wished that justice should be done to the people something more than the mere postponement of a trial is necessary ; for, as is well observed by the Dublin Evening Post," whenever the trial shall take place, we may be sure that the Magistrates, the Grand Panel, the Governors,and the Sheriffs, will be composed of the same men or the same sort of men, as those who have signed the Declaration denouncing the Papists, and declar big the country in a state of Popish insurrection against the lives and fortunes of the Protestant Lieges," " We ask the Whig (adds a Dublin contemporary), we ask any man of common sense, who does not play the hypocrite, and use the garbage with which we have been so often nauseated, about our excellent laws, and the wisdom of our ancestors—knowing no distinc tion of persona between rich and poor, Popish and Protestant—glorious birthright of Trial by Jury—and threadbare stuff of that kind ; we ask any man who knows the North—any man who is acquainted with human nature—whether the Ribbonmen accused of piking the Orange men, if there were any show of evidence at all against them, notwithstanding the clouds of wit nesses that might appear in their favour, would have the least chance of acquittal before a Jury returned by an Orange Sheriff from an Orange penel, and in a county ruled by Orange Gover norsr,--he principal of whom is Deputy Grand Master, inunedietely under his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberlend, of the Orangemen of Ireland ? It is out of the question-e-we say it distinctly and unaffectedly. The whole ssztem einst be changed." The remedy proposed by - our Dublin Contemporary would be searching, " Deprive the three Governors of Fermanagh *of their government. Super sede such Magistrates as have openly declared they would admit no rascally Papist into the Police. Take the appointment of Sub-sheriff out of the hands in which it is lodged at pre sent. And, finally, appoiet g Stipendiary Ma eistrate—an Englishman if poselble—resident on th spot. Dismiss the present Pollee of tlic country, 444 jot not Magistrates interfere in the reconstruction of tlutt body. Let them lie strangers in the countiy,ao . placed solely under the command of the Stipendiary. And, finally, let the Assistant Barrister be resident on the spot for the next twelvemonths, with a power to try all cases with but reference to a Jury." With any other man than tite Duke of Welling top at the head of the Govasmaieot ) we should despaie Af any searching remedy. The setetea men of this seetnitry—thanks to our impregnable situation—eau affosel ,to dispense with thinking, and they seldom go bsyonsl a little familiarity with the common-places of langeteeee, They are somewhat like mill-horses, that ever go , gip same unvaryi% essund. The Duke of Welling , ton has been throwis betimes on his own re sources, and in situations veheee things, and not woycis, were required. He may be ;cgs skilled than many others in that command of phrases, which, though of little aid in council, is of good stead in diegeissang the want of wisdom. But, having calcuiat4d is means, and the strength of the force opposed to him, he is not likely to turn aside from an object whistt It is witbie his reach. We have risen from the perusal of Colonel Napier's work, which has thrown so strong a light on his c haracter, with ideas of his resources and strength of sykind much higher than we before entertained ; and the folioaeirw observatiOns, with which he concludes the Second Volume, we perceive much that will afford a key to the ppeiretions of last Session. " Sir Arthur Wellesley," sa p s Aka Colonel, " had now < s fter the battle of lalavera) esspeeieneed the s i,',e4snesse 9f his friends and the strength of hip en, emiee, ; coal iv.; felt all the emptiness of public boaesing. Foresee -leg r tif the contest was to be carried on it must be In portp o ,.,L and that unless he himself cola ELlpporit z he'eakis.9 of the Peninsula, it must fall, his manner otmalsiog war cF4ne-pd. His caution increased ten-fold ; yet abating _his boldness, he met a noesipg of baffled the best of the. Pencil legions in the funl d ness of their strength. He wies 4,lj . i : :c unmoved 4 .1 ;;be intrigues of the Portuguese Regency„;:ed by the undiseuised hatred - of t he S p anish Go vernment ; and when some of his own Generals, and one of theni on his personal staff; denounc7 ing his rashness and predicting the ruin of the • army, caused the puny energy of the English - Ministers to quail as the crisis approached, he with gigantic vigour pushed aside these im pediments, and steadily holding on his own course, proved himself a sufficient man, whe ther to uphold or to conquer kingdoms." His Grace has, no doubt, long ere now penetrated the tactics of the Orangemen. Their object is, through their monopoly of the judicial organiza tion of the North of Ireland, to endeavour, through the unjust exercise of their power, to strengthen the feuds between the Orangemen and Catholics, with a view to afford a proof that Emancipation has added to the discontent of Ireland instead of extinguishing it. They count upon that obesity of intellect which yet abounds but too much in this country, for the success of the manceuvre. It is true it was never contended by any advocate of Emancipation that it would do more than clear the way for remedial mea sures ; and no rational person could suppose that a country could be tranquillized in which the administration of justice was partial. But though all feel, comparatively few can reason and distinguish. Perhaps, therefore, it may not be advisable to trust too much to the good sense of the multitude. We would fain hope, therefbre, that the Duke of Wellington would see the ne cessity of counteracting the Orangemen by the adoption of some scheme for neutralizing their mischievous agency, such as that indicated by the Dublin Evening Post. Justice, we repeat, is not to he obtained through Orange Magis trates and Juries ; and without justice nothing is doi.e. Away then for a time with the mys tification of Orange Governors, Sheriffs, Ma gistrates, and Jurors.—Mornzng Chronicle. Mr. O'Connell, we see by the Irish Papers, has been exhibiting, at a recent dinner at Lime rick, the effrontery, turbulence, and contempt of all authority, which characterize him and the party of which he is the leader. He speaks in terms of exultation of the benefit conferred upon the Roman Catholic body. " Every Catholic," says he, " at this moment holds a higher station than what he did formerly. He is more elevated in the State, and this elevation brings with it corresponding duties, which every Catholic has to perform towards God and man for tie ulti mate good of Ireland." Having thus expressed his sense of the benefit conferred upon the Ro man Catholics, it might naturally have been ex pected that such an exordium would have been followed by an attempt on his part to inculcate, by precept and example, upon his Roman Catholic fellow-countrymen, those • feelings of respect and gratitude towards the British Government, which would be no more than an appropriate and becoming return for the gift he professes to prize so highly. If, however, any one entertained this just and reasonable expectation, which would, we admit, have proved him to know little of the man or of the party to which he belongs, how deploral,le must have been his disappointment, how warm his indigna tion, how ineffable his contempt, on finding this acknowledgment of a benefit recently received from the English Government employed merely as the prelude to a torrent of sarcasm and in vective directed against the Vicegerent of the King of England, and of impotent and ridiculous rage, without the least cause, poured upon one of the most learned and virtuous Judges of the land ? Such an auditor would have exclaimed. indignantly—" You, and the party which can recognise you as its leader, may indeed have been elevated by law ; but to any consciousness of elevation, to any sense of the corresponding duties and feelings towards God and man, which social elevation ought to bring with it, you evidently have not attained ; nor can the elevation of the professors of your creed, which you so loudly boast, if they be generally such as you, ever con tribute to the ultimate good of Ireland." The reproaches uttered by O'Connell against the present Lord Lieutenant of Ireland—who, it will be remembered by others, although it be forgotten by him and his party, contributed much towards the success of the measure in which they profess to rejoice—present a striking illustration of Popish gratitude, consistency, and patriotism. And for what is the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland reproached ? Simply because he was unwilling to anticipate that the Roman Catholics of Ire land, under the guidance of their Priests and Demagogues, would be as prone to violence, outrage, and murder, as resolute in their con tempt and defiance of the law, as intolerant of the harmless festivities of their Protestant fellow subjects, as incapable of enduring the custo mary manifestations of British and Pro testant loyalty, after they were emanci pated as before. Blame there • might hP in this ; a too charitable and indulgent estimate of the character, feelings, and designs of the Popish party pp doubt it implied ; but it is not from a Popish Demagugne that the censure ought to proceed. Of the charge c Mr. Justice Jebb to the Grand Jury of Armagh we have already ex, pressed our opinion, and maintained it by argu ments which appeared to us to be conclusive. We have no sash deference to the mere dictum of Mr. O'Connell, unsupported by a solitary reason, as to induce us to renew the argument. The Member for Clare threatens the Learned Indge with a charge in Parliament. Let him bring it, Hp has already indicated several sub jects on which we foresee that he will expose himself to derision and contempt, arid this will be but one added to the number, if indeed, whieli is -more probable, - he should not be put to shame and reduced to everlasting silence before it can come to th e turn of Mr. Justice Jebb to be the subject of his senaorial exer tions. Mr. O'Connell, we perceive, imputes incpnsistency to the Learned Judge, who denies that the meetings Of Orangemen are prima facie illegal, because he fo - smerly heard him denounce the White-boy badge in the South of Ireland ! This might do very well in the city of Limerick 49r dinner, and when addressed to a party among stlio;s/. the ermine of a Judge, if worn by any Protestant, will probably ere long become a badge of offence ; but we beg to assure the Learned Gentleman that his utmost ingenuiiy t 'vfli fail in the House of Commons, if he at temp4.: to that act of wearing the badge ,f t h e O range Sp os ty, an t d ; that of wearing the White-boy badge, are equally to be considprO as offences either in a legal or moral point of view.—Morning Post. It wouid . 4upp.r from the meagre and partial ac c ounts which reaeh m frpm Constantinople, and the theatre of war, that Wbile tiie Espsians along 1116 coast . 4 7 4 ( 1 F , ; ,, the Turks remain quietly in their Loz wa o rd n s the one hand, advancing cisearnissnen,f a,t ,S.PITia Make no effort to arrest their progrPsss YYJ'etkcF' ti?is inactivity arises from the want of a sufficient or'ge tq rest the advance of the Russians, or from a wish to draw the Russians to the southward of the Bal kan, i;} order afterwards to fall upon them both in front and rear, wP have no mean s o f j u d g i n g I with accuracy ; but the calm demeanour prpscrycti by the Turks under the present adverse state of circumstances, inclines us to believe that the campaign will not terminate without some deci sive blow being struck against the Russians. There is an army of no inconsiderable magnitude in the neighbourhood ofthe Metropolis,—another of not less amount encamped, and strongly forti fied, at Adrianople, and a third in Shumla, which, notwithstanding the loss alleged to have been suffered by the Turks in the battle of the 11th, must still be considerable. With such a force, tolerably disciplined as it is known to be, it ap pears to us that the Sultan has, on the one hand, less to fear for his capital, that the Empeior, for the safety of his army ; and that if properly di rected, Count Diebitsch will experience more difficulty in re-crossing the 13alkan, than he found in making the descent.—Morning Advertiser. SUMMER ASSIZES. MIDLAND CIRCUIT—LEICESTER, Ana. 17. TRIMMER, CLERK, V.•LORD HUNTINGTOwER. ME. CLINTON opened the pleadings. The Rev. Henry Trimmer was the plaintiff, and the Right Hon. Tollemache, commonly called Lord Hunting tower, was the defendant. The declaration stated that the defendant had committed several nuisances, to the great injury of the plaintiff; to which the de fendant pleaded that he was not guilty. Mr. DENMAN, who was further assisted by Mr. BALGUY, opened the plaintiff's case in an able ad dress to the jury, and then adduced evidence of the following facts:— The plaintiff, who is the grandson of the lady of his name of some celebrity in the literary world, previously to 1823 resided at Newdigate in Surrey, where be had a curacy, and was the proprietor of a respectable school. In the course of that year, he was presinted by the Duke of Devonshire tb the living of Buckminster in this county, and came'down to be inducted shortly afterwards, accompanied by his brother, with whom he took possession of the vi carage-house, which is near the paling of the defen dant's demesne. As soon as Lord Huntingtower heard of his arrival, he drove to the vicarage house in his carriage, and had an interview with the brother. His Lordship stated that the Duke of Devonshire had recently exchanged the right of presentation to this living with him for another advowson, and therefore proposed that the plaintiff should also ex change his living for one, the income of which was 201. or 30/. a-year greater. To this Mr. Trimmer replied, that he did not think his brother would agree to that proposal, because the living mentioned by his Lordship was, lie understood, situated in an aguish part of the country. His Lordship then pro posed taking a lease of tile glebe land, and of some small tithes; Mr. Trimmer told him he would submit hiS proposal to his brother's consideration. On the next day, or the next day but one, Lord Hunting tower again drove to the vicarage, when Mr. Trim mer told him that the plaintiff declined to let the land or tithes, as he meant to reside at the vicarage. There the matter rested, and the plaintiff went back to Surrey until September in the last year, when he came down to Buckminster to reside for good. He was accompanied by two pupils, Mr. Brown, a young gentleman from Ireland, and Mr. Dalton. In two or three days after their arrival, the young men were amusing themselves firing with a small pistol at a target, in the plaintiff's field, through which there ran a public pathway. The defendant drove in his carriage as far as his steward's house, which was about 100 yards distant, and sent his servant to de sire the young men to desist firing. Mr. Brown re plied that they were on Mr. Trimmer's land, and they would do as they pleased. His Lordship then drove up to the house, and called out to Mr. Trim mer " I'll have no shooting here from those bays ;" upon hearing which, Mr. Brown replied, " boys! You scoundrel." Lord Hunting tower then observed, "You'll see what I shall do to-morrow," and drove away. On the following day, his Lordship's workmen commenced erecting pinfold in a field immediately in front of the plain tiff's house, at the distance of about 30 feet from it. AS soon as three sides of this pound were built, a bull was turned into it, which was only shut in on the fourth side by the paling of Mr. Trimmer's lawn or foreground. To this animal, cows were brought daily, generally about three o'clock in the after noon. A male ass was also put in, and she asses were led to it, even on Sundays, about the time when the afternoon service was over. In the mean time various other modes of annoyance were tesorted to by the defendant. He had a sign erected in front of the pound, on which was painted " Trimmer's Shooting Academy." There was 'a cottage contiguous to it, to which he also had a sign affixed, with the words, " I spy Trimmer's Shooting Academy." In this cottage a woman named " Sally Hand" resided with her husband; and her sister, a common girl from Stamford, came there also about this time. One day the' defendant called the woman out of this house, and then addressing Mr. Brown, who is about 18 years of age, told him that she had got a girl for him, who would invite him to drink tea and sleep with her. Mr. Trimmer immediately came forward, and asked his Lordship how he dared to address such - language as that to his pupil ? The defendant denied having addressed it to the pupil, saying he bad merely spoken to the woman Hand. Another pupil, however, declared he had heard him address the worth to Mr. Brown. The de fendant then drove home, and returned in about an hour and a half, upon which the plaintiff, together with his pupils and servant, treated him to a concert of" rough music," Mr. Trimmer performing on a poker and tireshovel; another of the party rattling an old kettle with stones in it ; whilst a third ex tracted " sweet sounds" from the tongs. This was stated to have been done for the purpose of prevents has the defendant from being heard, in case he made a fresh attempt to corrupt the pupils, and also of driving him away. All this time the disgusting ex hibitions at the pinfold continued without abate ment, in the immediate view of the plaintiff's family, consisting of his wife ;and two children, a boy. and girl, and three pupils; a Mr. Lang don, of Cadogan-place, Sloane-street, having been added to their number in February.— Ail the time, however, his Lordship was not alto gether free from having divers petty annoyances re torted on himself. When his carriage made its rip; pearance near the plaintiff's house, his brother would approach it, and jumping up, look in at him by way of insulting him, whilst the plaintiff himself would ride room; it for the same purpose. The pupils, too, were not backward in manifesting the absence of much respect for him. His mode of ade dressing his coachman, " Drive on, Tommy," was mimicked, and he was told to go horn , for lie was an old wittelt. Prior to the 12th a: November, Brown sometimes would fire off a pistol, only charged with powder, within 20 yards of his horses, his Lordship, who is paralytic, being unable to quit the carriage. The horses, however, were never frightened by the report. At length the defendant informed gown that he meant to advertise his name trl - t hat of Langdon's, together with the plaintiff's, in the Leicester and Lincoln newspapers; and here again his Lordship was as good as his word; for, on t i h! t e w;; Cu g l ! 4 ll°vFielf Friday, th e a d yert i sem en t ap p ea r e d. addressed !` To Btechera who are free of the town of Grantham, It then ;tuned that there was to butcher's shop to let in the .town or Granib4rn, and referred for particulars to his Lordship's steward, who resided at Buckminster, where the R ev . Henry Trimmer, and his pupils, Brown and L aag esaa amused themselves daily, by shooting at a target, pistols, in the most fre tind the parish, to the great d an ger and thoroughfare %' apdltahlin gunsOy " aieeOf all their neighbonrs . who 'ha s fogeasiOn to pass that way. 'Another adVertisc 7 appe are d ; commencing as'before, but adding, that . 10oiss Kar laPooFera had been set upon, and one of them shot, by ten ruMans, for merely saying that a Roman Catholic Priest would not have acted as this parson of the Church of Eng land had done. Some of them, however, it went on to state, had been lodged in gaol, and the others, were known, so that there were hopes that they would all be transported at the next Leicester .Ses sions for their ruffianly conduct. Young Langdon having gone home for the holidays, a letter ad dressed to his mother was delivered by the defend ant's servant to the village postmaster, and was received by Mrs. Langdon after her son had engaged his place in the coach to return to the plaintiff. This letter, in a disguised hand, was couched in the grossest language, acquainting Mrs. Langdon that her son, in company with the plaintiff, shot at a target, witnessed the scenes at the pinfold, had had a criminal intercourse with a girl named Sally Hand, who was pregnant by him, and lastly, had shot an Irishman, for which he was likely to be tried. Mrs. Langdon wrote to the plaintiff on the subject, informing him that she did not believe one tittle of the imputations attempted to be cast upon him or her son, but adding her ex treme regret that she durst not, from the dread of having his name associated with such charges, how ever false, allow her son to return to Mr. Trimmer's house. The boy, therefore, for whose instruction Mr. Trimmer was receiving 150 guineas per annum, was kept away. A letter, in a similar hand, was received by the Bishop of Lincoln, to whom the defendant stated to Brown, first that he would write, and afterwards that he had written. The Bishop transmitted it, under cover, to the plaintiff. It was signed " A Farmer," and, in coarse terms, described the plaintiff as a disgrace to his sacred profession. Such are the facts which appeared in evidence on this singular trial. The LORD CHIEF BARON having summed up, The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for the full sum laid in the declaration,—namely 2,0001. damages. COOKE V. WILKINSON. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who is a retired hosier, residing in this town, against the defendant, as editor of the Leicester Herald, to re cover damages for a series of libels which appeared in that paper, reflecting on the plaintiff's character, and holding him up to public ridicule. The articles complained of wet e contained in 10 or 12 numbers of the above paper, the publication of which, from time to time, spread over a considerable period; and they attacked the plaintiff in all shapes and forms. Some of them were in verse, some in prose; some contained severe animadversion, some light ridi cule; whilst others were in the form of sham speeches, ironical epistles, and parodies. The Jury, after a few min'utes' deliberation, re turned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 501. The same defendant was tried in the Crown Court before Lord TENTERDEN, upon an indictment which charged him with a libel upon a Mr. Cave BrowDe, imputing to him that he was a blackleg, and had been guilty of disreputable conduct. Lord TENTERDEN sentenced him to pay a fine of 301. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. An instance of very remarkable want of humanity in the case of two young men named Charles Cadge and Thomas Spriggs, who are in the employment of Mr. Challis, the salesman of Leadenhall and New gate markets, was exhibited in the Justice-room be fore the Loan MAYOR. A young man, n.tmed John Bays, a few days ago had been employed in the white-washing a house up a yard in Cutler-street. 'He was mounted on a ladder, and very near the top of the house, which was four stories high, when Cadge drove a cart into the yard. Witness asked Cadge whether he want ed to pass in, and was answered in the affirmative. " Very well," said the witness, " if you will wait two or three Minutes I'll come down and let you pass by." Cadge said he would not not wait, and witness repeated his request, saying that he wished not to leave a blot in his work, which would be the case if he desisted at the moment. Cadge swore that he would at once drive by the ladder, which could not be passed without imminent danger to-the Person upon it, and witness told him he was not game enough to do that. Cadge then drove past, and with his care dragged away the ladder, and if the witness bad not accidentally laid hold of a projection as the ladder was giving , way, he would undoubtedly have been dashed to pieces. All this was viewed with the utmost indifference by Cadge and Spriggß, the latter of whom was in the cart which the former drove. Bays said that:the danger in which he was at the moment actually turned him sick. He was within an inch of death. When released he scarcely knew where he was, and then Spriggs, who had been sit ting unconcernedly, jumped out and challenged him in that helpless state to fight. The LORD MAYOR a4t - ed the defendants whether they wished to say any thing in denial of what had been mentioned. Cadge said, that he had called out to the com plainant that he wanted to pass, and finding that his request was disregarded, he did drive on, but not until the complainant had dared him to do so. The position of the plaintiff, be declared, was not higher than three stories, and - he (Cadge) did not think him in imminent danger. Spriggs said that he did not challenge Bays to fight until the danger was quite over, and the man was on the ground. Forrester, the officer, said he saw the transaction, and the complainant was as near as possible to destruction. Every one who witnessed it expected every moment that the poor man would be deprived of life, and that before he recovered, the second de fendant .challenged him to fight. The LORD MAYOR told the defendants that they had acted with a degree of inhumanity which could not easily be paralleled, and that if the poor young man who was so near losing his life had fallen, they would have been tried for, and both of them probably convicted of, murder. It was the most cold-blooded and wanton piece of cruelty he had ever heard of. The two defendants were then committed to prison, to take their trial at the London Sessions, upon the prosecution of the'City Solicitor. They were ordered to give 49 hours' notice of bail. A gentleman of respectable appearance and ad dress applied to the LORD MAYOR, in the expecta tion that his Lordship would be so good as to send an officer or officers of police, to guard the morality of a .new theatre, called " the City Pantheon," situate in Chapel-street, Fore-street, and originally a preaching-house. This building, which had sud 4hplef4aretic denly been converted into an arena of debate for free-thinking gentry, and whose walls echoed to the impure effusions of the Rev. R. Taylor, has, it ap peared, been taken by a theatrical gentleman, who Has combined with dramatic representations the business of what be calls a school of practical in purpose of preventing the intrusion of improper struetion for elocution and music, It was for the persons into the theatre that it had been thought proper to make application to his Lordship, who, it was hoped, would act on this occasion in the capa city of father of the city, by protecting the morals of the city's children. It was evident that the LORD MAYOR considered doullifid this application as an ingenious mode of trying an experiment upon his feelings as a patron.. His Lord ship desired to see the bills of entertainment at the which it was thought necessary u t l o ar b s is of 4 t o h r e ds Pe ip rformances, Pr a regular t P o lla.e g e ua o l f •d ir t i t s g t ai i; n e s t t iP p n 4F)Ps of OeP F4v e - character so effectually. performers. His Lordship observed, that the bill had a more captivating a ppearance than the Drury-lane or Co vent-garden Theatres could boast of, inasmuch as it was in the very highest degree classical. rod Plall;lei thell playbill, managerm it , o thel t ' The allusion of his Lordship was to words, which lie 'considered t 5 appropriate as the" Veluti in spe -1 i:zilui ,l over the stage of Coyent 7 gardeli Theatre, tie precarious conditton of which probaLly incited . ' t h e ill oner of the City Pantheon to establish a rival within the sound of Bow bells. I " I see," said the LORD MAYOR, " that you have . 4 contempt for the common-place. way of announcing your plays and farces, and that you embellish you, bills with Latin." His Lordship then read the f - , lowing words : DELECTAHDO PARITERQUE 110NENDO. " —Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes " First raised THE sTace."—Dr. Johnson. The Manager assured the Lord Mayor that th e greatest poSsible care was taken to obviate the Fos' sibility of the admission of indifferent characters t° any part of the theatre, and that behind the scenes the same caution was observed as to the introduet ioll of pupils and performers.; Mr. Hobler said, that our ancestors had exercised i a very arbitrary sort of power over the ladies and gentlemen who adorned the drama, if they did - ro t happen to be recognized by law, and called them 1 4 names which would sound very disagreeable in the ears of the present race of the sons and daughters 0 , Thespis. It was a sad proof of the prejudices 0 1 former times, that those who played kings a" queens, and dukes and duchesses, are liable to the appellation of "diverting vagabondi."—(Laughter ) The manager, who appeared to be a man of re. spectability and good sense, observed that, und er proper restrictions, the stage was calculated to pro duce benefit to the public, and a rising genius, by unfolding what would be otherwise concealed. His Lordship could not, however, be prevailed upon to give, by consenting to the application, big indirect sanction to this new rival to the great me tropolitan concerns, and the manager retired. GUILDHALL. ----- Ann Raymond, a decently-dressed woman) " 1 , 1 4 brought before Mr. Alderman ANSLEY, charge?, with attempting to convey above a gallon of 10 1 and a quart of rum into the debtors' prison, White cross-street, yesterday forenoon. Rogers, the tur n. key, produced the spirits in six long bladders. - The prisoner said ber husband's distress, he bei",g a prisoner for debt, had urged her to commit. o' s offence. She cried incessantly, and the Alderiol, being affected by her grief, mercifully mitigated t'l term of her imprisonment from three months to days. BOW-STREET. Mrs. Macklin, landlady of the Chequers publ ic ' house, Charing-cross, appeared yesterday before Si t. R. BIRNIE, to complain of an illegal distress for on alleged arrear of poor -rates, levied on her goods by the parish-officers of St. Martin-in-the-fields. - Mrs. Macklin stated, that she had only beeo fortnight in the house when her goods were seize° , on Monday last, by order of the parish officers, f or an amount of poor-rates which she did not owe' She had succeeded a person named Chaffey, she supposed had left an arrear unpaid. It was " very hard case, she said, that without any previoo9 notice her property should be seized, and her WO s exposed, for a debt to which she was not liable. d Sir R. BIRNIE asked the complainant if she 113 not received a summons before the levy was made. Mrs. Macklin replied that she had never be e" summoned at all. Sir R. BIRNIE said, that in that case the distre9s was quite illegal, and she had no right to paY single farthing. He, however, could grant her 0° remedy, but she ought to apply to her attorney 011 the subject. m id Mrs. Macklin having thanked the Magistrate, she should follow his advice. • UNION-HALL. A few days ago some firemen complained that the, persons who had charge of the engine belonging t° the parish of Christchurch refused to permit al; to use it for the purpos e o f ex ti ngu i s hi ng a fire whie occurred in Thomas-street. Fortunately, however ~' the fire was got under without th e e n g i n e, but order to prevent a recurrence of such conduct On the part of those who had the care of it, the 9PP Ii ; cants considered it their duty to make the preset'. complaint. Mr. CHAMBERS asked the reason the engine Wag refused when required by the firemen. • The applicants stated, that on three or four oce r sious, when they applied for it in cases of emerge ne l' it was refused. • Mr. CHAMBERS expr e s s ed muc h surpr ise ) a nd ;Ili- - mediately sent to the Churchward ens , and two other parish officers, in order to ascertain from them t he reason for withholding the engine from the firem en on an occasion when it was wanted. The watch-house-keeper admitted that he kePtl key of the engine -house, but said he had recei ve ': instructions from his superiors, the'Churchward e rl not to deliver up the engine to persons who apP he for it in the day time. The beadle of the parish had the same exci_ige! and expressed a wish that the key should•be tatter': from him altogether, as he did not consider it a of his duty to look after the parish engine. b e Mr. CHAMBERS condemned the conduct o f t he parish officers in not permitting the ene to iled used on all occasions where it was require; h e i never heard of an engine having been refused br ap parish before, and such conduct astonished him et, ceedingly in this instance. i t di' e The Churchwardens admitted that they ha -- , rected the engine not to be taken out in the day t" ,„ ii but were most willing that when it was required. should be called into operation. tn Mr. CHAMBERS said that it was most As „ "o u t give directions the engine should not be taken °el if wanted in the day time, for conflagrations occur' by day as well as by tight. when the engine in question was required, either 4 illt was ultimately arranged that upon all occa 3la b day or by night, it should be at the service of _ . nhabitants orthat parish as well as others. The Chronicle exults in some supposed 'f a ; nifestations of popular disfavour towards Mr. susiL u .' " de ing Lis stay in this city at the Assizes. Will the Chr°ol inform us what they were ? for, with the exceptiona. HAN WAN, the butcher, we have not heard of a sing le vidual from whom he received the slightest affront, or dication of displeasure. Is this person the Ch r onio` r organ of the public sentiment? Mr. SHEIL was 04%. more successful both in regard to the number of h is br'e t and the display of splendid forensic talent , than he 1014 - the present Assizes of Waterford.-IVaterford Ziail. s King CHARLES 11. was considere d a p..cl3c3t connoisseur in naval architecture. Being once at 0': barn, to view a ship on the stocks, he asked the lion° ° KILLIGREW, if he did not think he should mak e on eft cellent shipwright ? who pleasantly replied, " lie thoug always his Majesty would have done better a t any °till; trade than his own." No favourable compliineqta Kitt true a one, perhaps, as ever wss glade, PIECE OIL WonKmANsii i = • , John a T smap l eteraile.triT4i they engaged y h : d e 4ranv p iecen o sor tzlstelip,siieltsoeni;eensids:e witnessed. —Exeter wg f e.a A te l , r . finely S STEELS , ztz, executedo f thein gtleti with of 1 : T p e o s r s t e - 1 1:01e s s, h C e R i b s le m s, an i n o ed pes_ r:bieye e lt a ths p exe s (vri t eeu a tro n telr , elga a gpi n ai d aa;N a e l o l arsaru o it t anii l oc ie ra r io l or is HS. e, On the 16th inst., in BIRT Montagu-place, Russell - sq uar e' the lady of J. H. Turner, Esq., of a son. ° ,e On the 17th inst., the lady of Edw. Cr owleY, "q" Lavender-hill, Surrey, of a son. MARRIED. On the 18th inst. at Great Barr Chapel, E. Keme t t i Esq. of the Middle Temple, London, to Anna Maria, t Fir ,„ daughter of the late 11. Fleetwood, Esq. And, at the time, J. W. Fleetwood, Esq. of Wyer-ball, Per.ltficiOi;r. Caroline, only surviving daughter of the ;ate' Ai• Fetnpson, of 'qr4iieiy, Sta',llydshire: of On ih9' 13th inst. at Canterbury, Mr. J. A s tiouri , o f Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square, to Bliss Rathboner Xirby-street, Hatton Garden. DIED. On the 10th inst., at Bethnal green, Lieut. g e l Moore, R.N. aged 35, son of the late Samuel 1%10°1:-; Esq., of Worcester. He was one of those brave t,ffic lte tr c that led on at the storming of St. Sebastians, vi- er received a severe wound, and was an n o unced in. the CO mander-in-Chief's despatches amongst the killed. o f j, On the 18th inst. in Bedford - place , Martha, T,yio ° Jones, Esq. , rn oet On Ile 15th inst. in his 68th year, the Rev. W. 1.- 6 00 r D.D. Chaplain to . his Royal Highness the Da! of 'Nyland, and Rector of Upton Cresset, Shropshire. PRINDPUBLISHED by rdURDO YOUNG, at ()Fritz 112 STIAip, LONDON, R