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LITERATURE. MEMOIRS OF THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE 3Ls. LONDON, 1829. The character of Madame de Beauharnais, afterwards the well-known Empress Josephine, the first and best-beloved wife of Napoleon, combines the strength and weakness of the sex, its alternate tenderness and coldness, caprice, fixedness of purpose, and unalterable love of no velty, to a degree beyond any other heroine on record. The life of this extraordinary woman, who, from the humble situation of a planter's daughter, ascended the throne of the most power ful nation in Europe, was, from first to last, an eventful one, crowded with incidents, and made up in nearly equal portions of happiness and suffering. Her childhood, up to the age of seventeen, was spent with her uncle and aunt in the island of Martinique, at which period she married Monsieur de Beauharnais, a handsome Young French officer. With this person she quitted her native place, and embarked for France, where she took up her abode at Paris, alternately • vexed and gratified by her husband's conduct, who, as appears from some imperfect hints thrown out in the course of her extended cor respondence, was a bit of a roue among women. When, however, the Revolution broke out, and Beauharnais was condemned, together with hundreds of others, to the scaffold, all his wife's resentments were forgotten ; henceforth s he - zernembered only that he was the father_ of her two defenceless children, and when he ulti mately perished took his death so much to heart, that the hour of her recovery from a long and dangerous illness was, as she pathetically observes in one of her letters, the most painful she had ever known. Happiness, however, and good fortune, had not yet quite deserted her. Ina year or two—or perhaps more, for she is silent on this point—Buonaparte, at that time a General of rising celebrity, but as yet compara tively unknown, was struck with her beauty, es- P e cially with the graces of her address, and with some difficulty, and not without much coquetting and hesitation on her part, succeeded in gaining her hand. It is singular that this union was at first productive of any thing but happiness to eit her party. Josephine did not originally love her husband ; his fits of jealousy, his ardent passions and towering ambition, kept her i n a state of perpetual alarm, while lie was equally excited by the reports he every where heard (afterwards, however, °roved to have been false) of her infidelities and • incurable coquetry. It was not until the return of Napoleon from his Italian campaigns, where he had humbled the P ri de of Austria, and earned for himself the p r oud title of the first warrior in the world, that t he prid e of the woman was complete, and Josephine's heart and affections henceforth irrecoverably engaged through the medium of her vanity. From this period she looked up to her h us b an d w i t h an admiration bordering upon idolatry. She was his friend, his counsellor in all hi projects ; the faithful sharer of his P e rils and his triumphs, the only one who cl ung to him when the rest of Europe— of that Europe which, with the single ex eon of -Great Britain, had cr i nge d an d tre mbled beneath his power, and worshipped th e Very dust upon which lie trod—had deserted In the year 1805 s h e ascen d e d th e t h rone of trance, from which elev a t e d s t a ti on s h e dis er.led, according to th e unvary i ng test i mony o f her cotemporaries, the p a t ronage o f p ower an d Place with a grace which has seldom been ;Nailed, cer t a i n ly n ever surpasse d. H er so l e i ef ects at this period of her life were a thought reas extravag a n ce a nd gener a l i n d o l ence o f cha . I : e ter incompatible with the high station she e ld, and more especially with the character and F ishe s o f N apo l eon. O n t h ese two po i nts the ,i t nPeror an d E m p ress were eterna ll y at var i ance . te he former was perpetually dunned by the !at creditors, who, aware of her husband's sternness and regularity in all money matters, iti L 're particularly in those which respected his ' th ° useh o ld esta bli s h ment , never d are d to te ll hi m exact extent of her embarrassments. Such, "'ever, was the force of Josephine's influence foraNapoleon th a t a ft er a quarre l, w hi c h l aste d day or two, he rarely failed, whether righ t Eve n Wrong, to return a sincere penitent to her arms. when subsequently divorced from her—an i et of inju s ti ce an d i n h uman i ty , not to say o f Nliey, which was wrung f rom hi m a f ter muc h setb ri ens altercation with his Ministers—he never for got the affection or the duties of a husband. ' 1 4 1 . h Qugh Maria Louisa held th e c hi e f p l ace at tight hand, Josephine sat nearest hi s h ear t. 0 1 f the on e he could make a friend and a corn " r u a ion as well as a w if e ; t h e ot h er was not hi ng .\ no t a plaything, pretty indeed, and regal and in queei.4) but deficient in a ll th ose compan i ona bl e ' l ies with whi c h w omen , w h o w i s h to h o ld miv idtral sway over their husband's hearts, th aw , b irt ,to - he gifted. Aft er h av i ng li ve d to see t h e '' of her rival's child, the king of Rome, after tr i p. Also„.lg witnessed the retirement of h er h us b an d . " 11 ba, his return, a nd d e f ea t a t W ater l oo , as u.lhe triumphant entranc e o f th e Alli es i nto 1 , 0 4.1 r a i and th e fi na l res t orat i on o f t h e B our b ons, to ws and ill-h ea l t h, deserted bymost of her y e tid s, an out cas t i n a country w h ere b ut a f ew adze before she had held imperial sway, " the e:n.ired of all eyes, the observed of all observers," the of of a broken heart at M a l ma i son , w i t h Na me of the Emperor Napoleon on her lips. s o rer letters in the volumes before us, treat a i lj eL a "d perspi cuous ly o f most o f t h e i nc id ents Th e " we hav e h ere b r i e fl y attempted to sketch. el o Y a re full of feeling, and sometimes even of finstierce, occasionally triflin g , an d re pl e t e w i t h a esse and sm a ll-t a lk, b u t i n every i nstance sin tr•re " h orn of the heart. The letter to a th en nd on the subj ec t o f N apo l eon , w h o h a d j us t si av owed hi s attac h ment to J osep hi ne , i s a tr n s t li s lar specim en o f t h e way i n w hi c h a woman to he _ tl f a suito r , w h o i s not a l toget h er indifferent r , but for love of whom she is not, as Jose . th il d„ asserts, she should be, 4‘ stark-staring Or al , She first h es it a t es , th en accepts , t h en 3 off, then again condescends to parley, A, then finally resolves to clove with the offer; be cause, as she says, and most unmarried ladies will, we believe, re-echo the sentiment, it is always safer and wise to say " yes," than "no, " to a lover. 'We subjoin a specimen of this very characteristic epistle : " Among my visitors you have seen General Buonaparte: he is the man who wishes to become a father to the orphans of Alexander de Beauharnais, and a husband to his widow. Do you love him ? is naturally your first question. My answer is, perhaps, no. Do you dislike him ? No, again; but the sentiments I entertain towards him are of that luke-warm kind which true devotees think worst of all in matters of religion. Now love being a sort of religion, my feelings ought to be very different from what they really are. This is the point on which I want your advice, which would fix the wavering of my Creole disposition. To come to a decision has always been too much for my Creole inertness, and I find it easier to obey the wishes of others. I admire the General's courage; the extent of his information on every subject on whirls he converses ; his shrewd intelligence, which enables him to understand the thoughts of others, before they are expressed ; but I confess I am somewhat fearful of that control which he seems anxious to exercise over all about him. There is something in his scrutinizing glance which cannot be described—it may well intimidate a wo man." To those who wish to glean ample particulars respecting the domestic qualities of Napoleon and his Court, points which the historian will scarcely condescend to notice, we recommend these volumes: they abound in information and entertainment. DOVER, OCT. 8. Yesterday was in the shape of a first winter's day ; in the early part of the morning it was very .fine and dry, but piercingly cold; towards noon the wind veered round to N.E., with heavy rain, and in the course of two hours it blew hard, accompa nied by sleet, and ultimately snowed hard. In the keep-yard of the Castle, upon Folkstone-hill, and other lofty situations, the snow was several inches deep; and the coaches which arrived from London had a strange appearance on an autumnal evening, by the roofs being covered with snow. Towards seven the rain abated, but the wind blew very hard all night, and the sea very rough. Towards morn ing the smack Erin having broke from her moor ings, was blown out of the harbour with only a boy on board, and not provided with sails. Some boats went after her, and succeeded in getting her into the harbour again. The Rotterdam steam-vessel the Queen of the Netherlands, not being able to get up the river, ran into these roads with the mail and 16 passengers, which she landed. The Camilla, from St. John's to London, was driven from the Downs into the Roads, and cup plied with an anchor arid cable. This evening a boat, with three persons on board, and loaded with Ur from a smack in the Roads, was observed making towards the harbour, but as there was considerable sea running at the mouth of the Heads, she was warned off, but the crew unfor tunately persisted, or, not seeing the signal, endea• voured to enter, when a sea rolling in upon her, she was upset, and the crew engulphed in the deep of the sea. The most prompt assistance was immedi ately given by the Dover boatmen, and one of them, named J. Boyce, was saved. Thomas Vincent and George Pridick, a boy, were unfortunately drowned ; they belonged to Ramsgate, and formed part of the crews of the Ann arid Maria, smacks of Ramsgate. BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL FESTIVAL. (PROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) BIRMINGHAM, FRIDAY EVFNINC. The second Operatic Selection took place at the Theatre last night. Never, within the memory of that neophite " the oldest inhabitant," was the house so thronged. I have heard the numbers variously stated—at front 12 to 1,500 persons ; which, at 15s. for the Boxes and Pit, and half that sum fur the Gallery, must realise a very large sum indeed. The house was filled in five minutes after the doors were opened, and long before the performances commenced there was not even a standing place in the Pit. The third Act of " Romeo e Guilietta" was an nounced for pet tormance, in consequence of Madame Ma ramtax GARCIA':; decided hit, as Romeo, on Tuesday night, but fearful lest it might be thought she could play nothing else, she volunteered Rossim's aria " Una vote poco fa." In consequence of this a slight change took place in the disposition of the evening's arrangements. Miss FANNY AYTON and Signor COSTA, in a scena from " La Donna del Lego" (" Sri gia Sposa") were more at home than they were in any previous attempt. Towards the conclusion of the seine Mi►s AYTON rose above any former effut t she had made at this Festival, and was loudly applauded. Mr. BRAIIAM, who fortunately had regained his voice, (which, I have already remarked, seems to be excellent in the day performances but hoarse and screaming at night,) sang " 0 'tie a glorious eight," from Oberon. Mr. LINDLEY gave a concerto on the violoncello, which is quite above criticism. In " The Soldier tired" Miss PATON was encored. Madame MALIBRAN GARCIA then made her appearance, and was warmly greeted : into Rossuat's " Una voce poco fa" she threw an infinity of archness, which rendered it impossible for the most ascetic to refrain from smiles. She was encored, and had gone through half the repetition, when she suddenly ceased, seated herself at the pianoforte, and commenced an accom paniment to a voluntary of her own. The audience were in a continued burst of laughter during its performance. On its conclusion, Mr. MINDEN (the Assistant Conductor) came on the stage to hand her off : she very quietly waved him off, resumed her seat, commenced the song again, and was greeted with three rounds of applause. If this exhi bition was to show the versatility of her talents, it was most successful. Mademoiselle BLasis aed Signor DE BEGNIS appeared in a Scena from " 11 Turco in Italia— ' Per piu core,'" and, even after GARCIA'S humorous display, caused much mirth. With this the first part of the Selection concluded. The third act of " Romeo e Guilietta" then came on. A scene from " Otello—' Che Smania ! Ririe the affanno' " was then given by Made moiselle BLASTS and chorus. Mr. NrcHoLsorr succeeded with a Concerto on the Flute, and the evening's amuse ment termina►ed with a Scena front SACCHINI'S " II Fa natico," in which Signor DR BEGNIS was very successful. To-day the morning performances at the Church con sisted of a grand selection of Sacred Music. A Jubilee Anthem, commemorative of the fiftieth year of the esta blishment of the Birmingham General Hospital, opened the performance. This is adapted to the music of CHERUMNI, which was performed at the coronation of CHARLES X. (of France). Miss PATON, Mr. BRAHAM, Mr. PHILLIPS, Mrs. KNYTETT, Mr. Berzaatr, Mr. VAUGHAN, and Mr. KNYVETT, bore the principal parts. HANDEL'S " Total Eclipse' (from " Sampson") was well sung by Bamiaat ; indeed it was the only thing he succeeded in for the day. Miss PATON followed with the air " If guiltless blood," (from " Susanna"). In the song " Holy ! Holy ! Lard God Almighty !" (from HaNnEt.'s " Redemption,") Madame M. GARCIA was encored. The President (the Earl of DARTMOUTH) paid her this distinction. Selec tions from the sacred drama of "Joseph" (by MEituL), followed, in which Miss PATON was very successful. LUTHER'S Hymn, " Great God ! what do I see and hear," was rather a failure, even although BRAIIAM sang it. A selection from the " Creation" introduced Madame M. GARCIA again, and a recitative and chorus from HANDEL'S " Redemption" closed the performances. The Festival concludes this evening with a Miscella neous Concert. Madame M. GARCIA is to repeat the aria " Una voce poco fa," which I have mentioned as having given so much satisfaction last night. She will also give some provincial airs. Miss PATON will enly give " Lo, here the gentle lark." Mrs. KNYVETT and Mr. VAUGHAN are to give " Ave Maria," from Scores " Lady of the Lake." BRAIIAM will sing BISHOP'S " Battle of the Angels," and Miss AYTON will sing his ballad, " Tell me, my heart." IMPROVEMENT IN TRADE. The symptoms of an approaching improvement in trade, to which we have before adverted, are now manifesting themselves, more or less, in all the great manufacturing districts of the country; nor is there to be found in any of them, as we believe, any se rious want of employment, except from causes to tally distinct from a paralysed state of manufacturing industry. The rate of profit is in most cases very low, but the better suited on that account for the competition now to be sustained with the Conti-• nental fabrics, and almost affording the assurance that the result will exclude foreigners from every market where they are fairly met by English wrought goods. A gentleman who is engaged largely in the woollen-trade, and who is just re turned from a visit to Leeds, mentioned a fact yes terday on 'Change, which is worth volumes of ar gument, in favour of the future ascendancy of the English manufaCturers—viz., that our products in articles of woollen fabric have so essentially im proved since the reduction of the duty and the fall in value of the raw material, that the woollens of Germany and Switzerland, which obtained a de cided preference over our own about the year 1625, are now surpassed by us both in quality and cheapness, and even driven out of the home market of those countries. English cloth is now selling at the door of the German manufacturer, and obtains of course a still more decided pre ference in the assortments made up here far general exportation. This is the fruit, without doubt, of that enlightened policy which dictated the reduction of the wool-tax, which operated in this way—that it raised the value to the foreign manu facturer at the same time that it reduced it in the English market, and thus brought the parties to the same level, so far as the price of the raw material was concerned. While the contrary course was pursued, the want of a sufficient market for foreign wool made it a mere drug on the spot where it was produced, and gave to the foreign manufacturer those advantages over us, which before the tax was re duced were striking at the very root of our national prosperity. Could the same principle be applied to the trade in corn, the last bar to the triumph of English manufacturing skill and industry would pro bably be removed, as that step, by raising the price of grain on the Continent, would place the rival manufacturers on the same level with regard to the wages of labour which has now been arrived at in the value of the raw material, through the wise policy of the Legislature. These facts being fairly established, it is reason able to expect that the improvement of our manu factures w►ll have the same beneficial effects which have heretofore attended it, in gradually extending the demand for the staple articles of colonial pro duce, the'markets for which have been so long in a state of depression, and our whole system of trade thus regain a wholesome, if not a decidedly pro sperous state.—Tintes. O❑ Saturday night last, as Mr. WRITE, gar dener, was returning from Boston market in his cart, Le met the Monarch coach within ten yards of the toll-gate at Spalding, when, the two vehicles coming in contact, his leg was literally erushed to atoms, and although ampu tation was speedily effected, he died on Sunday night, being a very old man, we believe in his 75th year. An inquest was held over the body on Monday afternoon, be fore SAMUEL EDWA nns, Gent., Coroner. Verdict— " Accidental Death."—Cambridge Chronicle. On Thursday evening the hamlet of Ham mersmith was thrown into a state of alarm by the report that Mr. J. W. KEAN, residing at the corner of William street and Vale-place, had laid violent hands on himself. It appeared that the unfortunate gentleman had retired from the dining-table to his own room, as his relatives sup posed, ft.r the purpose of lying down. Between six and seven o'clock one of the female servants had occasion to enter the apartment, when she was shocked at beholding her master stretched on the carpet in nearly a lifeless state, with his throat cut from ear to ear; the wound in his throat was of a most dreadful description, and a razor was lying near him. Mr. Bowi,lNc, of the Broadway, Ham mersmith, surgeon, was immediately sent for, and promptly attended, but his services were of no avail, as the unfortu nate gentleman expired in about half an hour afterwards. Mr. KEAN was unmarried, anti two maiden sisters resided with him. He was a member of the Society of Friend, and possessed considerable property in the neighbourhood, where be was universally respected. His father duct! about two years ago, which circum s t ance, i t i s sa id , preye d greatly on his spirits, as he entirely secluded himself from society, and was but seldom seen out of his house since the decease of his father. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. EPSOM OCTOBER MEETING. These races terminated yesterday, having afforded two flays' excellent diversion. We have only to find fault with the C..mmittee for not having given it greater publicity_ in that case the attendance would have been much more numerous ; as it was, the company was highly respectable. The weather was remarkably one, but the turf was still unfavourable for the horses, being very heavy in all parts. There were four Stakes run for yesterday, the style in which they were contested being, on the whole, very fair. The following is a correct return of the running, betting, &e. The Wellington Stakes (free handicap) of 25 soya. each, and 20 added from the Fund. Derby Course. Lord Mountcharles's Gayhurst, 3 yrs Mr. Dockery's Linkboy, 6 yrs 2 Mr. Sadler's Challenger, 4 yrs 3 Mr. Lumley's Goshawk, 6 yrs 4 General Grosvenor's Icarus, 4, yrs Two-year-old Sweepstakes of 30 says. each, h. ft Last half mile. Mr. Sadler's ch. f. by Tramp Mr. Young's Acis, by Blacklock Three paid. The Ewell Handicap Stakes of 10 soya. each, and 20 added from the Fund. Derby Course. Mr. Clarke's Scipio, 4 yrs Lord Mountcharles's Benedict, 3 yrs 2 . -----. Coronet, 4 yrs 3 Mr. l3ulkeley's Burlesque, 5 yrs ...., 4 Mr. Alaberly's Howard, 3 yrs Mr. Tilbury's Smuggler, 6 yrs 6 The Maiden Stakes of five soya. each, and 25 added from the Fund. Heats, one mile. Mr. Taylor's b. c. by Rubens, 3 yrs 1 5 1 Lord Mountchailes's Mitchel Grove, 3 yrs 6 2 3 Mr. Berkeley's Poppy, 3 yrs 2 4 dr Mr. Robarts's Tancredi, 3 yrs Mr. Lawrence's Keepsake, 3 yrs ... 4 3 dr Mr. Frampton's b. c. by Rubens, 4 yrs 5 dr HUNTING INTELLIGENCE. APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEER. Ifir Communications under this Head —accounts of Hunting Exploits " BY FLOOD AND rxELn"—are particularly requested. His Majesty's Stag Hounds, on Monday, at King's Beech Hill ; and Friday, at Broom-hill Hut—at Half- past Ten. Lord Yarborough's Hounds, on Monday, at Peaks Close's ; Wednesday, at Cadney Village; Friday, at Hain ton House; and Saturday, at Fox Dale's--at Eleven. Jolliffe's, Esq.'s Fox Hounds, on Monday, at Platt's Green; Wednesday, at Kingswood Gate : and Saturday, at Hermitage—at Eleven. The Surrey Fox Hounds, on Monday, at Worms Heath ; Thursday, at the Rose and Crown ; and Saturday, at Locks Bottom—at Half-past 'fen. The Sarrderstead Harriers, on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, at the Kennel—at Ten. The Upton Harriers, on Tuesday, at the Green Dragon, Corse Lawn—at Ten. Mr. Dansey's Hounds, on Wednesday, at Westhide Vil lage ; and Friday, at Brockhall Turnpike —at Ten. The Blackmoor Vale Hounds, on Tuesday, at Stock House; and Saturday, at Pen Forest. 51r. Codringtou's Hounds, on Monday, at the Wheat Sheaf, Littleton—at Ten. Mr. Carew's Fox Hounds on Wednesday last showed a fine (lay's sport. They nnkennelled Reynard in a brake near the Powderham Plantation, from whence he took away towards Kenbury, and after a chase of about 40 mi nutes was ran into in Powderham Plantation. There was a large muster of sportsmen in the field. These Hounds will meet at the Obelisk, Mamhead, at ten o'clock on Thursday the 13th inst. ----- GRAND METROPOLITAN CEMETERY.— We have seen the plans of the Pyramid which is to f.rm the principal feature of this novel undertaking. It is in tended to be a progressive work, proportionate to the an nual demand for burial. 'When finished it will be capable of receiving no less than five millions of individuals, being somewhat larger in dimensions than the celebrated Pyra mid of Egypt, simple in form, sublime in effect, and cu rious in its arrangement. Ifs area will be surrounded by a terrace-walk, enclosed by a wall 13 feet high, and the ground within this enclosure is to be tastefully laid out for privat e tombs and monuments, in the style of the famous cemetery of Pere la Chaise, near Paris. It will present an object of extraordinary grandeur to the metropolis. A large drawing of the design is exhibiting at the Royal Re pository, at Charing-cross, explanatory of the theory, which appears capable of any extension that may be re quired. We may probably refer to this subject on a future occasion.---London University Magazine fur October. LAW NOTICES. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. Causes on Bills Of Exchange and Promiwiry Notes will be tried in London on the 19th October. Application to postpone such as are defended on merits, must be made to Lord Tenterden by summons, supported by aftidaviv., on the 14th October. A day's notice must be given to the plaintiff's :Morn.), of the iiitendel application ; and the summons must be taken out on or before the 13th, and made returnable on the 14 h, on which day they will be heard. London Special and Common Juries Appointed. Common Juries, Tuesday, Oct. 20. Palmer v Ilope Biyer v Weeks Shearsby v Couls n Bell v Boxer, Gent. Taylor v Gedge Calvert v Slatter The King v Carrington Izon and others v Bishop and another Giwan v Laval! The same v the same De Visine v 'Mott Rowd e n v Edmonds I Wallford v Aiarchant Wilson v Kaye, Gent. Whitfield v Hambrook Ellis, Gent. v Woodford Hart v Seaton Bickerton v Collett Wilson v Birdry Taylor v Watson and another Putney v Ford Angle v Alexander Hudson v Jackson Wilcock v Mason De Grave and others v Rob- Payne v Johnstone son, Gent. Phillips v Crosthwaite and Oilman v Hague others klailey ♦ Paine Gibbins v Davies Rotherham and another v Norton v Cranwell Jones. Special Juries, Thursday, Oct. 22. Congrere, Bart. v Rotton Ogle v Pratt Brown v Duncan I De la Chaumette v the Graham and another v El- I Bank of England lice and others Hermon and another v Kin- Brocklebank v Sugrue naird Soulby v Knight and another Clegg v Wollan Murray v Hodgson, Esq. Adams v Sanders Sandys and others v David- Mope v Whiggins son Broweiv Capel and another Smith v Heskeketh Roberts v Davies Bramnah and another v Bennett. Baxter v Hobhouse and others Ball v Hall and another West v the same Friday, 11furray v Heath (by order) Nicholls v Asquith and Oct. 23. Sturge v Groves Tennant and another v Strachan and another Gordon v Taylor Yorke And others v Rune and others Griffiths v Bustock, Gent. another Pitman and others v Dtnielt The King, en the prosecu tion of the Apothecaries' Company, Y Clapham Burke v Tunnicli ffe Saurdity, Oct. 24. Hall and others v West The same v Connop and another Wilkinson v Howell. Watts v Lawson Baker v Watford Lebo v Dyer Mitchell and others v Baring and others Monday, Oct. 26.—Remanets of former days. Middlesex Common Juries will be tried on the adjourn ment day, the 27th Oct., and daily till the Slat inclusive. Middlebex Special Juries appointed. Monday, Nov. 2. West v Newman Howell v the same Newman v West I Bury • Stewart and others Hicks v Baker, Esq. Smith v France. Robinson v Wat e rhouse I Tuesday, Nov. 3. Lord Brandon and others r Grocott, Gent. v Webster Lord Melbourn I Lewis v D'Aelhicourt v Kinneard, a I prisoner• Wednesday, Nov. 4. Breti v Bea les and another I Bulkeley viWil.on, Gent. Cotton v James, Gent. I Chapman v Antrobug, Gent Thursday, Nov. s.—Remanets of former Days. COURT OF CO: London Special J Monday, Wardale v Dixon and others 1 Everett v Barclay _ I 111310 N PLEAS. Juries Appointed. Oct. 19. Hurst v Stead and another Fox and another v Clifton and others Cockshot and another v Holt and others. Oct. 20. Short and another v Master. man Ilutterford v Evans, Clerk. Pentifea vnunston and others Delafield v Freeman, Gent. Tuesday, Brunatte v Edden and others Buxton and another v Greenwood Wilson v Burgess Wednesda' Moser and another v New man and another Laundy And another ♦ Ben- Oct. 21. Morrison v Mitclleli Perring and another v Tucker Coventry v Lubbock and another. susan Cazenove v Sugrne Thursday Bossley v Owen Foster and others v Charles Gore r Wynne Murray v Nichols and another Oct. 22. Cum►ning and another v Bailey Hawkins and others v Exeter Booth v Plummer. kit. 23. Dalglish and another v Hodgson Angas v Smith Hall v Morrison. Oct. 24. Robinson v Waterhouse and another Carvalho v Martinez and Friday, Fawcett, Gent. v Huble Hodson and another v Tarleton Davies and others v Burton Saturday, Glenny v Thinelton Morrison v Jones The Wardens of the Gold smith's Company ♦ Nol line, Clerk another Ward and another v Smith Robertson v Furnival. Oct. 26. Johnston and another v Monday, Birch v Alexander and another Gardner v Thierena Bottomley v Pugh Parr v Garrard Strong Strong v Johnston and another Hughes v Anderton, Gent. Oct. 27. Stracey, Bart. and another v the Bank of England Parker and another v Tuesday, Bland and another v Gordon Bretton v Pattison Crozirev Lee and another Frietas Goldsmith v Morgan. r, Oct 28. Granger v Dent Short v Masterinan and another Mount v Larkins. Oct. 29. Wednesda: Phillips v Roper W. Pritchard v Isaacs Lubbock, Bart. and others v Green Thursday, Smith and another v Hardy . Ince v Tindall and another Duke and Another ♦ Dorrien Foster v Brooksbank Young and another v Cohen and another. Common Juries will be taken each day after the Special Juries, in the order in which they stand in the printed list. London Common Juries appointed. Monday, Oct. 19. Kan y Hill Smith and others y Moon Galloway v Davies Perfect and others v Hartley and others L;ngham v Colegate Maynard v Crick Boxer v Procter. and others Loader v Walker Postan v Rose Leathea and another v Wil liams and another Middlesex Specia Friday, Slade and another v Gawde and another I Juries appointed. Oct. 30. Illartyn v Elmore Loid Teynham v Tyler. Intnon Juries. Godefroy v Dalton Griffin and another v Loyd Sellens and another v Nor man Middlesex Col Grindall v Lawson Saunders v 13aker Kay v Groves Purvis ♦ Dempsey, Rhodes, I _ . and another Gibhard v Alihill White v the same Evans v Yale Barlow v Carron West v Watts Minister v Brooksbank Young v Simpson. Despatches from Lord HEYTESBURY, at St. Peterabur g b, were brou g ht by Captain A'Couwr to the Forei g n Office, on Thursday night. A Serjeant of the 32d Regiment of the line, in garrison at Douai, named FRANcois-REors IsEaat, married a young woman belonging to that town about three months since, and had made preparations for open ing a shop with the amount of their united savings. Last week he set out for Lille for the very purpose of stock ing it, and it was on his home that he was found in his bed-room at a small public-house at Pont-a-Marcy, with his brains blown out, a small pistol lying- near him, and two letters on the table. One of these was addressed to his wife, and contained only the words, " On my arrival at Lille I could not find my purse. Farewell !" The other was to the innkeeper:—" I have but' 0 francs; pay your self out of them, and send the remainder to my wife MARY ANNE GONZE, at Douai." It appeared . that the unfor tunate soldier, being deprived of his all by some export pickpocket, could not bear up against such a cruel stroke of fortune. MR. SADLER-FREE TRADE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sut,—The recent meeting at Newark, and Mr. Serjeant Wilde's ahle spvcrit there, has again called public attention, in some degree, to Mr. Sadler's long . harangue at AV hi t by. In that speech the Member for Newark, accord ing to the creed of his party, has greatly magnified the prevailing commercial distresses, and has attti. tinted them all to the " princi p les of nee trade." The folly of this has been so frequently and so fully shown in your pages, that I need not now enlarge upon it. The recent failures in the woollen trade, and those yet more recent in the sugar trade, might, with as much justice, be attributed to the Duke of Newcastle's notices of ejectment to his tenants, as to Mr. Iluskissou's measures with regard to ship ping and to the silk manufacture. It is, however, with the facts rather than the rea- sonings of Mr. Sadler that I have at present to do. That gentleman, in his speech at Whitby, laboured hard to show (by opposing other official returns to those adduced by Mr. liuskisson), that the mea sures of the latter gentleman► had been detrimental to, arid threatened to be destructive of, the shipping interest of this nation. The importance of this as sertion, backed, as it appeared to be, by official do cuments, drew my attention to it, and induced in- quiries which, as they showed the utter fallacy of the assertions in question, I should be glad to see submitted to your readers. Mr. Sadler states, that " from one of the returns presented last session of Parliament, it appears that British shipping has diminished, comparing 1828 with 1816, to the extent of 1768* ships, compris ing 275,749 tons, and what is still more to be la mented, 23,244 men." The return laid before the House of Commons, from which Mr. Sadler makes this assertion, is No. 104, ordered by the House of Commons to be pre sented, June 19, 1829, and is as follows :—" An account of the number of vessels, with the amount of their tonnage, and the number of men and boys usually employed in navigating the same, that be longed to the several ports of the British empire, from the year 1814 to the year 1828, both inclusive: Years. Vessels. Tonnage. Men. 1814 21,415 2,616,965 172,786 1815 24,860 9 ,681,276 177,309 1816 25,861 2,733,910 178,820 1817 25,346 2,684,986 171,013 1513 0 5,507 2,674,468 173,609 1319 25,482 2,666,396 174,318 1820.-- 25,371 2,638,593 ..174,514 1821 25,036 2,560,203 169,179 1822 24,64 9 2,519,044 166,333 1823 24,542 9 ,506,760 165,476 1824 24,776 2,559,587.. ...168,637 1825......24,230 2,553.68 0 166,183 1826 24,625 9,635,644 167,635 1827 23,199 2,460,500 151,415 1828 24,095 2,508,191 155,576" From this return, it will be seen that Mr. Sadler is numerically correct as to the tonnage and men, but it should be observed that, instead of taking the first and last year of the series, lie has carefully se lected the very highest year, 1816, for the purpose of comparing with 1828. For the object of a fair comparison, had that been his intention, it would evidently have been fair to have compared 1828 with 1822, or with some one year immediately pre ceding the adoption of Mr. Huskisson's measure. Even then, however, a slight deficiency in the years 1827 and 1828 will be found, which, upon the best authority, may be explained and accounted for in the following manner :—ln the year 1823 an Act was passed, to take effect from the sth of Ja nuary, 1824. (4th Geo. IV., cap. 68), requiring that all vessels throughout the whole of his Majesty's dominions be registered, and allowing a period of two years to fulfil the directions of the Act. In consequence of this, very many vessels which had previously stood in the hooks of the Custom-house, and which had been annually returned, proved, on investigation, to he no longer in existence. Two years, from January, 1821, were allowed to com plete this return; but the lengthened correspondence which ensued with owners and reported owners of vessels prevented the correction of the report of 1826. The return of that year was, therefore, still erroneously made at 24,625 vessels. The law had, however, come into active operation previously to the return of the year 1827, when the number of vessels reported having been verified was reduced to 23,199. The reports now made are founded, therefore, on more certain data. The vessels re. ported in 1827 and 1828 are actually in existence; whereas, previously, vessels that had been hors de combat for years, and that, too, to a considerable ex tent, swelled up the reports from year to year. The same remarks apply to the number of men employed, the supposed diminution of which Mr. Sadler so forcibly "laments." The men who had once formed the registered crews of those " phantom ships," no longer in existence, were still returned in thelsame manner in the reports, and were, of course, in a similar way to be subtracted from the more ac curate returns of 1827 and 1828. Having thus exposed the fallacy of Mr. Sadler's assertion, that the number and weight of tonnage of our vessels have decreased, I now beg to notice an other assertion, that the number of ships, British built, had enormously decreased. Mr. Sadler is re ported to have said, that ‘‘ by other official reports, as quoted by Mr. Robinson, the Member for Wor cester, it appears that for the three preceding years, ending January, 1827, 1828, and 1829, the number of vessels built in each year respectively was 1,719, 1,440, and 1,125. Then, as to their tonnage; that exhibited a decrease in a much greater proportion, being 207,088, 163,945, and 128,752, the amount of the former of the three years exceedi►fg the latter by the appalling difference of above 60 per cent. Now here, also, a false impression has been made by a dexterous instead of a fair selection of the years to be compared. He shows truly that the vessels built in 1828 are less than those in 1827, and that fewer were built in 1827 than in 1826. Put the whole numbers built will be more fairly shown by the following ex tract from the official report : Years. Vessels built. Years. Vessels built. 1814 ISIS 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 From this table I propose to throw out altogether the years 1825 and 1826, as unfair years, for the purpose of comparison. Vessels begun under the extraordinary commercial excitement of 1825, and probably not completed or registered till 1826. ought not to be taken into the present account. It will then be seen that the number of vessels built in 1828 is, with one exception only, greater than the number built in any one year previous to Mr. Hus kisson's measures; that the number built in 1827 and 1828 is 2,625; being 998 vessels more than were built in 1822 and 1823, and making, what Mr. Sadler truly calls, " the appalling difference cf GO per cent." And, further, that the number of vessels built in the two years, 1827 and 1828, is greater by 126 vessels than those built in the three years of 1821, 1822, and 1823. So much for Mr. Sadler's assertion that Mr. nu,kisson's measures had been wholly destructive of the shipping inte rests of the kingdom. Yours, &c., Oct. 8. AN OLD CORRESPONDENT. 4 In the published report of Mr. Sadler's speech, ti e difference between the shipping in 1825 and 1528, is stated to be 768 ships. This is prob ibly an error of the reporter, as the real difference is 1,763 ships. Despatches were sent off for Sir B. GORDON, our Ambassador at Constantinople, and Lord SruAar DE HOTIISAY, at Paris, by a messenger yesterday evening from the Foreign Office. The mei.sengcr had also des patches from th Colonial Office for Sir FRED klucx ADAM, at Corfu, arid for Sir PULTNEY Leou.r, in the Medi terranean, from the Admiralty. SPIRIT OP Till PUBLIC JOURNALS. Mr. Sadler will perhaps find reason to wish, before long, that he had been less a " free trader" in party doctrines th m he chose to ex hibit himself at Whitby. A correspondent of ours dedicates a letter to this personage, in his quality of intellectual rump to the Duke of Newcastle, from the perusal of which, if he does not (as we are afrid he will not) learn to be more candid on future occasions, he may at least feel the necessity of becoming more circum spect in the practice of controversial fraud. Mr. Sadler, in his speculation upon the feelings of a Whitby audience, dived desperately into the two grand fountains of the sublime, and brought up heavy specimens of pity and terror, wherewith alternately to melt the magnates of the blubber trade, and to petrify them. He told them how much they had already lost through the agency of the Devil and Mr. Huskisson, and how much they would inevitably lose hereafter, if those joint spirits of the free-trade abomination were not to be exercised forthwith. Among the statements of the Newcastle-factotum was one concerning the ship?ing interest, which our cor respondent has shown up in a manner that must be especially satisfactory to the member for Newark. He (we mean the letter-writter) explains most clearly how it is that the returns of' ships, tonnage, and seamen, appear to have fallen off of late years as compared with some of a more ancient period, by merely stating an unanswerable fact,—that it is only with in these two or three years an accurate re gistry of the amount of mercantile shipping has been kept in any public office. From the peace, down to 1823, a great number of vessels were kept on the annual returns of the Custom house which had ceased to exist in any other quarter; but in that year an Act passed, dom pelling an exact registry of all ships throu g h ou t the empire ; which Act, requiring a lengthened correspondence with mercantile men all over the world, only came into complete operation in the course of the year 1826, and so as to affect the returns of 1827 very sensibly. In that year it will be seen that, as compared with 1826, there is an apparent falling off of more than 1,400 vessels; but in 1828, as compared with 1827, there is a considerable increase. Then as to the ships built in given years,—if, as our correspon dent requires, the drunken and bubble years of 1825 and 1826 be struck out (and they ought to be so, as disgraceful in more ways than one to the history of commercial speculation),— there will appear to have been more ships built in 1827 and 1828 than in any other two years since the peace, and more (and this is a bitter pill for Dr. Sadler) than were built in any three years out of the four which immediately pre. ceded Mr. 1 - luskisson's measures—via., 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823. The tables stand thus : sum BUM In 1820 BBS In 1823 847 1821 972 1527 1,440 1822 7BO IS2B 1,185 Will this satisfy the worthy speech-maker for the present P— Times. We have been favoured with some authentic particulars which preceded and accompanied the fall of Adrianople, and which establish the su periority of the Russian General over his anta gonists in the arts of negociation as decisively as his military movements had previously done in the art of war. Our information comes from a gentleman who very lately passed from Constan tinople through the Rus4an force assembled at Adrianople, and is of a nature as curious as it is accurate. After the passage of the Balkan had been forced, and no further obstacle was opposed to the investment of Adrianople, the Pacha who commanded the garrison found his men so dis heartened as to extinguish any hope of successful resistance; and he in consequence attempted to open a negociation with Count Diebitsch for the surrender of the place upon certain conditions. This the Count peremptorily declined ; but of fered to receive the capitulation of the garrison, on the understood terms that they should sur render their arms, and be forthwith conveyed to a distance from the seat of war. "As for the city," said the victorious General, " I will treat only with the elders and respectable inhabitants." To this arrangement dire necessity exacted sub mission: the Pacha and his garrison were dis armed and sent to the sea-coast,to be from thence transported into Asia. A numerous depute • tion of the inhabitants waited on the RusSian Commander, including many of the survivors of the Janissaries, to whom the Count gave every assurance of protection so long as circumstances permitted his stay ; " but (added he) I know that, as Janissaries, you are obnoxious to the Sultan and his Ministers. I come to restore your order; and that you may not be defence less in the event of my being called on to pro ceed, I shall place in your hands the arms sur rendered by the men who were the pri nc i pa l cause of your destruction." The consequence was what might be expected ; the partizans of the old order of things declared themselves loudly and unanimously in favour of the invaders, and it is even supposed, that had it been found ne cessary, many of them would have taken the field under his standard. It is but justice to the Russian army to state that their discipline and good conduct at Adrianople is exemplary; and the contrast it offers to the excesses commit ted by the tumultuous and cowardly garrison, which consisted chiefly of barbarians from remote districts of Asia, has rendered them popular to an extraordinary degree, more particularly if we take into account the contemptuous and fanatical prejudices with which all good Mussulmans have hitherto regarded the unbelievers.—Morn,Chron. In our publication of yesterday we stated that on that part of the pending negociation com monly designated as the Greek Question, we should find it necessary to make sonic additional remarks, and we now redeem our pledge. We have every reason to believe our information to be accurate on a point hitherto not exactly under stood. The Ambassador of England (and we believe we might add of France), having de clined taking any direct part in the negociation which has terminated in the preliminaries of Adrianople, so far as the points at issue con cerned Russia and Turkey exclusively, did not, therefore, feel bound to exercise the June reserve on the Greek Question ; on that subject it has been decided that the Convention of London is to be the basis as to the terms generally, but the boundary originally contemplated is to be considerably altered. It is now to include the whole of Greece Proper, with home distr:cts of the ancient Epirus ; and in addition, theisland, of Negropont, formerly Edon, which last from its geographical position, as well as its 'extent and fertility, is of exceeding importance. Th© nature of the future connection between Greece and Turkey is not yet sufliciently ascertained to admit of any precise definition: b u t we 'appre hend it will preclude any thing approaching to interference in internal concerns, direct or