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t4pation, and quotes a most remarkable passage front a paper written by the Earl of Shannon in 1747, who was one of the Lords Justices of Ireland, and as such in the government for up wards of 26 years. Lord Shannon states as the principal reason whs Ireland produced so little, that the law discouraged the labour and in dustry of the Roman Catholics, though threes fourths of the arts, industry, and labour c,f the country must necessarily he carried on by their hands." He adds, " Until some happy temper be fallen upon, so as to make our apprehension froln the Papists consist with our interest in employing them, Ireland can advance but slowly in improvement," Mr. Blake, after adducing this valuable authority, goes into his proofs, and shows that in the same measure in which the Catholics were oppressed, Ireland became im poverished ; and that her opulence and her li berty have kept pace with each othe . r. In the reign of Queen Anne the penal code was en acted. In 1779, the first Act was passed for the relief of the Roman Catholics ; the last, in 1793. " Let the reader," says M. Blake, " mark the progres of the revenue under the ancient policy and under the modern.-- The revenue of England, in 1701, when Wil liam died, amounted to 3,895,2051. The pre cise amount of the revenue of Scotland at that time I have not ascertained : but just before the Union, it amounted to about 110,0001. i year. The revenue of Great Britain in 1701 may there fore be stated at 4,000,000/. ; the revenue of Ire land, in the same year, amounted to 697,955/. In 1779, th revenue of Great Britain amounted to 11,/91,241/. ; that of Ireland, to 666,5001. In 1753, the revenue of Great Britain amounted to 17,674,255/. ; that of Ireland to 1,067,0001. In the last year the revenue of Great Britain I amounted to 46,085,386/. ; the revenue of Ire - land to 3;495,6891. British, • being neraly 3,800,000/. Thus we find that between 1701 and 1799 the revenue of Ireland diminished, while the revenue of Great Britain nearly tre bled ; that between 1779 and 1793 the revenue • of Ireland increased by about one-half, and that the revenue of England did the same ; that be tween 1793 and 1828 the revenue of Ireland nearly quadrupled, while that of Great Britain nearly trebled." "It is not in revenue only that England has suffered from the laws against the Catholics, or benefited from the relaxa tion which has taken place in them. Her trade has felt what it is to restrict and what it is to encourage the energies of Ire land. In 1793 the exports of Ireland to Great Britain amounted to 2,284,9201. ; her im ports of British manufactures to 1,055,226/. In 1825, the latest year for which I have been able to obtain the account, her exports to Great Britain amounted to 6,544,573/. ; her iMport of British manufacture to 3,837,336/. — Thus it appears that the amount of British ma nufactures consumed in Ireland has nearly Fuadrupled, as well as the rev e nu e , s i nc e 1793." rom these facts Mr. Blake reasonably argues, that as Ireland has advanced in financial prospe rity in proportion to the relaiation of the penal code, its utter abolition will be attended with ef fects as important to the wealth as to the peace and happiness of the country. He concludes, after giving a prospectus of the Irish revenue, with the following wise adMonition " While I offer this table to Protest - ants, to show the increasing prosperity of the Catholics, and how the empire benefits by it, I beseech the attention of Catholics to the further evidence it affords of the be nefits they derive from British Government and British connexion. Under that Government they are protected in every peaceful pursuit;_ under it their industry is fostered; at its scat the fruit of that industry finds a ready sale : they should; therefore, regard it as a possession to be improved by emanci pation, but as much too precious for any improve ment to be sought in it by any means which could bring the general fabric into danger. They should ever remember, too, the condact of English Protest ants in 1822, when thousands of Irish Catholics were saved from famine by their generosity : they should also bear in mind, that the prejudice which has hitherto been opposed to them has been of late rapidly declining; that it is not more complained of by them, than condemned by a vast portion of their Protestant fellow-subjects ; that in the great body of those in whom it still exists, it is to be found in company with many virtues; and that it would soon be extinguished if Catholics would seek to pro pitiate these, and not strengthen it by indiscretion or tatemperance."—Times. , The Glasgow Free Press, alluding to an ar , tide in the Chronicle, on the prevalence of crime, observed, that the plan suggested by us would, perhaps, produce more good than any other similar corrective which could be adopted; but that such expedients ought to be recom mended only as secondary means of correction, winch they in reality are, and that the public ought to be instructed not to look exclusively to them as a source of safety, but to point their main efforts to the removal of the great cause of all this demoralization—the general corruption of-Government, and consequent depression and distress of the people. " Let sophists quibble," adds our contemporary, "and sycophants rant as they will, it is from this deep and dark four.- • tails that the tide of crime with which we are - now inundated chiefly proceeds ; and until the " feeders of this poisonous fountain are "cut off • like those from a well in the desert, it is vain to expect- amongst the community a subsidence of its waters. The burdens with which the people are oppressed reduce them to po verty ; poverty begets crime, its natural off • spring ; our burthens are still on the increase —our pauper population is therefore on the in crease also ; hence the rapidity with which crime is advancing ; and hence also the reason why it must continue to advance, until the cause which produces it shall be removed. Here is the true secret and entire general history of the demorali zation which has now arrived at so frightful a pitch in this country. Make the people easy and comfortable in their circumstances, and they - will be comparatively quiet and virtuous : adopt and persevere in a contrary system, as we have done and still are doing, and, though every fourth individual should be made a policeman, it will only aggravate by" exasperation, without at all staying the increase of crime." " Make the people easy and comtbrtable in their circum stances !" That is, no doubt, the great point. Men who are easy in their circumstances seldom steal or pick pockets ; and when they are tempted to appropriate to themselves the property of their neighbours, their education generally enables them to do this in such a way as shall not sub ject themselves to penal consequences, which ought to be a strong motive with parents to give their children the blessing of education. Every class in society has its ,peculiar mode of appropriating the property of others. One class runs into debt, buys goods of one man and sells them to another at ,a reduced price ; another class, a little lower in society, swindles directly ; and the poor, being without credit, and without such an address and appearance as shall enable them .to pass themselves off as men of fashion, steal, vois_ an nick nnekets_ The lower the arade in an. ciety, the greater often the necessity for trespassing, ' and the greater the excuse for defective instruc tion ; but penal laws wisely punish the most ignorant and the most excusable with the greatest severity. The great problem is to make men easy and comfortable in their circumstances. But the great crime of crimes in civilized society (for as men become civilized they cannot afford either to love or hate to such a degree as to be thereby stimulated to acts of personal violence, which are consequently rare), the appropriation of the property of others wrongfully, does not seem to decrease with wealth and increase with poverty. In the work on Penal Laws, by Mr. Lucas, he shews that " the crimes against things, or real crimes, are necessarily more frequent in countries the richest and most advanced in civilisation ; not that civilization develops directly those crimes, but in augmenting incessantly, and under so many forms, the sum of our things, of our property, it augments infallibly in this respect the occasions of injury. Nothing so natural as that where temptation does not exist, or exists but rarely, the offence should be rare, and that where the temptation is more multi plied, the offence becomes more frequent. It is the first principle of the justice of foresight, a principle common in the physical as in the moral world, that in removing from the cause the occasion of acting, we prevent the atlion." The same writer observes further " that with a poor population, thst is to say possessed of few productions, such as the population of La Correze and of several parts of Brittany, where man derives little from an ungrateful soil, which he does not attempt to render more fertile, ac customed as he is to live on the little which he obtains from it ; with such a people, who feel neither the spur of want, nor the attraction of luxury, it must be owned that the absence in the dreary external world which surrounds them of all that kindles our passions is calculated to render crime more rare." We must not, therefore, be cause rich men are less disposed to steal or rob than poor men, infer that the theft will be in the ratio of the privation experienced in a country. On the contrary, it may be pretty safely laid down, that the country which is the most pros perous will have the greatest number of thieves. Where the carcase is there will the eagles be gathered together. We must not, therefore, let ourselves be hurried away with the idea that we can ever extirpate thieving. But thieves may, like Soldiers or Priests, become so numerous and burdensome as to impair production, and thereby destroy the sources of their own main tenance. In this country of late the thieves seem to have actually increased in a ratio greater than that of the funds for their maintenance ; for in many places in the vicinity of the Metropolis, the industry of the inhabitants is seriously paralysed by the measures necessary to protect themselves. We might still' have the consola tion of believing ourselves the richest people in Europe from the extent of thieving among us, and yet by improverrients in our police and in the administration of justice materially diminish the 'number of our thieves.—Morning Chron. Some, who profess to understand political tactics, augur a stormy Session on the meeting of Parliament ; but we do, not ourselves see any very good grounds for such an opinion. To us it seems that both the materials and the actors are wanting for such a drama. The policy of the Duke of Wellington's Government, both foreign and "domestic, seems to give as much general satisfaction as any which the country has for many years witnessed ; while the Opposition, if it can be called such, is so deficient, both in numbers and talents, and so little united in•itself, that, added to the extreme paucity of fair grounds of attack, there seems but little chance of its being likely to make any serious impression either on the Duke's Ministry, on Parliament, or the country. As far as our foreign relations are concerned, they are at least in as favourable a state as the Duke of Wellington's Go\'ernment could bring them to. Whatever there is of a contrary character about them is clue to the mis taken policy of Mr. Canning, which policy the Opposition, such as it is, has hitherto 'loaded with its approbation. At home the prosperous state of the finances, added to the evident desire of retrenehment in every quarter, must silence all cavil on that head ; and proves the Duke's Admi nistration to be, what the country in general wishes it to be, one of deeds and not of words. if we ex cept then that eternal theme of discord—the Catho lic Question, we see but little ground for stormy debate ; and as storms have hitherto served that question so little, we do not see the policy of raising them afresh. That the Duke is desirous of treating the question calmly we have his own authority for believins. Till it can he treated calmly on all sides, discussion but embarrasses it, and " the words that burn" only add to the flame it should be the object of all parties to extinguish. Such being, on a cursory view, the state of public affairs, we repeat that we see no reason for anticipating a stormy Session. That there will be much business to occupy its attention there can be no doubt ; but as we have at length got a Prime Minister who prefers doing to talk s ing, it would be well if Parliament itself would, in this respect, take the tone from its leader, by doing more, and talking less. No one can be ignorant that the love of speechifying his long been one of the banes of England, and that it obstructs business much more than it enlightens the public mind. Even when we possessed a race of distinguished orators, they were listened to rather with pleasure than profit ; but now, when scarcely any thing deserving the name of eloquence can be found on either side of either House, the country has a right to hope that speakers of an inferior grade will not continue to occupy the same proportion of time ; to the hin drance of public business.—Morning Herald: A ridiculous contest has been got - Up between two of our Morning Cotemporaries, respecting the amount of annual revenue which they con tribute to the Government; and their mode of calculation is no less amusing than the claim put forward.on the result is truly ludicrOus.— Says our Cotemporary in the Strand, " I am the proprietor of four newspapers, and adding the amount of stamp and advertisement duty, which I pay to the Government, to the amount of the tax on the paper which I consume, the sum of my contribution to the Revenue is upwards of 53,0001. annnally." Says our other Cotemporary in Printing-house square to our joint Cotemporary in the Strand—" You are much mistaken in thinking that you are the greatest contributor to the Revenue of the State ; for by proceeding on the same plan, I find that I contribute nu less a sum than 68,000/. ; being upwards of 14,0001. more than you pay !" Now, if the truth may be spoken without offence, neither of the parties iu ques- Ition pay one farthing more to the Government than the humblest news-vender in the eountryl They are mere agents between the Government and the public—the former being receiver-gene ral of all duties, and the latter consumer-gene and_ in all ca_ces. the nartv out of w hoSe pockets , come the unty on paper, the duty on advertise ments,and the stamp duty !—for all are eventu all charged on. the public, and ultimately paid by it I Neither of the parties, in fact, have the slightest-pretence for putting forward claims of this nature ; for were the doctrine, that the more any one pays to the Government, the more does he benefit the State, allowed, the State itself, as being the greatest consumer of commodities of any body corporate, politic, or individual in the kingdom, and, in consequence, the greatest payer of duties of all kinds, would come in for the first, and by 1,..7 the largest, portion of patriotism ; though every one, who can distinguish his right hand from his left, knows, that the less the Go vernment consumes, the better it is, both for the country and for the State. To have done however, with this silly dispute, we would fain hope, that in the course of the next Session of Parliament, the Chancellor of the Exchequer would turn his attention to the po licy of reducing both the stamp and the adver tisement duty. Both are heavy taxes, by far the heaviest, indeed, in this or in any other country, and a great bar both to the increase of trade and the increase of knowledge. Out of every paper that we publish the Government re • ceives no less a sum than 75 per cent.; and out of every advertisement to which we give inser tion, More than half the amount of the sum paid for it. Vain as the matter is, the public is not generally aware of it; and the conse quence is, that no general petition has ever been presented to the Legislature against such grievous taxation, and no reduction in it taken place, since the close of the war. On financial grounds, only, however, we would fain hope, that the present Chancellor of the Exche quer would consent to a reduction of the duty ; for in taxation, there is no calculation more er roneous than that two and two make four, and we are fully convinced that were the duty on stamps and advertisements to he reduced one half, or even more, not only the public, but the Government, would be a great gainer—the for mer in being able to purchase more newspapers, and to give greater publicity to commercial transactions, and the latter in receiving, per haps, four-fold the amount of revenue which comes into the Treasury under the present sys tem.—Morning Advertiser. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANS[ON-HOUSE. MUSIC LICENSES GRANTED BY THE KING'S SER GEANT TRCSfrETEß.—Yesterday, his Majesty's De puty-Sergeant Trumpeter waited upon the Lord Mayor for the purpose of correcting an inaccuracy which had been made in a statement to his Lord ship, on the subject of a fee which the King's Ser geant Trumpeter had received time immemorial, from the licensed victuallers of the kingdom. The error was calculated to do him considerable preju dice, inasmuch as the persons who were in the habit of paying the fee. might suppose, upon seeing the Recount, all over the empire, that more was demanded than the patentee was authorised to receive. It had been mentioned by the applicant to his Lordship, on behalf of the publicans, that the fee amounted to two guineas upon each license by the King's Sergeant Trumpeter; whereas, under no circumstances did it exceed 255. per annum. The LORD MAYOR considered that it was of very little importance whether the demand was two guineas or twenty-five shillings. There was, in his opinion, just as much reason for granting the first as the second sum, and he was surprised that the Licensed Victuallers ever consented to pay a far thing. Of what service, asked his Lordship, was the King's Trumpeter's License ? The Deputy said that it was issued under the im pression that it would protect the Licensed Vic tuallers, or other persons, who should have music in their houses, from penalties, and of course from the annoyance of informers. The LORD MAYOR—" Protect ! That is im possible. The King's Trumpeter's License is of no more use to a Licensed Victualler than this piece of paper." The Deputy was not prepared to enter into the merits of the case, but his principal was, he believed, occupied in making the necessary inquiries into the nature and extent of the powers communicated to him by his patent. He merely attended for the purpose of showing that, upon occasions of applica tion to him for a licence, he never charged more than he was justified in demanding. The LORD MAYOR—But 1 say you are not justi fied in making any dematel. As I was aware that this was a subject which interested a very extensive part of the community, I looked into the 25th of George 11. sec. 2, cap. 36,. which treats of those li censes. Listen to this, and tell me to what your authority amounts :—" And whereas the multitude . of places of entertainment for the lower sort of people is another great cause of thefts and robberies, as they are thereby tempted to spend their small substances in riotous pleasures, and in consequence are put on unlawful methods of supplying their wants, and re newing their pleasures; in order, therefore, to pre vent the said temptation to thefts and robberies, and to correct, as far as may be, the habit of idle ness which is become too general over the whole kingdom, and is productive of much mischief and inconvenience, be it enacted by the authority afore said, that from and after the Ist of December, 1752, any house, room, garden, or place, kept for publie dancing, music, or other public entertainment of the like kind, in the City of London and West minster, or within twenty miles thereof, without a licence had for that purpose from last pre ceding Michaelmas Quarter Sessions of the Peace, to be holden for the county, city, riding, li berty or division, in which such house, &c. or place is situated (who are hereby authorised and empowered to grant such licenses as they in their discretion shall think proper), signified under the hands and seals of four or more of the Justices there assembled, shall be deemed a disorderly house or place; and every such licence shall be signed and sealed by the said Justices in open Court, and after wards be publicly lead by the Clerk of the Peace, together with the names subscribing the same; and no such licence shall be granted at any adjourned Ses sions, nor shall any fee or reward be taken for any such licence; and it shall and may be lawful for any constable, or other person authorized by warrant, to enter such house or place, and to seize every person who shall be found therein, in order to be dealt with according to law ; and every person keeping such house or place,,without such license, shall forfeit the sum of 1001. to such person as will sue for the same, and be otherwise punishable as the law directs in cases of disorderly houses." Now does the King's trumpeter's licence set aside this Act ? If it be of authorit y , this Act is a dead letter. The Deputy said that the patent was some bus dreds of years old, and the fee was an ancient custom preserved up to the present time. The LORD MAYOR asked what the terms of the patent were ?—The Deputy had not the patent about him, but it ran nearly as had been before de scribed to his Lordship. It privileged " beating, blowing, and sounding.' The LORD MAYOR—WeII, I decidedly think that the King's trumpeter is by no means justified ; any person here has just as much power in that respect. The Deputy said that in consequence of the fact of his Lordship having questioned the right of the King's Sergeant Trumpeter to issue the licence, that officer had determined to consult some eminent law authority, and would be decided by the opinion of such legal person.. The LORD MAYOR advised him by all means to do so .as speedily as possible, and requested to know what were the duties of the King's Trumpeter. - :hat he claimed to nlav before the King and sixteen of his household. The office was held under the Great Seal. Mr. llohler said, that of old the Lord Mayor of London's state was an epitome of Majesty. The sword-bearer was then his Lordship's trumpeter, and used to have his fees for music, but the thing fell into disuse. The Deputy reassured his Lordship, that his principal would, as expeditiously as he could, ascer tain the exact nature of his claim, and act accord- It happened that one of the Committee on the occasion of the great ball given at Guildhall was in the Mansion-house While this conversation was go ing forward. This gentleman said, that the trum peter applied for two guineas to the Committee for his permission to have music; and be also applied for five ells of taffeta with which to decorate his person.. (Laughter.) The Committee had, how ever, disregarded the application. Bo .S'T'REET. Mr. MISHIMA', was engaged to a late hour last night in examining into the circumstances connected with the death of a young man, named Ronald M'Donnell, who threw himself from Waterloo bridge, on the night of last Wednesday, and was &owned. The examination took place at the re quest of a brother of the deceased, who conceived that the calamity might have been prevented if Rogers, the watchman stationed at the bridge, had done his duty. Elizabeth Watson stated that she had lived with the deceased about 18 months, but had not been married to him. On Wednesday evening the de ceased called upon her, where she was employed at needle-work, and asked her to go out with him. She replied, that she could not go then, as she had some work to finish. He then said, that unless she walked with him a little way she would never see him more. Perceiving something strange in his manner, she asked leave of her mistress, and accompanied him down the Haymarket. He took her to a public house, and called for some refreshment, and also for pen, ink, and paper, telling her that he was about to write a letter to his brother, which, having finished, he gave to her to deliver, saying it was the last time he should trouble her. He then emptied his pockets, and gave her all the money he • had about him, after which he accompanied her home for the purpose, as he said, of kissing his infant child for the last time. He did so, and then went in the direction of Waterloo-bridge, telling her he in tended to drown himself. She was dreadfully alarmed, and followed, for the purpose Of prevent ing him. In passing through the toll-gate at Waterloo-bridge, she told the toll-keeper her suspi cions, and asked if the watchman was at hand. The deceased smiled, and said it was nothing more than a mere man-and-wife quarrel, and went on.' The witness then asked for the watchman, and Rogers answered, "I am here." " For Ged's sake," said the witness, " follow that man, he is about to drown himself." The watchman refused to interfere, and in a moment after she saw the de ceased mount upon the bridge and throw himself into the river. She then begged of the watchman to procure assistance, for the purpose of saving the deceased ; •but, although he had witnessed the cala mity, he still refused to interfere, and turned the witness off the bridge, observing, " We won't have any disturbance here." The witness then, in a dreadful state of alarm, ran to the residence of the brother of the deceased, to whom she gave the alarm. Mr. MINSUULL asked the watchman what he had to say in his defence. He replied that he had no notion whatever that the deceased intended to make away with himself, he spoke so pleasantly, and had such a cheerful countenance. In passing through the toll-gate he said, " Do not let this woman follow me, she is my wife, and we have had some words." Mr. MINSIIULL—But did you not hear the young woman say that the deceased intended to drown himself, and did she not call upon you to prevent him ? The watchman admitted this to be the case, but said that the woman wag tipsy, and he did not be- ieve her. Mr. MINSHULL told the watchman that his con duct was ♦ery culpable, and should certainly be re presented to the proper quarter. The brother of the deceased, who, as well as the young woman with whom he had cohabited, ex hibited considerable emotion, said, that the deceased, until within the last three weeks, when he had un fortunately become connected with another female to whom he had promised marriage, was a remark ably steady young - man. UNION.NALL. Yesterday a man named John Huntington, and his wife, were brought before MC. HONE, charged with stealing the clothes of a man (name unknown) who suddenly died while walking along Walworth common, on Monday morning last. The investiga tion of the charge against the parties accused exhi bited an extraordina►y instance of the manner in which dead bodies are procured for the purposes of dissection. From the evidence of Mfr. Murray, the assistant overseer of the parish of Newington, it appeared, that on Monday last the body of a man, who dropped down dead in that parish, was brought to the work house. On the Wednesday following the pri mmer, accompanied by his wife, attended at the committee-roam in the workhouse, and, affect- 0 8 0 Wilkinson proceeded to describe that Hunting ton's house was in a situation admirably adapted for procuring dead bodies; the rear of his premises looked into St. OlaVe's burying-ground, and a small window on the gqiund floor was level with the church-yard : tberefore access was to be had to it at all hours. The implements found in his house showed that he was in the habit of working in burial grounds. The woman Harrington then stated to the Magis trate the origin of the quarrel between her and the prisoners, by which it appeared that she was in the whole secret of the affair relative to the poor man whose body was claimed by the prisoners. She also described that the prisoners had acknow ledged to her that the deceased was no way re lated to them, and that they had trumped up the story to the parish-officers for the purpose of ob. taining the corpse and disposing of it. Harrington then detailed the manner in which she first became ac quainted with the male prisoner, which we shall transcribe as a curiosity. She was walking along the Borough about three months ago, when Hunt ington accosted her, and they entered into conver sation, in the course of which she told him she had a cousin then lying dead at Old Ford, and that she was then proceeding there to sit up and watch the body. He no sooner heard her statement than he exclaimed, ".Let me have the body, and you shall have eleven guineas for it." She rejected the offer, she said, with scorn, and immediately separated from him, but he followed her to the abode of her relative, and, availing himself of the opportunity • when she went to the public-house for a pint of beer, he entered the room where the corpse was lying, and bundling it neck and heels into a bag, got away with it, and sold it at the hospital. She de clared most solemnly that she never shared a half penny of the money obtained for her cousin. Huntington, however, contradicted her, arid de clared that it was with her sanction he took the body, for which he gave her three guineas. The necessary witnesses having been examined, to prove that the body was delivered by the parish officers of Newington to the prisoner and his wife, on the day in. question, ,and_ the clothes of the de ceased also identified; Mr. Horns asked Huntington what he had to say in answer to the charge ? . He replied, that he understood from his wife that the deceased was related to her, and that was. the reason he applied for the body to be given up to him. Mr. HONE : Where did you dispose of it ?-- Huntington : I didn't sell it, your Worship. The man from whom I tired the cart to convey it away from the workhouse, on the way back, said to me, " Here take three guineas,,and go home with your wife and make her comfortable, and I shall soon be after you with the body." " I," said the prisoner, " took the money, but never saw the driver of the cart or the body from that day to this." Wilkinson stated that Huntington's wife had de clared to him on the preceding night, that she was totally unacquainted with the deceased, never having seen him in her life until she saw him in his coffin at the workhouse, when her husband and she went there to claim him. Mr. HONE,—Do you know the person from whom you hired the cart to take away the body ?—Pri soner said that he was a stranger to him. Wilkinson said that be had since ascertained the corpse was taken away in a cart belonging to Hollis, the noted resurrection-man. Mr. Hoes.—What have yon to say respecting the skeleton keys, and other housebreaking imple ments, found in your house ?---Huntington (scratch ing his head). —I picked them- up one at a time in the streets. Mr: HONE.—There are two charges against you, the one is for having burglarious implements in your possession, by which you are liable to three months' imprisonment, and the other is more serious still, as affects you,—namely, for stealing the clothes of the unfortunate man whose body there is no doubt you obtained by pretending to be his relative, and then disposing of it. Lpon which of the two charges I shall commit you I hare not yet made up my mind. It was here suggested to the Magistrate, that if he remanded the prisoner for a few days, other charges would be brought against him; which was done accordingly. lag great sorrow, represented themselves as nearly related to the deceased, and expressed their desire to have the body delivered up to them, adding, that they wished to have it decently interred at their own expense. The parish-officers made some inquiries relative to the applicants in the place where they resided, and heard nothing to their disadvan tage; they therefore consented to deliver up the body to them, after the inquest was held upon it. The inquest was held on Thursday, and when it concluded, the prisoners again presented themselves at the workhouse, and demanded the corpse, which was then, clothes and all, delivered up to them, they having provided a shell to place it in, and a cart to convey it away. Another man attended at the same time with the prisoners to assist in carrying the shell, containing the deceased, from the dead-house, a de tached building at the workhouse, to the cart. Pre vious to the prisoners' departure, they told the parish officers that the deceased's name was John Simpson; that he was the female prisoner's brother ; and that he had come up to London from Shoreham, in Sus sex, about four months ago, with 801. in his pockets, and that he dissipated and squandered away the whole of the:money in that short period. In fact, from the consistent statement the prisoners had given relative to the deceased, and the sorrow and anxiety they be trayed when they first made application at the work house for the body, the parish-officers had not the slightest suspicion but that they were nearly allied to that which they claimed. On Wednesday night, however, in consequence of a quarrel that occurred between the two prisoners and a woman named Maria Harrington, relative to the division of the money which the corpse fetched, it appearing that it had been sold for 11 guineas at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, the whole affair was brought to light, and ultimately led to the appre hension of the prisoners. On the night in question cries of " Murder" were heard in Huntington's house, in Boar's-head-court. Wilkinson, the night constable, proceeded there, and on entering the place discovered the two prisoners, together with the woman Harrington, all fighting together. He endeavoured to put an end to the conflict, and was ultimately obliged to take all the parties into custody to prevent bloodshed, they appeared so inveterate against each other. In the midst of the battle be tween the contending parties, Wilkinson heard them accuse each other of robbery. Maria Harrington frequently ejaculating, " You are body stealers, you know you are; where is the corpse of the poor man who dropped down dead. in Newington, and that you sold for 11 guineas ?" Wilkinson being al-- . quainted with thetircumstances under which the de -ceased was taken to the workhouse, hearing the ob scure hints thrown out against eachother hy the parties, : ouestioned the woman Harrington, who immediately disclosed to him all the facts she Was is posses. clothes. The reason that he had not sinee returned sion of, concerning the trick played by the prisoners , the livery, which however he still thought he had to obtain the corpse from the parish-officers, and some right to, was, that Mr. Taylor had said that he their ultimate disposal of it at one of the hospitals. would not give him a charaCter, and thus prevent Upon this information, Wilkinson having secured him from getting into service again. the parties, proceeded to Huntington's house in I " Indeed," said Mr. Taylor, " I never raid any Boar s-head -court, in the parish of St. Olave, South- such thing. I would riot do any one such an injury wark, and there discovered the sloshes which 'be- as to deprive him of his means of properly earning longed to the deceased, together with a great variety hi s bread. I have now lived 71 years and a half in of implements used by body-snatchers,—vii. screws 1 the world, and I believe so one living can say that drivers, wrenching machines for opening the lids of I ev er did an unkind or injurious act to a human be' coffins, large and small gimlets, and other useful anti.- i n g, What I did say was, that I would give you Iles for such purposes. He also found instruments the character which I thought you deserved, and ne for breaking open the repositories of the living as other." well as those of the dead, for there were secreted The footman said that he had no objection what. , tinder Huntington's bed a whole bunch of house-, ever to give up the livery, if Mr. Taylor would not breaking apparatus, with skeletondicys e &c. of all suffer hi m to keep them ; but would Mr. Taylor, sizes, the whole of which were now produced. after he did so, give him a character I' Wilkinson added, that from the character of the male Mr. Taylor assured the Magistrate that he never prisoner, belied no doubt that he was in the habit of intended to withhold a character from this man, nor obtaining possession of the bodies of a great number had he ever said that he should do so: on the cow of persons who died suddenly, and whose friends were unknown, by the same stratagem that he pro- trans, he would now tell the Magistrate the character he was prepared to give this footman. He was ready cured the corpse on the present occasion. Wilkin son then produced the following undertaker's bill, sobriety, and for being one of the most beautiful, which he found in the prisoner's possession, in order to give him an excellent character for honesty an cleaners of plate he ever met with; but, in giving to bear out the consistency of his suspicions with this character, he should certainly not conceal the regard to Huntington. faults that lie (Mr. Taylor) had to complain of in (Copy) the man. The fact was, that the man was ii very Mr. I. Huntington to W. Dunn, undertaker, No. 11, Great Dover-road good servant; but he was of unsettled and unsteaell : To four men moving a body from Kent £ 0 4 o habits, and the Marquis of Cleveland, in whose eel' To two men undressing body, and use oflehell 0 4 0 vice he last lived, had made just the same cemplainte of him. The man had, it seems, Mr. Taylor said, been in various situations of life, although a young man, and, amongst others, had been for a considet• able time in a Dragoon Regiment. Mr. ROE I thought, Mr, Taylor, that you bad more tact and circumspection in such matters than to take such a person into your ertabliksoent at all. " Why, the fact is," said Mr. Taylor, " that i did not engage him, or knew that he was engaged for some days, as I was out of town at the time; but although the Marquis and Marchioneei of Cleve.. laud advised us not to have any thing, to do with , him, as 'we should find him a troublesome mane Mrs. Taylor, seeing that he was a fine, strong, hand' some-looking young fellow, well able to carry a se , vice of plate rip and down the back stairs, and tao there was nothing positively bad in his character, she engaged him in my absence." The footman here complained that Mr. Taylor had stopped, in his account, 9s. that had been paid to 0 doctor in the country when he, the footman, was ill , Mr. Taylor expressed great indignation at this assertion, which he said was totally untrue, and the , real history of which was this :—While the tlemily, he said, was stopping lately in the neig hbourhood of 0 v w e a r t y e watering - place, ing- p suddenlyl e c e a , ri this d alarmingly was ill s o t ta ken hat ao doctor n obi ncecienseeegwsi.ilenfiantswwcht9oiala had sent for to the town, which was lt). miles off. The doe.' tor came and attended him,and remained with him foo nearly two hours until he relieved him ; and before anxietyr semih e seetemaainin(a: cgtnhe sufferings. should Doctor) aos j ;c n ct soo h nb i this relief was afforded him, he (Mr. Taylor) 4k tnfhe suffe r ed; a e a o i c t r i order desirableafl f or r r r thett that more aft eo h d t sirsmir emov ed of , Theeimisot k n ow might k a l D tvb ol e m o i dhe : ll : v a t t v o o u i e r e t thatths ahwould ev , h e a, then, e , e r r i "this removal he (Mr.• Taylor) had made by directing the man to be conveyed to the town in his own ear' riage, and attended by two other servants. "In tlst% course of a day or two the man was quite restored r and all the fees to the doctor, &c. he (Mr. Taylor) had most cheerfully paid. n settling an account, however, vigoeo:ro aectte unhandsome l ,te l ht e xeti rat :iyi other nerxl erpfh d eue i rs i ,mre y seed , a h.i t, after teno4esaarttloh opet the wp f 7 did ~thur nw ata b inn h iyei hi h geni a d act e d i 0 f t To h ar e y gone in ' suc h an abrupt manner at such a time, he (Mr , and this was the 9s. the man spoke about as a doc , tor's "fee; he (Mr. Taylor) could appeal to Mr- Denison, the Member for Surrey, who was staying at his -house at the time this man was taken ill, if any Imdy could be more uneasy or anxious for the recd' very of a 'man than he (Mr. Taylor) was, until he heard that the servant was relieved from pain. It was in the end arranged that Ballard, the officer, should accompany the "footman to his lodgings, and have the suit of livery there delivered up to him, and that then Mr. Taylor would pay the man what i wages were due to him, and give him such c h a' racter ae he deserved. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 9. BAIN V. CASE. This was an action on a policy of insurance on the brig Nancy, effected by the plaintiff, as . part owner. with the defenda►►t, an underv;rritei - of Liverpool. Verdict fur the plaintiff—damages 1001, SMITH V. SHAW. The plaintiff in this action was owner of the brig! Rebecca ; the defendant was treasurer of the Cont' rnercial-dock Company. The action was brougho to recover damages for the injury the plaintiff's ves' sel had suffered by the negligence of the defendant's servants in hauling the Rebecca into dock. By the defendant's witnesses it appeared that, on the 28th of June, 1827, the vessel, on her return flora the Baltic, laden with timber; came opposite' to the . Commercial-dock-gate, and was fastened to a buol. within a hundred yards of the gate, within which distance it was provided by the Act that all vessels should be under the absolute command of the dock' master. They .proved that, when the vessel. had get about two-thirds within the gate of the dock, Captain Thompson, the dock-master, asked vv liat water she drew, and, on being informed sixteen, feet five inches, ordered her to be shoved out as she could not get in. All the witnesses swore.thid the ropes were loosened, and let go just as the dock' master ordered, and in no other manner; that . e yed thing was done by his order; and that, on being pushed out of the deck-gate, being quite unattached , she floated upon a bank, where she fell upon her side and received the injury, for the repair of which the plaintiff now brought his action. The Jury, after some consideration, found a yet' diet for the plaintiff. BIRTHS. On the Bth inst., at Epping-green, near Hertford, the lady of William Horne, Esq., one of his Majesty's Counsels of a son. On the Bth inst., at Lee, Kent, the lady of Robot° Boyd, Esq., of a son. On the 7th inst., in Upper Belmont-place, Vauxhall , Mrs. T. Sandys, of a daughter. On the 22d ult., at St. Petersbargh, the lady of DP F. Leighton, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the sth inst., at Arundel, the Rev. Thomas Porter , of Kilsby, Northamptonshire, to Mary, third daugMer the late Christopher Waltham, Esq., of Peckham. 0 0 the 6th inst., the Rev. John Pain, of Horncastle, Esther, sixth daughter of the late . Christopher Walthad► Etq., of Peckham. On the 7th inst., at St. Ann's, Westminster, by the Rev. Dr. M'Leod, Mr. Robert Hutchinson, jun., of Prith street, Soho-square, to Margaret Ann, eldest daughter of Mr. T. Hutchinson, late of. Great Marlboretigb-street.. On the Sth inst., Mr. Moses Cohen, of Newington, t ° Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. B. Hart,. of Holywall-stratef Strand. DIED. On the 7th inst., Mr. R. Disraeli, of Little Tower' street, aged 46. At Llangoedinore-plaee, Cardiganshire, the Venerabl° Archdeacon Millingchamp, D.D., Prebendary of Brecoot and Rector of Ruehall, Wilts. On the 6th inst., 'at Redinghami aged 78, R. Stove+ E'., of Bedingharn-hall, Norfolk. On the Bth inst., Mrs. Nash, in her 87th year, wido' of the late Thomas Nash, Esq. of Camberwell. On the 6th inst., at his house in Stratton-street, R Wilbraharn, Esq., in his 86th yew'. • On the Bth inSt., in Lime-street-square, Robert R Esq., in his 36th year. On the sth lust., at Ramsgate, Mrs. E. Bridges,: Pazwran and Ptini:zinan by NUJ 3 0 YOUNG, at Sus Ornes, 112, Sticani, Losseft MAILLBOROUGH.STREET. Yesterday, a footman in the service of Michael Angelo Taylor, Esq., M.P., appeared voluntarily before Mr. ROB, the sitting magistrate, to meet a complaint preferred against him by his master. Mr. Taylor said that this footman had been for some months in his service, and although in some respects he had reason to find fault with his man ner, yet, being a very good servant, he had not any intention of parting with him immediately, until on the arrival of the family lately in town from the country, the footman himself, suddenly, and with out any assignable cause, gave notice of his inten tion to quit the service at the end of the usual month's warning, and this notice he gave within three days after the arrival of the family in town, and at a time that he must know his going away would cause an inconvenience. However, nothing more was thought about the matter, but he was suf fered to have his will without any remonstrance, until a few days. ago, before the expiration of the month's notice, while there was a dinner party of friends at the house, the man conducted himself in so noisy and riotous a manner in the lower part of the house, that the tumult he created was heard by all the family, and threw the whole place into confusion; and at last he (Mr. Taylor) gave di- : rections to the butler, that, the footman should be immediately turned out of the house as soon as her' could collect his clothes and take them with him. This was accordingly done ; but the man, instead of taking away only his own clothes, carried off with him an entire suit of new livery, to which he had no claim whatever, and which was his (Mr. Tay lor's) property ; and although the man had since come to the house to demand his wages, and had admitted that he had taken away the livery, he re fused to return it, or tell where he lodged, that it might be recovered; and under these circumstances, he (Mr. Taylor) was determined not to pay the man his wages, but let him recover it how he could; and, 'moreover to proceed against him and have him ' punished as the law directs for carrying away pro perty from_ the house which lie knew did not belong to him—namely, the suit of livery. The footman said in his defence, that he took away' the suit of livery, conceiving that they bye- . longed to him as much as any other part of his 10 I