The Sun. — London, England, 1829-09-02 00:00:00

MONTHLY MAGAZINE. I , - • . We have been compelled to defer our notice Ili; of this popular miscellany till to-clay. Its open i.l:: ing article on " Domestic Politics" is penned in a vein of consummate eloquence and energy, but -is throughout untenable in its facts. Indeed, it reverses the usual order of things, and contrives to build up a goodly and imposing superstruc ture on a very sorry foundation. The writer displays infinite ingenuity, and much special pleading, but is mistaken in every one of his . premises. • He argues, in the first place, that the country is on the verge of ruin—a fact which party spirit usually contrives to find out and dilate on, at least once or twice a year, with no more reason than at present—secondly, that the existing Administration is incompetent and 0 unworthy of support from the nation. To these tw o last charges we reply decisively in one word. The present Government carried the Catholic Question ! This one simple fact will be remem bered to its honour, when all the Ultra-Tories who ever yet burdened tile country with their locust -lik e visitation, lie mouldering and for gotten. " Conversazione" is a smart dialogue, .tinged, however, with the taint of ill-judged • politics. " Walks in Ireland" is a lively characteristic description of that well-known place of Irish amusement, Donnybrook Fair, and that equally well known pugilist Sir Daniel Donnelly, who is made, in Isis own quaint original manner, to detail the particulars of a visit he once paid to the " Prence Ilagin" at Carlton House, on • which occasion he went up to tile Palace gate, and " gave a little asy rap to show I wasn't proud," — a specimen of condescension on the illustrious pugilist's part, that cannot be too highly appreciated. " Aly Inabilities" is a pas sable enough article, with some pretensions to satire. " Condition of the West Indian Slave Population" is a temperate and able paper. ‘c The Man of 111 Omen" is an admirably written tale, replete with humour and incident. In its. , style it is quite epigrammatic. We subjoin a specimen : " A man is never fitter for a hero than when he has nothing to lose ; and as I compared the shrivelled wretches that had robbed me, with my own full shaped and sinewy limbs, I determined to begin by the usual end of heroism, and turn collector of that harvest which one man sows and another man reaps, which asks neither plough nor sickle, and which finds its most arable field in the high road.— ] ly resolution might be slow, but my execution was rapid. After a day and a night's march, I reached a small forest, Where I sheltered myself at once from sight and from sun. shine. A little village was at one end of it—an Arab saint's tomb at the ether. In the shrine 1 found a priest, who, instead of saying his prayers, was luxuriously in dulging himself on his carpet with coffee and a pipe. The • sight was irresistible. I sprang upon him, knocked him down with my naked hand, and, before he could recover the blow or his astonishment, was master of his breakfast, his purse, his carpet, and his pipe. Never was Mullah more completely cleared of the temptation of this world. Rut I ought to have robbed him of his voice ; for , long before I could wind my way through the thicket, I heard it calling after me iu all the names that African tongues ever showered on the head of the spoiler. The whole vil ' lege was instantly up in arms ; and where every living creature, from the child of three years old to the man of a hundred, carries his carbine or his bow as regularly as his bead, I may be supposed to have been in dang er. I fled turough the forest like a hare. Shots fell thick among the brambles round me. I saw the shrine, sprang in, and the • Baines bones had thenceforth the honour of my companion ship. None thought of looking for me there. The 1 4fillah's business was done with his morning visit : he had come to feed on the offerings, and he hated ultra activity as much as if he had been King of Spain. The villagers dreaded the resting-place of so much sanctity, and would have cut the throats of half mankind rather than violate it by an intrusive sten. So, in that spot I re mained a week, incomparably - fed, so far as African ban quets go—thriving in flesh, though horribly ennuied. But my trial drew to a close. One morning I observed alarge, heavy-built man, with a countenance in which guile, good humour, dulness, and a love of good eating, were moulded in every line, prowling about the tomb. My first idea was to treat him as I had done the Mullah. But I was too Well-fed to be hungry ; and the best time to meet even the tiger is notoriously after he has had his breakfast. Wrap . Ped in my carpet, I approached the investigator courte ously. He at first cocked his pistols ; but his alarm was turned into rapture when he discovered that I was human. He had come out on a three months' journey to explore the site of the temple of Jupiter Ammon. He was an ' English linen-draper, who, having acquired a taste for , more sublime pursuits in one of the brilliant institutions of ' his country of philosophers, had thrown aside the mea suring of long-cloth for the measuring of every stone within his reach. I found him at once civil and sullen, crafty and gullible. I gave him full opportunity for the exercise of his genius—cordially invited him to the hospi talities of the shrine—sold it to him, bones and all, for a •• sum of money which would have purchased an African principality—presented him with half .a-dozen inscriptions in a dialect invented for the occasion, on the strength of which he made up his mind to canvass his Royal Society ; and, to complete his raptures and his collection, suffered Lim to sketch me in my carpet, as a native chieftain in the original costume of the Pharaohs. Till now all went on swimmingly; but there was still a delicate transaction to settle between us. I applied to him for the purchase looney of the tomb, out of the enormous bag of dollars that he carried on his camel. The antiquarian asked for delay. 1 saw the esprit boutiquier.• rising within hint ; and, as his friend, I desired to lay it. He offered me a bill at an immense date; but my affairs required expedition. I refused the offer, and calmly told him that those who attempted to injure me were always unlucky. He was probably glad of the excuse for a quar rel ; and he replied by one of those In ief phrases in which Englishmen couch such ready opinions of every thing that stands in their way. I remembered his pistols, and bade bhn a very good night. How lie enjoyed soy wish, I can not tell to this hour ; for I no sooner perceived the moon to go down, than I emerged from my lair, piled one of his camels with his trunk, slung the hag of dollars over the hump of the other, and instantly set off at a steady pace of seven miles au hour. " Montesquieu, Bellew, and Lawyer Shell' does great injustice to the abilities, both natural and acquired, of the latter gentleman. There is, too, an appearance of spleen and rancour about the article which cannot be mistaken. " Notes on the Month" are as usual, lively, desultory, and satirical. On the whole the present number is a very superior one. We are sorry to learn that Mr. Justice BUR- r honort continues very unwell at Bridgewater. Mr. I PexiglNGTen visited him on Sunday last, and that gen tleman's teport of his health is by no mea ns favourable. I STORM AND INUNDATION.—It is with feelings of a most painful nature we announce to our dis tent readers, that we are again visited with a truly alarm ing storm, which is raging with tremendous fury at the Moment at which we write--Thursday afternoon, four o'clock. There is a melancholy similarity in the present storm to the ever-memorable one of the 3d inst., which Las spread desolation and misery to so mournful an extent throughout the North of Scotland, hut which has been Peculiarly devastating in its effects in the county of Elgin. The storm which is now exhausting itself round about us enntmenced yesterday (Wednesday) evening a little after nine o'clock—since which time it bas not had a moment's cessation. We had fondly hoped last night, that before the dawning of this morning, it would have spent itself; but we have been disappointed. In the course of the night it greatly increased in its fury ; and this morning, and during the whole of the day, has blown one of the greatest; hurricanes we ever remember to have witnessed. While Ole winds have been tearing slates and tiles off houses, and uprooting trees, the rains have descended, and are descend ing in prodigious torrenti. Alma ly we have too great 1. " 4011 to b e apprehensive of being in the course of to morrow visited with an inundation almost, if not entirely, es terrible as the one of the 4th inst,—Elgin Courier. FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. William Evans, Liverpool, grocer. BANKRUPTS. James Nick lls, Mitcham, Surrey, silk-manufacturer, to surrender Sept. 11, at twelve, 15, at eleven, and Oct. 13, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Heald, Warn ford-court, Throgmorton-street. Henry Bonham Hall, Twickenham, Middlesex, inn keeper, Sept. 8, at twelve, 18, at eleven, and Oct. 13, at two, at the C mrt of Commissioners. Jemmett, King ston ; Lys, Took's-court, Chancery-lane. Thomas Peter Adams, Cheapside, silkman, Sept. 8, at eleven, 11, and Oct. 13, at ten, at the Court of Commis sioners. Jones, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street. Matthew Seymour lonn, Oxford-street, linen-draper, Sept. 4, at eleven, 8, at nine, and Oct. 13, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Stokes and Hollingsworth, Cateaton-street. Charles Davis, Charles-street, Soho-square, Sept. 8, 15, at twelve, and Oct. 13, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Spyer, Broad-street-buildings. Richard Pridham, Great Torrington, Devonshire, draper, Sept. 18, 19, and Oct. 13, at one, at the Commercial rooms, Bristol. Vizard and Blower, Lincoln's-inn-fields ; Gregory and Smith, Bristol. George Northall Bates, Birmingham, Warwickshire, refiner of metals, Sept. 15, at four, 16, and Oct. 13, at two, at the Union inn, Birmingham. Holtne, Frampton, and Loftus, New-inn, London ; Bartlett, Birmingham. John Broadhurst, West-Heath, Congleton, Chester, silk-throw ter, Sept. 24, 26, and Oct. 13, at two, at the Macclesfield Arms Hotel, Macclesfield. Higginbotham, Macclesfield ; Clarke, Richards, and Medcalf, Lincoln's inn-fields. DIVIDENDS. G. Sharp and Co., Threadneedle-street, merchants, Sept. 25, at one, at the Court of Commissioners—W. Davey, Bude, Cornwall, merchant, Oct. 1, at ten, at the Falcon Hotel, Bude—M. Noble, Narrow-wall, Lambeth, mer chant, Sept. 25, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners —W. Fry and Co., St. Mildred's-court, Poultry, bankers, Sept. 12, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners—J. Darby, Rood lane, wholesale perfumer, Sept. 22, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners —W. Howson, Newcastle under-Lyme, Staffordshire, grocer, Sept. 22, at two, at the Castle Hotel, Newcastle-under Lyme—W. C. Feather stone, Exeter, toyman, Sept. 29, at twelve, at the Globe Hotel, Exeter—G. Dale and R. Walton, Newcastle-upon- Tyne, ship-brokers, Sept. 24, at eleven, at the Turf Hotel, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—J. J. Clare, Liverpool, grocer, Sept. 28, at twelve, at the Clarendon-buildings, Liverpool —J. J. Thomas, Blandford, Dorsetshire, wine merchant, Sept. 15, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—E. Wigzell, Lime-street, agent, Sept. 22, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners—H. Gilbert, Bishopsgate-street- without, Sept. 15, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners--G. Hil ton and R. Hilton, Manchester, merchants, Sept. 23, at three, at the Star Inn, Manchester—P. Clarke, Man chester, grocer, Sept. 22, at twelve, at the Court of Com missioners—L. Williams, Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street, merchant, Sept. 22, at twelve, at the Court of Corn , missioners. CERTIFICATES-SErr. 22. P. Lazarus, Maiden-lane, Queen-street, Cheapside, London, rope merchant—E. Millets, Fleet-street, London, coffee-house keeper—W. H. Freeman, Princes-street, St. James, Westminster, composition ornament maker—W. Stratford, Tottenham-court-road, cutler—J. Topping, Liverpool, bootmaker—R. Garbutt, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchant—G. Hammond, Eye, Suffolk, victualler—C. Everett, New Broad-street, London, merchant—J. Bacon, Commercial-road, Lambeth, carpenter—G. Moot-house, Ilebdenbridge, Yorkshire, cotton spinner—M. Nevett and W. Nevett, Liverpool, brokers. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. T. Morgan and J. Jenkins, Llwynybrain, Carmarthen shire, auctioneers—J. Clark and D. Fax, Bermondsey, pawnbrokers—W. and S. Skelton, Sutton Wash-Way, Lincolnshire, corn-dealers--W. Mason and . T. Lixton, , Stamford, Lincolnshire, linen-drapers—E. Read and R. Scott, Cheltenham, milliners—W., J. and J. Chapman, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, tailors—W. Worley and J. Simpson, Leeds, land-surveyors—J. W. Rendle and J. Symons, Plymouth, chemists—P. Symons and G. Davey, Plymouth, coal-merchants—F. Bowring and G. Alley, Chiswell-street, stationers—N. and E. Jaques, Topeliffe, Yorkshire, coopers—J. Heathcote and J. Buckley, Not tingham, lace-manufacturers—J., J. and E. R. Le Mare, Spital-square, silk-manufacturers—S. and R. Bentley, Dorset-street, Fleet-street, printers—Thos. Charnley and Hugh Edwards, Liverpool, Lancashire, carters—John P. and E. E. Luke, Cheapside, hoot-makers—L. Daw son and J. 11. Sadler, Praed-street, Paddington, loom manufacture's—G. Wightman and J. M. Cramp, Pater noster-row, booksellers-0. Hustler and G. G. Bird, Halstead, Essex, farmers—J. 13eetham and W. Livesey, Halifax, Yorkshire, joiners—D. W. Witton, E. Hauman, and G. Breffit, Cape Haytien, St. Domingo, and London, merchants. THE ARMY. (From the Limerick Chronicle, August 29.) The 61st depot at Naas, are ordered to Ballinrobe, where the first division, under Major Ansley, will arrive on the 10th of September. The route is by Rathangan, Philips ton, Kilbeggan, Athlone, Castleblakeney, and Tuam. _ A detachment of the 61st is to be stationed at Westport. The Service Companies of the 34th Regiment sailed from Cork on Monday evening, for Halifax. Part of the 74th depot has been detached from Butte vant to Mallow. New clothing for the 36th Regiment arrived here on Wednesday from London, and was detached to Parsons town, where the corps is stationed. The retirement of Lieutenant Dick from the Ist Dra goon Guards is much regretted in the Regiment; on leaving Longford he was escorted a considerable way by the Officers and band of the corps. MONTHLY MILITARY OBITUARY. GENERAL—Right Hon. Sir David Baird, Bart. G.C.B. and K.C., 24th Foot, Governor of Fort George, Fern• tower, Perthshire, August 18, 1829. LIEUT.-GENERAL—WiIIiam Spencer, Starston, Nor folk, August 27, 1829. LIEUT.-COLONELS—Williams, 2d Foot; Bird, Ceylon Regiment, Colombo, April 3, 1822. MAJORS—Bowater, half-pay, Royal Marines, March 15, 1829; Thompson, ditto, May 18. CAPTAINS—Vane, Col lstream Guards, Sidnaouth Aug. 9, 1829 ; Le Guay, 2d Battalion let Foot, Messouri, Tri chinopoly, 111,dras, February 28 ; Pellichody, 41st Foot, Ormshaycutty, Madras, February 10 ; Jones, Royal Artil -1 ry, Trincomalee, April 25 ; Dawson, Royal Engineers, Colombo, March 28, 1829; Patten, Royal Marines, April 10 ; Brittain, late Royal Marines, Aug. 11 ; Hook, half-pay, Staff Corps of Cavan)), Plymouth, July 28 ; Mitchell, half-pay, 60th Foot, Jersey, June 22 ; Kings bury, half-pay, 81st Foot, Edwardsburgh, Upper Canada, March 20, 1828 ; Evans, half-pay, 89th Foot, Droit wich, June 3, 1829 ; Ruperti, half-pay, 7th Line Batta lion, King's German Legion, Papenburgh, Hanover, May 27 ; W} ndowe, half-pay, Unattached. LIEUTENANTS—ThOPIThiII, 40th Foot, Hobart's Town, Van Diemen's Land, Feb. 18, 1829 ; Chaloner, 52d Foot (supposed to be drowned in the Ariel packet in November last, on her passage to Halifax, Nova Scotia) ; Tolfrey, 87th Foot, July 25, 1829 ; Wm. Calder, 91st Foot, Ja maica, August 1. ; Barton, Royal Marines, June 18 ; Ma gi'', half-pay, Royal Marines, Jan. 24 ; Chambers, late Royal Marines, April 9 ; Miller, late Ist Veteran Bat talion, Felt. 24 ; Kirk, late 4th Veteran Battalion, July ; Findlay, late llth Veteran Battalion, Lambeth, July 12 ; Fitzgerald, half-pay, sth Foot, June 24 ; Don, Cameron, half-pay, 73th Foot, Glenstockdale, near Appin, June 8; John Campbell, half-pay, 88th Foot, Grenrallock, Argyll shire, March 14 ; Latham, half-pay, 4th West India Regiment. SECOND LIEUTENANTS AND ENSIGNS—Roe, Royal Marines, at sea, March 6, 1829 ; Macdougall, late 9th Royal Veteran Battalion, Edinburgh, Aug. 1; Gugy, half pay, Gleng. Fencibles ; Magee, half-pay, Unattached, (drowned), July 16, 1829. PA Y sTE K—Browne, half-pay, 4th llon Regiment, Wookey, Sotnersetshire, July 24, 1829. ADJUTANT—Williamson, half-pay, Roxburgh's Fencible Cavalry, July 6, 1829. QUARTER-MASTERS —Sheridan, half-pay, 22d Dra goons, (previously of the 89th Foot), July 28, 1829 ; M'lntosh, late of the 42d Foot, July 30. INSPECTOR OF HOSPITALS —F. Burrowes, half-pay, London, Aug. 22, 1829. ASSISTANT-SURGEON --Daly, 63d Foot. VETERINARY-SURGEON—Clarkson, half-pay, Ist Dra goon Guards, Hamilton, July 22, 1826. Among the topics which serve to dissipate the ennui of the secluded residents at Windsor is a certain correspondence between a Royal Personage and a Cabinet Minister, not on affairs of state, but on an affair of preci pitate gallantry requited by as precipitate a repulse. The motto to time correspondence is an appropriate quotatio from a well-known song— , 1 " Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs?"— Times. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Charles Taphouse, a labouring man, was charged with assaulting Victoire Watson, a native of France, who has become a street-walker. The complainant stated, that as she was standing on Ludgate-hill, about eleven o'clock on Monday night, the prisot,ur without the least provocation, laid hold of and destroyed her bonnet, value 10s. The prisoner's defence was, that the woman ob structed him, and used scandalously indecent lan guage to him. Mr. Williams, one of the Common Councilmen of Farringdon Within, witnessed the transaction, which would not have occurred if the watchman had done his duty, and had not wilfully abstained from interfering until the altercation ripened into a matter that he could bring before a magistrate and make a job of. Sir PETER LAURIE was aware that the system of ordering prisoners to pay watchmen for causing them to lose their time would produce the feeling among them which Mr. Williams had described as existing in this case. Mr. Williams said the bringing up of charges be fore the magistrates was so profitable, that it was calculated among the watchmen themselves that a beat in Fleet-street was worth a guinea a week more than one in Holborn. If Pickering had re moved the women as soon as they crossed to him, the assault would not have been committed, but he puposely waited till something was done. If this had happened in Farringdon-within, he should have suspended the watchman instantly; but as it was, he could oily represent the affair to the Common Council of the other ward,which he had already done. Sir P. LAURIE ordered the prisoner to make some recompense for the damage he had done, upon complying with which he was discharged. BOW-STREET. Yesterday three gentlemen, one of whom was a solicitor, appeared before the sitting Magistratea; Mr. HALLS and Sir R. BIRNIE, to ask for advice and assistance under the following circumstances: — The solicitor appeared on behalf of a respectable lady, who was now an inmate of the Fleet prison, in consequence of a gross breach of trust on the part of a person who had represented himself to be a so licitor, and who, under that representation, had ob tained from the lady in question the sum of 10/., with a view, as she supposed, of effecting her libe ration from a sponging -house, by means of bail. The lady was arrested about a fortnight ago, and conveyed to a lock-up house in the neighbourhood of Blackfriars-road. Having mentioned her desire to give bail for the debt, a Mr. H. was introduced to her, and representing himself to be a solicitor, told her that for 101. he could procure bail, and that in the evening she might obtain her liberation. He then left his name and address, and promised to re turn in the course of the day. The lady having mentioned the circumstance to some of her friends, reference was had to the Law List, but the name of the person who had represented himself to be a so licitor could not be found there. In the course of the day he returned, and the lady mentioned to him that she had looked over the Law List, and could not find his name amongst the solicitors.—" Oh," said he, " I assure you that I am a regular solicitor, in proof of which you may see my certificate," at the same time drawing from his pocket a piece of parchment, which appeared to be the document he had mentioned. He then stated that his connections were most respectable, and men tioned the name of a gentleman who had lately carried on the business of a banker, and to whose sister he said he had been married within a short period. Deceived by these representations, and anxious to obtain her liberation from a place the ex pence of which was but ill-suited to her circum stances, the lady caused a letter to be written in her name, to a gentleman belonging to the Admi ralty, (Mr. Crofton Croker), requesting, as a par ticular favour, that he would send her 10/., which should be placed to his account, he being a lodger in, the lady's house at Barnes. The lady having signed the letter, handed it unsealed to the supposed solicitor, who lost no time in presenting it to the gentleman to whom it was addressed, and by whom he was paid the required 10/. without the slightest hesitation. The lady fully depending upon the good faith of her supposed solicitor, made arrange ments to return to her home in the evening, but when the hour arrived at which she expected to be liberated, no solicitor appeared, and she was obliged to pass another night in the sponging-house at an additional expence. The next morning she sent a friend to the Admiralty, and there learned that the 10/. had been paid in her name to the party who had brought the letter. She then sent to the ad dress of the sham solicitor, but found that he did not reside there ; and although every exertion was used to discover his residence in the course of the day, no tidings could be had of him. Finding that she had been completely duped, and being totally unable to bear any longer the heavy expence to which she had been subjected, she was obliged to submit to circumstances, and in the evening was con veyed to the Fleet prison, where she was still con fined. Under these circumstances, the solicitor said he came to ask advice, and to know if the Magis trates would feel any objection to issue a warrant or summons to compel the appearance of the party of whose act he had complained. Sir R. BIRNIE—But you say he is not to be found ? Solicitor—He does not live at the address which he gave to the lady, but we know where he does reside. Mr. HALLS had some doubts that a criminal charge would lie against the party. Sir R. BIRNIE thought that a person obtaining money in the mariner described was guilty of steal ing it. At all events he had been guilty of an act of gross dishonesty. Mr. HALLS asked if the party had not obtained the letter by means of which he possessed himself of the money, in the county of Surrey : The Solicitor replied in the affirmative, but added that the money had been obtained in Middlesex. Mr. HALLS observed, that application must be made to the Surrey Magistrates, the offence having been committed there. The parties then retired. THE FORGERY UPON THE CUSTOM-HOUSE.—On Sunday evening Taunton, sen., and Smith, the principal officers, arrived in London, from Taunton, in Devonshire, bringing in their custody, two men, named Maynard and West, whom they apprehended on the charge of being concerned in committing the forgery upon the Custom-house, for which a man named Jones was sent for trial from this office on last Friday se'nnight. On Monday afternoon the prisoners underwent an examination before Sir R. Birnie, when the follow ing facts appeared in evidence, the publication of which may tend to correct the many erroneous state ments which have gone forth respecting this case : It is the practice of the Comptrollers of Customs at the different outports to make monthly returns to the Commissioners of the Custom-house in Lon don of the receipts and expenditure of their respec tive districts, and there are some ports at which the receipts not only are not sufficient to cover the out lay, but which at certain periods of the year requirel considerable advances from the chief establishment to defray the current expenses. Where this is the case the Comptroller of Customs at the port at which the advance is required, sends up what i 3 called a " Precept," addressed to time Chief Commissioners, who sign it, and on its being presented to the Re ceiver General, he gives a cheque upon the Bank of England for the amount required, and it is paid as a matter of course, and the amount remitted to the Comptroller in the country, whose duty it is to send up a receipt by return of post. The Re ceiver-General gives the cheque upon seeing the precept properly signed by the three Commissioners. On Saturday, between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, a precept for 1,973/., purporting to be signed by the Comptroller of Fowey, in Cornwall, and by Mr. Lushington and two other Commis sioners of Customs, was taken to the Receiver- General, who had no suspicion of the genuineness of the document, and who signed a cheque upon the Bank of England for the amount of the precept. On the same day a man presented the cheque at the Bank, it was paid in one note of 1,000/., for 5001., and four for 50/. each, two for I Oct, and the rest in .51. notes and sovereigns. The afternoon, just before the time of closing at 11. Bank of England, a man presented the same nut.• for 1,000/., and one of those for 50/., which had been given for• the cheque from the Receiver-Gen. of Cus toms in the morning, and received sovereigns for the Whole amount. During that same day a young clerk at the Custom-house happened to have the precept in question in his hand, and on looking at the signatures, he expressed a doubt as to that which purported to be Mr. Lushington's, observing that the turn of the last letter was of a different kind from that usually made by that gentleman. This simple circumstance gave rise to inquiry, and it was ascertained that the precept had never passed the: Commissioners, and that their signatures were forged. Smith, the officer, was immediately sent for, and on an examination of the forged precept it was found to be of the same printed form which was used by order of the Custom-house, and printed by the printer regularly employed for the etablisli merit. At the time that this investigation was go ing on, the man Jones, who is now in Newgate as a principal in the transaction, was present with the Commissioners, and was actually sent by them to the printer's, to ascertain if the form of the precept was printed by him, so little suspicion was then en tertained of his having any participation in the for gery. In a few days after, the officer ascertained that one of the .5/. notes, paid at the Bank for the cheque, had been passed by a baker, near Kennington-com mon, to a miller at Dartford, and this note was traced to have been paid by the mother of a female who passed by the name of Maynard, and who lived in Cla tendon-street, Walworth. Smith upon this set a watch upon the house where this woman lived,and found that she and two men, named Maynard and West, with the wife -of the latter and the mother of the former, were all lodging together. For more than a month Smith had two men to watch for Maynard and West but the blinds were constantly drawn close, and they never appeared ; and when the females walked our, their conduct was such as to confirm the suspicions which Smith had previously entertained. At length, one morning, when the system of watching had a little relaxed, the whole party disappeared, but were traced to Hill -street, Kennington-common ; from thence back to Walworth ; and finally to Hoxton, where they bought furniture, arid took apartments sufficient for the whole, at 1/. Bs. per week. In the mean time the prisoner Jones had been apprehended, and, as soon as the statements respecting him had appeared in the newspapers, Smith's emissaries, who were still watching the house at Hoxton, saw symptoms of an intention to remove ; and, yesterday se'nnight, at an early hour in the morning, a broker was called in, and bought the goods, and soon after Mrs. West, Mrs. Maynard (as she is called), and her mother, with two children and a servant, got into two hackney coaches, and were driven to the New North-road, and there put down, and there the officers lost sight of them. The numbers of the coaches, however, were known, and it was ascer tained on the following day, that the women and children had gone to the Bull, in Aldersgate•street, where they were joined by two men, and that they de parted for Taunton, by the North Devon coach. Smith and Taunton left town immediately, and on their ar rival - at Taunton, found West, Maynard, and the whole party at tea at one of the inns. When they entered the room and made known their business, West and Maynard showed great alarm, and at tempted to escape, but were immediately secured. Maynard was particularly agitated, and begged the officers to let him go. The latter ascertained, upon inquiry, that the whole party were bound to Liver pool, and from thence to America. They were conveyed to London in carriages and four, where the women Were discharged and the men were brought up on Monday and re-examined. West was stated then to be the man ,who got the note for 1,0001., and that for 50/., changed at the Bank, and Maynard was proved to have paid one of the 51. notes received for the original cheque to a person on the same day that the money was obtained. Smith and Taunton produced 6971. and some silver, • which they found in the possession or the prisoners. West and Maynard denied any participation in the forgery, and were remanded for further examina tion. _ . In the evening of the same day, Smith took into custody the woman called Mrs. Maynard, and her mother, and they were brought before Sir R. Birnie, and remanded after a short examination. It was said, but we do not pledge ourselves for the truth of the statement, that Jones will be ad mitted on evidence against West and Maynard. MARLBOROU GH-STREET. Yesterday a man named John Monter was brought before Sir G. FARRANT and Mr. ROE, the Magis trates, charged with being the ringleader in a despe rate attack made upon Clements and Goddard, two of the officers belonging to this office, while in the execution of their duty. It appeared that a few days ago a gentleman named \Vhitehead, residing in Saville-place, put an advertisement in a morning paper offering a reward of two guineas for the recovery of a small but beautiful spaniel dog, of the Marlborough or Blen heim breed, which is now almost extinct. On Fri day last, in consequence of this advertisement, a man named Sergeant waited upon Mr. \Vhitehead, and said, that from the description given of the dog in the advertisement, he was sure that he knew the men who had it, and if he (Mr. Whitehead) would give him (Sergeant) something for himself besides the two guineas for the man who really had the dog, be (Sergeant) did not doubt but he would be able to recover the animal. Mr. Whitehead said, that he would not hesitate to give something more than the two guineas if Sergeant would proAuce the dog ; and asked him how he happened to know the man who had the dog. Sergeant replied, that to tell the truth he saw the man who had the dog steal it, and he knew who he was very well, but at the same time it would be quite impossible to recover the dog without the reward. Mr. Whitehead then de manded of Sergeant to know who the man was that had the dog, and told him that as he had seen it stolen, he was a particeps criminis, and if he did not tell where the dog was, he himself should be taken into custody. Sergeant still refused to tell who the man was that had the dog, and he was in conse quence given into the custody of a constable by Mr. Whitehead, and brought to this office, where, before the Magistrates, he also positively refused to divulge where the dog was, although Mr. Whitehead was still ready to pay the two guineas. After being locked up, however, until Saturday, the prisoner Sergeant sent for Mr. Plank, the chief officer, and told him that if an officer were sent with him to a certain place in the city, he had no doubt he could produce the dog, if the two guineas were there paid for recovery of it as advertised; and ac cordingly the Magistrate directed Goddard arid Cle ments to accompany the prisoner in a hackney-coach to the place in question, but still to hold his com mitment, and whether the dog were recovered or not, to bring the prisoner back to the office, in order to his regular discharge. When the officers arrived at Shoreditch with the prisoner and one of Mr. Whitehead's servants to identify the dog if pro duced, the prisoner led them to a public-house called the Feathers, near Shoreditch church ; and on en• tering the house the prisoner led the way on throe; a long passage to a bark parlour, situate in a very retired part of the premises. The prisoner now, as a preliminary to any proceeding for the recovery of the dog, insisted that the two guineas should be placed in the hands of the landlord of the house, to be paid by him to the person who should produce the dog, and Clements accordingly gave the two guineas to the landlord, telling him, however, not to part with them without his (Clements's) sanction. The money thus deposited, Sergeant called to a man who was at the other end of the room, and told him to go and b r ing such a dog, describing it, and that . " was all right," time landlord had the reward. The man thus spoken to went out for a short time, and coon 'returned with Mr. Whitehead's spaniel, which immediately recognized Mr. Whitehead's ser :int, :it'd jumped and fawned upon him with the '1 a.l.ed who was entitled But t hi, ipiestion neither Ser ;:ealit tini the ;:, l n r ho brougllt 'he flor, in would re ply in heir ok, a fawn;, hecaase that ,‘ wild be an ad mission.of their having stolen the dog, and in this state of things the officers said that the most satisfactory way would be for all parties to go again before the Magistrate with the dog, and then the atrair could be arranged without further difficulty. Sergeant, h lwever, declared that he would not go again before any Magistrate for all the police in London; and Plomer, the present prisoner, who brought in the dog, declared the same, and making a signal at the door, in rushed between twenty and thirty of the most desperate thieves in London. The officers now saw that they were in a most peculiar situation, knowing the desperate characters they had to deal with, and they attempted to remonstrate and reason with the gang; but this only made the latter more resolute, who were now coming to close quarters with the officers. The entire efforts of the officers were directed to securing their prisoner Sergeant and the dog; but even in this they had to encounter obstacles which they feared would be attended with the loss of life. A general rush, led on by Plomer, was made by the gang to rescue the prisoner Sergeant from the officers, using the most horrid imprecations and threats. The officers still held their man, while the prisoner himself fought and kicked in the most deSperate way to escape : and so entirely were the officers engaged in defending themselves and holding their prisoner against the dreadful efforts made to rescue him, that they could not manage to handcuff the prisoner, nor could they gain a moment's t►me to draw out their pistols or their staffs. Over and over again were the officers brought to the ground, but as often did they bring their prisoner down with them, and kept fast their hold. The thieves now made a desperate attempt to destroy the poor dog, and drew out knives, with which tl*y. ,were all armed, to cut off its bead, and die officers soon ex pected to have these frightful weapon's directed against themselves. It is only doing justice to Mr. Rymer, the landlord of the house, to state, that in all this conflict he took a decided part with the officers, and fought most manfully in their aid; but the gang was so numerous that they kept Mr. Rymer sepa rated in a great degree from the officers, so that his assistance could not be so availing as it otherwise would have been. His threats, however, and his bold language to the thieves, evidently daunted them, and to Mr. Rymer's conduct the officers mainly attribute the preservation of their lives, and the gang not having used their knives. — When the conflict was renewed in the passage, and the officers nearly exhausted, but still holding their prisoner, who every instant struggled to get at his own knife, to " stick" them, as he said, they called to a soldier of one of the regiments of Life Guards, who was standing at the bar in the passage, to assist them in the King's name,—that they were officers, and that their lives were in danger; but instead of attempting to aid them, although they only required him to hold the prisoner for an instant, while they handcuffed him, the soldier clapped his arms a-kimbo and told them he would see them first. The officers were now nearly overpowered, and must soon have relinquished their hold on the prisoner, and one of the villains had just, too, got hold of the dog to cut his head off, and was forcing it from the servant's aims for that purpose, when Mr. Rymer, with a desperate effort, rushed between them, and suddenly opening a side door that led another way into the 'street, he shoved the officers and the pri soner, followed by the young man with the dog out that way, and the whole tumbled headlong into the kennel, while Mr. Rymer at the same time closing the door, and clapping his back against it, shut the thieves inside ; and to this presence of mind and adroitness on the part of Mr. Rymer, the officers owe their ultimate success. The officers, now in the street, hurried off as well as they could with their prisoner, dragging him along, for he would not walk a single step, but kicked at them still in the most furious manner, while they held his hands to prevent his getting at his knife, and endeavoured to get him to a coach-stand, and force him into a coach, but the gang of thieves here overtook them.. having got out at the front door, and came up with them fortunately as the officers got near the door of a livery stable-keeper's premises, and instantly re newed the attack. The officers called for assistance to the livery stable-keeper .who stood at his gate, and begged to be admitted inside. At first the owner of the place refused to let any such in, he said, but very much to his credit, the moment the officers told him who they were, he admitted them and their pri soner, and shut the gate against all the others, the young man having in the mean time made his escape with the dog. The officers now, being the first mo ment that they could loosen their hold of their pri m soner, clapped a pair of handcuffs on him, and send ing for a hackney-coach, they determined to get him into it. In doing this, however, they were again attacked by the gang who waited for them outside; but the officers by this time had prepared their pis tols, with which they effectually kept the mob at bay, while with the assistance of the livery stable keeper and his men the prisoner was thrust into the coach, which drove off at full speed towards the office, leaving the gang behind. Even in the coach the prisoner renewed his desperate violence, and d►d all he could to kick the officers in a most dangerous place, until at last Goddard was obliged to seize one of the prisoner's legs while they bad him on his back in the bottom of the coach, and hold it by main force over his shoulder, while Clements held the other leg down ; and in this position they kept him until they got to the office, the prisoner bellowing all the way from the pain of cramp. The prisoner Sergeant being thus secured, a war rant was forthwith issued against Plomer, the leader of the gang who attacked the officers, and Clements and Goddard, accompanied by Garton and another officer from Worship-street-office, went to execute it. After a great deal of difficulty, they traced out the fellow's lodgings, but he was not himself at home when they got there, but they found, tied up in his room, another fine spaniel dog and a valuable terrier, both of which, a woman told them, had but recently been brought in by Plomer. The officers brought away these two dogs with them, which no doubt are stolen ; and en their next visit, which was yesterday morning, they found Phonier himself, and brought him away, too, in spite of a desperate resistance; and both himself and Sergeant were fined 101. each for the assaults upon die officers, and in default of payment were committed to the House of Correction for four months. Mr. Rymer returned the two guineas to the oflicers, and Mr. Whitehead has got his dog : so that the thieves lost the reward, the dog, and two of their gang. QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday Mr. Robert Carter, sen., a master builder, of 91, Drury lane, was placed at the bar, before Mr. MARRIOTT, charged with being a party concerned in the tubbing the desk of Mrs. Johanna O'Keefe, deceased, a lady of. fortune, who was a lodger in his house. After examination, the prisoner asked the magis trate if he could not be admitted to bail ? Mr. MAlimovr replied, that it was a most serious charge, and he could not think of such - a thing. The prisoner was then removed to Tothill-fields git prison. The New Monad' Magazine, this month, is peculiarly interesting to those who intend to make an autumnal trip to the Continent. The Sketch of Brussels. in 1829—the Walks in Rome—the amusing and dratrat4 desciiption of Travelling Manners and Society—and the Ramblings of a Desultory Man, would at once beguile the tedious of travelling, and convey sound and practical in formation to the traveller. PUENOM ENON.—Two higglers were the other day disputing over their liquor, when, much to the sur prise of an honest old gentlem in who happened to ov , v hear it, one of them &ere(' t o lag a score of eggs ! ! that his assertion was true. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Our city article refers to some failures in one great branch of our national manufacture—viz•, the woollen, which all must allow to be painful and lamentable, because of the individual distress which they occasion, but which are also spoken of in certain quarters as i❑ the highest degree " alarming." Whom, then ? we ask,—what bodies or classes of men, ought such failures to " alarm ?" This is a question which requires to be distinctly answered. It is still alleged every day in the week, as gravely as if it were not the most notorious of absurdities, that the relaxation of the prohibitory system, with regard to foreign goods, has been one great cause of the distress now experienced by the whole of our manuflic turing and commercial community. If this be so, it must necessarily follow, either that the raw rnateriali on which our weavers and other artisans work have been rendered more difficult of access to their masters, by the substitution of protecting duties on foreign wares for prohibi tions ; or that the foreign wares themselveL. have round an easier access to British consumption in consequence of the same change ; or that tile two effects have been concurrent. Take, for instance, any given branch of industry. was substituted for a prohibition in the case of silk. French silks bad formerly been c4nufz- .41 dot \ Bled into this country, and their safe delivery insured—for a premium of less than twenty per cent.—in spite of the positive prohibition. The British manufacturer, therefore, had to mai!:- tain a competition with the looms of France, aided only by an impost, a smuggler's insurance of 20 per cent. or thereabouts, orr . the .vrought silk, but burdened likewise by an enormous tak On the raw material of almost 4s, in the pound, beyond that which was exacted from his French rival. What, then, was done by the British go vernment ? It imposed a duty of more than 30 per cent. on the wrought silks of France, instead of 20, which hld been levied on the British consumer, by the smuggler ; and it took off, or reduced to a trifle not worth namii,, the oppressive duty on the raw material, hitherto paid by the English manufacturer, giving hint his raw silk for the price abroad and transport. Thus, instead of the raw material being less ac cessible to the British loom, and the foreign wrought fabric more so to the British market, the reverse has been the obvious consequence cat' our " free trade" legislation--free only, inasrnttch as it released the raw silk from fetters, and 'early doubled the weight of those which had seen borne by the French manufactured article. But the silk is not yet a staple of Great Britain. Let us look elsewhere for proofs. What kis "free trade" done to torment the iron-manufic tures ? or the cotton manufactures? or the woollen ? Has a fresh tax been imposed on raw cotton imported into England, or a tax taken off from foreign calicoes or muslins ? Yet the iron trade and cotton trade are severely de pressed, so with the woollens ! The duty on the foreign raw material there was lowered ; yet do we find the woollen houses bankrupt, 12 or 13 at once ! Are foreign woollen cloths, then, imported into England by virtue of free trade re gulations? It would be foolish to say so. We have, then, the silk trade actually extended by the new system. We have cottons, iron wares, and woollens, perfectly untouched by . it, except in so far as raw wool was made cheaper from abroad ; and yet the incendiaries who are wicked enough to recommend to the poor a universal 'spoliation of property wherever they can find it, are so stupid or impudent,as to ,allege that " free trade" has been the cause of our calamities.— Oh ! but there is another cause—the one-pound notes have been called in,—the proper circula tion has been diminished ! Read, then, the history of these same houses in the wool trade, and learn what paper can qualify its votaries to achieve. It is ascertained that the establish ments which have now crumbled into dust were huge dealers in paper—in accommodation paper —and, doubtless, noisy advocates for it ; that they were enakled, through the prevalence of this blessed expedient, to make false sales,—to draw fictitious bills,—to extend from day to day, during many years, the circle of their fraudulent transactions—to multiply the number of their miserable creditors—to aggravate in all its parts the ruin which they could not prevent, from finally crushing their own heads, and the inno cent thousands who trusted them. Such were the sweet effects of bank-note facility upon the business of men who, if they never had enjoyed it, would long ago have been forced to adopt more prudent and honest courses,—to refrain from speculation,—to live within their means, to leave off in time an unprofitable merchandise, or to become bankrupt at an earlier date, and, with less loss to others. The fact is, that there are causes operating which must be looked. at boldly, and represented honestly, if we wish to uphold the state. Our commerce teas on so im mense a scale as to embrace the consumption of the whole world ; but then it required a world's consumption for its aliment. That was a war Condition—an unnatural condition. In peace other countries felt the desire, and saw the pos sibility, of ministering to their own Wants ; and they have been much enabled to supply them selves by the transfer of Briti,,h capital to their dominions. England, therefore, must •sooher or later be content to let their neighbours share largely in that foreign commerce which once (and for years) was exclusively her own. She must contract her manufacturing theatre, and be come less absolutely an instrument of me chanical production ; the transition my be try ing, but it must and will take place. The taxes, moreover, must and will force themselves, and that rudely, upon the minds of statesmen, Eng land now, making allowance far the altered cur rency, raises more money by taxes than at the highest period of the war. Of the revenue so created, a tar larger proportion than at any pe riod of the war goes to the mere payment of in terest on the public securities ; that is to say, a far larger positive sum than when the loans were heaviest, and expences most enormous, Of the revenue so raised, and the burdens endured, a much more formidable portion falls on the mid dling and lower classes now than when the war waa raging. While the taxes have not in fact diminished, the price of labour and the profits on capital have, beyond a question, been fear and the general ability has been fully redrweJ, retrograding, as compared with the general pressure. Such things, we say, must be looked at manfully. They must be stated frankly ; they must be provided for as effectually as it is in human wisdom and virtue to legislate under grievous difficulties. We do not, like some persons, encourage the desperate to feed them selves by robbery, and to defend their spoil by murder ; but we admonish the rulers of the state not to disguise from themselves or others I