The Sun. — London, England, 1829-08-24 00:00:00

SPIILIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. A letter which appeared in our paper of Friday having assigned as a reason for the recent change in the French Ministry a misunderstand ing between the Court and the late Cabinet, re specting the publication in France of the Pope's bull of jubilee, or his " encyclic letter," we have thought proper to insert in another column the . most remarkable passages 'of the latter document. At the same time we are bound to say, that we do not agree with our correspondent in ascrib, ing, either to the bull of the Pope, or to the bigotry of the Bourbons, such a sudden and complete revolution in the councils of France. The Pope may be allowed to have had just about the same influence in this affair as the Grand Turk or Prince Metternich ; but though the Liberals represent the change as a " jubilee" to all three, we do not believe that any of them could claim the merit of bringing it about. Had the clergy of France, acted upon by Rome, pos sessed the power of turning out a Ministry, they would have exercised it on the occasion of the famous ordinances of last year for suppressing the Jesuits, and regulating ecclesiastical semi twits. A great part of the French prelacy, with two Cardinals at their head, protested against these measures, and several Bishops even re fused to be instrumental in carrying one of thn regulations into effect; yet the Court was not terrified into submission, nor induced in a panic to throw its obnoxious councillors overboard. The late bull and encyclic !cur— proceeding as they do from a Pope selected by the French Court, and addressed in such strains of panegyric by its liberal representative M. de Chateaubriand—could not have the effect of turning out a Police Magistrate. The ;titer in question, though high in words in proportion as its author's power has declined, could have oc casioned no difficulty whatever. It is addressed to the prelates of the Catholic church indivi dually, and deals only in general recommenda tions of which the Government may prevent the publication, or interrupt the execution, as it pleases. Neither do we believe that the resolu tion of Charles X. was so sudden—whatever was its motive—as our correspondent represent ed That a change was intended befbre or at the toncluSion of the Session, was evident by the repeated visits of Prince Po!ignac to Paris, and his presence in the French capital when that event occurred. The Royal decree for closing the sittings of the Chamber is dated the 31st of July ; the Royal ordinance for appointing the new Ministry appeared in the Moniteur on the 9th of August. The Pope had nothing to do with these dates.—Times. A contemporary (the Examiner), with re ference to a recent case between a clergyman and a. Nobleman, observes, " That there is not ik civilized country in the wodd, in which so much security is owing to the goodness of hu man nature, and so little to the wisdom of social polity, as in England. The power to oppress is immense, and possessed by a vast number o. hands; but the abuse is held in check by a knowledge of the activity of men's sympathies, and the consequent apprehension of public opi nion. Government with us has so far wan dered from its end that it has become, for the most part, merely a piece of machinery, for the maintenance of the Oligarchy. It taxes the people, supports the Aristocracy, under various false pretences, and leaves the masa of the com munity to provide for their own security in their own way. To afford justice, to protect men against the rapine or malignity of men, is the grand object of Government ; but it is only accomplished to a partial degree, and most benefits those who need it least. The strong are sufficiently armed against the strong, and still more so against the weak ; and for the weak, they are left absolutely without remedy or hope, save in the forbearance of humanity." We remember reading in the agree able and ingenious book on Italy, by the Presi dent Dupaty, an enumeration of the advantages derived by the modern Romans from the utter woahlessness of the administrators of the law. The law, said this Judge, has in every country, been made by the rich, with the view of adding to their superiority over the poor. When the poor man goes to law with the rich man, he is sure to be a sufferer. But in Rome the law is so bad that the poor man is not so stupid as to appea' to it ; he takes justice into his own hands ; and the rich man being more afraid of a knife than the law, is cautious how far he provokes an appeal to the lex talionis. He endeavours in this way to account for the great, comparative in dependence, of the low Romans and Italians in general. If the reasoning of this Judge he any thing near the mark, the lower orders of English ought to be peculiarly independent, for they are ( except in a few districts and tile great towns, where there are courts of conscience) utterly without the pale of the law. We have heard from gentlemen constantly resident in the country statements which go some Way to show that the opinion of the President, paradoxical as it may seem, is not without colour. What they say is, the great mass of the pecyle in the country cannot be reached by the law. A labourer is a pauper in the first place, and, consequently, he cannot be touched in his purse, a powerful means of actin,' on the lower orders when they possess a little" property. Then there is no punishtnent, ex cept in capital cases, which is not a luxury to them. Having thus nothing to lose, and being beyond the reach of suffering, they are, to a certain extent, independent.. A very intelligent gentleman, who resides constantly in the coun try, assured us that a feeling among those of his class that their property is at the mercy of the poor, and that their best protection is the good feeling between them and the poor, naturally prompts them to be on good terms with their neighbours. When a rich man commits a labourer for some offence, lie returns to the neighbourhood, after an imprison ment in the county gaol of a quarter or half-a-year disposed to make his prosecutor sufkr, which inclination he has many opportunities of gratify ing with impunity. So mach for the rich and poor in England. It has been often remarked that extremes beget extremes. From the bosom of corruption, appears new life. Oppression too carries with it its remedy. It is fortunate that there is thus some limit in the nature of things to the dominion of evil. The instance alluded to by our contemporary, as a proof of what a rich man can do in this country by means of law, when lie chooses to set opinion at deflance, may enable those whose imagination s are not active to form some idea of what those who displease our Aris tocratical Governors of Colonies, who trust for impunity to their family influence at home, have to suffer from these beings when they happen to takeLk:l4;la 111 tormenting . their victims. • We could tell some well-authenticated cases of an ingenuity in tormenting, almost super-human, of one who was at the head of a Colony, which would startle our readers.—Morning Cbron. It has become very much the practice, of late years, for landlords at their audits, to return s o much per cent. to their tenants—sometimes 10, sometimes 15, and not unfrequently even 25 per cent; Nothing can prove more forcibly than this practice that the rents of farms arc too high, and that the landlords admit them to be beyond the cabability of the tenant to pay. Rent should bear an equitable proportion to the prices of agricultural produce. In the war, when those prices were high, the landlords raised the rents, and now that the prices are low they refuse to make a proportionate reduction. They prefer taking off so much per cent. from an excessive and impracticable rent, to receiving the whole of a fair and moderate one. What rational object this serves we cannot clearly perceive. It may be that the landlord still expects such a rise in prices must take place as will allow the farmer, • without ruin to himself, to pay the war rent for his farm. But this is not likely to occur with out the artificial stimulus of another war—a mode of renovating the " national prosperity" which only those politicians who arc under the peculiar influence of lunar inspiration would recommend England to adopt. We are convinced that the farmers would be in a more thriving condition than they are if it were not for the exorbitant rents which they are under, at a time when agri cultural produce is low, and taxation, caused by the Debt, excessive.—Morning Herald. The tariff' or scale of import duties lately adopted by the Colombian government, and of which we gave in this paper a slight sketch some weeks ago, is as likely, we suspect, to disappoint those who have passed it, as to prove injurious to the trade of foreigners with the Republic. The declared object of the new tariff is to pro cure for the service of the government a larger revenue than it has hitherto been able to collect from the duties on imports ; and with this view it has increased the rate of the latter ; and, no doubt, hopes to meet with a corresponding increase in their total amount. This is the usual plan adopted by statesmen who are ignorant of the truths of political economy. Their legislation in matters of finance proceeds upon the principle that the people will consume to the same extent whatever may be the price of the article of con sumption, and then to draw the inference that by doubling the duty on imports they will doable the amount received from that source. No rea soning, however, can be more truly fallacious, nor any principle more thoroughly opposed to fact and experience. Two and two do not make four in political arithmetic. Duties and taxes may be doubled or trebled, but it by no means follows that the revenue mill exhibit a similar in crease. The amount of consumption depends not so much on the necessities of a people as on their ability to consume, or, in other words, their means of purchase ; and in a country where the po verty of the population forbids it to indulge in superfluities, and limits its consumption to ar ticles of primary necessity, the inevitable and un varying consequence of an increase of duties, is not only a great declension of consumption, but not unfrequently also a decrease in the amount of revenue collected. Such results have taken place even in this country, and are much more likely to ensue in Colombia, where the augment ed duties cannot operate as a stimulus to domes tic industry, and where the supply of foreign goods is already, from the poverty of the people, limited to little more than actual wants. We should not, therefore, be surprised were the mew tariff to be speedily abandoned, as it has been rashly and unwisely adopted.—Morning Adv. SUMMER ASSIZES. OXFORD CIRCUIT—HEREFORD, Auo. 20. DOE, DELI. GREEN, V. COOKE. This was an action of ejectment, by which the lessor of the plaintiff sought to ascertain the validity of the will of the late Joseph Beddard, of Hill-top, in this county. After a lengthened but uninteresting trial, the Jury found a verdict for the defendant, thereby establishing the validity of the will. WESTERN CIRCUIT—BODMIN, Auc. 20. John Abram, jun., was placed at the bar, charged with having feloniously stolen a sum of 70/. in sove reigns and half sovereigns, the property of Richard Thomas. The Jury acquitted the prisoner. NORTHERN CIRCUIT—NEWCASTLE, Auc. 20. The Commission for the county of Northumber land was opened yesterday. Mr. Justice BAYLEY and Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE attended at church this morning, and afterwards proceeded to court. An assize which presented so small a quantity of busi uess has seldom occurred. There were six causes entered for trial, and Mr. Justice BAYLEY disposed ' of them all (except an indictment for a nuisance, which is fixed for to-morrow) in the space of two hours. Only one case was defended, and none of them pos.sessed the slightest degree of interest. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE, who presided in the Crown Court, tried all the prisoners for the county in the coure of the afternoon. Thomas Dobinson was indicted for feloniously killing and slaying William Johnson, on the 4th of August last. John Johnson stated, that he was the brother of the deceased. Witness did not see the fight be tween his brother and the prisoner, but he saw the former in the stable after the fight was over. De ceased complained very much of his bowels, and said that he was a dying man. Deceased did not Ea) , who had caused it. The fight took place on a Saturday, and deceased died the Tuesday following. The prisoner, when called upon for his defence, stated that he regretted, as much as any man could, the catastrophe of which he had been the cause. He had borne the deceased no ill will, and had lived upon very good terms with him until the day on which the fight took place. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE minutely summed up the case, and the Jury, after a short deliberation, found the prisoner Guilty. The Learned JUDGE, after a suitable address, sen tenced the prisoner to one month's imprisonment. MIDLAND CIRCUIT—WARWICK, Aua. 21. Ann Ash was indicted for bigamy. It was proved that she was married on the 23d of March, 1819, at St. Mary's Warwick, to John Ash; and that she was afterwards married on the 12th of .July, at Coventry, to George Wills, her former husband being still alive. It appeared, however, that Ash had behaved very ill to her, and deserted her, with out leaving her any means of support, in conse quence of which she came upon the parish. Wills, not knowing she was a married woman, took a fancy to her, and the prisoner's destitute situation induced her to accept his proposals of marriage. She was found Guilty, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment. James Hawkins was indicted for stealing an ass. The case having been clearly proved against him, he was found Guilty. Upon being asked what he had to say why he should not receive judgment for his offence, he said he wished the Judge to inquire of Use prosecutor if there were.. not a great wary Irishmen about the neighbourhood at the time his ass was stolen ? This ingenious attempt to raise some doubt as to his guilt, notwithstanding the fact of the animal having been found in his posses session, excited some laughter in Court. John Hawkins, brother to the above prisoner, was convicted of stealing another ass on the same night, the property of a different person. SATURDAY. George Garner, aged 45, was indicted for having at Birmingham, on the 6th of July last, put off to Patrick Martin 32 counterfeit sovereigns, 64 coun terfeit half-sovereigns, and ISO counterfeit half crowns, for less value than their denominations re spectively imported, and knowing them to be coun terfeit. The trial of this case occupied the Court for a considerable portion of the day, and excited consider able interest, mingled with alternate feelings of dis• gust and merriment, produced by the disgraceful but whimsical levity of manner displayed by the princi pal witness, Martin, the accomplice. The follow ing are the leading facts, as stated in evidence : For many years of his life, Patrick Martin, a dealer in feathers, residing at Cork, was in the habit of coming over to Birmingham frequently, and pur chasing large quantities of base coin, which he carried home to his own country and there circulated.-- After desisting from the practice for some time, he resumed his nefarious traffic in March last, when, amongst others, he purchased a quantity from the prisoner, who kept the Roebuck public-house, in Navigation-street, Birmingham. Upon that occa sion he was accompanied by a labouring man, named Owen Sullivan, whom he engaged in his service for the purpose of assisting him in carrying on his busi ness, and to whom he confided the secret of his cri minal dealings. After their return to Cork, Mar tin's daughter was detected in passing a counterfeit sorereign, which she had taken from her father's pocket. This led to an investigation, in the course of which Marti❑ made important disclosures to the sheriffs of Cork, who communicated them to the authorities in this country. It was deemed advisable on their part to accept the tender of his services in detecting as many of the wholesale titterers at Bir mingham as possible; and accordingly Collis, a police-officer at Cork, received instructions to repair to Birmingham in company with Martin and Sulli van, and take measures to concert with them for the apprehensio❑ of such offenders as they should be enabled to bring to justice. They all three arrired at Birmingham towards the end of June, and imme diately commenced operations. They proceeded to the prisoner's house, where he received them with great cordiality. Ile inquired who the third per son was ? Martin said, "he was an honest hearty fellow, of the name of Macarthy." Garner inquired if they might speak of their dealings before him ? Martin said it might be as well not until he came for his own order, as he (Collis) would take 301. worth of goods. Upon which Garner observed that it would not do for him to supply three per sons, therefore M'Carthy's money must come through hint (Martin). A good deal of conversa tion took place, the Irishmen were invited to din ner, and treated with every mark of hospitality.— " We walked in the garden," said Martin, with the most perfect nonchalance, " where we smoked and talked of Ireland and England, and admired the roses and onions, and other things that were growing there. lie asked me how I had disposed of the goods I had had in March. I replied, that I had disposed of them in a moderate way at the cattle fairs. He asked me how the half sovereigns went off? and I said, "best of any." To which he re plied, "he thought so." During this conversation, Collis, who was also in the garden, affected to be admiring the flowers, and was occasionally enabled to overhear a part of it, his repetition of which cor roborated Martin's statement. When an opportu pity offered, Garner inquires! of Martin what " goods" he would order, and was rather disap pointed when the other told him he should not then want more than 30/. worth ; but he held out hopes to hint that he would shortly require 1001. worth.- 11e inquired what were his terms, and Garner re plied that he should have three sovereigns for one (i. c., three counterfeit pieces for one good one); but he did not yet know what the silver would be. Martin represented that his friend M`Carthy, whom he described as a dealer in skins, wanted to go to Coventry to dispose of his stock to the glovers there ; upon which Garner wrote down the names of four of the principal manufacturers in that city for M'Carthy's information, and it was agreed that Martin and Sullivan should accom pany him, to assist in selling his skins, in or der that he might the sooner have money to pur chwe "goods" of Garner. They then pretended to set off for Coventry ; but in fact only went a little way out of town, when they communicated with the solicitor for the Mint. Previously to this Collis had slept two or three nights at Garner's house; and Martin and Sullivan, there being no room for them there, slept at private lodgings. For the remainder of the period of Colis's stay at Bir mingham, he also occupied private lodgings. A great number of minute circumstances and conver sations were detailed by the witnesses, for the Fur pose of affording means of corroborating the testi mony of Martin and Sullivan, but which it is un necessary to introduce here. A day having been fixed for payment of the money, Collis, after search ing the persons of Martin and Sullivan, supplied the ' former with 32 sovereigns, and they then went into prisoner's house. Garner took Martin up stairs ' into a room called the club-room, and Sullivan ac companied them, Martin having insisted that he should be present to witness the payment of the money. Collis went into the parlour, which is un der the club-room. After they had finally arranged as to the terms of the purchase, Martin counted out the 32 sovereigns, in doing which he sounded each of them as loudly as he could upon the table, in order that Collis, who was underneath, might hear the money paid. Garner then promised that he should have " the goods" in the evening. At the appointed hour Martin came and went up to the club-room, " but," said he, when stating this part of the transaction, " I waited, and waited until it struck nine o'clock, when who should walk into the room but a fiddleri"—(Roars of laughter.)—Martin be came indignant at being thus trifled with, and going down stairs he upbraided Garner with ill treating him by not keeping his promise. Garner apologized for the disappointment, and assured him he should hare " the goods" on the following day at eleven o'clock. 'Accordingly, when that hour approached, the three Irishmen repaired to the Roebuck, Collis first taking the precaution of searching the per sons of his two colleagues, a ceremony which he performed in a certain outhouse in the yard. Martin and Sullivan then went in, and Collis, on whom Garner usually kept a watchful eye, went out of sight. Garner informed Martin that he had the sovereigns in his pocket, and the silver " was planted." He then directed him and Sullivan to follow him, to a place which he described, a short distance out of the town. They proceeded along the road until they came to a spot where a plank, placed over a small stream of water, led to a narrow footway between two hedges. Here Garner stopped, and turning up a sod with the point of his umbrella, showed Martin a paper parcel, which he told him to pick up, as it was his property. This was the parcel containing the counterfeit half-crowns, which he had informed him " was planted." He then drew a small parcel, containing the sovereigns and half sovereigns, from his breeches pocket, and handed it to Martin, who gave it in charge to Sullivan; after which they parted, the prisoner returning to Bir mingham, and Martin and his companion proceed ing on towards Bromsgrove. The parcels being delivered to Collis, he sealed them with Mr. Powell's (the Solicitor to the Mint's) seal, and gave them up to that gentleman, who afterwards deposited them with Redfern, a Birmingham constable, by whom they were produced to-day. On examination the parcels were found to contain the different coin set forth in the indictment. Those of each particular denomination were all from the same die. ..... . _ The witnesses Were Cr9ss"e2rtyllincti at some length by Messrs. DENMAN and Mu, on behalf of the pri soner, but nothing was elicited from them, except indi cations on the part of Martin of the most offensive levity. His wife, he said, had a pension of 2s. 6d. a day, and he therefore felt himself bound to support Go vernment ; that, and a love of justice, were the only motives that induced him to betray his former friends. When the witness Collis was giving his testi mony, and stating those parts of the conversation between Martin and the prisoner which he had over heard, he kept his eyes on some small pieces of paper, which lay before him ; Mr. DENMAN enquired what those were ? Witness—l wrote them after the conversation took place; as often as any thing oc curred, I retired to the muses, and took a note of it. Mr. DENMAN—Retired to where ? Witness—To the muses. Mr. DENMAN—What does the fellow mean ? Arc you a poet, friend ? Witness—No, Sir; but I call a certain convenient house in the - yard " the muses."—(lmmense laughter.) Mr. DENMAN—Oh, 1 beg your pardon. You are the Apollo of that mount, are you ?—(lncreased laughter,in Which his Lordship most heartily joined.) Lord 1 ENTERDEN having minutely summed up the evidence, the jury, without any hesitation, re turned a verdict of Guilty. William Davenport was indicted for haring, at Birmingham, on the 2d of July last, put off to Patrick Martin 20 counteifoit sovereigns, 28 counterfeit half sovereigns, 240 counterfeit half-crowns, and 719 counterfeit shillings, for a less sum than such coin by its denominations respectively imported, and well knowing it to be counterfeit. The details of this case are little morethan a repeti tion of those of the preceding one. Verdict, Guilty. Placebo Smith and William Rolland were indicted for putting off to the same man 30 counterfeit sove reigns under similar circumstances, on the 9th July last.—The Jury found them both Guilty. The male prisoner is nephew to the woman, who, with her whole family, have been engaged in this guilty trade for a great number of years. Garner, Davenport, Holland, and Smith, were then brought up to receive judgment. His LORDSHIP pointed out the cruel consequences io poor, industrious, honest people, who were cheated out of the fruits of their labour by having this base coin passed upon them. He sentenced the three men to transportation for seven years each, and the woman, she having been convicted on a pre vious occasion, to transportation for life. George Bromley ‘Tas indicted for uttering a coun terfeit half sovereign, knowing it to be such, he having been previously convicted of being a common utterer of base coin. The prisoner was found Guilty, and sentence of death recorded against him. Lord TENTER - DEN informed him he would re commend his life to he spared, hut he must never expect nn opportunity of passing bad money in this country . . These assizes terminated at a late hour t his evening. ISLE OF ELY-WISBEACH, Aui. 18. John Strickland and - Parker were indicted on two different indictments tor accusing, and threatening to accuse, John Gay and Matthew Doggett, of an unnatural offence, with a view to extort money from them. One indictment laid the extortion and threatening to extort to have taken place on the 4th of May last : the other laid the ex tortion and threatening to extort to have occurred on the sth of - the same month. The indictment laying the charge of extortion on the 4th was first tried. Verdict—Not Guilty. _ _ Mr. PRYmE then stated to the Court that tlu re was a second indictment found by the Grand Jury, laying the offence of intimidation and extortion, on the .sth of May, and required that the prisoners might be detained to nudergo their trial for the off lice committed upon that day. They were accordingly tried next day on this in dictment and found Guilty. . . . 'I he CHIEF JUSTICE ordered the sentence of death to be recorded. THE MURDER OF WILLIAM EDDEN. (From the Bucks Gazette.) It will be recollected by our readers that Wm. Edden, gardener, of Thame, was found dead 014 the road between Aylesbury and Thame, about a year ago, under circumstances which strongly induced a suspicion that some villains had way laid and murdered him. On Saturday, the 25th of October, 1828, Edden came to Aylesbury market with a horse and cart, in which he had some trees, a sack of potatoes, and other produce of his garden, for sale. He did not succeed in selling his trees, and returned towards Thame with them in the evening, when a man named Bass, who lives at Haddenham, rode with him as far as the turning to Haddenham, which is about four miles from Thame. Bass left Edden sitting in front of his cart, and jogging on behind the cart of the Ox ford newsman, which had passed him on the road, and was then a little in advance of his own vehicle. When Bass left him it was about six o'clock. About eight o'clock, W. King, a straw-plait dealer, and his son, were coming from Thame to Aylesbury, and saw a cart, which afterwards proved to be the deceased's, in a knoll of the road, about a mile from Scotsgrove-mill ; no horse was in the shafts, and the harness lay on the ground. About three-quarters of a mile on the road towards Aylesbury they saw a man lying on the ground, who, as they passed him in their cart, exclaimed, " Oh Lord ! Oh God !" to which he added something else, which was not distinctly heard. King, however, being fearful, did not alight, but drove by without stopping. The dead body of Edden, or, as he was more frequently called by his associates, " Noble Edden," on account of his handsome and portly appearance, was found near this spot on the same night, and conveyed to a public house at Haddenham, called the Cider House. An inquest was here held on the deceased, and the Jury returned a verdict, "That the deceased had been murdered by some person or persons unknown." This verdict, we then remarked, was fully justified by the evidence ; for, besides the facts above given, it was proved that a cry of murder was heard by William Plater, a man who was grubbing a root in a field at a considerable distance from the turnpike-road about the time the foul deed must have been perpetrated. It was also proved that Edden's death was caused by a fracture of his ribs, which had penetrated the right lobe of his liver ; and coupled with this fact, was the appearance of the deceased's clothes, which, though soiled in some parts with dirt, had on that part which covered the fatal wound only one mark, which seemed rather to have been caused by a kick or blow with something muddy, than by the wheel of a cart passing over him. Added to this was the evidence of William Saw, a labourer, who, early on Sunday morning, ex amined the marks on the road, near the spot where the body was found, and observed the print of a mans hand holding a stick without a knob impressed in the mud—the marks of seve ral steps as if persons. had been " paddling about and slipping with their toes,"—and a mark which seemed to have been made by small-ribbed stockings, and which could not have been made by those of Edden, the stockings he wore not being ribbed. The harness of Edden's horse ' (including even the collar) was found unbroken to the shafts of hi s cart , an d t h e h or se, hadl ng, These facts certainly bore out the Jury iu I their verdict, though many_ persons have since expressed an opinion that the deceased, who was a little tipsy, fell from his cart, and the wheel going over him, thus inflicted the injury of which he died. We will now relate the facts which led to the apprehension of the persons charged with this murder. It has for some time been rumoured at Thame that a man named Solomon Sewell, whose character does not stand very high, un connected with any suspicion of his being con cerned in Edden's death, was a short time ago in an hospital at London, and that during that time, in a fit of remorse, he wrote a letter to his father and mother, who keep a tripe shop at. Thame, requesting that ,he might be brought clown, and he would then give an account of the manner in which Edden met his death.— During the late hay harvest Sewell procured employment at Sudbury, and a woman named Elizabeth Jones, who usually resides at Thame, and had some previous acquaintance with - him, was also engaged there. Some degree of inti macy existed between them on account of their previous acquaintance, and Jones having heard the report of Sewell's being concerned in the murder of Edden, told him of it, and added, that the constables were coming to take him into custody. Sewell imme diately replied, with an oath, that if he were ap prehended, it should not be long before another person, whom he named, was in custody with him. Jones, after the hay-harvest, returned to Thame and mentioned this conversation, and Seymour and Edden, two active constables' of Thame, immediately took measures for Sewell's apprehension. After some ineffectual attempts, Seymour secured him at Moreton on Sunda\ morning, and brought him to Thame. When first apprehended, Sewell denied all knowledge or participation in Edden's death, but in the course of Sunday night he made a statement to the persons who were guarding him, which was to the following effect :—That on the evening Edden was murdered he was walking towards Haddenham-field, and fell accidentally into com pany with a man named Benjamin Tyler (better known by the nickname of Nouch), who had a coal-hammer in his hand. He (Sewell) aked him what he was up to. Tyler replied, he was going to meet Noble Edden, and Sewell might as well go along with him. They then conti nued to walk together until they heard the noise of cart-wheels, and met Edden's cart, when Tyler went up to Edden and demanded his money. Edden answered, the money he had was but little, and that little he should not have. A scuffle then ensued between Tyler and Ed den : upon which he (Sewell) ran away across the fields, and went to his home at Thame.— Upon his arrival there he went to bed immedi ately, and did not get up until the next morning, On Monday, Sewell was examined before W. H. Ashurst and H. W. Henley, Esqrs., Ma gistrates for the county of Oxford, when he gave a statement similar to that which he made to his guards, and which, we understand, has been re duced to writing. A very minute investigation took place, which was continued on the following day, and which terminated in the commitment of Sewell to Aylesbury jail for re-examination, on suspicion of the murder, and in a warrant being issued for the apprehension of Tyler. The latter was apprehended the same day at Uxbridge, and was brought to Thame on 'Wednesday ; he en tered the town waving his hat and huzzaing. On Thursday he underwent a brief examination before H. W. Henley, Esq., who committed him also to Aylesbury jail for re-examination. The prisoner Tyler, like Sewell, bears but an indifferent character. His ostensible trade was that of a hurter; he was accustomed to travel with oranges, salmon, &c. for sale. Since the com mitment of Sewell, it is said that he has shewn symptoms of being insane. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. DEVONPORT, AUG. 22.—Admiral Earl Northesk re-hoisted his flag on board the Britannia on Satur day last, having returned from the Westward on that day, in the Meteor steamer. His Majesty's brig Briseis, 10, has been commis sioned at Woolwich for the packet service. Lieut. S. Downing and Mr. T. E. Ring, Assistant-surgeon, are appointed to her. In Hamoaze—Britannia, Kent, Trinculo, Light ning, Leveret, Swallow, Eclipse, and Meteor steamer. Lieut. R. L. Warren is appointed to the Victory. Lieut. G. M. Hunter has come home in the Le veret, invalided from the Harpy, in the West Indies, Po RTSMOUTII, AUG. 22.—The Ganges, 84. Captain Inglefield, with the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Waller Otway, K.C.8., who has been succeeded in the command of the South American station by Rear-Admiral Baker, C. 8., arrived at St. Helen's on Thursday evening, from Rio de Janeiro, which she left on the 28th June, at which time all was quiet, politically, in the Brazilian Em pire, and trade was recovering. Not the slightest preparation was made, nor any contemplated, to in terfere with the revolution in Portugal—in fact, the Emperor Pedro found himself utterly incapable of fitting out an expedition for this purpose, being des titute of ships, men, and funds requisite for so distant a service. The Ganges has brought home the British Ambassador to the Court of Brazils, Lord Ponsonby (and Lady), and about 18,0001. sterling, in specie, on account of the Brazil Mining Company. Lord Ponsonby landed yesterday, under the cus tomary salutes from the Ganges and the garrison, and proceeded to :London. His Lordship has left Henry Aston, Esq. Charge d'Affaires at Rio, to protect the British interests. The Warspite, Rear-Admiral Baker ; and Cad mus, 10, were at Rio when the Ganges sailed thence, together with the Duquesne, 80, Rear-Ad miral Baron Rossin ; Caroline, 60, Rear-Admiral Greville ; Nymph, 44 guns; and a store ship, French (the Duquesne is now on her passage to Brest) ; also the American ships, Hudson, 60; and the Van deleur, 24. The Boston, 44, should have been there also ; but it was believed that her crew had mutinied, and had taken the ship to the United States, on a plea that their term of foreign servi tude had expired. The English frigate, Tribune, she is to go into the Pacific. By the last advices , the presence tteh.e WhenTheti s,thCeapta latterin inela Wilson i l b e s e o r n t i l s: s e p r a e l P i n d s l a e d With, Bingham ,C ship's a Captain John vi a c r e e s of an English force at Buenos Ayres was highly necessary, as the marines of the ship had been landed as a personal guard fer,the safety of the British Con sul and his family, so much was the city and coun try disturbed by political divisions. Many stroll., parties were mere bands of robbers. The French inhabitants had been obliged to enrol themselves into an armed police, and all the British merchants had barricadoed their houses and stores. The Maria Isabel, Brazilian corvette, Captain Pascoe Grenfell (mounting 28 heavy carronades), arrived here from Rio Janeiro, on Wednesday, with the Marquis de Palma, Chamberlain to the Queen, who is intended to act in the place of the Marquis de Barbacena. This vessel, which left Rio on the 20th of June, was formerly a steam-vessel, named the Fulton. Th e Galatea frigate, Captain C. Napier, C.B. was in lat. 13 N. long. 30 W. and all well on the 28th ult. After quitting Madeira she made Tene riffe, having in vain been in search of the pirates. Qff the Cape de Verdes, however, she fell in with two frigate-looking ships, but which it does not ap pear she was enabled to board, though she was cleared for action, is the event of a necessity. It L was presumed they were large slavers. She called at St. Jago, but could not hear of any suspieil vessels; subsequently she boarded a beauthad schooner, manned by 'Portuguese and French, o l ! found on board of her a few shackles, but as t° schooner had no appearance of buccaneering:, she could not be detained, though evidently a. S 1 0 %; adapted to carry 300 slaves. It will be yet sol °7 time before the Galatea reaches Jamaica. The Philomel, 10 guns, will call at Spithead is the course of next week, on her way to the Meditet• ranean ; the Challenger frigate, and Sulphur Wroth by the last advices from the Cape, had gone 0 0 t° Swan River; the Dartmouth frigate was at Gib raltar on the 26th ult.; the Druid frigate had arrive d at Jama;ea, from the Havannah, her voyage homeward; having been delayed in consequence of the late acci dent to the Barham. The Pearl, 18, Commander Blake, arrived 'Yr day from Cork, for the purpose of undergoing soffit' alteration in her equipment. The Lightning steamer arrived on Sunday from the Eastward, and returned again on Monday. On anus also arrived the Onyx, l i Arrow,ancsh,iacutters, fro l L m O, ac ie ru u i t ;e ß . Vice- Admiral 'Grath Colpoys is appointed t ° succeed Vice-Admiral Fleming in the command Off the West India station, which, it is said, in future , will comprehend the Halifax and Newfoundland command ; he will hoist his flag in the Winchester, of 52 guns, at Chatham, which ship is to be cool' missioned by Captain C. J. Austen. 'I he (lilypso brig is ordered for the Packet Set"' vice. Lieutenant Richard Peylon is appointed t° the command of her. Lieutenant John Downey, t ° the Bliseis packet-brig, at Woolwich ; Lieutenant Codrington, to the Prince Regent. The Claudine convict-ship arrived on SaturdaY) at Plymouth, from Woolwich, and in the t'ot'ti n g i one hundred and twenty convicts were er o6°l7 ' -e th from the Captivity, for conveyance to Near S"" Wales. Lieutenant Robert Loney is appointed to mand the Vigilant ketch, vice Jones. Lieute na a t i. James Rusden is placed on the out-pension list 17 Greenwich, vice Lieut. Gyon, promoted. Messrs. M'Dermott, R. SimmOnds, J. Pinhota' John Williams, Sandercome, M`Dravidge, Bake' Thorne, Gay, and Lawes, have been promoted the rank of Purser. By letters from Simon's Town, Cape of Goo d Hope, of the 26th June, the Civil Commissione o had assembled to receive the annual taxes. The tevenue books, under the government of his Excel' lency Sir Lowry Cole, being no longer kept $ secret, it was discovered that the fines levied tut July, 1827, upon the retailers in that to"°' amounted to twelve hundred rix dollars, besides es' peaces, only one quarter has been credited in the Governtnent books. The inhabitants have .o' ll remonstrated, an inquiry was on foot, and the result' no doubt, will prove, the value of a Governor ivi lu permits the contributor to taxes the opportunity f seeing a just entry made of his contribution --4 permission which sill check the too previliug ar l " tem of peculation in an infant colony, and by thoSs who call the Governor his friend. It is understood as a probable event that th i ! s country is on the point of acknowledging Don Di e , f tt' guel as the rightful ruler of Portugal, and that Lo Strangford will be sent forthwith, in the Briton ri' gate, as an Ambassador to Lisbon. The report in circulation, that a reinforcemen t to to be made to the Russian squadron now in the tie' ' diterranean, by ships from the Baltic, is, we think' incorrect, no intimation having been given to the Consulate here that any more ships are to be expected' The young Queen of Portugal is expected to ar rive at the George on Tuesday ; after which the sr' rival here of the Etnpress of Brazils may be hou rl y expected. The Fox, 46 guns, and Rapid and Recruit, ten guns each, were launched from this dock-yard on Monday. The Naiad, 46 guns,it is expected, will shortly be commissioned by Capt. W. G. Hamilton, C.B• The Medical Establishment at Bermuda is or tiered to be done away with. The Court Martial on Capt. Dickinson willow" mence its proceedings on board the Victory, O tt Wednesd y next. a rtis t The Hope, Amphitrite, and 'William transports, _are ordered to take the 83d Regime°, from Gouport to Leith. It is supposed th e 30t" Regiment will relieve them from Albany Barrachs. Ships at Spithead—Gauges, Briton, and Pe" l ' and three Brazilians. In the Harbour- -Y Melville, and Onyx. The Earl of Erroll and the Findhot n arrived to" day from Riga. The Triumph, Gleen, free trader, for the Ch er and Bombay, arrived this morning to take _the passengers, and will proceed on her voyage on lvt day or Tuesday. The Thalia, Biden, for Calcutta, is daily expected. Passed by, on Monday, for the River, the Civi" Tian, Blair, from Batavia, on the 24th February; °II Wednesday, the Company's ship Rose, MarquessP from Bengal, 22d March. i•• On Monday sailed for St. Peterabugh, the Ai r ton, Burnett; John, Little, and Dryad, Swinbuto• On Monday arrived the Maria Margaretta, son, from Altona ; on Thursday arrived the Ito Simpson, from Norfolk, in Virginia, in 41 days; t ' n the Dorotheys, Peacock, from Matanzas. The New York packet-ship Robert Edwglf ds ' Sherborne, from London for New York, took he r er sengers on board on Thursday, and sailed immediate 1' IRRESISTIBLE ARGUMENT.--01111 Of A' , FOLEON'S Ministers proposed to him that General A., ‘`"" under the ancient regime, had been in several cgropairel should be appointed to a chief command, baving.oWird the necessary talents from his former services. "Acqu it ' t . ; Monsieur?" replied NAPOLEON, "" those talents' are 0 , acquired, they are born with heroes. Consult. Marceo' de SAXE ; he rill tell you that an ass whO bad ee through twenty campaigns with CJES4It would, neverthr less, be an ass still in the o ne-and-twentieth." EXECUTION IN LIAIERICK.•—•OII Monday , pursuant to sentence, JAMES Aluaratv was executed front of the county Limerick gaol, for the murder of ir .r MOTIIY NEAL, at BAllinahinch, on the 12th of AP I. " The unfortunate culprit appeared reconciled to bis (stet and did not speak as to his guilt or innocence of the critre• —Dublin Morning Register. BIRTHS. On the 21st inst. in Chancery-lane, the hdy cf Deacon, Esq. of a daughter. On the 22d inst. Mrs. A. Taylor, of Basinghall-strettP of a son. On the 234 inst. the lady of R. W. Williams, Esq. Hatton garden. On lady the 19th inst. at Samlesbury, Lancashire, t he of the Rev. P. C. Law, of a daughter. rd of The lady of the Master of Pembroke-college, Ox ford a daughter. MARRIED. T. On the 22d inst. at St. Mary-at-Hill, London, Mr. o f Pocock, of Htitesbury, Wilts, to Martha, daug hter the t lae W. Pie, Esq. of Gre Bedwin. On the 21 st k inst. at St. Sat aviouys', Southwark, °/6 Rev. S. Benson, M.A. to Miss H. Waller, of Peckba ll % On the 20th inst. at Liverpool, Charles, youngest,,„-r of T. Booth, Esq. of TOxteth-lodge, to Emily, daug' of T. Fletcher, Esq., Liverpool. ,r a sh On the 21st inst. at Dunmow, Essex, Wro• op, Woodham, Esq. of Shepreth, Cambridgeshire , to -- Fuller, of Dunmow. DIED. On the 21st inst., in the 48th year of her age , the •1, CI Mr. M. D. Rucker. •On the 22d inst. in Albemarle-street , Harriet Ml° tie wife of E. Johnson, Esq. of Greenhill, Weyino ut %. On the 21st inst. at Kensington Palace, Caroline Afi'red 16, the wire of Mr. C. Ronalds, of King's Arms -'4 London, aged 2 the Oz elo tl v ie ed 2 l l v s i t fe in 7. o s f t . . J , ose af i t ) e a h r T f r e o N u v g d h a t y o is n ' , illness, oCfhparolorstiet square, universally esteemed and regretted. On the 17th inst., Jane, eldest daughter of the late Phs Baldoek, Esq., formerly of Maidstone. PAINTED and PUBLISMED by MURPO.IiaUITG, at di ° CoincE, 112, 15TAAIin, ii .)10014' r