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and Counsel in abundance: and in nine cases out of ten in an English Court, a guilty man with a purse has a much better chance of escape than an innocent man without one. The Judge is oaturally anxious, too, to get through the business as fast as possible, and it cannot be expected that when he sees matters proceeding smoothly on towards conviction, he should start any difficulties, or institute any inquiries calculated to produce delay. Besides, a Crimi nal Court, except in very peculiar instances, soon generates in all who are connected with jt a happy indifference to the fate of prisoners. The progress in callousness is distinctly perceptible in the difference between one of the twelve Judges who only now and then attends at the Old Bailey, and a Recorder who is inured to the trade. Dr. Ryan observes, that when the prisoner was brought up to receive sentence, the Chairman (Mr. Cons) " publicly admitted that the evidence offered since the conviction seemed to nullify the whole proceedings. He very humanely requested the prisoner's Counsel to be sent for ; but as that gentleman was en gaged in another Court, the law took its course, the Chairman observing to the prisoner that lie had a fortunate escape in not being indicted for the capital charge." What a lucky fellow yeu are in not being hanged, as it was as easy to have hanged you as not. You cannot repine at being only sentenced to half a year's imprison ment, especially when you bungled matters as you did. When you come before us again, you will be better able to manage your defence, and will know too well the value of good witnesses to throw them away as you have now done.— Morning Chronicle. We observed yesterday that the best way of weaning the people from gin is to let them have good beer, and that they cannot have good beer as long as the licensing of public-houses is com mitted to Magistrates. On this subject there is an article in the Edinburgh Review for Sep tember, 1826, by one of the cleverest writers in England : " Come we now (says the Review) to the great argument used—we are very sure very conscien tiously, by many most respectable Magistrates—the morals of the poor. But why are two portions of beer good of its kind, drunk at two public-houses, more productive of immorality than the same quan tity, and of worse quality, consumed in one public house ? But the competition, it may be urged, would improve the commodity, and so increase the temptation. May be so, and particularly at first it might be so ; but you have no right to treat the poor like children, and hold them in such a state of tutelage. First you lay a tax on public-houses to prevent their rapid increase ; you prevent fiddling, chuck-farthing, and every collateral temptation ; you require from the publican the strongest recommen dation of character; you take away his license if tippling is encouraged; you punish every individual bet of drunkenness; you commit a man to prison if he neglects to support his wife and family; and then, as if all this was not enough, you drive a man into sobriety by encouraging unrivalled landlords to sell bad beer ! For if the' beer were no better under A new system, there would be no increase of tempta tion ; and if the beer would be better under a new system, then it is worse under this system ; and the means taken (in addition to a thousand penal ties) to make the poor sober, is by making what they drink filthy—which appears to us the consum ;nation of cruelty and injustice. must it be forgotten that bad beer leads to the gin bottle, and that monopoly makes bad beer. If the people cannot procure good malt liquor, they inva riably have recourse to spirituous liquors. It is of the greatest importance to the health and morals of the common people that they should be kept from the gin-bottle ; and there is no other method of doing it than a perfectlyfree competition in the mant!fac- Sure and sale y . beer. If I want to keep an ale house, you have a fair right to inquire into my cha raeter---a fair right to prevent me turning a house of refreshment into a house of gambling and de bauchery—a fair right to prevent me selling at all if it abuse my privilege. Again, if I am a guest at ari alehouse, and expose myself by drunkenness, put me in the stocks. If my wife and children are neg lected, put me upon your mill. But if all is quiet— if there is no complaint against me, it is no concern of yours how I dispose of the money earned by my labour. You have no right to make laws which subjectime, before I have committed any crime, to all the vexations of an odious monopoly. This is not parental care, but meddling interference with freedom of action There is no end to this mischievous meddling with the natural ar rangements of society. It would be just as wise to se t Ma g iactstres to digest for mankind, as to fix for them in what proportion any of their wants should h a su pplied. But there are excellent men who wou ld pl a ce the moon under the care of Magis trates, in order to improve travelling, and make Pings safe and c omfortable." We should not be surprised, if at the Meet ing thi s day in the London Coffee-house, some of the speakers were to lose sight of the great business of repealing the Malt and Beer Duties, but, above all, rendering the trade perfectly free, and to propose what would only add to the evil —a restriction on gin-shops, to balance the re sttrictiOn on the sale of ale. We wish to see a preference given to ale and beer; but sure we - are that till ale and beer be of:better quality_which under the monopoly system is not\to be looked for—gin will continua to be drunk. The real gin-drinker will not be drisen from his beverage; but the poor, to whom spirits Are necessary—as for instance, the class of persona who attend snarkets in the morning, and are exposed to wet anti cold—may be made to pay more than they now p•iy. Is not this injustice I Is it not cruelty ? What right has any class of men to lay down the Law in matters of taste to others? We would not trust Magistrates with the smallest siideeretionary power oyes the supply of any wants of the paople. To give them such a power is ge,oss tyranny. The poor man is as much en ; Weil to prescribe what ought to find its way to the Magistrate's table, as he is entitled to pre scribe what aught to be on the poor man's. It is time we laid aside the besetting cant in this country, of all labooring at the correction of our neighbours' vices instead dour It is certain that neither Mr, O'Connell nor Mr. Sheil can come pure and stajnie.ss, tts pa triots ought to be, out of the affair of the Wa terford representation. The latter gentleman has, indeed, acted a more direct part than his learned colleague in accepting the Beresford gold at once, and not " higgling about the price at which his services were to be purchased, This was, so far, open and candid, though his ac cepting the fee under any circumstances seems to have disappointed those of his Irish admirers, who, notwithstanding his share in the delin quency of the " wing project" in -1825, had still believed that his patriotism was above the vulgar temptation of money. As to Mr. O'Connell, though lie is greatly offended at its being said that he ‘, huxtered" for a better fee, it is only cavilling at a term, for he cannot deny that he threw out hints sufficiently indicative of his wish to have a mote liberal offer before he broke off the negotiation. It would have been mor manly and respectable in him to have at one accepted or declined the offer, instead of re ma i l : li ng for a time, like the puzzled animal o the schoolmen, in a state of motionless indec. sion between the opposite attractions of pa triotism and pounds sterling. Mr. Shell hav ing accepted the terms offered by the Beresfords, thinks himself bound to vindicate the part which he has taken. As a lawyer his conduct requires no vindication—as a patriot it can receive none. It is in vain to write long letters upon the sub ject : the question resolves itself into a very nar row compass. It comes simply to this point, whe ther a champion of popular rights is to accept a fee against the people whenever he pleases to merge the character of the patriot in that of the lawyer? The of the hater is virtus post nummos, ,bpr the former professes to be governed by a nobler principle of action. Now there can be no doubt that Mr. Shell had a perfect right as a lawyer to act as he did. In such capacity it was _ _ _ nut only his inclination but his duty to sell Ilk services for the best price they could bring ; but, as a leader of the people, he had a prouder in clination to consult, and a nobler duty to fulfil. He had repeatedly pledged himself, in facie po puli, to sacrifice his private interests to the altar of his country. He had repeatedly described the Beresfords as not only the opponents of reli gious freedom, but of every plan of public re form which he had undertaken to support. He had joined Mr. O'Connell in the outcry against that family as the domineering rulers of the county of Waterford. He had been, we believe, a soldier of the crusade which the excited Priest hood raised against them among the forty-shilling freeholders. The Beresfords were beaten—their political power sickened, but it did not expire. An opportunity has occurred for reviving their family ascendancy in the county. They wished to make that opportunity secure. With more policy than pride they made pacific overtures to those " champions of liberty" who had on a former occasion sounded against them the tocsin of political battle—cedant arena fogey. The professional fee disarms the champion. Over the white robe of his " Roman virtue" Mr. Sheil throws his lawyer's gown—he hides his patriotic laurels beneath the curls of his wig, and thus equipped he prepares to re-seat the Beresfords once more in the chair of their Parliamentary influence, and to put his shoulder to the wheel of their power, regardless how it may crush in its motion the " rights of his countrymen." We take the description of the public character of the Beresfords from the speeches of Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Sheil. For ourselves, we believe they possess as many public and private virtues as those who have been most noisy and violent for some years back in holding them up to the hatred of the Irish people. We ask what the country obtained by the enormous agitation which transferred their Parliamentary honours to Mr. Villiers Stuart ? Has nobody but a Beresford made a property of the votes of Waterford electors ? We think the Beresfords were guilty of an act of political weakness in soliciting the services of men who for years had exhausted upon them all the vocabulary of their invective. acted with that cunning which is not wisdom ; they have humbled themselves to the " great Agitator" only to experience a larger measure of his exasperated denunciation. We give to-day a letter of Mr. Lawless upon the sub ject, and have now, for our own part, done with a transaction, which, viewed in whatever light it may be, is not a pleasant subject of moral or political contemplation.—Morning Herald. It is painful to us, as we know it cannot be very entertaining to our readers, to be calling their attention day after day to numerous acts of oppression which are heaped upon the Licensed Victuallers of the metropolis, through the medium of an oppressive law, and by the instrumentality of a band of miscreants, who live by plundering them. In the account under the head Hatton garden it will be seen, that no sooner are these wretches hooted out of one office than they en deavour to find shelter elsewhere, and thus that a Licensed Victualler, however unjustly accused, may be r.ummoned to attend at two different police-offices to answer at the same hour and moment for the self-same offence—nay, be con victed at the one, although he may be acquitted at the other, on the production of competent witnesses, who, however, cannot be in two places at the same time. It appears now also that Formations for offences may be so loosely worded—naming neither day nor hour—that a consientious man cannot take upon himself safely to plead not guilty to the charge which may be brought against him, however unfounded it may be. Such are only a few of the hardships of which we -complain, and against which we' would fain hope that - the Licensed Victuallers of the metropolis would take note, in order to procure their redress. A representation to Mr. Peel, we are confident, would do much good ; but, failing that, to the Legislature itself, which, however erroneously it may have legislated, as suredly never meant to place an industrious body of men at the mercy of wholesale informers and their supporters, and which, we need not ob serve, only requires to have their condition repre sented in order to do them justice.—Morning Advertiser. Some of our Contemporaries are tormented themselves, and strive to torment others, by the apprehension that the country is hastening to wards ruin ; that all its interests are in a state of hopeless suffering and rapid decay ; and that nothing but a total change in the established sys tem of commerce and. currency can arrest the overwhelming torrent of national calamity, of which their distempered imaginations picture to them the daily and unceasing inroad. These reasonings are a little perplexed by the present state of the National Securities, which indicate that the majority of mankind take a less gloomy view than that which they have so often and so earnestly endeavoured to present of public affairs, and much mortified to discover that unabated ' confidence in the resources of the country is manifested, notwithstanding all their ingenious speculations, and bold assertions, and confident predictions, by a class of persons whose interest ought to render them peculia rl y sensitive to the I first end slightest symptoms of real danger. It is true rip dpubt, as our gloomy contemporaries inform us, that the pipe of the Funds from time to time is not a very accurate standard by which to judge of the immediate prosperity of the country. The low rate to which the profits of capital; and consequently the interest of money, are reduced during 4 period of commercial stag nation—the large amounts of floating capital waiting for e mployment during such a state of things—the hesitation and timidity which damp the ardour and limit the operations of individual enterprise, are, as they truly say, so many induce ments to the capitalist to resort to the National, Securities, and content himself with such a rate of interest as he can obtain by this secure species of investment. Hence a high price of the Funds is not an unnatu r a l coneomitant of a very general stagnation of commerce and manufag. tures, and of a very severe depression of the active and industrious classes of the commu -1 pity. What we contend, therefor., is merely that a high price of the Funds, in a country' situated in all respects as England is, establishes the fact, not perhaps that the existing stagnation is of a temporary nature, but that it is firmly believed to be so by a large majority of those whose experience and opportunities of observa tion best qualify them to judge on such a sub ject. The price of the National Securities cannot be adduced as a proof of actual pros perity, but it may very fairly and conclusively be employed to correct the exaggerations or dis • sipate the alarm of those who pretend or believe that the acknowledged depression is permanent and fatal. If we consider the amount of foreign capital, together with that of the Jews, which is neither British nor foreign, but cosmopolitan, invested in the British Funds, it seems impos sible to doubt that any symptoms clearly indica tive of a progressive decay of the national re sources would produce a rapid and permanent fall in the price of Stock. With respect to these large, intelligent, and well-informed classes of fundholders, the influence of patriotism or habit is wholly out of the question. They pursue their own interest without bias or interruption from prejudice or attachment. It is the action of these impartial judges upon the securities of different nations which we believe mainly deter mines the relative value of each ; and as in fact the prices of the British Funds remain much higher in proportion to the income derived from them, than those of the public securities of any other nation, we think we are entitled to con clude, that in the estimation of the best and most impartial judges that can be found in Europe, the resources of the British Empire are neither impaired nor endangered. Tlieir judgment may possibly be erroneous, but it is at least certain that it is genuine and sincere, and this is rather more than we dare venture to sa3 for any of those who labour to propagate the opinion that the British nation is in the high road to ruin. The appeal to the market price of Stock is in effect an appeal to general opi nion. It proceeds upon the plain and simple dictate of common sense, that men will not give a high price for property which they believe to be insecure. Now nothing can be more certain than that the public creditor of England would be in a very precarious situation if the recent depression were likely to be permanent ; or if it were necessary for its removal, that the Legisla ture should retrace steps, advisedly and delibe rately taken, with respect either to the currency or to the system upon which the foreign trade of the country is to be carried on. But they do not think themselves in a precarious situation. This is evident. They, the public creditors of England—and it must be remembered that the portion of them which, if not the largest, exer cises the most immediate and direct influence upon price, are neither Whigs nor Tories, nei ther Pro-Catholics nor Anti-Catholics, the ad what I saw of him in there interviews, I thought he stood in need of the care of his relations. - Josiah Allanson, examined by Sir CHARLES WETHRRELL--I am cashier in Mr. Hankey's batik. I knew Mr. E. Davies, and have done so for the last ten years. I recollect his coming into our shop in July last. I observed something particular in his manner on that occasion. He looked very wild. His manner was observed by all the clerks. I never observed him in such a state before. Mr. William Lawrence—l am a surgeon. I know Mr. Edward Davies. He called at my house on the Ist of July this year. He stated to me his supposed complaint. He said that he had some un easy feelings about his throat. I examined it. I found no disorder there. He gave no particular name to his disorder; but in consequence of my in quiries he began to describe sensations which he said that he felt in his throat. When I found no complaint in his throat, I asked other inquiries about his health. He then entered into a long► story regarding his health. He said that he had made a discovery which was calculated to benefit the revenue. The impression on my mind at that in terview was, that he was not in a sound state of mind. When he entered my room, there was a wildness of look, and hurriedness of mariner about him, which induced me to doubt as to the sanity of his mind. I paid him six or eight visits in Phil pot-lane. 1 saw his mother on the first. He spoke to me about his mother's anxiety for him. When I saw him in Philpot-lane, lie exprested kind and proper feelings for his mother. I afterwards visited him at Crouch-hill, once or twice before he left Philpot-lane. That would be at the end of July or the beginning of August. His disorder was rather more aggravated at the tinge than it was before. It was shown in voluble and incoherent discourse, and was accompanied by a strong antipathy to his mo ther, and several near relations. A Mr. Gibbs was a tea-broker against whom he had conceived a strong dislike. He mentioned several times that people looked in a particular way at him in the streets. He said several times that they laughed and sneered at him. As far as I recollect, the feeling in his mind was that it was occasioned by the jealousy which they felt at his great success in trade. He generally rose and fastened the doors and windows, and examined whether any body could overhear us whilst I was talking to him. He said that he was afraid that persons might be listening and watching. I have not seen him since the 25th of August. I saw him several times in Dr. Bur rows's asylum ; he was then rather quieter, the causes of excitement being removed in consequence. of his seclusion. During this period of my attend ance he wrote several letters, of which two or three were directed to Dr. Burrows. They were not written in my presence. I have four letters of his. One of them, marked No. 1, is addressed to Dr. Burrows—the rest are to myself. Cross-examined by Sir C. WETHERELL—Am I to understand you that his antipathy to his mother was a symptom of his disease ? The witness again gave a reply in the affirmative. His notion was, that his mother wished to get the control of his property into her own hands, arid that the restraint placed upon him at Crouch-hill was in pursuance of that object. The letters referred to in Mr. Lawrence's evidence were then put in and read. The first was so inco herent in its nature that we could not pretend to re port it, and we were unable to procure a copy of it. Two of the others were brief and immaterial. The last was to the following effect : "14, Portland-terrace, Monday, August 17, 1829. " Gentlemen,—l have endeavoured so very frequently in verbal and written communications to express my high opinion of your medical talents, that really I feel I should be repeating more than a thrice-told tale in saying any thing more on the subject. I now, in the absence of legal advice of any kind, protest in the strongest manner a ra tional man can or ought to protest against being so shame fully and illegally deprived of my just liberty; and I now inform you both, that unless you take some active steps on my behalf—that is, unless you write a note to my so licitor, Mr. Hobler, jun., Mansion-house, city—stating my and your own opinion of myself—that is, my state of mind and health, and whether you do consider me com petent to give instructions for may legal defence ; or, on the contrary, if you do not consider me competent to do so, I will then take what steps I may think proper, and which I well know can enly l►e justified by the very extraordi nary and illegal restraint now existing on my liberty. I beg to add, that I was grossly deceived by the manner in which I was enticed out of my own house on Friday after noon, from Crouch-end. I think you will yourselves admit that it was under the plea of benefit expected for my health, and also a more airy and healthy situation. Now, let the appeal to your hearts, not to your medical policy, to say if you did not understand me to believe (whatever your own impressions of policy may have been at the time), that when I consented to leave my own house, my dutiful servants, my horses, my dogs, it was under the impression I was to derive much increased liberty ? When I speak of dumb animals, your policy will be shock ed-0 God! lam now nearly overpowered by my feel ings—instead of the benefits which you expected, or pre tended to expect, I really know not which (I can feel effects—l leave it to others more learned than tradesmen of the city of Loudon to investigate causes), from the change of air, change of scene, and Such hypocritical cant, what do I experience?—Falsehood, increased re strictions, confined rooms ; and as to loftiness, there is no comparison: no garden, nor even allowed to walk out of the house. I could say much more; but if this appeal will not reach your best feelings, it will be useless for me to make the attempt. Yes, I will give either of you one more opportunity of seeing the this day, before I resort to any other means of bringing this most abominable case of oppression before my country. " Gentlemen, believe me yours gratefully, " E. DAVIES." At the close of tl►is letter, the Commissioners adjourned the Court till eleven o'clock to-morrow morning. herents of neither one party in the State nor another—pronounce by the unequivocal organ of the Price Current that .they do not believe the recent depression likely to be permanent—that they do not believe the British Legislature will be compelled for the preservation of the country to retract any of its deliberate measures—that they have full confidence in the robust and hardy organization of British society, in the inde structible and inexhaustible resources of the State, although errors may possibly have been committed, or even although those errors may not speedily be corrected. This view of the subject may surely serve, not we admit to prove that the country is prosperous, or that errors have not been committed, but to correct exag geration and dissipate alarm.—Morning Post. COMMISSION OF LUNACY. (Continued from our Paper of yesterday.) . Sir C. WETHERELL addressed the jury in support of the petition, contending that it would be the duty of the jury, on the evidence which lie should call before them, to find Edward Davies a lunatic. He then proceeded to give a history of the alleged lunatic, from which it appeared that he was appren ticed at 14 years of age to a tea-dealer of the name of Ross, and that in consequence of that person's death, he was assigned over to Mr. Hodson, of Phil pot-lane, in 1822, and that in 1823, be then being of age, he entered into partnership with his mother, Mrs. Bywater, who had purchased Mr. Hodson's business of his executors; Mrs. Bywater had pre viously opened an account with the banking-house of Mulkey and Co.; but in 1823 she transferred the balance of her account into her son's name, and gave up drawing on the bank, though she still conti nued to attend in the shop, and to pack up tea as neatly as his Learned Friend could pack rip a speech, and quite as excellently in point of composition. In 1824, Edw: Davies sold some freehold houses,which lie had at Clerkenwell, for 1,3961., and threw the pro ceeds into the firm, which from that time was carried on under the title of Hodson and Davies. From that time to the spring of 1829 its business was emi nently successful and lucrative; and it was not his intention to assert that during the early period of Edward Davies's conducting it, he was lunatic. All he (Sir C. Wetherell) should contend would be, that his (Davies's) lunacy commenced last spring, and that he would prove by the most unquestionable evidence. Prior to the spring of 1829, the deport ment of Davies was mild, regular, quiet, and placid. Afterwards he became quite altered, and the jury would find him rambling about in various parts of London, performing actions which carried an ap pearance of insanity upon the face of them. The Learned Counsel then stated the different facts which he should prove in evidence ; from which it ap- War Office, Dec, 14, 1829. peared that Davies laboured under various delusions 24 Regiment of Life Guards—J. 0. Fairlie, Gent., to of mind; as, for instance, that he had oracular coin- be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Frank len, who retitr, dated Nov. 7, 1829. munications with the Deity, who sometimes tapped Royal ItTiment of Horse G . uards—Corporal . C. Fair him on the shoulder and conversed with him,—that brother to be Quartermaster, vice Speed, who retires upon a conspiracy was formed against him, which rendered full-pay, Nov. 7. it necessary for him to carry fire-arms perpetually,— sth Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieut. J. L. Hemp that he was a great financier,—and that he was to ton to be Captain, by purcase, vice Hay, who retires; enter Parliament to recruit and repair the finances Cornet C. J. Radcliffe tr be Lieutenant, by purchase, of the country. The Learned Counsel likewise vice Hatnptoo ; and F. P. Hovenden, Gent., to be Cor stated that he had a fasciculas of Davies's letters, net, by purchase, vice Radclyffe, Nov. 12. which were as confused as any man's letters could be Ist Regiment of Dragoons—Lieut.-Gen. Lord R. E. whose head was vibrating between 25 ideas in a mi - H. Somerset, K.C.B. from the 17 th Light Dragoo ns, to nute. These letters he should be compelled to read viceglt ‘Dvra be Co h le ß ne e l,. vi e c n e t G of en ta . i Garth, h dec., Nov. 23. to them, and they would then see that it was not inDragoons — s C N a v p h t n . e C x . ci C ia . n Vivian, rerun& natura that the writer of them could be sane. ceiviug the difference, Nov. 19 ; Capt. p Sir S. 11. g S e t s u ' a r r e t, Mr. William Hankey, examined by Mr. 'WRIGHT— Bart., from half-pay of the 9th Light Dragoons, vice R. from 7t the h alf-pay, g lam a banker, and know Mr. Davies. I have P r ingle, who exchanges, receiving the difference, Nov. 26 known him for seven years, during which time he —to be Captains. has kept account with me. 1 saw Mr. Davies on a 10th Light Dragoons—Capt. T. W. Giffard, from ball- Saturday in the summer, when he first attracted my pay 7th Dragoon Guards, to be Captain, vice Lord J. attention. He called at the banking-house, and Fitzroy, who exchanges, receiving the difference, Nov. 12. wished to see one of the partners. From what he 17th Ditto—Major-General Sir J. Elley, K.C.B. to be Dragoons, Nov. 23 , . 1 the the I could not make out that his object was busi- C o lonel, d v o ic f e t L he or l d s ß. E. H. Somerset, appointed to the ness ; and the incoherence of his conversation, and _of 't . Foot—Major J. 11 . 1 Ma ion, from the the manner in which he fled from one subject to 59th Foot, to be Major, vice Waring, who exchanges, another, led me to suppose that his mind was not Nov. 12. tranquil. I had a second interview with him about 4th Foot—Lieut. J. Gordon to be Captain, by com2dinartnegiment pur half-past eleven o'clock on the Monday following, c h ase , vice Nickle, who retires; Ensign T. Faunce to be at the same place where I first saw him. Desirous lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gordon ; and H. Zouch, of cutting the conversation short, I made an effort Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Faunce, Nov. 12. to leave the room, for I saw that he was in a worse 15th Foot—J. H. Gray, Gent. to be Ensign, bp pur state of excitement than at our former interview. chase, vice O'Grady, promoted, Nov. 24. On my attempting to leave the room he laid hold of 1 17th Foot—Captain h James William Bouverie, to be Major, i‘ by lac pu h rc ase, vice Lai:Man, who retires; Ca fain me by the arms with some force to keep me on my chair, He said, " I shall not suffer you to rise, for , Philip , e n e s r . sen, from the half-pay, to be Captain, vice vice E /I n s V joh u n H. Aololetzd to j b o e h Lieutenant, Rose ri lam stronger than you." He then spoke about his Holden, drawing a cheque upon us : Tie asked me " Would I P Gent. to be Ensign, 1: 2 ) p x t.t ' r p cira t se, v e ice . Allez, Nov. 26. pay it 1" He did not state the amount then. My , 22d Foot—.Captaia . Philip George Wroughton, from answer was that I c onsidered him entitled to draw the half-pay, to be Captain, vice William Abraham Lee if he pleased: and upon that explanation he left me. m e surier, who exch anges , rece iving the difference, Nev. 19 . Cross-exansined by the COMMINIONIIRS—From . B u o r ti e v b e n r s i e e: ~ 26th Foot—Lieut. James Sweeney, from half-pay New SECOND EDITION SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING. South Wales Veteran Companies, to be Lieutenant, vice Carthew, whose appointment has not taken place, Nov. 19. 36th Foot—Lieut. Charles Montagu Bun ows, from the Royal African Colonial Corps, to be Lieutenant, vice Smith, yromotedf Nov. 24. 87th Foot—Captain J. R. Kell to be Major, by pur chase, vice Bruce, who retires; Lieut. W. Cunning'lame, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Kell; Ensign E. Willis, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Conninghame ; and W. Snell, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Willis, Nov. 19. _ _ 59th Foot—Ensign J. Willock, from half-pay 3d Foot, to be Ensign, vice N. Reid, who exchanges, Nov. 19. 50th Foot—Lieut. J. Foy to be Cip ain, by purchase, vice Kyle, who retires ; Ensign W. L. Tudor to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Foy ; G. Foskett, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Tudor, Nov. 26. 51st;Foot—Staff-surgeoon J. D. Millar, from the half pay, to be Surgein, vice Ricketts, who has retired from the service, Nov. 26. 52th Foot—Major 11. Waring, from the 2d Foot, to be Major, vice 111'31ahon, who exchanges, Nov. 12. 61st Foot—Assistant-surgeon J. Molyneaux, from half pay Royal African Corps, to he Assistant-surgeon, Nov. 19. 64th Foot—Lieut. H. Davison, from half-pay, to be Lieutenant, rice A. J. McPherson, who exchanges, re ceiving the difference, Nov. 26. 66th Foot—Lieut.-Gen. Sir W. Anson, K.C. C. 8., to be Colonel, vice Gen. Nicolls, deceased, Dec. 7. _ _ Ceylon Regiment—Lieut.-Colonel C. A. Macalester, from the half-pay, to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Bird, de ceased ; W. E. F. Barnes, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Roddy, promoted, Nov. 19. • UNATTACHED. Lieut. H. D. Vceux, from the 17th Foot, to be Cap tain of Infantry, by purchase, Nor. 26. Ensign 'l'. O'Grady, from the 15th Foot, to be Lieutenant of Infan try, by purchase, Nov. 24. MEMORANDUM. Lieut. J. Atkinson, half pay Yark Chasseurs, has been allowed to retire from the Service, by the sale of an un attached commission, Nov. 24. Whitehall, Dec. 4. The Lord Chancellor has appointed George Tallentire Gibson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Gent., to be a Master Ex traordinary in the High Court of Chancery. Whitehall, Dec. 8, 1829. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Alexander Wolston, of Eton, in the countp of Buckingham, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. Whitehall, Dec. 10. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Francis, Stevens Smith, of Oundle, in the county of Northampton, Gent. to be a Master Extraardinary in the High Court of Chancery. The Lord Chancellor has also appointed William Wil mot, of the city us Coventry, Gent., to be a Master Extra ordinary in the High Conrt of Chancery. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. John Rowe, St• George's-place, Back-lane, St. George's in the East, ship-owner. Samuel Crawley, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, inen-draper. Robert Gordon, James-street, Lower-road, Islington, wheelwright. Robert Blake, St. Mawes, Cornwall, rope-manufacturer. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. Thomas Wheeler, Hereford corn-dealer. John Taylor, Kirbymisperton, Yorkshire, timber-rner. chant. BANK RUPTS. Robert Giddings, Lyncombe and Wideombe, Somerset shire, baker, to surrender Dec. 28, 29, and Jan. 26, at eleven, at the Castle and Ball Inn, Bath. Makinson and Sanders, Middle-Temple, London ; Hollings, Bath. Charles Buckland, Sturmister Newton, Dorsetahire, shopkeeper, Dec. 29, SO, and Jan. 26, at two, at the White Lion Inn, Bristol. Ilattye, Fisher, and Sudlow, Chancery -lane, London ; Wasbrough and Stanley, Bristol. Jonathan Boast, Southtown, Suffolk, innkeeper, Dec. 28, at seven, 29, and Jan. 26, at eleven, at the Bear Inn, Southtown White and Borrett, Great St. Helen's Lon don ; Worship, Great Yarmouth. Henry Hasker, Harwich, Essex, linen-draper, Dec. 18, at eleven, Jan. 1, at twelve, and 26, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Sole, Aldermanbury. Joseph Jarman, Bath, liaberdashire, Dec. 28, 29, and Jan. 26, at twelve, at the Christopher Inn, Bath. Jones, Crosby-square, Bishopsgate-street; Hellings, Batli.j Joseph, Thomas, and Stoner Carpenter Smith, Dec. 22, at twelve, 29, at eleven, and Jan. 26, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Gatty and Co. Angel-court, Throgmorton-street. Robert Nicholson, Bradford, Yorkshire, earthenware manufacturer, Dec. 28, 29, and Jan. 26, at eleven, at the Court House, Leeds. Shearman, Gray's-inn, London ; Hailstone and Thompson, Bradford. Edward Parsons, Leeds, potter, Dec. 28, 29, and Jan. 26, at eleven, at the Court House, Leeds. Richardson, Shield, and Thompson, Poultry, Loudon; Richardson, Leeds. James Akeroyd, Woodhouse, Yorkshire, shopkeeper, Dec. 30, and Jan. 2 and 26, at eleven, at the Court House, Leeds. Robinson, Essex-street, Strand ; Ward, Leeds. Edmund Foster, Hitchin, Herefordshire, druggist, Dec. 22, 29, at twelve, and Jan. 26, at the Court of Commis sioners. Ashfield, Lawrence-lane, Cheapside. James Newton, Pendleton, Lancashire, grocer, Jain. 2, 4, and 26, at nine, at the York Hotel, Manchester. Bent, Manchester ; Milne and Parry, Temple, London. John Hay, Wycombe Marsh, Bucks, 1 tver-malzer, Dec. 18, at eleven, 22, at nine, and Jan. 26, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Alexander and Son, Carey-street, Witham Garden, High Holborn, stationer, Dec. 22, at eleven, 29, at twelve, and Jan. 26, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Harvey, Wilson, and Wood, Lincoln's inn-fields. Newbigin Kent, sen., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, corn chandler, Jan. 6th, Bth, and 26, at eleven, at the George inn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Preston, Newcastle-upon- Tyne; Brown, Fenchurch-street, London. Thomas Morgan, Koss, Herefordshire, tailor, Dec. 28, 29, and Jan. 26, at eleven, at the Swan Hotel, Rows. Smith and Backerfield, Red Lion-square, London; Halls and Hun►frys, Ross. Robert Richardson, Birchin-lane, Cornhill, bookbinder, Dec. 22, Jan. 5 and 29, at ten, at the Court of Commis sioner. Richardson and Talbot, Bedford-row. William Thompson See, Leeds, merchant, Dec. 22, at five, at the office, of Mr. Upton, Leeds, 23, and Jan. 26, at the Court House, Leeds. Mason, Little Friday-street, London ; Upton and Son, Leeds. Blanch Overiugton, Wickham, Southampton, common brewer, Jan. 4,5, and 26, at twelve, at the Indian Arms lon, Gosport. Holme, Frampton, and Loftus, New Inn, London ; Cruikshank, Gosport. James Frederick Holloway, Modiford-court, Fenchurch street, Dec. 18, at one, 29, at ten, and Jan. 26, at two, at the Court of Commissioners. Holmes, Liverpool-street, Broad-street, London.. IlAnthony Jameson, Yarm, Yorkshire, surgeon, Dec. 22, at twelve, 29, and Jan. 26, at eleven, at the Court of Cmmissioners. Mayhew and Johnston, Carey-street, Lincoln': Inn-fields. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL Richard Powell, - a boy 13 years of age, was' brought up as a vagrant, haring beets found desti tute in the streets. His father, it seems, died worth 11,000/., leaving 5001. to bias by will, and the residue to his widow and her fire children. The widow turned this boy out, and a suit has been depending for the recovery of his claire during the last six years, and it is feared nearly the whole of the property has been swallowed up by the litigation. The overseers of St. Alphage, London-wall, to whom the boy appeared to belong, as a casual pauper, undertook to maintain him until his proper settle ment can be discovered. ARLBOROU GM-STREET. It will be recollected that seine months ago a young man of respectable connexions. named Alex ander Finlayson, was tried at the Old Bailey and acquitted on a charge of having robbed the house of Sir William Beechey, in Harley-3treet, of a large of family plate, he being at the ti me ( if th e quantity robbery a footman in the service of Sir William, and that immediately after his acquittal and dis charge, he, on the same day, took back to the house and delivered up to Lady Beechey the whole of the lost plate uninjured, acknowledging at the time that although he had been acquitted he had committed the robbery. Of the singular strangeness of the man's proceeding on that occa tlie young excellent character which up to that Mime sohnoe 'l a h lo e df t he had been always known to sustain, satisfied Ms friends and all who knew him that his disboneel was more the consequence of soase mental *boll' tion than of any guilty Intent, and they therereo, very properly determined not to cast him off *ld gether to his utter ruin, by an entire desert ion, him. Nor has he falsified their judgment, f6tb s 6 has continued ever since to conduct himself 0. correctly in the service of his uncle, Mr. Giloterec . respectable waggon arid van proprietor, in WV Welbeck-street, whose conduct at the Cake all robbery was most praiseworthy. It *at fionl t I office that Finlayson was on that caution Or: mitted for trial, and yesterday he again made hi' appearance here, but under very different circa; stances, being now the prosecutor against a per.% who is charged with having committed a robbery° himself. It appeared that Finlayson was sent by Mr. all; more with a spring van several days ago to a dietel; part of the country to convey to town a valuable ce lection of pictures belonging to a gentleman, to be left for sale at' Mr. Robson's sale rooms. On Stn i .' day night, about nine o'clock, Finlayson arrived t° town with his charge; and having deposited P I E tures, valued at more than 2, 0001 ., safe at Mr. ?", " son's rooms according to his instructions , he be greatly fatigued, after travelling three days and kb.re e nights without intermission, proceeded to an apa r : ment where he usually slept, over Mr. Gilmore! stables, when, to.his surprise and sorrow, he founl that during his absence the place had been ent er e a by some tbietres, who had carried oil the whole 0f . 1 0 , clothes and every thing else there be l o n g in g to bpi' to the value-of about la Having strong reason to suspect the son of a liverv•stable-keePer opposite,be had him brought up yesterday morning to this mil' where having produced a search warrant, 'fillet Clements, the officer, went to execute, a razor, Par, otof him. .sto T len ho p p ro t p is e o r o ty er , , w w a h s os f e ou n n a d me it i i s t w he ili P ia r n i 7 c :: room, and Finlayson clearly identi fi ed it a s-beinng iv g ttoranc,ewadsisrceomyaetrieddedo,finthteheweearxpinecgtation of having 50018 apparel also. LAMBITH.STREET. A little urchin named John clement was iota'. day brought before Mr. WALICEROIt this office, is custody of Almeroth, the constable of Whitehoe The constable found the prisoner on SIMI night in a dog-kennel, in Size - yard , W hitechar" and when he awoke him the rats had actually bee. to gnaw his mouth. The consta ble stated tha t was the most incorrigible little rascal ever knot° his mother was a bard-working industrious wonl si ' who was willing to take care of him, but he Pi t ' ferred, although only nine years of age, to be 'he' ing about the streets. He had robbecl,oll the neighbours, and was only a very short time to brought to this office for pawning a quantity , (4 l ' 16 mother's clothes. Had he not arrived last nlght.lj the time he did, it was probable that th e nits vow have done him some serious injury. • et As there was no specific charge made ag o , o him, the Magistrate let him go, but advised him i j take care not to be brought there again , or he vfnu punish him severely. UNION.HALL. William Parkins, a coal-merchant, residing it Deptford, was summoned on an information, char.!: ing him with sending out 11 sacks deficient ,`pater. sure, to one of his customers, residing in t" A i t h e de loo-read. The deficiency was prov Or ed, ar, f f eri ce. Pendant was fi ned in the sum of 111. t " e tto A young woman, named Ann Thomas, servan min. a licensed victualler, in Orchard-street, We!tiiier s t er , was charged with breaking a box o p en A 'n master ' s room, and stealing therefrom 4,v reigns, with which she absconded. ir _.• Dobson, a constable, baying seen an 5ive.,_.,1135; sent of the robbery in the newspapers,givoWs description of the female who committedit, afPl e ;, hended the prisoner that morning, in the Nevrnd Lambeth. She at once admitted her guilts confessed that she had only five sovereigns 0014 ing out of the sum. The box which contained ii;), complainant's , p a l n ai d na a n it t h ' so subsequent u g d h a moneyyt, b e sheprisoner 35 sovereigns in the interim. When n l :with custody, she was dressed out quite r J Letre, fashionable Leghorn bonnet and cloak; h e s l e nder a w n a a g s to r Bc h e i e :f el i into which were not of the most delicate anu p l at ed shape, were also decorated with rings, Pi out of the spoil. cog I had a broken m open on frd on The Magistrate, on hearing the eireumitan 0, the robbery detailed, sent the prisoner to the pnb„, office in the district in which the offence was ca mitted. - -- We mentioned in our last, says the Giac Chronicle, that an American steam-boat had rttn IS an hour. At home au increase of speed to expected, 11.°0 the use of vessels built of iron. It has been f o und, g ab periment on the Forth and C l y de Canal, that an hot' u; s from comparative lightness, is more easily dragged thi, wooden one, in the ratio of 7 to 4. A horse will drs" tons in the iron boat, when be is unable for more in an ordinary gabbert. In consequence of this rot', w ill iron steam-boat has been constructed for the Clyde, an' je be finished in a few weeks. With equal horse POre,r,„%jeli proportion to her tonnage, she is expected to run the faster than the wooden vessels. We know n ot wheth e° er , to Americans derive any advantage from the high-Prh:ll' engine. If so, its introduction here would s urelY r visable. To obviate danger from the burst in g of the t e i ) ; the Americans are beginning to surround and pe t ile x. boiler by bulk-heads, with the convex sides to the W.)l/ KIRRIEMUIR.—A few nights ago, $ butler in this neighbourhood had just retired henet tiro ,' had Morpheus weighed his eyelids down , w were assailed with strange sounds, issuing from the c o o , !ley of his apartment, the cause of which he could..,l°?wralli, jecture. 'I he idea of a ghost occurred to him. f' 2 ' t -- , bo l prone to grapple with spirits (previous he had fathomed some half-dozen tumblers - ,Vre pond)), he threw aside the bed-curtains, when? It - 1 1 10V long neck in the direction of the grate, two fei r. " - t i .. 0 01 ing eyes met his own optics ! The shock was 'Wgi,tytet he fell back and buried himself amongst the hrd' e. " 9 e In this state he remained for some time. TI „flO: his terror, no way appeased by the effect it had F t continued its unhallowed murmurs. Recollecting that the means of alarming the house were reach, he mustered courage to put for t h his tb e grasping the bell-pull, he rung such a pe al es isA whole mansion ring again. Servants with lig htl w l flocked to his assistance, when, beheld the appariti°-i;ine owl which had accidentally made a desceu t down the" ney.— Cetledonittn Mercury. BIRTHS. On the 9th inst. in Fitzwilliam-squire, D u ` Visdonntess Bangor, of a son. . fo' ° On the 13th inst. the lady of A. Cocker, ESP sa u-street, Soho-square, of a son. Or is. On the 13th inst. at Tulse - hill, Brixton, ?Jr Il• ling, of a daughter. On the 13th inst. the lady of B. M. Vander 0ebt,941 11 of Dorset-place, of a son. hi MARRIED. On the 14th inst. at St. George's, Hanover-se :0' special license, Capt. W. Locke, son of Wm. Lin Adl IP (late of Norbury Park) to Selina, fifth daughte r ° and Lady E. Tollemache. c O fl o 4 ' On the 12th inst. at Winchester, H. C. Esq., to Emily, eldest daughter of C. Wooldridge' of Winchester, Hants. On the Sth inst. at Edinburgh , J. Jl.Lloyd, 0 Little Cloisters, Westminster, to FA DD Y I!, Esq. eldest daughter of Malcolm M'Gregor, E. Pi N . Consul at Panama. J~ DIED. On the 13th inst. in York-terrace, Reilen 0 0 1 .- Lawson, E.q. aged 67. `te On the 11th inst. at Hammersmith, Dr. 1 %, . 4 , Member of the Royal College of Physicians. aste On the 12th inst. in Russell-square, J. ' • it ( M.D. theh 46th year of his age. ar On l3th inst. in Baker-street, Miss Willisto.*• O il of Owen Williams, Esq. M.P. for Marlow. 0414 On the 12th inst. Samuel Ware , Esq.s O f . to le aged 87. f ih d On the 12th inst. Sarah, secon d daughter ° , , Walter Urquhart, Esq. of Great Baddow, Eifel' iftigf On the 13th inst. at Leamington , Anne Jae, Pi' Henry Spooner, Esq. and daughter of the late f . Johnson, Esq. of Butleigh-field, Leicestershire. PAINTED AND PUBLISHED BY IIIURDO• I°.l 4 VIZ Sine OFFICt, bt, SALANIS;OSI'''