The Sun. — London, England, 1829-05-29 00:00:00

SPIRET OF THE LONDON JOURNALS. We witnessed yesterday one of those contribu tions which British beauty and fashion pay with pleasure almost annually, and would pay oftener if walled upon, to the necessities of foreign or domestic afEiction. On the present occasion, the object was to relieve the distress of the Spanish Refugees---a class of persons, to whom even their enemies impute none but political faults, and to whom England at least owes the obligation of having risked their lives and fortunes in that cause, the steady advocacy of which, with all the moral and all the physical energy of this country, saved Europe from slavery, and England from a tame submission, if not a disgrace ful subserviency to that despotic ruler who knew no principle_ but that of might. But these are topics not suited to our present object, which is to tic lice the brilliant exhibition which the Hanover Rooms displayed yesterday, when some of the most distinguished of the female aristocracy of England showed that they knew how best to justify their rank by acts of kindness and cha rity. Several ladies of the highest condition (we need not repent names already published in our advertisement) did themselves (we trust we may be, on such an occasion, allowed this expression) the honour of acting in the capacity of shop-keepers for the sale of those wares which they themselves had manufactured. It would be absurd to suppose that the benevolent feelings of our countrymen re quire any excitement beyond the thorough know ledge of the case, to lend their aid for the relief of the distressed; but it would be equally absurd to suppose that even the cause of truth may not be re commended by the attraction of female loveliness. At all events, we would recommend all the philoso 'pliers of our acquaintance to try the experiment, whether their abstract notions of charity will not be somewhat quickened by the solicitations of fe male beauty and female g race. We will not quote the original words of Catullus, not because the ladies would not understand them, but because we fear the beaux might not ; but we say in the lan guage, a little altered, of a well known translation— . " Let those go now, who never went before ; " Let those who always went, now go the more." —Times. The Session of Parliament is advancing rapidly to a close. The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved last night, in the Committee on the Exche quer Bills' Bill, the reception of the appropriation clause; which, as Mr. Hume observed, was the last and closing act of the financial measureseof the Session, The House adjourned over to Monday. The proceedings in Parliament, ever since the Ca tholic Relief Bill received the Royal Assent, have indicated with sufficient clearness a determination to get rid of all beyond mere routine business, that the Session might be terminated without delay. Parliament would seem to be yet unable to compre hend how it could achieve such a wondrous work a s the Emancipation of the Catholics. The Member for Montrose, indeed, last night observed, that " with the. exception of one great measure—the im portance of which no man was less disposed to deny than himself—Government and Parliament had done nothing for the public interest throughout the Ses sion,. He for one, however, was not to blame for this; but he must say, that both on his own side of the House, as well as on that of the Treasury, he found no disposition to second his views. So little inclination had indeed been shewn to check the ex pentliture of his Majesty's Ministers, that he thought the country much indebted to them for their forbearance in not being more extravagant than they were." But Mr. Spring Rice observed, " that the entire attention of both sides of the House hail, from the commencement of the Session, been ao engrossed by ore deeply important question, that it was no imputation upon them that they had been unable to attend effectually to those subjects to which the Hon. Member for Aberdeen alluded." The excitement has been too powerful for the nerves of lion. Members; but time, it is hoped, will act on them as a sedative and restorative, so that by next Session we may again have his Majesty's Mi nisters and his Majesty's Opposition performing their respective parts.—Morning Chronicle. Among the ten thousand functions which Parlia ment pretends to exercise, but cannot exercise to any good purpose, is the manufacturing of local and private Acts. These Acts are often of the most objectionaVe nature, and it must be mere accident if they are ever otherwise. On the third reading last night of the Rotherhithe Poor Bill, Mr. Littleton said, " he should oppose this Bill upon principle, but that he feared his opposition was not likely to be supported by many Members of that House, the more especially as some of the objections to the details of the Bill were now to be got rid of by a clause that was to be proposed by way of rider. It did seem to him, however, that the principle of altering the Statute Law of the Land by local Acts and private Bills was one that ought not to be en couraged." Encouraged ! unquestionably not. The House ought not to make itself the common sink of all the ordure of the country. One meet: occa sionally with people who are constantly over head and ears in business—who fly at every thing, and literally do nothing. This is the case particularly with the Hon. House. Parliament should divest itself of a number of functions, which it cannot exercise to any advantage, and for the retention of which the only argument we have ever heard is the fees of the different Officers of the two Houses. Any man who has a well-filled purse, and dislikes the law as it exists, endeavours to obtain a law for himself—a private law ; and he canvasses eithtr personally or through his agents, sometimes a little unceremoniously it would appear, the Mem bers of the " Collective Wisdom." In this case of the Rotherhithe Poor Bill, Mr. Littleton said,— " The Gentleman who was professionally interested in this Bill, without having any communication with him on the subject, had written a circular letter—at least he thought he might call it a circular, since it had been sent roust(' to not less than twenty-nine persons, a number rather exceeding that to which a private letter was usually addressed—accusing him of conduct of which he was sure he had never been guilty. The letter requested of each of these gen tlemen a perusal of his case, as the writer stated that he had been given to understand the Bill would be opposed by Mr. Littletoa, of Staffordshire, who had no local knowledge on the subject, and who had been invited to the course lie proposed to adopt by a person residing in his neighbourhood; and who was, as the writer under-tood, the attorney for the opposing parties. That letter imputed it to him (Mr. Littleton) that he opposed the Bill merely on the representation of a neighbour of his, and with out any knowledge of it himself. It did appear to him that this ludicrous assumption of authority by gentlemen; out of doors ought to be put a stop to." The Speaker dwelt, as he was bound to do, on the heinousness of taking such liberties with Hon. Members. Now, though we believe the charge against Mr. Littleton to be perfectly groundless, yet it is not the less true that Hon. Members do make themselves the mere puppets of those who wish their services in these matters. The idea has so thoroughly taken possession of the public mind, that no man ever doubts for one moment that Hon. Members are to be managed, though he may not know exactly how. The Parliamentary Agent in this case would have acted more skilfully if he had avoided writing, and confined himself to verbal in sinua:ions, which would have told much better, for language is powerfully aided in such ticklish] mat ters by the look, gesticulation, &c., and a conver sation cannot be produced in evidence so easily. We have more than once alluded to the utter useless ness of Parliament for all purposes of legislation— first from its composition, and next from its omni vorous propensities. We are glad to see the subject taken up as it ought to be, in a publication just issued from the press, under the title of " An Argument for more of the Division of Labour in Civil Life in this Country, Part 1., in which the Argument is applied to Parliament. By William Wickens." We shall advert to this publication on a future day; and with respect to an observation of the author, that with the bare possi bility of occurrences such as we here detail taking place at the fountain head of all law and order, the Wonder is that ere this all law and order among us have not come to be set at defiance, or that, at the least, the community has not lapsed into a state of total disorrnitatitm," we have merely to remark, that the existence of the people of England in a more prosperous state than the people of any other country, with a Legislature emptying its rubbish cart on them every day, affords a proof that the tendency in nations to thrive is not easily counter acted. The Legislature of Pennsylvania lately passed a law, making it penal to circulate the notes of other States within the:r bounds. A traveller, having no other notes, mentioned his embarrassment to a landlord when the bill was presented to him. " Oh (said the landlord), when that Act passed, we immediately passed a resolution to tar and feather any man who took advantage of it." Thus in every country men contrive to exist, in spite of bungling Legislatures and bad lases.—lbid. We are truly glad to perceive that the opposition which ought to have been trade in the House of Commons to the Anatomy Bill, is about to be made in the House of Lords. The principle of that Bill is not only at variance with every maxim of justice, but from its selection of the poor and the unpro tected, most disgusting to the feelings of every well-regulated mind. According to its provisions, not only are the bodies of all those who die in hos pitals, and are unclaimed during 48 hours, liable to be cut up, but also those of the unfortunate debtors ►yho may have ended their days in prison ! This latter is assuredly a clause to which no rational and feeling mind would give its assent ; for who is there who may not, from some unavoidable misfortune, be come liable to imprisonment, and being so, to end his days in gaol ? And are - a man's misfortunes to subject him to be halved, quartered, and dissected as a Professor of Anatomy may choase to indicate ? We think that if the sacred precept of " Do unto others as ye would that others do unto you," had become a standing order of the House of Commons —the Bill in question would never have been, per mitted to be brought into it ; and, on a little reflec tion, we think its Members will be convinced that before sacrificing the feelings of their constituents, they ought at aii events to` have proved the correct ness of the principle of the Bill, by devoting their own bodies to the same sort of inspection to which they have manifested such readiness to consign those of others.—Morning Advertiser. EARL DARNLEY'S SPEECH IN MAY 1828. POOR LAWS IN IRELAND. We should take some shame to ourselves for not having hitherto noticed the publication of the speech of the Earl of Darnley, on the Ist of May, 1828, on the state of the Poor in Ireland, as well as the motion on Friday last, in favour of the establishment of Poor Laws in that metalled country, had not our columns been so crowded with various and important matter, as to have put it wholly out of our power. The subject is one of great importance and great difficulty, and though late, a few observations may not yet be altogether out of season. The object of the speech of the Earl of Dant ley—a speech characterised by much ability and industry in the collection of facts—was to induce the House of Lords to institute an inquiry into the state of the poor iu Ireland, with the view of ascertaining, not whether a code of poor laws, in every respect similar to the poor law system of this country, might be established in that coon• try, but whether that part of the Act of Eliza beth which provides for the administration of relief to " the lame, the impotent, the old, the blind, and such other as are poor, and not able to work," might not be beneficially extended to it; and assuredly, were we to measure the ne• cessity and policy of such an A ct, by the miser ably destitute condition of the Irish peasantry, the subject would not bear a moment's conside ration. " The Irish peasant," (says the Earl of Darn ley), " is certainly in possession of the inestiin able blessing of liberty—but in other respects his condition is worse than that of the slave in the West Indies. The physical evils of poverty and misery are in him more real and apparent—his wretchedness is more squalid—his hut, clothing, and food, inferior to those of any other popula tion on the surface of the habitable globe. It is true he has the liberty of propagating his race —of leaving heirs to his misery and degradation —a liberty of which the professors of the unin telligible science of political ecbnomy would seek to deprive him. He possesses also the liberty of locomotion ; of which the people of this country are beginning to feel he avails himself to an ex tent that excites their wall-founded alarm of its injurious consequences to them, and that consideration daily pressing mere and more upon us, calls for the anxious attention of the Legis- lature." Such indeed is the utmost happiness—the 511171171 UM bonum—of which the Irish peasant can boast ; and there being no provision what ever for the poor of Ireland, except the bounty of their neighbours, and no finding of employ ment by public authorities for those who are willing to work, but cannot find work for them selves, the consequence has been, on the one hand, that many unhappy persons have perished from actual want, and, on the other, that a tide of emigration has set in on Scot land and England which threatens to de prive the English and Scotch labourer of his last miserable morsel—to reduce the wages of the working classes in this country far below even the minimum of necessary subsistence— and ultimately to spread over the whole king dom that universal desolation, and poverty, and misery, which are now more peculiarly confined to Ireland. " Every year," says Dr. Elmore, in his Letters on the State of Ireland, " it is ascertained that increasing thousands are coming over, and in a short time it is to be apprehended that, driven by want, and aided as they now are by the subscriptions of the richer classes in Ire land, they will conic over in hordes, like the Goths and Vandals of other times, and make a settlement in this country, where they hope their labour will be duly rewarded, and from which no Act of Parliament will be able to dislodge them. By competition for employment they will defeat every human effort to keep up the pre sent condition of the labourers of England.- -Their necessities will oblige them to work for half the usual wages of labour in this country ; the English workman must either work for the same rate, or he will not get employment ; he is thus thrown on the poor-rates for parish allow ance, and in this way is the burden of supporting the Irish poor put upon the parishes. Such considerations are by no means chimerical, for to a certain extent, it is already a ctually the case." But these are not all the evil consequences, dreadful as they are, of the poverty and misery under which the Irish poor labour—for ulti mately, as the Earl of Darnley observes, " the English poor-rates will be applied to the main tenance" (they are partially so already) " to the maintenance of the Irish poor, and thus imii; rectly to the payment of the Irish landlord's rents ;"—a boon assuredly which no aristiscracy ever deserved less than the Irish, and Viitich it ought to be a first consideration of the tritish Legislature to prevent them from obtaining. What then is to be done ? Are the poor laws, in the limited application of them recom mended by the Earl of Darnley, to be adopted ? That would not cure the evil, nor even mitigate it to any considerable extent ; for after relief had been provided for the " aged, the infirm, the ho potent, and such poor as are unable to work'," the whole of that unemployed mass which is able to work, but can find no work except at the most reduced rate, and by driving the English and Scotch labourer from his own proper field, would still have to be provided for. But what in our opinion militates still more against the adoption of a poor law system, we consider any, almost the most limited, application of poor laws, next to impossible in Ireland. Between that wretched country and England there are no points of resemblance ; and what, in consequence, might be fitting here, it would either be impossible to carry into effect, or from other causes, be wholly inapplicable. In Ireland there is between the land lord and the tenant, a class of lazy drones, or ra ther blood-suckers, denominated middlemen, who draw a large income from the land, without contri buting either by labour or capital to improve the soil, or increase its produce; and in addition to the enormous tax which this unnecessary and per nicious class imposes on the industry of the countrv, the farmers, who are principally Catho lics, have not only to pay tithes to the Established Church, and maintain their own pastors, but to contend for their little all with proctors, to tithe contractors, and law agents, who, like locusts, devour their whole substance—leaving them the land to work upon ; but swallowing up every thing in ti►e shape of property that remains to them. From what source, then, ate poor-rates to be derived ? How can the poor be enabled to maintain the poor ? For this is literally the case with Ireland, in which, in so far as the soil is concerned, there are only t►wo classes—the pauper and his master—the owner of the soil and his slave. No. No Act of Parliament can ever esta blish a wholesome system of poor laws in Ireland ; arid, even if it could, we question much whether they would not be productive of more evil than good. had there been poor laws in Scotland, as there have unfortunately been in this country, its naturally barren soil would never have exhibited that degree of cultivation which it now boasts, nor its population that industrious and inde pendent spirit by which they are characterized. The poor laws in this country have done more to pauperise the people, break their spirit, and increase crime, than all the State taxes together ; ar d with such experience before us—confessing, as we do, the miserable condition of the people of Ireland, and the necessity of legislative inter ference to improve it—we own that we should witness with regret the establishment of any regular fund, beyond that of healthful employ ment, for their maintenance.—Morning Ad vertiser. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. In the course of Wednesday Mr. Alderman GAR RATT received the following subscriptions for the distressed family of the hairdresser in Clerkenwell, whose wife, despairing of seeing better times, at tempted to drown herself at Blackfriars-bridge on Sunday night, as stated iu most of the newspapers on Tuesday : Mr. Levy, 5/. ; a Sussex Baronet, 1/. Anonymous, Mr. Clarke, of New Bridge street, 1/. Is.; Sir George Rose, 10s. The Alder man directed Herdsfield, the marshalman, to inquire into the character and real circumstances of the family, arid to require the husband to attend before him this day. Yesterday the poor woman attended before Mr. Alderman GARRATT, as he requested. The Alderman said he had received that morning 1/., with the initials " L. P." and it. from Mr. Wal ton, of the Norfolk Hotel, Brighton, making a total in hands of 101., for the relief of this distressed family; but before he parted with the money he had thought it prudent to make some inquiry, to guard against imposition, and he found the party before him bore the character of a sober and industrious woman. Of the husband, however, he had heard that his distress arose not from want of trade, but a habit of drinking, which led him to neglect his busi ness.. Four persons went away from his shop on the previous evening because he was too drunk to attend to them, and yesterday morning he was drunk again. He had also heard that some humane person had furnished, this family with a good bed, and others had sent them money. He wished to know the amount so received. The woman had riot counted it, but she could pro duce the whole, not having given her husband any part of it. She pulled out an old purse containing a .5/. note which had been transmitted by Lord Ex mouth, and gold and silver to the amount of Si. more. In reply to questions from the Magistrate, she said her husband was addicted to drinking, and had not contributed above 1/. to the maintenance of his family during the last six years. She had supported her children by' selling fruit. She was now deter mined to leave him. It was the knowledge that he had 3s. which he refused to share with his family, that drove her to attempt self-destruction. He had always spent his earnings on himself, and if she con tinued to live with him, the money now collected would soon be spent, and she should be as wretched as before. Her husband was not right in his head since he had been operated upon at Guy's Hospital. The Alderman asked her if she thought it was right to leave him to himself, now his head was affected. She replied, that knowing the consequence of continuing to live with him, she thought it bet ter to secure a provision for herself and family. It was suggested that she might .set up , a mangle, but she thought her husband could not be trusted amongst the clothes ; but she liked the idea of opening a huckster's shop in her native village near Cork. The money subscribed was an ample capital for that. Mr. Alderman GARRATT thought that in the event of a separation the husband was entitled to a part of the money, but he advised her to take time to weigh the matter in her mind, and in the mean time to leave 201. in his hands. This she most readily assented to, and she was dismissed. Soon after the husband, arrived, in a state of intoxication, at the office, but he did not venture to come in be private in the Coldstream foreivtillileiniAnldperrmyr.: a Guards, was committed for assaulting William Smith, the beadle of Queenhithe Ward, about ten days since. The prisoner was drunk, and had been chasing a man through the streets with his drawn bayonet, when. in his way to the watch-house he gave Smith, who had not interfered in any way, a dreadful kick in the groin. Smith said yesterday he feared he should never recover from the effects o." the kick. QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday James Butler was brought up for fur ther examination, before Mr. GREGoutE, charged with wilfully setting fire to the manufactory of Messrs. Downing and Sons, in the King's-road, Chelsea, on Sunday, the 17th inst. Messrs. WIL LIAMS and FLOOD, county magistrates, were on the Bench, und the most intense interest was excited by a numerous attendance of gentlemen from Chelsea and the vicinity. • The following additional evidence was then called by Mr. Wooler : Isaac Ryde, carpenter and joiner, and foreman to Mr. Peto, of Chelsea, lived in the King's-road, op posite to Mrs. Moore's nursery -ground. On Sunday, the 17th instant, about eleven o'clock, he went to take a walk with a friend, and on his return home he saw the prisoner and another man standing by the White Stile, leaning over the bar, nearly oppo site the late manufactory of Messrs. Downing. Mr. GREGORIE—What o'clock was that ? .Wit ness—lt was about a quarter to one o'clock, or might be nearly one o'clock. The prisoner looked very bard at me, and I thought he appeared agitated. Mr. GREGORIE—Did you make that observation at the time or since? Witness—At that time; I made the observation to my friend who was with me, and took particular notice of the prisoner. I then went home and was looking out of the window which overlooks the premises of Mr. Downing, when my wife called me down to dinner, and at that moment I saw the prisoner in a position at the palings with one hand upon them as if he had just leaped over into the road. I called out to my wife, " Why, there is one of those chaps that we saw be fore we came in, leaping over the palings." Mr. GREGORIE—What o'clock was this at ? Witness—From about a quarter past one o'clock to half-past one, as near as f can recollect. Mr. GRHGORIE — What palings were they you saw him come from ? Witness—They were either Mrs. Moore's or Messrs. Downing's ; they arc in a line, and adjoin. Mr. GREGORIE—How long had you observed the prisoner altogether ? Witness—l had no watch, having been robbed of that and my money a short time ago in the King's-road, but as near as I can gtv si it must have been about an hour. Mr. GREGORIE—Now you swear positively to the prisoner : have you any doubt ? Witness—l have not. John Benham, a carpenter, who lodged with the last witness, deposed to seeing two men at the White Stile at the hour mentioned by Ryde, but could not swear tetheir persons. Robert Walker, of No. 64, Lower George street, Chelsea, shoemaker, stated that ufter the fire a man came into his shop and they were talking about it, when witness observed that it was very likely some of the parties concerned would "split." His prentice, Thomas Portsmouth, said there was no occasion for that, for a person had told him that James Butler had confessed he set the manufactory on tire, and then sat on the sill of a window and laughed at it. Mr. GREGORIE—Is yourapprentice in attendance? Witness—No, he is not ; but he can be sent for. Mr. Gregorie here ordered the apprentice to be sent fur, and also Thomas Vickers, who had been in custody on the same charge, but discharged on his promise to come forward at any future period. The prisoner remarked to Mayhank, the constable, who was passing the dock at the time to send a person for witnesses, " You have not got the right man yet—l eta the wrong man." Mercy Hill, a female servant in the service of Mr. Downing, deposed that there was a very ferocious dog on the premises, which would always hark, and attack strangers. On the day of the fire, she must have heard the dog bark if any strangers had been about the premises. Mr. Downing was again sworn, and stated that when the prisoner was in his employ, he had fre quently seen him give the dog bones to pick. The messenger now arrived with 'Vickers, and the witness Ryde was asked if he was the man who was with the prisoner at the White Stile bar on the day of the tire. Ryde said the man wa: in different clothes, though he agreed with him in size and person, but he did not think he was so pale, having a much browner cast. _ _ Robert Walker's apprentice was now brought into the office, and stated that he was at the fire ►when it was burning, when a lad said that Butler tJld him he set it on fire. _ _ ~ V• Mr. GREGORIE—Do you know the I,al ? Wit ness—l do not, but I should know him again by sight. Mr. GREGORIE asked Butler if he wished to say any thing ? Butler wished to call his witnesses, but by the advice of his solicitor he declined - it at present. The solicitor had advised his client to pursue that course until he knew the full extent of the charge against him. He, begged of the magistrates to grant him an order to see his client in prison, as none of his friends were allowed to go near him. Mr. GREGORIE said he should have a genera! order to see him at any time. The prisoner was then remanded. THAMES OFFICE. Wednesday t he live Spaniards,Jose Ramon Disonle, the chief mate, Bartholomew Sofia, Francisco Fer nandes, 3lichael Robert, and Jacob Carrides, who were captured in a slave ship, were brought up for second examination before Mr. BALLANTINE and Captain BICIIBELL. Senor Joseph M. Del Castello, the Spanish Con sul, attended to watch the proceedings on the behalf of the Spanish Government. Captain Loader, of the merchant ship Seppings,l detailed the circumstances which led to his taking possession of the slave schooner, of which the prisoners were part of the crew, in la'. 5. 55. north, long. 27. 10. west. The schooner hail 149 slaves on board, was in distress for provisions, and bore down upon the Seppings for assistance; and finding she was a slave-vessel, he took possession, and sent her with the chief mate and some men to the island of Barbadoes. He took the prisoners out of her to supply the place of the men of his own crew lie had sent to navigate the schooner. She had Spanish and French colours, with signals of distress flying, when she came down upon the Seppings. The master and a great many of the slaves had died, and the mate was entirely unable to make any calcula tion of the latitude he was in. Capt. Loader said, he had not as yet any news of the schooner's arrival at ligrbadoes. Mr. Simpson, the surgeon of the Seppings, gave similar testin'ony. The Spanish Consul said, from the representations made to him by the prisoners, he believed they were no: regularly engaged in the slave trade, but were forced into it. Ile s, ished to understand upon what authority the prisoners, being subjects of the King of Spain, could be detained by the Government of this country. Mr. BALLANTINE said, they7were detained under particular Acts of Parliament enacted for the pre vention 'of slavery. Those acts were founded on treaties agreed to between the United States, Spain, England, France, and other nations, who all had entered into a pledge to do the utmost in checking the sl tve trade. The treaties he alluded to were annexed to the Acts of Parliament, and formed a sort of appendix to them, and the prisoners being found in a slave vessel having a cargo of slaves, subjected themselves to such vengeance as those euactments directed. The Consul submitted that the men, being com pelled to take the slaves on board, could not be held amenable. Their statement to him was, that they took from Cuba a cargo, and ran into a harbour on the coast of Africa to avoid pirates, and by permis sion of the Governor landed their cargo, which was seized immediately by the Governor, and he re fused to give them its value in specie, but offered to sell them slaves to the value of their cargo. Under these circumstances, they were obliged to take the cargo of slaves ; and not being sufficiently victualled, they sought a supply from the Seppings. Mr. BALLANTINE answered, that the schooner was, the witnesses had proved, fitted up for the slave trade. If they had any natural repugnance to the traffic, why did they take the blacks away ? The Consul said it was manifest that if the schooner was a regular slave-vessel she would have been sufficiently victualled for her voyage. Huma nity (even necessity in that respect) required that she should have ploy> , of provisions. Mr. BALLANTINE thought that much on the score of humanity was not to be expected from fellows.en gaged in such a trade as this. The fact was, it was clear, being engaged in carrying slaves, their deten tion was legal. The whole of the circumstances of the case showed they were engaged in the slave trade. The mate had admitted that the Governor of the Havannah was the owner, and had shipped money to purchase the blacks in Africa. The Consul said the mate and the other prisoners denied making any such admission. Mr. BALLANTINE —Aye, but they did say so. The Consul said they did not sail from the Ha vannah, but from the port of Cuba. Mr. BALLANTINE never heard of such a place as the port of Cuba. The Consul said it was on the opposite, or north side. Mr. BALLANTINE never heard of such a port. He examined the chart of the leeward passage, and could find no such port on the lee side of the Ha vannah. Captain RICIIBELL never heard of such a port. There was St. Jago de Cuba to the south-east. The Consul again observed, that the statement of the prisoners being forced into the schooner was deservipg of consideration. Mr. BALLANTINE knew that such a defence was a common thing. He knew of the case of an Eng lishman detained for piracy setting up the same de fence; it would not weigh with him, and he was de - - termined to commit the prisoners to Newgate, for trial at the Admiralty Sessions. The offence was a misdemeanour, and the prisoners might be bailed. He would take bail for them that day, if it was ten dered. The Consul shook his head, and said the Spanish Government could not bail them ; it would be dan gerous to have them about town, and much better if they were confined. He would, however, corn , municate with the Ambassador. The prisoners complained of not being allowed time to get their clothing from the schooner. Mr. BALLANTINE observed, the complaint was quite uncalled for. Captain Loader said, the blacks, 149 in number, men, women, and children, were all confined naked together, and chained by the legs. A great many of them had died in that situation, and the mate had avowed his intention of throwing the whole over board, had they not fallen in with a ship. The prisoners were then taken to Newgate. THE KING AT MARBOURG. The following lively sketch, by a literary gen tleman, who attended his Majesty in all his ex cursions, will amuse our readers : " Never shall I forget the scene . that took place on the arrival of the Royal party at Mar bourg, the principal town in Upper Hesse. Within a short distance of that town, on the road side, stood a mean-looking, solitary edifice, which served the double purpose of an inn and post- house. As an inn, it was totally destitute of those comforts and conveniences which are to be found in similar places in England, but as a post-house it started as good horses and vehicles as any in the Electorate. In the printed pro gramme, directing the route by which the King was to return, this house was set down as one of the places where his Majesty was to remain for the night ; yet, t o totally unprepared was the proprietor for the reception of so illustrious a guest, that it was only about an hour before our Sove reign's arrival was announced at the door, that sheets and blankets were provided for the Royal bed. Mine host and postmaster, however, was not in the slightest degree disconcerted on the occasion ; while, with a phlegmatic temperament, surpassed only by the high sense he entertained of his official consequence, he strutted forward to make his awkward obeisance, and show the greatest Monarch in the universe into a place which, of all others, was the least fitted for his accommodation. The innkeeper's daughter was any thing but what might be conceived of a neat, smart damsel of the bar ; on the contrary, her dress anti aspect were equally forbidding. - She was a lank, tall, dirty-looking slattern, attired in the most slovenly manner, and having her head enveloped in a large red handkerchief, which was spread out round her ears, and tied under her chin, for the purpose, as I understood, of con cealing a scrofulous affection in the neck. Though the several domestics of the Royal suite were in attendance, yet this disgusting creature was not to be restrained in her officious services, and her father provoked excessive laughter by the unconscious rudeness of his intrusion while appearing to wait upon the King. The Royal party consisted of about a dozen individuals besides his Majesty, and among those who sat down to dinner were, Prince W►lliam of Russia, the Duke of Cum berland, the Marquis of Conyngham and his son, the present Lord Mounteharles, Sir Wiliam Knighton, Sir Andrew Barnard, Sir Edmund Nagle, and the late Mr. Walker, his Majesty's personal apottiecary. Sir Benjamin Bloomfield having been delayed on his way, did not arrive till dinner was nearly over, and he then joined his Royal Master, but with a countenance bespeaking the deepest dejection. In fact, he almost seemed to anticipate those events which have since led to his dignified exile in Sweden. But to return to mine host. During the whole time that his illustrious and distinguished guests were partaking of the fare he had provided for them, he stood close behind the King, staring him full in the side face, and never once thinking of doing any thing or chang ing his position. In the mean time his interest ing daughter presented herself on the other side, bringing with her a cake of enormous circumference spread out upon an immense dish,' the edge of which reposed upon her right hip, while under her left arm she brought a pile of plates, which clattered loudly as she paced on to the table. His Majesty, however, with that kind condescen siOn which so peculiarly distinguishes him, made every allowance for the conduct both of the father and the. daughter, never for a moment expressing a wish that they should be disturbed in indulg ing the extravagance of their curiosity, as they contemplated his perso❑ with fixed eyes on either side."—Monmouthshire Merlin. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. WEDNESDAY, MAY 27.—High water 32 minutes past six o'clock.--Wind North.—Arrived the Horbet, Leith, from Copenhagen ; Frekvoge, De Jong, from Dora ; Columbus, Schnackel, from Stralsund ; Ceres, Krowl, from Rostock ; Trafalgar, Monts, from Stettin ; Thomas Dickenson, Anthony, from New Orleans; Menaugahela, West, from Philadelphia. CLEARED OUTIVARDS.-The Waldo, Lorman, fur Bahia ; Jonge Willem, Jenzen, for Rotterdam ; Pietro, Barreze, fur Genoa ; Governor Fenner, Martin, for New York ; Royhl Saxon, Petrie, for Madras ; Abeona, fur St. Petersburgli. MANCHESTER, MAY 26.—There arc few buyers in the market, every thing is very dull, and with out the least prospect of an immediate amendment. Things cannot remain long in this state. There must be an alteration for the better, or universal ruin to the ma nufacturing interests must ensue. Silks and fancy cottons, such as are made at Bolton, are, perhaps, the only branches, that turn over any thing like their stocks ; other descrip tions of geed* are almost without sale. Calicoes are very low, n otwithstanding which there is not a satisfactory de mand. A praiseworthy instance of lengthened servi tude, on the same estate, has been recently disclosed by the death of a labouring man, named BAXTER, who lived for 85 years in the employment of the family of Mr. T. Burr, of Nailsburne, Kingston, near this town. This faithful servant entered service on Mr. BeLT's farm when he was only seven years, and died a few days since, aged N.— Taunton Courier. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, MA Y 26' Francis Thowry, a Frenchman, who spoke I P ° English language imperfectly, and was assis ted bl l interpreter, appeared on his petition to be dischargeof He was opposed by Mr. CRESWELL, on the par t I)a Messrs. Taiswell and Co.; and by Mr. BA RRY) the part of Messrs. Dillon and Co., of Paris. After hearing the statement of the case, d i Mr. Commissioner BOWEN pronounced the kiwi merit of the Court, that the insolvent Was entitrh to the benefit of the Act, and that he be foithifiC discharged. John King appeared upon his petition t o be P. charged. - Mr. Shackell, a woollen-draper, whose nallier to in the insolvent's schedule as a creditor, ohjeeteLir being considered as such, and said that he hs" r„, p t menced a criminal proceeding against the ins°" 7 ' for receiving some cloth as his agent, and ember the proceeds of the sale. There was n o bill La found against the insolvent, but the Magistrate6.lll! advised the applicant to make this objection he re lo The insolvent teas declared to be entitled to co discharge, and Mr. Shackell's protest was entered his schedule. THE MARKETS. - - COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING Tfig 0 0* V, heat. Barley. Oats. r'er Quarter. is.to s. s. s. s. to B. S. $049 _„ Blandford 73 41 ". t i ~1 ? " Brigg— 2O j' 65 72 25 30 15 Cambridge—........—. 71 17 Chard .--- 56 76 32 38 24 SO g Huntingdon 66 70 27 32 17 28 ,„ Long Sutton-- 58 71 16 93 68 72 25 31 18 28 Lynn... 6l 74 28 30 16 26 '" 0 4 4 €(1 76 29 35 21 39 4 5 41 Nottingham -- —. 68 81 30 35 84 33 Peterlwrough 56 78 37 40 IS 25 e, a Plymouth Pontefract—. 1 76 39 ' 21 .„, Sleaford 70 76 30 33 22 24 ." 4 .1 Uppingham 70 SO 30 38 22 26 3 1 60 74 . 16 26 LEEDS CORN M A RKET.—May 26. Ado There has been a fair supply of Wheat to this foal market, but that of other kinds of Grain small. 05 .. fresh New Wheat fully maintains the price of last ' 0 01 day, but the demand for other descriptions of Die lf w bst Old has been very limited, and to force s ales 6° A s t e. lei lower prices must have been submitted to.- in lto little doing. Fresh heavy Odts i-d. per stone big ti, In Pease very little doing. %l t lastou Without :li, teration in price. Rapeseed I/. per lower, w ith rnited demand. 'IA' 4 Wheat, Norfolk and Suffhlk, 60Ib. ........ 635. t° /.. a, ... 64 ,,. to 7/ ° 4 York. and Lincoln. 601 b. ...... ... .. Batley, Norfolk and Sutibik '''''''''''''''' fig ' t° Id: 4 -- Yorkshire and Lincolnshire . 17 '. tn q 3 sa Grinding Beans Oats, Potatoe --Mealing, Foreign 12d. to 13d ...En l' •I WO. to 144 r ind' Shelling • g " ' 32s. to Sit W a r Ise t ' Rapeseed, English. 2W. to SO/ Foreign, —I. to --____ LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.--Ma r. / e eeri The sales since last Tuesday have been large f 0 At tb o article in the trade, at a small increase in value• f o od morning's market there was less activity, and the :Wrote. rates were scarcely obtainable ; we must, however' aii d so moderate business in the finer qualities of Whe at ' • i ,.hte r improvement on the quotations of this day ee' rti ll 0 . Id. to 2d. per bushel. Prices of Oats were also f",Y ni aed per .14)1b. higher, but the sales were only on a L il i dgd• scale, and confined to prime qualities. Barley ie ' c oif' . per 601 b., and Beans and Pease is. to 9 6. 1 3 " r q r , al l above our previous currency. Prices of Indian C° l r i r at• fully 2s. per quarter dearer, at which several am t. 1' eels we taken for shipment to Ireland. 110. 6 n. WHEAT, English, White, per 70Ih. Red Scotch, Welch, and Manx -- Irish, White lO 0 11) ' --- Red 9 0 il i it 0 6 41° , Foreign OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, I.er 451 b :1 ' 9 -- Irish 6 ,, Forein BARLEY, English, Matting, per Imp. quarter at 0 5 -- Scotch and Irish, per 60Ibs. Feeding 4 6 43 0 33 q g g BEANS, Engti,h, per Imperial quarter Irish, &c. 36 0 42 Foreign sg 0 44 0 Pease., English, per lioperiat quarter ............ 10 3 6 0 0 Foreign FLOUR, English, per 28010. ...... Irish ........................... •. .......... . OATMEAL, English and Irish, per ......... 0 INDIAN CORN, per 440111. 0 40 0 Rvit, per Imperial quarter .... 36 64 MALT, per Imperial quarter , a Imeoter OF GRAIN for the Week ending luny 04 1 . 0 , Wheat. Oats. Barley Flour. 1.. 1, 03 Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Foreign, Pr.s !Irish, &c. Sc.'s] 0 9, HI 1 3,015 1,272 SOO I • 1, 399 ...--.......--- rY I Between twelve and one o'clock ye ste ei morning, an alarming fire broke out in the prel se ... 9 at' h ,n e V Mr. RODERTSON, a builder and sarpen ter s in t part of the Edgware-road, leading to ad Kilburn, w a . ti P ef i ,l one time threatened total destruction t o the itrioa, i ,l houses on each side, one of which is occupied b Y a pr ,,ii maker, named litualsos, and the other by a PaP_; o itir nufacturer and stainer, named CaatrriEu Th e Ca ': a til e it appears, was occasioned by an apprentice enterfefblclif workshop with a lighted candle, a spark from ho le ° dropped among a heap of shavings, and set the efi t I f the timber ancrwoOd work in the shop in flantee• /ee l first alai in the parish engine promptly attended-410Ft i° water was obtained, and the devouring elemen t be 0 check until various other engines arrived, w hen %le ' ll: was prevented from spreading, and finally got Oho half-past two o'clock. The entice of the tv°riroa,„ totally destroyed, and the dwelling-house of Air; `a-arog„ nos, closely adjoining it, has received considera ble s a lter,, We understand that the injury sustained a moun t , in f' titer to about 2001. and that Mr. R. was in guff. Protector Fire-office, for nearly that sum. V the Amon; the unfottunate sufferers front 0,1,' At the Royal Bazaar, the case of Don VINCSNO 6°240', a Spanish officer and refugee, requires peculiar ce'r d s e ation. lie had by his ingenious talents, unlvea rie h ibili ° , duity, and at considerable expense, produced an el - l e be ° ,. of cot paper work, in imitation of line engraving, afonc'e of four years' incessant application. The pe r° d e qu' i i , were so elaborately and delicately cut, that n ° i a ,roP l : l ,l conception can be conveyed of their ingenuity 0 " 50 affect by any verbal description. The exhibition e el l ' of 16 pictures, thirteen of which were con3unt f i f f l ' s this catastrophe Don V. GENovEs has lost neasteaceei whole of his property; and the means of his snu ff ,, it ' which depended on their daily exhibition , is t°t4 stroyed. -..._•-•—.. IV BIRTHS. eb ire, On the 24th inst. at his seat, Kilmory, ArgY ie , a, lady of Sir John Powlett Orde, Bart. of a daug htet of On the 26th inst. in Half-Moon-street, the Is ° lO F. Lockley, Esq. of a son. f P At the Palace of 'Damn, Ireland, the lady ° tor 0 , • O'Hara, Esq. M.P. of a daughter. . oPf,e4' At Battersea, the lady of Valentine Morris, Eol• At Ascot Lodge, Betio, the lady of John Bi s hop o f VI of a son. Hun ter 1311 On the 16th inst. at Ayr, N.B. Lady 1 a son. • th e MARRIED. o bi t 00 On the 28th inst. at Kensington, by the Ve 11e ,,,. . ar e i Archdeacon of London and Vicar of Kensingtli,Lo Speed Davies, Esq. of Bernard-street, Ro dei n i Ati ‘e: eld,st son of the late T. L. 0. Davies, FA' - P,ir ford, ' Hants, and nephew of Lady Silvester t ° tA r ' Anne, daughter of the late Nathaniel Flutton'" . Cl" ter-at-law. 00 o f On the 20th inst. at St. Mary de Castros Ole Guernsey, James Saumarez Dobree, Esq. y out,g p off es the Rev. N. P. Dobree, to Elisabeth, youngest 4th of John Carey, Esq. M.D. of Clifton. WO' At Madras, Robert Shean, Esq. of his idea?" Light Dragoons, to Elizabeth, third daughte r Garrett, of Portsmouth. • tr . .. DIED. ..190 , 0r ' On the 27th inst. John Horman, Esq. of It— p e t and late of the Stock Exchange. Y id P ' 1 Ou 'the 27th inst. Anne Mellett Bullock,,,rlter daughter of William and S. Bullock, of HackneY Dsof On the 27th inst. at Brixton-hill, Streatto* ito f r S. S. Warner, E , q. aged 65. , * O,O. On the 26th in at Holloway, Elizabeth' J. PI J. B. Rayner, second daughter of Jokn Willis o ' Ae r the same place. ors", On the 25th inst. at the Duke of Beaufort's', 011).00if square, the infant son of Mr. and Lady Ge° r .,..g: P d A , At his teat at Scotton, in Norfolk, Sir 'l'''' 14v - Bart. ~aieS' ' At an advanced age, at Pangbourn, near Ile" pip M Ata Wa'ke. SoutheruhaY, Exeter, Rear-Admiral 114 ' ° COe l) gets, aged 71. 'sty At Glasgow, Madeline, daughter of t he 0 Lewis Campbell, R.N. sl A • HNITED and P C" PA 0 UELISIEED by MURDO ITI/14 nu; 112, STRAND, LlPignetle