The Sun. — London, England, 1823-06-11 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts from the Morning Papers, June 11. [MOUNING POST.] The adhesion of certain individuals of the Spanish Nobility to the Provisional Government established at Madrid by the invaders of their country, is an event so perfectly in the natural course that we should not have thought it de serving of any particular notice, if it had not given rise, on the one hand; to a burst of exulta tion the !nest preposterous from the enemies of Spanish freedom, and, on the other, to general imputations equally ridiculous upon the Aris tocracy of every country. The adhesion of a certain proportion of this order of the community, which now furnishes to one party the subject of such triumphant boast, and to another the, of vehement and indiscriminate invective, is in truth a circumstance which any man of ordinary sagacity, who expected the Duke of Angouleme ever to arrive at Madrid, might have foreseen. It admits of an easy and natural explanation, with out assuming either that the Nobility of Spain are more base and unpatriotic than any other class of their countrymen ; or that the insolent dictation of France 13 in the slightest degree ac ceptable to the feelings of the Spanish nation. — It may be considered as incontrovertible, that wherever there it an arbitrary, cruel, bigotted, or vicious Monarch, he will either find or create Nobles of congenial character to be the partners of his Councils,. the instruments of his will, and the objects of his bounty. If there had not been found in Spain a considerable number of the existing Nobility solicitous, no matter by what means, for the restoration of Ferdinand to abso lute power, a considerable number to- hom the reinstatement of despotic authority is all,and the welfare, the happiness, and the glory of their country nothing, it would have gone far to re deem the character and government of that Mo narch from the obloquy and contempt it had justly incurred,. and precisely as far to- reduce the value of those institutions by which the pre rogatives he had been accused of perverting to the injury 4f his subjects were henceforth to be abridged and controuled. If the number of Nobles so dead to. all the feelings of a generous patriotism and a noble pride as to view with unaffected complacency their native land becoming the victim or the sport of • an invader were considerable, would not this circumstance alone dgmonstrate that a great change of political institutions had been so neces sary that it could not fail,to be popular. It is clear that no difference of political opinion can justify or palliate the enormous crime which is perpetrated whenever the weaker party in any independent country invites or encourages the interposition of a foreign State. The adhesion of Spanish Grandees therefore to the cause of France, if it were strictly voluntary, would prove with a force in exact proportion to its extent, that the former Government was injurious and degrading to the nation, and that the great ma jority of Spaniards, unless they are constituted differently from other men, must therefore have beld it in abhorrence and contempt. [rnE TIMEs.] The *lse of 'the Leeward Islands, which Mr Creevey presented to the House on Monday night, is a lamentable and affecting one. The inhabitants of All those islands, are reduced to the lowest degree of misery by the low prices of sugars and rums, and the increased expences of culture. But five of them even exceed the rest insutfering; from their being taxed with a heavy duty, applied, we believe, wholly in pensions. Whether' they are merited pensions or not will be clear from the fact, that five na tural daughteri -uf the Duke of Clarence are upon the list, .at 5001. per annum each—persons who, whatever their inclination might be, have no means of serving their country. The dis tressed Leeward Islanders are taxed for the suppOrt of these young Ladies, whose father has an income from the country at large of (we probably speak within bounds when we say) thirty thousand pounds a year! It is a sad thing that the world should be so jacobinical when there are such instances of virtue, disin terestedness, and patriotism in the great, before its eyes. These were the things which brought on the downfal of the old French Monarchy, and will bring on the downfal of any other Ma• narchy in which Statesmen suffer them to exist. Certainly, when one considers the lamentable end which the mother of these young . ladies mh.de, one would not have the daughters left - without the means of permanent support. The Leeward Islands, however, ought not in any si tuation, and least of all in a distressed and starv ing, situation, to, be taxed to sUpport the Misses Fitzclarence. The expence should rather full upon the nation at borne ; and we are sure that a. generous British public, recollecting as it still must the varied professional excellencies of their mother, \remit), with mach greater pleasure, raise a fund few their maintenance by a public sub scription, than suffer it to rest upon those who are themselVes in the Inst stage . of. distress. We regret to hear that the state of Sir Francis Burdett's health is such as to render it doubtful whether he will be able, during the few remain ing weeks of the Session, to fulfil his promise of making a motion on the evidence adduced at the bar of the House of Commons in the affair of the Sheriff of Dublin. The subject, however, may be expected to be in some degree brought before the House in another shape. Lord Fingal is understood to he in town with a petition, ,com plaining of undue administration of justice in Lreland, and requiring redress; and such a peti tion, we should presume, cannot fail of laying the groundwork for some observation.--(lbid.) LMORNING CHRONICLE.) England is now beginning to do its duty to the COMITIOtI cause of nations. The popular feel ing has indeed been again and again pronounced in the most unequivocal mariner ; but something ware than mere declamations of opinion is de mantled horn us, when all the Despots of the ' Continent have combined to reduce an unoffend ing people to the state of thraldom and degra dation from which they succeeded in emanci pating themselves. The unfortunate country now the theatre of this unholy war, has exertions of no ordinary description to make, vritile her means have been greatly impaired by her efforts in repressing the disorders excited and sup ported by the perfidious Government of France. Under such circumstances we are particularly called on to afford all the aid in our power to the Spaniards; and we trust, therefore, that the example set by the Common Council of the City of London, the first Corporation of the .' Empire, will be speedily followed in every di rection. The feeling in behalf of the Spaniards Is national ; let the subscription be national also. But we are sure that our countrymen require no stimulants to excite them to the perform ance of so sacred a duty, and that every one who has the least particle of honourable feeling will afford a proof of it, by contributing accord ing to his means to the support of the great cause of Liberty and National Independence. The Court of Common Council may on this occasion be taken as a fair sample of the nation. It will be seen that only twenty-five individuals out of this large body could be found to oppose the grant to the Spaniards. Still it would be doing injustice both to the cause of the Spaniards and to these opponents of the grant, to charge the _latter with any thing like approbation of the in vasion of the Peninsula: The opposition was grounded merely on the poverty of the City Treasury.. Indeed some of those who opposed the grant were among the loudest in their con demnation of the invasion, and in their expres sion of anxiety for the success of the Spaniards. We are happy to be able to communicate the gratifying intelligence that a number of Ladies, of rank and influence have undertaken the ar rangements for a grand Fete at the Opera House, with a view to aid the gallant Spaniards. It was impossible to suppose that the ungenerous war fare now waged against the Peninsula should not excite the indignation of our fair countrywomen ; but by this proof of their devotion to the cause they have determined to remove all doubt on the subject. The moral effect of this demonstration will be incalculable. As the feeling which has prompted the Ladies of the metropolis on this occasion is universal, we hope their example will be as universally followed.--(lbid.) [BRITISH PRESS.] Yesterday the French Papers of Stinday,ar rived at our office. The Journal des Debats publishes a declaration ; it asserts to have come from Abisbal, dated at Madrid, on the 17th of May, declaring his determination to support the Constitution of 181'2 to the last extremity, until the National Representation, legitimately. con stituted, decrees any alterations in it. He pro claims his resolution to support it, as he bound himself to do, by oath ; and that he considers as traitors to Spain all Spaniards who take a contrary course. These, he asserts, were his sentiments when he answered Alontijo's letter ; and his sentiments, he adds, will remain the same, as his opinion as a private individual will never prevent him from fulfilling his duty as a General and Spanish citizen: Su ch a declara tion as this, if true, will scarcely redeem Abisbal in public estimation, after his letter to Montijo. It will not do at such a period to blow hot and cold together. The fact is, that. the results.con sequent on this avowal of his sentiments probably disappointed O'Donnell; he hoped to find his influence bear him through, and he was de feated in his expectations. The French Mi nisterial Paper states, that he was almost im mediately arrested ; that his Staff refused to obey his orders, and accused him of having be trayed the Constitution ; and that the com mand of his army was transferred to the Marquis of Castel Rios. Thus Abisbal, as in all such cases, met nothing but degradation and distrust from either party. How fallen is he now in Spain ! How different his situation and name from that of the faithful and intrepid Mina The Toulouse papers,,' the 2d contain a.dispptch signed by Rotternberg, commanding in the East ern Pyrenees, dated Perpignan, the 28th, and giv ing the French account of the attack by the Spa niards on Mataro on the morning of the 24th.-- This communication states the onset to have been made by Miler's and Llobera, and to have been most sudden and determined. The Spaniards, ac cording to this account, were of course beaten on all points. The fifth division of the French' lost, all through, only three men killed and fifteen wounded. At this rate, the Spanish soldiers must have fired most feebly and blindly; but ac counts of this sort, false and incredible on the very face of them, defeat the very purposes for which they are prepared. No one can be infa tuated enough to swallow them. The French Generals l3ourdesoult and Bourmont command, it is asserted, 45000 men, detached by Angou leme against Badajos and Seville. Bourmont proceeds with one column by Talavera, on Bade jos ; end Bourdesoult, with another, by Ocavia, on Seville. If these troops succeed in their ob jects, all opposition must be disarmed and nerve less in the South of Spain. The Cortes, it is an nounced, have resolved to remove Ferdinand and the Government to Cadiz. Talaru, the French Ambassador, was about to proceed to Madrid, to represent the Ultra faction with the Regency. • NEW TIMES.] The Common Council of.. the City of London has voted One Thousand Pounds to the " brave and suffering People of Spain."—Prodigious!— The money is all to be laid out in muskets, bayonets, swords, pikes, and other articles con traband of war, which are to be shipped 46 for account and risk " of neutral subjects, on board a neutral vessel, and consigned to , the port of an enemy, who has not on the seas ir single cruizer to protect them from capture.. In the first place, this is a gross violation of the Law of Nations. Secondly, it is in downright defiance of an Act of Parliament, and of his Majesty's recent Proclamation. Thirdly,' the' consignment is almost sure to fall into the hands of the French. Fourthly, if it should by miracle reach Spain, it would in all probability find the war at an end. And, fifthly, if the contest should be stilt continuing, the contribution of this wealthy Corporation might serve to prolong it about five seconds and a half—certainly not more. That Mr. Galloway should move such a mass of ; illegality and absurdity is not at all to be won dered at. That person is at-least consistent, and Acts now on the very same principles that he did when he was Assistant Secretary to the London Corresponding Society, an association declared by Act of Parliament to be " inconsistent with public tranquillity, and with the existence of re gular Government." But that men of decency, respectability, and common sense, should support this Air. Galloway in this gratuitous insult to the King, the Parliament, and the Nation does appear to us, we own, truly astonishing. The King, the Parliament, and the Nation, have deliberately resolved that England shall be neutral ; but Mr. Galloway and his supporters have broken that neutrality, and have done their utmost to plunge the country into war.— The candour and fairness of most of these per sons (we will not say all) was on a footing with their rationality. in support of the motion no thing was urged but the most vague and irrele vant declaration ; not a single fact that would bear examination was stated, not an authentic document of any sort was adduced ; and when a gentleman rose to prove, by reference to facts and documents, the folly of the motion, so deter mined were they to shut their eyes to the truth, that they endeavoured, by noise and clamour of the most disgraceful kind, to prevent his state ments from being heard. Fortunately they were not A% holly successful. [MORNING 'JERALD.] In our paper yesterday we gave the debate which took place on the Bill for the repeal of the Act, which was made about half a century since, regulating the price of weaving between a master silk manufacturer and the weaver. The weavers wished the Bill to go into a Committee, that evidence against its merits might be adduced. his was successfully opposed by Mr.lluskisson, and the rest of the Ministry, on the ground that the sooner a bad law could be got rid of the bet ter. On the side of the weavers were Mr. Buxton, the mover for a Committee, and Mr. Whitbread, the seconder of Mr. Buxton's motion. It will be as well to bear in mind that these two Gentlemen are part proprietors of two extensive breweries ; and that Mr. Buxton's brewery is in the very midst of the Spitalfields weavers ; and that it was reported some time since in that neighbourhood, that if Mr. Buxton did'not support the cause of the weavers, they would not frequent the public houses where Mr. Buxton's beer was drawn. This m i g ht h ave b e en a f a ls e re port, and 'we hope that it was ; and yet, even though it had been a true report, it by no means follows that the loss of the sale of Mr. Buxton's beer in that particu- lar vicinity could possibly have influenced Mr. Buxton in becoming the champion of the weavers. Why Mr. Bright, the Bristol banker, should have been so stren►aous in opposing the Ministers, we are at a loss to imagine ; for be sides banking, he has been, and we believe, is now engaged in a variety of trading concerns in Bristol, in none of which, we dare to say, would he like the interference of Magistrates in regu lating the price per day or year to be paid by him to the servants he employs. If it be proper for a Magistrate to fix the price per yard or piece to be paid by a master silk manufacturer to the weaver, so , also it Would be proper fora Ma. gistrate to fix the consideration to be paid by Mr. Bright to the clerks in his banking concern, or the sum to be paid by him to the Captains or crew of any ship he employs in either the West India or any other trade. And, on the same principle, a law might with propriety be made enabling the Spitalfields Magistrates to fix the price per pint, quart, or b ut t o f Mr. Buxton's porter. In fact, as Mr. fluskisson and others said, if a law be beneficial as applied to one branch of business, so it must be beneficial as applied to every branch. How would Mr. Whit bread like Mr. Huskisson to propose an Act to enable a Magistrate to fix the price to be paid by Mr. Whitbread to on, of the men who drives his drays ? Though, as a general rule, it be wise to get rid of a bad law as soon as possible, yet, in this case, we wish the Ministy had given way, and had permitted the Bill to go into a Committee, for then the folly of such a law would have been com pletely exposed,and the evidence wottld have fur nished us with some curious matter to amuse our readers tvitb—perhaps ns' entertaining as some speeches we haVe read on the Irish Orange Ques tion. After a law like this had been so long in ex istence, and especially as applied to the working class of his Majesty's subjects, it might have been as well to have taken plenty of time in doing away with it, on the same principle that it was Mound expedient to get rid by degrees of the old absurd law, empowering the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commen Council of the City of London to fix the price a baker was to charge for his loaf ; which was done .by the said corporate body, without their having consi.. sidered whether the baker lived in Regent street, and paid a high rent and taxes, or whether he lived in Petticoat-lane, and paid a low rent and taxes; or whether he (the baker) did much business and got regularly paid, or whether he did little business and had many bad . debts : all this was never thought of by the sages of those times. The plan for the improvement of Whitehaven Harbour was last week laid before the trustees : the estimate for the great Western Pier is about 67,0001. Miss DRYDEN, a genteel and very respectable female, aged 2/, principal assistant to an emi nent milliner at Durham, drowned herself lately in consequence of a young' man to whom she was much attached, being about to marry a more fa voured Lady. On Thursday last, in the afternoon, a heavy thunder-storm of bail and rain pasted over New castle-upon-Tyne. k'or the last fortnight the weather has been uncommonly fine in Northum berland. Vegetation has in consequence made great progress. From the LONDON GAZETTE, June 10. Crown-Office, June 7, 1823. Member, returned to serve in this present Parliament. Borough of Bossiney— John Stuart Wortley, of Wortley Hall, in the County of York, Esq. in the room of the Hon. John William Ward (now Viscount Dudley and Ward, and one of the Peers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland). BANKRUPTS. ' V. Kingston ' Martin's:lane, London, Arine:merchant, to surrender June 14, 24, and July 22, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Attornies, Messrs. Patersbn and Peile, Old Broad-street. A. Grierson, Dudley, Worcestershire, draper, Tune 23, 24, and July 22, at two, at the Star Inn, Manchester. Attorney, Mr. Cunliffe, Manchester. S. Davies Llandovery, Carrnarthenshire, grocer, June 27, 28, and July 22, at twelve, at the White Lion Inn, Bristol. Attornies, Messrs. Bridges and Cuilter, Red Lion-square ; and Mr. W. 0. Hare, Bristol. J. Arkell, Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire, cattle-dealer, June 25, at six, 26, and July 22, at twelve, at the Bell Inn ' Wor cester. Attornies, Mr. C. Becke, Devonshire-street, Queen square, London ; and Mr. Hill, Worcester. T. Burtitt, Canwood, North Brewham, Somersetahire, wood-merchant, June 25, 27, at one, and July 22, at eleven, at the Lamb Inn, Hindon, Wiltshire. Attornies, Mr. Sey. mour, Mere, Wiltshire; Mr. Popkin, Dean-street, Soho, London. J. Cave, Coventry, ribbon-manufacturer, June 25, at six, 26, at ten, at the office of Messrs. T. B. Troughton and Lea, Co.. ventry, and July 22, at ten, at the Craven Arms Hotel, Coven try. Attornies, Messrs. Long and Austen, Gray's Inn, Lon don ; and Messrs. T. B. Troughton and Lea, Coventry. J. Banks, Leeds, Yorkshire, flax-spinner, June 19, 20, and July 22, at eleven, at the New Court House, Leeds. Attornies, Messrs. Stocker and Dawson, New Boswell-court, Carey-street, London ; and Mr. E. D. Conyers, Knaresborough. DIVIDENDS. July 5, J. Parsons, Long-acre, coach-lace-manufacturer— July 2, J. Foster, Sheffield, ironmonger—July 2, J. Fair head, Cressing, Essex, jobber—June 14, T. and E. M. Foster, Yalding, Kent, maltsters—July 12, T. and R. Abbotts, Skin. ner.street, wine-merchants—July 5, J. 'Warwick, Rotherhithe shipbuilder—June 28, J. Stanley, Rochester, coal-merchant 2. July . 6. S. Miles, Ludgate-street, watchmaker—July 2, J. Macintire Tenby, Pembrokeshire, cattle-dealer—July 2, 11. Neyler, Bristol, dealer—July 3, W. Prole, Georgeham, Devon shire, yeoman. CERTIFICATES, JULY 1. . C. Woodcock, Norwich coachrnaker—J. Dunton, Warwickshire, coal-merchant-41. Tunstall, LiverPooli Pro vision-dealer—D. Fowler, Copthall-court, broker—H. Hewitt, Prince's-street, Drury-lane printer—D. Graham, Lothbury, cotton-manufacturer—F. Dineley, Pershore, \Worcestershire, money-scrivener—R. Wright, Hatfield, Broad Oak, Essex, grocer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. W. & H. Fanner, Bath, furnishing-ironmongers—J. Dalton and J. Peacock, Gutter-lane, riband-manufacturers—C. Blag den and J. Marriott, Long-clawson, Leicestershire, surgeons— T. D. Rothir.ill and J. Outhwaite, Ring-street, Cheapside, merchants—J. Barber, R. Bamby, and J. Shaw, White-street, Borough, dealers in black beer—H. Marriott, W. Raine, and Blaydes, Watling-street, warehousemen—R. Emett and B. Hatton, Liverpool, furriers—E. Turner and J. Scott, King ston-upon-Thames, veterinary-surgeons — G. Stevens and I. Loose, Great Pulteney-street, schoolmasters—G. Johnston and W. Byron, Carnarvon, slate-merchants—T. Kettle and J. Warr, Sedgley, Staffordshire, coal-masters — S. Satterley and W. /Like Hastings, surgeons—S. Cooke, It. and J. Charlton, Denton, Lancashire, .hat -manufacturers --J. and J. Jackson, St. Helen's, Lancashire, watch-movement-makers—E. Mount- Steven and C. P. Hatnley, King-street, Holborn, milliners. HOP INTELLIGENCE. SOUTHWARK, JUNE 9.—We have had a quick sale for Hops to.day„ occasioned by the letters from the Plantations, stating the fly to have increased very much, and the appearance of some Kentish Gentlemen on our market as purchasers. IllarnsToxE, JUNE 9.—From a survey of the Hop-grounds in this neighbourhood, we find that by far the grea t er p ro p or ti o n are dreadfully affected by the fly, many of the leaves having from 70 to 100 on them. A small leaf gathered on Sunday evening from a ground at Boxley, had on it the almost incredible number of 129 of these insects. Another leaf, pluck ed on Saturday, at Yalding, we hear, had on it 131. We re cord these circumstances, from a belief that the plantations were never before remembered to have been so much infested with this insect as they are at present. The fly being a sure forerunner of lice, a species of vermin most destructive to the plant, and the bine being in a very backward and uneven state, there is hut little prospect of having any thing like a tolerable crop. But few bets are now offered in favour of 100,0001. (From the Kentish Gazette, 'luxe 10.) We lay before oar readers this day the following official let ter on the postponement of the payment of the Hop Duty , ad dressed to Sir EDIVARD KNATCIIBULL, Bart. M.P. by J. C. lIERRIES, Esq. one of the Secretaries to the Treasury, in which the views of the Lords of the Treasury are more fully ex plained regarding the cultivation of Hops : Treater!' Chambers, ,l a rre b, 1823. Sut,—The Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury., having had under their consideration the Memorials transmit ted by you to this Board, from persons concerned in the growth of hops, representing the extreme distress of the cultivators of that article, and applying for reliefby a total or pa rtial remission of the duty upon it. I am comma nded by their Lordships to acquaint you, that after bestowing the most careful attention upon the representations contained in those memorials, and upon much other information upon the same subject, derived from the most respectable and authentic sources, they are under the necessity of repeating (and upon the same grounds) what has already been communicated to many of the same par ties in answer to former applications, viz. that they - do not feel themselves warranted by any just view either of the in terests of the public, or even of those of the parties themselves, in recommending to Parliament to repeal or to diminish the existing duties upon hops. Their Lordships are, however, deeply impressed with a conviction of the extreme distress of several of the districts from which those'applications proceed, additional proofs of which have recently been laid before them, and they are desirous of extending such relief to the pressing difficulties of the memorialists, as may not be calcUlatesd to en courage them in that over cultivation of the article, which would inevitably lead to a renewal of their present embarrass ment at some future and not distant period. Such they are ' confidently of opinion would be the only consequence of a per manent remission of the duty, or of a suspension of it for se veral years; but being satisfied by the general result of all the accounts which they have received, as to the nature and extent of the present distess, that a suspension of the duty for one year only, would not be a sufficient inducement to those who have engaged in the cultivation of hops on lands unsuited to the purpose (and who are now the persons most affected by the genera l depression in the price of the article) to continue or to renew a species of cultivation which has proved so ruin. ous to them. They conceive that in this case of extreme and peculiar hardship, it would be advisable to meet the prayer of the petitioners by a relief to that extent. They have therefore determined to grant that indulgence by postponing the collec tion of the duty now due upon the growth of the year 18'22, until the period when in regular course the duty upon the growth of 1823 will become payable, viz. in April, 1824, be. fore which time they will be enabled to submit to Parliament some measures for empowering their Lordships to relieve the Planter from the duty chargeable upon the growth of the year 1823. Their Lordships prefer this mode to a simple semis. sion of the duty on the produce of 1822 now in charge, be. cause they are given to understand, that a considerable portion of that produce has already been sold by the grower, and purchased by the consumer upon the presumption, that the duty was to be paid upon it, and that any general remis sion would therefore operate unequally upon the parties, ac. cording as they may have disposed of their produce or not.— I am to observe, that in conceding this relief in a case of dis tress (which appears to their Lordships to call for it in so pecu liar a degree) they feel that they cannot too strongly guard themselves against the possibility . of its being drawn into apse eedent ; and they, therefore, desire to be distinctly understood as consenting to this suspension, together with the further mea sure of relief contemplated by them, upon the sole ground of the extreme and pressing distress of the parties, and the utter inability of a large praisortion of them to pay the duty, if it were to be insisted upon.--I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, J. C. HERRIES. Sir Edward Knatchbol, Bart. M.P., &c. &c. &c. Jt D'EsPurr.—The. Duke of Luxembourg had a deformed figure ; and William 111. whose constant an tagonist he was, once said, with some impatience, What ! shall I never beat this hump-hacked fellow ? This speech be lug reported to the Duke, How should he know,' said he, 4 the Shape of my back ? lam sure he never saw me turn it to him.' LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JuxE 10. THE ICING V. T. POWELL, ESQ. Mr. Cer4PßELirnoved for a rule calling on Mr. Powell, a Magistrate for the county of Hereford, to show cause way a criminal information should riot be exhibited against him. Although this Gentleman acted as a Magistrate the offence now imputed to him did not arise from the discharge of any of his official functions, or his name would have been suppress ed on the present occasion. The application was made at tbe instance of the Rev. Dr. Venables, who acted as a Magistrate for Herefordshire, and for several adjoining counties. Many complaints had recently been made against the drivers of stage coaches in that part of the country for furious driving, and the Magistrates accordingly determined to put in force the recent Act of Parliament which gives a summary punishment for such offences, and after the last Epiphany Sessions advertised such intention in the Hereford Journal. Soon after this, as Dr. Venables was travelling on the road, between Hereford and Worcester, he saw the Eclipse coach attempting to pass the Camden, and making several desperate efforts for that purpose, which did not succeed. At length, as the Camden was stopping at the top of Malvern-hill, for the purpose of locking the wheel, the coachman of the Eclipse drove violently against it with his wheel unlocked, and struck off one of the wheels. Upon this Dr. Venables, thinking the case one in which an example might fitly be made, summoned the coachman before him, and on a full hearing of all the circumstances, convicted him in the penalty of 191. The party so convicted appealed to the Sessions; and while this appeal was pending, a letter appeared in the Hereford Journal tending to prejudice the case in favour of the defendant. On' the 16th of April a second letter appeared signed " An Inhabitant of Hay" (the place where the coach man resided), impugning the motives and the conduct of Dr. Venables, expressing the sympathy of the inhabitants with the proprietor of the coach, and stating their intention of defraying the costs of the appeal. On the 23d of the same month ano ther letter appeared in the same newspaper of a still more li bellous descnption, but which it was not necessary to quote, as it -was not brought home to Mr. Powell. In consequence. oft ° these attacks, Dr. Venables called• on the Editor of the Journal, who showed .him the manuscript of the letter which appeared on the 16th of April, and which he found to be in the hand-writing of Mr. Powell. Dr. Venables then wrote to Mr. Powell, to inquire whether he was really the author of the letter, to which he sent an answer, deny ing that he had affixed the signature to the letter, but ex. pressing his disapprobation of the proceeding of Dr. Venables, to which it alluded. Regarding this as a mere evasion. Dr.Venables demanded a more explicit answer, when Mr. Powell admitted that the body of the letter was in his handwriting, but denied that he was its author. To explain the animosity which induCed the defendant to adopt this line of conduct, the Learned Coun sel referred to some previous letters, in which Mr. Powell spoke of.the prosecutor in abusive , terms; and further stated that his client had found, on inquiry, that the whole statement respect. ing the subscription was untrue. Dr. Venables swore, in posi tive terms, that in the transaction which was the subject of the letters, he had been actuated by none but pure and conscientious motives, which entitled him to the protection of the Court from the abuse of those who were influenced by private malice.—The COURT grinted A rule to shew cause. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. A GRAVE OFF.ENCE,-ATTEMPT TO BURY A _ _ 'SEXTON ALIVE. BCM-STREET.—Tuesday Wm. Thompson, John Hick:, and John Wells, were brought before Sir R. Binxis, the presiding Magistrate. charged with making and causing a riot and disturbance, at the parish church-yard of Chiswick, dur ing the interment of the body of a man named Ifasker, ville,. on Sunday evening last. The funeral cavalcade had only just set out, when it was whispered by one of the mourners that he had just learnt that an offer of two guineas had been made to the widow if she consented to give up the body of her husband 'without burying it, as the trouble and risk of extracting it from the ground would then be done away with, but if she refused; it was determined that it should be taken up, and that the Sexton had consented to connive in the business, and was at the time actually drinking with part of the money he had received for this breach of his duty. Enraged at this intelligence, the party proceeded to the Church-yard, the corpse was lowered into the grave, gin was produced, and each of doe mourners drank the dead man's health, and then poured some of the liquor on the lid of the coffin, the sexton unfortu natelyt lie w mourners as alr already at this insnt mane to the grave he was directly seizea to fill in ; theyivelbyurtaceuetpled'to whenn unfortunate u s irte e o sexton f and thrown in, u hi s k n ees, when a party of constables arrived, and by help of ropes again brought him into the land of the living. The th re e defendants, who were noticed to be particularly active in the affray, were then taken into custody and secured in th e watch-house. T he y ur g ed nothin g in their defence, and were all ordered to find hail. SINGUL %it DEATH CAUSED BY A SHEEP.--- . About nine o'clock on Sunday morning, as a poor man, named James Sinden, was coming towards Ashford from Hythe, when within a short distance of the former place, "i)e met a. hock of sheep, pursued by a boy, who hallooed out to him to stop the ani mals, which he attempted to do, when one of them, in trying to pass him by a leap, struck him a violent blow on the forehead, which knocked him down, and caused his death almost instantaneously. The body of the poor fellow was conveyed to Ashford, where it awaits a Cot. roner's Inquest. He was 27 years of age, and we regret to say has left a wife and three small children to laMent his melancholy death. . COURSE OF EXCHANGE, June 10. • Amstet dam . IV 9 C.F. Ditto, at Sight l2 7 . Rotterdam 'PI 10 , Antwerp . 12 9 Haniburgh 3B 2 94 Us Altona Paris,3 Day's sigut Ditto linureleaux, ditto Frank forton the Main Madrid Cadiz ''', . Bilboa 3 Effective Barcelona , . . ' Seville Gibraltat Leghorn Get,ua ..........43 -Venice, Ital. Lir 2B 10 Malta 45 -Naples 304 Palermo Lisbon Oporto ' 515 . Rio Janeiro , . 47 Dublin .... 95 Cork 95 pet Cent. BULLION. Portugal Gold, i n Coin 1.0 0 0 per Os. Foreign (old, in liar• 3 17 6 New Doubloons 3 15 0 New Dollen 0- 4 9j Silver in Hers. Standard 0 4 Il MARRIED. Yesterday, the 10th inst.;at St. Andrew's, Holborn, Richard Forster, Esq., of Hunter-street, Brunswick-square, to Mary Ann, daughter of the late Win. Rabbeth, Esq., of Bedford. street, Bedford-row. Yesterday, at St. George's, Ihnover,square,Samuel Framp ton Stallard. EN., of Burton-crescent, to Eliza Catherine, second daughter of Robert Nicholls, Esq., of Toft, Lincoln- ' shire. DIED. On the 9th inst., in Curzon-street, Mayfair, General Robert Manners, Colonel of the 30th regiment, son of the late Lord Robert Manners, of Bloxhohne, in the county of Lincoln, and Member of Parlament in several Sessions for Cambridge. On the 15th ult. at Nykoping, Mr. VonPeyron,,wa re pre. sented the Swedish Government at the Hans Towns, anti the rest of the States in the circle of Lower Saxony, for 21 yew -- that is from 1792 to 1813. Seldom has , it been the IS of any Statesman to draw round him in his retirement more, general affection and esteem. But of these, indeed, he was every way worthy, if goodness of heart and distinguished abilities confer any dignity upon individual character. His death will be deeply lamented in the city of Hamburg)), where a long . residence had justly endeared him to an extensive circle of frtends and• ac. quaintances. On the day he died he had completed the 7lst year of his age. On. Monday, Mrs. A. Prater, after a lingering illness of near four years. Printed and Published far the PROPRIEkrOItv, at the Sus.. OFFICE, Ll 2, Strand, by J. B. CARSTAIRS. I i