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THE LONDON JOURNALS. ELTRACTS FROM THE DAILY 'MORNING rArEtts, April 3, 1823. [MORNING clittoistcnci No Paris Papers were received yesterday as none were published on Monday. We are still without any positive intelligence from the frontiers of Spain. It is reported that the south of France is in an insurgent state ; but at a time like this, all sorts of reports obtain circulation, and it is necessary to distrust the influence of our wishes on our judgment. Qne should think if the mat ter of disaffection exist to the extent generally believed, the appearance of a respectable body of troops, with the national colours, and deter mined leaders, would bring it into act ion. We are afraid the hatred of the French nation to the very name of Bourbon will be of no service to the Duke of Orleans at this conjuncture.-- Napoleon the Second is said to have been every where proclaimed. The declaration of the Journal des Debuts, that the Five Allied Powers have insured each other against Revolution, and that consequently England is bound to pro tect the Bourbons against their own subjects, us the Bourbons are to . protect Alexander, Frederick, Ferdinand, and George, against their respective subjects or slaves, must lead to some further explanation. The article of that Journal in which the nature of the obligation was stated, was by no means caretessly or hastily written ; and speaking as this Pap'er is understood to do the sentiments of M. de Villele, the article is deserving of the more attention. Lord Liverpool stated distinctly, that there were no secret Trea ties or secret Articles in the Treaties which were known. We know, however, that in the published Treaties this country is at most bound to protect the Bourbons. Can Lord Liverpool have been ignorant doily of the engagements entered into between his Government and the rest of the Allies ? Or, has the Journal des Dlbats stated that which has no foundation in truth ? EMOHNING HERALD.] By late advices from Paris, it is probable that the approaching contest between France and Spain may not be quite so auspicious for France as Many had anticipated. It will give us much pleasure that the French should be completely *orsted, as it may, possibly, teach the Bourbon Government to show more deference to the me dijition of a Court 'to which they owe their Throne, and to which fog many years they were indebted for a home, and "even support. Had England, during and subsequent to the French Revolution, been less persevering—had she re garded her own interests merely, where would these Bourbons have been ? for there can be but little doubt that, at many periods throughout the war, England might have made peace almost ou her own terms, not only with the Revolutionary Demagogues of France, but with the military despot, Booneperte• It England in the present instance has been nego• elating with France, in order to preserve peace be. tweet' her anti Spain, and if, as is very likely, the French diplomatists have outwitted us, then we think the Bourbons may safely be charged with ingratitude ; and, therefore, we sincerely wish their punishment in proportion to their abandon ment of their friend. Considering the moral debt due by them to this country, the least acknow ledgment they could have made would be, had we proposed our mediation, to have accepted it. But for centuries the Bourbons have been in their hearts the bitterest enemies of this country, especially during the reign of Louis'Xl V. and L'ouis XVI., the latter of whom was foolish enough to assist our American Colonies in throw. ing off their allegiance to England. His inter. Terence, however, brought about his own de. struction, and had nearly accomplished the ruin of his family, until at the expence of 600 millions of money it was reinstated by Englano. Louis XVI. lost his life in his unnecessary interference in the concerns of his neighbours, and it would Pot surprise us, should Louis XVIII. embark in this unnecessary war against the Spaniards, if he were to share the same fate, or again be obliged to England for a place of safety and support. [Tux TIM CS.I On perusing again the article in the Journal des Whets, relating to Lord John Russell's and Mr. Canning's conversation respecting our gua rantee of the Crown of France to the Bourbons, we are more struck than we were at the first glance. The repeated declarations of this Go- Veynment (quoted in The Times Journal of Mon day), that our object, even at the conclusion of the last war, and when the success of it was cer tain, WWI not, and had never been, to restore the Bourn is a decisive and incontrovertible proof that we could net in the same breath, and in the same treaties, be pledging ourselves to uphold them in future on their throne.— These declarations are not Co he shaken by any chicane. We wish the writer in the Journal des Daats would quote them from this paper, and see what he can mike of them, or how he can elude their force. But farther, the Journal des 'Mats does quote an article in a treaty to which we are parties, and in which it is said, that should a revolution spring up in France, with which Buonaparte has no concern, we will " meet and concert with the Allies, and with his "'Most Christian Majesty, on the measures pro "`per to be taken ;" and thence the same journal infers, that the only issue of such toncerting must he to maintain the King of France on hit throne, and that therefore, in contradiction to our express declarations, we are bound to that object. We shall dismiss this sensible argument by stating a similar case, anti shewing the course pur sued. *When the Allies approached Paris, after the battle of Waterloo, certain of Buonaparte's counsellors, hitherto most devoted to his will, waited on their master in order to concert with him on the measures proper to he taken at that anti the issue of such concerting was, not that they found themselves bound to support him me his throne, but that they advised him to abdi cate it as quickly as convenient'.---We are rather surprised that the reasoners for the Bourbons on this occasion, as much talk has recently sprung up about, the young Napoleon, do not endeavour to draw something from our declaration, that we make war 4C against Buonaparte attd his family." But this phrase, used in one of the documents, is explained in others. In the Bth article of the treaty with Russia, the expression is, " that the treaty has no other end in view hut to support France against the enterprises of Buonaparte and his adherents." Lord Clancarty say s, " The Allies are in a state of hostility with the ruler of France and his adherents, not from choice, but from necessity, because past experience has shown that no faith has been kept by him,' and that no reliance can be placed on him," Sm.— It is impossible, therefore, to deny the conclusion (which absolutely assumes the solidity of a fact),' that we fought, not to restore the Bourbons, but to expel Buonaparte ; and , that our hostility to him arose from our experience of his personal I character, to say nothing of the danger to be ap prehended from his talents: but his personal qua lities and talents being intransmissible to others, our hostility ceases with the death of him who possessed them, and in whom they were for midable. [WY TIMES.) Consols remained steady yesterday at 741 with little business doing. At the close, the market appeared heavier than at any hour pre viously, and the price was 74i buyers. Spanish Bonds experienced a fluctuation of one per cent., and sonic extensive transactions were effected chiefly by the parties receiving Ex presses, of which three arrived in the course of the day. The Bonds of 1821 were early in the morning at 292, and continued nearly , stationary until the afternoon, when a sudtien decline to 28+ took place,—they afterwards advanced to 28i," and' finally closed at 281. —Nothing was done in Scrip. The Agents of the Spanish Government here must be in a slate of great awkwardness, not merely as to the contracts which they 'may wish to wake for arms, ammunition, or provisions ; but even for their own necessary and personal supplies. Mr. Bernales, it is said, wisely holds his hand, having already a claim on the Spanish Government of at least 1'25,0001. We have lately heard of bills being presented to him, the reply to which was, that he had ceased to be the agent of Spain : and these same bills, when pre sented to an agent at the other end of the town, received for answer—" No effects l" (MO►tNINU POST.] The united action and the mutual contagion of political disaffection, as it exists in different countries, impart to it at the present day a de gree of strength and confidence which demand, we are told, a combined counteraction on the part of all established authorities, menaced as they are by an equal and common danger.— The union and contagion complained of are, we think, so far as they exist, the inevitable re suit of the increased civilization and more active intercourse of nations, and so long as these go on to increase, if disaffection exist at all, it can hardly fail to become more and more united and epidemic.—A league of Sovereigns for their general protection from a danger of which the aggravating cause is permanent and in. creasing, seems the most inappropriate mode of Nsistance, not only , because it evidently tends to augment that jealousy and discontent of subjects which is the root of the evil, but because it must, from the nature of things, be of a temporary and uncertain duration. In considering this Royal league with a view to estimate its ulti mate effect, it is obviously desirable to avoid any particular allusion to the personal qualities of its present members ; it is upon general principles, and not upon individual character, that the tenden cy of political institutions may be safely judged. This league appears then to us to have within it the seeds of its own dissolution, in as much as its continuance requires in every one of its members an entire singleness of purpose, an utter exclusion of.every separate project of greatness or ambi tion. We mean no satire when we say that this, or even the semblance of it, cannot be long main tained ; individuality of object is inherent iu the nature of man, whether he inhabit a palace or a cottage. But it may probably be said that the present advantages of this league cannot be fairly contested on the mere ground that they are not of a nature to be perpetual. And this would be true, if it were possible for such a league to exist, and from time to time to manifest its power, without estranging the . Sovereigns who are parties to it, and their respective subjects, more and more from each other; without beget ting a sense of foreign dependence and a more unrestrained accumulation of abuses in Govern ments, on the one hand, and in planting a sullen and desperate discontent in the bosoms of subjects, on the other. 'We lament the exist ence of this league, although it may, we admit, for a time, and for a time only, prevent an explo sion in one country, and smother it in another, because we believe it to add incessantly to the general aggregate in Europe of explosive mate rial, and because we believe that every European Government either possesses, or by studying the welfare and happiness of its own subjects, may speedily acquire a sufficient degree of municipal strength to supersede the necessity of federal protection. ............-. tuniTmi pßEss.] The die is at length irrevocably cast, and that war, so long balancing in the scales, is decided up on. The French Cabinet has published its fanatic Declaration of War against free and unotfending Spain, and also its 'Manifesto on its armies enter ing that country. Ministers are in possession of these documents ; how far they will influence our ' Cabinet is yet to be seen. We have no fears for Spain ; every thing declares for her; she wants present resources in money, but she has that which no wealth can supply—her high-spirited population are with her almost to a man, her Ministers , are energetic, and her country gives nothing to the invader and every thing to defence. The baptism of her liberties will be by blood, but a new manhood will dawn on her from the regeneration. When the glorious contest has closed, and the freedom of Spain is assured, she will calmly look round her for those wretches and fanatics who urged the maddening tide of hostility on her frontiers, and she will--find them exiles and vagabonds throughout Europe. Napo leon was prosperous beyond all former example when fate led him on Spain; from that moment the hour-glass of his fortunes ran with a rapid sand. —disaster and disaster poured upon him—his moral ascendancy -Was gone, and the strength which held Europe captive fell soon after. The, wretched Journals which the Bourbons hire and protect would fain deny the tottering condition of their employers, and the notorious, general disaffection now prevailing in the, French army. Yet, already, the Journal des Debuts has put forward an article, attempting to prove that England is pledged to support the Bourbons on the throne of France at all hazards, and through all changes, " mule qui coute."— . Discontent is so general throughout France, that alarm has already reached the Tuileries, and these maniacs who, by their attack on Spain, are dragging down collected ruin nu their own heads, would fain persuade themselves,' and try to persuade incredulous France, that England is still bound to prop them on that throne they have forfeited, at every hazard. Mon strous and ridiculous ! Our' church, in earlier days, might just as well have leagued with the enthusiasts, - and madmen who passed themselves as saints, as our Cabinet now ally itself with' Mt family, and faction, against whom all France is at length arrayed of necessi ty. The question of Lord John , Russell was in deed most timely, most consistent, with the usual good sense and discrimination of that excel lent young Nobleman. But for it and the answer of the Foreign Secretary, we do not doubt but the Bourbons actually persuaded them selves this, country was fettered by treaty, and pledged to support them knee-deep in sin. Qur expenditure previously had been so unexampled, our subsidies so general and profuse ; millions were scattered by us with so 'wanton a hand, merely for the restoration of this dynasty of fools and fanatics, that we are not surprised at any thing they might anticipate from us after. But the day has gone by for that; the dream of delusion is over, linked as we were with a leigue of despots, their own after-acts have cut the knot ; Russia, Austria, and Prussia, have been latterly acting together, without union or alliance with England. We trust we shall never be leagued with them again. The Bourbons must stand or fall without oar aid ; they have drawn on themselves the indignation of France and the detestation of all freemen throughout Europe ; they have rushed into -con test with a neighbouring nation, only because she fought for rational liberty ; and they who have reflectingly done all this, must now abide the consequences, they are not insured with us e and will meet neither aid nor indemnification. PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. tFroni the Bury Ca;wife, April 2.1 In no place is it so diflicult to ascertain the actual state of popular feeling, as in the mitlat, , of a popular assembly;. for in no place is there so little room firedisenssion ; in no place is titers so little deference paid to the seasoning of the wise, or the conclusions of the just. Of what use, then, ii will be asked, are county meetings ? As now conducted, lite. rally none. Time was, indeed, when the general voice in duced the delegated authorities t' call together the " good and true men of the county to seal and sanction, with the general voice, those measures, to which the great majority of a county gave cordial and wilting consent; but those times are past: and now, instead of county meetings expressing the general wish, they are mere assemblies of tools and partizans, drawn to gether by intrigue., to echo the will of an individual, or a fac. don ; to promote the views of some designing demagogue, or electioneering speculator. Such at least is the case in this county, yid of this description will be the atipproaching county meeting. The county of Suffolk not only does not require to be called together to petition for Reform, but is absolutely sick of the subject, and nauseates the very name. If the honest freeholder; of the county had really any wish to meet, would they not have spared a few mi nutes front the market hills, to, have given a sanc tion, by their presence, to the co-operative and co-ordinate preparatory musters under Sir Henry Byribury, at Bury ; and Sir William Middleton, at Ipswich ? Would the former gen. tleman have been left to pace the great parlour at the Angel, like a debtor waiting for' bail, in expectation of those requisi tionists, who should have assembled at his requisition, but who cared not for his bidding, and .came not at his call ? Would the latter worthy Baronet have been doomed to throw away his ready-made oratory upon two patrician and seven plebeian au ditors, in the Town Hall, Ipswich, if the County possessed one atom of that spirit which it is pretended pervades the realm ? Or supposing it just possible, that the advertised pre paratory convocation really escaped the notice of all the pa triots who were asked to come with a whoop, and come with a call," yet, when every body knew what had been done by the chosen few; when the proceedings of the half-dozen or half-score who did meet, were pompously displayed in the " vehicles of the faction ;" when co-operation was entreated, and signatures solicited; surely then, every man who had the cause of Reform at heart, .or who felt for the disappoint ment Sir Henry must experience if the thing failed, would na turally rush to the place .appointed, eager to show his zeal, though late, and by subscribing to the important docu ment, make some atonement for his past neglect. This would have happened, had not the county required a meeting . ; but this did not happen, and the conclusion is obvious. Thirteen hundred names are said to be appended to the requisition ; how have those names been obtained ? and how many have been signed by the individuals concerned ? One man whom we could name ,boaated be came to sign for seven ; another may signedhave ' for seventy ; and on such a principle, *thirteen thousand 'names are as easily obtained as thirteen hundred ; but, supposing every name to have been signed by its owner, and it may be so, still we may venture to inquire what portion of the soil belongs to about tell thirteenths of the requisuonists, shall we not find - the major part of them of that description of freeholders, which the law never contemplated, and which the spirit of the constitution rejects ; we mean your bare forty shil -114 freeholders, your rent-charge men, possessors of pig-styes, and lords In fee.iiimple of estates too small to bury a dead voter in, but just lar enough td endow with the elective franchise, , a living freeholder! if we should find this to he the fact, is it from such men we are to form our judgment of the sense of the county ? Or, say that the thirteen hundred re quisitionists possess thirteen fourteenths of the property of the county : still, the labour it has cost to obtain those signatures is too notorious to suffer us to consider the call, any other than an impertinent intrusion upon the county, and the foundation of a proceeding which, we may yet find it neces sary to designate by a harsher term. }or the last six or seven weeks, the humble instruments of mischief' have been hawk ing the requisition about in every town, village, s and cluster of cottages in the country. We know many obscure individuals, on Whose land the sun never yet shone, who have deserted their business, and neglected their homes, to scour the country day after day, in search of signatures. A hundred similar instances could be found, and there is no doubt that three-fourths of the names have beets obtained by a similar process. Ilad the free holders wished a meeting for reform, would there have been any necessity to resort to such measure ? No ; for in such a case, as the Editor of the Sufolkehronicle anticipated, " nine. tenths of the freeholders of the county" would have signed the requisition, and their overwhelming numbers would have dumb founded opposition to their views : as it is, the Paucity of . pa_ triots is laughable; anrthe means taken to obtain those few contemptible. That there will be a great mob at Stowniarket, on Friday, there can be no doubt ; and, it is almost certain that a vast majority of the assembly will be composed of a de. scription of persons, whom we would not entrust to frame laws for a pot-house, smoking club, and whom therefore we deem L utterly unfit to Reform tlie Constitution of England. POLICE •INTELLIGENCE. MAxstox-HousE.—A little mean.looking .fellow, named Dynam, who keeps a shop in Field-lane; was brought befOre the Lord Mayor upon rather an extraordinao charge. A Mrs. Eames stated, that a man named Shappard, who was next-door neighbour to the prisoner, had been apprehended some time ago upon a charge of receiving a little Piece of iron which belonged to the Gas-light Company, and bad been stolen a short time before. Sheppard was committed for trial, and, during his stay in prison, Dyinim . told witness that he would undertake to get Shappard out ,of the hobble altogether, if money was advanced for that purpose. Witness consented to make an endeavour for the unfortunate man, and got together the sum 'of 251., in'th.e - hive that he would escape conviction by its influence. • The hour of trial approached, and the pri soner told the Witness there was occasion for more money, and that the mordent that it was paid, she might depend upon a prosperous conclusion to the case, without the interference of lawyer, barrister, or judge. Confirmed in her expectation by this assurance, the witness raised ill. more, through friends and the 'pawnbroker, to the latter of whom she was recom. mended by the prisoner, to .whom she gave the whole of the money the moment she became possessed of it. The day of trial arrived, and the unfortunate Shappard looked about in vain for an acquittal. Mr. Dynam was not to be seen. The evidence proceeded. Nobody seemed to care for the event ? ex cept Shappard, who, to his surprise and horror, was convicted and sentenced to be imprisoned six months and whipped. Un der these circumstances, the witness considered that the pri soner had obtained the money upon false pretences. Mr. HuMPIITIEYS, the solicitor, attended for the prisoner, and stated that Shappard had mentioned upon his trial that he had not the assistance of Counsel, in consequence of the low ebb of his pocket, an account which little agreed with the pre sent charge. The prisoner was ordered to find bail. On iLDIIALL.—DARING ROIIIIEnT.—Thomas Tilyard, a well-known thief, and a stout fellow, in appearance a porter, who gave his name William - Cooper, were brought up before the Sitting Magistrate, Alderman Thomas SMITII, charged with a robbery, under the following circumstances : The neighbourhood of Friday-street and the Old Change have of late been much infested, early in the mornings, by a set of feting s lurking about and watching their opportunities of robbing the wholesale warehouses, generally at that hour oc. copied only by the several porters cleaning them out, prepara tory to business. The numerous robberies committed there. abouts lately have put the neighbours upon the alert, and a little before eight o'clock yesterday morning the journeymen at work in the shop of Mr. Blakesley, carpenter, Friday-street, observed four suspicious fellows of this description, two of whom were the prisoners, apparently upon the look-out. Mr. Blakesley's foreman in consequence dispatched one of the men for Jackson, an officer of the ward, who attended immediately, and stationed himself at the corner of Distaff-lane-to be upon the watch. In addition to Mr. Blakesley's men, who were upon the sharp look-out also, Evans, the porter at Mr. Du thoit's, wholesale hosier, directly opposite, had got sight of the fellows, and was in consequence keeping his eye upon a pack age w hich stood in the passage of his master's warehouse. While thus watched, one of the fellows planted himself against Mr. Blakesley's shop, to take the attentton of the men working there ; a second, the prisoner Tilyard, placed himself against Mr. Duthoit's warehouse, to prevent the view down the street; and under cover of this supposed screen, the prisoner Cooper very deliberately too k the box from Mr. Duthoit's passage upon his shoulders, and was as deliberately walking away with it up the street; instantly some of Mr. Blakesley's men pursued, and after a desperate struggle, secured Cooper with the box. Tilyard, who ran off in the contrary direction, was met and taken by Jackson, the officer ; but in the confusion the two other fellows made their escape. The box,was produced before the Magistrate, and identified by Mr. Duthoit as his-property. The thieves, however, even , )t a d l ii sa y Coopertt a t a i kr e ade y in) y, su cceed ed, would have gained no great booty, the con tents being only some 8 or 9 wrappers, the utmost value of which was not more than 2s. 6d. or 3s. apiece. withi il thing le d i in n „ igt o ii attemptt inte,onrlo, crhoeininteur;et i ll : , e; y l 1 x,e d v, a ti e sb f au e in n t it not tet forwwo n iottith h : ii i mds s eb o l, wn ne accountaan.id (pointingiuseless nefvo:hsawi be ingmtos t c 1 twe himl 1 I n itt i coii la s Ynhsifoeolonyna: and somewhat acted eloalln3)tbeo i rfte n oler:nye t e' l r te l:alk a lnbe n lkr i we e n' entlntbweelaauron tried i C 'ev's r dli , lnel a l la i l i ti and Ti ly theard acquitted ld was circumstances,llll g ln le l ay o : f f or h a I h is participation in the offence; and their being no decisive proof of their knowledge of each other, Tilyard escaped, and his com panion only was found guilty. In the present case, however, all the witnesses swore to his being in company, and communication with Cooper and the rest of the gang, and both the prisoners were in consequence committed for trial. Bow-ST REET.—Yesterday John Featherstone, a well dressed young man, who was stated to be respectably connect ed, was brought up, charged with stealing sevetal articles of linen, bed-furniture, &c., the property of a poor old woman named °over. The prisoner, about two months ago, took apartments in a tense belonging to the prosecutrix, and in a day or two after brought a young woman, dashingly attired, whom he repre sented to be hie wife, and they lived together for about three weeks. They, however, absconded early one morning, taking the key with them, and the apartments rem a in e d l oc k e d up f or more than a fortnight, when the prosecutrix broke open the doors, and found that the greatest part of the moveable furni ture was gone. She found means of communicating with the prisoner through a third person, and in two or three days she received a letter from him, in wh i ch he attributed all the blame tolls female companion, who, he said, was not his wife, but an abandoned woman with whom he had unhapily become con. nected, and who had been the cause of reducing him from a state of comfort to the deepest distress. lie entreated the pro. secutrix not to snake }pawn to his friendsoany thing that had occurred, and promised that on the following day he would procure money sufficient to remunerate her for any loss she might have sustained. He, however, never called ; and happ en . ing to meet himin the street yesterday, she gave him in ch arge to an Officer. The prisoner's defence was a reiteration of the letter which he sent to the prosecutrix. He implored the Magistrate not to commit him, and assured the prosecutrix that if she would take his word, he would pay her the full value of her goods in less than 24 hours. Mrs. Clover, who 'appeared to possess a large portion of the milk of human kindness, said she should' not care for the loss on her own account, but what little furniture and other property she had, she was endeavouring to save for the benefit of her two sons, who had been a long time maga ; and as the prisoner had deceived her once she could hardly trust him. Howeve r , s h e would taketis Worship's advice upon the subject. Mr. MINIUM t.r. said the case was a very tagrant one, and he would not let the prisoner go at present. lie might, per haps, hereafter allow a compromise for the sake of the pro secutrix ; but if he did, it would be almost a compromise of his own duty. The prisoner was remanded, leave being given to him to send to his father, who, he said, held a situation in the firm of an eminent distiller, for money to liquidate the demand of the prosecutrix. The prisoner 4 short time ago held a situation in the Excise. Richard Taylor, the driver of a cart belonging to Messrs. Ward and Hood, of Queen-street, Oxford -street, appeared upon a summons, to answer to the chares of furiously driv ing, cruelty to his horse, and wilfully r'amaging the property orothers. The defendant wits seen, about seven o'clock in the even ing, thriving a young 'and very spirited horse at f u ll s p ee d along the Strand, and beating the animal with all his strength over the head with the but end of his whip. A street-keeper, named Mitchell, and other persons called to him in vain to stop ; he went on, careless of the lives of passengers, until a gentleman had the courage to seize the reins; upon which the defendant attempted to strike him with his whip, and finally drove one of the shafts of his cart through a shop window, and had well nigh crushed the gentleman against the wall. The defendant, in answer to the charge, denied that he drove furiously, and said the gent l eman who stopped him broke the window himself. e Mr. Mixsitout., after some strong comments upon the utter want of humanity to the horse, and extreme carelessness of hu man life evinced by the defendant, ordered him to pay 14s. for the glass broken, and fined him in the penalty of 20s. and costs for furiously driving. The worthy Magistrate told the de fendant he might think himself fortunate that the charge of cruelty was not proceeded upon, and assured hi m i t wou ld h ave been, but that i t might seem to savour of vindictiveness. One of the defendant's employers assured the Magistrate he should not again be trusted by them with the guidance of a horse. MARLDOROUGII - STREET.—EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE. —Yesterday a gentleman, stylishly but slovenly dressed, and of extremely "wretched aspect, was brought to this office in custody, charged with tearing and swallowing the fragments of a bill of exchange or acceptance, presented lnm for payment by a clerk of the banking-house of Coons and Co. The evidence to support this curious charge was as follows : —A gentleman from the banking-house of Coutts and Co, called in the morning a t t h e residence of the defendant, Mr. Bond, in Charlotte -street, Fitzroy-square, and by the hands of the lady of the house, sent the bill to him, waiting of course for the amount, 09/. ; and i n a f ew m i nu t es he perceived the de. fendant quite the house by another door. He followed him di. rectly, and catching him by the arm, said, " My good Sir, you must not carry away the bill." The defendant instantly to r e it, and a slight scuffle ensued, the result of which left the clerk in Rossession of the fragments of half the bill, ate dafendttOt having seized and swallowed the remainder. Mr. DYER (the Magistrate) asked if, during the struggle, any assault had been committed by the defendant ? The clerk replied he had violently endeavoured to recovet the fragments of the bill. Mr, DYER.—" If so, he has rendered himself liable for the assault." The clerk said, he had no wish to put the defendant to any inconvenience ; all he required was that he should fulfil the ea grigements which were by him made on the bill. The Magistrate here had some consultation with the cashier and others of the banking-house ; and it appeared their only wish vas that the money should be paid. The defendant, who seemed certainly labouring under a tem porary aberration of mind, and who gazed around with A vacant but melancholy carelessness, here, on being , asked to ac count for his conduct, addressed - the Magistrate in a manner that chewed him to be a man of finished education, an d apologised for appearing before him in the state he was in, and lamented that his inconsistency of conduct should for a moment have. OC , - cupied magisterial attention ; but lie thought it necessary to give some explanation which in some measure might exonerate hiln from the imputation of intentional offence and convince although entitled to mth more, was worth about I him his crime was more that of misfortune than ' design• lie , and had 78 freeholds in London and Middlesex t but eir"m stances had arisen which completely disarranged his mind and affairs, and he had made-himself a party to the issuing of eight bills to the amount of 6501., one of which was the one torn ; he had been so unfortunately plundered and planned against, that although he had receipts fully equivalent to the Oa, yet he never reeived a halfpenny of that amount ; the money on the bills was never given him ; it was appropriated to the use o f . others, and he was answerable for the bills, which were ail about becoming due ; and when the one was presented him, he had done in a moment of irritation that which he now con ceived very improper. Ile wished to be distinctly underst xS I , The defendant.-1 es as acknowledging himself answerable for the bill, although he then was not prepared to meet it. ,5001. a.year. Mr. DYER.—Can 'ou have the bill immediately paid ? , is ini in possession of about 10,0001 . a year, and my uncle menseli. those Mr. .DYEn.—Have you written to your solicitor, or to , friends you mention, who I know are highly respectabl e ' . 0 ; 1 The defendant waywardly said the bankers had no °Nast to doubt his credit. • te It was here explained to the Magistrate that die unfertona .. 1 should imagine so : my bro.they is gentleman by a suit in Chancery of a peculiarly atlijet i ng, e n L ture, was much restrained in his resources, and the ellen!, . i.e melancholy observable was solely produced by that : a_r_ i t'," Ll ,, and letters were sent to his Bankers, imbecility of mind which he displayed, often occurred, unw",, nately, in moments when heated with wine : he with intemp , rate desperation had adopted a line of conduct very otfensqe,e kind. nenunl" Mr. DYER, upon this, advised him to make some co cation to his relatives. wi ll pay The defendant, quickly—" 0, yes, Sir, my uncle the amount : am I at liberty ? t without The Magistrate said lie could not allow him W depar finding bail. - shall The defendant, very wildly, said—,4 Ay, Sir, Pn have bail. and locked 11 1 ). Ile was then removed with some difficu lty, and re' During his stay in the office he was very obstreperous, quired force to detain him. A emar, UNION-flair..—Yesterday an old woman nanle" 'f ore ',II • residing in the Grove, Guilford-street, was brought he iciiio, , SWABEY, Esq., charged tinder the head of " W h ile in a she having thrown herself into the common fiesver, tiieoffiar state of intoxicitionsson Wednesday morning sewer ~,: ve4 iing, &e., o r a very . ; aeon stated, that on the morning In question, as lie wr,ss e I r ) crie, a t along Guildford-street, about two o'clock, he il A.`,` on ning distress issue from the main shore in that street. fin obi ors to the spot, by the light of the watchman's elbows a woman squatted in the middle of the sewer, tin to : umaced in mud. She cried out for help, and made severat,.... iti t he ful attempts to extricate herself but she vies Su, nf t b , w ith lan_ tern,l l l; e u r " mire, that all her eflerts *ere in vain, until at r w b o orogn , much difficulty, she was rescued by the rifficer an I .. ,„,, e h and conductid to the watehhouse. Gill said she was _ t 7 i , one, intoxicated, and added, that had the title been UP " „mod st she would eertpinly have lost her life. Upon bel i q nv i e t what the bar, she appeared te, be greatly distressed in 11, ,,,,,, rer ktr had occurred, and accounted for her attempt to a tT lvir e, wall self, by saying that she had been ill treated b i y o, r t ir d ' ie e skers saved her from destruction. She acknow whom she lived, and turned out of doors liquor at the time, and romised the 111Aristrat„,i.lie said, lea heaceihrth she would abst ain from drink , wi l l icb ioe ,vss then to the unpleasant circumstances above ow let "' set at liberty. J an us Freeman, A man of respectable appearance , named lt l on . ppearance, b t oing l Jot it resident in Bennet-street, Blackfriars, W i a° „ T hy , lir t warrant, charged with ill-treating his own n 3t. i° i ofrillareatmen., 10 years of age. The little girl 1 a set' es f niglitg a g i state( e w or A received by her from her unnatural Parel lt ", Scion ar ea fa ce , her father, she said, came home at a verY ol te ee d it ( ~,a trivial offence, struck her the eye and blaekeeti tier ae exhibited the marks of the blow) : he then ltrn; te d her ' l. ,i on the floor, kept her in that position, and 11(rerva,. 'fie rrni'd in g out by stu ffi ng his handkerchief in her ro 1P! . . 1a t o t an , a,ty. stated many other acts of barbarity towards her,..7; ibet /of n't e declared that she went in danger of her life. n" o, i i•ia' 4 ( 10°4' 0 bourn residing in the street proved that ex e- ,1 ~...,ling *pot defended to be heard at all hours of the night, in9ocl,„t, ,er house. The father in explanation of his c n ive „e tetn ac ; himself by stating that the child was of a mestf', 3 o , c at is Tff., an at led t:e.ed ihav,iiittibteenr; to bring her to a sense of obedience to her mother 4 h ° I t i sten The 'Magistrates severely reprehended the conduc t ,,,,, I,e o w l en d he was °Ridged__ to have recourse to chai _ lid pasel o r , o towards his child, and gave directions that she t hou De FY I , care of in the parish workhouse until a situation ow P cured for her. In the meantime the father ato parish Us. a week for her suppport. :Vales, A man named fttirz ',,live( l North H umtitir""'"".."—.—..----ies, of man paid his addresses to a female wa y (p i( in b eyond Conway. They agreed tome eet at l o wa that tot : n. In his way thither fell u o ie SUDDEN onewas of the precipices of Pentnaen Maw r , : to o overset in the Conway ferry-boat, an pa the ~_ only person that escaped out of, 0 ° 11 ; Daa port -passage, 11 state of health a walk la th i l o iv u e r d score. They were afterwards ualte"l, in, the out many years in the parish's f filanfas...7iiit church-yard of which the habitant, r de P h ar ea k rt ! their graves. . ' gis . iiii f t g r e o rs o i , :h e ad ide o r:La kft ay i , :::::::: o,ro DEATM—YCSteriIDy red` iti ci 9 7.1 morn t rig , arylebone, after rising from rfosritig take it two toinOvz when she heard something fall, and on proceedlt:lgo ow ti B ll, ment, she discovered that the unfortunate LI" eyes or e 411 apoplexy, and was quite dead. be t ,h - ' bot l l l black from the s h iri e e ak b f a a d st b , ee a i n i d sp l Vin t li cbeertaf 8 fall . An Inquest will sit upo"____:_„.---- Arit a ErUg to 45' COAL-MARKET , ° Ships at Market. • 2tit Newcastle . Ships sold r/: 1 1 r34 .-- #; •:, 1) 4 Sunderland - - 4 - 0 Scotch Coal - - jam . eg an i d iin it a iLl y it Roefver the d (;------...--_ t}v 11 Reverend _ s( itair e, copt HoloYe6teTdaY. at St. Gaorge's Church. Nall°ve.riodase, i i n Hon. Robes' .. Southgate, 111 iddlesex. Thomas Onthellitir of : Lindsay, of 132►Icarres, te Anne,. „Ile!, Sir_ Coutts Trotter, of GTOSYCIIOT•SqUare, 13ar,':„botie (1.:,,,p41 On Wednesday the 2d instant, at Our J.' WO Robert Haitliness' Es ofthe late W illiarn,,,,eiterlt , q. son of }-%3R. tat Jane, third daughter a the berd 1101,,1' ii „pse te lwit Yesterday, at the Church of S. 13utolpti, " 13 ‘J'' Henri d'Emden, to Ann, eldest daughter a mr• ti , the''' . r h e e n a be d i T e a r I :J iiiBlalreirs,°telei'Vet sollotete a tl 7l l of ed ,JtaifnuNareyw, la,toSrkt.,Ctoreti.i,xeb'ee...tot,dicittioe7 Po* of William Macdougall, Esq _ of the said !son W r , fir jlFn in O a a t , the r i ln o k e fi et h 12:: WCOh)inntiAn;i'o,endld,n;suegys.diaoaspf,titithl:et 1261:11tnt. Ii 'or, , • 114# 1". P h Yesterday, age d 21, Louisa, wife of Mr , •""-- v e t t 0 1 11 3 n f ,o lls w t year a aged cirdo a n ! ,rhtarA her er e d s i l a l g 117--------.-F6o.ntiggxer:cssh'ere%l:r fotiter, 4'o On Lichae -------- Printed and P 0 Ott - u_ _lsbell for the Pnotkalrvoit,sop. vmce, No. 112, Strand, by .1, It we= coal At Beau 11.1s1 f Mt, on Tuesday last, the body of Copt. J °llbfrt At. 57, 0 Scott, of a daughter. 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