The Sun. — London, England, 1823-05-21 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts from the Morning Papers, May 2 [MORNING POST 4 The Factions Press of England, with all its assumed ardour in the cause of freedom, and its affected detestation and contempt of the projects and character of that party in France which wages unrelenting war against free principles, • does not hesitate, nevertheless, to extol, the most bigotted and inveterate individuals of that party, and to dwell upon their assertions or insinua lions, as upon authority the most grave and respectable, as often as they can extract from either any thing capable of being employed as the means to impeach or discredit the con duct of the British Government. The avi dity with which this unworthy portion of the English press has availed itself of the speech of M. de Montmorency, in the French Chamber at Peers, in order to arraign the policy and con- Iradict the statements of their own Government, presents a striking instance of the certainty and the promptitude with which the merit of being an accuser of Ministers outweighs in the esti mation of Faction, the highest degree of poli tical or moral delinquency. The censures of M. de Montmorency, destitute as they are of in genuity, force, or originality, would not certain ly have been deemed worthy of attention, if the use which it has been attempted to make of them did not serve as an index and a measure to the feebleness, the hopelessness, and the tergiver sation of the English party, which seems anxious to derive from them succour after its recent de feat, and assistance in it; future efforts. M. de Montmorency affects to consider the statement of the British Ministry, that they were not . informed, previously to the arrival of the Duke of Welling ton at Paris, that the affairs of Spain were to constitute a principal subject of consideration at the Congress of Verona, as entirely unfounded. And he expresses an opinion that this mis-state silent was an essential ingredient to the vindica tion of Ministers, and was in fact resorted to by them from dread of the Parliamentary Oppo sition. All this is amazingly silly on the part of the French. Statesman, for no one can have paid the slightest attention to the course of the discussion, whether in or out of Parliament, without perceiving the absolute neutrality of the fact in dispute, either to the defence or inculpa tion of the British Government. The silliness of the Frenchman, however, is elevated to the rank of meotal acuteness and vigour, in comparison to the more deplorable weakness of those English. men who repeat his surmises and adopted his con clusion. The fact asserted by ministers, and which M. de Montmorency labours to reason away for sihat purpose it seems difficult to imagine, is in truth established by his manner of dealing with it, upon an immovable bask. He infers, from the known vigilance of the English Government; and from what he deems the general notoriety of the thing, that the intentions of France could not have been unku,own. This vague and loose manner of treating the subject on the par of a Statesman who had abundant means of scat ing the dates and terms of any previous commit nication by the Government of France to that o Great Britain, if any had been made, demon. strates the correctness of the assertion that no in formation respecting the intentions of the former bad been previously. imparted. Thus'we find in variably that truth is fortified by .every-kffort to shake it ; and that the factious, whether foreign or domestic, which seek to impugn the veracity of the British Ministry, afford to the world, by every renewed attempt, only fresh illustrations of their own weakness and folly. ._.......~~,,,~,0.... , [BRITISH PRESS.] Arenda, where Angouleme removed his head quarters on the 15th, is in Old Castile, 35 miles south of Ilurgos,and in the direct road to Madrid. Ohert's communication with l3essieres is the first account given of that hitherto restless partisan Mace the entry of the French into Spain. His capture of iwisoners and arms from Ballasteros, and the desertion of the troops of the latter, e regard as pore invention, and destitute of an atom o f truth. The rest of the dispatch is in the same character, a parcel of tiresome false hoods, Angouleme is getting into the heart of Spain; he is rushing on the capital, and into the nets spread out for him. There, separated from his supplies, with disheartened troops, company. tively scanty in numbers, and with more scanty resources, almost inevitable destruction attends him. Accounts from Perpignan to the 10th May state, that Donnadieu had entered Vich on the 6th, and that he had only a slight skirmish At the forest of Tosca, between Olot and Laspressas, where the French had about thirty wounded. - -- ', ounded.— We remember the contest at Logrono, and that before Ow walls of St. Sebastian, were men tioned at first by the French Papers in the same way: it.howover afterwards appeared that the invaders suitertql severely, and had some hun dreds Lifted and wounded, and the skirmish at Totten. will probably yet turn out of the same description. Mina's progress is stated in these accounts to have been by the bridge of Roda over the Ter, where he quitted the left bank of the riser, and retired on Llusartes; it Was than only the French General, Donnadieu, ventured to approach Vicb. But Mina instantly detached 4,000 men from his army, who retraced their steps by the right bank of the river by Vich, again to Ripoll, where they had attacked Romagosa and annihilated him, and arrived sub. sequently on the Bth at Campredcm, three leagues only from the French frontiers; Mina's intention twin , to cut oil all the communications of the French with that place, whence Donnadieu in particular drew all his supplies of every sort for his corps. The arrival of Mina's troops at Cam. predon was first announced by,the unexpected concourse of a number of Monks, who only on the 4th, at six o'clock in the morning, had de parted to the sound of exulting music, to bestow themselves in their respective convents, and take possession, in lazy ease, of their rents and benefice=s ; they fled on the first alarm.— The entire nights of the 7th and Sth the French troops were under arms, expecting every in stant to be attacked by_ the Spanish Chief. His rapid and _ successful movement had diffused universal alarm. Complete ignorance is avowed of a►y thing like the ulterior operations of Mina or his army in the French papers,' D'Eroles' soldiers, who remained In Cerdagne, desert, it appears, daily, with their arms and baggage ;. pre cious allies to the Ultras, who lavished so many millions on then - t. Accounts from Bayonne to the 11th state, that the Spanish Government has for bidden all communication with that part of the country occupied by the French. Madrid was almost a desert ; all were directing their steps to Andalusia, the roads were covered with emigrants, taking with them their most precious effects ; but there was no' defection whatever in the Constitu tional troops, while the bands of the Faith had dwindled to nothing. Sixty prisoners, taken at Lo grono, had arrived at Vittoria, where fruitless ef forts were made to incorporate them in the bands of the Faith ; but they refused in the most deter mined manner to fight with these ruffians against the Constitution of Spain, declaring to a man, with the greatest energy, that they preferred be ing shot. Yet the French paters of some days since stated that these brave men had mixed themselves up with the traitorous bands of the Faith. So much for the veracity of these Jour nals. Mina's defeat of Romagosa, in despite of the caution of the French Ministers, had be come general in Paris, and was universally known and believed. The plan of the Spanish Chief was, it seems, to attack and disperse the two divisions of d'Eroles and Romagosa, before he came to blows with the French ; and this he has effectually performed. Quesada's troops, it appears, mutinied and broke into open revolt ; the entire abandoned him, and he had to fly with a single aide-de-camp. Of from three to four thousand banditti who formed his division, blockading Santora, not a man, it appears,.re. mained. 'They pave now joined the Constitu tionalists, or turned Guerillas, on their own ac count. The French, it is stated, had to detach several battalions to blockade Santona in their place. These are the bands who were to form the vanguard of the French, and do all the work of fighting, leaving to Angouleme no thing but a triumphant procession. Where are they now ? They have been cut.to pieces, or deserted in hundreds, with arms and baggage. Suchet's (the Duke of Albufera) departure for the army was talked of at Paris. The Journal des Debuts says almost nothing of Mina ; it merely states that his movements were most doubtful ' • that on the 11th he had been near C ar d ona , and appear ed as if he only sought to avoid an engagement. The reserve of this paper is the best proof that it has nothing favourable to its employers to com municate, beyond the occupation of Palarnos by the French troops, and the accustomed trans ports of joy with which they were received. The real ceremony of their reception is not yet com plete; but we shall soon see it commence in uni versa! resistance to the invaders. [NEW TIM ES.] We have received, by express, a telegraphic dispatch which reached Paris on Monday. It re presents the undisturbed advance of the French in !tree columns on Madrid. The head-quarters of its Royal Highness the Generalissimo were on the 15th at A ra — nda, 48 miles in advance of Burgos. Marshal Oudinot was on the 11th at Valladolid, and Gen. Qbert, who had come from Tudela, was on the 15th at Almazan, and was to be on the day following at Siguema. The last-mentioned Officer was in communication with she Spanish Royalist General Bessieres, who had intercepted Ballasteros on his flight toward Valencia, and taken from him 2000 men, 200 muskets, and ' four pieces of cannon. As to Mina, fug itive and vagabond as he is, w e Can l earn li t tl e distinctly about him. The latest news concerning him is in the Journal des Dt;bals of Sunday, under date of the 13th from Gerona ; and it repre. scants him to have been on the 11th at Cardona, forty-two miles South of the Frontier, 45 North of Barcelona, and 55 N. W. of Ilostal rich. It appears, therefore, that he is not going to invade France, which The Morning Chronicle has so long announced as his Intel]. tion. He may be endeavouring to escape into Barcelona, or it may be his wish to join his former associates at Hostalrich ; but in either case he will probably be intercepted by the division of Donnadieu in front, while d'Eroles Is pursuing and harrassing him in the rear. A letter of the 10th inst. from the latter General to Marshal Moncey announces the determination to harrass Mina until he is totally destroyed.--0 I can assure your Excellency," says d'Eroles, 66 that if we vigorously pursue him for eight days, the want of ammunition and provisions will cause his destruction." [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The Courier, some days back, gravely sug. Bested a Most ridiculous embarrassment to 80ut... bon councils, on the supposition that the Cortes may remove the Royal Family to the Canaries, and then, he asks, how are the French to settle the kingdom without a King ? In such a case what is to be done ? Are the Due d'Angouleme and old Aloncey, line the Pantaloon and Clown in a Pantomime, to run over the whole world knocking their heads against the wall in . quest of the fugitives ? Are they to take shipping, or to balloon it, or ride astride of dolphins to the Canaries ? What will the God of Saint Louis do for them in such a strait—can the Prince llohenlohe accommodate the French army with a rainbow by way of pontoon between Spain and the Canaries ? Something grand in such an event, it is clear, must. be done to recover the Royal Family. This would certainly be a new case for the Gazette of Europe—Lost, stolen, or strayed, a King of the Bourbon breed, who answers to the name of Fer dinand,and is of no use to any but the advertisers, In the mean time, how is the kingdom to be settled ? —The known principles of the - Freyich Bourbons, which keep their fingers from picking and stealing, and their tongues from lying, will not suffer them to take possession of it in defaultof a betterormore legitimate owner, and what is to be done for a King, a thing tell times more necessary to a king. dom than a people ? A thought strikes us ! There 'are several goodly idols in the B'rit'ish Museum, things that have in their better days, and ano ther quarter of the globe, been held in wondrous veneration by the people, and honoured by priests. Suppose one of these was to be anointed and setup in the Escurial for the time; they are portly and of a noble presence, with huge mother-of-pearl eyes,a fine head of feathers, and legs very crooked and fit for the paths that Kings love to walk in.— Surely such ,a thing as this might hold drawing rooms and levee's, and indeed perform every ne cessary office of state pageantry, in as perfect a manner as the best Monarch in Christendom. With the help of a tea-kettle and a bushel of coals per diem, Mumbo Jumbo might also be 'made to write the sign manual, and would thus be complete in the executive functions— an excellent high pressure King of half, horse power.-✓-This contrivance would have one great advantage, that of ha s lding his tongue, a point of discretion in which so many mighty Monarchs fail, and, as Bacon says—" Surely Princes had need in tender matter and ticklish times to be ware what they say ; especially in those short speeches which fly abroad like darts, and are thought to be shot out of their secret intentions. For as for large discourses, they are flat things, and not so much noted," [THE TIMES.] A Bill against 64 Occasional Freeholders" in the boroughs of England and Wales, is now on its way through Parliament, and will receive, we trust, the attention and support to which it is so well entitled. The practice which has notori ously prevailed, of gentlemen who possess large property in boroughs, cooking up a temporary majority of voters for the mere purpose of ac complishing their own return, is manifestly an abuse of the constitution and law of Eng land. These occasional electors have no fixed interest in the place for which they vote,: the Member whom they send to Par liament is really their representativeor ra ther, perhaps, they are his representatives. lie is only the nominal and fictitious representative of the borough for which he assumes to be re turned. The best interests of the borough itself and of its inhabitants may be, and too aften are, set at defiance and seriously injured by almost every vote which a Member so returned gives in Parliament ; and yet his own creatures, heedless of the opinions of the fixed inhabitants, can and do re-elect the same patron, for the same borough ; and thus, in fact, set aside the Royal Charter from which the borough derives the privilege of sending Members to Parliament. All this is plainly against the principles of the Constitution,as well as against these of common sense; but it is likewise con trary to positive law, as declared and enforced by a long series of statutes from the Revolution downwards. It was an illegal practice before the Revolution, as proved by the famous Haste mere case, which Sir Francis Pemberton tried, and which the great Lord Somers has reported. The practice even then—when the law upon the subject and the importance of the principle were less understood than at present—the practice was even then described by the Court to be " too bad to be excused." The principle is now universally recognized ; and yet, shameful to say, the practice is almost as generally at utter variance with it. This Bill, then, which seeks no more than to produce a conformity between the law and the fact, calls loudly for the sup port of every Member of Parliament. [MORNING HERALD.? Pads Papers of the 17th arrived yesterday:— They bring no news from Spain of a latter date than the intelligence already received, so that nothing farther is known of the operations of Moncey and Mina. Private letters in the Jour nals say that the army of the latter was consi derably reinforced after his retreat from Clot and Mich. The inhabitants engaged in commerce, of both places, and great, numbers of young men, had either joined or placed themselves un der the protection of his army. He had, besides, had an accession of two regiments to his Force.-- The most important circumstance, however, is the dispersion of the hand of Quesada. Their disregard of order and discipline obliged him to make some examples. He accordingly caused several to be bastinadoed, and two shot. The consequence was, that elmost his whole force took leave to abandon him. Hence, accord ing to the Journals, the raising of the siege of Santona. The French troops, it is said, are hi dignant at the disorders committed by the men of the Faith, who act as mere banditti. The re sult is that the country is deserted by all who have the means of removing and any thing to lose. Thus the principal allies of the French are not likely to add to their strength, but rather to ox. asperate and strengthen the oppos;tion to them. There is rather au interesting inference fur nished by - the progress of the French invasion.-- It strews what classes are favourable to the French aneto servilisrn, and what to the Con stitution. Who are they that have joined the standard of the invasion ? The very lowest class oppaniards, debased by poverty, ignorance ; and superstition—and this only in some provinces, where the monks and priests had paramount in fluence. There can be no doubt that the higher clergy are also enemies of the Constitution—many of them have either fled or live suspected and watched by the Government. The monks, a nume rous body, are still more active enemies. But many of the poorer secular Clergy a re earnest Constitutionalists. The Nobles, it may be sup. posed, favour the old despotism. But what proof of this, beyond a few isolated adventurers, who have shown more personal ambition than attach ment to a particular cause.? A great array of Spa nish Nobility, on the contrary, appears in favour of the Constitution, and has been conspicuous in the different Cortes. The Nobles who joined Joseph Buonaparte have to a man been received into the Constitutional party. The truth is, that no class was more interested in the destruction of the ancient abuses than the Nobles, except ing only vine who were fattening upon the favours otthe Court and the, misery of the nation. —The middle class, including trades, profes. sions, and the more independent cultivators of the soil—a vast mass of intelligence—hal' clearly proved itself favourable to the Constitu tion. We will quote a passage from the Journal de Paris, which shews that this is the opinion even of the Ministerial Party at Paris. That Journal says--" There is a fact which must strike all who reflect. In Spain, the upper class is in general inclined to the representa tive system, and acts in conbert with the middle class—against the inferior, which in some Provinces has declared itself for abso lute power. Be it remembered that the Journal des Debats admitted this important fact in an ar ticle becqme memorable from the quarter whence it was supposed to proceed." The article in question was, we believe, ascribed to M. Cha teaubriand. Here then are the very Ultras themselves admitting that their chief Allies in Spain are the lowest order of the population of the Spanish Provinces. There are some ac counts from another very interesting theatre of war—Greece ; nothing, however,- that can be called -_important. The Divan menaces the Greeks with new fleets and armies, for the fiftieth time; and the Sultan is said to have thrown off his Ottoman indolence to assist at the Council. It certainly appears, and it has been some time ex pected, that another fleet would soon sail from Constantinople. But the accounts recently had from the Greek islands show that means of re sistance are amply prepared. The island of Ypsara is almost become one extended fortress— so garnished is it with cannon. It was even sup posed, when some late accounts came away, that a naval force was in preparation to make a descent upon Smyrna. The Austrian Observer states that the Pashaw of Scutari is at last prepared to as sist the Turks with some 20,000 Albanians; but nothing-seems more doubtful. The Greeks, at all events, seem resolved to perish or conquer. They will enter into no negociations not acknow ledging their independence for its basis. OLD BAILEY. Yesterday, a very respectable female, of the name of Mary Ingrain, was indicted for stealing a rug, the property of Dinimock, a linendraper, residing in High Holborn. The facts proved on the part of the prosecution were these:— The prisoner was observed in the prosecutor's shop at a dme when it was very full of custathers. Shortly afterwards she went out, and the rug was missed. The prisoner was traced to a liquor-shop close by, where she had deposited the rug. She was somewhat in liquor at the time, but not so drunk but she knew what she was about. When she was apprehended, about an hour afterwards, she prayed for forgiveness, and hoped she should not be prosecuted. It appeared that the prisoner, t the latterp r e s e a n is t o r o k b n b e e w r , n ed o . w n T t o h e th p e ro p s r ec os u e . tor stated his belief that she had a most irreproachable charac ter,- cutor,previo previous and the previous to the present unfortunate circumstance. where was s w he en li k v • A great number of very respectable witnesses, who had known the prisoner for between 20 , and 30 years, gave her an excellent Character. She had brought up her family most respectably, and had worked hard for their subsistence. The prisoner had lately been unfortunate, and had indulged too fre quently in ardent liquors. A very small quantity of liquor had an immediate effect upon her, and under its influence she was perfectly unconscious of what she did. The RECORDER, in addressing the Jury, told them that in the eye of the law intoxication was considered to be rather an aggravation of the offence, unless the prisoner was m such a state of senseless drunkenness as not to be aware of what she did. In the present case he did not think the evidence would justify the Jury in supposing that the prisoner now at the bar had been reduced by liquor to such a senseless state; because it was proved, that after she had committed the offence, she prayed for forgivenness of the prosecutor. This at least showed on her part a consciousness that she had done wrong. It ws very true that th e p r i soner h a d rece i ved an excellent charactera, a better character could not have been given to any person, but as he had frequently observed on former occasions, character, however excellent, would not, and ought not, to weigh against clear and uncontradicted facts. The Jury having considered for a few minutes, the Foreman expressed a desire to ask a question of one of the prisoner's wit nesses as to the influence which liquor had upon her. He un derstood one of these witnesses to say that she was very easily affected by liquor. The RECORDER observed, that one of the witnesses had certainly said so; hut the question here was, whether in this instance the prisoner was so intoxicated as to be insensible.— Upon this point the Jury would exercise their judgment. The Jury, after a short deliberation, found a verdict—Not Guilty. The RECORDER then addressed the prisoner, and cautioned her to be on her guard how she again indulged in these mis chievous practices. She had now been acquitted by a most merciful jury ; but she might depend upon it, that if she again abandoned herself to these courses, she would not be so le niently dealt with. Sophia Reed, a young girl of a very interesting appearance, was put to the bar, charged with stealing apiece of meat, the property of Sam ue l Somers. The girl was in so wea k a thatstate, she was una ble to s t a nd at the b a r, and a chai r w as pro vided for her. 'When the prosecutor appeared, he stated that he was not sure that the prisoner was the girl who stole the meat. As there was no -other evidence against her, she was immediately cc pitted. The unfortunate female was taken from the bar nearly in a fainting state. The' Jury highly reprobated the conduct of the prosecutor in not stating his inability to prove identity to the Magistrate, and the Court would not allow him his exPenees. The RECORDER ordered the prisoner to be discharged as soon as she had sufficiently recovered. 'no nnE ay Or A CIIIT Thomas Richardson and James Groves were indicted for stealing a quantity of lead from the roof of Stanmore Church. _ Mr. AwnrttliVS stated the ease. The property was stated to belong to the pastor and the commissioners and the trustees of the parish. John Bone examined—Witness is clerk of the pad; he .saw the lead safe on the Bth instant, and nii*(l it on.the fol lowing day. Edward Barton met Grove near to the church on the evening of the Bth of May • ho was alone. Charles French Cleposed that he saw the prisoners in Honey- pot-lane on the 9th with a cart; witness had heard that lead was stolen, hence he was induced to watch them; they pro. ceeded to a dung-hill, and took the lead from it and put it into the cart ; witnesr followed them toldgeware ' and took them into custody with the lead in th e i r possession, which correspond ed with that on the roof of the church. Andrew Carney is a horse patrol, and assisted in apprehend ing the boners; they give no account as to t h e manner i n which they came by the lead, except that they found it on a dung heap. John Bodymead is a plumber, and repaired the roof of the church. .The lead produced exactly fitted the chasm. The prisoners made no defence, nor called any witnesses to characler.—Guilty. By the'Bill presently passing through Parliament, for the regulation of the Sheriff Courts of Scotland, various provisions are made which must have some effect upon the procedure in future in those Courts. In the first place, the Clerk's fees are to be regulated and established by a commission to be ap pointed for that effect. Extracts of decrees are to be abridged, and the money usually consigned in the hands of the Clerk is to be secured by depositation in the hands of a Bank. The Sheriff Clerks, hereafter appointed, are to discharge their duties in person, and no gratuity , whatever is to be received for their ap pain ttn en t. A tpresen t, in all trials before the Sheriff,whether they proceed with or without a jury, the eviden ce must h e ta k en down In writing; but by a provision in this bill, t hi s pract i ce is abolished where a Jury sits on the cas; end where the She riff is an Advocate of a certain number of years standing. The Sheriff, however, is to take notes of the evidence, according to the practice in the Justici a ry Cou rts . Th e verdict of the Jury is to beprobatioprobata of the facts of the case, and it isnot coin. petent to impugn this verdict, un l ess it proceed upon evidence legally inadmissible, and objected to on the trial, but received by the Sheriff: Verdicts viva yam are allowed on the same pro.. visions as apply to the Justiciary Court. And no appeal or advocation is competent against any proceeding, unless the ob. jection forming the ground of it shall have been taken at the time of trial.—(Edinburgh Cauraqt.) Yesterday morning several male convicts were out upon the Chatham stage, from Newgate, to be conveyed on bard the hulks for transportation. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW , STII.EZT.—During the whole of yesterday morning the office and its exterior excited the greatest degree of curiosity, in consequence of between 50 and 60 of the most dashing Cy ' prians, who nightly infest St. Martin's-court and Leicester. %Imre, being brought up in custody of Bond's party of patrol. The inhabitants of Leicester-square, St. Martin's-court, Cran bourn.street, &c. have complained to Sir RICHARD BrRNIE, that in consequence of the nocturnal disorderlie s , who in abun dance throng th a t quarter of the metropolis, it Is impossible for them to carry on their business, and requested a warrant to be issued for their apprehension, in order to preserve the peace. Some of them, who had been riotous as well as indecent, were sentenced to the House of Correction for a month ; and the rest (the inhabitants not having appeared against them), after being admonished by the Magistrate, were dischaiyed on paying a fine of one shilling each. GuILDRAT.L.— William-Anderson one of the hork-keepers at Mr. Hearn's, King's Arms Inn, enow-hill, was brought to the Office yesterday morning, before the Sitting Magistrate, Mr. Alderman ATKINS, by Honey, the beadle of Farringdon- Within, who bad just taken him into custody in Skinner -street. Mr. Mitchell, of George-row, Bermondsey, master-mariner, said, he was passing along at the time that a van, heavily laden, drawn by four horses, was coming out of the King's Arms-yard, with the driver on tha box. Ile observed the prisoner beating one of the leaders with a carter's whip, in the most barbarous manner possible. The animal had a wound on one of its knees and the prisone r di recte d his ' blows to that particular place , and indeed to that place only. He (Mr. IVlitchell),, , interfered to induce him to desist, when he was almost instantly surrounded by grooms, stable-boys, and' helpers, who loaded him with abuse as an informer, and en couraged the prisoner to persist, who on his part, continu ed his barbarity, saying lie ha dmaster's orders, and he would flog the horse as much as he liked ; in pursuance of this determination, he accompanied the van up Skinner-street, flogging the animal nearly all the way, till on Honey's acci dentally coming up, he (Mr. Mitchell ave him in custody. On the van being stopp e d near St. Sepu lch re 's Church, h e and another gentleman examined the state of the horse, who wa s veiled very dreadf u lly, an d a p i ece of flesh, nearly threei inches in length, had been cut away from the wounded part at the knee. Mr. Jones, a medicapupil, and a young man named Gun ping, in the employ of 3lessrs. Clementi, Cheapside, who had witnessed the whole of th e transaction, corroborated ' the testi- 4 .? Mony given by M r . Mi tc h e ll, and spoke of the conduct of the* prisoner towards the animal as barbarous in the extreme. The prisoner urged that the horse was naturally a bad tem.' . pered one, and a rank jib. The coachman called to him in consequence of the horse's jibbing, and refusing to come up the gateway; but he denied having struck the animal other.' wise than on the flank and shoulder, and no more than was ne cessary to make him take to his work. The Bookkeeper at the inn said the prisoner had been three years in Mr. Hearn's employ, and always bore the character of a kind horse-keeper. The animal, he said, was.certainly a very bad tempered one, and never could be started without a great deal of trouble. Mr. Alderman ATKINS convicted the prisoner in the miti. gated penalty of 40s. QUEEN-SQUARE.—Yesterday William Upton, David and John Hamilton, Jerry Miles, John Burns, and Sarah his wife, Cornelius Connor, and his wife, Mary Buckley, William Lee, and Johanna Hamilton, were brought to the Office, escorted by a large party of the Bow -street patrol, and p o li ce constables, charged with bein g concerned . in an alarming riot in Tothil street, Dean-street, and the Alnionry, on Monday night. William Bunn, of Duke's -court, Almonry, had given evi dence against two men committed from this office fbr riot on Monday. He was going through Tothil.street, about eight o'clock on Monday night, when David Hamilton knocked him down with a bludgeon, and several others of his associates, armed with swords, bludgeons, broomsticks and pokers, assem bled in Dean-street, crying out they would murder all the people who had appeared as witnesses against their friends. m th a e n y y m o c e c t a ; s i a o n d s i s c h h as arg a ed p selling fish at the end o f p T we e h a rt i s e he den gang againstk n n e o n let them e te e m d i d sas o e wt ag e Y w e ryh curtness,o upon n Tothil.street ; they beat him severely, as well as the mother of Bunn, and broke her windows. At length two parties of the Bow-street patrol and some of the officers of this establishment arrived, when the mob fled in all directions ; the officers pur. sued them, and took the above persons into custody, they hav ing been pointed out to them as part of the ringle a d ers . P eace was not restored until about 11 o'clock at night. against the ee riot.priso prisoners, anntden wasiden acre desperately, anti it is said dangero us ly woun d e d o n the temple,' where he was struck with - a stone ; th e women were recognized beiarri eared very a as being very active, and furnishi ng t h e men w i t h weapons- A soldier of the Guards said one of th e p r i soners snatched h i s , fieti S e veralt t hem m witnesses ell as bayonet off' his belt, and rushed with it amongst the crowd, but he was disarmed. The prisoners said they were returning home from their work peaceably, when they were attacked by the very men who gave' evidence against them. They denied having had any swords or weapons whatever, and complained that evil-minded persons were daily insulting them, even in their own residences. The prisoners were ordered to give twenty-four hours' notice of bail. and were all committed. • CONCUSSION OF THE EARTIL—On Tuesday, the ( 4 9th of the last month, at six in the morning, a concussion, of sufficient violence to disturb per sons in their sleep, and to cause those who were awake distinctly to feel a violent shaking of the house and room In which they were, as also or the furniture therein, occurred in Swansea, and i n th e neighbourhood at different places within the distance of eighteen miles. By some persons it has been described as similar in its effects to the violent shutting of a very heavy door, or the fall ing of a great weight, without, as it were, their being distinctly sensible that such was the case ; by others again it has been said to resemble the shock experienced by the explosion of a powder mill. People in the fields, and, as we: have been given to understand, some workmen in the coal pits, also noticed the circumstance.—(Bristol Mercury.) COURSE OF EXCHANGE, May 20. Arnstettlant Ditto, at'Siglit l2 10 C. F. ' Rotterd am l2 8 1 Antwerp l2 11 12 Hamburg!) 1 Alton • BB 10 4 2 Us a ......... . Paris,3 Day's sis t a 3B 5 i U s .' Ditto 26 15 111.4. pourcleatiz, ditto Frankfor ton th e M 26 15 0 Us.ain Cadiz iiilhoa 35$ Effeclive / 364 Barctlona . • , Seville Gibraltar' Leghorn 305 46* Gat t , a 40 --Venice, Ital. Liv. 21 10 Malta 45 -Naples 384 Palermo Lisbon 114 per Q a . Oporto AO I o Jn.neiro übli►► .... 91 Elf lie& Cent. BULLION. Portugal Gold, I n Coin / .0 0 CI pet Ow, Foreign Gold, ill Bars 3 1 6 7 New Doubloons , 3 15 0 • New Dollars 0 4 9 Silveri') Bors, Standard 0 4 101 BIRTHS. On the 10th of May, at Boughton House r Kent, the Lady of Wastel Briscoe, Esq. of a daughter, which died soon after its birth. On the 12th inst., in South Audley.street, Mrs. Erederick Weedon, of a daughter. MARRIED. - -- At St. John's, hackney, by Mr. C. P aro i ss i en, Mr. Thos. Firth, to Bard, eldest daughter of Mr. A. Deroubaix, of Shack-lewell. DED. On the 29th inst., at the hous I e of her son-in-law, In Hackney. road, Elizabeth Mary, widow of the late Charles Hicks, Esq., of Kennington. On Monday, the 19th inst., a t B ren tf or d, Middl esex , M r, Frederick Adolphus Somerset, aged 25. Printed and Published for the PROPRIECORS, M the Sing• OrricE, 112, Stand, yJ. B. CARfIAIRa•