The Sun. — London, England, 1823-10-15 00:00:00

r THE LONDON JOURNALS. • f•iPt DAIIX' ExfAits from the 1 i10ri4,4 Papers,' oClober 15. t LMORNINCr CHRONIC:IE" The holders of Spanish Bonds have been, thrown into" consternation by a document. in the Etale of gunday, which leaveS them utterly hopeless. The first use Ferdinand bus made of his absolutism is to issue a Decree; declaring all the'acts of the Covermneat called Constitutional, of whatever id:id and dw;criptien they may be, null and veld, and approving Of every thing - which has been decreed and ordered by the Provitional 3 milli of Goverment and by the gency. This'doeument is to be found in our 'ex. , ' tracts from the Paris Papers.—This Decree can not be, an nnadvised act, It is dated Port St. Mary, was issued in the midst of French bayo nets, and was of course approved of by his au gust and well-beloved Cousin. It is an echo too of the language of the French King's Speech - 44 I approve' of every thing decreed by the Junta and Regency," ,he says, " waiting mean while until selliciently informed as to the wants of my, people, I may be . able to bestow those laws and adopt those measures which shall be best calculated to seeure their real prosperity and welfare,'the constant object of all my wishes." This liberality, however, is a little at variance with what he says immediately before, in th© introductory part of the document, for he there obsdrves, ",.My subjects were accustomed to' live under wise and moderate laws, and such as were Vonforntable to their manners and customs, and which during sweetly ages constituted the, wel fare of their ancestors."—Why does hp speak of wants of his people, bestowing laws and adopting measures which shall be best calculated to secure their prosperity end welfare ? Has he not told us that they were well and happy, and prosper ous under the laws Which existed prior to the Revolution of Ino ? What; more can men want than the belog well, happy; and prosperous ? All the acts of Ake Government Constitu tional are null and void. Then the Convention, on tered into with Englaod, published in The G azelle of Saturday, is null and void. Then Mr. Canning might have saved the country the expellee of fitting up an office for his Commissioners in N0.1'2, Man chester-bulklino, and the salaries tif Mr. E. J. Dawkins and Robert Alb. Cox„, end the heard. wages of Senores Diego Colon and Justo de Ma chado. ' After waiting so many months with praise•wortby patience for, the liberation of King Ferdinand, he might surely have kept the Gen vehtion ; his pocket for 4. day 'or wo longer, to wait the. pleaenre of our faithful ,ekly : ,,,,The FO, reign Secretary may go to Manchester-buildings when he pleasetohnt up the rare; and take the key with Um in his pocket. [MORNI NG: • 'The most important intelligenee in the French Papers, is a Decree communicated by the Etoiln and given in another column. It. was issued on theist. inst. immediately after, the arrival: of For rlitutudart Port Mary's, and forms:a disgust, ing.montonent of undisgoisect cowardiee, itypo critiy, and perjury.. The .hot is indeed . unblush ingly put forwaOns the-sole excess for the last. Every oath, however solemnly sworn, is violated, and violated on the debasing ground of having been exterted through compulsion: as though fear should be (tit excuse for a King's doing, that, width as an example to his people he should rather die. than consent to, if he thought it un just, injurious, or infamous. But the object of this Decree is not only to inveigh against the Constitution, to annoonce the resumption of 'un limited despotism, and to intimidate approaching vhsitations of Royal 'tv rit lit Rilt vengeance--it takes a more extensive sweep, and declares all the Acts of the Government Constite tioeal, of whatever kind and description they nosy be, frot:l the ith of March, 18'20, to,the elst. of Septenther,lB23;null and Void." Athongst these the treaty concluded with. our. Government for indemnify M i t our merchants for the losses in. ffiCtedupon.thern by ..ipanisli privateers,is of course comprised ; audit would seem butt onr interests, 'would thus come into immediate contact with the measures 'of the restored Despot:' Before this can be the however,, it most be ,seen whe ther Ferdinand will not renew in 1118 own name a treaty which he has annulled only as the work' of the Cortes. Having once, under the compul sion of his own resentful spirit, through K the re. presentations of the 'lute Regency, or under the dictateit . of `l iii conquerors, adopted the im politic and unjustifiable resolution:of recognizing nothing done by 'theConstitntional Government, though signed with :his hand and guaranteed with his word, be 'could possibly Make no ex. ceptlon. 'Put it would, be an insult to common .sense to suppose, that at the lune when hp wants roost her forbearance, 'he should wantonly incur the danger. of a difference : with England. It is far more likelyir-and more consonant with his usual iltudetleeo'frati he should he eager to con elude a OCR , art'alfgetiilillt with us :on the same basis as the . last ; and we should not even be Bur. prised to 4311 . 14 that an intimation to that effect had been counnunicated to our Ambassador, to gether with the Decree announcing that the ori. ginat treaty .was ennelled. On these grounds, therefore, we are convinced that uti alarm need be entertained,and that the same union of temper, ifrinneits, and 'Wisdom which has hitherto pre served the blessings of peace to this country, will continue to watch over her interests with patriotic jealousy, to remove every obstacle that could cheek her increasing prosperity, and , to maintain the brilliancy of her national honour untarnished, [TUB TIMES.] We publish (row the Dale of Sunday last a decree, and that decree the fi rst by the King of Spin, since his liberation. The document is a most importent one, and accords most unhappily with the character of the man to whom it Is ascribed—with the character of one whom even adversity cannot teach moderation. It consists two ,parts : the first, which is introductory, Dada the Constitutionalists with every species or claims divine right for the King ; and Affects to consider the impaiition Of any restriction on' his absolute power as disloyalty, treason, and sa crilege. The second part, Which is enactive, clears the way in its first article for its own•operations, by rescinding and declaring null every aat of the Ccinstitutional ,government, from the month of March, 1810: and, in' the second article, it ap proves of all that has been done by , the French flaigency, and the preceding little self-created innta acting in behalf of despotism and super stition, till he l —King Ferdinand himself, ac queinted with the wants of his people, can give theM better laws.—Now, in some of the Apse which his Majesty bestows so lavishly upon his , enemies, we cannot, help, to a certain degree, concurring. We do not reproach them, certainly, for those causes, or for those qualities, by which they have provoked his Majesty's Wig nation : but speaking of the leading patriots (if we may so profane the word) of Spain, we must say, with some few exceptions, that they have dis graced themselves by the most revolting stupidity, imbecility, and sloth ; and that their equals are hardly to be found even in the climate of the South of Italy. The Neapolitans, indeed, let their King go and join the Austrians; but he went out oa a false pretence that he was going to negociate their independence,and procure the guarantee of the new constitution; The Cortes suffered Ferdinand, whose treacherous character was so well known, to join the French unconditionally, and upon no other pretence than that his late gaolers might be at his mercy, and that he might, by the aid of fo. reign bayonets, assume a despotic sway over his country. , He may be moderate if he pleases, or he may be tyrannical, as this decree repre sents him ; the Cortes will have all the odium of his tyranny—for they have opposed no manly resistance to its establishment: and he will have all the merit of his modera tion—for it is clear that he has little to fear in such enemies us the defenders of Cadiz. — They seem, indeed, to have been men formed exactly,for such a Generalissimo as Prince Hilt to conquer, and that not by his arm, but by the very terror of his name. When he was made a Commander, chance or fate found him a foe worthy of his valour. Good God ! abounding in provisions, and possessing a zealous and feirless population, surrendered withouta blow !—The enactive part of the Decree will ma terially affect this country, if the havoc which it occasions be not repaid by subsequent mea sures. It rescinds all the acts of the Con stitutional Government since March, 1820. But we have treated with that Government while the King was apparently at its, head, and whilst, at least, by our treating, we recognized the Go vernment as legal : this sentence, therefore, of nullity upon acts in which we were one half par takers, is abrupt and unceremonious enough. As to Spain itself, however treated by the liberated Ferdinand, and its present masters, the French, both he and they may rest assured that the coun try cannot revert to itS former state. They may frighten cowards, but they cannot confront events. The separation of the trans-Atlantic States is of itself a revolution in the mother country, the letter has no resources of. commerce to repair so vast H. lost. [MORNING IXEILALD.] .fit seems that King Ferdinand scarcely allow. ed himself time to breathe after his liberation from Cadiz and his arrival at Port St. Mary, when he 'promulgated his sentiments respecting the state of duress in which 'he had been held for upwards of three years; and gave vent to his feelings of reprobation towards those who had in fringed upon the exercise of his Regal power. The Decree which he published on the ist of this month, and in which these sentiments are con. voyed, will be found in another part of this Paper. --(See another column of Tao Sun.)—This document was no doubt prepared by other hands, and only waited for his signature the moment he' readied the head.quarters of the Duke d'An. liouteme ; for it is kardly possible to soppose he would have launched out into such invec tives as those with which the decree coin. mences, against men who treated him with much more respect and kindness than any set of revolutionists ever before observed towards a Monarch whose power they had forciblY taken away. The revolntion of March, 1820, arose as a matter of necessity out of the impove rished state of Spain, whose finances had become 1 404111apidated, that the revenue was not even sufficient to pay the interest of the Public Debt. The amount of the interest was six millioUs an nually ; while that of the Revenue was only five millions; so that there was an annual deficit of one million, even as it respected die 'payment of the interest of the Debt. Therefore nothing Ives left to pay the Arrriy, the Navy, the clerks in public offices, or any other public servauts. —All these, of course, instead of being at tached to, must have become enemies to the Mo narchy, and if they were not openly the authors of the revolution, they countenanced, by not op. posing it. Such having been the state of things in Spain prior to the year 1821, and the people being probubly taxed beyond their ability to pay, the machinery of the' Groveilunent could not go on, and a convulsion similar to that which took place in France from similar causes, in 1789, was the natural consequence. (NEW TIMES.] Our letters from France state that the bust of the Duke d'Angouleme was carried in triumph through the streets of Paris by the people, with shouts of Vim le Roi I As to any idea of hosti lity to England being to be inferred from King feerdinand's Decree (even if genuine), we think such a notion sufficiently refuted by referring to the tone and spirit of a serni-official article in the Journal des Dobai: ' on the Spanish War. This article, which is a remarkable one, begins by citing the expressions of the King of France, in his speech or the 28th of January last, when his Majesty said that hostilities -should cease as soon as King Ferdinand should be free. It then briefly, but' clearly, details the plan of the cam. paign,which in less than six months led the French army . , without a single reverse, from the Banks of the fildasseailo' the Bay of Cadiz, the General's.. 'simo proceeding Straight through the middle, of , the Kingdom, and the two wings of hi s army sweepingits Eastern and Western Provinces.— This campaign (says the writer) has been at tended with several remarkable and most im portant circumstances. It has shewu that Louis XVIII. possesses a faithful army. It has con sequently placed his Government among the Great Military . Powers of Europe. It has for the first time .in history shown France carryings on war under a constitutionally organized Go vernment, and in presence of the LibertY of the Press. It has connected her victories with the sen timents of order and moderation—it has she wn her 'soldiers at once brave, orderly, and religious, and their Princely Leader intrepid, generous, humane. Here are invaders, who cost nothing to the coun try which they come to liberate, , and who instead of being a terror to its inhabitants, are looked up to as protectors and safeguards by its contending parties. Finally, the French army is about to retire from its conquests, carrying away nothing, demanding nothing, but the love of the people whom it has saved : and the Prince leaves be• hind him nothing but a venerated memory, and counsels of moderation and prudence. [BRITISH, PRESS.] 'At length we have 44 the idolized Ferdinand's" decree, issued at Port St. Mary's before he set out far Madrid ; declaring by one swee'ping article, "mull and void all the acts of the Constitutional Government from the 7th of March, 1820,aintil the 21. st of October, 1823." In , this memorable article, he proclaims " that during the whole of that period he was deprived of his liberty ; obliged to sanction laws, and authorise orders, decrees, and regulations, which the Constitutional Government framed and executed, as he alleges, against his will." The second article of the tyrant sanctions every act of the Provisional Junta and the Re. gency—those acts which have unsettled all, pros perty, warred with all liberal institutions, end carried terror and proscription into every Province of Spain. Thus, as we anticipated, the moment the Royal tiger was unloosed, he turned on hia keepers. There is now an end of liberty in Spain ; the followers of the Constitution have fought and died in vain; the Constitution is trampled by the perfidious Ferdinand in the very dust,and all its acts annihilated at a blow. There is no exception whatever in this Decree ; every treaty made, and loan negociated, for the last three years, is an. nulled, though the Signature of the unprincipled despot himself was attached to them all. This sweeping proscription include s the treaty nego ciated by Sir William A'Court with the Minister San Miguel,on the benefits of which Mr. Canning, in his speech on the foreign policy, dwelt so much. This is the first blow levelled against the interests and commerce of this country it comes from no common hand, and will be fol. lowed by others. Our influence is now no m ore , either in Portugal or Spain. Ilyde de Neuviii, was dispatched to undermine one, mid An geuleme Talaru will effectually destroy th e other. Thus all that has occurred since March, 1820, is no more. No Constitution—no Cortes —no Representative Delegation—no purchases of church lands recognized—the 2fio sup. pressed monasteries restored, and the Inquisition again dominant,—all this is the result of Ferdi nand's decree. Thi; stood things In Spain pre. vious to the proclamation of the Constitution.— Riego's fate will soon show how far the tyrant is inclined to wade in proscription and blood : if he falls, it will he the signal for wide-spread denun ciation. Ferdinand has publicly denounced the Cortes and Constitution ; he has not declared an amnesty : but do his followers think This is the mode to raise Spain from her present. state of misery ? Is a violation of all faith the way to re. cruit her finances . ? Will new loans be taken where the old ones have been wiped out with a sponge ? Can any Government the Spanish , tyrant may institute go on in bankruptcy and destitu tion o f all means ? Can it exist., without finances, or raise those finances without public credit of any sort? And if the recent oblige. tions or the country are violated, can that credit possibly exist,? In the same way, no form of Government can continue amid a pro tracted ci vi 1 war ; peace throughout the Provinces will be essential to its maintenance ; neither taxes ner duties can be raised without that peace. But will proscription: unsure such a calm ? will the fortresses, now field by the Constitutional Chiefs, open their gates, but on an amnesty—the promise of which Ferdinand whispered, on his leaving Cadiz, but has since withheld ? The coun. try cennot he saved by the rabble of Madrid, or Cordova, or Seville, however pure awl disinterest ed their royalism Muy be : we look for nothing from them, and their patron Ferdinand, that is to lerant, but from absolute necessity. When settled in Madrid he will find, unless the expec tations of the country are fulfilled, that the Con stitutionalists will not disarm ; that no taxes can be raised, And that his treasury will be "m l PlelelY emiity. Let him, then, at once, in his own words, 44 bestow those laws, and adopt those measures heal calculated to secure the real prosperity and welfare of Spain" ---4 path he has never yet pursued. Despotism will not now work in Spain ; even French bayonets will not be able to prop it : nothing but liberal and conciliatory measures will pacify that coupe try ; and if the perfidious Ferdinand wishes to preserve his throne, he must be just and merciful in despite 'of hims e lf. C o nfiscation and proscrip tion will not fill hi s t reasur y, or enable him to dispense with his French' Allies ; for, the hour Ithey are gone, he would cease to reign. The Members of the Independent Church at Brighton have presented their late Pastor, the Rev. Dr. STYLES, with a silver waiter, of the value of fifty guineas, as a parting token of their esteem and affection. The Rev. Gentleman will in future reside at Kennington, where an ele. gaut place of worship, ca lled Holland Ch a p e l, has been newly er ec t e d for hinL that they asc en d. aer M ia e l s y s o rs )a B g k e n t r a ß sa a Ve e ß v ij et l ing returned from t their ad, without any accident. The balloon dropt near Stewpory, in the neighbourhood of Stour. Mort, Staffordshire . th e distance from Bimini/. ham is abgut 17 miles. UGLINESS. Perhaps no Lady was ,ever better reconciled to positive ugliness, in her own person than the Duchess of OaI t EANS ). the mother of the Regent d'prleans, who governed France .during the mi nority of LOUIS XV. Thus she speaks of her o wq,appearance and manners , " From my earliest years j was aware bow ordinary my ap- Pearance was, and did not like that people should , look at me . attentively. I never paid any attention to dress, because dia monds and dress were sure to attract attention.. My husband, on the other hand, loved to cover himself with jewels; and was well satisfied at my dislike of them,as it saved all disputes for the possession of them. On great days he used to make me rouge, which I did greatly against my will, as I hate every thing that incommodes me. One day I made the Countess of . Soissens laugh heartily. She asked me why Y never turned my head whenever I passed before a mirror—every body else did ? I answered, because 'bad too much self-love to bear the sight of my own ugliness. " I must have been very Ugly in my youth. I had no sort of features; with little twinkling eyes, a short snub nose, and long thick lips : the whole of my pbysiognomy was far from attractive. 31y face was large, with fat cheeks, and yet my figute was short and stumpy r in short, I was a very homely sort of person. Eitapt for the goodness of my disposition, no one would have endured ,me. It was impossible to discover any thing like intelligence' in MY eyes, except with a mic r os. cope. Perbaps there was not ,On the face of the earth such another pair of ugly hands as mine, The King often told me so, and set roe laughing' about it; for as I was quite sure of being very ugly, I made up my mind to be always the first to laugh tit it, This succeeded very well, thoueih I must confess it - furnished me with a good stock of materials for laughter. My tehiperament is naturally rather melancholy, and when any thing distresses me, my left side swells up as if it wer e filled with water. hate to lie in bed, and the moment I wake I rise immediately. As for breakfast, I take it very seldom, and' then have notbingbut bread and butter. Chocolate, coffee, tea, and all other foreign drugs, I detest. My habits are con. pletely German, and nothing suits me in the eating and drink ing way which is not eonforniable to our old customs. cannot eat soup 'unless it is mixed up with milk, beer, or wine ; And WI for gravy broth it is abominable ; it alway s m a k es me so ill, that nothing but sausages and ham can put m y s t omac h to rights' again." ' • • Frins the LONDON GAZETTE, 0ct.14: (This Gazette contains the Account of the Investiture of his Most Faithful Majestythe • King of Portugal with the Habit 41 Ensigns of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, on the 23d ult. all the le ad ing particulars of which appeare d in Tux ;iv ;4 . of Alonday . BANKRUPTS. E. Robertson, 'French-Horn-yard, Dean -street, High Hol born, coach-smith, to surrender Oct. 18, Nov. 1, 25, at the Bankrupts' Court, Basingtall-street. Solicitor Mr. Hutchi son, Crown -court, Threadneedle-street. W. Cobb Hurry, Mincing-lane, merchant, Oct. , 18, Nov. 1, 25, at the Bankrupts' Court, 13asinhall,etseet. Solicitors, Messrs. Swain, Stevens, Maples, Pearse, and Hunt, Fre derick's-place, Old Jewry. W. Twigg, Salford, victualler, Oct. 30, 31, Nor. 25, at the. Star Inn; Manchester. Solicitors, Messrs.: Milne and Parry ; Temple. J. Green, White Horse-terrace, Stepney, coal-merchant, Oct. 18, 25,0N0v. 25; at the Bankrupts , Court, Basinghall street. Solicitors Messrs Freeman and Heathcote, Colmon. street. DIVIDENDS. ;Nov. 6, W. Barrett,dariiii,lnnlolder—Nor. 10, J. B. Mason, Cambridge, rook—Nov. 11, . Beattie, Salford, dyer Nov. 8, J. Sheriffe, Farnham, Surrey', grocer—. Nov. 8, B. Barge, Clifford -street,. Bond-street i wine-merchant—Nor. 18, 1. liarnWell, Leatnington . Priors, Warwickshire, ciirpenter— Nor. 4, J. blooper, Tooley-street, cliyinist—Nov. 14 T. 11. Carter, Minories, vietnaller— , Ner, 8, J. Cannon, Liverpool, merchant—Nov. 8, S. Garbett, Birmingham, merchant---Nov. 18, T. 11 e wlett, Southborough, Ken t, gu nix) wder-manu lacturer. cEnTi MATES, Nev. 4. • R. Goodrich, Painswick, Ciloucestershire IL Glasier, Park.street, VVestininster, money-scr i vener--0. Moore jun., Lower-road, Deptford, timber-merchant—A„ Abrams, Old -street, tallow-chandler. PA RTNE RS II IPS DISSOLVED. - • C. Pinhorn and E. Cole,_ Newport, Isle of Wight,. coal merchants—J, Nicholson an d. T. Boardman, Blackburn,-lan- cashire, upholsterers—lll. and 11. Heather, Hatton-garden, surgeons--J. HolrOyd and J. Eastburn, Leeds, cloth-mer c hant s Worrell, G. , Thompson and J. De Camps, Liverpool, printers—P. F., W. Koster and F. H. Echalaz, Cornhill, foreign stock agents-LE. Heseltine and J. Minton, Clement's lane, 'Lombard -street, drystilters- - -S. and .1.. Jones, Glocester, brush-twintifac.titrers-31.,11. Barrow and J. W. Squire, East Grinstead, ,Sussex, attorneys—S. Thornton, T. Hodgson, J. A. Slack; and J. Gedsden,'Khigattin-uPon-Hull, sugar-refifiers, so far arregardal.Aa , Slack--.ll..Cubiit and M. A. Burrough, Howley-square, Margifte, boarding-house keepers. The „following story, which exceeds all the 11 011ENL011}1 miracles appears in ,the Dumf r i es, Courier. If there are any readers .of such . 4t enormous faith" as t o g i ve th e l east credit, .to it, nothing can shock th e i r credulity , EXTRAOttnrarany Oncu3tsTAriCE.—Cof late we hi ve heard it of a most extraordinary child which is living at NewtOn.StewartL.-rumoure so incredible, that w e ne i t h er as k nor meet our reade rs to, believe them. Nevertheless, the truth of the story was an strongly asserted, and that by at. fereht individuals, 'that we Were induced to solicit inforniation of thesubject and the following is the substimee. of a letter which we received last night from a moat respectable quarter " You may safely insert a paragraph regarding th e c hild you write about. The . story i s 'simply this.--in the year 1817 . woman in the parish of became pregnant, and some time before her infant was born gave as the Adler a marri e d man o 1 the name of J ohn Wood. The man strongly protested hie inthieence, and, repeatedly said that he wOuld'hot;eonfess unless hie name was stamped. on its forehead, ina short time the :woman was delivered of a boy, and in about ten days thheiifter, - the letters " John W oo d," on t h e right,' and born " 1817," on the left , eve, became .plain: and. legible...._ These: w9rtia and figures are on the part of the eye which surrounds the pupil-,--betwixt the ball and the width of the eye, 'so that they cann o t f or . a moment be supposed to have been traced by-any human hand. The forin of the lit. , tern is truly beautiful. The mother afterwards .morried, an Irishman, wlio with his step-son, hes been living in Newton. 'Stewart far some time past. Most of the gentlemen in the town aqd , neiffhbourhood. have inspected the boy's eyes, who all aceva,ta ffuok therg is no imposition in th e 'natter. ..The child is afflict e d with water 'in the head; and although betwixt five and sins years old, it can neither stand nor walk. ' This ie a omit singular circumstance, so much so that it is hardly ere dible. .Neyertheless, you may rest assured of the accuracy of my inferMatitin. Dr. b'inith examined it yesterday, arid I have myself repeatedly seen it, and examined its father.", (At the end of the letter a drawing of the eyes.)-41ere then is a marvellous- story with a vengeance; and w he t h er t h e d i sease with which the child i s afflicted may have biased the iinagina lions of its visitors in the same way as we sometimes art castles in the air, we leave others to determine. Just as we had re ceived the above letter, a Mr: Glover, from Newhin-Stewart, called on us, who, after repeating the same story; said, if we bad any doubt of the statement, we might put his name to it. The (allowing brief communication, contained in A letter Written by his friend in India to a,Gentleman , in this city, dated Lambah, 23d March 1823, evinces that yrompti nide in military achlevutent which has ever distingurbed the 11404 army in its various modes of warfare. The paragraph runs thus:.-.-" In the beginning of this month (March) Cot. Knox was ordered up with a battalion of infantry,, a regiment of cavalry, two companies of pioneers, two companies' of las cars, two 24-pounders, two mortars, a company of European artillery, and the light field battery, to take Larobah: Two' Hank companies of the 2d native infantry were some days after wards ordered to join, together with the light company of the 29th jtegiment ; and on the 14th another company of the 2d, as also of the 29th, were ordered upon this service, with four mortars. • They commenced erecting batteries immediately, Col. Knox giving the enemy till next day (the 17th) at sunrise to determine whether they would surrender, and thus prevent the consequences of an attack. No satisfactory answer being batteries to be opened, and such With the vigour of the attack, Period, Col. Knox gave orders f or the returned at the limited Period, that at 12 o'clock the fort and . town were surrendered into our viands. , Fewlives were lost in , this brisk fakir, there being only six,,killed,and as many wounded on the part of the enemy ; 'while, on the part of the Brttildt, a few only were wounded, and / I °4 Al4t4" KINGSTON QUARTER SESSIONS. Yesterday these Sessions commenced before BARNARD, Esq. the Chairman and a full Bench of Magistrates. The Calendar presents but a few cases, and those of no interest. THE TREAD MITA/. The Act of last Session respecting the regulation of prisons, directing that the 'Governors, Chaplains, and Surgeons, who attend the several. County Prisons , and Houses of Correction, ' should give in quarterly Reports to the Bench of Magistrates, on the subject of the health, morals, itc.' of the prisoners, the greater part of the day was occupied in the consideration of those Reports, and of some other matters of mere local inte rest. Amongst the Reports handed in was one presented, by , the visiting Magistrates of Brixton Gaol, where the celebrated Mill was first erected. It stated that the prisoners enjoyed a good state of health generally ; that, they , were kept regularly at work, but by no means in such a manner as to cause any in. jury to health. The prison was not intended, when it was built, to receive so many inmates as were constantly sent to it, and the excess had rendered an increase of the antes 'from six to ten necessary. Much had been said in opposition to the labour of the 'Tread Mill, but not one of the objections• enumerated had any application to the Brixton Mill, and, doubtless the defects of other Mills, built upon the same' Principle were also much exaggerated. In fa c t, he a lth, c l ea n. liness, and good order prevailed in the highest degree, and were attributable to the excellent discipline, superintended by the'- Governor, Surgeon, and Chaplain. The duties of the Surgeon were represented as extremely severe, and his salary as greatly disproportioned to his labour, perseverance, and skill. One, of the difficulties under which he was said to labour was that of' distinguishing between those prisoners who were really and in evitably ill, and those who endeavoured to be so, in order to^ avoid the penalty of labour.., The persons who came under the: professional care of this gentleman amounted to no less than 500 in one year. The visitors, represented .the necessity of in'.. creasing his salary, as his labour is double what it used tote, or what it was intended to be. They represented, that notwith.' standing the great benefits derivable from the Brixton Gaol Discipline, it would'still be an evidence of enthusiasm to sup:, pose, that the majority of those who underwent the punish merit prescribed would abandon their evil habits. A de sultory conversation, which it was extremely difficult to catch, took place among the Magistrates, who seemed to con sider the -subject one of the utmost' importanie. After some observations upon the necessity of ascertaining whether a per son who has some ground dose by the jail, is not encroaching upon the Act of Parliament by building tenements, a proceed ing which may, in the opinion of the Bench, militate against the health of the inmates, the subject -of the Tread-mill alluded to. It was generaUy admitted that the health of prison ers was a paramount- object. A complaint hail reached the Bench that the wheel at Brixton was so constructed, or rather so defective in its construction, as to occasion a painful jerk, and that the prisoners found this defect a considerable obstruc. thin to their efforts, and a most rigorous addition to their ptinishment. Several of the Magistrates inquired whether this defect actually existed, and why, if it did, the person who made the wheel had not been informed of the fact ? It was. replied, we understood (the conversation was rapid and in slow tone), that the constructor had been written to upon the sub ject, notwithstanding which no remedy bad been applied. Mr. TROTTER, who occasionally takes the 'Chair at the Sea:ions-House, Newington, said it was peculiarly necessary to guard against any complaint of this kind, as, should 'any acci dent happen, exaggeration must be expected. Another MAGISTRATE observed, that the, complaint about the wheel had been made by a person who afterwards contra dicted it, The general opinion of the Bench, however, appeared to be, that the Brixton wheel was liable to the objection of in flicting an unnecessary and rigorous degree of punishment. Mr. DENISON, the Member, expressed his surprise that the Maker of the wheel, who was under obligations to prevent it from becoming oppressive to the prisoners, had not remedied the defect. It was, he added, necessary to give the constructor of the wheel notice, and if lie continued to pay no attention to the-direction, to aux him for theyenalties. this opinion the Bench acquiesced ; and Mr. Lawhin, The'Claik of the Peace, was directed to _write to the Manufacturer, to the above effect. In the Report concerning the County Prison, it was repre sented that the plan-of putting the prisoners in irons being die pensed with, the facilities of escape were increased, and it therefore liecarneuecessiiiy Co have gratings` thrown over' thee airing yards, out of which eyeo priscniers an irons contrived to escape ; of course prisoners ' wish 'free limbs would find less tiff ticeity in becoming their own masters. Nothing of any intereit is expected during the Sitting. AccroeNT.--Yesterday morning about eleven o'clock, as the hacknercoach, No. 1,117, was proceeding with a fare down Holborn-hill,-.witb two gentlemen Inside, the ale tree suddenly broke short in two, when the coach was imme diatcly overturned, and the coikinnan precipitated a consider able distance, and very near into Parr's Equitable Office for servants. The gentlemen tbrtuhately escaped Without much injury, although both th e g l asses were up at the time, neither of which were broken. It had a singular appearance to see the parties, after their fright was over, making their exit out of the opposite window of the coach, before It was restored to its former position. • About one o'clock yesterday 'as a gentleman's servant on horseback was proceeding along the King's /toad, near Gray's-hmolane on full gallop, 'his h o r se , a fi ne spirited animal, suddenly fell , and threw NS rider a considerabl e dis time, when the - horse, (mat the violence of the fail, rolled seve . . ral yards ; but neither the grocm nor the horse, we understand, sufilTed from the accident. • • " COURSE OF 'EtCrIANGE, Otcober 14. A :USW dam - it 10 C. F. Ditto, at Sight Rotterdam ' lii' II Antwerp lioniburgh • '3B 2 21 1 -4 Altoiltr . Paris,: Day's sight Ditto ... .... lourdeduz, ditto ihrtin 7 10 frrank fort mr the Blain .. Petersburg], Vienna ... . . ... I o 24 Trieste,.... %laird . 36/ Effeztive Cadiz 46i Ef f ective Rilboa •••••• 36 Effective Rarcelona l5 ieville .... ' Gibraltar Leghorn' Gel 4 'lt • a..... •.• 4 af --- Vetii t• e , Ital. Liv, ia to Malts .... 46 .--Naples 3Bi Ptiternto Lisbon 53 Oporto ....... Rio Janeiro Bahia • 46 Doblitt .... 91 Cork 94 pei Cent. ' BULLION. Portugal Gold, in Coin L.O 0 0 pet 03. Foreign Bold, in Bars 3 17 6 New Dotibloorni ' New Dollars... 0 4 ;► Silver In Bars, Standard 0 4 II BIRTHS. On Saturday, the 11th inst., at Bourne-house, in Kel:r, Ludy of the Rev. Edward Smyth , f two daughters. On the Ilth instant,. at thn! Fort, Gravesend, the Lady of Major Sir George Hoge., of the Royal - Engineers, of- a daughter. . :iIARRILO. Yesterday, at Kensington Church, the Rev. Thomas Ben ne% Vicar of Kensington, to Frances Henrietta eldest daughter of the late J osep h Delafield";Esq., of On/idol-bill. On Tuesday, the 14th inst., at St. John' Hackney Si'. Harris, of Troibridge, AVilts, to'lilary,s, eldest daughterfighter of Jesse Gouldsmithi • Esq., of-the. above place. On Tuesday morning, at Sutton, Edward Noaks, Empl to Mary, daughter of Robert Hoggart , Esq., late of Reckennam, Kent. DIED. long and_painfin illness, Mrs. Hester Pryee , widow °J. On Satunla_y, the 11th instant, in Highburpplaot, after a the late Edward Pryce Esq, of 'Merton, Surrey. On the instant, at Cross.street, Islington, after a long Illness, aged 34, Savanna, wife of Mr. John Cheap, jun:, ~1 On the 14th i nstant, at his house, in Pickett-place, S tra nd At Rawl e i g h - h ouse Devonshire, Henrietta, Mr. Edward Bennett, in the 55 t h year of his age. fourth daughte r of the lat e J ust i nian Cammajor, of Potterells, Esq. • Printed and Published for the 140pAtrtnni, th° 9 " - Orrice.ll2 Strand, by J. B. Canatalns•