The Sun. — London, England, 1823-08-06 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS. • DAILY .E tracts from the Mornhzg Papers, August G. [MORNING POST.] At a late hour last night we received, by EX. press, French Papers to the 4th inst. They con tain an Official Bulletin from Marshal Moncey, which is of considerable importance. This aged veteran, stang by the reproaches of the Ultras, has at length been put upon his mettle, and seems to have determined to make up by personal acti vity'for the delays which had taken place in car. rying into execution the 64 decisive operations" of the campaign. Having heard that Milans %Vas posted at Ygualada with about 7,000 men, he resigned t 4 command of the blockade of Barce lona to Curial, and took .the field - on the 24th nit, to signalize himself by some feat 'of arms against the Constitutional Commander. To the abilities of the latter, and the tried bravery of his troops, the slow and cautious movements of MonCey, pay the highest, because the most invo luntary' tribute. Ile fairly acknowledged that he was completely deceived by the manoeuvres of his adversary ; and that when he thought him: in one place, he unexpectedly found him in an. other. Under these circumstances, he gave strict orders not to bring the Constitutionalists to action, and went in person to reconnoitre their positions, which he ascertained to be those of JOrba. The result of this reconnaissance was, an immediate retreat on the part of the French! But whether the order for retreating was given at the .point of the bayonet by Milans, ',C . , . by their own Commander, is not altogether' ex- plained. It appears, however, that'the retreat was at first so precipitate, that a detachment of 110 men, who had approached the constitutional line too closely, sas wholly forgotten, and would have been entirely destroyed or taken, had not Moncey learned that it was "' dangerously en gaged with the enemy," and immediately re turned to its rescue, sending orders at the same time for his whole force to conic up. lie then " vigorously" • stormed the positions, which were " vigorously and valiantly' de fended." After succes4ve attacks, "'which lasted, above three hours without any in terruptinu of a well supported - fire," . the arrival of two French battalions gaiie Moncey.SO decided a superiority, that Milans evacuated his positions, and retired slowly and in good order on the road to'Cervera, without being pursued , and without losing a single prisoner. Indeed' Moncey only states as . a report that the 'loss of the Onstitu. tionnlists was pretty considerable," whilst he asserts that his own did not exceed gg five killed. and 42 wounded," in which case his adversaries must' have fired during the greater part of the action without ball I It is impossible to read the details given in this Bulletin without being con vinced that the enemy were worsted in every encounter . ..which it describes, and that if Milans chose ultimately to retreat, it was to accomplish some object which he had previously in view, and not in consequence of having been.: defeated. [NEW Times.] The appearance of the Funds indicates a con fidence in the favourable result of affairs. Con sols for Account yesterday left off at S 2-, being better than the day before. The general im pression seems to be, that the movement of the Duke d'Angouleme to the South is preparatory so souse arrangement by which the King of Spain will be restored to his throne, on an under• standing that be is to sanction a Constitution approaching to that of Great Britain. Thus it appears that the Spanish Cominittee have been labouring as much against the Constitutional principles of liberty, as in violation of the laws of their , country. Fortunately the efforts of these men (as indeed they admit) have been completely paralysed by the notorious fact, that the Spaniards would, not light in a cause,to which they had been described as enthusiastically devoted. And why would not the Spaniards light in that cause ? Because it was not the cause of Liberty. We, who are devotedly at tached to the Constitution of our country, think that true liberty is to be best obtained in every country in proportion as the principles of its Go. 'remount approach to those of our own. We have all along detested and despised the Spanish Constitution, because its principles are essen. Maly hostile to those of the British Constitution —because It hi incompatible with real Liberty. Fur be it from us to praise, or even to palliate, the vices of the former Government of Spain ; bat it assuredly was not a tenth part so exe. cable, or a tenth part so tyrannical, as the go. vernment of the self-styled Cortes. And yet It was for the latter weak and wicked .system; for a system repudiated and rejected by the Spaniards themselves, that we were to have been driven into a war ! Nay, after the British nation had disclaimed' hostility—after the national honour was solemnly pledged to a bona fide neutrality, Men were found unprincipled or inconsistent enutigh to forfeit that solemn pledge, to violate that bona fide neutrality, and to stain that national hon o ur, by seetutly, furtively, and clandestinely furnishing arnis to the Spanish Jacobius. It is boasted that Muskets and Gunpowder were sent to Coronae ; that without these the town could not have Iwo defended ; and that by such defence a numbey of lives, both French and Svanlsh, have already been lost. Then,' we say, that the blood, both of the Fivech and Sp an i ar d s ; marts on the !wads of those who On defiance of the laws of (:Tod, of nations, of honour, and of their enuntry,) thus deeply interfereii in the war. Private men are not at liberty wantonly to pro. mote the destruction of human life in quarrels in which they have no lawful concern. The con sciences of Englishmen, in general, have been awake to this serious reflection, and they have virtuously, as well as wisely, abstained from a conduct so inc o nsistent with their duties as Neutrals, as Christians, and as Men. [THE TIME:S.] An article entitled " Switzerland," from the Gertnatn.inan, (Sea another column q( Di; Scar), is fitted to produce no pleasing sensationamongat ! those who interest themselves for the indepen dence of a brave people. The Committee of the Swiss Diet, intrusted with the examination of certain proposals made by the Iloiy Alliance, relative to the press and to foreigners resident within the Cantons, framed a report more worthy of a Venetian Senate in the days of its dege neracy, than of honest and high spirited Helve tians. All the points insisted on by the des potic Powers have been in fact conceded by the Committee, and their concession adopted by the Diet, with the slight subterfuge of send ing to the several Cantons " a pressing invit ation" to execute the required measures, in stead of enforcing them by , a formal resolu tion of the Diet. The abuses, that is, the wholesome exertions, of the press, are, in con sequence, not merely to be punished, but " prevented"—by means, no doubt, of a censor ship! Fugitives from foreign countries, who have left home on account of their crimes, or " their interruption of the public tranquillity," are not henceforth to find shelter in the Republic ; and if any foreigners, lawfully resident there, should carry on intrigues against foreign Governments, they shall be at once expelled. What is there, then, in the shape of free speech or free agency, that will not be construed against men stall dis tinguished by eminence or dignity of character into such " crimes" as must prevent their ad mission into Switzerland, or such " intrigues" as may palliate their expulsion fronl , it? If the consent of a Minister from some arbitrary Court be necessary to procure a spot of ground for the unfortunate, then is the last asylum of human liberty blotted out from the map of Europe, un til the great day of irresistible re-action shall arrive. The necessity for such a change isoot to be charged upon the friends of fredorn: their op pressors drive them to the wajl: from one stage of coercion they stride on to another. To con firm and perpetuate abuses which ought to be corrected, they call into action auxiliary griev ances, which cannot and will not be endured. The mock Regents of Madrid exaggerate in a very slight degree the high-pressure politics of the Holy Alliance. If those servile fanatics colour somewhat forcibly the springs and mov lug principles of despotism—if there be more of unbridled fury in 'their vengeance—more of undisciplined and shameless eagerness to darken for ever the face of the living world, and lay prostrate the aspirings of the human mind--it is not that Infantado and his brethern cultivate a more iniquitous policy than that of Vienna, St. Petersburg!►, and Paris: it may be only, that the Spanish barbarism seems more crude and elementary than that to• which it is subservient. The wholesome effects of the for• riser upon the spirit of mankind may be more im mediately visible; but the other is as certain, and perhaps but little more remote. [MORNING CHItON/CLI.] hitherto no further news have been received from Cortmrsa, , a circumstance which, so far from regretting, we consider equal to an official coutir motion of what we said several days ago on the subject of the withdrawing of the French, after the rough handling they had met with from the brave garrison. We iu fact view this silence in the light of a confirmation, for if there had been the smallest apprehension for the safety of the town, indeed any probability of its being in the least inconvenienced by the fire of the French, the females of several families who were. ready to come away in vessels prepared to receive them, would have been in England long ago. There has been an interval of at least sixteen or seventeen days, which even the French are unable to fill up, for they tell us nothing subsequent to the 15th, from the coast of Galicia, when they say General Hubert entered Ferrol, and found in it 2000 men, though It is well known that the place had been abaddoned, in consequence of its not having been thought ad visable to defend it. That number of inha bitants might have been in the place, including old men, women and-children; but the troops, and indeed a large portion of the heavy cannon, had been conveyed to Corunna, and if the advance of the French had not been so rapid, they wont(' have found the whole conveyed away. Ferrol wawa barren victory to the French, and Possibly by the next post they will have to tell us they thought it prudent to evacuate the town on the third day. The whole garrison of Co. runna, even Including the troops which had not come in from Vigo, did not exceed 1,800 men when attacked. We shall see what number the French give to the place.—The letters received by the last post from Spain are extremely barren ; indeed nobody writes on political topics; so great is the terror every one feels. A letter from Madrid does gn so far as to say, that the Regency there are doing more for the cause of freedom and the eventual liberation of the country, than the whole of, the Constitutionalist armies put together, as they are rousing and uniting all who are capable of the least reflection, as well as preparing ele. men ts of opposition of the most tremendous kind. It is calculated that no less than 44,000 persons are at the present moment confined in prisons by their orders, and besides treated with the utrobst indignity, and for no other , offence than heCause they, are known as Liberals. The mind shud ders at the idea of plunging a number of per sons, at this season of the year, into such pri sons as Spain is blessed with, taken ftom the most select portion of the society of the country. — Let this vindictive conduct be compared with the acts of the liberal party when they came into power in ino, and it will be easy to deter mine which deserve the approbation, and which the execration of their fellow-creature. Monks and friars, of the most fanatic and infuriated class, preside over the councils of the Madrid Regency—in them even the Duke del Wan tado is a mere cypher. No wonder the' Duke d'Angouleme is anxious to get out of such company. A letter from i3ayonne has been communicated to us, which mentions that the • _ traitor Abisbal bad been killed in a duel by a young lawyer of , Limoges, who called him a traitor and coward, and .fought him afterwards. We think the circumstance very probable, for we can scarcely think it.possible that Abisbal could have found a spot in Europe, however secluded, in which he would not be liable to reproaches of the most bitter kind. It is better that the life of such a man should have terminated, as nothing but degradation awaited him. He did not deserve to live and witness the approaching triumphs of the country he had betrayed. [DRITISII PRESS.I Sunday's French Paper's reached our office yesterday. A dispatch of the garrulous and feeble Moncey will be . found in our columns, ex tracted from the Moniteur, dated Ygualada, on the 26th of July : it is the detail of an action fought before forba l between Moncey and the Constitutional • General Milans, which, :on the very face . of it, is an acknowledgment of rout and defeat. According to this dispatch, while the French were taking their positions before Ygua lade, reconnoissances, says Moncey, were sent out, and they found the out-posts of the Spaniards at St. Gettig, In frontof the famous position of lor h a. Tromelin went himself with the 16th regiment, 6th chasseurs, and two piecei of artillery, to re ' connoitre the position of the Spaniards ; Moncey had recommended to avoid any engagement with him—a precious acknowledgment Of French su periority this on the part of the old Marshal, who, afterwards adds, that he mounted his horse to reconnoitre the' enemy himself, when he had been thrown back from the positions of St. Genie to those of lorba, when it was not Moncey's in tention to attack him in front. The 'dispatch then goes on to say, that Tromelin, having stopped there the movements of the troops of the reconnoissance, its ' retreat was effected, when Moncey learned that another detachment, commanded by a superior officer, was dan. gerously engaged with the Spaniards, and when Moncey arrived near 'orbs, he found this detach. meat making its*retreat, pursued by the Spaniards. The French officer who commanded it was on foot and wounded. Milans, Moncey states, com manded the Spaniards in person ; the position, the French Marshal Ada, was vigorously attacko, and vigorously defended ; he adds, afterwards, that the Spaniards were superior in numbers, and valiantly defended their positions. The attack last ed thrie hours / without any interruption of a well supported fire. The Spaniards, he states, re treated by Montactinea 'towards Cervera. It is ascertained, Moncey conCludes, that the loss of the Spaniards was pretty ,considerable; the }trench loss, under au uninterrupted fire,of three hours, and pressed by superior numbers, is mo destly stated at five killed and thirty-two wound ed. This action we have no hesitation in stating to have' been, in its results,.an utter defeat to. Moncey, and that his loss has - been most severe. —The . dispatch of the imbecile Conegliano concludes with an alleged victory by cl'Eroles at Calaf, and .his retaining possession of that place. The Spanish Authorities at Ygualada accompanied Milans on his march from the town ;, a tolerable specinom of the Political feel big i n Catalonia. the traitorSaa s mrfeldi;y s who marched with the '''Freoci4 acting a jackal!, took upon himself to ; instal .new autho rifler, who remain in, power lust until it snit th e Spaniards to detach a few Miqoelets to drive them out of Ygualada. If Moncey, be already so hotly pressed when Mina is not yet in actin)) ,against him, what becomes of the old Marshal when this redoubtable officer, conies on him. with . 10,000 men, added to the forces already too porierful for him, commanded by, the indefatigable Milmis and Llobera ? [MORNING lIERA.Oh] The intelligence for some time from Greece communicated no striking events. 'Appearances . , however, have constantly been most favourable, and these, confirmed by the ample' and interest ing private correspondence from the Morea in spire the most sanguine i hopes of success. It is true, that of late no battles have been fought ; hut why ?—because the enemy had given the Greeks no opportunity. The great question is, whether they employed the interval of pose to the best advantage for the ultimate vindic a tion of their freedom. Of this there' appears no . doubt. The establishment of a regular central Government, the formation, or rather adoption, of an uniform system of laws, with as much care as the emergency would per. nit, and a complete system for the arming, pay. Mg, and discipline of the troops 7 -these are the great 'objects upon which the Greek Congress and Government have been employed, without jarring of opinion or ,party, during the cessation of more extensive hostilities; but one danger seems to menace the• great cause--..division among the Chiefs. The Military. Commanders, however, have been, by the wisdom and mo deration of those who exercised' the Executive' powers, embodied in the. public councils, to which they give increased strength,as' well as increased zeal and concert, 'to the military,seryice. After what has passed—the valour and devotednosi with which the Greeks resisted, and threw Off . the Turkish yoke, in their hour of weakness, and whilst the Turkish power was yet morally and physically strong,,it is scarcely possible, that in'the confidence of tried and improved re sources, and the enemy humbled in his power and pride—it is impossible, we say, that under such circumstances, now in the third year of their independence de fieto—they should again suc cumb to the barbarous tyranny fronr.which they haye: liberated themselves. The delay of thi. Porte in Making any attack by sea or land, after the, pomp with which the forces to be employed for the subjugation of Greece in the present year had been ann ounce d, Cannot be accounted for by the Mere dilatory character of Turkish oper ations; it must proceed from the Want of means. A conSideYahle time has elapsed since it waaxtatd ed that a,formidable fleet was yeady to sail from the DardanelleS, composed of three r squadrons, Turkish, Egyptian, and Algerine. This fleet could not have the least hope Of success, opposed by nn at least equal naval force of Greeks, with thek great marine superiority. Of the . Turkish fl ee t n o aut he nt i c accounts have yet been received; hut rumours state that the Creek squadron was out in search of it. The chief hope of the Porte by land was fromlite Paella of Scutari, who was stated to be provided with an army of 80,000 me n, deitined to enter and reduce the Morea. Of his movements, too, there are no accounts, if we except rumours which are decidedly favourable to the Greeks. One of these was that he was abandoned by the Albanians who formed a considerable part of his army. This desertion would be im portant, not only as a direct diminution of the Paella's force, but as a decided proof of his want of money. No other motive than money engaged these mercenaries in his cause, and their de sertion must be. ascribed to the disappoint ment of their hopes. The negociations at Con stantinople, as far as they can be gathered from the intelligence from that quarter, coupled with the language used at Odessa, and other places under Russian influence, are such LIS to afford no grounds upon which to form an opinion. The Divan, in its intercourse with Lord' Strangford, seems sullen, and suspicious 9f Russia, whilst the latter se ems no t di s p ose d to look upon the question of war or peace as - at all decided. It is not impossible that the Porte may consent to the independence of Greece, receiving an equivalent, under the gua rantee of England, though hitherto so repugnant to submit to au abandonment or qualification of its dominion. But in every instance hitherto the question before the Porte was- not whether the Greeks should be independent, but whether they should be transferred to the partial or total dominion of Russia. National policy, as well as national animosity, would make the Porte obsti nately reluctant to concede this—particularly after its experience and complaints of the use which Russia makes of tier footing among the Greek sub jects of the 'Porte. But the deliverance of Greece seems beyond the controul of any rela tion between these two Powers. The Greeks have known bitterly the interested and perfi dious policy of the Russiatis—and the incon ,sistent, unfeeling conduct of the Emperor Alex attdfr, vflio first encouraged the insurrection of the Greeks, then became their Patron at Con stantinople, and next turned round, and called them Jacobin rebels at Verona, must decide them against Russian connection for ever. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT Or CHANCERY, AuG. G. STREET V. STREET. • Mr. lIART applied/or a writ of ne exeat regno, on . behag Of Illts, Drusilla Street, to restrain her husband from going out of the country. The plaintiff had obtained a tlecree against him on account of his adulteries, awarding separation and alimony, in the Consistory Court of the diocese of Exeter, and he had appealed against it in .the superior Ecclesiastical Court; and ,the. Writ was moved for, in the present instance, on account of arrears of the interim alimony ordered by the Spiritual Court, pendente lite, together with some costs in the proceedings, the defendant having given good reasons to believe that be was about tosell his property and quit the kingdom, in order to avoid compliance With the decree. A motion had been made in the Vice Chancellor's Court, where it had been quashed. The question here was the same as that which was before his Ilonour, and.. some cases were cited in which this Court had shown its'readiness to aid the' spiritual courts in enforcing their tleprees in cases of this nature, thme courts being with- tint the means of compelling obedience to their own sentences. atlfeshoreugia Loconk r ao r ttlgii:eiti h re sini;its e .:lo:i cti:tinto. te:i Lori n sago,tii.hifnbulise:.oaeet:niatiohd : : : lll:eill i oetrt t eltintd A li ptitegitlicir t: :::(l):te c titiniti E de a ; ;u r ,eneatoc . r o t: ttv,citssh n on said tarpeferpno that it was a great question lf,thls Court had ever granted a writ of tie excel regno upon the y ich urt l. ia .taC:ori alimony na n t o o ym Ltdtwaei had e sarstkil formidable icap e h ni a t g ( nt )w i n.iu tt ot promisedh h t l u.i p r i v e ru s e l p i th i s e I : P e d o e d i kweri in copicntlo to .outlawry verysuffi. ctual Court . lie d e.contpft4nicatO . morning. EX-PAUTE NEWTON FET.LOWES,IN THE MATTER OF THE EMIL OF VORTSMOUTII, A LUNATIC. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved on behalf of the COM mittee," that it be referred . to the Master to inquire what steps should be taken in ' an y ot h er C ourts respecting his Lordship's marriage, and also con cern i ng certa i n deeds which Ills Lord ship had signed, from which it was desirable that he should be relieved. The LORD-CHANCELLOR directed the •ardor to be taken, only varying the terms to" whether any and what proceedings," so that this Court might not prejudice the case in any manner. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, AtransT 6. `EX-PAIITE LUKE, IN RE EVANS. This was the petition of en execution creditor, praying that the commission issued might be superseded under the follow.. ing circumstances :—The petitioner obtained an execution against the bankrupt by legal process. It was discovered that there was a prior act of bankruptcy by another creditor, who availed himself of that prior act ,to dispossess the execution creditor. The commission was issued by the Great Seal, but never prosecuted until ninevionths afterwards. The petition. ing creditor hadkept the commission by him at the request of the majority of the creditors. The petitioner prayed,itherefore, that the commission might he superseded, it not having been prosecuted within the time allowed. The VICE-CHANCELLOR said, that this was a very nice point for the exercise of the discretion of the Court. rune facie the Great Seal might consider 'it to be its duty to super sede thnearnmission issued for the purpose of defeating an elm cuticin, and not prosecuted for nine months; and the question was,' whether the Great Seal would allOw of such de/ay. In deciding this delicate point of discretion, his Honour was anxi nes to follow the language used, and principle laid down, by the Lord Chancellor ;_and he was of opinion that if the creili. tor wilfully delayed the prosecution of the commission, the (heat Seal would supersede it. It could not be her e said that the creditor had not wilfully delayed the prosecution of the commission, and it was no answer to say that it was done at the request of the bankrupt, and with the concurrence of the creditors, becauseS,A,, p?blic was a party concerned in every bankruptcy. AU iiiiinkind was interested; for until the corn. mission was prosecuted, the bankrupt was a person With whom all the world ostensibly, and nobody in reality, could deal: If the bankrupt and creditors were shine concerned, and if the only question was the payment or non-payment of dividend s , it might be a different case. There was another point of view in which this case might be considered. If .this commission were superseded, it would have the effect of giving validity to the execution, and of depriving the general creditors of the ad vantage of an equal distribution of the bankrupt's effects. He was, however, of opinion, that this consideration o ught not t o induce the C ourt to support the commission. The petitioning creditor having conducted himself in a manner not warranted' by the Great Seal, he thought that the commission ought to be superseded, upon the principle that where wilful delay had taken place, a commission ought never to be allowed t o stan d.— Petition allowed. EX.PARTE CHAIItIERS, CITA3tBEII3. Mr. Holum stated that this was a petition to supersede the' commission 'of the bankrupt. The petitioning creditor was Mr. Wood, an attorney, living at Wolverhampton, and it was sworn that his debt did not amount to 100/. Besi des this debt there was no other proved under the commission , _ excepting a trifling one of 3/. The bankrupt intended to take the benefit of the Insolvent Act, but previous to his fi nal examination, Mr. Wood sued out the commission, and had acted upon it. No counsel appearing on the other side, his lionour.granted the prayer of the petition. SOUTH CLERKENWELL BLUE SOCIETY.- -The Tenth Annual Meeting of this Society took place on Monday evening, in the Friends' Meeting- house, St. John-street, J. 13UTTERWORT11, Esq. M. P. in the Chair. The Report of the Society was read, by which it appeared that the Branch Society had circulated upwards of 3,000 copies of the Scriptures among the poor and the ignorant in the immediate vicinity. The Rev. D. Ruell, the Rev. M r. Wood, Colonel Nicholls, Mr. Neale; &c. addressed dip Meeting, which was crowded to exces s , principally by ladies. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MAIDSTONE, AIONDAY, AUGUST 4. CIVIL SIDE.—WILLS V. OSBORNE. This was an action on the 55th tieo. 111. cap. 107, to recover from the defendant a penalty of 1001., for supplying the poor of the parish of Sutton Valence with provisions, whilst he filled the office of overs ee r. I t a pp eare d t h at the defendant was ap- - pointed, in 1822, by an order of vestry, to the office of assistant overseer of the poor, at a salary of 301. per annum. The con. troul and management of the parish funds was vested in the vestry and the regular overseers, the defendant's being the hand to pay money under their orders. The defendant kept a huxter's ahoy -- at Sutton Valence, and it was proved that during the last year several paupers applied to him for relief. With the sanction of the vestry different weekly sums were allowed for their main. tenance ; but the defendant, instead of paying them in money, obliged them to take the amount in goods for sale in his shop, such as butter, cheese, bread, fuel, ite. In one instance, where a poor woman, in ill-health, required some mutton-broth, and her husband was desirous of a few shillings to buy the meat to make it, the defendant refused to give any money, and in-' 'sited upon his taking goods. Since the commencement of this action, this practice had ceased, and now the paupers were paid in money.. Under these circumstances, it was contended that the case was within the terms and the policy of the salutary statute above-mentioned. Mr. MARRYAT contended, that the plaintiff must be non. suited, and raised two points first, that there was a variance between the evidence andthe declaration ; and second, that the defendant was not oneof the class of persons enumerated in the statute, upon whom th e p ena lty cou ld attach. As to the first objection, the declaration described the defendant as a person having the controul, order, direction, and management of the affairs of the poor of the parish ; the fact being, that the con troul, order, direction, and management, was vested in the over seers and vestry. He was merely an assistant overseer, and consequently he was not properly described. Then, as to the second objection, the defendant being an a ss istant overseer, he was not within the penalties of the act; but supposing him to be so, there was no proof of his appointment by two justices, as reldred by the 59th George Ili., which empowered the ap pomtment of assistant overseers and other parish officers. Here the defendant was only appointed by an order of vestry, not confirmed by two justices, and the order did not point out the duties of his office. He cited "1 H. Blackstone's Reports," 162 ; and " Stanley v. Dodd ;" 2 Dowling and Ityland's Term Reports, 756. Mr. GURNEY, in reply, was stopped by Mr. Baron GRAHAM, who expressed the strong inclination of his opinion that there was nothing in either of the objections. In the first place, the defendant was well described, as a per son having the controul, order, direction, and management or the affairs of the poor; and second, having acted as an assistant overseer, it was unnecessary for the plaintiff to prove the valid ity of his appointment in order to bring him within the opera tion of the statute. The Learned Judge, therefbre, directed a verdict for the plaintiff, with one penalty of 1001. with liberty to the defendants to enter a nonsutt upon both points. CROWN James Jacobs was indicted for forging a promissary note for 101. at Tunbridge, on the 4th of March, with intent to defraud William Jeffreys and John Garr. A second count charged him with uttering the same note knowing into be forged. Two other counts charged him with altering the note from the sum of 1/. to the sum of 10/. The care was this :---On the 4th of March, the prisoner bar. gained with Mr. Cambridge, a butcher of Tunbridge ' for the purchase of a cow and calf, at the price of 01., in pay ment of which sum he tendered a 101. Chatham Bank note, out of which was given him a 11. note in change. After passing through several hands, the supposed 101. was paid into the Hastings' Bank, where it was discovered that it had been originally a 1/. note, and had . been altered to a 10/. note, and it was at length returned to Mr. Cambridge, who was obliged to make good the amount, On the 26th of July, the prosecutor's servant being at Horsemonden Fair, saw the prisoner there, whom he . immediately recogpized as the person who had paid the note to his master. lie ad:osted him, and told him the circumstance. The prisoner said he did not know him, and seemed. anxious to get away. Upon being preised as to the transaction and his recollection of it, he said it could not be him for he had never in his life been at Tun. bridge; that he had never purchased a cow and a calf; and that he had never been rich enough to possess a 10/. note. The servant was, however, positive in his recollection of the pi 'toner, and caused him to be det: i led by a constable. The prisoner t .en altered his tone, said he did remember something of the transaction, but that he had no idea that the note was a bad one; but if it was, he must stand by the loss, which he should be happy to make up to Mr. Cambridge. Thealtera; tion of the note, and ail the formal parts of the ease, were antis factorillestablished. The prisoner in his defence, sad he had taken the note from a strarigr, that he had no knowledge of its being an alteted one, and that he passed it to the prosecutor in perfect ignorance. Mr. Serjeant ON SLOW charged , the Jury, that the question for them to determine was, whether the prisoner uttered the note with a guilty knowledge, and desired.them to w.igh the ev idence with great deliberation. The Jury found the prisoner Gyilty—Death. The awful sentence of the law Was passed upon biro. BOXING.---The fights on Harpendon Heath yesterday pro duced plenty of play. The game was not over till past five o'clock.. Tne northern road was altogether gaiety, and the attraction of three fights led about ten thousand persons to the scene of action. Bishop Sharpe and Cooper was the first at• traction. It was ano fight, and to record any part of it to our fanciful readers would cause sport in reality. in this great tight there was no blood spilled. An amateur observed that the men had been overtrained, and the lookers on thought so too. Sharpe won ; the fight lasted forty-four minims and ten seconds.-111 4 Kenzie lost with Woolwich .Bourke; and Linney was beaten in a very suspicious fight with Aaron the Jew. COURSE OF EXCHANGE, August 5. Arostet dam ..., II io C. F. Ditto. at. Sight l2 8 .Rotterdam l2 11 Antsverl)••• • l2 9 Hamburg!, se 1 ti Vs Altona . , Paris, 3 Day's sight ' 25 80 0 Us. Ditto Bordeaux, ditto Frank forton the Alain Madrid Cadiz 1111 boa 384 infective Barcelona s ieville Gibraltar . lof Leghorn Genoa ••• Malta 45 -Naples 39 Palermo Lisbon Oporto Rio.lineiro • . 50 Dublin ...• 91 Cork 94 pet Cott. BULLION. Portugal Gobi, irt Cain /.0 0 o pti Os,, Foreign Gold, in Bars S 17 6 New Daul)loons New Vnllars 0 4 8 Silver so Bars. Standard 0 4 I() t 1311tTfl S. Oa the 29th ult., at -Roughway, 'the Lady of 141axirtrilian Aalison, Esq. 'of fi daughter.. On the 4th inst., at Yoles Court, the Viscountess Torrington, of two song. MARRIED. ....... On the 4th inst.,' John Vaughan. Esq. one Of hia Majesty's. Serjeant's at Law, to the Right lion. LOuisu BarQuess St- John, widow of St. Andrew; • late Lord St. John, of 'l3lctsoe, and mother of the Present Lord. - On the 4th inst.. at St. Antic( w's, Holborn, the Rev. John Hewlett, 11. D., Rector. of liilgay Norfolk, and Morning- Preacher at the Foundling Hospital , Caroline, third daughter of the late Richard Price, Esq., of Elstree,' Herta. On Tuesday, the Ath inst., at St. Mary's, Lambeth, (leorge Logan, Esq., W.S., of Edinlo4rgli, to Marion, second daugn. ter of Thomas Manson, Esq., of Lambeth-terrace. On the sth inst. i at St. Margaret's, Westininater, Dr. John Furnival, of I)uke.strcet, Westminster, to Miss Moser, , of Frith,atreet, Soho. DIED ....•••••• At Sheerness, on the 23d tilt., after a short illneu, Captain ,Robert Jenkins, of the 12th Regiment of Infantry, aged yaws. Captain Jenkins had served with great credit m the 12th Regiment for upwards of 15 years. 57th On the 27th ult., a t Fe,versham, George Smith, RE. in his year. On the 30th ult., at Margate, Louisa, youngest daughter of the late John Raker, Esq. of Nerd:down House, Thttnet. July 31, in Longpo r t, C an t er b uiy , o f ' a cancer in the breast, Mrs. l'irebb. Printed and Publish e d f or the• Pat:muttons; m the suw. OFFICE, 112, Strand, by J. IL Caartittua.