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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extrods from Mc Morning Pnpers, July 15. [visa TIMES] A long political article, in another column, ( See Tilt , . SUN of this da) will arrest the attention of our readers, chiefly because it is dated from St. Petersburgh, although Vienna, Berlin, or Paris would have answered for a birthplace equally well. The stamp it bears is not simply Russian ; it is that of " the Powers" of the present age—that of calm, self satisfied, instinctive despotism, such as unhap pily every age has witnessed. The writer never onto Condescends to lose his temper, not even when speaking of the Spanish Constitution, so convinced is he by his own arguments, or so con fident in those which he may, on an emergency, have recourse to. The aim of this love -breathing manifesto, however,being to justify to reasonable men the overthrow of human liberty throughout Europe, something more was necessary to be done than borrowing from the King of France's speech the fundamental doctrine of legitimacy ; and, in fact, some improvements have been made upon that first principle by the paper before us ; some decorations not unlike the bolts, chains, and ropes emblazoned on the front of Newgate, have been affis'ed by the Muscovite artist to the outer walls of that imperial arid royal prison house, which its owners have destined to confine for ever the dearest rights, the loftiest attainments, the intelligence, the spirit, the public virtue, and growing fortunes of mankind. The King of France, in his speech, proclaimed to the world that it aas because' the Spaniards had enslaved their King, e French army was to march for his liberation. There is a shift of ground by the St. Petersburgh apologist, and a large advance in matter of principle. By him we are told that the French army was made use of against the Spaniards, that the French Government might have less to fear, not from Spain, but from its own disaffected subjects ! flnonaparte's old nos trum, a foreign war, was to be kidted• up, that the minds of the French people might be diverted frem brooding over the misdeeds of their own rulers, and that passion for military glory, which had so long been Called the scourge of humanity, and *hid% the " Settlement of Europe" had been frpried expres'ly to annihilate, is called forth again by those who had smarted so cruelly under its former application, and brandisked over the bucks of the'iieople of Spain, who - had nobly freed their, present oppressors from its torments ! This, then, Is the profound wisdom—this the United " consistency" of the Holy Alliance, whose advocate accuses them of tire cc grossest " inconsistency and contradiction," had they not adapted midi means to tranquillize the Spanish nation, which only their treachery had disturbert —One %soul more may be sufficient to thew the true bearing of this hsif-official document. The Inquilitiou hs salt to be regarded by "the whole SiOtll6ll ration as one of the main pillars of ow " Spanish Monarchy !" Then it is the scheme of the Holy Alliance that the Holy Office shalt be restored. Let the Spaniards look to this look, Frenchmen,' what is In stove for you, when Fer. &multi shall have remounted on the necks of his eonquered people, and French soldiers shall have been successfully blooded in the cause of one tyrant of the House of Bourbon. [111013,2i1r40 POST.] German Papers. broullit us yesterday a semi. official article from St. Petersburgh, which may be considered as an Expose of the motives which induced , the Russian Emperor to act as he has done in the great question of interference in the internal affairs of Spain. Though in some mea sure on apology for the past, it displays a tone of exultation at the state of the present, and the triumph supposed to have been achieved over the liberties of the Peninsula, which we trust may prove as premature as , it, is disgusting. Weak and sophistical as are the arguments which it uses, they possess the additional character of being founded on positive and wilful .misrepresenta antis. Not one point is stated fairly and honestly. The object is to delude, and even the clear and open line of policy pursued by this country during and after the Congress of Verona, her firm and decided opposition to the principle on which the Allies acted, tier protest against the invasion of a free people for the purpose of put. ting down its Constitution, and the steps which she took to save the Peninsula from actual ag. gression and violence, are turned by Imperial alchemy into as many proofs " that on the prin ciple's which led to the war, England agreed with the other Powprs," and that " the British Ministers considered the political changes in the Peninsula as opposed to the existing European system .9 sys After such a violation of known, public, and wapay say historical truth, nothing contained in such a document can deserve , refu- tu.t,ittt,. l.t is of a piece with the enterprise whafi it seeks to jto4ify and. exceeds in folly, at the othor does in io;iplity. [nottzmick iiLitALD.I 4 `l.`he avprthiei t %ion..that,the, Silk attufactitrers' Dill, to repent. the 44 Spitalfreitla Regulations," would be read a third time yesterday, again drew considerable ntimbers of the weavers shoot the o'4lllw:es to ,the !louse of Lords Th ey . 'ey agala conducted themselven in. the most Irdre'rty man trettarefully.avoiding any obstruction about the e oranees of their lordships' I:louse. SOort after five o'clock they began to disperse, having ascer tained 'that the third reading would not he moved till a subsequent day.--The. evidence was not generally delivered tilt yesterday ; and as the latter* portions of it are m deeed 'of great im. , pertatice inin;; minty occupied, with 'demon. strafing the Vatitages of . the existing " Itirions," c • ontrol' I liog the trade, it Was considered advisable not to press- the third reading sill the whole of the evidence; filling nearly 300 folio pitges,' Might have been duly ex/unified by their To afford such opportunity, the third .reading is Made , an Order of the Day for.,Virednesday Readers are aware gat the Committee who received such vo- luMinous eviince, reported the tifit to the ' House " without any Amendment;" so that unless their Lordships would agree to some Amendment on ate third reading (which is stated to be very unlikely), no further question on the Bill can be raised in the House' of Commons. If the Lords altered or added to the 13411, such al , terations or additions must have the sanction of the Commons, which would open the question anew in the Lower House; but otherwise, the Lords, by message, inform the other House that they have agreed to the Bill, on which proceed ing no question can be raised. in the event_of the Bill receiving the sanction of the Lords on Wednesday, of which no doubts are entertained, tite Bill, it is at resent expected, will not re ceive the Royitl Assent by Commission, but it will be given to it by his Majesty in person, on the prorogation of Parliament on Friday or Sa turday next. [MORNING CURONICLE.] In another column will be found a long article under the head German Papers, which is under , stood to be a sort of official Exposition of the Views of Russia, regarding the Affairs of Western Europe. Triumphant as the Holy Mlles tiow conceive themselves to be, it is much that they condesCend at all to explain their views to us, or to offer any arguinents in support of them. We seldom endeavour to convince where we have the. power to compel. The West India Planter does not lay before his slaves the ,reasons for his Con. duct, or demand their approbation of them. — We hail, therefore, this condescension on the part of the Autocrat as a good sign—as a proof that persuision,is still not altogether unnecessary. in Western Europe. There is yet, it would appear, a power, which they who wield the word. feel themselves oblige& to conciliate—the power of opinion. It is true, the Allies are not so fond of listening to the reasons of others, as of offering their own ; but the reasons on one side not en frequently suggest the reasons by which they may be met. A reasoning Turk is in a fair way. to become an Infidel. In the , present case we have, in the first place, a pretty distinct avowal of the motives for the irtirtiAou of Spain. Two causes of alarm were to be iiknoved :—the state of the Western Peninsula and that of France, " the latter doubtless the most important to' Eu " rope." " The problem was (it is said with much naivete) to make use of a nation not yet tranquillized), to bring back another nation and with that all Europe to fully conso lidate repose. The foundation of the pro ceedings adopted was n just view of the history and character of the French nation. — which in the noble occupations of war and &ye.. loped national activity alWayslorgot the dis Cords which, spread by the evil-minded, threatened to ,d e stroy the national prosperity. Thu history of the last six months proves the correctness of this estimate of the French character, and the wis dein of the measures adopted.' A %vas must be got tip to afford a vent for the military propen sities of the French ! , that in this nobhs occu pation they may allow their Government to do what it ph:inapt at borne t Like children, employment must be found for them to keep them out of mischief—the noble employment of rut ting the throats of their unoffending neighbours. This is so far a return to the old system, when the business of governing in every country was in a great measure Confined_ to the discovering causes of quarrel with neighbours, to obtain a full field for the development of national activity —War was the 'great business, and •Price was only with regard ta it what sleep is to the body. English Men were natural enemies of Frenchmen, and nothing could be more glorious than for an Englishmatv and a Frenchman to cut each other'S iroats for that which would benefit neither. [NEW TOT rt.; The last arrivals from St. Petersburgh have brought a document which will be found in an other part of our Paper, and which is well worthy of notice, as a clear anti temperate expo., sition of the policy of the Allied Sovereigns.— Th e ti me has at length arrived when that policy may be candidly examined, and when English. men can no longer be deterred from recognising the truth, by a loud but senseless clamour against " Legitimates" —" Despots" —" The Unholy Alliance"—and so forth.—lf it could be proved, that all the ." Legitimate" Sovereigns are oppressers of their people—that there exists n league of " Despots" on the Continent —sit " unholy alliance" to crush liberty to degrade, and to demoralize mankind, then we should act, as we did when the Continent tretn. bled at the nod of one man, and when those who now charge us with advocating the cause of Des potism reproached us for our , uncompromising hostility teivard the fiercest anti most poWerful of Despots. But we deny that the legitimate Sove reigns of Europe are actuated by sentiments in. compatible with rational liberty. There may be more or less of arbitrary power in their respective Governments; bat there is no one impree mated, as ses the Govertunent r of Buencteurte, with it spirit 'Ou rely and `sin t iiiiintir 4 riire is nn one so sttentially tyrannical, so coldly cruel, so wan. tonly and deliberately, oppressive, as the Go vernment of the Cortes. We Speak. not of CV,- ternal forma, or of vague profeSsions, but of real inroads on the comfort, the happiness, the inde pendence the property, the very lives or indivi , duals. Covernments securing to the people much present enjoyment, and .opening to them the prospect of more future freedom, had happily been established all over Europe; . they were united in a common bond of union, I and had settled down into a state of Itellera) t tranquillity, when the restless spirit of :Taco. W il k i e, t o o leniently ceerced in 1814 and 1815, . imgan once more to raise its head. The . COTTIMO9 Oliject, of the Legitimate Sovereigns Was peace,— . I hey therefore were averse from any unneceq. I sary interference with the internal concerns of ! any particular State ; since that must necessarily, 1 lead to a disturbance of the peace. But a ne. ~ i • cessary interference s a lawful ; i er,e. r i' di,eTICP; Sp . ' of that necessity it was natural for the. Conti nental Powers to judge slinewhatdifferently from Great Britain. They !Ad actually suffered more from the effect oflacobintsm : theY . were more exposed to its' moral contagion in fact the I danger to them from a revolutionary movement in any neighbouring State was incalculably greater thart it could possibly be in England. When, therefore, Messrs. Lafayette, Chauvelin, and other veterans of the French Revolution, be gan to proclaim anew their disorganising doctrines from the Tribune; when,. as effect follows cause, this was followed by the horrible assassination of the Duke de Berri, by the secret societies of the Chevaliers de la "Aerie, and by the insurrections of General Berton and others, the state of France naturally produced alarm to all the neighbouring Sovereigns— Nam tua res agitur, paries cam prosimus ardet. rBRITISII PRESS.] Alexander had resolved that liberty, if he could effect it, should be extinct in Europe. He feared gathering discontent in France, and rising liberty in the Peninsula ; against both, all his arts and menaces were directed. Montmorency. at Verona was, in reality only the puppet of the Corsican Di Borgo, Alexander's Ambassador ; and, when he pressed the interrogatories as to the situation of Spain, in place of speaking the lan guage of the . French COinet, he was, in reality, only the mouth-piece of the ambitious Russian. " What," asks the Russian Manifesto, " was France in 1822 ? A volcano over which one walk ed with trembling. What was to be feared from France ? That some accumulation of infernal in 'gredients would cause the volcano to burst, and that the all-consuming lava would issue in a torrent like that of 1790. The ine vitable consequence would have been, new wars, the duration and issue of which it was kayose Bible to foresee. Nay, the Peninsula might have joined, revolutionary France; and "thus the east of Europe would have been engaged in a contest with the West, which would probably have made . Germany the theatre of desolation and lilooshed." Amid all this inflation of language and a cloud of words, the real feelings of Russia are easily seen through. The Autocrat knew the Bourbons were most unpopular in France, and that general dis content prevailed throughout that kingdom. He feared that liberty, which had arisen in Spain and Portugal, might pass the. Pyrenees, find France again shake off the family which foreign bayonets had imposed upon her, and become energetic and free. Germany, already agi tated and disturbed, might rise, and with her youth and land wehr in arms, demand the repre- Ventative•rights and the Liberty she had so long looked in vain for. Italy too might try the con. Met against the barbarous Bohemian once mor e , and Sicilian Vespers deluge her cities with ultra montnne blood, Greece WaS in arms, animated by the same holy flame, against the Mussulman ; and if all succeeded, - what would become of the Holy Alliance, or where was the power and in fluence of liatssia ? No free nation would admit c idterference of the ambitious Cossack. 7.4.8,NV INTIMLIG ENCE. Moir COURT OF:ADMIRALTY, JIMY . 12. .t FRAIALR sAILOR. ( Farther Particulars.) Tilt SHIP JAXE ANTI' MAJITIZIL. This WAS a novel and sinplar case ofnicrineetwitgae elahtv ed by a 'retinae , . In the month of Deeember,-1821, proceedings were instituted In this Court by Elizabeth Stephens, spinster, in a cause of sub traction of wages, which she, claimed for services as cook and steward on board the aboveautmed vessel. The owners having become bankrupt,.the action was defended by their assignees. In the original attestation of the. woman she swore to a debt of 811. 14a. but. in the • liedule annexed to the summary petition (which alleged her having been shipped and hired on three sue. cesaive voyages, between the 1 7th of May, 1817, and the 30th of October, 1821) - , the amount wait stated at 811.25. and this latter account was corroborated by three certificates of the Mas. ter, that she had been chipped and hired on each voyag e a s cook and steward, at the wages of 31. 15s. per month. Four wit. o ff e red one, allegtition, which was exceptive to the testi nesse* we re examined on her part, but the opposite party only Many of Chandler, the Master, who was asserted to have co habited with the woman on board as his wife ; and this allega tion was rejected. The matter had been several times before the Court in its different stages ; and Mier hating it fully argued, the Learned and Noble J c age. (Lord Stowell) this day delivered his judg ment nearly as follows 4, I t on driven to the necessity of,tiving a decree in this case, which I would gladly have avoided. It is a case that presents itself upon evidence on one,wide only, and on a claim, which T have no particular wish to encourage, for man's work done by female, and under circumstances which t - if generally brought iitto practice, might lead to a good deal of moral disorder, with the consequences likely enough to flow from it. It is like. w i se a chine a gainst.tx bankrupt estate, in which the parties re- Sistine the claim have produced no evidence, and in truth have offered none but suc h as could not ,be admitted without a breach of the established tales of practice in this Court. • " If' due diligence and attention have really been used in procuring evidence I can only say they have been unsuctessful •In their results ; so'd that I think would have been reason for private compromise: flowever t no zap intimations which I have thrown tOeceedinugtargittitloatb7ecirnnleestcili)te,ii?la'totft3 I must follow the course which the pestles have prescribed to se. " It i s zt c laim, as I have said, for a man's work done by a female, and this work done on board a ship in two ell racitisit, one as cook and steward (for these are united Ofnees), the other as keeper of the ship and het stores in har bour or dock. The two first ernployments combined are not thought derogatory to the female character when their offices are performed on land ; for they are so performed In most families under the corresponding cities of cook and housekeeper. But the are employments very rarely so filled on board of ships, an it is *treble that they should 'so continue, for the reason already alludeft o , be WO likely to that if the practice became f r equent it might to convert ships, into places of irregular indulgence. '.l here occasion enough to fear, ' that the lawful - OM. rn,r 4 . 4 ' of the aster would not be the only commands ,to Obedlencu would be given.DlAL if the fact has been that the Captain has had the entire management of the ship given up to hi m , without any attention on the part of the other Own ors; and has employed such a cook and - stewar t, without objecti on from them ; and if the service belonging to such employments h as b e en actually and properly , performed, and the expence and her owners, i t i s sure ly too late to object to the payment of of another cook and stewart sa ved to the shi p the wages ordinarily due for such services, merely on the ground ' the b eea of the person employed in Peforintng them. .The has been dorie, and well done ; and being so i I hardly conceive that *rich an obection is legally maintainable. It may be said, and has been sa ki, that the person acting abroad, acts (and is expeeted' t o d o s oy a s mariner likewise. 'lt will appear an her Servingh e i upon the evidence that this personditi snin a great 'degree,— The witnesses speak to exhibitions both of skill and s iren for lending her }AWN, which were sufficiently robus t, ut the pulling due time in her turn at the helm, and in 'of ropes up on the deck. "The other cap ac i t y in which she served is that of ship keeper,for a long space of ti m e, in which the. vessel remained in dock or harbour,- during a ll which tine she had the business of keeping the ship'elean by frequent washing, and of looking to the ante custody of the stores:left on boar ds. This is an em ployment not usually consigned to females, though there is :307ee evi4nce that' women do live on board ships in such situ ations with their :fareilies,.Alid o c casionally perform such duties: and 1- ski not see w h y ,' if t h e y A ctually . have per formed the, services without objeation the objection Of ilex should be urged in its te„pe enylesa any m ore than the housekeeper. bar of the ordinary re m uneration ; or wby ,the shipkeeper is be tint Witness is the Captain—certainly a palm on whose evidence I am not inclined to rest much, though I do notate. that his veryorcibly inapn either by the manner h f in which gned, 4.4 e hai given it, or by what- ie'antorted from hint cm the cross-examination. Th e re may be reasons enough to Ws. pect that he engaged the services of this woman In more capa cities than those he has described—l say, to suspect; because it certainly is not proved, and cannot be so taken—whether she acted in the character of wife, or in a less honourable con- nection, seems hardly settled even in conjecture. He some times, though rarely, called her wife,' which, he says, he did rom her connection with the ship in a capacity which would entitle a man to be called a ship's husband, and no other wise. He has declined to answer a searching question respect ing his intimacies with her; and nothing can be inferred from his use of his legal privilege in so declining. It is therefore unnecessary for me to inquire how far such a circumstance, if proved, would destroy the claim for services actually performed of an unexceptionable and useful nature. The her' of the Captain's evidence is this—he says he hired her in the Cat. water at Plymouth, on a coasting- and trading voyage ; he agreed to pay her 2/. es. per month for so long as she should re main on board ; she engaged to actas cook and steward the day after she came on board, and bound herself by an agreement to perform such services ; the following day he set sail, and made various voyages from . Plymouth to Wales, from \Vales to Ire land, and from Ireland to Seville in Spain, from-Seville to Lon don, and back again to Plymouth, where he discharged the suitor, Elizabeth Stevens. Some short time after the Captain took a cargo on board for St. Michael's, and Elizabeth Stevens again entered the ship and agreed for the voyage; shortly,'how. ever, the ship was seized by the Sheriff for a debt; it was sub sequently sold, and bought in by a Mr. Simmonds, the credi tor. During this time she remained on board, and the ship was carried tato the London Docks, where she remained some time on, board. The ship was again taken out in September, 1820, for another voyage, when the Captain again agreed with the suitor for 2/. ss. per month. She remained on board un til October, performing the offices of cook and steward, and assisting in her turn in navigating the vessel ; she performed her watch and took her turn at the helm. In October the Cap tain became a bankrupt. " The next witness is a Custom-house Officer.—He went on board the Jane and Matilda in the London Docks, and there found the suitor on board, bound for Seville in Spain, whom the Captain called cook and Steward ; there was no other person 'on board, and the master only came occasionally. He consi dered she was hired by the master, and that she performed her part as a mariner and seaman. • " The next witness is a waterman.—He says he saw her fre qnently on board the ship ; she appeared to have the sole corn. 'Mand ; and, in the witness's - opinion, was a most excellent ship-keeper, taking great care of the ship. ." The last witness is a men who went with the ship to Ply. mouth. He said she well and truly performed her duty, not only as cook and steward, but as a seaman ; she obeyed all lawful commands ;- and he considered her particularly diligent and attentive, - performing her part match better than many of the crew had done. " Upon this-evidence i find'some difficulty in corning to the conclusion that this woman is entitled to nothing..liere are duties performed, which must be performed by somebody on board this ship. , isrobody else Is proved to have performed them. She is proved to have performed them, and to have per. formed them well. She states her case fairly; produces her witnesses fearlessly—witnesses not all connected with her, or otherwise impeached.—Nething, comes' from : them that be. trays a disposition to give .unjust testimony. She does not kr, as far as I see, with any perverse resistance: She gives up the assignment without any oppoiition on her part. Here are strong testimonies, totally unopposed, to the work done; and that is the material point for the Court to look to; for supposing an informality in the mode of hir ing, still, if the work has been done and properly done, it entitles the performer to the common remuneration ; and it is not pretended that she sues for more than the common rate of payment for such employment. Nobody else is described as performing the duties: It is true that 'I rejected an allegation which came too late in the day, which pleaded that the per son who seized the ship at Plymeath had been shipkeeper himself, or by deputy, for a certain portion of time ; because it was tittered in an undue form, and at an undue period of the cause; and because, the fact, if true, might have been meta taindby fair inquiry long before, and ought to have been so ascertained and regularly produced. The share of the ship transferred to her by assignment of the Captain was surrender ed without any resistance:- - -I really feel a difficulty in saying, that under all these circumstances the woman is not entitled to recompence. Vet that is what the other parties require. They say she shall have nothing 7 -we bind her to the chance of her legal demand and the decision upon it, and to that only-..ncr s ag i l r i d t t t: hd r y eidico o wlc.wrnip t hh t vaen i oes c rxlyth : lvt i eoacnanewn l hvt received odhe a tea cinVraooleveohet women actedvtoelhel fnlreen:nateel-rlitsidieonolldgldontp compromising offer shall site receive from us. Now I cannot e bind myself to the facts I have stated of this particular, though certainly not disposed to encourage any general practice of this kind; neither can I .blind myself to the notorious fact, that f :ra t s: tt o vhhog r , en i fe o stv: es t Je t isy shipsooo l snat y f nnsenl a uoeg : w; d e ti:hnAaui r ict e rlrt ohad- - c many o ffi ces of man's labour are performed by women in many countries, ind.amonitst other countries even in our own, and man's labour of the coarsest and roughest species. Even uifi emoluments this rf evyrnee. udm i l sneTef e : no : dhenfreuesf name standing eaeo e m w d ipd r theyiwere on board, and sharing in the distribution of salvage which their husbands were attached in timeofengagement, and glory,such u a n n w d or t t e h t y li tr e shame attn t. of o l u ha rcou rel n at tr e r ; ad°rtrl b rhef. e oiceej: e illdt n lPribllov p ewgi resem at discussions elsewhere, in which many instances have been cited of females holding high offices entitling to military command, and to eminent stations in the field of battle, or ibr the suppression of civil commotions. The Sovereignty of these kingdoms, which entitles the bearer to the character of Captain General of the Realm, has been borne by the females with sufficient splendour ; and in the case of Queen Elizabeth, not without demonstrations of personal courage, and a readi ness to encounter the hostilities with which she was threatened. The Countess of Dorset, Pembriske, and Montgomery, in the time of Charles I. fi lled the o ffi ce of hereditary High Sheriff of Westmorland ; as such she was authorised to raise the Roue comitatur, and she did actually sit on the Bench at the Assizes, and is even said to have personally attended at the execution of the last process of the law. " Looking to all these circumstances, I find great difficulty in arriving at the conclusion that a female can be entitled to nothing fur that service winch would be remunerated In a man. It does not appear to me that the sex alone creates a legal and total disqualification. There may be reasons enough that render the engagement of women in a particular maritime em ployment unseemly and unsuitable ; but if persons have had the benefit of their services in such employments, to the effect of saving the expence they must have incurred by employing other persons in them, I doubt touch the propriety of their turning round and taking shelter under the objection that those who have performed the services are not of the right sex. " It was said, that the co-owners were ignorant of all this employment of a female. That may be their fault, or their misfortune, in giving their confidence to an unworthy per son • brit be it one or the other, it would not destroy the legal claim of a thirdperson, who has acquired it. It was said, too, that there was no inattention on the part of the assignees. That may be ' . but they must take the property in the state in which they fin d It, deteriorated possibly by the fault of former possessors ; but such as it is they must take it. And lam con strained to add; that there certainly has been no particular promptitude on the part of these assignees, even after making due allowance for the difficulties that generally obstruct the course of proceeding in a • bankrupt concern. No defensive allegation was offered till the established practice of the Court had shut the door against its admission; and after the calm had been fully heard throughout on both sides, and nothing but the indulgence of the Court, acting principally on the hope that a little delay might prevent further expenditure, had postponed the decision, another allegation was Aired, with an ore? of fresh facts, but without any averment that they were such as might not have been discovered, by due diligence, in the pro per time, and when no such irreguler indulgence was necessary to be applied Or. ' The Court rejected the offer on that ground .—and leaves, I fear, the property . to the ordinary course of bankrupt concerns--to be expended in litigation. " Upon the whole, I AVllof , opinion that nothing has been ;hewn to deprive thiefentale Suitor of her right to the ordinary Vosges for the service she has performed. In her orOnal lA% davit she claimed about Mk; in her suminary petition, about 00/.; as I do emu wish to distress a bankrupt estate, I shall pronounce for the lower sum. Af I the present is not a regular Court day, I shall not at present make the actual decree ; but having now stated the grounds of my judgment, I shall sign a decree conformably to them on the Caveat day." On Saturday last MATHEWS, the comedian, performed the part of Othello at the Liverpool Theatre. 'fhe limy. Mr: KENNY, late a Catholic Priest, read his recantation on Sunday, at &. illarthi's Church, in pre. settee of Archdeacon POT T and a numerous congregation. At the celebrated battle of Waterloo, lion. William Curzon, son of the present Lord Scarsdale, anti I)eputy-Assistant.AAjutant-General to the army in the N e therlands, displayed the most chivalrous ardour. Riding along the field with Lord AM arch he received a ball in his chest ; " Farewell, dear March !" said he, as he fell to the ground. His companion . .was not permitted to peribrin those tender offices which his heart dictated. A furious - onset of cuiratsiert called him to his post ; and his wounded 'friend seeing him nobly rally u Nassau regiment, which he led to the charge in person, feebly but heroically-ex-chimed, " TharloNght—that's ri t rat,—well done, my dear March l" and inamediatelr LONDON MARKETS, PRICE OF BREAD. the price of the 41b. Loaf is stated at 1 cid. by t be bakers. There are others of the trade who srll f►om a half penny to three halfpence below that rate. IMPORTATIONS OF GRAIN LAST W EEK. English. Irish. Foreign Wheat 9,486 2, luo Barley - —_-- Malt - Oats ... e - Rye — 25 -- Beans . 1,026 ---- Peas - Tares - ____ Rapeseed — Mustard — Seeds 163 Flour Drank — Linseed — ---- 2,970 ----.-- SEEDS, July 14. Red English Clover, 18s 213 32s—new; 34s 46.49 s 57s 54s Ditto (koreign) les 255-6ne, 37s 383 per cwt. new, 40s 625 White ditto SOs 36: 455-6ne, 50s 58s 60$ to Trefoil.... per cwt..6s 14s—new 15s las tOs 28s per cwt. Ribgrass Carraway Seeds s4s 5Ss 60s Coriander do - 'fares _ Cinque Foin 3O. to 344—fine --s per qr. Rye-Grass ... l6: to 25s—new, V7s ais per qr. Canary per qr ... .s 431 to 4850 d per qr. White Mustard Seed 1 Is to I tand Brown ditto 9s to 15. Od Winter Tares VBS ttr36s Od 401 per qr . Rape Seed .. e6l to aol Os 341 . .-1 pet Last, Turnip Seeds. —s Od 9s to ISM 04 pr. nosh. Linseed ' —s—fine, —s —s per qr. NE►►'(3A`l'N: ANL LhADENHALL Mittshli.Tth, July 14. 15 the Carcasc. Beef Qs 8d to 3s 8d Veal 4J to 4s Od Mutton ..... 8,1 to 3s 4tl I Poik 4d toss 8d Lamb, 96 Ad to 4s 4d. S'r, JAMES'S s tIAY . bIA . KKET, July 14. 0. Hay 41 Os Od to 51 Vs Od Clove r. 4t 8s to 61 Os Qd New Hay 31 17s Ud to 41 4s Od I Straw 215 s Od to 21 17s Od SMITHFIELD. Old Hay .... 51 Os od to 51 5 s Od--Aeerage, 61 ts 6d Straw 9! 55 041 to 91 10s 04--Average, 91 _ 7$. 6d Clover 5l tOs Od to 61 Vs Od--Average, 51 151 Od W II 'TECH APE L. Hay 4l 10s Od to 51 154 0(1--Average, 41 15i Od New ditto Ol Os Oa to 01 Os od-Average, 01 Os Od Straw 2l 5e Od to sl 10s od-Average, 21 51 ad Clover .. 51 Os 0d to 5! Itis 0(1--Arerage, 01 1(1s Od PRICE OF HOYs, Pockets. per Cwt., July IV. Batts. Rent .. 31 146 a4l 1 . 4 e 3 51 Os Sussex 31 lOs 131 16s a4l lit KS9eX.. 3114 e P4l 6s a 41 les Os—Second, 41 Os to 61 Os at 60,0001. 1111)ES. Kent .. 11 4s a-01 16s a-51 lOs qussex.. 412 s R4l 12s a 41 16s Essex .. 414 s a 411-0 s a5l Os Farnham, fine, 61 Os to 101 Old Dutrlaii RAW Best Heifers & steers, per lt. Ordinary 4a 6tl to es set Market Calf .. each.. es oil Lambs.... Os Ott to us (RI Ss id to Ss 4i: Middlittp 2s tba total:3l:o4,j Polled Sheep SKINS. Shearlings od to od Lambs...." 2at oil to 2. 94i -, . . PAICF. OF LEATHEit. • • Butts, 50 to 561 tn e ach per lb d to —d Ditto . , VI to 6611 is each - - —d to —d Dressing Hides 18d to 210 d d to 20d Coach Hides Crop Hides, 35 to 401hs for cutting 19d to goa Ditto .... 45 to . 501bs VW to etill Calf Skins..l36 to 401bs Ditto.. . 50 to 701b6 26d to 9911 Ditto 7O to 80Ibs 94d to 95d Small Seals (Greenland) Large ditto.. Tanned Horse Hides ltijd to tsp . Spanish Horse Hides l6O to yid PRICES OF TALLOW, SC Town Tallow 301 od —s oil Yellow Russia ass od —s oil White ditto ad —s Soap ditto.... 33s 04 —l' 04 Melting St u ff 'Ss Oil —s oil nitto R o ugh.. 19s od —s Od Pit ICE OF CANDLES, Fltos Price o Bda uer e d s o , r p e r ditoor‘ev AP, &c. per 11111E1.—July N. Yellow Soup.. ...... .. 6B. Mottled itto curd SD Graves ... ...... ..... 1610 d Goad Dregs.., Qs Ca sr TALLOW CHANDLER'S HALT; 11, 6d----Mould), 1010 d. ed fur ready money. PRICE OF RAVFFAT, per Stone of ilb.—July 19. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Mrlters), ts Id COUNTRY GUlLineal) MA Wheat per 1. 18; Oito 171 Ins New Wheat.. Os to —1 Os Oats, par qr ... 11 bt to 11 14s New ditto.... 01 Os to 01 Os 'IARKETS. ftli ET, July 12. Barley, new, II 14$ to 21 0' Beans, per qr. 11 17s to 21 4s Pease, per qr. 01 Oi to 01 Os Rye, per qr. 01 Os to 01 CO COAL MARKET..IiiIy ►4. . Ships at Market. Ships sold. Price. ►6 Newcastle I Sunderland F urtE s.--A report was received In Curzon,. street yesterday morning, that Prozley-lodge, Bucks, the.bean• tiful chateau of P. R. iirmanovE, Esq., was burnt to that ground on Sunday night. The fire was first seen from a &tint room over the kitchen detached from the house, but it so ot ' . spread, and in less than an hour the Premiers were n heap of . ruins. Providentially the inmates, eight in number, who had retired to bed, escaped. It was elegantly furnished , a valuable library, and not a vestige was saved. Another tiro broke out on Sunday at the Itouse of Mr. CAriToti, "place, Paddington, which consumed the second and third floors- It happened through the negligence of a servant setting fire to a window curtain in putting a child to bed. SLIPPOSID MURDER OF MRS. CHAMBERLAyNE: —Yesterday a Coroner's Inquest was held, en the body of Mrs. Chamberlayne, the . old worm ). whom we yesterday stated to have been Ws& dead in a street in the Borough. Several wit. nesses were examined ;. but nothing came out to . criminate Rook, the labourer, who lodged in the, house of the deceased. The Coroner addressed, the Jury, and- observed, that the. case had et fired a suspicious appearance against. Rook ; byt the.,, circumstances . that were afterwards disclosed,. ! removed the suspicion in his opinion,. Etna hit: thought it would be too much to return a verdict , which would place Rook upon his trial.npon such: evidence as had been heard. It appeared to him, that the unfortunate deceased wounded herself . by a fall, and died of the effects of, that wound. —The Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental. Death." BIRTHS. , On the Bth irat., at Douglas-house„ near Cork, tha.Lady of ' John Callaghan, EN g., of a daughter. ' . Yesterday, the 14th inst., the Lady of S. Cartwright, Ettl.l, of Old Burlington-street, of a daughter. MARRIED. Yesterday morning, at Kensington church, John Thomas, third son of Charles Brown, EN. of Canuien-town, late of Harlow, Essex, to Emma, secouedaughter of the late - William Denner, Esq., of Whitehead's-grove, Chelsea. At Gihnore Place, Edinburgh, on the 70r instant, the Rev. Alexander Macpherson, Minister of the parish of Golapies Sutherlatulshire, to Agnes, second daughter of the late Robert Young, Et+, writer in 'Edinburgh. • ICI ED. On Sunday the 13th inst., at his house in. New-gate-street. Mr. James Plitrnmer ' one of the representatives in Common. Council of the Ward of Farringdon-within. e I At Calcutta, on the 6th of February lust, in his 65th year* Robert Gibson, E 19., of Denmark-hill. Lately, Robert Smith, Esq., at Wain..Wern Cottage, near Ponty-pocl, Monmouthshire. On Saturday morning List, at his residence at Limeh" se ' John Tebbut, Esq. At Edinburgh, on the kb of July, . the Rev. Joseph Macin tyre, A.D., Minister of the parish of Glimoreby, in the two , year of his age and 85th of his ministry. Printed and Published for the Pitoraiwrons, at the Str OFFICE, 112, Strand, by J. B. CARStAtlitt I