The Sun. — London, England, 1823-11-20 00:00:00

THE LONDON JoUttNALS, DAILY Extracts from the Morning Papers, November 20. [VIE TIMES.) It is an undoubted fact that the Bishop of Meaux gave orders to one of his clergy to refuse M. Manuel the privilege , of standing sponsor to a friend's child at La Perin. The letter of this Popish Dignitary assigns as reasons for the pre- Oribed exclusion, that M. Manuel had so often proyed himself 44 irreligious in his discourses,and " who had latterly been expelled from the "-Chamber of Deputies for his anarchical opi " uions 1 ." Now the first question which here occurs to us is—what sort of laws are those ender which the people of France have the hap piness of living ? Is it a matter of discretion, or pure will and pleasure with the priesthood, whether a French subject shall or shall not exer cise the tender duties of relationship or friend s,bip on the most endearing occasions of life ? M. Manuel is said to have spoken against reli gion : the Bishop adduces no evidence of this : his own assertion is to be taken as proof sufficient to rob a French gentleman of what we suppose at least to be the common right of his fellow subjects : so much for the law of France. The Committee of the Foreign Stock Exchange came yesterday to the resolution not to allow any quotation to be made of Guebhard's loan in the list published unde r their authority. All future contracts, for loans, of whatever nature, are to be submitted to their approbation before the price is permitted to be marked. With re spect to Guebhard's bonds, the order of the Committee is unnecessary ; all attempts to offer them for sale have ceased, and the case is given up as hopeless, even by the original projectors; but the regulation will have its beneficial effects in placing a bar against all similar delusions, and in giving more confidence to the public in the me dium through which their sales and purchases are made. The more respectable brokers, how .ever, Will feel dissatisfied if the Committee rest here; : for they consider an investigation, at least, into the details of the late fraud, to be indispens able to the character of the house.—(Mid.) DeonNtNci Pont.] We received, last night, by express, Paris Papers to the 19th instant. They are chiefly tilled with the closing speech of the Attorney. General; in which, according to. the forms of French law, he gave a summary of the evidence produced on both sides on Catitaing's trialo duty which is performed in this country: by the Judge. He concluded by an animated appeal to the: Jury - to proclaim the guilt of the ac cused;' and " not to bestow on poisoning a' patent of encouragement and impunity, and on the poisoner the rich spoils which he came to claim, holding in each hand the head of a friend !" The Court then suspended the sitting for half an hour, at the eldse . of which,Wl r. Roussel, One of the Prisoner's Counsel, begun his speech for the defence. But comparatively little of this speech is given, but from what we have, it ap poittslo.ilisplay great ingenuity and skill. As all this took place on Sunday last, and as no other witnesses were likely to be examined, though some of the old ones might be recalled, it is pro bable that the whole is terminated by this time, and that we shall have the verdict to-morrow, or at the latest the day after. We still incline to think, that it will be one of acquittal, for however morally convinced of the: prisoner's guilt, the Jury really have no positive or tangible proofs to justify their returning a declaration to that effect. Ttio,s.3 Consols continue to advance. Yesterday they closed at 831- for the next account, and 831- for the January account. The continued investments eaturally account for this rise. The expresses from Paris brought the last price of Rentes, on Monday, at 891. 25c., Scrip was at 4 premium, and Spanish Builds at 271. An idle report of the death of the King of France was circulated, but wholly without foundation. We heard something of a new Portis Trust Loan for 100,0001. Surely the Public Authorities might interfere to put down such schemes. Spanish Bonds. begin to give way. The impudent plan of crying them up, under pretence of crying the Royal .Loan down, has answered its purpose, and the inventors of it laugh in their sleeves at the success of their clamour. It is rather re- Markable that the public make no difference be tween the Bonds of 1821 and those of 1822; • whereas the circumstances under which they Were issued make a most essential difference be tween them. We are free to confess, we think, that King Ferdinand should pay the Loans of 1821 ; but those of 182.2 raised after his Royal had been attacked, and after he was to nil inteuts anti purposes a prisoner, cannot in Cusmnotl sense be ratified, LMOUNING- CHRONICLE] WWI generally understood that President BiJlivar intended to accompany the last contin. gent of troops he was embarking from Guayquil, aid of Peru, and it has even been confidently abetted that he actually set out. Letters from L4CGuayra received in'the United States, 'refer in to advises from Bogota of thel.sth of August, state that the President has .given up the idea of going to Peru, and confided the command of the Colombian Auxiliaries to General Sucre, intending himself to return to the seat Of Govern rnefet, where, no doubt, his presevice will be set. vi * ciiable, as the issue o f affairs in both colorobia and Pelt' will now probably depend more on ne godlations than lighting. Marshal Beresford's mission to Portugal was not purely to reclaim prize-money and liquidate °if -Standing accounts ; this was the pretext, p er ., 1114 ) 0= b u t the teal object was political. His Ex ceitency was su pposed by our Governmeut t pOifiPSS sufficient influence in !'.ibbott o enable birtt to co unteract the paver of the Freuch Party ill the Cahlnet. 11)6, it is well known, General coohists of the Queen, the Infante Don Miguel, Pamplona, and inferior Agents, who, as far back as July last, proposed to introduce a certain number of French Officers into the Portuguese service, and by other low ,intrigues, with the true nature of which our Ministers must have been made acquainted by Mr. Ward, our Envoy, to destroy at once the preponderance of English in fluence at Lisbon, and prevent the renewal of the Commercial Treaty, which is about to expire.— It is not at all improbable, that the partiality of the Noble Duke at the head of the Ordnance, may have induced him to overrate the power and ta lents of the Marshal, his worthy second ; but be this as it may, the project has not entirely failed, for the Marshal is, it seems, flattered by the display of much parade and a tten tion,and it is understood that he has succeeded in obtaining permission for two Generals (Campbell, and to ----), and these Colonels, with a proportionate number of inferior officers to rejoin the. Portuguese service ; a step which it is believed will be followed by the Marshal's re-appointment to be Commander-in- Chief.—(lbid.) [MORNING GERALD.) We understa;►d that upon Madame Riego's ar rival in this country some generous persons, who were informed of her situation, transmitted to one of our contemporaries several sums, amounting in the whole to 801 or lOU, with a request that they should be forwarded to her. It appears that some of that Lady's countrymen, actuat ed by high national feeling, took it upon them to dissuade her from accepting the remit tances offered, and they were in consequence re turned to the subscribers. It is impossible not to admire the pride and delicacy evinced on this occasion by Madame Riego and her friends, but she was not then a NVidow, and she had hopes that her husband might, in course of time, repair their fortunes.—That hope is perished—the agony of her mind forbids her to look forward to any relief now except the grave.—But let it not be said that Englishmen was slow to afford 'her every consolation which it can offer on such an occasion. There is not a man in the country whose heart has not thrilled with indignation on hearing of Riego's death ; for he was not an ambitious man, nor did he dip his hands in blood, though the leader of a great re volution. It is becom►ng in us, as a free nation, to honour his ashes by cherishing her to whom in life he was dear. Perhaps there is no necessity for a public meeting. A. better result may be obtained by leaving it to every person to reflect upon the matter in silence, and to contribute ac cording to his means and the impulse of his feel- ings We are sorry to learn that one of those melan. choly disasters, which human precaution canoe always guard against, has occasioned an appeal to our countrymen, which we trust will not be in vain. The conflagration at Sarepta, a Mora vian settlemwit in the coldest climate of Asiatic Russia, has reduced to desolation and the in clemency of the season its wretched inha bitants. Sarepta is a town in the Govern ment of Saratof, on the east side of the Volga, where travellers arc frequently found frozen to death. In another part of our Paper will be found some of the particulars of this dreadful calamity, as well as the names of those charitable indivi duals who have already contributed to the relief of the unfortunate sufferers. When the claims of suffering humanity are advocated, our country• men are ever prompt to lend their succour; it no case can their generosity be more happily exhibited than in the present, when hundreds of their fellow-creatures are, by the ravages of one element, exposed to those of another scarcely less , fatal in its violence. But we hope, that by di recting the attention of our readers to it, the ear liest possible assistance will be afforded.—(ibid.) LBUITISII PRESS. T The murder of the hapless Riego at Madrid on the 7th, is full of horror. The agonizing de. tails, while we read them, make the blood rut cold in the veins. The manolos and wretches o that capital were not, it appears, the exclusive actors in the scene : the French garrison were abroad ; they patrolled through the streets, and kept order during the time the work of death was going on. While a murder so foul as this rests on the French arms, perpetrated on a man whom Angoulerne surrendered to his assassins, and who was executed under the guardianship of his armed platoons in noonday, how can the Bourbons hypocritically affect to reprobate the sacrifice of the Duke (rEegelen ? ce Blood will have blood, they say," in the words of Shakspeare ; and a further retaliation may yet attend this family. They are fast dragging down execration and ruin on their own heads. We hope we may live yei to see their final down consummated. It is unnecessary for us to 'Nita attention to the correspondence, which will he found in our columni, by which Madame Riego and the brother of her unfortunate husband made au agonising anti despairing effort to save the pa. triot's life. There will be but one feeling on ii throughout England, Again we say, public meetings ought instantly to be called, to expr,ess the indignant sense of the nation on this most atrocious act, the most liberal subscriptjous also should be entered into, to afford to Madame, Riego all 'the comfort ,and consolation she can receive' in this country, under her pre sent most dreadful circumstances. It will he the only decided way for this country to strew its abhorrence of the present exe crable system in Spain.. This is a time when the people 9f, ' , lnland should not he quiescent ; the character and safety of Great Britain are involved in the issue. Could the tyrants of Europe succeed in their combinatiens, the horrors that are now enacting in Spain would be vepeuted here. T he shocking accounts from Madrid describe a population resembling demons ; the dark port , raiture of their infernal carnivnl resembles Dante's hell • it is dreadful to see priests and monks, the ministers of a meek. Redeemer, crowding the bal conies and sending forth their yells of joy at an execrable murder. The very .graves of•the de parted not :sacred from the sacrilegious Wretches who fate 4 that! -vile capital on ,this occr sion ; they celebrated.the festivals of their, saints, by defacing and despoiling the tombs of the dead; they tore the very bodies of the patriots from their graves, and scattered their limbs around. The infernal detail of another murder, perpetrated by those licensed monsters, on a constitutional officer attached to the corps of the celebrated Empecinado, will be read with horror. These are the results of the French invasion—this the Saturnian reign of happiness the tyrants of Eu rope combined, at Verona, to entail on Spain : this is the liberty and happiness in store for the nations of the New World, if the arma ments now in contemplation reach those shores. Let the French Cabinet fling its hordes there, and Mexico, Peru, and Colombia, will become a common Golgotha ; murders and proscription will multiply in thousands. The first Cabinet Council of our Ministers met on Tuesday, at which nearly the whole Cabinet were present. The state of Spain, and the consequences arising from it, must occupy their most serious attention. We trust measures will be adopted which will preserve the character and iufluence of the coun try, in a crisis every way so important. MURDER OF MR. IVEMIE. The refusal of the Magistrates to admit Mr. FENTON the Solicitor, to 'Kee Thurtell professionally on Saturday last, continues to excite a strong sensation among some of the county Magistracy who dissented from the refusal. There was a county ball on Tuesday night at the Town-hall, where the Marchioness of Salisbury, for .the first time, presided, and the subject was talked over by some Magistrates present. It is said that it was by no means the intention of Lord Dacre and the principal Magistrates who signed it to p'ut so rigorous a construction upon the rule which they framed, as that it should exclude the recognized town-agent of any country So licitor : but it is equally true, that before Mr. Jay was ad mitted, on Thursday last, to see Thurtell, he was fully apprised by the Rev. Mr. Lloyd of the construction which he ( Mr. Lloyd) pot upon the order, and of the determination that it should be literally enforced. Mr. Lloyd has, however, become rather uneasy since he was apprised of the intention of the parties to bring the subject before the Court of King's Bench s he still, however, perseveres in assigning and enforcing the restrictive interposition, and is represented (it is hoped erroneously) to de clare that the decision of the Magistrates.must be deemed final, and that he cares not either for a mandamus or a Secretary of State's order. The independence of a Magistrate cannot be too highly prized ; but an opinion may be obstinately, as well as independently, maintained, Yesterday, Mr. Jay arrived in Hertford, having come up express from Norwich,- in consequence of the arrival, by a special messenger, of the account of Mr. Fenton's reception by the Magistrates on Saturday. Mr. Jay immediately repaired to the jail, and was politely allowed by Mr. Lloyd the neces sary confidential communication with Thurtell, with whom he remained two hours at his first visit, and nearly the same time at a visit which he repeated later in the day. Thurtell, we un derstand, supplied him with very voluminous - instructions for his defence, and continues to maintain towards those Magi strates who have had access to him a collateral demeanour; and when pressed upon certain points of, evidence which are inti mated to bear very strong upon his case, he asserts that his de fence will entirely remove the force of Hunt's confession. It is, hoWever, a fact, that while such obstacles have been thrown in the way of professional access to the prisoner, the Rev, Mr. Lloyd, as well as other gentlemen, have repeatedly visited him, and suggested certain parts of the testimony to Thurtell, ap parently with the view of inviting his disclosures. Some alteration was thought to have taken place in Thur tell's manner on Tuesday, as if his firmness was shaken by the absence of any professional communication ; but his con fident manner returned after the arrival of Mr. Jay. Probert is quite dejected, and expresses the greatest anxiety about his family, respecting whose particular situation he has been in formed. Hunt is also low spirited. To neither of these two prisoners . has there yet .been any professional visitor. Mr. Williams; a solicitor of lierkhampsteatl, it is said, visited Pro ben on Tuesday, but it is doubtful whether his visit was con nected with that prisoner's defence. At half-past one o'clock yesterday, the High Sheriff drove into Hertford, and in company with two visiting Magistrates immediately repaired to the gaols from the circumstance of their having had an instant interview with the Rev. Mr. Lloyd, whose zeal in diScharge of his duty (as his friends express it) induces him to spend six or seven hours daily in the prison, it was whispered that the High Sheriff's visit was connected with the subject of the refusal to admit Mr. Fenton. A long and confidential interview took place between these gentlemen, and a disposition was said to be evinced to relax the severer con struction of the order. Whilst upon the subject of the absolute power contended for by some of the visit in g agistrates, to make whatever regulations they please respecting not only prison discipline but the mode of detention of prisoners, it is right to mention an anecdote, which, if true, ought not to be withheld from the public, and, if false; ought to be contradicted without delay. It applies directly to this county gaol at llertford, at the conduct of one of the pre ' sent visiting 111agiatrates. Injustice to Mr. 'Lloyd, it is neces 'airy to say that he is not the individual. (The name has been communicated to us.) • On the eve of the late Lord Ellenborough's last home circuit, he received a letter from a lady, apprising his Lordship that in the gaol of Hertford, there was then conflned,where•she had been in custody for •• three years and a half! a female pauper, named Ann Burton—that she bad been committed under the Vagrant Act, by a particular Magistrate wheal the writer named, and had never been since ber committal dis posed of, during the successive gaol deliveries . which had elapsed since her committal. The writer, utter stating the fact and duration of the detention, added, that she understood the wretched woman was detained at the county expence v as a half lunatic and half depraved pauper (which in fact she was under ' stood to be), to save the particular expence of her maintenance by her own parish, when her behaviour might call for restraint. The female writer accompanied her intimation 'to Lord Ellen borough with a threat, that if the Judge at the ga ol deliver y then about to take place left this 'woman in the condition in which she stood, that higher authorities should be applied to upon the subject. • , . . • - Lord Ellenborough, on the day before the Assizes, met the Magistrate who had committed the woman in , the drawing-room of the Marquis of Salisbury's house ut Hatfield, and sternly put the letter into his hand, without making an y remark. The Magistrate, when perusing It, betrayed by his manner the sense lie entertained of the communication ; anti the wretched woman was on the following morning, before the Assizes commenced, furnished with clothes, and some little pecuniary aid, and die.= charged from the prison, of which she had been for three years and a half areininate.—( Thnes.) ALLEGED PROPERTY OF THE THURTELLS. MARY.LA-BONNE.—Yesterdity, Mr. STEDMAN, of No. 4 Cumberland-street,. New-road, requested the Magistrate's as sinuince to extricate him from a most provoking difficulty in which he fbund himself entangled. Mr. Stedman being desired to . proceed, said, towards the close' of last month, his wife, during his absence in the coun try,.let the first floor of his house to two gentlemen at a rent of 244 per annum. He did not see them,. but, from their ap pearance, he,. from subsequent events, knew them to be the persons charged with the murder of Mr. Weare ; and they, ' having brought into his house a certa in q uantit y of goods, took possession of the 'apartments, as they said, for a gentleman named Brown. tin bearing of the murder, he judged it prudent to give some information relative to the property in his house, to the Police, and the inquiry that took place was already be. fore the public. In Consequence of that inquiry, a claim by the officers of _the Commission of Bankruptcy, appointed in Thomas Thurtell's case, was made on this property, and an attempt was Made' to gain possession;but being . advised, he refused admission to the officers of tile Commission for some time; but they, by a stratagem practised about eleven o'clock On Tuesday night, got 0 , man into the house whom he bad locked in, being determined- not to allow any thing to be re. Moved, and now was on the one hand threatened with the visi. tation of the Lord Chancellor's Order, on the other witlitan moan, gac tion fbr falsely imprisoning the and hourly expected an Order from John Thurtell or Hunt , eallin on him to fives up gi st the rPartelse property. interference. iltiiis awkward e requested the Ma. Mr. Griffiths inquired what rent wa s due ? Mr. S tedm a n None. liet 1110 add, that 1 wish for an indemnity front any future action on the part of the Crown, for the recovery of this property. But I will not be forced into an action at law, and ruined by its expences. The officers of the Commission annoy me terribly, The. man in possession will not shew me any au thority. But I hat elocked him up, and will' starve him out. The Magistrate ultimately desired him to consult u solicitor,: for which purpose he retired. In about an hour Mr. Johnstone, the messenger to the. Co mmissioners, applied, and stated that . he. had gut a man in pos. session; but as the people refused to admit the conveyance of food to him, he was apprehensive be would be starved, anti. Wished to knoW whether they coul d p revent his receiving food. , Receiving ,no satisiaetory answer , Mr ; Johnstone retir e d, luiltilY • proclaiming his intention of applying to the Lord Char.c.:ilor. ARTS OF CONJURATION. The only part of Europe in which the arts of sorcery now obtain any credit is Lapland ; where, indeed, supposed wizards still practise incanta tions, by which they pretend to obtain the know. ledge of future events, and in which the credu lity of the people induces them to place the most implicit confidence. On such occasions a magic drum is usually employed. This instrument is formed of a piece of wood of a semi-oval form, hollow oft the flat side, and there covered with a skin, in which various uncouth figures are de picted ; among which, since the introduction of Christianity into that country, an attempt is usually made to represent the acts of our Saviour and the Apostles, On this covering several brass rings of different sizes are laid, while the attend ants dispose themselves in many antic postures, in order to facilitate the charm ; the drum is then beaten with the horn of a rein-deer, which oc casioning the skin to vibrate, puts the rings in motion round the figures, and, according to the positions which they occupy, the officiating seer prononnces his prediction. It is unfortunate that of all the books (and there were several) which treated of the arts of conjuration, as they were practised among the ancients, not one is now ex tant, and all that we know upon that subject has been collected from isolated facts which have been incidentally mentioned in other writings. From these it would, however, appear, that many of the deceptions which still continue to excite astonishment, were then common. A century and a half before our sera, during a, re volt of the slaves in Sicily, a Syrian of their num ber, named Eunus, a man of considerable talent, who, after having witnessed many vicissitudes, was reduced to that state, became the leader of his companions by pretending to an inspiration from the gods ; and in order to confirm the divinity of his mission by miracles, lie used to breathe flames from his mouth when addressing his followers. — By this art the Rabbi Barchochebas also made the credulous Jews believe that he was the Mes siah, during the sedition which he excited among them in the . reign of Hadrian ; and, two centuries afterwards, the Emperor Constan tine was impressed with great dread, when informed that one of the body-guards had been seen to breathe out fire. Historians tell us that these deceptions were performed by putting in flammable substances into a nut-shell pierced at both ends, which was then secretly conveyed into the mouth and breathed through. Our own fire eaters content themselves with rolling a little flax, so as to form a small ball, which is suffered to burn until nearly consumed; more flax is then tightly rolled round it, and the fire will thus remain within for a long time, and sparks may be blown from it without injury, provided the air be inspired, not by the mouth, but through the nos trils. The ancients also performed some curious experiments with that inflammable mineral oil called naphtha, which kindles on merely expos ing it near a fire. Allusion is supposed to have been made to this in the story of the dress of Hercules, when it is said to have heen dipped in the blood of Nessus. Many authors assert that it was with this substance Medea destroyed Creus i a, by sending to her a dress impregnated with it, which burst into flames.when she drew near the fire of the altar ; and there can be no doubt that it was used by the priests on those occassions when the sacrificial offerings took fire imperceptibly. The trial by ordeal, in the middle ages, in which persons accused of certain crimes were forced to prove their innocence by walking blindfold among burning ploughshares, or by holding heat ed iron in their hands, was probably little else than a juggling, trick, which the priests conducted as best suited their views. The accused was committed to their care during three entire days previous to the trial, and remained in their cus tody for the same space after it was over ; the ordeal took place in the church under their own immediate inspection ; they not only consecrated, but heated, the iron themselves; mass was then said, and various ceremonies were performed, all calculated to divert the attention of the specta. tors ; and, when the operation was over, the part which had been exposed to the tire was carefully bound up and sealed, not to be opened until the.entl of the third day;. doubtless, there fore, the time before the trial was occupied in preparing the skin to resist the effect of heat, and that afterwards in obliterating the marks of any Injury that it might have sustained. That such was the fact has, indeed, been acknow ldged in the works of Albertus Magnus, a Do minican friar, who, after the trial by ordeal had been abolished, published the secret of the art, which, if his account be correct, consist ed in nothing more than covering the hands and feet, at repented intervals, with a paste made of the sap of certain herbs mixed together with the white of an egg. This deception was, however, practised in times far more remote than the period to which we have alluded. There was ancient ly an annual fe , >tival held on Mount Soracte, Esturia, at which certain people tiled Hirpi used to walk over live embers, for which performance t t n I ,‘ilt i t; va were dt Cappadocia allowed si l t ea l o tttil i a s ie ' et e ae c i t l i(e:l s ni o t,aleti n ioic)l l eiirt e eaidssi era o p amf De c ol wn i u esi ar t ) tl i e:.i a lavea r site: on a i ttp i yji trainall our de l baa l le e esce,te g hsain : i tbei s tjay.ctu b lials y deo: wrote nearly fi ve centuries anterior to our :era, to t nt e tic v e e d r . y —l sp n e r c n i o e d s e o rt r i times, much notice has fre twhelloeupdraocrtistehde o d u e e ce n p tl t y ion b s een 4l e t x tl ci fi te r d e. by l j ,o u l tg a l r e d r s s, 17th century, one Richardson, an Englishman excited great astonishment at Paris by pr e t en di ng ' t r o ea c ts he burning coats and to swall ow me lt e d lead, so with rne of many wh c o i t i h a e r r e extraordinarye th q u u s ai r i e y corde — recorded i nE ve. lyn's of my -« October ilctoher th e . Bth, Sunderland, who wll6ls72loin;tg toook leave Lord, now amb a ssad or th ere . stay` tay dinner at L e ic es t er H ouse and Shel i afterwardse madeH a „o H e me e s t e o my nt for Rich ar d son , t h e f amous fire eater. e, before us , d evoure d brimstone on glowing,l a t e coals,re{;lass o chewing ' and swallowing them.— melteand eat it quite up ' • then o ta y k s i t l i i . g r ; a the t live coal • w ° l lw his o t on :: on tongue, h‘e'put nn v bellows s r ti ll aw it. fißmed and sparkled in his mouth, and see re. mained until the oyster was quite boiled ; then he melted pitch and wax with 'sulphur, which he dranke down as it flamed." Many of readers must recollect Signora Girardelli; and Miss Roggers, the American fire-eater, who was announced as having entered'a heated oven with a leg of mutton in her hand, and having remained there until it was baked ! This young lady exhibited all the tricks usually performed by such persons ; she washed her hands in boil ing oil, and then suffered aquafortis to be poured over them ; but below the oil, there, no doubt, was a quantity of water, the air from which, when heated, forcing itself through the supernatant oil, gave it the appearance of boiling, when, hi reality, its temperature probably did not exceed a hundred degrees of Fahrenheit ; and when the hands were once well coated with oil, there was no danger from the aquafortis. She had also a ladle of melted lead, out of which she appeared to take a little with a spoon and pour into her mouth, and then to return it in the shape of a solid lump ; but in pretending to take the lead into the spoon, it was, in fact, quicksilver that was received, through a dexterous contrivance in the ladle, and this she swallowed, the solid lead hay ing been previously placed in her mouth. She , . besides, repeatedly placed her foot on a bar 01 hot iron, but the rapidity with which she removal' it scarcely allowed time to injure the most cate skin, even had it not been previously pro' pared : the cuticle of the hands and of the sol e ? of the.feet may, however, be easily rendered am' ficiently callous to support a longer experiment' This effect will be produced if it be frequently punctured, or injured by being in continual con tact with hard substances ; repeatedly moistening it with spirit of vitriol will also at length rende r it horny and insensible ; and thus it is not un common to see the labourers at copper-works tak e he melted ore into their hands. den.. EXECUTION OF RIEGO. BAYONNE, Nov. 11.—We have received our letters from Madrid up to the 7th inclusive. At one o'clock on that day, the unfortunate Riego was executed. The details of this execution are really painful. The following are the addi- tional particulars which are given us :--- 44 The Prisoner had been placed, as usual, in a chamber, where there is a crucifix. It wso there he passed the time preceding his execution , to which he was conducted, or rather dragged, on a hurdle, drawn by an ass.-- It was with the greatest difficulty be Ascende d the ladder to the very lofty gibbet which hal f been erected, so ill was he in consequence ° the fetters which had been put on him since hii arrest. He died with great resignation and coil rage. As soon as the executioner ma de a sign' that he was dead, cries and hurrahs arose Al: all quarters, even from the balconies , in wb,i,c,, were priests and Monks. The public trunquiiiive was not interrupted for a moment, thanks tn to w ho precautions taken by the French General, w i e caused numerous detachments to ?att.& streets; which were very necessary, as it ere ; of persons was observed who appeared to bare arms concealed under their cloaks and If" . would have taken advantage of the slightest Co fusion to do mischief. That part of the sente n r which decreed that the body of Riege divided into five parts, and sent to dilTere, t I places, has not been, and will not be) ri car nto effect." should oet Mr. BELT. the Professor of Scots L aw in tile( University of Edinburgh, stated in the c°",se„;)i, his first Lecture for their Session on tilet296V, that the Law Commission (of which h e is a I\lcrlo'f ber) would, in his opinion., reduce the exPenceshat law proceedings in Scotland to one.half they are now, and that half the preseot a" lla of lawyers would be more than suffictfit'd,,,ts therefore strongly recommended to those it° eta who had not yet made up their minds to l/e themselves to other professions. On Sunday week ' near Duna"' a macs killed hilligelf ge drinking gin for a wager swallowed two quarts at two draug ht s ! JOURNAL, METEOROLOGICAL BY R. BANKS. PHILOSOPHICAL I NSTIIVISIENT , LATICASbiIe• ur e al ,rrtnu• icier. ?.g ?7 , 1 Inches F a ir Vt'' fy CO° 30.45 .b() . 67 .50 .45 .40 .36 T, Nov. 1 9. Frie s i9, 41 sold 0} - 4 4, 012/ n the 15th instant, 1331!.T.IiioSh.n Lionbert' 131° ,0 0 O L a dy of co of buildings, of a son, still-born. On the 10th instant, at Blackheath, the , 111 10id ' i l i l lo { B n n:f e ..essidrß.eaeytN,:oifhoaef daughter. Lady d u ll h g t o e l i r f t e . Laac 14. Alary, anther ) 'John NlTill er, all of the sarne place. Hunt, Esq., nf. Calcutta, to IllieslPter, youngest 0", __,.........---- oh 0, on T i ngaia-., ~ pn Sunday , of' rfr sit for bittthiee 117ithr3iinp'sltatit.rItt,TEarttptu.httet,Psurtieslist:lousitteoffori f, Lately, t . 11 a oulogne.sur-Mer, Jean,. die Colon 1,1 1 eo in Austin, Drigadier-General in i v oit toga'. DIED. . wif ., o f oll'oe,of root!! Prs On the 2411 h of February last, at Hobs, rent" v'f o f men's Land, Mr. Daniel Watson Stalkertge. ~ 10: 1 ' ( of Maryport , county of Cumberland, ng.r 21 ,q fs 4. l , ...-"a,,_wyer , HeYwo:l4.l-ludgc, in the county of lierks, 04 piIYV the Esq., titithrde sletltttitofirgt:liatle 4attolvan°l, o p f fjoept`o F A, . street, Orosvenor-squar e. of °n Tnesday, the 18th instant. Airs. gills' Sonicri-lown, after a few days' illness. Printetan , tl Published for the PlOr tlic111;51111'1° Or 112, S tr and, by 1 3 . cA- Nor. 9 10 11 13 14 IS Ships at Market 641 'Newcastle 18 Sunderlan ARKE COAL-Al