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TIIE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts from the Morning P(Ters, July 5. [MORNING HERALD.) Wednesday's Paris Papers reached us last night by express. The Journal des Debris has private intelligence to the 20th from Cadiz. It is highly interesting. The Cortes held their first meeting on the 18th. One hundred and ten De puties answered to their names, and proceeded immediately to business. They received the fe licitations of the Municipality of Cadiz. /he King and Royal Family were lodged in the Pa lace of the Customs. The Minister of War cut his throat in a state of despondency, it is said, after having burned his papers. The Cortes, after declaring that the Regency had deserved well of the country, called upon the Government to point out the means of saving Spain, in the ac tual crisis of affairs. They then proceeded to consider of regulations to preserve the public health, and next declared it expedient to sus pend the ordinary forms of prosecution for trea- SOIL The accounts by the same conveyance bring news from Madrid to the 27th. Not only the populace of Madrid, but the Royalist Regency, seems animated by the most uncompromising vindictive spirit. The moderate Constitution alists—even those who abandoned the Cortes, and expressed their readiness to accede to modi fications of the Constitution, are denounced. The Ex-Minister Martinez de la Rosa, who is supposed to have been implicated in the attempt at counter revolution on the the 7th of June, arrived at Bayonne, from Madrid, with as much peril to his life as Abisbal. Though protected by the French, he thought it prudent to tly. The Regency has imitated the worst ruling fac tions in the worst times of the French Revolu tion, by ofTering rewards to spies who shall de nounce suspected persons. The effect of this must he to prevent the defection of Morillo and the other moderate persons who still adhere to the Cortes., [Tun rstEs.l The Bill (or opening the ports of the• United Kingdom to foreign shipping, ort 'a COtrespending indulgence being shown to BritiAi:vessels in fo reign ports, has produced, as was nattrrato deep sensation of alarm for their property in the minds of our shipping interest. They argue that the reciprocity contemplated by this measure is more apparent than real, inasmuch as relative freight alone (not relative value)` being the thing affected ; and England being a country which imports articles great in bulk, And small in tom.' parative value, while she exports great value, but inferior bulk, gives,by the increased admission of foreign vessels, laden with foreign merchandise, to her harbours, a more extensive bertelitthatt she receives, by the increased facility atTorded to British merchantmen of carrying British goods to foreign harbours. It is likewise alleged that thei shipowner of England, being stibject to tromy duties laid on for the pretectiort!of•.other classes of domestic property and induitry, — lrom which foreigners in their several countries are exempt, cannot even at present maintain his ground against that competition to which the higher scale of British taxation exposes him ; that the shipping interest is already in a state of decline ; and that should the present measure be com pleted, the whole of the imports into this country will be conveyed by foreign vessels. All this, and a great deal more, is affirmed in a pamphlet recently published on the subject. - The state ment is, indeed exparle throughout but with a cordial feeling. in favour of relaxed imposts and of free trade as a general System, we confess that no small degree of anxiety, and even, perhaps, a little bigotry assails us, when we look at the new application of principles, however fair and prepossessing in appearance, to a branch of, our national interest so sacred as the mercantile marine. h . NEW ES.] The Morning hronicle must have diNusted every man of gentlemanlike feelings by its con temptuous insolence in speaking of his Royal Highncss the Duke d'Angouleme. Adverting to a statement that this Prince's - health was drank by some personages of distinction in England, it exclaims, " the Englishman who could drink the health of the Duke d'Angouleme is unworthy of the name." Much more truly may it be said, " the Englishman who could utter such a senti ment is unworthy of the name." Yet such is modern Liberalism ! The object of the Morn ing Chronicle, The Times, and other Papers of that stamp, in lavishing their vulgar abuse on Foreign Princes in general, is to create a spirit of hostility on the part of all legiti. mate Governments against England; but in this attempt they, will fail ; for Foreign Powers en. tortain too jest a contempt for the radical part of the English Press, to notice its scurrilous remarks. Yet, for the credit of our country, we cannot but regret that a Paper like The Morning Chronicle should degrade itself by such ion -bred vulgarity. ft is like the luso.. lance of a drunken Cobbler, who thinks himself a. great man because he can belch forth insults on a Peer who happens to pass in his carriage.— As to the Duke d'Angouleme, even the Liberals of France allow him to possess personal 'bravery and true magnanimity ; and the abuse leVelled against him in England, far from meeting their approval, excites their warm indignation. There is no spot of any kind in his Royal Highness's character, unless his excessive indulgence to those who have heretofore opposed the Bourbon cause may be so deemed— In his private and domestic conduct he is mild, benevolent, and charitable: us a Commander, he is brave in the field : as a Prince, he Council always inclined to prin ciples of moderation and rational liberty. [MORNING POST.] The anxiety felt by many,. lest English Ca. pitalists should appear in the character of bid. ders for the French Loan, is an anxiety in which, notvvithstanding our unqualified detestation of :the principles and projects of that power, we see ; not the least reason to partake. That this loan will be undertaken by contractors of some nation possessed of ample resources to guarantee the fulfilment of its conditions, and upon terms ad justed to the existing market value of French public securities, it is impossible for &moment to doubt. Before we participate, therefore, in this very honourable, though perhaps mistaken anxiety, we think it necessary to inquire, Ist, whether the concurrence of English bidders is likely to render the terms of the contract more favourable to the Government which borrows ; and, 9.dly, whether such con currence can be fairly construed to intimate, on the part of the bidders, opinions and feelings either friendly or hostile to the objects upon which the proceeds of the loan 'are to be ex pended ? We are, besides, tempted to institute these inquiries from a pretty confident anticipa tion, that if this loan should be undertaken, or even bid for, by English capitalists, the small and feeble party which the Bourbons have been able to secure in this country would boast an in crease to its strength and importance—would seize with eagerness this, its first occasion of even a futile and illusory triumph. In answer to our first in quiry it seems sufficient to remark, that the na tional securities of France are in fact at this mo ment held, with what degree of wisdom or folly is immaterial to the question, by French or other Capitalists, to an amount greatly beyond twenty times that of the proposed loan. No more is necessary to prove that the terms of the contract must be nearly determined, not by the num ber of applicants or by the nation to which they may belong, but by the market value of the securities already in existence.—lt is not like the case of a nation, resorting to the practice of borrowing for the first time, and which, thus introducing a new commodity into the money market of the world, might unques tionably derive important advantages from its fa vourable reception by the Capitalists of England. The public securities of France have a value now stamped upon them by the concurrent opinion of the world. This value it would be idle for Eng- lish Capitalists to attempt to reduce ; it depends upon circumstances which individual volition can not controul, and is regulated by laws which the strongest combination of effort cannot repeal. DetORING CIMONiCLE. We are glad to see that the attempt of the Bourbons to raise money in this country for the prosecution of their wicked designs in the Pen insula is not received with the favour on which they calculated. Addressing ourselves merely to the understandings of our countrymen; supposing those who have money to lend to be utterly in different as to the purpose to which it is to be applied, that they are determined merely by se curity and extent of gain,—we should say, there are abundance of reason for their pausing before tatting Li part in this Loan. It - is obvious that if the French were even to succeed in putting down the Constitutionalists in every part of the ' :and 3n making a complete conquest of it (no easy task certainly), they must then occupy'the•country with a large army—The in quisition cannot be upheld without a French force, and the moment that force is withdrawn, the struggle must recommence. Spain is of all the countries in Europe the one in which armies are maintained with the greatest difficulty and the greatest expence. The force necessary to retain so immense and difficult a country in subjection, must cost an enormous sum ; and no part of this can be drawn from Spain itself by the utmost effect of financial skill, for, poor at all times, it is now completely exhausted. Enormous sums have already been expended by the French, and the complete conquest and permanent occupation must require numerous and heavy loans. If the French ar mies should be compelled to evacuate Spain re fecla, the disgrace would, in all probability, produce a revolution at home.—Again, if they complete the conquest, and continue to occupy the country, the successive loans, each raised on more disadvantageous terms than another, will necessarily involve the French finances in great embarrassment.—But we must not con-, tine our views to the operations in the Peninsula.- The French Government, by way of enlisting the Spanish pride on their side, have, it is understood, held out hopes of again uniting the different members of the Monarchy, that is of aiding the despotic Government to regain pos. session of South America. Already, the Com menders of French vessels talk of the aid they are affording the Spaniards against Insurgent vessels, that is, against South American vessels. These vast plans require vast means for their execution. The Bourbons, hated as they are by all who are capable of thinking, owe their continuance on the Throne to the comparative ease of circum stances of the great body of the people. But this immense expenditure must entail immense burdens on them. Who can calculate what effects a heavy additional taxation might pro duce on a people, whose agriculture, whose me chanical industry, and whose internal communi cations, are not such as to give them any thing like our immense means of supporting taxation Should there be a failure of a harvest, while the people are suffering under an oppressive taxation, it does not require the gift of prophecy to foretel that the reign of the Bourbons would be but of short duration. [BRITIIBII PRESS.] We have been precluded, by want of ram, from introducing the remarks we should other wise have offered on the temperate and judicious speech with which Mr. Hume enforced the prayer of the petition presented by him on Tues day evening, which had for its object to secure to all classes of his Majesty's subjects the right of freely discussing allmatter of opinion ; a privi lege of which the law of reason and of public utility has given to all, and which no political en actments can rightfully take away. The subject is so highly important, and affects the public interests so extensively, as to demand a much fuller dis cussion than we have at present either leisure or space to give to it. We have already, in some former Papers, gone into it at some length, and we shall take the earliest opportunity of re sliming it. It is consolatory to find so many sigqatures to a Petitioti 50 enlightened and li-1 beral ; and it is gratifying to see so'many members of the Established Church uniting with the minis ters and members of Dissenting Congregations to remove those penal restrictions on the spirit of free inquiry, which originate in oppression, and which aggravate, beyond calculation, the very evil they affect to repress. Carrying with them the weight which, from their situation, this class of advocates for fair inquiry possess, and moving in the reasoning circle in which they move, the sound and philosophic sentiments which breathe through this petition must of necessity make their way, and must have nn effect favourable to the diffu sion of benevolence and the advancement of truth. We have no leaning to sceptical theories, nor any liking for them : but we have a love for the free dom of human thought'; we would secure to the human mind all the privileges which God and Nature gave it, and would not see it coiled round in the chains thrown over it by infidel politicians and by interested priests. We have no fear but that, let the press be as unshackled as it may, mankind will remain faithful to their principles and their hopes. Truth is from above, and never yet prayed the aid of a prison or a pil lory to multiply her votaries, or to strengthen her cause. The arguments of Mr. Wilberforce, as applied to the petition, had the misfortune to be at once inconclusive and illiberal ; and, as very frequently happens with this gentleman, the one half of his reasoning might he turned with com plete effect against the other half. The reason of this is, that he suffers some general truths to escape him in the outset, which get entangled as he goes on with the absurd doctrines which he brings forward to support his particular opposi tion ; and thus the whole becomes a tissue of in consistency. Prejudice is a substitute for reason in weak minds, as fanaticism is for religion. But we leave even to the bigot his opinion, however furious—we will not interfere with his °remits ; yet, for our safety's sake, if he were in possession of power, we would shave his head and pair his nails. F A it S. SUPPRESSION OF CAMBERWELL AND PECKIIAN FAIRS. The Magistrates of the District, comprehending the ground on which those fairs have been annually kept, held a Petty Session at Union-hall, in consequence of the Resolutions of the Vestry. An information was laid by Mr. Bygrave, and other respect able Inhabitants of the neighbourhood, against C. Shard, Esq. Lord of the Manor of Brydenhurst, in which Peckham parish lies, against W. Law, Esq. occupier of the land on which that fair is held, against E. Whitton, Esq. Lord of the Manor of Camberwell, and other Gentlemen who had an interest in the land. Mr. BoLLAwD and Mr. PLATT were for the defendants. , Evidence was given to prove that the fairs were nuisances, and the witnesses were of opinion that there was no charter or other lawful authority for holding the same. Mr. 13 ot.L.iorn supported the rig ht of the Camberwell defend ants from Doomsday-book, acid lanning's book, which spoke of the custom of holding the fairs. produced papers, dated 17111, specifyingthe tolls of the fair, and papers without date, containing a 'list of the personi who paid for standings.— Ile read documents , proving that monies had been received in 1715, 16, and 17„ for situations in Camberwell fair, and that North-field, where Peckham fair was held, was in the parish of Camberwell. Ile also produced a paper, dated 24th May, 1724 assigning.over the Manor of Camberwell, with the fairs and tolls thereon, upon the marriage of Joanr,a Cock. The Learned Counsel likewise produced the deed of conveyance to Mr. Whitton, the present Lord of the Manor, dated 11112: flaying argued upon the written evidence, Mr. Bolland called witnesses. One of these, a man, 82 years old., stated that he resided in Camberwell from the year 1763, and remembered that an an nual fair was held there of three days continuance; that 2d. a-foot was paid for standing; but that, as soon as the green was broken in upon, 3d, afoot was charged ; and that, since 1014, the price had been raised to 4d., 5d., and 6d., a-foot on the green. Peckham fair was argued to be a continuation of Camber. well fair, and not a distinct fair. Mr. CIIAMBERS said, he could perceive nothing in the do cuMents proving that the fairs were held by' charter, or, as the words of the Act went, `'‘ by any other lawful authority." lle therefore felt himself, bound tn,decide against the defendants. The parties then. intimated their intention to apply to the Court of King's Bench, and entered into the necessary recog nizances to appear on the first day of term, to answer any in formation in the nature of a quo warrant°, which the Attorney and Solicitor.-General might exhibit against them, touching their right and title to such fairs, and to abide the judgment of the Court thereon. BOXING FELTHA3I MARSHES, BELOW GUILFORD. It wasipecified in the Hampton Race List, that no boxing would be allowed during the Races, but after all was over, a purse was made for Geo." Pittman, the Wandsworth Butcher, and Mark Wood, a scienced youth, to have a turn, and they pealed for combat yesterday morning at the above spot. Norris fotigth wag tsuo a re ve t r l y ian merry is seconded the butcher, and 'Wood picked up his brother, who light, but ood could never reduce his stone W against weight. advers a ry's weight to the winning pitch. lie pinked him at c ti o nt m i i: e g ad i s n ( , )f a b i:d th. firs w. t toodapped the claret, but he was grassed, after a manly rally. 2. A bravely con tested round, and crimson stream s rolled off' was thrown heavily, after he had slit his adversary's nose. 3. Wood fo ug ht shy, and retreated after hitting : be bed the best of the round until dropped by a tie up on the left ribs, which bent him. 4. Pittman made the play, and was manfully received with both hands, which stopped him, and made him groggy. lie threw his adversary from a close. 5. and ti Scagar's daffy kept bins in a kind of dorse these two rounds, and . Wood had the best ; he worked himself to a stand, and both went down. 7. Wood received a chance and chattering hit on the temple, which floored him, anti, as he could not come to time, Pittman won the battle in 22 minutes. 11 " IluosoN Axtt Offronn.—A ruflianing fight took place between these men for a , trifling purse. From their ap uxeoarianngc.erin. agcook-ahop would have suited them better than a They, however, did their duty in seven bust ling rounds with m uc h equa lity, and both were often hit to a stand-still. In the Bth round Gifford fell off in lighting ;• he was hit down, and his head was In a Chancery suit. In the 7th round he reeelved , a quietus on the mark, which finished him. Hudson won at last tolerably easy. LONDON DocK COMPANY. - At a half-yearly General Meeting of the Proprietors of this Cow pang, held yesterday, at their house in Princes street, near the Bank—ISAAC SOLLY, Esq. in the Chair—a dividend was declared upon the stock, and 24 Gentl emen were e lected as Directors for the Year ensuing. in answer to a question from a Proprietor, as to the nature and' object of the late application to Parliament for a new Bill, the Chairman observed, that the former Bill, to extend the w or k s o f th e Company, which had been granted f or f ive y ear s, having expired on the 20th of June last, it had been thought proper tho au application should be made to Parlia meat for its renewal, n ot for the furtherance of Buy particular view of the Court of Directors, but in . anticipation of any possible or contingent necessity that might arise for the exercise of its powers. The Court them adjourned. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF ICING'S BENCH, JULY 4. THE ICING} V. DIGLET. , • Thhi was an inforau4ion preferred by the Crown in the na ture of a quo warrant() against Mr. Bigley, the ownet of the field on which Edmonton fair is partly held, requiring him to show by what authority the fair is holden. To this the defend ant pleaded a custom for such fair. The affirmatiie of the issue being on the defendant, Mr. SCARLETT, on his behalf, after some obiervations on the right of the middle and lower orders of society to their cus tomary amusements, and against the restless spirit of interrned dling which would attempt to suppress them, opened a case of usage which he thought it, would bo difficult to answer. He called a number of respectable witnesses, who proved that the fair had subsisted for many years,; that it was originally held in the yard of the Bell, but was afterwards removed to Mr. Bigley's field, which was a more commodious situation; that it was attended by many of the neighbouring gentry and their families, and by thousands of persons from London ; that there were many sports, shows, and amusements provided, and also booths for the sale of light articles, as toys, clothes, hard-ware, ribands, and ornaments. One of the witnesses, Mr. Rumford, excited much merriment by his comparison between the morality of Edmonton fair and the opera and theatres, considerably to the advantage of the former. Mr. SOLICITOR-GENERAL, for the Crown, contended that custom was no plea for a fair; the party who insisted on a right to hold it must rely on a grant, and though it might not be necessary to produce the grant, yet he must show such a pre scription as would induce the jury to presume it. In the pre sent case, however, not even a custom was shown for a fair, which was an institution for the purposes of commerce, and not merely for shows and the sale of toys. Mr. Justice BEST, who sat in the early part of the day for the Lord Chief Justice, interrupted the Learned Solicitor, and told him that he thought it was not necessary for him to proceed farther, for in his view there was no evidence whatsoever to sus tain the defendant's case. A fair could be evidenced only by prescription ; it must have its proper officers ; it must be esta blished principally for the purposes of commerce, and not for mere recreation and pleasure, though he was far from wishing to deny these to the common people. He could not perceive that the fair at Edmonton had been shown to bear any of these characteristics, and if the jury were of the same opinion, it wo.ald be unnecessary to hear the counsel for the Crown. The Jury said they were quite satisfied, and immediately found a verdict for the Crown. LIIIEL.-MAY V. BROWN. This action wasbr(TuTllit - iiiMr. May, late vestry-clerk of the parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green, against Mr. Brown, a dissenting preacher of that parish, for libels and slanderous words. The defendant pleaded that he was not guilty, and also that the subject matters of the libels and the slander were true. The publication and language in question arose out of the disputes which have long divided the parish of Bethnal-green, and in which both the parties have been active. It will be re membered, that some years ago two prosecutions were insti tuted against Mr. Merceron, a Magistrate, who had long exer cised great influence in the parish of Bethnal-green, one for having clandestinely inserted in his accounts, as treasurer of the poor-rate, the suns of 9251. Is. 3d., with intent to defraud the parishioners, and the other for having corruptly concurred as a Magistrate in relicensing certain public-houses in the parish, his own property, though he well knew them to be improperly conducted. On both these prosecutions he was convicted, chiefly on the evidence of Mr. May, the plaintiff, and sentenced by the Court of King's Bench to imprisonment and fine. After this result had been obtained, considerable difference arose re specting the payment of the costs of the prosecutions, which had been originally commenced by individuals, and afterwards sanctioned by the parish : but at length a vote of the yes- ' try, obtains(' after much clamour, directed that the costs of the prosecution respecting the poor-rate, amounting to 3131. 19s. 3d., , should be paid out of the poor-rates, and that those of the indictment for misconduct as a ,Magistrate, amounting to 314/. 35., should be paid out of the tines received from' those who had refused to serve parochial offices. Dis putes continued, and a Committee was appointed to inquire into the accounts, Who reported that the sum which ought to have been paid was only 5031. 2s. 7d., the surplus having been im properly introducd with the concurrence of the plaintiff. An article, purporting to contain the substance of this Report, and expressed language strongly reflecting on Mr. May, was Inserted in a newspaper, called The Sunday Monitor, of April 2, 1920- A violent attack on him, called " A Statement of Facts," was also circulated by Mr. Brown, who was also proved to have verbally used terms derogatory to the plaintiff's character. Mr. &AIME T T,for the plaintiff, in anticipation of the de fendant's attempt to justify, adduced evidence to show that the introduction of the sum objected to was bona fide; that the money had been expended on the prosecutions, though previ ous to the time when they received the sanction of the vestry ; that the whole was fully and fairly submitted to the parishion ers, and the disbursements made under their approval. Mr. SOLICITOR-GENERAL, for the defendant, first offered in evidence a number of placards, what the plaintiff had assist ed to distribute, reflecting on the character of the defendant, and others of his party. These, however, were held inad missible; but the general statement of a witness, that libels had been published on both sides, was received. The Learned Solicitor then proceeded with evidence in support of his justifi cation, into a length of detail through which it was impossible to follow him. The Jury retired for three quarters of an hour, and then found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 1001. The trial lasted till one o'clock in the morning. lIIGII COURT OF ADMIRALTY, JULY 4. THE FLORA. In this case the ship Flora had been arrested for a debt under a warrant from the Sheriff of Kent. Last Court day, tirake field, the owner of the vessel, appeared in person (alleging his own inability to employ Counsel) to chew cause against the arrest, which he stated to have been illegally made, because the vessel was, at the time of the service of such warrant, lying in a position out of the jurisdiction of the Sheriff of Kent, and within that of the Sheriff of Middlesex. Lord STOWELL said it would be proper that Mr. Wakefield should either be heard by Counsel, or appear in forma pauperis, when Counsel might be assigned him. Dr. JENNER, for the creditor, prayed his Lordship to defer admitting the party as a pauper until the next sitting of the Court, in order that the creditor might have an opportunity of opposing the admission, if it should be judged necessary. This day, accordingly, Mr. Wakefield applied to be so ad mitted ; and having taken the usual oath, his application was complied with. TILE NELSON. Dr. Anarenn and Dr. Jesse ADAMS completed their further argument in support of the validity of the bottomry.bond exe cuted to Mr. Philips, of the Cape of Good hope, and Captain Brown, of the Nelson. (The particulars of this case we have already reported once or twice.)—Judgment postponed. THE JANE AND MATILDA. This is the case in which a female claims wages for about two years' services on board the Jane and Matilda, in the ca pacities of cook, ship-keeper, and steward. Lord ST °WELL, on the application of the proctor for one of the parties, consented to let the case stand till next week, when he will give judgment in it. JONGE NICOLAUS-KLAAS PALMER, MASTEII.I In this case, which is an application by the Commissioners of the Customs to the Court of Admiralty, to ascertain the ex tent in which the 24 Geo. W. is to be construed, as to the power which is therein given to a bench of • county Magistrates, or to the Boards of Custom and Excise, to direct, in cases of salvage, the sale of so much stores or cargo, duty free, as shall be suffi cient to defray the amount of salvage compensation decreed by the Magistrates or bythis Court (as the case may be.) The KING'S ADVOCATE WM heard in objection to an award made by three Magistrates of Sussex, in the case of the Jonge Nicolaus, which was, on the night of the '26th of Nov. 1822, stranded off Seaford. The argument will be again proceeded with on the next Court day. A late Dapish Journal states, that, a short while ago, as a man was ploughing in a field near Aarhuus, in North Jutland, he found a bracelet! of the purest gold. Its appearance indicated the! greatest antiquity. It was smooth, without orna'-. went of any kind, and about the thickness of an English shilling at the edges. Towards the two ends it was hammered out to a considerable thin.: ness. Judging from 'the workmanship of the whole it was not going too far to indulge the idea that a stone had been the implement used in its for s mation ; and that it had been made, conse quently, at a time anterior to the discovery of iron. A similar bracelet (probably its fellow) was ploughed up last year, at the - same place ; but, unfortunately for the admirers of antiquity, it is lost., POLICE INTELLIGENCE'. LIABILITY TO POOR-RATES. MAwsroar-HonsE.—A question of considerable importance to persons holding offices or detached apartments, as to poor rates, came on before the Lord Mayor. A person keeping a shop in an alley in Birehin-lane was summoned by the Over seers of St. Michael's, Cornhill, to spew cause why he refused to pay poor -rates. The facts of the case were these :—The defendant, who is a shoemaker, took a room with a door opening into an alley, and occupied it as a shop, a gree i ng to pay a fi xe d rent, the landlord engaging to be responsible tor taxes, poor-rates, or any other charge whatever. The d e f en d ant di dl not sleep in this room, from which a glass door, that was kept closed, opened into the room occupied by the landlord, who occupied the rest of the house. The defendant merely kept this room as a shop, and had no servant living in it, and no one to sleep there. The Overseers of the poor, however, considered it as a distinct tene ment, and rated it accordingly, alleging that the door which communicated with the rest of the house being kept closed, made it a separate tenement ; that the defendant, by living there, gained a settlement, as would any apprentice he might choose, to take, o r an y servant h e m i g h t hi re ; an d l ast l y, that the agreement with the landlord was a mere evasion, or might be so, on the part of the defendant to avoid the liability to serve parish offices. The Loan MAYOR considered the question as of great ime I portance in the City. If the room were declared liable, there was not au office, nor even an apartment in a coffee-house taken by the week for business, or otherwise, that might not,be de clared a separate tenement rateable for poor-rates, nor an oe. cupant that might not be called upon to serve parochial offices. He did not see that it made any difference to the parish whether a given sum were received as poor rates wholly from the land lord, or partly from him and partly from the person who held the room, nor would it alter the question as t o sett l ement w h e • they the latter were liable or not- The Parish Officers said the question was of great impor tance, as it involved the question of the liability of all the occu• pants of such places to serve" parish offices, and the greatest abuses were to be apprehended from any admission that such places were not liable. The Loitn 31aY on consulted the City Solicitor upon the' question. The latter declared it was a point of great nicety and importance which had never yet been decided, and on. which he entertained doubts. The LORD Ala Yon, under those circumstances, refused to grant a warrant of distress to the Parish Officers. The Officers ex zessed their determination to get the ques tion settled by applying to the Court or King's Bench for a Mandamus to compel his Lordship to issue the warrant. IMPORTANT TO STAGE COACH PROPRIETORS. Wonsuir.STßicEro—Several convictions have lately taken place against the owners of stage coaches under the 25 Geo. 111. c. 51, sec. 52, which requires the name of the place to and from which the coach is going, to be marked or painted on the pannel of the door. Yesterday Mr. Sykes, the Solicitor to the Commissioners of Stamps, appeared before SAM IT EI. TWYFORD, Esq. and pointed out the illegality of any . proceeding by informers to recover the penalty under that section. It was an Act relating to duties, and by the sth section of the same Statute, and by 44 Geo. 111. cap. 93, sect. 10, and 55 Geo. 111. cap. 105, sect. 4, all matters necessary to put the powers of those Acts in three were under the management of the Commissioners; and it was unlawful to prosecute the same except in the name of his Majesty's Attor ney. General, or of the Solicitor, or some other Officer of his Majesty's Stamp Duties. Mr. TwiTottn expressed his concurrence in the remarks of Mr. Sykes. It appeared however extraordinary to him, that when the late Act, 33 Geo. IV. c. 95, passed, directing plates, &c. this section of the 25th Geo. 111., had not been repealed .; besides it did not occur to him, when deciding, that it was ne cessary to look into all the Stamp-Acts, which were voluminous enough to occupy the whole attention of a single individual. — With respect to the convictions before him, they were of course void, and ought not to be returned to the Sessions, and informers ought to acquaint all parties against whom they had proceeded. Mr. Sykes further intimated, that the Commissioners wished no proceedings against Stage-coach owners, under the 25th or Geo. III. ? the necessity of which was superseded by the late Act providing numbers, and in case any conviction had been paid, it was probable that the King's part of the penalty would be returned by a proper Application to the Treasury. CORONER'S INQU EST.—An Inquisition was held on Wednesday before T. STIRLING, Esq.*nt . tin. Red Lion, Westbourne-green, on the body of Jolts KING, formerly beadle, but, at the time of his death, watch-house-keeper .of St. George's, Hanover -square, who on Monday last, between two and three in the afternoon, was found iu one of the fields near the canal, suspended from an oak tree by a clock line, which had one of the s ittli n iee) l aa, a idtt l i t : e N re) a i g dedr h de t l s icaceb a ta—o t s t ue a ,rd c ,e ;: ii e , e d f the oumri t ip o doseorram r aey e n i ti d iame . f rneet ca l tbi t a ppear ed i (eDnfiororeaf n the is • ment." It was rumoured in Newry, on Thursday, that a riot had taken place near Moy, in which one man was killed and several wounded. The Newry Paper gives it no credit.—(Dublin Morn ing Post.) COAL-MARKET, JULY 4. Ships at Market. Ships sold 42 Newcastle - 33 Sunderland 0 Scotch Coal Price. 34s Od to 42s Od 34s Od to 43s tkt --8 Od to —s Od COURSE OF EXCHANGE, July 4. A mstettlant Ditto, at Sight 12 8 Rotterdam 12 i 1 Antwerp Ham 12 10 burgh sa 0 Qi 116 Altona • . i Us. Paris, 3 Day's sight Us. Ditto liourdeatix, ditto Frankforton the Nlitin Madrid Cadiz !Whoa 36 Effective Barcelona ieville Gibraltar Leghorn Get I,a .. . 43i-Venice, Ital, Lie 2B 10 Malta 45 -Naples 39 Palermo - Lisbon . 5l Oporto RioJetteiro Doblitt .... 91 .. .. Cork 91 pet Cent. BULLION. Portugal Gold, i n Coin .0 0 0 per Ox. F'orrign Gold, in Bars ( 17 New 1)ouhloou• New Dollar' ' 0 4 9 Silver in Bars. Standard 0 4 11 BIRTHS. On the 3d instant, in Devonshire-street, the Lady of henry Nassau, Esq., of Oporto, of a daughter. On the 2d instant, at Ealing, the Lady of the Rev. IL 13. Greenlaw, of a daughter. MARRIED. On Tuesday last, Lieut. A. F. Gardiner, R.N., youngest son of Samuel Gardiner, Esq.. of Coombe Lodge, to Julia Susanna, second daughter of John Reade, Esq. of Ipsden House, Oxfordshire. _ _ _ July l, at Sevenoaks, John Gurdon Esq., of Aasington Hall, Suffolk, tollridget Anna, tutconcedaughter of Mr. Lain-. bard, Esq. of Sevenoaks, Kent. DIED. On Friday, the 16th of May, at Madeira, Eugenia, the wife of John dim, .Esq. In Union-street, Hill-street, Mr. Howard Carter, aged 77. On the 3d inst., Mr. Matthew Bell, at Greenwich, aged 15. OXFORD, JULY 4.—On Sunday last died, in the 81st year of his age, John Grosvenor, Esq., surgeon, and one of the Proprietors of this Paper. The professional fame of Mr. Grosvenor was diffused far beyond the province in which he ex ercised his talents ; and in the more private walk of life he,was neverknown to depart from the strictest integrity of conduct, and the most honourable punctualltrin.all his engagements.... 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