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TUE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts froni the Morning Pqpers, June 28. ENEw TIMES.] The liberation of the King of Spain , appears to be so close at hand, that it is scarcely worth. while to snake any observation on the situation of Sir W. A!Court at Seville. Sir William has found himself precisely i the position we anticipated, and has acted precisely as we said he proba bly would do in our Paper of the 20th instant, Accredited only to the King, he de; dined following the Regency of Seville as the Re presentative of his Government. If, contrary to all reasonable calculation, Cadiz should support the remains of the Cortes, he wilt doubtless pur sue the same course with regard to the Regency of Madrid, until he receives further instructions, from home. As to the notions which some per sons entertain, that the Regency will endeavour to raise a new loan, they appear to be perfectly Unfounded. Its acts can only be provisional ; and however enormous the extent of credulity in this country, it surely will not trust to such a security as would thus be offered. [MORNING CIIRONI'CLFA Advices were yesterdiy received from Per - - rtarnbuco, dated May'l3s in reference to letters just received from Bahia,' which mention, that the Portuguese squa dron l . consisting of thirteen armed vessels, with MO regulars' on board, were under weigh, and ready to leave Bahia on the 30th April, in order to meet the Brazilian squa dron, under Lord Cochrane.- The Brazil packet sailed from Rio de Janeiro on 97th April, to touch at Bahia and Pernambuco; stie may con sequently be expected daily, and,' in all proba, bility, will bring accounts of the result of the expected reneontre. 'However much'we may disapprove of the ',d itties' principles of Mr. Peel, and more particu-; larly of the policy he fins always advocated with respect to the Catholics, we feel ourselves bound to acknowledge „that , he seems to us really' ac tuated by an anxious desire-to improve the adini nistration of justice.- His reproof to'the political Judges of Scotland on Thursday evening willi we have no doubt, he prOdnctive of infinite good; but we wish we could make him 'feel that fines. have lately been imposed by English Judges to an amount (considering the means of the paities) utterly irreconcileable with every received notion of law in this country. The administration of justice presents a noble field for a Statesman am bilious of signalizing himself as a benefactor to his country. The first duty of a Government is to see that justice be done between man and man. in this duty the V.,nglish Governmenthas hitherto been singularly deficient.—(Tbiffi) ( *. MORNING sons.] During the course of political agitation it is always impossible to form ney precise or conft. dent anticipation of the institutions or forms of Government which may finally emanate from them. Those who ace the nearest to the scenes of commotion, those even who impart to it its original impulse, often discover in the issue, that their most plausible conjectures have been erro neous, and that their firm and determined pur pose is become abortive. if this consideration, however, forbids us to hazard any bold and decided prediction as to the ultimate conse quences of those convulsions into which the king dom of Portugal has been thrown, we are equally forbidden by their deep importance, by the universal interest which they must excite, by their possible operation upon the war of national independence now raging in Spain, and by their unavoidable effect to diminish or increase the in fluence of England upon the Councils of Por tugal—towitiihold, such ohservatiens as the im mediate posture of affairs appears naturally to sug gest, and such diffident anticipations as the uncer tain and evanescent nature of our materials will allow. We cling fondly then to the hope that such Institutions may spring out of these convulsions as will afford and secure to the Portuguese people the invaluable Wes, sings of civil liberty, together with such a degree of political influence as is necessary to maintain and guarantee their civil freedom. The' Proclamation of the King to the Inhabitants of Lisbon breathes sentiments well adapted to, in spire this hope. If despotic principles of Go vernment held sway over the Royal mind, or if such principles had the ascendency amongst those in whose hands the King had placed himself be fore he issued this proclamation, its language is altogether unaccountable. The stronger party would scarcely,, for the mere treacherous pur pose of neutralizing opposition, go A so far as to make a formal and voluntary surrender of every principle which the most zealous and ardent champion of freedom could feel an in clination to oppose ; nor will the institutions now about to be adopted by Portugal have con tracted in their origin the stain of foreign die. tation. French gold may have accelerated the convulsion, but the proclamation ot the King sufficiently attests that French principles had not acquired the pretiontintinee,. On those de testable principles this address conveys the se yerest and most effective censure—that of striking contrast and express renunciation. [Til TI M EL] Forty-nine days out of eighty-four during which the business of the present Session has been transacted, says Mr, Peel, forty-nine dose s have been devoted: to the affairs of Ireland. Yes we add and devoted to little purpose. — Motion succeeds motion—grievance thickens on the back of grievance—petitions, and corn plaints, an d remonstrances, and menaces, come shouldering each other into Parliament; one day from ,a Secretary, of State, with an in stilled:l'Pur, , aCt it; his pocket ; the next day from an trish county Member, demanding, ip the ramp of that chaos which he deno. minutes hissgi t vory, soyie means `of ascertaining what it is, that under the eye and Government of Trigland has confounded with in her all the natural relations of order and intelligence, of laws and public morals. Anon we find the leader of a faction boldly reprobating the King's At- 1 torney-General for daring to prosecute as trans gressors of the law. those for whose exclusive benefit the law of England had been framed; the power of the Crown been hitherto exercised, and by whom, from time „immemorial,. the fruits of Irish taxation had be,en enjoyed, and the pri vilege of levying additional taxes been mono polized. Lastly, there issues a prayer from' the opposite party—not for a monopoly of wealth or power—not for even a share in the privilege of laying on or of consuming taxes, much less for that of insulting and oppressing the major portion of their fellow-subjects at their own discre tion and with full impunity—but they pray that the Jlouse of Commons; or a Committee of its members, will be pleased to consider of their petition, which . petitidn is neither more nor less than that justice shall be fairly administered ! This, we need hardly tell our readers, was the prayer of a petition from the Catholics of Ire land, presented by Mr. I3rougham, and recom mended by him on Thursday evening, in a speech of which it is not too much to say, that it ought to•go down to posterity among the most powerful examples of English eloquence, and as, perhaps, the most complete exposure on record of the corrupt administration of Irish law. The motion of Mr. Brougham, under the fatuity of men in office, under the fate which apparently sweeps thern on, and Ireland with them, to overwhelming misery and confuSion—was, almost as a matter of course, rejected. They say the system is good. They praise the gentlemen of Ireland—and the Judges—and the Magistratesthe Chancellor Manners, of whose decrees, when appealed against, one half have been reversed—and the Ex-Attorney-General Sarnia,- who wrote a letter of instruction to Lord Chief Justice Norbury, to humbug' the Country Gentlemen about Ca tholic emancipation: One Orangeman gets up in his place, and pronounces that the way to tranquillize Ireland is to put down the Ca tholic Association. What has raise& that hotly into activity, and influence, and notice ? Was it not the wild attempt to keep, down those interests of which that Association is the repre sentative r Another man says—" You give 0 no specific facts in support of this petition." Facts I why, what is universal notoriety but the strongest of all evidence?' Are not these facts? Is all this nothing? " Why, then the world, and all that's in't, is' nothing The covering sky is nothing; Bohemia nothing." What is Lord Itedesdale—the anti-Catholic Lord Redesdules admission, that there was ) in 'truth, no one, standard of Irish justice ; or Judge Fletcher's charge ; 'or the late volumes of eVi. deuce' at the bar of the House of Commons ? What, again, this appalling fact, that a whole nation, or those who speak for more than six millions of men out of seven, come forward, and in bitter language charge the Government with a system of gross injustice ? [unITISII 'PRESS.] The interment of Abel Griffiths,. reported in all, the daily prints of yesterday, was, as to the manner of it, a dishonour to the Ettglish cha racter. it was a .sight fit for savages in the darkest era of barbarism. The body was put into a shell, and was attended by a corps of con stables and watchmen, who proceeded up Mount street, down South Audley-street, into ,Stanhope street, accumulating, at every step, a fresh crowd of followers ; thence Into Park-lane, through Hyde Park Corner, along Grosvenor-place, to the grave, at the four cross-roads, 'formed by Eaton-street, King's-road, 0 rosvenordptuee, and Pimlico. The corpse of the unfortunate man was here taken , out, wrapped in a winding sheet stained with blood, and, with these horrible grave-crothes about it, it was covered with a large piece of Russia matting, and, being fasten: eel round with a strong cord, Was , thrown into a hole, five feet deep, which was filled up, and the frightful task being performed, the graVe digger, constable, and watchmen, went their way; leaving the crowd disgusted by the shocking scene that had been exhibited before them. , What must foreigners think, When they read this relation of the penal laws of Efigland, which can thus Attack the dead body of a culprit, and put the mark of their vengeance on its shroud ! It is incredible the evil that is produced by familiarising the minds of the lower classes to show like this ; such dreadful experiments on human feeling ought never to be made. A . wise government should for ever abstain hem it, if it were but from mo tives of policy, putting common humanity out of the question. Were such a sight often exhibited to the populace, r it would wring every benevolent feeling out of their hearts. What, if they re flect at all, must they think of Parliament leVfing a million of money for the buildiug of 50 n eov churches, while it can thus, in its capacity of legis lation, violate every precept of mercy enjoined by that system of Christianity which it professes to teach in them. Can any thing be more removed froM the lessons taught by the mild and merciful Foutider of tin Christian faith than such a brutal spectacle as this ? Are our legislators of the present day not enlightened enough to perceive that it reverses the effect on the common people which it was intended to produce, and instead of strengthening their abh orren c e of the crime, ere lays an abhorrence of the punishment ? The deplorable act of this poor guilty being, on , whose de'ad body this revolting outrage was exercised, in strong evidence 'of a disordered brain. A Jury might well have inferred that mind ,to,,be bereft of reason, which had so wholly lost all controul over itself, as to perpetrate an act so full of frenzy. Besides, when a ' man is dead, the law has no more dominion over him. Our virtuous indignation may rest upon the crime; ,but it= should the with the criminal. Those who could smear his shroud with blood, and treat his breathless body with contempt at the grave, may inspire horror; but horror is not 'a feeling which punishment Quilt to excite In antinstnnce ; it is neither congenial with the spirit of our religion, nor with the moral instinct of our nature. We trot that the Bill, now in its progress through the House, to alter and amend the law relating to the interment of the remains of -any person found felo-de-se, and which permits them to be buried in the parish church-yard, will be speedily passed, and that the metropolis will never again be disgraced by such a scene as was presented at the burial of Abel Griffiths. [siciairmd mEttALD.I We have read a good deal that has been lately written on the Usury Laws: it appears that the professors of law are in general alarmed, lest Mr. Onslow should persist in his Bill to do away with the Usury Laws. Take law' professors in general, their knowledge is contracted. It is Confined principally to the practice of the Law Courts, and the study of law and other autho rities ; because Lord Bacon, Lord Littleton, Mr. Coke, or others, thought certain things, wrote therri on paper, and got them printed, that such printed thoughts must necessarily be just thoughts: And such has been, and is, the infatuation on the minds of most people on the instillation of generally received truths, that very few peo ple, after studying and implicitly believing in such authorities, have dared to differ in opinion from the authorities their preceptors at school and at college originally taught them to reverence. This is one reason why most men are so startled when any thing new is 'proposed. - They have been probably too lazily inclined to think for themselveS ; the greatest part of their lives has been passed in poring . over the works of Locke, Bacon, Littleton, and others, at the same time accompanied with a strong prejudice to accept as truths whatever these Or other men have written, without, per haps, reflecting, that though these thoughts are printed and bound up in a book, that by possibility these very writers, like all other men, might have been mistaken in the opinions they uttered, and that they might have left behind them opinions, of which, if they were now alive, they would be glad to give a different version.. There has been mach written and printed oit the subject of what is called usury, or the taking interest for money lent. To. the best of our recollection, the Old Testament usury altogether, and the New Testament; the more particular guide of Christians, is extremely inexplicit on this' subject; As far as we retueniter; Je- Stir Christ" repeatedly said,. according to the accounts transmitted us by the Evangelists, " Give uato'. them' that ask." Both the Old and the New Testament; therefore, are quite at variance with the doctrine of taking any interest for money lent,- and, consequently,' all the authorities who have printed books on the propriety of taking only a certain rate per centum, had neither the Mosaic nor the Christian authority for their intructions to us. Suppose we therefore consider it simply as :a question of policy,- how far it may be judicious on' the part of any Government to allow people to lend their money at what rate of profit' they please. The people of England are chiefly a commercial' people, and take them in general they are very fond of money. A certain proportion lit the way of adding something every year, to their heap ; another, though possessed , of Wealth left them by the first-mentioned accumulators , fond' of getting rid of that wealth in expensive living, gambling, or other ptactiCei ; and, therefore, desirous of a constant supply of ready money for pleasurable and loose purieses. A third' pro portion, which is by far the greatest, are those who daily or weekly earn Money, and who spend it as fast as they acquire it. Now the doing away the Laws respecting Usury would certainly, please, the first-named class of people —those who are fond' of accumulating 'some thing every year; it would also, probably. , please those Who are in the practice of spending their gains as fast as they are earned. The latter class , are for the most part engaged ii trade or professions, ,and take them in general ; they, will not borrow, except for the . purpose of making a preitt of money So borrowied.' PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. (Fran: th e LiverpOol Courier, Junc.2t. ~SPAIN.—Those perplexities in which the con duct of France in invading Spain must necessarily involve the British Government, and which we foresaw would arise from' the establishment of a Regency under the controul of the French army, are evidently thickening about us. England will; doubt- Levi, be put to the trial by an Ambassador from this newly created Government, acting in the name of Ferdinand, and With which, as long as another Government acts in the name of Ferdinand, with himself at the head ofit; we cannot, consis tently, hold any relations. If we refuse to send an Ambassa. dor to, or to receive a Minister from; this Regency, in what relation do we stand to France and to the other Allied Powers ? — lf we de, we gibe up the honourable stand made on the honest prinCiples of politlcal justice in our negociations.— This is, unquestionably, perplexing ; but the hopes of Some, and the fears of others; that we may thereby be plunged into a war, do not appear likely, at least for the present, to be. realised. If, indeed, 'the Allied Powers were disposed to make war upon us, we should be placed in critical circus s. stances, and they might find in our rejection of an Arnbassa» doe from the Spanish Regency, that creature of their own, as good a reason of war as is usually given when a hostile in clination previotisly exists'; but the cue, as it actually stands, is difficult. The Allies are rather afraid of our hostility, and it is for us to judge when the pressure upon our honour or our interests is sufficiently great to demand an effort to relieve ourselves. The course of Government is, we conceive, very straight-forward. 'Should' France press our acceptance of a Re gency Ambassador, let him be ordered off; and should it be urged that Ferdinand is under controul, a point not yet, however, made out,', ready answer may be found in this, that he is cer.. , tainly not more under th e con troul of his own subjects than the Regency is under the direction of the French . coMmanders. This, it is true, is a reproach to Trance; bathe reasons given already by our negociators for the secession of this country from thd Allied counsels on the Spanish : question has; already re. preached her. She has taken offence, . dttbtlesS, already, and will take allenee again • but that reUsoti why we should follow up repr oac h indolYence by war. If site 'thinks her of fencetoo mighty to be expiated by any thing less than revenge,. lei her strike the first blow and - she will not fihd us unprepar. ed. We must net' iiMporite with' the principles we have laid down;. and, on .the other hand, we ought neither to heequarrel some nor inert. A state o f t hings ti t s grown up, and is not yet fully matured, which 4 requims us to . be watchful and prepared ; but France will not, at present, give us a full and unequivocal MSC for counnencing hostilities. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE c), EGG V. LORD COLERAINE. This action waif brought by the plaintiff; a well-known gun smith, to recover of Lord Coleraine, better known as Colonel Hanger, the amount of a bill for wor ki done to his order so long ego as the year 1777. His Lordship in 1817 went through the bill, and affixed his initials to the items, which he admitted to be correct, and afterwards paid 35!. on account, reducing the debt to 131., 14s. exclusive of interest. Mr. CAMPBELL, for the plaintiff, admitted that he could not insist on interest upon the ordinary items, but claimed it upon a draught given on the 7th of March, 1778, for 171. 6s. bd., the interest on which - was 361. 7s.—(A laugh.) The LnaD CHIEF JUSTICE held that interest was not payable on the order produced, and The Jury, under his directions, found a verdict for the plain tiff—Damages 131.145. N J 4 '-1 ...> _~x + M .. WARREN V. OSBORNE. This was an action on the . warranty of a horse sold by the defendant, a livery-stable-keeper, to the plaintiff, on the 9th of Blay last, for 80 guineas. The defendant engaged that if the horse provied unsound within six days, he would take him back and returl the money. On the art of the plaintiff, several witnesses were called, who proved that within the time specified it was discovered that the horse was affected in the fetlock joint with symptoms ap parently arising from an old strain, which rendered him un sound, and that he was tendered to the defendant, who refused to receive him. For the defendant, witnesses were called who expressed their opinion that the horse was sound at the time of the sale. On this opposing testimony the case went to the Jury,' who found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 901., including the aura paid for the food and stabling of the horse in the interval. REAP V. JONES, ESQ. Mr, MAIIIIYAT stated that this was an action against Win. Jones, Esq., Marshal of the King's Bench Prison, for the escape of a person named Young, then n prisoner in the rules. The Learned Gentleman said he should call witnesses to prove that the prisoner was seen at a coffee.house near the Surrey Theatre ; at the Swan Tavern, in Arundel.street, Strand ; and at other places. This action, therefore, was to recover against the Marshal the amount of judgment, debt, and costs. The Loan ClitEr JUSTICE, after the evidence was gone through, thought the Jury would be satisfied the plaintiff's case was sufficiently made out to entitle him to recover against the Marshal. _ Verdict for the plaintiff-t-Dinnagei, 4191. and costs. COURT ,OF COMMON PLEAS, JUNE 27. DASTIWOOD, CLEAN, V. GARNIIANt. This was an action for a malicious arrest. The plaintiff was a clergyman of Suffolk, and the defendant a tradesman of Beccles, in the same county. It appeared that the defendant had furnished some dresScs and millinery to the plaintiff's wife, after having receiving notice not to trust her. The plaintiff obtained a fortune of 80001. with his wife, but some disakree meat having arisen between them, and her property in Jamaica being rather deteriorated, he allowed her 1001. per annum for the maintenance of herself and the'education of her daughter. 'This - annuity had net been regularly paid. since April, 1819. The bill on which the plaintiff had been arrested was. for goods supplied from December in that year to December, 1821, and amounted to 991.45. The plaintiff called witnesses to prove the notice and the arrest, and the defendant produced evidence of the deli Very of the goods: The Jury found a verdict for the defendant, on the ground that there was a probable cause of arrest. 111 r. Sergeant TADnlt appeaied for the *plaintiff, and Mr. - Sergeant irAnonAlki for the defendant. • UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. • 11. A. Fellow of t T j r u in lt i E ty 2 C0 7.- 11e T ge h t e wßasevy. e s P t e e r e r a y P u a n u a D I D i m n o b u r e s l e y , 'elected Regius Professor of Greek; on. the resignatiOn of the Vey Hey. J. IL Monk, D. D. Dean of Peterborough. The annual prizes of fifteen guineas each; given by the Ite , .presentatives in Parliament of this University, for the best disc sertations in Latin prose, were on 141Onday last adjudged' as follow's SENIOR BACHELORS; Qutenam sunt Ecclcahn Legibusnue Beneficia et qui Ratione maxim b PrOmovenda ? Alfred ()invent, B.A. Trinity College:. No second prize adjudged. BACIIIMORS. Qui Fructus Historhe Eeclesiasticre'Studiosis perciPientli sent? Charles Udw. Kennaway,. B.A. St. John's - College. George Long, B.A. Trinity College. The Porson prize for the best translation of a' passage from Shakspeare into Greek verse, Was.on Monday last adjud ge d t o Benjamin Hall Kennedy, of St. John's College..-subject, Henry VIII. Act v. Scene 6 . : Beginning with "'Phis Royal Infant," and ending with " And so stand fii'd." The Vice-Chancellor has appointed Saturday the 28th hist. for Ds. Kennaway, of St.' *ran's, and Ds. Long, of Trinity College ; and Monday the 30th for Ds. ()invent, of Trinity College, to recite' their prize exercises at the'morning Congre gations. The Vice-Chancellor has appointed Tuesday the Ist of July for W. M. Pitied, of Trinity College, to recite the Chancellor's English` poem,- and his Greek ode for . Sir William Browne's medal;. andfor J. Wilder, Fellow of King's College, to recite his ()reek and, Latin epigrams.—Also for B. H. Kennedy, of Si. John's, to recite his exercise for the Porson prize. On Sunday last the Lord Bishop of Bristol held an ordina tion in Christ College chapel, when the following Gentlemen were admitted Deacons: Joseph Oedge, M.A. Jesus College With Let. Dim. frowthe Bishop of Lincoln. William Hicks, B.A. Magdalen College, j j With Let. Dim. from the Bishop of Ely. The Rev. Harry Pearce, M.A. late Conduct of King's Col lege, wag on . Wednesday, last presented, by the Provost and Fellows of ,that Society, to the Rectory of Hemingby, in the county of Lincoln, vacated by the death of the Rev. R. Relhan. The Rev. Henry Fardell. M.A. wag last week instituted to the Rectory of Feltwell St. Mary with the Rectory of Feltwell St. Nicholas annexed, in Norfolk, on the presentation of the King.—The ReV. Samuel Sheen, M.A. wag on Monday last instituted to the Rectory of Stanstead, Suffolk, on his own petition. • Oxrottn, Juan: 27.--Thuisday, June 26th, the following Degrees' were conferred 1— _ Doctors in INvinity—itev. Robert Mason, Queen's College Rev. eery Card, Pembroke College. Bacl dors in Divinity—Rev. Wm. Edw. Hong, and Rev. Peter ohnson, Fellows of Exeter, College. - iletc:iti - lor in Civil Law—Rev. Chas. henry Ridding, Fellow: of New College. _Masters of Arts—Rev. Wm. Kay, Chaplain of Magdalen College; John Parker, Brasenose College; the Rev. Edward AVarneford, St. John's College; George Hamilton Seymour, Fellow of Merton Cellege. Friday, June 27th, the following Degrees were conferred : Bachelor in. Civil Law—Rev. Rottert Grant Fellow of New College. Masteis• of Arts Robert Daizel Thonison, the Rev. John Eg . erton, Rev. Henry Washington, and Rev. Walter Augustus Shtrley- 7 Fellows of New College. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. PRINCE PAUL ESTERHAZY. Yesterday Mr. BOLLARD appeared on behalf of the King in the case of 'Prince Paul - Esterhazy, Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Court of Vienna, against VITE MARIE DE BETTERA, praying the Court to detain the prisoner in custody until the ensuing Sessions. The Learned Counsel said he held in his hand four affidavits ; the first was that of Sir Richard .Birnie (made on the Bench), stating that on the 12th ult. Mrs. Percy, the wife of Mr. Humphrey Percy, of Charlotte -street, Fitzroy-square, appeared before him at Bow-street, and swore an affidavit. Mrs. Perey'S affidavit stated that a few days ago she heard Mons. Vite Marie de Betters, who lodged in her house, coin.. . plained much of the ill-treatment he had received from his Excellency the Prince Paul Esterhazy, in not paying him - his just demands, and that if he were not settled with, he would , take his pistols, and first blow out the Prince's brains, and afterwards destroy himself. These threats the trisoner ex. pressed in such passionate language, and with many oaths, -that the deponent verily believed the Prince Esterhazy a life to be in danger from him. The third affidavit was that of Mr. Wright, a medical. Gen. tleman, made yesterday, stating the indisposition of 'Mrs. Percy, and from her being now in the last stage of pregnancy, it would endanger her life to come int o Co ur t t o give evidence against the prisoner. The 'last affidavit read by the Learned Counsel was that of Prince Paul Esterhazy, which, in substance, stated, that from the violent manner of the prisoner, his, constantly annoying him, and from the statement of Mrs. Percy, he verily believed his life to be in danger. Mr. Anox.eitts asked the date of the Prince's affidavit? Mr. BOEtARD answered, the 7th of March last. Yes, said Mr. ADOLPHUS, and upon that affidavit my client was taken into custody, and bound over to keep the peace to wards the Prince, himself in 400/., and two sureties in 20h1. each; and although 'the' Prince received no annoyance f rom M. De Betters from that time, my Learned Friend conies for. ward and modestly claims the detention of this gentleman for upwards of two months. As to the affidavit of Mrs. Percy, it appeared to amount to nothing, for how could she under stand the blustering of his client in German. The. affidavit of Mr. Wright, the surgeon, was worse than nothin . In the whole course of his practice he never read or hen o f suc h a request being put forward upon such. a ffi davits. T e Learned i Gentlemanln strong language asked why the Prince Esterhazy had allowed a whole Term to expire without applying to the Court of King's Bench ? Surely Mrs. Percy was not, so ill but she might during the last Term have gone to the Court above, and made the necessary affidavit. But that would not answer the purpose intended by the prosecutor of his client. , Mr. ISOLLAND was about to account for articles of the peace not being exhibited against Monsieur de Bettera, but he was intertupted by-- Mr: ADOLPHUS, who requested the production of the com mitment. The CHAIRMAN . (Mr. 'Bevil') said that from the whole of the case, as stated by Mr. Boltand, no satisfactory answer was given to the prisoner's Counsel for articles of the peace not having been exhibited during last Term; and certainly upon the affidavits exhibited, the Bench would not be borne out in detaining the prisoner in jail till the next Session. Mr. laor.t.mrii did not require that Monsieur de Bettera should remain inprison for two months, but that he should give new, Securities Upon his commitment of the 20th May. Mr. ADOLPHUS took a general view of the whole case, arguing from. the Latta and Constitution of England, that nothing shell of oppression Somewhere could have kept the prisoner in gaol from the 20th May until the present time, when he had clearly sheWn that on the 7th March he entered into sureties towards the Prince Esterhazy, and that not even the, shadow of proof was offered of committing in any *ay a breach of his recognizances. The prisOner was committed till the'. 'Sessions. Here he now was ready to take his trial : why did not his• firosecutor conic forward like a brave Man and pro** cute ? Did Prince Estethaiy suppose that England was filled with Bastiles, as other countries which might be mentioned/ He would tell that Prince, that he nor alr the Princes upon earth—no; not our Lord the King, could keep his client any longer immured in a prison. The Learned Gentleman eon • chided by requesting the immediate dischafge of M. de Betters. Mr..lllaule, of the Treasury, who sat on the Bench, inquired the practice in such cases ?--lie was answered, that it depended on the Bench whether he would be discharged now or at the end of the Sessions. The CHAIAMAN said he would, as a matter of course, be disckarged at the conclusion of thp Sessions. Mr. A DOLPIIV s remarked, that if his client had been a corn ! • mon individual, he would have been forthwith discharged. The prisoner was then removed from the Court in the custodr of the tornkeyS. Died at Liverpool, aged 70, the Rev. JOHN FEARoIt, B.D. Vicar of Painswick, Gloucester.. shire. Ever since his institution in January, 1795, the benefice has been under sequestration; and he was making preparations for taking to the li v i n g, when death put a period. to hiseventful • A.rrangements are making for immediately placing the beautiful window painted by Mr. 'tackler, in the Cathedral at Hereford. It will occupy the place of the window over the altar, and will be a most magnificent ornament, as well as a proud • testimonial of the perfection of the Arts, and the taste and mu. nificence - of the Chapter. The subject is copi e d f rom M r . Weit's picture of the Last Supper. Price. 378 O&1 to 42i ad 348 Od to 4ls Ott Od to —8 Od COURSE OF EXCHANGE, June gr. Amstetilam Ditto, at Sight l2 7 Rotterdam ` 12 10 Antwerp . l2 9 Haniburgli ' • 38 0 4i Us- Altona Paris,3 Day's sight 95 80 0 Us. Ditto Bourdeaux, ditto Et auk forton the Main 11adrid • 36 Effective Cadiz Gilboa , , 36 Effective Barcelona !Irvine Gibraltar .. 30 Leghorn ~.... 46 fie. Mt 431----Venir es nal. Lir. ea 10 Malta, 45 -N - 4plea 39 Palermo Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro .. • Dahliit .... 9i Cork (.4.1:c.. 7 ; Cent. 4 ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. Last week die ReV. Henry Wheatley; M. A. and Senior Fellow of Queen's College on the Old Foundation,' was elected, II the Provost and Fellows of that Society, Principal of St. Lthnund Hill, vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Thompson. The Rev. D. Hatton, Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty, vice . the Rev. Dr. IL Pearson, preferred. The Rev. Z. S. 'Warren, 13. A. of Sidney College, Cam bridge, second Mater of Oakham School, to the Vicarage of Dorrington, near Sleaford ; patron,. Sir Gilbert .Heatheote. The Rev, Thomas Sworde, appointed to the Perpetual Curacy of Ilungay St.,Mary's, Suffolk ; Futrell, the Duke of Norfolk. The same gentleman has also become the Evening Lecturer of the parish, at the unanimous desire, of the inhatn. tants 4n vestry assembled. By the death of the Rev. Dr. Fearon, Vicar of Paitiswielt; Gloucestershire, a vacancy occurs in the ;Vicarage of that po.', puloas parish : the advowson-having been originally purchasedby the inhabitants from Sir Henry l4'inston, the appointment is by election among this said inhabitants, and several candi. dates are already announced. Thojtepresentatives of the Clergy of the Arcluleaconry of Exetc-4'held their Annual Meeting at Congdon's Hotel, in this city, on Thursday last, at which the Rev. Stafford C. Northeote presided. The excellence of this charity is not, perhaps, so generally appreciated as it should he, having for its object the benevolent design of supporting widows and orphans of deceas. ed clergymen. When it is considered how eminently, from the narrow means many of them .Rossess to support the re spectability attached to their situation, they are entitled to relief, we doubt not that all, both Clergy and Laity, who have the power, will - cheerfully promote its eruls.--( Excter Flying Post, June 25.) COAL-MARKET, Jtua 27. Ships at Market. Ships sold 3 Newcastle - Sunderland - 0 Scotch Coal BULLION. Portugal] Gold, in Coin 1.0 0 0 pt I 01. Foreign Gold, in Bars. 3 17 6 New Doubloons New Dollar* .. . d 4 9 Silver in Bars. Standard ' 0 4 11 BIRTHS; June 22, at Ramsgate, the Lady of James Rymer, surgeon, of a'daughter. On the 19th inst., at Langdoun Cottage; flythe, the Lady of Capt. Wines, of his Majesty's ship Brazen, of a son. MA RRIED. On Thursday, the 26th inst., at Cheltenham, the Rev. John Netherton, eldest son of the Rev. .1. Ilarward, of Ilartlehuty, Worcestershire; to tiarriet, daughter of Richard Butler, Esq.,. of West-hall, near Cheltenham. On Thursday, at Caltishall, Norfolk, Mr. John Courage, of St. John's, Southwark, to Susan, youngest daughter of Siday Hawes, Esq., of .the former place. . _ DIED. After a few days' illness, on the 25th instant, at the house of the Dowager Lady Sydney, ,11.1trs.'Sophizt Williams, the Lady who with s o much zea l had distinguished herself by being - the Patroness, under our late beloved Queen Charlotte, and novr succeeded by the Princess Augusta, in establishing an Adult Orphan Institution ;..exclusively 'of which, this active Lady established a school for the education of the poor at Cheiten. ham, of some years standing. On the 26th inst. James Moss, - Esq., of York-street, (ilou. center-place, aged On the 22d inst., in the filth year of her ego, Anne, youngest daughter of William Kimpton, Esq. , of. Burnham, 'Bucking hamshire. On the 24th inst., at Brampton, Afiddlesex, Susanna, wane( daughter of the ?ate Win. B. Bayley, j%1.D., of plorthallerton. Yorkshire, aged 26. 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