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'DIE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY I . !;.rtracts front the Morning Papers, July IG. DIRITISII PRESS.] Legislation for Ireland has gone on wholesale this Session. If that country be not tranquil and .Contented, it will not be from a deficiency of Acts of Parliament. The Police Act, the Insur rection Act, the Tithe Composition Bill, haVe all passed in rapid succession, and were followed by trish.Churches Bill on Monday night. The Clergy of Ireland, at least, have no cause to complain of the inattention of Parliament ; be tween Mr. Plunkett and his friend the Arch bishop of Dublin, aided by the orthodox Mr. Gonlburn, their interests have been taken good . care of. If the power of the Protestant as-; cendaticy should totter in Ireland, its followers cannot censure either the Irish Secretary or At.: torney-General ; they have served it like true; and devoted worshippers all through : but while Bills are thus sweepingly passed for the compul scry erection of Churches in a country where nine tenths of the people are Catholics, has it never oc curred to the framers of those useless and obnoxious Acts, that their time and that of both Houses stould hive been much better spent in devising measures not to irritate, but to conciliate and im prove the condition of the Irish people ? Expe rience has shewn that they cannot be converted by proscriptive enactments. The Protestant Church, backed by a terrifying code, has been supreme in Ireland since time days of Elizabeth, and yet all, in fact, but the descendants of the English settlers are still Catholics. The Catholic religion, if purely andfairly taught, %sill notmake a man unchat itable, nor a bad member of society, nor are its real principles hostile to freedom or liberality . of opinion. Some or the most enlighten ed nations on the Continent are still attached to that faith, and the most venerated principles of English liberty were settled and secured while the King, the Church, both Houses 'of Parlia ment, and the entire people were Catholic. A hatred of Protestants in Ireland, or the mainte nance of the accursed Inquisition in Spain, form no part of the Catholic ritual ;. both have been pro mulgaUd by interested bigots, or by cruel church men. If such then as we assert be the true principles of the Romish faith, and that faith is now professed by so many millions of the Irish People, why, in place of plundering the impo verished peasantry, to build for them, like Egyptian task-masters, expensive Churches they will never enter, have not the same acts been passed, or a few thousands granted, to erect decent Chapels throughout the country, with school-i houses attached, where,under the view of liberal: and well-meaning trustees, education might be dispensed among the rising generation, and the peasantry conciliated by the parental care of ihe Legislature for their happiness and instruction.? In numberless districts and parishes iu the south, atul 'West''of Ireland there is not a Protestant at all. In some of these Places churches have been • built ; in others there are none. What use or benefit to the people are they I The peasantry look upon them just as the conquered do on a fortress—as monuments of their inferiority and state degradation. [MORNING CHRONICLIIA The nature of the movements and operations of the French leads ua to conclude that Galicia will soon become the theatre of active warfare, .and with Catalonia„divide the defence of the Pe ninsula. The divisions of Campillo, El Pastor, and Po'area, are concentrating in that province, certainly one of the most important in Spain, and mow that some supplies of arms have been ob.. •tained, we sincerely-hope,and trust that a manly stand *it) be'made there, and that the example 'of our gallant countryman, ,Sir Robert Wilson, will call forth a degree of activity which the friends of freedom must regret has not yet been exhibited. Galicia contains a population of at least two miliions and a half, besides numerous "military positions. The Galicians, less forbear.. ing than the inhabitants of other provinces 'of Spain, when their interests are affected, during the invasion of Napoleon, remained sullen ipectaters of the inroads of the French, until the troops of Ney and Souk began to plan. der and oppress. Valdeoras was the first dis. trict that then gave the signal of revenge ; • but this slid not occur till the commencement of Fehruary, 'Phil example of this town was followed by the whole of Galicia, and so successful were the efforts of the inhabitants, that the Marquis de la Romanis in a ' dispatch dated the 11th of the ensuing March, expressly . lays, Oat at that date the Galicians had killed or taken as Many . as "10,00 Frenchmen. Vigo soon afterwards surrendered to the armed inhabitants ; Tny 'was abandoned, and Ney, -cut off from all ennimimication with Soult and Bonnet, ordered Corinna and Ferrol to be evacuated about the middle of 'April, and he himself withdrew by the «o-,v of I . ..ogo.—When .all these, memorable Proceedings of the Galicians are called to mind their peculiar character is considered—, -UM in 'throwing off the yoke of an oppressor, as ell sari firm And constant in any resolve once , adopted—lt is hardly possible not to entertain gwa hopes of still witnessing a firm resistance. in Gaticia. When. we think of the heroism and con. stancy displayed by the Galicians, is confessed in the official dispatches of their enemies, and consider how much they aro also favoured by no/ tune, we cannot bring ourselves to suppose that tli f iy will tarnely:suinnit to a handful of Invaders, and for eie'r, efface that' reputation they ac quired during the , last war. They then sheaved themselves strong and , „firm in adversity, .11 eaitinit'oir a yOke that oppressed ,them, and by their efforts giving impUlse' vigor and - vigr to a cause at that tithe in its cam' r tiencernent. Dl cult as it , is, owing to the vigilance of the Fre nc h, f or Lie people;in:Pne province of Spain, at the present ,snoment, to know what is pasiing in anot her, s t i ll !life gallant defence of Mina and his hardy Gate. i+ cdollot be unknown to the Galicians, weithet:oan thcetample .be :lost on them. tri f Spaniards, in every province, seem to have , been taken by surprise, so completely had they been lulled into the idea that the invasion would not take place, in' which they were confirmed by the apathy of the Government and the absence of preparations. The storm has , however burst upon them, and they already see the effect of its ra vages. It must be clear to them, that the object of the French and their Allies is not to alter their institutions, but to humiliate and degrade them, by divesting them of every atom of national inde pendence, and reducing them to a state of base vassalage. No one can deny that Louis XVIII.'s predecessor, Buonaparte, possessed the ability to deceive and cajole, in a most eminent de gree, and perhaps he evinced it in Spain more than in any other theatre of his conquests. As soon as he had subdued a kingdom, or a province, he immediately recurred to the arts of seduction and deceit. With this view he began to organise the several branches of the Administration, or dered public education, agriculture, and_industry, to be encouraged and protected, anxious' that the inhabitants should consider him their friend and benefactor. On the very same principle is the Bourbon Prince now acting in Spain. The feli city anti happiness of the people are always on his lips, breathed in every dispatch ; yet rend asunder the Veil by which his real design is covered, and it will be seen that degradation and shame follow every movement of his armies. Buonaparte told tl►e Spaniards he was about to regenerate them•, and make them happy ; the very same professions does the Duke d'Angouleme now make. On the first invasion, the natural distrust and sagacity of the Spaniards prevented them from being the victims of a most treacherous policy, and now the second is commenced, we trust they will not allow themselves to be deluded and betrayed. [NEW TIMM . ; The Irish Government has acted wisely in fol lowing up its resolution to prevent the dressing of the Statue of King IViWarn ; not because the ceremony in itself is otherwise than laudable, but because it has been adopted as a measure of - (ac tion to shew defiance to the Government, and to promote irritation among the people. Whatever course of policy may be eventually adopted' for tranquillising that unfortunate country, the au thority of the law must in the first place be up held with a strong hand. Neither Itibandmen nor Orangemen must be suffered to dictate to the Constituted Authorities.—A late Dublin Paper pretends, we know not with what accuracy, to give the secret pass-words of the Orange Societies. It states that of the Orange I degree to be Beth-horon, and that of the Purple, (which is the higher degreed to be Makkedih— words which are found in the tenth Chapter of, the Book of Joshua ; and which Seem 4.4/ refer' to projects of vengeance on the part of the persons who employ such significant terms. For ourOvin part, we trust that there is no foundation for such : ideas ; but so long as secret unions of this bature, exist ; iye may be assured that they swill ,give cause of , alarm ; and, that such SttitoONOLS se the above will find ready listeners •and wilting believers. .D 414 T itt 11$' .3 The Russian Manifesto, judging by appear. (lures, has not succeeded in giving more satisfac tion to some of those on whose behalf it pretends to speak,' than to society at large,egainst whose rights and reason it is directed. Symptoms break out, in certain quarters, of something like displeasure against the St y Petersburgh chin, for assuming an identity, or rather a proximity of opinion, between the British Minis ters and the if oly Allies, with regard to the Spanish war; and truly, it seems not . a little wonderful' that Lord' Liverpool, who, in the face of Europe, had reprobated the attack on Spain as a breach of the law of nations, and had deprecated its commencement as equally wick. ' ed and unwise, should now be held forth by a grave Court logician, as not having differed with the, despotic Sovereigns of Eu rope 4 ‘ respecting the causes of that war."-- Whi; Lord Liverpool and Mr. Canning de glared solemnly and repeatedly, that no cause of war With** Spain existed : they affirmed with as : much distinctness, as truth, that no foreign Power had a shadow of right to require from, the Spaniards a change in their constitution —that its defects (let them be ever so flamer- , ous) ought to -be remedied by measures adopt.., ed in Spain, and not beyond her. territory ; and that the principle on which the arbitraryH monarchies defended their interference in Spanish atraira—viz. the illegitimacy of any reform not originating with the King himself (that is to say, not Originating In en impossible manner)---,w it s in direct hostility to those principles_ On which the British Constitution had been framed. There never was (we mean it with all respect) a snore pregnant mixture of folly and effrontery than ap.; pears throughout the whole of the Petersbiirgli Manifesto, and we are welt pleased that the binet of England partake the public sentiment which it bas.excited. The. Dublin Et'ening Post of Saturday last, the 12th of July, informs us, that to a late hour on that day, there had not been any attempt to dress the much calumniated statue, or In disturb the public peace. Some credit has, it seems, been assumed on the occasion by the govern. ing part of the. Orange. SocietY, as if' their pro. clamations had worked this unquestionable good ; but perhaps there ought likewise to be taken into account a considerable addition to the Iguard on duty, a regular patrolling of the streets of Dublin by the cavalry, and a close attendance of Magistrates and constables, with every other accustinned indication of a resolute spirit in the King's Government, to enforce, the observance of its own orders,issued in the Novell). her preceding. It further appears, that the Magistrates of Belfast had issued a warning to gg riotous and tumultuous mobs," which, how. ever differently it might be construed by men of opposite parties, was supposed to bear with suffi c i e nt clearness, against the Orange outrages • hitherto sanctioned , i n that.quarter on July 12. What indeed, the Irish editors are to do with sech an Matto in their list . of periodical cafamitiesonay furnish speculation to the cur ious. A deal of stuff, tt? us unintelligible, is talked about a set of Orange pass-words, purporting destruction to their ene-I mies. It is to be feared that the rancorous feel ings both of Orangemen and Ribandmen will seek vent for themselves in mysterious and gloomy menaces, for which the choice of a pass word gives ample room, inasmuch as it. imposes on• the vulgar imagination of the cobfederates,in dulges bad passions at a small expence, looks big, and means intrinsically nothing. Whatever may be the fttry of the moment, Government has no chance of success in quelling it, but by a course of steady dignity, and, as an essential part of dignity, by immovable good temper. A watchful eye and equal justice will in the end do all that can be accomplished, with a people who unfortunately do nothing for themselves.--- ( Ibid.) [stostsusin roma If the Monarchs who have formed themselves into a Corporation, which has no other bond of union than the dread of human freedom, and no other object than to repress the energy of human thought and action, knew their own interests, or regarded the feelings of their victims, they would carefully avoid every attempt at reason ing, and refer the general scope, as well as the ,occasional determinations of their policy, to the sense of absolute power, and the assump tion of an inscrutable and infallible will. Should we feel less of indignation, or of horror, at the, atrocities of a robber or a murderer, if they were accompanied by a dissertation, impudently at tempting to reconcile violence and cruelty with an anxious regard to the welfare and happiness of mankind ? Yet of a similar nature, and attended by an equal success, are the argumentative essays, which to ,the weariness and disgust of mankind have laboured to vindicate the armed inter- ference of a foreign Power with the internal Government of Spain. We yesterday laid before our, readers a choice specimen of this sort of essay, purporting to be an Expose of Russian Policy, and bearing every internal mark; of an official. origin. We will now advert to some of its leading topics as a full jus tification of our comparison. We are told by this semi-official document that the alarm which the Holy Alliance had conceived from the state of political feeling in France was its strongest motive to employ a French army in putting down the Constitutional Liberties of Spain. A military enterprise was deemed the Attest means of putting the people of Fiance in goed humour with their ; Government. To satisfy their thirst for martial glory at the expence of some other nation, was, it , - :essential to the repose of ranee andllY the. tranquillity of the world. Mightr, ,and-sagatioua, Altmarchs, in , whose eyes 0 4. people.' of France 11,1 . e. fis wayward children, and: the :people of., Spain no. better than worthless insectsl The ,CongresS. did indeed 46 display: profound views awl Inky .elevation of mind,", whets it discovered that to divert from every other other tnfsehlef or the Jorantitto papnlation I! rauce,,it,was Only necessary, to employ them its bunting , ~ e ngaging, ,atstF destroying the Sects and reptiles Which. . : peOple:,the aulal „..The French nation ~is we know, fond of -military glory, but the glory to dazzle its' _imagination and confound Its. judgment. must .be ,a glory such as no Duke d'Angou'leme can achieve, and such as no Hun can boast of having permitted. The.confessinn that the invasion of Spain was chiefly intended as a toy to amuse the French people, places in the strongest light its ,cruelty and injustice ,towards the invaded coun try ; whilst it must excite a still higher degree of indignation and contempt towards their Go vernment amongst those for whose diversion it was so wisely contrived. (MORNING' HERALD 3 , Those who advocate the cause of servilism hi Spain regard the fate of that kingdom as already d ec id4. SQii , that the event is so near, one way or the.. other—for if the Spanish Constitu tionalists have the force and resolution to wea ther the present crisis, their success would be more probable than their , failure is at this moment —it wo uld be as useless as , imprudent to indulge in conjecture. Let it then be supposed, merely • for argument's sake, that the confidence of those t tri e Ce mu w h o o rn r t ws ea s il t ude is well-founded, and that either fly or make an uncon ditional submission —Are there no difficulties r rfe , : , : i tial i tieldgi s w atr i e l e i ting the interests, indeed the foreign rights, of this country; We throw all con sideration of the Spaniards out of the question, and suppose the absolute Monarch and the Inquisition the French army immediately evacuate Spain ? Who could be so infatuated as to expect it ? The French Government and its Allies know well that the restored order could not st and the first breath of public discontent, with out the support of a foreign force, and their leaving c itto rs i edo its fete w ould only prove the folly of the ou ted towards Spain equal to its injustice. They will at least, observe the consistency which Slone can rede em the invasion from the union of contempt With reprobation. The French then, there is little doubt (always assuming, for argu their nat'nt'a s al th at success is certain), will still stick fast in SPaio. It is easy to conceive the farce t ha t may he played on the aCCASIOR. The French congratulate F er di na nd on the restoration of his rights, and the Spanish Nation on the re itoration of Ferdinand and the inquisition,--- . and then propose to depart, their mission be ing fulfilled. • F er di nan d cannot part so soon with his good allies, and entreatsF that a portion — P erha ps the whole,_should remain with him, in order to secure t h e new ly recovered bless ings. to himself and his People. his Royal ifesrennoctlinGteovernment, as request is of course complied with,—and, now, Spain becom es a s much the patrimony • of the the province of Alsace. There is an example most happily in point.— h t e nts pre w su lt m ol e e d sa t le hat they will. .They'tnay be emperor of Austria as much King ofw i the Two Sicilies us be is of IlungarY ? un i;: r i et t o hi !. Majesty's Government patiently en. territory to the Crown would be io.etr oot , t h oug h not in name. it is t r an o s f fer Fr o a f ne t e lt ? e Spa n ish able to avert it by some moms which the expe. Hence ,of public aff a i r s, and the resources of negociation might f urn i s h, but which are , no very easy to be even imagined by the mere lookers on. Possibly it is the conviction that the British Cabinet will strain every nerve to prevent the occupation of Spain, after the war,. by the _French, that has given rise to reports or surmises in the Paris Papers, respect ing Morillo's acting from English suggestions, and what appears still more improbable, the opening of communications with the Cortes at Cadiz. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSI ow- Housr.—A case of rather a curious kind came on before the LORD MAYOR and Alderman Covi-on-Matula7. - . A member of a benefit society summoned the stewards for refusing to pay his apothecary's bill. It appeared by the complainant's statement that he was very ill, and being unable to send for his benefit society's doctor, he called in a neighbouring apothecary, the charge of whom the society refused to pay. The Loan MaYoit said the articles bound the stewards to pay the apothecary's bill, and that if they thought the obliga tion an oppressive one, they must make new rules for the pro tection of the society : GUILDHALL.-.-UTTERINO BAD SILVER.—ThaI. Knight and Lydia Stevens, apparently working people, who were in .custody at this office on Saturday, but remanded,' that the Soli citor 'for the Mint might attend, were brought up for examina tion yesterday before the Sitting Magistrate, Mr. Alderman BROWN, charged with uttering base coin, knowing the same to be counterfeit,—From the evidence produced. it appeared that the prisoners had disposed of several counterfeit sixpences at several small shops in the city. They made no defence, and were committed for trial. BOW-STREET.--SIIARY. AND FLAT.—A few days ago a gentleman applied to Sir R. Birnie, for a warrant to appre hend a Mr. S., who, he said, had contrived, with no small degree of ingenuity, to trick him out of a horse he happened to have for sale. _ _ He advertised the horse for sale, and was applied to by this Mr. S., who said it was just the sort of thing he wanted, and agreed to give 25/. for it, he (the complainant) agreeing to take the animal to a livery stable at Chelsea. Ile rode the horse to, the livery stables mentioned, where he foulki Mr. S., and alter the compliments usual between well bred persons, the latter drew- forth a purse, seemingly well lined with sovereigns, for the purpose, as complain ant supposed, of paying him the price of the horse in good hard cash; but Mr. S. paused for a moment, and observed, that. he should wish the stable-keeper to try the paces of the horse, and examine him a bit. The stable-keeper said, that according to the rules 'of dealing, that was not necessary, as there was a warranty given. "Oh, very well," quoth AIL S. and pocketing hispurse , invited the complainant to accompany hint to the. Man in the Moon, a public-house hard by, where he said he would pay him. When they arrived, Mr. S. with great sangfroid, handed, by way of payment, a bill of ac ceptance, which complainant, on inspection, found was five months over due. lie rejected this with indignation, but Mr. S. refused to give him any other kind of payment, and he therefore walked back to the stables to take away his horse, observing, that " there was no harm done." In this con clusion, however, he was a little mistaken ; for, on arriving at the stables, he found that the !tomb had, in the interim, been taken away ! He hastened back immediately to the Man in the Moon, in the hope of finding Mr. S., but he also had vanished,leaving complainant nothing,in lieu of his horse but the before-mentioned bill, which remained on the table, but which be had since ascertained, as indeed he thought at the time, was not worth a farthingt lie had been unable to find hint since, although he believed be had then some scent of him, and he wished to have , a warrant against him ; or perhaps it would be more advisable to take up the, stable-keeper, who, he thought, was, implicated, and make hint produce Mr. S. - Sir it. said it appeared to be a gross trick, but he .did not think.he could well grant a warrant. The complainant might'bring his action upon the bill. The.compleinant said, the parties whose names were upon it Were net worth Powder and shot. Sir ;Hi IlticetE said it was of no use to bring up the stable keeper without ; the other, nor indeed.. either of them singly. The eemOlitimint.might, if he choie, ende a vo ur to fi n d M r . S. and give. nun la charge to a conitable, and then the stable keeper could be made to appear also. . • - but l O o lg t , t s h a i i n d g he fu w r tchuelrd follow e e h a e d ard v c ft the a matter. werthy Il w i l a i l:l6ac a trrc t i te :4 l Pl4 v il i t o e la a t t a to t r h n e ey p W e l r i s o on w o as f a ch g a ir r i g o ed r a l3 7e na ek m air a 'Ann Chancier, was again examined, but no further evidence was heard, and he_was ordered to enter Into recoizance* to • the amount of :MO/. for Wit appearance at the Sessions, and all the witnesses were bound o ver t o prosecute . Ha R TTOX-GADEN.— IVilliam Davis was charged with car , tying cm, in flreenhill's-rents, a private distillery, and the charge being made out, was convict e d in th e p ena l ty o f 3 01. and, In default of payment, to six months' imprisonment in the House of Correction. ' Richard Coding, a drayman in the employ of Messrs. Coombs and Delafield, btewers, was charged by one of the toll-collectors at Ball's-pond gate, with riding without having reins to his hones, or any person on foot to guide them. lie was convicted in the penalty of ten shillings. Robert Jackson, Joseph Thompson, and Thomas Spicer, three carters in the employ of Mr. Rhodes, were separately charged by the genie' person with riding under similar arcurn stanceii• and each was convicted in the penalty of five shillings. AIARLBOROUGTI,STREET.—(EXTENSIVE HOURER.V.)— Samlscl lirenand, who stated himself to be a native ofArnerica, was yesterday. broughtto this office, charged upon suspicion of having committed an extensive,. robbery, under the following circumstances : Mr. Le Grand, a foreigner in the suite of the Count St. An tonio, stated that he lodges in the house . of Mr. Garnet, a linen-draper, No. 111, Marshal-street, Golden-square, where the prisoner also occupies an apartment on the second floor.— On Sunday morning last Mr. Lc Grand had occasion to go a short distance into the country, and did not return until Mon day afternoon, when he found that his drawers and portman teau had been opened, and property to a large amount, con sisting of bank-notes, sovereigns, and valuable trinkets, had been carried off'. lie immediately applied to this office, and Clements the officer was instructed to investigate the matter. Mr. Le Grand said, that amongst the property lost there was one very valuable diamond ring, given as a present to hiui by the Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia. Circumstances of suspicion were strong against the prisoner, and he was remanded. LAMBE T il-ST lIE E T.—Yesterday a case of considerable, in-. terest occupied the attention of the Magistrates, MATTHEW WirsTT and J. if AItDWICKE, Esqrs. A lady of the name of Mary Potter, the wife of Mr. George Potter, an eminent tradesman at Poplar, being brought before them, harged.with having feloniously taken a bill of exchange for 3001. . The facts of the case are these :—Mr. George Potter, the hus-. band of Mrs. Potter, applied to a person of the name of West, for. the purpose of making purchase of some annuities ; an agreement was entered into, and the bill in question, drawn by one Pen nell, was accepted by Mr. Potter, at two months' date from the 9th of last May, for 3001., as in part payment of the purchase so made ; subsequently, however, to this, it was discovered the' annuities had been previously assigned over to other persons, that the drawer of the bill was in the rules of the Bench, who had employed one of the turnkeys of that prison, named Peck ham, to negociate it, and he, Peckham, retained it in his pos session, under an asserted advance of. 1(101. upon it. When the bill came to maturity, Peckham lodged it with Mr. Bennett, for the purpose of presenting it for payment; it became slue yesterday, and on Mr. Charles Bennett, the son of Mr. Bennett, presenting it to Mrs. Potter, she made a snatch at she bill, and. tore off the major part of it, which she kept, leaving only a small piece at the corner in the presenter a hand. This a ct formed the ground work of the present proceeding. The Magistrates agreed that the case amounted to a felony, and that unless the bill was returned the. party must be com mitted. 111 r. Potter then surrendered the bill, stating his intention of indicting the other parties for a conspiracy to defraud. thtiort-HALL.—A bedstead-maker, named Davis, was brought before L. B. ALLEN, Esq., charged with having as saulted several females the night before in a very shameful manner. A Gentleman who caused the prisoner to be apprehended stated, that as he was walking along the road at nine o'cloclron Monday night, he saw Davis and two , or three other young men tumult some young -women indecently. Davis appear ed to be the ringleader of this scandalous sport which is now, it seems, very much the fashion amongst idle fellows about town. Mr. ALLEN . ordered him witind bail, or he should be corn, Davis said he had a wife and child dependent upon him. would starve if he were sent to prison ; and the Magistrate in the course of the day tined him 55., and he was then dhicharged. Or igia of the Lord Advocate appearing covered, —Sir THOMAS HOPE was Advocate to Charles 1. Three of his sons being at the same time Lords of Session, it was thought indecent that he shouJ4 plead uncovered before them, which was origin of the privilege the Advocates kty, ever since enjoyed. SUMMER ASSIZES. SALISBURY, MONDAY, JULY 14. Before Mr. Justice BEST and a common Jury. molt v. METHUEN, JOY, AND JONES. This was an action for false imprisonment brought by the plaintiff Bane, a cheese factor and saddler, of Castlecomb, in the county of Wilts, against the defendants ; two of whom are in the commission of the peace, and the third, Jones. is constable of Castlecomb. It appeared that the plaintiff in the month of March last was out shooting rabbits, and on the same morning the widows of an uninhabited house, belonging to a tradesman of Castlecomb, named Taylor, were broken by a discharge of gun-shot. Taylor, suspecting the plaintiff was the author of the mischief, 'applied to the defend ants (Methuen and Joy), and on his oath they granted a sum. -mons, to which the plaintiff did not appear, nor to a second summons that they afterwards issued, upon which they granted a warrant, which was executed by the defendant Jones ; and the plaintiff was accordingly taken into custody', and carried before the Magistrates, who, after hearing the evidence of Tay lor and a lad named Ifillyer, convicted the plaintiff (under the Act of the Ist of the King, for providing m certain cases for the summary punishment of persons committing malicious in juries on public and private property) in the sum of 12s. for damages, and I7s. costs. The plaintiff, after the further de tention of an hour or two, making in the whole an imprison* ment of about 30 hours, paid the amount of the penalty and costs, and was discharged. For this imprisonment the plaintiff now brought his action, and on his part it was contended by his Counsel (Mr. Gaselee) that by the Act in question the Ma gistrates had no authority to issue their warrant for his appre, hension. This being, as appeared by the warrant, only a case of suspicion, they ought to have proceeded (upon the summons being neglected) to have convicted the party, and if the penalty had not been paid within the time specified in the act, then the warrant might have issued. Evidence was called which established the fact of the plain. tiff's imprisonment, and the payment of the penalty anti costs. Mr. Serjeant PELL (with whom was Mr. Wit.nr), on the part of the defendant, put in evidence the conviction of • the plaintiff; and contended that no case whatever had been made out against the defendants, and the plaintiff ought therefore to be nonsuited. The act gave an appeal to the Quarter-Sessions ; but as none had been made, he had a right to assume that the plaintiff had been guilty of the offence of breaking the windows with which he was charged; and the Magistrates bad,• upon their summonses being disregarded, done that which was the every day practice of Magistrates in similar circumstances, all over the kingdom. The argument of his Learned Friend (Mr, Gaselee) was, that the Magistrates had no authority to issue a warrant, as this was a case of suspicion only, and he (Mr. Serjeant Pell) would have admitted that there would have been something in it if the conviction had not been put in. • Mr. %VrtmE followed on the same side. After hearing the arguments. of Mr. GASE LEE and Mr. Wit.r.rasis, in reply, Mr. Justice BEST said that if the case had depended on the act of Parliament, he should have said the Magistrates Wert: not justified under that act in issuing their warrant. The ques tion, then, was this—Were they justified under the circum stances of the case by the general law ? He was of opinion that they were. If a Magistrate issued his summons, and the party did not choose toattend to it, or to inform the Magistrate of his inability to attend to it, he might issue his‘warrant. Mr. GASE LEE begged his Lordship's pardon for the inter• ruption, but he was in a condition to prove that the plaintiff' had a reasonable excuse for his non-attendance on the sum mons, which would entirely repudiate the idea of any contempt of the Magistrate's authority. Mr. Justice BEST said he' was speaking to the case as it appeared in evidence ; but if the Learned Counsel, had any evidence to show that the plaintiff had a reasonable excuse; and that he offered it in proof to the Magistrates, he (Mr. Justice Best) would be ready to hear it. Mr. GASELEE admitted he could not carry it to that extent. Mr. Justice BEST said that, undoubtedly this was a very important question, but as he thought the Magistrates were justified under the general law (for which he cited the authority' of Hawkins), he 'Would act upon that opinion and nonsuit the plaintiff, with leave to move the Court above to enter a verdict for the plaintiff, with 40s. damages, if his opinion should not be sustained by the judgment of the Court of Common Pleas. The plaintiff was accordingly nonsuited. • A Lady of the most engaging appearanceoewly entered into her 17th year, the daughter of a. respectable feuar in the neighbourhood of Brechln, lately attracted the attention of two amorous gentlemen, the one a bachelor of 70, and the other a widower considerably above that age, both very 44 forbidding men," but very wealthy. With kind words and liberal presents they corn lady's affections, and many an angry loolc pletely succeeded for a time in di v iding the young and bitter word was exchanged by the hoary rivals during the contest. Fortune at last seemed s u w e i c ( t l , 7 ( v ie e d r, , during wtlo ~h id s e l l i a o y u s s e arei to favour the bachelor--he obtained the lady's I t m h d ese every o co rd n e se r ni, for and he le r en r t ec i eTtron t . n " Bu se : :e l 'nnight. " betrothed im p i a ay r im a d t ee i o illi n , s In d a t l h t e e c r ea h vr i r g eilei t id l iti e g ihnoef i rni‘ d itooon f dtta i illyee dangerous." in ro us." readiness, T I'e altar pre o; (Scotch Paper.) MELANCHOLY CASE. An Inquisition was taken last night at the Salopian Coffee-house, Charing-cross, before G. 11. GILL, Esq. Coroner, on the body of Adjutant-Lieutenant WiLLIAAIS, of the Hon. East India Company's service, who , arrived from India on Sunday night, for the be nefit of his health, and was found dead in his. bed on Monday morning. —Verdict—" Natorat Death." COURSE OF EXCHANGE, July 15. Anatolian% Ditto, at Sight . lt B Rotterdam l2 iv, Antwerp l2 it Haniburgh • 88 4 if 1.7 z Al tona Paris, 3 Day's Bight 2i 90 0 •Us.. Ditto ' . 26 10 t Us. Bourdeatiz, ditto Vrank fort on the Main &wield , Cadiz , k B5 Effective Bilboa i . , Barcelona ..... :mi.. 34 Prrolt. , * 4 ieville ~.. Gibtaitai Leghorn •••. Glei , m% ... ..... ~, 43 --Venice, Ital. Liv 2B 10 Slaita 45 ------Nar10.•..• ...... 89 Palermo Lisbon ' Oporto ItioJaneiro ,.• ZS Dublin .... 9i Cori; Biyet Ceut. BULLION. . , . Portugal (fold, in Coin ' 4.. 4.0 0 0 per 014 Vortign Gold, in Bus ' 3 17 t; Ntw Doubloons New Dollars Sileer ill Bars, Standard . 0 u 0 AIARRIEI). On the 7th inst., at St. Andrew's, Holborn, by thaffpv-, Robert Black, the Rev. William . Intim Baker; Ititatrik °l' Lower. Hayford, and Curate of Bucknell, in the County, of Ox ford, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of theiitte Mr.'Johtt,PAPTI of the High , streeti.OxfortL - • • DIED. At Clough liall, in the .County of statford, on. the Bth of July, after a severe and painf u l illness most sincerely and de servedly regretted, Sheherd tattnersley, Esq. XI I . On Tuesday, the Bth inst., after a g and painful Mess, in the 39th year of her age, sincerely ragretted-byaltwholgnew her, Caroline, wife of Richard Bramwell . , of areek.street, Sotto, and only daughter of Charles et,Chelitoe.. On the I Ath inst., in his 76th y ear , Mr. pent, ti' Paternoster.. row, bookseller. . . Ai her house, tValnot.place, Lambeth,, on Saturday, the 12th inat.;ltiri.. Ann seaward, in thaoath-year of her age. - N Printed Anal l'illaibitra . for the XT*PARYsO4, ; at di! 6 1); ( d OFD rig - Srpiiitt lip 41 IN Vito I4ITAIR4II nit iii tau Ce