The Sun. — London, England, 1823-07-04 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOUWNALS. DAILY .Extruels from the blunting' Papers', July 4 ['rim ribees Twe docutnenti brought by the east rrirtais from. SWitierland, throw a melancholy and curious light' upon, eneh other.: One is a positive dis avowal from the Swiss GoVernment that any; at- . tempt has been made or threatened' in'any quarter against the independente of tlie CrnitOns the other an official statement of the measures ac tually forced by . the Holy Alliance upon the party which disclaims its influence. Nothing can be more: melancholy than this;' for it proVes that the unfortunate Swiss are not merely Hec tored into ati unworthy sYstentby foreign tyrants, but that they are alive to the magnitude of their' own degradation, and a'shamed' of acknowledging to' each other, or to Europe, the extremity of outrage which they have endured. The restraints and penalties thus dictated by military despots, and adopted by the once-resolute HelVetians, are aimed at two classes of offenders—the refugees from States reduced to foreign'bondage; and the public press. Such enormous encroachments on• the rights and feelings of mankind,are not,it is true, withouta precedent. Buonaparte set the example ;. and for the crime of setting it, was destroyed by those who now tread obsequionsly in his footsteps. But upon us, as Englishmen, it Ia incumbent to mark the design which such proceedings mani festly indicate, and to prepare ourselVeglor their inevitable issue. Here, too, we have the con duct of Buonaparte to guide our fears, and to shape out a course for our enemies. Buonaparte made to our present Prime Minister, Lord Liver riool, a formal lemand that he would muzzle the Press of England, just us the Holy Mlles have at this moment imposed a Censorship upon the Smiss. Lord Liverpool refused, in words, this wickedness ; but he prosecuted Mr. Peltier for saying of Buonaparte nothing'half so severe as was a few tnOnths afterwards pronounced against ilrat Usurper in every speech of the same Lord Liverpool, and of his Colleagues. Now can any man in his souses doubt that the end of these at , tacks on the free agency of nations under every connoting. be an experiMent on that of the British nation? 'Wherever tire Representative Govern meta exists, we find that it is' inveterately as snuffed either in its principle or its practice.— Throughout the whole of Italy, in Spain, and Portugal, the name and groundwork of freedom are the things attacked. En Wurteniberg, it is the chief defence of Liberty—the right of warn ing men when she is endangered ; and now in' Switzerland a double war is waged, not against the liberty of speech alone, but against the F acted privilege ,of sheltering tire houseless and protecting the persecuted exile. At last, then, it will be given up, that the invasion comes close so our own thresholds. 'rite Minister who does not act Upon suCh evidence is unworthy to be counted do not say among the StateSmen of a free country, but —among her meauest citizens; Ile can neither understand the present crisis of Eu rope, nor the use or meaning of a balance of power, nor the actual position of the British EM pire, nor the general history of mankind: We have reason .to think that some members of the existing Cabinet t! the queation in its true co lours. The' other free stutes . ot Europe are th e rta , toal 'outworks ,of B r iti s h liberty..• Let them be successively (nay, we might call itoimUl ' taneously) demolished, and where the next breath will be attempt e d it I'S not difficult to guess.' Tifti'risit elms.] The French Papers of Tuesday readied our office p yesterday. Th e y are ut t er l y d est i tute o f any thing of hnportance. They do' not contain a single article of the smallest interest. Bru - ssels Papers to the Ist, which we received also yester day, markedly Shaw the system of despotic terror influencing the minoe states or the Conti nenl. itzerhted, once the land of unpretend- Ing liberty, and a refuge for the persecuted of all nations, is now turned into a prison-house by the Intrigues of the bonded tyrants of the noly. Al liance, and all foreigners, in fact f proscribed the soil. The decrees of the Helvetice government against those unhappy visitants will be found in our columns ; they are evidently levelled against the French and Italian refugees—principally the latter, through the menaces of Austria—and will cut off all hope from the Spaniards too, if Des potism should triumph within the Pyrenees.— The balance of power in Europe is now gone. Russia and the holy Alliance, like the rod of Aaron, which swallowed all the others, have de voured all the minor powers of Europe; they have now neither stability nor independence ; they are at the mercy of Russia, Austria, and Prussia. Unmitigated and universal depotism is the object of the three Northern Powers, They are confederat4 for no other purpose ; and until that baleful object be accomplished, they will never cease their menacelt 0-r intrigues. ter land is now their victim, The French Funds on Tuesday closed at 88f. t9sc. [uoartitio nenALD.] Tuesday's Paris Papers reached us fast night by express. The Monitcur contains a bulletin, which details the operations of the two-French corps, bearing upon Cadiz. Some part had been anticipated by unofficial intelligence—and on tln whole it can scarcely be said to, convey any thing important. Thu vanguard of Gen. I3ordesoult was on the 2lat at Xeres, two days march from Cadiz, and , the Spanish General Lopez Banos, irlio had evacuated Seville, with the design of joining Villa-Campa, was prevented by a move ment of General Bourmont, retreated on Badajos, after an attack, in whicli he lost, it is said, 350 men. The bulletin, moreover, states that the Constitutional troops disperse and disband them selves in large numbers, whilst the inhabitants, un the approach of the French, all declare for the absolute King. But even these of ficial documents are not to be trusted. — They present the grossest inconsistencies — for instance, it wag stated two days before that upon the removal of King Ferdinand from Seville, the troops of Lopes Banos had all abandoned him—and Chat the tortes had lied front in - the utmost haste and confusion—pressed by Gimeral Bourmont. How does the fact prove General Bourmont does not enter Sevilla at on— General Lopes Banosf wbose troops had all de serted him, forces his entrance into Seville, passes two days there f and evacthites it, bring ing away with Wm' the product of a heavy cohtribution. These are gross contradictions, which take away all credit from the French 'accouhts. The absurd statement of the en trance of Bullasteros into Catalonia is ab scilutely negatived by these Papers: He still retreated before Molitor, into Murcia, having dispatched three battalions to Ali Cant. The Journal de Toulouse, an Ultra paper, rea proaches Eroles with having, by his misconduct, allowed the escape of Minn, in defiance of the remonstrance of a French Colonel. \V hether, from some misunderstanding, or. because he can do nothing better, the Chief of the Faith has given up the pursuit, and stood still at Belver. Zabala, another Chief, who wished to change sides from the Faith to the Constitution, with his followers, has been arrested and imprisoned at Segovia. Of Mina, it only appears tilt far from seeking refuge in the Seo d'Urgel, he moved with his accostomed activity and freedom. ENE,,Y TOMS.] The clear and perspicuous statement of the Chancellor . of the Exchequer, on Wednesday evening, gave general satisfaction yesterday in the City. Consols for the Account opened at Sit, and closed at .894. - By Express from Paris we learn that the price of the Itentes still main tained itself; on Tuesday they were at 88f. 80c. Sothe great English capitalists have already reached' that capital, and otheri are about to proceed thither, to,, be present at the bidding 6r the new French Loan. By re ferring to the map of Spain, it will be seen that there is not a. shadow of hope remaining' for the Jacobins' of that country. At to the impudent attempts'of The Times to bolster up‘their cause; they are now quite laughable from their utter in' credibility. ft gives Morillo ten thousand men, and Ballasteros twelve thousand. Now, an in. .tercepted letter of Morillo to Sir Robert Wilsob described his forces. as weak and wanting every :thing ;..and as to Ballasteros, if he ran away from Vttlencia with I,ooo' men that Were capable of standing against the enemy, he must be, what we ei ny. do not think himr, a despicable coward. That he may have Had somo,:thoWsands of half-armed Conscripts is probable enough bat we tee' that he did : Cot dere,to• face the French . with them. It must be remembered, -that he had retreated all the' way from Biicay to Valencia. In that large and po. pulour city,- the capital of a rich province, , it was to have beet supposed he would have made a stand ; but no. Valencia stands on the Guada , abandoned that river, and retired be. hind'the Jucar, which falls into the sea twenty , five miles' further to the South. Here he had formed magazines at Alcira. 'Elie French General no sooner reached Valencia,' than lie sent on , a. detachment; which - attacked Ballasteros it Akira, took all his magazines, and pursued him twelve miles' to San Felipe. —lfery the' road divides, the left branch leading by A Very to A li eente, and tharigh t , branch by Alirxente to the mountains w hick bound the province of Valencia. These mountains the French alcended. to their summit, still driving , Balleste. ros, and weraleft, by the last accounts,,at Fuente la Higueirat If we . look toward Cadiz, we find that there is not a vestige of an army In the field to oppose Generals B o utmout and Bordesoult ; the former of whom had destroyed the army of Lo. pez Banos, and the latter had c a p tured. even the baggage of the Cortes. There is a miscellaneous assemblage of militia and other soldiers at Cadiz ; but that place' is neither armed nor provisioned,. and must soon fall' when once attacked.- [stoarmto curaosticr.t., l The Government people express great alarm respecting Ireland, and rumours of all kinds are at present afloat, such as that the militia are to be called out, &c.---In our extracts from the Dutch Papers there is an article stating, that all the English Officers - in the Netherlands have been ordered to repair immediately to this country. We presume this must alto have reference to tile alleged apprehension for Ireland,— Whether Ministers really feel what they express is a clues . tion which we cannot pretend to solve. Indeed, their whole policy vith respect to Ireland is too mysterious for our comprehension. It is obvious that the system followed in governing that country, must necessarily keep nearly the whole of its itn tnense population in a state of wretchedness, which ran only be partially relieved by disease or the :,word'. From every thing beyond the palliative Ministers' have always shrunk. The claims of the people to' law and government, are as no thing with them in comparison with the claims of a clergy without flocks, and existing merely for the enjoyment of revenue: As the system, there fore, cannot be changed, and disease has not stept in to extricate them from their embarrassment, they are no dqubt prepared for the other conse quence. One would imagine, therefore, that that which must have been long looked forward to as inevitable, could not now create any real arum' It was happily observed by Sir Philip Francis, that we dislike nothing of tire Catholic Religion but these who believe it in lretand. If this ob. servation was just seven years ago, it' applies to have tenfold force at present, when our Minis tars have been. exerting themselves so powerfully to continue the Peninsula under the dominion of Priestcraft and the Inquisition. If Ministers really hated Catholicism,. they would strive to enlighten the Irish people, and to render the Protestant Clergy more efficient. The very Catechism of the Church, for whose sake Ireland is sacrificed; has never even been translated into the language of the peopte; and is therefore inaccessible to the great body, of them. But the value of the domination would be less, were the number of those who share it increased. The Church would be less valuable It it had more members. The most valuable of all Cures is that in which there is no dirty to discharge, and when the Church of Ireland' possesses livings only, without either places ot worship or flocks, it will be the most valuable of all Churches, The existence of a place of worship, and o f folloWers, however few, demands from the revenue of the incumbent a deduction for his Curate's wages, which in the other case would of course no longer be required. It is possible, therefore, to reconcile the love of Catholicism, in the abstract, with the hatred of Irish Catholics, and a zeal for the Protestant tstablishment i with a dislike to the increase of its members: In a few days, we suppose, we shalt be better acquainted with the designs of Ministers, and the cause of the lan guage now held by their adherents. IMOUNING POST.] French Papers to the 2d itst:reached tts last night by express. They display little novelty ; but the Monitatte contains a long Bulletin from the Major-General. Guilleniinot, 'dated Madrid, June 2-5, which achlt some important particulars to the accounts previously received of the late :Military operations at Seville and its vicinity.— . It is now admitted that the Constitutional force under Lopes Banos,-which had been estimated at only 1500 men, amounted in'reality to between 3000 and 4000, well provided with artillery, and that its movement upon Seville was combined with one on the part of Villa Campo, who had advanced as far as Uteria to join it, when the approach of Bordesoult's column- compelled him to retire to Ronda Without effecting his purpose. It also appears that the contribution raised by Lopez Banos froM the Seville Counter-Revolu tionists had not been re-captured - , as had been'as serted. It is now said not to' have exceeded 200,000 francs, besides shoes and clothing wanted for the use of his troops, and did not fall into the hands of the enemy, who wits only able to over. take his rear guard-,. from whom 350 prisoners were made. At the time when this took place he was marching towards Iluebla, where he ex pected to embark for Cadiz. Finding himself, [ however, closely pressed', lie is represented to have thrown himself among the mountains, in the direction of I3adajos, which is' occupied by,a powerful garrison. Bordesoult's vanguard, it, was calculated, would boon the coast opposite Cadiz on the 23d ult., but the' siege of that place' it practicable . ; unless the Isle of Leon, defended according to the lowest computatiOn by. §,OOO regular constitutional troops, should have been previouily oteapied.- Ballasterosi after sending threelattalions to garrison Alicant, had moved with the remainder of his army into the kingdom of Murcia; Such are the statements contained' in this official Bulletin, but the little. credit , to which the assertions of the Major- General a're entitled, is clear from the fact that in his 13th Bulletin he bad "officially announced " that the Constitutional treops of 'VillaCtunpaand Lopez Banos, drown back towards' 'tondo"; having been informed of the odions manner in which the King had been removed' from Seville, had dis persed themselves, and abandoned their Gene rals." Now „what does' he state in this new bulletin, and. that in less than a week after the other, so that he' can hardly plead want of me mory ? Ile states that Lopez Banos, whose army, according to his previous assurances, had disbanded itself on the 14th June, appeared on the 16th with , about 4,000 troops before' Seville, carried that place by' force, and maintained him self there two whole dayS, notwithstanding the propinquity of two, reach divisions ! Ile states that Villa Carnlm, whosarmy had also " dispersed t itthead to i u t s t e i l e f r ' a ' , s d u a t y l s o r ilf g o o rliv a s stoppedc oin igt sa march, and compelling it to retreat. Ile has thus completely peeved to the' world that truth is an ingredient of no importance in the formation of 'ail Ultra Bulletin, and that whatever gratifies the feelings of the moment may be crammed into it, without even taking the trouble of preserving an appear mice and still less a character of veracity. FOR THE . SUN. SUICIDE. Mtt. 1 i nlv a-44u a►► age like the present,. when the mind is enlarged by wisdom, and Strengthened by experience—when gothic bar barism and superstitious ignorance are little known but by name, it is devoutly to be wished that our law books should be defccated.of every thing that disgraces them. Happily, on a late 'occasibn, the appeal of death by an individual for murder is expunged, and the verdict of a Jury, in the name of the DING, is made definitive. , 'rhe example is mer ciful, and ought to be followed in cases of obvious insani(k. , Who can read the circumstances of a son that shot his father, and immediately after himself, and say that it proceeded from malice aforethought, 'or that it amomited to the black dye of deliberate ,murder? The fad , is evidence of lunacy, which, trr the honour of modern law, founded in pure . reason, has long been so considered. Ease happened:. a.' few years back equally :sh►ocking► A tailor in the Rolls-buildings, sit ting with his wife and two children, took up a ittlife, walked to his lookingilass, pulled• off ibis neckcloth, turned round, and seized his wife-by the chin,. cut her throat, and Men his 'own, for which an inquest jury found him a Lu natic, unlike the verdict in Maddox-street, which obliged the Coroner to order a savage burial of 'the suicide's body, when out of the reach of hu man punishment; savage indeed in a public street. So horrid a sentence and execution, known only in the darkest times, reflects shame, disdain, and censure on the practice, and demands its aboli tion in times enlightened, together with the trial by, ordeal, , or fire and water, by battle r or single combat, which are now obsolete, as a pretended but false appeal to. the Divine Spirit, W favour the innocent, or condemn the guilty. Such an appeal is an insult to God,. which ignorance, more than , brutal, cannot excuse;. and blessed be the amending hand that corrects and destroys it. AN 01,1) BAR.R.ISTER. COTEOIII3OB NuutsT.—Yesterday an Inquest was held at the Penitentiary, Millbank, before U. GE LI, EN, Coroner, on the body of Mary Knight s a convict, aged id, who was disordered. The Ju yr being sa tisfied with the evidence returned a verdict of—" Med by the vieltation of God through the rupture of a blood vesseL'l SWITZERLAND. FRANKtORT, Jll2kE 25.—Foreign journals have for some time past taken upon themselves to circulate, with surprising perseverance, all kinds of reports, which sometimes have even an appearance of authenticity, respecting a pretended change which threatens from without the political existence of Swit- Serland. No impartial observer can be deceived with respect to the impure source of these malevolent reports, and will see in them only the envy and vain intriguer of restless and discon tented spirits. Howeeef, that those friends of the country who May, perhaps, not be initiated in the political relations of the times, may not be alarmed by these reports, it is, perhaps, ad visable to give to all the faithful Bernols, inhabiting the city and country, the official declaration, that alI the reports lately spread, and which announce that the independence of Switzer land would be threatened, are entirely destitute of foundation ; and that Ott this point, as well as on that of pretended marches of troops, said to be on the point of taking pl ace , t h ere i s no thing which can authorize just uneasiness; but that, on the Contrary, there is every possible reason to depend on the con tinuation of the friendly dispositions of the Powers towards Switzerland. The independence of the confederation is so lemnly insured to it, by former treaties. It duly appreciates the value of this treasure, and each" of its members, as well as the whole body, will constantly endeavour to gain, by a fi rm and tranquil attitude, the esteem of forei g ner s , an d the faithful attachment of their own subjects, without suffering themselves to be deceived by dark intrigues, or by the insinuations of malevolence. BASLE JUNE 15.—The Helvetic Government has decreed the following measures with respect to foreignets : " Art. 1. No foreigner shall fix his legal residence in the can-- ton, unless he has previously obtained permission. " 2. Every foreigner is obliged to give notice to the police within 24 hours after his arrival in the c a nton. 1 " 3. Foreigners who after their arrival in the canton shall desire to remain sh ore than three weeks, shall apply to the Di rector-General of Police at the Alien-office. " 4. Foreigners who shall reside in the canton without being authorized, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of 500 florins, and to two months' imprisonment. " 5. Keepers of - furnished hotels, innkeepert, and house. holders,. who shall have lodged foreigners without permission, shall be liable to . pay a fine of 1,000 florins, and to three months' imprisonment ; in case of a repetition of the offence, the pe nalty shall be doubled." In consequence of the report made on the printing of politi cal 'writings, the following decree has been passed " Article I. No person shall sell, or cense to be printed, with out the previouo license of the Council of State, works relative to foreign policy. "2. This licenie shall not be given till the MS. has been einunined to see if it contains any thing reprehensible. In both cases, it must be Signed by the author and the printer, and de posited in the Chancery. 3. The author, printer, of bookseller, who shall trantgress this order, shall be brought before the tribunal, where they may be condemned to a fine of 1,000 florins, and a years' im prisonment. The penalty may be increased, according to the contents of the writing, as the seriousness of the circumstances may require." FiIANKFOTLT JUNE 26.—1 t is not only the Italian refugees who have been Obliged to leave Switzerland and seek an asy. lum elsewhere but. similar orders have been given'to several Governors and foreigners frorn the North, with the injunction to depart as soon as possible. It seems that all these persons are Included in a list of suspected foreigners; which list has been officially transmitted to the presiding canton by the Mir nister of a' g+eat Power' to the confederation, and this by the express orders of his Court. This rigorous measure has been induced by the opinion of some foreign Governments, that there are in Switzerland meetings of Carbonari, in which political subjects are dismissed, and the chief purpose of Which:is-to ex cite troubles in Italy. DUTCH AND HAMBURGH PAPERS'. BAT iviA, FEt. ft —We have received news .frotri that Don Juan Antonio Martine, the new Governor, sent by the Constitutional Government of Spain, arrived there in the month of October Ittst with the troopt under his command, and had been received with genefal tatisfbetion. , Tranquillity has since been restored' in the Colony. ItOTT7iItDa3E, J ifr E 27.—Letters from Antwerp, of the 26th, say, thatit report is in circulation; that all English offi cers in the Netherlands are ter leave the kingdom in 24 hours, and repitifto England, where they would rectivelpublic orders. —( liotwelayi Courant.) BERTA*, JUNE 26.—0 n the 27th Man thelittle town of Wellichati on the Oder near Frankfort, the Church, the school, 231 dwelling houses; 26 barns, and 230' stables were reduced to ashes. This is the fourth time that this town has been' de stroyed within 40 years'. Pr.TERSIRTROWRINE 10..+-Notwithstanding all that has been said against a journey of the Emperor to the frontiers, it is still reported that his Majesty will visit the second army in Bessaribia. Count Wittgenstein, the Commander of it, who is now here, enjoys 'the Most distinguished favour of his Ma- . jesty. He resides in the.Tagric Palace. Ile will return to his post in a few dart. 260 ships have already at-lived at Cionstadt. M. Otto. Von Kotzebue will sail in a few weeks on a new Voyage round the world. The ship intended for this cape dikton is live times as large as the Kuria, and will be manned by 100 marines. The chief object of 'the present voyage is to make a most correct and complete geographical and scientific survey of all the countries that he visited on his first voyage. COPENHAGEN' ' , JUNE 21.—1 n the present conjuncture, his . Majesty has ordered that the Decree of the 4th June, 1803, re lative to the conduct of merchants and commanders of ships, shall be in force. Consequently all ships belonging to hiir Danish' subjects must be provided with Latin maritime passes for every voyage to. harbours and coasts on the Wot of the Line between Calais and Dover. LAW INTELLIGENCE. 001.111.1.'" OF . CHANCE RV . , JULY 3. AMU VIAN LOAN.--JONES V. KINDER. At , r*. T 11E11E1.1, mentioned the above case this morning, with: the view of entering into the merits; but as Mr. Attorney- General was unprepared, the Learned Gentleman declined proceeding until Saturday, when he expressed his intention to avail himself of his Lordship's indulgence to bring it on on that day:, • COURT' OF KING'S BENCH, .Tt-rx ASSAULT IN , lIOND.STitI.:Li'. WOOD V. WAINWRIGHT. The plaintiff; an Officer in the Army, brought his action against the defendant, a merchant, to recover damages for an assault. • Mr. , C. P/lII.LIPS was Counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr. .BitoIIGIIAM for the defendant. Or the 15th of November, the plaintiff was on horseback in Bond.street, when he was met by the defendant, who struck him two or three blows with a stick. The plaintiff' dismounted, and. the defendant repeated his blows, which produced a con tusion on the scalp. The wound required a surgeon whose bill amounted to 51. In the course of the evidence, it appeared that the defendant WILY incensed against the plaintiff and a Mr. (Rivera in conse quence of disrespectful words which he understood' 'they had applied to his condUct and character. Before the assault the defendant told Mr. (*vent, whom he also met in the Street, he would so tllsfigare Mtn in five minutes, that his friends should not know him. The assrnik and the details of the attack having. been proved in evidence, Mr. littouelianr said, he was instructed to offer that apology which was due from one Gentleman to another under the ca cutustances of the ease. Mr. PHILLIPS, in behalf of his client, was not willing to accept the offer. Mr. liitountwt then contended that it was a case which did not call for damages. - If the Jurygave the amount of the Surgeon's bill it would, be sufficient. 'lle Jury retired, and on their return found a verdict for ine/. daiitages. 111DOUT V: LLOYD. AND CO, This .was an action of trover, by the Aisig.nees of a bank rupt named Lewis, to recover a quantity of tallow, to. the amount of 120,000!., which was alleged to have been conyerted by the defendants; who are bankers to their own use. _ The plaintiff's case was conducted by Mr. Scattr.ver; Mr. W. E. l'auNTON t and 11Ir . ADAms; and the defblidalits' by Ali. SOLICITOR-tit/CERA', Mr. F. Pota.ocrici, and Mr. It' appeared in evidence that the tallow in qtieitiOn was in fact the property of the defendants, and 'the :gfnutil en which . Mr. Lewis's assignees claimed it as belonging io,bis estate was, that he heel signed certain receipts, by which he purported to be the owner of the tallow, and the qulatiOn was, whether this, which was mere prima theie evidence of ownership; was sufflcient to over:rttle' the det i enduntle'olaint, as :the real owner; of the property ? , The LOUD ClitEr .JUSTICE WatiitOpinfon that Mr. Lewis, the bankrupt, could only be consittered as trustee of the pro pert'', and therefore had no title to give his assignees a right of action. The plaintiffs were therefore nonsuited, with liberty, how. ever, to take the opinion of the court, on motiuu to: set Aside the nonsuit. MR. DAVISON'S PICTURES, On Saturday last, the Pictures -of Mr. ALEX. , ANDER DAVISON - were sold by auction, at Mr. STANLEY'S Room, in Maddox-street. Mr: DA'' VISON had determined that none but - the works . of British Artists should find a place in his gal lery. This gentleman, however, did not limit his patronage to the purchase of those works of the English school which had already acquired' .celebrity ; but in 1806 he commissioned certain artists to paint for him some new pictures. Be left the free choice of the subject of each pie- . ture to the respective painters, with this iestric- . tion only, that it should be taken from British history. The pictures which Mr. DAVISON ob.' tainedy in consequence of this order, were ten in' number, and they formed the chief attraction or Saturday's sale. They were as follows :- 1. Henry Perry, Earl of Northumberland, presenting Mar- . garet, the eldest daughter of Henry the Seventh, to James IV: King of Scotland, at Lamerton, near Berwick. By James' Northcote, R.A.—This picture, with the exception of the face of Margaret, is not a kind to merit particular notice. It did , not Meet with a bidder at 10 guineas, and was therefore passed by the auctioneer. 2. The Earl of Surreyresisting the unconstitutional Attempts to question by Quo-Warranto the Tenures and Liberties of ti n y ancient Baron*. By Henry Tresham, R. A.—This work ap... peered to be, in point of merit, on a par with the former, and as nobody would bid for it, was also passed. 3. Elizabeth, Queen Dowager of Edward IV., in the Sanc tuary at Westminster, receiving a Deputation from the Coun cil of State, sent to demand her younger son, the Duke of York. By Robert Smirke, It. A.—A very meritorious work : the composition good, and every part is finished with care. It sold for 92suineas, a price by no means adequate to its worth. 4. The Deputies of the Privy Council offering the Crown to Lady Jane Grey. By Singleton Copley, R. R.—lf this had been produced when art was in its infancy in England, it might have been esteemed, but it can acquire no reputation for the artist in the present day. It was pas se d f or want o f a bi dd i ng. 5. Mary, Queen of Scots, after her Defeat at the Battle of Langaide, embarking for England to seek the Protection of Elizabeth. By Richard Weston, R. A.. Not the best of the Artist's productions sold for 75 guineas. G. The Conspiracy of Babington against . Queen Elizabeth, detected by her Minister, Sir Francis Walsingham. By Ar thur Devis.—Elizabeth is sitting in a chair in the centre of the picture, and is pointing to the portraits of Babington and his associates. Walsingliam is standing, by her side, and some female attendants are at her back. The head of Elizabeth is the worst part of the picture; it is that of an old man ; we cer tainly never saw any thing like it on female shoulders. Wel : sir g am's head, which is copied from Houbraken, is well paint ed; tu.: his figure is stiff and formal. The Artist has not be stowed sufficient pains on the other figures in the picture ; the ,theises and furniture are, however, • execu t e d with great care. Sold for 200 guineas: 7. Sir Philip Sidney Mattalls wctinded, ordering the water which was-brought to him, to be first• given to a wounded soldier. By Benjamin West, R. A.—The figures are crowded together in confusion. The heads appear to have been copied from carvings in wood : those of Sidney and the Wounded sofr dier are particularly objectionable. Sold for 100 guineas. 8. The Wife of the Neatherd rebuking King Alfred, who had taken shelter in her cottage disguised as a peasant, for having suffered the dikes to burn which she had submitted to his care. By David 'Wilkie, B. A.—One of the least known of the works of the celebrated artist, but it is, however, scarcely inferior to his more recent productions. In the centre of the picture, Alfred is sitting with his bow in his hand, which he has been preparing for use. To the left, a little behind, are the neatherd and his wife, who are supposed to have just come in with some fuel: The woman it in the act of reprimanding Alfred, and a girl in the left corner of the picture is stooping down and blowing the burnt cakes with her mouth, In the back ground to the right of Alfred,.are a young peasant, a _portrait of the artist, and a female, in conversation. The figure of Alfred is well painted r, but there is nothing in it which would lead the spectator to suppose that he was a remarkable man. We should, indeed,. imagine that Wilkie would find it difficult to paint a hero. The . remaining figures in the picture must be viewed with unmixed admiration. The anger of the old woman is aernirablY expressed by her countenance. Nothing, too, can be better depicted than the anxiety , of the girl to save the burn ing cakes. flue picture way bought for 500 guineas, by Messrs. Hurst, Robinson and Co., the ptintsellers. Si. The Death of the Earl of Chatham, by Singleton Copley, R.A.—This picture is well known to the public,_ having been recently exhibited at the British Gallery. It sold for 1,000 guineas. 10. Stephen lanigton, Archbishop of Canterbury, showing to Cie Barons of England the Charter of Liberties which had been granted b y King Henry I. By Arthur Devis.—This i s a much better picture than the one by the same artist, which we have before noticed. Independently of its pictorial merits, the painting is interesting on another account—namely, that the persons of the Barons, are represented by the portraits of their existing descendants. It was purchased at the extraordinary price of 2,000 guineas, by Mr. Horton, who likewise bought the last picture. It was one of ' the conditions of the sale, that purchasers should pay in addition the auction duty of 5 per cent: The price actually paid for Mr. Devis's picture , would, therefore, amount to 2,205/. At the sale of Garrick's pictures last week, Hogarth's election pictures were bought for 1,7321. So much for the discrimination of our collectors. In addition to the above mentioned pictures; several fine works.by Gains... borough, 3lorland, and other celebrated artists, were sold by Mr. Stanley, and generally at low prices.. OLD BAILEY, TRURSDAr, JULYY 3. The trials of the whole of the prisoners having been gone. through, sentences were passed upon them. The following ten prisoners were sentenced to death :-- Samuel William Miles, for forgery; John Wellford an& Charles Gibbs, for burglary ; 'William Wells, for housebreak ing in the day . time ; Robert Rowe, for stealing in a dwelling house upwards of 5001. ; and John Henderson, Sarah' Hasle wood, George Bevis, Hannah Hutchins, and Charles Evans, for stealing inn dwelling-house. Three were sentenced to transportation for-life, viz., William Lanford (a lad of a very tender age,) George Davis, and John Fitzgerald. Six prisoners were sentenced to transportation for 14 years, viz. Elizabeth Biggs, Catharine Biggs, Sarah Dale, Martha Shaw, Ann Powell, and John Cook. Fifteen were sentenced to trantortion for 7 years, and many others received various minor punishments. ,The two prisoners, Wm. Bailey and John Thatcher, who were convicted of a con spiracy, were sentenced to four months' imprisonment in the house of Correction. SOUTHHAMPTON, JULY 2.—The Anniversary of the return of Lord Pottrsasov•rut to his seat, Hursthourn Park, in this county, Was this day celebrated With great re, jOicings. His Lordship attended Divine Service theAc was it. crowded congregaton. At the conclusion, the _people proceed ed in a body, attended by a band in . his Lordship s livery, to: the Park, where an excellent and substantial dinner had been provided for the inhabitants of the adjoining parishes. About -1,700 men, women, and children partook of his hardship's . hospitality, and were highly delighted, continually rending the. air with their shouts. Strangers were admitted at one o'clock,, and not less than 5,000 were present. But one sentiment per vaded all cl►isses, joy at Lord Poarsarov•rrt's return to his mansion. BIRTHS. On the 2d inst., in Wimpole.street, the Lady -of Lieut.. Colonel Boutchier, of a eon. MARRIED. On Thursday morning, at St. Giles's, Cripplegate, Mr. John Lake, of Fore-streetysurgeon, to Augusta, youngest daughter of the hit.o.4Nir. Joseph Dakcr, of IVhitecross.street. DMA On the 2d inst., in the 03th year of his age, the Rev. It. Freer, of eumborlaothatreet, Shoreditch. On Wednesday, the 3d mg., George James Miller, lt.N., eldest son of the late Walter ;Miler, Esq., of Highgate. 'On the Seth ult., at George ltobinson's, Prince d street, flank, Ellzabetil, youngest daughter of the late John Rotheram, 31.1)., of Neweastle•apon-Tyne, and sister to the late John Rotheram, M.P., Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of St. Andrew's, and of Captain Rotheram, IL NE On Friday, at Ftome from actual starvation, in consequence of 'a cance r near his throat, Mr, S a moa Allen, an eminent dyer ; highly respected for his strict honesty, simplicity of manners, and rigid adherence to his religious duties. Printed end Published for the PitoPRIETORS, et the St, X' • Orrtpr, Strand, by J. IT. CAUrcMits. 1