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THE. LONDON JOURNALS. SVI , RACTS FROM TIId: DAILY MORNING PAPERS, January 16, 18'23. [nitt•'rrsii ritEss.] AU Europe is familiar with the pretensions of absolute Governments to interfere with a nation aiiio dare to change their political institutions, pr, in other words, to effect a revolution. But audi alteram partem—hear and consider well the possible pretensions of nations who feel the necessity and hazard the chances of a revolution. It there is danger to a stagnant despotism from the fervid energy of a revolution, is there no (bluer to the experimental and delicate opera trims of revolution from the jealou3 spirit and hired armies of the despot ? [:yew T 1 M EL] The funds both in France and England cones tiuue to fluctuate within narrow limits ; but the gentral indication which they afford is that of The atrocious. violation of the French ter ritory, which we were slow to believe, is, we erne to say, but too fully verified. It is not 'Ojai. 'we should think much of a mere violation of the territorial limits, if occasioned by acci dent or in the heat of a violent coact ; but the object for which the Spanish Republicans penetrated into the French. Dominions was 9f a nature which we recoil from contem- plating. These cowardly monsters came to attack an hospital, in which their sick and wounded countrymen had found shelter—and they murdered the wounded men in cold blood ! he Times, speaking of this horrible unmanly rece of cruelty, says," the affair has been ami cably arninged."!!! We are to believe that the French Government has amicably arranged these IVO murders! The moral sensibility of this ex prossion is truly astonishing; but to suppose,that it is in the slightest degree consistent with fact, would be a libel of the grossest kind on the French Government. - [THE TIMES.I. The French Journals speculate upon the pro bability of peace or war, like our own. There of course, nothing certain to be extracted from them upon a subject respecting which no. thing is decided. The conjectures that we should form on the forthcoming incidents of the drama ar , 2 these.:—That the Spaniards will answer courage and firmness, and that there will be, in oonsequence, fresh menaces and new demonstra tions on the part of France and the Allies; but that no war will actually take place, till some tremendous event in the interior of Spain should seem to provoke the vengeance of those who have nothing to do with it—namely, foreign Powers. However, we are far from being Con falent in the verity of our predictionS. Our chief reasons for presuming that war will not be waged, are the extreme iniquity of waging it, and the much greater probability that it will oveftlirow the new Government of, France, and send the Bourbons adrift again, than that it will re y laye that bright orninnent of legitimacy, Fer dirmnd VII., in his nbmilute powers. It appears from the eY.planatiou given in these papers, that Constitutional troops cannot be said to have violated the French territory.. If they entered on any territory, strictly French, there certainly was no intentional violation. 'lke Memorial Bearnois, an Ultra Journal, states, that the.ter ritoiy on which the Spaniards entered, is common to both countries ;, and the very circurnstaoce of the officer asking for guides, seems to skew that lie was anxious not to give any ground of coin. plaint to the, French authorities. CMOI:NING CIUIONICLE.I t Appears that the Turks are not yet satisfied w the sufferings of the, poor Sciots. Trusting to flu. promises held out tt) them, and impelled no dot , ht by their necessities, some of the fugitives wici escaped the massacre returned to their forimi, where they have, fallen the victims of a second outrage, There is something truly ap. palling in the way hi which the effiirts of Greeks are spoken of in the Circular of the Holy. Allies. When men who are protected by no laws, who have sect» i ty for neither life nor property, stimulated at length by wrongs which exceed the measureof man patience, endeavour to emancipate themselves frond a set of ruthless brigands, and to obtain for thernst:lve* the blessings of GovernMent of some sort, the Holy Allies dare, in the face of the world s unequivocally to condonu the attempt. The end and object of Government is altogether lost sight of, and the only feeling in the minds ©f three Legitimates is the danger of the prece. dent of a re:Astance to power, however acquired and however exercised. It must be consolatory to the friends of free din to know that the !rripaitiartis, in spite of the numerous provocation.; they have received, have never yet sullied their came by .the excesses whieti Coo often follow in the train of revolutions. Indeed, so far from Meriting the abuse whiCh has lee►► heaped on' them in the Ultra Journals of Fran& and England, they are liable to the oppo site charge of excessive forbearance. It Is cer tainly a singular circu►nstance, and one which redou►►ds highly to the honour of the Spaniards,. that_tho Qonstitutionalistsshould have used their victory of the 7th July -with such moderation, that the deaths in consequence. of the rebellion are not equal to tire` number of sacrifices to the Bank of England in one [MORN, NG It ERA I.D.] Independently of what is called the territorial balance of power in Europe, the interests of this country are deeply implicated in the, eventual safety of Coostitutional Spain ; and, moreover, the hostility of the continental Powers, howev e r unjust the attack, is quite as natural as the sup port of, the British Government. There is no hatred so genuine as that which springs from fear, and snch is, the hatred of, the enemies, of Spain. Nothing can he marts true than the opinion cow , esed by the, American President, that Ow present struggle on the Continent is, a struggle for Sovereignty between the people ana those who are not the people. What, under those circumstances, can be more alarming, and therefore more odious to Governments that do en joy, or that xv‘iuld enjoy,absolute power, than the permanent establishment of a great conquest gained by the people? But if their hostility is natural, the support which should, and, we have no doubt, has been given by the Government of this country, is equally gratuitous. To preach up the English to a crusade against tyranny, wherever the standard of freedom is raised, would be quixotic declamation, and a disregard of the rights of other Governments, over their respective commu nities. But how does England stand with re spect•to Spain in her reformed condition ? There' is not a shadow of the cause of alarm to other Powers directed against her. [MORNING POST. We received last night, by Express, French Paperi to the 14th instant. The asserted viola tion of the French territory by a detachment of Spanish Constitutionalists,' for the purpose of surprisina and slaughtering some Royalist Re fugees, has given birth to much controversy amongst the different parties. By the Conslitu timid the fact is altogether denied. The Quotidierine, on the contrary, believes it in its fullest extent, and complacently expatiating on the horrors alleged to have been committed, ex ults in the idea that they will defeat the pa cific intentions of the Ministers, and must ren der war inevitable. " France," it says, 44 caw not avoid her destiny, that honourable destiny, to which it would seem she had only to .re sign herself to occupy .the first rank among the nations. Vainly had we expected. that the Spanish 'Revolution would have hastened to justify by its moderation , the 'prudence of our Diplomacy. It has followed its cruel and ine):orable instinct in violating our territory, to strike its victims : it has thus taken upon itself to undieeiVe those Statesmen who hid hoped to acquire over it that influence which can only I operate upon reason, and it has replied to our ise remonstrances by a double outrage against humanity and the laws of nations."—The Minis ters, however, do not seem to take the same view of the subject, for the Journal des DAats, dis poses of the question of the violation of territory in the following manner : ' " rumours which have been in circulation respecting the entrance of the Spanish troops on a part . of the French ter ritoryoieern to 'he explained away by the following article in the Memorial Bearnais.—(See Foreign Intelligence in another column of Tut Sus.) We see no difficulty in explaining the conduct of the Mayor's Adjunct. It shows the spirit w ith which, not the people only, but even the higher ; classes are animated in France on the Spanish question, and instead of exciting the surprise of the . French Government, ought to be receiv ed as a salutary lesson, and a prognostic of what might lie expected in a much more exterisive and dangerous degree, if war were declared against Spain. That Such an unjust and im politic course will be adopted, is•once more be come problematical. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Viscount de Chateauhriand, gave a grand . Diplomatic dinner on Sunday last, to which the Spanish and Portuguese Ambassadors were invited ; an „invitation which they of course accepted. This was considered the more remarkablo and important, as they had been excluded from the dinner given by the Russian Ambassador a day or two before. Many con jectures, were afloat on the subject, and the most : prevalent was, that it was a kind of ,public, pledge for the continuance of peace between the two countries, given in conse quence of , the arrival of .satisfactory intelligence from Madrid. This is in some measure corrobo rated by a statement in the Etoile. and Qtroti dienne that the Ministers had received by an ex traordinary courier the answer of the Spanish Government to the notes of Francs and the Allies, dated the 6th inst.. PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. (From the Miry Grr:ette,' The. 15.) It is extremely amusing to a bystander who "cares not a doit for either party to observe the consternation and commotion which Cohbett his excited amongst the liThigs ; angry, -disap pointed, mad, they rave and rage and vent their finite in ana thema and maledietion upon the itinerant freeholder and his thievish project ; and never reflect that they sire acaeseries to their aim Aherne, arid that Cobbett, all hateful as he is, has but, with " even-handed justice, Return'd the ingredients of the poison'd.chalice To their own lips." What man possessed of three grains of common sense but must have foreseen the consequences resulting from the fine of conduct the Whigs have pursued from the hour that the ter mination of the regeeci restrictions left his present Majesty at liberty to choose his Ministers , when his knowledge of man,. kind, and long habits of intimacy with the Whigs, led him to look elsewhere for wise and honest servants and counsellors ; from that moment have the Whigs been courting disgrace to themselves and ruin to.their country. Before. that period, the Whigs, genteelly speaking, kept themselves within something like decent bounds, for till they had some point to rest their hopes on ; but when they saw that the pritice whom they had marked for their own, whom they had bepraised till flauerY grew sick of itself, whom they had lauded for virtue till It was vice to listen, who they had extolled for wisdom to the extreme of folly ; when they found him too virtuous to delegate his imperial duties to the profligate associates of unbridled youth—too wise to sutra his great office to be tainted by faction —and far too prudent to drive front the helm of the state the experienced servants of his great' and good father, to make merit for those known only as the boon companions of' his own ltotirs of tightness, or as the Prince's friends, because they were the King'a enemies; than mark the difference of tone in these place-seeking friends of the people t all their idolatry wasted, all their high-built hopes of office faded into thin air,. disap pointed in their eipectations of cajoling their Severeign, they Make unto theinselVes a golden calf, and create a nerV Nip, the Sovereign Peeple 7 the Majesty of Mob—and thi s idol • they , have incessantly flattered and gulled and worthipped, until the using tiny have malls is too powerful for them to manage, and they receive from the work of their own hands, the re ward of their own deeds, disgraee and deiht. kis urged on all hands, and repeated to the,Yery echo that the Petition of the County of Norfolk (for it 19flica cob bett's Petition) is so notoriously disgraceful and dishonest that such principles in private life :would shut a man from the pale of society. Granted. Yet this petition, so generally execrated, does but ask the immediate consummation of that which the Whigs have been long preparing the way for, Give us the property of the Clergy," says the petition : Mr. Hume has been saying something very like this for some time past.-- Mr. Brougham was not far from the mark at Durham a few months ago. The Edinburgh Review, too, of this quarter, lends Cobbett's plan a lift. Mr. Macdonald, at the Fox and Reform Meeting at Ipswich, aided the cause when he talked of the vista of parsons and pine apples, and the.balance sheet of the Clergy. The Morning Chronicle is playing the same game. Every Whig print in England is seizing every opportunity of magnifyiv individual instances of depravity, in order to im 'press theisublic mind with an idea' of a large aggregate of„ crime in those they wish to rob. To what does all this tend, if not to the plunder of the Church ? And why condemn Cobbett and his crew for that of which' Whigs and Radicals are equally guilty, and which is alike infamous In both ? And yet, in lhe face of the hourly repeated proofs of the design of the party to pillage the inheritance of the altar, there are to be found, for the honour of human reason they are but few, Cle rical Whigs and'Clerical Radicals. If such men see the ten dency of the measures of their compatriots, we must give them credit for a self-devotedness, an immolation of their interests almost super.human ; if they be blind .to ,the certain effects which must result from acts so obvious, we must attribute .to them a stolidity which places them in the lowest scale of animal creation. It is hardly possible for them not to feel convinced that the aim of their political associates is the subversion of that church which they have sworn to uphold and knowing that, it is hard to reconcile their profession with their practice by any, rule of ethics we are acquainted with. I a soldier in a garrison were to collude with the enemy when off duty, he would be shot; The minister of the church is God' own soldier; to him is given to defend, not merely the tem, poral church and her patrimony, but the spiritual church, the minds, the morals, 'the souls of his fellow-men—he should never be off his duty, his business is holy, his responsibility awful ; if he then, unmindful of the trust reposed in hint, and negli gent of the' oath.be has taken in the nanie of his master, who is, and was,!and is to be,join with the common foe, and ta citly consent to the spoliatibn of the sacred charge which he is paid:.to defend, the: minds of his people, as well as the property of his order, can be deemed other than criminal?--criminal in the highest degree; in that he has betrayed his trust, a trust re posed in him by his God. That there is a powerful and ex tensive league formed against the Church 9f England it is im possible to doubt, and that the property of the church is in dan ger it is worse than folly to deny ; but danget does not neces sarily imply defeat ; on the contrary, the present danger may be the means of rousing into action the energies of hundreds' of able and good men, who now, with reprehensible Supineness, sit tamely, Aown in the flattering assurance that the church is in safety because they know it ought to be safe, and are con tent With an unostentatious discharge of their sacred duties, while the spirit that is abroad calls for a more active and ener getic line of conduct. It is not enough that the ministers of the church are exemplary in their lives and zealous in their duties, - ithe peril .of the time mills upon them to put on the .whole armour of faith, to tight the good light of their muter, to resit even unto death the legions of g odless inadelity, and save generations yet unborn from the horrors ill-conceal ed be neath the veal of liberalism and reform. Inactivity in such, a cause is crime. The effort alone almost secures victory. It is a labour of holiness, and the reward is glor3r, lire are far from attributing to all who ca ll th e m se l ve s Whigs a . participation . in the..guiluness of the faction r there are amongst them very many whom, while we pity and blame, we esteem and honour; we are not pointing at individual instances, but sliming theoonsequencea which foll o w , of necessity, from' the acts we condemn. To bnng the Clergy into contempt is the first step toward the subversion of the church. To slander .the King and his. Government is no trifling advance towards such changes, as honest men tremble to contemplate. That the Whigs are in the daily practice of these dangerous and cri minal abuses of our liberty is known to all Men ; it is there fore incumbent upon ever y honest niari. who has hitherto iden tified himself with the party, to exert himself strenuously to abate the abominable nuisances, which, under cover of Whig gistn, infest' society; and if he fail in his honourable endea voor, then Jet him rally beneath the banner of that Constitu tion, of which the Altar and the Throne are the Heart and the !feed. LAMENTABLE FIRE. On Saturday night, at about nine o'clock, a fire broke out at the farm called Blackthorn, the property of gENJAMIN FINCHAM, Esq. in the occupation' of Mr. JOHN ELSEY,. about a mile from Diss (Norfolk). The "fathily had. retired to rest, with the exception of a servant, whoper. ceived a light in the yard, and alarmed her master. At this time the neat.house was nearly consumed ; in which were four heifers and three calves, none of which could be`extricated, from their being tied up, and they all perished in the flames, The first object of Mr. Elsey was to save hii farn4,end the children were carried in blankets to a neighbouring house, but not before the fire had reached the thatch of the dwellinehouse. Many hundreds of people arrived at the dreadful scene from the neighbouring parts of the country, and the fire engines were dispatched from Diss ; but the ponds being frozen it ivas very difficult to obtain water, and the house %%,ith otlu build. logs were soon consumed : a barn standing near, however, was uninjured. Every e Win t was made, and the greater` part of the furuiture preserved ; but, most unhappily, these exertions were at. tended by a dreadful catistrophe: in the midst of the confusion a chininPy fell with a horrid crash, killed two men, upon the spot, and broke the limbs of several others. So diQtr,.ssing a scene has not been witnessed in that part of the country for many years. The "men who lost their lives were—John Gardner, a carpenter, who leaves a, disconsolate wife near her confinement, and four small children ; and William Tippell, a single man,' by trade a brush.,thaker, % , ,ho died instantly, his head being completety smashed and his limbs broken. John Browning, a car. pester, had his leffarm and right thigh dreads fully fractured ; Robert Parr, the sexton of the parish, who has the charge and management ofl the engines, bad 'one leg broken, and the other frozen ; and g young man named Slack, was ter» ribly injured. Many others were severely bruised, and from there being several hats left near the ruins, it was feared that the owners were buried beneath, but 'we believe they have since been found, having escaped at the moment of the citinnters falling. What adds to the horror of this dreadful calamity is, that doubts are enter. gained whether it was not occasioned by the devilish act of an incendiary; although, as Mr. Eisey had been in the neat-house with a light, it is possible a spark might have. failen,.,notwith. standing the c i rcumstance o f hi s not having open ea the lanthorn-door, of which he appears con. fident, M r , ,Lisey is a ye ry industrious farmer and a man very highly respected. None of the property was insured.---( Norfolk Telegraph.) LAW INTELLIG&CE. COURT OF CHANCERY, 155.16. EICICE lICRE IiARPUR, A ItANKRUPT. The petitioner was a solicitor, in partnership with a Mr. Evans. They had the estate of the bankrupt to manage—had declared a dividehd, and proceeded in the payment of it with some of the creditors. The assignees found occasion to take the business out of their hand?, and gave it to a Mr. Rice, who called upon the former solicitors for the payment of the kalance in their hands. Eicke and Evans produced an account showing themselves debtors on the money received, to the estate.. By this time they had disablved partnership, and some difficulties occurred as to the payment. An application to the Court of Chancery , induced them to consent to abide any order made by the Court for payment, supposing their convenience would be consulted. Mr. Evans died, which again frustrated the payment. A warrant issued to attach Mr. Eicke fot obeying the order of the Court, made agreeably to his consent. The petitioner now pleaded, that the money belonging to the estate was received by Mr. Evans ; thit the latter was so much in his (Mr. Eicke's) debt, that he had him under execution at the time of his death, for the balance of the partnership ac. counts, and that the disobedience, as well as the resposibslity, were chargeable, in fact, to Mr. Evans only. There were other allegatidns, affecting the obtaining preparation of the brief of consent, by which the parties were bound. The LORD CHANCELLOR'couId not understand what good reasons could be alleged to prove that' Mr. Eicke was not bound to pay the money, being, equally with Mr. Evans, bound by the order drawn up , under his written consent. As the peti tioner was out under licence' he would do well to enlarge the undertaking to return to commitment till Monday. in the mean time they had better try if it could not be arranged few Mr. Eicke to give security for paying the money by instal ments to Mr. Rice. Failing in that, which his Lordship could not anticipate, they were at liberty to mention it again on Monday. Some other causes were opened and partly advanced, the hearinEs of which were adjourned to differant days of the com ing week. COURT OF KING'S 'RENCEt, Jess. 15. RHODES V. PROCTO4.. This was an issue directed by -the Vice-Chancellor, to try whether certain bills of exchange, to the amount of 4,450/. were proveable on, the 10th of May,-182t, by the Assignees of Messrs. Sawyer, Tobler, and Companyi,under the Commission ofJoh n Soey R a ine , a biscuit baker, res iding in Napping, who became a bankruPt in that year.. Mr. STARK= having opened the cue, The SOLICITOR -GENERAL stated that the bills in q uest i on had been drawn and indor se d by Keine, and accepted by Jo seph Lockland, and were then , handed by Raine to Messrs. - Sawyer, Tobler, and Co. in satisfaction. of claim s w hi c h t h at firm had upon him. Th e bah were made payable at Messrs. Esdaile's, but before they be c am e due, both Raine and Lock land had become bankrupts. . Witnesses were called to prpve presentation of the bills, and their dishonour. 'The' bankruptcies of- the' parties were admitted. Mr. SCARLETT, on the part of the defendants, said, the first question was, whether notice of the dishonour of the bills was not necessary to have been given to entitle the holder Of the bills to prove them under, tue estate e and that the So licitor-General ought to have proved Raine was not to be Ibund. A second objection was, though Raine was a bank rupt,`yet his assignees bed - the management of his affairs at the -time the bills became due, and though the.bankrupt could not have been found, , yet that the holden; of the bills could have found, and-have given notice to the assignees. Ile tconten ded hought they tha l t i a i d t w a s an y tleieledhnuteyoonf thethe hesotaldteersef Raine,efthebills, to given notice to hi s ass i gnee . I t was, he knew, a great point if f h they eav agitated in the Court of Chancery, whether notice was neces wy to assignees ? Ile was not aware that point had ever been decided ; it was a point on which both the Lord Chancel for and' the Vice-Chancellor had, up to the present'period, de clined to give an opinion. ItAnight turn out that the pupae's were not bound to give • notice t o ass i gnees, if they did not know there were assignees. Another thing to be proved to the satisfaction of the Jury before the plaintiff could recover was, that they must give some e xplan a ti on h ow the bills came from the hands of Messrs. Ilodges. The last objection, however, was the most important ; it was that these bills were given to • secure money lent upon an usurious consideration. The man ner in which these bills came into the hands of Messrs. Sawyer. 'Tobler, and Company, was this :._Raine, the bankrupt, was a baker he (the Learned C ounse l) h a d h eard it said, indeed it had afrnost become a proverb, that a baker never made a fortune ; he believed it was toe with the exception of one, whom he had in his mind, web was exceedingly rich. The • transaction between Sawyer, Tobler, and Company, and Raine, was thie—Raine being pressed for money, had made appliha, tion to Sawyer and Co. for the loan of 1,0001. for which Raine was to pay 1,5061.; to olstain' this enorrhous interest allure con trivance was necessary what would the Jury consider of the . expedient of gettin ßaine to enter into an arrangement to al. low Sawyer and Company to ship goode to the amount of 1,6001. to Italy, selecting what goo& they pleased, selling them -for what they pleased, and taking a commission of 5 per cent. upon this operation, which was to be repeated four times before bills, which were to begiven by Raine fur this loan, should become due ? By this method they had an interest of 301. per cent, for the 1,0001, It was stipulated if Raine should repay the 1,41001. at any time within the 15 months, he might put an end to any further shipthent ; that was the first transaction._,. Raine did not find it coneenientao repay that 1,0001. f he soon wanted more ; lie resorted to the same parties a second time, when they advanced him 2,0001: he gave them a bill for 3,0001. at 15 months, and they were to ship goods to the amount of 3,0001. - in the same way as before. Upon the termination of the transaction the bills, in question. were given ; there was the 30001. for which he had given bills when he received the 2.0001. which, with the interest, insurance, commission. and other charges, made, up the 4,4501. The question then Was, if this was not usurious transaction ? lie contended it was a mere shift and contrivance to get more-than the legal interest, and he trusted the jury would defeat it. , BAXENDALE, Solicitor for t h e C omm i ss i on of Lothian%l deposed that the bills were proved under that commission by Messes. Hodgete Upon an attempt to put in a letter-from Raineto.Sawyer and Company, it became necessary to call a clerk of Messrs. Sweet and Stokes, Solicitors, for the defendants to prove sonic notice, when he was cross-eiramined by the Soetcyron-fittennah, and basted that Raine absconded before the commissiou, and had never surrendered. Mr. Comberledge swore that he was a partner in the house of' Sawyerand Co. in 14!ty, 1817; Mr. Sims a managing clerk i of Kahle, applied to their house f or a l oan of money, or ,rather to enter into a connection with their house, for several pur-1 poses, and no doubt the letters produced were received by Sawyer end Co. Upon cross-examination the witness said Sims proposed that the house of Sawyer arid Co. should ship goods on Mr. - Raine'a account. The proposition to ship goods came entirely from Raine--stains was in an extreme large w a y of business , hiving six South .sea ships, and shipping goods to St. Da min o, Italy, and var i ous ot h er parts. The shipping of the goods having gone on for some time and turning out dmadvan tageous, Raine was told Messrs., Sawyer and Co. wished the business to be terminated forthwith; Raine was requestedtogfie some security for the money Sawyer and Co. advanced, as well as for the probable lose which Might arise on the adventure. Raine upon this sent Sims to see how the account could be settled, which was done ; upon their receiving these bills, all other securities and paper were delivered up, and the goods that remained unsold were to be Sawyer and, Company's. The 1 whole loss which had resulted' to their firm, with the intere st upon money-aUvanced; exceeded 4,000/. At the. time of the arrangement there was no idea of Raine's being insolvent ; so fur Croat it that Sawyer and Company had further trans actions with him up to the day when he absconded. They, advanced him 1,2001. 'shortly before he ran away.- the whole of the transacti on of the shipping of: bonds was away.; fide, and not a colour to conceal ttry, And the charges would 'have been the same if n o bills had been accepted .- Hodges and Company held the bills as a security for money lent to Sawyer and Company, to the amount of 1;6001. After. Hodges had proved them under Locklatere commintion, the gave them back at the request of the assignees, upon a security, to account to them for the dividend. The commission was two and a half upon the goods sent out. The Sotactson-Gess Egan, in reply, contended, there was no ground for the chargenf usury which had been made—the first objection as to the notice had been dispOsed of by Mr. eicarlett's eecond:witness, who stated, Raine had. never surren dered to the Commi ss i on . A s to the second objection of notice to the assignees, he was satisfied the Court would say it was no necessary. As to the bill* being in the possession of Messrs. Hodges, that had been most satisfactorily explained, and there was as little in this as in the other two objections. — The only remaining point was as to the us ur y. T hat was 4 most extraordinary charge —the papers were not at all Moons .si.stent with the accountgiven by .51r. Comberledge ; th e goo d s were to be purchased o n t h e credit of ''Snwyer and Co. The Whole transaction was a regular commercial proceeding. Ac. .cording to'the testimony of the witnesses,. it was clear that Itaine was net the p oor b a k er which his Learned Friend had represented him to be ; there was not the least foundation for that statement, 110 V were there any reason to think that Messrs. Sawyer and Co. believed he was net in the most solvent cir. cumetances. Upon these grounds he felt assured the plaintiffs - would not be disappointed-in their expectations of a vardict iti their favour. Tbe Loan CfriEr jun , wr stated the nature of the goes. tion, and detailed the evidence. His Lordship notieed the se veral objections raised by the Learned Counsel for the defend. ants, he considered the question of notice to the bankrupt a s disposed of t iu consequence of his absconding. Upon the se cond objection, on the point of law, as to the necessity of nodal to the assignees, he should rule that it was not necessary ; hr thought the possession of the bills by Messrs. Hodges hail been fully "Planed. With respect to the remaining . and material question as to the transaction being bottomed in usury. till. was entirely a question for the Jury. The Jury found for the plaintiffs. Damages, 4,4501. OLD BAILEY, JAN.- 15. The Sessions commenced this day before the LORD Marolt . t the Loan Crtiir BlitoN, Mr. Justice ifor..notli, and*. Jusdce Buisebuou. ROBBERY OF THE MINT. 1 3 Wet. Pearce, a l a d age d 15, was i n di cte d f o r stealinc pieces of silver, the property of our Sovereign Lord the Kut in a certain d we lli ng- h ouse b e l ong i ng to his sa id M a jesty, wit, the Alint. • a lL ud ifFr. ovemb r lset witnes found considerable deficiencies in the bullion given cut for coinage. A plan was laid, in consequence, with 31t , PT; a2 .... lW k A l v in tk ran th in e idip s° el n d i :e a r a r ,J e m o i re o p e n Y h e e y ll r e o rn i f ch li th o k e ll e s w A , l i J s in e .. t A l tk i ß i i i i c i N u so b n e , D lVl t e ' licil a terb ; and Mr. Field, to detect the cause. On the 10th of DecerFn . the above mongers were all at work on the silver; 1114 . t _P5,, soner was occupied in cutting out the round blanks, to ne_! . i d terwards stamped. When given out the silver is weighedi_t_ again when it is brought back by the worlcnice. On thilnr. sion a deficiency was again discovered, and Field and Parker proceeded to search the men: The prisoner being in tus subjected to this scrutiny, there fell from him a tin bor;,"i th „ skeleton k e y s , an d a bl an k key that was waxe d over, heillf.; tended to take th e i m p ress o f t h e war d s o f a l oc k, so lte'r und key might be cut from the pattern. ()n him were la w • 13 silver blanks for crown pieces, weighing in allll mastr . and of the full value of 31. sterling. * R. Franklin, sen ., d epose d to the same effect as atat On the 10th of Dec. last he was on duty at the Mini, 80 1 4 :0 - 6 0 out 5391 b. 10oz. of silver ; when brought back IR en/. weight wass3Blb. fi oz . 10d wt . Wi tness commu nitatedem" ficiency to Mr. Atkinson. camber in respect of; these deficiances. Ott the .----- gee, • John Field an assistant at the Mini, was' applict i l im ie h l o lt pc .?; he stopped. the men and boys as they were . leaving the, m A and going from work, at the Mint-gate. He took th .: one r, into the moneyers' hall ; amongst them stood the Pr.,„,ds whom witness immediately separated from the rest. 1' ,1 7, 0 a hand was then in his great coat pocket ; and drawing his away, the tin box fell to the ground, and with it the k'; key and-the waxed h ey . Th ere was cotton in the bo% t° vent the sealed impression from wearing out: Witnnia, tried these 'keys to the stro n g h o ld s an d c l ose ts of the ~,A , and he found t " .that they would ! op en near ly every one of , On, further searching th e p r i sone r, 13 s il ver blanks r,,,,,5e covered on him. P r i soner answered the. inqulli? had com e by th e ,k eys ?" Jk by saying " that head d t ali as he came to the Mint." • Parket' asked him hew he rots blanks ? Prisoner replied "that some one, he suPP 3 " have slipped them into hiscket:" Mr. Atkinson deposed, that all the inoneyers of the cam. occupied apattment s i n t h at b u i lding, as serv ants elOceST" without paying for them either rent or taxes. Mr:Parker corroberated the evidence of Field. The assistant Solicit or to t h e. Mi nt sa i d h e d o ortoo t ar . minutes of prisone r 'S exam i nat i on before -M r .- oi l Magistrate ; that occasion p r i soner declared 1114 blarlow halt given him the keys. • The prisoner declined saying anything in his defeno no si The LORD CHIEF BARON baying very minutely su mo , up the evidence, the Jury found the p ri soner GuillY —D "'- John Davis, a lad of 11 ye ars o f age , J. Fro" 19 Ps--, AtiN J. Mailer, 17, were m i t to t h e b ar , on an indiettnent gloriously brraiking and entering the dwelling house ° tapagussiengLehvyisson door. with intent to steal. an the eee l t r2P e ° "rd lftYttjhCanecindulttldLlielei7l7:beda3tiatr:3d:aicoillti-h,tdit)eaeteinrii:iniknig'agv'he4ewaerby:sTrastedkriwiallt:thgnhbisYciseaPwt;rlinee'll-rll:':n:eiibgrj4:l4l:a his finger through a glass, which had bp tdi c ie n tir cu t t l , i b oeth y ch s: rar.,r;v. :to cofriwnuuaesragnrtettaeyilseigochtn:viertnneotein.fidrgi.tothLlNtilea:cm:wsz).etroheseehctutor sa sir w Davis . Moving the 14tohawnadtc p fi ro ni s g e t e r 'ut an or d ra h n avill in g fc' i r, r- d .l ; itne o sse n s a w fte e r re wa col n le oan ta t the e P I T p, e i ;y r i e dn i evidence , verdict, n t coo of wbrsed Cit iri' BARON, before pioceeding to OP :3 i t t h th a we t ouir b i e od h w a bn d e s im p ro n pr i, r e esth d s o ei u o h n i uo u r r n n b g ed 'ut to and the point of law might be reserved for the 12 J ds ills Lordship then recapitulated the facts detailed bkae. prosecutor. The proseeuter had deposed that he sa i L.lith on the other s id e o f t h e way, watching, as he supponor" intent to; prevent the other prisoners from being PTV ed. If the fact Was really so, then Mailer must be,,,,J111 guilty as' Da v i es and the other. **lt was important for uw el to to decide wh et h e r such was the fact, therefore, in ONO' 1 Mailer. The question then was, whether all three we", 1, 0 0; tI of assisting in t he b urglary; or, if not, th e n which ° ' t for of Darin guilt there could be no doubt. The 1 ,1 0 ; 4 10, culty that hi s Lordship was under, related to a dolllt.,l L oot mind as to wh et h er the burglarious entry , by the the finger in the .lay stated; was in law a sufficient entry' in this matte r t h e op i n i on of the 12 Judges would be nr.i 4 taken. a • The Jury, aft er a few minutes consultation .0.-- a r'2`lof Guilty a ga i nst D av i s and Fr of, and acquitted shit!!'' 0 ali..Levyson begged to retommend the prisoners te w i ;1 1 0 but the Chief Baron intimated that their otience was one ;ht 11 I called loudly for punishment, in order that the public na protected. • ir . JUNCTION O F THE raNGT.isn A ND . 9 liV. ft ' '• ' •,.1. CRANNELS.--So satisfacto r y ( say i a Corresponds—aid)p_i'. T the calculations produced on the • 18th ultimo, at that within one week upwards of seven hundred ' ilittrai, 4 ing more than half ,the .exponce of completing the 1 ' , were subscribed for. Several Landowners, whose s A oP., wit DI Parliament will be of the greatest importance to ,t 1,141 1 1: le sure, have sanctioned the scheme by subscribing 10/ev7 . o) ti One gentleman also .:.as nearly doubled that sum, toll, or Pi other gentlemen have taken from ten to fifty shares. 0 „ f oi t ; n sequence of the great anxiety to »Wain shgres, the -4, oci it tee, we learn, have reserved a certain number, to en a " 01 , sr., * 1 landholder immediately, interested, by taking five sna r tit e, "' I thus rendering himself eligible to serve on the CO 0 1 0 attend to the - Immediate and local interest of all cowl' his vicinity—f Taunton Courier.) ' . ' Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORSI Office, No. 112, Strand, by J. B. CausTAito* =mummer unmethately interested, by taking fire abl i .;‘, Is thus rendering himself eligible to serve o n the Comm ) . 0 4 t attend to the 'immediate and local interest of all once' I t hie vicinity---1( Taunton Courtier.) • . wt . 0 • 01 . 01 .1011111111144 COAL-MARKET, JAN'. 15. . ' ll Ships at Mark e t. ' Ships sold e j .5 Newcastle . 3i 44 3 of t°l,:t3 of v. o Sunderl an d - 0 —9 (hi ti BIRTHS. On the 11th i nstant, at Greenside-place, NO- Igll, of Charles Kennetty, of a son. N g'i At Orchard-house, Kelso, on th e dth !Int, itirS. it, a son. • MARRIED. ef , q ti On Tuesday,. th e 14 t h i nstant, at St. Pa:sera il, e fle w „ ,r -bY the Rev. Dr. Moore, Vi car , t h e Rev. J. :Aisl — , EA" of Leeds, to Anna Sophia, d aug h ter o tWilli ain TaY°' of -Frederick.plice, Hampstead -road. ..d DIED. 1. , At Coates-house, near Edinburgh, on.the 6th ins t ir Mr. Robert Cremona Boswell, eldest son'of • 'l' Esq. advocat e . itst , tv At Edinbtirgh,!on.the Bth inst., Lieut.-Colonel A•teb .j Ross, late of the RoyarSeots Fusileers. At Port Marlborough, Sumatra on the 12th of . 1 . 4 .,r510P - i Rey. Christopher Winter, .ged Ht e was a natite 7 00 0 nude - I'4l*am, Somerset, but had resided at the above s l . 3 9• At as Chaplain to the East India Company nearly sever } ;1 „ e „ •k ui On Sunday last, in Guildford-place, aged'22• %It; ti tlt wife of Edward Ireland, Esq, ot the Ilom 1 33 ,:, 5t pang's naval service, dautihter of the deceased oRr et :" son, and grandneice of the late 1)r. Rosz, Duet ` r ighte On the Ilth instant, Miss Ifooker, Seed 34, di" , agt . late Mr. 'William Hooker, of Friday-street. 'rt On. Monday, the 13th instant, at her apartment!' ' lw o street, Illackfriart-road, Alias Mary Hughes, late ' t ' N Sussex. 111 1 On Tuesday last, at her son's house, Globe-10 4 •fr vor Mts. Mary Colebatzh, in her 3 7th year. Ja ne. tb e t pi, On xVednesday, the 13th. e'ter I ,•• illness , tl• a on r , of John S. Taylor, Esq o f Gr eat J meg.stteetl •, a aged 34. late 11°- ti On the 7th instant, Mrs. Bethune. ividow , t`' Bethune, Esq. of Kileonquhar,. Scotland.