The Sun. — London, England, 1823-06-07 00:00:00

FRE LONDON JOURNALS. DA 1 Y Extracts from the Morning Papers, June 7. Tli E TIMES.] We understand - that dispatches from Seville, dated the Wth., have been received at the Spa nish Embassy, which bring positive assurances that neither the new Ministers, nor the Cortes, entertained the most distant idea of making any concessions to the French, or to the Govern ment about to be established by them. Nothing bad, in fact, occurred at that date to shake the confidence in Spanish courage and perseverance. It is supposed that "the arrival of thesedispatches has determined the fixing the day for a meeting of the friends of Spain, which bad been post poned in,consegnence 'of some artful misrepre sentations of the actual state of the contest. The French loan, whick we mentioned a few days since as in the contemplation of that Go vernment,' will, according to the latest letters from Paris, be offered for negociation without delay. Its amount is to be 23,000,000 francs of rente, equivalent to about 17,000,0001. sterling. Most of the eminent houses in Paris are preparing to make offers for the contract : among the names already mentioned, are those of Messrs. de Rothschild and Co., Latitte, Delessert, guer,llentsch, Mane and Co., and Laptthouze. It remains still to be ascertained what degree of support the measure will receive from the monied interest in London. It is, indeed, stated, that some of our most eminent merchants, who have willingly supplied the wants of the French Government on former occasion's, have refused, in the most decided manner, to take any shere in this transaction, on account of the iniquitous purpose to which the money is to be applied. The London house of Rothschild will probably participate with that of Paris In obtaining subscriptions for the new loan, and it is said that Mr. A. Monteliore, the brother-in law of. Mr. N. M. Rothschild, will form a list at the Stock Exchange; ani4 a similar proceeding, we hear, is to he adopted by Messrs. Ricardo, in conjunction with Mieville and Co. The tone held by the French Finance Minister, while the negociation is in limine, is extremely high. M. do Villide expects, it is said, terms nearly as favourable as could have been asked previous to the invasion of Spain. We, who think differently of the state of Spanish affairs, should conceive any , such terms as most improvident. The ITIO. ratify of the negociation is, we should think, not even defended by the contractors themselves.— (.lia.) [MORNING HERALD.I After two night's continued debating, a Com rnittee of Inquiry into the mysteries of the Chan cery Judicature has been refused by a majority of the House of Commons. If the Committee could by possibility create any alleviation of the suffering to which no small portion of the com munity has been, and is subjected, and to which the whole community is liable, this decision is much to be lamented. It is a monstrous circuits stance, at first sight that from the dilatorines s o f -proceeding in this Court, between 0 and 40 mil lions are locked up from the use of the right owners, and from the national industry. But this is nothing to the poverty, degradation, and suffering which it has inflicted upon individuals and whole families. The delays of a Chancery suit are become proverbial, and proverbs are rarely without foundation. A Chancery suit is absolutely become synonimous with torture. It is well known that it is made an instrument of oppression and extortion by the rich against the poor. NV here the parties cannot mutually agree in any matter of dispute under ne gotiation, the former threatens the latter with a suit in Chancery, and thus extorts his own terms. The great stalking-horse—the chevut de Wattle, vf those )) ho defend the present dispatch of business in Chancery, is the ability anti purity with which justice is administered. Nothing is more true; but it has little to do with the question. —Promptitude is a quality not less essential to British justice than impartiality, and is not less carefully and expressly provided in the charter of British freedom. It has. become a common practice to extend the inviolability of the person to the thing—from the Lord lligh Chancellor down to the Master of the Crown-OlTice.—' Another very weak and hollow answer to the complaints of slowness, is to ask the complain ants would they have a Judge dash through caases, without regarding the consequent errors, and the authority of . Lord Bacon is quoted, where he compares this dispatch to " prediges tion." But Lord-Bacon did not, by this, intimate that slow digestion, or none at all, was not equally pernicious. Putting extremes in this way is one of the anost feeble and disingenuous resources of false reasoning. But the plain fact is, that in order to relieve the suitors, and to make this tri bunal a protection not a nuisance—as it appears to have been railed by a high authority, the Chancellor jurisdiction, and with it, or course, the profits, should be divided. In the course of the debate allusions were made to the inclina tion to doubt which distinguishes the Learned and Noble 1't , r , ,00 who presides in this Court. The acknowledged soutidness of his decrees, the deep, and scrupulous, and fatiguing cen- Aid e rati o o wide)) he bestows, Is bilked a most valuable coin sensation :—moreover, there is no remedy that we see capable of being t s - plied. The, utmost, that could be obtained on this point--and it would certainly he something ,gained---would be that he should keep within hip own bosom, ids doubts of his own jurigments, after lie has once given them, which would, it is said, render apjwals less frequent. A decision of the Chancellor respecting Merrily property was adversely noticed by two Learned Gentle men. The case or cases on the same principle, are familiar to the public—viz. the refusal of en injunction to restrain the printing of Lord Byron's Coin, and Mr. Lawrence's Lectures; Bm. on the ground of their being immoral, and therefore not susceptible of the rights of author ship or ownership, at common law.—Mr. Denman quoted a decision ,its opposition to that of Lord , were zealously attached to the Constitution. Eldon. The question h therefore somewhat doubtful. It would follow from Lord Eldon's decision, that because a work is such that its cir. ciliation would be mischievous, therefore its cir culation shall be freed from the restraints which apply even to unobjectionable or valuable works. This is an absurdity beyond all question, and no less surely deducible from the decision of the Chancellor. It does not require the collegiate learning of Mr. Wetherell to know that, to de duce an absurd consequence from any proposition, is, in mathematical science, to demOnstrate its falsehood ; and it is not easy to see why that which holds true in pure science, which is but another name for pure reason, should hold equally so in law. how hard, also, the decision of the Chancellor must fall upon a repentant sinner wishing to call in a pernicious book—as in the case of poor Mr. Southey. It is not every author that is so fortunate as Mr. Banks, who, wishing to call back his two delicate volumes of " the Civil History' of Rome," once more under the paternal wing, was able to lay his hand upon them as upon so many tame pigeons. [mulls!' PRESS.] The determined spirit with which all motions for the reform of abuses, or for inquiring into them, is rejected, was displayed to every man's conviction by the result of Mr. Williams's motion on Thursday evening. The deplorable delay of justice in the Court of Chancery has been pro verbially the disgrace of English jurisprudence ; it is an evil which has called long and loudly For a remedy. It is unaccountable, that in a country like this, where the principles of equity are so fully understood, a Judge should find it beyond his power to apply them to the cases that come before him ; and that, in the course of a long life; a suitor in Chancery should be unable to •obtain the Chancellor's decision. There must be something radically wrong, and it is most lamentable to witness the eagerness with which the appointment of a committee for inquiry into the causes of an evil so flagrant was resisted. If any real obstacles oppose them selves to the speedier administration of justice, an examination by a committee should have pre pared the way for their removal. A defec tive system, though it cannot justify, may apo logize for the past. But to oppose investigation, and to intercept all remedy .for the future, is a parliamentary proceeding which it were a mockery of reason to vindicate. That a man should seek justice all his life-time, and go out of the world at last without obtaining it—whata on a Supreme Court of Equity is this! The whole proceedings are enveloped in the forms of procrastination and chicane. The lottery of law offers nothing but the benekial chance of a blank, and the rich wheel of equity never deals out its prizes till long after those to whom the tickets belong are laid in the grave. Mr. Wil liams made an admirable appeal to the good sense of the House ; his inferences were as impressive as his facts were unanswerable : the wilful abettors of the system complained of will have hereafter, the double guilt to answer for, of re wining the 'mischief and rejecting the remedy. Mr. M. A. Taylor, in support of the mo tion, brought forward facts fraught with conclusive evidence of the necessity of the Inquiry sought for. " ft was," he said,' " the universal report, belief, and execration of the public, that every one who entered the Court of Chancery was ruined by it." If the Attorney-General can affirm that this is not an evil *to be remedied, he had as well declare at once that all suffering is fiction, and that oppres fion is a word without meaning. Mr, Denman supported his arguments by tire strongest possible facts. lle stated one fact that must arrest the attention of every one, and which' was sufficient of itself to make the duty of investigation pe remptory, that " the property in time hands of the Accountant-General amounts to the almost incre dible sum of thirty-three millions 'sterling." Well might the House cry," Hear, hear!" But that, after having heard it, they should refuse all inquiry into the conduct of this .most extraor dinary accumulation of property being withheld, year after year, from suitors who have grown grey in fruitless, expection of obtaining the Chan cellor's judgment on their claims! Can we want a stronger attestation of corrupt influence ? With what conscience can Parliament protect I►ares and partridges with the strongest penal enact. merits, and resist the redress of abuses which involve the interests and property of the subject in every quarter of the kingdom ' [saw TIMES.] We give in another part of our Pnper the offi cial details of the affair between the French and the Spanish Constitutionalists at Talavera de la Reyna on the 27th ultimo, and the Sixth Bulle tin from the head-quarters at Madrid, dated the 25th ult. It takes a general view of the operations from the time the Prince reached Vittoria, and will be found interesting hi showing the regular developement of the plan on which his Royal Highness has steadily acted. 13 . ut the most im portant document which has for some time appear ed is undoubtedly the Addyess of the Grandees of Spain to the Dube of Angouleme. The names subscribed to it are those of the' richest and most. influential persons in Spain. To instance only one. The Duke de Winne. Celi is a grandee of the first class. The death of his father hi 1 806 is thus recorded in the Muniteur of that time :—." Ho was one of the most eminent grandees of the Spanish Court, as well- as one of the richest and most respected for his moral qualifies, and for the use which he made of his . _ immense fortune." The present Duke, and his son, the Count of Orgaz, were among the grandees convened Buonaparte at Bayonne in June 1808 ; and he was one of the Nobles proscribed by the tyrant in the November fol lowing. He has since filled some high offices, and we find him in 1819 taking an active pert in superintending the new system of mutual instruc tion conducted on the plans of Be!! and Lan caster. The Address before us affords another striking exposure of the deceptions which brw. been practised on the people of England, with respect to the Spanish Revolution. We were first told that persons of all ranks and professions was -soon found that the whole body of the Clergy must be excepted ; this of course was a It was next discovered that the pea santry were against it ;. but they, we were told, were merely the ignorant many, who ought to submit to the. enlightened few ;" and it was stoutly and positively maintained that all the wealth, rank, and influence of the country was enlisted on the side of the Cortes.: more parti cularly was it asserted, that every person of con sequence had retired from Madrid on the ap proach of the French Army.—Now, we find be tween thirty and forty of the •Grandees, that is to say, the . highest in rank among the Spanish Nobility, not only remaining in the capital, but coming forward with an Address of gratitude to the Duke of Angouleme.—Wh a t says The Chronicle to this ?—lt says that the Spanish Nobility are.." wretches," and that they are " beneath contempt." Only it excepts some half dozen from the anathema : among whom are the Duke de San Lorenzo and the Duke Del Parque. We rather suspect that these two Noblemen are not among the wealthiest of their rank—the Dukes Del Infuntado and De Medina Cali could each (to use a common phrase) buy twenty of . the former. In sh or t, - we have seen the Clergy, the Peasantry, the Generals, the Nobles, declare against the Reyolutionaryt G-overnMent ; and we should be glad to know who and what the " gallant People of Spain" are, whom the worthy Gentlemen of the Crown and. Anchor and the Sages of the Common Coun cil wish us to assist with our money. How many of them are there ? What are their occupations and pursuits ? Can even imagination give them " a local habitation and a name ?" [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The two nights battle between the two di visions of Lawyers in the House (for the other Members seemed to view the discussion either as altogether beyond their comprehension, or us a matter in which they had no concern,) reminds us of the engagements of the Condottieri of Italy, .Ivhich used to last for Whole days without the loss of .a man. We agree with Mr. Canning that great ability was disblayed in this debate, but we do not the less regret with Mr. Brougham " that the whole of the debate was confined to legal members." We consider this indifference or mental thraldom of the other Members, to be perfectly decisive with respect to the prospect of any beneficial reformation of the Laws ; for . he must know little of human nature who can expect that any efficient reform of abuses, pro. .citable in the highest degree to the profession, should ever originate or be countenanced by it. We should as soon expect to tied the Clergy demanding with one voice a return to the system of the Primitive Church. We must take men as they are; and we can never go far wrong, if we 'suppose that in nine cases out of ten, if riot 99 out of 100, they will follow what is, or what they suppose to he, for their interest.--- f they who have arr interest in reforming an abuse, trust for the reformation to those ‘vho have an interest in its continuance, we can only say that we think their innocency much more conspicuous (lain their wisdom. It is amusing to observe- how differently the artists, as Mr; Brougham termed the Profession, and those on whom they exercise their powers, speaknf the same thing. The litigant who has. had occa sion to contemplate the wonders of special pleading, the fictions by which the lawyer conducts .his client to this point through many a weary labyrinth—who sees his . guineas conveyed as. if by legerdemain out of his own pocket into the pocket of the the same feelings t o . artist,wtrds fabric: entertains wards laws that a certain class of gentlemen entertain towards the fabrics containing the tread-Mills. But the artists l—With Mr. Scarlett one and all will exclaim, 44 If the noble fabric of, jurisprudence erected by our ancestors was, or seemed to be, defective, he should approach the task of amend ing it wi t h the greatest reverence for the ve nerable edifice, and he should rather consider the evils as arising from present circumstances than from any other cause." Aye, aye, we will answer for it that in that quarter there will be no want of reverence for the venerable edifice. Tar be it from us to insinuate that the Learned Gentle men are not sincere in their admiration of the vene. rable fabric of our laws (it is so natural to ad mire what we profit by), or do not even believe that our system is not the best possible. 46 It would be inconceivable (says an able foreign writer, speaking of English law)ithat the human understanding should put so long up With so im perfect a judicial system, if the experience 'of all times did not' inform us hoW difficult it is toextri cate ourselves from accustomed forms, and if those who should introduce a better state of things were not, from being accustomed to these forMs from their youth, and from having derived their whole way of thinking from them, placed hi some degree in an impossibility of con= ceiving any other species of law than that to which they have been trained." ThenCe the English lawyer is at a loss to conceive how any country can hold together without - a Court of Chancery with fifty year - suits ; and hence the .Neapolitan lawyers, who, according to Galena, 'have the greatest part Of the properly of the country constantly in their hands, 'are equally confident that is the very perfection of law. [MORNI! , IO POST%) The character, whether legal, political, or moral, or the present Lord Chancellor, is no less removed from the reach of the shafts aimed at by the futile malice of his enemies, than from the influence of any panegyric of ours. His legal reputation, stands upon the elevated ground of a series of judicial decisions, which all professional men, without a dissenting voice, extol as the safest land-marks of equity, and as a perpetual guide to all those who shall be hereafter called to administer this department of justice. His political character rests upon the solid foundation of principles and measures by which England has not only been rescued from destruction, but placed upon an eminence of pro sperity and glory before unhnown. His moral ex telienty is attested by the' spotless Integrity with which even his bitterest enemies confess he has for a quarter of a century exercised a trust, the most weighty, the most multifarious, and the most discretionary, that was ever committed to mortal man ; by the steadiness and firmness with which he has in politics adhered to prin ciples once conscientiously chosen, and by the blameless tenor of his private course. Such is the man who in the decline of a life so eminently honourable and useful, is singled out by the animosity of Party aythe object of attacks as furious as they are futile. We defy any man to read the debates in the House of Commons on the recent motion of Mr. Williams, without perceiving that the end kept most > steadily in view was not to correct the defects imputed to Chancery process, but to depreciate the venerable Judge who has so long illuminated and dignified that important branch of our na tional jurisprudence. The Lord Chancellor is the chosen object of these attacks, because he is the consistent and inflexible supporter of sound and rational political principles. lie is as sailed by the Party, from their desire to impair an authority by the very existence of which they feel that their notions are discredited and their ] genius rebuked. Of the aspersions upon the Lord Chancellor we have already said perhaps more than enough ; the lofty rock, which sustains unheeded the dashing of the noisy and furious billows that surround it, is the fit emblem of that distinguished Judge, when the passions 01 an angry and disappointed Faction are let loose to hassail him. —On the alleged dif- ficulty of obtaining justice in the Court of Chancery, we must content ourselves with one or two very obvious remarks. The tedi ousness and expence of a Chancery Suit, have been so long a popular theme, that it will be found, even in farces of two centuries ago, to be the sub ject of jocular allusion. It is in vain to say, that abuses are not sanctified by age. We ►nust in can dour admit, that the fact proves one of two things, either that the popular notion of the grievance is, and always has been exaggerated, or that a suitable remedy is a thing not very easy to discover. Nay, the very motion for an inquiry, to seek out remedies for an alledged grievance of such long standing, involves a pretty clear ad mission that its nature, its causes, and even its existence, are amazingly equivocal. Again in a matter of so much importance to a nation as a difficulty in obtaining justice, it strikes one as something strange, that Lawyers, and disappointed Lawyers too, should be the only complainants.- Where were the bar rassed and delayed suitors of this procras tinating. Court? How , above all s could _ it occur that in an assembly of above two hundred subjects of the realm,all menlof multiplied connec tions in life, most of them men of large and diver sified possessions —many of them engaged in com plicated and extensive commercial concerns—no voice was heard, even after repeated and urgent appeals, to complain of a single instance' in which the party complaining had himself, or through his connections, sustained injury by unnecessary or unjustifiable delay ? The single circumstance that this discussion was maintained entirelyby Lawyers does, we c on f ess , appear to us conclu sive sive evidence against the general imputation of un necessary delay in the progress ofsuitsin Chancery. That the Court of Chancery should attempt to proceed with the same celerity as the Courts of Law, is, we apprehend, far from desirable_ This will be evident on the mere statement, that the very first proceeding in a Chancery suit is a proceed ing to extort from the defendant a written ex position of facts, however averse to his own inte rests, to which he is to swear, and which is or is not to be the evitienee in the suit, at the dis cretion of the plaintiff. The power of making parties witnesses against themselves is a power without which it is not pretended by any man that Courts of Equity could be efficacious; yet it. is one of a nature so inquisitorial and . so repugnant f t o r t m h e t c le o m m m o r o e n p n u o b t ion our Courts of Law, that submission to it ought of and of popular u jus t icelar A;rlo6Cceheedmitlagislaoter not to be enforced by means of severity till after 'great detay, and after many repe titions of demands and warnings. We men. lion this as one legitimate cause for pro crastination which .is _ peculiar to Courts of Equity. The greater difficulty also of the ques tions which come before them, and the more vague and complicated nature of the issues which they have to determine, render it obviOusly impossi ble that cause's in Courts of Equity should not give rise to proceedings more voluminous and more tardy then those by which actions at Law are prosecuted and . decided. It is admitted on all hands, that litigation in the Court - of Chancery has progressively . and rapidly in creased during the whole period that its, present Noble and Learned Judge has preSided over it. This fact alone is an answer to the loud and 'in cessant complaints of Faction. One party at least in every suit must have exposed himself volunta rily to the vexation,, the ruin, or the death of which this Court is so rationally d escr ib e d 'as the constant. and unfailing dispenser. ,Insane in dividuals no doubt there are, yet we cannot listen without incredulity to charges against a Court of Justice, which go the full length, of fixing upon its vast - and increasing body of Suitors one general imputation of insanity. On Friday last, a cat, reduced almost to a ske eton by starvation, was found enclosed beneath the flooring of •11 new house in Brighton, by the workmen who were attracted by the noise. The poor animal, it is supposed, had been missing 13 days, without food ; she had no doubt crept be tween the joists of the floor before the hearth stone was laid down, when placed in its situa tion thus entombed poor puss alive. There is at this time a cow on the farm of Mr. Wm. TAYLOR, at Gayton Je Marsh, which has four calves sucking at her (that is, she is rearing them); in 1821 she also brought up four at one time, and the same in 189.2; and in the last year she likewise brought up two- more—making in the whole 14 calve's which she has reared in three years. POLICE INTELLIGENCE'. -- - DUEL PREVENTED. BOW- STREET. — Yesterday Captain H. of the Navy, and Capt. K. on the half-pay of the te3d Regiment of Foot, were brought before Sir R. BIRNIE and Mr. HALL, on peace warrants issued upon the oath of Sayers, a constable of St. Martin's Parish, charging them with an intention to commit a breach of the peace. Sayers, it appeared, in the course of his rounds on Wednesday night, between twelve and one o'clock, heard a great uproar at the Hungerford Coffee-house, and venturing in, as the door was open, to ascertain the cause, he found several gentlemen assembled together in the coffee-room, among whom were the two defendants. Capt. K. was holding forth very vehemently about his having been insulted, and swearing that he would have satisfaction, add ing, that he had " put a great many under the tad, and Captain H. should add one to the number." This declare.; don he followed up almost immediately by giving Captain H. a blow on the eye, which brought him to the ground "with tremendous force. Sayers then interfered and separated them, and upon his information on Thursday morning that he believed they intended to meet in another way, warrants were issued. He would have arrested Capt. K. at the time, but that the latter contrived in the confusion to slip out of the house. Capt. H. was apprehended on Thursday morning, ard. brought before Sir R. Birnie, but released on pledging his word (which he appeared to do with great reluctance) that he would. take no hostile measures - until Capt. K. was also in custody. The statement of Captain 11. yesterday was, that he had been but a few days in England, after an absinc: en service of several years, and was residing pro temp. a t t h e If ungerford. On Wed. nesday night he went home, and not finding some friends there as he expected, he called to the chambermaid to bring him a candle, upon which Capt. K., who was sitting in the room with a party, said, " Do you add ress yourself to me, Sir ?" " No, Sir," replied Capt. 11., " I called for the chambermaid, and you I presume are not t h e chambermaid. " Capt. K. rose from' his seat, high words ensued, and cards were exchanged ; but he in the heat of the quarrel struck Capt. H. in the manner that has been described, and then very expeditiously quitted the house. —ln answer to this statement Cain, K. said, th at a C apta i n H. came into the co ff ee - room, and having strutted up and down for some time, looked to the table where he and his friends were sitting, and in a sneering tone said to the waiter, " Bring a candle to illuminate the Chairman." This highly-improper conduct drew forth a suitable remark from him (Capt. K.); and after some high words, N gave his card to Capt. H. who threw it down in a scornful manner, and he did then draw his hnid across his face. Capt. H. returned afterwards with some friends, one of whom demanded his (Capt. K.) address, tut he refuEd to give it; observing, that he had already given his card to Capt. H. and it had been rejected. " Then, Sir," ob. s:rved Capt. H.'s friend, " I am commissioned to tell you that you are a d--^d scoundrel." This was reiterated by Capt. H. himself, and he (Capt. IL) knocked him down. It further ap peared that an appointment was made for these Gentlemen to meet elsewhere, but the apprehension of Captain 11., before he could leave his chamber on Thursday morning, prevented its fulfilment. ROMAN CATHOLIC MARRIAGES. WOR S u I P-STREET.Yesterday a case came before SA HURL TUrrFORD and WILLIAM BENNET, Esqrs:, which, with many others of tho same nature, calls for a remedy from the Legislature. A woman, calling herself Mary Mahon,. re siding in the parish of I s li ngton , rece i ving no assistance from Michael Mahon, who she stated was her husband, applied to the parish for relief for herself and three children. The parish regularly applied to the Magistrates for a warrant against her husband, for not providing for his wife and children • but it was proved that this w oman was marr i ed to Michael '4llr,hou 16 years ago, by the Rev. Mr. Hunt, a Roman Catholic priest, at the old chapel in Moorfields; since which they have had three children, the eldest of whom is now twelve years of age. Upon this evidence.orders of filiation were made on. M. Mahon, as the father of three bastard children, when Mr. TWYFORD observed that it was one amongst the many cruel . instances which had come before this office, of ignorance, but virtuous parents being illegally marr i e d by the: Rotnish Church in England, which subjected all their issue to be bastards. — Though the marriage in Ireland would h ave b een va lid i n Eng land; yet the Catholic Clergy in England must be aware that all such marriages solemnized in England could be valid in neither country, and it was a most cruel penalty'on their off spring, who were thereby rendered illegitimate., Ile was glad, however,' to find that a Noble Marquis, in the House of Lords was about to bring forward a measure for the promotion of marriages among Dissenters, and he trusted it would also have regard to those of Roman Catholics. •EXTENSIVE FRAUD. MARLBOROUGH-STRELT.--Wednesday evening the Earl of Plymouth made an application to the Magistrates of this Office, in consequence of which Frederick Seymour and Ants Seymour, who said they lived. at No. 11, consent Vere-street, V" calledat his Lordship's not r. tap pe ed that the prisoner Wilson . w to ou th ld e ba house in Grosvenor-square, and left a statement of a distressing to elare ghTe rn h a is rke a t d , d r: e ri s d s, J w ol e it r i e l y fri e ‘s te o n n Ly w i i: u o t robbery and horrible attempt to murder; saying, . that he would leave it for his Lordship's perusal, and call the follow ing day (Thursday) for his Lordship's subscription. In theist.: terms his Lordship sent off his butler to make further inquiries, who found that there were no such individuals as the paper de scribed. His Lordship, therefore, applied to, the Magistrates for directions how to act when Wilson should call on Thursday. Plank (the chief officer) was sent to his Lordship's house.with proper directions; .and about twelve o'clock NVilson called. _The butler gave him ss. as had been arranged; and Plank f o ll owe d Wilson into the street, where he saw him join the two other prisoners, Seymour and his wife.—lt appeared that a system of similar imposition' had been carried on to a considerable extent. Wilson said, he meta Lady on one of the seats in the Park, who stated her name to be Hunter. ; She engaged him to gather subscriptions for her to be recompensed by half-a.crown in the pound, at the same time dilivaring her statement, which, when he received it, he believed to be true. Seymour denietthisving any acquaintance with Wilson. The Magistrate committed Wilson to the (louse of Correction to the tread-mill for three months.—Seymour and his wife' were re.. mended for another hearing. COURSE OF Cf - LANLiF J • • 4 , Junes lb, motet dam 111 to C. F. DittO, at light Rotterdam 12 8 I ntwerp 12 Hamburg!' lO Ilona 3B 2 21 Us Paris, 3 Day's s i ght riontdeanx Frank fort the Main ltatirid Cadiz . 36 Efrective 96 Effective Ltiltioa ... 36 Effective naretionei ' • S' ierilte .... . . 85 • Gibraltar Leghorn e/ei .is • ~.......43 -Venice, Ital. Liv. 98 10 Malta ;5 -Naples '3Bl Palermo Lisbon Oporto Rio Jenti ro I)nblin Curl( 91 p,l Cent. BULLION. Portugal Gall, in Coin Foreign Gold, in Bars.. New Doubloons New Dollars Silver in Mira. 1.0 o G . pt.; OS. :3 17 6 . . B'ls O. • 0 4 9 0 4 104 B I RIMS. On the 6th inst., at his house in Wellin g t on - s t reet , Waterloo.. . bridge, the lady of Mr. Samuel Sotheby, of a son. On the 6th instant, in Lawrence-Pountey l lane, the lady of Horatio Ripley, Esq. of a son. • - On Thursday last., at St. Mary's, Reading, Mr; Joseph . Capes, Fleet-street, London, to Ann, daughter of "Jo se ph Wolfe, Esq-., Reiding,'Berkk Oldie sth inst., at Bermondsey, Arthur Jones, Esq., to MarrAtin Wills, both late of Calcutta. On the 30 inst., at Walcot Church, Bath, Johtt Uniacke, Esq., of Boughton, Cheshire, to Anne, only daughter of the late Wm. Pierrepont, Esq., Rear-Admiral of the Bl ue , o f Far ley-bill, i n t h e county of Surrey. DIED. On Monday last, the 24 inst., at Wheatley, near Dor, caster, Sir Geo. Cooke, ' Bart. in the flOth yea r of hi s ag e. On Friday, the 30th ult., in Breed -street Mr. William Sowerby. • _ On the sth inst., rigid 15, Lucy, daughter of B. Pead, Esq., of Walthamstow. On Tuesday, the 3d inst., at Leatnington.4a, in his 67tli year John C. Weguelin, Esq., of N ew B roa d- s t reet , hteof the firm of - J. Thomson, T. Boner, and Co., of Austinfriars. On the 6th inst., Sarah, the wife of Mr. Henry Ambridge, of Compton-street, Clerkenwell, aged 63. 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