The Sun. — London, England, 1823-08-08 00:00:00

'lll4 LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts Irani the Morning Papers, August 8: [MORNING eon.] French Papers to the 7th inst. reached us last night by express. Though again barren of offi cial intelligence, they contain communications of considerable importance and interest, and of a nature calculated to gratify the friends of retri butive justice 'and of Spanish independence. — The traitor Morillo, it appears, has begun to receive the reward due to his infamy. The Journal des Mbats briefly informs us, on the authority of the Madrid Extraordinary Ga. zelle, that he " had been beaten by the aevo imtionary troops near Vigo." This avowal, though unaccompanied by any details, is of itself suf ficient. Coming from such a source as the Ga zette of the Spurious Regency, and re-echoed by the French Ministerial Journals, no doubt can be entertained of its being correct. For they would not have mentioned the subject if they had eon eeived the least hope of its being unfounded, or, as in the case of the repulse at Corunna,‘of their being able long , to conceal the fact. Had the account reached us from any other quarter, we might have waited for confirmation of its truth before we ventured to express,and almost to feel, the satisfaction that we do at seeing the offence so speedily followed by condign punishment. What must he the mortification of the defeated Betrayer ?—he who told the Galicinns that he joined the enemy because they were incompetent to their own defence, and there was no other means of saving them from invasion ! Notwith standing the defection by which lee has deprived them of half their former strength, they have now shown him, that even with reduced means they are - equal to the defeat of foreign invaders and native traitors.. If he were sincere in the mo lives which he a ssigned for his betrayal, now that he has found them to be groundless, let him cast off his n!le7iance to foreigners and to their agents; let him by a speedy return to patriotism and to duty redeem, before it be too late, a once glo rious name, and hasten to• share the triumph of his country, which his strongest endeavours have not been able to turn into mourning. PRESS.] tuesday's French Papers were anticipated, and given exclusively in our columns of yester day.. Since then we have nothing further from the Continent of any rent importance. Angou !erne, In now has probably reached . Seville with his numerous escort, and the progress of future events must disclose the real views of the French Cabinet in the transfer of his head- quaFters to the south of Spain. Angoulerne's order, previous to quitting Madrid, has, how ever, given a. new feature to the war. 'The French army no longer appear as allies of the Royalist Spaniards : they artr now prin cipals in the contest. Angouleme, as far as his General Order can go, has taken absolute rni )Nary possession of Spain ; he has allotted and pottioned out its kingdoms and provinces to his Lieutenants.and Subalterns with, full and uncon. trouled power. Ills assumption is as general, though not as efficient, as was the ambitious Napoleon's, of !hat unhappy kingdom. Six Mar shals and Generals are placed supreme over her provinces and cities, conquered and unconquered as they now are; and Reggio, Ilohenlohe, Lau. Tifton, Molitor, Foissac Latour, and Bourdesoulle, are invested' by" the fygitive Angouleme, with powers as absolute as if Spain were a dependent province of France, and every fortress on her soil in full possession of her armies. By this last ordinance of Angouleme's, the Regency he three months since set, up is annihilated ; it is thrown utterly by, and disregarded as completely as if that circle of traitors never existed. The fact is, that, like Milton's Sin 'and Death, this foul offspring of Angon leme's creation beetling odious and disgusting even to its author. The fell proceedings of this revolting body, and their accursed satel lites through, Spain, have filled every mouth with detestation, and every heart with hatred and the hope of vengeance. Angouletne,bigot as he is, long saw that they were his worst enemies. lie saw that they bad no ,support beyond the bayo nets of his soldiers, save what Quesada's naked cu t-threats and the Manalos of Madrid could give them. His parting farewell to taunted°, Montemar, and their colleagues, has been, in consequence, that of utter contempt. But this apportioning of Spaip, on the part of the Bourbon, is just as bombastic and ridiculous as the grants of kingdoms in former days, by the ambitious Pontiffs of Rome. • [tilE 'rungs.; The excesses . and. cruelties of the Franco. Spanish party on different points of the Pepin. sula, present_ to the humane mind one topic of consolation in the ruinous effects which they must produce .tti the cause for whose sake, or rather, in thu.unmo of which, they are .committed. All the decent inhabitants of Saragossa are said to have left it, or to have been imprisoned ;. and the priests hold a divided reign with. the meanest and most wretched of the mob.. Three thousand of the best families of Valencia are also stated to be wandering through the country, expelled by the fury of the peace'-makersand regenerators of Spain. From officers holding high commands in M o lit or ' s c'ozps d'armee, intelligence has been received. at Paris, through the medium of private letters to their friends. Molitor does not entertain the hope of being able to reach Cadiz without a re, inforcement. Ballasteros (whose forces . the French Papers have so often annihilated by de sertion) squally threatens at one and the same time the besieging army before Cadiz, and -the communications with Madrid. In Catalonia, an attack had been meditated on the Constitutionals before Barcelona ; but that the design had been dropped, or the execution failed, is inferred from the profound silence maintained by the Go. vernment upon the subject.—it Was through an error of the press that the Journal des Damdt of Tuesday last Mentioned Et:defeat of Morino, in Galicia. That the traitor may have been de- feated is very possible, but a notice ti said to have been sent to the Paris Exchange, to an nounce that the statement was erroneous.—We rejoice to see that there is no detail, nor descrip tion of intelligence,-in the Paris newspapers. If good news had arrived, it would have found its way into circulation ; and if time flows on, with out yielding materials for bulletins, it is just what the friends of Spanish independence would desire. [NEW insius The intelligence from the Continent/is daily increasing in interest, and leads to the belief that negociations for peace will soon be opened, with every prospect of a favourable result. — Our private letters from Paris state that this expectation is entertained by the best informed persons in that capital ; and the firmness with which the Rentes maintain their advanced prices, shows that there are probable grounds for this belief. The letters from Cadiz are of a late date, and describe the situation of the Cortes as des perate. Two entire regiments had refused obe dience to their orders, and demanded leave to gait the place. The scarcity of provisions began to be severely felt : and the strictness with which the blockade was maintained, both by land and sea, left little hope of the introduc tion of supplies. Ills Royal Highness the Duke d'Angouleme had reached Ocana on the 29th ultimo: the Regency had provided for his reception with all the honours due to his rank; and the people testified the greatest enthusiusm at the presence of a Bourbon Prince. Ballas teros on the 20th ultimo obliged the Royalist General Cisneros to retire from Jaen ; but was himself forced to fly on the approach of the French troops from Andujar. He therefore hastened towards Malaga ; but had the mortifi cation to find that place also in the hands of the French. We remember some weeks ago The Morning Chronicle hinted strong suspi cions of treachery on the part of Ballasteros —so little confidence have the Liberals in each other. That candid Paper, too, is conti nually exclaiming against the severity of the Royal Government in keeping strict watch over the Revolutionists, Wllo' (poor dear souls!) never think of such things as plots or conspiracies—and yet it • was but the other day that they endea 'voured to _burn down a Church at Madrid, in which the Duke d'Angouleme was attending Divine service. In the same capital we find six mercantile men were apprehended on the 27th ult. fur treason ;. and in Saragossa an orderly officer of the Royalist Chief Capape was mut.• dared by some of these innocent Revolutionists. [MORNING ZGRONICLE.] It has been stated, that the French have re quested the intervention of our Government in the nogociations with the Spanish Cortes. Such a request, if it has really been made, comes with a peculiarly had' grace from France,. after the haughty manner in which the Duke de Mont morency rejected the ()tier of mediation of the Duke of Wellington. Thou the language was, 44 the situation of France with regard to Spain was not of a nature to call for a mediation be. ,tween the two Courts. In fact, there exists no dift'erence between them, no specific point of discussion by the arrangement of which their relations might be placed on the footing on which they ought to stand .0 No, no, nothing would then do but the sword. We cannot conceive any thing more humiliating to the French Government than to be obliged to call upon England to extricate it from the elm. barrassment in which it has wilfully placed it self ;—and we should suppose such a compulsory appeal to the charity of England by no means a safe experiment on the patience of so vain a na tion as the French. Nothing, however, has oc curred on which the Bourbons ought not 'to have calculated, —nothing that was not dis tinctly told them by Talleyrand in that me. morable speech in the Chamber of Peers which made so powerful an impression on all but the head-strong Ultras. They were told lot their difficulties would but begin when they had obtained Madrid ; that If they conquered Spain they must continue to occupy it. But then " it was not her own interests alone which were compromised, and which France had to keep in view-- r the repose of Europe and the maintenance of those principles which it guaranteed were in volved," and so a war for the common cause at the expellee of France was generously deter mined on. Austria and Russia were ready with their exhortations and wishes for success ; but they ' had no money ; and France had more money than she knew how to manage. ft has also been said, that England will be called on to guarantee the observance of any stipulations which may be entered into, as the parties have no confidence in each other. We trust that Ministers will have more discre tion than to interfere in any such manner in the dispute. We do not believe that the Cortes will ever disgrace themselves by treating wits► the French ; but if they should take such a step, our becoming guarantees of any stipulation would only involve us in endless quarrels with the French. TA use a homely saying,' as"the French have brewed, so let them drink.' The time for our interference was when the affair was dis cussed at Verona. We might then have saved Spain from the calamities of an , invasion ; hut that is a very different thing from preventing France from paying the penalty of her aggression. [MORNING 111:11,1 LD.] It is edifying to o_4erve with how little cere mony the Duke of ogbulerne treads upon the Regency of Madrid svhen his purposes require it. It is known to our readers, that he has por tioned out Spain between his Generals, witir more absolute discretion than the Pro-Consul of a Roman Province. Did he ask leave of their Highnesses to do this ? On the' contrary, he, at the tail of his Proclamation, very laconically sig nifies to them the order and manner of their obe dience. We may observe, en passant, that this fact alone proves how , entirely these Regents are " men of straw," in his hands. Why is it then that they are permitted to indulge their pluton sies in every uay 'most likely to cherish hatred anti animosity—despotism and superstition in' Spain ? It would be no far-fetched speculation to suppose that the object of the Duke of Angou lame was to render the Government. of Ferdi nand odious and intolerable. No one could have doubted the power of the French before this but if the least doubt could exist, it must now be removed, when the General-in-Chief has exer cised the right of occupation by conquest— without giving the people the common advantages of con quest—protection. Our readers know the Madrid Junta has been suffered to play its " phantastic tricks," but' are not equally aware of the sum mary vigour with which the Military Chiefs in the provinces proceed in recruiting the finances, restoring the faith, and setting right public opi nion. One example will suffice. The Count d'Espanay " Captain General of Navarre, &c." has issued a proclamation in which he proposes to bring back all backsliders from the Holy Church and the absolute King within the bosom of the monarchy and the faithy by the simple pro cess of confiscating the goods and leaving the families to starve, of all those who have with drawn from the paternal accolade of the French, and by imposing a contribution of a fourth of their income, whether from property or from la bour, upon all who did any act of homage to the Constitution of Cadiz, or who sung the tragala or other obnoxious ditty. In order to encourage concord among the parties opposed to each other, a portion of the confiscations and imposts are to be given to the faithful subjects who have suffered damage, and who aid the Captain-General in discovering the ungodly within his jurisdiction. The Captain-General also proclaims, a general beat (as in a wolf-hunt) for all " impious books," meaning all books published or introduced wince the Revolution, and not sanctioned by the Holy Office, which are to be publicly consumed by general con flagration, and by the Ministry of the public executioner. Any person who shall not instantly give up to the fire the denounced books, but shall be detected in secreting them for his pri vate reading, shall be mulcted in the half of his income, whatever that may be. But who is this Captain-General, and whence does he put forth his edicts ? He is a mere shadow—a chief of some straggling bandits of the Faith, attached to the French force before Pampeluna, where the decree of the Duke of Angouleme gives unlimited and exclusive power to the Marquis de Lewis ton. It is curious that the Duke's Proclamation and that of the soi-disant Captain General appear on the same day. If the Duke of Angouleme designed in pato, to imitate litionaparte, and take upon himself " the destinies and regeneration of Spain," he could not better prepare the way than by letting the Spaniards 'have this foretaste from the Regency of what th e y may expect from Ferdinand ; and if the Con stitutional Government were out of the field, it must be confessed that the Spaniards must be besotted If they did not prefer even the yoke of the French. We believe that if the alteruative were proposed, the great mussof the nation would prefer it. It fs a great mistake to suppose that it was for Servitism that the Sintniards fought in the last war. It was for national freedom, as well as national /*dependence; The organization and the acts of time Cortes of that day, the dispatches of Lord Wellesley, and the side taken , by almost he whole of the civil and military Patiiota of hat war, in re-establishing the Constitution in NO, affords unanswerable evidence of the fact. A New ADVENTURER.—The topic of conver sation at the west end of the town is the gascon ade of a young Adventurer, a mere boy, who, ten his quarters at a respectable days since, took up hotel, and has, since deluded all ranks and de scriptions. Under the assumed title of an Irish Peer, he contrived to introduce himself to the family of a Noble Earl, under the pretence of purchasing a Cornetcy in his Lordship's regiment, and by the family was invited to stay dinner, which he did. His success, among tradespeople, has not been so marked, from a want of method : He ordered goods to a large amount from different houses, but in the midst of his arrangements he suddenly disappeared from the hotel. It appears, in enquiry, that this hero had ordered a roast foul to be dressed for his supper one night, stating that he should return from Vauxhall at midnight. The waiter sat up all night, but the pretended Noble man did not appear, and, in fact, never returned. On Sunday morning last he was seen in the rules of the King's Bench at ten o'clock, a very early hour that for a fashionable youth to be seen, and in such an unfashionable place too. Among the various attempts at imposition, may be enu-, merated the following :—A Gentleman, who re- 1 sides in Berkeley-square, has a very fine horse. The youth saw it, and sent his groom to know if the Gentleman was disposed to sell it, offer- , ing 150 guineas for it.—lle went to Hancock's glass warehouse, at Charing-cross, and looked out a variety of goods, particularly a buhi chandelier, in the style of Louis XIV., of great value. To jewellers, upholders, tailors, end bnottnakers, lie paid similar visits. Like " the Fortunate I,'Quat"- he talked much of his expec tations from strangers. From every appearance the boy is an instrument in the hands of some artful impostor, who probably re si d es within the rules of the above prison.—After having been missing since Saturday last, he re-appeared yes terday at the shop of a silversmith in the neigh bourhood of the Haymarket, calling himself the sou of a Scotch Nobleman. The son of the silversmith gave him the lie direct, and, we are told, followed it up with a blow, that is, literally kicked him out o f the shop. At an army accou tremvnt-maker's i n Bond-street, he passed him speaks self otr as a Scotch Earl, and ordered the neces sary equipments for a Cornet in the Dragoon Guards. This ingenious youth it of a slim figure; iwnitlillegigrehatt abou t fipa flippancy.---( 17; igfalir)°d73l It is a proverb among British seamen, that no one is allo we d to thi s ik on board of ship but the captain, th e c hi e f-mate, and the carpenter RAT KILLING.—The famous dog Billy yester day killed in Tufton-street, Westminster, 100 rats in less than nine minutes. The task'was for a wager of 1001. FOR THE SUN. THE TREAD 11IILL. MR. EDlTOR—Though I am not acquainted Oith your opinions on the subject of the Tread Mill, I am so thoroughly aware of your Editorial impartiality, that I have little fear of your de nying this letter a place in your columns. Be fore ever I r e ad a single line against this engine of punishment, or even met with a single indivi dual adverse to its use, I had made up my mind against it from the instinctive sensations I expe rienced on visiting the wheels in Cold Bathfields prison. I not only thought the punishment of a degrading nature, but anticipated that it. would be attended with serious physical mischiefs. I though t, moreover, that it was too indiscriminating, both as far as the different degrees of crime were concerned, as well as the different degrees of 'physical strength or health. The prisoners that I saw- descend from the wheels seemed debilitat ed and overworked, mid I judged from their downcast spirit-broken, yet , sulky appearance, that however sorry they might be to have de served imprisonment, with bard labour ; this la bour would only breed in them a. more rooted aversion than ever to all kinds of toil and honest employment. If idleness and slothful habits bring a man to prison, the labour he there en counters should neither be of that oppressive and wearisome kind which shall confirm him in his longings after a state of comparative ease, not of that unprofitable sort, as far as he is personally concerned, which shall instruct him in no laborious exercise that can turn to account, or even be prac- Used, when he is released. Full of these senti ments, and eager to express them, I happened to have put into my hands Sir John Cox Hippesley's Letter on Prison Labour, in which the Baronet not only himself attacks the discipline of the Tread Mill, from his' own observation and expe rience, as physically, morally, and in all regener ated policy pernicious ; but from his extensive means of corresponde9ce and information, brings into a focus the hostility to this discipline of a large number of intelligent, philosophic, and mat ter of fact men, among whom are to be reckoned five or six of the highest medical eminence. If, Sir, my opinion is worth any thing, Sir John makes out his case more clearly, impartially, and incontrovertibly, than I have ever seen any case made out, but as his pamphlet will doubtlessly be consulted by all those who take an interest in matters of real public importance, it would be a work of supererogation to quote from it in this place, at large, yet a few sentences are of such a decided and convincing nature, that they can not meet the eye too frequently : A. very long let ter from Dr. Mason Good, the learned transla tor of Lucretius, and the experienced author of the History of Medicine, is incorporated in the Pamphlet, in which among a complete choice of arguments and facts are the fol lowing There is no end of, answering all the follies and caprices to which the tread mill must give rise from its intrinsic demerit. It may be altered again and again and varied ad infiniluns, but whether the supposed improved form ad verted to, as taking place in a northern county or any other, become the rage of the day, it must still be essentially objectionable, as founded upon an essentially. wrong principle, and which there. fore no modification can right : I mean that of subverting the order of nature, and making the feet take place of the hands." Again, " The question which I understand, is very often put forth, whether any of the maladies that are pre dicted so freely and confidently by medical prim titioners against the tread mill, have any whe re yet taken place, is at first sight plausible ; but it is nothing more, for it will not bear refle ctin g uponte m is chiev o u s a effectsmoment.e b a v Ine be the en accatsuenoi braved. But by far the greater number of the predicted evils are such as could not have taken place from the shortness of the gave the machines have been at work in any prison' ; but which to the eye of a Pathologist arc as certain, as if they were at this moment in full force. Such I mean, as lumbago, weakness of the kidnies, cramps, and stiff joints of all kinds, as well of the hands from an uniformly fixed position as of the legs and feet." Sir William Blizard, speaking of the hand-crank mill as the proposed substitute for the Tread Mill, says " The preference is found ed well on the consideration of filling the muscu lar power of the arms to future labour, and, hence, the more ready performance of duties for sub sistence, and a preventive of inducement to cri minal means of obtainiag it. The hand labour can be better graduated to all the relative cir cumstances of age, condition, health, disease, power, &c. than that of the feet." Dr. Good, in a letter written subsequently to a second visit to Coldbath.fields prison, states the result of an ex• amination of the prisoners, which slims that they all complained of pains and aches in the legs, loins, and other parts, and that their hands were sore, blistered, or horny from healed wounds, which, in the case of the females, heavers, unfits them entirely for a return to needle or other de licate and light work peculiar to women. As to women's being again employed in the Mill, after their temporary exemption from it, on account of the effects it produced, it is matter of national shame and disgrace. The precautions of having female overseers, and skrews to hide (heir ankles, speak more than a 1000 volumes to the reproba tion of those who would employ females in the Tread Mill. None but miserably unthinking men, or mere beasts, who care not to see human nature unfathomably degraded, would dream of such a mode of torturing and abasing the weaker sex—a punishment that requires the pre cautions just mentioned ought never to be used. It is unutterably revolting to the feel ings, it makes the blood boil with indignation to think that its known , consequences should not mark out as improper to flue last degree such a mode of chastising female folly or crime. After Sir John's Book has been circulated among the Magistracy and the Public, I am convinced that thtlatterwill esteem any individual of the former body, who should condemn a woman to the Tread-mill, a filthy and barbarous monster. — My language, Mr. Editor may be strong, but it is not too strong. Let those who would, find fault with it read attentively Sir Johu's Pamph let,. and I am certain they will see the proprietyl necessity, and humanity, of such expressions. I. do trtist, Sir, that the public are beginning to re cover from one of the many manias into which they suffer themselves to fall, from too hasty a view of things, and from the impetuosity which besets their desires, for what is of general utility, or what may be a desideratum of national tm- , portance. If the Treadmill be proper for fe- males, then did our Senators very prematurely and absurdly abolish their liability to be whip ped ; if it be proper for men, let us then return to the good old barbarous times of branding, the pillory, &c. &c. I am, Sir, _ A betermined Enemy of the Tread-mill, But your very sincere friend, August 6th, 1823. MANUAL LABOUR. POLICE .OF THE METROPOLIS. Extract from the REPORT of the SELECT COMMITTEE OIT the POLICE of the METROPOLIS. Ordered to 13e printed by the House of Commons, June 17, 1812 ; ' Your committee are so strongly impressed with a convic• tion of the advantages which have resulted from the establish. Aleut of the hors and dismounted patrol, and the increase of the Bow-street foot patrol, that they earnestly recommend the further extension of the principal' on which they are founded, and the application of a system of patrol by day to those parts of the metropolis which offer the greatest temptation or fecillty to the commission of crime. " They are satisfied, that no check so effectual can be 'dew vised upon the evil designs of those who gain their livelihood i nd speetion of characters, persons and are by habitual plunder, as an impression that they are under the vivant a n at w hand hoar to ac defeatquain th te eir dwiththeir persons purposes, or to assist in their apprehension. " Your Committee consider that the chief recommendation of a patrol consists in its tendency to harass and banish the offender, by a persevering and annoying scrutiny, and thus to prevent the commission of crime. They consider a day-patrol advisable, because robbery from the person is probably more frequent by day than at any other time, and because it is by day that many of the robberies intended to be committed by night are concerted, that premises are surveyed, and facilities' of approach and attack ascertained. " he propose to make the experiment on a limited scale, in the first instance; because, if successful on that scale, it can very easily be extended, and because they are anxious to avoid every expence which it is not,necessary to incur. cs They doubt, however, considering the great expenditure . which is required in providing the means of punishment for oil offenders, who do not incur the extreme severity of the law, whether an effective police, employed in the prevention of crime, would not be an establishment consistent with the. strictest economy, as well as with the soundest policy. " The day patrol ought, in their opinion, to be connected with the present night patrol, and placed under the same su. perintendence. Most of the Police Afagistrate.s who have been examined, have recommended an increase to the number of constables at present attached to the police offices, and that each office should undertake the duty of patrolling its own , district. But as a night patrol for the streets of the Metro. polls is at present established, the Committee think that by connecting with it the proposed day patrol, the arrangement will be most economically made ; and that concert and co-ope ration, which it is so peculiarly desirable to maintain, will be best secured. • " Your Committee are of opinion, however, in order that the several o ffi ces of police may have full information of what passes within. their respective districts, that there ought le bet a full and unreserved communication on every material circum stance between the Magistrates and the officers under whose superintendence the patrol is placed ; and particularly that, in, each case in which an application to magisterial authority may be necessary on the part of the patrol, it ought to be made to the office within the district in which the case may have oc curred." - in We understand, that upon the recommendation contained the above Report, the Home Secretary of State directed that measures should be immediately taken to carry the same into effect, and accordingly in October last the establishment of the " Day Patrol" commenced, undertake .superintendence o f M r . of the Night Petro l" of the Me- Stafford, the Superintendent been experienced and that the moat bene fi cial effects have already experienced by this new establisment. and CGar(aiett".-3Araiewestdidesinfghetoof i p n face at ,o'nfolniulyt.llll:oiangdnes64l;it, which excited a great degree of in p o pulouS town, from the notorious celebrity of the - serest in that h a ppy couple ; each of whom we believe to be tar down the lad- • der of life, at the moment they have perched themselves on the • pinnacle of Hymen's temple :—The name of the bridegroom is- William Hewitt, and that of the bride Mary Hemming. They have for years possessed, exclusively , the titles and privileges of King and. Queen of the Brummagem Cadgers. They joined interests on the day stated above in at. Martin's Church when upwards of 5,000 persons attended, to honour ` one of th e' reli gious institutions of the country, and to gratify their own inor dinate curiosity. A gentleman named Stoor signed his name as witness, and we believe officiated upon the occasion as father • to her most gracious Maj es ty. We believe this gentleman to be . a respectable cloth-factor, carrying on business in Basinghall. street. TIIE BIRMINGHAM BANK NoTR Roaar.ltY. At the Manchester Sessions, on Thursday, Griffith Loyd Turner and Lot Carilege were indicted for the robbery in the coach, at the Swan Inn, Lad-lane, London, in December last, of a parcel of Birmingham bank-notes, containing about 8,0001., the particulars of which have often been before the public. Another indictment was also preferred against them, for hav ing in their possession, at Manchester, part of the stolen pro• perry, knowing it to be stolen. Before they were put on trial, Itir. Coltman, on their behalf, applied to the Court to make the prosecutors elect upon which indictment they would pro. ceed, and that the other indi c t ment s h ou ld b e quas hed. I. , he Bench, without finally deciding whether the prosecutors were bound to elect, expressed an opinion that they thought it more proper for them in do so. Mr. Courtenay, on behalf of the pro— secutors, said, if they were compelled to elect, they should proceed upon the indictment for the robbery. The trial then commenced ; and after six hours mid a half's dura tion, the jury returned a verdict of—Not Guilty. The cause of the acquittal was, the difficulty of proving that several of the notes uttered by the prisoners were in the identical parcel stolen in London. On Friday morning the discussion was renewed on the subject, whether the other indictment for the offence of receiving should be quashed. The Bench finally i determined, that as the question was one of great doubt, and no inconvenience could 'ensue to the prosecutors by the course theyintended to take (the prisoners being entitled to traverse duiindictment to the next sessions), they would quash the in dictment, and the prosecutors might apply in the usual way before a Magistrate to retain them, until they found bail for the offence of receiving. On behalf 'of the prosecutors, it was said this course would be immediately taken. The two pri. sorters will, therefore, be tried at the next Sessions for the of fence of receiving. • On Tuesday George Aldridge, found guilty of the wilful murder of his own brother, by a Co• rotter'ss Inquest, at Uxbridge; arrived in town by the Uxbridge stage, in custody of an officer, and was conveyed to Newgate. Ile is quite a young Man, of a very placid countenance, and .of .man . tiers so quiet, that he was not even handcuf f ed. -- 1 On his arrival, lie htirst into tears, and took air affectionate farewell of his conductor. BIRTHS. On. the 31st ult., at Prospect Cottage, Windmill-Hats% Newettitle.upon-Tyne, the wile of Robert Marshall, Esq., ‘-' 1 a son. On Saturday last, the 2d h.st., at Albury, Hats, 31P. Sheepshanks, of a daughter. MARRIED. •• - .On Tuesday, the sth inst., at Atherstone, Warwickshir e ' Stafford Stratton Baxter, e ld es t son o f D u dl ey Baxter.' bet of Atherstene, to Mary Ann Wright, only daughter of the William Wright, Esq., o f Eaton...ha,. Staffordshire, r a On the 6th met., at Whitech a p e l Church, the Rev. bdwa o r Mannering; of Plumsted, Kent, -to Mary, eldest daughter Mr. John - Hill, of Whitechapel. • DIED. On Sunday, August 3, a t h er h ouse, at Highgate, Mrs. A- f a r - V Robertson, aged W. On Tuesday, the sth inat., Nr. Richard PhilliFpsl cf 11, Hungerford-stairs, Strand. On the 6th inst., Francis Travers, M.D. late of Newar k ' Notts, in the 38th year of his age. Printed anti Publichettfor the PuoißtEstotto, at the SUN' OFk'ICE . , 112,,Strand,_ by J. B. CARSTAIIIB. -~. S