The Sun. — London, England, 1823-07-30 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY .Extracts from the Morning Papers, July 30. [THE Timts.l Ireland, we rejoice to say, begins to show symptoms of returning tranquillity. The outrages 'have been for some weeks perceptibly subsiding. Oa the other hand, a new and improved practice has, with the avowed sanction of the Lord Lietl» tenant, and under the strong and repeated recant. HlPOlifttiOH of the Judges going Circuit, been adopted by the County Magistrates, for the ad. justment of minor differences, and the cognizance of trifling offences-. The measure we speak of is the holding of 44 Petty Sessions," where four or five justices of a particular district assemble and hear those complaints which had been formerly brought before a single Magistrate. The benefit of such a tribunal is two-fold ; for not only are the partialities of an individual over-ruled by the present Magistrates, but, what is a point of great importance in Irelandithe people are more satisfied of the upright administration of justice. We find, that in the addresses of three of the Judges to the Grand Juries, at the Assizes of Antrim, Cavan, and Tyrone, the Petty Sessions are earnestly dwelt upon, as powerful instruments of justice and satisfaction to the people; and the Magistrates are requested by Mr. Justice Van :deleur to hold these meetings once a week. At the Assizes of Antrim some Orangemen were found guilty of an act of violence on: two indi viduals, and sentenced to a year's imprisonment. This is, we dare say, truly' described by the Irish Paper to be a salutary example to the fac. tious of the north. p a iORNING IikItALD.) We yester y received the . following letter from our.Coriespondent•:— " Lisbon, July " I returned to this place on board the Royal George steam packet, after a passage from Cadiz of thirty-four hours, the wind being strong against usduring the whole time. Ido not presume to much knowledge of international laW, but I ima.gine it affords little countenance to the French Admiral, who thought proper, before a blockiule was proclaimed, to fire at and obstruct the vessel of a friendly power, when entering a port in a country with which :that power is at peace. , This in sult has been to my knowledge twice offered to the British flag, once in the case of ,the Royal George, bearing .the British Melia, and another tirne'in the case of the brig Leopold from Gibraltar, who, in attempting to escape from a French frigate, 'vas fired nu from _a . .French battery on the opposite shore, which did not even chew colours. As neither of these vessels was laden with arms, ammunition, nor provisions, there can be: little..palliation for the attack which was made on them,—The rends squadron consists of two line-of-battle shipi, three gates, ' one sloop, one corvette, and twenty-two gun-boats,, very badly manned.—The French army consists of from 7,500 to 10,090 men, posted between Santa Maria and St. Lucar. I have heard French officers express great ennui at the war • -e-the soldiers are principally recruits in most excellent dis cipline--.-the French army is concentrating at Seville.—Dis. lotion. in the Spanish Government, fostered perhaps by bribery. and not the want of inclination„ on the part of the soldiers, .has hitherto prevented them. from attacking the French. A sortie was made from the Isla by 2,000 men, who destroyed several buildings which obstructed • the fire from the batteries ; a few French soldiers were met with, who re. treated. The Spitniarda have fifty gun-boats preparing in the Arsenal, and say theyy, only wait until their gunners are sufli dandy expert to attack the 'French fleet; a skirmish between a Spanish and a l'reneli gnn-boat took place the other morning ; the former bad the advantage. Numbers of afriall' craft are 4p.stantly eluding the blockading squadron upon an average r the three days I have been in Cadiz, thirty have entered each day. Provisions are in great plenty ; every article, from the risk there is,in sup plyling it, is much advanced in price, particularly. bread, which ham advanced 150 per cent. since the siege. Provisions, principally from Gibraltar, are brought in I y small fishing-boats, who'run in, either unseen in the night, or in-shore by day time under the protection of the forts.— Riego has made several offal to Government, all of which have been declined: Much indignation is openly expressed by the reading men of both parties against the policy of the English Government. The absence of Sir Win, A'Court, who has not followed the King, is looked upon with a very suspicious eye—The Government; in their retreat from Seville, lost all their record ' s; the Icing is minus his baggage. There can be 111) possible excuae, fiir there was a sufficiency of time at their disposal. • Three, hundred' cannon which were at Seville, might hive been embarked on board . boats, of which there was an abundance; but they were either thrown into the river, or left unapiked in the city—this can scarcely be attributed to any thing but treachery on the part of the superior officers. The solders arc animated With the very best feelings for the Canal- Gion, but are restrained, from some policy on the part of th e overnment. 'Several foreigners Italians, French, Ger mans, and English, are waiting in Cadiz : for employment. -- The organization of a. foreign legion. under General Ladle mend is talked. of. The English intend joining Sir Ro bert Wilson in Galicia. The Cortes 'have passed' a decree, conferring on him :the rank of MajoiXeneral, with full powers to ralaa 10,000 men,, and appoint the whole or•his Officers: 'Moats is anspected of intriguing with the French, and is to be immediately superseded, with such part of his staff as may be found guilty of entering into:his views.,—The Spanish Government luxe reduced the duties on English manufactures 10 per cent.,• and have offered' to Great Britain a carte blanehe fOr the formation of a commercial treaty.—The King and the Royal Farrill V' are , confined .1n the ci.devant Custom-house of Cadiz. : His Majesty is perfectly his own master as far as relates tb any excursions homey be inclined to make within the walls of the city ; hut in wishing to impress people with the idea that he it a prisoner c he has not left the house since hi s remova l -- at About six A be is always to be sift with his brother on the roof of the house ;—sometimes he is joined by the other members of his family. Ott elit that he is actively engaged on a new petticoat for the Virgin Mary, who is the protectress of Cadiz ' which is likely to outvie all his other performanc es , b ot h ire the brilliancy of patterti and neatness of execution. At the timer had the honour of seeing him he was entertaining him self with the equally king-like pursuit of kitc : flying:. !leis said to take every possible opportunity of annoying his Ministers in, the most•unmaillymanner ; issuing his commands to them in the most brutal language, and if lie cannot by this succeed In making them change their resolution, there is no subter fuge, however mean, nr any trick, however dishono u r a bl e , that lie will not resort to in the furtherance of his ends. Cons opining the committed state in which the whole of the Morn hers of the Cortez find theniaelVes, and knowing that their pro seription proceeded from the personage they have at their mercy, it mu s t be confessed by all parties that they have shown snore moderation than many: other bodies similarly circum stanced might have done on a like occasion. Forbearance such thifs may, bpivever, be eilianated." istotormo cuttoNtcm) As we aniicipeted on a former occasion, the defeat of the French before Corunna will change the aspect of Affairs in Spain. In the Province of Cal tit it must have a wonderful effect. The fT 'cians are naturally • slow. They act from eliheration ; but when once roused and deter mined ; they are perhaps of all the inhabitants of Spain the«most .firm and steady. Naturally quiet and peaceable, they had chiefly been engaged in their domestic pursuits, and the resources and energies their Province possessed, bad been totally disorganized end counteracted, by, the appointment of a traitor to the chief corn- Mend. In this situation they were when the Trench suddenly and unexpectedly appeared among them, no regular plan of defence having been made. The news of this defeat will now act as an electric shock, and if the French, Sepa rated AS they are from their centre ) and•unpro. vided with any point d'appui, are obliged to re treat, the only alternative that appears left to them, they will have a most brassie* time of it. . They are nearly 100 leagues froth Madrid ) and will have to return through Galicia, Leon, and Asturias. There is an army of regulars hanging on their flank, equal to their own, and, elated with success, the inhabitanti wi ll join their coun , trymen along the whole of t his extended line of march. How, therefore, General de Boa rc k w ill i get baCk to - Madrid, - remains to be seen. It is even a question whether the Corunna busineis, coupled with other circumstances which begin to develope themselves, , will not materially affect the position of the Duke. d'Angouleme and the new Regency in the Spanish capital.--The situa. lion of the Duke is very precarious. it has been discovered that under the smiling countenances which welcomed his entry into Madrid, many lurking enemies were concealed; and the murder of a few French stragglers in the town and neigh bourhood has tended to confirm this fact. Not.; standing the silence .of the French Papers, we have very good reasons for believing, that no Jess than three conspiracies against the Duke's life have been discovered or counteracted ; and even one of the Grandees who signed the famous Ad dress has been arrested as being implicatedinot withstanding his rank and. privileges, and as he passed through the streets under the French escort he was pelted by the Manolas. The fact is ) the acts of the Regency have implicated the French with the whole population of Spain ) and more par ticularly where the people have the advantage of being eye-witnesses. They see that the only object of those who side with the French has been to get into power, that they might haVe an oppor , tunity to satiate their private vengeance. They have the evident proofs before their own eyes that the improvement of the country is out of the . question. The same is . also' the case in Portugal at the present moment. It, is evident to every one, that the late re-action there was arranged' by the Queen and her party, in direct opposi. tion to . the King, v horn the former would gladly set- aside, agreeably to an old pro ject, in order that the Queen may be placed at the head . of a Regency, under the influence of France. The soldiers are ashamed of the part they have played, and continually exposed to the scorn of the people.—They are besides in the most perfect state of insubordination. The last letters received from Lisbon Mention, that . the 4th and 12th regiments had actually come to blows, and, that among them four men were killed, and 35 wounded. Numbers of persons are flocking towards Galicia, where it is intefided to form a Portuguese Constitutional army, under an experienced leader, and the defeat - of the French before Corunna will give new life to the plan. [NEW TiME9.] The Speculators for a fall in the Funds con tinue to circulate alarms and rumours, which, so far as we are able to judge, are without any . foundation. Not one single fact has The Courier yet advanced in support of its Satuillay's para graph. Nay, it.now candidly admits,." that the threat of retiring behind the Ebro . may super sede the necessity of doing so," and that " it Is not at all incompatible with this' intention on the part of France, that the war should be meanwhile carried on in Catalonia, Galicia, - and Andalusia, with vigour;" in other words, that there is not the slightestreason to doubt that the military affairs of • the French in'Spain are pro ceeding suicessfully, and that all•the inferences drawn by the Stockjobbers from the paragraph of Saturday' were wholly groundless.— : Consols were yesterday depressed te . Bof, by the rumour of a British frigate having been fired into, and ;two of her crew wounded, by a French man of war, in attempting to inter Cadiz ; hut' tio'stif ficient authority'being vouched for this'story, it was soon discredited, and/ the Funds soon .reco vered their trine, and even'improved, the opening price being 81, the closing 814.' In fact, it is hardly to be conceived that any Captain of a British frigate would have the madness to attempt 'to enter it port blockaded by sea and land—a conduct which would deservedly expose him to' severe punishment froin - his own Government.--- The prices of the French . Funds on Monday were not received yesterday morning ; but the French Scrip in our market shared in' the effect of the general panic. At one time it was done at par; but afterwards improved, and left off at i per cent, premium. Colombian .Bonds delined from 62 to 601. [BRITISH PRESS.] The history of unopposed marches into re joicing towns and villages In Spain, and the tales of daily victories and successes, are at length no more. Each day is now one of contest and slaughter to the invaders—and hopeless contest; for they are not gaining a foot of ground, and they have no moral influence whatever. The powerful and resolute sortie from Cadiz on the 16th affords full proof of the force and determine tion of the Constitutionalists within the walls. According to the French accounts, not three weeks since, the Spaniards had no force within the Isle of Leon, and scarce any artillery on the ramparts of the city. It now turns out that 18,000 troops are under arms for the Constitution in the Isla ; that the fortifications of Cadiz are defended by 2,000 pieces of artillery ; that they have abun dance of provisions, and that by this time eighty gunuboats, armed with eighteen, twenty-four, and thirty-two pounders, are under sail, who will, when they acti keep the blockading squadron at a careful distance. Nothing, even from the French account, could have been more' resolute or better arranged than the sally from Cadiz. The right column, it appears, about 2,000 strong, passed the Canal by the Fort of St. Petri • three other columns debauched by tbe'bridge of :Suazo one, consisting of between 2,000 and 3,000 men, with artillery, took the direction of Chiclana ; another, composed of between 1,200 and 1,500 men, and 150 cavalry, advanced on the redoubt of Ilelluno ; and a third, amounting to between 1,200 and 1,500 men, also marched on the Mill of Oslo, which was fortified and occupied by a com pany of sharp-shooters. According to the French accounts, in all these affairs, the Spaniards, not. withstanding their confessed superiority in num ber and artillery, were every where repulsed, with the loss of 4500 killed or wounded, while the besiegers (t.i Pordinaire) lost only 16 killed and 55 wounded, among whom were five officers. Accounts fiom Bayonne to the 17th of July speak of the transfer of Angouleme's Head quarters from Madrid to Seville. 'We have no doubt that the French, in their own defence, will be obliged to abandon the capital, and that these reports are only the forerunners of such a determination. [MORNING POST.] We received last night, by Express, Paris' Journals to the 28th instant. Their contents are not without interest, though they bring no official Bulletin". The differences which have broken out between tale French Royalists are daily growing more manifest. The Drapeau the avowed organ of the Duchess of Angouleme and the Ultras, is now at open variance with the Journal dei Debuts, the leading Ministerial print ;_ for that Journal is favoured with the arguments and communications of the Ministeis in defence of their own measures.— whilit the Monileur is only the receptacle of official pieees. Without calling the Drapeau Blanc a poiitive liar, the Journal des Debuts states that there " is not one word of truth" in the account given by that Paper of the march of Mina at the head of nine thousand m'en towards the French frontier. The Quoit disnne is less coniVdent, and only 46 has reasons to think that Mina is not in' a state to undertake such an enterpriSe." What those reasons are, however, it does not condescend to explain ; and as the Journal des Debuts addtices none to justify the flat contradictions which it gives, the authenticity of the intelligence published by the Drapeau . Blanc appears to us to be by no means shaken. Had it originated with the Liberal Papers, we migl►t haie sus pected that it was little more than the em bodying of a wish ; but coming as It does' from a quarter most hostile to the Spanish Con'stitution= alists, and to Mina in particular, it becbmes en titled to a considerable degree of credit.' The information was probably communicated by the boaster, Donttadieu, who revealed the secret,' much to the annoyance of the French Government, in order to show that Moiler) , was either incapa ble or unwilling to direct the operations of the campaign in an effective manner. If his inten tion, however, was to cause the aged Marshal to he recalled, it has entirely failed, and he has fal len a victim to his own device, for his asking leave to retire to Bareges to take care of an ancient wound, is now said to have been merely a con trivance to remove the necessity of a public dia missal and to conceal its disgrace. • THE FIFE CAUSE.—This cause regards'. Tiro perty far above 20,000 a-year, in the finest districts of Scot. land ; the enumeration of the estates taking up more than 30 .quarto pages. Amongst them are, Innes, Leuchars, Mbnitglity, ding-Ldward, Macduff, Rothieinay, Braemar, Corrierninbyte, m Phiscardln, nipple, (`,ark,, Brims, Tippertait, Garouth, Delgaty, Turreff, Melross, Turtory, Finfan, Binns, Urquhart, Coxtown, Kinairdy, Kildrnmmie, &c. &c". Kirk Pa. tronages, Ist and 2d, Old Aberdeen, New Machar, Achindori q, Newhilla, Essie, and Spynie ; antfFilehouse, Lon don. The Trustees'are—ThoS. Wharton, Esq. Gen. Sir Jai Duff; ltfehard Wharton, Esq. and Stewart Suter, Esq. 'rbe defenders arc the followinlT heirs of entail, for themselves and their heirs.male--Hon. Majoi , Gen. Alex. Duff; Gen.. Sir James Duff; Garden Duff of Hatton ;'.Robert Duff, sea of J. Duff of Hatton; Capt. Norwich Duff; R.N. son of Capt. G. 'Duff, R.N. ; Robert W. Duff of Fetteresso ; Adam Duff, his brother, advocate; John Duff of Drurnmuris; Capt. Ar chibald Duff, R.N. his brother; Thomas Duff', son of Lachn. Duff, W. S. ;. frugh Robert Duff of Muirtown, son of Colonel Alexander Duff of Muirtown ; Duff Of Consindal... f Edinburgh Courtnit, Jury 26. ) GARRICK A.ND HO'GARTI/.--- The following anecdote of the mode by.Whteli Garrick became possessed' of Hogarth's famous Election Pictures has been vouched' a s . genuine. " When Hogarth h a d finished these pictures, he went to Garrick; with' whom be was on very intimate terms, and told him that he had completed them adding, It does not appear likely that I shall find a purchaser, as I value them 'at two htindred guineas I therefore intend to dispose of them by a raffle among Ty friends, and I hope you Will put down your name.' Garrick told him he would consider of it and call on him the next day. He accordingly:did so, and having con versed with Hbgarth for some tim e , p ut d own hi s name fcir five or tell guineas, and took his leave. He had, scarcely got into the'street, when (as'lllrs. Garrick, from whom the story is de, rived, stated) he began a soliloquy to the followi ng e ff ect What have T been doing ? 1 lcave just put down my name for a few guineas at Mr. Hogarth's request, and as his friend; :but now he must still go to another friend, and then to another : to how many must he apply before he gets a sufficient number ? This is mere begging; and should such a man as Hogarth be suffered to beg? Am I not his friend ?'—The result was, that be instantly turned back, and purchased those line pictures at the price of 200 guineas, which the artist himself had fixed." MARBLE PONDS OF PEIISIA.—This natural curiosity consists of certain pools, or plashes, whose indolent waters by a slow and regular process, stagnate, concrete, and petrify, producing that beatitiful transparent stone, commonly called Tabriz marble, much used in the burial-places of Persia, and in their best edifices. These ponds are contained within the circumference of half a mile, and their position is distinguish ed by heaps of stone, which have accumulated as the excavations . have increased. The petrifactive process may be traced from its commencement to its termination : in one part, the water is .clear; in a second, it appears thicker and stagnant; in a third, 'quite black; and in its last stage, it is white like a hoar frost. Wherobe, operation is complete, a stone thrown on its surface .maketrno impression, and a man may walk over it without wet. thing his shoes. Such is the constant tendency of this water to become stone, that when it exudes from the ground in bubbles; the petrefaction assmnes a globular shape, as if the bubbles of. a sprlng, by a stroke of magic, had been arrested in their 'play, and metamorphosed into stone. The substance thus produced is brittle, transparent, and sometimes richly streaked with green, red, and copper-coloured veins. It admits of being cut into very large slabs, and takes a good polish. •So much is this stonelooked on as an article of luxury, that none but the king, his sons ; and persons.privileged by special flrman, aril permit ted to take it. Too Mum OF A GOOD THING.---A certain country squire had a warren, and the village curate was, Sunday after Sunday, regaled with the delicacy of rabbits, till he became so sick of them, that he took the liberty of hinting his dis like or the standing dish to the host, in the fol lowing Grace, on rising from the table ; . • • " Of Rabbits hot, i of Rabbits cold, Of Rabbits tender, Rabbits tough; Of Rabbits young, of Rabbits old, I th ank the L:-:d, we've had enough !" Conosuit's INQUEST.—Lust night an Inquisi. tion was taken at the Turf tap, back of Saint George's Hospital, before Mr. GELL, Coroner for London, on the body of Joseph. Hillyer a fine boy, about 11 years of age, the son of llillyer, of Isle worth, who, it appeared from the evidence of his father, was on last Sunday week, robbing a bird's nest in the Duke of Nounium- BERLAND'S garden, when he fell from a very high tree upon his head. His scull was frac tured, and he was carried to the hospital in a state of insensibility, where he lingered till Sun day last, when he expired.--;VerdiCt l 64 Acci. 1.1 vu ta 1 Death," LAW INTEL LIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, JULY 29. BEER v. WARD. Mr. HART shortly renewed his motion, agreeably to the suggestion of the Court at the last hearing, for putting the heir-at-law in this long contested case in possession. Mr. 'WETHERELL opposed the motion, chiefly on the ground that notice of a motion for a new trial had been given on account of a misdirection of the Judge who tried the last issue, in his exposition of the law of marriage as it existed previous to . • the celebrated Marriage Act brought in by Lord Hardwicke in 1754. It appeared from the short hand writer's notes of the charge, that the Chief Justice h a d in structed the jury, that before that period the law of England was in the same state with respect to marriages, as the law of Scotland is at present, and that then it was not necessary to have a marriage canonically solemnized—that it need not be solemnized in a church, nor was the presence of a c l erg y man necessary. The avowal of .the parties that they were man and wife, together with known cohabitation, were at that time, ac cording to the assertion of the Learned Chief Justice, full and legal proofs of a marriage. This, he (the Learned Counsel) maintained, was not the law of England, nor ever had be en at any time since the reign of Edward IV., to go no farther back. It had been ruled over and over again, that lay ministers of congregations could not solemnize a valid marriage; and there was a case decided by the Delegates as long ago as the reign of Queen Anne (" Haydon v. Gould," Salkeld, 119), in which .a marriage was declared void because it was not so leinnized by a clergyman. There was another case in the year books of.E:tward IV., which affirmed the same thing. He ad mitted that the place of solemnization was of no importance under the old law.; but the presence of the clergym a n cou ld not be dispensed. with. He hoped, therefore, that the Court would . not presume a marriage as to which no evidence had been tendered either of place or canonical celebration, as the court of common law had done—and that too upon a construc tion of law which was entirely new—when that was the very question upon which depended the claims of either party, as to which of them was the right heir-at-law. .Mr. SIIADWELL, Mr. Holm, and 31r. PENN followed on the same side. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that when the mot i on was made to him the other d a y, h e h a d thought that as there was now a verdict given for each party, he might have been allowed to consider the . case, as if one verdict - had nullified the other.-- Further . consideration had convinced him that that opinion was untenable. The case originally arose in proceedings in lunacy. He had never ceased to regret that h had not in those p rocee d. ings adopted the course which had - been usually taken, and, acting as the King's Commissioner in lunacy, and not as Lord Chancellor, put that party in posSession of the estate whom all parties then represented as the heir-at-law. Had he done so, a great , part of the subsequent difficulties would have been avoided; and the party next claiming to be heir-at-law must have filed his bill in equity with a view to gaining the posses sion of his right against the party admitted to possession as the heir-at-law acknowledged by all parties at the time of find ing the lunacy.. As the case stood, Mr. Ward had been appointed Committee to the estate under thS lunacy, and having raised his claiin to the estate after that appointment, .had endeavoured, no doubt with the advice of his legal friends, and perhap% not very improperly, to keep possession on his own accbunt. Now it was very material to consider whether, If Mr. Ward had claimed as heir-at-law at the finding of the lu. nacy, the Court would not have thought of some other assign ment of the Cummitteeship. An issue, however, was sent to the Court Of,Common Pleas to try the right of Mr. Ward as heir-at. law. Had he been engaged on the trial, he would not have di. rected much attention to the first marriage, but he would have done what he could to identify those who were parties to the solemnizing of the second marriage. With respect to the con duct of Chief Justice Dallas, he had before expressed his opi nion that that Learned Judge had tried the issue with very great ability ; he would now say that he did not know of any trial which had ever been conducted with greater ability. Still, reviewing the whole proceedings before that trial and upon it, he did feel that there were observations with respect to both parties, whiCh ought to have been made to the Jury, and which had' not been made ; and above all, that there was evidence shut out from the consideration of the cause Which he himself, sitting in equity, felt to be indispensable to" a just deCision. He had therefore directed a new trial, which took place in the Court of King's Bench, and as the first verdict had gone hit favour of the right of Mr. Ward, the second established the contested legitimacy of him who had been first of all adniitted on all sides to be heft-at-law. He had hoped, as he had before stated; that this opposition of the Verdicts inig i t i tt have the effect of replacing him in that gh s c vieti t n i t tar i a inay alleged considerableo llrs n l 0 cesao ' gi i wroe n endia w dener: h xnanoi ,nn e ; 3sioitt stoode rinca n liosucares go:ou:c:Iyl e.y a ? lot of uufol miscarriage ought to oiaw t; l m a dtovl wh en , t.th e eie , roanorynve ofe,w e re relatione paen retg a sth.h procee ding s to T. thot K hr n emse og a dmi t t edr .or'ns..t f s is the charge of the Learned Chief Justice of the King's Beocli. Now it was' utterly impossible that he could know what ,had tak en lilac° before that Learned Judge ex cept from a copy of the notes approved by the Learned Judge himself. The first verdict had been set aside, upon a positive knowled ge i n fp arted to the Court of the pr oceedings on the trial. The Court had yet no information of a proper kind as to the last trial. It was therefore impossible for the Court, with such knowledge as it now possessed, to determine that the verdict on the first issue was confounded by the verdict on the second issue. From all these circumstances which were circumstances arising in the proceedings in equity, and not in the proceedings' in lunacy, he felt that he could not grant the motion in the present instance, for putting the heir at law in possession, and that the motion for the new trial must, in any case, be first argued ; and he appointed the second day of sit tings after the coming vacation for that purpose. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Juz.v 29. His HONOUR this morning commenced hearing bankrupt Witipps,:having disposed of the li st o f cause p e ti t i ons . EX4AIITE BUXTON, IN THE MATTER OF THOMPSON. 'This was a petition on the part of several creditors under the commission of bankruptcy , praying that the assignee might be ordered to make gooc t he loss upon a sale of a reversionary interest. It appeared that a reversion had been put up to i a m u s c i t g io n n ee , a f n or d , 1 0 had be h o bo li u t di t e ight t i t o b I+ 3o o the w h s i o c l h ic th ito e r re f r o e r rs i t o h n e rested, and the property fell into immediate possession. In this improved state of the property, it was again put up for sale, but instead of producing an increased price, it was sold for, the diminished value of •510/. The petitioners, therefore, prayed that the assignee might be directed to make good the loss upon the sale. Mr. BELL, on the part of the assignee, stated that the re versionary interest had been bought in by the solicitor rather than that it should be purchased by a person just discharged under the Insolvent Act; but this step was not taken without the consent of the creditors. Since the purchase of the rever sion, as was well known, landed property had b een great l y depreciated in value, and the in evit able consequence had been, that a considerable loss had been sustained. In this case, however, the assent of the creditors had been first obtained. Mr. Ksnoirr, in support of the petition, observed, that no regular meeting of the creditors hail been called to inform th em of the fact. Ile referred to a lately decided ease ' ex-parte Lewis, to show that an assigne e , if he bids sale of the hankrupt's effects, bids entirely at his own peril. he VICE-CitANCELLon was perfectly aware of the case alluded to ? and admitted that it was true as a general rule, that an assignee bids at his own peril ; in this case, however, it appeared that the assent of the creditors was obtained, and that the bidding was made' under peculiar circumstances.._ Petition dismissed. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JULY 29. Richard Rogers Worthington Beard was opposed by Mr. Por.r.cic Jr, on behalf of Messrs. Webb and Co. and a 11r. Tie kel. The insolvent, who was dressed in a sporting frock, stated that he bad kept the White Hart Inn at G ravesen d . His wife had owned a house in the county of Kent, which she sold for 2001. In 1812, he borrowed 500/. of a Mr. Ashford, which, however, he was oblig e d to p a y t h e next year. He did so by means of the 2001. for which his wife bad sold her house, and 3001. which he borrowed of his mother-in-law, and for which he gave her a bill of sale. Having represented to him that she had lost this bill of sale, he gave her a warrant of attorney last April, on which she entered up judgment, and sold his property under execution. The proceeds, how ever, were insufficient to pay off the whole of her demand. He had previously agreed to sell his house to another person' who deposited 100/. with him for the purchase, but he atter wards preferred forfeiting the 190/. to taking the house. The insolvent spent this 1001. Ile,had never represented that be had an estate in Shropshire, or that his dogs were worth 1001. There was a room in his h ouse wh ere he kept his bridle and saddle, and other appointments. He was a member of the Kentish cavalry, bat had had no horse for the last two 'years. There might have been one or two articles of plate in his pos. session, but he had no spoons for the last year and a half, except, perhaps, three or tour. When Lord Darnley and the troop dined at his house in January last, the plate tor the oc casion was borrowed all over the neighbourhood. J. L. Webb was then sworn, and stated that he was a wine merchant. Ile had known the insolvent for several . years. Ile had remained in his d e b t f or t h ree or four years, in the course of which time, when he (Mr. Webb) was pressing him for pay ment, the insolvent told him that he had an estate in Shrop shire, to which he intended to remove. He also said that -bis dogs were worth 1001. He (Mr. Webb) had neither given him further credit, or been very urgent with him for payment, for about three years and a half, until January last, when the In solvent came to him and said that Lord Darnley's troop ware to dine together, and offered him the dinner if he could pro cure wine. He therefore requested Mr. Webb to befriend hitn once snore. Mr. Webb, after first declining to trust him again, was at length prevailed upon by his entreaties to let him have 311. worth of wine, upon his solemn promise to pay him out of the proceeds of the dinner, for which he.expected to be paid in 3 days. When Mr. Webb applied for paym ent i n a wee k after. the insolvent sa id t h at a delay had taken place in consequence of a claim of 51. for glasses which had been broken. Wheat Mr. Webb subsequently wrote to him for payment, the insol vent had not thought proper even to answer his letter. Under these circumstances, he immediately commenced proceeding's against him. The insolvent, on his re-examination by his own Counsel (Mr. HEATH), swore that the whole cost of the dinner was but 421.. which he was only paid in two months afterwards, in small suqu ms of 51. and 7/. a t a ti me ; each sergeant paying for his own sad. The COURT observed, that had the insolvent received the full charge for the dinn er i n one sum, and not hand e d over to 'Mr. Webb the price of hi s wine inunediately, they wou ld h ave visited him with ver y severe animadversion ; but the manner in which it had been paid to him gave a different complexion to this part of the case. With respect to other parts of the case, the Court thought it was one of souse suspicion, ancf which well warranted them in exercising their discretion, undCr the ltith section of the A c t. Th ey t h erefore ordered him to be remanded. for six months, and confined within the walls of the prison. From the LONDON GAZETTE, Judy Whitehall, Alp 20, 1823. The King has been pleased to present *the Rev. John Law, Batchelor of Arts, to the Vicarage of Broad Worthy, otherwise- Bradfonlisworthy, w i t h t h e Chapel of St. Pancras, in the minty of Devon and the diocese of Exeter, void by the death of the Rev. John Darke. BA P TS. J. L. Clark, Honiton, sa NKß ddler, t U o surrender Aug.. 7,8, Sept. 9, at the Bl ac k Li on I nn, Honiton. Solicitor, Mr. Luxmore, Red Lion-square. R. Simpson, Watling-street, warehouseman, Aug. 9,.19,. Sept. 9, at the Bankrupt's Court, Basinghall-street. Solicitor, Mr. Bolton, Austin-friars. T. W. Baker, Foley-street, Foley-place, tallow-chandler, Aug. 2,9, Sept. 9, at the Bankrupts' Court, Solicitor,Basinghall-street- Mr. Mayhew, Ch ancery _l ane. W. olroyd, Leadenhall-street, machine-maker, Aug. 5,9, Sept. 9, at the Bankrupts Court, Basingliall-street. Solicitor,. Mr. Farris, Surrey-street, Strand. J. Righton, Bristol, haberdasher, Aug. 14, 15, Sept. 9, at the Bummer Tavern, Bristol. Solicitors, - Messrs. Clarke. Richards, and :Metcalf, Chancery_lane: J. Warr, W. Davies, and T. Matthews, Tipton, Stafford.. shire, ironmasters, Aug. 12, 13, S e p t . 9, at the O t o rge H otel. Walsall. Solicitors, Messrs. Turner and Hutchinson, Blooms. bury-square. DIVIDENDS. Aug. 5, H. Carter, RatcliffThighway l lin en -draper —Aug. 9 W. Turner, Layton, E ssex , d ea l er in horses--:Aug. 19, J. Edwards, Gough-square, Fleet -street, furrier—Aug. 26, J. B. Player and J. been, Bristol, bottle liquor-merchants.—Aug. 19, W. Greig, City-road, upholstorer—Aug. 25, (3. Deeding, fellmonger—Aug. 19, J. Douglass, D. and W. Russell, Flee.t-street, drapers--Aug.l9,.A. hite. A ldermanb ur y, factor —A ug. 22, J. Large, ilUden.bradley, 'Wilt s hi re , b an k er —A ug. 19, S. Corvine, Barbican 'pawn.broker—.Aug. 19, J. P. Hillary, Marl--lane, wine -merchant—Aug. 19, 8. 'Wagstaff and T. Baylis, Kidderminster, carpet-manufacturers—A ug . 9, J. Dicics,London-street, Tottenham. court - roa d, carpenter—Aug. 9, I'. Wood, Kingston, Surrey, gardener—Aug. 19, J. CL Young, Shiplake, Oxfordshire, merchant—Aug. 21, J. 0.- Spring, Comngsby, draper—Aug. 20, T. O. Warwick and J. Aldred, Rotherham, orkshire, chymists —Sept. 5, S. Wal.. ton, Nantwich, linen.draper—Sept. 4, W. Tomlinson, jun., Nantwich, money-scrivener —Aug. 23, A. Drakeford, Coles hill, Warwickshire, butcher—Aug. 30, J. Turnb u ll, .J. F or b es , R. A. Crawford, and D. Skene, Broad.street, merchants. CERTIFICATES, AUG. 19. E. Corbett, Liverpool, common-brewer—S. Hodgson, Dover. street, Piccadilly, hoteLkeeper—H. Haffner, Cannon -street„ St. George's, carpenter—Vl'. Allan, Seething-lane, Tower street, ale-dealer—Smallwood, Drayton in Hales, banker. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. A. & R. V. Yates and G. L. Cox, Liverpool, iron-dealers --J. A. and R. V. Yates and J. Priestley, Liverpool, brokers .—J. Renshaw and L. Rostron, Manchester, cotton-manufac turers—T. anti J. Cuff; Bath, grocers—M. Little, A. M'Ghie and G. Knox, Blackburn,, diapers—J. Barker, J. Ward, and T. Cooper, Lightmoor, Shropshire, iron -manufacturers; so far as regards T. Cooper—J. Paull and J. Ilitchins, Tavistock, Devonshire, glass4ealers—J. Taylor and S. Cooke, Salford, timber tuerchants—J. and If. Coilison, Lyncombe . and IVid combe, Somersetshire, Thames-street, ham-factors-11. Ray ner and R. Scott, Wakefield, woolstaplers—'W. Francis, S. Smith, J. J. Dearman, and W. Brunton, Birmingham, iron founders—J. Griffin, ‘i'alsall, and C. Cooper, sen., Langley, lime-masters—H. hleux, 'l'. S. Benson, F. T. Young, and R. Latham, Tottenham-court-road, brewers. A SENSIBLE OLD BACHELOR rich old fellow being asked why lie did not marry, replied, " Because I have no inclination for old women, and young women have no inclination for me." CURE OF RIJEUM%IISM.—A rerne4y for rheu matism has been introduced in this country by Air. Churchhili. It is termed acupuncturation, and consists in cautiously in. serting needles to given depth, into those muscular parts which are the seat of disease. It is said his Majesty consulted his physician on the propriety of adopting it in his ow n case . I t appears also that Lady Burrell, daughter of the Earl o r Egre mont, witnessed its usefulness; and, as it is represented as producing no pain, determined on having a needle introduced into her own person to ascertain the fact, previously to recom mending it to her father. The result was confirmatory of the assertioq, The Earl had tried every remedy which could be. suggested, without experiencing any relief. He, therefore; submitted to an introd uct i on o f t h e needle, and in a few minutes was completely cured, and next day was able to gop out shooting. • COURSE OF EXCHANGE, July 'l9. A mete, dart Ditto, at Sight . : 233: 6: 2289 81 5 °9521 : t i l l:Il i : U : 1j ! e Rotterdam Antwerp • Hanihttrgh Altona Paris, 3 Day's sight Ditto Mourdeattx, ditto Frankfort on the Main Madrid Cadiz .. ailboa 364 iittretisi Barcelona - ' gesille .Gibraltar Leghorn Get..a ...........;y -Venice, Ital. Liv 2B 10 • Malta 45 ---Naples...... .. . • 39 Palermo . Lisbon 52 Oporto 52 RioJsusiro ....... . AS Ortbiiii .... 9} ..Cork yi pet Cent. BULLION. .• Portugal C;olil,in Coin 0 . 0 per Os, Foreign Gold, itr 13ars 3 17 6 New Doubloons New Dollars.... 0 4 9.4 Silver in Bars, St a nd ar d n • BIRTHS. On the 213th instant, at Ilolderness..house, Park-lane, the AlarchioLms of Londonderry, of a daoghter. On Tuesday, the 29th inst., at Grove-hill, Camberwell, lu re 7 William IVynne. t of a son. On Monday, in flanover...vpare, the, Lady of 'William Htitehins, Esq., of a son. • LIED. On Tuesday, the 27th inst., at Egham, in the 17th year of her age, Mary, second daughter of Matthias Gilbertson, ot Herdlird, Esq. On the 20th inst., when on a visit to his son, at Reading. the Rev. James Hinton, of Oxford, A.M., after a few hours illness. On Monday last, Charlotte, the eldest daughter of the late John Evans, }:sq., late of Somers-place West, Somers-town. On Sunday last, in Doughty-street, John Slonum, Esq., of Wick, near Christchurch, Hants. On the 20th inst., Georgians, the youngest daughter of Richard Walker, Esq., of St. James's-street, in the 9th year of her age. • Printed and Published for the 1 4 110PRIETOWI, at the Stnr. OrricE,.ll2, Strand, by 4. B. CARSTAIRO.