The Sun. — London, England, 1823-10-18 00:00:00

TII E, LONLONJOURNALS. D 4iLY *Extracts from the Morning Papers, October 18 . , -:~+-. { . .attrztsu sls.l Fast-sailing vessels- are said to have been distiatched from .the 'French squadron on the ..supretider of Cadiz, to require'the return of the South American Colonies to their former elle . liAttce to Spain. The French have already ,itaval force in.that quarter ; our force in those - seas ought to be increased ; we cannot keep too vigilant an eye on the designs of the Freud) Cabinet, anti prevention is always better than sub sequent- attempt at cure. De Villele will not aban don the claim of compensation for the monstrous ,vlpenditure incurred by the war in Spain. Ferdi- Ppe,d and the crew around hirn,possess nothing they van give from. that exhausted country ; but they point out Southern America to the ambitious "rsuchman, ,as rich spoil. Its mines and, its commerce will be offered us a retribution for the r. iovilente sums F er dinand's 'restoration has already . vest, and for any additional expenditure an ex. peditiott to those countries` may 'bring with it; ,9,1" the Phiiippineq, from their contiguity to chi na,.and our Oriental. Trade, may be bartered by li a erdinand's Ministers to the French Cabinet, and accepted, The r ambition of France is rapidly reviving; the soldiers, who care nothing about AP-ipsticeof any. quarrel,. and look only for em 4loyment and plunder, have conquered under hewhite flag. That power bas now als6 a con- 1 demble marine; Secret , negociations, will take place as soon as Ferdinand and AngOulerne meet }oi 'Madrid, .and.ala'rge force can easily be shipped from Cadiz and ,floated across the ~. Atlantic. The very possession of that city by French troops, from its contiguity to Gibraltar, ~must be tt source .of great jealousy to this coml. try.. Altogether this war and ‘it i results are full 'Of ahy thing but peace and security to Great Britain. We might have prevented it by firm *Ad energetic Councils. The independence of 4ain is now destroyed, and the influence of this :cOuntry , Most 'seriously diminished ou the Con. tjnent. A short interval will disclose the plains nOw'in preparation,'against which we cannot be too deliberately on our guayd. . . [ m E TINMS,j „ 'The Paris Papers received yesterday present fact, which we trust will.not be the 'fist of the kind. It appears that a smart engage- Anent hays taken Nacos in Estrernadura between a force under - General ,Larochejaquelin, I ',Atittioneof Spanish Patriots under General Pla. loath. The tatter were defeated, ,but not, it ~*.kt)4ld,seem, bojdler-like resistance. Thie,ftction took place on the 4th inst., and the .Kit %of Spain purrendered on the Ist. Already. he gin tO, talk of their 46 , 48 r y of i."Oicuintion in Spain, in - case the Xing of cc palu,should consider oeenfi.ceSsary." First: .Itear4, of ,a.,;_eord'on , Saultaire—next of g ita Army of'l . 9bseryktion—then of an Army of Critstie est, we preitfthe*-stri at last of a n Army of Qpcupation., Now,w lien the French invaded Spain, ,they professes! that. their only aim was to Jibe. rate the King, who .was held, in thraldom, it was asserted,'by few , .factiousthe great body ,of the nation was friendly to absolute , power and the HOly, Jnonisition, T King is liberated : fitt,fs, or may be, placed in the hands of that .great and potent majority of people whiCh is attached to his , pretenilons ; and they, no doubt,"cart defend him against the " factious few.". To what purpose, then, an Army of Oc asmstion ? Does not, the Very mention of such et t army prove the: conscious falseheod of the men ) who beld.forth all those specious pretences for the itigresiiion of Spain r But who is to pay this . new .:44,tt{r of ccppation in,l‘laples the foreign soh. , dierl that oppress the, natives are paid, fed, and 040 by those, whom they • oppress. Is the "wine arrangement to take .. - Place ,in Spain ? If . 00t, h appy and rich .t rance ) , that can afford to ittaintein an ploy of (we should suppose) at least ifty,thOusand men, beyond the Pyrenees, in order sustain King Ferdinand upon, his throne ! Tp this,. at ieast,.if the French are , richer, they =AIM kiso more generous than their late enemies of ihoGrand 'Alliance. The Army of . 9ccsipation which wai "left in the frontier fortresses of ,Flognoe, at the conclusion of the grand war, 4oling a. term of three or Oiti! years as occasion Otight..requirtoOr the purpose of fetaining the ,French Bourbons in the position in which it had placed them, was supported. by the French them raelYes; ,and. its retirement was at last purchased by theta at a high rate. France pays an army of billigners in order to keep its . own Bourbons on their throne, atid then it pays an army of its own subjects in order to keep the branch of the family ott the throne of Spain. Cbt ftvt:NCPOST .1 We are enabled to lay before our readers an Official Proclamation Issued by the King of 4Poiti at Cadiz, on thefiOtlt of September, the day , before he published at Port Saint Mary's the eYelernte d Decree by which he annulled every act ti one under the Constitutional System, and sitinouncedliett course of persecution which he afterwards carried into effect ' by the Decree at the 4th lostant. For the authencity of Allis document we pledge ourselves : of its importance the world and posterity` will judge. reipires no elucidation. )furniliatiag to ixtunan nature as an instance of the 'basest and most fthanieless hypocrisy„ it is however gratify lug inasmuch as it, clears the character of the Cortes and of the Cadiz authorities from the Cliorge of having submitted without making terms for the Constitution and for their country. Their onlY fault now appears to have been, that they trusted tin solemn assurances of a King, who declared that he made them " freely and of his own soontaneous will," and did not sus pect that lie was only adding a crowning and let as trust a last perjury, to the mass which is already crying out to Heaven against him. Let this Proclamation be compared with the faithless and infamous Decrees of the Ist and 4th of Oc tober, which appeared in our Paper of Wednes day and yesterday, and then let the most servile and interested advocates of French aggression and of restored Despotism, repeat if they dare,; that the deliverance of such a man is a blessing. ! [MORNING CHRONICLE.] We noticed the new Loan which the Austrian Government has contracted for. It was reported yesterday that Russia intended contracting for a new Loan, but we understand this report is void of foundation. But a Loan which will create much more agitation than either of the above, is, we learn, to be announced shortly, we suppose as soon after the bankruptcy of Spain has been declared as possible,—a Loan for the Abso lute Govbrnment of that country, under the guarantee of the French.—We should con ceive a Loan of this kind 'a much less safe speculation than one directly to the French Government. Even after a bankruptcy has been declared in Spain, it will be difficult in a coun try so impoverished to raise taxes adequate to the ordinary expences of Administration. When the day of payment comes, the French Govern ment may not be so ready to discharge the obli gation as to enter into it. There is another ob jection to a Loan to Spain, at this moment, but it is not likely to weigh much in the money market, where moral considerations weigh generally very little—We mean, that any loan for the behoof of the Spanish Government, will he , partly employed in the attempt to reconquer the quondam Colo nies ; an object which France has bound herself by Treaty with Spain to aid her in effecting. The French openly tempted their Allies with the re-acquistion of the Colonies, and the impres sion that a positive Treaty has been entered. into between the two Bourbon Governments is very general among well informed persons. A little time will clear up these matters. [NEW TIMES. Reverting to the subject of Spanish Bonds, we beg our readers to remember that we have not ar gued against those securities simply because they were of a revolutionary orisin, but because we think it impossible that any Spanish Securities, Revolutionary or'Royalist, can for many years to come be placed on a secure basis, Public credit in Spain has been cut up by the roots. The country is desolated ; the financial resources are, almost annihilated. If, therefore, any new Loans should be attempted to be raised by the restored Government, we warn our countrymen to be ex tremely cautious how they have any thing to do with them Above all, let no British capital be embarked in loans for the purpose of re conquering South America. —lf the Royalist party in South America should prevail, which is a very possible case, particularly in Mexico, and should choose to connect itself in any way with the Mother Country, it would be no business of, ours to interpose an obstacle to Inch a union. But if Spain should attempt to lit out fleets, and dispatch armies across the At lantic, let us riot assist so ruinous a scheme with our money. Let Britain busbandand improve her resources against the day of trial, when her own interests shall be at stake ; for unhappily the history of the human race affords too little ground to believe that any peace will be perpetual. LMORNING HERALD.] We have heard, that in Ireland it is a generally received opinion, that Middle-men, as they are called, are injurious to the community. By Middle men, leaseholders of land are under. stood. Those who take a lease of a hundred, or a thousand acres of land; at as low a price us they can obtain it, in order to let it at as high a price as they can get. We will imagine an Irish Nobleman, possessing an entailed estate worth 10,0001. a year, provided he lived in Ireland, collected his own rents, and got the utmost worth of them, but who chose to reside in England, in preference to living in a country where comparatively the lower orders of society set law at defiance; where murders of the most horrible nature are 'regularly committing ; country of Mountains and of bogs ; a — coun try which, in the interior parts, is in the rudest state of civilization, and the tenants, for the most part, are, or appear to be, in the utmost state of poverty,:and to whom most men, posiess ing a tract of land of the nature we have described, would rather give something every quarter-day than take any thing from them. We say, that a Nobleman or a Gentleman coming into the pos session of a large. estate under such circumstances, if he, has been in England, would not chuse to live in the country parts of Ireland, and be his own letter of landto, and collector of rents from, such tenants as we have'described ; he would prefer to live in England, where he could comparatively live in peaceand in the highest slate of luxury,and where lie would be in the way of the Court, the fountain of honours and of lucrative employments for himself and family. But what must a Noble 'man or a gentleman - do, in case he should re solve on living in England, In preference to living in Ireland ? Must he not have . recourse to either a middle-man or a steward ? Some pre fer one, but more the' other. Certainly an honest steward would probably best answer the rich landholder's purpose ; as an men are fond of obtaining from their possessions as great an in come as possible. As a steward, therefore, appears better of the two, we will suppose that most men would, in the first instance, chuse the steward, who, by the bye, would, for his stewardship, by hook or by crook, contrive to get 1,0001. a year out of the 10,0001., which would reduce the absentees income to 9,0001., but the thing not being the steward's own, and his' employer living at so great a dis tance, and as it might be irksome or inconvenient to him to go even once a year to his estatee, we will further imagine, that after the lapse of a year or two, the absentee does not regularly get his 9,0001. a year, his steward informing him that, from one cause or another, he cannot send him the full amount of his rent. Does he not get dissatisfied with his system of employing a steward ? Suppose, instead of his getting 9,0001. a year, the sum he contemplated having in Eng- , land to spend, he only gets 5 or 7,000/, s year, will not this very circumstance cause him to think of some other mode of securing, if he possibly can, a certain instead of all uncertain income ? for probably he finds that though his income has been uncertain, his expenditure has been certain ; and the latter will be the case if.he be married, and 'has told his partner, either before or after their union, that he was worth 10,0001. a year.— At this point the necessity for the middle-man ne cessarily arrives, and it is in the course of things that one will rise up, or if not, the absentee will either visit his estates for the purpose of letting them on lease at a certain term to people known to be wealthy and able to pay him the rent regularly, or, as is very fregnently the case, he will offer his steward, who. in the course of a few years, may 'have realised a small property out of the 1,000/;:a'year, to becoMe his'tenint on lease for' the whole of the estate. Most things end in this way. The steward knows the 'real value better than any one else, and will kobably give more money per annum than any one else. BARON SAMUEL' GUSTAVUS HERMELIN. The memory of this philosopher should be equally dear to geographers and those who cul tivate the mining art.—Born - at Stockholm in 1744, of a noble family, his father having attain ed The eminent dignity of a Senator of the king dom, he was furtunately destined to undertake the administration of the mines, the most impor tant source of wealth . which Sweden possesses. He commenced by visiting the principal establish . . meats of this kind in the kingdom, and paid par ticular attention to the celebrated cOpper-mine of Fatilun, where he 'contributed to establish a manufacture of vitro!, sulphur, and colcotha. He was also actively occupied with the gold-mine of lEdelfors.—After having acquired a -profound knowledge of every thing remarkable in this de partment that Scandinavia presented, he obtain ed permission to visit foreign countries also. He travelled through Germany, the Low Countries, and France, and embarked for America ; charged, at the same time, on the part of Sweden, with a political mission to the United States. He visit ed almost all parts of this country, and returned to Sweden, by England, towards the end of 1784.—He now, became anxious to improve the knOwledge of the geography; geology, and statis tics of Sweden, which seemed to Tarn to be as yet in a-very imperfect condition. He therefore caused to be explored, at his own expence, the northern provinces of the kingdom, which were less known than the others. The result of, these journeys was a map of Westro-Bothnia and Laplend ; and this was the commencement of the great geographical enterprise to which Baron Hermelin devoted, for a period of fifteen years, his most assiduous cares, and a great part of his fortune. Unfortunately, the publication of the twenty-sir first maps hay ing exhausted his pecuniary resources, h e was obliged, in 1810, to give up the remaining part of the work to a company ; but he acted a prin cipal part in this association, and had the happi ness, before his death, of seeing this grand atlas of Sweden entirely completed—a monument rais ed to science and his country, by a single indivi- dual, at the expense of the greatest sacrifices.— His patriotic efforts were not,litpited to this single interprize, great as it was. Feeling for the ex treme poverty to which the inhabitants of the most northern provinces of Sweden are reduced, and knowing the abundance and productiveness of the ores of iron which these provinces possess, he judged that the best means of being useful to them would be to establish furnaces and forges. Three of these manufactories he established in Bothnia. He opened new roads, and perfected the means of conveyance by water ; 'founded oco lonies, and introduced an agriculture Unknown till then. But these enterprizes, which were not seconded, mid %Odell were crossed in various ways, by accidental circumstances, exhausted at length M. Hermelin's resources. He was obliged to give up all his effects to his creditors ; and he found, like many others, that, in the most useful and best calculated interprises, the profits are reserved for others than those who have first tried them. He had not, however, o complain of the ingratitude of all his fellow citizens. Time college of Nobles, ut the diet of 1800, caused a medal to be struck in his honour, with this inscription in Swedish " Presented to Hermelin, by his fellow-citizens and friends, for having made his country better known, and for having enriched and peopled' , deserts." The Stockholm Academy of Sciences admitted him as a tnember in 1771 ; and he often, by his liberality, seconded the scientific r6earches of this Society, and the journeys which it caused to he undertaken.--When he' gave up, in 1815, the administration of the mines, after fifty-four years of service, not only were his appointments preserved to him, but the states Of the kingdom added a pension of a thousand rix-dollars,—a re compence well merited, adds the historian of the Academy, but moderate, if we consider the sa crifices of every kind which this excellent citizen had made for the common good. Supporting his misfortune with a philosophic courage; he enjoy. ed, iu retirement, the remembrance of all the good he had done, when death put an end to his useful and glorious career, on the ilth May 1820. 46 PARSON HARRISON."—On Tuesday last our old acquaintance, (tfarrisond the political preacher, who was convicted, along with Sir CifititLES WOLSRLEY, at Chester Spring Assizes, in 18W, for a conspiracy in attending a radical meeting in this town, was liberated from the Castle, and he has returned to his family.— (Stockport Advertiser.) A Decree has been obtained in one of the French Fourtsof ,Law, against an Irishman, named for npW4rds of 40,000/. The law expences upon the . Decre e are said to be morelhan 12;000 francs. This S - .. e is he:- come a naturalized'Frenchman and a Count. The debt, how. ever, respecting which the Decree was granted, .mok :Mace in Ireland.. _ _ A lat of bullocks from the . County Clare • which, had been intended for the Bristol 'market, was on Thursday exposed for sale on the Parade. The very low prices at which an th d ey t :e e r i e lti o t: f f e er w e a d s , tinieds to become ucednlatlygepnotricerilesnersre,sidin; in the 'Aber disposed of in this mariner —three to four-year olds from 4/, 'to four gyioeka. — (Cork Southern Reporter.) POLICE INTELLIGENCE. POYA/S SETTLERS. IllastslDieetlonit.---Three 'Scots mechanics came before Alderman GanniT (who sat for the Lord Mayor). •One of . . the applicants was a yoling man Of decent appearance, but all • three appeared worn o ut ' by fatigue or disease, and were evi dently in lowest !ninety; they requested relief to return to Scotland ; they said they were at that time in a starving condi tion. They were part, of the survivors of a number of per • s ons who had been induced by infamous misrepresentations to • quit their homes, and go out for the purpose of settling at a • place called Poyais. .Alderman GannaT, said he had read the statements in the public papers respecting the unfortunate emigrants, and their case was undoubtedly deplorable ; but the Chief Magistrate had no poiver to send home the applicants, 'and they must take the regular course of applying to the officers of the parish where they slept; who were bound to give them relief, and assist them in getting home. Some small 'pecuniary aid was then given to the applicants, and an officer was ordered to go with them to the parish officers. They appeared Id be very reluctant to be sent home as vagrants, or as cemmon 'pagers, which they consider as disgraceful. They thanked the'worthy Alderman for the relief he had given, and after they had been questioned in the Hall by several per. sons, as to the state of their. fellow-sufferers, they went away with the officer. We learn, that opt of the 200 who emigrated, 45 only were able to return from Honduras, the remainder, a small number, having been left in the hospitals of' Honduras and!Belisse. Of theforty-five who'were sent home in the Honduras traders; the • greater part were in ill health, and several have died•in the pas sage. Some have been landed at Bristol, and the exact num tier of survivors cannot yet perhaps be ascertained. The suf ferers were distributed amongst 14 ships, of.which the le st ,' .the Ocean, Capt. Whittle, h as arr i ve d in t he River. When the emigrants arrived at San Josef, on the Black River, nothing could exceed their anguish,'on finding that where they expected a fine flourishing town, with nearly 2,000 inhabitants, there were only two 'or three ruined huts, where two Americ a n s h a d once resided for the purpose of trade with the natives , during- thefa vourable season. The party, in the necessity of the case,•ex erted themselves vigorously, and succeeded in clearing away some 'stunted' mahogany trees from aboUt 600 yards of sandy ground, and in erecting a number of little huts and tents with blankets, to protect them from the weather. Nearly all !their proviSicins,. however,' had been wet with the salt water, in landing, Ks they had been 'compelled to roll all' their barrels for a considerable distance through salt water. The sun in the day-time was intolerably hot, and the nights were cold, with heavy rain. The whole of the ground about was sandy, and the sand so hot-as to bvingfurtle'eggs rapidly to znaturity at some depth. The climate soon began• to affect 'the whole, and numbers daily began to fall sick. Their water was brackish, 'and the deaths increased. Twenty died in less than a fortnight, and at length all were ill. ' Such as could. move about had •to attend their sick brethren, end ell exerted themselves to the utmost. The condition 'of the females was dreadful ; some gave themselves up:tii despair. Nellie, a shoemaker, who had obtained the appointment of 'shoemaker to the Princess of Poyais, shot himself as he lay sick in his hammock. They had not landed Many days, when the Cacique, or Ki ng o f the IVlosquito Indians, visited - them to reconnoitre. ! 'II e`atter. .wards sent a letter, stating in substance, that hehed - made a grant of 30 miles of land on the Poyais shore,, .to Sir ; Gre g o r APGregor, three years ago', lint that " Gregor having until that time neglected to' take potiession, he considered thegrant 'as void ; and that had he then known Sir Gregor as lie did now, he would never have made the grant. Finally, he declared.that he Would oppose the •settlement of any one belonging toSir Gregor within his territory i and prescrified, as the condition of their remaining in peace, that they should shjure,Sir:Gregor, and swear allegiance to him. The Cacique- came afterw ar d s to expostulate ' and treat. He then made large statements, and: said he could . munter.upwards of .seven thousand natives; and at a blow cut off the •whole community; but the *Wen -were then, to use the expression of one of the survivors, " Past fear." Death Was d a ily ca r r ying!off the'objects of theaters jealeusy, and a few week s would . have • swept • off the , whole of them. At this time six men • endeavoured to get. :to Honduras in a canoe; but were cast away ; - they were for. turunkly picked up by a vessel belonging' to Mr. Bennet; a respectable mahogany- raerthant of. Honduran. That :gentle man,learning the dreadful co ndi t i on o f the settlers who-were sufferin x , under the ague and f ever and that th e bl oo d y fl ux was rit ra gi ng am a' ongst them e ' sent vessel , sad their 'the greater -o them to. the hospital of, Honduras. !The . retnauider were fetched sdon after, and all the inhabitants s. the Governor. General Codd acted Most nobly to them. The mortality amongst the sufferers, however, continued. Colofiel Hall died, the emigrants state, broken-hearted. Captain (Crow, and a number of others, remain lingering in the hospitals of Pelisse. Mr. Gouge, the intended backer, with one or two others, ,got off to 'America, and the remainder were brought over gr atui tously, as stated. The sufferers represent the conduct of the Captains who brought them home to have been such as does them honour. To those who may wish to inquire after relatives who•went from London,' and- tobtliers who may wish to make inquiries frown motives of humanity, it may be acceptable to state, that some of the sufferers may be found by application at die Scots Wharf; and that there Are some families at No. 39, Nightin gale-lane, Shadwell. • CUTTING AND MAIMING. GUILDIIALL.—Phabe Allen, who. was 4harled at.this offi ce about a month ago with stabbin g h er husban d , and has be e n detained in the Gc`tnlpter , ever since till his life should be pro. nounced out of danger, was brought up .yesterday, .before the sitting Magistrate, Mr. Alderman MAO NAY. John Allen, the husband, appeared to be in a very weakly state, with his left'arm still in a sling, and was obliged to sit the whole time he was giving his evidence. The prisoner, on the contrary, seemed a robust healthy woman, and exhibited towards him throughout no other feeling than that of rancorous resentment. The husband stated, that he was waiter at the Horse-shoe and Star public-house, in the court of that name in Meet. street;' that his wife did not reside with him; but had been charing at the house during the week ; that she had frequently conducted herself towards him with great violence, and that on the morning of the 20th of September (when this occurrence took place) between eight and nine o'clock, as he. was cleaning the bar 'windowt, she threw an open knife at him, 'and with such force, that though by bobbing his head it missed him, it went through the' Window; and almost to the bottom of - the Court. Prisoner.—That's false, for the window don't open. He proceeded.—When he had finished, he went into. the tap.roorn to take his breakfast. She came in and took up a knife— Prisoner.—That's false, for I was cutting bread and butter at the time. Witness continued.—She had been cutting • the bread and butter, and made a stab at me with the knife ;.,*hut iny servant caught her arms, and held her. • Prisoner.—Ohl you- false wretch: He wasinet there at the time. 'itness,7-Thinking her temper had turned,, he then let her loose, upon which she again caught up the knife, and -exclaim. in g." Now I'll do for you," stabbed the knife at with her whole force, and if be had net h e ld up hi s a rm it •must have entered his body 3 he received a very deep wound 41' his arm, seven or eight inches in length. Prisoner.—That's becauSethetopened it at the Hospital. • The witness said he had been' confined .a month to-morrow, -and had only ipeen iwonounced•out of danger this, day or two. Mr. Alderman M: a o x E on had no PreViautivarrel ? Witness.:—Oh yes, many; Si r ; b ut not that day; She gets drunk, and makes away with my things, and has distressed me very much. ' , married her six 'years ago. did notknow much • about her ; but she turned out to be an abandoned character. Prisoner—You false wretch, you ! I was in a good place whin you.married me. • Mr. Altiprtuttn MAGNAY — Watshoin liquor at this time ?' Witnesi—N?„ Sir • she had not b een d r i n ki ng that morning. William Smith, the porter; eopflritied this statement. • Mr.• Tanner, a dresser in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, de posed to, the nature of the wound,.which.might, he ,aid, have occasioned death. ° The main artery of the ram - was divided, and other principal *easel s i n j ure d. The prisoner put fin a. writt en ; paper as her -defence,. which she said. she had taken-advice upon, •and - desired might he read. It began by 'Stating, that she had always done her duty toa her husband, during the six years- she 'had 'been• married to him, and assisted .to gain. their livelihood by honest enf pleyinent. That h e , on t h e contrary, had formed bad con, nhiens, and had even injured her health ; that she was in bed whin site heard Mm send the min ta call up Ann,' the•servant. That, she asked hint for fis., the sum the Magistrate had or. dered him to allow her wee kly; , and that he made answer, that he bad none for her ; that Ann - wag going to leave her place, and that he should, o, and spend a week'or a fortnight in the country `with her. This Provoked her ; sho forgot the knife, and struck him, and she did not know that she had the-knife in her hand till she saw liiin'bleed; and this she affirkned 'was the true state of the eireuniatiince s . Allen, the husband, declared Ibis statement was altogether 1 false; diat Slie had often threatene•d to murder him, and still, h e heard, professed thdsatrusilispOsition. she, was fully comutitta under Lord Ellenborou A ct, for the capital folony. CORONER'S INQUEST. An Inquest was held on Thursday eveningat eight o'clock, before Taos. STIALING, Esq., Coroner, a t th e Pitee Heads in Cumberland street Portman-sqiiare, on th e b o dy o f M r s. Eleanor Jane Maitland, aged 22, wife of Captain Illeitland, and daughter-in-law of th e G enera l o f that name. This Lady's death being so sudden, had caused . don e set • sation in th e f am il y and nei ghbourliod, and long before the Inquest took- place the room, was crowded by her friends and relatives. The first witness examined was Mary Anne Riffles servant to the d ecease d l a d y ; she stated thattabout three weeks since deceased gave birth to a son,' but of which she was quite rem. vered ; from that time until !Wednesday she continued Minna. ving in her health, when in the morning the witness went into the deceased's room to dress her, while so engaged, some one rapped at the door; on the witness opening it, a note was hand. ed to her, and she delivered it to the deceased, who instantly read it, and desired the witness " to give her love to Gen.Mait land, and she hoped shortly to have the pleasure of seeingisim." After delivering this message, deceased desired the witness not to give her any more notes, but deliver them to Capt. Maitland, as there was something in them respecting her mother which she was unwilling to hear: her mother at the time, the deceased observed, she believed was dead. After reading the note, the deceased took some gruel, which was her usual cuetom, and expressed a great anxiety to be dressed as early as possible, in order that she might meet Captain M a i t l an d , w h o was t h en expected from the TOwer ; scarcely, however, had she partaken of the gruel, when she was taken ill ; :the witness tbserved it, and considering it a return of a spasmodic affection which she was subject to, instantly procured her. some warns brandy and water, and laid her on the sofa. The nurse was called.uP, Dr. Herbert an d M r . L omax were sent for, but beforethey a r s. rived deceased expired. The jury, at this moment, wished to be informed if any thingg . was contained in the note hurtful to the feelings of the deceased. , ' The witness answered, there was nothing of the kind, and, instantly handed it to the Coroner, when it was read. It was addressed to deceased from General Maitland, expressing his itnitietY for their welfare, and earnestly wishing to see the dew ceased and the infant since her accouchernent. He, however f said, he must reserve that pleasure until his return to town in a. fortnight, as, should lie wait until she came down into, the drawing room, he would be obliged to travel many hours ia the dark. He hoped, that God would preserve them both to eoinfort each other. He concluded by observing, lie had the preceding day seen her:Mother.. The Jury then expressed their surprise at the suddenness of the deceased's 'death, and wished the nurse who gave the deceased the gruel to be sent for. Previous, however,: to her arrival, Mr. Edward Leese, of No. 69, Gloucester.place,_. surgeon, was called : h e stated lie had not k nown t h e deceased previous ,to /ter death ; but lie was called upon on Vi r ednii3day morning, when she was dying : he found her lyi ng upon a sofa, fainting away—indeed dying ; and in . about ten minutes she expired- He was informed by the servants, she partook of her breakfast. which she ate very heartily, and appeared cheerful • suddenly she was taken ill, w h en t h ey l a id h er on ,a sofa; an di gave her some warm brandy and water, and sal volatile, which he contd.. tiered proper ,• he cannot form an y . idea as trythe immediate • cause of her death—it had no connexion with her previous .de livery ; but he is of, opinion she died a natural deatW bribe vi. sitation of God. Mary Ballard, the nurse, was then called ' • she said she at tended deceased aince her accouchenient, and that she mitre "pidly improving in health. On Wednesday morning, about i o'clock, she took some gruel into the deceased's.reerni some sugar and a rusk was added 'to it, of which she partook. Wit. ness had taken some of the gruel in the night, and found no ill . effects from it. Dr. Charlet Ilerbert;of Grafton.street, riond-street,' M.D., said he had attended deceased some time Were her death, and •tifiring her confinement, three weeks since, but of which she was - perfectly recovered. On Wednesday morning he was sent for toattend the deceased; and found her at her residence, No. 3, Cumberland -street, quite: dead. Iler death, .in his opinion, Was caused by the effect of spasm. The Jury then. took a view of the body; and inatantly.returned their verdict--“ That the deceased'died by the visitation of God."—The Infant is doing well. METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL. BY It. II A N S, PHILOSOPHICAL I NsTRVIStIiNT , Thermo- Itiactisr. WeAtlitet • ;.: .... 1 %-..• cv •,,,; -.7.• E. .. -.., . cp,. ..; . .J. 4 ,„, ?, F -, ~., ;---:. 1 - ; ~: .... - . • :,< ~ 7 . ...- • 7 c ;" 7 ~r ~., •-i ..........................=........zr............................,...................,.........-..........r.............,.. I ' ItiCheS Sept. 9 59 157 41 29.63 .11 Rain Fait 10 46 55 46 .47 Fait Cloudy 11 47 53 43 .99 .93 Rain Fair II •4752 46 .20 .21 Do. . Du. 13 49 52 37 .39 .0.5 Do. Do. 14 44. 52 40 .49 Fair Du. 15 42 56 40 .59 Do. Du 16 46 154 39 .5 4 Do. . Du. have fallen in the above eight days. hundredths of raia U.s. • • COURSE OF EXCHANGE, Otcober 17. Amsterdam ,111 9 ' C. F. Ditto, at Sight Rotterdam 12 10 Antwerp 12 8 Hamburg!' 9B 1 Si Us Alton* Paris,3 Day's.sight 9i 90 0 (.li. Ditto • 26 10 t Bourdeaux,llitto Berlin 7 It) FranktortontbeM a in Petersburg!' . 84 Vienna IQ 211 Trieste • •10 ia 36 4 F Cadiz Bilboa . 26 Effective Barcelona • 26i Gibraltar Leghorn Geta.4l ..... 44-Venice, Ital . Lit. 22 10 Malta 45 Naples ' 384 Palermo Lisbon Oporto 5'24 A. Bahia Dublin .... 9} C0rk...... ;41 pet Cent. Portugal Gold, in Coin. Foreign (;old, iii flus. New Doubloons New Milan Silver in liars. Standard BULLION. ......... •••••••••10 •0 0 0 per Os. 3 17 Fi 0 p 0 4 54 0 4 11 COALATARKET, Ocr. 17. Ships at Market. sold 67 Newcastle 114 Sunderland . . - . Prioe. - 37* Od to 309 3J - 42* Cd to 49* Co BIRTHS. On the 17th inst., at )Vestbourne-lodge, the wife of James. Renshaw, Esq., o f a daught er . Vestenlay, at No. 34; Bridge-street, the. w if eo f M r . G eorge Farrel], of a son. On the 14th inst., at St, Geor ge ' s Church, Bloomsbury. Richard Meredith White, Es., of Highfields, CQIN."II6I/* Esser, to Harri e t, youngest daughter of the late Wm. IV: 1110 n' Esq., of Girdlers'-hall, London. • On theUth, at High 'Wycombe, Robert Bamford, Eq., Of Nailtworth, Gloucestershire to Dorothea, third, daughter of Baly, Esq., o f High 'Wycombe. 'On the 16th inst., at St. .Pancras Nei Church, ',Ninon, of Camden -street, Catuden-town, Esq., to Jane Au gusta, seco n d d aughter of Jaines Ensor, Esq., of Austinfria"' in the c ity o f London, rlerchant Cbarles • • Oa the 34 inst. 1)1E1). , at Roulegne-sur-er Ann, the wife of Jahn ClarksonfEq., late of tilonceste M r-place. On Wednesday last, the Isth.int. at Gloucester, 111 r. Wm. TOvey, a pa r t ner i n the house of Messrs. Cowcher, Kirby, and Co., pin-tuakers, in London an d Gl oucester. On Thursday, at his house in NVarwick-street, Mr. Robert Fogg, of ilegent-street, chinantan, age Elizabeth, wife of d. 65. hi Wednesd. yt , the Rth inst.„ Mall Isaac Spencer,- Epp sq. of York an d P o . leton . Printed and Published for the Pn °Puma' ons, at the 411 N. ' OrrlcX, 112, Strand, by J. B. CARSTAIR;;,