The Sun. — London, England, 1828-02-29 00:00:00

THE SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS It was distinctly stated in the House last night) that there was no foundation for the reports which .have been in circulation of his Majesty's indisposi tion. What we stated yesterday has been► -con firmed.—Morning Chronicle. The state of the Police in the Metropolis and its vicinity was brought before the House last night, by Mr. Peel. In the course 'of 'twenty years crime has increased in England about fourfold. The increase has proceeded in a sort of regular progression. In the Metropolitan district of London and Middlesex the commitments for 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823, and 1824. exhibit little variation ; but in 1825, 1826, and 1827 the increase was fearfully rapid. Mr. Peel availed himself of the very able accounts of the state of Criminal Justice' in France for 1825 and 1826, furnished by M. Peyronnet. Those of our readers who take an interist in these matters, and who wish to obtain a clearer idea of the nature of M. Peyronnet's labours 'than Mr. Peel's speech supplies, would do well to consult the 3d number of the Jurist, just published, where they will find a valuable article on the subject, in which the state of crime in England and France is exhibited in a variety of lights. Mr. Peel does justice to the ability displayed by the French Minister and his colleagues. We wish it were possible to compliment the Public Functionaries of this country on either the ability or industry displayed by them in any matter whatsoever. It is curious, that while in, England whatever is done by private individnals is better none, generally, both as regards design and eitecu :ion, than what is done by individuals on the Con tinent, our public men are as remarkable for the ab c„,, o f a bility and indußtry. Thies,. for 'instance, tfrough.the increase of crime has led to repeated dis orussions and inquiries, of late years, and Returns have been 'furnished from the Home Office, very little instruction can be . derived from them, on ac e?unt 'of the mill , horse manner in which the labour has been performed. The Population Returns, pre pared with so much expence, are another instance. Ak previous inspection of some of the Returns fur nished on the Continent, would have taught the persons charged with the plan of the tr. aliat they might be made subservient to the el vidation of a number of curious problems in nationaa rconomy, re specting which it is highly desirable to possess in formation ; as, for instance, the proportion between the married and the unmarried, &c: This absence of reflection, this inability to strike out any improve ment, seems to be characteristic of almost all who fill public employments - in this country. Their ob ject is to get through their business tallier qualiter, for which we Cn conceive no otber reason, than that interest is alodo consulted in the disposal of offices, and talent is without any motive for exerting rime is solely in cases itself. The increase of where property is eoncerned Mr. Peel, advert ing to the French Tables, o bserved--" It ap pears, that in large ,and populous 13.. 5 ce5, out of every one hundred , offences, ninety were offences against property, and ten offences against the Ger son; while in thinly inhabited districts, in Corsica, , for instance, out of each hundred offences, 70 were against the person, and twenty-four against property. This is a very curious fact, but it is not easy to draw any very decisive conclusiOns from it. It does, however, appear, that where large bodies are con gregated together, property is most the object of attack; While in thinly peopled districts, such as agricultural counties, offences arise principally out of malicious feelings, and other motives of a personal nature, and are for the greater part offences against the person." We believe the reason of this diffe rence may be discovered without much difficulty.— In densely peopled districts men are brought into collision with each other, are soon taught the neees city of placing their feelings under rigid discipline and controul : s and from' the, multiplicity of objects which"constantly solicit their attention, their feelings with regard to any one can seldom possess much in tensity. In a thinly peopled district both the kind and the malevolent feelings have more force. It used to be remarked by the French writers, that Love in Paris was only known in Ro mances, and Friendship in books of Ethics : but both love and friendship in small towns, end villages are often a very 'serious matter. — in a large town, no' one man is so necessary to ana -1 her that his death or removal is felt as an irre parable loss; but in the country the loss of a friend cannot be supplied, and cannot be forgotten. But inproportion as the kind affections are strong, in the fame proportion are jealousies and slights strongly felt and resented. The offending individual, too, is constantly reminding the person who conceiveshim self offended, of the wrong suffered by his presence. On the other hand, the desiie to obtain property in towns is constantly stimulated by all mariner of ob jects, which solicit the senses in every conceivable manner. Tie countryman sees the same objects every day; they are familiar to him, and therefore barely strike him : besides his means are known, and any extraordinary indulgence would excite sus picion. Thitthe poor man in a town is solicited at ever step by something new, something to eat, drink, hear, or see ; the cook-shop sends forth its sa voury steams, the public-house invites him by its melody and' merriment. •' Besides, desires may be gratified without exciting suspicion, or at tracting attention. Hence' the poor man in a town must wage a constant war with desires that can only be gratified by a departure from honesty. Mr. Peel " wished to draw from the facts he had stated ?lone of the inferences, for they seemed to ofe.„r so wide a field, as it seemed to him that none could be safely drawn from them, either upon the general subject of distress, on that of game, or on that of the facility of commitment, without at the same time taking into consideration a vast many elements of in quiry too numerous for him to touch upon at pre sent. ' - It is of the'utmost importance, however, with a view to ascertain whether and bow far the increase is an evil which may Le remedied, that we should enter on a variety of inquiries, with a view to draw the necessary inferences. Some inferences may be easily drawn; and one is, that .where steal ing is so very common with those who have in or dinary circumstances so few inducements to, steal, the cause must be sought in the sufferings of ex treme poverty. On the other hand, the paucity of crimes against the perion in England, compared with what is observable in France would seem to prove a much higher civilization here. For instance, in France, in 1825, no fewer than 123 persons were sentenced to death for taking away the lives of their fellow-creatures. In England only 12 persons were sentenced to death for this crime in that year, and the number is seldom much higher, If we should at any time have an increase of murders, the alteration would be caused by a wish to destroy evi dence, in consequence perhaps of increased severity of punishment for offences against property. Mr, Wilmot Horton applied himself to the cause of the poverty and crime of the lower classes in a manly and candid manner. " I admit (lie observed) that ) o ldness of wages is a cause of crime ; but I say that it is the result of a redundant population — of the disproportion between the amount of capital and the supply of labour. I do not deny that the re mission of tax' s would not in the end tend to the relief of the poor; but I do say, that as 'long as there is a considerable number of th4m out of em ployment, t he effect of the rernistion_of taxes would not be to raise the general condition, or contribute to the happiness of the labouring Poer."—lt is quite true, that so long as there are more labourers in the market than there i s a demand for, t h ey are at the mercy of the employer. During the wa r , were wages were often high though taxes and navhigh, by the consumption of men in the army y, just as in former times, when a plague swept a a p art of the Population, Parliament used to pass Acts to keep down wages, Taxes prevent the accumulation of capital, and consequently . diminish pro tanto the means of giving increased employment; but if the increased employment, with or without high taxes, does not equal the increase in the number of labour ers, their condition will not be bettered. Sir Ed ward Knatchbull was in great wrath against Mr., Brougham for not holding the Great Unpaid in suf ficient honour. He is to do execution against him to-night, in the name of the enraged Squirearchy. —lbid. The•avowal of Mr. Peel, that "after the name; seen event of-that House deciding. by a majority, that it would take the subject of the Test and Cor poration Acts• into consideration, he must say that he was not prepared, and he believed that many other members were not prepared, to say what course it would.be most proper to adopt. By the majorit y of the House having come to 'that decision which was Unexpected, it became desirable that it,should suspend further proceedings for a short time, to con sider the whole bearings of the question, and the consequences of the decision." We learn from this, that Ministers exerted themselves to the utmost against the motion, and that they knew so little of the real situation of the country, that the votefilled them with extreme surprise. The ignorance of men in the very highest situations in this country of the real state of it, is often astonishing. For instance, it is not more than two or three years since a Cabinet Minister expressed his astonish ment on hearing of the existence of a linen ma nufacture in England,"though if he had looked at the imports of flax into Hull, he might . have seen that the Yorkshire manuf a ctur e of linen is th e m ost extensive, perhaps, in the three kingdoms. The Dissenters form now so large a proportion of the pepulation, especially in. towns, that few,Membere are such fools as to endanger their seats by what would give great offence to : that body. Strange that Ministers should not have dreamt of the differ ence between Catholics at a distance and Dissenters at home—between a theoretical zeal for the Mother , Church, and a practical !love of their pocket:Ed—. The paltry attempt to boggle and chicane, in.order to make the concession, which cannot be prevented, as ungracious as possible, is wretched in policy as it is offensive to good feeling. Ministers ought never to have allowed the agitation of the question ; but, having allowed it, they should yield with a -good grace. We observe that Mr. Peel, .who' saw no in convenience -from the laws on . Tuesday night, - ,now sees a number of inconveniences ;—he wishes to exaggerate them now, in order to have a pretext for leaving some of the evils unremedied. It is bad policy to remedy all abuses at once. Leave a nest egg by all means. Mr. Peel, in the course of the discussion, 'displayed a temper not the best calcu lated for preserving influence in apopnlar assembly. He could not at last master his feelings, and left the House abruptly.—/bid. We are not surprised to see the breathless eager ness with which attempts are making to, smooth down the mass of enormities contained in the ac, counts before Parliament, under the head of " superannuated"' list. The War-office, as being the most prominent culprit, comes forward earliest with its disavowals and excuses. We are told of the " large amount of 'the superannuated lint as regards that office, being the effect •of the extensive reduc tions in the establishment" which Lord Palmerston has been enabled to make. Now, what ought to be inquired into, is the principles of selection, if there were any such principles, which governed the process of reducing that great establishment, and ,whether a considerable number of the "'super annuated" parties were not either persons of com paratively 'slick standing in the service, or re munerated, more largely than they ought to have been ; or turned out merely to make roam for others; —in short, it ought to be well examined into how much of the boasted reduction was a job. It is droll that a tone of congratulation should be ployed in pointing out the magnitude of a Govern ment reduction, of which the only effect seems to be that the parties reduced were formerlypaid for doing little, and are -paid at present for doing nothing. Then for the famous case of Mr. Merry, to Which we alluded in The Times ,of yesterday, though without mentioning him by name. This gentleman had been for a long time Deputy Se cretary at War, and was, a yea; or two since, superannuated by Lord- Palmerston, on a retired salary of 2,5001. per annum. A near relation of the Noble Lord was appointed Deputy Se cretary, vice Mr. Merry. This we described as a transaction, every part of which ought to be tho roughly sifted by the Finance Committee, and we say, so still. There never was a proceeding which sraelt:more distinctly like, a job, though, of course, we assert the likeness only, not the identity, inas much as the logicians tell us . that " rndlunt rirnile Est idenz." The defence is, that " Mr. Merry, the late Deputy Secretary, had completed fifty years' service within a few months, and being upwards of sixty- five years cf age, hada right to claim his full salary. ' Very well; but did he claim his full salary ? for on that fact hinges the entire_ question. We say that he did not,—that his retreat was forced upon him, that he was as willing to work as ha ever-had been, and as capable of work as ever,—that he was not a volunteer mendicant for the public bounty, but that he was solicited to retire, (let the Finance Com mittee find out 'by whom), that it was not desired by Mr. Merry, nor necessary for him, to eat the bread of idleness at an expence to the ,country of 2,500/. per annum, however desirable or necessary it may have been for somebody else to step into his shoes as Deputy-Secretary; that, in short, a near connexion of Lord Palmerston (we believe his brother-in-law) was made Deputy-Secretary in the room of jr, Merry; the effect of which has been, Ist, to make a handsome provision for the new De-, puty Secretary; and 2d, to saddle the nation with just 5,0001. per annuli instead of 2,4094 , This is whet we hinted at yesterday; this is every word of it true; and we now leave it in the hands of the Finance Committee, to report upon it as they think fit.—Times. The King of France has done a manly apt In ap poi wing the - estimable and popular M. Royer Col lard President of the Chamber of Deputies, and he has made this tribitte to the national feeling more conspicuous and more giwerul, because the new president was only third upon the list; the 'Neal practice being to name the senior candidate. Wish, ing very cordially the internal happiness and repose of France, to which a kindly understanding between the nation and their Government is indispensable; we view with the most unfeigned gratification this acknowledgment on the part of Charles X„ that he deems it a duty of high importance, on a question which has called forth such striking proofs of the tendency and consistency of public sentiments, to consult the deciere:d opinions of his diseeining people. It is a sign that French politics are beginning to put on a settled and wholesome character, when a .COutt, which once assumed the dictatorship in every, thing, —which fancied it a point of honour to proclaim its, contempt for all authority but the sceptre, and for all earthly power but the sword,—now finds a surer bond of stable and legitimate greatness in deferring to the voice of 30 millions of men, than in madly at tempting to silence it. If his Majesty's advisers have recommended the choke of M, Royer Collard , in the spirit which seems to be indicated by such an appointment on the face of it, and as a bana.fide pledge to France of such a course of general policy as is worthy of 40 association With names like his, they have dOne a thousand times more for the moral power of the, House of Bourbon over the nation, than could be effected by whole legions of Jesuits, er by as many " Charnbres Introuvables,"—more than was even contemplated by those who, with five hundred thousand bayonets at their back, restored the Bourbons to a throne where force might seat but could.never keep them.—/bid. At Levenshulme, meazles are raging with alarming virulence ; scarcely- a house is free from it, and many children have already died under its influence.— Glasgow Chronicle: On Sunday last a fine child, the infant son of a gentleman belonging to this city, was baptized in St. Paul's Chapel, York-place, by the Rev. Mr. ALLisnx, by the name of WALTER SCOTT, in testimony of admira tion and .respe c t f or th e sp l en did t a l ents , an d public and private virtues, of our illustrious countryman, Sir WALTER SCOTT, But.......Ediliburyll Observer. DESTRUCTION OF TAE NEW BRUNSWICK THEATRE. (From the Times.) It is rumoured, but of this there is at present no evidence, that the, walls, the mortar of which is not yet dry, were far too slight to support the weight of the roof, and they in consequence bulging outwards, the whole mass of iron forming the roof fell in with the most dreadful crash, carrying with , it-the yvhole of the inside of the house, and burying beneath its ruins.all those who had the misfortune to be within its walls. By this dreadful accident, the structure, which but a day ago was the "general theme of admi ration at the east end of London, is now left a mere shell, its bare walls standing on three sides in a state so tottering and unsafe, as.to leave little doubt that in a short time the whole will -be levelled with the ground. The wall fronting towards Wells-street is the only external one which accompanied the fall of the roof, and falling outwards into the street, its descent was not only destructive to the t ix) houses opposite,the one a public-house, and the other a baker's, but was also nearly proving fatal to several passengers. A lady - and gentleman, who were passing at the time, had a very marrow escape. A portion of the ruins fell upon the leg of the gentleman, who saved' himself by a des perate muscular effort, and extricated his leg from the boot.: , Some . persons state that the lady was killed, .but.VVe areinformed, and trust, that this statement is incorrect. 2 Various rumours are . ineirs dilation as to the number of those who were - in the houie at the time of the-accident, and we regret to say, that it is generally believed that there were not less than from 80 to 100. Some, indeed, have gone so far as to assert, that there were from 150 to 20t, but this we trust will prote incorreet. Two per. sons who were at the top of the theatre, were in moment precipitated to the ground. One of them , escaped 'with little injury; the ether received. ti*; severe contusions on the head, but it is hoped he j was. not dangerously hurt.. Mr. Percy Farren, the stage-manager; brother to Mr. Farren of Covent-garden theatre, was on the stage superintending the rehearsal, when he observed the chandelier giving way, and heard a cracking in the walls. By an instinctive effort, as it were,_ he reached the d oor , an d rus h e d i nto t h e street, where he had not been many seconds, when the roof fell in, and he heard the shrieks and groans .of those who had been buried in the ruins. It is feared that. this gentleman is the only person; or nearly so, who was able to-effect his escape withopt injury. - The effort made by him was so sudden, and his mind .was so bewildered at the time, that it does not appear that he was able to communicate his alarm to any of those who were on the stage with him. As a proof Of the state of mind iii whiCh he was, it is mentioned, that as soon as he. was out of the theatre, he ran :on , wards without thinking what he Was about, and 'pro ceeded to Covent-garden theatre, tp• his brother, with whom he remained for a short time in a state of-very great agitation. He then returned to. the scene of calamity. . . 'The escape of a man named Shaw, and his wife,. appears to - have' been quite miraculous. The man was employed.in .the counting-house, which is not less than 40 feet above the stage, and in one mo ment he states he found himself and his wife below the stage with a large plank across their :bodies. Extricating himself from the plank as speedily as possible; he - relieved his wife, and carried her up a staircase then standing, and having gained a window ' 1 he lowered her into the street by means of a rope, and immediately followed himself. - They'were both so much bruised, however, that. it .was considered necessary to carry them to, the London Hospital. A person named Ferris escaped with life by jumping from the first-tloor Window into a cart, and fortu nately for him he received only a', feivSlight injuries. Four men and a female were extricated from the scene of devastation about half-past one; The for mer were mechanics employed on the premises, and were removed to the London Hospital with scarce any hopes of ,their recovery. The latter is sup posed to hate been Mrs, - Henry Beverly,. an actress of some • promise ; but from the mutilated state of the body, it was impossible to ascertain her identity. From that time until aikagreamany bodies in a most mutilated estate cuutinuell to be dug out, and among them, we regret to state, was found the remains of Mr. Maurice, the proprietor. , His body was, dreadfully crushed; and as it was eVident to all that the vital spark had fled, he was conveyed to the King's Arms public-house in the neighbourhood. The body of Miss Fearon also, One of the actresses, ' has been discovered, as also those Of Mr. Caries, of Mr.. Gilbert, and, of six persons whose names are unknown; and these were all who it was' ascertained had been killed up to six o'clock. The number of those who had been relieved from their frightful situation by the unceasing labours of the workmen, and conveyed to the different hospitals at that hour, 'amounted to about seveuteen, and the cries of *those still remaining beneath the ruins afforded a melan choly proof that that number would be greatly in. creased before morning. As to the origin of this most melancholy event, it must, for the present, remain purely conjecture. The prevalent opinion is, that it is attributable to the weight of the roof, which is composed of iron, pressing too h eav ily on t h e ectprna l walls, which may be said to be quite green, and . not cemented enough before it was laid on. Ail - other re . part is, that it was occasioned by the very heavy weights which the manager would insist upon attaching to the roof in order to facilitate the machinery; and it is, said that the builder or sur veyor protested in the strongest terms against this additional weight, affirming that the walls were not sufficiently strong to support it, liut, as we have before stated, this is all mere rumour. Of the pecuniary loss to the proprietors little. is said in the horror excited by personal .calamity, but it cannot be trivial. The building itself cost up wards of 40,0001,, and what . remains of it i 3 of very little value. The mob increased so much towards night, that it required the utmost exertions of the soldiers' and police-officers to keep them back. A great many firemen from the different offices were in attendance, with their engines, it being feared that. the ruins might ignite, as fires were said to have been kept up in the theatre. At six o'clock last evening, the bodies of The fol lowing persons had been taken out dead :—Mr. Maurice, the principal proprietor ; Miss Fearon, one of the actresses; Mr. Caries, Mr. Gilbert, an 4 six persons whose names we could not ascertain: the names of those who were injured, and conveyed to the London Hospital, independently of two waggon loads carried to St. Thomas's' and Guy's Hospitals, were as follows: Mr. Carruthers, one of the proprietors, very much bruised ; Elizabeth Forster, with a contused elbow ; John Abbott, a compound fracture of the leg; Moses Miles, a severe contusion ; John Harris, and Henry Clark, fractured legs; Robert Mitchell, George Hoare, J. Robarts, and James Hodges, with cut heads ; Stephen Spencer, a dislocated shoulder and fractured fibula; Joseph Blamire, fractured spine; Jane Wall, a compound fracture of right femur and left tibia and fibula; Hannah Shaw, a cut face and contused leg; John Shaw, an injured foot ; Eliza beth Godfrey, William Ferris, and John Paul, slightly injured. We are requested to state that Mr. D. W. Os baldiston, of No. 18, Bedford-street, Commercial road, was not among those who sustained any injury at the above frightful accident. Messrs. Maurice and Carruthers, the gentlemen who had erected the Theatre, and expended a very considerable sum in its completion, were behind the scenes, witnessing the probable effect that the. drama would produce, when, at about 25 minutes to 12 o'clock, a slight crash of timber was heard, which was unattended to, from the supposition that it might have been the falling of a beam from the hands of a carpenter, who, with others, was still employed in completing the building; another came,_ and it w as equally disrega r d e d ; a t hi rd followed, which excited only a momentary alarm, and shook the lustre; but a fourth followed with instantaneous rapidity, and buried the greater part of the performers on the boards in its ruins. When the theatre fell in, there were at least 170 persons within it. Connected with the theatrical performance, these were at least 60; and with the mechanics employed about its completion, there could not have been less than l 70. The greater part, it is to be hoped, have escaped ; but it is said that no less than forty are missing. The account given by Mr. Goldsmith, one of the survivors, is quite cor roborative of the statement : he adds that while on the stage, and speaking to Mr. Wyman, another of the company, he removed,- from some kind of presen. timent, to the right-hand stage-box, immediately op posite to which Mr. P. Farren, the stage-manager, was sitting, and casting the parts ; but scarce had he arrived there, when he perceived a tremulous motion about the lustre, and the crash immediately followed. He says, that there were at the time Mr. Wyman, and at least 24 other persons on the stage and behind the scenes, occupied. In the orchestra was Mr. Fearon, its conductor, arranging the music for the next night's performance, and immediately behind it were his two sisters, who are also sisters of Mrs. Glos. sop, called Madame Fearon. When he (Mr. Gold smith) first heard the shock, he says that his instant feeling was to quit the house, but yet he remained until the ruins tumbled in. He fortunately escaped, and while making his way and struggling through brick and mortar, he called out in anxiety, and two f sailors at the moment rushed in and assisted him until he was in a place of safety. Hardly had he got without the building, when he was met by Mr. P. Fatten, whose escape was equally providential, and the ex clamation was, Mr. Wyman and a female being with him, " Good God, GoldsMith; have you escaped ! we are "the only persons who are left to tell the story. We ought to, fall on our knees, and thank . God for his protection." The labour connected with the extrication of the bodies of those unfortunate sufferers bas been exces sive. Mr. Hardwick, the gentleman conducting the works of the St. Katherine's Docks, most promptly gave his personal assistance, and also ordered up a gang of 100 of the workmen under his controul, to assist and relieve those who had been busily employed throughout the day. These were again to be re relieved last night, so that if there was the chance of the preservation of life, it would be secured by un remitting attention. The bodies of those which have been extricated from the ruins, besides those already mentioned, are those of Robert Purdy, a mechanic, and a female, supposed to be Mrs. Beverley, all of which were re , moved to the watch-house. Throughout the day, persons of the - greatest appa rent respectability were making inquiries after Mrs. Russell, who was engaged at this Theatre. It is feared that she is among those who have fallen a sa crifice to the calamitous event. Since nine o'cicick yesterday evening,two more bo dies have beers found,one of them named Jesse Miles, a carpenter employed at the theatre, who is mention ed as having been an excellent workman; he has left a family of five children. The other was a Jew named Levy, a clothesinan,who resided in the imme diate neighbourhood, and who was at the time the accident took.place, reading the play-bill, which was posted up opposite the theatre: the bodies were, like all the rest, dreadfully mutilated—that of Levy was not reeognitable by his friends, and 'it was only the Table of Laws which was found attached to, his breast that enabled them to identify his mangled re mains. Near the spot where Levy was found, lie the dray and the poor horses, their limbs literally crushed to atoms, and their bodies bruised and lace rated in a dreadful manner. They belonged to El liot's brewery. At 12 o'clock, or a little after, it being considered quite hopeless that any of the unfortunate , creatures who, still remained - beneath the ruins could possibly retain life, the labourers, who had been working for nearly 12 hours, and who were now almost in a state of exhaustion, were withdrawn from the spot. ' The ruins were now left in a state of compara tive silence, the crowd of persons collected . decreased rapidly, till, between one and two o'clock, only a few. persons remained within the barriers which en close them. It was supposed at a 'late hour that them must be et the lutist as many as 50 victims whose bodies still remainundiscovered; and itis even said by many that the nuniber must amount to 100. This morning, at twelve o'clock, there will be an assemblage of the performers and persons connected with the theatre, to ascertain, as nearly as possible, the number of the sufferers. The meeting will take place at the Black Horse, next the theatre. Although the hour is so late, we cannot refrain from mentioning the courage evinced by an indivi dual, a sailor in appearance, about an hour after the work-people had retired. This person supposed he had heard a moaning beneath a certain heap of rub bish, which there was much danger and difficulty in examining; although dissuaded from the attempt, he boldly persisted, and having 'procured a torch, and effected an opening. he let him se lf d own . E very body near was enjoined silence, in order, if there were any living person beneath, the slightest sound might be heard ; but all was still, and the sailor, after searching for sometime amongst the ruins, re turned unsuccessful, he himself being assured that he must have been mistaken. The town is novigetting thin, but as we have had a good season, we have no right to complain.— Brighton Gazette. , Thefolloring military changes hav e b een d e = !ermined upon :—Pour companies of the 92d Highlanders are under orders to proceed from Edinburgh Castle to Glas gow, and are to be replaced by the 4th Regiment from Portugal; the depot of the Ist or Royal Regiment moves from Glasgow to Paisley ; the depot of the 42d High landers from Paisley to Stirling, and the depot of the 74th Regiment from Stirling to the Isle of Man.— Caledonia n Mercury. SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—O n Tuesday afternoon as some workmen were employed in repairing part of the building of the New Inn, Gloucester, in remov ing a , lead spout, they discover e d a hen'i test, containing eleven eggs, which must have been deposited there about two centuries ago !! ! The shells of the eggs were perfect, but of a very dark colour, and the insides quite dried up. —Cheltenham Chronicle. . RdBBERIES ON THE LONDON .PLAN.-,A . . circumstance, quite n ew i n t hi s part , o f the kingdom, viz. a negociation with thieves, through the medium of the police, for the recovery of stolen , property, took place a few days ago. The following is a 'brief statement of the case —On 111r..Dow lofting information of the robbery on hiv premises, Captain SostsoN suspecting from his statement that a person of the name of WILSON, who is well /mows at the office, and who way then detained in the house, could throw some light on the subject, sent for him, and, before his arrival, informed Mr. Dow that it was alone through him that there was any probability of recovering th e property. When WILSON came, Dow recognised him as one of his customers ; but before any conversation took place, Captain Romsort was called out of the room, and beard no more of what passed, excepting from sergeant 31 , Krxxs, who having occasion to go into the room while of Wit.sow, i n d eman di ng so much for the reatora the negociation was in progress, mad e a remark on the rapacitY tion of Dow's own property. In order, if possible, to cap ture the rogue in the fact, two police officers were sent over and secreted in Dow's house, where the goods were to have-been returned. Something, however, scared the bi r d, as he.demanded an adjournment to the railing in prim:sea-street; and here espying the policemen, the nego tiation was broken off Since then, Mr. Dow has receiv ed the following letter:— Mr. Dow,--We are sorry to announce to you, that as y wer e se very kind as to consult the police concerning our b ar gain in Prince's -street, you cannot have your wedge again. Had you conducted matters right, and not tried to have hurt the person who was employed upon the occasion, by having two policemen close at your back, when you left your shop to negotiate the business, you might have bad them; but as you cannot be depended upon aga in, we must convert them into white soup ; and our advice to you is to consult the men of power once more, and we do not doubt but you will hear something of them.— .. __ "We are, at your service, "Star Hotel, Prince's -street, " 711 E OLD SC H00T.." Feb. 19, 1828." We understand that the above is not the only case where compounding has been attempted, and even carried into effect. warEdinNr.94 Evening Courant, (- • SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE, LIVERPOOL. . . WEDNESDAY, Fan. 27..—Nigh water, 5 min. past Nine o'clock.—Wind S.—Arrived the Isabella, Moffat, from Charente, with brandy; Rambler, Murphy, from Wex ford, with wh ea t ; G nat, Codd, from ditto, with ditto ; I Good Intent, North, from ditt o , w i t h di tto ; M arqu i s 1 of Ely, Connor, from ditto, w ith di tto; Town of Ross, Key, from Waterford, with ditto; Duchess of Athol, , --, froth the I s / s o f M an , w i t h d i tto and butter; Irish i l Miner, Nichol, from Tralee, with grain; Mary, Davies, from Waterford, with ditto ; Union, Thompson, from Yar mouth ; Maria, Guy, from Padstow, with ba rley; Har mony, Stewart, from Drogheda, with oats, &c. ; Jane, Owens, from ditto, with oatmeal, &c. ; William Rugg, Davidson, from Cardiff, with iron ; Dolphin, Sinithett, (steamer), from Dublin, with the mail. Two ships and one snow off at a quarter-past five o'clock. Private Signal, Messrs. Wm. and James Brown and Co. Telegraph Office, Feb. 27. A ship, with Messrs. William and James Brown mid Co.'s private signals, off the North-east buoy, in want of an anchor, made her number 118. This was supposed to be a mistake. The following signals were made by t( graph Liverpool to Bidstowe. Class. No. Question. 3 112 Can you descri 6 r...t the ship ? Class. No. Answer--Y es , Question. t 4 618 Is the 5 507 number 5 503 now 7 771 up? Answer —Yes. 6 368 Repeat the number made by telegraph with your flags; it is of importance, and we must be cautious of mis takes. Answered by hoisting No. I. Answer. 6 '770 She has 3 691 figure head, 5 963 painted ports. Question. 6 863 Repeat the 6 '796 ship's 5 507 number. Answer-11S Question. 7 263 Are you sure you are Correct ? Description of the s Class. No. 4 650 Union. 7 927 Waft at the 3 71 . 36 fore- At 4 p.m. two brigs off Great Orms Head, homeward bound, have not shown their numbers. At 2SO p.m. one brig off Point Lyng', homeward bound, has not shown her number.—Wind at Holyhead this morning W.S.S., fresh breeze. s made for an anchor Class. No. 5 88 top-mast 6 848 shroud. ORIGINAL LETTERS OF ROBERT BURNS, (From the Elgin Courier.) TO JAMES HOY, ESQ. GORDON CASTLE. SIR—I will defend my conduct in giving you this trouble, on the best of Christian principles —" Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto t h em ." I shall certainly among my legacies leave my latest curse to that unlucky predicament which hurried—tore me away from, Castle-Gordon. May that obsti- . nate son of Latin Prose be curst to Scotch-mile periods, and i damn'd to seven-l eague p aragrap h s; while Declension and Conjugation, Gender, Number, and Time, under the ragged banners of Dissonance and Disarrangement, eternally rank against him in hostile array Allow me, Sir, to strengthen the small claim I have to your acquaintance by the following 're quest. An Engraver, James Johnson, in Edinr., has, not from mercenary views but from an honest Scotch enthusiasm, set about collecting all our native songs and setting them to music; parti cularly those that have never been set before. Clarke, the well known Musician, presides ever the musical arrangement, and Drs. Beattie and Blacklock, Mr. Tytler, Woodhouslee, and your humble servt. to the utmost of hi , ' small power, assist in collecting the old poetry, or sometimes for a fine air to make a stanza when it has no words. The inclosed is one which like some other misbegotten brats, too tedious to mention, claims a parental pang from my Bardship.—l suppose it will appear in Johnson's second Number—the first was2puhlished bef ore my acqua i ntance w i th hi nt. —My request is ; Cauld ICail in Aberdeen," is one intended for this number ; and I beg a copy of his Grace of Gordon's words to it, which you were so kind as repeat to me. You may be sure we wont prefix the Author's name, except you like,- though I look on it as no small merit to this work, that the names of many of the Au thors of our old Scotch songs, names almost for.: gotten, will be inserted. I do not well know where to write to you—l rather write at you ; but if you will be so obliging, immediately on re ceipt of this, as to write me a few lines, I shall perhaps pay you in ki n d, th oug h not i n qual i ty. Johnson's terms are : each number, a handsome pocket volume, to consist at least of a Inland Scotch Songs, with basses for the Harpsichord, &c. The price. to Subscribers 55.; to non-sub. 6s. He will have three numbers, I conjecture. My direction for two or three weeks will be at Mr. William* Cruikshank's, St. James's-square, New -town, Edinr.—l am, Sir, .Edinr., 20th Oct., 2 Yours to command, 1787. ROBT. BURN& TO JAMES HOY, ESQ. - GORDON CASTLE. DEAR would have wrote you imme diately on receipt of your kind letter, but a mixed impulse of gratitude and esteem whispered to me that I ought to send you .something by way of return. When a Poet owes any thing, parti cularly when he is indebted for good offices-; the payment that usually recurs to him the only coin indeed in which he probably is conversant, is Rhyme. Johnson sends the books by the fly-as directed, and begs me to inclose his most grateful thanks : my return I intended should have been one or two poetic bag atelles which the world have not seen, or perhaps for obvious reasons, cannot see.—These I shall send you before I leave Edinr.—.They may make you laugh a little, which our the whole is no bad way of spending one's precious hours and still more precious breath : at any rate they will be, tho' a small, yet a very sincere mark of my respectful esteem for a gentle man whose farther acquaintance- I should look upon as a peculiar obligation.. The Duke's song, independent totally of his Dukeship, charms me.—There is I know not what of wild happiness of thought and expression peculiarly beautiful in the old Scottish song style of which his Grace ; old, venerable Skinner, the author of Tullochgorum, &c. ; and the late Ross at Lochlee of true Scottish poetic memory, are the only modern instances that I recollect, since Ramsey with his contemporaries and poor Bob Ferguson, went to the world of deathless exis tence and truly immortal song. The mob of mankind, that many headed beast, would laugh at so serious a speech aboiit an old song ; but as Job says, " 0 that mine adversary had writ ten a book !" Those who think that composing a Scotch Song is a trifling business—let them try. I wish my Lord Duke would pay a proper at tention to the Christian admonition—" Hide not your candle under a bushel " but " let your light shine before men." I could name half a dozen Dukes that I guess are a devilish deal' worse employed ; nay I question if there are half a dozen better : perhaps there are not half that scanty number whom Heaven has favoured with the tuneful, happy, and I will say, glorious gift. I am, dear Sir, your obliged humble servt., Edinr., 6th Nov., 1767. ROBERT BURNS. MArtsii OP MIND.—At a public dinner a few days ago, a driver of a stage coach, fully versed in the Latin tongue (which he did not fail to make known), felt highly indignant at having taken his seat betwe en a Barber 4.94 a fidononyer (..•.Brijlton Gawk. THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MAkKET..—Feb. 27. This day's supply was limited, but the market huriog been but thinly attended by buyers, each kind of mess met with a tardy sale, At the following prices per gene of filb. to sink the offals:—. Beef Bd. to 4s, 8d Veal 10d. to 6s. 44 Mutton 3 $ 4 3 Pork 4 6 5 8 The foregoing quotations are B eef, Veal, and Pork, the same as on this day se'nnight ; Mutton at h depression of Yd. per stone. A considerible number unsold. of Sheep and Beasts left the market HAILSI T TAI72 MARKE T. 4 s. 4 cl to 4s. &I. I r'eb 7. ss. d. Mutton 4 0 5 0 Pork 00 to 0 5s. ihuhted Supply of Beasts good, of Sh eep ; trade with the lat ter Father brisk, with the former dull. STEYNINGMARFeb. 24' Beef 4s. 2d. to 4s. 10d. 1 V ea l r . to o .Os. 04 Mutter -- 4 6 6 0 P or k 2 8 A moderate supply, and a slugglsh trade ARUNDEL M ARKET.—f'eb. 26. 4s. 2d. to 4s. W. 5s N. Mutton 4 4 410 1 4. 2 to Se. 4‘l, 4 6 A fair time of year s u p p l y, and a dull trade CHICHESTER MAREET.—Feb. 4s. 03: to 4s. Bd. Mutton 4t2 4 8 IVe .Po r 4 al 4s. 14 d. to 51. 4d. 0 4 t) In lean stock but little doing. A moderate supply, aftd dull trade. . . RUMFORD MARKET., —Feb. 27. s. d. to s. d. A. d. to s. d. Beef utton 3lO 4, 8 Veal M 4 0 4 8 Pork ' 4 8 Suckling Calves from 14s. to 385.; Quarter old Pigs Ws to 16 5 6 s, each. Supply limited, and trade dull. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Per Quarter. Blandford Cambridge. • Chard S. tO 3. 57 46 54, 56 56 66 50 56 44 54, 44 56 42 CO 44 .55, 55 61 40 50 48 he s. to s. 28 25 28 - 32 88 30 31 8. tO 8. 24 20 25 24. 30 22 24 18' 23 14' 20 18 24 18 31 30 40 23 30 20 21 - ..... - 16 21 39 27 --. 54 43 18 :i3 34 72 16 Sr..l 36 28 LEEDS CORN PdAjum We had good supply of Grain, and the market ruled extremely dull for every article; Wheat of good quality sold at much the same prices as last weak, but the mid.. tiling and damp samples were 6d. to Is. per quarter lower. i Barley met very ;slow sale on rather lower terms. In Oats and Shelling there was so little doing, that prices were nominally the same. Beans were very dull sale, and rather cheaper. Scarcely any demand for Rapeseed, and prices unaltered. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffblk, 601 b. - York. and Lincoln. 601 b. vas to 313. - Yorkshire and Li ncolnshire t'• _ Grinding . Beans ............... ss. 7 4 3 - Oats, Potatoe .................... .....„ ..... ~... . . . 295. :N ----Waling, Foreign 11d. to 12d. ... " Eingllihild. to 1841. per st, Shelling. ... '. .. . ... : ............... ... .; ........ ~. . ...... 28s. to 295. Rapeseed, English, 251. to 274 . ..... Foreign, -1. to -I per load. . per tact MANCHESTER S MITHFIELD.-Feb. 27. At per lb. sinking the offal. 3,132 5heep........ 51(1. to tad; 1 24, Calves, sd. to 7d. 533 - Cattle ......... 4f ' f 7 42 2 Pigs ............, 44 a MANCHESTER POTATOE M per ARKET.-Feb. 23. Potatoes, 4s. 44., 4s. 6d., and 58.3 d. Os load of 12 seAr and 121b5.; New ditto, Os. Od., Os. Od., and . per ditto • Turn ip,. 6s. 0d.,. 6s. 3d. and 6s. 6d. p e r l oa d o f 1 6 pecks; Onion s,' 13s. Oil., 148. Od., and 158. per 12 score. P. to s. 48 44 48 "t 2 45 4$ 44 ,50 37 :Ai 34 40 36 • au 39 44J 41 59 Huntingdon Long Sutton Louth Newark Nottingham Peterborough ..... rirrneuth •••••000, Pontefract Sleafhrti Uppinghans Wisbech 49 53 48 58 40 5 MANCHESTER YAR No. d. d. Throstle Twist, 20..,104 to 11 20"...12 12/ 40..,15 10 Mule copTwistl so .„ fbr warp 40..14 ;15 50 60 ... 19 20 70..22 24 80 28 26 28 28 • 32 25 23 35 42 28 22 20 28 21 23 :30 24 22 .N MARKET,-Feb. OLAStiOW RETAIL Beef per lb. Os, 50. to Os. Mutton 0 5 0 '7 Veal 0 5 0 9 Hams 0 5 0 9 Lamb "mgr. 0 0 0 0 quarters Loaf... 0 9 0 0 Mout', perstone 2 0 2 8 Rye • 20 19 to 1 40 11 1.2 Mule Co 14 5 p OD lb 16 Weft 70....... 19 2u 90 --- 2 . 1 . 100 911 120 24 36 /0 9 Weft froil 14 '7 Waste .y 18 9 sit 24 --- 10 lot AIARKETS.—Feb. St. Oatmeal, per At. ls. Bd. to 2s. 041 Peasemeal 2 0 3 0 Pot Barley, cwt 12 0 17 ts Pearl ditto.... 2O 0 24 0 Grey Pease 12 Q 0 0 White ditto 13 0 14 Blue ditto. la. 0 14 u HOP INTELLIGENCE. Woken Tye, F. 27.—1 n our market oit 4aturday 56 pockets were weighed ; prices remain stationary at hat quotation ; very little (Ming. ' 1 MEETINGS OP CREDITORS. COUNTRY DIARY.—MONDAY, Ma'ICU 3 Atkinson, C., Lancaster—Clarendon. Liverpool ills.. 12 Cole, W., Nottingham—Punch-bowl, Nottingham Coser, T. Stockton ro 4n-Tees--Star, Manchester ' iir Everall, S., Manch es t er —White's, Manchester 2 Marsden, M., Manchester—White's, Manchester ~.. 2 Oliver, .1., Manch es t er — S tar. Manchester Phillips, N., Haverfordwest—Castle, Haverfordwest ...i ,ll Robinson, J., Walton—Clarendon, Liverpool ll Sommerville, R., Liverpool—Cl a r en d on, Liverpoo . . l .......... It Tattersall, ~ Chorlton-row—Star, M anc h ester lit i..... ' 1 Watson, J., Guisbrough—Bull, Northallerton INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO RE bISCRARGED, Petitions to be heard at Portugal-street, Lincoln's Inn'Fields March 3, at Nine o'clock. Boron, Peter, Scarborough, spar-manufacturer . Bromley, Thos., Paddington, carpenter Chandler, Richard, Lisson-grove, dealer Clayton, Joseph, Clerkenwell. watchmaker "- Cullyer, John, Islington, baker Ford, Thomas, Bristol, maltster Shaw, George, Camberwell, artist Tilling, John, Salmon's-gate, Stroud, toll-collector Meek, Robert, Gloucester, labourer Snowball, A., Gravel-lane, ship -agent Spralley, Thomas, Blackwall, victualler Taylor, R., Somers'-town, victualler Turner, Robert, Stepney, carpenter Wall, Chas., Brixton-hill, schoolmaster White, George, Nottingham, special pleader use at Bristol, March 9. at Ten o'clock. Bennett, Wm., Bristol, retail-brewer Carroll, David, Bristol, 14-dealer Allen, George, Compton martin, innkeeper Hoare, John, St. Paul's, dyer and scowerer Weston, Bartlett, Wm., Stapleton-road, pin -maker R l Y ,himis A: B ili st i l:avi C :gi o odi u :ici l stacir i po c aublen.erdrdtrld:tier Martin, Joseph, Newport, confectioner t Selway, J., Bridgewater, horsedealer - • . i Rogers, Samuel, Bristol, mason ‘, Monday, William, Bristol, huckster . . Sampson, Chas., St. Philip and Jacob 130FCMasiaswiriernj,i:3,JmjavvaesmileessB.,: edNi3SVtmed.eliPilnnihtsiitniglesitrpot:r.pa 1 Smith, Joseph, Bristol, cabinet-maker rade, carpenter ' ----- BIRTHS. Amens= On the 23d inst., at Edinburgh, Mrs. W. P p at „ , a son. of On the 24th i ns t., a t Melton, Suffolk-, I th e l a d y of Major Sehrieber, of a daughter. On the 27th inst., at Pentonville, the • mite of Mr. G. W. W. Mason, ter, being child. of Castle-street, Falcon- sq • sare, of danb. ' on, being her t h e 26th his t, at They' Backs the lady of Copt: G. Tyler, R.N., of a son. at 411 Saints2'l4,lham, Robert Rou3e, 111A1-TR-1 11 7 . ‘ "?7-- "--- Antehter of G eorge M at- Esq ° . n , I% ti rft 2B .C t . h t3 l .7 t ;o ' only y e a r , Esq.; of the same place. - - On the 28th inst., at. St. G eorge's ChetreZ, by the Very 'Rev.-the Dein of Carlisle, ;John Arthur Arnold, Esq., o f Lutterworth) Leicestershire, to Anne Otway Care, second daughter of the late Henry Otway, Esq., of Stanford Hall in the sam e county, and Castle Otway, in Ireland,, On the 28th inst., at St. Margaret's Churn, minster, by the Rev. Dr. Barrett, Edward & qv:4l , m e _ phenson, Esq., of Great Queen-street, W estminster, tO.` Emily, only daughter of the late Edward Glanvill, Esq. On the 26th inst., at Kingston, by the Rev. J. Sargent, , Rector of Lavington and Graffham, Sussex, the Rev. then fir Hon. ry Thom Sir pson, Geor ß ge ar Grey, Bart., Hannah IC. C. E. Jean, third daughter o f On the 25th inst., at S"cerleYton, in the county of stir _ folk, Charl es Fi s h e r Burton, Esq., o f Great Yarmouth, to Mary Elizabeth, relict of the late Edward TkaUlpgoN. Esq., Dene Cottage, same Place. DIED, yBtrong, Esq., ofh1"1 - On the 26th inst., at Brampton, aged 83, M m 50..., widow of the late Mr. Francis Da y, of Taxi.. eannah Day, stock-street, Covent-garden, 11. ° 118 e, Bloomsbnryi t h er ius of t. iii , e at Li t te lie w ß il e li c a to m r On the 28th inst., at his residence, View House,. g or ~ don, Essex, John Caldecott, Esq., in the 62d yvtr of his age. On the 24th inst„ at Bushy, Herta, styklenly, Tit LOMAS Gary, Esq., in the 80th year of his a m , On the 23d inst., in Aladdox-itteet, Bfsplalt , ms ' s the lady of Captain Sir Chas. Malcolm, Tor ., ar il iv e. On the 24th inst., aged 8 0, Frances, relict of thr late - Major -General Sir J. Wrottesley,:and diwOr...-ir oftliliaine • first Viscount Courtenay. . On the 14th inst., at his resid ence , sop roreost et, .. ii‘aiga O uri n ::p th jad e aue 2 .g 6 h t Robert Bretteil, Esq., aged 72, formerly of rcpter-huty London. pluktED and Pum.intED by M. GUNQ at svN QUICE ) No. 112, Srind. COM' ►[tH -112::( cleNtipt for 'did for, and the par Sionprei from Office., hi . TWe marked atter wl the Ma London lkienclty —This of the r tents, sc given a Aide Fleet-at master, Kiugdoi • LEJ Within TH attached as preset MIPPIY For f Cjerk of ditions Tow FQREI LAU.' CAL At the. v at to Sev en and b eau 81 leet; ; in a han a rosew o Electriq board at out Eft", To be lopes 1 tooirtai n - W. B. ......,, PA I. Ran Citii 3, East Tit Star 6 . Sup 7. Ws) Mut 9 . Mar 1. Mr. 2. Mr. 3. Mr. I, A, Mr. RI His Fulmer o'clock meet tl The Wedne Dyke- The this I went previol Sit.; of the taiaed• tiof• warehl the pal take pl I n t slack. In I appros Milne • , /