The Sun. — London, England, 1828-02-22 00:00:00

.f..PIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Whenever a Church-of-England man, we have observed, gets himself into a scrape by reason of any thing that he has said, and has not the courage to adhere to his statement, he endeavours to set him self free by denying the thingpoint blank. A Non- Con. always equivocates in such a case ! The first the honester way of proceeding; for by that you only deceive, or attempt to deceive, man ; the equi vocation is an attempt to deceive God also. In the ease of the denial, or apparent - denial, of Lord Sea ford's having stated that Mr. Huskisson declared, in the presence of the King, that he never would unite himself to-- those whom he considered as the murderers of his friend, we do not know whether an equivocation is meant or the braver course is ha zarded; hut we do know that Lord Seaford did substantially make that statement which had been previously attributed. to him, and we can prove it upon hi m in a court of justice, if he likes. The reason why it is now denied that the expressions of Mr. Huskisson (let them have been- what they might) were reported again, appears to be this—that Mr. Huskisson thus deals with the person reporting thetn in the debate of.last.Monday night :—" After the declaration of the Hon. Member opposite (Mr. T. buncombe), as to what he had heard of his Huskisson's) pledge not to join the oppo"- nents of Mr. Canning—words that the Honour able Member could only have heard ,by some scandalous violation of confidence." And again, in another.part—" He (Mr. Huskisson) com plained scarcely less of the violation of private confi dence, which would have betrayed his- real words, than of their conversion into the monstrous calumny which he had now refuted." No wonder, then, an attempt is now:made to elude this charge of the breach of private confidence, at which Mr. Huskis son is so outrageous; though, in reality, when the generous assertion was first promulgated, Mr. Hus kisson was proud of it (as in reason he. ought), and t was with a view to enhance the magnanimity of is character that the fact of his having thus spoken of the defamers of Mr. Canning was made known. It is rather " too. bad," now ; therefore, when; from his junction with those people, he wo ad wish that his late declaration against them wer !buried in oh to abuse those who only put , ished the de claration from the kindest motives to himself. How could they foresee that within a few snort months, or Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears " Had left the flushing in his galled eyes," t4is marriage with the murderers of his friend would , ake place ? But that there may be no mistake, in proof which we fix upon Lord Seaford, we shall !.ere present it in the briefest manner possible, de ::ached from all concomitant matter or expansive re, ports, which may contain some unimportant variety The representation of Mr. Huskisson's declaration ascribed, recently to Lord Seaford, was in the fol lowing words :—" That nothing should ever induce him (Huskisson) to act in the same Government with those who,. 83 he considered; had behaved so ill to poor Canning." This was the representation ascribed to Lord Seaford of a declaration made bv Ir. Huskiston, not hastily and in confidence, to a private and intimate friend, but advisedly •in his official capacity to the highest personage in the realm, upon-the occasion of Mr. Huskisson's inter view with the King, upon his return from the con tinent, after Mr.-Canning's death. Lord Seaford, whilst he caviled at the word " ever," though he would not take upon himself to deny the use of that word, admitted the substance of the ." report" ascribed to him of that declaration which has lately made so much noise in the world.-461d. 'Tp' this we shall add, a mere chit-chat, what we have rio dotibt . is also essentially ccorrect, but derived tthril other sources. The'cireumstances of Lord Sea ford's, admission 'were these :=-At a' dintier . at - Sir George Warrender', a:large mixed' party, one of the guests- loudly 'attacked 1V1r: - 1-Ittskisson's joining the preseireAdministration 'in the teeth of his declara tion at Windsor. Lord Seaford then inquired upon what:authority this declaration was assumed ft was hinted,-on the other side, that the authority was such as his Lordship could not resist--4t was that of my Lord 3. himself; and it was added, as we have heard, " On such a day, in such a house, in Paris, you yourself informed me of the Huskissonian de claratiOn ! !I" The issue is stated abOve. Our City article, in yesterday's Paper, describes the aniuseinent of the citizens on the tickling given to their great Leviathan, by Mr. Duneombe, in the House of Coinmons. A friend, who was present, took notes of his precise expressions in relation first to•another, and then to this person, whiCh were as follows :—" There is ) Sir, deny it who ean, a se cret influence behind the Throne, whose form i s never Seen, whose name is` never ereatheo,whc; ha's access to all the seeretg of the' State, and who manages all the sudden spripgs of Ministerial ar rangement— At whose soft nod the streams of honour flow, • " Whose smiles all place and patronage.bestow." " Closely connected with this invisible, this incorpo real person, stands amore solid and substantial form, a new and formidable power, till these days un known in Europe : master of- unbounded wealth; he-boasts that he Is the arbiter of peace and war, and that the credit of nations depends upon his nod : his correspondents are innumerable; his. couriers outrun those of sovereign Princes i and absolute So vereigns.; Ministers of State - are,in his pay. Pa ramount. in the Cabinets , of Continental- Europe, he aspires to the domination of our own ; even - the great Don - Miguel himself, of WhOm We have latily heard and seen ;so much, was- obliged' to have recourse to the purse of this individual, before he could take possession of: (this throne. Sir e that, such secret influences- do exist, is a. mat- ter of notoriety ; they are known to have been but too busy in the underplot of the recent revolu tion. , I believe their object to be as impure as the means by which their power has been acquired, and denounce them and their agents as miknovvti to the British Constitution, and derogatory to .the honour of the Crown," &c. &c. The rest was correctly reported. Mr. Peel's denial of the secret influence at Windsor, had been better omitted ; we know what its objeet was, but it Will fail. There is a strong personal antipathy to hint in a high quarter; and it is hoped to overcome it by subserviency. We hear, indeed, that this dislike has been carried to rch a length, that it as been desired that.even on official business the Right Hon. Secretary may be seen there as little as possible; and that th e neces tary, communications may be conveyed through the Lead of the Ministry ! Who would be a.Minister el State on such terms ? Or who would not make sneh treatment the subject of grave and formal re ,Tionstrance, rather than a motive for obtrusive and officious humility ? Lord Morley's adhesion to the I:evy Administration is not extraordinary. His Lord ship had been long attached to Mr. Canning. Dur ing their intimacy, he had borne many a banter and witticism with great good humour; but the prac tical jest of leaving him without a place, when his witty friend forted the Administration which ex pired with him, was the cause of much more serious annoyance. But most incredible is it, that in the midst of these explanations and discussions,not one word has been said,either by himself or others, of Lord Gode rich's first resignation. If we re co ll ect the scene aright, the manner in w hi c h the death of Desdenwila is now managed is this,--that the Moor first claps a pillow on her head to .mother . her, and then, finding that too slow an operation, he stabs her. This was the tiouble process by which Lord Goderich destroyed the too confiding; and betrayed Desdemona ref an Ad ministration of ::vhich he was Lord and Ma , : first resignation was fatal. The Admi;: ;tration never recovered its breath from that squee;' of its windpipe; the life-blood wac; afterwards h out by the second resignation, on the quarrel of rile two Messrs. IL H. But what does his Lordsiv ,) say, or what will he say of the first resignation y i 'lli9 wa s a felonious attempt on .the life of the .'•hiiistry which he was bound to defend and prote, The King from that moment saw that he shoui i be de- seated oil the slightest ditliculty—he was Then in fact deserted—and therefore had nothing to looks to, but to have another Administration in embryo ready. We again, therefore, call upon Lord node rich for an account of his first resignation, which took place on the 13th of December l ast , an d an ex planation of th e cause or causes of that act.—lbid. The business of explanation, almost the only busi ness which has occupied both Houses since the Meeting of Parliament, was resumed last night. It commenced by a reference, on the part of Mr. Her ries, to what fell, on Monday night, from Mr. Dun combe, the Member for Hertford, who made so striking an allusion to the " influence equal to the Ministers', if not greater, behind the Throne ;" to a form that was never seen, and a name that was never breathed,. whose power had much influence in making these arrangements ;" to " an incorpo real being,-as well as one of a more substantial form, close to the Throne—the arbiter of Europe, to whom even ion Miguel, 'within a few days, had had re course for a loan." Mr. /ferries said, " I did not ' state, as has been represented by the Hon. Member for Hertfordi that I had heard `I hat: (Feb. 18), for the first time, of the intended resignation of my Right Hon. Friend. What I stated, and what I complained of, was, that, it had 'not been made known to me on the 29th of December, or on the d of Jantiary,..on- both of which days an opportu nity presented -itself of making the - communication to me, which I think ought to'have been made. I Complained then, as I do now, of being left in utter ignorance of that circumstance until the sth of Ja nuary, when I learned, for the first time, that my Right Honourable , Friend (Mr. fluskisson) had made a point of tendering his resignation, in the event of the course which he recommended not being adopted." Mr. Herries then appealed, in confirmation of his statement, to the reports in the Times and the Morning Chronicle of the 19th of February. He further observed, that "he did not say he would not have persevered in the course which he had marked. out for himself, if, before the sth of January, he had known of the in tended resignation of his Right Honourable Friend ; but' it certainly would have had an influence on his determination ;" and he reiterated his complaint of the hardship on him, of being left wholly ignorant of the circumstance. He alluded also to the statements tnade in the House of Peers by Lords Goderich and Carlisle, on Tuesday night, in which the declaration }vas reiterated, that the dissolution of the late Ad- Ministration was caused by the difference betwixt him and Mr. Huskisson. This was a sufficient open ing for letting in the whole subject; and accordingly, after a brief altercation between Mr. Herries and Mr. fluncombe, as to the language actually used on the 18th, Lord Milton took high ground. Availing him self of the avowal made by Mr. Herries, of his know ledge of a design, when speaking of the real reason which lead to the dissolution of the Administration— then, said his Lordship, in his usual direct and tnanly;way, " if the Right Honourable Gentleman knew of a design, he knew also of its objects; be knew by whom it. was conceived, and upon this, far more than upon'other matters, was he bound to give a full explanation. The Right Honourable Gentle man may settle his disputes and wrangles with his colleagues as he pleases; but before us, the Repre sentatives of England, he is bound to render an ac count of the charge which he has preferred, that a design was entertained of Overturning the Adminis tration of the country." Mr. Brougham had recourse to a device which his profession naturally suggested to him; namely, the putting the assertion of Mr. Herries, on Monday night, "on his honour as a gentleman, and as he hoped to be saved here after, .that he never had any communication with any individual out of the Cabinet, or with any body but his own Colleagues," into an interrogatory form, essentially identical with the assertion, hitt yet so varied, as to cut off retreat by . a verbal distinction. " Did (the Honourable and Learned Gentleman *ked), any other persons go and consult or com municate. with-him during these late negociationi?" The . ". never to have had any communications with any individual out of the Cabinet, or with any body but his own colleagues," and " other persons going and consulting' or communicating with him *ring these late negociations," are of course one aid the same; and as Mr. Herries came forward voluntarily, and of his own proper suggestion, to afford the fullest information to the House, we do not exactly see why he should have demurred to the answering the question which he had already an swered when put in a form more satisfactory to Mr. Brougham ? He had already said further, that "he had received no adviee from any person what eyer;" and though it is not very agreeable to be questioned, yet, under the circumstances of the case, it did not become him to stand upon any punctilio. "!I abide, Sir," he answered, " by the statement I have already made; I do not recognise the right of the Honourable and Learned Gentleman to put that question to me. Whatever explanations I have deemed it necessary to make, I have already given; but I will not enter into any further explanation beyond what I have already given as to the causes which led to the dissolution of the late Govern- m,ent."' But his re-entering on the subject, with a view of l affording farther satisfaction to the House, amounted to a profession of readiness to clear up any difficulty, with respect to his meaning. from ambi guity of expression. it meant this, if it meant any thing; for we db not exactly see what 'right, any . Member has to occupy the House with the delivery of a speech formerly spoken by him, and by -this he sitation to`do what ought to have been an indifferent thing, the public will be apt to conclude with Mr. Brougham, that " if the Right Ton. Gentleman was determined to abide by that silence, it would have been far better for himself that he had never given any explanation at all." A man who volun teers an explanation, is bound to endeavour to make himself sufficiently understood; and therefore, if those to whom the explanation is given, feel any difficulty in comprehending any statement, and wish to:ascertain by an interrogatory, embodying , the statement in another form more intelligible to them, whether they have comprehended it sufficiently, do not receive that satisfaction, 'they have a right to complain, and to draw unfavourable inferences from the circumstance. So much for the questioning pare of the business. A scene of a different kind followed, _ _ . . Mr. Williams Wynn distinctly said,' " With' all due deference to, :the 4tpetnent - of the Right, Ron. Oen,. tleMan, I--do .-not give credit to it. Mr. Sturges Bourne concurred in what had fallen from Mr. Wynn. Sit; James Macdonald used still stronger lan guage. " Whether (he said) he (Mr. H.) held the place :of Chancellor of the Exchequer, or be degraded to the interior place of Master of the Mint, I can tell him, that there is no place in the service of the Government which will, excuse or redeem him from the responsibility of making good his charge." Mr. Herries, after these strong assertions-and challenges, repeated his declaration, that his resignation was not the • operating cause. of the dissolution 'of the late Government, and thiew upon th e part i es who undertook to explain the causes of the dissolution, to state all the causes of the dissolutio n . Mr. Wynn said, " a determination was taken to stand th e contest of parties in 'Parlia ment, and he asked the Right Hon. Gentleman whe ther eight and forty hours before he wrote his letter o f resignation, he had not in the Cabinet declared his willingness to co-operate to the utmost of- his power in maintaining the Government of which his Noble Friend (Lord Goilerich) . was at the head ?" Mr. Wynn went further, and contended, not on l y that the declaration Mr. Herries made on'th e 19th of DeeeMber rendered it impossible to suppose he was then meditating his letter of the 21st, but that he could have had nvildence that the negociation which had been carried on with Lord Althorp, was m any other state on the 21st, than it .was in 00 the 3d of December , when he had asked whether, on the 34:1 of December, ,the letters which he had re ceived were not such as to induce him to suppose, that all t h at had been done respect i ng the 'appoint ment,of hi s Lordship, was to. sound him if he were! disposed to accept the Chair 1 Lird Nor manby asked him why he had perpetually, shifted the ground of his pr - oceeding, first stating Tic, objection to Lord Althorp's appointment ; next conceiving a slight had been offered him ; and lastly, disapproving decidedly of the appointment ? Mr. llerries contended that, in his letter of the 21st, he had distinctly stated, that if that which in hi s letter he assumed to be fact, was not so, an answer might be sent to undeceiVe him ; " was he told that the engagement was not completed—that party consideranons had nothing to do with the ques tion 2" The, explanations left the matter at the end in the same state it was in at the begin ning : all the Members of the late Cabinet not now in place, contending strenuously that the quarrel betmeen Messrs. Huskisson and Her ' ries, was the only cause of breaking up the Government, and Mr. Herries contending that it was not. We are almost ashamed of going over these memorials of imbecility. If Lord Goderich had wished 'the Government not to be broken up, why did he not call his Colleagues together and lay the difference 'before them,?', They would have told him in a trice to accept of Mr. Herries's resignation. Lord Goderich may be a very candid and upright man; but really his conduct was inexplicable. Mr. Herries's is intelligible. There can be little doubt that he was hostile to the rest of his Colleagues. But if he had had the direction of Lord Goderich, we defy him to have pointed out a course better cal culated to promote his object than that which his Lordship took.—Morning Chronicle. The North American Congress appears to be get ting the start of our Parliament in that enlightened legislation which is congenial with the spirit of civi lized times. The law to abolish imprisonment for debt on niesne process in the United States, is u re markable instance of legislative improvement among a people, whose national existence, compared with that of Great Britain, is but of yesterday. We have yet got no farther -than limiting imprisonment, in cases of debt, to sums of the value of 20/. and up wards; and it was only last . Session that the-Bill to abolish the taking of Special Bail for debts under 20/. met with strong opposition in Parliament be fore it>was allowed to pass into a law, even although introduced by a Law-officer of the Crown. The idea of extending the sum to 100/., or even to 50/., was thought too bold an innovation upon exist ing prejudices,. for any person to propose , as an amendment. Now, we observe, the American Con gress have taken up the subject of duelling—that remnant of the same Gothic barbarism which sub stituted the ordeal of battle for the decisions of reason and justice_ It is only within a few years that we got rid of the ordeal of battle, and not until after the Courts of Justice had been disgraced by the spectacle of Abraham Thornton throwing down his glove to challenge the next akin of the unfor tunate Mary Ashford, who had brought an appeal against him for her murder. No higher origin—no better sanction—has duelling; and often no more honourable purpose than that Gothic institution, which was so long placed upon a level with trial by Jury. The custom, however, has continued too long to be put down by any thing except by severe and degrading laws; and until it is so put down society will be under the tyranny of the custom ; and even men who reprobate it in their own minds and consciences, will be found to risk their lives with the lowest beings in the scale of morals and principle, who have done every thing short of being convicted of felony. The American law, which has just been introduced for the suppression of this fashionable vice, makes duelling murder, and consequently sub jects the survivor, under any circumstances, to an ignominious death. It makes sending a challenge a high misdemean our , punishable by f our t een years ' imprisonment ; and inflicts upon seconds, aids, and even upon the attending surgeons, a fine of 1,000 dollars each, in addition to be disfranchised, and imprisoned until theykive sufficient security for their good behaviour. So much for ".genteel" gladiator ship in AMerica.—Morning Herald. On Wednesday " Sir Francis Burdett presented a petition from the inhabitants of St. Paul, Co vent-garden,' against . the Select Vestry Bill for that parish, praying to be heard by Counsel against it, as the Standing Order had not been 'complied_ with, iio notice having been given to them of the same." We hope that Sir Francis will be successful in his opposition to this Bill, which we understand is to give increased power to the Covent-garden Select Vestry. At the root of most Bills of this descrip tion is an attorney, the clergy, and perhaps sur veyors. Our Select Vestry Laws will, in time, be come as obnoxious as our Game Laws, except the people of p ar i s h es i nterfere, as those of Covent-gar den and Marylebone have done. In fact, the Select Vestry system might, in time, become as tyrannical as the old f eu d a l system o f the Barons, tinder which latter system the people became villains or slaves. The people of parishes cannot be too vigilant in looking to these Bills, and the framers of them. We recommend those who speak at Parish Meetings to find out, if they possibly can, the names•of the persons who are concoctors of these Bills, whether lawyers, clergymen, surveyors, architects, carpenters, bricklayers, brickmakers, or what not, and to pub lish their names and occupations. We would ask Lord William Russell if he be pledged to the fur therance of this Bill ? and if he is, we would ask him who it is that has prevailed on him to further it ? But even the carrying through Parliament one of these Bills is a snug job for any lawyer, in law charges only.--7./bid. n the House of Commons yesterday we had some more last words from Mr. Harries, but we cannot congratulate the curious on any addition to their knowledge, in consequence. A good deal of the debate, which, though brief, was one of the smartest . that has taken place in the House for some years, was occupied in investigating the accuracy of certain reports of Mr. Herries' ex planation of Monday last, which, some way or other, notwithstanding the Orders of the House, had' got abroad. The Morning Jour nals, with the exception of the Chronicle and the 'Times,' to said Mr. Herries, repre sented that gentleman as having asserted that' he had net heard of Mr. Huskisson's resignation until that evening. Mr. Duncombe, Mr. Brougham, and lord Milton, contended that Mr. Herries had said so ; Mr. Herries denied it, and said that he had only heard the time that-evening, and that of the fact he had heeteasseselsousthe-sth of .January. . ., Applying to all the reports of Mr. Herries' speed our utmost powers of interpretation, we are eta loss to understand whether it be meant that Mr. Herries was aware, on the sth of J anuar y, o f t h e intention of Mr. Huskisson to resign, or if he was aware on that day that he had resigned. We should incline to the former interpretation. It is ciecidedly. the meaning conveyed by our report, and that of the 'Chronicle appears to be the same. Mr: Herries, according to the latter, says, that on the sth Jan. he first heard that Mr. Huskisson "had spoken of resigning ;" the Times says he (Mr. H.) then first heard that Mr. Huskisson "had made a determina tion to resign." In fact the whole of Mr. !lefties' ex planation is, from accident or design, so obscure as to justify Lord Normanby's observation, " that the Right Hon. Gentleman neither could understand questions put to him, nor answer them so as to make any body else understand them." The whole debate so far as this point was concerned, was mere quill bling. There can be no doubt that iii the outset of his speech the Right Hon. Gentleman said repeat edly that there were matters which had on l y come to 114 knowledge that n i g ht, and this, if there were any Mistake in the reports, undoubtedly led to it. Whatever was said, it is evident that something was suppressed which ought to have been said. Mr. Herries declared that there had been a plot or cabal entered into to break up the Cabinet, and that his contingent resignation, on December 21, Was on l y the Handl e f or t h at purpose. This we stated on Wedne s d ay , f or i t was unaccompanied hy an attempt to p ve it b e a matter of inference, but M r . Her ries 'd not so st ate i t. Hi s wor ds w ere, " I know i to it." h e H ouse, last, night, was exceedingly anx i ous , to obtain the grounds of his knowledge ; but Mr. }ferries was dumb—he was determined to enter into no other explanation than he had already done ! Mr. Brougham, after mentioning the Right Hon. Gentle man's solemn appeal to Heaven, that he had con sulted with no one when he came to the famous re solution of the 29th of November, put it to him to say, whether he would add that no one had consulted with him. What said Mr. Herries to this ? Surely, when his own character was so deeply at stake, no petty punctilio should have interfered to prevent him from giving an answer to a plain question ! Had he been indignant at the, base suspicion which such a question might have seemed to insinuate—although all intention of any improper insinuation was So lemnly disclaimed—we could have easily excused his anger, hut he showed no symptoms of such indignation; he contented himself with objecting to Mr: 'Brougham's right to put the question.— It is granted he had none- ; -no one has such a right—but what is that to the purpose ? Although Mr. Herries will not make any farther communica tions he is quite willing that others should. Those, he says, who know about the. operative causes— that is, the plot—should tell all about them. But the Right Honourable Gentleman forgets that every one on whom it has been put to explain it, except himself, has denied that there was any plot at, all.— Mr. Tierney, Lord Goderich, Mr. Bourne, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Mr. Wynn, all who have spoken on the subject declare that but from the Right Hon. Gentleman they never heard it. The Master of the Mint would follow the rules of the inquisition with those whom he has accused. When any poor wretch is brought before that gloothy tri bunal, the first •question asked of him is, " What are you e at ) ; of ?" So, Mr. Herries, having dragged Lord Goderich before the bar of the country, instead of adducing his proofs, calls on his Lordship to de clare to the public the mysteries of the plot—who formed the plot—where the plot was hidden -.what were the objects of the plot ? It is in vain that Lord Goderich declares he knows of no plot, and calls on his aqcuser to throw some light on th e sub ject. No, say s M r . Herries," I will make no farther explanations." Now, really this is not that sort of conduct which the public and those honourable men have a right to expect from the Master ofthe Mint.We would give every latitude to political warfaie, but it is inconsistent even with its laser laws to charge men with a great offence, and when challenged to the proof, to refuse either to bring forward the evi dence in the accuser's possession, or to retract the accusation, which he dare not attempt to establish. We have put.it already, we would put it again, to • Mr. Herries' good sense and candour, whether the course he is pursuing be consistent with either ? whether, if he have hazarded an assertion hastily and unwarrantably, the•best and only atonement he can make be not frankly to confess it; and if he have real and solid grounds for what helms said, if it be not due to himself, to his Sovereign, and to Parliament, manfully, and at once, to bring them forward ? If he persist in his silence, - we rather think that more than one will adopt the blunt but honest language made 'use of by Sir Joseph Yorke last night :—" It does appear to me, Sir, (said Sir Joseph, addressing the Chair) that the Cabinet was broken up by a little jealous struggle between two of its Members ; and I can only say, that if my Right Hoi. Friend (Mr. Herries) was the party who broke up the last. Cabinet, and who means to explode the present, by :such another cabal, the sooner the Duke of Wellington turns him out the better."—New Times. STIIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20.—High Water, 23 min. past 2 o'clock, Wind South.—Arrived the David Cannon, Angus, from New Orleans, with cotton; Tinley, Hall, from Savannah, with ditto; James, Wade, from, Lisbon, sailed 6th Feb.; with oranges ; Eagle, Batty, from the Cape of Good Hope, with wine, &c. ; Bucephalus, Guild, from Charente, with brandy ; Royal Eagle, Bishop, ' from Palermo, with shnmac ; Congress, Lightbody, from Campeachy, with lugwood ; San Guiseppe, Barbato, from Gallipoli, with oil; Two Friends, M'Cartney, from Dingle, with oats ; Mary, polliday, from Annan, with barley ; Apollo , Westlake, from Bridgewater, with ditto ; P i arl of Roden, Spencer (steamer), from Dundalk, with slindries ; Swan, Pringle, from Glasgow, with ditto ; Thetis, Turnley, from Dublin, with the mail. CLEARED 011TWARDS.—Bashaw, Callender, for Boston; Bahia Packet, Yates, for St. Thomas and St. Domingo; Zante, Little, for Zante and Barcelona. Telegraph Office, Feb. 20. Holyhead—Wind, at 8 this morning, S.W., blowing fresh ; nothing to report. Wind at Liverpool, at 8, S. moderate. Point Lynas--This morning two pilot boats off and six small craft; at 9 a.m. homeward bound, No. 56*, Po mona, B. B. from Bombay, and No. 234, Thalia, B. B. Great Orms Head—Nothing to report. A brig at anchor near the N.Es buoy, with Mr. Thomas Forsyth's private signal flying. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. ARRIVED IN TABLE BAY.—Nov. 18.—Esther, G. Ro binson, from Bombay • 11th September, bound to London ; cargo ;tattoo, &c. Nov. 21,—Brothers, John Briggs, from New Bruns. wick, Aug. 14, for this port; cargo timber, &c.—Pa lambang, D. Nash, from Bombay; Sept: 16, for Greenock; cargo cotton, &c.—Passengers, Captains• Bowes sod Eyre, H.M. 6th Regiment, put in for water. SAILED FROM TABLE BAY.—Nov. 15.—Barbara, J. Pearson, for London. Nov.. 17.—La Belle Alliance, R. Hunter, for Calcutta; Vesper, W. Willie, for ditto ; Anna Robertson, J. Irvine, for ditto. Nov. 21,—St. Helens schooner, for St. Helena; Free land, G. Batty, for the Mauritius. • REMAIN IN TABLI BAT.--Eagle; Hebe, Margaret, Ellen, De Gezusters, George IV.; Buckbay packet, Eleanor, Thomas, Mary, Baron de Capellan, Kent, Good Intent, Kortanaar (74), Snianna, Caroline, Ellen; Esther, and Brothers. VESSELS IN SIMON'S M. ships Owen Glen dower, Helicon, and •Espoir for Mauritius; and the French ship Le Fils de France. When you are seated next a lady, you should he only polite during the first course; you may be gallant in the second; but you must not be tender till the dessert. —.Brighton Gazette. When you have the misfortune to sit next a child, your only plan is to make him drunk as soon as pos sible, that his mamma . may,be forced to hare him taken away.—Cods Gourmand. ' • Trade continues very brisk at Kilmarnock. The carpet-printers have obtained an advance of Id. on the shilling.— Glasgow Chronicle. We have received a letter from a highly re spectable Correspondent, residing in the neighbOUrliood of Clones, detailing an act of savage barbarity which was per petrated in that neighbourhood on Thursday night. The following is our Correspondent's account of the transac tion I am sorry for the sake of humanity to have to inform you of a most horrible occurrence which took place, in this neighbourhoOd on Thursday night. The circum stances of the case, as they hilve been , deposed to before ins are as follow:—On Monday last a person of time name of BURKE was interred' in the churchyard of Drnmswords, about four miles frOni Clones. BURKE was au Orange man; and his remains were accompanied to the grave by. tthe members of the lodge to which he belonged. On ;Thursday morning the grave was found open, the coffin :broken, and the body of unfortunate man suspended - by the neck from an adjoining tree ; BURKE was a person 'of excellent character, and much liked by his neighbours. Every exertion has been used to discover the perpetrators of this horrible outrage, but as yet without avail."--Dublin :Eveiing Mail. HOCK [Nu CI lICUMSTANCE.-41 eircum s t a nce of a very p a i n f u l nature, occurred in t hih t own on , S Saturday last. A ro an o f t h e name of MIICICLVNA:Y, ad vanced in life, a native of Ireland, and who has occasion ally driven cattle to Norwich for the last sixteen or eighteen years, was found dead in the lock-up house of Dumfries, while the Commissioners of Police were inquiring into his case, and subscribing money to shelter him from the storm. About a fortnight ago, Mr. GEMMEL, teacher, found the deceased standing in Buccleuch-street, unable to walk or almost to speak, and in one word, on the point of ex piring, from the combined effects of hunger and cold. T o the above painful detail, we have only to add, that th e deceased was buried on Saturday, and that kis funeral procession, formed of police-officers, ragged Irishmen, and idle boys, was as painful a spectacle as we ever witnested,..- .Datnfries Co;crifr, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDRALL.=-Yesterday Thos. Jones was charged with having intruded himself behind the counter of a baker's shop in' Aldersiate-street, with intent to commit felony. 'Jan Cheek, a butcher,, said—" I saw him go into the shop, and drop down on his hands and knees ; and in that shape he crope round the counter towards the till ; but be fore he could lay hold of it, I laid hold of him by his latter end, and drawed him baCk.", Thus it appeared that the prisoner would have carried off bread, or bread's worth, had not Cheese prevented him ; and perhaps this is the first time that cheese was ever known to save bread. Other witnesses corroborated the statement of Mr. Cheese, and the prisoner • was asfced what he Lad to say for himself. • " Why, please your Worship," said he, 0 " I bad a dog —a terry pretty littl e d og ,' w h at ruun'd away from me ; and I thought to myself, 'd I shouldn't wonder if he's gone behind that there counter l'—So ',went to look for him, and this ere gentleman (Mr. Cheese) ketch'd me by the tail, and pull'd me back again. 4 ' It so happened; however; that: this was not the first time he had been caught behind a shop counter ; and the Alderman sentenced him to' three months' hard labour in Bridewell. Mr. William Johnson was charged by Joseph Rowcamp, a watchman of St. Sepulchre, with having been " heavy in liquor," at three quarters past eleven o'clock on Wed nesday night. " By heavy in liquor, I suppose you mean very drunk ?" said Sir, PETER LAURIE. " Why no, your Worship, he was not particular drunk," replied the watchman—. not drunk enough to be carried, I will say th . at for him; though he was pretty far gone too ; and yet he was not so fai gone but what he was quite leadable." Mr. Johnson not being able to make a satisfactory reply, was convicted in the penalty of five shillings for having been drunk. BON-STREET..—Yesterday, General Sir J. IH‘Gregor was summoned before Mr: 11flasuuLL, by the driver of the hackney-coach, No. 738, for the amount of his fare from Berkeley -street to the Horse Guards, and for the time which, he asserted; he waited there by Sir James's order. The Atectsravric told Sir James he must adjudge him to pay the sum claimed, by the coachman, as well as the costs of this praceeding,'arnounting altogether to 19s. 6d. HATTON-GARDEN.—The following application'was yesterday made at this office, relative to Howard :-- ' Mr. William Ardel stated, that about five years ago Howard lodged at his house ; he then represented himielf as Joshua Simon Bell, Esq. He said he was a writer, un der Government, and used to take a great interest in the changes in Government, and say they affected him greatly. He used frequently to go out about ten o'clock at night, and return about eight in the morning ; on these occasions he used to say he was going to hear some important de bates in Parliament. He remained about five months, and during that time frequently used to take as much as four ounces of laudanitm in a week. He absconded at last, carrying' with him a gold watch, chain, and seals, value fifty guineai, which Lad been left upon the shelf in the drawing -roam; since whi c h th ey h a d not h ear d o f him, until ' looking into a newspaper on Wednesday he saw that he was in custody. The complainant now wished to see Howard ; and on being told that he was in Newgate, and that the Grand Jury was sitting, he went to lodge a detainer against him. UNION-HALL—Yesterday a female, named White head, well known in the city, at the Bank and Sto . c4 Exchange particularly, which she daily perambulates, 'at tended before the Magiitrate to ask his ,a.dvice under .the following circumstances. Her appeamnce altogethpr is most' singular : she was dressed in deep mourning, and wore a head-diets of most peculiar shape of black gauze materials, and, rising to a considerable height, terminated in a point. She appears to be about pO years of age, although her cheeks and lips were thickly plastered over with carmine ; the contrast was remarkable. between the poor woman's artificial ruddy complexion and the sombre hue of the curious dress she wore. On entering .the office, she said that she had a large property which was in Chan cery, and had been so fot years, and that a conspiracy ex isted between the: head of that court and two of her female relatives to chouse h er n ut o f th e w h o l e of the moue). The relatives concerned in the diSgraceful transaction were in venting a variety of schemes i to accelerate her death.— " They have administered arsenic in large quantities to me," said she; "my eyes are nearly burning out of, their sockets froM thE'eirecis Of the poison, and as for my teeth, they are all loose and daily dropping out one by one from my. jaws, In consequence of the hellish conspiracy to deprive me of life." The poor woman here opened her mouth, in order, as she said, to give the Magistrate an opportunity of having ocular demonstration of the truth of- her asser tions. Instead, however, of exhibiting toothless jaws, she displayed a very fair set of teeth for a lady of her years, She complained sadly of the loss of all her grinders from the arsenic, declaring that the operation of chewing a crust had become a painful task to her now. The Magistrate, perceiving the unfortunate state of the poor woman, listened with attention to all she said, and then advised her to consult with a professional gentleman on the subject. After her departure, an individnal present gave short history of her misfortunes. That about 14 years ago ber brother, a clerk in the Bank, had been executed for forgery ever since which period, her intellects became impaired.-- She is in the constant habit of going to the Bank, where many of the gentlemen, aware of the melancholy disorder with which she is afflicted, very liberally contribute their aid in providing for her wants; and by those means she is rescued from poverty. Since the death of her brother she has never gone out of mourning. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday a Court was held for the despatch of public business. NEW PUBLIC WORKS. • The Remembrancer rose to. report to the Court, that applications had been made by bill or petition during the Session, to the Rouse of Commons, for the sanction of that part of the, Legislature to a va .riety of public works, ' which directly . or indirectly 'affected the interests of the C = itizens of Londori. These were applications to erect a new bridge over the Thames at Lambeth,,--(laughter)—e new bridge over the Thames at ,Staines--rto raise' more • money to carry on the Thames Tunnel;4-411ear,hear,)—to form a new entrance to theigast London Docks— to form• a rail-road•to the LontkithiDoeks—to make a grand canal from London to, Portimouthingh ter)—to construct a new pier' for the landing of passengers at Gravesend—t o . make a Southwark Bridge new road, and a Su r rey Bridge new ro a d. A petition was also presented from Mr. Bigg, th e principal land coal -meter in Surrey, for the regula tion of the land coil mauve in that ceunty,.and ap‘. plications were made for bills from the Independent Gas. Company, tb 4 e, sjar un4 , the • Imperial Gas Company. Mr. STEVENS (of Bishopsgate) could not per mit the subject of the Dills respecting . the Gas Com panies to pass, without noticing the refusal made by the Board of the Commissioners of Sewers, upon application, gas pip es o f th e var i ous to be int r oduc e d i nto th e all e effect of es t a bli s hi ng a public city . Thisarefusalt Com p an i es o ooa hadnw e the h t h e most gross and injurious monopoly, and a- most burthensome tax upon the shop-keepers of the City It WaS-- m r . OLutiam rose to order. Mr. TICKNER stated, that he ruighr,,as one of 'the Commissioners of Sewers be permitted to stat e , in answer to a s muc h as Mr. Stevens had stated out of order, that the Basra had given the 11109 i atten tive. consideration to the evidence which they had re ceived on the subject at .their bar. . ABUsF,s IN THE COAL TRADE., Mr. PEACOCK said, that Mr. Bigg's petition to Parliament was of great importance to the City. From certain evidence which had the day before been submitted to the Committee for the Management of the Corn and Coal Meters, there was reason to believe that the regulations to be made in Surrey would be far less rigid, and, therefore, less efficient than the regulations at present put in force by the Court. The system of metage in Surrey was noto riously lax. (Hear.) A, case came before them where the customer of, a coal merchant applied to that merchant to receive a quantity of Lambton'e coals on his wharf, break them, mix them with a quantity of other coals, and send the whole out un. , der the name of Lambton's. The merchant replied that the regulations of the Corporation prevented the possibility of ouch a transaction. The customer then landed the coals at an adjoining wharf in au ad. joining diotricr, where HO elich rigid MIS intcrfuld, Sixpence per chaldron was paid for what was called Christening, and they'were foisted upon the public as Lambton's coals. (Laughter, and cries of hear.) The subject demanded the closest attention of their representatives in Parliament. (Hear, hear.) After some observations from Alderman WooD, it was resolved to present a petition to the House of Commons against the intended Bill respecting the metage of Surrey. THE CITY PAROCHIAL AND WARD SCHOOLS. The LORD MAYOR had now to present a petition to the Court from himself. He had great pleasure in stating, that the late Concert in Guildhall had succeeded beyond the expectation of those who proposed it. He had the highest authority, that of Sir George Smart, for stating, that their Hall was the first room in Europe for music. —(Hear, hear.) He bad now to ask the Court for the use of it in aid of a chariey—he meant the educating the poor In the Ward and Parochial Schools. Alderman ,WooD; at the same time, asked for the use, of the Hall for the National Institution--for. the benefit of which he wished that a ball should take place.—Agreed to. Mr. HARMER presented apetition from Mr. Brad field, complaining that his petition on the subject of abuses in the Coal Trade, was obstructed in its pro gress before the Committee by the refusal of one of the Officers to allow it to proceed without the pay ment of a fee of 1/. 3s. 6d.—The petition was ordered to lie on the table. After a Deputy was appointed to the Comp- troller of the City Accounts, the Court adjourned. THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MARKET.—Feb. 20. This day's market having been rather largely supplied, and not very numerously attended by buyers, each kind of fat stock met with a sluggish sale; at the following prices p er stone of 81b. to sink th e o ff a l s:— 8eef...—... 3.4. Bd. to 4s. Vd. LVeal 10d. to 6s. 4d. Mutton 310 5 0 Pork 4 6 ,s The foregoing quotation s are Meet an d i n f erior Mutton Yd. per stone beneath those of this day te'nnight ; prime Mutton, Veal, and Pork, stationary.. A considerable number of Sheep and Beasts left the Market unsold. LEWES MARKET.--Feb. P. Beed 4s. Od. to4s. ed. I o be. W. muttb n f Perk '" -4 • 8 • 4 Supply modergelY Saud, aud,trade r4theVsiull... . .RKET.....Feb. 20. RUMFORD M s. d. to s. d. s. d. tam. d. Beef ' SIO 4 8 I Veal Mutton ..e 6 4 0 410 Pork 48 5 6 Suckling Calves from 14s. to 383. ; Quarter old PigslOs to les.aach. Supply limited, and trade somewhat brisk. COUNTRY CORN MARKRTS DUItING THE WEEK, Per Quarter. Blandford arigt Chard ..............,. Huntingdon Long Sutton...,.—. Louth ...:,...w...,... Wheat. s to 9 48 5.i 55 56 66 50 56 43 54 42 48 40 59 50 55 55 61 40 50 52 58 Barley S. tO S. Oats. s• to S. 21 26 25 28 - 27 32 38 30 31 Lynn . 2.: to 4. 41 44 41 24 30 22 21, 18 23 14 20 18. 23. 20 32 30 40 24 30 20 21 29 16 21 18 3s 16 24 45 41 .44 ,'4t 37 4U 34 . 36 40 I 4u 41 fig Newark Nottingham Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract,":„...;;.. Sleafbrd Eppinsham wisbech 49 • 53 52 58 40 94 25 28 22 32 30 Si 35 42 28 22 26 28 - 31 22 30 24 , 29 49 29' 49 SS la 96 a LEEDS CORN MARK 19. There tvas a moderato supply of grain at market.; Whew and Ilarley of good quality were held at rather higher price*, but the buyers would , not comply withal advance, and up to the close of the market,but little hug& ness_ done. - In Oats and Shelling there was very little doing, and prices were much the same. Beans were very dull sale at last week's quotations. Scarcely any thing do ing in Rapeseed: •._, Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b. ,to 52s York: and Lincoln. 60Ib. ' 'Oa. to Zs., Barley, Norfolk and Suffblk • - 32 s. to Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans d f••••••• ........ 631 h. ' 4% to Us. Oats,,Potatoe • 80s. to Ns. ' —--Mealing, Foreign I Id. to 12d. English 12d. to 19d. par et, Shelling - 28s. to 295. per Iced-, Rapeieed, English, 251, to WI. -Foreign, —l. to —l. per last. MANCHESTER SMITHFIELD.Feb.2B. At per lb. sinking the offid. 2,433 5heep,.,,...., Gd. to Bd. I 10 to7gd. 495 Cattle 4 7 I 210 Pigs 5 , MANCHESTER POTATOE MARKET..-.Feb. 1d Potatoes l as. Od., 4s. 64.,, and s s . 61. per l oa d of larare and. 121bs. ; Ne w ditto, Os. Od., Os. Od., and Os. per ditto Turnips. 55.6 d., 6s. Od. and 60. 6d. per load of 16 pecks; Onions,•lits. 12s. 6d., and 13s. per )2 score. MANCHESTER YAR: NO. d-. d. Throstle Twist, 20..,101 to 11 30..12 121 40...15 10 MulecopTwistl II 12 tar 40-14 15 50..17 19 60 —l9 20 70 80-26 28 HOP INT . WORCESTER, FEB. 20.- 144 pockets were weighed; ness is rather more brisk. 14 MAR' Feb 19. 30 10 to 101. 40.......11 LS 50.......14 15 60.....0.15 10 19 SO 22 04 100 20 90 _120....;. ~ ;14 10 7 S Weft tl'atn 14 8 waste 9 24 10 1 'ELLIGENCE. Mule Cop Weft.: In our market o?t Saturday prices, 80a. to 90. Huai- way to renew the bottle.—Brighton G azette. health A cleverwhen n diner-out ti . lereisno alwa ys th p e ro ta pse b o le: s it his is h a t : The following bags of letters Were stolen from c ße hi a;li pe ng a , a , m N , ewbury, Hunge ord, M ar lb orough, rf the Jost-office at Hounslow—viz,, C o l n b rook, Maiden head, A 1 Bath, Brist o l, S ta i nes, Bagshot,Fssn ,s . wini t orne , Poole, W are h am, Melksham, Devizes, Salisbury`, Shaftesbury, Sherb orn , Y eovil, Hartford -bridge , Alton, wood, Alresfordt Winchest er , S out h ampton, Ring- Basingstoke, and Andover. The ro b bery is supposed to Fern ham, Caine, have been committed by three men, who stopp e d w i t h , horse and cart at Mr. Wool:mantis, Coach and Rdriee, at the entrance of Hounslow, where they gave the horse some water and proceeded on, and were afterwards seen standing • near the Pest-office, at a quarter before six o'clock. In about ten minutes afterwards they were again seen mak ing their way for London as fast as the horse could gallop. The horse was about sixteen hands high, with a switch tail, The cart they drove was of a light blue, and resem- Med a market cart. An accurate description of the sac ,Pected Parties has been transmitted to each of the police offices. BIRTH. On the 15th inst., at the.Rqyal Barracks, Cork, the lady of !..ieut-Colonel MiOrigov, 70th Regiment, of a son. MARRIED. gowery.n the : 1 . 9th inst ., . at I:la , chyulleth Church, Matthew Davies Williami,.lEsq., of Cwmcynfelin, in the county of Cardigan, to Susannah, eldest daughter of the late S. Griffith, Esq., of Cwmrhaiad, in 'the county of Mint.. •,' . • On the 21st inst:, at Christchurch, Surrey, by the Re*. Rowland HA 111.. A., the Rev. James Parsuns,..a . .. York, to Mary, second daughter of John Wilks, Esq., of Finsbury-square. On tbe 18th inst., at Bath Cathedral, by the Rev. C. . Crook, fector, Mr. Charles Moore, of Gray's-inn-terrace) to Ann, the eldest daughter of William Killbe, Esq., of Lime-street. On the 21st i ns t : , a t St. Dunstan's in th e E ast, Ain Thomas Hooper IngraM, of Lower Thames -street, to Mar garet, eldest daughter of M. Kipling, Esq., o f t h e s teal. : iar3, Upper Thames-street. n the 21st inst. at St. Andrew's, by t h e Rey. daughter i3er‘sf°r of John il'Bamue Abernethy, lArbeuin Esq. Esq., t o Eii,abeth, see On the 19th inst., at St. Au gustine's Ch urc h , B r i stol, the Rev. •Cadell Holder , B.A. of Trinity College, Oxf or d; Gilbertond Tierney,frfourth daughter of J aco b E lton, to A n n E s q,, of Bristol. DIED. Jones, inst. at his house, in C ornmerci I I s On t he 19th inst., Thomas Jones, Esq., of the 4rm of and . Co., Long -Acre. John 11 t a -p ac , — EI, of the Customs, a W ft e e s r t India Docks, in the 70th year of his age. On the 14th inst., at Ludlow, the Rev. Thomas Hodges, the illness, i s one, P Herefordshire. On the 18th inst., at his house at Ferran', Waltham of New Radnor, and of Aston, is a 1 in his 81st year. On the 19th inst., at his house in Portland-place, after a short illness, Lieutenant-General Burr, in the 79th year of his age. rectorD Abbey,ail - Davis, Essex, John Jessopp, E s . . , On the 19th inst. George Bassi!, E sq ., of Southampton_ place, Euston-square, aged 72. On the 18th inst., at Devonport, in the 80th yea r o f his age, Mr. Joseph Rowse Pitts. On the 21st inst., Mr. J. v. Simpson, of Hewlett* , Street, Covent-garden, aged 43. On the 18th inst., in his 74th year, the Rev. E. Nortbey,, of Woodco te, near Epsom, and C anon of Windsor. ~.............:,./.....-*/ PRINTER and PUBLISHED by M. YOUNG., RA lilt SUN ()Filch (e 41; Struci. ~ ~, I // ; e d ti , k IL , C 4( V I I St vi, su}, sell Co eve •ot dis Ga Goe Ver Pitt Buc List Cha Clay Las CO( Arti , dupe UP' CM Sill CU) CAF Lao PAP F UN Hot SAL] N. I