The Sun. — London, England, 1828-10-27 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS. (YRO3I THE TIRES.) The scene at Penenden Heath on Friday, and the immediate result of it, corresponded more with the alarms of some of our contemporaries than with our own anticipations. We thought, it appears, not se. 'verely enough of the extremity of violence to which the Cumberland faction were capable of proceeding, and, to say the truth, not enough of the heedless or clumsy imbecility of those public men who call themselves Whigs and Liberal s , w h enever t h ere is a great principle to be maintained by vigorous and skilful action. We care not whom it may hit, or how bard, but we tell the prominent persons of the Whig party, that when a pinch comes, and an ar duous crisis is to be turned to account for the na tion, they arc seldom at their post : if there, instead of activity, vigilance, and union, they exhibit nothing but drowsiness, negligence, compromise, distrust, or discoed. In office, they soon take care to forfeit it, through some childish want of spirit and good sense: out of office, they leave the game at the mercy of the public enemy. As Ministers, they have secured no respect from the Crown,—es an Opposition, little confidence from the people. They must change their measures if they would save their country ; and they must begin from this moment, or all will be too late. The Kent Meeting we long ago took for granted would produce a strong sensation among the agricul tural counties, whichever way its proceedings might terminate, or whatever class of resolutions might be adopted. What could be done, was attempted by us, to impress upon the friends of civil and religious freedom the necessity of drawing together their whole force, and of combining thei r o p erat i ons , so that one and all might understand what was to be clone, that one and all might strenuously support such propositions as should be previously approved of. It so happened that these exhortations were of very partial efficacy. A few respectable individuals attended, but among them there was little concert : by their colleagues and favourers there was no ar rangement of such a nature as to defeat and expose the stage trick of the Cumberland faction, who— partly by outrageous tumult, partly by adroit ma noeuvring—took from every man whose object was an appeal to the reason or public virtue of the meet ing, the least chance of having his arguments ap preciated or of being distinctly heard. It was, on the side of public justice, a careless and scattered attendance, altogether too feeble to resist the disci tilined band of zealots, who had no prospect of suc cess but in elos'ng the ears of those who came to listen, and stifling the voices of all who ven taxed to be advocates for truth. The cry of " No Popery," then, is once m o r e the watch word of a ruthless faction in this country. If the consequences of exciting that guilty and inhu man clamour were to involve no man's welfare be yond that of the Orangemen themselves, we might be satisfied to let the spell recoil upon those who raised it; but there is an empire to be rent asunder, and a persecuted nation to be steeped in blood. These are the fruits which it requires no prophetic spirit to presage will follow from a repetition in other counties of the display of unreasoning violence exhibited in the county of Kent. The effects of the late disastrous meeting upon the hearts of thee hope-worn Irish people will be melancholy indeed. " No Popery" might have some excuse, if " Po pery" were the alternative presented to Great Bri tain ; but the incendiaries who mislead the credulity of their dependents, know well that the friends of Emancipation have numbered among them all the most eminent Englishmen of the last generation and of the present one, who have been at the same time the most powerful guardians of the Constitution hi Church and State; and if this reflection will not weigh with the unfortunate bigots who suffer them selves to be deluded by " No Popery," we pray that they may not be taught ere long to repent their obduracy in sackcloth and in ashes. (FROM THE 14ORNIN6 CHRONICLE.) The Marquis of Camden observed, at the Meet ing on Penenden Heath, " Thank God, there is now little. • party spirit in this county. The aversion to this question formerly existing in high quarters is now much assuaged. There are those about me who can correct me , 1 I am wrong, but I am quite sure that there is no foundation for supposing that the most distinguished Person in the Realm has any wish that his name should be brought forward as a barrier to the success of this question. I know this circumstance to be true, and therefore this can no longer be considered a party question ; and I believe that those on whom the greatest interests of the country depend are anxious for its adoption. I wish my Noble Friends to know that it is gaining ground in every quarter." His Lordship is too upright and candid a man to hazard opinions and assertions like these on insufficieie (Founds. We take it for grunted, on his respectanie authority, that the Mini stry are seriously bent on settling the Catholic Question for good and all. If they have core to snch a determination, they must be weak indeed if they allow themselves to be turned from their pur pose by Lord Winchelsea, Mr. Gipps, Sir Edward Knatchbull, and the Kentish boors, whom they pre vailed on to attend at Penenden Heath. We allow, that if they were looking out for the pretext, such an exhibition might be of service to them ; as a very little management might produce equally discredit able assemblages in most of the agricultural districts. But they know too well the value of such assembleges to mistake their voice for that of the influential part of the people of England, and they know, moreover. that if any disaster were to happen in Ireland, the supporters ',of Lord Winchelsea would then be of little service to them. We wish the question were fairly set at rest ; far it is a paltry way of viewing it to suppose the Catholics only are interested in concession. The man must be blind as a mole who does not see the dange r to which England will h e exposed till this source of irritation is removed. We have received from Paris a copy of the work to which our correspondent alluded some day s ag o, and we must say that it is evidently the fruit of much labour, and, we should suppose, considerabl e military skill. The object of the writer is to show the Irish how they could establish thei r o‘ indepen dence,e without the aid of any foreign G • rnment, and with what ease it could be maintained when once established. It would be as well, we think, that such a publication should not find its way among them in a period of excitement. It breathes from beginning to end a spirit of k een indignation against the Government of England, a nd displays an intimate acquaintance with all the writers who exhibit the weak points of our institutions. The folioti '- ing extract from the commencement may serve to show the spirit of the book : " Look at the -map of Great Britain and Ireland — observ e in the former the greater distances from John O'Groat's house to the Land's-end, and observe the length of the boutheru base of the triangle, and then observe the form of Ireland. The latter approaches nearer to the form of an ellipse than any other regular ferns—and to an ellipse, the conjugate axis of which is of considerable pro. portion to the transverse axis (278 miles long—lss broad). This form, with the exception of an absolute circle, i s t h e most compact to which any superfices can be reduced. /L aw the ease and rapidity with which any moveable force can be drawn f rom one given point to any other given point, in the whole isl an d —a capac i ty for - «I,,Felice, from its superficial form, which very few other produce. A military t orce far short ce, natural positions can of Ireland could produce , and that which the population and which the revenue of Ireland could Maintain, might be so stationed, that on no one part of , the coast cotild an attack be made, without the station of a native army b e _ ing formed within one or two days' march of the point of landing." We takes the imputed author, Colonel Roche Por tnoy, to be n non; de guerre. (raom THZ MO11211144.; HERALD. ) • • TIIE KING'S HEALTII.—It was truly observed by our Eton Correspondent the other day, that there are few matters relating to the Court more studiously kept from the knowledge of the public, than the oc casional indisposition of Royal perscnages. When the Queen of Wirtemberg made her last visit to this country, the Court Circular daily represented her to be in the enjoyment of " excellent health and spi rits," ,:nd that her coming here was simply a visit of affection to her Royal relatives; but, now that her Majesty is no more, it turns out that instead of being in excellent health she was extremely ill ; that her visit to England was chiefly for the purpOse of 1 obtaining medical advice; and that, in fact, she ac tually underwent several severe surgical operations during the short time she remained here. In her is star -e, therefore, the Court Circular did not merely withhold the truth, but put forth an absolute false hood—or rather a string of falsehoods; for it re peated the fib daily. Much the same crooked sort of policy is observed with respect to the King. So long as his Majesty is riding ()tit and giving audience to his Ministers the Court C'ircular informs us day by day of the fact—meagrely enough, it is true, but still it does inform us. But no sooner does his Ma jesty become indisposed, than the Court Circular either disguises the fact—by representing it as " a slight attack of the gout ;" or, when it can no longer do this, it ceases all mention of his Majesty, as though there was no such personage in existence. At the same time the most mysterious secrecy is ObEen ed by everybody connected with the Court; and the pub lic is left to guess at thetruth. Probably the courtiers think the public ought not to know that Royalty is subject to the ailments of mortal men ; or they may per haps entertain an opinion that the people have no sympathy with their Sovereign under such visita tions. Courtiers have professed such opinions before now; and, for their own sinister purposes, they have prevailed upon Sovereigns to believe and• act as though those opinions were founded in truth, —as all history doth abundantly testify. But, whatever may be the opinions or the advice of the Courtiers of the present day, we all know that Kings are not exempt from the common lot of hu manity; and we firmly believe that the great mass of the people of these realms have a sympathy with their Sovereign almost amounting to affection. At all events, they have a deep interest in his well being ; and if information is withheld from them, they will guess, and their fears will induce them to guess the worst. In the mean time the newspapers do their best - `o get at the truth, and the conflicting statements they have published during the past week only tend to prove how studiously the truth has been withheld from them, or misrepresented on purpose to bring their authority into disrepute.-- For our own part we have taken extraordinary pains to ascertain the real state of the case, and we have now no hesitation in stating the following is the truth :—His Majesty has had no symptoms of dropsy —but he has been afflicted with inflammation of the chest, brought on by remaining out too long on these cool autumnal evenings, in " the fishing temple" on Virginia Water. His Majesty has been in the habit of remaining there until nine, and some times until ten o'clock in the evening; and after wards driving to the Lodge in an open phaeton.— The inflammatory cold thus brought on, confined his Majesty to his chamber for some days, and su perinduced a very smart attack of gout, to which malady his Majesty is always more or less subject. As the inflammatory cold subsided, so also did the gout, until it was confined to his right hand. In this state he again ventured out to inspect same im provements going on at the Belvidere—a little plea sure-house overlooking Virginia 'Water, built by the late Duke of Cumberland, who was so well known in " the Forty-five." His Majesty's visit to this place brought on a return of the inflammatory symptoms, and again confined him within doors; but on Saturday last he was so much better that he would have visited the Castle had not his medical attendants prevailed upon him to remain within another day or two. It is true that his Majesty's person has been considerably reduced by the indis position; but his medical attendants, we believe, attach no consequence to that circumstance, and his Majesty himself is rather pleased with it than other wise. It is also true that his Majesty seldom ascends or descends the stairs at the Royal Lodge, otherwise than in a chair, borne by servants ; but it is said this is Hot adopted from any inability to walk, but from a fear of over-exertion. (FILO)! THE NEWS.) THE GREAT MEETING ON PEN ENDEN HEATH, ON FRIDAY.—We are much mistaken, notwithstanding its finale, if the original concocters of this meeting,— of the proceedings at which a very ample account will be found in our present number,—do not, eventu ally, bitterly repent ever thinking of it. They will soon find that they have conjured up a spirit, too powerful for them to controul ; and will become in consequence, to adopt the words of one of the songs published on Cie occasion, "crazed and amazed at their own uudertahing." In truth, these sinecurists, pensioners, well-fed parsons, &c. &c., in volunteering . to appear so prominent before the public, are acting a very silly part. They had far better enjoy their loaves and cheese-parings in silence and quiet, rather than provoke investigation, by thrusting . them in people's faces, thereby exciting that very inquiry, it sho.dd ever be their study to avoid. But the fact is, that a teeing of private interest is the impelling principle to all the recent proceedings about Bruns wick Clubs, &c. Their promoters are not such fools as not to be well aware that the Constitution would. not be endangered by the allowing their fellow subjects, the Catholics, to partake with them of its blessings—but they are apprehensive that their si necures, their pensions, their tithes, their rotten bo roughs, their lay impropriations, and the rich plura lities possessed by the members of their families would be eventually shared with the newcomers.— (" Hine jaw lacryincv." ) And we confess we can see no reason why they should not. If the nation is to be taxed to support a parcel of lazy proud scions of noble houses, it would make no difference if those taxes were given to the Howards—the Talhots— the Petres, and the Arundells, in fair division with the Clintons—the Finchs—the Bexleys, and the Kenyons. As The Kent Herald justly observes, to call things by their right names, " No Popery," with the Ultras , " means, the inviolability of abuses, the security of the Tithe System, the monopoly of power by the Tory faction, the stifling of liberty, the hazard of bloodshed, the danger of civil war and of the ' perpetrations of all hinds of horrors and atrocities ! . 1 ” Now we confess we can see nothing AO peculiarly perfect in the discipline of our Church or in the practice of its Chief Ministers (see our seventh page) as to risk all these evils merely that certain well-fed parsons and bloated sinecurists may be freed from their fears, lest the Catholics should share with them the spoils of the people. We cannot dismiss this subject without remarking on the impolicy of the Government, thus suffering the ties of friendship and relationship to be torn asunder, and the nation di vided into numerous and hostile parties, on a con troversial topic, which one word would settle down into undistu.Thcd tranquillity.' It cannot be to the interest of any Monarch that his people should be divided, especially on polemical points, which have in ail ages engendered the most rancorous animosity. o n e would have thought that the distracted and convulsed state of Ireland, would have served as a warn ing,to Ministers to have prevented the epidemy from extending to this country. (PROM THE SUNDAY nEam.n.) The Kent Meeting, to , ,theatt e attention report o a r l t i parties has been arreste d durin g the last week, has taßen place, and an a mplc, h abridged, of it will be found in another part of our paper. The speech of Mr. Shed is given word for word as h e spoke it ; and its argument and eloquence have, since it appeared, been the theme of conversatio n and admiration in every quarter, and among all classes. The question of Catholic Emancipation, it will be seen, has been floored, so far as the Kent fleeting is concerned ; but we do not see that i;s decision is likely to produce any extraordinary influence on the decisions of other counties. The Petition, which Was moved to be presented, %vas evidently a moderate one ; and being moderate, disarmed, in some measure the hostility of those who do not consider Catholic Emancipation as absolutely necessary to the pacifica tion of Ireland ; but even with ail this advantage on the side of the Brunswickers, the resolution was only carried by a small majority, and we have beard many assert that if the numbers on each side had been ac curately reckoned, those who advocated Emancipa t ion would have gained the victory. At all events, the glory on the part of the Brunswickers was not of such a decided cast ac to encourage similar under takings elsewhere ; and even if they are Made, there is reason to believe that the experience which the Liberals have now got, will teach thetti the necessity both of making better arrangements, and of mus. tering in greater force. In the former respect the Brunswickers had evidently a most decided ad vantage on Friday. What the effect of the carrying of the R'esoluticirt on Friday will have on the people of Ireland remains to be seen. We trust that they have sufficient good sense, not to consider the resolution of the Kent Meeting as synonimous with the resolution of the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain--th e on ly l eg islative authority; and that taking p ru d ence f or t h e i r g uide, they will w a it w i t h patience the result of its deliberations. The Go rernment has evidently Fome measure in store for their relief ; and any manifestation of violence on their part would only tend to weaken its exertions in their behalf. Of the nature of that measure we know nothing certain ; for the Government is still as mysterious on the subject as it has hitherto been on every other; but the following extract from an Irish paper seems to he founded on authority, and confirmed by the conduct of several Members of the Administration. " It is generally understood, and we suspect truly, that his Majesty's Cabinet have in em bryo, for the sanction of Parliament next year, a Bill to ameliorate the present political circumstances of Ire land. Its object is sufficiently intelligible; the basis and conditions we understand to be comprised in the annexed brief summary :—The Catholic Asso ciation, as an indispensable preliminary, to be utterly abolished, and penalties to prevent its revival. Any Magistrate who attends a meeting. under that guise to be struck out of the commission, and any News paper publishing their proceedings to be deprived of its license. The complete repeal of the 40s. free hold franchise, and the qualifications of voters limit ed to the nzininzum of '2Ol. The election of Bishops to be made without reference to the Pope, but sanc tioned by the King; the appointment of Parish Priests to rest equally in the Bishop of the diocese and the parishioners—a Governor of the county to recommend candidates, whe are also to meet the ap proval of the Lord Lieutenant. Finally, the Roman Catholic Clergy and higher and inferior class, :1-e to derive their emoluments as such exclusively from the revenues of the State. We offer the above outline generally, merely with this commentary—that Go vernment are determined to legislate for the neces sities of the subject, without consulting the violent or intemperate of any party."—( From the Limerick Chronicle.) FROM. THE JOHN BULL ) Whatever our opinion upon popular meetings in general may be, we cannot conceal our gratification at the decided result of the assembly of Freeholders on Penenden Heath—even the radical writers con fess that their partisans and paymasters are sad, sore, and sorry at the total failure of all their puny efforts at disturbance, and at the unqualified and triumphant manner in which the voice of the opulent and in fluential county of Kent has been raised against any farther concessions to the Papists. Messrs. Cob bett, Hunt, and Shiel, specially freeholders on this particular occasion, made speeches, which were re ceived with yells and hootings ; so decidedly adverse was the meeting to hearing the professional spouters. Lord Radnor, better known as the Lord Folkestone who picked strawberries until dark, and tumbled into a ditch getting home from Westbourn-place, eulogized Mr. Cobbett; and that exemplary, ho nourable, right honourable nobleman, Lord Teynham, advocated the claims of the Roman Catholics. The Marquess of Camden too, spoke of conciliation and the necessity of tranquillizing , Ireland by admitting Papists to power, his Lordship having been Lord Lieutenant of that kingdom during the rebellious times of the United Irishmen, and threatened by the patriot Fox with something like an impeachment for the tyranny and oppression of the measures of his government. Theory and practice are widely dif ferent things, and the Lord Lieutenant on the Vice- Regal Throne of Ireland found it quite necessary to adopt measures which the Teller of the Exchequer speechifying in a waggon at Penenden Heath found it excessively agreeable to censure and disapprove of. The populace were not remarkably civil to Lord Teynham, nor over courteous to Cobbett, nor mo derately decent towards Hunt; and as for Mr. Shiel, if he could write tragedy half as well as he acted farce, or produce tears in a theatre proportionate to the shrieks of laughter he excited on the Heath, he would bid fair to rival Shakspeare himself. Nothing could be more ludicrous than his performance—what he said, can only be gathered from a very long re port of a speech, written, we presume, by the orator himself, which appears in some of the low London Papers. When the proceedings terminated, God save the King was played by the band which was in attendance, and chaunted by the voices of thousands; and thus the' day closed upon a meeting of the highest importance, conducted in the most manly and spirited manner, and terminated with the most satis factory possible result. (FROM THE ATLAS.) The great Kent Meeting of Friday has excited an extraordinary sensation in the public mind. We confess we do not invest it with that importance which many of our contemporaries have attached to it. There is no peculiarity in the constitution of the " Men of Kent" that raises their opinions, one way or the other, above the sound judgment of the rest of England ; and it is of minor consequence in the history of the Catholic question, whether a tumid tuous majority was obtained in favour of toleration or of Brunswick clubs. The only distinction that can be claimed for Kent is on the score of prece dency. Kent is the first county that has declared its sentiments, and those sentiments were gathered at an assemblage where nine-tenths of the people present did not hear one word of the petition read by Mr. Gipps, and voted by the instinct of associa tion rather than upon principle. The same argu ment would apply if the decision had been upon the other side—consequently the result is not of any great value as an expression of public opinion. We have avoided interpolating our report with the in cessant conflict of cheers and hisses that interrupted the progress of the speakers on both sides; we have rather endeavoured to give a candid and intelligible transcript of the speeches, collated carefully from all the public journals, and perfectly unbiassed by party prejudice. The most interesting incident of the day was the appearance of Dr. Doyle and Mr. Sheil : but by far the most important passage in the entire proceedings was an expression which fell from the Marquis of Camden, who apart from all considera tion of his political opinions, has practically proved the extent of his public virtue by the voluntary sa crifice of a large sinectire which he held under the Crown. It will be remembered, that previously to the Union the Marquis of Camden was Lord Lieu tenant of Ireland; and it appears from his speech that his Lordship understood from the Minister of the day, Mr. Pitt, either in direct terms, or indirect terms that justified the inference, that Catholic Emancipation was pledged to the Irish nation as the condition of the surrender of her independent Par liament.* If this be the case, argument is at end —England cannot defend a broken promise even by the logic of an apprehensive Cabinet. * This fact appears more distinctly in the speech of Lord Teynham. The Vice-Regal festivities commenced at the PlicsoixPsrk on Monday. His Excellency the Lord Lieu tenant gave u splendid dinner entertainment to a select party ; the tables were filled with the most costly viands and wines of the richest quality. Among the distinguished persons present, in audition to his Excellency's numerous family, were the following: —The Loan CHANCELLOR, the Duke of LEINsTER, the Earl and Countess of EurtoL, Lord and Lady F. L. Gowan, Sir J. 131 No, Commander of the F orces ; Lord FORBES, Lard G. HILL, A.D.C. in wait ing; the Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, Col. GRANT (Guards), Colonel JODDRELL (Guards) ; Colonels GoesKrr, THORNIIILL, and CONI4OLLY; Messrs. GasvILLE, LirrtrioN, and 0. GORE. His Excellency is in the en joyment of perfect health.—Dtcblix Freeman's Journal, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. ErdittEgLEMENTi—On Saturday Charles Todd, was charged with embezzling tarintis sums of money, received by hith on account of his erriplciyers, Met Pickford and Co:, the carriers and wharfingers in the City-road. Mr. Zachary Langton, one of the above firm, stated that the prisoner had been several years in their employ as a soliciting clerk, and received a es , lary of '2OO/. per annum. It was his duty daily to enter an account of all monies he received in the cash-book, and to pay the amount over to the cashier the same evening. On the 20th of August he re ceived the sum of 101. 16s. 6d. from a Mr. Croker, which he Isad not entered in the cash-book, or in any way accounted for it. Mr. Croker, a warehouseman, in Watling-street, stated, that on the 20th August he paid the prisoner the above sum. He gave him a 30/. note, and re ceived the difference from him. Mr. Dawhurst, the prosecutor's cashier, proved that the prisoner had never accounted to him for the money. Mr. Langton said he had several other similar charges to make. The prisoner was remanded for a week, to give the prosecutors time to make further inquiries. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. APPLICATION FOR A WIFH--On Saturday, dur ing the hours of business, a respectable elderly-look ing man advanced up to the Magistrates' table, and stated he wished for advice how to act under very distressing circumstances. Mr. DYER—You had better state the nature of your business. Applicant—About two years ago I went out in a situation in one of the East India Company's vessels to China, and the Moluccas ; on my going out I resided in Devonshire with my wife, and for whose support I left upwards of 30!. Upon my coming back, I went down to my home, expecting to find her, but she was gone, and on inquiry I found that she had eloped with a fellow to London, who is now a watchman of St. George's parish. Mr. DYER—What do you want me to do ? Ap plicant--.I want you to assist me in getting her back ; for, besides taking every thing from me, she is now living in a rtate of prostitution to assist in supporting him. Mr. DYER— I have no power to get her back for yon. Applicant—lt is a very hard case for me to find, instead of having a comfortable home on my return from a long voyage, my wife living with a worthless fellow. Mr. DYER—As regards the felony, it is out of the power of a magistrate to give you any redress, for your wife cannot commit one ; and as for the great moral offence which she has been guilty of, no ma gistrate can interfere with it. He was then asked if the gallant had committed any breach of the peace an him, when he replied in the negative. Finding, however, that it was out of the power of a magistrate to assist him, he left the office with the determination of laying a complaint before the Watch Committee against the destroyer of his conjugal happiness. After the examination of Matthew Riley, the young man who was originally charged with having attempted to shoot Mr. M‘Gowan, the landlord of the Star and Goat, Pall-mall, and subsequently for forgery, Poulson, the gaoler of Tothill-fields, was directed in the evening to take him down to the prison, when he, to prevent an unnecessary exposure of Riley, took him through St. James's-park. Whilst going along Riley again observed that his days were numbered, when Poulson, to keep up his spirits, bid him not gave way to such ideas. Dur ing this conversation he observed his prisoner to be very busily engaged with his hands in his pockets, and suddenly raised his right hand up towards his breast. The quickness of the action engaged Poul son's attention, and observing something to shine in his hand, he seized it. It was with considerable difficulty that he could force open the prisoner's hand. On succeeding he found the prisoner had secreted a clasp-knife about his person, which he had opened. He then declared to Poulson that it was his determination to have killed himself, and he was a fool for not doing it before, for his days were fixed, and it would be much better to do that than to die in the way he should have to do. On arrival at the prison he underwent a strict search, and every thing which was likely to assist him in attempting self-destruction has been carefully placed out of his way. UNION-HALL. Some days ago a James Barrait, a private be longing to the ]loyal African Colonial Corps, gave himself up as a deserter to one of the constables of Peckham, who brought him to this office. In the presence of the magistrate, Mr. Horse, he acknow ledged that he had deserted from the above regi ment, and assigned as a reason for that breach of Ow Articles of War, the terror and apprehension pro duced on his mind by witnessing the number of his comrades that were constantly dying from the pesti lential nature of the climate of Sierra Leone; he had, he said, received orders while in that colony[to hold himself in readinesss to embark for Fernando Po, and having heard that the climate in that new settlement was equally as unhealthy as that which carried off so many of his comrades, he, and four other men belonging to the African Corps, availed themselves of the offer of the master of the Diadem, who induced them to leave the colony, saying, " that he (the master of the vessel) would receive them on board, all his men with the ex ception of three, having died while on that station, and promising to pay them 41. each on their arrival in England.' Under these circumstances, Barrett and his four comrades deserted, and assisted in working the vessel home. On the arrival of the ship in port, according to Barratt's statement, the master of the Diadem behaved in the most ungrate- I ful and cruel manner to those unfortunate fellows, but for whom he would not have been enabled to quit Sierra Leone for a considerable time. The moment of the vessel's arrival, the master sent Bar rett and the other men adrift, without giving them a farthing for their exertions on the passage, and threatening to give them in custody as deserters if they attempted to make any noise about the matter. The men then proceeded inland, and failing to obtain work, they separated, and Barratt came to town and delivered himself up as a deserter. Mr. Horse, under all the circumstances, committed him to the county gaol, until a communication should be made to the Secretary at War. Barrett has re mained in prison ever since, living on the gaol al lowance, and complains much of short rations, de claring that, bad as Sierra is, he should prefer join ing his regiment again to his remaining in his present quarters. In reply to Mr. Hone's statement of the case, the Secretary at War.has written to the Magistrate, re questing that he would fully investigate the Cl/ cum stances relative to the man's desertion, and ascerta!n whether there is any truth in Barratt's assertion as to the conduct o f t h e master o f the Diadem; the Magistrate, i n compliance with the request, has again examined th e d eserter , w h o affirms his account to be correct, ands statement to the above effect has been transmitted to the Secretary at War, who, we understand, has issued directions to discover the master of the Diadem, in order that his conduct on the above occasion should be sifted, and punishment awarded if the deserter's account be substantiated. It is stated that Mrs. LEGH, late Miss TUR NER, whose affair with Mr. E. G. WAKEFIELD B°Me time ago excited such painful interest, is likely to give a lair to the ancient house of Lyme.—Chester Chronicle. That stupendous work of art, the canal tunnel, under Standedge, between Huddersfield and Manchester, extends under ground upwards of three miles, and is t2O yards below the surface. The length of the voyage through the tunnel and back again is six miles and a half. —Manchester Herald. LAW INTELLIGENCE: COURT OF KINGI; BEr4CII. LONGMAN AND OTHERS V. SIG PETER ANTS (y kiE RI This was an action to recover damages sestained•l by the plaintiffs to the amount of upwards of 19,000/., in consequence of the ,alleged Jnisconduct of the de feeder) ts. Sir JAMES SC.OLEtt stated the ease. The plain tiffs were Messrs. Longman; Rees, Brown, Green, and Ogres, Who were well known as booksellers in PaternosterstoW. It was a house which had been long established, and was one of extensive costnexione, and of great stability and affluence. The defendants were partners in the late firm of Sir Peter Pole and Co., bankere, in the city ; lied the action was brought to recover a considerable sum of r.oney for damages, to which they had been subjected on account of improper conduct of the defendants, who had con spired with one of the plaintiffs' late partners to de ceive the other partners of the house. There were many injuries which, by the misconduct of others, a party might sustain, and for which no legal reparatien could be obtained, though it was a maxim in our law that there was " no wrong without a remedy." In the present case, it was clear that a great wrong had been done to the plaintiffs, and he trusted that the law would extend to it, and en able the jury to award to the plaintiffs an ample corn pensation in damages. He would now lay before them a short narrative of the facts, without making any observations upon the law as applicable to there, and when they had heard the case, he was quite sere, whatever might be the law on the subject, that they would entertain no doubt that the plaintiffs had been most cruelly used. The plaintiffs were formerly connected in partnership with a Mr. Thos. Hurst. That gentleman, after having been for many years a member of their firm, formed a connection with a brother of his, Mr. John Hurst, and a Mr. Robinson, who were carrying on business under the firm ef Hurst, Robinson, and Co. Those gentlemen succeeded Mr. Alderman Boydell in his business of print-selling; and, after some time, they established an agency with Messrs. Constable and Co., for the sale of the works of the celebrated author of Waverly, and they had art agency also with a Mr. Jennings. Having procured considerable assistance in bills, Hurst and Robinson were led to extend their trade beyond their capital, and, after cor :hating their business for some time, their stability a. length be came doubtful. In 1826 they stopped payment. — Shortly before that period they were hard pressed, and had occasion to avail themselves of the credit of Mr. Thos. Hurst, to a considerable amount. Of this fact, however, the plaintiffs were ignorant. They had, indeed, observed that Mr. Thomas Hurst had lent himself to their new establishment, but they had no idea that he had plunged himself into pecuniary difficulties on their account. The house of Longman and Co. had for many years kept their banking account at the defendant's house, and the defendants had always considered them to be what they really were—persons of good credit and 're spectability. In the course of the transactions with the defendants, Mr. Thomas Hurst had raised money to a considerable amount for the firm of Hurst, Ro binson, and Co. The defendants discounted bills for him to a great extent, and at one time they bad ac commodated him to the amount of about 90,0001. — Most of the bills which he drew were in the name of Longman and Co. The defendants kept a pass bsok, in which were, or rather ought to have been, entered all the acceptances which they paid for the house of Longman; and this book was regularly sent to the house of Longman, who cashier, Mr. Angus, entered the bums in another book kept by themselves, which was intended to form a check on the defendants' pass-book. Mr. They. Hurst wishing to conceal from his co-partners the nature and extent of his bill transactions on account of the new firm of Hurst, Robinson, and Co., applied to Mr. Angus, who -was in the habit of drawing bills for the plaintiffieeeem, and requested that he would draw certain bills, and not enter them in the cheque-book; and Mr. Thomas Hurst being a principal partner in the house, the cashier thought it right, in the first instance, to obey his drections ; but the application being repeated, he declined to continue such a course of proceeding without the sanction of the other partners, though, at the same time, he never knew or suspected that there was the least wrong done, or intended to be done, by Mr. Hurst, or that he was acting in any way improperly, though he knew that he had connected himself with the firm of Hurst, Robinson, and Co. Mr. Hurst, however, succeeded in his object of getting the bills discounted. One of them was a bill for 2,500/., drawn by a person of the name of Kilmingtore a wine-merchant, at 18 months' date. It was taken to a bill-broker to get discounted. The broker was surprised to see a bill at such a long date drawn upon the plaintiffs' house, and suspected it to be a forgery ; and therefore, before he discounted it, he thought it right to make some inquiries respecting it. The result of those inquiries was, that he was satisfied that the bill was drawn by one of the part ners of the house of Longman and Coe—namely, Mr. Teemas Hurst ; and on inquiry at the de fendants' banking-house on the subject, he was told that the bill was a perfectly safe and good one. The broker, therefore, upon this assurance,_ got the bill discounted. Now it was the duty of the defendants, as the bankers of Messrs. Longman and Co., to make entries in the pass bock of all the accept ances which they had paid on account of the firm.; but this bill which was paid by them never found its way into the pass-book ; and it would appear by the evidence to be adduced, that the defendants' clear ing clerk received express directions from one of the partners, Mr. Down, not to make any entry of it in Messrs. Longmans' general account; but merely to enter it in the private ledger, or note book, which was kept in the private room of the defendants. In this particular instance the bill was carried to the account of Mr. Thomas Hurst, the clerk being in. formed that that gentleman bad lodged the money to take it up. Mr. Hurst, however, had no private cash- account at the defendants' house : he had, in deed, an account which was called the discount ac count, the defendants having discounted bills for him to a very large amount, and he was at that time their debtor. The transaction respecting the 2,5001. hill took place in November, 1825. Some time after wards, a bill for 1,6001. was presented at the de fendants' clearing house for payment by a clerk of the Bank of England. That was a bill accepted by Mr. Thomas Hurst in the name of Messrs. Long man. It was paid by the defendants, but net entered in the puss book, nor returned to the plaintiffs' house. A third bill, for 3,0001., was presented and paid; but no entry of it was made in the pass-book. Ono of the bills had the endorsement of Hurst, Robinson, ane Co. upon it, so that the defendants were per fectly aware that they *ere discounting it for the firm of Hurst, Robinson, and Co., and not for the house of Longman. The defendants' clearing clerk, according to the direction of Mr. Down, entered the two bills of 2,5001. and 1,6001. in the private note book, and not in the passebook, and delivered the bills to Mr. Down; so• that by this means the trans actions were effectually kept from the knowledge of the plaintiffs. The object of this course of proceed ing was obvious; for if these bill transactions had been entered in the pass-book in the usual way, th e practices of Mr. Hurst would have been discovered by his partners, and his credit would have been dee stroyed. The Jury would now see in what way the plaintiffs had been damnified. lii November, 1825, Mr. Thomas Hurst stated to his partners that he was desirous of withdrawing a part of his capital from the concern. Accordingly, a sum of 10,0001. was paid to him ; and afterwards, on its being determined that he should retire from the partnership, he received a further sum of 37,000/. This took place on the Isteof December, 1825, at the very time when Mr. Hurst and the defendants were studiously concealing the bill transactions from the knowledge of the plain tiffs. They, never dreaming of such practice, had paid 47,0001. out to Mr. Hurst, and never discovered it till the house of Hurst,Robinson, and Co. became bankrupts, in the beginning of January, 1826, and Thomas Hurst, who had joined that house, had be- / t Virsi ttr l come a bankrupt along with them. I discovered that Thomas Hurst had acceptel Iyaids of 19,0001, in the name of the firm, of od i hf.y knew nothing, but which they were col o pt to pay, after Hurst had withdrawn his capital', ~ rendered it impossible for them to avail thatss th it ; `----... of that in their own exoneration. They sow Ag it .11 EN how the matter stood. The defendants had a 7 10 14 interest in the preservation of the credit of ilf tipi f C.M Hurst, and the Jury would easily tuiderstain,, le 14i 1 ,11 they had entered into this conspiracy with ht' s q 41 ,4 s , conceal his transactions from his partners. Thil . „4 , v i , t discounted for him to the amount of 90, 01 7 4 Of kie n cl sum which they might lose unless the ergot; ej, Shinn Hurst was continued. In consequence of this Pt• ; 4 kr I ing on the part of the defendants, the plaint SUM of 19,3421. 9s. sd.—a loss which they w i i pp t, have avoided, had it net been for this fau n . 0 0 VA transaction. This was the stun which 04" '; ort T 1 sought to recover from the defendants. I /I' _a it'LLI ' John Angus, examined by Mr. BnouGmt•l', l • ' Ora -litvi clerk of the plaintiffs. Mr. Thomas Hurst 7;4 ' 0 k . I , r ii partner with them in 1824 and 1825. 18e jr' '11; 1 4„ ~I cashier. I did not enter the bills accepted bl` 4 lll l „4ij i ,, Hurst in the name of the firm. I was instruct's:4i i'llA r Mr. Huist not to bring them into the books n r ` t yo,:kai house. I believe Mr. Brown did not know P l ye gent. concealment: The books put into my hands O s pi ko bankers' pass-book sad our cheque-book. Therl„,,,d P. several entries in the pass-book which, by de L FI R Mr. Hurst, were omitted in the cheque-bonk• Ate Millo, the 14th of October, 1825, Mr. Hurst delivered. , u, 2 .,:_e 5,5001., and desired me to send it to the de r rel ','(.‘ , ants' i t:linking-house for the purpose of beingsPS4( ;N: 1 . 1 ...', pa i . ment of two bills of 3,0001. and 2, 2 ;e1 '., qt zest I made no entry of that t to e a w a to nd th a e t his re O lt t /tial tion in the cheque-:.'wk• The plaintiffs, frolo,,,ya ,:l'iro to time, saw the iik ,;:s-book when it_ . ,oi t F , cheque.;hook, but they were I'v e ; O f N N the habit of looking at the from the bankers. Mr. Hurst app quent to the 14th of October, not to make en. .d 0 : 4 4% ; certain sums in the cheque-book, but I declirg ~ I comply with his request. p ot Cross-examined by Mr. OURNIIY—DO I° l bef know from one or other of the plaintiffs, that.-,e discovered entries in the pass-book of bills draO tp f i,;:'d to mes ri ' ej or v e i l : Mr. Hurst on the general account, to the anco nt apc l• 38,0001. or some other large sum, and tbst ° entries did not appear in the cheque-book ? ~,t• Witness—l know that they discovered eat"' a large amount, but I do not recollect the 5unt..,,,, Mr. Robert Pole, examined by Mr. CAMPO°:" In December, 1825, I was a clerk in the slefenT:4 house. I used to pay the clearing. At the nit end of October, Mr. Down, one of the parto: the defendants' house, told me that a bill on J'' l 4 . „ e man's for 2,5001. would come in on the follr day; and he desired me to pay it, and pat 1 !_, I He said the money for it had been paid in • no was to make Mr. Thom a s H urs t debtor. in; take it out of Longman's general account, and 811 ,l it in the note•b oo k. I to ld M r . D own th, l 'i l l thought this r a th er an o dd transact i on , any said it was. The bill came in on the follo l o, day. I paid it, and made an entry i n ill note-book, making Mr. Thomas Hurst debtor fe l ; About a fortnight after this time, Mr. Down t 0 1 me to pay another bill of 2,500/. of Longman's , r ? to deliver it to him; a nd h e d es i re d me to e"t e .„ o l in the note-book a s b e for e . Thi s s econ d bill - l e paid the 4th of November, and entered in the II!, book, and not in the pass-book. In the note li t o Mr. Thomas Hurst had credit on the 3d Novel for 4,1001. That sum paid as the followingY' ) bill for 2,5001., and on the sth a kill for 1, toi which had been discounted by the Bank of Boil p t and therefore did not come into our house. l i o served to Mr. Do 411 that this transaction 81 00 4 " rather odd." All payments of bills on the !al tiffs' general account ought to have been e nters° the pass-book according to the usual custom. i f Cross-examined by Mr. F. PoLLocx-,--Last $1 nuary, Mr. Greene, one of the plaintiffs, call 3 tur our house . He told me that he and th e ot h er P wr tiffs had paid bills accepted by Mr. Thomas.l l o s in the name of the fi r m, t o t h e amoun t 'of 38, 4 with which they bad nothing to do, though eitti l d l of them had been made in th e p ass -book. I a d' him, how it happened that he had not discovetjl before. He said, he did not try the different lt:e„, or examine the vouchers ; he tried only the bal e 0' and that corresponded with the cashier's clito book. The omission of the items spoken of,ire affect the sum total, but not the balance- el • pass-book was sent to the plaintiffs about 011 A to fortnight; one or other of the young men us ed come for it; all otei.elerks bad access to it. .or. After further . evidence had. been adduced , . f i, ll GunieEr replied for the defendant s , f or who'' s. aletv minutes, the Jury found a verdict. r i p ) 4d ,A 443 the c A rra 01: 1 ATE at] a, t l44 ite ktrp!, 4 g t ' 4,144 G ,115uu Ot r" 7 17 It * A,7'th ,;t4 e SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. FRIDAY, OCT. 24.—Wind S.—High water 2 0 311 5 past ten.—Arrived the William Byrnes, Haarettigi ß ij New York ; Liverpool, Howes, from &Rion ; Ot t ai Wright, from Maranham ; Ri fl eman, Gibson, from '' o o Sr. Lucia, Rawling, from St. Lucia ; Alfred, Rees , 1. 0 1 Havre de Grace ; Floravilla, kitephenson, from Li ca 16nion, from Limerick. fldf CLEARED OUTWARDS.—The Christiana Vost for Antwerp ; Rokeby, Sampson, for Charleston ; CPS dente, Wilson, for Gibraltar ; James Holmes, Krreo" Isle of Man. SATURDAY, OCT. 2 5 S. S.E.—Arril 7,10 i Rolla, Gordon, from Nassau ; Ark, Sewell, from _., 1 -"'-pt Mary and Jane, Itlntelies, from Quebec; Hope, 1 110 '00 from Prince Edward'r. Island ; Emerald, John's ; Ardent, Dennis, from Miramichi ; Eliza, 1.11 " from Kiliough. CLEAR ED ODT WARDS.---Enigheten, Schenstroo.o,o, Elsinenr ; Jessie, C a nnon, for Ramsay ; Jane, Ho r e for New Orleans; Roman, Gazelle, for New York; fof rachnte, Brunton, for Virginia; aemenee, De 111 0i 'j d P Antwerp ; Dale, Hobson, for New Orleans; Hall, ~, for Jamaica; Agnes, Digby, for Trinidad; William eon, White, far New Orleans; Robert Stewart, Cry '' I)onglas ; Henriette, —, for Elsineur ; Saguenay,' mins, for Monte Video. D' r tali 'the ~ 1 11P; l ei ~~~ til pBW 4 41 tit .4 t.rti v • , MARRIED. 08 rthu On the 25th inst., at St. Sepulchre's Chnrcb,z!, o o k t ,c t r i Rev. J. W. Worthington, Mr. Ch ar l es Ri ng , of Vg Commons, and Streathain, Surrey, to Mary, yoi' O k al d a ught er o f th e l ate M r . W. D av i es , o f Gilt e p ur - e trev i ' o bo On the 24th i ns t. a t Thame s Ditt on Aurelio No It Broadhurst, Esq., of Foster-hall, Derbyshire, to thz I.lenrietta Mabel, daughter of Lord Henry Finegec Baroness de Ross. , 0 0 49 On the 23d inst. at Ecelea-hall, Samuel Vera Esq. of Stamford-hall, Nottinghamshire, to CA' ( 1: 1 :1 , t1 second daughter of the late Philip Hammond, 0 4. t ' Westarre, Highhonst, Norfolk. Ae T 0 4 ° On the 15th inst., at Llanbddam, Cardigan, A. •- e o, Esq., of Weymouth, to Letitia Frances Henry, cot e(' 4 4 4 daughter of Sir R. T. Ri c k e tt s , o f Th e El ms , Glop Bart. Gooe At Plumbetead, Kent, William Webb, Lgq, of . 0 10 Nngent, Longford, to Sophia Frances, only datighs4r Si Rev. Dr. Watson, rector of Gravesend, and of the 'n u e James Watson, one of the Judges of the Soprenie Caleutk. DIED. • On the 24th inst. at her house in Union-streetr__ : l l ford, in the 85th year of her age, Mrs. Ann Walt of Lieutenant Brady, R.N. On the 26th Sept. at Gibraltar, of tbensatignant fe Lieut. S. A. George Osborn, of the 94th.ltegitrient• I Ott the 18th inst., at Halesworth, in Sdffolk, io the year of his age, Mr. Robert Goetlen White, upwards 0 " years a solicitor of that place. .... On the 24th inst. Aged '72, George Henderson, -"Tr Little Maddox-street. On the 234 inst. at Clapton, aged 24, Caroline, &tie of Alexander Hutchinsoo, Re q . On the 24th inst., at her eon's residence, in 6* street, Fiteroy-square, Mrs. Kersey, after a long and FT ful illness. On the 23d inst., at Brighton, Alfred Charles, r 2O- " son of John Elmslie, Esq., of Windsor. l o tei On the 26th inst., at Hackney, Mrs. Mary liito`a,ett relict of the late Mr. Thomas Meadows, of Prinoe'r- 6 " ; Spitalfields, in the 77th year of her age. On the 24th inst., Mr. Samuel Kell, builder, 0 - Lion-street, Holborn, aged 66. Pairrtwo and Puntassate by WIRD° YOLINOtsg. k 404 of \ V: 6ti 11 4t(411 : ll f 11' Strti Orr its, 112, STA A 110, LOVIXii4.