The Sun. — London, England, 1828-08-18 00:00:00

Jews Sheuld' be excluded. Ent would . you admit the Jews, it w ill per h aps b e as Red, and continue to exclude the Catholics ? We say yes, for this simple reason—the Jews can give us an undivided alle giance —the Catholiesnrc.: l tt4Aohjeco N f : a jp f cign Potentate. The l o y a l ty o f t h e J ews never has been questioned here, and rarely in any kingdom in Europe. The loyalty of the Catholics never can be above susoicion while they continue to be under foreign influence. Besides, the Jews suffer hard ships from which the Catholics are now absolved. They cannot hold lauded property—they are therefore, by the laws themselves, prevented from possessing those ties which always strengthen the affection of a landowner to his native soil. It may be said, however, that the Jews are tin exclusive sect—that they mingle not with other sects-=that they do not amalgamate with those feel ings and interests which render the body corporate compact. All this may be true, but are we not the authors of many of those non-affmities ourselves ? Moreover, they are not a more exclusive sect than the Quakers, and certainly their doctrines are little less repugnant to our Christian dispensation than those of Unitarianism. The Jews et twilled Christ, our Saviour, 'the Son of God—the I Tnitarians ex culpate them of any other crime than the execution Of a man whom they deemed an agitator. These points, however, would better not be mooted at the meeting. Its object should be to make the public better acquainted with the laws which press most sorely and vexatiously or invidiously upon them. And having thus gradually brought the public to a sense of their claims, they should come forward calmly before the Legislature as petitioners for a mi tigation of these hardships. They must not ask too much at first; but having made their case known, and taken care that their grievances be not forgotten, they should leave the rest .to the justice of Parlia ment. This is our view of the case, but we speak our own opinions alone. SUNDAY PAPERS, (FRO3I rUE NiEws.,) acrLectiolNs St:GOESTED DT THE TRIAL AND zxrcurioN or CORDER. AS THE NATIONAL yezwic IS RAGANUED. `• Murder though it hath no tongue, ♦Vill speak with most miraculous organ." It is a proverb with other nations • that there are no people so fond. of a " good bloody murder" as the English. It is perhaps the only means by which all minds can be turned undivided on omme solitaty subject. This peculiar anxiety cannot be traced to any particular tenderness of human life; for wd fro quently hear of explosions in coal mines, where twenty people are destroyed in a moment, and treble that number left as orphans in an uncharitable world ; and yet you shall find the meat momentary interest but partially excited ;--e-to say nothing of die scientific destruction effected by war,_ in which a battle is scar ce d eeme d wort h reading of unless som e ten or twenty thousand persons have on each side been sent to their heal wept:tut. So squeamish were the newspapers in the days of Buoneparte, that in the common detail of military operations, they never dwelt on any thing less than a regular battle. It was a wretched postscript that stopt to record a sacrifice of less than five or six thousand persons ; with a proper - ga rn i s h o f sac k e d towns an d flaming temples. The more civilized States have been always remarkable for a liability to extreme excitement, from morally incon siderable causes. The annals of Greece and of Rome, as well as those of modern nations, furnish us with abundant instances where the fate of ob scure individuals led to the 11105 t outrageous rebel lions ; or to sanguinary wars that changed the des. tiny of empires. The pOor that perish itich-ineal, by the lingering death of starvatietm, or the crowds that die desolate and broken-hex;ted under the crush ing hand of all-ruinous Law, or of monstrous oppres sion,—call forth no portion of the public sympathy ; it doee not take. There is no outcry—no grind stage ogees; no parading of executioners, with night caps to cover 'convulsed face:; ; and hempen cords for strangulation ; no psalm-singing Parsons, devot ing all their anxiety of mind for the comfort of a wretch that is just going to be throttled, in a grand scenic exhibition, where there is a gratuitous admis sion to John Bull and his Wife and family. The . Trial and Execution of Corder, with the previous Courtship, the Murder, the. Barn, and the Burial— hisMarriage With an advertised-fur wife, &c.—ac companied as the story troeS by carious well-disece:ed theatrical i ncidents,—p a rti cu l ar l y t h e se d uce d f a i r, one in mens clothes ; the reticule of loaded pistols ; with the Lo ver turned Sexton and Workman. All this we say combined.; and rend off as au exordium ex traordinary by all the newspapers of the United Kingdom, —introductory of " the last scene rf all," —the Herothe Gallows—and the Deputy. Sheri —formed a practical novel or " romance of Real Life," that beats any thing in Walter Scott, hollow. Name to any one of the twenty millions of people that Were reading, hearing, talking, thinking of and about this same William Corder,—ahat hanging is a very grievous and insulting death ; that " it is a dreadful thing to die," &e.; and you will scarce find it single chord in the whole national mind that would respond to any feeling that went to remit the pu iiishinent for anything less horrible than the old form of hanging by the neck, with all its disgusting and inconsistent. ceremonies. Use is a strange Re conciler with man, let him boast how he may. There is, however, we must admit, in the life of Corder, an accumulation of crime which, if taking away that which tee cannot restore can be at all justified on Christian Principles . , we are free to ac knowledge his case to be an exception from a general rule.* We are not- however reconciled to the religious baiting which even he underwent after his conviction. If a man be condemned to suffer death, it should be only at hi? own yob/wary request, that a Clergyman should attend him ; and one of such creed as he should. likewise voluntarily natne. That is the sole affair of the culprit, and his most immediate friends. The Deity can take no delight in th e worrying of his guilty and Unhappy creatures With applications in his abused name, to produce those effects of con trition Which are alone spiritual and genuine when they flow in the full grace ef the free action of the mind. All beyond that is the mere artificial effect of combined fear and horror, excited by the most absurd means. If the victim were left alone to t h e meditations induced in his solitary cell, aided only b y such further support as he directly solicited from others, we should have fewer instances of that whin ing disheartedness, so common on the scaffold, under which a man,looks as though he were half-hanged ; and that tottering imbecility and despa;r, which only show that the wretches have been termed rather .than made sensible of other and better feelings. It is in the most fierce contempt of nature, that we bully as it were a despairing and drowning int o a con f ess i on t h at h e " frets happy, in the prospect of a sudden jirk on time gallows, that will leave him dangling by the neck in a rope, before a gaping gazing crowd of people; with all the horri fic violence of convulsions that is to follow. Yet nothing less than this pitiable weakness, or mon strous hypecrisy,Vill satisfy the thorough-bred Saints of the day, in a ease of capital punishment. It is a fine lesson to be sure to • teach matt,--partietilarly front some fat, - fair, and sleek professor of the Mini sterial office, who comes forth from his coffee amid his couch of down to preach the great felicity of the pre pared mind, in strangulatio x by th e neck; and of being choked, hustled, and suffocated, amid every We are of opinion that ws are riot libellin g the me nary of this wretched Mall :When We express a belief that the child he had,by his unfortunate victim, and which it turns out was buried in some hidden part of a field, also fell a sacrifice to his hardened and villainous disa N i t i on. And that the poor Mother was privy to this fact, if not consenting to it, we think equally probable. This will se_ count for the reply she gave him, when threatening h er with imprisonment on account of her children,- , -thst if she went to .prison he should accompany her.. It is also worthy of remarkohat his confession was confined to the death of the murdered' Annan alone, he -refusing to the last to disclose any previous circumstances of his flagitious ,contumely and insult of l the world, :at the moment you are leaving it,—as the gracious introduction which the wise Law and, the - Holy Priesthood fur nish—to the beatitude of another world ! To be told just before you are throttled, in singing the last stave of a psalm, that you will in a few seconds be found chanting the praises of the great Redeemer of the world, in the splendour of Heaven;and amid a scene of never-ending felicity! . If all this were so certain as to reconcile a man to the horrible process, one might conceive him offering as n very great favour to change praccs with the Parson. It is "in our minds,' a scene of anything but that which is Christian; and the contemplation of Nthich ‘.` Maketh the heart sick !" No. less :than a dozen different Priests we understand were solicitous to do, in part, the Ministerial honours of the gallows for Corder; and to connect their .obscure nine 4 with his cele brity.; they literally wished him to patronize them ! (trawl TOE SIINIIAY HERALD ) The. 'great - subject of 'political intere'St during - the last week has been the reSistation of the Duke of Clarence, the Lord Hi g h . Ad m i ra l . o f E ng l and, and • Patron of the , Licensed Victuallers' School, to which all . the prolits of thi s paper are un if orm l yi and most scrApulously, -devoted. Of the causes Which have led, to this result the public is as yet but inaperfectiv acquainted; and some time may possibly elapse be fore it is pnt in possession of all of them.; but in the mean time .it is universally regretted, as re-opening the flood-gates of corruption in the • Navy, and cal mimed to restore that system of undue influence which, under Melville and others 4 Wt3s the only means of preferment. .That ide Royal Highness may have incurred somg considerable expense in visiting the different ports . .. ,, itivecting dock-yards—and as certuiningi th , e Ittalifi cat i ons o f t h e vesse l s l ate l y b u il t ,for the Nevy, is undeniable ; but is it not also a fact thatlio money can be better expended than in re storing " the wooden walls of Old England " to their former efficiency, and communicating new life and spirit to the gallant fellows on whom • the country must rely in the hour of danger ? The expente of an army, not only useless but perni cious, amounting to a quarter of a million of men, is not grudged by the Duke of Wellington; but if only a thousandth part of it is expended on the better half • of oar defensive service, the cry of economy is imme diately raised, and those who have been accessory to the eapence treated in such a manner as to render their resignation the only means of avoiding insult! We' know more than we are •at liberty to state re specting the resignation of the Lord High Admiral; but We 'trust the time is not distant when we shall be [enabled to lay the fullest particulars before our readers. In - the mean time, there is 'every reason to believe that it will not be the only resignation. Mr. Peel, it is said, came to town on Thursday last with the ex press view of tendering his resignation ; but the Duke of Wellington was off to Cheltenham, and nothing final has in consequence taken place on the subject. There have been rumours also of different portions of the Whigs coining into office; but we have not been able to trace them to any authentic source. FROM THE ATLAS. TRAGEDY AND TEUNS.—A You Tit—ominous ap pellative—has transmitted to us a fragment of a tra gedy, with a request that we should " gratify him with remaks on the same." The value of good ha bits in boyhood is incalculable; they influence the future course of man, and decide the character, awl frequently the fate of the whole life. For this rea son we object to private theatricals ; because, when young g entlemen get a taste fur the sock and buski n before they understand grammar and arithmetic, the probabilities are, that they never find leisure in after years to learn what they should have learned at school. But, however vicious this taste may be in its multiplied evils, it is innoxious and praiseworthy contrasted with the passion for writing plays. We have kwywn sober, staid men, who had reached the years, not of discretion, but of maturity, suffer severely from their love of dramatic com?osition. One indivi- dual, a solicitor, used to write down Sophonisba, or Hector, or whatever name was running in his head, in the blank of a writ ; so that when the sheriff issued his warrant, the officer was directed by the powers vested in him to make goOd a capture upon the body of Sophonisba Wiggins--,who, of course, was re turned non est invcntus. A jtidge on the bench has passed sentence of seven years' transportation upon Don Alouzo—and an insurance clerk granted a fire policy to the hat-manufactory of Barbarossa. 'The youth who transmits his fragment is too young to understand our ommentaries, should we offer any. It may be suffiCient to assure him that if trade opens to him any avenue of occupation, he should ent e r upon it. Better for him to woo the counter than the muses ; they are saucy ladies, and must not be treated with levity. A tragedy is not to be compared with a box of blue ribands; it is not half so valuable to :be great mass . of mankind. Ribbands are in con. stalt — t requisition; the poetry of their water-dyes may be sufficient for his aspirations : he can run a yard of grus de Naples in less time than he could write a line of heroics; and for tile yard of gPos de Naples he will receive half-a-crown ; whereas, for the afore- said line of heroics he will not receive half-a.farthing. And there is a vast field for the imagination in the haberdasher's. Parnassus is the top shelf, where the costly gems lie in small parcels—the. wooden measure is the staff of Apollo—the band-box may be converted by a little art into a poison bowl— and the tiny stick upon which the lace is wound may be made to represent a tragedy dagger. Armed with these auxiliaries—onmipotent on the boards— the author will, find canvass and compass enough for his genius. Shoal& he possess a creative spirit, lie can. have a satin moon and a glazed calico sky at a moment's warning—the pillars of the shop can be dressed up in liombazines, and decked with frills and flounces—a trap-door can be constructed over the cellar steps—and a throne for his Queen may be elevated on thy: desk of the cashier; side-wings can be made by projecting a few drawers right and left —=the flat will be found in Ow door and pannel of the little back parlour—a stage-curtain is already in the. windows—the shutters are the drop-scene—and the proscenium is completed in the gorgeous shop en trance, supported appropriately by the King's arms. In this playful manner can the aspirant indulge his taste and cultivate his business. Brit we pray all . . young writers of tragedies to read the homily truly, and make their passion for theatricals of every de scription subservient to their profession, be it what it may. (FEO3I THE EXAMNEA.) ABSURD AND IMMORAL FALLACILS.—A philoso phical writer has truly remarked, that men are more the creatures of habit than of reason, and if we are accustomed, from our youth, to hear any kind of sonorous fallacy, we are apt to receive it unexa mined in age, thinking as little of criticising it as we should think of criticising an old song. In every place some of these rotten sentiments, which pass by prescription, are to be found established in the authority of maxims. We go into a theatre, and hear of the glory of dying for one's king, and the sentiment ese4pes a laugh, because, being ancient, n n one considers the monstrous absurdity of dying for suc h an article as a kin g ; but, in truth, mew wou ld as soon think of dying for their constable as their chief mag istrate, and f or a l l practical purposes it were more reasonable to die for Sir Richard Birnie than for Kin g Geo rge; these things are, however, not thought of in thi s manner, because they are not thoug h t employ a of at all. Men fine phrase of ancient acceptation, W . .i . thout ui i dea of the character of tile action it would represent. T he John Bull, we remember, some months ago, Vowed t i ns i gn ifi cant of the it was ready to die for the rno,s which are t h e royal King's prerogatives, amongst. ,aendthetihlewiansoiaetnymoifi perquisites of entire sturgeon s i whales caught in our seas. professing his readiness to vindication of his Monarch's blubber, or his sacred claim to a b ad fish. But pe o pl e li s t e n to t h ese nonsenses w i t h o ut fact, any .n percepti on o f th e a b sur di ty . Th e wor d s , receive a kind of translation ; they do not sug gest to the hearer any fancy so unreasonable as dying for a King, but the idea of a proneness to lick his feet, which, with a community whose first, object mid honour •is gain, ,ieredeemed from contempt by the forecast of the . advantages that may he consequent on the disposition. Shakspearc, who so well knew mankind, makes the physician in ilfacbeii say, " That not even profit shall bring him ggain to Dunsinane." He would have made the same person ,talk of the service of his King . as his grandest motive,and to it was; that partimdar service representing . the greatest sordid advantages, which are yet infetior in force 'to the consideration of per cocci safety. , Thus much for the clap -trap of the theatre. In the Court of Justice, the unscoffed, be cause unexamined, fallacies are still more abundant. The Judges'speeches i en passing sentence of de a th, are a ll mo d e ll e d b t i One plan-, and the ghdn of reli gious ptetension they contain has sanctioned a moun tain of vicious inorality. , , to show the forc e o f habit ; we rritiikly confess tnat we have over and ovir . again read these af.3.dresses, holding forth on the blessed opportunity of repentance, without peiceiving the. abominable tendency of the doctrine, till it was a few days ago exposed by the Editor of the Msrn ing Chronicle. In fact, we attached no more idea to the words of aJudge s S speech than to the ding-dong, ding - Aoliz, of a tolling bell. In a certain space of a report, we expect t o see t h a t the Judge p uts oti a black cap, is extraordinarily affected, gives the pri soner's body to the executioner, and his best wishes to his soul; of the little apogiatura flourishes which set off these notes we had scarcely thought, till the effect of the tune was analysed by our Contemporary in this powerful article, which ought to strike the Bench with shame. The obduracy of habit, how ever, is their defence against any such prickings. The ass's hide is suited to his obstinate quality :-- " If the expectation of punishment hereafter be a doc trine calculated to promote upright conduct here, we ought to be extremely cautious how we hold out to such criminals as murderers the hope of their salvation by their repent ance. The Judges, however, act as if they deemed it a part of their duty to say all the fine things they can think of to persuade the. criminal that . the gallows will be but a step in the ascent to Heaven. They do not seem to be in the least aware that they are exercising their humanity at the expence of the morals of society. It never can be the interest of society that the horrors of the situation of the murderer, or any other criminal who forfeits his life to . the law, should be mitigated by a mawkish sympathy.--: We cannot, by anything we can do here, change the demi either for better or worse of the man entering on another stage of being; and the hopes held out by the Judge can not, any more than his denunciations, affect the criminal's fate. But the consequence to the criminal himself is not the question; but the consequence to the hundreds of thousands who read what falls from the Judge, and who may have their dread of crime shaken by the idea that re pentance is never too late. " ' You sent (said the Lord Chief Baron, in addressing himself to William Corder)—you sent this unfortunate woman to her account, without giving her any time for preparation. She had no time to turn her eyes to the throne of grace for mercy and forgiveness; she had no time 'given her to repent of her many transgressions; she had no time to throw herself on her knees, and to implore for pardon at the eternal throne. The same measure is not meted out to you; a small interval is allowed for pre paration. Use it well, for the scene of the world closes on you ; but another, and I hope a better world, is open ing for you. Remember the lessons of religion which you received in the early years of your childhood ; consider the effects that may be produced by a sincere repentance ; listen to the advice of the ministers of your religion, who will, I trust, console and advice you how best to meet the sharp ordeal which you must presently undergo.' " His Lordship evidently believes that the prospects of Corder are much better than those of the woman he mur dered, and that the day or two at most of preparation al lowed him give him a grestadvantage over his unfortunate victim. What an idea of the Almighty is here conveyed in the supposition that allowance will not be made for the circumstances under which this poor young woman was hurried out of the world, and that the brief and question• able repentance of an individual placed in a situation in which he can do nothing else, gives him a better prospect of future happiness." The causation:is, indeed, adMirable. By the very act of Corder, which, places the sin charged, and the unrepenting soul of his victim •in jeopardy, he is him self indebted to the opportunities of attaining a state of especial grace. Had he not killed Maria, refusing her the advantages of penitence, he might himself have died a hardened profligate, wanting the advan tages of penitence. According to the Judicial Di vine, -by the act so fearfully endangering her soul, he in effect secured the salvation .of his own. ‘ It is (continues the Chronicle) for the interest of society that not a ray of hope should be held out to those men whose liVes are forfeited to justice on account of atro cious crimes. The Judge has nothing to do with the feelings or the prospects of the criminal ; lie acts for the good cf the community, whose organ he is. As far as the future fate of the individual is concerned, as we have already Miser% ed, his eatopassion and his severity are equally unimportant. It is, therefore, a pure piece of supereroga tion. He is not called en, like a Catholic Priest,: to give him a passport with his extreme unction." This i; the general argument we have always held : the care ofjustiee is the security of the com munity; imam° concern for the criminal, either as regards this world or the next, should be suffered to interfere with the main object. - This policy is the fruit of a humanity of the widest range, a humanity which, by wholesome examples in the persons of the guilty few, would provide for the safety of thousands of the unoffending. There are weak persons, how ever, who are more moved by the idea of the present sufferings of one criminal than a'regard for the well being of a whole society. Such is the difference between the narrow sphere of emotion and the steady purposes of philanthropy. SUMMER ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. WELLS, Auc. 16. Sarah Mitchell was indicted for the, wilful tnurder of Joseph Mitchell, her infant male child, at Shep ten Mallet, on the 16th May last. Sarah Wilkins was in Shepton gaol on the day in question, and saw the prisoner when first brought in ; the prisoner, who had then her ehild in her• arms, was put into a receiving cell by the matron ;# witness went to the cell, afterwards, and when she approached the door, the prisoner said, "Man, open the door;" witness told her that the matron would be there presently, and that she would then be taken out and cleaned ; the prisoner then said she had just been put to bed, and had a very pretty child, and that it was dressed and all; the prisoner was unable to open the door, and witness opened • it, and when she dig so, she saw the bed taken off the bedstead, and lying upon the floor with the child upon it; blood was running out of the child's ear ; the pri soner was nearly naked; she was - sitting near the child; witness said, "the woman has murdered the child ;" the prisoner said she had not; witness took up the child, and carried it into the kitchen; just before that time witness saw the child sucking at its mother'S breast; witness asked the prisoner how she came to murder the child, and prisoner answered " that is nut your business ;" the prisoner then said she had better kill her child than kill herself, and site afterWtsids said it was not the first bad thing she had done, and that there was not one who had not been " doing some fault." She also declared that she had killed a female child 16 years ago. Witness had heard the prisener call her own child Joseph Mitchell. Prisoner told witness she had taken it by its heels and dashed its head against the bedstead. • . Cross-examined—The prisoner Was sick when put into the cell; she was sick from having drank some beer. Mary Brown was in Shepton gaol on the 16th of May; in consequence of something she had heard she gent to the prisoner's cell, and met the last wit ness, with the dead child in her arms; the blood was gushing out of its ear. Prisoner asked witness for a pinch of snuff, and witness said she had none ; prisoner said, if witness would give her a pinch of snuff she would take witness to the cell, and show ker how it was done. John Bird 'the master of the workhouse, at Frome, stated, that in April last the prisoner had been brought. there in a state of such violent derimgement, that they were obliged to put her on a straight waistcoat. Other evidence Was given to the same effect, and the Jury immediately acquitted the prisoner, on the ground of insanity. - She N 1 as then ordered to be conqiied till his. Majesty's pleasure regarding her shOtild be known. iltomas Baker was indicted for having received a a stolen horse, the property of Wm. Smallpiece, knowing the horse to have been stolen.—Acquitted. 7Viwnes Broome, aged 24, was charged with the manslaughter of John, Burnell, on the 17th of July last.4.—The Jury found the prisoner. Guilty of the ManSlaughter.' • Mr. Justice PARK said, that although the- prac tice iof baiting . had received the sanction of hi g h judicial authority, yet he (Mr. Justice Park) would never cease to consider it as illegal as brutal. , The Conduct of the prtsoner had been, however, much mitigated by the violent provocation which he had received from the deceased. He was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment and hard labour. GLOUCESTER, Auci. 16. _ HALL V. ROBERTSON-. Mr. RICHARDS opened the pleadings, stating that John Cuthbert Hall was the plaintiff, and James Robertson was the defendant. The declaration charged, that before the grievances therein com- . plained of, the plaintiff had made proposals of mar riage to one Ann Rich, the daughter of John Rich, which proposals were accepted; but by reason of certain defamatory words spoken by the defendant, the said intended marriage was broken off.—The plaintiff was nonsuited. DANIEL V. ROBERTSON. This was an action of trover, to recover the pos session of certain jewellery and articles of wearing ap parel. The defendant pleaded "not guilty," and non whninistravit. Mr. TAUNTON said that the plaintiff was a gentle inun of the highest respectability, practising at the bar, and a member of the Oxford circuit. He came to this Court for the purpose of trying the validity of the marriage of his daughter with the defendant, Mr. James Robertson. He (Mr. Taunton) was con fident that the Jury would participate in his feelings of regret en this melancholy occasion, when he in formed them that the last time he had seen the daughter of the plaint l, he hadbeheld her in all the beauty and health of youth, which by this un fortunate connexion .had been hurried to s prema ture grave. The object of this action was to recover from the defendant a considerable number of trinkets and jewels, and clothes, which he had possessed himself of at the death of the plaintiff'S daughter. Mr. Daniel (the plaintiff) had for some time resided at Bristol, and he had also an estate at Tetbury, in this county, where he had occasionally taken up his abode, and last year he presided for scme time .in Gloucester; when he came here, he had the mis fortune to take up his abode in Brunswick-square, near the Spa, and near the residence of the defend-, ant's father, who kept a boarding and lodging-house, and had formerly kept the Spa Hotel. The defend ant was a fine handsome young man, with a person likely to recommend him to notice. It was neces sary for him (Mr. Taunton) to enter into some de tail to explain the facts of this case. In December last the plaintiff left Gloucester, having occasion to go for a short time to the Continent; he was de tained there for some tune, but returned in the latter end of the same month, and for the first time learnt that his daughter, who had been one of the most dutiful, the most affectionate, and most obedient of children, was no longer an inmate of his house,but had gone off with a man he had never seen before, never heard of, and with whose'existence he was unacquaint ed. When the plaintiff left home, he left his daughter now deceased, Miss Eliza Eugenia Daniel, with a younger sister and a brother 12 years old, residing in the house, He had not left them without a pro per protection, because her elder sister, married to Captain Long, a gentleman of high family, lived within a few doors of the plaintiff's residence. The plaintiff was a widower, and in his absence his daugh ter occasionally went to dine at Captain Long's. On the night of the 24th of December last, after dining at Captain Long's, it would be proved that Miss Daniel and her little brother, on leaving Captain Long's house, were taken to a carriage drawn up hi a back lane, with lights prepared, and the blinds down, and between one and two o'clock in the morn ing transported, accompanied by the defendant, with as much expedition as possible, to Bristol, _where the plaintiff's daughter, Miss Daniel, was married to the defendant, at St. Mary Redcliffe. The mar riage was by banns, and immediately after they re turned in the same way towards Gloucester. Be fore they got into Gloucester, Mr. Robetson, the defendant, and Miss Daniel, with her brother, got out of the carriage, and leaving it to pursue its journey, they separated, Miss Daniel returning to her father's house. Not a word about the marriage was mentioned by the young lady--not a word by the defendant. Miss Daniel dined that day at Captain Long's, and it Was not till some days after, when in consequence of some information he receiv ed that a private marriage had taken place, that Captain Long made some inquiries of Miss Daniel, which elided in her making the most unreserved declaration respecting the above transaction, and then it was for the first time that the defendant came forward in the character of a husband, and took his supposed or pretended wife away with him to a cottage. where they resided till the time of her death. —He (Mr. Taunton) would now explain in which way he considered the marriage illegal. The lady's name was Eliza Eugenia, constituting one Christian name, as - much one as the other. Mr. Daniel, her father, spelt his name Daniel, without an s at the end of it, and so had his daughter; they were known by the name of Daniel, and not Daniels. The banns by which the marriage had been procured were published at the Church of St. Mary, Red cliffe, 13ristol, a parish in which neither of the parties resided; and though the law had decided that the non-residence:of the parties in the parish where the banns were published should not avoid the marriage, yet, when coupled with other circumstances in a case of this nature, it was entitled to considerable weight. Instead of the publication of the banns being as be-. tween James Robertson a::d Eliza and Eugenia Daniel, :the .publication was as between James Robertson - and Eliza' Daniels. The learned Quin se] then said, that the plaintiff having in Mardi last received a statement that his daughter was dange rously ill, went "immediately to'see her, with all the affection of a father who felt that his daughter was j then in her last moments. , He (Mr. Taunton) did not know that the plaintiff did not sit at the same table with the defendant—he did not know that he that he was not on friendly terms with him ; but upon the death of his daughter taking place, he would show that the defendant himself gave up to the plaintiff the keys of the boxes in which those valuable articles were contained which for Med the subject of this action, and the plaintiff thought that all the misfortunes had ceased with bet' death ; but when he proposed that a plate should be put upon, the co ffin describing the deceased as the daughter of Edward and Mary Daniel only, without mentioning her as the wife of the defendant, the defendant thought fit to make a demand on the plaintiff for 3001. On finding that demand was resisted, he re fused to give up the articles contained in the boxes, and refused to allow the body to be removed, although t h e plaintiff had offered to be at the expense of the funeral. The plaintiff, finding lie was unable to ac complish his wish, in 'directing the burial of his daughter, left the defendant's cottage, left the fune ral to be conducted by him, and was - compelled to endeavour, their verdict, to obtain a restitution of his rights. Evidence was adduced to prove the facts men tioned in the Learned Counsel's statements, to which I% , fr. CAMPBELL, for the defendant, replied at length; after which Mr. Justice GASELEE having summed up, the Jury at elevein o'clock returned a verdict for t h e plaintiff. John Harrison was indicted, charged with having feloniously assaulted and ravished Maria .Powell, spinster, on the Gth of June. last, in the parish of Leonard Stanley. Maria Powell, the -proseeutrix, said, I was 19 years of age in June last. My brother, Abner Powell, is a married man, and lives at Leonard Stan ley, and I live at his house. On the Gth of June I America. went to lirinscombe, and I commenced my return. I waited a short time with an old fellow -servant, who went with me nearly half my way home. :On: arriving_ at Dudbridge-lock, on the Stroudwater canal, I saw the prisoner, and asked him the nearest %way to Leonard Stanley. He said, if I f o ll ow ed him hewould show me; he was very civil till he came to the road that led to his own home. He then said he was going to Stanley-end, and left me to go home. I continued on my way, and wished hint_ a good night. There is a footpath across across a meadow which leads to my horse. When I got about 20 yards into the meadow I saw the prisoner coming after me, anti when he came up to me he . said, " I think I shall go this way, as it is as near to my home as the other way." He then took hold of my arm, and said we'll walk together. I said I will not, If we are to stay all night. He then let me. go, and said, " Well, if you are determined not to walk arm in arm, go forward." I th en went On for about one field's length, and he came up and put his arm round my neck. I said, " you, shall not do that; it is hard if I cannot walk along without being interrupted by such as you." I.le then went away very quiet and civil for some time, and asked me to go to the King's head and have a glass of something. I said I had had plenty where I had been, and we got to Stanley Mills lie said lie would kiss me. He tried to kiss me, and threw me,, down. I resisted as much as F could, and cried out " Murder" four times. This was before I fell. lie then put his hand upon my mouthand his foot be hind mine, and threw me down with great violence. I resisted all I could, but he said he was determined to succeed before he left me. I struggled hard to prevent his touching my petticoats, but was no more than ababy in his hands. From the time of his first toweling me,,to the time he left me, as near as I can say, was half an hour. lam not sure as. to. the time, as I was not quite sensible all the time. I put up my hands, and hoped the Lord would have mercy upon me. (The witness then described more mi. : . nutely the commission of the offence). , When the prisoner got up he ran away. I think he heard a young man coming up : it was a young man named Critchly. I asked' him to run. after the prisoner. He said he thought it was my sweetheart. I, told him the man had used me very . wrongfully indeed, and should be much obliged to him if he would fol . low him. On going back about three yards to look for my umbrella and gloves, I found a rule, which I took home and showed to my friends. I was so weak, that if I had not been supported by Critchly I should have fallen. I went, as fast as I could, to Abigail Fisher's. Critchly stopped behind, talking to a young man and woman we met at a stile. Abigail Fisher was in bed, and I went on home as fast as I could. My sister said, when she saw me, " Good 'God, Maria, what is the matter?" and I fell down on the. porch at the door. I told her I had been very ill-used by some man, and I did not know who it Was, though I had his rule to show. It was half-past ten when I reached home. 1 had never seen the prisoner before, but lam sure he is the man. I can tell him by, his speech, and the way he takes breath. Cross-examined by Mr. Ptilia..PoTTs-1 had a glass of elder %lite, some tea, and a little beer at the places I called at on the road from Brinscombe. Thomas Critchley said, I am a cloth-worker living, at King's Stanley, and remember being in the mea dows about half-past nine on the night of the 6th of June last,. and hearing a stifled woman's voice, as if in distress. I went towards the spot, and saw a man and woman on the grass, about a foot from the path. - They lay there till after I had passed for three or four minutes. When I got about ten yards off, the man jumped up and ran away. The prisoner was the man. I saw him distinctly. I knew him before. I then went to the young woman. She was much dis tressed and so agitated that she could scarcely speak. Benjamin Barnes, a cloth-worker at Stanley Mills, on the morning of the 7th June saw the pri soner near the spot where the offence was described to have happened, looking for something in the grass. The prisoner having declined saying any thing in . his defence, Mr. PHILLPOTTS called the following witnesses for him : Thos. Rawlins, the ostler at the White Horse in Cain's-cross, said, I saw the prisoner on the evening of the 6th June, from six o'clock till half-past nine. Wall and another man were with him playing at skittles. The prisoner's house is about a quarter of a mile from Cain's Cross. The meadow in which the girl was ill-used is in the opposite direction. Richard Drew, the toll-keeper at Cain's-cross, saw the prisoner on the night of the 6th June, at about a quarter to nine, and gave him some beer.— Saw him again about half-past nine, or near ten, when he borrowed 6s. of him, and returned to the skittle-ground. George Harwood lived near the prisoner at Stan ley End in June last, and saw him on the 6th June, at halfpast nine, at . Cain's-cross. I asked him it h e was going.home; he said he was, and we walked together all the way to the prisoner's house. When we got to the door, he asked me to go in, and called his sister to bring his supper. That was about ten minutes before ten o'clock. Cross examined—l heard a neighbour's clock strike ten. Elizabeth Harrison said—l am the prisoner's sis ter, and remember his coming home with the last witness on the night of the 6th of June. I wound up my watch, and. it was then ten o'clock. I gave him his supper, which he ate directly, and pulled of his shoes and went to bed. Daniel Harrison, the prisoner's brother, went home on the 6th of June after all the family were in bed. There was a light in .his sister's room, which he went and took to his own room, where he slept with his brothers, William and Stephen. John and William slept together, and Stephen with the witness. They were all awake, and he spoke to them. No one could go out after that. Mr. Baron VAUGHAN now proc-eeded to .recapi tulate the evidence. This was one of the most extraordinary trials he had ever witnessed. From the nature of the facts, and the contradiction of the evidence, it was . one which required their most seri ous attention. The Learned Judge, after comment ing on the way in which the time had.been ac counted for by the different witnesses, said it was obvious the offence must have been perpetrated some considerable time before half -past, ten o'clock, and concluded,by observing, that though there was not the slightest reason to doubt .the evidence for' the prosecution, yet if they believed the witnesses for the defence, they must acquit the prisoner, The Jury retired for about half an hour, and on their return the Foreman said, they were decidedly of opinion that a rape had been committed, but with the conflicting ovidence which had been adduced, they thought they must find the prisoner ---Not Guilty. Mr. Baron VAUGHAN said, that under the peculiar circumstances of this case, he felt it his duty to de clare his decided approbation of their verdict; at the sametime be must say, it did not reflect the slightest disgrace on the character of the prosecutrix, Maria Powell, _ . _ The trial lasted from nine o'clock in the morning till half-past five in the evening. The prosecutrix is a florid-looking girl of slender' make. The prisoner, who is a stout man 'Jf the middle size, was quite unmoved during the trial, except two or three indications of a smile, which he occasionally indulged in at some parts of the evi dence. This case attracted considerable attention, and the facts of it closely resemble the case of Abraham Thornton, who was tried and acquitted of u similar offence some years ago on.the Midland circuit, 0,, which the almost obsolete wager of battle was after- wards brought forward. Thornton, we believe, died some time ago CARLISLE, AuGusT 14. REX V. RUSSELL AND OTHERS. This was an indictment for a nuisan ce , i n p l ac i ng certain erections, called staiths, in th e r i ver T yne, and thereby impeding the navigation of the river.— A similar indictment was tied three years ago at v. TH N E York, before Mr. Justi ce Bayley„and,the defendants „4 T. , - u were acquitted. A point was on that occasion re- „ iv , served for the opinion o f th e C ourt o f Ki ng ' s B enc h, 74 , 0 T r , and after a long arg u m en t th e L earne d J u d ges we re ti v , Hun " , equally divided in opinion. No decision therefore Tour nun was given, but as the question was of so much ire- .Ip olfun portance to the port of Newcastle,. it was deemed .4 0r.ty 7 advisable to prefer a fresh indictment. The venue T o I N was changed from Northumberland to Cumberland, ' t ,beptf or on the ground that a n i m p ar ti a l ver di ct cou ld n ot Z e Sep to , be expected from a j ur y se l ec t e d f rom t h e forme r anc : l . t . l . county. . • h e PrOcl t t o he Mr. BitouGnmq app ea r e d f or t h e p l a i nt iff , an d Sir isie e( J. SCARLETT for the d e f en d an t s; an d a f ter b ot h h a d 0 / 7 4. Co, been heard at great len g th o n th e case , w hi c h bad each T only a local interest, &ad be del Mr. Baron HULLOCK briefly summed up. att.! t 4 The Jury then retired, and after an hour's deliber- o y his l et i, tion, returned into Court; and delivered the follow ing verdict--" We find that part of the navigable ism channel of the River Tyne opposit e W a ll' s E n d CLo gr been narrowed, straitened, and obstructed, but that F IPHE the trade of NeWeastle has notwithstanding in - creased." SA long-and animated discu ss io n en sue d i n Court.- ut:t h°l ii e‘ x. ' between the Counsel on both sides ; as to the opera- I t'e 22d it tion of .this verdict, Mr. J. WILLIAMS protesting ibi o f tt.tu against its being entered as a special verdict. It was at length agreed that it should be left to the Court- IRA of King's )Bench to determi ne h ow j u d gment s h ou ld be entered up upon the verdict. THE The Assizes terminated h ere t o -d ay . Th ey coin - • - the mence to-morrow at Appleby, where scarcely any kte saT , business is expected. On Wednesday text the coin' Tt eG„ mission will be opened a t L ancas t er . titrer's Pr : 14 Irraarit he 41 ' 42 1 t 4 ' l Q. 59 PRC SP4V] 411 e€Z1 is see A NI u -( 41 o f !tetti e '4 4 40,1 41,1: f P l °P (4 4 , e : 44 Bridp ' 41 4 at Acnverful 'etreation Theh ° i !ve sl rei .01, 1c r The Ri gavid &ben G kvogt Pkili„ Jo I °ll4 144 John Roo vainest Phi„ a , Atex. Sh James rt, Thoma s J ! oho AI el ohn tll'l John Robert W. A. empbell Roderick John Th( John NE Jobs Ed' Rey. Dr. John Mu br. Nice Joseph h tev. Th John Frz Lewis Cc b. F. AI Lockhart John 11I' Robert I Willia m Alex. Al Refer j , s • Grant Robert Robert James 1.. Andrew' dames s (iugh Ia Clßolin Geor ge e , tor ge Joll a N I , Vat. St Andre w E Donald Jam es br. 4laior NORWICH, FRIDAY, Auc. 15. COSTERTON, ESQ. W. YETIS. Mr. MoNrAott opened the pleadings. The declaration stated, in several counts, that the. plaintiff held the situation of water-bailiff in, the bo rough of Great Yarmouth, and that he was also col , . lector of the port and haven dues at that port ; . .aod that the defendant spoke of the plaintiff and his con duct in those situations certain slanderous words, imputing . to the plaintiff that he had been guilty of peculation and delinquency. The defendant pleaded, first ,the general issue, , and secondly, certain speci a l pl eas , in substance,.that a certain warehouse, belonging to the corporation, was under the management of the plaintiff in his situation of water-bailiff, and that he received the sum of eight guineas as the rent of such warehoUse, which he ought to have accounted for to the corpo- • ration, but which he appropriated to his.own use. A variety of witnesses, and among them the cele brated Captain Manby, were adduced to prove the slander, after which The LORD CHIEF BARON briefly summed up, and the Jury retired, and in a few minutes returned, with a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 75/. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. The lio LIVERPOOL. FRIDAY, AUG. 15.--High water 45 min. past Wind N.N.E.—Arrived the Planter, Nersbett, from New Orleans; John Ormerod, Chapman, from Oporto; Mer sey, Beasley, frotn Newry.-4 brigs, 1 snow off at seven. o'clock.—Private signal, Mr. John N. Woods. CLEARED OUTWA ADS. —The B. Heitzdina Victor, Van Wyk, for Antwerp ; Royal Edward, Harrison, for Bay Chaleur, in ballast ; Gottfred, Breitsprecheer, for Elsi• - neur ; Elizabeth, Widman, for • Elsineur ; Betsy, Shan't for'Gibraltar and Malaga; Charlotte, Hores, for Jersey ; Blossom, Saunders, for Malaga, in ballast; Marshal Macdonald, Sullivan, for Micamichi ; Jonge Cornelia, Van Slooten, for Ostend ; Express, Aftrcks, for Pillau i Indus, Malabar, for Quebec, in ballast;, Catharina Maris, Alwardt, for Rostock. Telegraph Office. 1 ship, 3 brigs, 2 barques, and I schooner, outward bound. 1 brig inward, and two pilot boats off Point Lynas.. The following vessels sailed from Holyhead yesterday: —The schooner Eleanor, Matthews, for Penzance ; Hope, Roe, for Wexford ; Severn,- —, from London. The Three Friends, Welch, for Southwold.—Wiq N;E 7 f blowing fresh. Passed Holyhead, outward-hnupd, No. 721, St. George, Atneriena ship, No. 797, Fairy Queen, British - sehormer, at 4. 30. p.m. ; No, 646, Promise, British brig. - at 5 p.m. (not quite sure.)—Wind N.N.W. light breeze. SATURDAY. —High water 20 min. past 2.—Win d S.S. W.—Arrived the Christian, Christian, from Antigua; Anglinu, Bell, from Bay Chaleur ; Die Biene; Kunde, from Dantzic ; Salvatorium, Guese, from Stettin ; Appa uncen, Nordstrom, from Gottenburgh ; Runswick, Broyin , from Archangel; Lady Williamson, Brick, from Porta ferry ; William Huskisson, —, from St. John's, Ne" Brunswick, off. CLEARED OUTWARDS.-Amelia, Bulley, for Elsineur; En! of Surrey, Baney, for .Douglas; Brake, Tresmath for Elsineur ; Wilson, Simpson, for St. Andrew's, Ne►" Brunswick ; Sarah, Gale, for Pieton ; liannab, Mackey► for St. John's, New Brunswick ; .Siaters,. White, fix Malaga; Levant Packet, Cundy, for Gibraltar.; Canada , Graham, for New York ; Tagus, Ber►y, for Lisbon; Belem Castle, Wharton, for Genoa and Leghorn ; Elie.' Fell, for Douglas ; .laria • and Adrianne, Parlerleit, for Rotterdam ; Hero, Fell, far Rio Janeiro; Hanover, Par sten; for Philadelphia; General Brown, Sharp, for Charleston ; Kingston, Watson, for Africa ; Nemesis , Strickland, for St. Andrew's, New Brunswick ; Success , Zimmerman, for Elsineur. DISEASED GnousE.—lt has been stated, and generally believed, that the Grouse on the moors in this neighbourhood were net infected with the tape worm like those in Scotland, but the fact is otherwise; for a gentle man found several worms of this- description, .'three or four inches long, in a brace of grouse. which he had killed•. One of the birds was an old one, and it seems probable that many young ones may be affected in the same way•-,- - Sheffield Courant. The progress of harvest in this country 1135 been much retarded by unsettled and turbulent weather• In many parts the hay is still ungathered, namely in Curve' dale, and near Bishop's Castle, and other districts. Mon" day, Tuesday, and Wednesday were glorious harvest days► near this town, but there were showers in other parts. The agriculturists will have a trying season, as well, a s an expensive one, to struggle against, before their crops ca° be harvested. . The continued rains have generally injured the wheat and barley in the forward situations, particularly where the• crops were laid, and in••many places the corn has spurted. Those who hackled their• wlifat sheaves have escaped with less damage than ;hey expectefi, and we hope the practice will become more general.—ShrewsburY chronicle. BIRTHS. On Sunday the 17th inst., at 112, Strand, Mrs. Young► of a sea. On the 13th inst., at Braddon'tl-hill, Torquay, the lady of Major Gatnntell, of a son and heir. On the 16th inst., the lady of J. Michael, Esq., of Red Lion-square, of a daughter. On the 15th inst., Mrs. J. W. Borradaile, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 14th inst., at Melton Mowbray, by the Rev. Dr. Doncaster, rector of Navenhy, Lincolnshire, I'. B. Cox , Esq., of the Poultry, to Ann, eldest . daughter of John Whitchurch, Esq., of the former place. On the 14th inst., at St. Luke's, Chelsea, Mr. James • Sboolbred, of Tottenliam-court-road, to Miss Harriett Laud, of Cadogan-place, Chelsea. • On Thursday, the 14th inst., at Coggleshall, in the county of Essex, by the Rev. E. W. Mathew, @livers eldest son•of Oliver Johnson, Esq., of Earl's Comae, in the county, to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of Henry, Spingley, Esq., of the former place. DIED. On the 13th instant, at Byker Hill, near. Newcastle upon-Tyne, aged 70, much and desevedlye e spe c t e d, , slr.' John Redhead. On the 12th inst., after a long and painful illness, Mary Levesque, of Guildford-street. Oa the 15th inst., at Camden -town, Mrs. Martho Parker, aged 77, late of Tottenham -eourt-road. On the 14th inst., at Twickenham, aged three years' Charles Edward, the only child of D. Wakefield, Esq. On the 14th inst.; at Horsham, Thomas Valenti n !. Cooke, Esq., of Sunninghill, Perks, i n th e 62d y ear of l II ' age, on his way to Brighton. On the 10th inst., Lucy Ann, wife of Mr. Hollis, o r " geon, Lewisham, Kent, aged 27. PRINTED and PUBLISHED by MURDO YOUNG, at the 61.72; OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON. C'elofi l Georg • Sub •1 14 tat 14)adc).