The Sun. — London, England, 1828-10-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS, The frequent correspondence with Alexandria proves to us that the condition of Egypt is improv ing. Indeed, all the parts of the warld approach nearer to each other, through the increased facility of communication. E g ypt, though at th e eastern ex tremity of Africa, tuaY now be con s id ere d a l most as tomprised in the great family of European States. Egyptian indigo and flax, it is said, are not saleable for tots, but only exchangeable, in the way of bar saes against cochineal. This is no doubt awkward - where money is wanted. But what stupidity has been talked on the subject of barter, as if it were tl.e mast miserable state of suffering to which a commercial people could be reduced; whereas, pro bably, more than a third of the internal trading con , cerns'of this country are conducted, and happily conducted, by barter ; and the more barter prevails the better. The butcher supplies the farmer or mil ler with his meat, and receives corn or flour in re turn, and at Christmas their bills may be about equal. The tailor clothes the grocer's family, and the grocer supplies the tailor's kitchen, and but little money passes between them. Even the landlord's rent is sometimes in part paid by corn and cattle, and perhaps a horse or two sold to the squire in the course of the year. All is barter ! Barter enters into every transaction I And if there be one into which barter aloes not enter—if there be one of a pure exchange between goods and money—it will ha a ease in which a fundholder, who fabricates or produces nothing as such, gives money exclusively to the tradesman or manufacturer for the goods he receives, out of which money the said manufacturer or tradesman sa sisfiee the demands of those who require money only, having no need of goods, namely, the collectors of the King'S or_paroohial taxes. In France, barter is yet more prevalent; for one part of the realm being productive of corn, and the other of wine, exchanges are made, often without even the mention of money, " I will give you so many tonneaux of wine for so many hectolitre's of grain." Barter, therefore, is no calamity ; but;on the contrary a proof of an internal trade, brisk and active, and productive of comfort to the degree which it prevails. We have stared this, because barter is ignorantly and stupidly held out as some great evil to which we may arrive : it is our present good and blessing. At the same time there always ought to be money enough in circula tion, and attainable by an easy quantity of labour to fill tip the chinks which barter leaves behind it in ommercial transactions. Genoa seems to be im proving by its commerce with Alexandria and the Levant. Ah / poor Genoa, the great statesmen who attended at the C ongresses at which her con cerns were arranged, have much to answer for ! However, one of them, perhaps the most criminal, has answered already for his offences towards her, whether they were offences of ignorance and inca pacity only, or of a deeper rlye.--=-Times. The Irish Brunswickers, like-their fellows on this side of the water, breathe nothing but fire and fury against thts Catholics, whose most strenuous exer tions, on the contrary, are directed to the mainte- Hance of peace, and to the inculcation upon each other of the necessity, above all things, for a strict obedience to the laws. It is as painful to read the proceedings of the Orange Societies, as it is dis creditable to a Christian country to have given them birth, and disgraceful to the policy of an English Government to have produced them. The Guild of Merchants in Dublin, or of nominal merchants, has long been pre-eminent among factious corpora tions for its persecuting and unrelenting spirit. We find by the report of what took place at a meeting of this build on Monday last, that a resolution was agreed to for petitioning, not merely against any further relief to the Catholics, but also for the dis franchisement of the " Popish 40s. freeholders." The word Popish was afterwards, for decency's sake, omitted; but with that erasure, the' wise re solution was- confirmed by this loyal corporation. Now it ought to be borne in mind, that those public men who framed the Catholic Bill of 1793 never had the most remote idea that, by the establishment of Catholic 40s. freeholders, they were creat ing a body of independent or bona fide elec tors. The franchise was extended to 40s. Catho lics, because it was not believed that such men were, Or ever could be, independent—that they ever could exercise a free choice in the making a member of Parliament. The scheme was, therefore, e dishonest one from the outset--a base fraud upon the best interests of the Constitution ; and it is not the circumstance of Lord Westmorland being at that time Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, that will white wash the known character of a transaction in all its parts so profligate arid foul. Then is it to be endured that the knavery which planned the forty-. shilling Catholic freehold shall now turn round upon the unfortunate voter and say to him—" It is true I always meant you to be the reverse of an upright freeholder; I created your privilege with a full as sarance that you - would, on every occasion, abuse t ; that you would be a vile slave—a trembling tool--a pander to the corruption of those on whose lands you were tolerated;—but you have disap pointed the authors of the speculation ; instead of voting as your landlords pleased, you have done so as it pleased yourselves;—instead of exercising your franchise basely, you have used it honestly; you have chosen representatives for yourselves instead of for your landlords, and, as a punishment for this perfidious virtue, you shall never vote again ?" We do not desire to be understood as affirming that a freehold of 40s. is the best possible qualification of a county elector, or that so much income derived from land, or from any other source, is enough to make a man independent. We d o not pledge ourselves that if the thing were to do again, we should concur in the creatio n of that strange know Ireland of freeholders; but most men who ho that kw the Ireland will be ready to acknowl edge, right is too much identified with the notion of a vested property to permit any sane mind to think of, at this time, withdrawing it from the people by a sudden enactment. That the priests have sepa rated the 40s. freeholders from their landlords, seems to us untrue. The priests were bet the instruments of a power which they were themselves unable to resist, and which took heavy vengeance on the few who proved indiscreet enough to oppose it—namely, the general spirit of the country, which excited the public mind to a pitch little short of phrensy, for the redress of a national, not an ecclesiastieal, wrong. At the same meeting, of which we have just characterized one of the proceedings, Mr. John David Latouche, who a few days before had quoted SO pungently, though to his audience unpalatably, a sentence from Bishop Burnet, in praise of the libe ral principles of King William, got up to protest against the whole spirit of the resolutions, a; inju rious to the rights of their Catholic fellow-subjects, arid of the Protestants themselves ; but the wretched creatores began to hiss what they were unable to answer, as they also did in the instance of Mr. Ness, an other, arid apparently the only other, saber minded p „ s saa in the room . Those who talk of the Catholics being outrageous, insurrectionary, con temners of the laws, and so f ort h, had better take into their consideration one fact, of an interesting as well as decided nature, in reference to such charges, viz. that a gaoler and a single policeman marched a string of seventeen prisoners, within theie few days,' throttgh the wildest districts of Tipperary, and with out the slightest effort at obstruction from the inha bitants, lodged them safely in a prison. We hardly knoW in what part of England such exemplary obe dience to the laws would have been manifested either by spectators or by prisoners. -- Ibid. The time is now fast approaching when it will be ascertained how far the men of Kent are willing to be made the tools of the greedy hypocrites who, under the mask of a regard for the Protestant Reli gion, ars seeking to perpetuate strife and discord throughout the Empire. We cannot bring ourselves to believe that so impudent an attempt can be suc cessful in the county of Kent. Were the Bruns wicker, to gain their object, the name of Kett would bootne a by-word hroughout the island, and it might not be amiss in that case to revert to the old spelling, and call it the county of Cant. We trust that the well-disposed will see the necessity of bestirring themselves, to avert such a stigma as the support of Brunswick Clubs will attach to them. They should bear in mind that great efforts will be made by the Orange Lords and Parsons to drag the wretched creatures under their influence to the place of meeting. We hope correspondent efforts will be made by the well-disposed, so that the friends of the good cause may not be overawed by a contemptible rabble. Let us keep in mind that these pretended friends of Reformation principles are the declared enemies of civil and religious li berty ; that the repeal of the laws imposing disabi lities on the Protestant Dissenters was not only opposed in Parliament by the men who formed the Brunswick Club at Maidstone, but that the loss of these persecuting laws is made a heavy charge by the Duke of Newcastle, their Cor y pheus , against the Administration of th e D u k e o f Wellington.— The admission of ten millions of Protestants (for the Dissenters of England and Scotch Presby terians together are rated so high by those who have the best information on the subject), that is, double the number of the Members of the Establishment, is lamented as a great evil by these men. We hope the Dissenters will I ear this in mind at the approaching conjunture. The Standard of yesterday seems to consider it not only no in tolerance to subject men to civil disabilities, but that there is no intolerance short of burning and tortur ing. "We deny (says our contemporary) that de priving any class of persons,._ be they Roman Ca tholicor Protestant, Jew, Islamite, or Gentoo, of political privileges, which it is supposed they would abuse, is religious intolerance. It may, or may not be, political wrong or error; or the contrary, as the case may be ; but what we call intolerance is burn ing people alive, or stretching them on the rack, or pinching them with thumb-screws, or the other de vices of the Inquisition, the League, Queen Mary 1., &e., without any pretext whatsoever but their dif fering from us in religion. Now, of enormities of this kind there is no great example in the history of the Reformers, but that of Calvin aad Servetus (in which, by the way, the part Calvin took is in gene ral much misrepresented), i. e. for almost 300 years (27th Oct. 1553); and no such stain has rested upon the Church of England since King James the First, about 1610, burnt a couple of Arians, contrary to the advice and remonstrance of the leading Churchmen of the day. We may, therefore, safely say, that whatever real intolerance was exhibited by the professors of the principles of the Reformation was caught from the Church which they had abandoned, but in which they had been trained." We are sorry to say, that the principle of intolerance holds yet its place in almost all the books received by Protestants as authorities. In the Larger Catechism of the 'Westminster Assembly of Divines—an authority with nearly as many Protes tants of this Empire as the Common Prayer-book— " one of the sins forbidden in the Second Com- mandment" is declared to be the tolerating a false religion." But if nothing less will serve our contem porary than burning and thumb-screws, what does he think of the thumb-screws and other instruments of torture made use of under the sanction of the English Hierarchy in the reign of Charles the Second, to force the poor Presbyterians to conformity ? We suppose the fines and imprisonments of the non-con formists from the accession of Charles the Second to the Revolution, 60,000 of whom suffered, accord ing to Jeremy White, is no persecution ; and that the admonitions addressed by Archbishop Sheldon to the Bishops of his Diocese, to see that the laws were carried into full effect against them, is a proof of Christian charity. The Corporation Act, so much the admiration of the Duke of Newcastle and the other Brunswickers, was the work of this bright period of our history, when, according to a great historian, " the English learned to know and to detest, as the work of their Priests, all the igno miny and all the odiousness of a Secret Police."— P Bartholomew Legatt and Thomas Withman were, as stated by our contemporary, burned for heresy in 1611, but not contrary to the advice of the church men; for they were delivered over by the Bishop of London to the secular power, after having been pro ceeded against and sentenced in the Ecclesiastical Court. But this is not the last case of torture. In Burton's Diary, vol. 1. p.. 265, we have the follow ing naive account of the punishment infl;eted on that poor creature, James Naylor, the Quaker :—"Dec. 27. This day B. and I were to see Naylor's tongue bored through, and him marked in the forehead.— He put out his tongue very willingly, but shrinked. a little when the iron came upon his forehead. He was pale when he came out of the pillory, but high coloured after tongue-boring. He was bound with a cord by both arms to the pillory. Rich, the mad merchant, sat bare at Naylor's fvet all the time.— Sometimes he sang and cried, and stroked his hair and face, and kissed his hand, and sucked the fire out of his forehead. Naylor embraced his execu tioner, and behaved himself very handsomely and politely." But long after this, dreadful severities were practised. A young man of 18 was, so late as the reign of King 'William, executed for expres sing the opinions which Sir Isaac Newton after wards expressed in his famous Letters to Le-Clerc, and for which, had Sir Isaac been prosecuted, lie might have shared the same fate. To the accession of the House of Hanover, which was in fear of the Church till the last reign, we are indebted for a to leration more than to any liberality on the part of the Establishment. We are now more tolerant and liberal, because the Laity, both of Protestant and Catholic Churches, have become refractory. But the Protestant and Catholic Clergy should take each other by the hand, and exclaim, like the two dis tinguished characters in a well-known play,— " Brother, brot!o.er, we are both in the wrong !" —Morning Chronicle. It is curious to see the Roman Catholic de claimers now laying claim to the title of " pacifi catory," %, ho had so recently boasted of their exer tions in the cause of " glorious agitation." Do they suppos e the public have no memory, and that the appeals to the physical power of the "seven mil lions," which were poured out so abundantly only a few weeks ago, are already forgotten ? Then the language of Mr. O'Connell was," I am an agitator" —" I glory in the name of agitator"—" The Go vernment shall have plenty of agitation ;" and such like expressions, which were re-echoed by every tin fledged barrister and aspiring attorney in the Asso ciation, who, one and all, d ec l are d themselves " agi tators," and nothing but agitators. Now, whom were they to agitate ? The ig,norant and unreflect jug multitude, to be sure. And f or w h at purpose w ere they wbe agitated ? Was it to demonstrate the fury or th e philosophy o f a mo b ? Their con version to peace is as sudden as that of St. Paul to Christianity, h u t not q u i te so m i raculous.-- Tempora mutanlur et nos mutan t or cuni is an adage that will explain the thing,_ They had been trying the forbearanc e of Go vernment so long, and with such success, that they at length mistook the patience of the Executive for the effects of intimidation. But when they came to that point which would have made any further pas siveness on the part of Government a cruel encou ragement to popular folly, they were a,toniohed to discover that they had called forth energy where they expected to. find nothing but weakness. The collecting of immense multitudes of men m military array, under the pretence of reconciling factions, was evidently a coup de theatre, to impress Government and the Protestants in general with the appalling idea of the immense physical force which the " long talkers" of the Association, if they ever chose to be come " warlike," would have it in their power to lead on. What has been the result of this shallow attempt at intimidation ? Government have sent troops and artillery into the excited districts, and the Protestants throughout England and Ireland are confederating in Brunswick Clubs. Hence the fear which converts the champions of agitation into pacificators.—liarnbig Herald. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW- ST RE CT.—Yesterday Joseph Mohony, a li as Leonie, and John Morris, two well-known thieves, were charged before Sir R. BIRNIE with having entered the dwelling-house of Mr. Barron, a builder, residing in St. Martin's lane, and stolen therefrom several articles of plate. The prosecutor stated, that about two o'clock that morn ing he was awoke by his servaut-maid, who informed him that there were thieves in the house. He immediately got out of bed and proceeded to the lobby, and on looking over the bannisters perceived a man on the basement story, with a lighted candle in his hand. Witness asked the ser vant how she had been aroused, and she replied that she was awoke by the bursting open of a door about ten minutes before she gave him the alarm. Fearing that there were several men in the house, the woman said she hesitated at first to go up stairs, not knowing but she might have been met by the robbers. Witness, recollecting that the street-door had been barred and chained on going to bed, returned into his bed-room, where he threw open the window and called the watch. Perceiving that his call was attended to, he proceeded down stairs, making as much noise as he cauld, and opened the street-door to admit the watchman, six or seven of whom entered. Being satisfied that the house was entered from the rear, and judging that the burglars would endeavour to escape in the same manner, witness directed Wardley, one of the watchmen, to go round through Hop-gardens in Chimister's-alley, while one of his colleagues was posted in May's-buildin gs , to ensure a capture of the robbers in case they were still on the pre mises. Witness then, with the other watchman, proceeded to the front kitchen, where he discovered that the doors of the kitchen dresser had been broken open, and the drawers rifled. The back kitchen-door, which had been bolted on the outside, was forced open, a piece large enough to admit a hand to draw back the bolt having been cut mit of it. The window was open, and witness at once saw the manner in which the robbers had of an entrance. From the manner in which the piece had been cut out of the door, witness was convinced that the thieves must have had some acquaint ance in the interior of the house. At first he supposed the robbers to be some of the men whom he had employed to work for him, and therefore, on hearing that a man had been taken in Chimister's-alley, he went round, accom panied by the female servant, to see if he could identify him. Ile there found the prisoner Mahony, and the ser vant woman, on being questioned, admitted that she knew him, and that in fact he was the husband of a relation of hers, whom she had recommended to supply her place at a time when she was obliged to keep her bed. The woman also acknowledged that the prisoner had been twice or three times in his (witness's) house, although she was aware that he was reputed to be a thief. Sarah Manser corroborated her master's testimony, and added that the prisoner and his wife had taken tea with her on last Twelfth-night. She also said that the prisoner had been frequently in the house during her illness. Sir R. BIRNIE—Pray, my good woman, did you know the prisoner's character when you admitted him to your master's house ? The witness said she knew the prisoner's character was not very good. Mr. Barron—During the illness of the woman I pro vided her with medical attendance, and every thing neces sary for her situation ; notwithstanding which she abused my confidence by admitting such a man to my house with out my knowledge. Sir R. BIRNIE (aside to Mr. Barron)—Are you quite certain that this woman did not herself admit the robbers? Mr. Barron said he had no reason whatever to suppose that such ball been the case. The woman had certainly acted ungratefully ; but still he believed her to be perfectly honest. Sir R. BIRNIE observed, that this woman's conduct was very culpable. After the kind manner in which she had been treated by her master, the fact of her admitting secretly a reputed thief deserved the severest censure. The public could never be safe if servants were to act as she had done. The witness went on to state, that several tab!e and w-spoons, the property of her master, were missing. The hack kitchen-windows she herself saw closed before she went to bed. John Wardley stated that he was a watchman, and by the directions of Mr. Barron he went round to Chimistees alley, when he discovered the prisoner (Mahony) about to descend from the wall of Mr. Barron's yard. He waited until Le reached the ground, and then took him inte cus tody. He was without shoes. Witness left the prisoner in charge of another watchman, named Noss, who took hiM to the watch-house, while he (witness) returned to the house, in the yard of Thiel' he found a pair of shoes, a dark lantern, two jemmies, a centre-bit, and other imple• meats of house-brelking. On going into the privy wit ness heard a cough, and said to Bosher, one of the pro secutor's men, and a watchman, that there was some person concealed in the adjoining yard. They accord ingly got over the wall, and took the prisoner Morris from the dust-hole, where he had endeavoured to conceal himself. Sir RICHARD 13txxts told the prisoners that this was the evidence against them. If they wished to say any thing, he would hear them. Alahony said he had no desire to say any thing at present, and Morris denied that he had been on the pre mises at all. The prisoners were fully committed on the capital charge. Soon after the above case was disposed of, two gentle men presented themselves to the magistrates to give infor mation of a daring attack and highway robbery that took place about the same hour that morning. One Qf the ap plicants, a stout elderly gentleman, stated that he was pro ceeding to his lodgings at No. 23, Arundel-street, Strand, between one and two o'clock that morning, when, in passing through Greyhound-court, within a few doors of his lodgings, he saw seven or eight men, two of whom sprung upon him, and he was laid senseless from a violent blow upon his head. On coming to his recollection he found himself stretched upon his back in the passage he had named, and he also discovered that the thieves had robbed him of 350/. in hank-notes, which he had concealed in his fob, to get at which his pantaloons were cut in two places, as were also his drawers and shirt, and the knife had pene trated even to his skin, inflicting a severe wound, which had bled profusely. Sir R. BLKNIE asked the gentleman if he knew the numbers of the notes of which he had been robbed ? The gentleman replied that he had no memorandum of the numbers of the notes, all of which were of the Bank of England. He received them, he said, from Mr. Kent, an Irish money-broker, who resides in Dublin. Mr. HALLS asked the gentleman if he had been to the Bank to describe the notes, with a view to their being stopped ?—The gentleman said he was told at the Bank that there was no use in his applying there unless he could give the numbers of the stolen notes. The gentle man added, that on the back of the notes Mr. Kent had written his name. One of them also bore the signature of Captain Skinner, who commands one, of the Holyhead steam-packets. Sir R. BIRNIE—Was no watchman near when you were attacked ?—The gentleman answered, that he could see no watchman near the spot, although it was quite evi dent that they were more needed there than in a more public thoroughfare. In reply to a question by the Magistrate, the gentleman said he did not think he could identify any of the men. Sir It. Btx.xlit told the gentleman to go to the clerk's office, in order that his statement might he entered in the robbery-book, with a view to the detection of the thieves. The gentleman accordingly withdrew for that purpose. MARLBOROUG H- STR EET. —On Sunday last Hum phrey St. John Mildmay, Esq. residing at Roehampton, came to this office, and communicated to Plank, the chief officer, that a robbery had been committed at his house at Roehampton on the previous night, and applied for advice as to the hest means of detecting the perpetrator. Mr. Mildmay stated, that on Saturday night, previous ly to his going to bed, he placed between 601. and 70/. in sovereigns, and 101. and 51. notes of the Bank of England, in a bureau in his library, and the next morning when he got up, he found that the bureau had been forced open, and all the money carried off, but nothing taken besides, al though all the other contents were strewed about : he was quite at a loss to imagine how or by whom the robbery was committed, as there was no appearance of any part of the premises having been entered by violence, awl he bad so high an opinion of the integrity of all the servants iu his establishment, that he could not for a moment ham hour the idea that any of them had been concerned in the robbery Plank said, that however high might be the opinion which Mr. 31ildmay cntixtained of his domestics, there could b e b ut little do ubt, from the quiet way in which Mr. Mildmay described the robbery to have taken place, that it was perpetrated by, or with the assistance of, some person well acquainted with , and who had easy access to the house ; and ask e d M r. Mildmay if there was no person either now or at any other time in his service whose honesty he had had any occasion to suspect. Mr. Mildinsy said that there had been a man in his Service as footman, whom he discharged several months ago for robbing him of a large portion of his wearing ap parel and other property; but although he might e asily have brought a conviction home to him, he was reluctant to prosecute the man, and he contented himself with dis missing the footman from his service. From that time, however, he had seen nothing of this man, nor heard of him, except that he understood he was a driver or in some way :connected with the Oxford or Uxbridge stage coaches; but the man since his discharge had never had any access to the house, nor was he ever seen near or about the neighbourhood, so that suspicion could scarcely attach to him. Plank observed, that notwithstanding this, it would be as well to get hold of this discharged footman, and in the mean time, as he (Plank) himself could not leave his im mediate duties at the office, an experienced person should be sent down to Roehampton to investigate the matter. Clements, an active officer, was accordingly despatched to Mr. Mildmay's house ; and after inquiry, felt satisfied that none of the servants had been implicated in the robbery, nor could he discover how a stranger from without might have obtained access to the house. It now became the more necessary to look after the discharged footman, al though there were no grounds for suspicion against him, beyond his former dishonesty ; and Clements set about the task of searching him out, without any due to guide him, except that of the man's supposed connexion with the Ox ford coaches. At all the coach-offices and other places connected with the stages on that road, inquiry was made, but no person answering to the man's name or description was at all known as belonging to the Oxford road coaches. It was understood that the man sought after had relations at Oxford, and Plank addressed a letter to a person there with whom .he is acquainted, to be on the look out. The person at Oxford was on the alert, and by inquiring of all the London coachmen arriving in Oxford, he learned from one of thou that he had conveyed a young man, answering the descrip tion. from London as far as Cowley, near Uxbridge, on his coach on Monday last, and there set him down, as the young man said, at the house of a re lation. No time was lost on this information, in despatching a constable to Cowley ; but on his arrival the bird had flown, although it was ascertained beyond a doubt that the man wanted had been there, but had doubled back again upon London. The whole of Tuesday night, Wednesday, and Wednesday night, to a late hour, was spent in a fruitless search after the absent man. On this latter night, however, Clements, by indefatigable exertions, ac companied by Mr. Mildmay's coachman, who could iden tify the man, got upon the scent again, and soon after pounced upon the game just as he had taken cover in a public-house, and lodged him for the rest of the night in the watch-house, and yesterday he was brought before Sir G. FARRAH; the sitting Magistrate, hr a preliminary exa mination. The prisoner's name is Israel Harrod; he is a young man, and was dressed a good dral after the fashion of a fox • hunter, wearing a green hunting frock-coat, and sporting breeches, boots, &c., all of which, together with the very shirt and cravat he had on, Mr. Mildmay, who attended the examination, recognized as a part of his wardrobe which the prisoner had robbed hiss of, en the occasion on which ho was discharged. No evidence was entered into except that of Mr. Mild may, who declared on oath that he had reason now to sus pect the prisoner of being concerned in the robbery on Sa turday night, and on this the prisoner was remanded to a future day. Tire prisoner, since his apprehension, has confessed the whole of the robbery on Saturday night, and that it was solely and entirely perpetrated by himself; and has de- scribed the mode and place by which he gained admission t.r the house, and which Mr. Mildmay having since exa mined, although he knew nothing of such facility before, no longer wonders that any one could enter the house without either violence or noise. The prisoner, it seems, entered the house about the dusk of the evening, and concealed himself until the proper op portunity for commencing his operations; and having com pleted them, he made his exit by the same passage that he entered, leaving no trace behind. He has also told all the places at which he had changed any of the Bank-notes, and the means by which he had disposed of their amount, and of the sovereigns ; but he pretends to have thrown some of the Bank-notes into the Thames to prevent their being traced. Others of them, he says, he changed at the Glo cester Hotel in Oxford, at the Bull-and-Mouth in the city, and at other coach-offices in town. Mr. Fuller, of the Temple-of Fancy, Rathbone-place, Oxford -street, applied to Sir GEORGE FARRAter yesterday, for advice how to act under the following circumstances : Mr. Fuller had been in the habit for years of publishing the Portrait of the Winner of the Great St. Leger Stakes, which is painted by Mr. Herring, of Doncaster. This morning he had only received the parcel from the White Horse, Fetter-lane, although Le ought to have had it at least twelve days since, and he now wished to know what redress he could have. Sir G. I:ARRANT—What proof have you that they have detained it? Mr. Fuller—Only by its being deliver e d this morning ; but the party knowing it was the portrait of " The Colonel'' they have kept it back for their own interest. Sir G. FA Rai N T—Have you any letter from Mr. Her ring stating his having sent it? Mr. Fuller—On my ask ing the porter& as to the cause of its non-delivery, they stated that it had been sent to Wallingford, although my address was as plain as possible. Sir GEORGE FA KRA NT—I am afraid I cannot assist you. Mr. Fuller--It has been most injurious to me, for fhad to wait upon his Majesty twelve days since with the por trait of " Velocipede," which his Majesty was most anxious to see ; and from this conduct of the office, I have not been able to keep my appointment. Sir GEORGE FARRANT—You had better get all your evidence together, and try the case at Msrylebone Office, it being in that district. Mr. Fuller thanked the Magistrate for his advice, and left the office. HATTON-GARDEN.—Two girls of the town were charged with indecently assaulting Mr. LAING, one of. the Magistrates of this office. The complainant had dined at the Middlesex Court house, with a number of his brother Magistrates, the pre ceding evening. Returning home to his chambers, in King's Bench-walk, Temple, he passed through Catherine street, Strand, when the prisoners rushed out of one of the courts in that street, and, making a most awkward seizure of his person, delayed his progress. The Magistrate shrunk from the contaminating touch of his fair assailants, and called for the protection of the watchman, who, however, passed on with the utmost indifference, and it was not until s Bow-street patrol came up that Mr. Laing was released from bis perilous situation. The prisoners were taken before Sir Richard Birnie, but he sent them to this Office, to be treated as the Magis trates here thought proper. Mr. ROGERS, upon hearing hearing the facts, committed both the ladies to the House of Correction fur one month. MAR YLEBONE.—A modest looking gentleman, named Blanker, whose youthful days were gone, was charged before Mr. GRIFFITH, with assaulting a female of respec table appearance, in the New-mad, on Wednesday night. The watchman proved that the defendant was tipsy, and he being unable to confute the charge, was ordered by Mr. GRIFFITH in the first place to pay a fine to the King for being drunk, and then to make the lady compensation. Mr. Blanker immediately paid ss. to the King, gave satis faction to Mrs. Cracker, and went off about his business. UNION-HALL.--A REVEREND GIN - BlREER. — Shortly after Mr. HONE took his seat, the Rev. Mr. Coomber, Master of the Kennington-house Academy, and his wife, were charged with being drunk, disorderly, and beating two of the Bow-street patrol. James, one of the patrol, while on duty between nine and ten on Wednesday night, in the New Cut, Lambeth, observed the Rev. defendant endeavonring to provoke an old man, upwards of 70, to fight, but who eivilly declined the proffered milling. James interfered, and requested Mr. Coomber to go on ; but he, at the time as drunk as a parson, and his wife equally so, replied with a blow on the patrol's eye, which completely closed it up ; after which he bela boured him with a heavy baton he uses to assist a lameness he labours under. James called two officers to his assist ance, and it was with the utmost difficulty they carried the two defendants to the watch-house, Mr. Coomber deal ing his blows most liberally around him, and Mrs. Coomber assisting with the more legitimate weapons of her sex—her nails.—When in the watch-house, the Rev. Gentleman's pocket was forcibly dispossessed of a quart bottle of gin. A Gentleman in the office observed, that the reverend defendant was by no means qualified for a mitre, as "being given to striking," Mr. HONE fined them both five shillings for being drunk, and allowed them to settle the assault with the patrol. With this they complied, and were discharged. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. WEDNEsDAY, Ocr. 15.—Wind N.N.W.—High water 25 minutes past two.—Arrived the Hero, Speedy, from Archangel ; Najade, Leonard, from Memel ; Clemence, Haan, from Amsterdam; Hunter, Cottingham, Isle of Ma❑ ; Earl of Errol, Dunlop, from Sligo; Dasher, De niwoody, Isle of Man. CLEARED OUTWARDS.--The Richard, Blackley, for Trinidad ; Jenge Dockt Reinke, Altmans, from Antwerp; Engelina, I3ok, for Rotterdam ; Sportsman, Porter; fur Mobile; London, William., New Orleans ; Levant, Pugh, Marseilles; Sophia, Copenhagen; Dolphin, Agem; New foundland. COMMON COIINCIL. Yesterday a Court of Common Council was held at Guildhall, pursuant to notice. Mr. RICHARDSON wished, before the business of the day commenced, to call the attention of the Court to what he conceived to be a . gross breach of privi lege. The corporation had rid 701. for the printing of some sermons by Mr. Lancaster, in an appendix to which a gross libel was contained against the L on d on University, an institution which he thought would be the means of affording the greatest benefits to the metropolis. The LORD MAYOR informed the Hon. Gentleman that he could not allow him to proceed. If any thing wrong had been published by Mr. Lancaster, that gentleman was ready to answer for it elsewhere. Mr. PEACOCK gave notice that he should postpone, for a few months, his motion with respect to the pro priety of prosecutions for political opinions. SMITHFIELD MARKET. Mr. BLACKETT presented reports on the reference respecting the office of Collector of Brokers' rents, and on the several references relating to Smithfield market. After a few words from Mr. TitompsoN, Mr. DIXON, and some others, the report!, were agreed to. SECONDARIES' OFFICE. Mr. BLACKETT moved the consideration of the printed report of the Committee of City Lands, and the minutes of evidence before the said Committee in relation to the office of secondary. He contended that it was the duty of the Corporation to fill the office of secondary, by a person who would efficiently discharge the duties of his office, and see that those under him did the same. A person who had been a clerk in the Secondary's office for forty years had extorted ten guineas for a fee, of which his principal only received three, while he pocketed the remain ing seven. But so long as a sum of money was paid for the office of secondary, sqlong would these exac tions continue. Mr. GALLOWAY then presented a petition from Mr. Charles Pearson, praying that he might be allowed to address the Court in person in support of the prayer of his petition of the 29th of November last, and moved that the prayer be granted. The motion having begn put, was carried in the affirmative, and Mr. Pearson was called to the bar. Mr. PEARSON stated, that he was ready to assert, as a lawyer, that the Corporation of London had no right to sell the Office of Secondary, and that they were even subject to an indictment for attempting to do so. He knew such an opinion was at variance with that of one of the law officers of the Corpora tion ; but until he saw the reasons for that opinion, lie must contend that the sale was illegal; for he could never believe that the Legislature intended to exempt the Corporation of London from the enact ments of a statute which bound all other Corpora tions. There was a fact worth a hundred arguments, as showing that the sale of the office was not only calculated to raise the fees, but that it actually did raise them. When the late Secondary came into office, the charge for a common warrant, according to a statute of Henry VI., was 4d. He, however, raised the price to 6d., and having felt the pulse of the public, he afterwards raised it to le., thus in demnifying himself for his purchase-money by the increased charge of 209 per cent. It had been said, how can any reformation be effected in this office, supposing it to be necessary, since one-half of the office is already filled by a person who shows no dis position to suriender his rights ? He would remind the Court of the original institution of this office : at first there were two shops —one, the Poultry-comp ter, and the other the Giltspur-street Compter, which two shops merged into one, and then, as there was no opposition, of course any price was charged for business done. The Corporation, then, to correct the evil, had only need to open an other shop. The Secondaries'-office had been a sine cure for the last 18 years, and not such a sinecure as those against which the public indignation had been raised, and which • were supported jointly by the rich and the poor; but this lived solely from the money wrung from distressed and miserable objects. In the late Secondary's time, a clerk, who had en joyed his master's unlimited confidence for 40 years, had yet, during all that time, received no salary.— How, then, was he supported, but by making the most of his fees? The report of the Committee recommends that bailiffs should not be permitted to take bail-bonds; that the debtor should be taken by the hand to prison, to the house of the Secondary, or to. a lock-up-house. The Corporation, he must, however, state, had no power to pass any such regu halo]. The bailiff was the sheriff's deputy, and ' was bound to receive tender of bail. It had been said, the smallness of the fee ought to exclude it from being made the subject of remark; but it should be remembered that the money was extorted 1 from the poor by taking advantage of their sittiation. When an execution was placed in a man's house in this city, it could not be said that a sale of his .goods takes place,—it is an actual robbery. The amount of the expenses bear no proportion to the duties performed. A man had fitted up a shop with gas-lights and other furniture previous to com mencing business; but every thing was seized for a debt of 15/. No inventory of the goods was taken, but they were carried away and sold by a broker for 22/., upon which sum 8/. was charged for expenses. In this charge tho bailiff went "snacks" with the broker, and a worthy Alderman, well known for his charitable disposition, seeing how things were ma naged, and wishiNg to put an end to that system by which the brokers and bailiffs went " snacks," set up brokers of his own, intending, he (Mr. Pear son) supposed, to.go " snacks" with them himself. Mr. Alderman FAREBROTHER stated, that the alteration he made was merely to take. from the bailiffs the money they unjustly received, and apply it to purposes of charity, and he could give an ac count of the disbursement he had so received. Mr. Pearson must know that the broker could not charge the defendant a single farthing for the sale of his" goods. Mr. PEARSON knew the practice was illegal, and that was the reason he denounced it. But the worthy Alderman called it charity to give to the poor that which was taken from the miserable—to extort from the wretched money, to give to those who were, if possible, more wretched ! Mr. Alderman FAREEROTIIER Would not be charg ed with extortion. The money which he had given away in charity, was not taken from the defendant, but came from the pocket of the plaintiff. Ml'. PEARSON was sorry if he had said any thing calculated to wound the feelings o f t h e wort h y Al derman ; he could only say he Wend e d no suc h thing. Another great evil arose f rom w h at was called walking possessions, which meaxt, that though a writ was out against a person, t h e b a iliff did not take posses i on of his h ouse , b ut rece i ve d s s . a d a y for his abs ence ;so th at peop l e were d ece i ve d a s to the credit of this person, and might send goods into his house the very day before an execution would take pla c e. Th ere was now on l y one mor e subject to which he had to call the attention of the Court respectin g th e S econ d ary ' s o ffi ce . Was it to be be lieved, th a t f or years an d years past, the property of citizens of London had been subjected to the de cision of pauperst o t f h e par pensioners ißhes ;for o fr f om ivo t r h k a h r diseeslijailtlid the on of persons was a jury, possessing such power, com posed, and which had gained the appellation of the " fudge jury ?" He would tell the Court the rea son far selecting this jury from the lowest order of men. It was because the Secondary g a i ne d a li tt l e money by so doing. Every juryman ought to have Is. for his attendance, but it appeared that jurymen of the " fudge jury" only got 6d., while the Secon dary pocketed the other 6d. In conclusion, lie thanked the Court for the patient hearing which they had given him. He felt confident that they would never agree to the sale of this office; and it that should be the case, he should feel justly proud of having been an humble instrument in producing that reform. The Secondary (Mr. CROWTHER, who, the Lord Mayor decided, had a right to speak) complained of the declamatary speech just addressed to the Court. rl Np iti3l VI e' o The Court had been told 'that the Secondarced R ,treat pocketing half of every shilling which was ells 1p The to the Jurymen. Now the fact was that 0° d won jurymen ever rece i ve d more th an Bd., a l l g oo . 4 .11 u had always been the f ee p a id t o t h e J ur y gr it , t irofh i l He denied that it was law that the bail o ti kA ' T H' . bound to receive bail; the bail could only be 1 1 6 6 i Atriq at the office from which the writ was issuco bo A l pin ic , Secondary had no interest in taking the bik n Otti, %sty! as that constituted the most arduous' a rt off . keir duties ; and as far as he was concerned, 105 " fi ik . have no objection to enter into an arraugonri I, l l * which a person who had more activity linu Adt tit* health than he possessed to attend to hill pin should fill the office. !.; At the conclusion of the Learned G e ntle j ° l speech th e C our t a dj ourne d on t h e mo tion °' LEGGE. THIRD EDITION• , SUN OFFICE, Scven o THE LONDON GAZE'II OF THIS EVENING. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY• tY , s '4l-1.413 Martha Welcher, Low e r Gr o s venor -pl ace , St. v v.— . Wra, Hanover-square, lodging-house keeper. 6° 4 1 John Rodn e y W ar d, B ermon d se y- s t ree t, SO . .41 6 : druggist. • ' • BANKRUPTS. to - e sgerilt 0 41 William Bradl e y, L eg h urn , Li nco l ns hi re, s ilk- A O • 4 5 14 to surrender, Oct. 24, 31, and Nev. 28, at rem, Court of Commission ers . S to k es an d Rollin .re Cateaton-street; Wilson, Louth. James Kendall, Stratford, Essex, cow-keeper, ._.n o stOktft,.° 6 31, and Nov. 28, at ten, at the Court of Guntur • Hodgson, Broad-street-buildings. tetS ib" James Horwood and William Oliver, Maddol_ A l Solikt,, u, C : 4 ' Hanover-square, house-decorators, Oct. 24, SI, il'fiek.g 4 or 28, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Carlo!) , street, Marylehone. • r e " ,4 l - William Henry Woodhouse, Darnall, Yorkshire , o*pi Oct. 28, 29, and Nov. 28, at twelv e , a t th e Mrsbef Sheffield. Hookcy, Staple Inn, London; H a rdy, •11,, Geld. elm Thomas Sand e rso n , Nottingham, lace-mattur:iii4' . ',i47l os Oct. 25, 27, and No v . 28, a t t we l ve , at the Bla c '.llo', ' 404 Head Inn, Nottingham. Sidmore, Nottingharo; 832 6 and Johnson, Temple, London. tOd :8641 Edmund Rorke, Liverpool, merchant, Oct. 24, SI c if •, 10 417 Nov. 28, at eleven, a t th e C our t o f Commissioners:, 'AO tington, Change-alley, Cornhill. 0 11 ° °1 016 John Hall, Rupert-street, Goodman's-fi e lds, ',.P11079 victualler, Oct. 28, at ten, 31, and No v . 28, at ele;boltr it 25 the Court of Commissioners. Noy and Pinward, Pi " . 1 11 , 851 lane. 4 , 11 - • 918 George Barnby, Spalding, Lincolnshire, grocl 4 ;stir ' 4 2125 24, 31, and Nov. 28, at t en , a t th e C ourt o f CA,' ! A pe' 1 1172 sinners. Pearce, Phillips, and Bolger, St. Swithin. r oct."44l9 o Henry Gilbert, Bishopsgate-street•without, ri e % til e , 1 40i' 28, at ten, 31, at tw e l ve , an d N ov. 28, at - ekvelit " '4(15 6 Court of Commissioners. Gates, Lombard-street. 1 0.4 293 Reuben Rippon, L ee d s , b u ild er , N ov. 8, at eleve n ' )570 , at ten, 28, at eleven, at the Court-house, Leeds wayes and Walker, Barnard's-inn ; Robinson, John Bailey, Bath, shoemaker, Nov. 17, 18, eleven, at the White Lion Inn, Bath. Havet street, Bloomsbury ; Mant, Son, and Bruce, Ba , William Marsden, Clitheroe, Lancashire, carrier, Nov. 10, at five, 11, at ten, and 28, Golden Lion, Settle, Yorkshire. Armstrong, London ; Abbotson, Kirkby Stephen, We•itmo George Hughes, Spring. street, Shadwell; chant, Oct 31, and Nov. 14, 28, at eleven, of Commissioners. Lowless and Stubbs, T street. DIVIDENDS. William Cooke, Manchester, calieo-printer, nine, at the Palace-inn, Manchester. William Mill, Fore -street, London, wool Nov. 7, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners, John Sard and John Smither, St. 'Martin's dlesex, woollen-drapers, Nov. 21, at eleveu, of Commissioners. George Burgibs, Eton, Buckingham, clinic at &even, at the Court of Commissioners. Isaac Ahlett, Bucklersbury, fustain-manufacf 7, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Thomas Weston, Hirwain-wharf, Earl-street, cement-manufacturer, Nov. 7, at eleven, at the Commissioners. „pro 8 37 Williain Carpenter, Leadenliall-street, woollen 1 055 Dee. 9, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. 8 0 15 I John Adams, Union-street, Southwark, oilman, 5t !GS? Court of Commissioners. ha l , ' 1 5 4 3 George Hackelton Crowther, Frodsbam, Chester' - tie 1 81., seller, Nov. 17, at one, at the office of Mr. W. 13gr 17 15 Liverpool. pl oy''l' I'EOBB2 Z.:James Gregory, Brighton, lodging-hou se -k e eper, , oa at eleven, at the Star-inn, Lewis. ,y . I 1 1 ' 9 20 • five, at the office of Mr. J o hn Ri s i ng Staff, Norwiowool: 44,1 George Burdy, Ed ge -l ane, West Derby, Liver 0 . 24 7 glass-mainut . acturer, Nov. 10 at twelve, at the 010'1 4463 Mr. Leather, Liverpool. of t ‘1•09 William Daniel G oo d eve , Wi m b orne Minster, 1)° e !$95 shire, common-b rewer , N ov. 7, at twelve, at the C°li., ' '6ll Cmmissioners. 1 1 2 , Ql7 Robert Hunter, Aldgate, colourtnan, Nov. 7, at On-' , 44 41 the Court of Commissioners. 1 , I , Thomas Holdich, Spalding, Lincolnshire, grocer, 14'•,,,,, `%17 .a nt eleven, at the Hotel, Stamford. pO, i ‘ , 4 . 1i7 7 William Hallewell, Sheffield, Yin kshire, builder , sh e %10 4 , 11, at eleven and two, at the office of Mr. HartlYt 111 10 field. it 41 7 George Axe, St a mford, Lincolnshire, draper, 11°. ' 6 43 at eleven:and twelve, at the Hotel, Stamford. al, CERTIFICATES—Nov. 7. 51 85 6 Jahn Stainton, Lincoln, b oo k se ll er . e elfo ,l t j 1 41 t John Wright, right Ch ar l o tt e - s t reet , Percy-street, ,-- 4- 47 square, cheesemonger. f , 478 r , James D a y, Q ua d ran t, R egen t- s t ree t, woo ll en -dro 1 17 9 Thomas Pearson and William Reeves, soo9- 4 11 85 Strand, wine-merchants. 4 01 PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. 0 ,1 1 . 1 07 John Lythoe and Thomas Roberts, Liverpool, co°ll,o '4li4 Thomas Goodall and William Barron, St. Martin s"1 4 4? , builders. . 1i4 48 John Trapp and Benjamin Trapp, Bedford, drape t li ot e i54, t William Coulby and Christopher Baldwin, Notting 1 / 4 7 0 brass-founders. • ( Pe ( ' ~N Thomas Phillips and Robert Phillips, Besach o Y O9l Dorsetshire, drapers. ut ln '1 4 8 Joseph Bennett and Thomas Hawkins, D4 oo° 6. 1 , 4 - 4. Devon, ship-owners. i r , I L I % 11 , Mary Byrne and Martha Lindley, Nottingham," i '",o 4 05 Henry Bonifant and George Dext e r, Newark -4 0(49 Trent, Nottinghamshire, mercers. to t, , 1,6 5 William Copp, George Pelly Tory, and Robert PI L i t7l Tiverto Daniel Horton and William Laird, Birkenhead, C li Ng e I , ' boiler-makers. i pld 459 Francis Buttrum and Thomas Lucock, Ipswich, 5° 1 %0 millers. ts' 1624 C. G. Carroll and J. F. Hogg, London, merchs", et' ii t3o P. Novelli and John George Bodmer, Egerton , P s i' l l4' t 6 shire. George arid George Deane, sen. and jun., Fish..stre e• I I A cl ' hill, hardw 0 ullareman. Ilk William Downes and Thomas Trevor Lethem ''-° 1 -It 1 Cannock, Stafford, surgeons. So 10 0 John and R o b er t Mill er , St. L awrence , Iprwic"' 'lB folk,, tea-dealers. George Bingham and Joseph Turtle, Clay-Crosat P ei shire, brush and bobbin-turners. James Worrill Sylvester and Alfred Henry Si lTesl Chowbent, Lancashire, cotton-spinners. yr Robert Williams, Robert Pattison, and Morgan • man, bankers, Dorchester Bank, Dorchester. ' A tli Wm. Hilton and Wm. Chambers, Newark. Upon.Tf , mercers. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. 1 1 ' Andrew Smith, Canon, Falkirk, 'mister, Nov. e' eleven, at the Red Lion, Inn, Falkirk. 0 James Henry Paterson, Glasgow, merchant, Oct. and Nov. 5, at one, at the Eagle Inn, Glasgow. c;0 ,1 BIRTHS. On the 16th inst., Mrs. Green, of Addington - f l" Camberwell, of a son. On the 15th inst., the lady of H. W. Maw"' Beel House, Amershatn, Bucks, of a daughter. t . 4 tf At Tockingt ou , th e sea t o f S a mu e l Peach Peach, "'- the lady of John Murray Aynaley, Esq., of a son. At Edinburgh, t2S Mrs. Wm. Bailey, of twin da' horn.still DIED. 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