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save them, one and all, from destruction. Oh ! when the budget comes before Parliament, who is there that would refuse such a pittance to the helpless, hopeless, prostrate, famished exile ? Ibid. The question of the liquidation of the Portuguese bonds is one which deeply involves the credit arid the character of the Brazilian Monarch. Nothing can be more unjust than the refusid to pay the inte rest due upon them after its being so solemnly gua ranteed, and nothing assuredly can be more flimsy than the pretexts that have bee n assigned for so ex traordinary a refusal. On the Treaty by which the burthen of those bonds was transferred from Portu gal to B ra zil—transferred, be it observed, not only by a fair bargain, but by one in which the latter country was clearly the gainer —no imputation has been attempted to be thrown. It is no spurious nor equivocal document. The rights of the British cre• ditor under it are as legal as they are indisputable. One article declares the obligation of Brazil; an other declares the intended mode of its What is that mode ? To release Portugal from the charge of paying the bonds in question, and to substitute Brazil as the creditor of the holders. The debt which had been incurred by Portugal, there fore, became part and parcel the debt of Brazil, and in honour and in justice the payment of the princi pal and interest is as much incumbent on that country as is the payment of the Brazilian bonds of 1824eand 1825. To the arrangement made by this Treaty it - is true the bondholders were not parties; but what of that ? It did but give to them a double guarantee for full and regular payment. With out the Treaty they had Portugal to look to ; with it they had Portugal and Brazil united, so !Ong as one or both were solvent. So far as regards Brazil, Portugal may be considered to be released from obligation—that is, if Brazil fulfil the treaty ; but so far as regards the English creditor, both are fully and legally bound—Portugal as the party to whom the loan was made ; Brazil as the party by whom its payment was voluntarily undertaken. The Lill was accepted by Portugal, and indorsed by Brazil; and either party or both are clearly liable to the drawer to the utmost extent of their means. We shall not dwell at present on the way in which the sums that ought to have paid the dividends have been appropriated. Yet that is no unimportant in quiry. We may pity a debtor,who has not means of discharging his obligations—we may make allow ances where the money that ought to have been ap propriated to that purpose has 'been applied to the purchase of necessaries ; but what is to be said of him who, in such circumstances, lavishes his assets on idle follies, or worse ? Brazil, for certain advan tages received from Portugal, undertakes to pay cer tain bills ; and, having, for reasons that will not bear a moment's consideration, seen meet to quarrel with the mother country, she not only violates her en gagements, but employs the funds destined for their fulfilment to insult and injure the Government to whom the innocent creditor might otherwise have had recourse. Not only does she refuse to pay, but she has the baseness and dishonesty to do all in her power to prevent any one else from doing so.- 41Iorning Journal. Among all the effusions of bigotry and intolerance that have yet issued from the Brunswickers, none have surpassed in cant, hypocrisy and folly, the Decl aration of a portion of the Clergy of the Diocese . of Rochester, published yesterday in a provincial paper. In the space of a few sentences it contains all the exploded calumnies that malice has invented, or silly credulity believed. It is consolatory, however, to the friends of civil and religious liberty to observe, that not a single name is to be found in the list that is known either to the walks of theology or litera ture. The opinions, therefore, of such a descrip tion of persons (if sincere) can have no weight; but it is to be feared that many of them have to answer for a much more serious imputation than mere igno rance. It is impossible that, at the present day, when improvement has become 4o general, any con siderable numbers can be found above the rank of hoors and hinds, and especially in a profession the members of which ought to be learned, who con scientiously can echo the sentiments of a Winehel sea and a Newcastle.—Morning Chronicle. Jean Jaques Rousseau, in a letter to Mirabeau, the Economist, observes, with regard to the hopes entertained of the improvement of our species— " The Abbe de St. Pierre conceived that human reason was in a course of perpetual improvement, because every age adds its stores of knowledge to those of preceding ages. He did not see that the human understanding has always the same measure, alai that a very narrow one—that it loses on the one hand as much as it gains on the other—and that prejudices, constantly reviving, deprive us of as much acquired knowledge as cultivated in tellect can supply the place of." The opinion of the Genovese Philsopher is still occa sionally expressed, and many more entertain it, perhaps, than choose to give expression to their thoughts. And yet there is no opinion which all history inure triumphantly refutes. Look at the Bushman of the Cape of Good Hope, the miserable native of New Holland, and then look at the most neglected of the inhabitants of St, Giles, and the distance between them will perhaps be found as peat as that between the denizen of St. Giles and the most astute Counsel, who daily labour to en. lighten or perplex 'Judges or Jurors in our Law C ?urtC The position that our ancestors were as wise as!VI a are appears most absurd, when we take . so ciety its rudest state, and observe the savage, a prey to dm grossest.superstitions, constantly in dread of the wrath of souse malevolent deity, and exerting hi s mental powers exclusi ve l y i n o b ta i n i ng t h e means of siti .. 4fying his most urgent wants. At what period in civilization, from the state of this savage, are we to stop and say—here we have reached the limits of - wisdom and experience.? If we t a k e ever y century we shall find that exper ience has ad ded to the stores ' of knowledge, and reduced the mass of error. Then why are we to suppose that the course of improve ment ; 3 terminated, and that errors and prejudices of all sorts will still be as prevalent as ever; and that the idea which is fondly entertained by t h e well-disposed, that by their labours the lot of their fellow creatures will be benefited, is a rnietseable de - lusion ? No man who has passed the middle of life will hesitate to admit that intelligence is now much more generally diffused than it was thirty years ago,and that the people are much less liable to be carried away by prejudice and delusion. '1 his improvement has taken place in spite of the deteriorated cenditi.on of the working classes, and the tendency of excess i ve lat.= to unfit the mind for reading, s.nd to drive men to the public-house to recruit their essh3Ost ,(l spirits by stimulants. We need not say that the nie creased intelligence of the lower orders improves the morality of their superiors, for the temptation to work on ignorance is often too great for the virtue o f those who think th e y can turn i t t o accoun t, All who are in the lsast familiar with history know that t h e morality of Europ e , t h ree or four hundred years ag o, was beyond measure depraved, and that false hood and treachery of all sorts were deemed allow able resources. It has been shewn by candid writers, that the morality of the Jesuits vas the mo istlity of the age, and that the Jesuits werc singled out, because their wr i t ers h ad displayed more talent than others in illustrating . it. But the currency of a detestable morality pre-supposes a larg e mass o f ignorance and credulity; for where the gem , i,,' seen through the skill is no longer of value. We see yet, wherever -there is a certainty that fraud can h e practised with impunity, it is practised. Hence it has been observed, that all men who deal in horses are knaves, and that a Bishop, in selling a horse, will cheat his best friend as readily as any other man will. The knavery always rises with the strength of the hope that it will not be detected. To the same rause we may attribute the gross attempts at delu sion, on the part of the Clergy, in the parts of the country where ignorance most abounds. We would not be understood to say, tl•at, all the Clergy who oppose concession to file Catholics are interested knaves; there are some, no doubt, who are themselves under the iafiuence of de lusion. But we have no hesitation in avow ing our belief, that most of them are insin cere, and that they would have recourse to any other cry as readily as that of "No Napery," if they thought it would go down with their dupes. Thirty years ago, the Brunswickers of Leeds would not have been under the necessity of skulking into a corner, to escape the disapprobation of the great body of their fellow-citizens. Thirty years ago, we should have had Clergymen in this metropolis vying with their brethren at Maidstone and in Newton Abbott in the grossness of their insults to common sense. But the dread of the ridicule of detection in an attempt to delude, will preserve the Clergy of the metropolis from an imitation of the .conduct of their country brethren. 'Filet the people are less liable to be carried away by absurd reasoning than formerly, may be proved in a variety of ways. To take one instance—during the time of the fever oc casioned by the attempt to naturalise the .Jews, a pamphlet was thought so highly of by die citizens of London, that it was printed several times at their expence. 'We have in this pamphlet tie very same arguments urged against the Jews, which the Parsons urge against the Catholics to the poor creatures whom they can cozen. " Our Constitution in Church and State," says the sage of 1753, " is at present Christian—(it was then " Christian ;" it is now" Protestant")—founded upon the principles of Christianity ; and whatever openly and avowedly op poses these principles must endanger the Constitu tion, so far as its opposition has power. But there -are no two religions 1 , 1 the world more opposite than the infidelity of the ,Jews and the faith of the Chris tians; for the Jews are the open and avowed oppo sers of those principles of Christianity upon which our Constitution is founded, and the present Act in their favour cannot be carried into execution without increasing the power of their opposition, and consequently it musts° far endanger the Constitution as it increases the power of its opposers. No un prejudiced person can resist the force of these truths ; for what can be more self-evident than that the Jews are the enemies of our Constitution, and, that putting power into their bands must endanger the Constitution ? . w e have always apprehended that the Protestant religion was more dissimilar to the Jewish than any other, the Jewish being all infidelity and blasphemy, and the Protes tant all soundness and tsiith Do we essentially *Mir concerning the promised Mes siah ? Their Messiah is not yet come—they look for him daily, and are always praying for his coming. And suppos e th e y s h ou ld set up M r . G—n for their Messiah, for they have often set up a more unlikely ppson ; and suppose they should raise a rebellion, and take up arms to support, his title, would not this endanger the Constitution ? Most certainly it would. Our fears of a false Messiah are not so ridiculous. False Messiahs have certainly arisen in other parts, and why then may they not arise in England ? And if they should set up such an one, would-not our Constitution then b e i n dan ger ? Was it not in danger in the year 1745 ? And will it not be more in danger, when all the rich Jews in the world, and their Jure Divine Messiah at the head of them, shall take up arms on purpose 'to overthrow our Constitution ? By what aye can the State secure their obedience to its laws ? There is absolutely none:; for an oath, which is the greatest security the State can have, lays them under no obligation; and must not the admission of such per-- sons prove. dangerous to the Constitution ? Do we not exclude the Papists for this very reason, because they will keep no faith with us, and are the Jews, who hold the same doctrine, worthy to be admitted ? Certainly, the Papists are not quite so bad as the Jews, and why, then, should admitting the Jews be supposed not to endanger the State, and yet admit ting the Papists to endanger it ? The very prayers which are daily offered up to God in the Synagogue, and thrice a day in private by every Jew, implore the total extirpation of Christianity and of all Chris tians; with which they beg the Almighty would destroy us in the most dreadful manner, that we may live without hope, mid die without mercy." Poor Constitution—at one time at death's door from the Dissenters, at another threatened by the Ales slid', and again by the Pope ! Our Protestant Con stitution ought to be dear to us, ireleed, have pre served it safe in the teeth of such dreadful perils! We do etot mean to say that reasoning like this would not be as successful on Penenden Heath, as it was in London in 1753. What we mean to say is, that the Magistracy and citizens of London would hardly be led away by the fear of a Messiah throw ing down the British Christian Constitution, in 1828, as they were in 1753. There are, PO doubt, knaves now, as there were then, who, for a would swear that the Protestant Constitution was ict imminent danger from Prester John; but we are - speaking of the class of the disinterested, without prevailing with which, nothing can be done. Knaves cannot get on without fools.—lbid. As the dull season of the year proceeds in its course, the complaints, so usual during its existence, of the dullness of trade begin to be reiterated from all quarters. We alluded the other day to the la mentations of the Spitalfields manufacturers; and those who have embarked their capital in other branches of iedustry,• though not so veheinent in their complaints, declare flq - t they have equally just grounds. It would be difficult to say, without a fuller knowledge of the real facts of the use than we at present possess, how far these complaints are well or ill-founded—whether they are merely the product of the season of the year, or caused by any unusual deficiency of demand ; but of one fact there can be DO doubt, for every one can bear testimony to it, and that is the extreme scarcity of money. Every tr&ideswan knows that the difficulty of procuring pay ments has seldom been greater than at the present moment; and, on the other hand, that, although he has plenty of money's worth, and there is also plenty of imemployed capital in the country, discounts are at a higher premium than they have been known for some time past. The primary cause of the distrust from which these difficulties date their origin, is undeubteTy the gradual withdrawing, and approaching suppression, of the small note currency -a suppression which we have never failed to depre cate as equally incompatible with our national en gagements, and injurioas to the trade and com merce of the country—as increasiu the amount of the deb t , w hi c h is already too heavy—augm en ti ng th e amount and sever i ty i n g from the circulati°nfgthmeestliaittleintaxoefs,tialendvxoyuitlllitdryraaw,-, artificial capital, which, however, liable to be abused, has been rendered necessary by the circumstances of the country, and will eantinue to be necessary until we have surmounted the dill' l which we have entailed on ourselves by our continental folli es . ice ties What the present Administration means to do on ,1 this subject is not yet keevrte The abetters of a papa e erreney entertain strong hopes that the Duke recollected t h e of Wellington will be inclined to a partial repeal of of the Cabinet the Bill of 18'26, or at least a suspension of it for a two; b u t it ought to be r year or t hat n was a_ memb er wi ngs that Pill was introduced and under whose Duke of Wellingto passed into a law; and, on the other, that the leader of the house of Commons is as much pledged to see it carried into effect as he, is to olipo se any fur ther concessions to the Carbon • cs Whether, how_ the law in carrying ever, they relax or netinto effect, it is certaiely of great impor tance h to th e tr couny that it shouldi be early appri sed eir de termination. The uncertainty Lich the public mind is kept at the present moment, consequence of the adverse hopes and fears which are enter tained on the subject, is, to say the least of it, most mischievous, and little short of being as Ju ntol4 to trade as a resolution to carry the law into I'llll and complete operation.—erning Advertiser. The Stamp Duty upon Almanacks for IS2S, amounts to the .nin of 50,1061. 3.. 9,1., wilicL, it 151. each, exhibits a circulation of 451,593. RARA Avis.--A curious specimen of the grouse was I,;st Iced( 3IETeaLr, gamekeeper to L. ToenAnt: Esq. of Middlehani. Its be:;y was (2n tirely white, its eyes and legs a beautiful pink, and the Tat Of its body of a delicate fawn-colour,— Chester Cour. ANGLO-MEXICAN MINING COMPANY. A special general Meeting of the Proprietors of Shares in the above undertaking was holden yester day at the City of London Tavern. J. B. SCHNEIDER, Esq., in the chair. Mr. J. D. POWLES read a very voluminous report, embracing the transactions at the mines, from which it appeared that in the mines Valencittua, Serina, and Menatio, the operations were proceeding. The CHAIRMAN read a series of resolutions for adoption. By them it was proposed to raise a Anther capital of 100,0001., by the issue of 40,000 shares, In answer to questions, the CHAIRMAN stated that, on the 19th call, all had been paid; that the last call had been nearly wholly paid; that the balance now in the Company's hands was 16,0001. at the bankers; due in shares, 2,2811. The Company was under acceptances for 21,718/. ; and about 15,000/. was required for new credits. The resolutions passed, thanks were given to the chairman, and the meeting separated. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. LivErtrooL, Nov. 11.—Wind E.N.R.—High water 17 minutes past one.—Arrived the Lord Kinnaird, Martin, from Dundee ; Ariel, Dixon, from ditto; Luna, Fife, from Leith ; Enterprise, Crawford, from ditto ; Sheffield, Richards, from Dublin; Huskisson, Lindsay, from Glasgow. . _ CLEARYiII OUTWARDR,—The Goole Verwagting, Stades, for Dordt ; Rambler, Luke, for Tunis; Pan dora, Corry, for Barbadoes ; Flora, Rooderkirk, for Rot terdam ; Catherine, McDonald, Williamson, for Mobile ; James and Margaret, Sims, for ditto; Yarmouth, Har rison, for Rio Janeiro. POLICE INTELLIGENCE: GUILDHALL. Mr, Dennis Lines and Mrs. Anne Watson, natives of "the Gem," and recently imported therefrom in a Limerick butther-boat, were brought before Sir PETER LAURIE, with their noses well patched, with adhesive plaister, and charged with having broken the King's peace by mutually assaulting each other. " Last night, please your Worship," said the accusing constable, " there was a great cry of mur der among the Irish, in King's Head-court, Fleet market; and in the house where the cry was, I "found this little man (Mr. Dennis Lines) and this big woman (Mrs. Anne Watson) hard at it, screech " ing and pelting away at each other, and both of them covered with blood. I never saw two people in such a bloody condition; and as I could not pre vail upon them to be quiet, I took them to the Compter, where, after - they had been washed, and bad their noses patched, as you see, they were locked up apart from each other, to be dealt with as your Worship may think proper." " Sir," said Mr. Dennis Lines, as soon as the constable had said his say—" Sir, it's meself shall just be afther telling ye the rights of it, if ye'll hear to me kindly ; and not a word of a lie shall I bring to the fore this day, plase God." " Then you are not so particular about telling the truth every day ?" asked the Alderman. " Oh, indeed, but the truth's the truth any day," replied Mr. Dennis Lines, rather equivocally; and then he proceeded with his narration :—" Last night as ever was, blessed be the Lord for that same please your Honour, after I com'd home from my work, 1 was sitting by the fire wid me own wife, thinking about the supper we'd be afther gettin to us—and little enough it 'u'd be no doubt—two penn'orth of trotters, may be, and a hot p'taty or two; but divel a bit of supper I got that night at all ; for, just as we was thinking of it, this lady, Misthress Watson here, comes into me place, and takes up the candle, and looks into me face wid it, and says, ' If I mar ried a man wid such ugly eyes as your',, I'd take him down stairs, and shove him into the dust-hole P says she to me.—" Very well," said I, " you might do that," said 1. 7 -mighty quiet it was I said it ; by which means idle took the candle into her hand and split my nose into two pieces wid the candlestick ! Indeed she did ;—and here's my nose to the fore to testify the truth of it to your Honour." And so saying, ho suddenly plucked off the plaister, and submitted his cloven snout to the inspection of the Court, adding, as he fumblingly replaced the plait.- ter, " I know no rason in life she had to use me so disrespectfully ; far I'd no call to her at all ; only onst, afore I was married, I happened upon a little bit of misfortune by the sister of her." " What do you mean by a little bit of a misfor fortune?" demanded the Alderman. " A small child, your Honour," replied Mr. Den nis Lines, and in a very small voice, thereby show ing that he bad the grace to be a little bit asham e d of himself. Mrs. Watson, in reply, denied that she " went into his place with any ill-blood to him in regard of the small child at all ;" but only to ask " would she get lave to put her basket in till morning ?" and that he took that opprirtunity to call her a -, though he well knew she was "as lawful a married woman as ever walked upon two legs. Of coorse I made at him for a pelt wid the candlestick," she added, " but he got from me, and kill and tutted me all over entirely wid it, as your Honour may plainly persave." And thereupon she began stripping the plaisters off her close and forehead, in order that his Honour might judge who had got the worst of it. But his Honour refused to inspect the premises, and dis missed them both, with a promise that if they were brought before him again lie would send them to work together in Bridewell. BOW-STREET. A PEEP AT MOTHER H.'s.—A young Irish gen tleman, who stated that he had a commission in • the East India Company's Service, was brought before Sir R. BIRNIE, charged by a watchman of St. Paul, Covent-garden, with creating a breach of the peace in Brydges-street, at half-past three hi the morning. The watchman stated that at the hour mentioned he found the gentleman kicking with great violence at the door of " Mother H.'s," in Brydges-street, and loudly demanding admission. He told him that he must not alarm the inhabitants by that noise, and desired him to:go peaceably home. He replied thatno cursed watchman should make him stir an inch, and, after some further altercation, the gentleman struck at him, and knocked his hat off. He secured him, and conveyed him to the watch-house. Sir R. i3InNIE—Well, Sir, (to the defendant) what have you to say to this charge ? Defendant : The truth of the matter is, that I had been in the house called Mother IL's, and was violently as saulted and thrust out,and t IVO of my friends were shut in. I am on the eve of departing for the East Indies, and two gentlemen, friends of mine, came from the country to bid me farewell; we had learned that a great number of elegant and handsome women, I mean of easy virtue, Sir Richard, were to be seen at that place, and we determined, by way of amusement, to spend half an hour together there. Sir RICHARD BIRSIE—And, in my opinion, a very foolish determination it was; I never go to these places to look after women. Defendant—Per haps you have not the inclination, Sir Richard. Sir R. BIRNIE (with great good humour).—Why, I don't know; I am, to be sure, getting old; but I believe I am composed of pretty much the same sort of materials as othei. men. (Laughter). Had you any thing to drink at the house ? Defendant--Yes, Sir, we drank I Is. worth of negus during the half hour that we were in the house. Sir R. IttaNtE—ln half an hour! why you mast have been tipsy. Defendant—No, Sir, not at all; you might dri n k as muc h as t h ey g i ve f or e l even shillings without being disordered, except in the stomach. Sir R. BtaNIE---And did you find a great number of handsome women there ? Defendant—Yes, Sir; and we found them very accommodating in assisting us to despatch the negus. Sir R. BIRNIE—No doubt; but how came you to be assaulted and thrust into the street? Defendant —Why, Sirs one of my friends h a d p a id t h e eleven shillings to one of the waiters, and we were coming away, when the mistress (who is a perfect devil in her way, Sir Richard) stopped me, and accused me of not discharging the reckoning; and as she called out, a number of her waiters rushed down stairs upon me, and having, with great violence, thrust me into the street, gave me into the custody of a watchman for not paying the reckoning : they closed the door and kept my friends in, who havin g satisfied the landlady that the reckoning was paid, she called out to the watchman to let me go. I considered that I had been ill-treated, and therefore would not go away without my friends, and so I kicked at the door and demanded admission. The watchman seized me by the collar, and in a scuffle his hat fell off. I have acted with some degree of imprudence, but I do not think I have committed any very heinous offence. Sir R. BIRNIE—No, I do not think that you have. Upon my word, Mr. Roche (turning to that gentle man, who happened to be present), I think the parish authorities of St. Paul, Covent-garden, ought to indict this house. It is a perfect nuisance, and has existed too long. For my own part, I sup posed it had been stopped long ago. I don't know the situation of the house, except that it is in Brydges street, but it is high time it was shut tip. Mr. Roche—The parish authorities would be happy to prosecute the house; but in this case, you see, Sir Richard, the defendant, who could be a wit ness, is going to India, and his friends reside at a distance in the country, sat that we can do nothing. Sir R. BIRNIE—I know the difficulty there is to obtain a conviction, and it is a great pity. The defendant, after some further conversation, was discharged. Yesterday Mrs. Broadwood, wife-of a carver and gilder residing in Oxendon-street, Haymarket, was brought before Mr. MINSHULL, upon a warrant charg ing her with cruelly treating Mary Ann Morgan, a delicate-looking female child, bound apprentice to defendant's husband by the parish of St. Giles. The little girl related her grievances in a manner so artless, that it needed no other testimony to con vince those who were present that she spoke the truth. She was the daughter, she said, of the Rev. Mr. Morgan, a Welch clergyman. Her father died several years ago, and her mother suhsequently married a Mr. Duncan, by whom she had been treated with great kindness. After her mother's death Mr. Duncan married a second time, and becom ing embarrassed he was obliged to place her (the com plainant) in the workhouse of St. Giles's parish, from whence she was taken as a parish apprentice by the defendant's husband to learn the business of a gilder : instead of which she had been obliged to perform all the drudgery of a servant. During the whole time she had been in the house, the defendant (Mrs. Broadwood) treated her with the greatest severity. Oa Friday week the defendant beat her in a most brutal manner, because, in washing down the sideboard, she complained that she had used too much water. Oa another occasion she happened accidentally to smash a plaster of Paris image of the late Princess Charlotte; and although she offered to pay for the damage, the defendant, in one of her fits of passion, knooked her down, and actually trampled upon her head. The poor child, whose narrative was more than once interrupted by her tears, added, that her mistress was constantly swearing at her; and such was the foulness of her language, that she (the complainant) was afraid to speak a word lest she should be abused. A Mrs. Duncan, who described herself as the wife of the girl's step-father, confirmed the child's statement as far as she had been a witness of the ill-treatment complained of. On one occasion, be cause the complainant happened to suffer Mrs. Broadwood's infant to be uncovered during the night, she (the complainant) having fallen asleep from fatigue, her mistress threw a knife at her, and then dragged the bed-clothes from off her, leaving her naked during the remainder of the night. Until within the last fortnight, the complainant had no other bed to lie upon excepting the bare boards. No girl could be better disposed to work, or of a more amiable disposition, than the complainant, and noth ing but necessity compelled her father to send her to the workhouse. Mr. MINSHULL—Has the child any complaint to prefer against her master? Complainant—Oh, no, Sir; my master has always been as kind to me as he could. Mr. MINSHULL—What have you got to say to the charge, Mrs. Breadwood : you have heard the little girl's statement ?—Mrs.Broadwood, who, to the height of a grenadier, superadds a most un feminine voice, and unprepossessing aspect, shoul dered her husband aside, and advancing to the bench, exclaimed that every word spoken by the little poorhouse hussey was false. Sir R. BIRNIE—B2 silent, Madam. This poor girl must and shall be protected. Pray, what was the amount of the premium ? Mr. Broadwood—l received W. with the girl, Sir, when the parish ap prenticed her to me. Mr. MlNsituLL—And do the indentures state that the girl should be put to kitchen-work exclusively? M►s. Duncan--By the indentures, Sir, Mr. Broad wood is bound to teach the girl the gilding business, instead of which she has been kept slaving in the kitchen, where she was made to do the work of a girl twice her age. Mrs. Broadwood—There is no mention of gilding in the indentures. Mr. Mussmum.—l should like to see them. Pray, have you brought them with you ? Mr. Broad wood—l did not think it would be necessary to produce them. Mr. MlNsnuLL.—lt is quite requisite you should do so ; for I think that they ought at once to be cancelled, and that the premium should be returned to the parish, who, I hope, will take care to pro vide this poor child with a kinder and more consi derate mistress. The husband has himself declared that she had been badly used. Mrs. Broadwood fiercely turned towards her hus band, and asked if he had said so? " Oh no, my dear," replied Mr. Broadwood, in a tone that showed he had practised the duty of pas- . sive obedience to some purpose. "I am willing to take the girl back, your Worships," he added. Sir R. BIRNIE-But I don't think we should be justified in trusting her with your wife, after the brutal treatment she has expel fenced. Mr. MINSHULL—Let the case stand over until seven o'clock this evening, at which time I shall give directions for the attendance of the officers of St. Giles's parish, in order that the indentures may be cancelled. As I shall not dispose of the charge of assault until then, I desire that Mrs. Broad wood shall also attend. Mrs Duncan—lf your worship has no objection, the girl may go home with me. Mr. MINSIIULL—You have acted with great good feeling, and more like a parent than a mere step mother. Take the child with you, and -bring her before me again in the evening. The parties then retired. At the evening sitting they again came forward, accompanied by one of the overseers of St. Giles's p a rish, who said t h at h e h a d h eard o f t h e v i o l ence Of Mrs. Broadwood towards the complainant, but as there were some peculiar circumstances connected with the case, he wished for a further postponement. The fact was, the child had some little.expectancy, and it might be the object of the Duncans to get her to live with them on that account. Mrs. Duncan admitted that when the child should attain the age of 21, she would be entitled to two co ttages in Carm art h ens hi re, b ut t h e y were of very inconsiderable valu e . S o f ar f ro m wishing to pro vide for the child herself,'she had actually found an other mistress for her, who was ready to receive her. A lady here stepped for ward and said that she was the person alluded to. Mr. Broadwood had con fessed to her that he had been obliged to use force towards Mrs. Broadwood to compel her not to beat the child. Mr. Broadwood F aid he was willing to give up the indentures, and forego any further claim to the services of the girl. The overseer asked if he meant to give up the indentures voluntarily or by compulsion ? Mr. Broadwood—By compulsion, certainly. Mr. MINSHULL--As yet the word compulsion has not been mentioned. Mr. Broadwood—Then T shall not give up the i dentures. Mr. MtNstamt.—Then your wife must find bai for the assault. 'Mr. Broadwood—l am quite agreeable to that, Sir. Mr. MlNsituu..—lf it be proved before me that you admitted your wife's violence towardi this child I shall not besi tate a moment to cancel the indentures. The overseer again pressed for a postponement, and Mr. Minium'. remanded the case until next Friday..—The parties then withdrew. UNION-HALL. Yesterday' John Either, who resides in White- Horse-yard, Kent -street, in the parish of St. George, Southwark, underwent along examination before the sitting Magistrates, R. J. CHAMBERS and J. T. HONE, Esqrs., charged on suspicion with having; murdered a man named John Sarson, on the pre ceding night. - Pitts, a constable, between nine and ten o'clock the night before, while on duty in Kent street, was informed that a man had been murdered at a house in White Horse-yard.' He repaired thither with his informant, and on entering an up stairs room in the house, he saw a man lying dead on the bed. There were marks of violence on the deceased's forehead, and his back and shoulders were discoloured, as if from the effects of bruises. The deceased was naked, with the exception of his shirt, which was very much torn in several places, and was rent completely up the back. There were some spots of blood on the collar of the shirt. When the witness first entered the room, he saw a medical man there, who, after having examined the body of the deceased, pronounced that death MIS caused from external injuries recently re. ceived. There were other persons in the room at the time, amongst whom was the prisoner, and he was pointed out to witness as having been instru mental to the death of the deceased. • Geo. Maisey, the night constable of St. George's, proceeded to the house in question shortly after the arrival of the last witness, and saw the deceased lying in the situation above described. Having bees informed by some persons present that the pri soner had flung the deceased down stairs a short time previously, which had caused death, he (Maisey) immediately took him and his wife into custody, and conveyed them to the watch-house, where he placed them in separate apartments. Shortly after their incarceration, Maisey, who remained in the watch house, heard the following dialogue pass between the prisoner and Isis wife, relative to the deceased : " I say," said the prisoner to his wife; "are they all gone out of the watch-house ?" She said, " Yes." " Then," said he, " you must be careful what you say about this matter before the Magistrates. State to them that Sarson was drunk, and that you and I havisg had a quarrel, you ran out of the room, followed by me, and that when you went back again alone, you saw Sarson lying at the foot of the stairs dead." Maisey adt! , eat he was in such a situation that he could 0z. , 1i) ,- tr all that was said by the parties, without their cuing him, or 'having any suspicion that he was present. The pri soner frequently desired his wife to be most cautious, and to say as little as possible on the subject as she could, if she should happen to be examined as to the cause of Sarson's death. Maisey, in continwa tion, said, that on his first entering the house, he ad dressed the prisoner's wife on the subject of the state in which the deceased then appeared, and that she evinced much embarrassment and alarm, saying, that she believed the unfortunate man had tumbled down stairs, and killed himself by the ildl. Ellen Haines examined--I live nearly opposite to the house belonging to the prisoner, in White Horse yard. They appeared to lead a very unhappy life together. On Monday night the prisoner and his wife having quarrelled, he turned her out into the street at a late hour, and she came to witness and sought shelter. The following night ( Tuesday) they quarrelled again, and the prisoner served her as he had done on the preceding night, having turned her in the street in almost a state of nudity. The wife crossed to witness's house in that state, and having remained there a short time, during which she ap. peared very unhappy, went over to her own house, and endeavoured to obtain admittance, but was re fused by her husband. The witness heard the pri soner's wife say, " Then, if you don't let me in, give me my child and my bits of clothes, and I shall not trouble you more." Having endeavoured in vain to get in, the witness said that the prisoner's wife re turned back to her (witness's) house, and addressing her, said, " Mrs: Haines, what shall Ido ? Fisher is jealous of Sexton, and I shall kill myself." The witness perceiving the woman was very much agitated, expostulated with her, and pointed out to her the sin of committing an act of self-destruction. Soon after this conversation witness heard a noise ever the way at Fisher's house, as if some person was breaking the furniture, and on going to her door to see what was the matter she saw Fisher standing at his own door, abusing Sarson, whose voice . she heard within. The prisoner frequently exclaimed," You old rascal !" The wit ness stood some time at her door listening, and then I went in and shut it. She had not left the door many minutes when a little boy, the son of the prisoner, ran over, exclaiming, Sarson is dead 1 Witness im mediately crossed over to the prisoner's house, and on going into the passage, she saw the deceased lying at the bottom of the stairs, apparently dead. ' Anne Lomas, another witness, residing within one door of the prisoner's house, stated, that on the preceding night, between nine anti ten o'clock, while sitting at home with her husband, they were alarmed by hearing groans, and on going to the door, she found them to proceed from the prisoner's house. The witness having walked towards the door, saw a strange man standing near the spot, to whom she spoke, urging him to go in and see what was the matter. The door of the house was open, and they distinctly heard groans of some person, who called out, in a faint voice, "Do assist rue, for G o d' s sake." Th e r e h a ving been no light at the time in the house, the witness procured one from her own place, and on going into the passage, saw the de ceased lying at the bottom of the stairs; his head was on the last 'stair, and his body lay extended along the floor of the passage. The deceased was not then dead, but appeared to be dying, his forehead was ,cut, and his shirt (the only co vering he had on at the time) was torn - all up the back, and at the breast also. Witness's husband came over soon afterwards, and he and the strange man lifted up the deceased, and carried him into a room on the ground-floor, for the purpose of placing him on the bed; while doing so, the prisoner entered the house, and addressing those who were carrying the deceased, asked them what right they had there, exclaiming at the same time, " I'm - if you shall put him on my bed." The witness went on to describe the brutal be haviour of the prisoner on that occasion, and added, that her husband - and the strange man were so dis gusted with his conduct, that they quitted the house,. after having placed the deceased along the floor op posite to the fire. Maisey produced the shirt which the deceased wore at the time of his death. It was very much torn, and the breast of it near the right shoulder w as rent as if in a struggle with some person. It being near four o'clock, and the surgeon who examined the body not having been in attendance, the examination was postponed for that purpose. One of the richest individuals of the class of nobility in Lisbon is the present Baron de QUINTILLA, whose father purchased his patent of nobility, being in the first instance a merchant; his great wealth arose chiefly from holding the monopoly of tobacco and snuff, no one else being allowed to manufacture either; and the consump tion is immense, as all ranks smoke (segars) and take snuff. When JUNOT held possession of Lisbon, he took up his ' quarters in this Nobleman's house, who allowed him SOO dollars• a day to fiud a table for himself and suite. AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE• The following spirited account of the Amy ricans is given in the Letters froin the West' , Judge Hall, recently published by Mr. I ' ° burn : " With regard to the want of affability alien`' by foreigners, I can say with sincerity that'll li t travzlied from the St. Lawr e n ce t o th e Pot° 93 d and from the shores of the Atlantic to the y 4 the Mississippi, without o b serv i ng it. ~1 ,1! !! never proposed a civil question to an AmCr. s ical . e r without receiving a civil an swer , an d I haYe j dorn entered his dwelling without partakil its hospitality. I have more than once, i11.7:i sequexce of accidents, to which all travellets - l i liable, been thrown upon the kindnes 4 4 strangers ; yet nev er did I k now my countrr3, deny the sacre d c l a i ms o f a stranger i n digr e s t At their taverns or their private houses a 11 1 1' decent appe arance an d civ il deportment wi": ways be kindly and respectfully received. long as he behaves like a gentleman; he a ei i , ceive the t rea t men t d ue to hi s charade ---- his privacy w ill no t be interrupted, .feelings hurt, or his peace disturbed' 20 Whatever h e as k s f or i n a c i v il tualt e l will be f urn i s hed hi m if poss ibl e , v iii if it cannot be procured, he must take whet ii i : can get without compl a i n i ng , f or th e moinelit: abuses the country, complains of his fare, or as tempts in any manner to coerce or crirnik) those around him, h e exc i tes a spirit which i 0 much More easy to ar ouse t h an to allay. It e , to be recollected, that in the United States inui pendence is not nominal, it is actual, defined, $' in the possession of every individual. It 1 5 11 confined to civil and political rights, but eaten , to every sphere of human a c t ion ; we ar e A t only independent of foreign government as ea tioli, but of our rulers as a people, and of °P I I other. as men. Th ere i s no class so porver _ , , !A• no individual so popular, as to be able to en t i a public measure over ou r h ea d s ; th e power 4. emphatically in the peopl e , w h o , w hil e tP; cheerfully submit the ordinary concerns of F o r, vernment into the hands of leading men, 1 1 . are better qualified to rule than themsel feel and know their own supremacy, and : ve not to exercise it w h enever t h e i r i nterests v jeopardized. We h ave no i n di v id ua l s ° lig are necessarily dependent upon other.; for st!, 11 ; port, no depressing poverty and overmaster% wealth. The results are evident : those w hog it obliged to labour or serve others can choose th e te occupations and their employers—can stipul .r 4 e prices 'and negociate for terms. Masters ifr' e , more abundant than servants; there are 111° ti r ;_ who wish to employ others than to be emploYe 6; and as none are forced to earn a precarious li Y ; lihood by pursuing a given calling, or servinki particular individual, the baseness of servility unknown. Can a man be expected to ert where he may b arga i n ? or to fawn where he 1 7?' only to name his hi re an d per f orm his duty On the other hand, thi s en ti re equa li ty, of righ prevents that insol ence on t h e part o f inferloo) which it has been supposed to g enerate. i ei As there is no tyranny on the one part, Oa is no feeling of oppression on the other ; °` l7 :;, where there is no overbearing superioritt there can be no source of huiniliatiorr:, Pride dare not insult poverty, because poYeT is stronger than pride, an d w ill trip u p h er bee: if she give herself airs. Where • the rich all oppress the l ipoor—whereovy-w insultedo rmbl ott the e eo s t cj e le i a i ed a r n si t n o o f f a hi t s a m te a m o7: ! s fo u r i t t un is ate no fe t purple, fires sumptuously--no jealousy is engenderew no corroding hate is rankling at the heart of th e , inferior, ready to burst forth on the first occ s '' sion ; there is nothi ng to resent, and therefor no resentment is displayed. In co un t r i e s wilerev, the poor are kept i n su bj ect i on — w here they s g e i distinctions, endur e o pp ress i on , an d su ff e r re suit, they may view the rich with malignant 1 1; tred. Those w h o h ave b een accustome d to suet a state of society may believe it to be universl and speculating upon the probable results ° I , hoeffa fact t h ys e pv lo i l g itei l l i he o s r i i e i s i x i ignorant, have s h c a oo v rn e r equal rights, and the effect which the enjoyrne l 4 l ' of those rights would have upon the manne, l- 4 and theory.to e xi 0 the abstract, but when applied to us it is remov' - i it from its legitimate foundation, and built up° assumed positions and false estimates, and b ei. comes a ' baseless fabric.'" leyeimtinaegntiholeueidgr hoti,,,,Td: BIRTHS. On the 9th inst. the Hon. Mrs. Heathcote, of a son i°l4 heir. On the 12th inst. at his house in Lincoln's Ins-fie lj* the lady of the Hon. Thomas Erskine, of a son. On the 10th inst. the lady of the Rev. John Gree"iz wood, Christ's Hospital, of a daughter. At Islington, on the 9th inst. the lady of Mr. Tucker, commander of the East India ship Lady Raji g* . of a daughter. MARRIED. ! .On the I 1 th inst. at Somerton, by the Hon. and Fei Baptist W. Noel, John James Smith, Esq. eldest Fon, Sir John Wyldb ore S m i t h , o f t h e Down House, Doil,ell Bart. to F rances , e ld es t d aug h ter o f J o h n Frederick riii! nev, Esq. of Somerton House, Somerset. ° f t On the 12th inst. at Wi m bl e d on , by th e Rev. H e Lindsay, Mr. Edward Armstrong, of Putney, to Charlel Martha, youngest daughter of Mr. Sanford, surgeon, 1 % 1 ' 9 ! bledon. On the 7th inst. at St. G eorge ' s , H anover - squ are, ti the Venerable the Archdeacon of Canterbury, Chai;l John, second son of William Manning, Esq., M.P.'„ l ., Combe-bank, Kent, to Catherine Sophia, elde s t ( laugh; of Major-General Si r r; ichard MAWS Jackson, K.C.'"" ° . and niece to ti,e Counter .: Mulgrave. War d ` b On the 11th at Iver, by the Rev. Edward r the Rev. Fred er i c k Edward Peo - us, to Julia, eldest daugl"l. of Carrier T om p son , E s q. of Round' Coppice, Bu c ks. On the 12th inst. at St. Luke's, Chelsea, by the F e ,, Mr. Fishe r , Frederick, third son of th e late R ev . Franc' Roper, to Cathe r i n e Eli za b e th, youngest eaughter of tbe . late Colonel Roberts. At Leeds, Mr. Thomas Sanderson, son of the Rev. - Sanderson, of Tankersley, to Mrs. Ann Bradford, of Led' At Drypool Church, Mr. William Holbrey, oft:10110 06 1' ' surgeon, to Mary Anne, daughter of Mr. Richard Wri6 Holderness.road, DIED. 4, On the 10th inst., at Pontefract, Yorkshire, a ged Elizabeth, the w if e o f J o h n Perfect, Esq., leaving an ar. flicted husband, an d e l even children, to lament her irreP al' able lose. On the 10th inst. Mary Ann, wife of Mr. W. Ile vri. Oxley, of Alarlborough-place, Old Kent-road. On the 7th inst. at Hethe House, in the county of O i. T. ford, quite.sudd en ly, w ith ou t any prev i ous ill ness , /y r , l. Liam Fermor, E sq . o f T usmore , i n th e sa id county , 8.1, 115 'i. On the 11th inst. at Brixton-hill, after a short bn severe illness, Elizabeth, relict of the late Richard 13 r adi f Esq. On the 7th inst. at Paris, Agnes, wife of Henry i:s r° . vey, of St. Audrey's, in the county of Somerset, Esq.. At Grand Cairo, aged 26, Mr. James Webster, of tl• Inner Temple. In Alfred-place, on the 12th inst. the Hon. Edward Rodney, son of the late Admiral Lord Rodney. On the 10th inst. at the house of - John Hawes, El. i° Spring-gardens, Mary Anne, relict of the late Wm. &P l ' land, Esq. of Chigwell, in Essex. Rev. Richard Howell, of Chipping Sodbury, Mulct'," tershire, formerly the officiating minister of Preose, ShroP; shire, and of Co ngres b ury, S omersets hi re , d ur i ng a petic u of 30 years. —Ol PRINTED and PUBLISHED by 1111i1{DO YOUNG, ' at SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON. ~~'/~" I tHE Aitt reted inch Afti P ' A's 4 fit Tsai !o( treat kin.mr !Asp: t b ,4 8 4 L 7.1 ',ll of 46 ' 0 . 441 „.; Str at , ,Nt • - N;, 1 4e 1 ~h i o - 4 7, 4 4, D.l I.ll'e' 11 r . 4 : - .., COT: i _ l9 ge - Na 3 1 . , of ,ttaa l e lent VE k tilt I follo w hi • r, h '4 •Xf, .01ati aleig Voi ‘, ll4 ktri ila l ee e „'