The Sun. — London, England, 1828-10-18 00:00:00

Anglican Clergy, strangers to their worship, who consume these res(enues in luxurious enjoyment as mere sinecures, aid live in great luxury ; while those from whom the revenues are exacted must live in extreme necessity. This state of things can only be remedied when the holders of these benefices consent to give up a considerable part of their in comes, which they feel not the smallest inclination to do voluntarily. We despair altogether of ever seeing any change effected through Parliament ; for, in the first place, whatever is established is sacred in the eyes of the Englishman, though it be an abuse; in the next place, an Englishman is a bigot, with a dash of pedantry about him ; but lastly, the main cause is, that-profitable places would thereby be lost to the higher English familieS of every politicall com plexion, for their children and relatives ; and at the same time the -influence of the Prime Minister, who has chiefly the disposal of them;would be diminished. Hence it happens, that - neither the Ministerial Party nor the Opposition ever touch on this delicate point!' This is also the view which, in the Anglo-Irish (said to be by Mr. Banim, the author of" The Tales of the O'Hara Family"), one of the characters, a sturdy Englishman, is. made to express. He supposes that the object of the Parliamentary discussions is to amuse the people—that a fight is got up, as it were, in which one man plays the liberal and the other the illiberal, to amuse the people with the prospect of Emancipation, which must yet never be granted; not because Emancipation is of any consequence in itself, but because it is a sort of outwork, which, if it were carried, the battle would be for the citadel itself. Emancipation serves in the mean time to distract the attention of the people from weightier matters. The Examiner of Sunday, October 5, takes a view somewhat different : "We are, in truth, (says our cotemporary), far from satisfied with the common English sentiment, so far as we have opportunities of observing it, with regard to Ireland. —There is a barbarous defiance about it, which equally shocks and alarms. The enlightened and high-minded, doubtless, think justly upon this subject as on all others ; but the general opinion is warped, and requires correction ; instead of which, however, it is receiving corroborants.— .11runswick Clubs ivill bind the sticks of society—the mere aggots and laths, into fasces of formidable strength.— 'They are binding themselves about the axe of the execu tioner. We want a counterpoise to these combinations.— The intellect and soul of the country is on the side of libera lity, and we want expression to be given to their senti ments. The weak, imbecile, and timid, are going wrong in a herd, and a few directing voices and prominent ex ttaples are requisite to correct the error. For the last 15 Tears the friends of liberty have perpetually been commit ting the folly described under the trite metaphor . of 'cut ting blocks with razors.' They have even been resting content in inactivity, under the delusion that reason is con tending for them, whereas it is their part to contend for Aston. The most apparently obvious truths of justice, humanity, and policy, must not he left to the perception of the vulgar. Everything is to be taught by voice, pen, and example. Pens enough are employed in the good service, but we lack voices and examples. Right opinions should now be represented by men as actively, at least, as are the wrong. Observe how the Duke of Newcastle's clout has served as standard to comfort and rally the im becile.. We will not deny that great, with the little, has been the effect of that manifesto of rabid imbecility.— Every dunce and dotard in the land—every green goose and =bent buzzard, was cheered by it; and it has been wel comed with a joyous and long-protracted cackle. Our leaders despise to measure weapons with their enemies in these lists, and suffer their antagonists to carry off the rabble rout. They are in error. No advantages are to he neglected. Our opponents exhibit their strength, and we should exhibit ours. The good, as well as the bad, *lipoid be comforted by association ; and the blame of any misebief belonging to such combinations must fall on those - who drat created them." The Irish have, for the first time since Emanci pation was first agitated, brought the question, by the eunfession of all parties, to this issue—that something must be done. The Catholics having made themselves masters of the Elections, either they must be deprived of the Elective Franchise, or they must be placed, in point of civil rights, with the rest of their fellow-subjects. Well,„then, at this eventful period, we see the enemies of Emancipa tion—the Orangemen and Churchmen—in motion thrmighout the co untry, : spy...ailing to all the worst passions of our nature, and all: the prejudices of the rabble ; in short, stirring Heaven and earth to bring to the geld a force capable of either intimidating the Government, er furnishing the Government with a pretext for affecting to. be intimidated, and for throwing itself into their arms. We see the Bruns wickers in Motion; and we see only the Brunswickers in motion. Is it true that the whole of the Aristocracy are one at heart, and wish in their hearts that the victory may be to their nominal opponents? Is it, on the other hand, as the Examiner seems to insinuate, that the liberal of the Aristocracy are merely deficient in energy and practical wisdom ? We used to laugh, in the days that we were proud of our military prowess and energy, at the confidence of the Spaniards, who - never doubted of vigtory, and were always beaten by the French, because they never made preparations to enable them to secure victory. This faculty of the Spaniards must have been long possessed by them, from the current expres• eion of building castles in Spain, which is ap plied to all men who look to ends without taking care of the means. But are we reduced to the alternative of supposing the soi-disant liberal Aristocracy of this country either hollow or dreamers of dreams ? Iri every town where public opinion can display itself, and where there is a read ing population, the partisans of emancipation are six to one. Look to the newspapers—the newspapers are. from necessity influenced by those who read them. But a very great proportion of the aristo cracy, and the parsons to a man, are certainly hostile to emancipation. In the country the only people who can read, not influenced by the Clergy, are the Dissenters. Th e b o d y o f t h e peop l e i n the country parts of England are somewhat iniproved of late years, but they are still prodigiously ignorant, and consequently may easily b e led by the nose. If, t h ere f or e, the liberal aristo cracy do not bestir them selves in the approaching conjun ctu re in the county of Kent, the Brunswickers will carry the matter hollow. We know - from the best authority, that ' while the Whigs are comparatively listl ess , the' par sons and the landlords, on the other side, are stir: ring heaven and earth —carriages_ are freely ot Th red to all those who will accept ot . them. These a re the very words of a gentleman in Kent who has the best opportunities of knowing what is going on there. We need not observe t hat much will de pend on the result of the meeting of so great and populous a county as Kent; and that if the Bru.ns wickers be suffered to carry matters witha !ugh hand, the inactivity and apathy of the Whig aristo cracy and liberal gentry in general, to which such victory must be owing, will be attributed to a Ma chie,velian principle of wishing the loss of the cause they advocate. We do not believe there to be insincere; but will the public share our opinion ? We uppea; to them; we call on them to bestir them selves on this trying occasion; we call on the Dis senters, and all tiose who have the means of iniite encinithe Dissenter -3, to do their duty on this occa sion. Surely so enlightened a body as the Dissen ters cannot be the dupes of 'the interested cry raised by the High Churchmen, that fifteen millions of Protestants can be in danger from Popish persecu tion. The idea is ridiculous. No, the Dissenters can never believe this—they know that the Eman cipation of the Catholics will lead to greater libe rality on the part o f that body; th a t th e remova l o f irritating causes wi ll o p en me n's minds more and more to conviction. The Refor mation has no cause to dread the light—it requires no p ena l fetters to keep down its opponents. The Dissenters must see that they are, in opposing the Catholics, weakening Reformation principles, but strengthenin g Hie, Church bigotry and rivetting the chains of all of us. Catholic persecution The very idea is an insult to a man of the smallest understanding ! On the Dis senters the result of the day will mainly depend. Let them remember, too, that it was the vote against the Dissenters that lost Mr. V. Fitzgerald the County of Clare. We cannot close these observa tions without remarking that the great (lauger to be apprehended, in - all struggles of this kind, is the apathy of the good. Ali the interested knaves tit heartily--they fight, as it were, pro axis et focis; while thOse who only come forward on public grounds make it a merit as it were that they are not dishonest, but consider themselves not bound to go farther than to show that they are not corrupt. The Orangemen fight with all their force, while the others wish merely to escape censure.—Morning Chronicle. We agree, to a certain extent, at least, with a contemporary, who says, " that the disturbed state of Ireland lays .the Empire prostrate to the Conti nent, and exposes us to injuries and insults from the most contemptible States." The Catholic Agita tors not only acknowledge, but make their boast of this. " Let England," say they, " but go to war, and we will speedily wrest from her the full amount of our demands ;" or, in other words, " while she resists us, we will take especial care that she shall be unable to resist any one else." Patriotism is de fined to be a pure love of country, divested of all personal objects. Of what description their pa triotism must be, who care wholly for themselves, and not one tittle for their country, we need not stop to inquire. But on this, as on many other oc casions, it is not quite clear that good may not re sult from evil ; and if the only harm the Irish Ca tholic Leaders can do to England Is to prevent her plunging, as she has too often done, in useless Con tinental wars, they may be taking, unconsciously, a somewhat Irish way of inflicting au injury. Had Mr. Canning lived, for instance, we should, in all probability, have become, long ere this, involved, on one side or the other, in the Turkish question, besides having a snug little war of our own in Portugal. And then, according to the opinion we have quoted, the Catholic Asso ciation would have had nothing to do but to seize, vi et armis, upon the objects they so much covet. Fortunately, from all these dilemmas the country has been saved, either by' the better judgment of Mr. Canning's successor, or, if they please, by the constant state of qui vivo in which the Catholic Leaders keep the Government. We are as anxious as its warmest advocates can be, to see the Catholic Question settled upon a safe and permanent basis ; and that, we are convinced, it long since would have been, had its principal advocates been as sincere as they are loud in their demands. We would wish to see the question decided by reason, not by strength ; and the bulk of the rational and dispassionate part of the Catholics, we have no doubt, are fully per suaded that by this test, and this only, can the question ever be decided.—Morning Herald. The facts detailed by Mr. Pearson in his speech before the Common Council, relative to the abuses practised in the Secondaries' Office, if correctly given, or if true to a more limited extent than that gentle man has openly come forward to prove, ought to make the " patriotic Corporation" of London ashamed of inveighing against corruption under any Ad ministration, until they have cleansed their own dirty stable. The setting up the office of Se condary to sale, which office is one touching the administration of justice, is in itself a violation of the first elements of right Government, and is as unconstitutional as it is venal and mis chievous. It requires no sagacity to discover that the man who gives 10,000/. for the office of Secondary, will take every opportunity he can to replenish his pocketsat the expence of the people. The money paid for judicial office may always be considered as a bribe for injustice—the purchased immunity of extortion. But the worst of the case in question is, that the abuses of the Secondaries' Office fall heaviest on that class of persons who are the least able to bear them. The legal expenses to which persons wrested are liable, are bad enough without the addition of extortiionate imposts. The law of imprisonment for debt is sufficiently cruel in practice, without the further calamity of adding rapine and spoliation to the loss of liberty. Among other things which Mr. Pearson had the public spirit to tell the Corporation to their face, he stated that, " when the late Mr. Col- lingridge was appointed to the office (of Secondary), he paid 10,2001. The price for a warrant at that time was 4d., the sum .prescribed by the Statute of Henry VI., but immediately he entered upen it he raised the price to 64. Having thus felt the pulse of the pub lic, he instantly raised it to one shilling—at which amount it has ever since continued." Now, here is an instance of the effect of selling such an ollice, and that for an enormous sum. The person who buys it thinks he has a right to make the most he can by it, and determines to reimburse himself for the scandalous sum which he has paid by oppressive exactions. The instance given by Mr. Pearson, whereby the Secondary taxed the public 300 per cent., was clearly illegal, and punishable by law upon defined principles. In the first place, it was a levy ing of a tax without consent qf Parliament--an act of authority which the King himself is precluded from exercising. The Statute of Henry the Sixth allowed 4d. to be taken as a fee upon the war rent--and to the taking of that tax of 4d., and no more, the consent of Parliament was obtained; but for the taxing the additional Bd. there was no authority whatever but that of Mr. Coning ridge himself, and the connivance of the most " patriotic Corporation" in the world. Such a mode of levying a tax without consent of Parliament, un der colour of the authority of an office, is the offence which the law designates by the legal name of ex torticn, and which is punishable by fine and impri sonment, a:4 by the forfeiture of the ()lice. When the party aggrieved Proceeds against die extortioner at the King's suit, this punishment of the offence is by the Common Law ; but the Statute of 3 Ed ward I. cap, 2ti, which was made in affirmance of the Common Law, gives an, additional penalty to what the Common Law gave to any Sheriff, or . offiger under him, taking more or larger fees than are allowed by authority of Parliament, and i enables the party to recover double damages. We trust that, now this subject has been exposed, if those ex tortionate fees should be persevered in, persons a o.- grieved will avail themselves of the laws which punish the offence, and cause the extortioner to dis gorge the plunder.—lbid. Petitions from all parts of Great Britain and Ire land will be presented to Parliament at the com mencement of the, next Session, praying not ,only that no further political power may be granted to the Roman Catholics, but also that such part of the political power which they now possess as is evidently unconstitutional in its character and mischievous in its effects, under which description all sensible and regecting men must be aware the exercise of the forty-shillin g franchise in Ireland is comprehended, may be immediately wrested from them. Nor is it possible to conceive that Parliament should turn a deaf ear to prayers so just and reasonable in them selves, and backed as these will upouestionably be i by the incalculable number s , the intelligence, the social and political weight a n d importan ce o f t h e pe titioners. It is surely monstrous that a franchise should ever have been created in Ireland (and it would be still more monstrous thatits existence should b e prolonged, now that its character and effects are fully developed) comcritting the immediate power of returning majority of the , Feßeentatives or that country to Parliament t 9 tne bands ,of a p ort i on of it 9 population, necessarily . more destitute than f the Irish people, o f . , proper,y, m any other 1 slit}', anti independene This part o tel re4perlaJ Clare Election, and t h e other similar elections b s y ure to follow it, are but th; abolition .. o ; e :hi s reis vwohl etiLiafryn not t ra P n r c e h v i e s r e l a e r d e the natural consequ en ces of a measure which in. vested poverty and'ignoranc e with a paramount po, litical predominance over intelbgence and wealth. The British Legislature committed a gii-oss and most mischievous error in the creation of this franchise,--- We freely admit it. Anti we say the time is now • come for th;s error to be repaired. Ic there any man of common sense and ordinary information in the three kingdoms who is bold enough to deny that the existence of this franchise is a bitter evil to its possessors, and a fertile source of injury and danger to the community ? Among Protestants or Catholics no such man is to be found. We say, then, abolish it at once. If the same universal coil- victicm existed against any frarichise in England, Ivo should equally say, abolish it at once. The Legis lature of Great Britain fortunately does not resemble the Church of Rome; it lays no claim'to infallibi lity; and it must accordingly feel that it is not in consistent with the highest degree of mere human wisdom to acknowledge error and to repair it. Th e error into which the Legislature was betrayed in this instance, was, however, neither unnatural nor inexcusable. It consisted in the rash application to a country immersed in the darkness and bigotry of Popery, of principles which can only act efficaciously where the natural relations of sbciety are not sus ceptible of any great and permanent disturbance. Did the Legislature imagine - that such a class of men as the forty-shilling freeholders of Ire land, as they then existed, or as they were likely to be created in future, were capable of any inde pendent p o liti ca l act i on a s individuals ? As suredly n o t. T o h ave su pposed this would have implied a degree of ignorance and stupidity utterly inconceivable. The idea beyond all doubt was, that the admission of this description of franchise was a convenient mode of giving to the landowners of Ireland, in their several counties, a degree of politi cal power proportioned as accurately as possible to the magnitude of their respective estates. That this was the intention, no man can entertain a doubt; and we confidently maintain that this intention was wise, honest, and eminently constitutional. The only fault was that the means were not well adapted to the end. The means by which it was intended to adjust the relative proportions of political power among the individual landowners of Ireland have in fact divested their whole body of all political power, and have transferred that entire political 'power which it was intended to convey, and which still ought to be, and must be, conveyed to the Landowners of Ireland, to the Catholic Priests —to men whom the British Constitution has wisely refused to recognise as the fit depositaries of any po-, litical power whatever—who are, and must ever re main, the natural enemies of every system of civil polity of which the Romish Church does not form an integral and predominant part. Exemption from error is no essential characteristic of a free and po pular Legislature; but alacrity to repair its errors, when circumstances and the universal voice of the nation it represents proclaim that it has erred, is an essential characteristic of a free and popular Repre rentation. The Legislature of Great Britain has erred in admitting the votes of4os. Papist Freeholders in Ireland in the election of Members of Parliament. It has erred grievously—not in principle—not with reference to the end it sought—but in the adoption of means to attain that end, which ha ve in fact defeated it—which have created, and will, so long as they remain in operation,maintain a new, and dangerous, and unconstitutional power in the state. Other means, then, must be found to attain the end view—to exclude the Romish Church in Ireland from political power, and to restore to the Landed Proprietors of that country their due and consti tutional share of political weight and importance. This the people of England, Ireland, and Scotland, demand of the United Parliament. It will be the confession and the reparation of a legislative error, in time long past, equally honourable to Parliament and satisfactory and beneficial to the Empire.— Morning Post. We know not whether those " men of Kent," who have called a county meeting on Pennenden heath for the 24th instant, do or do not intend to cast disgrace on the Protestant cause, and by the folly of their conduct to give additional weight to the Catholic claims; but certain it is that nothing in the shape of opposition to the Catholics was ever planned more truly contemptible in its nature, or more likely to injure the very cause which it is intended to promote. Since the days of the Manchester assemblages, nothing similar has been known; and taking into considera tion the rank and education of the parties who have proposed the Meeting, the paradings in Tipperary, and other parts of Ireland, are a mere joke to it. There is no object to be gained by it, except the disturbance of the public peace; and none to be lost by not holding it, but that of increasing -the irritation and animosity of a large portion of our fellow-subjeetF. Were the Government to do what we consider to be its duty, it would order a regiment of cavalry to scour the heath of the medding and intolerant babblers, who are so anxious to manifest their zeal for the Constitution in Church and State; and send a few of the principals to the tread-mill, to learn the dif ference between the governed and the governing, the sufferer and those who impose the suffering.— For the Catholics who are deprived of their rights, there is some excuse when they assemble tumul tuously to solicit for a redress of grievances ; but for the men of Kent there is none; for they have no religious or civil disabilities to complain of, and any meeting which they may hold for the purpose of expressing their antipathy to Catholics and Ca tholicism, can only - tend to a breach of the public peace—to embarrass the King's Government, and to render the eparation between Catholic - and Pro testant still more complete than it now is.— ilioniing Advertiser. The Brighton Gazette has also undertaken the defence of Mr. Peel; but eve can excuse this on the ground that our contemporary could not have seen the notable defence by Mr. Francis Philips, and which we have done something to immortalize.— Our contemporary, we admit, has said all that can be said for the Right lion. Gentleman.. We have not censured Mr. P . Cel for conduct the opposite of that which - was so generally condemned in Lord Gode rich and Mr. Huskisson. We, ,on the contrary, accuse him of an overweening attachment to those sickly and truckling measures which distinguished the whole policy of these fallen and liberal Ministers. He is akeady too much identified with them. During their imbecile Administration he invariably. supported them. At first he almost courted Mr. Canning ; and he left the brunt of the fight in Parliament to his brother and his now illustrious brother-in-law. But, able as this defence by our Brighton friend is, it is de ficient in one essential quality. He says that Mr. Peel's silence at Manchester was no proof of apos tacy ; but he does not affirm that he is not an apos tate. Silence, we admit, may not imply desertion of principles; but we think it somewhat strange, when so many advocates are so ready to construe this si lesce to the Right Hon. Gentleman's advantage, that not one of them is bold enough to affirm -that Mr. Peel has not changed his opinions. A . simple affirmation, on g►ood authority, would settle the dis pute. Let Mr. Peel, in so many words, say "my sentiments on the Catholic question are unaltered," and we will be the first to apologise to the Right Hon. Gentleman for our ungrounded suspicion—we will be the first to proclaim the fact to the world — and we will do so with much more alacrity and pleasure than we recorded what we have yet seen no reason to retract, Aye or no would settle the ques tion.—Morning Journal alias New Times. ST. BRIDE'S CLOCK.-A meeting of the .parishioners of St. Bride's parish was held yesterday even ing, in the Vestry-room. The principal question before the meeting was, the illuminated. clock, the expellee for which amounted to oft. 12s. 6.1. Mr. BiNtow con sider.•d the clock was ritliculons in the extreme, and that the money it had cost had been fooled away ; it might have been applied to more important purposes. The cloak• of St. Giles's Church cost only 801., and that was in every respect superior to St. Bride's. After some discussion, the varions tradesmen's bills were ordered to be paid. BT. PAUL, COVENT-GAR D EN.--Yest erd ay a Vestry -Meeting in the Pariah of St. Paul, Covent-Garden, was held at the Church. Amongst the subjeets brought under the consideration of the Meeting was a statement, that a part of the roof of the Church had given way, and that some pieces of timber falling iwnsequence, had very nearly caused the death of Mr. LEE, the worthy Collector of the parish Rates, who was passing at tilt time, and escaped by about an inch. Mr. WALKER moved, " That a Committee of nine parishioners be appointed to inspect the Church, and state at the -next Vestry Meeting what re pairs they considered absolutely necessary." The motion was carried unanimously, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARYLEBONE. William Chandler, a Paddington coachman, wa , charged by Sir James Cockburn with endangering the limbs and lives of his Majesty's subjects by furious driving. When the name of the defendant .vas called, he did not appear, and it was stated that, according to his own account, he was gone to grass (absent) fora fortnight, to avoid it. However, by going to grass he did not impede the movements of the law, for the case was proved against him, and there being no one to speak in mitigation, the full penalty of 10/. was inflicted. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Yesterday a young man of respectable appearance who gives his name Mathew Riely, was brought from the watch-house of St. James's parish, before Sir GEORGE FARRANT, the sitting Magistrate, under the following very extraordinary and mysterious cir cumstances : Mr. M`Gowran, the landlord of the Bell, formerly the Goat and Star ,public-house, in Pall-mall, stated, that on Thursday evening, about eight o'clock, the prisoner, whom he had never known before, came into the house, and entering the parlour, where there were two or three other persons at the time, called for something to drink, at the same time taking out of his pockets a brace of pistols, which he very de liberately placed before him on the table. Soon after the liquor for which lie had called was brought to him, he asked him (Mr. M‘Gowran) to give him change for a 50/. note of the Bank of England, at the same time producing one from a large purse which he held in his hand, but the landlord observing a great strangeness of manner, he said, about the prisoner, who flourished about the room, a n d k e pt constantly handling and examining the pistols in an alarming way, felt no disposition at all to change the note, if it had been even convenient to him at the moment to do so, and told the prisoner that he could net change it. The prisoner, however, persisted in his desire to have the note changed, and at last Mr. M'Gowran told him that as all banking-hours were then long since over, and there were no means of ascertaining the genuineness of the note, he (Mr. M'Gowran) should certainly not change it if he had even the means at hand, for how did he know, he said, but that the note was a forgery ? Mr. M'Gowran had no sooner alluded to this possi bility of the note being forged, than the prisoner seized one of his pistols from the table, and present ing it at Mr. M'Gowran's head, was in the act of cock ing it, when Mr. M'Gowran closed upon him, and grasping the pistol by the barrel, turned it on one side, and with the assistance of the other persons in the room, wrenched it from his hold. The pri soner was then secured, as were also the brace of pistols; and one of the Bow-street patrol, who hap pened to be passing by at the time, was called in, and the prisoner was given into his custody, and lodged in the watch-house, on the charge of attempt ing the life of Mr. M'Gowran. On examining the pistols, each of them was found to be strongly charged with powder and ball, and primed ready for use; and on searching the prisoner's person at the watch-house, there were found in his possession, besides the 50/. note, 66 sovereigns, two half sove reigns, and ss. in silver. He made considerable re sistance to being searched, and, on parting_ with the 50/. note, he used all hi s en d eavours t o destroy it, and actually tore it into more than a dosen small pieces ; which, however, were subsequently pasted on a sheet of paper, and the form and contents of the note restored, so as to be perfectly legible. Its number is 13,121, and it is dated the 13th of Sept. 1828 ; and it had been ascertained that there is no doubt of its being a genuine note of the Bank of England. A witness, who was in the parlour of the Bell at the time the prisoner entered it, and who saw the whole proceeding, confirmed Mr. M'Gowran's state ment in every particular ; and the Bow-street patrOl said, that as he was conveying the prisoner to the watch-house the night before, he asked him what he meant by so outrageous an act as presenting a load ed pistol at Mr..M‘Gowrares head, when the pri soner replied that he meant to blow his brains ont, as he would•the brains of any man who would sup. pose him capable of passing forged notes. The prisoner, who seemed to treat the whole mat ter with the utmost slight and indifference, did not at all contradict any part of Mr. M'Gowran's state ment, but said that he considered himself personally insulted by the suspicion of his attempting to pass a forged note. On being questioned by the magis trate as to his occupation, &c., he said that he had been for some years as clerk in the office of Messrs. Lane and Croft, respectable solicitors in Lincoln's inn -fields, and that he only left there of his own ae cord three days ago. The 50/. note, lie said, and the sovereigns found upon hint, he received the day before at the Bank of England, but he declined, or rather did not volunteer, to give any other account of the source from whence the money came. The pistols, he said he purchased, and carried about hint for his own personal protection, particularly as he was on the point of setting off for Ireland that very morning. The Magistrate said, that the circumstances alto gether under which the pristiner appeared before him, would not warrant him (the Magistrate) in setting the prisoner at liberty without f ur th er it _ . quiry — about him ; his attempi to destroy the .50/. note was in itself a sufficieut cause for suspicion that the note had not honestly come into his possession : he was liable to be detained until he should procure Bail for the assault and threat against Mr. MgGow ran ; but he (the Magistrate) would in preference detain him on suspicion of having stolen the 501. note. Tlie prisoner was then remanded for a week, and soon after he had been locked up until his removal to prison, he called for pen, ink, and paper, and wrote the following letter : " Marlborough-street, Police-office, Friday morning. " Sit—l beg you will have the goodness to send the things which I purchased at your shop yesterday to me immediately at Marlborough -street Police office. Do not inquire for me in the name of Max well, as my real name is Riely." This letter was addressed to Mr. John Collier, clothier, &c., Nos. 40 and 41, in the Poultry, but had no name signed to it. After having undergone the necessary inspection by the Magistrate, the let ter was immediately forwarded to its destination, and in the course of the day Mr. Collier, in conse quence of the receipt of it, came to the office, and made to the Magistrate the following extraordinary statement respecting the prisoner, which seems to involve the affair in a still greater degree of obscu rity. About eight o'clock on Th urs d ay morn i ng Mr. Collier said the prisoner came into his shop, and said to him " How d'ye do, Collier ?" in a very familiar manner; and he (Collier), not at all having any recollection of the prisoner at the time, told him that he had the advantage of him, for that lie did not recollect him. The prisoner then said," Oh, I recollect you very well, when you used to come to l Mr. Lane's in Lincoln's-Itin•fields." He,(Mr. Collier), on the mention of Mr. Lane's name, did then remem ber the prisoner's person as a clerk in Mr. Lane's office ; but as he (Mr. Collier) had not been at Mr. Lane's for more than two years; the prisoner had escaped his memory, The prisoner then said that an old uncle of his had just died, and he wanted to WIT some clothes made, which it was absolutely ne cessary should be finished for him by eight o'clock the same evening, as he was to sail the next day for America. The prisoner then gave an order, very much to the surprise of Mr. Collier, after saying that his uncle was just dead, for a blue `'rock coat, a buff waistcoat, and a pair of drab•coloured trousers, and he purchased besid es , as ready-made articles, a tra velling eloak,sev era l s hi rts,s ilk h an dk erc hi e f s , stock ings, &c., all of which he desired should be put into a carpet bag, which he also bought, and sent to his residence, No. 4, Hyde-street, Bloomsbury. Mr. Collier having taken down the order, observed, that as the prisoner was a comparative stranger to him, be should wish, before setting several extra hands at work, to complete the order, as he must do in a few o us. hours, to have some deposit as a security against the clothes being left on his bands at a loss. " De posit !" said the prisoner, " you shall have the whole amount, for although they say that he who pays beforehand is bad pay, we'll run the hazard of that imputation by paying you down at once for the things I have ordered." Mr. Collier then made out his account, which amounted to 15/. 135., and the prisoner paid that sum instantly in sovereigns, from a large purse which he took from his pocket, :and which seemed to contain a great number more of the same coin. The prisoner, after again enjoining punctuality as to the completion of the order by eight o'clock that evening, was about to quit the shop, when he suddenly turned back and said, "By the way, Collier, upon second thoughts, I think you had better not send those things to Hyde-street, for it may happen that I should not be at home when they arrive, and for fear of any accident to them, I should not wish them to be left there in my absence. You had better therefore keep them until I send a confidential person for them, which I shall do in the evening, or early in the morning." The prisoner was then again about to withdraw, when he a second time returned, and taking• but of another pocket than that in which the bag of sovereigns were, a . 50/. note and two 40/. notes of the Bank of England, he asked Mr. Collier if he could give him change for them in sovereigns ? Mr. Collier replied, that lie really could not, for that, as he kept an account at a neighbouring banker's, lie very rarely kept any amount of cash in the house, but he offered, if the prisoner particularly wanted the chaoge, to send his young man with the notes to his banker's, and get them changed there. The prisoner said that would do, and he then gave the three notes to Mr. Collier, who, before parting with them, re quested the prisoner to write his name and: address on each. The prisoner stiid, that his address was as he had before given it, 4, Hyde-street, Bloomsbury, and that his name (which it seems Mr. Collier never knew at Mr. Lane's) was William Maxwell, and he requested Mr. Colliet' to write his rime and address for him on the notes. Mr. Collier did ac cordingly write them on each of the three notes in the prisoner's presence, but after he had done so, the prisoner took back the 50/. note, saying that the two 40/. notes would be sufficient to get changed. Mr. Collier then called his'young man on one side, and having some larking suspicions that all was not right with the prisoner, he desired the young man to take the two 40/. notes to the Bunk of England, to get changed, rather than to his own 'banker's, and to inquire very particularly if there was any stoppage or other impediment to the payment of the notes. The young man was abs2nt for a considerable time, and during the period Mr. Collier said that he particularly watched the prisoner's manner, and observed that he appeared very much agitated and uneasy while waiting in the shop, although he never attempted to leave it, under any pretence.— The young man, however, returned from the Bank, bringing with him eighty sovereigns in change of the notes, upon which, after a strict investigation at the Bank, it was found that no suspicion rested. The eighty sovereigns, Mr. Collier said, were then handed ova to the prisoner, and he took his departure, since when, until the receipt of the above letter, Mr. Collier saw or heard nothing more of him except this, that some time having elapsed after the hour so strictly appointed by the prisoner to have the clothes finished for him, Mr. Collier, whose suspicions that there was some thing wrong had not yet gone to rest, sent one of his shopmen to No. 4, Hyde-street, Bloomsbury, to in quire for the prisoner, when it was learnt there that no person answering either to the name or descrip tion of the prisoner was at all known at the' house. Mr. Collier said that the various things purchased of him by the prisoner were still at his house, as he did not think it right to bring them with him to the office in obedience to the prisoner's letter. The MAGISTRATE told Mr. Collier that he was perfectly right in keeping the things until a further investigation should take place respecting the pri soner, for at present his whole conduct and situation appeared to be involved in very extraordinary mys tery and suspicion. Mr. Collier asked if he could see the prisciner with propriety.—The Magistrate said he might, if he pleased. Mr, Collier then withdrew, and had an interview with the prisoner in his cell; but what passed during the interview did not transpire. An officer was sent to ascertain the truth or false• hood of the prisoner's statement, that he had, up to three days ago, lived with such respectable soli citors as Messrs. Lane and Croft, when it was learned that his assertion was suite true; that he had been in the office of those gentlemen for upwards of five years without the least blemish upon his in tegrity, and that lie only quitted there on Monday last of his own accord. So far, however, the of ficer learned, from the prisoner being in a situation since ever lie has been known to Messrs. Lane and Croft, to have any command of any sum of money beyond his bare salary, (which, from his situation of writing-clerk, was necessarily limited), he actually left the office with a small advance made ; o him, although not due. Plank, the chief officer, in the presence of the Magistrate, unloaded the pistols found upon the prisoner, and which were charged almost to the muzzle, Mr. Tiver, the proprietor of a respectable board and lodging house, No. 36, Gerard-streer, Soho, applied to the Magistrate for advice in the following case. OU that afternoon, he said, about two o'clock, a leaden bullet was fired into his house, and from the circumstance of no report of a gun or other lire. arms being heard, there could be little doubt but that it was discharged from an air-gun. Mr. Tiver produced the bullet, which was partially flattened, and about the size of a duelling pistol-ball; it en tered, he said, through one of the windows of the drawing-room, in an oblique direction, passed close by a Major in the army, who occupies that apart ment and was then sitting there, and, striking the opposite side of the room, rebounded nearly to the window again. The Major -was of course consider. ably alarmed, as were indeed the whole family, and he (Mr. Tiver) was quite at a loss to guess at any person who could be guilty of such an act. He had had no altercation, he said, or misunderstanding with any of his neighbours or any one else. There were, he said, two females of rather a suspicious character living opposite to his house, but he knew nothing of thew, and he could scarcely attach-suspi cion to them. • The Magistrate despatched Goddard the officer 'o inspect the premises and investigate the matter. LAMBETH-STREET. Nearly as the business of the afternoon bad yes terday terminated at this office, a ladylike-looking female, of about 35 years of age, and dressed in a style of fashionable elegance, entered the Justice. room in a state of high excitement, and was approach ing the bench, and about stating the nature of her the sitting M ag i s t ra t es ‘vvihsietntoshMe wasW Yit o ir lo T N , we E d s i l., y Colonel L., late of the South American serv i ce, as we understood—who interrupted her address, by exclaiming—" Oh I Mary---dear Mary--reeollect your husband, your mother, and children; don't expose yourself." Mr. WYATT—What do these persons want ? Pray what has occasioned this very singular introduction? Colonel L.—This lady, Sir, wishes to have an officer to accompany her to her lodgings in the Com mercial-road. M. W YATT —F or w h a t p u rp o se? We cannot gr ant such application unless sufficient grounds are shown The Lady (pointing to Colonel L.)—To protect me, Sir, against this person's violence, which has been— Colonel L. (in the most earnest manner)—" Do, Mary, for God's sake, desist;" and, perceiving a re porter taking notes, he added, " Dear Mary, do, or all this will be iri the newspapers to-morrow. Only think 'of Mir husband and children !" The Lady—That I don't care for, it will be heard of elsewhere, and I shall certainly speak only the truth. Colonel L. (to Mr. Wyatt.)—Might I request it as private—it i s a lt oget h er a f am il y a ff a i r ? This n , a * favour from your Wor s hip t o .h ear this imisi lles i;t .p friends and relatives are,'l assure you, most able; and, as I see there is a reporter in atterlP4l I entreat, f or t h e i r sa k es, you will prevent its 1 ° ; before the public. Mr. WvATT—If your object is concealmeg t ros mode, in which you have sought to obtaitrit 19 .,* h.,. most injudicious you could have chosen i: l l 4 * TV earnestness and solicitude, you have given til e ,,,4# 1., an air of interest and mystery which in.rewciitll,l:l.4 may not possess, but whi c h p ro b a bl y will' '1.34, more marked attention. N o diff erence of'!''' 44PPiI thelli et* parties is recognized he re , an d as to' m4 l 1 , , be their reporters, we can judi c i a lly .know 1 101. 7;,. 4 tlan( them. Let the lady be swor n ; s h e com es IT - 4,1 demand the protection of the law, and we are'T, to obey her call. The lady, who seem e d n o t a t a ll reluctsnt . il stl‘ . ply the history of • h er gr i evances; on b e ing he m n' and given her nam e as M a d ame Marianne. de' oh h' stated, that wishing•to break off all c onn exiar! r the defendant, Colonel L., between whom ao!,. tot 14 ;itid self a w a r m i ntercourse, s h e admittedillonot some time past su b s i ste d, s h e was that ill° r ,"Ot TA proceedin g to h er so li c i tor ' s, a Mr. Baker, fdl od purpose. While on her road thither, h e folli ) or her, and insisted on her accompanying him to 6 ive taro street. Thi s s h e re f use d , and i n an ecceLd, l° MA passion he struck her a violent blow on the S o ; 4ag 'which b ro k e h er b onnet , an d b ecame so outesrAof in his conduct as to attract a considerable crow" fi passengers to the spot. o rtet t ! Mr. WYATT—Thi s statement , if it b e , certainly exhibits most unmanly conduct. le 1 Madam, may I ask, are you a married or s" • It woman ? 1) C. Madame, de Felix—Married, Sir : my husbr.7,':' elat 4n at present i n th e E ast I n di es. . h , Colonel L., who with difficulty suppress j ot h t , utterance during the above statement,. and wh i l 1 411 evidently struggling with his feelings; •in 'de7 - fg . , said—The fact is, Si r , t hi s l a d y - ha s been -1;04 some time under my protection. With ele„ jo r should still have remained, and gladly reeeiVe o * protection, were it not that her conduct was tremely gross and incorrigibly depraved, Shat it , t p beyond endurance. She did•not even endeavos r ot conceal it, but tauntingly confessed to me t4 t ,,to had been a frequent visiter to the 44 white liouseA, Soho-square, and " the Key," in ChanduksPiy, with Colonel B----y, of Gloucest ers hi re , .0 041 / F. D —s, a civic B arone t. Thi s an d Ot h er aer ie impropriety I could not submit to, anti justly. ritated, I have det erm i ne d to part w i th her; bllpl.o the same tim e I am most anx i ous to place her r her friends. Madame de Felix—The only cause of their pleasure is my connexion with you. Colonel L.—Why, you • k now if i t was..not f that connexion and my kindness you •Would starving. . 'Madame de Felix—Starving, you wretch • T y aboutpsulatl anera been your servant—your slave. Ay, yes, ''• 44ll . o i i t brutalitythan M r a . Barbary v a n. : o bi , : r e. end to this angry reeril iii i; and I bear the marks Of Y a Lion, and the parties then took their leave under!- safe surveillance of an officer of the establialue°t' . •'• ~H ~~ 4 T 1 ti,s4 to .. 4 qua 4rd rteta T tib rar -,....._: lt,, t Ti SURREY SESSIONS-KINGSTON, Om: William ,Sandford,. a respectable looking 124 1 C 14 years, was ,put to the bar, charged with bar, on the 11th of October, stolen an ivory bt: counters, with the alphabet on them, value 18s' t o , property of Jame s Ki ngsraan , an ivory -turner, 01 ing at Lambeth.—" Acquitted." The prisoner Sandford was again put to the h gr ,, ? t charged with havi ng , on t h e same d ay; sto len; Leatherhead, four tortoiseshell boxes, an ivory tali al a pen box, a smelling bottle, and a 'purse, the W valued at 355., the property of John Frazer,. a We t maker residing at Peckham. The Jury found the prisoner " Guilty," and 4 Court sentenced him to• six months' . hard labour -the House of Correction, and to be twice p r ivate' , whipped. Thomas Vincent, alias William Edwards, put to the bar, charged with having on the 9th October, st o l en f rom t h e d-celling-house of J° op Blackman, a labourer at Croydon, a writing de s value 125., his property. Mr. THESSIGER (who cond uc t e d th e prose cuti_V l) x , —Mrs. Blackm an , i s t h at d es k your husblim'd property ? Mrs. Blackman (a fascinating femalt a forty, with one ey e )--Wh y , Si r, I bought t"- desk for the use of him and me. Mr. ThEsslGEß—Well, you know, that rnake s ' l l his property. You seem unw illi ng to admit 0,1" your husband is the master. ' Mrs. Blackman—Why, I d on ' t l i ke un ' to be quite master, neither.—(A laugh.) Why, Mad am , t h e l aw very uncourteously se) so, and unfortunately, I am afraid, you must su l by it. Another witness proved having seen the pr iqoPe running away with a sack ou his bark. The record of a former conviction for larceny put in and read. Verdict--" Guilty." The priso" was sentenced to be transported for life. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. te r TirURSDAY, O. 6.—Wind N. N. W. —High 01 , 15 minutes past three.— Arrived the A urora , Tharv' from Dramm e n ; J o h n an d William, Qum, from Id 6 man; James, AlKileave, Tobermory; Conductor,: Ai` v.. • suer, from ditto ; Earl of Fife, Alallum, from 0 Betsy, Humphreys, from Charlestown; Alexander, from Smyrna. - - f CLEARED OUTWARDS.--New York, B enn ett, fi t New York ; A rcturus, D enn i s, for Lisbon; Gem, land, for Teneriffe ; Mantura, Dobson, for Bremen ; Inr; tunus, Jettes, for Antwerp; Mediterranean Packet, Leghorn. BIRTHS. At Auchinleck Maes e , Ay rs hi re , on t h e 11 t h inst.., l‘frfs. Boyd, of a daughter. On the 16th inst., at Mitcham, Surrey, Mrs. E. man, of a son. the At Gosberton Cheal, in the last week of August , wife of Thomas Boxter was safely delivered of twins, both are living. It is worthy of remark that in 1617 t wife was the fruitful mother of twins ; in 1821 she fil l s .? single bi r th ; i n 1824 was prol i f i c again, and added an on pair to the difficulty of providing for her former offs 4 'l: The father, aged 68 y ears , i s now labouring-under Peel-. niary privations, from a failure in the parish of Kirtoti• On, the 14th inst., at Clifton, near Bristol, the 124 . - Captain Gardiner, R N., of a son. At Plymouth, the lady of Edward Jago,- Esq.; of ii,f l:4 ,:f At Foxbar, North Britai n , M rs . M at h ew Rubel:2oi' a son. MARRIED. On the 16th inst., at Christ Church, Alarylebone, Vir• W. Cockle, Esq., to Sarah, youngest daughter of the 164° Isaac Brooke, Esq., of Horningsheatb, On the 16th inst., at Datchet Church Alr. George Willis, of th e H aymarket, to Sophia, eldest daughter °i John Goodwin, Esq., of Datchet, Bucks. • On th e IG t h i nst., at S t. Matthew ' s, Brixton, the Rev. Edwin Rogers, 8.D., Dalton 31artinslale, E 94 1.r u. Hamilton-place, N or th B r i x t on , to Eli za, third daughter of the late William Dermer, Esq., Whitehead's-0° 1 e" Chelsea. COt the R. k ill 44 Hi: kin 4, Yht Mr, "vitt i M r , to ~anne DIED. On the 16th inst., Sarah Ann, the wife of Josepl" , Afunyard, Esq., of Kingstoa-hill, Surrey,,aged 441! On the 16th init., at his residence, Pullin'szrow, Wing* , ton, Mr. John Riggerstaff, aged 37. In Hereford, Lieutenant Aldwell Taylor, of his jesty's 38th Regiment, eldest son of the late Major-Gene" A. Taylor, of the Madras Establishment. On the 16th inst., at Notting hill, Kensington, after t short illness, John Vyvyan, youngest son of the late Calk tain Abel Vyvyan, o f t h e H on. E ast India Company service. On the 15th inst., at Clifton, Francis Young u the 4 14 - i! son of Captain Gardiner ; R. N.' PitINTED and Putusuun by MULIDO YOUNG,' ut SUN OFD.C.F 7 ?.."I'4IAND, LONDON. e tw o Reg aril) he • tAt Drip ko t 141