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of persons who have been brought up for offenc3, I have found, could read and write. Would not that be the case, incluse the majority of per sons are :tow taught to read and write ?—I did n ot mean to ad ver t merely to reading and writing ; but there is such a thing as forcing forwai d mental improvement beyond its natural course, and I think there is a tendency of that sort in these days, which is calculated to produce confusion. It is painful to me, I confess, to see grounds for assigning such motives to crime, because the n atural - feelings of men of liberal education are to extend the benefits of education, and therefore I say any thing Of the s ort with great re luctance. • We think it must be-evident -that there was nothing in the manner of the witness to call for the taunting tone in which the su bject- inhere pursued; nor can we indeed ask for a stronger contrast than the mild ness of the answerer and the flippancy of the (Ines tionist. We do not deny that it is a painful (and to Mr. Dyer acknowledges it to have been), 4is well as in some degree, an odious task, to attempt to dis parage the cultivation of those talents and'facultica which the Almighty has dispensed to all; but still there is no resistimg the evidence of facts ; and, if mankind are to be deterred from the investigation of this or any other subject by tho odium or unpopular. rity which their opinion" are to bring upon them, we do not see how trtlth is ever to be elicited, or error rooted out. (rEOM THE NEWS.) POLITICAL REFLECTIONS ON EGYPT. " For such the steady Roman shook the world." " Power is the great object of all nations; and that which is acquired by the sword, must be maintained by the sword." it is the fate of Empires, that they must make progress onwards, or retrograde. There is nothing , stationary on the earth, moral or physical. If there fore the public debt, and other considerations affect ing England, prevent her from keeping her front station in the march of circumstances, she is, so jar, failing into the rear of minor States. Hitherto Russia has been only prevented from becoming a Naval Power by•her want of seaports in free com munication with the main ocean. In the North, cooped up in the extreme point of the Baltic, and confined to a single outlet, her case was hopeless, unless by the spoliation of some powerful neigh bours, whom it were not prudent at present to pick a quarrel with. In the East, confined to the 'Euxine at the will of Turkey, that sea was no bet ter than a lake to her ;* and on 'this privation of her marine she must be chained down to eternity, unless she can conquer and possess herself of that high road to power—the Bosphorus and the Hellespont. smith an increase of naval force, she might ultimately push Prussia and some other States back from the coasts of the Baltic; but not without such force.— The only point that is open to her, is by war in the East,—and here she can only strengthen herself at the expense of English security. If ever Turkey should be partitioned, Russia will claim, demand, and fight for the great pass o f the Hellespont; and this stiuggle will inevitably involve England in a war with her ; the main thing which we have to do, therefore, is to avoid such a necessity by. the concession of arty thing short of giving up these-Straits into the keep ing of the Muscovite; and detaching France, by all the means in our power, from any alliance with Russia; by which the French might seek and di vide a common object. We will suppose this to be the reason why England has never sought to possess herself of Egypt, as she thus-forbore to give Russia and France any feasible grounds of jealousy. But the times are developing new positions of Empires, and the question of the fate of Turkey trembles in the balance. In this predicament our object evi dently is to keep on terms with France, and thus guard against the sword which is suspended over our heads. We do not believe, however, that we shall crawl out of these awkward circumstances without a "turn up" with one of the powers in question, if not with both. Lo o king th e difficulty full in the face, let us make a reconnoissance of the land as it lies before us. As the valuable considera tion for the assistance of England to Turkey, which would in a moment put - to flight the most distant hope of Russia ever holding or taking the Helles pont—Egypt would readily.be given-up to Ats ;it is now all but independent of the Ottomans and would seem as though offering to fall into our hands. Suppose this to be done, and a passage made through the isthmus of f......uez cut for steamers; India would be brought as it were almost into contact with us. A purely defensive war, not beyond the exer tions of our navy, and the maintenance of Egypt, with a practical economy and liberal policy at home, would in about three years settle.tbe fate of Russia fcr centuries; while we left other enemies to break tl err r esources an d their hearts against the peculiar invulnerability of our empire. But how so invulne rable ? it will be asked : let us inquire. We first premise, that Ireland. be conciliated, and her just claims granted; that the elective liberty be trans ferred from the close and corrupt boroughs to the populous towns; and that all practicable economy be made in the public expenditure. Without these preliminary steps being first taken; we should be. mad to go to war, whatever insult or provocation may assail us; though if we went to war, and Reform, so far as we have stated, arose out of peril and difficulty, still the nation would recover and right itself. Egypt was a great empire during at least fifteen centuries: Taking the course of the Nile, how is it at once fed and favoured and guarded by nature I Placed in easy and immediate access and contact with the north and southern oceans, and flanked by an eternity of deserts that hem her round as Avith a garment impenetrable to the s.vord of ci vilization, she is placed equally within the - ready, supplies that -England could furnish from'the east and from 'the north, With a facility which no other nations could imitate or interrupt. Why Turkey should have been so lon g master of this fine country, no mortal can tell;. since the Ottoman reigns only by a superior barbarism.. The native tribes respect and fear most: Europeans while they hate and despise the, Turks. Had t h e E ng - . hsh spirit and commercial habit, fifty years ago, formed the elements of Empire on the bord ers o f the Nile, under a wise and liberal GoVernmental policy, instead of conquering and separating the New World, we should not now have wanted a nation ti . k‘:, the south, capable of keeping the iron' despot Russia in check. Crand Cairo would have een one of the master capitals of the tvsiiid 2 fL and the Red Sea would be studded ,witWil fi tbirriii Vessels, na vigating the calm watersttiriqr- roll Voluptuously over shores of coral ; and cosl4o - ng ,the splendours of the east with the Wealtrihe industry, and the morel power" of the north: 'Where is there a place, formed for the advantagefol empire, like the site of ancient Thebes? A etimnitinication for large ves -Bels, between that . pai of the Nile and the Red Sea, would be undertaken by a hundred companies in England to-morrow, if required. There is u break in the chain of mountains, not far from this bend in the !Nile; and there are the means of direct intercourse with - the three quarters of the world, of which it is nearly a central and connecting .point. London, Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria, Thebes, Mocca ( perhaps), and Bombay, would be but as so many stages. To arrive in - view of the green vale of Egypt, from the D esert, is something like going from the present to " another and a better world." Here the Greek and the ancient Roman came to pay the tribute of their admiration, after the manner of the moderns of our own tim e • and here th e y were first unit with the love of that glory w hi c h they only imitated; for Avbile most of the Roman temples and columns remain in mouldering ruins, you see the obelisks of Thebes fresh in all their beauty, as though they were the work o f yester ' A French paper asks if it be reasonable, while the Mediterranean is free, that the Black Sea should be kept a. a sort of " cul de sac, into which none can penetrate: without the permission of the Grand Turk ?" It then proceeds to argue that Russia Will " open it." This may be true; but who will she open it to? Why, like the Grand Turk, to whom she likes. It may be seen, in va• rious ways, that France has afeeling in the Russian policy. to The respect is, however, mostly on account of their wealth, which they estimate by various ways.. Buona parte talked to them of a splendid jewel in his crown, which was worth seven years' revenue of Egypt ; and they put down France for the greatest power in the world. day. • -In following rather a sanctified traveller, who mixes some little political speculation with his anti quarian research, we find him entering that fine por tal at Thebes which places him within the " one hundred and fifty columns;"—those of the inner circle of which, are . of the enormous diameter of eleven French feet, and the remainder of eight. - Though a bigotted saint of our times, he admits himself to have been awed at the sight ; yet with his " thickened breath" he begins ,to descant of compa rative" taste and proportion—like a man who picked up the detached pannel of a door, and without pos sessing.a single material beyond, on which the laws of its proportion rested, proceeded to judge the architecture of the structure to which it belonged. The Paella of Egypt is making the best road he can An civilization, in boring , bannotrand growing cotton, founding libraries, &c. -6:c.; but it is all afarce. His Learned Librarian was appointed because he had re ceived the advantage of impelling in England, viz. he had . been once to Gibraltar; and he had one English book that he could not read ! That, with some purchased iron foundry implements, were quite sufficient at Grand Cairo to form the ground of ex pectation that Egypt, un d er t h e presentPacha,would soon rival the British power I In the fine country of the Egyptian, there is little or no employment, and lm want. The Nile mad the Sun bring plenty to the doors of the poorest cottagers ; yet from habit and indolence, not necessity, the people are beggars. It the French ever get footing in Egypt, they will take India; and if on no other account, it were wise for us to keep it out of their hands in the most cer tain Nay,—by possessing it ourselves, and garrison ing it with the unemployed artisans of our manufac tortes, who are eating up the substance of the trades people, in grumbling discontent at their own idleness And dependence. This were surely better than send ing them to Canada, in order that they may with facility pass over into the North American States, and convey thither our arts and habits of industry to a rival market. There were - few places so easily improvable by British spirit and capital as Grand Cairo. It has fallen from what it was under the Caliphs; but it now contains about 200,000 per sons. Men of all nations congregate here; but mostly in the pursuits of merchandise ; and the worst spirit of Government in the world has not been ahle to deprive it of an essential commercial character. There is said to be a superior animal chara"ter. in the Turks, as men ; and some writer designated them as the " aristocracy of nature :" it is true they make tine soldiers, but you cannot subject them to any perfect discipline. The English, French, Austrians, and Russians, will at any time beat them with - inferior numbers. They do not comprehend, and will not enter into, the calculations of combined movements. Their tenure of Egypt is by a thread as slender as empire ever was held ; and the rule of the country must in our times either go to some other European Power, or into a petty Sovereignty that were disgraceful to all the Powers conniving at it; and degrading to the inhabitants, mixed as they are of the wanderers of all tribes and all nations. We have gone into these desultory reflections, touch ing matters of import—supposing that we shall not be able to obtain from the Emperor of Russia clear and satisfactory views of his intentions in Turkey; and that such views will riot be afforded by the pre sent Emperor, there is every day mere and more reason to apprehend. (FROSI rHE SUNDAY HERALD.) POLICY OF TILE ECROPEAN COURTS.—There is no question at the present moment which occupies so much or se deservedly the attention of all classes, as the probability of interference, or non-interference, on the part of the great Powers of Europe, to pre vent the destruction or dismemberment of the Otto man Empire. The time is now come when they must declare themselves for the one or the other; and in the view which we entertain of the subject, it affords us pleasure to find that Colonel Evans, its his book " On the Designs of Russia," completely coincides with us. From Prussia mere neutrality in the contest is all that could be reasonably expected. Frederick William is related by intermarriage with Nicholas, in the same degree that the Emperor Francis was to Napoleon—he has a large army as sembled on his frontiers—the desire of extending the Prussian territories might not unnaturally, cou pled with other motives, conduce to a collusion of views ; and in case of a declaration of war by the other Powers of Europe, would certainly lead to a junction of the Russian and Prussian standards.— On Austlia, we fear, little reliance need be placed, though she is undoubtedly more immediately and strongly interested than any other European Power in the preservation of the Turkish Empire. But on this subject Colonel Evans's observations are too just and too forcible to admit of being paraphrased by a 'feebler pen. " Ausnia is very well known to be one of the most inert and unelistic of powers ; and though, through our pecuniary aid, she has evinced constancy, her efficient force by no means corresponds with her territorial extent. The - contracted and obsolete maxims which still so utterly im pede the prosper its, and as completely interdict the union, of the Austrian provinces, must he to us, her natural ally, a source of unfeigned regret; fur it is thus that her strength falls so short of what it should be, as a dike against the North. Little of a spontaneously energetic character is to be augured from the Court of Vienna. Nay, unless under the influence of foreign impulse, it were rash to assert teat it may not in the sequel personate both the dupe and the accomplice. A province or two, if demanded as the price of complicity, will be readily cerceded. The .treat captor of the territorial booty, thus distributed, will consider any such transfer as no more than a loan. Ad ditional honours and applause will be showered on the celebrated Austrian Minister, whose dexterity, it will be said, has thus added, without the employment of anus or the chances of war, to his master's dominions : while, in point of fact, the real and inevitable tendency of this pre tended aggrandisement will be neither rime nor leas than that of paving the way for sending back with all practi cable speed that Imperial house to its original little domain of Hapsburg ; or, if not, for rendering it, within a far more limited period, a mere intermediary and dishonourable channel, through which to convey to the Germanic na tions, with as little chock as may be to their honest feel ings, tberuthoritative ukases transmitted for fulfillment.— Fossiqly,!however, the Cabinet of Vienna, afraid to par tal*iirthe ill-gotten spoil, may assume the respectable 'Veiring of a neutral. This may perhaps be on the prin ciple of the ingenious expedient propounded a few days ago, in the legislature ofa neighbouring country—namely, that the balance of Europe would be best upheld, and the ambition of Russia repelled, by 'an awe-inspiring reserve' on the part of the Chamber of Deputies From th e Ki ng of Sweden, the most sagacious, and in point .of military talents and of the affection borne to him uy his subjects, the most formidable, of the Sovereign s of Europe, Russia could expect no aid. On the contrary, the recent marriage of the son of the Ex-King of Sweden into the Royal House of Orange must naturally have inspired him with considerable dread, lest in his case—the only e xception to legitimacy in Europe —a return should not be had, sooner o r l ater, to the same principle w hi c h banished the Emperor of France to a barren rock, and cut short the days of the gallant )lurat. From such a fate England only can save hint ; and while she remains constant to his interests there sics.:l be no doubt that he would manifest equal regard for. hers. Of Portugal ---of notice steed he- taken. Spain--and of t he petty German Stat es , no no • They exist on the s na p o f Europ e; but they exercise no . influence on her interests-- they frequently give rise to wars, and jealousies, and contentions among other states, but they are too feeble and sunk too deep in ignorance and p overty to take any part in them. But France—aye France —what part would she perform, we re the worst t o come to the worst, and the Russian eagle hovering over the gates of Constantinople? This question has, in all probability, been already solved, thought the result is not satisfactorily known to us. That in case of Russia succeeding in her ambitious enter prise, she could have no real interest separate from that of England, we are willing to admit ; and that if the enlightened Ministry which now directs her fo reign policy remain in office, she will co-operate with England, is more than probable; but it must at the same time be admitted, that the reluetancq ex hibited by the Wellington Cabinet to execute the Treaty of the 6th July, has done much towards pre- judieing both tie Ministry and the people of France against us, and that while there are many points in the situation of England which might induce France to pursue a separate and distinct line of policy, there are also not a few temptations to make her_ depart from good fellowship with us. The naval supremacy of England, for example, has always been a thorn in the side of France; and the possi bility of destroying it, either by adding to her own maritime greatness, or increasing that of another Power, might tempt her to abet the designs of Russia. It aught also to be taken into considera tion that the danger of her being ultimately over powered by Russia might appear too remote to be worthy of serious attention; and, as Europe is now situated, by far too insignificant when compared with the solid advantages which would arise from ac quiring a more eastern position in the Mediterranean than . she now possesses. We conclude, for the present, with the following eloquent reflections in Colonel Evans's work on the possibility of dismem bering Russia : " Montesquieu foretells with eloquent regrets, bat, let us hope, not with a prophetic spirit, the fall of the British Constitution and power ! A still more:admirable writer goes yet further, and predicts the wreck and annihilation of the ' great globe itself.' We will not then hesitate to admit, that the ' vast Autocratic empire,' and the formi dable Autocratic armies, and military colonies ''', will (like all other institutions that have preceded them) sink, lose their force, consistency, and energy. But the great question in this case is—when will that event come to pass?— Now, if history be any guide to us in these matters, it must he acknowledged that no military na tion has ever yet voluntarily abstained from con quest, while there was any thing yet within its grasp to conquer ; and that, from the point of palpable relaxation, degeneracy, and decline, to that of ex tinction or demolition of power, a long and dreary period of not less than centuries has almost invariably intervened : while, in th . c mean time, and nearly as invariably, both vanquished and victors have been alike hurled into a com mon turpitude ! Every base, pusillanimous, anti humi liating vice then concentres in the. character of the former—while all the more harsh, ungenerous, and bar barous ones, become the habitual and unconscious propen sities of the latter I (FROM THE EXAM/NER.) LORD ANGLESRA AND THE ORANGEMEN.—The Orangemen of Ireland, and their allies in this coun try," are just now extremely exasperated against Lord Anglesea, because he has indicated a disposi tion to extend kindness and justice to the Catholics. If reflection could co-exist with passion, the persons who solace themselves with railing at Mr. Dawson and the Lord Lieutenain, would find it rather unsa tisfactory to ponder on the probable sources of the conduct which has given them such violent chagrin. What is there in the Catholic cause to allure to what is stigmatised as political apostftcy ? It is daily and hourly rung in our ears that " the first Personage cf the Ream" is absolutely hostile to the claims. It is insisted too, that the Ministry haviot forfeited its character for excellence by the adoption of the prin ciple of toleration ; and it is confidently affirmed that the people of England, in mass, are anti-Catho lic. Against this array of the Crown, the Ruling Power, and the popular sentiment, what is there, we ask, to tempt to a dereliction of the principle (if we must so abuse the word) of Protestant Ascendancy ? Where is the reward—the motive ? Conv;ction, the conviction of justice and pOliey, can alone account for the change; and no convic tions are so powerfully rooted in reason as those which spring up against the bias of interest. Lord Anglesea is not one of those persons despised under the description of a visionary or speculative philoso pher; he has never laboured under the reproach of liberality ; he went to Ireland With all the graces of the Court on him, and unsuspected of ever having entertained the idea of benefiting his species. Such a man looks at Ireland from the 'vantage ground of power, and is speedily convinced—convinced that the oppression of the many is exceeding the force of the few, and that the time has arrived when conci liation and concession are measures of imperative necessity. " The original establishment of the Janissary system very nearly resembled, on a small scale, that of the colonies alluded to. Two centuries - passed away before they lost their discipline and efficiency. Nor would they then, per haps, have become disorganised and degenerate, were it not for the abandonment by their Sultan of the fatigues of the camp, for the enjoyments and voluptuousness of the harem." PROGRESS OF PUBLIC VEHICLES. Mr. Cleland, in an elaborate article on the progress of public vehicles, mentions that a mail-coach from London to Glasgow, via Carlisle, arrived in Glasgow for the first time on 7th July, 1750 ; it performed the journey of 405 miles in 63 hours. The mail now goes round by Leeds, distance 403 miles, which is performed in 45 hours. The Learned Doctor then enumerates the coaches that start from or arrive at Glasgow : Carlisle Edinburgh l2 Pais!ey l3 Hamilton 5 Campsic Kippen Kilsyth Drymen 1 New Maine 1 Kelso Strathaven Kilmarnock 1 Barrhead Renfrew Greenock 1 Lanark Stirling ..... ....... 2 Airdrie 2 Ayr 2 Sa:tcoats ...... 2 Pollokahaws ' 2 Perth . Alloa Kirkcaldy 1 11.11fron Coaches using 671 horses, and carrying 284 inside, and 548 outside pasengers. Forty-one of these coaches depart from, and arrive at, Glasgow every day ; 8, two times a day ; 5, three times a day ; 6, three times a week ; 1, four times a week. Sedan chairs have for some time past been on the de.- dine. In 1800, there were 27 for hire in Glasgow; in 1817, only 18 ; and in 1828 the number is reduced to 10. Number of Hackney Carriages, in Glasgow, in August, 1828 : Hearses Coaches drawn by two horses l2 Coaches drawn by one horse 54 Chaises .. • 25 Phaetons 22 —l3O Total .... 61 In London or Edinburgb, it is usual to purchase gen tlemen's old carriages, but in Glasgow this is never done. It is not uncommon here for postmasters to give 200 gui neas for a hackney coach, and 150 for a chaise., From July, 1827, to July, 1828, fifty-nine steam-boats plied on the Clyde ; and at the latter period the Waverley and Sultan were in a state of forwardness, and are now .plying on the River. Tonnage of the 59 boats, carpen ter's measurement, 8283 ; average, 140 23-59. The en gines used in these boats are from 10 to 50 horse power. During the year ended Bth July, 1826, 54 steam-boats plied on the Clyde, and consumed 18,543 waggons of c0a1=22,251 tons, worth, at 13s. -11 d. per waggon, 12,9021. The number of persons departing from, and arriving in, Glasgow, every lawful day, is estimated as follows :- 46 steam-boats, each averaging 20 passengers Coaches, carrying 1010 passengers, deduct one third, 337 Canal track-boats Number of persons departing from Glasgow every lawful day.. Ditto returning Total departing and returning Or yearly The Duke of CLARENCE, for many years, has occasionally suffered exceedingly from spasmodic attacks. His late illness was produced by too dose an attention to the duties of his office. So intensely devoted has the Duke been to the business of the Admiralty, that he has scarcely permitted himself the requisite time for sleep and recreation.' A singular habit has prevailed with his Royal Highness, for nearly twenty years. Imme diately after having eaten his dinner, he gees to sleep in his chair, for exactly seven minutes, Avlien, if he is not awoke at the precise moment by those who are in attendance, they incur his extreme displeasure. After dinner, even when at Bushy, he constantly resumed his official duties, assisted by his Secretary the Hon: Captain SPENCER. At a doctor's shop, a few doors from West minster•bridge, may be seen written up the following noti fication :—" J— It—, Surgeon, Apothecary, Accoucheur and Chemist to the King." POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—The Loan MAvon. received intimation fr An the family of: i gentleman who transacts business on the Istoyal Exchange, that a duel, - which pro mised to he a=•sanguinary one, was about to be fought on Sunday morning, at a short distance from town. The parties, it appeared, had quarrelled over a bottle of wine, and a challenge was the consequence. The invitation was accepted without delay, and every preparation was made. Two surgeons were engaged to attend with the lead-ex tracting instruments. One of the City Marshals was sent to break up the matter, and he apprehended the challengee, who was evidently mortified at such interference. The Lord Mayor, finding that there was no disposition to paci fication, ordered the gentleman to find two sureties for 250/. each, and to be hound over himself for 500/. The bail were in readiness, and the defendant left the Mansion-house. A foreigner, who did not mention his name, applied to the Lord Mayor for advice in what manner to act, in order td compel Mrs. Cooke ; the celebrated swindler, to make restitution of a harp which she bad hired from him, and had pawned. The instrument was a very valuable one. The LORD MAYOR desired him to go before the Grand Jury, and prefer a bill of indictment against her at once. A Mr. Creed, who has some connexion with the Society for discountenancing swindling and fraud upon tradesmen, then addressed the applicant, and told him, that if he would call upon him, a prosecution should bo at once commenced against the woman by the Society. The applicant follow ed this advice, but the result was so dissatisfactory, that he found it necessary to resort to the LORD MAYOR this day, for the purpose of obtaining restitution of a sovereign from Mr. Creed. He stated, that when he went to Mr. C. eed, that gentleman produced a book of subscriptions, nod told him it was necessary for him to put down a sove reign before any thing could be done in the case. The ap licant consented to pay the sovereign, but he might as well have let it alone for any service that it rendered to him. Upon his pressing the necessity of the society's tak ing up the prosecution, Mr. Creed said that they would determine upon some case out of the variety that presented themselves, and that his should not be that ease. " Then give me back my sovereign," said the foreigner. " Not I, indeed," replied Mr. Creed ; " you are a subscriber, and you will be balloted for on the next night of meeting." The foreigner by no means relished this way of disposing of his cash, and thought that if the society countenanced such an act, they must adopt a more appiopriate name. Mr. Creed still refused. The LORD MAYOR thought such conduct extremely un justifiable. The Society had no right to detain the appli cant's money under such circumstances. It was evident, by Mr. Crees own showing, that the applicant was not a member, for he was, it seemed, to be ballotted for first, and therefore the money ought not to be kept as a subscription. Mr. Creed said, that he certainly would not give up the sovereign. Ile considered it to be the property of the Society. They were ready to prosecute any case that seemed likely to be followed by conviction, but they were not bound to take any doubtful matter up. He would not return the sovereign. The LORD MAYOR pressed him to give the man his pro perty. His Lordship did not think the Society would relish such an interference. Mr. Creed still persisted in his refusal. Nothing should induce him to give up the money. As for the applicant, the great probability was that he would be blackballed. GUILDHALL.—On Saturday William Jordan, clerk to Mr. Joseph Fothergill, a solicitor in Clifford's Inn, was charged with embezzling various sums, the property of his employer. Evidence was given that the prisoner, who had been a year and a half in Mr. Fothergill's service, bad received sums amounting to 431., and had accounted at this time for only about 301., but upon finding, subsequently, it had been discovered that he had received more, he sent in an account of the real animmt, but claiming as due to himself a much larger sum than he had detained in his bands. The prisoner's solicitor asked Mr. Fothergill whether be had not undertaken, when he engaged the prisoner, to share the profit with him of any business he might bring to the house ?—Mr. Fothergill replied " Never." The Solicitor asked if he had not signed an agreement to that effect ? Mr. Fothergill repeated his negative. The solicitor then exhibited a document (which was not read) to Fothergill, and asked him if it bore his signature ? Mr. Fothergill said he would not hesitate to admit that it did bear his signature ; but he, wrote it without know ing what he signed, while lying upon a bed of sickness, from which he never expected to rise. The paper was placed before him folded up, except as to the place he was to sign, and being told it was upon official businew, be wrote his name without examination. This paper now proved to be an agreement to give prisoner half the profits on certain business. The solicitor for the complainant intimated that his client's mind was not in a state to enable him to do busi ness at the time the paper was signed, and the signature so surreptitiously obtained would go for nothing. The con tract was of so unprofesssional a nature, that his client would be struck off the rolls if he were to admit that he had agreed to it. Prisoner's solicitor (Mr. Hanson) replied—Whatever might be the consequence, the agreement was an answer to the charge, for by the account the prisoner had delivered to Mr. Fothergill, it appeared that half the profits on the business he hall obtained for Mr. Fothergill would amount to 681. more than ho had retained, The prisoner wept, and said he had quitted a respectable situation, where he was earning 2/. a week, to join his ac cuser tt a salary of only 1/. a week, but it was upon an un derstanding that he was to share the profits of all the busi ness he could get. lie at first could get only 6s. or 7s. a week front Mr. Fothergill, who admitted that he had no business of his own. After a time they carte to a new ar rangement, by which he was to receive 16s. a week in term and 14s. in vacation. In June, Mr. Fothergill became se riously ill, and prisoner became alarmed lest, in the event of his death, the representative should dispute his right to participate in the profits of 160/. debts then on the books, and he therefore drew up the agreement to the same effect as their verbal contract, which he read over to Mr. Fother gill when he went to take instructions for his will, and he signed it voluntarily. This charge of embezzlement was pressed to defraud him of his right to half of the profit, and of his valuable connexion. Mr. Alderman ANSLEY advised the prisoner to say no more ; and after some conversation, the case was ordered to stand over till next week, the Alderman expressing a hope that some arrangement would occur in the interim. MARYLEBONE.—On Saturday fortnight, Mr. John Linton, a stable-keeper in Marylebone-lane, came to Mr. RAWLINSON for advice under the following circumstances : In April, 1823, Captain -, R.N. of Belle due Cot tage, near Fulham, hired a pair of horses of him for four months, at 101. a month, and a bargain was made, that if they were kept for a longer period, the price should be re duced one-half. In June following, the captain returned one of the horses, and gave Mr. Linton his acceptance for 251. 10s. on account, payable at a month, but before it arrived at,, maturity, the captain left the country, without providing for its payment, and without return ing the ether horse, and also, as Mr. Linton was in formed, without paying his servants their wages. Although he is nearly related to a noble family, Mr. Liston could gain no tidiiigs respecting the captain for more, than five years, but he was seen at the list Eglialn races, and " if I can find him, your worship," said Mr. Linton, " what shall I do?" < - • • " Why," replied Mr. RAWLINSON 4 "if what you have stated is correct, and you are lucky enough to find him, give him into custody." Mr. Linton ascertained that the Captain had a confi dential friend in Thayer-street, Marylebone ; and after " keeping a good look out," he found him there late on Wednesday night, and sent him to the watch-house. The Captain then declared he had given his principal servant instructions before he went to the Continent to return the horse to Mr. Linton, and money to pay for the hire of it, and if his servant had not done so, he said he was willing to. pay 70 guineas for the horse, and the stipulated price for the nse of it as long as he had it ; but Mr. Linton con sidered himself entitled to 51. a month for more than five years, which made the bill upwards of 4001., and the Captain was brought before Mr. Griffith the next morning, charged with felony. " Well, Sir,"said Mr. Gairrint, " unless you can give a good explanation of your conduct, you stand in. an awk ward predicament:" Captain--I know I do, Sir, but if you allow an opportu nity, I can prove that before I left the country, I gave my servant orders to return the horse, and I gave him money also to pay Mr. Linton's demand. Mr. GRIFFITII—How will you prove that? Captain— I understand, after I was gone, be kept the horse at livery for his own use until he eat his head off, and the stable keeper sold him to remunerate himself. That man now lives at Knightsbridge, and on Saturday I will produce him 0,3 a witness. The time was granted, and the Captain gave bail for his appearance, himself in 200!. and two sureties of 100/. each. The Captain came to the office on Saturday, but he had [not been able to find his witness, and his case stands over for a week. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—On Saturday Mr. and Mrt. Grindall, wham names Lave so repeatedly appeared k the police prooeedings of the metropolis, were both brought to this office under a warrant in custody of West cott, the officer, before Mr. DYER, the sitting Magistrate, charged with assaulting a gentleman named Hughes. It appeared that Mr. and Mrs. Grindall are residing in a house at Kensington which belongs to Mr. Hughes, and that they carne in there as the successors of other occupiers who were the real tenants of Mr. Hughes, but whose term not being expired, they gave possession for the Unexpired time to Mr. and Mrs. Grindall. This pos session, however, had reference only to the part of the house which the former occupants themselves held—namely, a suit of apartments; the remainder of the house'still continuing unlet and in the hands of Mr. Hughes, the landlord. Mr. and Mrs. Grindall, however, were not contented with the possession of the part of the house to which they had a proper claim, but, according 'to Mr. Hughes's account, they took upon themselves to exclude him from the house altogether, and not suffer bins to enter his own apartments there. Mr. Hughes did, however, at last gain admittance, and when he did, he, as the landlord of the house, took possession of the key of the street-door, and for presuming so to take possession of it, Mts. Grindall flew at him in a very unfeminine manner, scratched his face, lacerated his nose, rent his shirt and shirt frill, and in other respects very much dilapidated his wearing apparel ; and in all this very uncivil treatment Mr. Grindall, Mr. Hughes said, also took a part, by not only aiding and abet ting in the same, but also committed an assault by seizing Mr. Hughes by the collar. A gentleman who witnessed the transaction corroborated Mr. Hughes's account of it. Mrs. Grindall, to whose character nothing of taciturnity belongs, went on in the defence of her husband and herself at a rate of volubility that it would be difficult to keep pace with, and she ended by declaring her utter despair of ever meeting either on this or any future occasion with that which has never yet, she said, fallen to her lot—anything like fairness or justice at the hands of any human tribunal; and after this declaration was over, both Mr. Grindall and herself were ordered to find bail for the assaults on Mr. Hughes. Henry Warner, the driver of the hackney-coach No. 372, appeared upon a summons:, to answer the complaint of a lady named Cooke, the widow of a clergyman, resid ing in a distant part of the country. Mrs. Cooke stated, that having come ep to town for the purpose of placing two of her children at the adult asylum in the Regent's-park, she hired the defendant's coach to convey the children and herself from Webb's hotel, in Picca dilly, where they were stopping, to the Regent's-park When she got into the coach, the defendant asked her where he was to drive to, and she told him to the asylum in the Regent's-park, she believed on St. Andrew's-ter race, hut being, as she told him, a total stranger in Lon don, she could not give him any more accurate direction. The defendant then drove on and kept driving away for a very long time, but where he drove to she could not tell, farther than that she passed through two turnpike•gstee, which she had to pay for ; at last she got to the:place of her destination, and having there left the two children, she was conveyed again by the defendant to the house of a friend in Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, where she was set down, and where the defendant demanded and received as his fare 55., although the family of the house told him that they knew it to be an imposition, and took down his number. • The defendant, in his defence, said that he considered himself entitled to the ss. for the distance he had gone. The MAGISTRATE fined him }Qs. together with 33. 6d. costs, and ordered him to refund the overcharge, Bs. nut of the 53., his legal fare being only 2s. ; all which the coach man hiving reluctantly dune he was discharged. BOW-STREET. —On SAurday, Frederick Broughton, Esq., a gentleman who resides in Southampton-street, ap. peared before Mr. HALLS, and charged Mr. James Hud son, of the British Coffee-house, Cockspur-street, with outrageously assaulting him in the boxes of the English Opera-house, on the previous night of Friday, and wilfully tearing and destroying his coat. The complainant was sitting in the boxes quietly wit nessing the entertainments, when the defendant, who oc-. copied the seat immediately in front, stretched himself at full length, in order to converse with a woman of the town; who eat on the same seat with the complainant. It hap pened, in doing so, that the defendant's back came into contact with the complainant's knees, and the former• in a peremptory tone desired him to remove them. The complainant refused to do so, observing, that the bOx was large enough for the defendant if he wished to indulge himself without interfering with those who plid their money to be amused in another way. The defendant immediately jumped up, and applying an insulting epithet to the complainant, seized him by the collar, and by su perior strength dragged him from the seat which he oc cupied to the box lobby. In conseqnenes of the *listen dant'a violence the complainant's coat was literally torn from his back. Mr. Thomas, the conaahle of St. Pant's, Covent-gar• den, hearing a row , in the theatre, came to the spot just as the defendant had succeeded in ejecting the complainant from the box. The parties were at high words, and had exchanged cards. Witness expressed his determination to take them both into custody; but Craig, a police-officer, who was present, advised him not to interfere, as other wise he might subject himself to an action. - Mr. HALLS told Mr. Thomas, that whenever he wit nessed a breach of the peace he was empowered to take the offending party into custody. Mr. Thomas then produced the torn coat, which Mr. Broughton declared had cost him five guineas only a few days before. The coat was literally torn to fritters. Mr. HALLS said that the defendant had been guilty of a most unwarrantable assault. It was not to be endured that the company at a theatre were to be annoyed by per sons lounging at full length upon the seats. If the de fendant wished to exhibit his person in a reclining position, he ought to have hired a private box. It appeared that the complainant had a coat which he valued at five guineas torn from his back. The value of the coat he (the Magistrate) called upOn the defendant to pay, under the provisions of the'Act inflicting fines for the wilful de struction of property. The parties then retired, and the defendant paid five guineas to the defendant for having destroyed his coat. The latter, however, expressed his determination to indict the defendant for the assault, which the Magistrate told him he might do. At a late hour on Saturday night a squalid miserable looking young Elan, was placed at the bar before Mr. MIAs, charged capitally with having conspired, with another man not yet in custody, to extort money from Wm. Goodhall, butler to Mr. Warren, the Chief Justice of Chester, who lives at 15, Bedford-square, by means of threatening letters, imputing to • the prosecutor the corn- , mission of an unnatural crime. The prisoner, who appeared not to be aware of the seri ous nature of the charge, was then remanded, and Wheat ley was directed by the Magistrate to use every exertion to secure the other party. UNION-HALL.—George Bowen, a carver and, gilder, was, on Saturday, charged before Mr. HONE, the sitting magistrate, with assaulting Sarah Colbrooke, under the following circumstances : The complainant, a young creature' about 18, stated that she resided at Bath, where her connections were highly respectable. She there became acquainted with the pri soner, who represented himself to be an unmarried ma's. After_paying his addresses to her for_ some time, on his leaving Bath, be prevailed on her, by promise, of marriage, to accompany him to London. They had not, been long there when she discovered he had a wife, but ,having no place to go to, she continued with him. For the last six months his conduct towards her hail been most infamous ; on one occasion he attempted to cut her throat i ' vitlt a knife, but her cries bringing some persons to her assistance, he was fortunately, frustrated in his,diabolical,attempt. Last Thursday night he turned her out of doors, and on her entreatini , him to afford her the means of returning to her friends, he knocked her down, kicked her, and otherwise treated her in the most savage manner. Mr. HONE animadverted, in very severe terms, on the prisoner's inhuman and ruffianly conduct, and asked the poor creature what she wished no be done. " I only wish," she. replied, " that he will give me what will release my clothes, out of pawn, all which I have pledged for his use, and to pay nay fare to Bath." hI kindness lo in r.lgsaidatehtng so leniently that she treated the hire. prisonerl with too much The prisoner said he. was satisfied to comply with her request; and the parties retired to arrange the matter. A case of imprisonment for bastardy, hardly, we should think, to be equalled in the kingdom for dura tion, is now actually taking place in the city gaol of Chi chester. A young wan having been already incarcerated there between five and six months, for the want of sureties, although the female has not been confined ; and during the whole of which period his only s ubsistence has been bread and water! Five of his friends, called last week to see him,' and all the money they could muster for a treat was tenpence-halfpenny The guardians of the city were 'once imposed upon by a girl, who swore herself pregnant by a young man she wanted to inveigle into a marriage, and who was committed to gaol under similar circumstances with the abcive, when it afterwards turned out the girl had actually rolled a flannel petticoat about her to cause the appearance.--BriOton Ihrukt. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. EAST The York, Wilkinson, from Bengal, in the Downs; sailed from thence March 30, Sand Heads, April 2, Man" ritius, May 26, and St. Helena, July 19. Prince Regent, Murphy, from Bengal, in the Downs; sailed from thence April 19, Madras May 19, and St. Helena, July 19. The Henry, Westmoreland, from Bombay, off Ports mouth ; sailed from thence 21st April, and St. Helena July 14. The Marquis of Anglesea, Stewart, from Souray - baya , at Cowes ; sailed from thence --, Batavia, April 18, and St. Helena, July 11. Sitars SPOKEN WITH.--The Lady Raffles, Tucker, from London to Bombay, Juno 26, off Madagascar. The Cornwall, Aldham,_ from London to Bengal, " d the Conshrook, from Liverpool to ditto, July 21, tat. 10 50 N. long. 23 30 W.' The Lon! Hungerford, Heathorne, London to Bengal , July 25, lat. 10 7 N. long 23 55 W. The Hon. Company's ship, Macqueen, Walker, (tom London to China, April 19, lat. S 9 S. long. 27 18 W. ; all well. ARRIVALS AT BENGAL.--The Gmcordia, Clan, from Stockholm, and the Heroine, Hackman, from. China, sth April. Wm. Wilson, Carmichael, from the Mauri t ius and Point de Galls on the - Bth. Georgiana, Moor, from London and Madras, on tho 7th. SAILINGS FROM BENGAL.—The Princess Charlotte, Stephenson, for the Mauritius, April 7. Clifton, Mitfordr for the Mauritius, en the 13th. ARRIVALS AT MADRAS.—His Majesty's ship Satellite, Laws, from London, April 8. Indian Oak, Rcid, from Alipee, on the 12th. Louisa, Harris, from Sumatra and Tranquebar, on the 16th. Sophia, King, from Padang , on the 18th. Hashing, Lee, from Bengal, on the 20th. Reliance, Heyes, from London, on the 23d. Alacrity, Fin lay, from Colombo, on the 27th. Cartha, Lindsey, from, Bombay, on the 29th. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS Ter Quarter. Carmartlim Morpeth Penrith Shettield Winchester DURING LAST WEEK. Per Bushel. Coventry --- Newcastle (Staff) Northallerton Stafford Swansea 1 Wheat. Barley. Warwick s to s s to s J 53 '6l —3l 85 59 60 27 33 54 60 32 34 66 30 56 65 30 37 64 73 127 30 s. d. s. d. b. tt. P. d. 73 80 332 42 84. 90 00 00 I 6 0 70 40 43 19 3 96 00 00 179 S 3 4 0 46 70 80 4 0 50 • Oats. Ue3116. 8. tO I. tO F. 36 5 0 5 , 2 3'2 35 Per 8011. Barnardeastle ! Darlington Durham... Wolsingham II 6 16 6 13 0 16 0 13 0 15 0 13 0 15 6 9:3 00 90 100 90 90 96 90 46 5 ° 50 b 6 cl. 5 0 66 00 6 50 5 6 00 8 0 50 56 0 0 1 1 96 10 0 10000 109 0 9012 0. 18 25 18 26 20 28 20 2:3 s. d. d. 3 4 4. 0 36 40 23 26 36 40 30 36 33 43 6 6 7 6 66 66 59 76 60 76 WAKEFIELD, Sept. 12. There is a fair supply of Wheat fresh up for this day's market : the best samples of Old sell at an advance of 15. per quarter from last Friday : secondary Old and NeW - Wheat are -in a steady demand at the rates of that day Some new Yorkshire Wold Barley, of f a i r q uality, has been sold at 87-s. per quarter. Beans are dull sale at 8 ' decline of is. per quarter. The demand for Oats, Shell. ing and Malt, is very trivial, without alteration in slue. No alteration can be noted in the price of Rapeseed. Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffolk .. s2s. t 0.605. fine 644. Lincolnshire sos. to 595. fine 60s. Yorkshire, &c s3s. to 595. fine ON. - White ---- Foreign, Red s2s. to -s. tine 58 5 . Barley, Norfolk and Suffblk ....-.-. - Lincolnshire Sts. to 375. fine - 4 . - Yorkshire Wold 'its to 565. tine--i• Beans, Tick 39s. to 433. fine 445., --- Small 37s. to 43,. fine'44 s . . Oats, Poland and Potato.., 23s. to 265. fine 28s. . - Friezland and Small. ..... . ...... - bleating (ld. to 133 id. per stone. Shelling' VA. to 308. - -s. - to -s. per Lds_ a• Malt ' Ws. 435. tine 4-la. per 1:0 3(1 - Rapeseed, SCOTCH MARKETS. • 11A1)1)1NU'1'ON CORN h 1 A RKET,--rSept. 12. __, Rarley is down 6d. on the average, 47 quarters Wes' sold, and four unsold. No Old Barley in market. O have risen on the average 44d., £OO quarters. ~,,jd, four untold. About the same quantity of Wheat in market a ; • last day, prices up on the new average 1 1 id.. , A /O • a market of Pease and Beans, and the prices of both are &WV' ' . Wheat. Barley. Oat, Pe ale. Bean s M • First eas at s Oct • 214 0 d ' 35s od ' ' 316 oa Second Zili Od 32.1 Od , 21ai td 283 Od ......3 Od Th I I'd ... • 44s fit 2% Od 183 Od —3 41 —8 Od 'e t ' There were 381 qrs. of Wheat in mat ket,' whereof were sold., ;p 12 Unsold.-0 Grey. • Average V. 138.2 d. 9.l2ths . DALKEITH CORN MARKET.-Sept. H. The supply of all kinds of Grain at this day's marke t was good, and sold at nearly the same prices as letstyiee. /4 except Wheat, which is lower in price. Wheat. liarley. Oats.• -Pease. First...... 001; Oa 32s Od 24s Od , 24s 61 Second... 56s Ott 31s Od `1.33 Od , 23s 6d Third ..... s?s Od 29s Od 21s'Od 22s Od Beast, ,1464 CORNWALL MARKETS. TRU no. —Wheat (average) 2.35. llELsroN—Wheat, 22.5. 9d.—.Elarley, I Is. 3d. doh AusTELL—Wheat, 20s. to 25s.—Barley, 10s. to PK-- 103. to 13s. Od. pomils—Wheat (average) 235. 4d.—Rarl7, 1 Is. Od.-3atot,?th LAUNCESTON—Wheat (average) 24a. arley, Ss. o.l.—Beef, CA.—Mutton, &I. ats Lisaaaan—Wheat, 225. to 235. Od.—Barley, 12s. O . 81. m y 9s. tid. ;Scci , . COM/MB—Wheat, 21s. to .263.—llarley, .9s. to 12s. . and Mutton, 41d to s} J .—Veal and Lamb, Od to 6d: - i tS, PENZANCE—Wheat, 225. to 25s.—Barley, 12s. to 145.-j.... —s. to Ifs. Od.—lleef and Mutton bd. to Sid.-Pork, Od• W , Butter, Sid. per lb. . • MINING INTELLIGENCB. Tons. rsvt. Quantity of Copper Ore sold at. Redruth last Thursday 2,404 Average Produce 7O 6 Quantity of fine Copper l7B Amount of Sale. 13,570/. 13s. 01—Average Standard, 1131. BIRTHS. • On the 11th inst. at Campsall-park, the Lady Radeli" 6 of a daughter. On the 12th inst. at his Grace the Archbishop 0i terbury's, Addington-park, the lady of Sir George He Beaumont, Bart. of a son and heir.. o f On the 12th inst. the lady of William Fox, Es(l' Chester-terrace, Regent's-park, of a daughter. _; On the 9th inst. the l a dy o f C a pt a i n G o rdon,l Sheerness, of a daughter. „. tbe - On the inst. at the Rectory, Berwick:, Susses, , lady of the Rev. Bernard John Ward,' of a daughter. 1.1 iv On the 12th i ns t. a t Sid mon t on - house, Hams, 'the of EdWard Downes, Esq. of a daughter. • of a On the 6th inst. at Cheshunt, Mrs. E. H. joys daughter. MARRIED. Coo °ul° On the 26th of April, at Valparaiso, at the .s General's, by the Chaplain of his Majesty's ship, Do r f , Patricksun, Esq. to. Francis Christopher Nugent WI o i youngest daughter of John White, Esq. Vitie..Coot Valp4raiso, and grand-daughterof Philip ReinagleX.`4l‘`,4 ' .' e sii. On the 11th inst. by the Rev. Mr. Kelly, at t he Church, Horton, John Powers Washington, to Sarah eldest daughter of Mr. John Adams, of Bethnal-grey 4 C ; On the 13th inst. at St. Mary's, Islington, A.1F., 11 t0 Caswell ! of Portland, near Crowland, LincolnO r Se Louisa, youngest daughter of the late Mr. 'J. Joors • - Lower : -road, blington. !hi On the 11 th inst. at Sutton Benger, Wilts, rly . ' — . 2; - l a nes C. Ogle, George B. Carr, Esq, of Greeil Lettuc e o r al London, to Harriet, youngest daughter of Ma:jol"" e ' limeness of Sutton Bower. 0," Rtv• On the 11th inst. at North Cray, Kent; by -e hetb Pancras New C. S. Lusena, A.M. Shirley Newdick, Esq. to 1 4 7. 1 ..iz a l - • second daughter of James Harrison , Esq. of HoneyoCu;Lir tl Strand t° OH the 13th inst. of at N e S ll t :ca P s 11 T 1 l a w ri m a as ila C rt u , tm :id re o ' w of Jonathan Hart, Tunbridgo-7P' New-road. ewChu;rch: Sept. 12, D at lE h D i; i On Friday, Norfolk, in the 90th • 11 'beloved year of his age, universa y • t , and regretted, Sir Andrew Snape Hamond, Bart., C a P t l, • i, in the Royal Navy, an Elder Brother of the Trinity 1 1 "°4 and late Comptroller of his Majesty's navy during the to° aiduous part ef the late war. On the 11 th inst., at Holland-terrace, Kensington) A s iji ' relict of the late W. Berry, Esq., aged 65. ... ger' residence, .near Lyn" , i i Oa the 11th inst. at Tenby, Pembrokeshire, ii4r..7. jeant Heywood, Chief Justice of the Carmarthen Circuit% On the Bth inst. at Tidenham Chase, near C.Lepitif Mrs. 0. E. Elliott, widow of the late O. E. Elliott' Y4-1' of Bisfield-house, Berkshire. - On the Ilth inst. Miss Gertrude Christina, Picl;o •1 of Cambridge-row, Hackney. , . ' A ds't is On the 10th inst. at Boulogne, Caro l in', second' ~ • ter of J. H. Gibson, Esq. ...; I;etf i l On the Bth inst. in the Butts, New Brantford, .b_l! 1 4 1 r : relict of l2illi thelattleAirs. Andrew. tatri paneShs Vale,i nields,n he a r m .t t l e4 . 3 :;.,4l On the aged 61, Aim, relict of Major-General FaWcett. . • e t !: On the 13th inst. in High Holborn, Mr.' E.' P. 015 -t,. •,..-.....-.—...-r' IV PRINTED and PUBLISHED by MURDO - YO y' , • SUIT OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON, ~ „- /. b~A • vin E Bal "Ntut e i Ales th ' t lltn jpj 1,1 44 AI( ▪ Itowd Powell B ( s; llli ani Cr ‘ l. It T. ALP. ll, r , 'Y A. 1 ~.4 N Arco. 61 Pit F , ,x . l N:s Tie follo‘i