The Sun. — London, England, 1828-12-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE LONDON JOURNALS. (FROM THE TIMES.) • That a partial statement of fact has sometimes • the effect of a positive misrepresentation of truth, is a trite saying, which could not be better illustrated than by a reference to Mr. Peel's letter, addressed to the Mayor of Plymouth, respecting the Portu gueie refugees. The Right Hon. Gentleman states, and states with perfect correctliessohat the British Government is desirous.to fulfil the rights of that of hospi tality to these m e rit or i ous stra ngers, n departure from the shores of England to Brazil was their own choice, on the alternative offered them of dispersion among the towns . of the interior or of forfeiture of our protection; but he avo id s , or om i ts to state, that condition which (as we have heard from Plymouth) was felt by the young Queen's Ministers to be the real grievance--namely, the forced separation of the Portuguese officers from the soldiers, by the mode in which the dispersion was to have been effected, and the consequent ex posure of the private men to the bribes or threats of the wretch Miguel's agents, who, it is Understood, have been waiting for this happy opportunity of gaining over the Queen's subjects tso the usurper's cause. We know not upon what plea of right or principle such a measure as this of separating the officer from the soldier could be jus tified, except on the admission that these faithful followers of a Sovereign acknowledged by Europe, and especially by England, to be the lauyal Queen of Portugal, are no better than prisoners of %var in the hands of Miguel's allies and advisers. The financial accounts, given in another column, have, this year, for the first time been printed by order of the House of Commons, and it must be re marked that we are in entire ignorance as to the ap plication of all the sums paid from the same sources LI any year previous to the lust. Nothing, certainly, has so direct a tendency to encourage waste and profusion as this disposal of the public money, With or without authority—with or without the vote or approbation of Parliament. Every possible and al most every impossible head of expense is enumerated and provided for in the regular civil list revenue, voted at the commencement of each reign, in lieu of the hereditary revenue of the Crown. " Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw " Daily devours af.ace, and nothing said." The acknewledgei amount of theprivy purse is by Act of Parliament no less a sum than 60,0004 a year. The Duchy of Cornwall affords a revenue of at least 30,000/., the Duchy of Lancaster 30,000/. more at t!:' very lowest calculation, making a sum total of 120,000/., applicsble to the menus plaisirs of the King. We have now to add what may be ceded :! surreptitious revenue of the privy purse, not voted by Parliament, scarcely ever known to Parliament, and taken from various sources of re venue, which, not being classed or accounted for under any ordinary and regular head of revenue, might have been expected to pass unnoticed, as well now us in former yews. The sums so drawn into the vortex of the privy purse amount to 16,0011. I is. in the single year ending January, 1828, and a further sum of 93,339/. ss. may be added to the palace building account. (FROM THE MORNING CHRONICLE.) We alluded the other day to the complaints of Oliver Cromwell against the severity of our Law. In his Speech to Parliament, on the 17th Septem ber, 1656, printed for the first time in the Introduc tion to .Buran's ". Diary," he feelingly observes, "But the truth'of it is, there are wicked and abo minable laws, that will be in your power to alter.— To hang a man for 6d., 3d.; and I know not what ; to hang for a trifle, and pardon murder, is, in the ministration ef the law, throngh . the W framing of it. I have known in my experience abominable murders quitted. And to see men lose their lives for petty 'natters; this is a thing that God will reckon for, and I wish it may not lie upon this nation a day longer than you have an opportunity to give a re medy, and I hope I shall cheerfully joie with you in it. This bath been a great grief to many ho nest hearts, and conscientious people, and I hope it is in all your hearts to rectify it." It was not, however, in their hearts to rectify it; for Cromwell's ideas respecting law reform were too libe ral for his age. The cruelty of the law not only re mained unmodified to our times, but was the sub ject of eulogy. When Lord Holland introduced the meawres of Sir Samuel Rornilly into the House of Lords, he had but a small minority of eleven with him, and not merely Lord Eldon (for he was al ways the apologist of every barbarism and abuse) and Lord Ellenborough, but even Lord Liverpool scouted the idea of any improvement in our Criminal Law. Hanging for every thing was the most beau tiful part of the wisdom for which we were indebted to our ancestors. To those who arc sceptical as to the benefits of discussion, we would say—Compare the present day with the time when men of the first consideration could unblushingly advocate our Criminal Code in its most revolting features. There are many abuses in the judicial system of the country calling loudly for Reform, and the progress made in rtesedying the evil is exceedingly slow; but no one now stands up as the unqualified apologist of them. This is, unquestionably, a great victory. What is wanted now is not so much to demonstrate the necessity of Reform, as to enlightedthe public mind as to the nature of the Reforms which ought to be effected. Here we believe much remains to be done ; for it is unquestionably true that the people of this country are very imperfectly a cquainted with the theory of legislation, and may be easily deceived into an aegeieseence with pretended ameliorations which would leave the most of the evils very little abated. One of the evils of the present system of allowing the law to be at variance with public opinioe, in its punishing with d ea th a number of crimes on which people in general look with an eye of indulgence, and throwing- upon th e Government to redress the severity of the law, by subsequent pardon and commutation—is the eon_ parative carelessness in conducting trials in capital Cases. The idea that punishments of severity, which are not executed in nineteen cases out of twenty, are effieacious in the way of deterring from the corn mission. of crime, is no w se ld om ma i nta i ne d, ben notorious that criminals, where the chances arc so siight against them, calculate confidently on an escape. Such is the disposition of mankind to rely on their good luck, that we constantly see in the world the remotest chances looked for‘eard to by individuals ; and it is not, therefore, to be supposed that the most reckless of men, what ever they may be deficient in, will be deficient in their disposition to trust to their good luck. Having therefore cleared this prejudice out of the way, there can be no conceivable motive for retain ing laws which cannot be executed, but the love of patronage, that is, the love of dispensing favours to t he friends of the convicted, or the love of retaining the power to commit occasional injustice. If, in nineteen cases out of twenty, a certain crime ig par doned, and in the twentieth case, not differing from die others, the law ;s executed, this is injustice—it rs legal murder. To wish to retain the law which in nineteen cases out of twenty is not executed, is to wish to retain the power of committin g legal murder. But if the law we re to be ch anged, anti a different puitishment than death to be allmteol t o t h e whole twenty cases, and the capital conviction s to be uniformly carried into effect, then the trial o f a man clunged with a capital crime Would be a most solemn affair. Front the first steps before the com mitting Magistrate to the sentence, the greateA care would be taken, the utmost pains would be taken, to discover the truth. We need not say that this care would in the peopl e i ncrease very much their re gard for life. In like manner, that class of crimes against which death was pronounced ‘t,ould cease to be held in peculiar abhorrence by the people. It is possible by a care of this kind almost to extinguish crimes of violence, the class of crimes which society has the greatest interest in diminishing. The loss, of property may l e ad t o th e lo ss o f w h at makes life. chiefly valuable to a man. But still, in most - cases, the loss of property is not an irremediable evil; but life, when taken, cannot be restored. It is, there- fore, just that life should be protected by the loss of life in those who attempt to take it; and it is for the interest of society to increase, by every possible means, the horror of homicide. There always will be overflows of passion and excesses, produced by insanity; but we conceive, that as far as calculating crime is concerned, murder may be rendered exceed ingly rare. The confining executions to atrocious crimes would, in this respect, be attended with the most beneficial effects. (FROM THE MORNING HERALD.) It seems not merely extraorcliiwy, but, to our conception, totally unaccountable, that while the public are every day exclaiming against the increase of crime, and of the little protection which they re ceive from the police, as now constituted, the most obvious modes of lessening the evil are overlooked and disregarded. We Would ask Mr. Peel how he, or any man, can expect crimes or criminals mate rially to diminish, while, instead of transporting the latter on the one haled, or reforming them in our gaols and hulks upon the other, crowds of them, made any thing but better by the punishments they have undergone, return daily upon the town and its environs, to renew their depredations ? A better police might, perhaps, prevent a few more of such depredations, and catch a few more of the depredators, than they. now do; but we never yet heard that the way to put out la fire was to a•ld fresh fuel to it, or that a stream became diminished by opening freSh currents to .unite with it. Yet such, or nearly such, is our con duct with regard crime. We profess to transport offenders whom we never transport; but, instead of doing so, we congregate them in hordes, where they become expert and hardened in their vocation. We send them to Houses of Correction, where, as far as amendment gees, they are nut corrected at all. 'We turn them loose upon society to re-enact the very same parts we profess to blame them for pur suing, while we actually leave the greater part of them no other alternative; and then, forsooth, we profess to wonder that crime should increase, that criminals should be so numerous, and that the means of arresting the progress of the one, aed the numbers of the other, should be so inefficient.— . • Returning to our similies, we would say, " If you wish to slacken or put out the fire, take away the fuel; if to lessen a current, divert the tributary streams from which it is supplied." It would not only be an act of justice towards society, but of mercy towards the individuals, that this system of feeding and keeping up nurseries for clime should to abandoned. It is quite clear that every thing short of cutting off the criminal from the society his crimes have injured is found totally wanting in any power as a preventive of future crime. By "cutting:off" we do not mean by the punishment of death—on the too rifeness of which in our Statute 13o.:1. our opinions have been often recorded—but we laok upon trans portation as that sort of cutting which can alone protect society on the one hand, ur, on the other, the individual himself, from the pursuit of courses for which he has unfortunately but too often, as we have already said, no other alternative. For lesser crimes, of course, lesser punishments must be in flicted; but it would be well if the short period of transportation, viz. for seven years, were abolished altogether, because at present it is a mere nominal sentence, scarcely ever enforced—and, instead of it, , let fourteen years - or for life be the periods named and acted upon. The law, to be effectual, should be a terror to the disobedient. At present it is known in its operation to have, in the majority of instances, few, if any terrors at all ; and, while some thing like impunity awaits the breach of it, who can wonder that crimes increase and criminals abound ? FROM THE NEWS, " Her march is o'er the mountain wares, Her home is on the deep." GREAT BRITAIN, As A NAVAL POWER.—We have, in a former article, expressed our opinions touching the British system of colonization ; to which we now append some reflections, as to how far that sys tem may be calculated to affect our naval supremacy; and in what degree we may be called on to support it, weak and disconnected as it may be. It appears that Government is about establishing another settle ment in Austrclia ; and that the principal appoint ments are already made. It is the fashion now to call New Holland by the name of Australia. It was the expectation or hope of Cooke, the great Navi gator, to discover a Terra Australis, or Sel:thern Continent ; and hence we presume the digned title now bestowed on the Botany Bay of English rogues and—et cetera. It is not quite sixty years ago (1773-4) since the attempt was made to break in upon the Antarctic Circle; which is a circle of ice; though our own Orkney Islands are not more than about ten degrees removed from the same latitude in the north. We find the immense depth of com parative sterility in the south, spreading thirty de grees from the pole, in all directions. Sandwich land being the extreme point to the south (at the same distance from the Pole as the Orkneys; and not far from the same degree of longitude.) A similar line drawn over the Northern hemisphere from East to West, would cut of two thirds of the land of Me whole habitable Globe; including Greenland (a northern continent probably of itself, and essentially unknown), Norway and Swede i.; and a great part of Russia and North America, &c. &c. The extreme point of South America therefore comprehends nearly all that we know of a ,southern climate (viz. of the temperature of Europa and the United States of America); for Australia does not extend more than 40 degrees beyond the equator; it is therefore neither one thing nor another; nor have geographers ever agreed even in what quarter* of the world it should be classed. Though a most valuable coun- try if it were more available to us, comprehending and combining as it does a warm variety of climate, ranging from within a few degrees of the Seine to the Senegal,—its remoteness must for ever prevent it from retaining much in common with its mother country, excepting perhaps those habits and pro pensities which it were better should be lost to both. A South-west Settlement on Australia would place a communication with this distant country in a com parative facile communication with the trade of tudia; but still it is extending the labor ions system ou! which we have staked ourselves. Our Colonies aught have been chosen on account of their dis• m o re front the parent State ; and from each other. We have Sat lemews cut the shores of Hudson's in Newfoundland and C a n a d a ; Bay, and Labrador ; ice ventral Eastern Coasts of the Americas is studded with our flags, from the Arctic Circle to the Equa tor. IS :c have continenttil or insular occupations ex tending at various distances from London to Canton, our step-l a dd ers i n the 1.) bringing together the South of Asia and the North of Europe; while ), Medi terranean we bring 111 contact 150 degrees of East I Longitude with 100 degrees West. Although you can scarcely trace so minute an island as England on the map of the world, you will disco ver , a l most as our Antipodes,—the depot of our native rog,ucs ; sloughed off by the Law from the more !wrathy parent body, rising upon the eye and the mind, as a sort o f exclu sive Empire of the Southern hem i sphere! Without a Navy having a tremendous ascendancy among the other nations, of the earth, we could not retain such a various and scattered theatre of dominion for one hour. 'We navigate all seas, at nearly all periods of the year ; and this may to a certain extent prove that sort of u nursery for seamen, which no other nation can lay pretension to. But is there not much necessary .wea/eizess in such a position ; and must it not for ever entad Ott us those exvnecs whicii de stroy the comforts and the subst ,ice of the people at home ? We assume the Sovereignty of the South ; we have no competitor nearer than the Em per of China, who never fights; and who finds quite enough to rio in disposing of his rice and his bamboo at home.t Now though we have rept oboted * Geographers divide the habitable Globe into four quarters, and call Europe one cf them ; when in fact it is only a decent western border or flounce to the skirt of the Continent of Asia; et which said other quarter, it may he Shout-ninth ; while in power it may be regarded as the whole world. fi 'We shall notice the sp►culatione as to a Southern Con tinent beyond the Antartic Circle, in Some future number. the useless labour and expense of an attempt to eat- • • themselvee acquainted with . all the .Intricacies and plore a North-west passage, in the Arctic Sea, we fastenings of the house with a view to a burglary are prepared to abandon our censure, on that point, and robbery hereafter, and the manner in which these provided the Ministry disclosed any connected news false characters (for such they always are) are sup in the undertaking. We have again carefully read plied to these robbees, has never, perhaps, before over the details of the expeditions; and reviewed come to light, and when stated, will seem almost in the question as it might bear on any circumstances credible. There are, then, it appears, a set of men, connected with the prosperity of our Navy, or of robbers themselves of course, living about the hotels our other Colonies. The best sa il ors are ma d e in the at the west end of the town, under the title of Co- North, but the best paying Colonies are those which load this, or Captain that, having all the exterior of lie in the South; and here two purposes are at issue. gentlemen, living and associating as such, keeping_ To avail oursel ves o f th e b es t c h ance o f exp l or i n g th e t h e i r g i gs an d h orses, and supposed to be persons of imaginary sea in que ;lion, would be to fitout a vessel in respectability and character, and these villains, it Australia,#as much the nearest point within our power, appears, derive their means of subsistence entirely to Behring's Straits ; and to follow the coast froro from giring false characters to these " servants out Icy Cape, by the mouths of. Mackenzie's and the of place," alias burglars and the atrocious system Copper Mine Rivers; and for this purpose the crew is carried on thus : A "servant out of place" destined to occupy the vessel should be transhipped goes to one of these 6 ' gentlemen" at the hotel (for to America from England ; and conveyed overland it seems they are all known to each other), and to the West River. They would start compare- says he wants a character; the " gentleman" in tively fresher than from the tedious voyage of quires the nature of the situation the applicant doubling Cape Horn. Nothing but the remoteness wishes to be recommended to, and the rank of the of these Straits from the European Ports, one have family into which he expects to get introduced, and prevented the question at issue from b e i ng decided in proportion to these he makes his charge : for in long ago; for there is little doubt, that though we stance, if a character is to be given to a butler, and new know nothing of the Western Coast of America, the family to which he is going is that of a noble ten degrees beyond the Arctic Circle, yet that im- man or person of large fortune, the "gentleman then mouse continent was peoeled by a transit of the demands his fee accordingly ; if a coachman, so Strait connecting Asia and America, four Mousa:;.! much ; a footman, so much 1 and so on from the yea r. 3 ago; nor can we find a spot of land, \v '•:t,- butler down to the tnritspit, the fee varying in pro ever we go, on which acme inhabitants of those portion to the situation from .ss. up to five guineas: sterile regions may not be found; or otherwise traces half of this fee must be paid to the" gentleman" on of the receet visitation of some of the wandering his supplying the written document, and the other tribes. Men that build their houses with blocks half as soon as possible after the situation is obtained of snow, cut and squared to resemble white by means of it. This document will of course give marble ; and construct windows with the natural a 12 months', a five years', or any other character glass of ice; shifting their residence of latitude required ; and, on inquiry at the hotel whence it is and longitude, from time to time, when it is expe- dated, it is found that the person signing it is really dient to recruit the resources of their fisheries and deer stopping there, and is supposed to be a gentleman of parks, mock all our Moms of boasted knowledge in independent property, and thus all suspicion is set at these inhospitable regions-The Esquimaux have been rest. Having by these means. procured admission invariably found a generous and hospitable people as into families, these fellows remain in the house and far as their resources go ; nor can you trace in them conduct themselves very well, until they become either the perfidy or the cruelty of savages more perfectly acquainted with the situation at night of favoured by the sun.—ln occasionally coming all the valuable property, plate, &c.. in the place, and in contact with - the. Copper Indians, they have the most easy mode of finding access to it by a bur been taught some few of the arts of war, in glary ; and having thus accomplished the sole object their own defence; but it is deserving of remark, for which they were met there, they purposely make while the North American Indians described to our themselves drunk, and commit tiome excess in order Land Expedition the dangers to be apprehended to get turned away, and within a short period from from some tribes of Esquimaux to the North East this time the house is sure to be robbed. Too much of the Copper Mine River, we had to draw a die- caution cannot, therefore, be exercised as to what tinction uniformly to the disadvantage of the Indians; servants families receive .into :heir establishments. who are insidious and deceitful where they are not MARYLEBONE. cruet. We have (given as it may be said) an open ROLIBERt AT TILE FRENCH AMBASSADOR'S.— sea at Icy Cape, latitude 71, north, longitude 160, When Langford, the porter's cousin, was examined west; the coast running d ue east; a ga i n we have an on Thursday night, December 11, together with the open sea, latitude 69, longitude 132; and again %Ye Prin ce 's servants, he said he lodged a ith his sister, have an open sea front " Cape Hearne," to " Point at No. 9, Sydney-street, Commercial-road ,'White- Turn-again," (see Capt a i n Franklin), about one de- chapel, and that he slept in .her apartments. on the gree more south, and 12 degrees more east. We eight of the robbery; and when Buckeridge and have sea and land in 72 degrees, north latitude, and Walters, the officers, called there to ascertain the in longitude 120, west ; rind these bring us, though truth or falsehood of his statement, his sister, and at separate stages, within about one degree of lati- Mr. and Mrs. Simmons, the master and mistress of tude, and one degree in longitude of " Banks' " the house, declared it was true. Their yeracity Land (probably an island), as laid down by Parry, afterw a rds became more than doubtful, and on Sa from Melville Island. The presence of the Arctic turday it was put by Mr. Hoskins to the test. Sea being thus demonstrated in so many points, La„gford, Watson, Amory, and Hornsby, the over more than a hundred degrees of longitude west other persons detained on suspicion, having been of Greenland, it were most extraordinary placed at the bar, the oath was adn-eietered to \Vil it should be excluded from all the numeroeta!• ham Simmons, paper-hanger, No. 9, Sydney-street, adjacent points necessary to the North-west I . 'as- and he was asked by sage in question, B u t why persist in' ex- Mr. Hosrettes—Did the prisoner Langford sleep plot ieg such passage West, through mountains in your house on the night of the 9th of December ? •of ice, instead of East, from the approximation of No, he did not. the two continents, where the sea is open ? The Mr. HoSKINS—Did he ever sleep there at absence ty`' ice at sea, in this region, commonly de- all? N o , notes the distance of land. In all our exertions, Cross-examined by Buokeridge—Did not you ably and meritoriously as they have been performed, tell me and the other officer, when we called at we have been "kicking against the pricks." YOu your house to inquire, that he did sleep there that may find en open sea in the direction of Spitsbergen, night ? I did. as far sie the 83d degree of north latitude—because Mr. HostuNs—What could induce yoe to speak there is so small a portion of l an d ; while you are s o f a l se ly ? L ang f or d to ld me if ' any person ma d e hampered with ice in all the inlets we s t o f Beffin's inquiry after him, to say that he slept there, because and Hudson's Bays. If an expedition were to pro- if any one came, it would be .to give him a si ceed eastwards, as we have described, embarking t ua ti on , from the western coast of America, it would be al- Mr. HOSKINS—Did you at the time know, or most impossible that it should not ultimately blue- h ave a ny reason to suspect, that the Ambassador's der on some known point, from Melville Island io house had been robbed ? When we found the fe• the vicinity of Repulse Bay ; otherwise the Ameri- lony was committed, my wife and Mrs. Shaw (the can Continent must stretch nearly, if not quite out, prisoner's sister) came up to you to contradict what to the Pole; and of which Greennd itself may be we had said to the officers, and acknowledge that only a Peninsula. As a geographical question, it is Mr. Langford did not sleep there. an extremely interesting cne; for in this view of the Mr. Hostmes—They . came to contradict it after case, the shores of the New World would be brought ithin a degree of the meridian of Lo n d on ; and it was found to be false. w Buckeridge—Did not you deny that Mrs. Shaw have been known about as long as England. itself I received a letter from Langford, after-he was corn- It would likewise go to enforce the probability of -a mirted to the New Prison ? I did. Southern Continent, yet unknown, of much larger Buckeridge—A letter was sent to her, and did dimensions than any land known in the north, from riot you read it for her, and burn it afterwards the extraordinary extent of the ice. I did. $ The point fixed upon by Government for this new Settlement is the Swan River, on the Western Coast. Directions are given for taking a formal possession. Cap tain Sterling examined the whole Western Coast, from Cape Lenin, or Lion's Land, last year. For general particulars see Peron's and Freyrinet's voyages. The river is noted fOr its Black Swans. The soil is reputed to he extremely enperior. POLICE INTELLIGE/Crg. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. On Saturday David Evans and John ser vants out of place, James Clamberlain, a porter at a cheesemonger's shop, and Thomas Hall, a porter in the service of Messrs. Riley and Lapworth, carpet mani.....cturcrs in Old Bond -street, were brought te this ()nice, charged with a series of robberies at the house of the employers of the last-named prisoner. It appeared that the prisoner Hal!, who was much in the confidence of Messrs. Riley and Lap worth, was frequently left, during the occasional absence of the partners, in charge of the premises, and that he took those opportunities of admitting the other three prisoners, one of whom was a rela tion, and the others acquaintances, to visit hint at the house, not with any "'en, as appeared in the first instanoe, to rob the carpet warehouse, but ti no !ess culpable robbery of his master's wine c.:lar, The prisoners Evans and Collins, however, were not to be satisfied with a plentiful supply of wine when ever they came to visit Hall, but determined to carry their depredations further, and, to accomplish this without interruption even from Hall, if they antici pated any, they took occasion always; to introduce a, portion of laudanum with the wine w hich Hall drank, and, this coon setting him to sleep, they availed themselves of that opportunity of carrying off from the warehouse many pieces of valuable carpeting, some of which they sold, and some of which they pledged. After carrying on this system of plunder for some time, they, in the end, corrupted Hall himself, until he fell into the same mode of robbery, and he too occasionally removed pieces of carpeting, and employed Chamberlain, the fourth prisoner, always, either to sell or pawn it for him, until at last he was detected in doing so, and the whole system was exploded and confessed by HAll, himself. The prisoners Evans, Chamberlain, and Hall, were fully committed for trial, the charge hav ing been clearly brought home to them by the pro duction from several pawnbrokers' shops of various part, of the stolen property which the prisoners were identified as having pledged, and which Messrs. Riley and Lapworth swore to as belonging to them. Collins was remanded to a future day, owing to the absence of a material witness in his case. Upon searching Evans, several well-wi Uen letters and other documents, giving the. highest characters to himsdf and othe;', therein named, as servants, were found upon hint, and a bottle of laudanum,' which he, no doubt, used in any house to which as a viaiter he found access, as he had at Messrs. Riley arid La:_isorth's.__ Mr. RAwussort asked whether letters were per mitted to go out of the New Prison sealed ? and Buckeridge replied, " This did, your Worship, and we do not know how." Mr. HOSKINS desired Mr. Simmons, if he could speak the truth, to say what the letter contained. He said it was only to request her to send him clean linen, and other necessaries. Mr. Simmons was then called in, and she made a similar recantation. " Why, madam , " said Walters, the officer, to her, " this is strange, after the shift you told me you was obliged to make to accommodate Langford with a bed that night; you remember it, but it would not be altogether delicate to mention what you said here." Mrs. Simmons appeared very much abashed by the officer's remark. She remembered it, but she did it at the prisoner's request. George Tarrant, footman to Prince Polignac, was examined—Langford came into the hall in a very hurried manner, about fifteen minutes or ten minutes before four on Tuesday afternoon, the 9th of De cember (the very moment, as fur as is ascertained, after the plate was carried off), and left the house directly : he noticed the extraordinary behaviour of him at that time to a fellow-servant. Peter Watson, the Prince's porter, was then put into the witness-box, and as soon as he entered it, Langford turned aside, and by placing his elbow upon the bar, and resting his head upon his hand, in great measure concealed his face; (ho is I :harged also with robbing the porter to a considerable ex tent) but Peter, being in the hall at the time, could give no evidence respecting the robbery, and other persons were examined to as little purpose. The prisoners employed Mr. Butler and Mr. Wooler as attoiniea for them, and they contended that Watson, Amory, and Hornsby, should be set at liberty, because nothing yet appeared to fix, in any measure, this robbery upon them ; but Mr. HostiaNs and Mr. RAWLINSON said they should detain them, unless they gave bail, themselves each in IUOI., and two sureties each in 504, and they were re-committed. Donald M'Pherson and Henry Lander were charged with molesting Joseph Norman, and en deavouring, by throats and intimidations, to prevent him from accepting work and employment from M ess rs. James and Thomas Riddle, cabinet-makers, in Wells-street, Oxford -street. Joseph Norman, of No. 1, Joiner's-place, Curtain road, said that about a month ago he engaged to come t o v k for Messrs. Riddle ; after that three men came ta his house, M'Pherson was one of them, and told him if he worked for Messrs. Riddle, he would not get paid full price for his work, and he haul better use his endeavours to take away his son, who was then at work for them. He told them it re quired conaideration, for Mr. Riddle had promised to pay him the full book price. They then said if he did not take his son away he would have cause to repent of it, for he would be opposed by a body of 800 men ; and as he was going to work for Messrs. Riddle on the Ist of this month, he was met by M'Pherson and Lander, and another person whom he did not know, and they told him he was worse than a highway robber, and put him in bodily fear. William Norman, son of the above witness, stated that when he went first to work for Messrs. Riddle. MPlierson sent for him to a public-house, and en deavoured to prevent him by intimidation, and told The prisoner Hall, whose brother-in-law, it ap pears, Evans is, disclosed a fact which cannot be too generally known, or too vigilantly guarded against, with reference to the written documents found upon Evans. The latter and Collins, he stated, are two of a vast many servants out of place about town, who, by means of such documents as those found upon Evans, find their way into the services of families for the sole purpose of making him he was worse than a thief, and a .-- young in fraud, as it -had been alleged, a the 10 141 a d l i r:!geal. creditors. 1 The Jury returned a verdi c t f or the riftilitiff6g the undertook to enter a girt pit ce*'rw Ore , being delivered. M'Pherscin and Lander said, all they meant was, it was a pity for the complainant to go to work till the dispute respecting prices were settled. Mr. RAITLINSON told them their intentions were evident; the business of master cabinet-makers was to he at a stand until they complied with their ex orbitant demands. Mr. Banting, of the firm of France and Ranting, brought his foreman to prove that the men were en deavouring to establish new rules, which could not be submitted to without great loss ; and Mr. RAWLINSON, after consulting Mr. Hoskins, sentenced the defendants to three months' impri sonment each in the House of Correction. Mr. Riddle took from his pocket IS or 20 new bullets, which after dark were thrown in at the win dows of his workshops; he did not see the hands which threw them, but he believed them to be mem bers of the Union Society, as they call themselves. Mr. RAWLINSON said, if the example then made did not check the evil, stronger mesistire;, should be resorted to. PREROGATIVE COURT, Dom;. 20. I,• BROWN V. BROWN. fi" This was a questio n as t o h © va lidi t y 0 made under co-6er fuie. e ) The KING'S ADVOCATE said the maiden 00 the deceased watt Millar, and she h a d made " during Ail during the life-time of her husband, by tibiq: fi lik devised her property, which was all persona!, 'iii ferent individuals. Her husband died befollje. and though there was n o p os i t i ve ev id en ce ° w e publication of the will, after his decease ther e e jt, certain facts and circumstances whi c h ausoLlo t., a publication in effect. Adile 4l The COURT said, that as the property 57 : .01 was all personal, no re-publication was - lie'' mid pron ounce d t h e w ill va lid. ' 1 , HARRISON AND ANOTHER V. MAME. l i o sk In this case the deceased, whose name tvas'aill Hier, resided latt e rly i n L u d ga t o - s t rqet , an d a t January 1823, leaving property to the fo n !'" 45,000/. She died intestate, and as no beirt o ok, forward, Mr. Maule, as nominee of.the Crorortj, out administration.. At last the plaintiffs case came forward and clabneet the property: o p l. to the deceased, b e i ng third cousins once reP l lo lli The claimants exhibited their pedi g ree,. an d prayeA that the administrati on :should be Ter from Mr. Menlo, and transferred to them. Sir Jon N Nicuot.t,s then decided that tilei e Vs' perty should be vested in trustees for t wo and if no new . claimant s p resente d thernfel i°6 4b that time, that the administration be gr u nted. ° parties. In the evening the defendants gave notice of ap peal, and bail for that purpose. DOW-STREET. HORSES AND ASSES.-- Willi an/ Edwards was charged by Skinner, the informer, with having com mitted the following offence, under the Hawkers awl Pedlars' Act :--Skinner stated that, the defendant was dnly licensed to hawk goods in a cart drawn by one horse, and that he had, on the 14th inst., hawked sand about the streets in a cart, drawn by tivoasscs. For this offence he was liable to a penalty of 40s. His license only mentioned one horse or other animal; where two animal: were employed the License Duty was double. The defendant said, " Vy, your Vorship, you see the matter is as this. I had an orse arid cart, and the orse died, and so I gets two asses instead, to drag a ?vehicle, and I thought as hew the two as..gs would count as one urge ; but at the same time that ere gonmen (pointing to Skinner) met me, there was only one ass drawing the cart, and I was shoving behind, so ven he talks about asses, I suppose he takes me for one."--(Loud laughter.) Skinner---The other ass was following the cart, but afterwards assisted in dragging it. Mr. HALLS---You don't mention three asses in your information. (Roars of laughter.) Defendant—No. He knew better. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS' f'' ri UJUNG LAST IV tar. Whet. I Barley.. Oats. to rer Quarter. s. to s. 8. to 8. 8. to 5. E. Catlisle 77 39. 24 - Carmarthen 63 34 -- Witham 64 79 27 33 18 43 ra 1 7, Morpeth 70 00 38 '4l 19 AI " ,P;stiritb 74 91 . 103 .Shettiqkl 80 92 a; 43 94 • 46 , i t Wincht6t , n 90 R 3 3'2 97 26 29 r . a l'ur Bushel. 8.41. s. d. t. tl. s. d. s. d. s..d. 5 ; 4 0,10 Coventry 9 99 46 60 30 60 010 Newo3stle (staff:) 11 6 11 9 6 0 6 6 4 6 . 60 0 Northallerton 8 0 10 0 4 0 4 3 28' 9 6 6 6 p btafrord 6 II 9 6 0 6 6 4 6 '4 8 . 0 „, 0 , :6 swan 6 o s 8 9 9 3 4 0 4 3 9 6 9 2 0• " Worwick 100 110 43 b 0 33 0 T Per 8011. 1 ' 1) /Isrittnitt.ltle.......llB 0 22 0 8 0 800 7 6 0 0° 1 0 Darlington —lll 6 :0 8 9 o 10 e 46 . 7 II "o ° o Durivitn. 118 9 92 0 8 6 10 0 , 1 1'0 ,L ) Wokinglbin 0 20 it A 6 901 d 0 7 6 Mr. HALLs (to defendant)---I am sorry I must convict you; but under the circumstances, I shall in flict the lowest penalty. Skinner said he would be satiA6ed Vale defendant paid the expences. This he did, and was digeharged, , • IVAKEFIELD. Dec. 19. 0 0 4 The repOrted arrival's of most Geigen for;00 . market is good . with the exception of Oats and / 401 The chief bulk of the supply of Wl.eat oonsista Foreign, a great proportion of whirl tak . en OW il o w nary, and not offered for ode 'at pres-ei,t, as a toot the goes of the finest new Whist were flispoSed • 01) :0 pt early part of the week— The market he.a . been tended, but the militia were not much disposed sre the advance demanded on Wheat here to-day, and o "re not good to make at a further improvement than P e r quarter advacce on our last d a y's ra t e s—bat all O le o is eels are held firmly. The best iumplee of Thuil li Ob e fair request, and rather hi g h er th an l as t week, 113 '1 . bett low qualities move off slowly. Shelling is a little Pie as well as good mealing Oate. in Beans, Malt,• seed, no alteration can be noted. Wheal, Red, Norfolk and Stiliblk Ok. to 776. -- Lincolnshire ltd. E 0?" Yorkshire, ....... 726. to 746. white ....... 'Ns. to 77e. @y' Foreign, uki ...... oda, t o 7145.1 415 Barley, NoriOik and ....... ns, to 3se. P e so. Lincolnshire ........»« ..... 395. to 406. YerLihire Woki ....... 36 0 , to 396. Beans, llck 3l4s. Niue. Pgis• ............. ........ ...—..3tas. to 446' Oates, Poland and Potato ........... Us, to 315 ' isoeSO!" Friezland and ...... We: . to togf• stone. :defiling Shelkfig t° 47 — .l. 13647 Malt. Rapcoted SCOTCH MARKETS. 11ADDINOTON CORN MARKET...DM! 4 :,: t i.0i1 Oats and Barley sold readily, and .attbaitee'r Pr' , e re the averrge than bat Friday-102 quarters Bartel "0 sold, i 2 uu;:old ; top the tame, average up 4 iL i f or .. * go quarters of Oats sold, 12 unsold; top is. anti r Is. 6d. above lest day's. Whe a t h as risen oonsidsw" g o. this day's maket, 6s. on the topiJand ss, on the av eri Pease and Beans are a shade higher. 11 406 Wheat. Barley. oats. • r oam First 8& Od 40s (ht 30s Ott 38e ad 0 1 Second Oil ra ocl Vs 14 32a Od 01 4 Third tiOs ('4 34e Od 92s ad 968 There were 306 gra. of Wheat in Mal kst, 14 whereof 4t Umaold.-10 Grey. 31. 17a. lad. 8-19 t ha A,er* DALKRITH CORN MAX/ HM—Dee. 13. 10 There was a large supply of all ki n d s o f Grain be day's market. Wheat sold readily, and at r a ther prices than last week. pe 13 0 Wheat. Barley. Oats. Nast. First B4‘ Oct 40s git 2WI ed 386 *1 919 &soon , I 80, 0 , 1 N:l3 Od 26s Od 84e Od 9 0. Third 703 Od 84s Oct 2 . l'e Od Sas ekt CORNWALL. MARKETS. os t* • I}'' Tneao.—Wheat (average? Ste. Od.-.-Rarley. 13s. 6d.... Hat.3TON—Wheat, 29e. & .--Itartey. 14e. lid. , A ,,:...0 11* :{r. Anwritt.t.—Whiiht, 241 e. to 31e.—/3orloy, lie. to •,,--' .., ta , li. Od. to 13s. .4". BODM I N—Wboat (average) 2as. GA.—Barton 11d.—Clath 1 3 LAUNCESTON—Wheat (average) We. Ott—Barley, 14e. Ile. (. I .l.—Beer, 6d.—Mutton, 141. LI Sit HA a D—Wheftt, Vs. t.) 29e. Od.—Berley, 15e. (td .° :o (a. Itt. Sr. COLVAID—Wheat, SOs. to 34.—Turley, las. to l l ' s '' '. and Mutton, :xi to 41.—Veal and Lamb, Od to be ~.....„oott l'itNzaNca-IVhatt, Yds.. 2Ss.—Barley, tur to par -0,. to Its. o.l.—lteer and Mutton, 541. to Od.—Pork, Sutter, Ild. per lb. O t. MINING INTELLIGENCE. Toas• Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Redruth last Thursday 1,785, 0 Avorage Produce 1),0 Quantity of fine Copper l l4 Ø. Amount of Salo. 8.;911•:. lAl.—Averaze fitandArd, 1141. BIRTHS. Wetherb. lady of i l r' ll' At Best )y, ti Belton Lodge, near Vincent, Esq. of a sou. 0 044 On the BOth inst. Mrs. Alaynard, of Ky rr --- - Rassell-square, of a daughter. Ost the 19th inst. at Shooters' Hill, Mrs. Bnrice page, of a daughter. MARRIED. 4 ' On the 6th inat. At Flo:•eAce, Stewart C. Brut:et :lj 0 son of the bete Sir Harvey Brine, Dart. of Down Ito( the county of Londonderry, to Hel e n Haii; e , dangli w Alves, Esq., of Enharn Three, Hants. On the 19th inst. the Rev. John Keen H a ll, lq.''' r o Kettering, to Marianne, second daughter of John SY 3 ' Esq. of Biggleswatle. et On the ISth inst. at Eitham Church, Capt. 13e10 1 4 the Royal Horse Artillery, to Franvee Anne, only Fi! te , r ie the late Turner Ilacan, Esq. of Green Meant county of Louth, Ireland. On the 18th inst, at Walthamstow, the Rev. Job" „„4- M.A., to Mary An n , d aug h ter o f th e l a t e Jahn VC" - ward, Req. At St. Andrew's, Holborn, T. Howard, E 4 q. of fleet, Kent, to lalenrittu, only daughter of the late L l ' Heresy, of New Ormond-Wee, Queen-square. of At Yonglial, s county of Cork, Alfred Davits, V 4l* to Lower Towing, Surrey, Captain in the 15th Regime" nA Henrietta, youngest daughter of George Roche, 13 “ 1. Yonghat. DIED. 0 4 ' On the IStli inst. at Mi!lbank, Nairn, N. 71, Maokintosh, relict of the late Lieut.-Colonel Macki"„`'4 97th Regiment of Font, and daughter of the det St.ephen Guyon, Esq. of Hampstead, Middle!ex. „ a t On the 1 1 t h inst. Thomas Newris, Eeq. of Duke Poi tiand-plam much regretted by a large eirole and acquaintances. On the 'oth iwt. at Assenddy-row, 1 7,, the relict of Thom,: Lynall, Esq. late of the same Pl'"e On the Ist of Nov. in Milledgeville, Georgia , . ir) itt‘ 10th year of her rg-e, Caroline Anne, the beloved davg of Mr. Hamilton Fulton, eivil engineer. On the 20th inst. Joseph Atkinson. Esq. of Caneov t ie street, Islington, ago! 76, tin Manly an inhabitant (Ne s' of 40 years) of the parish of St. Botolph, Bishor'e te. ; Old Marion, near Dublin, Eli7ea :th, wife of Ci f , l io topper O'Brien, Esq. to the inexpres , l4e grief of a o t'• husband and ail who had the pleasure of her acqnsints particularly of the pair of her neighbourhood, whin fi lv ir not only ussiated in their distress, but consoled in ckness and afflictions by iier personal visitationg. f , On the 20th inst. at his house in Glottcyrste - 1" j: o f Portman-tlit , re, Joseph Neeld, Esq. in the '74th Scar his age. On the 18th inst. at Walworth, Mrs. Ann P4ll l , t'o 75 years. Pniavrv.n and Punt4surn by 11111RDO YOUSCI, Suic Or Fix'S, 112, o,ei4iptD, Lorroara. QUEEN-SQUARE. During the whole of lust week, the officers of this establishment have been most actively employed in endeavouring to discover the burglars who broke into Mr. Gregorie's residence on Tuesday morning last. It was at first supposed that the thieves had effected an entrance at the back part of the house, but after strict examination the officers are decidedly of opi nion, that some persons ;. - .Ft mdse concealed them selves inside before th, lemse was secured for the night. The property ::tole' 'oasists of various at.• ticles of plate, marked s-,ltll a crest, a trunk of a tree, with a branch arising from it: and underneath the words " Non deficit alter." The housekeeper's desk was robbed of forty-fire sovereigns, a ten pound and five pound notes; several articles' of swearing '4;o:t.! were also pecked up, and nearly all the drawers and bureaus ransacked. In the morning when the robbery was discovered, the street-door, was found open, which is the front entrance to the office, and was firmly secured on the preceding night. In the kitchen was found some housebreaking imple ments, but the marks of vii)lence at the back win dows are supposed to have been done from inside, merely to lull suspicion. The whole robbery is Gf a most mysterious nature, and it::a hitherto baffled the utmost endeavours to discover the thieves, of both the officers and Magistrates. Several auspicious cha racters hare been apprehended and examined, but no charge could be substantiates; against them, and they were discharged. HATTON-GARDEN. Joseph Taylor and William Birmingham were brought up, charged with the exhumation of two . bodies from the burial-ground of St. Jai Cler kenwell. It appeared, that about half-paq four in the morn ing they were discovered in their operation from a window looking into the burial-ground ; and an alarm having been given, sereralof the watch, and a number of Irishmen, skin-dressers, who were at work convenient, collected on the spot. The pri soners, with two others who were in company, fled, and descending from the wall of the church-yard by means of a ladder, took refuge in the Fleet ditch, a sewer running under the wall. Here they were soon discovered, and having been dragged out la an indignant multitude, apparently thirsting to imbrue their hands in the blood of these unfortunate wretchee, they were assaulted with groat violence. One of them, however, escaped, and a third was so seriously injured, that it was necessary to remove him imme diately to the hospital. One of the graves had been opened, and two Wales were found lying close to it, tied up in a sack. The prisoners were committed in' default of bail. William Cabby was charged with assaulting the above prisoners while they were bringing up in custody horn the, watch-house to this office, and fined 50s. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. 20. LEWIS V. LITTLEWOOD AND ANOTHER. This was an action of detenue for a pianoforte. The defendants were pawnbrokers, and had received the pianoforte originally as a pledge from a person of tho name of Day, who had been employed to make it for a person named Dunbar. The plaintiff, an attorney, having afterwards pur chased the instrument from Day, paid up the interest, and got the ticket renewed in his own name. Sub• sequently, Dunbar hearing that the piano was in pawn, went to the defendants and gave notice that it belonged to him, and that they were not to part with it to any person without his authority. On the 29th of July last the plaintiff went to the &fen. dams' shop to redeem the pledge, when he was in formed of the notice given by Dunbar. The plain tiff, however, insisted on his right to have the in strument delivered up to him, and the defendants then asked for three or four days to consult Dunbar. The plaintiff objected to wait more than one day, and intimated his intentinn to sue out a writ against the defendants, unless they gave up the instrument. The defendants then promised to see Dunbar, and give their final answer the followi►lg day. They accord ingly saw Dunbar, and got his authority for delivering tip die instrument, but the plaintiff not calling again ut their shop, it remained with them ; and on the 31st of July the plaintiff commenced the present action. After hearing evidence, the Jury retired to con sider their verdict, hut b4aing absent about two honrE. without agreeing, the parties at length consented to withdraw a Juror, the defendants undertaking to deliver up the pianoforte to the plaintiff on payment of the 251. Br.OLE4 V. COMTE D 1: BT. ARNAUD. Thii MIS an action by a coach-rnalcer for !he use of certain carriages furnished to the defendant. The plaintiff's charge was 351. As. 3d. The action was undefended ; but the Jury deducted V. Is. 3d., and found a verdict for 311. 7s. The sittinp, at the rising of the Court, were ad journed to the 13th of January• COURT OF COW: Oil D. 20. BROWNING AND OTIIE14:I, AF`ll:'N lEES OF WIDGER, A iJANKRIJ'T i DGER. In this case, the pi,intitfs, who are 113Signees of a bankrupt named W'lger, sought to recover from the two sisters of the bankrupt the title-deeds of certain premises which had been conveyed to them it. I Ne 4# it! f l'„ Av • 0:1 - 4 - 1— L a o°,l ,/ Wil nal th e 'th e ac c . 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