The Sun. — London, England, 1828-05-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. It is plain that whatever may be the issue of this day's debate,. the Catholic, body look op w ith an indifference not manifested by them on former oc casions. They havesuntlotibtedly petitioned Par liament for a redress of grievances; as before. They have committedlheir ease, as in previous years, to members diatinguished by talents and character, who may be expected to discharge, with credit to them selves, the conjoint duty of advocates and patrons, if not with success for their clients. The Catho lics, therefore, have complied, in this instanceswith every decent form prescribed by usage and acknow ledged etiquette ; but there is only the form of re spectfulnesein these proceedings. In their own eye, while they contemplate their own formal acts, there sits an undisguised persuasion that such overtures are nothing but barren punctilio—a ceremonious homage to the manners of political society—and that they will at present yield no fruit. If 'those who resist the claims of these petitioners imagine that the Catholic cause itself is endangered, the hearts of the Catholics appalled, or their pur pose of achieving their rightful share of con stitutional freedom and . power in the least de gree shaken, merely from the languid atten tion shown by them in . reference to the results of this approaChing discussion of the old ques tion in the House of Commons, such speculators are cruelly deceived. The relaxed expectation of .she Catholic body from any benefit to be speedily confer red on them by Parliament, afford to us a conclu sion very opposite indeed to that of their sanguine enemies: It is to our Minds a subject of regret and apprehension, though not by any means of surprise. The Catholics have bad •reasons furnished to them for believing .that high and mighty prejudices were arrayed against them, more industriously, if not more ostentatiously, than ever; and that many base and menial passions had, as became the creatures who cherished them, enlisted in that " illustrious" cause. If, therefore, to the recognized authorities here, the Catholics begin to turn with careless and hopeless languor, it is not in such a spirit that they have cul tivated resources less likely to disappoint them. The Catholics have been driven to an expe dient which their adversaries did not anticipate. They have withdrawn their implicit confidence from others, and transferred it to their own community. In it, so organized that each of its parts has been skilfully adapted to its proper uses, the Catholic hope, spirit, and power, are now concentred. A Catholic Parliament, it is vain to deny, assembles and debates in the metropolis, and to every Practi cal purpose makes laws which the Catholics obey, while a priesthood, wielding the elements of a spiri tual authority, supreme as that of the Jesuits in _Paraguay, can move, and bend, and bind, in union with that lay legislature a multitude of five millions of vigorous and susceptible barbarians, to the duo- H en project of the hour. Is this frightful ? Is it not accurately true ? There is not a parish, or vil lage, or hamlet in the island, which has not been disciplined to its peculiar task,—not one which has rest its delegate or representative in direct com munication with the heads of the Catholic Go vernment, —not a leader in Dublin, whether priest or gentleman, who does not exercise his po litical jerisliction within certain local bounda ries, or on prescribed principles, and to definite ends. What, then, is the plain description of such a system ? Why, it is a mingled aristocracy and ll'erarelly, forming a staff of an innumerable force, with two thousand parishes drilled into as many re giments,—a kingdom for a camp and a nation for its army ! Again we say, who is there that can deny the truth of this picture ? Whom does it not terrify ? To whom does it not address these words —" You must emancipate the Catholic nation, or exterininate seven millions of your fellow-christians ,and fellow-subjects ?" And let an honest English- That: reconcile himself to the destruction, riot , merely of the brave who fight, but of the weak and innocent .who perish. Men wko are more familiar with con vention and compromise than with stern principle and the calla of great emergency, seem to be over wisely delicate in the choice of arguments upon this momentous subject. They tell us that the feelings of the prejudiced anti-Catholic must he treated with forbearance, and with tenderness—that is to' say, that for the sake of getting him ,to pass the Catholic' Bill, we must bide from him the real posture of the auestion which it is designed to settle. We understand this weakness,--for such it isse-but we reject it as no less mischievousalsen absurd. The frrgumentum ad tinsorem, in its naked form, is not, perhaps, the most agreeable in all modes of logic; yet in fact, what i 3 every argument foundedon considera lions of prudence and justice, but an appeal to the fears of a reasonable being? Why is a man advised to be " prtident," hilt that lie may avoid some danger ? Why is injustice deprecated as the most foolish policy, but that retaliation is the inevitable consequence of injury unredressed ? When, there. fore, we tell the antieCatholics in Parliament, that if they Isere, wise, they thirst not reject' emancipa tion,—that the Catholics are too strong to be despised or trampled on, —that if we do not give ;hem the share of power to w hich, as fellosv-citizens they are entitled, they will wrench from us, when occstion offers, more than they have ever in' peaceful tidies 'dematidedss--we use• no unbecoming plea. When we urge upon the anti-Catholics the moral impossibility of keeping Ireland always in misery and degradation, because there is a physical impossibility of retaining her always in military subjection, it is a solid and sober way of putting a truth which no en lightened statesman will deny, but without' a know ledge of which the majority of Parliament May think themselves justified in attempting to perpetuate the present evil system. We believe that the manly mind of him to whom is now committed the chief guidance of the 'British Empire has not remained o this late hour insensible to the real perils of the existing state of Ireland. If we can reason from analogy upon the probable conduct of the Duke or Wk4iingtOn towards the Catholics, it will be governed b y the evidence afforded him of the bias of public opinion is this .country. A bigot, or a fanatic, or 4 corrupt monopolist, ,we are quite sure the Duke of: Wellington is not, 'To , gain his assistance, we hovel but to show him a force sufficient to carry the It is, therefore, that we would enemP 6 p .si e f o i ; 'of England “ireflect in time upon advise the the danger; which beset them, stioSild they establish an hostile nation at OW very th reshoict—Times. Our attention dors" of the Ci v n- ar s now.carryin on by the been called to the proe • g Corpina wh - olo ra sa i le dealetc, t. and L o ndon, against • merchants, ne withi n the occupiers of counting-houses ge It is jurisdiction of that anc ient and auto list ust bogy scarce ly n ecessary to inform t he reader, that on .breetafore.. a person can open a retail shop, or carry a ll business in the City, he is obliged to.become free of one of the City Companies. This i 3 technically palled " taking up your freedom ;" for which taking k° riP you have to pay into the chests of the Corpora tion a Milk a money amounting, upon an aver' MI pounds. ilitherto—or, at any rate, for . perhans two hundred years: past—merchants wand wholesale dealers have been exesept from this City tax. The Corporation, however, like the Prodigal Son in the Scriptures, having wasted their sub stance upon r iotous living, but,unlike him, not being fee w illing to te nd swine and d upon husks, have been • late l y looking about for meeos by which they may replenish their funds from the substance of others. The plan which they have hit upop is the notable one of calling upon the aforesaid men chants to take. up their freedom; that is, for each of fifty ounds, for the them to pay the Corporation p privilege of carrying on th eir. business ienerations n and the very houses, which their forefat hers, for g generations gone by, occupied without being subject to any tax of the kind. But the mode of doing this is as object ionable in p oint of h o nesty and hon, able dealing, as the thing itself; and it satisfies us that the Corpo ration hive in reality no legal claim upon the parties in question. Instead o tr f bringing in g an action against an indi vidual, and, by ntheir clai in a Court of Law, set the ting t rest, they m su mmon all before s ome prete nded a Court, and insist upon them taking. -up -their free dom in one of. the Comparties, 'or threaten them . with proCeedings . at law. has, we understand, been . proposed. to them to defer proceedings*, till the question can be tried in an individual instance, but this just and reasonable-pro posal they have uniformly rejected. The conse quence is, that . many persons, sooner. than be sub ject to a law suit, :ire induced to pay the money, and sit down : quietly under the imposition. ;for is this all—the Corporation are actually raising a very considerable fund by means of their summonses, for which they make the parties pay two shillings each. That all this is perfectly illegal, we are quite satis fied, and we understand that such is the opinion of several very eminent lawyers. We are glad to hear that a considerable number of merehants are deter mined to try the question, rather than submit to the imposition; and as there is reason to believe that the Corporation, notwithstanding all their bluster ing, will not venture to go into a Couit of Law, we would strongly recommend the wholesale dealers generally_ to set them at defiance.--Morning Herald. Lord Palmerston goes. out as Governor of Ja maica, and will be succeeded by Mr. Spring Rice as Secretary at War.—lbid. - - The statements of the trade of the country in the Finance Accounts, for the year ended sth January, 1828, afford evidence of the commercial improve ment -which has taken place. The Imports, calcu lated at the official rates, amount to 44,887,7741. For the year of distress, ended sth January, 1827, they were only 37,686,117/. The previous year they were 44,208,8071. The Exports . for the year ended sth January, 1828, were 62,050,00 a; for 1827, 51,042,022/. ; and for 1826, 56,320,184/. — While we rejoice at this proof of reviving industry, we regret to see that the amount of Imports does not keep pace with the Exports. It appears that 56 millions of Exports, in the year ended sth Ja nuary, 1826, produced 44 millions of Imports, while 62 millions of Exports in the year ended sth January, 1828, produced only 44 millions. The foreign and colonial merchandize exported during these years is nearly the same, being 9,169,494/. in the former, and 9,830,728/. in the latter • so that the difference is in the pro duce and manufac tures of the United Kingdom, 52 millions for the year ended sth January, 1828, .producing only the same Imports as 47 millions in the year ended sth January, 1826. Of our manufactures, those which exhibit the most decisive signs of improve ment are the Iron and Brass and Copper manufac tures. Though the Cotton exhibits a considerable increase in 1828 over 1826, at the official rates, the declared value for 1828 is considerably below 1826. But the branches above alluded to exhibit an in crease both at the official rate and declared value. Thus BRASS AND COPPER 11ANUFACTURE, HARDWARE AND CUTLERY, IRON AND STEEL, WROUGHT AND UN. WROUGHT. Years ended sth Jan. 1826 1827 1828 485,118 571,149 786,603 1,391,112 1,169,105 1,390,428 1,048,063 1,105,618 1,214,948 In the remotest districts of the. Continent, where every article used is of domestic manufacture, the Hardware and Cutlery of England will be found. Every carpenter is indebted to England for his tools. For the Iron manufacture we possess, indeed, parti cular advantages. • The Shipping exhibits an appa rent decrease on the 31st of December, 1827, as compared with the two preceding years; but this is attributed in a Note to " the operation of the Registry Acts ' 4 and 6 Geo. IV., which required all vessels to be registered de novo within a limited period, the consequence has been that many ves sels which were supposed to be in existence were found to, be no longer so." The decrease, however, is only in England. Scotland and the Plantations exhibit a regular increase. Thus, for instance, the tonnage of Scotland on the 31st December, 1825, was 259,537 ; on the 31st December, 1826, 290,006 ;- and on the 31st December, 1827, 300,836. The Plantations for these years had, of tonnage, 214,875, 214,1 83 , land 279,362. The tonnage of England is 1,958,716 2,001,295, and 1,752,400. Scotland has now for its population more shipping than England—and from it having more coast in proportion to its extent, it may he expected to grow upon England every year. The number of seamen for England, on the 31st December, 1827, was 101,039 ; for Scotland, 21,846 ; and is more than one-fifth, while the pro portion, according to the population, is about one stxth.. I'he Report, by - The Commissioners for the Herring Fishery, of the proceedings, for the year ended sth 1827, shews the extent to which the Herring and Cod Fishery of Scot land has been carried. The total number of persons employed in the fishery amount to 79,794. The number of fishermen and boys is • 47,371. Of this number of fishermen no fewer than 37,607 belong to Scotland. When we include the wives anti. children of the men, we shall find that a very large proportion of the inhabitants of Scotland de rive their subsistence from the water. The naviga tion of Ireland exhibits a regular increase. On the 31st December, 1825, the tonnage was 80,583, the men 7,090; on the 31st December, 1826, tonnage 40,768; men 7,327 ; on the 31st December, 1827, the tonnage was 97,369, and the men 7,609. No man has bon more calumniated than the Marquis of Stafford for the gikonges introduced into the mode of occupying. the extensive estates in the county of Sutherland. We observe that the Port of Helmsdale, which has been created by him in that remote part of the island, had, for the year ended sth April, 1827, no fewer than 161 decked and undecked boats, 805 fishermen, 87 coopers, 1,010 persons employed in gutting and packing fish, and 94 labourers variously employed : in all 1,996 persons employed in the fisfigripg, What a reproach to the Irish landholders ! With a angst presenting such advantages for fish ing, in the neighbourhood- of populous districts, Ireland has no fisheries —while in the poorest and most uncultivated district of the three kingdoms, in habited by a people, a few years ago, less advanced in .civilization than the wildest of the people of Con nang/st, ono beneficent individual has opened - What may be orme4 a mine of wealth to these savages, who are now reaping all the benefits of civilization. All comment on • this _is unnecessary.— morning Chronicle. • • one of the jocular plans which Swift was iu the habit s of propounding. For our own part, we think . that all history and all experience teach but one truth of the Roman Catholic religion ;—that it is the steady and unre lenting Toe of every liberal institution — of every constitutional doctrine—of every comprehensive, and enlightened measure. Wherever it has esta blished itself, we find, without a solitary eiception, bigotry, tyranny, and ignorance in its train, and pre cisely in the degree of its domination is the degree of their prevalence. Look to Spain, to Portugal, to Italy l Look, as a Noble Lord the other night very properly observed, to the Catholic and the Protestant Cantons of Switzerland, and, he might have added, to the Catholic and Protestant Principalities of Germany. Lastly, to come nearer home, and t' take a case which is equally in point, arid which affects us more nearly—look to catholic Ireland and to Protestant Ireland ! It is no answer to tell us that the state of France is not as we have described the state of Ca tholic countries to be. France is not Catholic, nor has been, except in form, ever since the seeds of Protestantism were planted in her by the thine nots. We will admit, that were the people of Eng land careless of the advantages they ,enjoy —were they willing to hazard their enjoyment by conceding to the Catholics what they claim, whatever were the risk, it were just it should be incurred : but the people of England are not so inclined; and the Parliament that would press such a sacrifice on them would seal its death doom. They would fly from petty tyrants to the throne, and assist thei King in putting down institutions created for their mutual protection,- but converted, by the folly of their Members, to their mutual .destruction, It is, however, unnecessary to enter on the discus sions of a probability so remote. There is, no doubt, a powerful party in the Howse of Cominons, who - will vote‘with Sir Francis Burdett, but though it were as strong in influence and in principle as in numbers, its efforts would be vain. The hereditary legislators of the country are not borne about " by every wind of doctrine" like their elective brethren. They have no seats dependent on the resolutions of the Catholic Association. They have done their duty before, and, if necessary, will do it again.— New Times. THE MARQUIS DE LOULE. LAW INTELLIGENCE. The Marquis de Louie, now residing wi his illustrious spouse among us, is descende from the ancient family of the Counts de Va dos Reys, in Portugal. He is the only son o' the bearer of the same title, who, it will be re• membered, was most treacherously murdered in 1824, in a secluded part of the palace of Salva tierra, one of the Royal residences of the Kings of Portugal, situated on the Tagus, at the influx of the Loro, about 35 miles from Lisbon, and at the time the Court were passing the season there. This Nobleman was deep in the King's confidence, and treated as his bosom friend. He was, in fact, the King's constant attendant, and held a post under the Crown, equivalent to our Master of the Horse. As a proof of King John's re spect for, and attachment to the deceased, he granted to his son, the present Marquis, although at that time a minor, the same rank and dis tinctions that hail been held by his father. In deed he seems to have felt a real interest in the welfare of the orphan, considering that the pa rent fell a victim to those vile plots, which had, for a number of years, been directed against him, as the occupant of the Throne. He ordered an investigation to be made of this black affair, but it was afterwards quashed, on its being discovered that some very , exalted personages were impli s • cated in it. The new appointments at the palace, and the immediate protection of the King, brought the young Marquis into notice ; and nothing could be more likely than thst his fine and handsome person, his affable manners, and his accomplish ments, as well as the melancholy event which had befallen him, should have excited the re gard and interested the feelings of a secluded Princess, whom it became his duty frequently to attend. A strong and mutual attachment, it is well known, ensued ; yet still the Marquis, in the character of a subject, could not have aspired to the hand of an Infanta, if her own mother had not insisted on the union. Donna Anna de Jesus Maria, the youngest Infanta of Portugal, and now Marchioness de Loule, was born on the 23d of Dec.,1806; the Marquis is about 23 years of age. They were married on Saturday, De cember 1, last year, privately, at Queluz, iey the parish curate, the patriarch having refused to unite them, without the previous consent of the Regent. The Queen took all the responsibility on herself. In Portugal,- no nobleman marries without the consent of the King. The Queen furnished a house for the newly married pair, at Bemfica, where she was their constant visitor, till they embarked for England, with an inten tion of travelling on the continent. The Mar quis has not taken his seat in the Portuguese Chamber, as a Peer of the Realm, of which he holds the appointment, in consequence of his not having attained his 25th year, as required by the Charter. King John VI. was rather of a saving charac ter, particularly after he gave up the a musements of hunting and riding, of which he was, in his younger days, extremely fond. He was then considered as one of the most graceful and bold riders in Portugal. At the period of his depar ture for Brazil, in November, 1807, it was esti mated that he had with him about one million sterling in gold, which sum, it was supposed, was doubled at the time of his return to Europe. The fifth of the gold dust and diamonds obtained in his Brazilian dominions belonged to himself. — At the time of his death he is estimated to have left about two millions and a half sterling, ex clusive of diamonds, and he was one of the olde st The town is said mbe fuller at this etoment than it has been for twelve years past , an d o f flow who shareholders in the Oporto Wine Company. — add to the crowd there are, we have hear d, not le ss He held shares which belonged to his father. — Mae six hundred Members of the House of Corn- The portion of his property, which has already' mons. fi.- sneaks highly for the age in which we been distributed amon g his heirs, is his live, that on grga,t and important questions, the diamonds, and about 250000/. sterling , muster both of those wisp s uphold, and those who t h e amount stipulated in a secret a rticle o r ppoEle them, is so st rong . Sorke t;senty years ago , o f the treaty between Portugal and Brazil , for our hundred was considered an icori;e2ise House. . The r?,vision oil the impeachment of Lord' Metsiile the acknowledgment of the independence of the was only about that number, though every feeling indemnity for his latter, to be allowed him as an . of personal political enmity and friendship combined' fixed property 14; Behind in Brazil, v i e , the .to call forth his friends and his enemies, backed estate of San Cristoval, the present Imperial res by that .measure now no iceiger resorted to, be- silence, and that of Santa Cruz, formerly hr" cause O 'anger necessary—a call of the House. longing to the Jesuits, and considered as one of Sir Fretless 13nrilett's motion, in. con,:quens,e 4 the most beautiful situations in Brazil. 'Th e of wh o, tlie isseeeis . t assemblage has taken t adove s'• 1 •every to believe,wa s e rse we have reason will be limited, it is sa id, to a .. . - . place Resolution that the ; House of f,".0,7;m0ns will . • of consideration the st ale of t e.. ,s, in London, and divided is, the proportio , n, take into consu • s: Romsn • It is evident, however, that, by agre e i ng *out -50,000/. to each surviving child. 4- 11 P Catholics. to this Resolution, the House in ' re i ality commits it- h the King in Poreign Stocks has psopesty left sY , .. , , , , i self on the whole question, t . tru t . le i r i e ) fore , we may not, we heliesse, been yet touched. It was reat assured that the Resolution N%'learLl(eitiin.pre- ways supposed that the late King lied a PQ IIS" cisely she same way as a more definite ilans circulatedieeisifvoer derable sum in the French Funds, under the proposition w,emd• among the 1 , charge of Targini, long the Treasurer-General of f e w stray votes, Mr. the purpose ni procuring a :- , Portugal, and afterwards raised to the rank of , s eiiich would, he Wihnot Horton has published : the. • a Viscount San Lourenzo. He was the transla dvocates tor imagines, gii - o3 that security which . that all CathOli"eitor of p t spe's " Essay on Man" into Porto ' require. nis proposal is, B H. , ,s, i geese, and üblisl ed baaatifal edition of this or to e a s , . . , ‘, as , 'the of shall adjourn to thi , lobby, • Church piece. The Viscount was a private agent of ihe whenever any question directly affect.ng theo discus- in his ' King money concerns. of E,ngland or the Church of Scotland . 4 s in ..........- sion. We do not know whether the Right lion, , ; Zoological .... . t seems, are about to ex- The Society, . Member seriously ;Deans to recommen d such an .. pedient .for preserving the integrity of th e Church, e pee their menagerie in the Regent'R Patl; to public in but at first sight it eertanily looks ' verS like s pection, at one lhillipg admittapce. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAT 7. THE lING.V. J. T. HOLMAN. This was an indictment for libel, tried at the last assizes. for Nottingham . , when the defendant was found guilty. , The indictment was preferred by Mr. Robert Pashley, a wine-merchant of Worksop, whom the defendant had grossly libelled in a letter and printed handbill. Mr. CLARK now prayed the judgment of the Court. The defendant was then called, and not appear ing, his recognizance and,that of his bail were, on the motion of the Learned Counsel, ordered to be entreated. IX-PARTE THE CHURCHWARDENS OF ST. MARTIN-IN, THE-FIELDS. In a former term a rule Nisi, for a writ of prohi bition, was obtained on the part of the Churchwar dens of St. Martin's parish, in certain proceedings instituted in the Ecclesiastical Court by Mr. Fenn, the defendant in- the cause of " Golding-and others v. Fenn," lateli decided by this Court' in favour of the parish. Mr. Fenn having refused to pay a church-rate made by the Select Vestry of the parish, he was cited in the Ecclesiastical Court, and he in his turn cited the Churchwardens to produce their accounts. The chief point in dispute being the existence of the Select Vestry, which rested upon prescription, and the Ecclesiastical Court having no power to try queltions depending upon prescriptive rights, the rule for a prohibition to the Ecclesiasti cal Court was obtained. On its coming . on to be argued in a for Mer term,,- the various points in dis pute between the parties were raised, and an issue was ultimately directed to try them before a Jury. The decision of that tribunal having beeninlavour: of the parish, and that decision being supported by the Court, sitting in banco, in a judgment which it pronounced last term, Mr. TAUNTON now applied to have the rule for a prohibition made absolute. Mr. Fenn appealed in person to show cause against the rule, and stated as a reason why it ought not to be made absolute ; that proceedings which he had instituted in the Ecclesiastical Court were still pending. Lord TENTERDEN, however, said that as the Court had by its judgment of last term established the legality of the select vestry, they were bound to make the rule absolute.—Rule absolute. The young Prince of Cumberland came into Court about one o'clock, and sat by the side of Mr. Justice lioltoyd for about a quarter of an hour. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MAT 7. At one o'clock the LORD CtitEr JUSTICE sat at nisi pries with common juries ; but no case of any interest came on for trial. Shortly after the commencement of the first case, how ever, the young Prince George came into Court, ,and took a seat on the Bench near to his Lordship. His Royal Highness appeared muck amused with the proceediags, and laughed heartily at the repeated blunders made by an igna [ rant witness. - - --- GERMAN PAPERS. AUGSBURGH, APRIL 29. We have received from Constantinople the original of the hatti-scheriff of 20th Dec. 1827, as it was addressed from the office of the. Vizier en the let of•Djemmsial Akir, in the year 1243 of the Hegira, to ail the paellas and Go vernors of the empire, and to the Ayans assembled at Con stantinople, and delivered tothern in the'Turkish language. To complete the documents relative to the history of our times, and likewise on account of its importance, we shall give a faithful translation of it. For the present we content ourselves with laying before our readers the intro duction and the passages relating to the . Treaty of Aker man, of this remarkable document, the authenticity ot• which has been disputed in various quarters. The intro duction commences thus : " To those who have understanding and judgment, it is well known that as the professors of Islamism are by nature enemies in their souls to the Infidels; so the Giaours are enemies to the professors of . Islamism; and the Russian Court, in particular, is' tte chief enemy of the professors of Islamism, and of .the Sublime Porte." The second passage, in which Russia is accused of having seduced the English and the French, runs thus— ' "As the Russians besides are wholly and solely the cause that the other Franks have fallen into the same preten sions, having afforded, in word and deed, manifold assistance to the scoundrels (the Greeks), and have prolonged the mis chief; and ,by the base intrigues of the Russians, the English and French have joined their voice with them," &c. The third passage, relative to the Treaty of.,Akerman, is as follows : " Though it is well understood from the beginning what was theobject of the Franks, and that in the end it could not be answered otherwise than by the sabre, yet, not to disturb the tranquillity of the Mahomedan people, and merely to give time for warlike preparations, all possible pains were taken to do away in several conferences with the above demand, by answers which might serve to de ceive, and satisfy the adversaries in respect to the disgrace and injury which threatened the Sublime Porte and the Mahometan people ; and though the vain dementia of in demnity and the question of Servia, which were brought forward at Akerman last year, were by no means things which could be agreed to, yet compelled by the urgency of the case, they avers accepted so far as an understanding that an arrangement shoukt.be made respecting. them," &c. These passages appear to us to be the most important of the hatti•scheriff, of which we are as.,ured there are no ' other versions in the Turkish language, thOugh there are various translations by the Dragomans of the several Le- gations. The Allgemeine Zeiiung gives also the Turkish text of the above passages. It is mentioned that there will be a Commis sion on Friday, to give his MAJESTY'S assent to the Cor poration and Test Acts Repeal Bill, and sundry other public and private Bills. The Committee for erecting the proposed Lunatic Asylum in Middlesex, has, it is said, agreed to give Lord JERSEY 11,000/. for forty-four acres of land at Haworth, though fifty acres were offered to them at Finch ley for 8,0001. SUICIDE BY A LORD CHANCELLOR.—The frequent political inconsistency of lawyers is well known, and under the generic name ratting ; but the remarkable suicide of CHARLES Yoitxv, Lord MoRnEN, in 1770, during the last reign, 'is scarcely known, and did . not for many years transpire beyond the circle of a few private friends. In all the journals and periodical works of the day, his decease is recorded simply as " sudden death." The marked coolness of his brother, at whose house he called after accepting the Seals of GEORGE 111., is said to have immediately occasioned his tragical self-destruction. He cut his throat on the same evening, in a paroxysm of mental suffering. The wound was not fatal , ; it was closed and sewed up with every probability of early and complete recovery, when his Wife (a vain woman, to whose crav ing for a peerage her husban.l's political apostacy is at tributed) was foolish enough to exhibit to him, in bed, the patent of his peerage ;• it renewed his anguish; he tore aw/iy•the bandages, and died in a few hours afterwards.— These singular facts are thus noticed in Mr. P AKE'S His tory of the Court of Chancery :—" Lord CAMDEN was succeeded by CHARr.ES YORKE, second son of the late Chancellore Lord Haanwtegx. The duration of his judicial power was but three days, between the 17th and 20th January, 1770 ; nor did he ever preside in the court. The fate of this accomplished advocate will always be cited as a sad and fatal example of the evils of blending the politi- Cal and judicial character. After a life of resistance to the temptation of a Court, and an unvarying consistency in the constitutional principles of his party, Mr. YoKl'E , in an evil moment of temptation, deserted his friends and violated his principles, in accepting the seals with the title of Lord MoRnEN. The periodical works of the day, and Watrorat in the Royal and Noble iAn thers, record th a t th e C ITANcEr . to R died suddenly. It is a fact well known to many of his contempora ries y et livi ng , that, in the bitt er angu i s h of self-condemnation and wounded consc once, he perished by his own hand ! It similar event "' happily for the hionan has been said of race, all the eltennations whirl' ac company such cases are reserved for the tribunal of that Being who knoweth of what we are made, and remembereth that we are but dust.' If the political apostasy which has been so often recently and unblushingly displayed at the English bar coca ever be atoned for, it is when the self degradation of the apostate is thus dreadfuliy eonF.essed ; showing at least a repentance coyoTenSlFltte with the offence. In this ohlervatioa the crime of self-destruction is far from being palliated, much If'ss defended : but it is impossible not to pity the pressnre of self-degradation, however occasioned, or sot to estimate a Man, who, in his acute sensibilities and fatal end, showed that a momentary seduction only had overcome an honour able and noble mind." . • • k POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO.VSE.-r-Wm..,Graham was brought before the Loan 111.stroa; charged by a street -keeper with having committed an act of vagrancy. The vagrant had been, it appeared, sitting for the greater part of the preceding day in the street ; he lay down at last on the pavement and fell fast asleep, and snored aloud. The street-keeper-roused hipi, and, desired him to go to his house or his lodgings, to which order he replied that he had neither one nor the, other, and he laid himself down again, and would have annoyed tha neigh bourhood if the witness had not conveyed him to the watch-house.; The LORD MAYOR, who was struck with the very wretched appearance of the unfortunate vagrant, asked hire the usss4-question. , , • The vagrant said, that he had lately returned from the East Indies, where he had served in the Royal Artillery 11 , years and eight months ;• that he had been invalided, and c ane to London to solicit aid from the East India Com pany to return to Ireland, where he had enlisted into their service; -that he had completely failed, and being almost famished and without a farthing, and scarcely able to move along, he took the liberty to sit down, and fell fast asleep; that he was neither a thief nor a cheat, nor an impostor, nor a beggar, but worn out with fatigue and the necessities of nature; and that he never thought that in falling into a sleep he was acting against the law. The Loan MAYOR told him that he was not singular in that opinion, as - several members of the, nightly watch maintained and acted. upon it. His Lordship expressed regret at not being able to render him permanent service, and offered some silver, and advised him .to g o on his jonruey. The-vagrant held up his feet in testimony of his inability to walk, and .The LORD M*voa told him he should be taken care of in Bridevvell far a fortnight. • MA ftYLE V)NE- OFFICE.-- Charles Josanteß town, chargedwith embezzling the goods of his employer, ~was brought , before Mr. IlAwt.nisott yesterday for final exa mination. The prisoner was discharged by Mr. THOS. EDWARDS of Maryleboue,, about the, 20th of February, after having lived five months with him ai a journeyman, and when he , left bit honesty was not aouhted ; but it has since been discovered that under the false pretences of having a ware house in Cheapside, and being aliowei by Mr. Edwards to sell . goOds on'commissioni he iv's- privately taking his master's property, and disposing of it for his own benefit. The family of the .prisoner is respectable ; his prospect in life , was fair ; and he was about to marry the daughter of an independent gentleman, who lives in a village not far from town:: priioner made no answer to the charge, aad was committed to Newgate for trial. RECORDER'S REPORT. The Recorder of London yesterday made his Re port to the King in Council, of the prisoners lying under sentence of Death in Newgate, namely,— James COurt, aged 22 ; James Barrett, 19 ; Saml. Robinson, 22; John Brown, 35, for burglary; Chas. Smith, 30, for forgery ; George Williams, 32, Elizabeth Smith, 19; Susannah Thompson, 45; John Roberts, 22 ; George Archer, 30 ; John Short, 26, for stealing in a dwelling-house to the value of Si. and upwards; Geo. Knight, 19; Richard Idan2- mond, '26; John Lobb, 21 ; Charles Tenant, 20; Jas. Rust, 24; John M'Nally, 16, for house-breaking; Chas. Dell, 24; Thos. Jones, 35; and John Baker, 48, for horsestealing ; Russell Brown," and,Thos. Edwards, 23, for highway robbery; Hambry Price, 28, and Mary Price, 27, for coining; William Ben nett, 20; James ,Foord, 43 ; Henry Miller, 22 ; Thomas Miller, 20 ; Edward Shoesmith, 24; John Spray, 28 ; Stephen Stubberfield, 34 ; Spencer Whiteman, 26 ; Thomas Maynard, 40, and Wil liam Plumb, 25, for illegally assembling in the county of Sussex, armed with fire-arms and other weapons, in order to aid in running certain uncus tomed goods. Al! of whom his Majesty was gra ciously pleased to order to be respited during his Royal pleasure, excepting Russell Brown, John Roberts, Charles Smith, Hambry Price, John Baker, and Johnßrown, upon whom the law is left to take its course, and they are ordered for execution, on Tuesday next, the 13th inst. ; • SKELETONS:FOUND AT BOSTON. On Thursday last some labourers were employed in lowering a hillock on which a mill, last in the oc cupation of Mr. F. Groom,,had stood,. when about three feet from the surface, two. perfect human ske letons were discovered; the bones ,of which, were „firmly knit together. One of them appeared to be the remains of a full grown athletic man, the length of the skeleton being near five feet ten inches; the other was not so tall. They were both found near each other, and at the same depth below the surface so that there can scarcely exist a rational doubt but that the period of their interment was the same.-- One of the skeletons had its hands placed under the backbone, apparently as if they had been tied there, and one f the shoulders of each body, was elevated as though they had been hastily consigned to their grave. Conjecture has been busy in devising cir cumstances connected with this extraordinary disclo sure, and even the identity of one body has been fixed from a particular tooth being wanting in the jawbone. The most likely assumption, however, is the following, which is borne out by the recollec tion of several ancient inhabitants of the town. About thirty-five years ago a daring and extensive gang of smugglers carried on their illegal traffic in this neigh bdurhood ; two of the party were suddenly missing. Their comrades accounted for their absence by de claring that they had taken shipping fer America, and no more was heard of the men. The gang were afterwards dispersed or broken up, and nothing has ?ince been divulged, as to the real fate of the sup posed emigrants. A person who, it was Conjectured was linked with these desperadoes, oc cupied* the mill at the period spoken of; and he situation is favourable for the committal of the darkest deeds.— ConSidering all the bearings . and 'probabilit ies of the ca se, it may fairly be inferred that mu rder was com mitted, and that after the lapse of so man y y ears, the mouldering remains of the men h ave been brou g h t to light, as it would seem only to throw a d eeper mystery around the perpetrator s. It is w o r thy of notice that and atlonng-opisreiosrbatove b this eenh discovery, eani em ployed in the mill. No ve sti g es of leather sh oes or by persons singul ar ap p buttons' were discovered in -the skeletons' grave.— The bones have since been interred in St. John's biirying-ground.—Boston Gazette. SNIPPING INTELLIGENCE. EAST INDIA. The Farquharson, Cruikshank, from China, arrived in the Downs. The Cambridge, Pearce, from Batavia, arrived at Cowes ; sailed 19th January. The Mulgrave, Turner, from the Mauritius, off Mast ings, sailed 17th Jan ; oir St. Helena Bth March. The Ellen, Camper, from the Mauritius, tiff Hastings. • from London to B The y A a b n e d r cro China,hi aosb spokeninson; in2nleset, March in lat. 10. ob. N., long: 22k. W. by the Mulgrave. Arrival at Mauritius, Jan. 19, Henry, Westmorland, London ; 20th, Clifton, —.--, Rio Janeiro. Sailed Jan. 17, Alexander, Richardson, Ceylon.. The Hope, Brisbane, from London to the South Seas, was spoken March 19, in lat. ,la, S., long. 27. W. The Boyne, Pope, from London to Bengal, was spoken . April 25 in the Bay of Biscay. t a i a t' n — b u p , e S c t . o 2 c k B ll , Dec.ls, loading De A c. r 2 6 6 v , al S s The Speke, Harrison, was at Penang, for London. 19. 42. W., by was spoken 14th Feb., lat. 4. SO. , long . y a re t Batavia—D. the P 4 M b r i4 U! o ß lm lo . ra, Laming, Londo n ; The Governor Harcourt, Fuller, from London to Madras, It is currently reported. that a noble Marquis, not unknown for similar exploits, has lately won between St. Giles's , who have issued a pretty 40,0001. and 50,0001. from the h eir to a le g al p e erage..— Morning Paper. A Committee has been f ormed in the parishes of Bloomsbury and our list of the distinguished cem i pa ri y - strong notable acts o f t h e i r o the Select.inhabitants, Vestry. In pre sent at Prince, LsoroLu!i Grand Entertainment on Mon day evening, the name of Lady GitanixY was accidentally Knitted. BRITISH AND 1 ?OREIGNBIBI .E SOCIETY. (Continued fry om oar Paper of y esterday.) The Rev.. DANtE. L WiLsoN descril )ed the procto r ings of Bible Soclet ies at Which le had been Well present in, Paris, tnd . bore testiino ny •to the er; lightened'views of ref igiOn and Sinners 'piety exhibited by the members. The thanks to the VioivciengPrCsthiedethna" k w s e o r e f thenke put and 0 . 411. E, in n ciety to Abe Treasurer. Committee, and Secretarief enlarged with much vil rouron the hem lfits of religi6 ll ! knowledge. It had bt !en truly Said t hat the school' master was 'abroad thro 'ugh the entire earth with bi ° horn hook, but the Si ciety would 1. ollow close 0 ° his steps. with, their Bil sles . and Test meats. Christian Faith had no , cause to fear he Progreso °, knowledge; for . while nu no were subje6 . t 'to trials, a°l hopes, and griefs, - the col asolationS - of ti sligion continue to be welcome to them. Mr. BYRNE'seconded the motion. . --- • - The vote of thanks to - the Treasurer ; , Secretarid , and Committee, was then carried by ace lamation. Mr.. TiIoRNTON, the Treasurer, eh )(piently re; turned 'thanks for'himselt 'and ihe Coin inittee, an stated the receipts of the Society - to ha ye been JO year 69,0001.; thii year ti to payments -ii icreased l° 86,000!., being 6,000!. al )ove the rect ipts of O f year. • Mr. DUDLEY, the Se cretary, havin g returned thanks, and— The Rev. Mr. ALDER, frcan Montn gal, having stated the favourable progress of the Bil ile Sociell in Canada, Sir T. AcLANn.moVed a vote of than .ks to tl Noble Chairman for his conduct in the C. hair. Lore,PADIBIER, seconded the.resoluti on; it Ylv carried by acciamatiOn. Lord TEIGNMOUTR returned thanks, and the We i ' 1g broke up. 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IV( 1 04 great a deem leas most t atio r'Y to b e de tk , 2 to those ne( w or T c, rocnt at wh tati oh with more e 1, 14 ,_•* seein tha tiitt , left behind I ttit k ' fl a and expel t h the ci v ili ze d '4; 0 1 / 74 ° 118 of the Agricol '''rzlvtimitate int Rieman lived 74 11i li t l' i a i d afe a ‘ r inv r i iv hme ed grn i €l4.7&44ifti‘ttetlllbeobnyp. put et t o, n gau t t . l a „ , ar, hear.)— E Q : 4 , a resolution 14 4 4 ‘' .. r times, and thew, entitles me 1: 1 ke of its 01 of 111 behind hat of Lb t e t civiliz e d n atria 'alitY and t o `"e first t o t h e e tstablislied L 'Nest 4 i o Piri t in whi th : was asp tl sax spir v ;l 4 t , sPirit of 1, 44 . st a view n Ptt i t ~* h Enent, an d ,kre,,rYond th e re litt that Right uhl r4 le feelings as t ' °4 4"` e , views and kr, trust th t'-illittlot with any s uadbut as on a '4l ,°Pori reaao tr if I had , t4 et.): h e opinio n I I ( i , t of p a w; st . ba s been ` 4 14,' red friends fri 't to- and now etd use tny , e °l eaCuP with a di 'tti r —44 1 individa " I ' d ‘44 4 ' e nt, Clll IneV ' 4 l with the cri 44 1 t h t :er Was stron perfec ,° 1, 4, 0 ° ' truth the fib, t, rt y to h ave alit r'; . '„ I ii , h 7td . m ean Dr. E d'ne i ll I know 'atio t his übl' i Nio hi 'lle I P and d _, ll 0, ant. I here ) L' i tit at the a to ai r i l order to c , N et vocate th* ititt of a nog ,illts,:_utzt, on t h e • - 0 7 . 4 0 t-u grounds d e , s tl v 'erY thing i pa ul tio t„, t ri the Este' bf 4, to p rom tpaLtht stn taki ng resi‘t°St pp to urch .and , J this Hoc :alc G acl o ut different to v . 0 the s tie j'kt e their f of (31 't to 04 the PIED. ksvii„ tot }I ancient ess, I 4kt eIP look' (in the 23d of December, at Macao, after a short air , tw -tai d et whic , ' in the 41st year of his age, Sir William Fraser, Bart. ? 1 , 1 1: Treaty " sident of the Select Committee of the Hon. East I° TTli t ,ge I, cr o , (I,_„ ° olan C a Company's Establishment at Canton. in On the 14th of March, at Santa Cruz de Teneriffe, e the house of his Majeat—i s street,On the ß loo 6 n t l 'net. Consul, aged 79, Mrs. kleori rt .:l R q " (Mr Halliday Villalonga, relict of the late Brigadier-Ge nel " I,°°d th e 418 be t t I LICi f 4 sp po t ,, i i e t ar, Catholics d e Villsionga, in his Catholic Majesty's service. th 'eat Y; - Public faith, wit o hnin th a e f l e s w t inhsotuittitaLitemreilltisegairs,riCvaartfariLFralnndciisa S b l y tarr h ;sti 11^- _ on otir tli t . r the Illa O h n 'h t l h a e . 6th inst. in Great Portland-sti eet, of the roes' )( € 7 4 441 4 1'4(141 ; tit ' a ae t ln'eti • r ebile Many Sophia Frances, youngest daughter of Francois v . 4. 0 : th,.•" 4, 8 ,1 1 ' a cent Marina Moreau, Esq. aged two years anti five 11100.1 p %toe mit vanti clbs(l tcii thpatro? a W nd On the sth inst. aged 35, after a painful illness' , 1 h ' , l : the 11 6 , 13 c L a a t n io g g d u o n n :pi i. a ::: :C o h f e G lse r a e , a ag t R e t d 3s : l;, he tha t th 4t mak e John Hodson, solicitor, of King's-road, Bedford-row, deep c loti d °Lintry regretted by his family and friends. On the 3d inst., at Ifighofield Park, Albemarle, the (i d b e . th e th at the son a the Hon. Lindsey Burrell, • • tril l) %t) ts Y t e first 0 41 htt 6 t° Ikle enOu On the 4th inst. in the 14th year of his age, Beol 4 ° P Ng„. wh et . c Elisha, son of B. E. Batticy, Esq. Blackheath. e tv e thi B Os the 2d inst. at the Earl of Carbampton's, yew( Pem e l e giv shire-place, Catherine Mary Harriett, the infant dsor Et ° , gw en, o t f i re i a en nd of Major Hardress Saunderson. ‘ Ytould e raea st , In Bengal, Lieut.-Colonel Archibald Macdonald, k( no t , General to the King's troops in India. l' n ado if th " Or 11 ; Pte4 at In his 92d year, at his residence in Langford -my' , sers o • e'ctsti, ' anti i f a John Boyton, Esq. late Lieut. of the Sixth Royal ro o t i 4 t* ill t hat c , fiattalion. The deceased entered the service. of his o liarNiat li ra Rouse at an early period of life, and was one of the few Or! e Petiti c°4l4 th' officers who fought at Banker's-hill. _ O O4 t - 44 l'anr'rto and PUBLISHED by M. YOUNG, at the BUN 9 ' No. IP4, Strand, 1 ondon. WILLIAM CORDER. The wife of this young man 'Continue .s to YiP him daily at the gaol. The - interview; ve 'hich only ten minutes, is in the presence of a r third -TO son; and, according to the rules of the prii son, :did are obliged to converse at-a distance of fu 11 five i' f six feet from each other. The visiter is admitte into'the ; turnkey's room, across which is a bur, ‘ l : f the above-stated distance from a window t outside which the prisoner is placed. This pret .autiol o , 9 considered strictly necessary, and is obser T ed wit h all prisoners and their friends, in order t o prole! ' any conveyance of instruments, &c. The prisone t ' we understand, conducts himself very (It .corouslY' and is generally observed with a religious book iu his hand. His wife expresses on all occe sions th greatest anxiety to administer to his coral brt ;0d is, indeed, unceasing in this respect. It is impote r ble to look to the conduct of this unhapß y and used woman without hiving the beautiful lines the poet suggested to us:- 0 what was love made for, if 'cis not the same Thro' Joy and thro' sorrow, thro' glory and shad net I know not, I ask not what guilt's in thine heat t, I but know . that I love thee whatever thou art 'The statements which have appeared in this and the London papers, Mrs. Corder , still tres tts as er lumnies, and expresses het/Self convinced of his inn° . cence of the murder. She has taken lodgings l e this town, and is a regular attendant at or ie of o'' churches, where prayers are read daily. • - It is understood that the 931. which Cori ler dre upon a forged cheque has been refunded by his wif e ; and that, consequently, that affair is comp rornis& The hankers, Messrs. Alexander, belong to the 5 (tie . ) , of Friends, who are forbid by their Lai les ft° ° , prosecuting upon oath—that, perhaps, effort is a ele r to the compromise. The sum of 80/, ;which Le! found in Corder's desk, it seems he pat into h wife's hands, with an assurance that it was Peesr t from an uncle in Suffolk. Mrs. Corder suites the act of forgery could not have been pronlyted ec necessity, as, at the time, she had motney in hf, banker's hands, which'her husband' kne4 he Mir have availed himself of at pleasure: haNsotsohlintnignolyf protested e vee ki t n e d d • t t h h a e t m C u o r r d d e e t ,.. hislitninsonceonteter true e f has taken place. Since his imprisonnumt, he has never, we believe, except in his letters, alluded*/ the charge against him. Those letters certainly would give a virtual contradiction of such protestations, had he made any such. S 3 great ie the anxiety of the London press t° give its readers a more familiar acquaintance with William Corder, that an artist was brought dol on Thursday last, to take a likeness of him for pub" - cation. The journey, however, proved fruitless, 89 Mr. Orridge refused the gentleman admission to th e prisoner. Rather than return empty' handed, the artist made strong efforts to gain even 'a d e scriptite n i Of the prisoner, 14 which, he said, be would fin' no difficulty in making a likeness to answer` hiS pose. This application was not, we belieVe,,zinacts more successful.—Seo/A: Herald. , - BIRTHS. On the 6th inst. lady of George Austin Moultrie, Esq. of Aston Hall, Shropshire, of a daughter. On the 6th inst. at East Sheen, the Hon. Mrs. Penrbril of a son. On the (th inst. of a son, Mrs. Dumergue, of Alb s marle-street. On the 3d inst. Mrs. Henry Prince, of the Crown Ttive r° ' Clifford's Inn-passage, of a son. On the 4th inst. Mrs. R. T. Perkin, of Lower net grave-street, Pimlico, of a son. On the 7th inst. the lady of William Stratford Dog dslet Esq. of a son. MARRIED. In Booterstown Church, by the Rev. Edwin Biro!), t he Rev. William Deey, son of William Deey, E. Angle"a street, Dublin, t o M argarette Bl anc h, e ld est d a ughter ()f the Rev. Robert Craig, Frescati, county of Dublin. At Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, Captain Edw ar4 Dumaresq, Surveyor-General of the bland, and brother-iirs law to Lieutenant-General Darling, to Frances, young , daughter of Michael Legge, of Gerran, county of Tipper* ',' ' Esq. In the Church at Nodder, John Cumings EN,. W e ". rister-at-law, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of 71 1 °I llas Bligh, Esq. of Brittas, county of Meath, and a niece of the Earl of Darnley. A r On the 7th inst. by the Rev. Henry Lindsay, Alexa n -, 4 ° Rougernont, Esq. to Jane Grant, daughter of Alex an '' Glennie, Esq. On the T he 6iom t i hin as at. otir atL k o e, ng At Czt T on h , o3. W as arw m ic ri k g s i l t ire4 ;i t the 6e only son of Thomia Ikin, of Leventhorp 14°11het Yorkshire, to Anne Mary Crosse , second daughter o f t o { late Richard Leigh, Esq. of Adlington Park, count,' Chester, and Shaw Hill, Lancashire. 1 ti