The Sun. — London, England, 1828-08-25 00:00:00

once, give up all idea of allowing the Turks any do minion in Europe. Those Mahotnetans who chose to remain in the new State might have !legal protection, as individuals. It is only the allowing political authority to the Turks which is dangerous. If the great Powers choose to act liberally ands cor dially, it is clear that Russia can, be compelled to consent to some arrangement. Let us -stsppese the Russians in Thrace, and even possessed of:Con stantinople. This great object can only have been effected at a great expence of men and treasure. To possess a country like Thrace, so distant from the centre of Russian power, will, even 'without opposition from the great Powers, entail a' heavy burden on Russia. If it should be deemed advise able to oppose Russia, it will be much easier to cope with her on the Thracean side of the Balkan than on the Danube, where Austria alone can tome into contact with her. The occupation of the Morea by the French may open a door for any o perations against the Russians which it may be thought adrisable to undertake. Colonel Evans thinks that the opportune display of an im posing force of fifty thousand troops and twenty sad of the line might awe the Russians. Ten thou sand men might take possession of the principal castles of the Dardanelles, and eventually the Bos phorus. " Those on the Dardanelles, especially," he says, "are not of a nature to stand a sea and land :attack. On their inner sides they are chiefly de fended by loop-holed walls, and being all of a con tracted dimension, they could not resist a plunging fire of shot and shells from the high grounds by which they are domineered. But the Turks will now be extremely ill-inclined to resist, in any way, the French and English forces; they will, on the contrary, hail the arrival of an armament, ill the conviction of its being for their relief." Ten thou sand more might be entrenched on the heights a;')ove Scutari, from thence to overawe the capital and quicken the resolves of the Porte. The thirty thousand remaining troops, and the greater part of the fleet might proceed into the Euxine, and menace, at once, the whole left flank, and maritime communications of the invading army. If the Russians should be already in Roumelia, directing their march upon the heights of Ejub, the Mont-Martre of Constantinople, the troops might be disembarked at Silivri, a strong naval force at the same time passing into the Euxine. The troops in position and the remainder of the shipping might thus, he thinks, defy the advance of a Russian attack, and awe both Russians and Turks. We have al ready alluded, in terms of praise, to what Colonel Evans says on the subject, " Where the Russian Empire is most tangible of attack." The seizure of an enemy's capital is often, he observes, found to be of great consequence. In proportion as the capital ;s populous, compared with the whole country, its Nall is of importance to an invader, and that import ance is enhanced when, as in the case of Lisbon and Constantinople, it is also a great military and mari time position and station. Buonaparte was misled by the analogy of other capitals when he ad vanced against Moscow. It is not a cul de sac; i t i s n o: a naval or military position, and its popula tion, competed with that of the Empire at large, is only as one to two hundred and seventy-five. " It is the circumference of Russia (says Colonel Evans) which is most disaffected and most invites an enemy ; and of this the portions most remote from each other would of course require the most distressing efforts for defence. Thus, also, would =he be, in a great measure, deprived of the benefit of acting on a centre, which belongs to lesser na tions when assailed by different lines of approach." The armies in Poland, on the borders of the Black Sea, and in Persia, could not assist each other, and could net be transferable during a campaign, the in tervening distance being about two thousand miles. " About eighty states or natinns compose, and forty languages are spoken in this wide spreading domi nion. Heterogeneous as these materials are, they answer very well for external war—as long as they are permitted from without to remain in tact—as long as foreigners do not tutu against the Autocra tic Ruler their own Machiavelian arts." Supposing a coalition against Russia, Colonel Evans thinks she is assailable— ] st. By cutting off her commerce, and placing the in terests of the Nobles at variance with the projects of the G o vernment. 2d. By attempting the destruction of leer great naval depots at Cronstadt, Sebastopol, &c. Sd. By a predatory and proPerly supported series of incursions along her maritime frontiers, especially in the Black Sea, within the slim es of which, and even in the rear of her line of military posts, she has a host of unsub dued, armed, indomitable mountaineer enemies, and by ruining every Government Establishment. 4th. By aiding the Persians to recover the possessious wrested from them, and to this end supporting them with a powerful detachment from the native Indian army, with a small British nucleus. Operations in the Caspian. Fifteen hundred or two thousand sailors, with an adequate supply of the native shipwrights of Bombay, might be despatched to Astrabad and Balfurh, to construct a flotilla capable 0: driving the Russians for a couple of seasons at least from that sea. sth. By embarking a large corps of troops on hoard an allied fleet in the Gulf of Finland, to menace the flanks and reserve of the Russian armies of Poland and Finland. 6th. By efforts to create insurrections and a servile war. '7th. By bombarding Petersburgh, if that be practicable. Bth. By territorial armaments against Poland and Fin land, has ing mainly and avowedly for their object the final and complete re-establishment of at least the former; Prussia and Austria to be indemnified for their losses. Whateverlnay be thought of this plan, there can, we conceive, be no doubt, that should it be neces sary to coalesce against Russia, a different course ' would be pursued from the extravagant one of j3uonaparte, who made an unsupported forward movement many hundred miles from his resources, Col. Evans has a quotation from Klaproth (1827), —. a superior authority, respecting the Caucasian coirrttries, which forcibly illustrates the difficulty of keeping together such an empire as that of Russia. " Since Russia has extended her possessions beyond the Caucasus, she is obliged to maintain a numerous army in the province s newl y con q uered. Thi s ar my , not finding in the countries which it occupies thel pr • °visions which it require s, the most of them must be obtained by the Black Sea, and across the Cau casus by a road which carriages can seldom pass. All the other ojects necessary for the equipment and armament of troops arrive in the same manner in Georgia; we may easily judge, then, that this p os . session must be very burdensome to Russia. Forty thousand men .hardly suffice to contain the popula tion of Georgia, .and the warlike tribes of the Cau casus, who seize eve.' opportunity of pillaging tl? country and carrying oirthe inhabitants into slavery. ' (FROM THE 'MORNING HERALD.) We are surprised that a liberal and enlightened people like the French do not prevail upon their Government to put an end to the useless and vexa tious system of passports. In the time of war such restraints on intercourse may be necessary ; but, while nations are at peace, why they should not visit each other's territories, for business or amuse ment, without having their features described, and their height and countenance examined, at every town or barrier, is an instance something worse than folly, because destitute of reason, policy, or utility. It should be the study of all Governments to render their people free and happy, as long as such freedom and happiness entrench not on the general welfare. What object is gained towards this en d, in the sys tem of passports, we cannot for one - moment ima gine. They do not po ssess t he apology, if it could be one, o f being a source of revenue; forl ater, nor, we be- ' neither on this side of te w lieve, on the other, is th h eir obtainment or exa mination made a matter of charge. But it i, said that the French police i 3 so strict an d well organized that it cannot do without them. This is, in some degree, presuming that foreigners are the principal offenders against the laws, which is not the case. But, even here, this manifest absur dity arises, that delinquents may dy from their own countries, and take refuge in those where passports are enjoined,without such passports being any check upon them, or furnishing any clue pr facility to their apprehension. In short, the passport system pre -sumes s omeaiing wrong, without a shadow of lona dation, in ninety.nine cases in a hundred, and with out, being of any use in the hundreth case when it 'occnrs."Were there a rule amimg gtates-l-as peihaps there ought to be—that all offenders against thelaws of their own countries should be apprehended and de livered' up wherever they may be found, then the passport system might be of some use, and pOsess some apology—though, even in that case; none at all adequate to its Manifest injustice and inconveni ence; but, witnessing, as we do, its total want of utility, coupled with its inconvenience, there ought to be a simultaneous movement among the people whose system it disgraces, to rid themselves of a mere shadow of right, in a substance of so much wrong. SUNDAY PAPERS. some of the Deck-yards ; and now he has smote the second personage in the Empire I The quarrel with the Royal Duke has been premeditatedly fixed ; his intimacy with the family of Lord Holland could not be tolerated; besides his Royal Highness was for a policy that showed fight,--it a period when all other powers were arming. There is much impatience in the public mind on the event of the "Resignation ;" and some politicians, connecting this event and Mr. Dawson's speech in Ireland; together with the re ports of Mr. Peel's secession, and rumours of a dif ferent system of policy to be adopted in Irish affairs, —expect a recast of the whole Ministry. (FRom THE 3011 N BULL. There appears as yet nothing decided as to the formation of the Commission of Admiralty, a mea sure rendered necessary by the resignation of his Royal Highness the Duke' of Clarence, although several names have been mentioned as those of Noblemen likely to take the head of the Board. The generality of the public, we think, iucline to be lieve Earl Grey not an unlikely person to join the present Administration as first Lord, his Lordship having formerly filled that office ; while others speak with something like confidence of the return of Mr. Huskisson to the Cabinet, as Chief at the Admi ralty; but that which appears from circumstances more probable than either, is the removal of Lord Bathurst from the Presidency of the Council to the Naval department.' This Ministerial change would be one of considerable importance just at this crisis, as leaving the Presidency of the Council open, the filling up of which office would serve to settle the doubts and apprehensions which have been so zeal ously excited in the public mind, of a change (upon one vital question) in the opinion of our illustrious Premier. (FROM THE NEWS.) STRAIGHT-FORWARDNESS AND SINGLE-MINDEDNESS. " Why, man, he does bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves."—Shakspeare. To create power, is to condense and simplify the means of power; to strip it of its drawbacks in mul tiplied details ; to throw some dozen of its auxiliaries into one ,• and to call in its most distant outposts, under the eye of direct controul. Absolutism itself; in the Lusitanian sense of the word, is to merge a collective in an individual authority. This breaking up of the midway subordinated ranks, enables a King or a Minister to move straight forward on his purpose, in a " single-minded," rather than a many tempered policy. We have men who are capable of writing a recipe for this desideratum of Cabinets. The nation, for a length of time after the decease of Mr. Pitt, was left accidentally destitute of any great mind as his successor. Fox, Castlerea g h, Liverpool, and Canning,—all successively took the " Bow of Ulysses," in hand ; but . only to exhibit their own weakness. The English nation was thus left for years, languishing under the deprivation of any " great mind," that was cut out for her neces sities ; when the Duke of Wellington, suffering under a morbid irritation from a singing in one of his ears, had been recommended by a Quack Doctor to read the amusing German story of" Peter Schmid'," or the " Man without a Shadow ;" as an entertainment calculated to lead a mind wearied with being chained down on the contemplation of its own misfortune, into a wide field of inquiry as to what was the object of the morale of the singular story in question. It was on rising from the perusal of this book, that the Marquess of Londonderry came down to the house, and called Mr. Canning a "Man of many Shadows," because he had filled up the skeleton outline of a Cabinet with provisional occupants. The Duke saw in a moment that Mr. Canning had mistaken the profound design of the writer; and when that Minister, both in substance and shadow, had made his exit at the wing of the political stage,—the Noble Duke, throwing down his baton, and putting a pair of scissors in.his pocket, made his grand entrée. He was first observed, in the course of his new policy, to keep on a kind of half-embracing, and half-kicking intercourse, with his " dear Huskisson," in the sunshine; when look ing down on the fine depth of his friend's shadow, as it was elongated by an evening sun, he rather playfully proposed to purchase it. The proposition was treated as a joke; it being considered that such an appendage was quite unnecessary to a modern Statesman; and that the Duke only sought to be gene rous under the plea of a bargain which could be of no sub stantial use to him. But " morels meant than meets the ear." In purchasing their neighbours' shadows, men become relatively of more account. Peter Schemil directly tells us, that " when respectable people walk out in the sun, it is usual to take their shadows with them." But to the Duke. By some political contrivance, his Grace ',lipped out his scis sors, and cutting off his friend's shadow at the heels, rolled it up and put it in his pocket; and in this state the unfortunate gentleman, after such depriva tion, walked into the shades of the Opposition ; where he is now pursuing shadows that have lost their substances. Similar tricks have been played off anti attempted on others ; but the trade is spoil ed the moment it is detected and understood in its true light, It is now about three weeks .since one of the most profligate Tory Papers (which appears to be in the confidence of a part of the Administra tion), told the public that the Duke of Wellington had refused, as Premier, some allowances forfeast ing, processioning, &c., claimed by the Lord High Admiral; and ordered the said charges to be placed against the allowances made for the office. Nobody then believed a syllable of what was said ; but it is now evident, not only that this indirect medium was chosen, to hold up the character of the Lord High Ad miral, on the score of a profligate expenditure of public money, and' to laud that of the Premieras an unsparing economist, even where the Royal Family was con cerned ; but it is equally clear that the resignation of the Noble Duke is in consequence of a continued disgust at the snake-like hostility that has systemati cally shown itself against the office, and the popular feeling which it has called forth, from the earliest stages of the Wellington Cabinet. The public are entitled tp some official information on this subject ; and to know what are the causes . of such a resigna tion, at a time when tho hopes of fair play in the navy were reviving; and when the situation of Europe was such as to make it a matter of doubt whether the best defences of the country might not be soon again placed in its hands. Perhaps the Noble Premier so estimates the judgment of John Bull, as to suppose that any rhodo»zontade that pre tended to make g saving of a few pounds, would be quite sufficient to blind him, and stop his mouth from farther babble. In this, the economical ruse will prove a failure. The attempt to take away the Duke's shadow, under false pretences, is really a scurvy trick; and is not at all in keeping with the 'policy of the original shadow-monger. In the " march" of the Premier, it is difficult to say whe ther he has taken the longer strides, by the hardi hood of walking over some people, 'or by shoving others out of the way.. In many situations he has strongly reminded us of Punch. In the opening scenes, Punch enters with every corner very civilly into common topics; and when he is observed to be e,Xercising a somewhat laboured display of personal scOurtessr,..—whack ! comes down his shilelah on the astounded head pf his guest ! and in about three rounds Mr. Premier ,Punch is, secundum orient, left grand master o f the field. " Doctor," " Con stable," and " Watch," all come in for the same blarney and the same bumps. Punch is, in rapt, a pattern of a Prime Minister,—singularly straight forward and single-minded: Like Buonaparte, he will have no neutrals; he dispatches his opponents off !sod ; and reigns by dint of using the rigl# end of his trzotssVon, The Duke, having come to a sort .1 loggerheads with a branch of the Royal Family— /eaves town, as is usually dorw in all cases of " great sensation ;" and goes to Cheltenham; just as though he id s John Bull to chew the cud of the event in question; and thus gaining time, and feeling the p o ise of-public opini,on„ before he proceeded to act for the like reason, as we suppose, on it. J r . Peel , takes a trip to Brighton in the same Official 14Q4 0, 4 . lance, The di:pos.olg of the Lord High Admiral will remain A su bject of curious investigation: it is a nd it is a matter of surpris e t h at part of a system/ a implicated. It is consolatory how f his own family is imp the King can be blinded to its object, where the hp nor h enlist Throne, it her not been fou nd practicable to ever 0 know that, as Presumptive Heir to the the Noble Duke in the -optricpon of a policy. The reign of the pre.3,6 11 L • 1 ,, w , it retinue of an 'Ultra, Tory Ministry has therefore its limit, berspnct Premier, Navy,—wei e cannot hope tp go. To be at once, remier, and . Commander-in• Chief of Ilse Army and * stretch of power that most pgn (excepting always Buouaparteand the Duke of Wellingstspf) sr,sald have trembled so ,epntemplate. " I and the kinay? %yti; ' the phras e pf W o l sey , but " a greater than 'Wolsey is hese." The Duke would `yield all the branches of the public service; and smites high and low wher ever it suits the straightforwardness of the Piglish I Colossus; he interfered even with a few operatives in (FROM THE SPECTATOR.) It is a pleasant reflection for the panic-loving in habitants of Great Britain, that so long as the world rolls round the sue, there is reason for hoping that Providence will supply a sufficient number of mur ders and mad dogs to keep them comfortably quak ing ; and should these unaccountably fail, it is but stepping across the Channel to find in the disputes and contentions of our neighbours--the impo tency of some, and the potency of others—ample subjects of fearful excitation. The " raw head and bloody bones" of the present hour—bating St. Swithin and Mr. O'Connell, M.P.--is the uncon treullable power of Russia. Our alarmists have adopted the motto of the old Baron of Bradwardine, " Beware the bear;" and Lieut.-Colonel Evans comes to their support with an essay, in the shape of decent octavo, proving that the Czar has only to open his tremendous mouth, and down goes Turkey, India, and perhaps Ireland ! It is not our intention, at present, to enter into a detailed examination of the gallant and intelligent officer's essay ; but it may not be amiss to state, in a very few words, our opinion of the proposition, which it is his object to demonstrate—that England should inter fere for the purpose of attempting to diminish the power of the Emperor Nicholas ; we say attempting, for we do not find in Colonel Evans's book any thing like proof that our interference would effect what he considers to be so desirable. On a glance at the map, it will be seen that Europe is virtually held by four great powers—Russia, Austria, Prussia, and France. Denmark and Sweden are too poor, too thinly peopled, and too far removed from the centre, to operate with effect; Italy is impotent, from its numerous subdivisions; Spain and Portugal from their political dissensions; and in the kingdom of the Netherlends, the Northern and Southern parts are so imperfectly cemented, that they would probably fall asunder at the first shock. Of the four great states, Russia and Austria are feudal aris tocracies, Prussia is a military despotism, and France a limited monarchy. Of the whole, Prussia is the weakest, both from the form of its government, end the detached and dislocated nature of its territories. The singularly compact arrangeinent, the intelli gence and activity of the people; but, above all, the free institutions of France, render that king dom indisputably the most powerful. Austria, also, in the more perfect consolidation of its go vernment, and the greater antiquity, even of its abuses, has an advantage over her unwieldy neighbour. Those who look to the surface that it claims rather than possesses, may form very magnificent notions of Russian grandeur; but for all the purposes of offence, and even of defence, its Asiatic possessions are about as available to Russia as the wilds of Ca nada or of New Holland are to England. We hear much of the armies of Russia. One of them was stated lately at the moderate amount of 300,000 men. We recollect, when Buonaparte returned front Elba, that some of the newspapers mustered against him a force of two millions ! We suspect that the troops of the Emperor Nicholas are similarly rated. It is, we admit, not at all impossible that Nicholas may march to Constantinople; that he may chase the Turk out of Europe ; that he may keep posses sion of Roumelia. It is also possible that France may occupy the Morea, and Austria push h er bou n d ar i es eastward and southward, until they touch the limits of Greece. And it is 'tot only possible, but probable, if any such partition be attempted, that the three spo liators will quarrel about the terms. What would re sult, what could result from our threats, but to unite three thieves—if they be such—against one honest man ? There is, no doubt, a feeling of soreness i n France against England; but it is mingled with re spect. Into the dislike with which Frenchmen view the barbarians of the north, to whose frozen clime the greatest of all the disasters that ever bcfel the empire is to be attributed, there enters no such qualifying ingredient. We may safely calculate on this feeling. As to the cant about England's " decay," we must be decayed indeed were we to heed it. It is not by peace that the resources of a nation are exhausted; nor is it by war that they are recruited. We have fought for frivolous causes too often ; and hence, if we are weak, does our weakness arise. It would be a whimsical mode of cure to plunge into war again, without an overwhelming necessity; and such a ne cessity is not to be found in the dreams of political alarmists. (FROn THE SUNDAY HERALD.) The great subject of domestic interest during the last week has been the speech delivered by Mr. Dawson, at a dinner held at Derry, at which tw o hundred Protestant gentlemen were present, and in the course of which the Right Hon. Gentleman de clared, in the most unequivocal terms, that he had given up the opinions which he formerly held on the subject of Catholic Emancipation, and was now con vinced that something must be, done for Ireland. Such a declaration, if made by any other person, would have been considered, both by the Catholics and their opponents, as the mere addition of a vote on one side, and its subtraction on the other; but there are circumstances, connected with the conver sion of Mr. Dawson, which give to it a weight which scarcely that of any other Member of Parliament, or of the Government, would have had, with the exception of that of Mr. Peel, or the Duke of Wellington, Ja the first place, Mr. Dawson is closely connected with the Beresford family, which, as every one who knows any thing respecting Ireland is aware, is ' Protestant and Anti-Catholic all over; in the second, he is married to a sister of Mr. Peel, the Secretary for the Peme Department, and the great champion of Protestant ascendancy itcthe House of Commons; in the third, he holds a high office in the existing Government (how long will it exist ?) ; and, lastly, the declaration was made in such . time; place, and manner, as to have made it be generally believed that the conversion of the Right Hon. Gentleman was was less that of Mr. Dawson, acting in his inde pendent capacity as a Member of the Legislature, thc,ri of Mr. Dawson, the Secretary to the Treasury ; the Official organ of the (iovertnent, and of the GovernMent itself of which he 'is 'a 'Member. --L The Right Honourable Gentlethan, in fad, deli vered himself of his recantation iu a nianner yhich could Scarcely fail to impress his hearers with such a convictio n . " I s p ea k h ere ," sa id - he, " as a Member of parliament, as a Mem ber of Government, and as a citizen of the world." All these Aualifieations, howe'Ver, were Unable to orocure him an attentive hearing fro m ' the Wealthy, and, as the world goes, respectable freeholders of 1 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Derry. At the Conclusion of every sentence, the • Right lion. Gentleman was assailed with hisses, • MANSION-HOUSE.—The proprietors of the Sons of Commerce Gravesend steam-boat, navigating from London hootings, and all manner of interruptions ; and it to Gravesend, were summoned before the LORD Mayon On was only by dint of actual threats, that he succeeded . . • - • . , Saturday, upon an information charging them with having g 2s. 6d. for the conveyanceofa gentleman named g in .concluding a speech which filled his former friends with unutterable dismay, and spread, when it be- • Talbot, from the former to the latter place, the regular fare came known, joy far and wide, among his Catholic being no more than Is. 6d.! countrymen. Such ,is th e hi s tory of this affair, Mr. Talbot stated the facts of the overcharge, and sub which has made more noise, both in Ireland and in mitted to the Lord Mayor that the steam-boat, being a pas. this country, than any other event which we recol- I sage-boat, was liable to the regulations of the late act rela lect during the last twelve months. Whether Mr. ting to boats of this description. Dawson was, or was not, authorised by the Duke of I Mr. Alley contended, that the vessel in question did not Wellington, to make the declaration, appears to us come under thedenomination of passage. boat, and w as no t extremely problematical. The circumstance of his at all under the controul of the Court of Ald ermen ; t h at property being situated in Ireland--of his re- the act ref e rr e d t o w h err i es and boats propelled by ears , and steam. not by He stated that clients 2 ' his had aid e OOI. turn being defeated at the next election, though for steam-vessels to- navigatefromLondon o p Graxes , Graves end that the publi c d er i ve d th e grea t es t accommodation from; the power of the Catholic Association, and of i such efforts, and that if the price demanded were to be re his influence in the country being wholly over thrown, as well of his rents remaining unpaid, ( N ee d , that accommodati o n m u s t cease a ltogether. in case of his persevering in his hostility to the Ca- The Loan M AYOR sa id t h at t h e steam -b oa t, as a passage-. tholies, may all have had their clue weight with the boat from London to Gravesend, cam e directly under th e Right Honourable Gentleman ; but the fact is never- jurisdicti on o f the Mayor and Ald ermen , who had regulated theless equally certain that the Duke of Wellington the fares. He had no doubt the Legislature meant to in is as much convinced as Mr. Dawson of the de- elude steam-b oa t s , an d h e s h ou ld t h ere f ore conv i ct th e de fondants. Th e L or d M ayor a l so ment i one d , t h at if t h e so acc e tb a r e n plorable state of Ireland, and of the necessity of ourt of doing something which shall effectually allay the t d , o ro u tr t ie t t h oz ‘wvoouulldd b e p m ly to C Aldermen, no agitation which working peopl e mus t be accom modated. hopes prevails in, that country. Strong in ra od g at e e ry . nt made ; but the hopes are in consequence entertained that a measure will be introduced with the sanction of the Govern- BOW-STREET—D i:um; S car rant.-7 0 n Satur ment Navin for its ob act the rant of Enianci a- g day, Edward Ma o was charged with stealing a breast of , g j g p anti from Mr. Cha mbers, a butcher, in rette lare tion, in the, fullest sense of the word, but guarded Scott, the street-keeper, who . to o k 1.- theprisoner l into by such securities as shall effectually prevent the custody, and who appeared as the prosecutor, , addressed the possibility of danger to the Protestant Establishment Magistrate (Mr. Haus) to the following effect Please in Church and State. To us no securities appear your worship, after all my trouble in this here piece of busi either requisite or useful. The great object ought to ness, Mr. Chambers refuses to come forward andswear to be the separation of the Irish clergy and laity, so the dientity of the meat ,(Laughter), although it is his that the one should form a complete counterpoise to property. ' the sinister influence of the other; and this object Mr. flacr.s—Then the prisoner will get free, and you would be effectually secured by granting ernancipa- may dine scot free by t a ki ng th e mea t h ome w ith you . ott—l humbly thank yO Wors ; have five children. Lion, which, while it deptived the priests of all pre- Sc lo Mr. HALLs—Very well ; ur let them hip ha v e the meat scot and tence for intermeddling, would give to the laity a t. But how did you apprehend the prisoner? Scott— direct interest in preserving the State from foreign I heard the cry of " Stop thief,"and tripped up his heels. interference. Mr. HALLS—Had he the meat in his possession at the time? Scott—No, your Worship, he let it fall in the street. Mr. HALLS—So then you took it . up? Scott----Yes, your Worship; and I took him - up too. (Laughter.) The prisoner was then discharged, and Scott charged with the conveyance of the breast of lamb to his five children. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—On Saturday, George Barrow alias John Thomas Hopkinson, the person of Colour in custody upon various charges of swindling, was brought before Mr DYER, the sitting Magistrate, for final examination. The office was as much crowded on this as on any former occasion. The prisoner, in lieu of the tat tered old garment thrown over him when he was last at the bar, as a substitute for Mr. Butler's coat and waistcoat, wore on this occasion a fashionable brown close coat, which it appeared he had the address to borrow from a fellow prisoner, with whom he has formed, an acquaintance since his apprehension. A vast number of fresh charges were again preferred against the prisoner, but they all bore more or less the same cha racter as those already published, .and the only two of any novel interest were those of Mr. Doubleday, a coal-mer chant, at Eaton-wharf, Pimlico, and Mr. Betts, a book seller, and one of the Society of Friends, residing in Comp ton-street, Brunswick-square. Mr. Doubleday received a note, according to the usual form of those written by the prisoner, describing the latter as a gentleman of large West India estates, whose name was Hopkinson, of Trinity College, Cambridge, and of Cowley grove, Uxbridge, that his name, fortune, and character were too well known to need any reference, but that if Mr. Doubleday did require any, lie might inquire of Lord Grosvenor; the particular friend of the writer, or indeed of any nobleman or gentleman connected with Demerara, where the Hopkinson family were well known. The writer then went an to say, that he had taken for a town-house, No. 22, Park-road, St. John's-wood, and begged that Mr. Doubleday would immediately send in there a waggon-load of the best coals. Mr. Doubleday sent first to the house in Park-read, where the prisoner himself was seen, and confirmed the order for the coals, and next Mr. Doubleday had inquiry made of Mr. Finlayson, the landlord of the house in Park-road, who resides in Baker-street, and who it seems let the house to the pri soner on a three years lease ; and owing ,to the represen tation of Mr. Finlayson, rather than any thing written or said by the prisoner himself, Mr. Doubleday sent in waggon-load of best coals, and in ten days after the coals were sent in the prisoner had vanished from the place alto gether, and Mr. Finlayson had got possession of the house, and of the waggon of coals into die bargain : and now, Mr. Doubleday said, Mr. Finlayson refuses to give up the coals, because he says the prisoner has commenced an action of trover against him to recover the possession of the house and what he left in it. Mr. Betts, the bookseller, was about to make his com plaint, when some hesitation arose as to his giving evidence in a criminal proceeding, as this was, against the prisoner, without being sworn, until Mr. Betts reminded the Ma gistrate that an Act passed the Legislature in the last Ses sion of Parliament, admitting the evidence of Quakers upon their affirmation, in all criminal as well as, civil cases in future. Mr. DYER referred to the Act of Parliament, and found it to be as Mr. Betts stated ; the Magistrate said lie felt much pleasure in being the first, at least in this office, to afford Mr. Betts, or any of the society to which he be longed, an opportunity of exercising the privileges of tole ration extended to them. The Chief Clerk then read the form of the affirmation as directed by the Act of Parliament, which Mr. Betts repeated after him, and then gave the following evidence : On the Ist May last he said he received a letter from the prisoner, describing himself as Mr. Hopkinson, of Tri nity College, Cambridge, and of Cowley-grove, Uxbridge, saying that he was recommended by Mr. Walker Hinds, of Gray's-inn, and requesting Mr. Betts to call at his cham bers, No. 6, Holborn-court, Gray's-inn ;he did accord ingly call at the chambers, on the door of which was who painted the name of " Hopki nson ," an d w h en h e en tered contentsh e o s f a w the t lie note, which prisoner, ic h he a dm i tted repeated ha to him the writ ten by bins. He spoke of his large estates in the West Indies, and his intimacy with the Attorney-General, whom he said was a relation of his, and with Mr. Fowell Buxton. He then gave Mr. Betts a long list of books, which be said Ise wanted immediately, and he also said that he wanted a set of cards engraved, with his name and crest on them. Mr. Betts observed that it was rather unusual to have a gentleman's crest on his visiting cards, but the prisoner replied that they always bad it so at Trinity Col lege, Cambridge. The next day Mr. Betts sent the pri soner home four sets of books,—viz. : " East's Term Re ports," " Phillips's Laws of Evidence," " Chitty on Pleadings," and " Gifford's Equity Lawyer," in all worth about 221. ; but before he sent home any more of the list, Mr. 13ettl happened, he said, to see Mr. Fowell Buxton, and he asked him, if he knew the prisoner. Mr. Iluxton replied that he had not then any recollection of knowing such a person, but he would inquire. In a few days after that, it was discovered that the prisoner had disappeared altogether from the chambers, and Mr. Betts heard no more of him until lie learned that he was in custody. Mr. Scott, a boot-maker in Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, said that the prisoner had given him an order for four pair of boots, of which two were delivered to him. The prisoner was finally committed for trial upon three charges,—namely, those of Mr. Betts, Mr. Butler the tailor, and Mr. Nettleton the tailor. MARYLEBONE 7 OFFICE. —Robert Horne, a re spectable young man, has been taken into custody and was brought before Mr. Hose - Isis on Saturday under the follow ing circumstances :—He was eating oysters on Friday night at a shop in Stephen-street, Lisson-grove, with an other young man whoso name is Ayres, and just as Horne was putting one to Isis mouth, Ayres, in a frolic, knocked it out of his hand and ran away laugh ing. Horne instantly threw an o)ster-knife after him, t 1 .6.i With a feeling of resentment, it appears, nor intending to hurt him, but unguardedly, and the blade went through his clothes and into the lower part of his back inure than an inch in depth. The blood flowed copiously, and be was taken to the shop of Anderson, a surgeon, followed by Horne, in a state of distraction. The fate of Ayres is very uocertain„ and the surgeon thinks some days may pass before it can be ascertained. /Imre was remanded by Mr. Lioaxlss, with tie pri vilege of giving hail for his appearance when required, himself in 1001., and two sureties in 50/. each. -Francis James, driver of the hackney chariot No. 696, was fined 10s., under Mr. Martin's Act, for wantonly driving one of • his master's horses eight hours 'on Friday without a shoe, and otherwise ill-treating it, HATTON-GARDEN.—Saturday Welt last a dustman of the name of John Cost;: } was brought to thi s o ffi ce, i n custody of ore of the officer's, upon the warrant of Thomas Shelton, Esq., Coroner, charged with the wilful Murder of his son, William Costin, a youth between nine and ten years old. It appears that on Friday week the prisoner, who was (FROM THE SPRIYNX.) POOR RATES.—The system of paying labour from rates originally raised and intended to be exclusively appropriated to the support of the infirm and indi gent part of our population, has unquestionably been the primary and most powerful agent in dete riorating the physical and moral condition of the 'once-boasted peasantry of England. Without en quiring into the moral obligation, or political expe diency of a community making compulsory assess ments for the support of its infirm and indigent members, the English code of Poor Laws undoubt edly originated (in the reign of Elizabeth) in bene yolent motives, to meet the then existing necessities of the country ; and it is equally certain, that the evils which that code has engendered, have been more the result of mil-administration than of any radical error in its principle. Like many other of the metropolitan parishes, St. Luke's had suf fered most severely from the grossest mismanage ment of. its affairs generally, and one of the most prominent grounds of complaint was the enormous amount of legal expenses annually incurred by the vestry-clerk, who was a solicitor, and in all cases acted in that capacity for, the parish. Prior to Easter last year, the dissatisfaction became so gene ral, that the vestry-clerk was forced to re sign the situation, and it was made a sine qua non with the majority of the Vestry that no professional man should be elected to the office in future. The duties to be performed by the vestry-clerk were clearly defined to his suc cessor, and were to include the drawing of all con tract bonds for the parish, without any charge to the contractors, except the price of the stamps ; and that no solicitor should be employed on account of the parish, but in special cases as they arose, and when the services of a professional mart became indispens able. It was also strongly inculcated, that, when any question arose with other palishes relative to the removal . or settlement of paupers, that every possible information should be freely interchanged on the facts of the case, for mutual satisfaction as to where the legal claim lay; and that no appeal should ever be made until all extra-judicial arrangement to resist improper encroachment had failed. The de tailed account of the expenditure of the parish, from Lady-day 1827 to Lady-day 1828, under the new system of management, has just been published, and is now before us; and the comparative result of ex pences incurred at sessions, or removals and appeals, is 84 follows :—The annual average expence for the ten years from Lady-day 1817 to Lady-day 1827, for appeals, &c., exclusive of all legal charges in other departments of the parochial government, was 2821. ls. 3id. From Lady-day 1827 to Lady-day 1828 the same charge was 1041. 18s. Of this latter sum, 831. Is. 10d. was incurred during the first quarter of the year, for unsettled cases, left by the former vestry-clerk; so that, for the last nine months, the expence is reduced to 211. 16s. 2d., or to the rate of 291. Is. 6id. per annum. We are aware that many of the legal gentlemen filling the office of vestry-clerk, measure the extent of their usefulness by the number of settlements they have successfully resisted; as if there were any thing in the law of the case that any person of common sense might not be made to comprehend in a day ; while, at the same time, they carefully keep the most important circumstance out of view : viz. that if they were to communicate freely to the officers of the parishes with whom they contend, all the facts that come to their knowledge, in nine cases out of ten no appeal would take place, and both parties would thereby avoid the expense of litigation. HERRING FISHING.—Owing to the preva lence of easterly winds, the herring fishing has lately been very unsuccessful. On Saturday there were 32 vessels detained in Cromarty Roads. Our correspondent at Burg.• head states, that the present average take of the boats at that port does not exceed forty crans, which is considered but about one-fifth of a fishing, although two-thirds of the season have expired. At Croinarty, the whole that has been caught would scarcely make a cargo. At Portma homack, 209 barrels have been smoked and shipped for London, and 274 , barrels of white herrings exported to Belfast. At Fraserburgh the fishing is more successful, and both curers and fishermen anticipate a good season. We regret to add, that on the night of the 11th instant another man was carried overboard and drowned in the Bay of Wick, being struck with the sail. He belonged to Port-Gordon.—lnverness Courier. The weather still continues unsettled, and greatly retards the progress of the harvest, which may now be said to be general in this neighbourhood. Great quantities of corn have been cut this week, but very little has yet been carried. On Thursday morning the weather had a more favourable appearance, which .caused a great demand for shearers in this town, and raised the wages of women from Is. 6d. at which many were engaged on Wednesday morning, to 2s. per day. The crops in this vicinity appear to be nearly ripe for the sickle, and if the ensuing week be dry, great part of them will be cut down, an d much secured. Several samples of new corn were ex hibited in sue market on Saturday, the 16th inst. and we were gratified in seeing the goodness of the quality, which was generally allowed to be considerably better than that of last year.--Newcastle Chronicle, Aug. 23. 1 A few days ago, a man, residing at Trinity, having eaten some mussels which he had purchased from a enintrinp lnTker, was take s . 4diletily ill, and exhibited §yinptnms of being poiaoned. Medical assistance w as procured far him; but it was with no small difficulty t h a t he was relieved of his disease.—Edinburgh Evening Courant. A country gentleman, at the late Exhibition, as ked a spectator what was the meaning of " R. A." afqieci to some of the painters' names, " Why, judging frosp many of their 1 4ours,'•' s,vas tile reply, "it mast mean-- rather • • , A short time ago, a labpnrer, belonging to Mr. I-lALLAst, of Wimeswould, observed a number of crews and jackdaws alight in a barley field, at a distance, and having a gun with him well loaded, he made for the fi e ld ; but, to his surprise, when he entered the close, he could not discover one bird; however, observing a motion, or waving in the corn, he fired, as he expressed it, /hit or m i s s, when io ! ho had kills a ten ja&daws and two. crows. —Nottinoa77l Raley?, employed by Sinnott; (hist con'trietdinf the *lst of C kenwell, had been at work upon one of the dust-hills in employer's yard, corner of Coppice-row, when the ceased came to him with some tea in a pewter pint. prisoner having drank, presented , the pint to his son take also a draught, telling him at tkie same time not drink too deeply ; but the little urchin, who had 'the c racter of being a wayward youth, having exhausted vessel to the dregs, returned it, laughing heartily nt trick and the father's disappointment. The prisoner, fin big that the pot contained nothing but the dregs of the and provoked to rage at the mirthful behaviour of t child, flung the pot at him, which hitting him on the rig side of the head, knocked him senseless and bleeding on ground. He was instantly taken to surgeon Lawrence's, i Ray-street, who, finding that the head was severely tured, and that the brain protruded, ordered him to be re* moved to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where, having litr gered for some days, he died en Thursday last. An it quest was held upon the body on Saturday, when the Jurl returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" aga i ns t th e ' pr' soner, and the Coroner accordingly issued a warrant 1$ his apprehension. He was immediately taken at work ie Sinnott's yard. The sitting Magistrate, Mr. LAINca; mantled him for further examination on Friday next. UNION-HALL.—On . Saturtlay a young man, nplie R. Perkins, apprentice to Mr. Whitby,' the pawnbrokef, of Bermondsey, was brought befor e th e s itti ng Magistrat f (Mr. Boxr), charged with robbing his master to a cone derable extent. On complainant taking stock about a yea' ago, he found a deficiency of nearly 200/.; and Suspectin, his principal shopinan, he discharged him at the time Since the discharge olthis person various articles of jewel' lery and plate having been missed, stock was taken again i , few days ago, when a furth er defi c ie ncy o f 2001 . w o r th 4 % property was ascertained. Suspicion was then , exciteJ towards the prisoner ; and, on being searched, a vast 'taut her of duplicates of articles that had been pledged a t big master's shop were found in his possession ; and he acknow ledged that, subsequently to the articles 'hiving bee ° pledged, he took possession of them' himself, and had money advanced upon them at the shops of different pawn', brokers in town. In this manner he always contrived raise as much money as not only to supply the eitravagance l of a prostitute whom he kept in the New-road, hut also 1° furnish a male companion of his with money, by whom 14 relates he was threatened with a di sc l osure o f the system : plunder that was going - forward on his master's propertf if not supplied with cash when he wanted it. The cola' plainant added, that the prisoner had told him that he raised between St. and 10/. per week on the property which he took from the shop, all of which was expended in Of manner above described. Mr. Whitby, and the officer who took the prisoner into custody, said, that if he was remanded for a few days, $ further disclosure would be made of the full extent t° which the former had been, plundered of his property ba the accused. During the investigation the prisoner covered his face with his hands, and did not attempt to utter a word in hie defence. He was remanded. LAW NOTICES. COURT OF CHANCERY. SITTINOS APPOINTED PREVIOUS TO MICHAELMAS TERM, itia. BEFORE THE LORD CHANCELLOR. SEAL DAYS. ' First Seal—Saturday, Nov. 1. Second Seal—Tuesday, Nov. 4. Rehearings and Appeals—Monday, Nov. 3. Petitions—Wednesday, Nov. 5. BEFORE THE VICE - CHANCELLOR. BANKRUPT PE lITIONS. Thursday, Oct. 16, and two following days. Monday, Oct. 20, and five following days. Monday, Oct. 27, and four following days. SEAL DAYS. First Seal—Saturday, Nov. 1. Second Seal--Tuesday, Nov. 4. Pleas and Detnurrers—Monday, Nov. 3. Petitions --Wednesday, ,Nov. 5. The Court to sit each day at Lincoln's Inn. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. FRIDAY, AUG. 22.—High water 8 min. part 1 3." . Arrived the Spartan, Eves, from St. Domingo; Halif 3i ' t Finlay, from H a lifax. 1 s hi p , 1 brig,, 2 snows, off 11 eight o'clock. CLEARED e UTW A EDS—ahe Alice, Powditch, for Bl tavia, and Sincapore ; Friendachaft, Malchon, for Bremen'sHerlette, G roe t, for El s i neur ; Paragon; _Austin, for Ja maica; Fortitude, Thomilson, ,for Messina; Commodore , Hart, for Newfoundland ; Dove, Limond, for St. Johol #, New Brunswick ; Alwick, Ward, for St. Petereburgh• SATURDAY, Auo. 23.—High water 26 min. past Wind W.—Arrived the Gute Hoffnung, Klavetta, fro m Dantzic ; Dawson, Noyes, from Quebec; Brothers, Pottth from Port William. 2 brigs off at seven o'clock. CLEARED OUTWARDS.—..The Heroine, Sullivan, fc ' t. St. Andrew's ; Isabella, Shanning, for New Orlean s ' Fletcher, Foster, for Rio de Janeiro; Diana, Beckstrom, f °r Elsineur ; Lady Dunmore, M'Clare, for St. Petersburg b . ; Ellen, Costen, for Rig a ; 'L a dy Vi c t or i a , K eeper, f or werp ; Lima, Brown, for Quebec ; Three Brothers, Log' for New Brunswick ; Carlton, Collenden, for ditto; Cherub, Selkirk, for Quebec. PRICES OF FOREIGN WHEAT. Average Price of Wheat in various Foreign Markets, Cal culated according to the most recent Prices Current r e " ceived at the Department of the Minister of the To te ; rior at Pari s , an d pu bli s h e d i n the Moniteur, Aug. 2" 1828, reduced into Sterling Money. Per Imperial Quarter. Antwerp 4ls. 10d. Bremen 29 3 Dantzic France Genoa 4O 1 Hamburg!' London 55 7 Lubeck 22 10 Milan 45 3 Nice 4B 8 Palermo Trieste Wismar On the 23(1 instant, t n he iril la ir dy ll o S f . Richard godson, of Woburn-place, Russell-square, of a son and heir. On the 22d instant, at Scawby-grove, Lincolnshire, the lady of John Berwick, Esq. of a daughter. On the 16th instant, in King's-row, Turnhani-green, the wife of T. W. Jones, Esq,, of a daughter. On the 21st instant, in Chester-street, Grosverior-piec e ' the lady of John Key, Esq., of a (laughter. MARRIED. On the 19th instant, at St. Pancras Church, by t he Rev. Henry Arthtir Woodgate, of St . . John's College!,Ox ford, Henry Buttanshaw, Esq., o f W es t Peckham, Nent' to Anna, eldest daughter of the late William Francis Wood' gate, Esq., formerly of Somerhill, Tunbridge, Kent , On the 218 t instant, a t C an t er b ur y, b y t h e R ev . Jones, Mr. R. 0. :Ilalliwell, of Whitechapel-road Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Joseph Tucker, 11 : s(1- of the former place. On the 20th instant, at the Friends' Meeting-h° I " e ' Neweastle-upon-Tyne, Mr. George Attey 13rumnsell, eldest son of Mr. G. Brumniell, of Claremont-place, to 'Varga"4 daughter of Mr. Thomas Burt, of Prestwick Cottages Northumberland. The father of the bride entertained about fifty friends to dinner on the happy occasion. On the 19th instant, at All Saints' Church, Newcastle* upon-Tyne, by the Rev. J. Hawks, S.C.L., Joseph Hawks, Esq., one of the proprietors of New Greenwich, to MarY , second daughter of William Boyd, Esq. of the firm of Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart. and Co., bankers in that town , On the 23d instant, at St. Botolples, BishoPsgate) by the Rev. Richard Harvey, William Peters, Esq., jou, "" Calcutta, to Susannah Maly, eldest daughter of William Ilinfreville Smith, Esq., of Graceehurch-street. On the 2311 instant, at Trowbridge, in the county or Wilts, by the Rev. G. Crabbe, the poet, Mr. J. N. Fore- Man, of West -street, Finsbury-circus, to Eliza, eldest; daughter of the late Robert Cockrell, Esq , Colemaa street, London. DIED. On the 20th instant, at his house in Clll zon-street, Mar; fair, the Hon. H. F. Stanhope, only brother of the Earl a' Harrington. On the 23d instant, Great Surrev-street, in the 140 year of her age, Susanna Goulding Saunders, eldest &ugly ter of Mr. Thomas Saunders. On the 22d instant, at Bromley, in Kent, Mary, see° - daughter of the late Edward Latter, Esq. aged 22. On the 16th instant, aged'oeven months and eleven day*? James Crawford, the infant son of John Crawford White head, M.D. ei On the 21st instant, in consequence of excessive fur the loss of her . father, Mary, only child of the late James' SwalloW Thomson, Esq.,. of South-place, common. and PlliitaD SufiPouFarLiicssi: at the 1 1 D 12 b , y s M TR U A R N D D , O L oYNODUO r, i / // L . V 2 - • Night, , SKI The' ic;l Bran tingbou Barri Nrthla every Bath ondo.eye r y A .1,.n 4ext M Boat non, ilwepin • Qrirnab 11 Ilefore I Citul ntford, Carli *jai, a I _, 4 rough kno n 'd Nter," ford, Si 41 tornin Chet thrZii Chet' wi t h , kloruin , Cove ',,ne at I , s "toney utlacht every II Hui cave, Reys, the Aft Ken kirby every P Kids ltin g h g Cache